Chapter 149: Plundering Freely

Eight dark figures sneaked into the three buildings, moving swiftly in pairs through the halls.

It was strange. A luxurious mansion like No.1 Shenghui Street should have had at least three to five hundred servants and guards. But now, in the whole huge estate, there were only two male servants and two female servants, and a mere dozen or so guards.

The male and female servants were ordinary people, so the eight assassins easily knocked them down. The remaining dozen or so guards had varying strengths: the weakest among them was at the Earth Rank Intermediate Stage, and the strongest was even halfway into the threshold of the Celestial Knight level. But the eight assassins silently attacked them from behind using various hidden weapons and drugs, and the guards were taken down without making a single sound.

In the short time it took to drink a cup of tea, everyone inside the three buildings was left unconscious. Lin Qi and Long Cheng, now wearing masks, swaggered in through the main entrance of the central building and strode boldly through the living room.

Handfuls of flowers were thrown on the ground. Lin Qi pounced like a hungry wolf onto a pitch-black vase that was as tall as a person’s waist. The vase had a dark base with mysterious patterns painted in deep red glaze—it was a vase passed down from the Dark Calendar era!

Even more remarkably, after withstanding thousands of years of wear, the vase was still smooth and flawless as if new. Lin Qi greedily stroked its attractive curves, almost drooling all over the floor. After caressing it reluctantly for a while, he quickly took off his boot and sock and shoved the vase into the Ankle Chain around his left ankle.

Long Cheng, who witnessed all this from the side, almost fainted—this guy actually had a Spatial Artifact? And even worse, he actually put the precious Spatial Artifact around his ankle? What was that supposed to mean? This guy showed no respect at all for the grandmasters capable of creating such artifacts!

In the East, Long Cheng held a noble status and came from an esteemed background. He also owned a Spatial Artifact, but this time, due to a bet with someone who set certain restrictions, he couldn’t bring it along. Precisely because he himself owned one, Long Cheng knew how rare and valuable these artifacts were. Unless one had good cooperative relations with those factions that had powerful space mages, such artifacts would almost never appear on the market.

The value of any Spatial Artifact was extremely high; even ordinary great Nobles might never get to see such rare items. But what about Lin Qi? He actually wore one around his ankle!

“I hope he doesn’t have stinky feet!” Long Cheng cursed maliciously. “I hope the master who crafted this artifact doesn’t see this, otherwise this kid is definitely going to be in trouble. I swear, he will be in trouble!”

While muttering complaints about Lin Qi, Long Cheng also swept through the hall like a whirlwind. He couldn’t take away the bulky but valuable items, but there were plenty of small yet extremely expensive objects in the hall.

For instance, in the seating area at one corner of the hall, there was a Cigar box placed on the coffee table. The inner layer of the box was made from thousand-year-old wood, and the box was inlaid with a sea-blue gemstone as large as a baby’s fist. The gem was the size of a baby’s fist, with a nearly perfect cut, pure color without any flaws, as blue as the ocean.

“Worth a million!” Long Cheng quickly estimated the value of the Cigar box. He grabbed the small box, which was only half a foot square, and stuffed it contentedly into the cloth bag on his back. It was a pity he hadn’t brought a Spatial Artifact with him, so he could only pick small but valuable items.

Lin Qi, meanwhile, had swept through the hall like an autumn gale, taking all the most valuable decorations. He stuffed the smaller but expensive items into four vases, then crammed all four vases into his Ankle Chain. Meanwhile, eight assassins carried large black leather bags and were expertly looting various valuable items from the hall.

Apart from the oversized antique furniture, which nobody bothered with, all the valuable items in the hall were looted within the time it took to drink a cup of tea—even the jewels embedded in that antique furniture were swiftly pried off by the nimble-fingered Long Cheng.

Once the hall was completely emptied, the group quickly rushed to the second floor. Lin Qi headed straight for the reception room made of Radiant Black Ebony. He rudely and brutally used his sword to pry a Black Ebony plank off the wall. The eight assassins moved like the wind, quickly assisting Lin Qi in prying off all the Black Ebony planks. They neatly tied them up with ropes and quickly carried them to the backyard.

A large hole had been cut in the backyard fence, and a patch of flowering trees had been violently cleared. A group of burly men with black veils over their faces waited in the shadows with twelve elongated four-wheeled wagons, quickly loading the loot brought by the assassins into the wagons.

While Lin Qi and his crew busily plundered inside the building, over twenty strong men who had been waiting in the backyard joined in the looting. Like a tornado, they rampaged through the building, and in just over thirty minutes, they had taken all the easily portable valuables from the main building—even the pure Gold and pure silver utensils from the kitchen, not leaving behind a single spoon.

After finishing the main building, they moved on to the side buildings. The two side buildings were also extremely luxurious. One of the bedrooms in the first side building was actually built mainly using ivory from prehistoric mammoths. Similarly, a guest room in the other side building was constructed mainly from the bones of a Frenzied Unicorn Whale.

Lin Qi and his men ecstatically tore these materials away by force, loading them onto the wagons along with antique scrolls and various ornaments.

Despite the cold winter, Lin Qi was so busy he broke out in sweat. He stored the most precious items inside his Ankle Chain, and his eyes practically shone with golden light. He had struck it rich! If he could convert today’s loot into Gold Coins, Lin Qi might not become the richest man on the Continent, but he would definitely break into the top two hundred wealthiest.

In Lin Qi’s eyes, a huge golden coffin was already shimmering—at least he had earned enough to pay for a pure Gold coffin when he died.

Panting from the effort, Lin Qi contentedly looted every single display item in an exhibition room. Suddenly, an assassin appeared beside him like a ghost: “Young Master, we discovered a hidden chamber beneath the main building. Would you like to take a look?”

A hidden chamber beneath the main building? Lin Qi immediately connected this with words like “treasure.” Wiping the sweat from his forehead, he gritted his teeth and shouted, “Of course we’re going to take a look. Hmm, be careful of traps. Bring Long Cheng along and let him lead the way.”

They had nearly finished looting the two side buildings, so Lin Qi quickly led his men into the passage leading to the hidden chamber.