Chapter 457: Escape

At night in Adelia, on the church square, in front of the Church of the Pure Flow, Antonio, who had originally looked lost, was stunned after hearing what O'Ferro said. Then he looked at O'Ferro with a rather surprised look.

"They didn't clear the sign? How is that possible? How could they not clear the sign when they want to steal something like the Crown of Emmanuel?" Paul on the side said in surprise. A church treasure like the Crown of Emmanuel would definitely have sign symbols printed on it for a long time. The thieves should be more aware of this. How could they not clear it when they stole it?

"Well... maybe he forgot to clear it, or maybe the marker we used on the Crown of Emmanuel is a deep marker, which is difficult to remove with ordinary means. He may have used ordinary methods to clear it but failed to clear it?" Listening to Paul's words, O'Neal responded thoughtfully, and at this time Antonio spoke directly.

"Unlikely... that thief is a Red Rank. It is unlikely that someone of his level would forget such an important thing as clearing the road signs. As a Red Rank thief, he definitely has the means to remember the road signs clearly. It should be impossible that he cannot clear them. There must be some other hidden secrets..." Antonio frowned and murmured. At this time, he had begun to realize that the theft case he was experiencing was probably far from as simple as it seemed on the surface. There might be some deeper reasons behind it.

Antonio fell into deep thought at this point, and at this moment, O'Neal on the side couldn't help but ask.

"Um... Mr. Antonio, the beacon is now moving away from us rapidly in the southeast direction. Should we chase it or not?"

Listening to O'Fernandez's words, Antonio couldn't help but pause for a moment. Then he put aside the confusion in his heart for the moment, and then spoke after firming up his expression.

"Chase, we'll go to the port now, board the Surge and chase at full speed! No matter what, the Crown of Emmanuel is related to the spiritual sustenance of the people of Adelia, and there can be no mistakes. We must catch up with him."

Antonio gave the order in a stern voice. There happened to be a church fleet military home port in Adelia, where the huge fleet that had just escorted the pilgrims back was parked. This military port not only had a large number of church military extraordinary people, but also many specialized high-speed ships available for use.

Just in case this was a trap, Antonio decided to mobilize all high-speed ships and a group of extraordinary people from the Church Navy to pursue with the most powerful force and fastest speed.

This matter concerns the reputation of the church, and he will not let that daring thief get away!

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Conquer the sea late at night.

Relying on the soul of the shark, Garbo transformed into a half-shark form and swam at high speed in the water. With her shark characteristics and the power brought by the third-order "cup", Garbo swam very fast in the sea. Any ordinary fish and ships, even the birds flying in the sky could not surpass his speed. But even so, Garbo did not dare to stop for a moment.

Faster, faster! Farther, farther! What Gab was thinking about now was to do everything he could to get away from Adelia and Antonio as far as possible. He had to escape Antonio's detection range before Antonio came out of the ghost town. The perception range of the Red-rank "Light" Extraordinary was so vast that the vision of his rank could even cover an entire super-large city. Therefore, he did not dare to relax at all during his escape. He swam forward with all his strength, just to get rid of Antonio as soon as possible.

In the battle with the Phantom, Garb had suffered considerable injuries. Although he was not a "Cup"-assisted Extraordinary, his self-healing ability was not as strong as that of the Path of Blood Darkness and the Path of the Holy Mother. Therefore, his wounds had not completely healed so far, and he did not have the energy to concentrate on self-healing. As a result, he could only endure the pain in his body and swim violently. Countless blood flowed from his wounds and merged into the sea water.

Swimming and swimming, swimming non-stop, under the blessing of the "cup" power, Garib has been swimming in the sea for several hours. Logically speaking, he should have escaped from Antonio's sight by now, but even so, he still did not stop, but continued to swim forward in the same posture. To be on the safe side, he could not stop now.

Garbu swam non-stop in the sea until the bright moon in the sky sank below the sea in the west, until the bright light of dawn appeared in the eastern sky, until the sun rose from the sea in the east and climbed up to the sky, illuminating the world. Only then did Garbu's speed gradually slow down. He swam continuously with high intensity from night to day with injuries. Even a third-level "cup" could not withstand it. Garbu felt sore muscles all over his body.

At this moment, in front of Gab, a lush island appeared on the sea in the distance under the morning light. Seeing this, Gab immediately cheered up, endured the pain all over his body and swam towards the island at full speed. Finally, after a few minutes, he stepped onto the beach of this uninhabited island.

After stepping onto the beach, Garb immediately released his support, released the shark soul and re-sealed it into the bone fragment. Then he staggered forward on the beach for a long time, panting. After sitting under a tree, he finally sat down due to exhaustion, leaning his back against the tree trunk, panting and resting. It was obvious that he was exhausted at this time.

“Hoo…Hoo…”

Gasping for breath, he finally got a chance to rest after swimming for a long time. With muscles aching all over his body, he sat under the tree for more than half an hour. After he finally recovered a little strength, he couldn't help but look at the endless sea in the distance, thinking that he had run so far, he should not be found again.

"Huh... I'm safe now... I don't know how many of Saimu and the others can escape. I'm afraid it will take quite a long time to rest this time... I didn't expect to encounter such an accident this time. How did that old guy Antonio know about me?"

Jia Buru thought so in his heart. His original plan was to get the divination props now and steal the ruins of a book repair society in April. However, judging from the current situation, his trusted subordinates should have suffered heavy losses. Perhaps they would not be able to organize enough forces to take over the ruins for a while. After this wave, he would need enough time to recuperate and prepare.

"Although accidents happen frequently, at least I got the thing. As long as I am still here, as long as this thing is here... then everything will be fine..."

Gab thought so in his heart, and then he looked at the bag hanging around his waist, which contained the war souvenirs he had stolen at a great cost, and it was Azam's most attractive legacy.

Staring at the bag on his waist, Jia Bu, who had just recovered his breath, decided to open it and have a look. So he took off the small bag and held it in his hand. After opening the bag, he looked inside and took out the antiques one by one.

Wine glasses, earrings, daggers, arrowheads...Jab carefully inspected each item he picked up. As a veteran treasure thief, he had a certain ability to identify treasures and could tell the origin and approximate weight of these items.

In Gab's impression, although he had never seen the divination prop of Azam, he vaguely knew that it was dug out by him from Northern Wu, so it should be a Northern Wu cultural collection. Azam's donated collection was also mainly Northern Wu collections, but Gab spent a long time identifying these objects here, and he found that there were hardly any Northern Wu items among them. Instead, Ivig's own cultural collections accounted for the majority.

While examining the things in the bag, Jia Bu's brows slightly frowned. Just when he had a bad feeling in his heart, he finally took out all the items in the bag, leaving only a small cloth bag placed at the innermost part of the bag.

Seeing this small cloth bag, Jiabu became even more confused. He picked up the cloth bag and examined it with doubt, wondering why his young subordinate would specially wrap this thing up?

Confused in his heart, Jiabu opened the cloth bag, and when he saw the light overflowing from the cloth bag, his eyes couldn't help but widen.