Imperial Treasure

Chapter 692 - 437: The Woman in the Basement

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The person they’ve been desperately searching for has always been right here... just at a different vertical height.

Sui Yi calmly pocketed his phone after a quick glance and lightly swept his gaze over Yue Beiqing and Xiao Yu.

Were these two suspect?

Moreover, if the enemy’s nest was underneath this villa, then they surely possessed sophisticated surveillance countermeasures... at least capable of evading the monitoring teams under his command.

In fact, while such devices publicly did not exist on the international market, they were indeed available within the armies of developed nations and could also be purchased on the international black market, albeit at astronomically high prices. The most tragic part was that terrorist organizations could effortlessly spend hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars on equipment – after all, they could simply recoup the costs by kidnapping a few wealthy businessmen and creating some incidents...

But official organizations like theirs couldn’t do that.

It wasn’t because the officials were too stingy or the nation’s economy couldn’t keep up, but because... there were no channels!

Indeed, in such black markets, these devices were heavily regulated, and the powers or nations that owned these devices certainly didn’t want others to have them. The wary stance toward their own nation, rich in money and people, had become something of an international unspoken rule. Hence, even in the black market, it was very difficult for both official and private Chinese parties to acquire such equipment...

This was where Yi Chilian’s department suffered internally.

And now, it was clear that the enemy had exploited this very weakness of theirs.

-- To think they built their lair right beneath the villa.

It was a slap in the face, and quite a powerful one at that!

No wonder... Yi Chilian remembered feeling something unnatural when he previously reviewed the surveillance screens and data. It was as if... there was interference, or something superimposed upon them.

Damn it, they were already under enemy surveillance at that time!

Having realized this, Yi Chilian first felt a surge of anger, then composed himself, and actually became more calm and collected... His gaze unconsciously drifted to a certain place.

It seemed Zheng Yu wanted to escape but was silenced instead.

That bathroom, huh.

It appeared that The Organization had decided on this villa district as the battleground... and it was that person who brought it up.

No wonder... they had been trapped from the start.

But the bathroom entrance? That’s a bit... bold in taste. Sui Yi wouldn’t really escape through the sewage pipes, would he!~~

The thought of the divinely handsome and cool Sui Yi crawling through the underground sewage pipes of the toilet...

Oh shit!

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Ten minutes earlier, Sui Yi had checked the pipes below the toilet’s floor tiles using Magnetic Sensation before returning to her room. To others, it seemed she had never left, but once she entered the room, she removed her watch. This watch, initially issued by Yue Beiqing and his team, was a location tracker.

In truth, it was a free tracker provided by the enemies... ’satellite monitoring’ was based on this medium...

Taking off the watch and placing it in the desk drawer created the false illusion on the surveillance that she had never left.

Then she left the villa silently with Demon Que.

Don’t ask how she escaped—no one in that villa could track her by manpower.

Three minutes later, Sui Yi emerged outside villa No. 35, in an abandoned orchard. She looked at a well about two kilometers away from villa No. 1. Considering the security within the villa district, the well’s opening had been sealed and locked... Sui Yi’s mouth twisted slightly, Demon Que sliced, and the lock was broken!

As she opened the cover, Sui Yi indeed saw a ladder already prepared below. Would a normal well be like this?

Just as Sui Yi was about to descend, she suddenly heard sounds from below...

It sounded like... gunshots?

And fifteen minutes before that.

Clang, the prisoners inside the cells all heard the metallic noise growing louder outside... the footsteps were not light.

Pu Qinghan and Su Zimu had already explained everything they could, and now they were undoubtedly waiting for death. For them, these clanging noises were akin to the call of the Grim Reaper...

Having smoothly finished a stack of biscuits, Ming Lan felt her mouth dry out, and after estimating the footsteps she had heard earlier... it seemed like there were far fewer people now...

So she asked the guard outside for water. The attitude from above determined the behavior below, so the guards did not dare to mistreat Ming Lan. Thus, one of them opened the door and handed her the water...

Alright, if it was a man being guarded, he would have thrown the water instead of politely handing it over...

Ming Lan extended her lovely hand to take the water... With a flick of her wrist and a needle concealed up her sleeve, she stabbed it directly into the man’s neck, her hand covering his mouth.

One breath?

Two breaths, and he fell to the ground, dying silently and without a struggle.