“It’s impossible for you to open it… what? Impossible! How did you open it!?”
Gerrard said impossible twice, but their meanings were opposite. The first time was out of confidence, but the second time was out of shock!
He watched as a brat easily opened a safe that he deemed impossible to open, and she just used a spare key, Gerrard even doubted whether he was dreaming or not!
“H-how did you do that? You’re not playing with me, right…”
It wasn’t just Gerrard, even Deborah was also at a loss and quickly ran up, but she wasn’t able to come into the room because it was too cramped for her large body, so she just looked in from outside.
“Hmph, there’s no one able to show off in front of me! To be honest, this lock may look fine on the outside, but the inside was already broken, so even a stick could open it!”
“What? This was the latest model…”
“Haha, latest model? Stop joking, you’re too ignorant! Our family already got rid of these poor-quality enchanted locks a couple of years ago. It might be fine for common thieves but people with strong magic power can easily shatter the magic circle on the inside, so these types of locks had a large vulnerability!”
If anyone else had said that, they would surely think they were just boasting and speaking nonsense, but since it came from Rosie it was an irrefutable fact!
Since she was from a wealthy household, she was well-versed in anti-theft technology, like locks and safes. Although Bacon’s safe box was indeed sturdy and high quality, the lock itself was lagging behind. At first, Rosie didn’t even notice, not until Gerrard pointed it out.
“As expected of the eldest daughter of the Childe family! … Sigh, I was ignorant.”
If it weren’t for Rosie noticing, they would all still be in the dark!
“So that means Bacon didn’t lose the fruits, but it was stolen by someone with strong magic power?”
It seems like Caesar’s suspicions were right, the fruit going missing wasn’t simply just a coincidence!
But… as Deborah and Gerrard were thinking about who stole them, Rosie and Caesar looked at each other and thought of another problem. They were more curious why someone would come to steal the fruits.
Only a strong magician would be able to break this lock, so why would someone like that come to this remote supply station to steal the fruits?
There may only be one reasonable answer…
“That person’s goal might not be the fruits, but to steal them away for some other reason!”
But what were they after?
Could they have stolen it to stop Bacon from tricking girls?
Stop kidding, of course not. Thinking about it, their goal must be…
“Sigh, Caesar, it seems like your intuition was right… this is a trap!”
“Wait, did you just say trap?”
“Yes, this is a trap for Lin Xiao!”
It was clear that they knew Lin Xiao was coming here to get the fruits, so he stole them before Lin Xiao could get them so that Lin Xiao would be forced into the dangerous plague zone to look for more fruits!
“But… with how strong Lin Xiao is, normal killers wouldn’t be able to do anything to him, right?”
“Indeed, but the ones after him aren’t normal…”
“Do you know who they are?”
“Have you ever heard of the Enlightenment society?”
“What? That organization actually exists!”
Just by hearing that name, Deborah cried out in alarm, but because it was late at night, she quickly covered her own mouth. She once heard some rumors regarding that cult, but never knew they were real!
Just the name was able to make Deborah so shocked, so Rosie had nothing to say.
The most frightening thing wasn’t that they set up a trap, but the identity of the other person!
Rosie downplayed it earlier and made it sound like any magician could easily destroy the lock but that wasn’t the case. That lock may be destroyed but the only ones who could do so had to be at least seventh-level magicians…
Think about it, a seventh-level magician stooping to set a trap for Lin Xiao… this meant that they definitely sent someone strong, it might even be the third apostle himself!
“What should we do? Should we notify the nearby garrison for support?” Deborah nervously asked.
“No, there’s no time… Lin Xiao’s corpse would be cold by the time they get there, also, those idiots won’t be of much help.” Rosie didn’t hold back at all and made Deborah feel a bit awkward.
“Then what should we do?”
“Caesar, what do you think?”
“What else? Yao Zi, Xiao Tian… let’s go save him!”
“Hehe, no problem! If Brother Xiao is in trouble, I’ll help with my life on the line!”
“O-okay, let’s go!”
Yao Zi and Lin Tian nodded and the four of them set out! Though at that time, we still don’t know who was going to be saving who, there’s no way Lin Xiao would be dying that easily…
After getting where Lin Xiao was heading from Deborah, they all set out into the night! Deborah and Gerrard just stood at the door as they watched in a daze from behind and listened to the crickets chirp.
“Should we be going after them to help?” The first one to react was Gerrard.
“… Of course! What are you waiting for, hurry up and follow them!”
Deborah finally realized the severity of the problem and got Gerrard to gather people to set out and also got someone to notify the nearby garrison for reinforcements!
This night was not going to be a peaceful one…
…
…
The calm before the storm was almost the most peaceful.
Lin Xiao had no idea that the people following behind him were increasing in number, from four initially to hundreds if not thousands… and he didn’t know just how many traps were waiting for him up ahead.
Next morning.
After a peaceful night, there was only one thought in Lin Xiao’s head, a very profound philosophical question.
Were black stockings and short skirts more erotic? Or knee-high white stockings and a short skirt?
“It’s this mountain! As long as we reach the top, we can find that mutant tree!”
On the second day, they finally arrived with Bacon in the lead and pointing to the top of the mountain. He may be annoying before, but now, for the first time, Lin Xiao didn’t find him that annoying. Why you ask… because it was Bacon who suggested taking a shortcut, and that was this very steep cliff in front of them. They had to use their hands and feet and use lean against the wall to carefully climb up! And it was because of this that Lin Xiao faced that philosophical question.
“Be careful and don’t look around when climbing, you have to look up… otherwise if you fall, I can’t help you!”
Bacon who was familiar with the terrain ignored everyone else and quickly climbed up by himself with everyone else following carefully from behind.
“Can’t look around and have to look up?”
Lin Xiao was a bit nervous earlier so he followed Bacon’s warnings and looked up. What he didn’t expect was that he almost had a nosebleed.
Because Elena and ShenDai Ying were above him and this angle was… too stimulating!
