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Chapter 397 - 366 Intelligence

Chapter 397: Chapter 366 Intelligence

Zhang Fulu and Sikong Lan quickly stepped forward. Behind them, the collapsed and damaged stone chamber was slowly restoring at a pace visible to the naked eye.

The cave was made of dark red stone, with a massive pile of Luminous Pearls at the bottom. The only small path inclined at about forty degrees upwards, with lamp stands holding Luminous Pearls installed at intervals.

The stone steps of the path were roughly cut, faint traces of footprints visible, along with some whitish marks after the drying of some kind of mucus.

From the perspective of Information Integration Glasses, the formation time of these marks was concentrated in the past hundred years, some of the oldest even tracing back to... two thousand years ago.

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Noises, running, and copper gong sounds.

The guests residing in the West Wing were awakened, pushing open their doors, only to see the Tu Family’s servants pushing a fire truck, carrying water guns and buckets, hurriedly running towards the east.

Su Konghu, wearing pajamas, stopped a steward and asked in confusion, "What happened?"

"Probably the wind was strong at night, knocked over a lantern, and set the east warehouse on fire."

The steward’s face did not show much panic, he said loudly, "There is a pond in the mansion, and a fire truck, the fire will be extinguished quickly, guests need not worry, please go back to rest."

The Tu Family’s firefighting equipment was well-equipped. As they spoke, the firelight in the eastern warehouse quickly dimmed, leaving only billowing black smoke rising.

The guests awakened saw this and no longer doubted, returning inside.

"Li Cheng" closed the door, his body writhing, changing back to the appearance of Gray Rain, taking a deep breath, and forcefully suppressing the burning desire for slaughter in his eyes.

Noticing the grim expression on the main body’s face, the previously separated small Gray Rain clone reminded, "Do not be angry, anger will lower your wisdom."

The world-setting of this place is in the late Ming Dynasty, but the backwardness and ignorance are merely superficial. From the innate Space Ability of Divine Shedding alone, one can see the depth here.

"I know."

Gray Rain combed through her hair, picking out a type-c data cable serving as a hairband, and retrieved a tablet from the cabinet, connecting the data cable.

Small Gray Rain frowned, "What are you going to do?"

"Modify parameters."

Gray Rain’s hands flew over the tablet keyboard, a blue background with white text BOIS interface appeared.

As a Liquid Metal Robot, Gray Rain’s technological advancement far exceeded the scope of what human civilization of the real world could achieve.

Just her ability to convert fried chicken and cola in her stomach into electricity with a conversion efficiency of up to 98% would be enough for research teams to produce hundreds or thousands of papers.

In fact, Li Cheng did not understand what Nano Intelligence was all about, but not understanding did not mean he could not use the Assembled Puppet·Modified to prepare in advance.

Open BOIS, increase voltage, raise overall CPU frequency, disable the "Brain Playback Anime" program, clear "Network Bad Stalk" cache data, locally deploy "Deep Thinking" AI model...

As Gray Rain operated step by step, the fan under her clothes spun at high speed, vigorously swaying, and the light in her eyes grew brighter and brighter until...

Smart optimization, complete.

Gray Rain silently disconnected the type-c data cable, the apathy and laziness in her eyes completely receded, replaced by deep astuteness.

She turned her head towards the clone, "Is that scale set properly?"

"Hidden well, in the northeast direction of the island."

Small Gray Rain raised the remote control of the drone to display the screen.

Previously, Li Cheng and the other two were sucked into the Divine Shedding Scale. Gray Rain, according to Li Cheng’s instructions, did not begin a killing spree but instead used the drone to lift the scale away, hiding it in a dense forest far from the Tu Family mansion.

On the one hand, Gray Rain, who was not a player, did not have many techniques on hand, especially spatial abilities to activate the scale.

On the other hand, it was also to prevent the Tu Family from tracking the scale through scent or other means.

"Adjust the position, place the scale at the treetop, and set the drone to semi-hibernation mode. If it detects a heat signal, it will send out a warning message."

Gray Rain made the deployment while recalling the scene seen in the warehouse.

She extracted the height, build, walking posture, and voice information of the other two figures in night clothes and analyzed and compared them one by one with the guests seen during the day.

Found them.

Sikong Lan, Jinyi Guard, Postnatal peak. Resides in Room Six on the first floor of the West Wing.

Zhang Fulu of Dragon Tiger Mountain, Innate Martial Artist. Room Eleven on the second floor of the West Wing.

Among them, Sikong Lan and several other Jinyi Guards lived together, while Zhang Fulu stayed in a single room.

Gray Rain pulled off two clumps of Liquid Metal from her arm, molding them into two small palm-sized clones, and took two button-sized, camera-equipped eavesdropping devices from the cabinet.

The small clones understood the intention, climbed out the window, and amid the chaos and uproar of the mansion, placed the eavesdropping devices above the outer window of the room where Jinyi Guards were located and in the beam joint of Zhang Fulu’s room.

Then returned to the second floor, merging back into Gray Rain.

"The Tu Family may not know who stole the scale, but the disappearance of people cannot be faked. By tomorrow’s birthday banquet at the latest, they will know who is missing."

Gray Rain squinted her eyes, calmly analyzing, slowly putting on headphones, to listen to the movement in the Jinyi Guard’s room.

"Thousand Households, Sikong Lan has not yet returned. Could something have happened?"

"Thousand Households, during the fire outside, I will go to save him!"

This group of Jinyi Guards were acquainted from childhood and grew up together, their relationships akin to siblings. Sikong Lan’s prolonged absence indicated something had happened.

"... Everyone sit down."

Vice Thousand Households Lu Hu’s face was as dark as water, he waved his hand to calm his restless subordinates, "Sikong Lan is carrying a Jinyi Guard Token. Even if caught, he can claim to be driven by greed, momentarily confused, wanting to steal treasures from the warehouse.

Considering the token, the Tu Family might not do much to him, most likely returning him to us for self-disposal.

If you rush to rescue him now, it will only alert the enemy.

Moreover..."

"Moreover what?"

"There are also our people within the Tu Family. They will help cover for Sikong Lan."

Lu Hu said in a deep voice, "Do not forget this mission. The Emperor wants us to thoroughly investigate the rumors about the Luoyue Kingdom related to the Tu Family."

"..."

Upon hearing this, all the Jinyi Guards fell silent. For them, who had been raised with loyalty and patriotism, there was only Emperor Yong’an as the sun in their hearts.

Compared to the Emperor’s orders, everyone’s lives were secondary.