Chapter 1378 1386 [Vodka on the Edge of Death]
Thinking of this, Vodka silently withdrew his hand.
Forget it, a true warrior must have the courage to face the challenge from the enemy: Anyway, let’s see what Uzo wants to do first. If I receive similar news in the future, I will just pretend I didn’t see it...
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The two men in black soon arrived at the lady's room and pushed the door open. On the wall opposite the door, a huge oil painting with fresh tones caught the eye.
Compared to the other rooms he had seen before, Gin had no interest in this pink house.
He walked to the most conspicuous painting, slowly lifted it up, and looked at the wall behind it, but found nothing.
Vodka lagged behind him by a few steps. Seeing that his elder brother had already started to check, he felt embarrassed to just stand there idle, so he looked at the medium-sized oil painting on the side wall and imitated Gin, flipping it over and looking at the wall blocked by the painting.
Then suddenly there was a pause.
"...Brother." Vodka's face twisted, as if he had drawn a joker card in a lottery. "Behind this painting, there is a hidden cabinet embedded in the wall."
"?" Gin didn't expect that among the paintings in the room, Vodka just casually opened one and actually found the target.
He thought for a moment, and instead of going straight over, he casually opened a few other paintings.
But behind those paintings, there are empty walls.
Only the one in Vodka's hand has a locked cabinet door hidden in the wall behind it.
Gin nodded slightly: "You are actually quite lucky."
Vodka: “…” Whoever wants this crappy luck can do so!
Although he wished he could travel back a few seconds and stop his hand from flipping through the oil painting.
But now, the hidden cabinets have been found. As a cadre of a mysterious organization, he can't just be so cowardly as to move the painting back to its original place and pretend nothing happened.
Vodka had no choice but to take a deep breath, take down the painting and put it aside.
The cabinet was built into the wall, the door was locked, and there was a keyhole on the left side. Vodka found the lock picking tool and reached in to pry a few times.
Then he was disappointed to find that the lock was not too difficult to pry open. After a few tries, there was a click and the cabinet door popped open a crack.
Vodka stepped back a little, and slowly opened the cabinet door from a distance.
No poison was sprayed, no arrows were shot.
——What was revealed in the cabinet was not a scary mechanism, but a large pile of jewellery at the bottom of the cabinet. The large gems were inlaid on the golden jewellery, dazzling the eyes.
"It really is a true 'treasure hunt' activity. He is worthy of being a man who can build a castle." Even though Vodka has seen the world, he couldn't help but feel excited when he suddenly saw so many "unexpected gains" displayed in front of him.
But then he became suspicious again: How could Wuzo be so kind as to give the treasure to someone else?
But on second thought: Wuzo has never attached great importance to money. In his eyes, a heavy gold bar is probably not as important as an interesting mission target.
Vodka: “…” This kid Uzo probably wants to use him as a coolie—after all, this pile of gold looks quite heavy.
Thinking of this, Vodka reached in skillfully, just like he had done in the past when he raided the safes of his targets, intending to put the things into his bag.
Just as he reached his hand in, there was a click, and the handcuffs hidden at the bottom of the cabinet suddenly stretched out and closed abruptly, handcuffing his hands tightly at the bottom of the cabinet.
The next moment, Gin suddenly noticed something and looked at the roof with a frown.
Vodka instinctively followed his gaze and was stunned - right above him, the ceiling opened silently, and countless sharp blades of swords and knives whizzed down and fell like a sharp meteor.
Vodka's face turned pale: "!!!"
He originally wanted to let out a dying scream and curse Wuzo before he died.
But before he could make a sound, Gin pinched his mouth, blocking out the scream that might alarm others.
…
There was a rattling sound of chains.
Then everything returned to calm.
——The moment before those swords were inserted into the human body, they were pulled by the chains connected at the tail and hung in the air.
"Idiot, this is different from the ordinary safes. This kind of castle left to future generations will inevitably have various hidden mechanisms, but they will not be fatal." Gin withdrew his hand that was clamped on Vodka and wiped it with disgust.
He observed for a moment and pried the lock on the handcuffs.
The handcuffs clicked open and retracted into the bottom of the cabinet. The blade hanging above his head was also rolled back by a mechanism hidden in the ceiling.
Vodka withdrew his hand with a sizzle, his face turned pale and blue, and he looked a little dazed. It was unclear whether he had not come to his senses yet, or was concentrating on scolding Wuzo, or scolding the castle owner who created the mechanism, and had no time to be distracted.
The cabinet door was not closed. Gin used the muzzle of the gun to pry open the jewelry inside and found that the handcuffs did not pop out again. Then he turned over the treasures inside to check.
"There aren't many real items. They are just toys that match the mechanisms in the room."
Gin threw the jewelry back, snorted, and closed the cabinet door.
He recalled the information Jiang Xia had sent him when he was bored, and pondered, "To build a castle of this size, it is impossible to raise enough funds just by selling the gems from the Egg of Memory. Her great-grandfather, whose surname was Xiangban, must have sold most of the family's jewelry before he had the money to build this building."
"The style is similar to that of an ancient German castle..." These speculations, combined with previous information, seemed to give Gin some guesses.
He suddenly chuckled, "I see. No wonder Maria's ring became popular in Japan."
Vodka: “……?” What does the eldest brother know now?
After hesitating for a moment, he picked a key word and asked carefully: "German castle?"
Just ask one word, never more - if Gin wants to talk, he will naturally continue with the topic. If he doesn't want to say more, then this sentence is just his vodka mumbling.
As it turned out, Gin was in a pretty good mood. He looked like a tourist who was looking at antiques today, and when he heard the question, he actually answered: "Alexandra Feodorovna, the empress of Tsar Nicholas II, the granddaughter of Queen Victoria, and the mother of the missing princess Maria - she is German."
Vodka was stunned, barely understanding Gin's bold guess: "In other words, the reason why this castle was built in the German style was because of the influence of the German queen? Kosaka Natsumi's great-grandfather was building a castle for this queen?!"
——I've heard that the royal family has a complicated relationship, but I didn't expect it to be this complicated! A craftsman can actually be with the queen...
As he was speaking, he suddenly noticed that Gin was looking at him as if he was an idiot.
(End of this chapter)
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