Mechanical Alchemist

Chapter 118 The Lost Manuscript

"Boss, the convoy escorted by the Cross Society has already entered the city. It should arrive at the 'White Sail Warehouse' in ten minutes."

"Has the list of escorts been confirmed?"

"It has been confirmed that there are a total of twelve people in three vehicles. They are all old Crusaders recorded on the list, and there are no suspicious persons. The team leader is "Blade" Kai, and the others. A man named Su Lun is also marked on the list. , marksmanship is not bad. "

"Well, it's just a shooter, no matter how strong it is, it's still at the first level, so there's nothing to worry about. Follow the plan. Once it's confirmed that the item is in the cargo, immediately clean up everyone who has touched it."

"yes!"

"Oh, that's right. Go and get in touch with that one called 'Kayi'. Let's check it out for a peripheral organization first. If the ability is still good, then absorb it."

"yes."

The convoy escorted by the Crusaders slowly entered the inner city from "Gate No. 5".

After entering the city wall, it is like entering a steel forest. This is a very three-dimensional city. There are many super high buildings of three to five hundred meters, like towering trees, forming the main body of the city. Relying on these ultra-tall buildings as the skeleton, various steel-frame overpasses, suspended intercity train tracks, and high-altitude pedestrian streets are densely built. The suspended steel frame layer is like a thousand-layer cake.

These overhead buildings connect the buildings into one piece, and roughly divide the whole city into upper, middle and lower floors.

The layering of the eye-catching architectural style is obvious.

Most of the short buildings look very slender, with exposed brick walls, large stones, towering spires with obvious Gothic style, pointed arches, and large windows with stained glass. It looks like a building a thousand years ago. Style; the steel frame structure, thick pipes, steam boilers in the middle layer, and the rough industrial style of steampunk; and the further up, it is the future technology style of the cyber world, and the sky garden

The designers of the city increased the number of residents that the inner city could accommodate several times within the limited space.

Su Lun's reaping memory has some vague impressions, and he also knows that there are different levels of people in the inner city.

The higher you live, the more prestigious your status.

The ground floor is also the civilian area of ​​the inner city.

The convoy of the Crusaders was driving on the ground, and the intercity train roared overhead like a light rail. Beside the street, there is a flower bed with gorgeous small flowers, and no matter old, young or old, they all wear well-fitting and gorgeous clothes.

"Wow, so many cars! Are these guys in the inner city so rich? Everyone seems to be able to afford a fancy car."

Kay had never been in the inner city before, he looked at this completely different scene from the outer city, and sighed with emotion.

Each of these cars has shiny paint and smooth lines, which are not comparable to the old cars made of scrap parts in the outer city.

Seeing the cars on the road, Kai suddenly felt that those "cool and hotly modified motorcycles" in the gang looked like naughty children covered in mud in front of these cars.

Su Lun rested his chin on his hand, leaned against the car window, looked at the bustling street, but his eyes were a little wandering.

He obviously transported the goods to the inner city, and it stands to reason that he would never encounter robbers again, but he always felt that something was wrong.

The destination of the cargo escort was the "White Sail Warehouse", which was an inconspicuous warehouse on the riverside at the bottom of the No. 5 urban area, with a glass roof like a white sail.

There's a lot of space, and the truck drives right into the warehouse.

Kai greeted Su Lun to get off the car, "Hey, brother, we are here. Once the goods are delivered, the mission is completed."

Su Lun nodded, but did not get out of the car in a hurry.

He deliberately looked at the people who received the goods in the warehouse. There were seven people in total. They were employees of the Chamber of Commerce under Mrs. Fino, and they seemed to be fine.

Then he looked at the layout of the warehouse. It's spacious, about the size of a football field. But apart from a few cars, there is nowhere to hide. Only a few thick painted iron columns support the glass roof above.

At this moment, Su Lun instinctively thought of a feasible escape route if he encountered danger.

Kai had already walked down and greeted the handover person.

Then go to the compartment and open the coded door, and the helpers start to unload the goods one by one according to the list.

Su Lun observed this and found nothing unusual, so he also got out of the car.

"Butler Jackson, here is the list of goods. We have ordered it once before we set off, and there is absolutely no problem."

"Sorry, the process still has to go."

"Oh, counting is a very time-consuming job, so you have to work hard."

"No. That's what Madam Philo hired us for."

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When Su Lun got out of the car, he was watching the people from the Cross Society begin to get the items out of the truck one by one, and the old housekeeper named Jackson was in charge of counting.

The guys in the inner city were very indifferent, as if they didn't want to have much communication with the outer city like the Cross Society, even Kay, the transportation captain.

Kai looked bored.

Seeing Su Lun come down, he walked over, "Su Lun, the goods will be delivered later, shall we go around the city?"

Seeing that he was in good spirits, Su Lun nodded, "Yeah."

But at this moment, a bearded man in a suit suddenly came from outside the warehouse, and he opened his mouth and asked a group of people, "Who is Kay?"

Kai frowned when he heard the arrogant tone. I didn't want to talk to you at first, but I seemed to think of something, and I still said, "I am."

The man didn't talk nonsense at all, and said coldly: "Follow me, someone wants to see you."

Saying that, he didn't look back, and left in the direction he came in.

When Kai heard this, instead of being suspicious, excitement overflowed his face. He winked at Su Lun, "Brother, I'll be leaving for a while, you watch for me."

"Um."

Su Lun nodded, but said nothing.

He knew that this bearded man was probably the person Kay said the smoker arranged for him to contact.

He didn't have much to say.

After all, Smokey was Kai's old captain, and he was also the one who promoted him in the gang. Su Lun can also often hear the worship of the smoker Sambu from Kai's mouth, like a child worshiping his father.

But

Su Lun finds it very strange that this bearded man went directly to the warehouse to ask for someone?

This is the warehouse of Mrs. Filo's Chamber of Commerce. If the benefactor introduced by the smoker to Kai is an acquaintance of Mrs. Filo's, why is it so secretive?

Also, is that faint observation gaze far from the warehouse door, is it a sentry post, or what?

A lot of items on the truck have been removed, and those large sculptures, metal utensils and other antiques are piled up all over the floor.

Then there are some ancient books, scrolls, curse materials and other small items.

Su Lun was suspicious, so he watched quietly from the side. Gradually, he discovered a problem, that is, the old butler with mustache seemed to read those classics very carefully.

Even on the list, it says "one hundred volumes of ancient classics" without detailed names.

There are hundreds of thousands of volumes in that pile, and it will definitely waste a lot of time if you want to read them all one by one.

But the housekeeper took the trouble to look through the books one by one, as if he was looking for something.

It was this abnormal behavior that made Su Lun suddenly alert.

What is this old man looking for?

He is not so careful about other ancient relics, it seems that he is looking for a special book?

And at this moment, a few key words flashed through Su Lun's mind, goods, classics, gang warehouse?

wrong!

has a problem!

Suddenly, he searched for a related memory in his memory through keywords.

That was the attack on the headquarters warehouse that he participated in on the first day he joined the Cross Society!

At that time, Chijo captured an intruder alive, but was killed by the ghost of the Cross Society on the way.

Su Lun connected this series of clues together, and suddenly frowned, guessing a possibility that made him sweat instantly: "This guy is looking for [Isaac's Alchemy Manuscript]!"

This thought suddenly popped up in his mind, and a huge sense of crisis that made Su Lun's scalp tingle suddenly hit his heart.

Originally, I thought it was a simple escort and handover task, but I didn't expect that there was a hidden murderous intention!

Su Lun had learned through various channels before that what the Cross Society had lost was a volume [Isaac's Alchemy Manuscript].

I originally thought that if I lost it, I would lose it. That kind of precious thing has nothing to do with his little gang.

Now I don't want to, I was accidentally involved.

He thought instantly: "The Captain Miller who sniped the captives at the time was definitely not an insider, at least not the mastermind. This means that there is still a 'key person' in the robbery in the Cross Society that has not been discovered. At that time, the president Chuck and the cadres suddenly returned to the headquarters, and the ghost knew that they would not be able to take the manuscript away safely, and it would be best to hide it instead."

Moreover, this is not just a guess, but a real hammer!

Su Lun immediately recalled the key piece of information obtained by stripping out the soul of the second-order attacker: "They would never have thought that the manuscript would be hidden there anyway."

"So that's what happened"

All the clues in Su Lun's mind were connected together, and a huge conspiracy with far-reaching layout surfaced in an instant.

Since the manuscript was not taken away in that case,

Then where is the place to hide the manuscripts that makes people unexpected?

The warehouse of the Crusaders!

"The manuscript never left the Hessen Building, it was just moved from the Cross Society's vault to an ordinary warehouse outside!"

All kinds of clues were connected end to end, and Su Lun immediately came to a conclusion: "The ghost is also very clear, even if he is a cadre, he will definitely be suspected if he goes to the warehouse again. But with this method, he doesn't have to take the risk of going there again." Take the manuscripts, because every once in a while, the Cross Society will automatically pack the things in the ordinary warehouses and escort them to the inner city, and you can find the manuscripts hidden in those classics just by intercepting the delivery team!"