Chapter 112: Infiltration
Receiving Xuan Ruiquan’s command, the shadow guards activated their lightness skills and headed toward the bandit’s lair. Half an hour later, Xuan Ruiquan and the shadow guards landed near the bandits’ lair. Concealing their auras, they sneaked into the bandit’s lair under the veil of darkness.
When Xuan Ruiquan and Jian Yi sneaked into the archives room, Jian Er led other secret guards to investigate elsewhere. Xuan Ruiquan and Jian Yi searched the archives room carefully but found nothing. The two exchanged a look and planned to look elsewhere.
Before he left the room, Xuan Ruiquan stepped on something. Just when he wanted to see what was beneath his feet, one of the walls suddenly opened. Looking at the open wall, Xuan Ruiquan nodded to Jian Yi. After making sure that the guards outside heard nothing, the two walked into the hidden corridor.
Jian Yi took out a fire flint and blew on it gently. As the fire illuminated the surroundings, they walked in the narrow, dark corridor for a while and came to a large room. Seeing the large boxes piled up in the room, Xuan Ruiquan motioned to Jian Yi to check the boxes on the left while he checked the boxes on the right.
Standing in front of the nearest box, Xuan Ruiquan looked at the lock on the box. He thought for a moment, drew his sword, and cut off the lock in one swift move.
Clang! Thud!
The lock broke in two and fell to the ground. Xuan Ruiquan sheathed his sword and then opened the box. When he saw the neatly arranged gold bars in the box, his eyes flickered. Closing the box, he checked the next box and saw the box filled with gold ingots.
Xuan Ruiquan took a gold ingot and inspected it for a while. When he found no imperial emblem under the gold ingot, he sneered and thought, ’No wonder Duan Qinwang can raise a secret army. It turned out that he had an unlimited source of money. If the war on the northern border had delayed me, I would have missed this important piece of information.’
After putting the gold ingot back in its place and closing the box, Xuan Ruiquan turned to look at Jian Yi. When he saw the box filled with silver ingots and jewelry on the other side, Xuan Ruiquan signaled Jian Yi to leave. After erasing their traces, Xuan Ruiquan and Jian Yi closed the hidden corridor and left the archives room.