unedited.
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For the first time in years, Lily’s hands trembled when she held the box that was about the size of her 10 inches tablet. She eyed the tomb of her grandmother and grandmother before slightly bowing and saying her thanks to both of them.
“This Granddaughter will come back soon,” she uttered in the most respectful voice that she could muster. Then she held the box closer to her body and looked at Victor. “Let’s go.”
“Young Miss… I think it might not be logical to use the only gate that we have.” The property only had one gate, using this would make the enemy see them as there is also one road that was leading to the gate.
“Do you have any other idea?” Lily and Victor run back towards the mansion. It didn’t take them a few seconds to finally pass the garden and went to the backdoor of the mansion. The two hurriedly walk towards the entrance however, Lily’s face instantly turned grim when she saw the lights that were coming from the gates. Zhou Jingren’s voice echoed on her ears.
“They are already at the gates. One minute.”
She looked at Victor as her heart started beating fast. She would not want to confront both Mr. Neeson and Mr. Kuznetsov right now. “Is there any other way out of this mansion?”
“There is,” Victor said. “But we have to go there on foot.”
“Then good! Daohu… let’s go.” She looked at Victor. “Lead the way.” Of course, she didn’t miss the slight hesitation in Victor’s eyes. However, he didn’t ask any more questions and started leading them towards Lily’s room. This of course surprised Lily. Her room was a huge one thousand two hundred square feet that was located on the second floor. She immediately knew why Victor hesitated earlier.
So there was a hidden way inside her room. For some reason, this didn’t surprise Lily anymore. She followed Victor inside the room and watched him go to the fireplace. After pressing some sort of a secret mechanism near the fireplace, the stone wall next to the fireplace silently shifted, revealing a small pathway that is only enough for one person to pass through.
“This way,” Victor said. He then started touching the walls and after a small click, lightbulbs started appearing in the pathway. Now that Lily could clearly see it, it wasn’t really a pathway but a stair that spiraled downwards. Lily looked at the lights on top of the small space and heaved a sigh of relief. Without saying anything, she followed Victor to the stairs, their footsteps echoed behind them.
The three of them soon reached the end of the stairs. In front of them were three pathways that are small enough for a person to crawl into- in fact it was too small that they looked like holes. Victor gave Lily a wry look. “This one will lead to a secret shop in London.” He pointed at the left hole. The center will lead to another house. And the last one will lead to a cabin a few miles away from here. The nearest one is the store and the farthest one was the cabin. It might take us hours of crawling before we reach the pathway that would make us walk. Young Miss… which one are we going to take?”
“The house. Let’s go to the house.” Lily said. Earlier, Zhou Jingren already disabled all the camera’s in the house. Because of that, Lily was confident that the others didn’t know about the secret door.
When Victor heard Lily’s words, he immediately started crawling towards the center. “Please be careful with the dust.” He uttered as he started coughing. Lilian told him not to bother cleaning these pathways as it was too troublesome and old. It would take him days to finish cleaning just one of the three holes. Because of this, spiderwebs and dust littered the area. The trio didn’t say anything else as they continued to crawl into the space. After a couple of minutes… the space got bigger and wider until it was enough for someone like Daohu to walk without crawling. This time, the pathway was dim. Seeing this, Victor immediately used a flashlight that looked like a small bulb. “This part does not have lights as the solar system supporting the bulbs was broken a few months back. I didn’t have the time to fix it.” He explained, embarrassment laced his tone.
“It’s fine,” Lily answered. Right now, she had no time to think about the lights. Her mind was actually filled with questions and more questions. First, this tunnel was long. How did Lilian manage to hide this from other people? And who the hell made this tunnel? Did they use this in the wars tens of years ago?
The trio continued to walk towards the house that Victor spoke of unaware of the storm that was happening in the mansion.
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Inside the mansion, Mr. Neeson and Mr. Kuznetsov were silent as they waited for their men to search the mansion. Clearly, they receive the right information about Lily. She was here. Meaning… she was here to retrieve the thing that they wanted to have. Because of this, they immediately came here before Lord Naru and his men could. Obtaining that file was very important for the two.
“I thought she was here? This place looks empty!” Mr. Kuznetsov frowned. “Even that butler was not here.”
“There should be some sort of a secret room. They must be hiding inside… somewhere in this room.” Mr. Neeson said as he dialed a number on his phone. “I want you to search the stonewalls and bookshelves in Lilian’s office and room. That woman is pretty clever. It is obvious that she would put some sort of a secret room near her to make her feel secure.” Since he was confident that he knew what type of woman Lilian was, Mr. Neeson immediately gave instructions to check everything inside her room.
