Chapter 364: Infiltration
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When the busy people of the whole Rift City go home and fall asleep, when the lights of Wanjia gradually go out. The rats of the rat road have finally reached their own activity time. All the deeds of the day belong to the frivolous petty fights, and only the night belongs to them, to these thieves who are protected by the Shadow Lady Noktunar.
Of course, when the lights of the city were almost extinguished, only two places were lit up all night. One is Honey and Poets, the largest tavern in the Rift. The other is the Fog Veil Fortress, the most important residence of the nobles in the Rift Valley.
"Your Excellency...... The guards were divided into teams of fifteen and divided into four teams to patrol back and forth. Several of the gates of the fortress were guarded by regular guards...... According to their frequency, if we kill the doorway guard and sneak in, we may be found in less than ten minutes...... "The cat-man's eyesight can still see as clearly in the night as it is during the day, and this scout is reporting to the wood elf Laicas.
"Hmm...... Ten minutes? Laikas groaned for a moment, and immediately extinguished his intention to enter directly through the main entrance. Ten minutes was too short for their team of ten people to get the female lord out alive.
After the cat-man answered, silence fell again, except for the faint sound of Laicas's contemplative tapping on the wall echoing in the gloomy corners.
"What's their password tonight?" The silence didn't last long before Laikas asked another question.
"My lord, I eavesdropped on it just now, it's honey-glazed chicken breast." It was this cat man who replied, and I have to say that the cat man is really the most qualified scout in the entire continent.
"Good." Laikas's tone was noticeably more relaxed. "Everyone, change into the armor of the Rift Territory Guards prepared in advance, and remember to wear helmets."
With this order of Laikas, the rest of the people did not make any superfluous sounds, and began to change their armor in full force.
"Siquila, don't change your armor, now take two jars of fire oil and burn down the Honey Poet's hotel! Don't be discovered, the rest follow me. As everyone was about to change their armor, Laikas gave another order to the cat-man next to him.
"Yes!" The cat man was also silent, and after answering, he walked towards the brightly lit inn.
In order to prevent being shot in the face by arrows, the helmets of these guards completely cover their faces, leaving only two large holes in the eyes and a few small holes in the mouth and nose to prevent the person in the helmet from feeling bored. Although this design is good, it also has a disadvantage that the two people who are familiar with each other must also distinguish each other by their voices after wearing this kind of armor.
This also gave Laikas an opportunity, the number of patrols was determined, and as long as these guards could be attracted by the fire, then these people he led could easily pretend to be guards to approach the doorman......
"It's on fire!" With a terrible shout, devouring flames suddenly appeared around the largest tavern in the Rift.
The bell of "Dangdang ......" rang out, and the guards outside the fortress were in chaos. There is really nothing they can do about this fire, this blue flame represents the fierce fire oil produced exclusively from the Half Moon Collar, unless it is controlled by the ice element, there is no other way to extinguish it. This thing was copied to a sky-high price on the black market in the Rifts.
"Ah...... There was a fire...... "The four teams patrolling the fortress stopped and watched one by one, their task was to patrol the fortress, and none of them went to help when there was a fire outside, they were all in a mood to watch the excitement.
Laicas, who was secretly observing, was also a little speechless about this situation, but fortunately he had a plan for it. At the gesture of the Wood Elves, the rest of the warriors who had changed the armor of the Rift Guards in the shadows removed their longbows from their backs almost at the same time, and one by one aimed at a patrol in front of them that was out of sight of all the squads. Bows are not bad for them, but they generally prefer crossbows that are less physically demanding.
In the shouts of firefighting, the sound of arrows breaking through the air and flesh was faint and could not attract the slightest attention.
Then, several dark shadows rushed out of the corner, and quickly carried the corpses on the ground. They even treated the blood stains on the ground with a special potion after transporting them. No one thought that in just a few minutes, one of the four patrols had been stolen.
"Stop! Password! The doorman looked at the guards in front of him with a little vigilance, and he couldn't understand why these guards didn't patrol well and ran to the door.
"Honey chicken breast! We're here to report the fire to your lordship, and we suspect that someone is deliberately trying to draw our attention and go in to protect your lordship! Laikas replied to the doorman's question in a very rough voice.
"Naturally, there are people on the lord's side to report it, and I don't need you to ...... Wait, I remember the captains of several squads today, I know your voice......" The doorman was already suspicious as he spoke, but by this time, Laicas, who had long since not thought he could fool him, had already walked in front of the two doormen.
By attracting attention, the two warriors next to him suddenly moved. They pounced, and then tightly strangled the necks of the two guards, and pushed them into the grass on either side. After dozens of breaths, the two doormen stood quietly at the door, and there was almost no difference in height or size. Nearly half of the people Laikas recruited were Nords, and it wasn't too hard to find two guys with the same physique as the doorman.
"Squeak......" The door opened, and the two guards on the inside of the door looked at the guards outside the door suspiciously, and one of them stepped forward and said, "Is this ......?" ā
But before he could finish his question, the two guards who had been stolen had already approached them and covered their mouths and noses with drugged handkerchiefs. A few minutes later, the two janitors were also replaced by Laicas's own men.
The patrol guard at the gate killed with a bow and arrow, the main problem was that it was the river of Rift City, and if you threw it inside, it was impossible for the corpse with heavy armor to float up at least before it was swollen, which also prevented the smell of blood from spreading. However, the four guards inside and outside can't do this, that is, no matter how fast they are, it is impossible for those patrol guards not to find out, so they can only choose the way not to bleed.
After dealing with this, the remaining four people led by Laikas walked into the interior of the fortress.