Chapter 29 Gu Sheng is getting more and more used to this world…

Gu Sheng is getting more and more used to life in this world. Although there are some uncertainties, his life is generally quite stable.

Gu Sheng liked this sense of security.

That day, Gu Hecheng, whom Gu Sheng hadn't seen for a long time, suddenly sent him an invitation.

The invitation stated that the Gu Group was going to hold a charity auction, and the main attraction of the auction was a pocket watch with a history of four hundred years.

The reason Gu Sheng was invited seems to be because Gu Hecheng knew that Gu Sheng hadn't gone out for a long time and hoped to take this opportunity to let Gu Sheng go out for a walk.

In fact, Gu Sheng simply enjoys staying at home.

However, Gu Sheng did not intend to refuse Gu Hecheng's kindness.

He hasn't left the house in a while, so it's nice to go out for a walk once in a while.

A few days later, at the auction.

Gu Sheng was wearing a suit, which was unusual for him. The suit had been made in the last two days. After agreeing to attend the auction, Gu Sheng realized that he didn't own a single formal suit.

Fortunately, the clothing store was efficient and expedited the production of the clothes.

Gu Sheng presented the invitation and entered the banquet hall.

By this time, a few people had already gathered in the banquet hall.

Upon seeing someone enter, the group simultaneously looked towards the entrance, but after realizing it was someone they had never seen before, they turned back to continue their previous discussion.

People who attend these kinds of auctions don't come just to participate in the auction itself.

Those who arrive early do so to expand their network and attract investment.

Those who arrive late do so to show off their status and, incidentally, to look for suitable investment projects.

Gu Sheng arrived early, and because he rarely showed himself, few people knew that he was the legendary young master whom the Gu family had taken in. So the people here just assumed that he was also someone who had come here to seek opportunities.

Gu Sheng didn't care what they thought, but since it was his first time attending such a gathering, he was curious about everything.

Gu Sheng found a corner to sit down and curiously observed his surroundings.

His gaze swept across the hall, and suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, he noticed something unusual.

Gu Sheng shifted his gaze back to the spot he had just seen. He carefully examined all the guests standing in that area but found nothing unusual.

illusion?

wrong.

Gu Sheng frowned slightly. Since the guest had no problem, then the problem must lie with someone else.

He shifted his gaze from the guests to the quiet, unassuming waiters moving back and forth in the lobby.

The waiters at these parties are usually part-time workers hired by outsourcing companies. Their requirements for hiring are very simple: good appearance and temperament. They don't conduct detailed investigations on the people they hire.

Gu Sheng's gaze swept over one waiter after another, finally settling on a tall man.

He was wearing the same uniform as the other waiters, but his aura was clearly different from theirs, and he was trying to make himself as inconspicuous as possible.

Gu Sheng glanced at the waiter, then looked away, only continuing to observe him out of the corner of his eye.

After watching for a while, Gu Sheng noticed that the man's headphones were different from the other waiters'; they had been modified. He also had two receivers on him, one clipped to his waist like the other waiters, and the other hidden in his clothes.

The man's cufflinks were also problematic, being slightly larger than those of the other waiters.

There's something wrong with this person.

Gu Sheng wasn't in a hurry to expose him.

He was bored, so he wanted to see what this person was up to.

Gu Sheng didn't like drinking, so he took a glass of orange juice from a passing waiter's tray.

Then he drank his juice while observing the man's movements.

Gu Sheng saw that the man initially moved through the crowd like the other waiters, serving tea and water, without doing anything strange.

As more and more people entered the banquet hall, he slowed down and began to subtly observe his surroundings.

After observing for a while, the man seemed to feel that the time was right. He retreated to the wall and hid in the shadows of the corner, walking towards a small door next to him.

That door leads to the vault, where all the items being auctioned are kept.

Gu Sheng picked up the auction flyer, and the first page of the flyer featured the prized pocket watch.

Small and portable, this person's target must be this pocket watch.

However, to enter that door, you need an access card that is only for internal personnel. Further inside, to enter the vault, you need the vault manager's facial recognition, fingerprint, and iris scan.

Gu Sheng was a little curious about how he was going to get in.

The man placed the tray he was carrying under a food cart and then covered it with a red cloth from the cart.

He then touched the door lock with his cufflinks, and the door opened.

It seems he has solved the access card problem; the same chip as the access card must be hidden inside that cufflink.

Before pushing open the door, the man glanced around the hall again to make sure no one was watching him before he went in. The whole process was completely silent.

Unfortunately, Gu Sheng saw all of this.

Gu Sheng picked up his cup and walked toward the door. On the way, he ran into Gu Hecheng, who had just arrived.

Gu Hecheng saw Gu Sheng and took the initiative to walk up and greet him: "Uncle, it's been a long time."

Gu Sheng was still not used to being addressed like that by Gu Hecheng. Moreover, it had only been the two of them before, but now that there were so many people around, the way he was addressed made Gu Sheng feel very uncomfortable.

Fortunately, no one else noticed this, only a few people around cast curious glances.

Gu Hecheng exchanged a few pleasantries with Gu Sheng, and then left. He was the organizer of this auction, and there were still many things waiting for him to handle.

After Gu Hecheng left, Gu Sheng successfully approached the door and found a seat closest to it.

As a waiter passed by, he asked him for a walkie-talkie.

The waiter initially looked puzzled and embarrassed, but after Gu Sheng gave him a generous tip, he quickly took off the walkie-talkie and handed it to Gu Sheng.

Gu Sheng spent two minutes making some modifications to the walkie-talkie, then adjusted it for a while, and then successfully heard the voice he wanted from the walkie-talkie.

Gu Sheng connected the walkie-talkie and his cell phone together, then put on his headset so that only he could hear it.

Incidentally, he also turned on the recording.

A lively female voice came through the walkie-talkie: "An Lan, how is it? Have we arrived yet?"

Then a male voice, deliberately lowered, appeared: "We'll be there soon, Lan. Check where the security is."

Lan was the female voice. She said, "Deyuan, Anlan wants you to see where the security is."

As Lan finished speaking, a muffled male voice came: "Tell An Lan to go to the left, go around in a circle, and if you continue forward you will run into security."

Lan immediately repeated, "An Lan, turn left."

An Lan whispered, "I heard you."

The auction had already begun, and Gu Sheng saw Gu Hecheng standing on the stage giving his speech.

Gu Sheng found the speech boring; he preferred listening to the voices on the walkie-talkie rather than the speech itself.

Over the walkie-talkie, An Lan seemed to have reached the vault safely, but he encountered a problem.

Lan: "How could fingerprint recognition fail?"

Deyuan: "Are you mistaken?"

Lan: "Huh? How could that be? I wouldn't make a mistake. Do you know how much I sacrificed to get these things done?"

Deyuan said in a low voice, "It's just that I had a couple of drinks with someone."

Lan immediately raised her voice: "Why can't you go have a couple of drinks with them? Why does it have to be me? It's disgusting."

Just then, An Lan's serious voice came: "Quiet, what do we do now?"

There was a brief silence on the walkie-talkie, then Lan spoke, her face serious: "Try again. The fingerprint is definitely right, but it's not a real person's fingerprint, so the machine might not recognize it accurately."

An Lan tried twice more: "Okay, it passed."

Next came iris and face recognition. Iris recognition failed twice, but it finally succeeded.

The face scan went smoothly, and it was successful on the first try.

Just then, Deyuan said, "Quickly hide, security is coming."

Lan's voice was panicked: "Shouldn't there still be a minute? How come it's so fast?"

Deyuan said, "They changed their route halfway and were a minute faster than before."

The vault door was very heavy, and even though it was unlocked, it would still take some effort to open it.

There's clearly no time to open the door for An Lan right now.

Hearing this, Gu Sheng tensed up. Was An Lan about to be caught?

The walkie-talkie went silent.

After a while, Deyuan let out a heavy sigh of relief and said, "Okay, they're gone." Then he began to praise Anlan, "Luckily you reacted quickly and got stuck on the ceiling. The security guards didn't look up at all."

An Lan only gave a brief "hmm," but the fatigue in his voice was obvious.

Then Lan said, "There are five minutes until security comes again, hurry up."

An Lan didn't speak, and a dull thud came from the walkie-talkie as the door opened.

In fact, even if you open the vault door, the contents are still kept in a safe.

Just as Gu Sheng was wondering how they were going to open the safe, he heard An Lan say, "Got it."

That simple? Do you know the safe's combination?

It seems Lan has done a good job of preparation; she even thought of a safe and found out the password in advance.

Lan's excited voice came through the walkie-talkie: "We actually managed to steal this pocket watch."

An Lan lowered her voice and said, "This is not theft; we are just taking back what belongs to everyone."

Deyuan: "Anlan is right. I have already contacted a buyer. We can sell this pocket watch on the black market and then distribute the money to the poor."

Hearing this, Gu Sheng roughly understood the division of labor among the three: Lan was in charge of the preliminary preparations, Deyuan was probably a hacker and was responsible for hacking into the surveillance system, and An Lan was responsible for the implementation.

Gu Sheng's assessment of the three was that they were young, a bit immature, capable, thoughtful, proactive, and not bad-hearted; it was just a pity that they didn't use their abilities for the right purpose.

He silently wondered whether he should introduce these three people to Li Qingyue.

However, the people who can afford to play with these things must be quite well-off; they must at least be second-generation rich kids.

On the other end of the walkie-talkie, An Lan seemed to be nearing the exit. He said, "Okay, that's all for now. See you later."

They then broke off contact.

On the walkie-talkie, everything returned to calm.

Gu Sheng put the walkie-talkie away and then silently started counting down in his head.

Soon, he heard the sound of a door opening behind him.

In the noisy hall, the sound was so inconspicuous that it went unnoticed by anyone.

Gu Sheng was sitting with his back to the door. Although he couldn't see it, he could imagine An Lan cautiously peeking out to observe the surroundings and only coming out of the sample after confirming it was safe.

Gu Sheng heard footsteps slowly approaching behind him.

He calculated the distance, and as the footsteps approached from behind him, he suddenly stood up and bumped into An Lan, who was walking from behind.

An Lan quickly regained his balance, his eyes filled with vigilance and unease.

Then, when Gu Sheng looked at him, he instantly composed himself, his eyes changing from wary to smiling.

An Lan, like a true waiter, said politely, "I'm sorry to have offended you."

Gu Sheng glanced at An Lan, then looked at the tray in his hand, on which were two glasses of wine.

Gu Sheng asked, "What kind of wine is this?"

An Lan glanced at the glass and said, "This is champagne. If you need anything else, I can get it for you."

Gu Sheng picked up the two glasses of champagne and said, "No need, this is fine."

He looked at the stage and said, "It seems like the next item to be auctioned is the grand finale. Do you know what it is?"

An Lan's smile deepened, as if he were anticipating the chaos to come. He said, "Yes, sir, as far as I know, the grand finale is a pocket watch."

Just then, Gu Sheng heard the door behind him open, and several people in security uniforms rushed out. They looked very anxious and walked directly between Gu Sheng and An Lan.

An Lan looked at those people with a mocking expression. He bowed slightly to Gu Sheng and said, "Have a good time." Then he turned to leave.

Gu Sheng suddenly held one of the champagne glasses up to An Lan's eyes. Because they were so close, An Lan's gaze was unconsciously drawn to the champagne.

Gu Sheng smiled and said, "I had a great time today, so this drink is on you."

As he spoke, he raised another glass of champagne and clinked the two glasses together in front of An Lan.

An Lan's gaze unconsciously followed the movement of the wine glasses in front of him. He could clearly see the ripples in the glasses after the two glasses of champagne collided.

For some reason, looking at the ripples made his eyelids feel heavy, but this feeling only lasted for less than two seconds.

Gu Sheng handed one of the cups to An Lan, who just wanted to leave as soon as possible, so she didn't refuse.

He took the champagne, raised his glass to Gu Sheng, and said, "Thank you, sir." He was about to drink it.

Gu Sheng interrupted him, saying, "What, aren't you going to clink glasses with me?"

An Lan was taken aback. Hadn't they just clinked glasses? But then she realized that, to be precise, Gu Sheng had been clinking glasses with himself.

An Lan just wanted to leave as soon as possible and didn't want to get entangled with Gu Sheng, so he raised his glass to clink glasses with Gu Sheng.

However, Gu Sheng was faster than him. The instant he raised his cup, Gu Sheng had already smashed his cup against his.

The glasses clinked together, making a crisp sound. An Lan wasn't sure if it was just his imagination, but he felt that the sound was very long and lingered.

After clinking glasses, Gu Sheng took a sip of his drink, and An Lan also took a sip. Then Gu Sheng stopped stopping An Lan and turned to look at the stage.

An eerie silence fell over the stage. The host stood to one side, looking somewhat anxious, while a person in security uniform whispered something in Gu Hecheng's ear.

An Lan let out a long breath after Gu Sheng turned around. He didn't know why, but he always felt that this seemingly ordinary person gave off a strange sense of pressure.

An Lan turned and blended into the crowd. As he walked, he rubbed his ears, as if the sound of clinking glasses from earlier still lingered.

As Gu Sheng heard the footsteps behind him disappear, the corners of his mouth turned up slightly.

He raised his hand, and a pocket watch appeared in his palm.

Gu Sheng gently loosened the metal chain of the pocket watch, letting it hang naturally from his hand.

Gu Sheng really liked the pocket watch; perhaps he could try to take a picture of it later.