Chapter 23
A Heart-to-Heart Chat

“Hey, Jin Ye, you're here!”

Wang Pangzi's eyes were sharp, and he immediately saw Da Jin Ya, greeting him.

“Jin Ye, you're quite something, bringing such a beautiful girl!”

But the next moment, Wang Pangzi froze.

Shirley Yang was indeed beautiful, more beautiful than many women he had seen before. Moreover, unlike Yingzi, she looked very mature.

“Tsk, Fatso, shut your mouth!”

With a slap, Lao Hu hit Wang Pangzi across the face. Lao Hu had already figured out that this woman was no ordinary person.

“No, Lao Hu, you're lusting after her, that's why you hit me!”

Hugging Lao Hu's head, Wang Pangzi shook him back and forth.

Seeing the two of them making a ruckus, Bai Tian Yu stood up to welcome them.

“Jin Ye, who is this?”

“Three masters, this is the investor I mentioned. Bai Ye, you wanted to meet her, so you guys can chat!”

“I'll leave first!”

Introducing Shirley Yang to the three, Da Jin Ya hurried away.

After all, he still needed to take care of renting the surrounding courtyards. If it wasn't for Shirley Yang's insistence on coming here to find the three, Da Jin Ya wouldn't have returned.

“Hello, I don't know how to address you?”

Seeing Da Jin Ya leave in a hurry, Shirley Yang, without any fear, sat down on the stone bench.

“I'm Hu Baiyi, nice to meet you!”

“Hello, how-areyou?”

At that moment, Lao Hu broke free from Wang Pangzi's grasp, stretching out his hand and fumbling through a few words of English.

“Excuse me, Mr. Hu, let's just use Chinese!”

Unfortunately, Shirley Yang didn't pay any attention, not even moving her hand.

“Hey, you foreign chick, Lao Hu is being polite to you, how can you be like this!”

Wang Pangzi just didn't like Shirley Yang. He didn't know why, but he had a feeling he didn't like her.

“Fatso, shut up, you can't tell she's only interested in Lao Bai!”

Lao Hu could see that this foreign girl was here for Bai Tian Yu and wasn't interested in them at all.

“What should I call you?”

“Shouldn't the gentleman introduce himself first?”

“Heh!”

With a light laugh, Bai Tian Yu shook his head and said.

“Hello, my name is Bai Tian Yu, and you?”

“My name is Shirley Yang. You're the one who had Da Jin Ya send me a message, right?”

Looking at the handsome, well-dressed Bai Tian Yu in front of her, a hint of amazement flashed in Shirley Yang's eyes.

Shirley Yang had seen the world, after all, she was a famous reporter for a geographical magazine in a free country and had seen plenty of handsome guys.

But she had never seen someone as handsome as this, and Bai Tian Yu's aura was special, making one unconsciously want to get closer.

“That's right, you're a descendant of the Zagarma tribe, right?”

“Yes!”

“It seems like Partridge Whistle is your elder, what relation is he to you?”

“You even know about my grandfather, who are you?”

This time, Shirley Yang was completely surprised, she questioned, her right hand unconsciously reaching for her waist.

“Even tomb robbers shouldn't know this much!”

The only ones who knew that her grandfather had left China were those who had experienced it firsthand, but they were all dead.

“My master told me, and I only made a guess about your identity!”

Universal remedy, the old Taoist's teachings!

“Oh, what else did your master say?”

Now it was Shirley Yang's turn to be interested, she asked eagerly.

“He didn't say much, just told me about the origins of the Zagarma tribe and the origin of the tomb robbers,”

“Partridge Whistle was the last tomb robber, since we haven't heard from him in China for so long, that means he left.”

“My master said that you have a curse from birth, and if I meet someone like you, I hope I can help, so I asked Da Jin Ya to pass on a message for me!”

He just made up an excuse. Otherwise, who knows where Shirley Yang's imagination would go.

“You're not a tomb robber?”

Seeing that Bai Tian Yu never mentioned tomb robbers, Shirley Yang was a little strange and asked.

This kind of thing is actually known to tomb robbers, of course, real tomb robbers, not those who join halfway.

“I'm not, he is!”

Pointing at Lao Hu, Bai Tian Yu explained.

“Lao Hu's ancestor is Sun Guo Fu, the yin-yang eye, who later passed down the sixteen-character yin-yang feng shui secrets to his grandfather, and now it is in Lao Hu's hands.”

“Hello, Miss Yang!”

Only now did Lao Hu get to talk to Shirley Yang, but Shirley Yang wasn't interested in Lao Hu.

“I see, so are you willing to join the archaeological team?”

Shirley Yang came here hoping that the tomb robbers would join the archaeological team and go to the City of the Devil, so she nodded.

“Do you think the Ksitigarbha bead is in the City of the Devil?”

Instead of addressing Shirley Yang's question, Bai Tian Yu asked back.

“You know about the Ksitigarbha bead? You also know the origin of the tomb robbers, so naturally, you know what they're looking for!”

“That's right, the Ksitigarbha bead is actually secondary, the main reason is that my father disappeared while looking for the Ksitigarbha bead for me, and his final goal was the City of the Devil, so I want to go see it!”

Shirley Yang truthfully replied, but Bai Tian Yu shook his head.

“We can go with you to find the City of the Devil, but with the archaeological team?”

“Sorry, we three don't want to be babysitters!”

How much of a drag is an archaeological team?

Let's not even talk about how the flashlights scared the Dharma ghost insects in the Kunlun Mountains, and then Professor Chen, being old and frail, led to Gaga's death.

Just take Professor Hao's death, wasn't it his own doing? We said so many times not to touch the corpse, but he wouldn't listen, and in the end, he died, who's to blame?

So if it involves bringing an archaeological team, Bai Tian Yu would rather not go to the City of the Devil to make a fortune, since he knows where Dragon Ridge Mysterious Cave is anyway.

It's no big deal. Later, he and Lao Hu would not be infected with the curse.

“Well, that's not good.”

Now Shirley Yang hesitated, not that she was afraid, but she felt it was somewhat unethical.

Professor Chen was her father's old friend, and it wouldn't look good if she ignored him.

“Little sister, I have a question for you, since you're looking for the City of the Devil, do you have experience surviving in the desert?”

“Do you have a professional guide?”