Traveling Through the Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Starting from Meeting You

Zhang Yecheng sat in the main hall with a solemn expression, looking angrily at Zhang Qiling and Zhang Hanyan who were standing side by side.

"Han Yan, tell me, what happened during the time when you disappeared without any reason? Tell me the truth, and I promise I won't blame you!"

Zhang Hanyan looked up and stared at him. No matter how she looked at him, she didn't seem to believe what he said.

"Master, let's make it clear first. You are not allowed to punish me!"

Zhang Yecheng nodded firmly, confirming what he had said before.

"Well, I said, that day, I met Xi Liu outside the orphanage, and he said that the Great Elder asked me to go there and improve the mechanical formations in various places of the Zhang family.

So I followed him to the Elders' Council. After entering the chief elder's room, Xiliu took out a blueprint and handed it to me, asking me to read it in the room and not to take it away.

There were a total of twenty drawings, and it took me until dark to finish looking at them. When I was about to leave, I felt a strong sense of dizziness for some reason.

Then, I knew nothing. When I woke up again, I had no idea how many days I had been unconscious.

In a daze, I heard the Great Elder talking to Xi Liu about capturing an orphan with Qilin blood and taking him to the ancient city of Sizhou to have his blood drained.

They also said that they knocked me out because they wanted to take the little brother away, and they didn't arrest me because they knew I was their master's apprentice and had a great talent for mechanical engineering, and they didn't want to send me to death.

I woke up completely and escaped from the Council of Elders. I didn't dare to delay for a moment and rushed directly to the ancient city of Sizhou. Fortunately, I caught up at the last moment.

Master, this is what happened during those days, I really didn’t lie, I promise!”

Zhang Hanyan said that she woke up by herself instead of being woken up by the system. She could not reveal the existence of the system. If people other than her knew the existence of the system, no one knew what kind of butterfly effect would occur.

Zhang Yecheng recalled every word she said. Although there were no flaws, he always felt that something was wrong.

"The Elders' Council is full of experts. How did you escape from the Elders' Council by yourself? I'm very curious."

When Zhang Yecheng asked this question, even Zhang Qiling, who was never gossipy, couldn't help but look up at her.

Zhang Hanyan looked at Zhang Qiling. She felt that she could see a hint of curiosity in his eyes. What was going on?

"Um... I just... kidnapped the Great Elder, put the sword against his neck, and then accidentally cut his skin, causing him to bleed, hehe..."

The more Zhang Yecheng listened, the faster he felt his heart beating, almost to the point where it was about to jump out of his throat.

He tightly covered his violently beating heart, and his hand pointing at Zhang Hanyan kept shaking.

"You! You traitor! How dare you commit treason and offend the great elder! The reason you are still standing here alive is because the elders are kind and don't bother with a little brat like you, do you know that?"

Zhang Yecheng became angrier as he spoke. He fumbled for the stick he had been hiding behind the table, stood up and pretended to hit someone.

The moment Zhang Qiling saw the stick, a cold light flashed in his eyes. He quickly pulled Zhang Hanyan behind him and used his body to block her firmly.

"Try hitting her!"

His tone was cold, like ice that had not melted for thousands of years, chilling enough to penetrate the bone marrow.

Zhang Yecheng was so shocked by Zhang Qiling's rare display that he was speechless. For a long time he couldn't remember that he had just wanted to hit someone.

After he came to his senses, he thought back to how Zhang Qiling had protected Zhang Hanyan just now, and he didn't know whether he should be happy or angry.

The good news is that Zhang Qiling finally has someone he wants to protect.

What made him angry was that Zhang Qiling, in order to protect Zhang Hanyan, didn't even realize that he had no intention of taking action.

He obviously just wanted to scare Zhang Hanyan and didn't really want to hit her.

Not only did he not want to hit her, in fact, in his heart, he was even extremely proud of what Zhang Hanyan had done.

Especially the scene just now when she contradicted them in front of so many elders, which almost made him laugh out loud on the spot.

God knows how hard it was for him to hold it in at that time.

Under Zhang Qiling's chilling gaze, Zhang Yecheng slowly put down the stick in his hand.

"You little heartless thing, I've raised you for so many years, but you can't even tell whether I really want to hit someone or just pretend, hum..."

Zhang Yecheng snorted coldly and walked out of the main hall dejectedly. His hunched back looked particularly lonely!

Zhang Hanyan reached out and tugged at the corner of Zhang Qiling's clothes, "Brother, Master seems really sad, shall we go see him?"

Zhang Qiling's eyes followed the direction Zhang Yecheng left, and his furrowed brows seemed to express his worry.

"Well, let's go take a look."

The two of them walked towards Zhang Yecheng's room together. When they were about to get close, they both slowed down their steps.

They stood by the window and looked inside quietly.

They thought that even if they would not see Zhang Yecheng crying secretly, they would at least see him sad and lonely.

But when they looked closely at the scene in the room, they found that Zhang Yecheng was not sad at all. On the contrary, he was extremely happy!

He sat alone at the table, took out an oil paper package and opened it carefully, revealing the golden and shiny roast chicken inside.

He leaned in and smelled it, with a satisfied expression on his face.

"Oh, what a delicious roast chicken. It's so comfortable to enjoy it all by myself. I don't have to share it with those two brats. Hahaha.

They must still think I'm sulking in my room, and they must be feeling guilty for wrongly accusing me."

Zhang Yecheng slowly tore off a large chicken leg, brought it close to his mouth, took a big bite and chewed it.

"Mm, smells good! Humph, let those two brats feel guilty. Let's see if they dare to accuse me without any reason in the future!"

Zhang Yecheng was enjoying the delicious roast chicken alone in the room with great satisfaction, but he didn't know that his every word and action was being watched by Zhang Hanyan and Zhang Qiling who were standing by the window.

Zhang Qiling sneered, not wanting to look at him any more, and turned and left.

"Hey! Brother! Where are you going?"

Zhang Hanyan's exclamation reached the ears of Zhang Yecheng who was gnawing on a chicken leg. He was so frightened that his hands were shaking and he almost dropped the chicken leg in his hand.

He stood up in doubt and slowly walked towards the window where a figure flashed by.

He listened carefully, but could only hear the footsteps gradually getting farther away.

"Oh no, did those two brats see everything that just happened?"

He pushed the window open a little bit in confusion, and sure enough, he saw four faint footprints on the window lace.

"It's over, it's over. My reputation has been ruined by myself! How can I maintain my authority in front of these two children in the future?"

He looked down at the half-eaten chicken leg in his hand, and instantly felt that it was tasteless and a pity to throw it away.