Transmigration: Lady Chi Woos The Ice cold Professor Jun
Chapter 581: Thieves in the night

Chapter 581: Thieves in the night

In the night, at three o’clock, while many inhabitants of the capital slept weaving beautiful dreams and a few nightmares, five long military trucks that were often used for transporting weapons and soldiers transported precious cargo at the moment. The trucks had left the capital base and passed by the storage houses of the ministry of agriculture before setting off.

It was assumed that nobody knew what was in the trucks and they would not be stopped or searched because they had a special permit.

The drivers of the trucks who were soldiers, fully dressed in uniforms kept in constant communication through their radios, which is why word quickly spread when the first truck which was leading others at the front run into an obstacle.

"Captain, there is a dog standing in the middle of the road, how do we proceed?" the soldier driving the fist truck asked through his radio.

The captain, who was leading the mission was in the very last truck which some of the soldiers found abnormal because the leader of a special mission like this one always sat in the front.

"Stay inside the truck, run the dog over if you must." the captain replied.

"Isn’t that too cruel." the driver asked.

"Our mission is more important." the captain answered. "Why would a dog be standing in the middle of the road at this time of the night? And this road was cleared for us...."

The captain was still talking when suddenly something banged against the trucks.

"What is that?" One of the soldiers asked.

"Keep going, ignore everything." The captain said into his radio but he received no answer. "Drive." He commanded them.

However, nobody would keep going because the trucks were assaulted by mask wearing gun men. No single shot had been fired yet but through the front window and side mirror on his side, the captain could make out more than ten opponents. If it came down to a physical fight or gun fight, they were outnumbered. These gun men were dressed like soldiers and they must have known that this isolated road had been cleared out for them to use because why else would someone hijack a military truck.

"Get out of the cars, leave the keys in the ignition and you will not be harmed." A man’s voice announced.

"We are transporting...." the captain started to say.

"Get out or we start shooting your men." The man said.

The captain saw that the five soldiers who had come with him were all standing to the side with their hands raised up in the air because they had guns pointed at them. Not wasting any time, he evacuated the truck and joined them.

"Move." The man ordered the others.

The men sprayed something in the air, tear gas the captain perceived as soon as his eyes started to itch and tear up. And in that moment of pain and distraction, the thieves bordered the trucks and drove away.

"Captain." His men called.

"Alert the base commander." The captain replied. The instructions were given through gritted teeth while he and his men washed their eyes with water from the one bag of emergency supplies one soldier had been clever enough to come down with. But three small bottles between six grown men were barely enough to provide the desperately needed relief.

Enduring the pain, the captain alerted the base and less than a minute later, a military vehicle showed up to pick them up and take them to a hospital.

While he was relieved that he and his men had managed to survive the ordeal by not being shot, he was quite puzzled as to why help had come so soon. Had another team been following them all this while?

In the royal palace, Miles away from where the soldiers had been robbed, the emperor who was still awake received the news of the robbery.

He was with the crown prince whose eyes were heavy and red with sleep and exhaustion. However, he was holding back and yawning secretly so that his father did not notice.

"Muyang was right again," the emperor shook the crown prince and told him. "The trucks have been stolen."

The crown prince stifled another yawn but he stretched his arms. "He is rarely wrong, it’s a good thing then that the trucks are a decoy. At least, now we know who the moles in the palace are."

"You can go to bed," the emperor touched the right hand shoulder of the crown prince and sent him away.

In the morning, while on her way to work, Chi Lian was updated by T4 about the theft of the seeds.

"All three trucks were taken host, to think that all of our effort has been wasted." He combined.

"I don’t think it’s that simple." She answered. "How can such precious seeds be assigned a protection detail of only six soldiers?"

"Maybe they are super soldiers." He replied.

But she would not agree with him because the trucks, in her opinion were a trap.

"I think the goal is to see where the trucks end up. The best way to win is to take down your opponents house and that is easier done when you know where the house is. The problem is, the rebels of this empire have more than one hiding spot or base of operations. But the seeds are a game changer because if they have them, they have the means to make money and promises. It’s possible that they will be delivered directly to the main hiding place. In my opinion, this was a plan which involved the emperor, the real seeds, I am sure are safely hidden somewhere or they were transported out on water or air."

"But if you can see through the trap, does this mean the enemy can do the same?

"Not necessarily," she answered. "Transporting the seeds at night, with a few soldiers on a road which is less traveled makes it seem like this was an important secret mission. The enemy is also operating under the belief that he is still in the shadows while we are out in the open and clueless. They are probably patting themselves on the back right now and celebrating this big victory."

The emperor was not stupid and neither were the people he surrounded himself with. He was weaving a Web right now, one in which many unfortunate people would be caught.