"Just a woman, wearing a mask, with short hair, and wrapped up tightly despite the heat of summer."
Tan Yunlong said to a colleague nearby: "There must be a mistake, he was speaking the Nantong dialect, that gang is from out of town."
Tomb-robbing gangs generally consist of relatives as core members, it's very rare for outsiders, let alone people from other provinces to join. Greed can drive people, but the thing they fear most when dealing with riches from the dead isn't the dead themselves, but being double-crossed.
"Captain Tan, does that mean we've been discovered?"
"Probably. Your work wasn't meticulous enough; they might have noticed us long ago and that's why they haven't been caught. However, it's also possible that they're just sounding us out."
Tan Yunlong suddenly thought of something, when you throw a stone to test the waters, you at least need to stand by and watch the ripples it creates.
