1124 Sneaking in
One of the guards said with dissatisfaction, “What’s the situation tonight? Why did you get up in the middle of the night to practice?”
“I heard that Her Highness Mingyue suddenly came to our place. It seems that she suspects that the barbarians are going to lay their hands on the supplies warehouse. She has repeatedly warned us to be more careful, so the boss has arranged more guards.”
“Ah? Barbarian race? What nonsense are you talking about? The barbarian race is far away, how could they suddenly appear in front of us?”
“Who knows?”
“Alright, let’s stop discussing. There’s a team coming.”
The chief guard halted the discussion and looked into the distance.
On the main road to the Empire’s military supplies warehouse, Fang Heng and Mikhael were in a group, following the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce’s material transportation team to enter the large warehouse from the West entrance.
“Stop!”
The Four Seas Trading Company’s escort team had just arrived at the entrance when they were stopped by the guards guarding the checkpoint.
The guard captain stepped forward to interrogate them, “It’s so early. You’re delivering supplies before dawn?”
The manager of the Four Seas Trading Company stepped forward and handed the verification certificate to the guard at the side. With a smile on his face, he bowed and nodded, explaining, “Sir, this batch of supplies is urgently needed by Her Highness Mingyue. Lord Warren ordered us to send it over overnight. We didn’t dare to delay in the slightest.”
The guard checked the certificate and whispered into the chief guard’s ear, “Captain, I’ve checked it. There’s no problem with the certificate. It’s the supplies that Lord Warren gave to Her Highness Mingyue. The stamp and procedures are complete.”
Since the establishment of the Empire’s military supply warehouse, it has been peaceful for so many years. The guards have long been lazy, and most of the routine inspections are very relaxed.
Not to mention that this batch of materials was personally requested by Her Highness Mingyue, and the delivery party was Lord Warren.
Of course, there would be no problem.
The chief guard walked forward and casually opened a box at the back of the truck. He found that it was ore and materials. He waved his hand and said, “Let them in!”
Fang Heng heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that he had successfully passed the checkpoint.
However, this was only the first step.
There were many sentry towers inside the armory, and every move was under the surveillance of the Empire.
“Mr. Fang, the supplies we’ve sent are temporarily stored in Warehouse No. 9.”
The manager of the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce had already assisted in the delivery of the goods several times, so he was very familiar with the way. He led the group slowly toward Warehouse No. 9.
When they arrived outside the warehouse, the people of the Chamber of Commerce began to unload the goods.
Under the supervision of the Empire guards, the workers of the Chamber of Commerce moved the boxes of materials from the accompanying carts into the storage warehouse.
Warehouse No. 9, which was temporarily occupied by Tang Mingyue, was located at the periphery of the entire material storage warehouse, and the overall capacity of the warehouse was relatively small.
After more than 20 minutes, the members of the Chamber of Commerce had finished moving the materials. They nodded and greeted Fang Heng, “Lord Fang Heng, we have finished moving the materials. Do you have any other orders?”
“Okay, you guys go ahead. I’ll go check it out. I’ll catch up with you later.”
“Yes, please be careful.”
Fang Heng waved his hand at the manager of the Chamber of Commerce, indicating that they should leave first. Then, he went into the warehouse to inspect it with Mikhael.
Until now, Mikhael was still a little dizzy.
He only knew that Fang Heng was preparing to lead the Empire’s people to fight with the barbarians. Why did he come to the military supply warehouse for no reason?
Seeing that Fang Heng had piled the two kinds of ores and mixed them together, Mikhael could not help but frown.
He went up and asked, “Fang Heng, what are you doing?”
“Explosives.”
While mixing the mineral materials, Fang Heng nodded and explained, “After two kinds of mineral materials are mixed according to a specific ratio, they will form an explosive. Well, it will cause a very strong explosion.”
Mikhael was even more confused.
They were trying to lure the Empire to discover the barbarian camp.
What was Fang Heng preparing to do now?
Blow up the Empire’s military supplies?
Mikhael asked in a low tone, “Are you going to blow this place up?”
“Yes, I want the Empire to make a wrong judgment and think that the barbarians are invading the Empire’s supply warehouse.”
“Well, Fang Heng, I don’t know much about alchemy. But according to what you said, even if the explosion is very powerful, the Empire is not stupid. Such a small explosion can’t make them think that it was done by the barbarians, right?”
“You’re right, so we have to add something to them in addition to the explosion.”
“Ah? Add some ingredients?” With a puzzled expression, Mikhael raised his head and asked, “What do you mean?”
“You’ll know soon enough.”
While they were talking, Fang Heng had finished mixing the ores.
He walked over to the ore box that the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce had just delivered.
He flicked his wrist, and the dark Book of the Dead appeared in front of him.
Fang Heng slowly pulled out a white bone spear from the Book of the Dead, which was shining with a dark light.
He held the bone spear in his hand.
“Hu-! Bang!!!”
The bone spear was swung forward heavily, and the wooden box was shattered with a bang. The ore that had hit the box also fell to the ground.
Eh? What was that?
Mikhael was shocked.
Metal plate?
It turned out that there was an inner layer in the box with a metal plate hidden under it.
What else was on the metal plate?
Mikhael stepped forward to take a closer look, frowning.
What kind of monster was that?
A grayish-white monster was nailed to the metal plate by purple nails. Most of the monster’s body was wrapped in tentacles, and the facial features of its head were unclear. He could only vaguely make out that it had the shape of a human.
At first glance, Mikhael thought it was just a specimen.
Eh?
Purple essence?
Mikhael discovered the purple essence that was nailed to the monster’s body. He was about to investigate further when he suddenly thought of something.
What? It was still moving?
It was still alive!
Seeing the slight wriggling of the tentacle, an instinctive discomfort rose in Mikhael’s heart.
He couldn’t help but turn his head to look at Fang Heng, waiting for him to give an answer.
“What’s that?”
“Well, this question is a little difficult to answer.”
Fang Heng shook his head.
The missions related to the underworld were also a mess, giving him a headache.
Fang Heng tried to explain as clearly as possible, “Do you still remember the giant alchemy body we saw when we entered the underground cave? This thing is the ‘energy drive’ hidden inside the alchemy body.”
“It’s been sealed in the giant alchemy body for a long time. The cave-dwelling beasts call it a demon. As for what it is, we’re still investigating.”
“It’s worth mentioning that purple essence was also used to seal the demon. Also, it was a human Saint who sealed the demon in the giant alchemy body.”
“As for the investigation on the Saint, they seem to have disappeared very strangely. I’m preparing to investigate further in this direction.”
“Ah, this…”
Hearing this, Mikhael opened his mouth and suddenly felt a strange feeling.
He felt as if he had caught onto some clues, but there were too many of them, and they were all too jumbled up to be connected.
Mikhael sighed helplessly in his heart.
As expected, he was not suited to participate in such a strange mission. It was much easier to go to the underground world with Wei Tao and fight the barbarians.
