Chapter 309 Alarming the Thieves
Li Nuo moved his lips, looking at Yiren's expectant eyes, he really couldn't bear to tell her that things are different now. Now, he not only has the cultivation of the fourth level of the Legalist, but his stealing skills have reached perfection. He no longer needs to pretend to be a couple with anyone.
He alone can eradicate the Zhao State's thieves.
Seeing him standing there in a daze, Song Yiren frowned and asked, "Why, you don't want to?"
Li Nuo came back to his senses and shook his head, "It's not that I don't want to... But have you really thought it through?"
Song Yiren glanced at him and said, "Li Anning was good enough at that time. Do you think I am not as good as her?"
Li Nuo spread his hands and said, "As long as you have no objection."
He held out his hand to Yiren and whispered, "Let's go, my lady."
Hearing these two words, Song Yiren's body trembled slightly, and she felt a tingling sensation as if she had been electrocuted.
My lady...
He finally called himself his wife?
She didn’t know how long she had waited for this call of “wife” and how much grievance she had endured…
Although he was her husband, she could only watch him being intimate with another woman and calling her "wife".
This belated call of "Madam" made her nose sore and she almost cried.
After a long time, she came back to her senses, put her hand in Li Nuo's, held it tightly, and said, "Let's go..."
The embassy will not check your dormitories, so it’s okay if you don’t return home overnight.
However, the embassy is heavily guarded, with guards patrolling twelve hours a day.
In order to facilitate the detection of thieves at any time, Li Nuo plans to live outside for a few days.
The two wandered outside until night, and Li Nuo chose an inn.
Guests staying in the inn need to show their identification documents. When Li Nuo and Yi Ren moved into the embassy at noon, officials from the Honglu Temple helped them to obtain their identification documents.
He held her hand, walked out of the embassy, found an inn on the street, handed them their IDs, and said, "One room upstairs."
Li Nuo paid three days' room rent in advance. Under the guidance of the waiter, he and Yiren came to the second floor of the inn, a room at the end of the corridor.
The waiter led them into the room and said with a smile, "Two guests, this is your room. If you need anything, you can go to the first floor and ask me."
After saying that, he closed the door and left.
Song Yiren looked at the strangely shaped chairs in the room, the whip on the table, the shackles, the candles, and the rope hanging in the air, and asked in surprise, "Why are there so many messy things in the room?"
Li Nuo didn't expect that the service at Zhao State's inn would be so thoughtful, but he didn't need these things.
He put all these messy things into the cabinet and said, "Don't worry about it. It's getting late. Go to bed early today. Tomorrow morning, we will go out together to investigate the case."
Song Yiren looked at the only bed in the room and didn't know what to say for a moment.
Li Nuo walked to the bed, looked at her and asked, "Are you going to sleep outside or inside?"
Song Yiren was stunned and said: "Ah..."
Li Nuo said: "An Ning and I went through the same thing. Don't worry, we'll just sleep in the same bed. If you don't want, I'll ask the waiter to send another quilt. I can sleep on the floor..."
Song Yiren waved her hand and said, "No need."
If Li Anning can do it, why can't she?
Isn't it just sleeping in the same bed? He is her husband, and there is a marriage certificate as proof. It is normal to sleep in the same bed with your husband, right?
She thought for a moment and said, "I, I'll sleep inside..."
She took off her shoes, lay on the bed, and held the quilt tightly with both hands.
Li Nuo lay beside her and smelled a familiar fragrance.
Yiren and Jiaren not only look exactly the same, but even have the same scent, so when Yiren first pretended to be his wife, he couldn't tell them apart at all.
Yiren lay beside him, just like his wife was beside him.
Li Nuo slept very soundly. Song Yiren grabbed the quilt with both hands, opened her eyes and looked up, not feeling sleepy at all.
She always felt that after arriving in Zhao State, he was different.
In the past, he always deliberately kept his distance from her.
But she hadn't felt that way since leaving home.
She really wanted to know what her mother had said to him that day...
Before leaving, Sister Phoenix told her to take the initiative when the time comes.
But it was only the first day and the two of them were sleeping in the same bed. How could she take the initiative?
She turned her head to take a look, feeling a little happy in her heart.
He called her wife today...
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The next morning, Li Nuo got up early.
Yiren was still sleeping, so he went downstairs alone to buy breakfast. When he came back, Yiren had already gotten up and washed.
After breakfast, the two went out together.
Today's mission is to stake out the manager of that stronghold.
The Thieves' Sect has a strict hierarchy. Only by finding the manager can you find the chief one.
If you want to find the guardian, you have to start with the abbot.
The reason why I chose to be an undercover agent last time was that I happened to catch up with the thieves' convention. It is impossible that it will be such a coincidence this time, and there is no chance to wipe them out.
He and Yiren acted separately, tracking the people entering and leaving the hideout.
It is difficult to distinguish the leader of a gang of thieves from ordinary thieves in terms of appearance, but it is easy to distinguish them from their behavior.
Ordinary thieves have only one task, which is to steal as much as possible. Managers generally do not have to do it themselves. Their responsibility is to manage the thieves under them and also to discover new potential talents.
Li Nuo followed three people in succession and finally noticed a middle-aged man.
He looked like an ordinary Confucian scholar, gentle and refined. He did not steal, but found a tea stall at a crowded street corner, drank tea and scanned the crowd.
Street intersections like this are also places where thieves often appear.
Li Nuo only stood there for a short while before he discovered several thieves. However, their methods were very clumsy and they obviously had no professional training. Some of them hesitated for a long time and still did not dare to take action, while others failed in their theft and were caught on the spot.
The middle-aged scholar read and shook his head...
After finishing a pot of tea, he stood up and disappeared into the crowd.
Li Nuo followed him slowly and leisurely. The thief's manager was obviously very cautious, as if he was afraid of being followed. He walked around the street several times and finally walked into a restaurant.
Tracking and anti-tracking are skills that a good thief must possess.
With Li Nuo's attainments in stealing skills, he would certainly not be discovered by following a small manager of a gang of thieves.
A moment later, he walked into the restaurant, found a seat in the lobby, sat down, ordered two side dishes, and while waiting, he closed his eyes as if he was taking a nap.
After entering the fourth realm of Legalism, his most iconic ability is to draw a prison on the ground. At the same time, his five senses will be greatly enhanced, especially when he concentrates, his vision and hearing will be greatly enhanced.
The Legalists called this ability "observing the smallest details". As an auxiliary ability, although it is of little help in combat, it can make it easier to discover clues that ordinary people cannot find when investigating a case.
When Li Nuo closed his eyes, some chaotic sounds began to flood into his ears.
"Is the food for table seven ready? The guests have asked several times."
"Sir, have another drink. Open your mouth and I will feed you..."
"I just said that the food here is good. It's worth the price..."
"Manager Zhang, you left a mark to find me. What's the important matter?"
On the second floor of the restaurant, somewhere inside an elegant room.
Manager Zhang looked at the pot-bellied man and whispered, "I am not disturbing you intentionally. I have an important matter to report to you..."
For safety reasons, only superiors can contact subordinates inside the thief's door.
If the steward wants to contact the abbot, he needs to leave a mark in a specific place. After the abbot sees it, he will ask someone to inform them of the time and place of the meeting.
After listening to Manager Zhang's report, the pot-bellied man suddenly stood up from his seat and asked, "What? You said someone could steal the money bags from your thieves through the air?"
Manager Zhang nodded and said, "That's what Zhu Liu said. It shouldn't be false. He also said that the man knew about the existence of the Dao Men and knew that the Dao Men didn't steal anything. So after taking his silver, he let him go..."
He looked at the chief seat opposite him and said, "Master, could it be that the one who made the move was a Dharma protector or an envoy?"
The pot-bellied man shook his head and said, "Impossible, even the guardians and messengers don't have such power. Could it be..."
Thinking of the scene he had witnessed with his own eyes, a hint of reverence emerged in his eyes.
As the leader of the Thieves' Sect, he had met the Sect Master once two years ago.
At that time, the sect leader used his ability to steal things through the air in front of all of them.
He himself was an eyewitness at that time, and he remembered it very clearly. The sect leader was able to steal things from his arms from three meters away. That scene made all the high-level thieves present in awe.
As a thief, that is the highest level they pursue throughout their life.
The expression on his face was lost in memory, and he murmured, "Could it be that the Sect Master has returned?"
Manager Zhang had only heard about the legend of the sect master from the head monk. Hearing this, he was surprised and said, "What? Is that the sect master? But Zhu Liu said that it was a young man..."
Although Master Qi had seen the Sect Master, he didn't know what he looked like.
The sect leader has always been elusive. The last time he summoned them, he was wearing a windbreaker and a mask. No one knows what the sect leader looks like or how old he is.
He pondered for a moment and said, "I will report to the guardian first. Regardless of whether he is the sect master or not, the appearance of such a powerful fellow must be given enough attention..."
The two did not talk any more. After Manager Zhang left the restaurant, a quarter of an hour later, the pot-bellied man came downstairs and left.
He crossed two streets and came to an alley. He looked around, took out a piece of white limestone from his sleeve, and carved a triangular mark on the wall of the alley...
(End of this chapter)
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