Chapter 170 Getting the Booty Out

"Now, we have to successfully get these treasures out." Xu Jingming felt the mental strength, like a dark tide, enveloping a large area around him, and understood that after being targeted by the world, it would not be easy to take away the treasures.

"Hide it well." Xu Jingming handed the piece of Ziyun (Purple Cloud) Treasure Jade to an eighth-order Starry Sky lifeform beside him, then he picked up a package, while Liu Hai and Tu Ling each grabbed a package.

The distribution of the packages was also regulated.

Xu Jingming's package contained gold, and silver notes with hidden characters, which were worth much more! Liu Hai and Tu Ling's packages contained a lot of silver, jewelry, and so on.

Seemingly the three packages were of similar size, but the one in Xu Jingming's hand was worth more than the other two combined.

"Please, everyone, abide by the rules, do not move. Anyone who dares to move a step, will die!" Xu Jingming instructed, "Team One, withdraw!"

"Go!"

Xu Jingming, Liu Hai, Tu Ling, and three eighth-order Starry Sky lifeforms, along with 60 first-rate experts, all evacuated! As for the 100 second-rate experts, they remained in Yicui (Relying on Emerald) House, each glaring at their surroundings.

All the guests, including the famous courtesans and beauties of Yicui House, and the guards, did not dare to move.

The corpse of the Third Young Master of the Duke's Mansion was right there, and they all knew very well... a single move could cost them their lives!

...

Outside Yicui House.

"Some thieves have escaped, but most of them are still inside Yicui House!" Dozens of Blood Rain Guards and more than a hundred auxiliary guards who had arrived had sharp eyes. Through the windows and other gaps, they could see figures fleeing into the darkness in the distance, and also many thieves still guarding.

But the Blood Rain Guards and auxiliary guards stayed where they were.

Chase? That would be courting death!

Didn't they see that even the guards of Yicui House weren't chasing?

Outside Yicui House, there was also a gaunt old monk holding a wooden staff. His vast mental strength covered a distance of five or six *li* (approximately 2.5-3 kilometers), clearly discovering that the fleeing thieves had split into four teams.

One team was the eighth-order Starry Sky lifeform holding the Ziyun (Purple Cloud) Treasure Jade, escaping alone.

One team was Xu Jingming, along with an eighth-order Starry Sky lifeform and thirty first-rate experts, fleeing together.

One team was Liu Hai, along with an eighth-order Starry Sky lifeform and fifteen first-rate experts, fleeing.

The last team was Tu Ling and fifteen first-rate experts.

"The team with the most people, carrying packages containing silver notes and gold, has the highest value, but is also the most difficult to obtain." The gaunt old monk instantly made his judgment. If he led thirty first-rate experts to besiege that eighth-order Starry Sky lifeform... he would also be in danger of dying.

He couldn't do what Dean Ming of the Martial Arts Academy could do, ignoring first-rate experts.

He couldn't snatch that most valuable package with his strength alone.

"The Ziyun (Purple Cloud) Treasure Jade is of extraordinary significance to the Duke of the State Residence." The gaunt old monk took a step and chased after the eighth-order Starry Sky lifeform acting alone, "This fellow daoist, if he can join my Red Lotus lineage, what harm is there in giving him the Ziyun (Purple Cloud) Treasure Jade?"

...

"Whew!"

Xu Jingming's team of thirty-odd people all turned into afterimages, moving at extremely high speeds, reaching about fifty meters per second, and quickly running several *li* (approximately 1.5-2 kilometers) away.

"I can't feel the mental strength of that mysterious expert anymore." The eighth-order Starry Sky lifeform behind him said, "He didn't chase after us."

Xu Jingming nodded.

Even if he did chase after them, a group of powerful subordinates would be enough to intercept him, and he could escape far away!

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

This team continued to move forward at a rapid pace.

Along the way, they encountered several Blood Rain Guards who had come to provide support. Some Blood Rain Guards pretended not to see them, but others wanted to stop them! The Blood Rain Guards who wanted to stop them... naturally lost their lives in an instant.

In just a moment, they had run more than ten *li* (approximately 5 kilometers), away from Yicui House! They arrived in a quiet alley.

"Everyone can log off now." Xu Jingming said with a smile, but wearing a human skin mask, the smile looked a little awkward.

This group of experts nodded, and then disappeared, logging off on the spot.

As long as no natives saw them, they could log off! This was the rule of the Blood Rain World.

"Swish."

Xu Jingming, carrying the package on his back, quickly darted through the streets, and soon arrived at an ordinary residence a few hundred meters away. This was a residence that Pang Ze and the gang had personally rented, located in the area where the South City and East City met, barely considered the South City.

Entering the residence, Xu Jingming familiarly entered the house. With the help of the starlight shining through the window, Xu Jingming opened the package and began to carefully check it.

"This package of mine is the biggest gain this time." Xu Jingming began to make an inventory. Stacks of gold leaves, some gold bars, and silver notes with hidden characters, "The silver notes with hidden characters total 22,300 taels of silver, which is 2,230 gold!"

Xu Jingming took out a scale that he had prepared earlier and began to weigh the total amount of gold.

"The gold totals 39 *jin* 6 *liang* (approximately 23.7 kg), which is 3,960 gold!" Xu Jingming smiled, "It seems that when going to Yicui House, more people carry gold than silver notes."

This was also the case.

When carrying a small amount, a few gold leaves were sufficient.

Even if the gold was twisted and deformed, it would not affect its value! Silver notes with hidden characters were, after all, paper. Once they were damaged, the money would be gone. Therefore, only some big figures carried larger amounts, feeling that gold was heavy and uncomfortable to hold in their arms, while silver notes were lighter.

******

"Withdraw."

As the remaining 100 second-rate experts dispersed and withdrew, they all disappeared in just a few breaths of time.

The escape of these second-rate experts was obviously somewhat chaotic. Some drilled into the underground secret passage of Yicui House, some fled to different areas around Yicui House, some ran towards the roof... but the vast majority disappeared without a trace.

Only a very few who were surrounded were willing to commit suicide rather than be captured alive.

"What's going on, what exactly is going on?"

Outside Yicui House, a man in a golden robe appeared, and he looked in disbelief at the nearly two hundred corpses that lay there.

"Lord Yu, more than a hundred thieves suddenly attacked and occupied Yicui House, looting all the money in Yicui House, including the money of the guests!" A woman from Yicui House stepped forward anxiously and said, "We lost 192 guards."

"What about the guests?" The man in the golden robe asked anxiously.

"These thieves only seek money, not to kill people." The woman said, "Our beauties in Yicui House are all fine, and most of the guests are also fine. Only one person lost their life."

"One person?" The man in the golden robe asked, "Who?"

"The Third Young Master of the Duke's Mansion, Cheng She!" The woman was also somewhat apprehensive, "The Third Young Master wanted to protect his Ziyun (Purple Cloud) Treasure Jade, but the thieves were too lazy to say more and directly killed him with a single blow."

"What? Ziyun (Purple Cloud) Treasure Jade? Third Young Master Cheng She?" The man in the golden robe felt his head was about to explode, "Something happened in our Yicui House, how can the Duke's Mansion let this go?"

The woman's expression was also helpless.

That Third Young Master was really too stubborn!

"Investigate, we must investigate the identities of this group of murderers, and we must give the Duke's Mansion an explanation. Otherwise, it will be difficult for us to do business in the Imperial Capital." The man in the golden robe was extremely anxious.

"Lord Yu, the Duke's Mansion also has to give us Prince Yan's Mansion some face." The woman said in a low voice.

"What do you know!" The man in the golden robe reprimanded.

Prince Yan had great ambitions and naturally had to win over some powerful forces in the empire, and the Duke's Mansion was one of the powerful forces that Prince Yan intended to win over.

Moreover, in the Imperial Capital, the power of the Duke's Mansion was even stronger than that of Prince Yan's Mansion. The main power of Prince Yan's Mansion was in the Northern Territory!

...

"Immediately alert me if anyone enters this residence." Xu Jingming gave the order to his AI, and then disengaged his consciousness from the Blood Rain World, letting the AI hang up! Apart from actual combat, the AI hanging up was not much worse than Xu Jingming himself in other aspects.

Xu Jingming's consciousness quickly went to Pang Ze's personal space.

"You're here." Pang Ze, Liu Hai, and Tu Ling were all there.

"I'm safe for now." Xu Jingming said.

"So are we." Liu Hai and Tu Ling both nodded.

Pang Ze nodded slightly, "The Ziyun (Purple Cloud) Treasure Jade was smashed into powder. An old monk caught up with the eighth-order Starry Sky lifeform we hired. The old monk intended to win him over, wanting to invite the eighth-order expert to join the Red Lotus Sect. After realizing he couldn't win, the expert we hired chose to commit suicide, and also destroyed the Ziyun (Purple Cloud) Treasure Jade!"

"Haha..." Liu Hai laughed, "I guess that old monk was also very confused, how could such a great expert commit suicide so easily."

"We'll pay the revival fee for the deceased expert." Pang Ze said, "The key now is... we must protect the three packages! The danger hasn't gone away, the Blood Rain World won't easily let us have this huge fortune."

The three of Xu Jingming nodded.

Players had their advantages, but also their disadvantages... which was being targeted by the world.

"You've all made an inventory of all the treasures, right? Give me the recorded videos." Pang Ze said, "I'll find a buyer now, we must sell them as soon as possible."

"Mm."

Xu Jingming also gave Pang Ze the video he had recorded, including the entire process of weighing the gold.

Liu Hai and Tu Ling did the same.

"Tonight is the most dangerous. You guys quickly go to the Blood Rain World and guard them. I'll go find a buyer." Pang Ze said.

"Okay." Xu Jingming, Liu Hai, and Tu Ling also felt the pressure, after all, they had so much gold and silver in their hands.

******

Xu Jingming took off his clothes, lay down in the room, but his eyes were looking out the window, waiting for time to pass by minute by minute.

In the latter half of the night.

The surroundings suddenly became noisy, and many footsteps could be heard.

"Search."

"A team of thieves is in the surrounding area, search carefully." There was an angry shout.

Under the secret prompting of Prince Yan's Mansion and the Duke's Mansion, and with so many dignitaries being robbed, the Blood Rain Guards were also very diligent! They were tracking down all the traces of the thieves' escape, wanting to catch them.

"Bang, bang, bang." A knock sounded on the door of Xu Jingming's residence.

Xu Jingming put on his coat, walked out with a long spear in hand, and directly opened the courtyard door.

Outside the door were two Blood Rain Guards, with several auxiliary guards behind them, staring at Xu Jingming intently.

"Have you seen any thieves?" They said as they walked inside.

Xu Jingming directly took out his token from his waist.

"Jingming, from the Southern Prefecture's Criminal Investigation Department?" The two Blood Rain Guards were slightly stunned when they saw it.

"So you're one of our own." The two nodded.

"What's with all the commotion in the middle of the night?" Xu Jingming asked. This residence was barely within the South City! Xu Jingming had led people to run more than ten *li* (approximately 5 kilometers) to reach the South City.

"Yicui House in the East City was robbed by a group of thieves. The thieves were too fierce, killing many people in Yicui House." One of the Blood Rain Guards sighed, "Master Shen's Second Master, Prince Qi's Mansion, the Chang family... many big figures were robbed! I heard that the Third Young Master of the Duke's Mansion was killed! It's a huge mess! We have to investigate in the middle of the night."

They also looked inside the residence.

It was an ordinary residence, not big!

"We'll just take a quick look." One of the Blood Rain Guards walked a few steps inside, pushed open a door and glanced around, then withdrew, "We're just doing our duty, don't take offense, brother."

"It's understandable." Xu Jingming nodded.

"Let's go."

The two Blood Rain Guards immediately led the auxiliary guards away. The auxiliary guards didn't dare to investigate at all!

Xu Jingming looked into the distance and found that the Blood Rain Guards were conducting a carpet search, entering each and every residence to investigate!

"Searching so thoroughly?" Xu Jingming frowned slightly, "Master and Tu Ling might be in danger."

His residence was in the South City.

He himself was a Blood Rain Guard from the Southern Prefecture's Criminal Investigation Department! So those Blood Rain Guards had to give him face and simply investigate. But what about Liu Hai and Tu Ling?

"Creak." Xu Jingming closed the courtyard door, returned to the room and lay down, glancing at the cabinet.

Under the cabinet, beneath the floor tiles, was hidden a small wooden box containing gold and silver notes.

If others wanted to find it, they would first have to move the heavy cabinet, and then dig three feet into the ground! Without a certain amount of suspicion, they wouldn't do that.

"It's just a few tens of thousands of taels of silver, is it necessary to target us so much?" Xu Jingming thought to himself.

...

Xu Jingming didn't sleep all night. His place wasn't searched again, after all, the Blood Rain Guards' search power was also limited.

Day broke!

The entire Imperial Capital also became lively, and countless people came out to start a new day of work.

"Jingming." Pang Ze also came to Xu Jingming's residence, "I'll bring a guest over this morning, and then give him the gold and silver notes!"

"Sold?" Xu Jingming was pleasantly surprised.

"There are many cosmic citizens buying gold and silver from the Blood Rain World. The gold and silver here have always been in short supply!" Pang Ze explained, "As long as you acquire '10,000 gold', you can directly make a sacrifice. Relying on yourself to earn it slowly? The difficulty is still too high."

"Yes, we only got so many points this time, and we've already attracted so much trouble." Xu Jingming said.

"This trouble isn't too big." Pang Ze laughed, "Because it's the first time we've looted, and the amount isn't large, so the targeting is relatively light! If it were a 'high-intensity' world targeting, that would be a nightmare. You wouldn't even be able to stay in this world."

Xu Jingming nodded slightly.

"This time it's okay. Thanks to the influence of your identity, your package was protected. Coach Liu Hai is a shrewd old fox. Although the Blood Rain Guards searched his area carefully, he still managed to protect it. Tu Ling's package wasn't protected." Pang Ze said, he was still quite satisfied with the result.

The Ziyun (Purple Cloud) Treasure Jade was shattered, and one package was lost.

But the other two packages were protected!

That was already very good.

"It's almost time, I'll go pick up the person." Pang Ze guessed and walked out.

After a moment.

Pang Ze brought two people over.

One of the two was an amiable old man. Seeing him made one instinctively 'forget' him, his presence was very weak. The other was a young man, curiously looking around.

"With the supervision of the Myriad Realms Group, you don't have to worry about the safety of the transaction." The old man said with a smile. Xu Jingming had already changed his clothes and put on a human skin mask. He nodded stiffly and said, "Follow me."

He led the people into the house.

With a strong effort, he moved the wooden cabinet. After moving the cabinet away, he carefully picked up the bricks one by one, revealing the layer of soil underneath. Xu Jingming inserted his hands into the soil layer and directly grabbed a box out.

Opening the box, it was filled with gold and silver notes.

The old man placed the gold from the box on the ground, then took off his coat and removed a thick belt from his waist. The belt contained gold blocks, a full thirty gold blocks, each one heavy: "There are a total of 60 *jin* (approximately 36 kg) of gold here, which is 6,000 gold! Adding the 3,960 gold here, and some gold leaves I have, it's just enough to make up 10,000 gold!"

The old man looked at the young man, "Lord Funa, you can make the sacrifice now."

"I've long heard that the 'sacrifice' in the Blood Rain World is very special. But my parents forced me to reach the seventh-order Starry Sky lifeform before they would allow me to try the sacrifice." The young man sighed, and then began to make the sacrifice.

The young man's whole body bloomed with light, and the light also enveloped the gold.

Xu Jingming watched this scene curiously. Was this the sacrifice?

Whoosh!

The young man and the gold disappeared into thin air.

"Sacrifice 10,000 gold to go to a mysterious place?" Xu Jingming understood that the young man had probably already arrived at the mysterious place. That was also the goal he had come to the Blood Rain World for, but he was still far from this goal.