Senior, don't be afraid, I'll protect you.

On Friday, Su Baizhou was tidying up her things in her room.

My junior said he wanted to go do archaeology.

The other party was Teacher Li Chang'an.

As Gu Mingxuan's student, Su Baizhou naturally knew him.

She also knew that the other person was a witty and humorous person, so she was quite willing to go and experience it with her junior.

When Li Chang'an learned that Luo Ye was bringing his family, he pretended to be surprised, but it was all an act.

Gu Mingxuan knew perfectly well that as long as Luo Ye went, Su Baizhou would definitely follow.

It's important to understand that archaeology is no easy task, let alone managing one's image. If you care too much about your image in an archaeological team, you'll basically be disliked by everyone, who will think you're spoiled.

Of course, this could also be a form of exercise.

The training Luo Ye received may also be the training Su Baizhou received.

After all, no matter what, Su Baizhou is Gu Mingxuan's student.

Of course, no matter how much Su Baizhou thought about it, she couldn't have imagined that the other party simply wanted to see how her younger brother and her apprentice would fall in love in the middle of nowhere.

It's interesting to think about.

Su Baizhou has already chosen the clothes she will wear tomorrow.

He was dressed in durable black clothes, along with a mask, a hat, sunglasses, and dust gloves.

Except for the neck, almost nothing was exposed; it was truly fully armed from head to toe.

I heard that the location we were going to was very remote, so Su Baizhou also brought some food and water.

However, other people will bring these things too.

In addition, they were going on an archaeological expedition, not an adventure, so there was no danger.

Archaeological sites are only allowed to be entered after professionals have confirmed their safety.

Li Chang'an's team had already been there once; this time it was just to give a few outstanding archaeology students a real archaeology experience.

As for the three spots in the history open class, they are actually just there to serve tea and water and do manual labor, playing the role of Sha Wujing in the Journey to the West.

These three people were Luo Ye, Guo Bing, Yang Simeng, and Su Baizhou, who accompanied them.

Early Saturday morning, before eight o'clock, everyone gathered at the school gate.

The group traveled together in a pickup truck and two SUVs to the archaeological site.

The first pickup truck belonged to two members of Li Chang'an's team, and the second SUV belonged to Li Chang'an and several outstanding students majoring in archaeology.

The third SUV contained Luo Ye and his three companions, along with a member of Li Chang'an's team.

The journey was very bumpy. Guo Bing looked at Su Baizhou, who was fully armed and whose gender was even hard to tell, and asked curiously, "Is this Senior Su?"

"Ah, yes."

Luo Ye also glanced at the fairy-like senior wearing sunglasses next to him, not expecting that the senior would actually come dressed like that.

But this is good, at least no one knows the senior student anymore, which saves a lot of unnecessary trouble, otherwise she would be asked all sorts of questions by other people.

He'll have to explain to each of them that this is his precious girlfriend.

Just thinking about it makes me happy... no, just thinking about it makes me feel troubled.

The members of Li Chang'an's team are mostly graduate students, and even the students are currently pursuing graduate studies. Naturally, they have heard a great deal about the reputation of Jiangda's aloof campus belle.

After driving for two hours, Su Baizhou, Luo Ye, Guo Bing, and Yang Simeng all fell asleep leaning against their partners.

Finally, around ten o'clock, they arrived at their archaeological destination.

A poor town in a city surrounding Jiangcheng.

...Hmm, that name sounds familiar.

The car stopped in the town, but they only had a simple meal before setting off again for Ruxi Village, 20 kilometers away.

In mid-October, villagers accidentally stumbled upon an underground palace while digging. Professor Li Chang'an, an archaeology professor who was closest to the site, immediately led his team to explore it and eventually completed the excavation of the underground palace.

This underground palace has a long history, but there's nothing valuable inside; it's just an ordinary maze.

Moreover, there were no mechanisms inside, so it didn't seem like the ancients were going there to deal with enemies, but rather to perform some kind of ritual.

After clearing the maze, there are many murals on the wall at the end point, and people are now trying to understand their meaning.

Of course, the meaning of the murals has now been deciphered.

Meaningless……

These murals are for worshipping immortals...

Ruxi Village, a poor town, remains poor to this day because of excessive superstition and backward thinking.

Their ancestors did the same, digging pits underground, which took a lot of time and effort, all for the purpose of worshipping gods.

In a poor town, in a noodle shop.

There were about ten of them, sitting at several tables in a large group. The owner looked pleasantly surprised and began to take their orders one by one.

Luo Ye, Guo Bing, and two others sat at a table.

“Senior, we’ve been here before,” Guo Bing suddenly said.

"what?"

Luo Ye said in surprise, "This place sounds familiar to me. Someone must have been here before."

"During the National Day holiday, Mengmeng and I both participated in our freshman rural outreach program. We went to Yipin Town, but we weren't in Ruxi Village. I remember some senior students from the Computer Science Department were in Ruxi Village, probably your classmates."

"Yes, I remember now, that's right."

It's quite a coincidence that Tang Enqi and Li Haoyang came to this very place.

"How about it?"

Li Chang'an walked over and asked, "Are you looking forward to it? Are you nervous?"

Luo Ye looked at the comical foreign teacher with a speechless expression and couldn't help but say, "Teacher Pineapple, this place is really remote."

"What else can you expect? What ancient ruins do you think you'll find in the city center?"

Right.

At this moment, in order to eat, Su Baizhou took off her mask.

Instantly, she became the most eye-catching sight in the area, attracting even the attention of locals passing by.

Their town was very poor, and they had never seen such a beautiful girl before.

Even with sunglasses on, her demeanor was out of place among those around her. Not only among the locals, but even within the archaeological team, she stood out from the others.

In Li Chang'an's team, a doctoral student whispered to the person next to him, "Who is this? I've never heard of her before. There's such a beautiful girl on this archaeology study trip."

"I've never heard of that either. Teacher Li said there were three laymen accompanying him, but there were four people sitting at that table."

Su Baizhou was wearing a mask. The youngest among them was two years older than Su Baizhou.

So although they had heard of the aloof school beauty's reputation, they had basically only seen her in photos, and it was even more impossible for them to recognize Su Baizhou wearing sunglasses at a glance.

At this moment, some people had lost interest in archaeology and were all curious about the girl's identity.

Luo Ye, noticing this, finally understood why his senior was fully armed.

Li Chang'an stared intently at Su Baizhou's face, then exclaimed, "Holy crap, isn't this Gu's student?"

Aside from attending classes, he spent most of his time exploring various archaeological sites in China and was rarely at school, so he hadn't seen Su Baizhou much.

But he recognized the other person because Gu Mingxuan used to show off his students every day.

Of course, he was unaware of the rumors circulating at school about them being a model couple.

Since Luo Ye and Su Baizhou got together, Gu Mingxuan has never shown off his student again.

It's no wonder he's a foreigner who's been in China for so long.

The essence of our national culture has been learned.