Chapter 178: Visiting the Auction House at Night
A few minutes later, the group of orc pirates all left the restaurant, and then Lin Yifan walked up to Miss Inar and said, "Thank you, Miss Inar!" โ
"A little favor, don't be so polite!" Inar looked at Lin Yifan and smiled faintly, and then asked, "I don't know what you call it yet?" โ
"Oh! Miss Inar, it's okay if you call me Lin Yifan! โ
At this time, the owner of the restaurant hurriedly ran out of it, and then bowed deeply to Miss Inar, and said, "Hello Miss Inar, your dish is ready, and it is ready to serve now!"
Inar looked at the boss and nodded, signaling that he could serve the food. Then he looked at Lin Yifan again and said, "I'm sorry! I'm going to eat first, so if you haven't already, you might as well eat together. โ
"Oh! Thank you for your kindness, we have already eaten. Then please use it slowly, and we will leave first. Lin Yifan also bowed to Inar, and then took Wang Xiaopang and they prepared to leave.
Just when Lin Yifan was about to walk to the gate, Inar suddenly asked again: "May I ask Lin Gongzi, is there a big deal to do in Carmen Star this time?" If so, I hope to cooperate with you more! โ
"Oh! Okay Miss Inar, I will patronize your trading market when I have the chance. After speaking, Lin Yifan turned around and left.
After Lin Yifan walked for a few minutes, Inar's entourage stepped forward and asked, "Miss! This kid seems to be the first time to come to Carmen, and it doesn't look like he is doing business. How could you be willing to help him? โ
Hearing the entourage's question, the corners of Inar's mouth rose slightly, and he said softly: "He is indeed not a businessman, but I can see that these people are definitely not simple. โ
"Isn't it just a few kinds of people, what can be special?"
Hearing Inar's words, the retinue was puzzled. No matter how he looked at it, he didn't feel that Lin Yifan was any different, but Inar could feel that Lin Yifan was different.
"Miss! Do you want to send someone to find out their details? The attendant asked.
"If you look it up, you don't need it for the time being, you can wait and see. But you can send someone to keep an eye on their movements and see what they are doing on Kรกrmรกn. โ
"Okay Miss Inar, I'll send someone to do it right away!" The attendant bowed slightly towards Inar before turning and leaving the restaurant.
After leaving the restaurant, Lin Yifan was silent all the way. He had been thinking about what Inar had said as he was leaving, and it felt as if she had sensed something. But he didn't do anything special, and after thinking about it for a long time, Lin Yifan didn't find the answer.
According to the hostess of the auction house, the next auction will be held in thirty days.
However, Lin Yifan didn't want to wait so many days, because even if it was that day, Lin Yifan would not be able to search in the hall with so many people, so he planned to sneak into the hall of the auction house tonight and carefully look for the location of the crystal stone.
However, at night, the guards of the trading market are very tight, and there are many monitoring systems in the market, which brings great resistance to Lin Yifan's actions.
After returning to the Ice Phoenix Battleship, Lin Yifan called everyone together to study how to infiltrate the hall.
"Boss! If you can be sure that you're in that hall, we might as well disguise ourselves and go straight in. We'll be responsible for stopping the guards, and you'll be in the hall looking for crystals! โ
As soon as Wang Xiaopang's voice fell, he was slapped on the head by Li Na.
"Dead fat, what a bad idea you have in mind. If you don't expose us all in one fight, if there are no crystals in the hall, how will we find them on Carmen in the future? โ
Wang Xiaopang scratched the back of his head and said, "Ugh! If this doesn't work, then I'm thinking! โ
"This is really troublesome! If it weren't for Captain Lin's personal induction, he would have just put a set of reconnaissance eyes and it would have been done! Li Hu said helplessly.
"Alas! Who's to say it's not! Li Quan sighed.
Lin Yifan suddenly said: "If you want to find the crystal stone, you must take advantage of the night when no one enters the hall to search, and there is no chance at other times." โ
Just when everyone didn't know what to do, Tis suddenly said, "Little master! I can use the Recon Eye to hack into their surveillance system without them noticing. Then use the Ice Phoenix Battleship to open a short-range hidden passage for you, which will teleport you directly into the lobby. โ
Hearing Ties's words, Lin Yifan's eyes lit up: "Yes, yes!" How did we forget the Ice Phoenix Battleship! โ
"If we can teleport directly to the inside of the hall, we can save a lot of trouble!" Lin Nan said.
"Good! Just do what Tis said, and go to the auction tonight! โ
For the action at night, Lin Yifan and the others had dinner early, and then they all entered the lounge one by one to rest.
At about three o'clock in the night, the Ice Phoenix Battleship turned on the stealth system and came to the sky above the trading market.
At this time, the trading market was completely under martial law, and there were patrols back and forth on all sides.
After a while, a group of miniature scout eyes were projected from the Ice Phoenix battleship, which quickly disintegrated in the air before rushing towards the market.
There are five floors of the market, each with tens of thousands of monitors. However, these monitors do not need to be blocked, only the monitors in the auction hall can be blocked.
After confirming that the monitors in the auction hall were blocked, Tis controlled the Ice Phoenix Battleship to open a short-range space passage.
Short-range space access has the benefit of opening links not only outside the battleship, but also inside the battleship.
Through the short passage, Lin Yifan came to the inside of the hall. However, to his surprise, he could not sense the presence of the crystal stone here.
What's going on? Why can't the crystal stone be sensed, could it be that the crystal stone was really auctioned off by someone else?
But no, all the people in the audience had already finished walking at that time, and the presence of the crystal stone could still be sensed at that time, which means that the crystal stone was not an auction item, but somewhere in the hall.
But now he can't sense its existence, which makes Lin Yifan puzzled.
Lin Yifan searched in the hall for more than ten minutes, almost checking all the corners, but still did not sense the existence of crystal stones. In the end, Lin Yifan had to retreat into the Ice Phoenix battleship.
"Boss! What do you think? โ
Seeing Lin Yifan return to the Ice Phoenix battleship, Wang Xiaopang hurriedly stepped forward to inquire about the situation.
"I can't feel the presence of the crystal stone, I don't know if it's been transferred!"
Lin Yifan thought about Inar's actions during the day, could it be that she really sensed that something was wrong, and then secretly transferred the crystal stone away?
However, after pondering for a while, Lin Yifan felt that this might not be much. It's only been a few days since her group arrived at Carmen, and they didn't make any unusual moves at the auction, so she had no reason to notice anything wrong.
"Brother! Don't worry, let's wait until the day of the auction to see! Lin Nan said.
"Hmmm! That's all there is to it now. Lin Yifan nodded.
Finding the crystal stone itself is not an easy task, and it must be done step by step, and if you are too hasty, you will definitely expose your own group.
In the following time, Lin Yifan and the others kept shuttling through the major cities of Carmen Star. While looking for the whereabouts of the crystal stone, Lin Yifan accidentally found several humanoids.
In terms of appearance, these people are very similar to Lin Yifan's physical characteristics, which shows that there are likely to be fleeing Ulantis people on Carmen Star.
Thinking of this made Lin Yifan very excited, so he asked Wang Xiaopang and them to disguise themselves as ordinary alien creatures and follow behind those humans, hoping to find more people from the Orchides.
Wang Xiaopang and they tracked them to a hidden place, which was an underground residence located on the outskirts of the city.
There are a lot of alien wanderers gathered here, and they are all from different planetary civilizations.
In one of the rooms of this underground dwelling, several camouflaged humanoid sapient beings were gathering to discuss something.
"What's new lately?" An old man in a cloak asked.
Hearing the old man's words, a humanoid next to him replied very respectfully: "Chief, a group of humanoids have come to Carmen recently, and they don't look like pirates. As soon as they arrived, they were robbed by a group of pirates, but their leader seemed to be very powerful, and he was able to control the pirate leader in a few clicks. But what intrigued me was that they didn't kill the pirates at the time. And the day after that incident, the pirate gang that attacked them all disappeared. โ
"Oh! And there is such a thing. So why did those pirates suddenly disappear? The old man asked.
"Looking back, I haven't found out exactly how I disappeared, but I suspect it may have something to do with that gang."
The old man shook his head and said, "Probably not!" There are only a few of them, and you say that their weapons are very backward, and it is not so easy to deal with hundreds of pirates! โ
"But Chief! If not them, who else? Those were the only people who clashed with that gang of pirates that day, and they were the most suspicious. โ
"Send someone to keep a close eye on the movements of these people, maybe there is some purpose for their arrival!" The old man thought for a moment and then said.
"Okay leader, I'll give the order!" The humanoid replied.
"Oh and! Before we find out where the gang came from, let the people below stop the mission for the time being. โ
"Stop the task? Chief, we're running out of time, and I'm afraid we'll delay Miss's plan if we pause the mission. โ
"No, no, if you don't pause! In case this group of people is a spy sent by the orcs, and they find out about our plan, not only us, but even the young lady will be captured by the orcs! โ
"Alas! Well, I'll keep you informed! The humanoid said helplessly.
After the conversation between these two humanoids, Lin Yifan and a group of mysterious people watched secretly everywhere they went.
After Wang Xiaopang and the others found out the residences of those people, they returned to the Ice Phoenix Battleship. In order to get a better view of the area, Tis placed a set of miniature scout eyes there.