964 Perplexed and Smitten 24 (1/2)
An Xiaoning and He Yi exchanged glances as they could both guess who it was.
”Bring her in,” said An Xiaoning.
”Okay.”
”What is she here for? Did you invite her?” He Yi asked.
”No. I don't know why she's here either. We'll find out when she comes in later.”
Wen Lele was appalled to see He Yi and asked in bewilderment, ”What are you doing here?”
”Why can't I be here? I should be the one asking you, what are you doing here?” Noticing how filthy and disheveled she looked with her unkempt hair and bare face, which was a far cry from her appearance during the gathering, He Yi gibed, ”Is this how you should be dressing when you're paying someone a visit?”
Wen Lele looked at An Xiaoning and said eagerly, ”I didn't have time to change. Ms. An, I have something important to tell you.”
”What is it?”
”He Yi, if you don't have anything important to talk to Ms. An about, please go back. There's something I must tell Ms. An privately,” said Wen Lele, turning around to look at He Yi.
He Yi nodded and left after bidding An Xiaoning goodbye.
Wen Lele walked toward the door to make sure that He Yi had left before returning inside. With a grave expression on her face, Wen Lele said, ”Ms. An, some of the members of our archeological team headed to an ancient graveyard yesterday. However, they grew hysterical all at the same time the next morning…” Terror was written all over Wen Lele's face as she continued, ”I was at the toilet with my female colleague at the time and when we returned, we saw that they were all knocking their heads against the rocks continuously. We were both petrified and so we scrambled into the car and called our captain. By the time our captain arrived with some other members, our colleagues had already died, all of them died…”
An Xiaoning asked, ”You're an archeologist?”
She nodded and answered, ”My captain is there now and he tried to get your number from the police station. However, he could not reach you and I had no choice but to look you up personally.”
”Is your captain Wang Jinsheng?” An Xiaoning asked, referring to the middle-aged archeological team captain whom she had met previously in Mount Yihua.
”Yes.”
”Where's that ancient graveyard located?”
”G City.”
”The Northwest region?”
”Yes.”
”Since a mishap has already happened, why didn't your captain come back with the rest of your colleagues?”
”He didn't come back but he dares not go near that ancient graveyard again. However, that place is where an ancient palace used to be.”
An Xiaoning dreaded going to such places. However, now that she had learned about the incident, she had no choice but to go take a look, for that was the only appropriate thing to do. Fortunately, G City was not too far from A City and it would take only an hour-long flight to get there.
”There's a guest room over there. Take a shower first, I'll get someone to bring you a fresh set of clothes. I'll go upstairs to get ready.”
”Alright, thank you, Ms. An.”
An Xiaoning instructed Auntie Chen to pass Wen Lele a set of clothes while she made her way upstairs. Half an hour later, she returned downstairs with her bag and saw that Wen Lele had already taken a shower and was waiting for her in the living room.
Although Wen Lele was curious about what An Xiaoning had in her bag, she dared not ask any questions and instead got inside the car together with her, after which Fan Shixin drove them to the airport.
Along the way, she called Jin Qingyan to inform him about the sudden change in plans. She initially thought that he would not have any comments about it. To her surprise, he refused to let her go.
She asked, ”Why?”
”Wouldn't you be extremely tired all the time if you render help in every similar incident that happens in this world? What has that ancient residence have anything to do with you? What's going to happen if you meet with a mishap in that spooky place? Go home immediately.”
”I'll just be taking a look. I'm almost at the airport. Shixin's sending us there.”