Chapter 22: The Theft Begins

  Just as Xiao Wu and Yuan Hang were feeling puzzled, Long Xing walked out of the room, pulled Xiao Wu aside, gave him a few instructions, then went back into the room to pack his things, seemingly having something to attend to.

  Long Xing indeed had something to attend to, because from the conversation Long Xing learned that this woman was the third-ranked thief in the dark world, Blood Red Song Su Rui, and she also had a part-time special occupation: assassin.

  She accidentally discovered in a very old notebook that the treasures looted from China by Japan had gone. Where there is doubt, someone will try to decipher it, and the owner of this notebook found many clues, finally linking them together, and the conclusion drawn was: all the treasures were buried by the Japanese, specifically where they were buried, no one knows yet, but the notebook mentioned that the Japanese National Museum must have a collection of maps, because all the exhibits in their museum are treasures looted from China, of course, these are just speculations and have not been verified.

  Driven by curiosity, the self-proclaimed "Thief of the Dark World" Blood Red Song arrived at the National Museum of Japan. Her purpose this time was to find that treasure map, but unfortunately, there was no progress, and she was discovered by a clone guarding the museum's interior, which led to the previous scene.

  Long Xing's idea was simple. Su Rui, who had been injured, wanted to take this opportunity to go with him to the National Museum of Japan to explore and get a feel for things. After Su Rui recovered from his injuries, Long Xing would take drastic measures to steal the treasure map, as it was something that belonged to their own country. Anyone living in China would be proud of its 5,000-year-old culture, even if the country had hurt Long Xing's heart. He would risk his life to retrieve the national treasure. Since the country hadn't caused him too much pain, Long Xing must understand everything as soon as possible and steal back the treasure map.

  A bustling street in Tokyo, a couple strolling aimlessly, the woman gazing at the men around her with mouths watering. If there wasn't a man by her side, they would probably have pounced on her already. However, when these men saw the man beside her, their eyes filled with hostility. The reason was that the stunningly beautiful woman beside him had captured everyone's attention. Her 172cm height, slender waist like a snake, and full buttocks complemented by a pair of perky breasts that seemed to be bursting out of her thin T-shirt made the men on the street drool uncontrollably.

  "Hmph, a bunch of perverts." The woman glared at the men on the street, then looked at the man beside her: "Fifth brother... look at them." After that, she wrapped her arms around the arm of the man beside her and coquettishly said.

  "They're all just a bunch of guys who've never seen a woman before, I'll take you to see some good ones." After finishing speaking, he wrapped his arm around the woman's slender waist and took her away in front of everyone, as if it was just a small incident that happened casually on the street.

  Tokyo National Museum, one of the world's most famous museums.

  Today's museum welcomed a young couple. If someone looked closely, they were the same couple who bumped into each other on the street before.

  Long Xing's first visit to Tokyo Museum was also his first time entering a museum. As soon as he stepped inside, Su Rui pulled him towards another exhibition area.

  Then, Long Xing saw many national-level cultural relics along the way, all of which were ceramic bottles and jars with notes written in Chinese and Japanese. Many of them were ancient artifacts from China's Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period.

  Long Jing's anger grew as he looked on, and for a moment he was tempted to smash all these cultural relics. He had seen shameless people before, but never any as shameless as this bunch of scoundrels who were brazenly passing off these relics as their own ancient artifacts.

  Long Xing was a student of history, he knew that tens of thousands of years ago, the original humans from the northeastern part of China entered the Korean Peninsula to live, and some migrated to Japan. He also knew that during the Warring States period, when Qin State destroyed Yan State, Qi State, and Yue State, many people from Yan State, Qi State, and Yue State escaped to the Korean Peninsula and Japan. Strictly speaking, the Japanese people are actually descendants of China, but these shameless bastards actually attributed all this to their own country, not knowing that at that time they didn't even have such craftsmanship.

  Long Xing couldn't help but feel a surge of anger, and before he knew it, he slammed his fist onto the glass counter. Fortunately, the counter was bulletproof. Su Rui, who was walking ahead, saw that this guy actually dared to smash the counter, her eyebrows furrowed slightly, and suddenly rushed to Long Xing's side, wrapped her arms around his neck, leaned against the display case, and kissed him.

  Long Xing, this young man who had never experienced romantic relationships before, was stunned on the spot and allowed Su Rui to hug him and kiss him. Just at that moment, two security guards happened to walk by, glanced at the two of them, smiled ambiguously, and turned around to leave.

  As the two left, Su Rui hurriedly untied Long Xing, looking at him with some shyness, and for a while, neither of them spoke. Long Xing stared blankly at Su Rui, both of them staring at each other in a daze, their eyes locked in a flirtatious gaze.

  Su Rui took the lead, punching a fist into Long Xing's chest, glaring at him with a hint of annoyance before continuing forward, saying as they walked: "Remember the route here and the inner pavilion. They only put valuable items in the inner pavilion, remember that, it'll be convenient for our retreat tonight." Only then did Long Xing react, responding with a sound before carefully observing their surroundings.

  In a common inn in Tokyo, Long Xing and Blood Red Song Su Rui were sitting in the room, discussing how to enter the heavily guarded museum tonight. From their observation during the day, they found that many places inside the museum were filled with infrared rays and red light, specifically to prevent thieves from the dark world from stealing. The two discussed it at the inn until late at night before returning to their rooms to rest.

  In this way, for two days they spent their days visiting museums and at night returned to discuss the routes of attack and retreat, continuing until the day after Su Rui recovered before taking action.

  Tonight's night was exceptionally dark, just the best time for murder and robbery. Long Xing and Su Rui sneaked into the museum, originally they were going to enter from the place where they had previously broken in, but unfortunately it had been repaired a long time ago. The two had no choice but to sneak in from the back yard of the museum.

  The dark night had become the strongest guarantee for theft, Su Rui and Long Xing crept into the museum little by little, both wearing black night clothes, like a wisp of smoke drifting towards the inner gallery.

  Su Rui opened the door with familiarity, stood at the entrance, took out a pair of glasses and put them on, then handed another pair to Long Xing, and finally started doing warm-up exercises by himself.

  Long Xing had just put on his glasses, and his heart was already racing with fear. The protective measures here were simply abnormal, with dense and crisscrossing beams of radiation, among which were also interspersed with infrared alarm lines.

  He turned his head and looked at Su Rui beside him, Long Xing was somewhat surprised. The defense here is so high, she still wants to rush in, does she want money or her life?

  Actually, Long Xing was wrong, he had no idea that as a Chinese person, Su Rui's patriotic heart was much heavier than his, even if it meant sacrificing her life. Su Rui turned around and nodded slightly at Long Xing before walking in first.

  Watching Su Rui's agile figure, Long Xing only then knew what a master thief was. Even such a small place she could drill into without difficulty, it's not hard to see that she must have done this high-difficulty action often.

  Finally, Su Rui passed through this minefield and turned off the infrared rays and laser beams at a small square box on the wall before taking off his glasses and looking at Long Xing with satisfaction.

  Long Xing chuckled and shook his head, then walked over. As soon as he opened the door, Long Xing was shocked by the cultural relics on display here. Although this place is not large, Long Xing can see that each item here is a priceless treasure.

  He walked to a place where a short sword was placed and stopped, carefully looking at the short sword. The short sword was about the same size as a dagger, and Long Xing liked it more and more, and he wanted to smash the display cabinet to take the dagger on the spot.

  Su Rui just looked up and saw, busy shouting to stop, the things here are all special alarm devices, this guy sees it and knows that he has never done this line before, if he breaks it, his own plan will not be realized at all.

  After hearing Su Rui's explanation, Long Xing only knew that these bastards were so despicable, they even set off alarms here, and didn't even let people steal...

  Su Rui looked at Long Xing's expression and wanted to laugh, this guy came to steal other people's things, but actually complained that others' defense was too strict, really didn't know what he was thinking.

  Su Rui turned around in circles here but still couldn't find what she needed, time slowly passed by, finally, Su Rui felt something was off, according to the timing, it should be the time for someone outside to come in and check.

  As he thought of this, Su Rui grabbed Long Xing and was about to leave, but Long Xing was unwilling. He turned around and punched the glass of the display cabinet, which was very abrupt. This punch surprisingly did not shatter the display case, but instead triggered a loud alarm that echoed throughout the museum.

  Su Rui muttered a bad word, but Long Xing seemed to have made up his mind to get that dagger. He saw him making a move with both hands, and finally, with one effort, two fists were smashed on the display cabinet.

  "Whoosh..." With a loud crash, the entire display case was smashed open by Long Xing's punch. He then grabbed the dagger and was about to run out with it when he suddenly saw two steel plates fall out of the adjacent display case. The plates were about 2 inches wide and 20 cm long. Out of curiosity, Long Xing picked them up and ran out with Su Rui.

  Unfortunately, by the time the two ran out of the inner hall, hundreds of soldiers had gathered at the gate, among whom was a small team of identical clones.

  Seeing this, Long Xing still didn't feel anything, but Su Rui on the side saw these people and her legs immediately went soft with fear. She had never seen so many people surround herself before, and she secretly thought that today her own life would probably be buried in this place.