Chapter 33: The Exodus
One o'clock in the morning is the time when people are most sleepy. The sky was cloudy tonight, the moon was obscured by the passing clouds from time to time, and even the insects were not as noisy as they used to be on a hot and windless night.
The clouds in the sky drifted slowly, and the faint moonlight shone into the room through the window, and Zero opened his eyes. His eyes rolled a few times, then he slowly got up and got out of bed, walked barefoot to the window, and quietly watched the waning moon in the sky.
He slept for a long time during the day, and for this escape, he specially adjusted his biological clock, staying up late at night for several days in a row, making up for sleep during the day, just to stay awake at night. Zero opened the storage ring and took out a bottle of vitality elixir, which he bought at the pharmacy some time ago, this potion can be drunk directly to drive away fatigue and maintain spirits. He unscrewed the cap and drank the potion, then began to check the contents of the storage ring. Clothes, food, and the coins he had accumulated over the past two years were stored in it. After the inspection, he put on his shoes and socks, closed the other doors and windows, walked to another window in the room, observed left and right to make sure that there was no one around, opened the window, and stepped on the edge of the window on the stool that had been set up in advance.
Zero stood on the edge of the window, with a lawn at his feet, and he could smell the scent of grass when he stuck his head out. Zero took one last look at the room he had lived in for three years, turned his head and jumped out of the window. He crouched on the ground against the lawn, got up cautiously, closed the window behind him, and then pressed against the wall and began to walk towards the outer courtyard.
Although the night guards in the Cretan Mansion are not heavily guarded, they can be regarded as heavy gates in the Landu City, but Zero has also lived here for three years, and he also has a deep understanding of the rules of night patrols in the Cretan Mansion. At this time, the night was thick, and the patrol continued until the second half of the night, and the mental state of the guards began to be lazy, and because of the enchantment around the Cretan mansion, the patrol of the outer courtyard of the mansion was not strict at all, after all, no one dared to invade the powerful Cretan mansion in the imperial capital. Therefore, as long as Zero avoids the patrol team, it will not be difficult to escape from here.
Walking against the wall and walking on the lawn to the house where he lived, a few dozen meters ahead of Leah's residence, Zero had to walk on the small bridge behind Leah's house, and after walking across the bridge, he could reach the back door leading to the inner courtyard. He was going to bypass the courtyard from the inner courtyard because he was avoiding the house where Wayne and Nasha lived. This was also to make sure that nothing went wrong, after all, he was not sure that he could walk in front of a sword master's room without alarming the other party.
Zero stood on tiptoe and cautiously ran through the streetlamp-lit path to Leah's house, crouching in the corner. He steadied himself and froze in place, making sure that his surroundings were absolutely quiet before he stood up.
The glimmer on his chest suddenly attracted Zero's attention, and Zero lowered his head to look at the slightly fluorescent necklace, and quickly held it with his hand. He then thought of the pair of necklaces that Wayne had given him and Leah, which would glow with each other when they were too close, and he hadn't thought of it before, and forgot to take it off. Nasha hung the pendant around his neck with a red rope, and in order to prevent him from losing it, the red rope was tied so firmly that it could not be taken off without cutting the rope. Zero could only hold the pendant on his chest tightly now, preventing its light from alarming others.
Zero pressed against the wall to the bridge, and when he reached the window, he paused, looked up at the window with the curtains closed, and felt a wave of reluctance in his heart.
After three years in this place, Leah was the one who gave him the most impression. This cute little girl usually likes to pester him, but she has a good personality, is very docile and obedient, and always makes people want to take care of her. Now that he has made up his mind to leave here, the most reluctant thing for him is this little girl. I guess Leah will be sad to find out that he left here, but he has to go.
"Goodbye, Leah. ”
Zero held the pendant in his hand tightly and said something in his heart. Then he quickened his pace and walked across the bridge to the back door.
As soon as Zero walked to the back door to open it, he heard a sound of neat footsteps, and he held his breath and leaned against the door, watching the patrol team walk through the back door. When the footsteps were far away, he pulled out the deadbolt of the door, opened the door gently, poked his head out and looked left and right for a while, and then walked out, turned around and closed the door, and then ran to the outer courtyard in a puff of smoke.
Zero gasped and crouched by the high wall, he took a deep breath to breathe his breath. After calming down for a while, he wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead, and then took out the folding ladder he had prepared in advance from the pile of debris in the corner. Setting up the ladder at the head of the wall, he pulled his climbing gloves out of his pocket. The high walls of the Cretan mansion were covered with broken glass shards, and he had to be very careful to climb the walls, which is why he prepared these climbing gloves. The broken glass on the wall above his head had been knocked off by him beforehand, and he would not be scratched if he climbed carefully with climbing gloves.
After doing this, Zero Si observed for a while, and after making sure that no patrol would come to the vicinity for the time being, he cautiously climbed the ladder, and after he had established himself at the head of the wall, he quickly put the ladder away and placed it on the other side of the wall.
Zero raised his head and took one last look at the Cretan mansion, and without the slightest hesitation, climbed down the ladder by holding on to the wall.
Zero stood steadily on the ground outside the walls of the Cretan mansion, his heart beating wildly. It was his first step out of here, and he ran out without a hitch. With a smile on his face, Zero held back the joy in his heart and lowered the ladder behind him against the wall to prevent anyone from spotting, and then he explored against the wall.
The defensive barrier around the Cretan Mansion could not be seen directly by the naked eye at night, and Zero released his mental power to probe the approximate distance of the edge of the barrier, and after a moment, he sensed an obstacle 3 meters in front of him, where the edge of the barrier was.
Zero took two steps forward, stretched out his hand and clearly felt a resistance, he couldn't hit the enchantment in front of him hard, this would directly alarm the guards in the mansion, he had to untie the enchantment as soon as possible and escape from here, there were also guards patrolling the outside of the mansion, he didn't want to be caught back as soon as he came out.
The Zero Open Storage Ring took out the homemade Enchantment Breaker, carefully activated it, and attached it to the enchantment membrane. The moment the breaker and the enchantment membrane came into contact, there was a ripple like a ripple of water, and his heart jumped, but after the ripples waved, there was no movement, he breathed a sigh of relief, and then pressed the switch, and the breaker began to operate normally. Zero could see the driving nucleus in the center of the breaker emitting light, and a small piece of enchantment membrane around the breaker also emitted a faint light, and the enchantment membrane, which was originally invisible to the naked eye, clearly appeared in front of him.
The breaker trembled slightly, and the linear soft body that was close to the enchantment membrane on both sides unfolded, and the enchantment membrane that originally emitted a faint fluorescence under the breaker suddenly disappeared. At first glance, it seems that a "hole" has appeared in the center of a fluorescent light curtain.
Zero's heart raced as he looked at the scene in front of him, his fingertips trembling and he slowly reached for the "hole".
There was no anomaly, Zero stretched his entire hand out of the barrier, and the barrier did not vibrate, indicating that the breaker had indeed broken the defensive barrier.
"Great!" Zero was ecstatic.
He shrunk and got out, standing on the street looking at the dark houses in front of him and took a deep breath, the feeling of freedom filling his body.
Zero wiped the sweat from his forehead, turned around and looked at the Cretan mansion in front of him, and felt a lot of emotion in his heart.
"Goodbye, everything that has happened in the past three years is over...... From now on, there will be no more Jeno Crete, only zero, and this is the real me. Someday, I'll be back, in my true capacity......"
Footsteps could be heard in the distance, and the patrol was approaching. Zero hurriedly put away the breaker, turned around and ran. ran to the street and alley not far away, and without thinking about it, he plunged into the alley where he couldn't see his fingers.
Before he could run a few steps, Zero hit something, his nose hurt, and he fell to the ground with Venus in his eyes. Zero grinned and touched his nose, looking up to see what was in front of him.
"Yo~ Isn't this the young master Jeno of the Cretan family?
A deep and heavy male voice came from his ears, and Zero was startled as he looked at the tall man in black who was standing in front of him. The other party seemed to be standing here all the time, and he couldn't see the scene in the depths of the alley, so he hit him headlong. Before Zero could speak, the other party's deep and gloomy voice came again.
"Since you ran out alone, it's not okay if no one receives you, it's better for Young Master Jeno to follow the contemptible people, at least he won't get lost in the night......"
Zero secretly said in his heart that it was not good, it was impossible to say that the Cretan family had no enemies in the emperor, and the other party probably knew that he was going to escape from the house, so he had been waiting for him here. He actually threw himself into the other party's arms, which was really stupid.
The patrol not far behind him happened to pass by where Zero was standing just now, and without saying a word, he turned around and was about to shout.
"Save ...... Woowoo woo ......"
The man used his strong arm to control Zero's body and carried him into the air, and the other hand covered his mouth and nose so that he couldn't scream, and he could only watch the patrol pass in front of his eyes, whining weakly in his throat and being pulled into the depths of the dark alley. Suddenly, Zero smelled a strange fragrance in his nose, and his consciousness began to blur rapidly, and he fainted after a while.
In the inner courtyard of the Cretan mansion, Quinn, who was sitting cross-legged on the bed, opened his eyes suddenly. With a wave of his hand, he broke out of the window and stepped on the roof quickly, looking out to the southeast. Sensing that Zero's breath was speeding away, Quinn's eyes couldn't contain a burst of rage.
With a flick of Quinn's sleeve, the door of the Wayne's house was pushed open by an invisible force. Quinn walked into the room and looked at the Wayne couple lying on the bed with sleepy eyes.
"Ancestor?"
Wayne looked at the angry Quinn and asked puzzled, and before he could finish asking, Quinn's angry voice came.
"Bastard, your own son has been kidnapped, and you are still hiding here, how did you become the head of the family?!"
"What?!What does Ancestor mean by that? Jeno has been kidnapped?"
"Didn't he go back to his room and sleep after eating?"
The Wayne couple were shocked when they heard this.
Quinn couldn't suppress the anger in his heart, and shouted to Wayne angrily: "What? think I'm an old man, and I'm bored in the middle of the night to make fun of you and my wife?"
"Don't dare ......" Wayne quickly got up and saluted Quinn.
"Don't send someone to find it yet! The thief is running southeast with Jeno tied up, and he won't be able to catch up if it's too late!"
Amid Quinn's angry shouts, Wayne put on his shoes and stormed the door.