Chapter 82: Treasure Stealing
The warehouse is located in a museum in the center of Ancheng.
This museum was built with earthquake-resistant materials, so it was relatively well preserved during the natural disaster. After the disaster, it was converted into a warehouse, where a large amount of materials are stored.
Among them is the spirit pearl.
The symbolic significance of this spiritual pearl far outweighs its actual value, so it was placed in the library and occasionally exhibited when promoting hope.
This is good news for Gu Nian, at least it reduces the difficulty of stealing the spirit pearl.
Without further ado, Gu Nian immediately arranged for people to set off.
She brought Chi Qin and Tu Jing as members of the infiltration team, and Yue Jian also asked to join.
"But...your hand..." Gu Nian hesitated. She still remembered Yue Jian's injury and wanted him to have a good rest.
Yuejian made a beautiful sword flower with his left hand and said, "I am actually left-handed."
The rest of the Aurora team members found a building outside the museum to hide, waiting for support at any time. Xu Can and Zhang Xiaohong were also with them, responsible for off-site technical support.
Just like that, taking advantage of the night, Gu Nian and three others sneaked into the museum.
They came to the building opposite the museum. A smallest red-bellied eagle flew to the roof of the museum with a zipline in its beak and tied it to a pillar on the roof.
Tu Jing slid over first, and then, Gu Nian and others heard Tu Jing's voice through their communication headsets.
"It's passable." Tu Jing said.
Gu Nian, Chi Qin, and Yue Jian slid over one after another.
Tu Jing and Chi Qin took the glass cutters off their backpacks, hung upside down and silently cut a half-meter-wide disc on the top-floor window, and then the four of them went into the museum.
At this time, Zhang Xiaohong had already hacked into the museum's surveillance system, and the moment Gu Nian and others arrived at the rooftop, she had already changed the museum's surveillance footage.
There were several evolvers patrolling the museum. Their strength was not very high, but Gu Nian did not intend to alarm them.
Looking for blind spots in the guards' vision, they carefully moved to the warehouse.
Outside the warehouse was a huge code disk. Fortunately, they had Xu Can as their insider. According to the code Xu Can had found out in advance, Gu Nian turned the code disk, and the heavy iron door opened.
They walked in.
Inside the warehouse are storage racks one after another. Each rack is divided into several layers, and each layer has several storage cabinets.
"Look in the innermost part!" Xu Can reminded them through the headset. "The more valuable the collection, the further in!"
This warehouse is very large, and the storage shelves block the view. Gu Nian and others walked between the storage shelves and went inside.
At the innermost part of the storehouse is a row of sealed rooms. Needless to say, the most precious collections are kept in these rooms.
At this time, Gu Nian heard the noise.
Who is it? Gu Nian was stunned. Is it a guard who came to check the collection, or an uninvited guest who came to steal treasures like them?
There was no way to avoid it at this point, so the four of them simply rushed into the room where the noise came from.
Inside the open room, there was a storage box in the middle. Now that the storage box had been opened, there was a huge pearl as big as a fist, emitting a bright glow.
Next to him stood a strange-looking person—if he could still be called a person. He was extremely tall, about two meters or more, and his entire skin, including his face, was a disgusting purple, bloated, and full of wrinkles. Rather than a person, he looked more like a humanoid leech or earthworm.
When Gu Nian and others came in, the man reached out and picked up the pearl, and was about to put it in his pocket.
That bright pearl is the companion spirit of the white dragon!
Gu Nian finally found the spirit pearl, but unexpectedly he was one step late!
With a click.
Gu Nian didn't bother to look, he directly pulled out the dagger and exerted force on his feet, trying to stop the man. As a result, the man stepped back directly, and his body seemed to be invisible and merged into the wall beside him!
It was impossible for Gu Nian to chase him. By the time she got to the next door or broke through the wall, he had already slipped away to who knows where.
Gu Nian immediately said into the headset: "Attention, someone sneaked into the museum ahead of time and has now left after stealing the spirit beads. Team Aurora will immediately patrol nearby buildings and look for this person's traces."
"Is there a look at the person who stole the spirit pearl?" Xu Can asked in the headset.
Yuejian's voice rang out on the communication channel: "Yes, I have sent you the photos."
It turns out that the clicking sound just now was him taking pictures.
The spirit pearl was stolen and there was no point in staying here, so Gu Nian and the others returned along the original route and returned to the temporary operations base in a nearby building.
At this time, the members of the Aurora team who went out to look for thieves also returned one after another.
They didn't find the pearl thief.
The pearl thief's appearance was extremely eye-catching and easy to identify. Since the Aurora team searching in the air could not find him, he must have sneaked away directly through the underground passage.
Who is this person? Why did he steal this spiritual pearl?
Xu Can looked at the photo of the pearl thief and said, "Let me check. I will check all the resident registration information of Ancheng and find the identity of this person as soon as possible."
That's all we can do.
It was already late at night when Gu Nian led the team back to the camp.
Tu Jing, Chi Qin, and the others went back to their rooms to sleep, and Gu Nian also turned around and prepared to go back to his room.
At this moment, she heard a muffled groan from the side.
It's the moon mirror.
Only then did Gu Nian notice that not only was his face pale, but beads of sweat were dripping from his forehead.
Gu Nian frowned and asked with concern: "Did you touch the wound?"
Yuejian opened his mouth, but didn't know how to start. In the end, he hummed softly.
Gu Nian simply said, "Go sit on the sofa, I'll change the medicine for you."
Gu Nian carefully unwrapped the gauze on Yue Jian's hand. The wound medicine used on Yue Jian was made from mutated medicinal materials, so it contained extremely strong medicinal effects. In just two days, new skin had grown out, but now it was oozing blood.
Gu Nian took out some clean cotton gauze, gently absorbed the blood, then applied medicine again and wrapped Yue Jian's hand with gauze.
"Thank you." Yuejian said.
"What's the big deal? It's already late, go to bed." Gu Nian said.
"Okay." Yuejian said.
After Gu Nian left, Yue Jian also returned to his room.
After closing the door, Yuejian didn't rush to bed, but sat on the sofa.
He turned on the light and held out his left hand.
Yuejian's right hand was completely wrapped in gauze, but the skin on his left hand was intact.
The lines on his left palm were barely visible. In the eyes of fortune tellers, palm lines were a sign of fate, and a person with almost no palm lines was a warning from heaven, a punishment from heaven that was taking his life.
The fate of Yuejian has been gradually erased by an invisible hand.
"Finally, I'm here." Yue Jian murmured. He thought he could accompany her through this journey, but now it seems that he will not live long. He only hopes to help her a little more before he dies.
Gu Nian returned to the room, and kept thinking about Yue Jian's expression when he left. He seemed to be worried. Before falling asleep, Gu Nian vaguely thought that she must remember to ask him.
Gu Nian fell into a deep sleep.
Xu Can stared at the screen, his eyes red and bloodshot from staying up late.
She searched for information for a whole night, but unfortunately she still couldn't find any information about the person who stole the pearl.
Xu Can thought, if he couldn't find it through official channels, he could only try his luck by looking for underground intelligence.
She stood up, grabbed the windbreaker on the back of the chair, and walked out. She went all the way to the outskirts of Ancheng.
She was going to the Ancheng black market.
After the natural disaster, the order in Ancheng has begun to fall into chaos. The government is unable to take care of itself, and the underground forces begin to expand, gradually forming their own rules and laws.
And the place Xu Can was going to was exactly such a place.
Xu Can walked out of Ancheng and came to the edge of the wilderness, where there was a refugee camp.
There were still tents everywhere in the camp, and the men and women were flirting with each other without restraint. There were no street lights here, and the only lighting was basically fire. If the city still barely retained a functioning industrial civilization, then the wilderness had completely begun to regress.
In the middle of the camp is a tavern, if the building can still be called a tavern.
The tavern was a building haphazardly built with various materials such as wooden boards, broken iron sheets, plastic sheets, and stones. There was an oil lamp hanging at the door, barely illuminating a wooden board with the word "tavern" written on it.
The two words were red, and Xu Can suspected that they were painted with blood.
Xu Can pushed the door open and went in.
The place was half full, with both men and women. They were wearing ragged combat uniforms and carrying weapons. They were wilderness hunters.
When these people saw Xu Can, they subconsciously began to look at him, thinking he was a rich and fat sheep. But after a closer look, they found that Xu Can was a high-level evolver with excellent weapons.
The group immediately lost interest and continued their conversation.
Behind the wooden bar, sat a bearded man with messy hair and sad eyes.
Xu Can walked over and said, "I want to ask about someone."
The depressed man looked at her and slowly spread out his palms.
Xu Can put in five spirit crystals.
The mourning is unmoved by men.
Xu Can raised his eyebrows: "I have already given it."
The sad man said weakly: "Not enough, you look like you're going to cause trouble."
Xu Can placed five more spirit crystals into his palm.
The sad man put away the spirit crystal and said, "Go ahead."
Xu Can showed him the photo of the pearl thief and said, "I want to find this person."
The sad man gave a strange smile and said, "This person is not easy to find."
"But you've come to the right place. There's nothing in the whole city of An that I don't know about," the sad man said. "One thousand spirit crystals, no bargaining."
One thousand spirit crystals is not a small amount. In today's world where food is so precious, it is enough for a family of three to live a luxurious life for a whole year.
Xu Can paid anyway. She took out two heavy cloth bags from her backpack and handed them to the man.
She happened to have brought a thousand spirit crystals with her, and thought she would only spend three to five hundred at most, but she brought a thousand spirit crystals just to be on the safe side. Unexpectedly, she spent all of them.
The mournful man picked up two cloth bags and said, "Dear guest, please go inside."
There were several rooms separated in the pub. The sad man led Xu Can into one of the rooms, which was filled with tables and chairs. He didn't expect that this shabby pub even had private rooms.
Although the box is also very shabby.
The depressed man began to count the spirit crystals quickly. After counting all the spirit crystals, he became a little enthusiastic and started to speak: "The person you are looking for is the leader of a small sect, but no one cares about this small sect. Few people in Ancheng have heard of him. To put it bluntly, he is a liar who makes a living. But about ten days or half a month ago, he suddenly changed. I don't know how he turned into the weird appearance you showed me. His strength also became very strong. He finally made a name for himself in Ancheng and began to preach secretly."
The sad man continued, "It's hard for you to find him. He is recruiting followers now, but the requirements are extremely cruel. You must pass cruel tests and pledge your loyalty to him before you can see him. Moreover, all followers are anonymous. It's basically impossible for you to find him."
Xu Can's heart sank when she heard this. As a native of Ancheng, she certainly knew that the tests of believers by these well-known sects in Ancheng were so cruel that they had reached the level of inhumanity. So, if she couldn't find the current believers to introduce him to the pearl thief, could she find the believers who developed before the pearl thief became powerful and was still unknown? Then, with the introduction of these old believers, could she find this man?
Xu Can's mind became active and she asked, "Do you know the first believers he recruited?" Seeing the clues appear, she really couldn't give up.
"Who knows? He was only recognized by everyone in the past few days after the mutation. The small sect he originally developed was completely ignored. We only heard that he believed in some god of natural disasters." said the man.
Xu Can was inevitably disappointed when he heard this. Could it be that the clues were cut off? How long would it take to search for the God of Natural Disaster in all the sects in Ancheng, even if he could find him? By that time, Bai Long might have died.
Xu Can left disappointed. When she returned to Ancheng from the tavern, it was already dawn.
Xu Can hesitated for a moment, then changed direction and walked towards the Aurora team's temporary camp, the four-story building.
She thought she had to tell her partners about the news.
Gu Nian has already gotten up.
Xu Can told her the information given by the tavern owner, and said with disappointment: "Now the clues are gone. We have to start the investigation again."
Gu Nian suddenly said, "Maybe I know someone who is a member of that sect."
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