Chapter 17: Sneaking into the Night with the Wind
So, Lu Chen, Yunston, plus Thomas, Locke, and Smith, squatted in the corner of the church, waiting for the guards to change shifts.
Lu Chen was so nervous that he didn't dare to say a word, but the four of them were obviously familiar with the road, and they were so bored that they chattered.
"Are the bags ready?" confirmed the horses in a low voice.
"Ready!" Smith assured, "that we will not be oversighted in the service of the Divine Messenger!"
This isn't a mouthful of poisonous milk, right? Lu Chen listened to their conversation, cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
"It's an honor to say!" Locke's voice sounded excited, "We've been stealing for so many years, and this is the first time we've stolen with the Venerable Divine Envoy—"
Before Locke could finish his words, he consciously closed his mouth.
Even in the dim light, the four thieves could feel the fierce gaze of the divine envoy.
"I'll say it again......" Lu Chen gritted his teeth and whispered, "I'm 'taking'!
The thieves were only right for a while, and they didn't dare to speak anymore.
So, in the quiet underground corridor, only the small footsteps of rats could be heard.
I don't know how long it took for a distant noise to break the silence underground. Lu Chen hurriedly shook his head, and soon made out that it seemed to be the friction sound of metal armor, indicating that there were heavily armed people walking-
- The time has finally come for the guard to change shifts.
Everyone's nerves tensed for a moment. Even Yunston put away his attitude, listened carefully for a moment with his ears sideways, and after confirming that there was no abnormality, he quickly snapped his fingers lightly.
Locke jumped out of Lu Chen's side with a "whoosh" and quickly disappeared into the darkness of the underground corridor.
Lu Chen couldn't help but loosen his neckline.
- It's one thing to hear about a prisoner when you're interrogating, it's another thing to experience a theft yourself...... Now Lu Daguan's brain is basically blank.
The reason is simple: as long as you don't want anything, you won't be afraid of anything.
The remaining four stayed still, quietly waiting for their time. Just as Lu Chen began to feel difficult to breathe, the sound of stones colliding in the distance and the echo in the narrow corridor could be heard.
"Locke threw stones, let's get on!" Yunston snorted and took the lead in rushing out of hiding.
Thomas and Smith followed. Lu Daguan gritted his teeth fiercely and took a big stride.
"Click", "click", "click", ......
The footsteps of the four echoed through the cold walls. For a moment, Lu Chen was worried that the footsteps were too loud and would expose their movements, but there was no one else in the corridor.
As long as the plan goes well, then the guards who came to change shifts should still be dragged away by Locke.
"Hurry up!" urged Yunston with a little anxiety, "Locke can only delay us for a while, hurry up to the door of the warehouse!"
Elliot's body obviously hadn't undergone much exercise, and after a few steps of such a trot, Lu Chen had already begun to gasp slightly.
Luckily, they didn't have a long way to go.
As the light of the oil lamp in front of the warehouse door became brighter, a huge arched wooden door came into view. Unlike the old brick walls, the wooden door was apparently often repaired, and even the chains on the door glowed with gold in the light of oil lamps.
This is the underground warehouse of the Central Cathedral.
The wealth accumulated by the Holy Church over the centuries, the treasures looted from all over the Empire, lie quietly behind this wooden door, waiting to see the light again.
It wasn't the first time they'd been here, but they were still holding their breath in front of the wooden door.
This is a mysterious coercion that can only be brought about by wealth and accumulation, and no matter how many times, visitors cannot help but be shocked by the wooden door and the treasures that follow it.
For some reason, Lu Chen suddenly had greater confidence in his plan.
"Open the door, Yunston. Lu Chen said in a deep voice.
I don't know if it's because of the exhaustion of running, or because of the nervousness in his heart after getting close to the target, his voice trembles a little.
Yunston nodded, expertly finding the keyhole in the cast-iron lock between the two pages, and crouched down.
He took two pieces of iron with hooks from his robe, carefully inserted them into the keyhole, and began to pick the lock.
Lu Chen only glanced at it twice, and confirmed that the lockpicking technology in this other world was no different from that of the earth, and he also used the cooperation of these two iron pieces, also known as "single hook" and "donkey", to pluck the marbles in the lock cylinder to find the correct position.
It's no wonder, Lu Chen didn't bother to look at Yunston's "hard work", and looked around boredly.
It was a not-so-spacious corridor, flanked by stone walls flanked by nothing but oil lamps for illumination, and a bronze door sign that read "Warehouse." Next to the door of the warehouse was a rudimentary wooden chair, presumably for the guards—of course, the guards who were now on shift would not be able to arrive for a while, so the chairs were empty.
Lu Chen simply sat on the chair, and then felt a dangerous shaking of the chair legs.
He seriously suspected that the chair had been eaten by termites.
Fortunately, the divine envoy did not have a long rest in his seat, and there was a pleasant "click" from Yunston's side. Lu Chen turned his head, and sure enough, he found that Yunston was pulling his tools out of the keyhole, his face full of pride.
"Your Excellency, the lock is open!" this guy's face was full of flattery for merit and reward.
Lu Chen jumped up from his chair, gave a perfunctory thumbs up, and then, together with Thomas, helped Yunston pull open a crack in the huge door.
Lu Daguan took the opportunity to glance at the warehouse: the black hole was not lit, and he couldn't see anything.
In the distance, there were already footsteps, and it seemed that the changing guards were about to arrive. The four of them hurriedly jumped into the warehouse through the crack in the door, and then hurriedly pulled the warehouse door back from the inside.
There was another "click", indicating that the deadbolt embedded in the wooden door had been re-stuck.
Now, no matter how you look at it from the outside, no one would have thought that four Jiangyang thieves had already infiltrated the warehouse at the end of the day!
Since you have entered the warehouse, there must be no one inside, so there is no need to scruple. Yunston pulled out a small tin box from his bosom and flicked the lid open with his fingers.
A faint flame suddenly rose from the tin box and danced vividly at the top of the tin box.
Lu Chen looked at this gadget curiously: although he knew that the industrial revolution of the empire was in full swing, this was the first time he had seen industrial products from another world with his own eyes.
I don't know how to compare it to my zippo?
Obviously he didn't know about the idleness of the gods. He looked around with a lighter and soon found several unlit torches on the walls of the warehouse. He took the lighter and stood on tiptoe to light the torches one by one.
Flames burst out from the torches, and the sudden bright light almost blinded the dog's eyes of the Lu officials.
However, after he opened his eyes again and saw the collections in the warehouse, Lu Chen felt that the most worrying thing at present was whether his heartbeat would be too fast......
- "Yo Xi~!"
Now, only this sentence in Japanese can accurately reflect the excitement of Lu Daguan's devil entering the village!