Chapter 142: Live Covert Operations
The assassination team, led by Takenaka, successfully dived to the island in the middle of the river.
They then searched inch by inch along the edge of the island in the middle of the river, targeting the sewer drain of the mansion.
Shortly after, the Assassination Team discovered a circular iron pipe about half a meter above the water jutting out of the soil just south of the island in the middle of the river, which was the drain they were looking for.
The drain was about a meter in diameter, enough for everyone in the Assassination Team to pass through easily, and it was dark at night, and the Mansion was in a relatively low water consumption period, so the water output from the drain was not large, only a trickle of water fell into the Prince's Canal, which was very convenient for the Assassin Team members to sneak into.
Takenaka beckons the members of the assassination team to the shadow formed by the drainage inlet and the river, which is a visual blind spot where the guarded boats will not notice, so that they can have a short conversation.
After all the people gathered around, Takenaka said in an extremely soft voice: "Remy, wait a while, you take the two Divine Grace Warriors to go first, and then the two Templar Killers will go up again, and I will enter last, don't rush forward to explore after entering, try to see if you can find a safe area enough to hide us all first, and wait for everyone to gather before taking action." β
Takenaka was very meticulous in his work, and he first asked Boss Tan and Mary to accompany the low-level angels into the drain together, instead of letting Remy and the two Templar Killers enter first, in order to reassure Remy.
Otherwise, if this low-level angel is a multi-minded person, he will suspect the Holy Child's motives for letting the members of his Templar Killer Order enter the drain first, and if so, it will affect the progress of the follow-up plan.
However, at this time, Remy's trust in the Holy Child has gradually cultivated, he didn't pay attention to the details, just nodded silently with everyone, and swam back to the bottom of the drain again, stretched his ape arms, lightly removed from the water, put his hands on the lower edge of the drain and exerted a slight force, and the whole person was like a tanuki, flexibly drilling into the drain.
Seeing this, Mary and Tan Liang followed Remy into the stream, followed by the Templar Killer and Takenaka at the bottom, and in a short time, the entire assassination team successfully passed through the drain and entered the sewer system of Riverside Island.
"Remy, can you make us see better?" Takenaka whispered at the back of the line, the walls around the sewers creating an echo bonus, allowing his whispers to reach the front of the line very clearly.
Remy nodded, stretched out his left palm, and a milky white fluorescent light immediately appeared in his palm, only to hear him chant a few words in a low voice, the ball of light flickered and split into six, floating to the middle of the forehead of each member of the assassination team, and then fit there, as if everyone was equipped with that kind of head-mounted miner's lamp.
The small space of the sewer is illuminated, and compared with the normal municipal sewer system, the sewer system of the head of the mansion can only be said to be a collection of some sewage pipes at most, after all, it is only for the head of the society's family, there is no need to build a wide drainage culvert and a canal, the island in the middle of the river is originally artificially filled, and there is no thick enough soil and rock layer to lay a regular sewer.
Fortunately, the head of the Dutch East India Company is still wealthy, in order to avoid the sewer being blocked due to the discharge problem, he used the widest diameter pipe in the construction of the sewer, and the pipe network that Remy currently sees is the same as the drain, and it is a large pipe with a diameter of about one meter, which makes it convenient for the assassination team to move in it, but the formation is limited, and it can only be lined up in a column, and it is impossible to defecate side by side.
Everyone checked their equipment again with the help of fluorescence, and after confirming that it was stopped, they continued forward in the same formation as they entered the drain.
After traveling about 20 meters, the sewer split into two branches, left and right, and Remy motioned for the team to stop and wait for the Holy Child to decide on the direction of travel.
Takenaka was thin and small, slowly squeezed over from the end of the team, looked at the passage in front of him, and after raising his nose and sniffing it, he pointed to the pipe on the right, approached Remy and said, "Go to the right!"
Remy looked puzzled, and Takenaka had to explain: "These two pipelines should be distinguished from the pipelines responsible for rainwater and sewage, the sewage pipes are connected to domestic water, usually toilets or washstands, etc., only the rainwater pipes will be connected to the rainwater drains on the ground, and the rainwater drains are usually built to make it easier for us to go out." β
With that, he patted Remy on the shoulder, and regardless of how much the other party understood, he directly took the position of the top soldier of his team, guiding the assassins to move on.
After that, the team made a smooth journey, led by the Holy Child, and gradually made their way down the storm pipe to the high point of the island, the mansion of the head of the island.
As they advanced, the team had slowly begun to encounter vertical pipes that were perpendicular to the pipes they were on.
Looking up along these pipes, you can see a grid-like square cover, starlight and moonlight leaking through the gaps in the grid, accompanied by the voices of the guards outside, which should be the rainwater drain that the Holy Child just said.
Behind Takenaka, Remy was even more convinced of the Holy Child, who knew everything, and he didn't feel like a high-ranking angel who didn't eat the fireworks of the world, and in a way, this adult was more like a secret worker who was good at leading a group of killers than himself.
How did adults master these subtleties that can be used in every bit and use them so skillfully in actual combat?
Could it be that he did this kind of work during the Holy Presence of the Lord before, so which of the twelve high-ranking angels is the Lord? Speaking of which, Remy suddenly realized that he still did not know the name of the Lord in front of him.
But what Raimi couldn't have imagined was that he thought that under the leadership of Lord Shengtong, the secret assassination operation was actually just a live broadcast performance that was completely open to Lao Wang.
Takenaka and the assassination team were able to move forward like a fish in the sewers of the Huishou Mansion, except for the so-called clues that he had fooled Remy, of course, it was inseparable from the real-time patient command of Wang Mancang, the off-site guide.
The little guy and Mary Tan Liang took turns to report the direction of the current assassination team in the team channel, and Lao Wang provided them with the correct route forward at the ambush point to the construction blueprint provided by the fat guild leader.
The main reason why the Invincible Uncle team went to such great lengths to bring Remy into the Guild's Mansion was to avoid a war in the narrow sewers.
If Remy really has the kind of weapon given by the high-level angel that Lao Wang said, once the fish is dead and the net is broken, the invincible uncle is right, but there are three people and that guy are close at hand, and this loss cannot be borne anyway.
Speaking of the trap designed by Takenaka, the clichΓ© strategy of "please enter the urn" seems very simple, but the more this simple strategy is implemented, the more you need to work on the details.
From the previous lure of Remy to return to the West Church, to trick Remy into joining the plan through words, to participating in the assassination of the fat guild leader, to the current sewer infiltration, and what to say in the pipes, every state that should be manifested.
Takenaka has taken every little detail into account, so that when things really happen, he has enough plans to deal with them calmly, and finally successfully uses the plan to lure Remy into the trap arranged for him.
Since his on-the-spot change is slightly lacking, then take into account every detail in the plan, this is Takenaka Hanbei!
Remy's urn has arrived.
The moving Takenaka stopped, raised a hand and shook it, then looked back at Remy behind him, and the assassination team stopped, and now, they were about three or four meters in front of a vertical pipe.
Takenaka pricked up his ears to listen, and after "making sure that there are no enemies near the drain above this standpipe," he put his mouth almost next to Remy's ear, and said in almost a breathless voice, "Remy, I've been calculating the distance we've been going on, and now we should have entered the interior of that sheep's horn demon's mansion." β
"My lord, I listen to you. Remy's low voice came.
Takenaka smiled, "Okay, my loyal child, now I need you to carry me to the height of the grid and observe our exact position." β
"My lord..."Remy only said two words, but was interrupted by Takenaka's gesture, the little guy's expression was serious, exactly the same as the good leader in the military-themed film who asked to personally carry out dangerous tasks, and the meaning was obvious: don't say more, do it.
Remy also knew that he couldn't grind at this time, so he gestured to the Templar killers behind him, motioning for them to stay, and then carefully moved forward with Takenaka, and after coming to the bottom of the standpipe, he gently resisted Takenaka according to the instructions of the Holy Child, and slowly straightened up.
The height of the vertical pipe is about two meters, and the height of the bamboo garemia is just enough for the little guy to pretend to hold up a gap in the grid to see the surrounding situation.
The trap was arranged in advance, so this position was very coincidental without any patrolling guards, Takezhong put down the grille, patted Remy's shoulder, signaled safety, and then slowly exerted force, pulled open the iron grille, removed a hole for people to pass through, stepped on Remy's shoulder and gently vertically, quietly turned out the rain inlet.
Remy motioned for the four people behind him to step forward, and then looked at the entrance of the cave anxiously, this low-level angel is now worried about the safety of the Holy Boy from the bottom of his heart, although it is said that the adults of the Holy Presence will return to heaven once they die physically, but the damage to their spirit and strength is real, and it is naturally best to be safe and sound.
How could something be wrong with Takenaka? After a while, a rope hung down the standpipe under Remy's worried gaze, which meant that the Holy Child above had reconfirmed the surrounding environment, and all the members of the assassination team could now go up.
Remy was overjoyed and rushed out with the rest of the team, Takenaka was picking them up at the edge of the grid, and the assassination team finally managed to enter the mansion of the head of the meeting.
Stormwater outlets are unsightly, so in the homes of the wealthy, such unseemly but necessary facilities are generally built in relatively quiet corners.
The "good luck" of the assassination team is that the rainwater outlet they came out of is located right behind the stables of the Guild Chief's mansion, there are no guards here, only a snoozing groom, and in addition, a patrol route of a group of private soldiers will pass by here from time to time, which is simply a well-designed infiltration site for the Assassins.
Takenaka winked and commanded one of Remy's Templar killers to step forward, and Lisuo stunned the groom who was still asleep, stripped it clean and threw it into the haystack, while the killer himself changed into the groom's clothes and continued to "nap" here, in fact, to ensure a retreat after the mission was successful.
Poor Remy was now only looking at the horse, and he didn't feel anything wrong with the adults commanding his men.
Seeing that the time was ripe, Takenaka beckoned the members of the assassination team to gather and said, "Everyone listen to my plan, the Divine Charismatic Warriors and Templar Killers pay attention, the three of you quickly disperse and lurk in the outer courtyard of the mansion, and wait for you to arrange a small fire in the lurking place, start it in ten minutes, remember not to be discovered!"
Remember, no matter what, it's going to start in ten minutes, and then you're going to get back to the stable evacuation point and join the rest of the Templar killer, and you can wait another three minutes together, or just like before, no matter what, with or without me and Remy!"
The Templar Killer was accustomed to following orders, and how could Boss Tan and Mary not agree, so the three of them took the order and went their separate ways.
Takenaka then turned to Remy and said, "My child, the two of us are the main forces that assassinated that sheep-horn demon, I believe you should have felt the demon's breath, right?"
Remy listened to Takenaka's words, and chuckled in his heart, the Sheephorn Demon has no breath, how could an adult make such a low-level mistake?
Takenaka looked at Remy's expression and smiled slightly: "Dear child, don't care what I say, feel it carefully first." β
Remy was silent for a moment, and sure enough, he felt a subtle demonic aura, even if the foul smell of sulfur was so faint that ordinary people couldn't smell it at all, in the eyes of the heavenly forces, it was no different from a lighthouse in the dark night, and the source of that smell was the room on the third floor of the mansion facing the stables.
"Your Excellency?" Remy asked, looking at Takenaka, with only doubt in his eyes, no suspicion.
"It must be the low-level demons sent by Hell to protect the Sheephorn Demon, they thought it would strengthen the safety of that bastard, but they didn't know that the smell was the equivalent of telling us where their location was. Takenaka said in a more aggravated tone.
Remy suddenly realized, but he didn't know that his mind had been taken away by Takenaka, even if the forces of hell sent someone to protect the Sheep's Horn Demon, did he have to eat at the same table and sleep on the same bed?
However, the low-ranking angel was ashamed of his suspicion of the adult, which made him more convinced of the Holy Child, and while he no longer considered the details of the problem, he just followed the trusted adult, bypassed the guards, and crawled along the outer wall of the mansion to the room on the third floor.