Chapter 115: Pull Off A Big One
She quietly arrived at the Yan family backyard. Just as she was about to take out the ladder from the space, Su Ning heard movement from the abandoned house just across the stone wall!
Although that person was very careful, she was pressing close to the wall in the silent night around her and immediately noticed it.
Who could it be?
What was someone doing in the abandoned house so late at night?
With a trace of doubt in her heart, she slowly climbed up the wall using the ladder and cautiously poked out half her head.
Borrowing the dim waning moon in the sky tonight, she saw an orange-yellow light that seemed to be covered by something?
After thinking a little, she figured it should be a flashlight. That person probably feared the beam would be too conspicuous at night, so they covered it with something. This way, they could see the road clearly without worrying about the light being spotted.
Seeing the yellow light drift into the rightmost room, Su Ning, feeling something was off, rode up to the wall top, retrieved the ladder, and released it to the other side. After climbing down, instead of leaving immediately, she quietly crept over.
The house in front of her had been abandoned for who knows how long. The half-hanging windows and doors were dilapidated and barely served as decorations that could scatter at any time.
Only exposing her eyes, she half-crouched behind the windowsill and quickly scanned inside the room.
Strangely, she had clearly seen someone enter, yet now there wasn’t a single shadow inside the room.
There’s a secret passage or secret room!
Almost subconsciously, this thought surged into her mind.
Given that this abandoned house was right next to the Yan family, with the Yan family robbed just before and someone sneaking over in the dark right after…
Su Ning had some guesses in her heart and stayed motionless in place, calming herself.
After just a few minutes, a faint sound came from inside the room, followed by footsteps.
She pulled back her head, pressed tight against the wall, and slowly held her breath. Even as the footsteps gradually faded away, she still maintained her half-squatting, half-leaning posture without moving.
After waiting ten minutes until her legs went numb and she was sure that person wasn’t coming back, she sat down and vigorously rubbed her legs.
Once the soreness was all gone and she could stand, she quickly entered the room.
She took out a flashlight from the space, then took out a thin, breathable shirt like that person had and covered it. Instantly, a faint light lit up the room.
Only then did she realize this room didn’t seem meant for living in; it was more like a storage room or storeroom.
Because there was a granary made of thick wooden boards against the wall?
She had seen similar granaries in the homes of villagers from several brigades below.
In the south where mostly rice was grown, every household built such a granary mostly for convenient drying after autumn harvest grain distribution.
Unlike the rice that could be directly obtained in the city, what the team distributed was Gu Zi, which would only be threshed using a flail bucket when it was time to eat.
So building such a granary here was completely impractical and took up space. Who would go out of their way to build one that was only a small half full, like a miniature granary?
This made her suspect that the granary was just a smokescreen.
As if proving her idea, Su Ning didn’t go in to check. Instead, she circled around the outside of the granary, trying not to miss any tiny detail.
“Huh?”
The dust around was so thick, so why was there only a thin layer here?
Especially in such an inconspicuous spot that most people wouldn’t notice.
She tentatively reached out and groped around. The uneven texture under her fingertips made her eyes light up.
“Click—”
She saw the wooden panel along the granary slowly sink down, revealing a cellar-style pull handle door.
She put on new gloves, gripped the handle, and pulled hard. A staircase tamped with mud and soil appeared before her.
Perhaps because it had just been opened and fresh air had flowed in, there wasn’t much heavy ash and soil smell.
Holding the flashlight, she slowly climbed down. When she pulled off the covering shirt and took in the full scene underground, even Su Ning had to sigh at her luck.
“This must be one of Yan Bin’s three cunning rabbit burrows, right?”
Same type of boxes, storing similar things.
Two boxes of neatly bundled big black tens, two boxes of large gold bars, one box of gold, silver, jade ware, and jewelry.
So that person earlier was Yan Bin. Since his home was robbed, he took time to check if the stuff had been taken all at once?
He left so assuredly only after finding it wasn’t, right?
Sorry, it wasn’t before, but now…
She waved her little hand and collected all the boxes in the cellar into the space. Su Ning decided to do one big one!
Not only make him anxious and on edge for the next few days, but also make him feel heartbroken pain.
Who told her to be such a vengeful person at heart?
Best to let him discover it soon, so after climbing out, she didn’t restore the spot. She swaggered away, rode her bicycle, and sped toward the largest and only black market in the city.
She also had to thank Tang Tian’s memories; otherwise, she wouldn’t have known about the Yan family and Yan Bin’s lair.
The black market that Zhang Ze and the others had stumbled upon when they first came to Gu City was just a venue for people to trade.
Their lair wasn’t far from the trading and selling spot; it was a stilted building near the Lishui River.
This stilted building faced the direction of the original Gaoyun Bridge outside, with a stone wall painted with bizarre dances and mysterious text.
Similar stone walls stood along the riverbank, about ten or so. It was said that from high above looking down, these individual stone walls formed an ancient rune pattern.
Passing this two-to-three-meter-high stone wall full of mystery and legendary stories, she, having seen it before, naturally glanced past it and headed straight for her destination this time.
……
The stilted building was brightly lit inside. Three or four men sat shirtless around the hall, with several plates of cold meals on the table.
“Hey, you say, why did big brother call Biao Zi and them all out so late? Did something big happen?”
“You’re asking me? I want to ask you! We’re not worms in big brother’s belly; how could we know what he didn’t say!”
“I saw big brother’s face was off, looking really bad. Probably something fatal really happened.”
“Ah, this… then what do we do?”
The tallest one chugged a cup of boiled water, half answering his companion and half muttering to himself, “What can we do? If we’re gonna die, eggs point to the sky!”
From the start of this line of work, who doesn’t carry their head on their belt? Even if you want to quit, will the bosses above allow it?
With him saying that, the few already scared by the earlier big commotion grew even more uneasy.
Even the people guarding the black market trading ground outside were all called back and taken away. How serious does that have to be?
The few were hungry, but at that moment, none had any appetite.
“I want to go home once.”
“Why? Big brother said to guard the warehouse well. What if…”
With so many big locks on it, and the keys still with Biao bro, what could go wrong?
It couldn’t just vanish into thin air, right!
Not just him, the others sitting there more or less had similar thoughts.
In the first two years maybe they’d been on edge, diligently guarding, but later, especially in recent years after swallowing all the black markets below and dominating alone, they lost that sense of vigilance in peace.
After all, who would be suicidal enough to come rob their lair?
If a tough guy really came, burying him would just add a mound on the small back south hillside. Could it stir up any waves?
“What if some blind fool comes? With this thing, what are you afraid of!”
“Lunatic, you really going back?”
Seeing him stand and slap the gun tucked behind him on the table, the one who hadn’t spoken couldn’t help but speak up.
“Usually it’s fine, but tonight’s situation isn’t right. You should go back tomorrow instead. Otherwise, when big brother and them return and see you’re not here, it’ll be hard to explain.”
“Fuck, you think I enjoy running this trip every day? The kids at home are seriously ill.”
Their voices and movements weren’t small. When they got excited, they slapped the table back and forth, practically handing Su Ning, hiding in the dark, a perfect opportunity.
Seizing the moment, Su Ning, who had already entered, found the warehouse they mentioned locked with several big locks.
She took out a handy tool from the space tool room and, matching the loud table-slapping inside, quickly pried open all the locks.
Without caring what was inside, she didn’t even look and emptied it all out. After turning out the room door, she ran desperately toward the outside.
“Something’s wrong, quick! There’s movement outside!”
“Fuck, who did this!”
Wide-open door, broken locks, empty warehouse!
The few broke out in cold sweat from fright, all drew their weapons, and roared through gritted teeth.
“Quick, search!”
So many things, gone without a trace in less than a minute?
How many people, what kind of ghost could pull that off!
Whether big brother believed them or not, they only knew if they didn’t catch the person and the stuff was gone, they’d be the ones to die!
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