Nocturnal

This person who has been hiding behind the scenes is very, very powerful.

Realizing this, Qin Mochi felt the hairs all over his body stand on end.Qing Ning said that he is also a big monster with hundreds of years of cultivation, but he has no idea where this person is hiding.There is no breath, sound, or even the slightest energy fluctuation that will cause alertness.The thought of having such a pair of eyes quietly watching him in the dark, watching him walk into the trap step by step, made Qin Mochi feel horrified.

"This way." Tian Qing obviously also noticed that the whole house has been recruited, and his voice was a little louder, but it obviously thought of something more long-term, and his whole body was shaking gently, "Grandma Although Weng has been telling his family that antiques and heirlooms are kept in the safe of the bank, in fact many things have not been taken out. The old man is worried about the bank, and he is also worried that his things will be seen by irrelevant people. on."

While observing the surrounding environment, Qin Mochi said casually, "Actually, banks are safer."

"That's right," Tian Qing smiled wryly, "If it was collected in the bank, we wouldn't be able to get in so easily."

Qin Mochi followed it, bypassing several teams of patrolling security guards, and walked into the Zhao family's backyard.In the center of the backyard is a circular pond. In the center of the pond stands a rockery, and a winding wooden bridge connects the land and the rockery.There are many wisterias planted around the pond, and the long branches hang down from the shelf by the lake. When the flowers are in bloom, the scenery must be very beautiful.

There was nothing unusual about the whole courtyard except that there was no one there and it was eerily quiet, but Qin Mochi always felt that what he saw in front of him had an indescribably strange feeling.When Tianqing took him up the small bridge, he suddenly realized that there were flowers, plants and trees everywhere, only the rockery was empty, except for some green moss growing near the water surface, the other places were bare .

Tianqing looked back at him, as if to ease the tension in his heart, he said tremblingly again, "Oh, you guessed it, right? There is a small basement under the rockery. This is where the Zhao family lived in the first place. It was there when the house was being repaired, the world was not peaceful at that time, and the family needed such a place to hide some valuables, or when there was any accident, the family members could hide in it.”

Qin Mochi paid attention to the arrangement by the pond, and sure enough, he found a hidden camera under the cornice of the covered bridge by the pond.Qin Mochi guessed that the same monitoring equipment should be spread around the pond.In his heart, he somewhat admired the ancestors of the Zhao family, who built the secret room under everyone's noses, and it was so convenient to defend.

Walking to the end of the small bridge, Tianqing squeezed into a gap between the stacked rocks that only allowed one person to pass through, and waved to Qin Mochi, "This way."

Qin Mochi touched the cold and hard stone in front of him, and asked it suspiciously, "People of the older generation probably like to hide things like this. But don't people from the Zhao family think that the bank is safer?"

Tian Qing shook his head, "I heard from Ah Qing that in fact, all the valuable things at home were put away, and the things that were put here were not of much economic value, but were of symbolic significance to the people of the Zhao family. For example, genealogy, some history about the Zhao family recorded by the ancestors, etc. "

Qin Mochi was puzzled, "Aren't family heirlooms considered valuable?"

"Tell me about that," Tian Qing hesitated, "Although the Zhao family passed on word of mouth, saying that it was a family heirloom of the Zhao family, no one had ever opened it, it was so light and flimsy, and I didn't know what was inside. It was just an inconspicuous wooden box, and the wood was very ordinary. So after a long time, everyone didn't take it seriously, and they all guessed that it contained the earliest family instructions of the Zhao family. "

It said that Qin Mochi understood, but he felt that things were not that simple.If the wooden box is really the Zhao family's family motto, what's the use of the person who kidnapped Tianqing?Do academic research?

Qin Mochi followed it around in the cracks of the rockery, and after a short while, he circled into the center of the rockery, a rock sank, revealing a hole that only allowed one person to pass through, Tianqing walked in first, Qin Mochi turned around, Let the button-type monitoring device fixed on the chest record the surrounding environment, and then followed Xiao Yao into the Zhao family's ancestral air-raid shelter.

Below the entrance of the cave is a staircase that goes down. Given the height of Qin Mochi, one has to bend over to do it.At the end of the stairs was a room about [-] square meters. The damp musty smell that vacant rooms often had floated in the air, but because of the automatic ventilation device, it was still within a barely tolerable range.

Tian Qing fumbled to turn on the light, pointed to the innermost stone platform, "That's it."

More than half the room was piled with boxes, large and small: convenience food, bottled water, blankets, and the like.On the innermost side next to the wall is a stone platform the size of an ordinary coffee table. On one side of the stone platform are several wooden boxes, and on the other side is a single wooden box about one foot square.It hadn't been touched in a while, and a thin layer of dust had accumulated on the lid.He tried to take it, and sure enough, the unremarkable box remained motionless as if it had been welded to the stone platform.

"Can we start?" Tian Qing licked his lips anxiously.

Qin Mochi nodded, "OK."

Dark clouds hung low over the city, and the air was filled with the smell of damp and sticky sea water.

Qu Zhi raised his head, shrugged his nose like a dog, and cursed in a low voice: "Mother, it's going to rain again."

Xia Zhifei huddled under the eaves to adjust the equipment in his hand, without raising his head, he said: "The signal of this thing is not stable when it rains, and you don't know how to give your opinion, Captain, so they can improve it."

"Who said I didn't mention it?" Qu Zhi looked at the detector on his wrist, and the red streaks were seeping into the center of the dial along the direction of Zhao's house.Very light red, it should be the sky-green grass leading the way.In addition, there is no ghostly breath.But his intuition told him that things were not that simple.

Along with the overcast clouds, there is also an invisible coercion from high-ranking monks.

Qu Zhi glanced lightly at Rong Xin who was beside him, he frowned, and was paying attention to the direction of Zhao Zhai.As if he noticed the straight line of sight, he turned his head slightly, his eyes still staying in the direction of Zhao's old house, "Something is wrong."

Qu Zhi casually asked, "What's wrong?"

Rong Xin stretched out a finger and gestured around Zhao Zhai, "Not popular."

Qu Zhi's heart skipped a beat, "What do you mean?"

Rong Xin shook his head, "I'm not familiar with your offensive and defensive methods, I just have an intuition... There is no breath of living people in it."

Beast instinct?Qu Zhi's heart sank, and he motioned for Yu Qing to do the test.

Yu Qing flew her fingers and tapped the keyboard quickly, a flickering arc slowly appeared on the screen.Yu Qing turned the screen to show them, "There should be an enchantment."

Qu Zhi's heart trembled. They completed the deployment before it was dark. From dusk to night, they never left a step for several hours. Who could set up a barrier without anyone noticing under the monitoring of a bunch of professional equipment?

"That makes sense." Rong Xin nodded, "The purpose of this person is just to take things from the Zhao family, and there is no need to kill the entire family." To pass the level smoothly, monks generally don't do this.

Qu Zhi cursed in a low voice, took off his uniform coat and threw it to Yu Qing, took out his mobile phone and straightened his hair on the screen, and went around to the backyard of the house.

"What is he going to do?" Rong Xin asked Yu Qing curiously.

Yu Qing didn't answer, but just pointed in the direction of Zhao Zhai.

Rong Xin didn't know why, but he saw that these people were a little wary of him and wouldn't tell him too much, so he stopped asking.A few minutes later, an electric car came along the end of the street. There was an incubator on the back of the electric car, and the logo of a certain fast food restaurant was painted on the outer shell.

A night shift delivery man.

Rong Xin glanced at him nonchalantly, still paying attention to the direction of Zhao Zhai's side door, and realized after a few seconds that it was Captain Qu in disguise.He saw the food delivery truck turning back and forth on the side street. There was no obstacle in front of him, but he seemed to be unable to see the road clearly, and almost hit the wall.After going around for a while, the food delivery man pushed the food delivery car cursingly and drove away along the side street where he came.

Rong Xin understood.

"What should we do now?"

Yu Qing thought for a while, "Humans can't get in, maybe monsters can."

Rong Xin understood, "Need me to try?"

"No," Yu Qing said, "What I mean is, don't startle the snake. I don't know where it's going. Maybe Xiao Qin can pass on the news."

The Qinmochi brand battery delivered energy to Tianqingcao, and he was so tired that he almost collapsed.Tianqing's cultivation base is low, and at this moment, he forcibly absorbed energy that exceeded its capacity, his face turned white and green, and he almost couldn't hold back his human form.

With trembling fingers, Tian Qing went to take the wooden box on the stone platform, the moment her fingers touched the wooden box, it seemed as if an electric current rushed through the place where the fingertips touched.Tian Qing trembled, raised her head to look around in panic, and then tentatively reached out to grab it.This time there was no abnormality, and it picked up the box smoothly.

The box was very light, and as soon as Tian Qing's fingers touched it, the tightly locked buckle popped open with a "da", revealing the black velvet inside and a small golden lock lying in the center of the velvet.

A stream of air whirled silently in the stone chamber.

Qin Mochi felt uneasy, and the crossbow in his palm seemed to be stimulated, appearing and disappearing between his fingers.

Tian Qing looked at the thing in his hand in surprise, "This is... a lock?"

The corner where they were standing was against the light, and Qin Mochi could only see the outline of the object, which was no bigger than his palm. Its color was an old copper color, and the corners and corners had already turned rust green, facing the light. One side glowed with a cold and hard light unique to metal texture.

Qin Mochi could feel the extremely powerful power contained in this small lock, and this inexplicable power seemed to echo with the crossbow in his palm, making his entire palm gradually heat up.

Not quite right.

Qin Mochi took two steps back, wanting to stay away from that thing.He could feel the crossbow in his palm start to tremble slightly, and there was a faint sway that wanted to break out of his body.

Tian Qingcao reached out to touch the copper lock curiously.

"Don't!" Qin Mochi yelled, "Don't touch it!"

He didn't know where this intuition came from, but he clearly felt the sudden energy fluctuations in the air, and Tian Qingcao's cultivation base couldn't resist such a strong energy impact.

However, Tian Qingcao's fingers had already touched the lock.

An extremely strong spark exploded in front of their eyes, Qin Mochi closed his eyes subconsciously, the phantom of the spark stayed on his retina for a long time, causing a dazzling light cluster to bloom in his mind.

Tianqingcao let out a weak scream.It seemed to be firmly absorbed by the copper lock, and the true energy in the whole body began to leak out of control. In the blink of an eye, the sky green grass turned into a vague phantom, and quickly dissipated in mid-air.

A three-inch-high green grass slowly fell to the ground, the grass blade trembled slightly, a drop of crystal dew splashed up, fell again, and quickly penetrated into the dust on the ground.

The brass lock twisted a bit, and there was a light "da" sound where the locks met, and it quickly bounced off, spinning in mid-air and slowly expanding, turning into the shape of an axe.

The crossbow in his palm trembled slightly, as if excited by the sudden appearance of the axe.Qin Mochi transported the true essence and pressed it hard.He didn't know what this ax was, but the huge energy vortex it caused had an extremely strong attraction to the crossbow in his hand.The true energy in his inner mansion had just been transferred to Tianqingcao, and now he could hardly hold back the excited crossbow that was about to fly out.

The copper ax seemed to sense it, and the speed of its rotation slowed down in mid-air, but the energy vortex it rolled up became bigger and bigger, gradually engulfing the entire stone chamber.

The crossbow in the palm rushed out in response to the swirling energy, and happily flew towards the axe.

Qin Mochi was hit by the backlash energy, and his eyes turned black.The body was also dragged uncontrollably by the rotating energy vortex.

In the void, a big hand reached in and held the ax in his hand.The crossbow in the palm lost its target, turned twice in mid-air, and rushed back into Qin Mochi's body.

A man's voice murmured to himself in surprise, "Tianji crossbow?!"