Throne of Radiance

"Haha, boss, this time I caught a fat sheep!"

"Hiss—good guy! There are too many treasures in this collection! It is indeed a scholarly family that has been passed down for a hundred years!"

"This ticket is really a big profit!"

In the quiet collection room, there were ecstatic cries.The two men and two women who were recognized as martial arts masters stood still at the door, and the other accomplices were very self-conscious and rushed into the collection room with an order.

The only woman among them seemed to be of school age, holding a thick book tightly in her arms, walking unhurriedly at the end.

She stood still in the collection room, carefully laying down the book in her arms, revealing the words "Encyclopedia of Antiquities Illustrated Book" on the cover.Xue Hao and the others noticed that the moment she took out the book, other people's eyes were focused on it.

"This is... porcelain from the Yong Dynasty?" The black, long, straight girl who looked like a scholar was looking at the antiques on the nearest shelf while flipping through the catalog in her hand.

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From the perspective of the people by the wall, one can only vaguely see the corner of the exquisite illustration on the page she turned to, which seems to be a porcelain vase?

Before they figured out what the other party was doing, an astonishing scene happened——

The yellow-haired young man next to the girl stepped forward immediately, and moved the porcelain off the shelf with both hands. He put the porcelain on the page of the book spread in the girl's hand with a full face: "I Come on! Give me the first one!"

Just as the bottom of the porcelain was in contact with the page, Huang Mao let go.

!

The girl's slender palm can hold a book, but how can it hold a piece of porcelain that falls directly out of thin air?The few people who didn't know it almost thought that they would hear the sound of porcelain breaking in the next second, but they saw that the moment the porcelain touched the page, it seemed to fall into an invisible black hole and disappeared instantly.

—Which page was it encased in? !

The few people who realized it after a while widened their eyes.

Suddenly, a noun flashed across their minds like lightning.

Strange thing! ! !

The Encyclopedia of Antiquities Illustrated Book is obviously a strange thing.It is also the most practical among them, a strange thing that can store items.

Soon, the black, long and straight girl walked to the next antique, flipping through the illustrated book in her hand while identifying it.The few people watched them do the same, and put one after another antique collection into the "Encyclopedia of Antiquities Illustrated Book".

In the collection room, the voice of the young girl appreciating antiques was constantly echoing, occasionally mixed with the laughter of other people, and the inferior flattery of the followers who praised the young girl and the leaders.

An unknown fire blazed in the hearts of Xue Hao and the others.

Even if they are not the owners of this collection room, seeing these robbers wantonly collecting treasures, chatting and laughing happily as if they were in their own home, the little flames in their hearts are swishing out.

As the half master, An Xiaoxi's mood can be imagined.

Except for some of the antiques and treasures in this collection room inherited from the ancestors, none of the rest is not her grandfather's favorite treasure.She often helped her grandfather clean the collection room, and she used to lie on his lap when she was a child, listening to him tell the stories behind those collections one by one.It can be said that every antique here is devoted to the feelings of their grandparents and grandchildren.How could he bear to watch them being looted wantonly?

Presumably grandpa will be angry when he finds out, right?

But the situation is stronger than people, she can't see how high the martial arts cultivation of these leaders is, only seeing that the Ji brothers and sisters temporarily kept silent and pretended to be dead, and did not rashly resist, she knew that they must be very powerful.

Thinking about her grandfather who was resting upstairs, and the four guests around her who were accidentally implicated, An Xiaoxi chose to remain silent.The hand hanging by her side kept clenching and loosening, and the panic and anger receded in her lowered eyes, turning into a faint thought.

...The strength is not as good as others, so it is natural to pretend to be weak.Even if all the collections are taken away, as long as life is saved, there is still hope for everything lost.

But will these people really keep their promise not to kill them?

Thinking of the "Encyclopedia of Antiquities Illustrated Book", which was obviously a strange thing, these people actually took it out in front of them without any concealment, as if they were not worried about them leaking the news later... An Xiaoxi's heart kept sinking.

...The possibility of keeping the promise is very low.

... On the contrary, it is more likely to kill people and silence them.

They must not sit still.

The more critical some people are, the calmer they are.Determined that she might die, An Xiaoxi calmed down instead.

The repression, worries, and restraints in the past became insignificant in the face of death. Instead, her heart broke free from the shackles, and it was the first time in her life that she danced so fiercely.

In the past so many years, her life has been walking on the track planned by her elders, until now... She has to decide her own destiny.

Thinking has never been so fast. During a short period of contemplation, An Xiaoxi's mind suddenly moved, and she found the key to breaking the situation.

By the way, the detective department!

Before these people broke in, Ji Heng just got through to the acquaintance of the detective department, is he still on the phone?

She calmly grabbed Ji Heng's palm and wrote a few strokes, and she got a slight response from the other's palm.

——The answer is yes.

Therefore, the Detective Department already knew their current situation.The rescuers must be on their way... Is this why Ji Heng and the others didn't resist rashly?

The only variable now is when rescuers arrive.

——The existence of the "Encyclopedia of Antiquities Illustrated Book" has greatly improved the efficiency of these people's search for antiques. I am afraid that the Department of Detective Surprises could not have expected this.Seeing that [-]% of the collection in the collection room had been put into the encyclopedia, and the rescuers hadn't arrived yet... An Xiaoxi had reason to suspect that they were killed before they arrived.

She had to find a way to buy time and make the person on the other end realize that time was far more urgent than they had anticipated.

With her determination made, she no longer hesitated.

The next moment, a trembling female voice sounded in the collection room: "You, who are you?"

The two men and two women blocking the door immediately turned their gazes over.

Seeing that the girl speaking was the most flamboyant and weakest among the five, two of them immediately looked away disinterestedly, while the other two looked at her playfully.

——When they broke in just now, they saw that two of the five people were not low in martial arts, at least much better than the security guards outside, but they didn't have much momentum, obviously they were greenhouses that hadn't seen much blood The flowers are stunned.

But Lengtouqing also has troubles with Lengtouqing. If these two people don't know the heights of heaven and earth, if they insist on fighting with them, it will be easy to make mistakes, and maybe it will bring disaster to the surrounding antique collections.Therefore, from the very beginning, they released a strong internal energy and the bloody aura of killing people, which really calmed people down.

As for the girl who had no cultivation at first glance, they didn't care at all.At this time, seeing her asking such a childish question, among the four of them, the woman with the high ponytail was taken aback for a moment, and then laughed: "Of course it's robbery, little sister. You don't understand the obvious thing, little sister." ?"

She winked as she spoke, and she clearly saw the fear and anger in the girl's eyes that she was trying to hide, and heard her trembling voice that was pretending to be calm: "Are you looking for strange things? These are just ordinary things. I don't have what you're looking for..." As she spoke, the girl glanced at her companions from the corner of her eyes seemingly inadvertently.

The others were taken aback for a moment, and immediately lowered their heads.

"No, no, no, we are not greedy." The woman smiled even more charmingly, and she raised an index finger, "We don't dare to expect extravagant things because we can meet them but not ask for them. Little sister, you sit on the treasure mountain and don't know it. The price has doubled. Sigh, I really envy you, little sister. You were born in the mountains of gold and silver. Unlike us, you have to work hard on your own."

The girl breathed a sigh of relief: "I, you can take all these antiques away, as long as one or two are left behind - they are ancestral objects in our family, and you must never lose them. If you lose them, my grandfather will also take them away." You can’t survive. You can take the rest away, and I promise you will never call the police! Did you just say that as long as you cooperate, you won’t kill us?”

She was referring to what the man in the lead had said before.

"Little sister, you are so cute."

The woman with the high ponytail seemed to be amused by her, and suddenly laughed wildly. She stepped forward slowly, and reached out to touch the girl's head.Feeling the trembling fear in her palms, her tone became more gentle: "Don't worry, even if these stinky men don't keep their promises, sister, I will definitely stop them. We are just asking for money, not some murderous devil , as long as you cooperate, it is not impossible to leave you with two thoughts."

After getting her promise, the girl obviously relaxed a lot, and she even tried to show a smile: "That's good..."

In the next second, the force on her head increased, and the woman's gentle tone suddenly changed: "But the premise is to cooperate well—" The hand on the top of her head came to the girl's jaw in an instant, and she squeezed the girl's jaw, looking straight at the girl. Looking into her eyes, "little sister, you are not good. Tell me, where is the strange object?"

In the end, the woman's tone had become extremely cruel.

The girl whose jaw was pinched opened her eyes wide in horror.

Others couldn't help but exclaimed, "Hello—"

The man in the lead snorted coldly, and a bloody murderous aura swept across the collection room, causing several people with angry faces to turn pale. Ji Heng raised his hand cooperatively: "Don't, don't be impulsive! We don't care about anything!" I don't know, we are innocent!" Others followed suit.

"Yeah, yeah, we didn't know her before. What kind of strange thing, we don't know about it at all!"

"The acting skills are too young, and you still want to deceive us? Who can't find out about your flirting?" Not far away, another man let out a sneer, and he said impatiently, "Say it, you are afraid of being caught Where is the strange thing we found? What are its characteristics?" At the same time as the man spoke, the woman with the high ponytail stretched out her hand and pushed the shivering girl towards the center of the collection room.

The man got up and walked to her, lifted her up like a chicken, stumbled around in front of the remaining antiques in the collection room, and pointed his fingers in the air, "It's this one, this one, this one... ...or this one?"

The girl's eyes changed with the movement of his fingers, although the change was very slight, the man still captured it.

Until the man pointed to one of the four square booths in the collection room, he keenly noticed the girl's pupils constricted suddenly, and the anxious expression that could not be hidden no matter what.

The man suddenly smiled calmly: "So it's this?"

On the square platform, a bronze short sword lay quietly in the crimson velvet.At this time, it seemed to have lost its brilliance, and it was not as sharp as what Xue Hao and the others had seen before.

——Because of this, it is convenient for An Xiaoxi's plan.

——I don’t know if this sword has a tacit understanding with her.

All eyes were on the ancient bronze sword on the square booth, and the man showed a smug smile: "I don't hesitate to make up such a clumsy lie to show that this strange object is among the remaining antiques. If you don't lie Stay, and sooner or later it will be pretended to be taken away with other antiques. But you are not worried about being exposed by us, which means that the characteristics of this strange object are very secret, at least it will not be discovered by us in the first place... In other words, in general Next, it's almost like an ordinary antique..."

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand.

And the girl's voice sounded at the same time, she called softly: "Chengyuan..."

"what--"

The bright sword radiance suddenly lit up in the storage room, stinging everyone's eyes, and the unprepared bandits almost instinctively narrowed their eyes and took a break.

In the sudden burst of sword energy, a man's shrill scream came out.The blood bloomed and splashed in everyone's sight, like fireworks exploding in the night sky, a few bloody fingers flew out mixed with the splashed blood, and hit other people's faces.

But they didn't have time to apologize to their companions who had suffered miserably.At the moment when the sword energy erupted, someone moved!

The two figures jumped out tacitly, and while the bandits were affected by the sudden burst of sword energy, the brother and sister unanimously shot at the woman with the high ponytail who was closest to them.One pokes the eye to attack the face, and the other kicks to attack the lower body. The movements are sophisticated and skilled, and there is a tacit understanding that one plus one is greater than two. It is not as young as they thought, but gives people a sense of proficiency that has experienced many battles.

At least, it was enough to deal with the woman with the high ponytail.

Shi Cheng and Xue Hao took the opportunity to roll a donkey and hide behind the siblings to avoid becoming hostages.

All this happened in a blink of an eye.

When the others came to their senses, they saw the woman with the high ponytail groan, her eyes were bleeding, her dislocated arm was hanging limply by her side, as if she had been subdued.The two brothers and sisters held her shoulders and blocked the other two who rushed towards them. They said in unison: "Stand back, don't come over, we have hostages—"

At the same time, a sword sound sounded.

In the middle of the collection room, the man rolled on the ground clutching his bloody right hand. A bronze dagger brushed his neck and was nailed to the ground. On the hilt was a slender and slender hand.

While pressing her knee against the opponent's lower abdomen, the girl knelt down on one knee and pressed the hilt of the dagger against the man's neck. Her beautiful face was still pale from shock, but her drooping eyes revealed an astonishing pleasure. , like a child who has been confined at home for the first time for a long time, and suddenly discovers a beautiful scenery that the outside world has never seen before, and is shocked from the bottom of his heart.

——The moment she held the sword, she felt as if she could do anything and kill anyone.

...far more delays than initially anticipated.

An Xiaoxi's hand holding the hilt of the sword was shaking.

But not out of fear, but excitement.

"Don't move," she said softly.

"Otherwise, you may die."