Chapter 277: Chapter 277

Xiaoyao glanced at the newcomer, it was actually a young woman not very old. With so many people here, the fact that she could speak without anyone objecting showed she was the leader.

Judging from this young woman's own strength, she would be considered very high-level outside, but here she seemed somewhat weak. This meant this young woman either had exceptional abilities or exceptional status.

"First, I need to clarify one thing, I'm not a grave robber. Please don't misunderstand." Xiaoyao shook his head, placing the collar into the pit. It was about right now and could be buried.

"What are you putting in there. Also, if you're not a grave robber, why would you appear here? Why would you dig this place open?" the young woman asked coldly. She didn't stop Xiaoyao or take the collar, the situation was under their control, so examining it later would be the same.

"I came here to pay respects to a senior. Digging here was to bury something. Isn't this obvious? Do you need to ask?" Xiaoyao said.

"You're still stubborn. What kind of place is this? Everyone here has been dead for three thousand years. Who are you paying respects to?" the young woman said.

"Are your eyes alright? I'm paying respects to whoever's grave I'm in front of. Do you need to ask?" Xiaoyao looked at the young woman somewhat like looking at an idiot, which made her very frustrated.

Not only was the young woman frustrated, but others also felt strange. This grave-robbing thief before them looked very calm. Having been caught red-handed, he could still maintain such composure, was he too ignorant of the situation, or did he have something to rely on?

"Stop pretending. I know you want to steal things from our ancestor Fang Tianya. You think those things should be here, but you're wrong. There's nothing here at all." the young woman looked at Xiaoyao and said coldly.

Xiaoyao was stunned. He sorted through the young woman's words. First, she thought he was here to steal Fang Tianya's things. Fang Tianya was Chen Shiru's husband, and the two were buried together, so this misunderstanding was natural.

But the problem was that the young woman's words seemed more than just a simple misunderstanding. It seemed they had already guessed someone would come to rob Fang Tianya's grave, which was why they took him for a grave robber.

Second, this young woman seemed to think Xiaoyao was looking for something specific and felt he should have received some information, but this conclusion was wrong, at least she said it was wrong.

If this was the case, then this seemed even more certain. Today's events seemed to be a misunderstanding, or one could say Xiaoyao was unlucky. He shouldn't have been surrounded and captured, but because he appeared at this specific time and place, he was discovered and surrounded for capture.

Having figured this out, Xiaoyao could only helplessly shake his head. How could he be so unlucky to encounter such a thing? If he hadn't gotten involved in this matter, he believed his coming and going wouldn't have been discovered by anyone, much less surrounded in the middle as a grave robber.

Perhaps this was also heaven's will...

"Why are you shaking your head? Speak quickly, whose man are you? Why do you want to steal our things." the young woman loudly questioned Xiaoyao.

Steal? This phrasing seemed somewhat inappropriate. Even if someone came to rob graves, it would only be called stealing. Never mind, it was probably a slip of the tongue.

"I'm shaking my head in helplessness. I originally just came to pay respects to this senior, bury something, and leave. I'm not here to rob graves at all. I'm just a passerby helping someone with something, an insignificant passerby. You don't need to treat me . This is just a misunderstanding." Xiaoyao waved his hand, saying somewhat helplessly.

"A misunderstanding? Still want to make excuses. Someone..." The young woman didn't want to say more. First capture Xiaoyao, then use torture to extract a confession. She wasn't afraid he wouldn't talk.

"Wait. It really is just a misunderstanding. First, the person I came here to pay respects to is Senior Chen Shiru, not Senior Fang Tianya, this needs to be clarified. Second, I'm not at all the person you think I am, I just appeared here at the wrong time." Xiaoyao raised his hand. This needed to be explained clearly. Although he knew that having been discovered and surrounded by such people, it was currently very difficult to escape.

If he really needed to escape, Xiaoyao had methods, but relatively speaking, he felt it was better to wait for these experts to leave. When fewer people were watching him, then he could look for an opportunity to escape.

Looking at how these people looked down on him, they clearly considered him just a small fry. Once captured, they wouldn't pay too much attention, and that would be the best time to escape.

Also, if he explained clearly, perhaps the surveillance would be even lighter.

"Can't you say something believable? You came to pay respects to our ancestor Chen Shiru, who is she to you? Even if you were of the Chen family bloodline from that time, after three thousand years, who would come to pay respects to ancestors from three thousand years ago who weren't even founding ancestors." The young woman shook her head, saying very disdainfully, disdaining Xiaoyao's completely unfounded claims.

For anyone, they might remember elders from previous generations and might remember the first-generation ancestors in their family genealogy, but few would remember those in between, much less pay respects to them, at least not make special trips to pay respects.

However, no one could imagine that Xiaoyao was commissioned by someone, and this commissioner had existed three thousand years ago...

"I'm not from the Chen family. I was commissioned by someone to come here. He was Senior Chen Shiru's old friend. Due to certain reasons, he couldn't come personally, so he asked me to help pay respects," Xiaoyao said honestly. However, he felt that many people might not believe this when said, but even so, he still explained it.

Whether they believed it or not was up to them, this was no longer his concern.

Don't believe it, of course they didn't believe it. Not one person here believed Xiaoyao's words.

"Even when lying, you should find something with basis. You're the worst liar I've ever seen." the young woman looked at Xiaoyao and said somewhat complexly. Was this person brain-damaged? Why did he keep saying things no one would believe?

"Mm, I don't lie because what I say is the truth." Xiaoyao said very solemnly, as if he were a saint, a saint who wouldn't lie.

"...You really are stubbornly unchanging..." the young woman said.

Everyone was somewhat speechless at this moment, feeling Xiaoyao was truly a strange person. At such a time, he was still talking big, saying things no one would believe. Even if you wanted to lie, you should say things others would believe.

Seeing this situation, Xiaoyao shook his head and said somewhat irritably, "You really are impossible to reason with. Let me ask you, if I were a grave robber, why would I offer incense and sacrificial items to pay respects?"

"This is because you wanted an excuse when caught..." the young woman frowned slightly, seeming to feel this point was somewhat problematic, but this still couldn't negate her inner thoughts.

Xiaoyao looked at the young woman and said, "Find an excuse? What good would such an excuse do? Also, offering incense and lighting candles in the deep night is behavior that exposes oneself. Who would use such a thing as an excuse?"

Indeed, on such a night, if one came to do guilty deeds, why would one light candles and incense in the darkness? This firelight would let people discover them.

"Also, look clearly, I'm digging the ground in the passage in front of the grave. With this type of tomb design, there would be nothing below except earth. Even sewers would be in that position, not here. Don't say I don't understand this structure and am digging randomly, and don't say the mechanism is here. If I really had this information, I wouldn't dig here..." Newest update provıded by novel-fire.ɴet

The young woman was silent again. In the information she received, although it didn't mention specifically where the grave robbing would occur, it seemed to indicate inside the tomb, not the current location.

From various signs, Xiaoyao seemed inconsistent with grave-robbing behavior. But if it wasn't him, then where was the grave robber? Had they startled the snake by beating the grass? Or perhaps this person before them was just here to scout ahead?

"Even if you were paying respects, why come so late? Or are you doing this just to be a vanguard for grave robbers, testing whether we have people watching here?" the young woman frowned and questioned.

"..." Xiaoyao was stunned for a while. It seemed very difficult to clear his relationship today.

Helplessly, Xiaoyao still had to continue speaking. Otherwise, being someone else's scapegoat for no reason was something he didn't want to do.

"I came so late because I didn't want to be discovered by you..."

"Why not? Are you trying to do something sneaky?" the young woman asked, with a slight smile on her face, seemingly feeling she had caught the other party's flaw.

"Because I'm not a member of your Fang family. Using normal procedures to enter your Fang family, what do you think are the chances of getting in?" Xiaoyao asked.

"Not even one percent. Someone like you, how could our Fang family casually let you in?" the young woman immediately shook her head in denial.

"That's right. If I wanted to get in, I could only use special means. Otherwise, I'd never get in. Even if I could get in, it would take a lot of time and effort. I could only infiltrate, and nighttime is the best time for infiltration," Xiaoyao waved his hand with a somewhat indifferent feeling, as if this matter had no problems.

"The way you put it, it seems you were forced into this situation, and we Fang family are the ones who forced you," the young woman frowned, saying somewhat unfriendly.

"I didn't say that, but it is indeed this reason." Xiaoyao thought for a moment, then said very naturally.

That naturalness left people speechless...