Chapter 13: Plotting!
While the night was still dark, the two men returned to their place of residence without incident.
Not long after that seamless theft,
The missing moon hid in the thick clouds, and except for the occasional sound of the wind in all directions, the rest was silent.
Irina reached out a hand from the curtain of the car and said softly, "Senior brother......"
Luo Lan walked to the back of the carriage, stretched out his hand and said with a smile: "Senior sister also learns those expensive ......" Suddenly, his face froze, his eyes widened slightly, and he said coldly: "You ......"
Irina sighed slightly and said, "Senior brother, I'm sorry, I can't explain it to you, you will understand later." The hand she held Luo Lan's palm was now emerging from the ring she was wearing, and a small needle that could not be observed by the naked eye was emerging from the ring she was wearing.
Luo Lan slowly fell.
Irina jumped off the carriage, she looked around vigilantly, and then took out the Life Stone from Luo Lan's arms, and her beautiful eyes revealed an incomparably complex look, including melancholy, sadness, and joy......
Her eyes closed slightly, a crystal tear rolled down from the corner of her eye, and she fell to pieces on the ground, she sighed again, looked at Luo Lan deeply, took out a comb from her arms and put it in his pocket, and said softly: "Senior brother, you can wake up at dawn." Then he bit his lower lip, rose to his feet, and disappeared into the darkness with the stone of life in a few leaps.
The surroundings were quiet again, as if the scene had just been one of the many plays that had been played out in the night.
But the drama doesn't seem perfect.
Luo Lan slowly stood up, as relaxed as he had just fallen.
He looked up, and the missing moon jumped out of the clouds once more, shining brightly through the night sky.
He stood silently for a moment, then turned back and walked back into the room, and as if unraveling a mystery, he pushed open the closed doors one after another.
He went to a kitchen, walked over to the wall, and pulled something out of the gap in the wooden plank.
Luo Lan laughed weirdly, in his hand, it turned out to be the stone of life!
Irina would never have imagined that in fact, as early as the day Luo Lan was baptized, he had stolen this stone alone, and tonight what they stole was nothing more than a fake that Luo Lan had left there three days ago!
In fact, this stone of life is the real purpose of Luo Lan's visit to the diocese of Mosha this time.
This long layout starts when Luo Lan and Irina joined the caravan.
At that time, they stumbled upon the priest Millie and the paladin Keserl in the convoy, and through contact with Millie, Luo Lan learned that they were going to participate in the priest trial, and that he had close ties with Dommons, one of the three bishops of Mosha, and he also accidentally learned that the paladin had the ability to save life at the last moment, but he didn't know what it was.
But at this moment, a bold and risky plan was formed in his mind, and he decided to assassinate Kasel!
If successful, there will be three final outcomes, one is that Kaisel is actually dead, the second is that he is treated by the bishop, and the third is that the bishop is too badly injured to treat him, so he has to use the stone of life to save him.
However, Luo Lan knew that the last one was the most likely, because as early as the moment before he left, because no priest had passed the trial within a few years, rumors were circulating in the major dioceses that the Life Stone had long been missing, and this time there was such a good opportunity to not only save Keisel, but also confirm that the Life Stone was not missing, and the bishop of Mosha Diocese would never let it go.
However, all this is just Luo Lan's pre-conception and layout, and he can't completely control the development of world affairs, so he can only try his best to promote it.
Kaiser's treatment by the Stone of Life seems to have nothing to do with him stealing the Stone of Life, but in fact, it is not, the most critical point in it is that Luo Lan has repeatedly cut himself with a knife on the way to the caravan, trying to improve his natural ability, just on the eve of his plan, the ability to steal memories has finally made a breakthrough, he does not need to absorb people's memories, but as long as he looks deeply at the unsuspecting person, he can see the person's memory ten days ago.
So the wonderful second step came, and that was his reunion with Millie.
There were a total of thirty-six priests from the diocese in the priest's tower, but there was no Millie, which made Luo Lan think that something might be wrong and cause the plan to fail.
But he still feels that he still needs to verify it, but if he takes the initiative to find Millie, it is likely to attract the attention of someone who cares, after thinking about it repeatedly, he decided to use the trial task to play a small trick, he spent a morning investigating the Thunderfire Mercenary Group, knowing that the fat man David is thoughtful, and under the premise that Luo Lan abruptly asked to join the mercenary team, he will definitely investigate his identity after the suspicion is together.
So Luo Lan pushed the boat and proposed to meet Millie, in this meeting, he read her memories of the past ten days from Millie's mind, fortunately, she did go to the priest's tower, and his brother Kaesel was indeed healed by the Life Stone, and unexpectedly, Bishop Domons asked Millie to withdraw from the priesthood trial on the condition of treating Kaisel.
Regarding this, Luo Lan had no time to care, because he had obtained the most important information - the specific arrangement of the trial room!
Coincidentally, before the trial mission, Irina also proposed to him a plan to steal the Life Stone, but the information she had was two years ago, and it needs to be confirmed again.
And after having Millie's memory, Luo Lan has already walked through the trial room himself. Irina's information further fills in some of his thoughts.
Then came the third step of Luo Lan's plan, stealing the Life Stone.
Irina had told him that at least two people were needed to complete the theft, but she had helped Luo Lan by an unintentional move, the three broken Trial Stones that had been picked up from the ruins of the Priest's Tower.
In the Trial Room, three Trial Stones are set in a round stone ball, supported by a pointed cone tota underneath, and the slightest touch will cause them to fall, thus triggering the Circle.
This seemingly helpless situation was easily cracked by Luo Lan alone, he ordered nine components from an alchemist in advance, and cut the broken trial stones evenly and set them on each, but it took at least four days to make these things, which is why after he completed the trial task, he only took over the task and accepted the investiture ceremony on the fifth day, and only received the baptism on the sixth day, he was waiting, waiting for these nine most important things to be done.
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The moonlight seemed to be getting brighter and brighter, Luo Lan walked to the window, pushed it open, and in front of him was the huge outline of the Mosha Sect City, and he could vaguely see the towering figure of the priest's tower, the night wind blew, blowing the hem of his priest's robe into the air, he stretched out his hand, spread his palm to feel the cold of the night, and then he clenched his palm tightly, as if he wanted to hold it all in his hand.
Before his eyes, the door of the priest's white tower seemed to rumble open again.
As soon as he entered the Trial Room, he immediately realized that it was exactly the same as Millie remembered, so he placed the nine pieces in a triangular shape around the three pyramids.
The general shape of the component is like that of Luo Lan's globe in the world, with suction cups firmly grasping the ground underneath, and a thin wire connecting every three.
After everything was ready, Luo Lan gently pulled the three thin lines at the same time, and all the fragments of the trial stone that were originally embedded on the top of the component and facing down suddenly flipped upwards together, and suddenly formed another replica of the Nomidi triangle with the cobblestone on the spire!
The three trial stones supported the stone of life to form a stable, and the components supported the cobblestone also formed a stability, but because they were made of fragments and were deliberately asked by Luo Lan to reduce the proportion, the magnetic force was very small, and it was not enough to hold up the cobblestone, but it only played a fixed role.
But at this time, Luo Lan found that there was still a thin thread tied to the back of the Life Stone hanging in the sky.
Millie couldn't remember that.
However, the conclusion he came to at this moment was roughly the same as Li Linna's later inference, which was left over from the arrangement of the triangle array.
But he couldn't pull it hard, the Life Stone was more than three meters above the ground, and he couldn't untie it in the air.
At this time, he looked up and smiled.
He released the Ice Blade!
Then he stood on the back of the Ice Blade and calmly untied the Life Stone and reattached a fake to it!
Finally he closed all the components as if they were open, and then put them away neatly.
It took him about half an hour to accomplish this, and after half an hour, when the Pet Emblem's cooldown had passed, he put away the ice blade and walked out of the priest's tower as if nothing had happened.
When all this was done, exactly an hour later.
There were no doubts in all.
Or rather, he deceived everyone.
......
Luo Lan pulled himself back from his memories, but remembered Irina, he couldn't help touching the comb in his arms, and the corners of his mouth curved slightly to show a smile.
This interesting junior sister Luo Lan doubted her true motives from the beginning, suspected that this chance encounter between her and herself, and even behind all her subsequent actions, there was a person buried in the shadows manipulating.
He suspected that that person was his teacher!
All this is likely to be the teacher's plot to use himself to steal the Life Stone under the guise of Toirina's mouth.
But Luo Lan is not sure, if it is just Irina's personal reasons, or as she explained, then things will be much easier, but if the teacher is instructed behind his back, then Irina will lead the teacher out once something happens, which is not what he wants to see.
So, in order to test Irina, he pretended to agree to steal the Life Stone, if Irina didn't walk away afterwards, it means that the matter has nothing to do with the teacher, and if Irina left with the Life Stone, it means that what she said before is a lie, and it is very likely that the teacher is directing everything behind her back.
Irina was gone.
But in the end, what she said made Luo Lan unsure of her judgment.
What is real?
"Tuk Tuk ......"
There was a knock on the door.
Luo Lan walked to the door, slowly opened it, and said lightly: "You're early." ”
A man walked into the house, he turned his face and said, "Just right." ”
In the moonlight, his face was clearly visible.
He is the confidant of the mysterious man who cooperated with Luo Lan for the first time to steal the treasures of the Lantiston family, the Priest of Temos!
Priest Temos glanced out the window, and then said slowly, "Did you get the thing?"
Luo Lan laughed lightly and said, "On the same day, when my husband left temporarily, he asked me what I would steal after becoming a priest, and I replied that he would steal what a priest should steal, and now I have finally fulfilled my promise to him, this is the second demon bone!"
He reached out his hand, the Stone of Life shining brightly in his hand.
At first glance, Temos saw that it was exactly the same shape as the bone chain that the mysterious man had untied from the necklace he had given to Luo Lan.
Luo Lan laughed, of course it was the same, otherwise what kind of fake would he use to replace the real Life Stone when he stole it? At that time, the imitation in Irina's hand was not in his hand.
Temos nodded slightly, and he took the Life Stone and put it in his arms.
Luo Lan smiled and said, "I hope you keep your promises." ”
Temos glanced at him and said expressionlessly, "Sir has never forgotten his promise, and it is precisely because of our help that you can successfully become a missionary. ”
Luo Lan smiled faintly and said, "Of course, I know this very well, a little pastor with no foundation background can not become a missionary without the support of a deep force, I remind you that it is only the next thing." ”
Temos said in a deep voice: "Sir has already arranged it for you, including the rumors that the Life Stone was stolen in the major dioceses before. ”
Luo Lan nodded and exclaimed: "This is what I admire most about Mr., I took the first step to gag the mouth of the Mosha Diocese, even if they knew that the Life Stone was stolen in the future, they had to deny it desperately, because this would become an excuse for all dioceses to deal with them uniformly." ”
Temos smiled a little and said slowly: "It seems that we have a good cooperation this time. ”
Luo Lan smiled, looked at him and said, "Our cooperation has just begun. ”
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PS: After writing this chapter, I finally took a breath, in fact, from the end of the first volume, to the current fourth volume, this is a complete event, a process of Luo Lan's layout, and finally answered some questions from book friends.
Of course, there are deeper reasons why Luo Lan went to study as a priest when he was full, but I can be considered to have an answer to why he behaved like this on the surface, and there is still an explanation for Irina, so I will leave for a while.
Hehe, have you noticed that the title of my volume deliberately puts "conspiracy" between "thief" and "stone of life", which is the most important thing.
Besides, it turns out that the name of this book is "Demon Bone Puzzle"
Now that I'm going to prepare the next volume, "War of Thieves". Sort out the clues, if you have time to send another chapter today, if you can't do it, you can only continue tomorrow.
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