A thousand enlightenments in one night, starting from being a menial apprentice.

Chapter 461 Early Warning
Duan Rong flashed out of Zhao Yi's room in the darkness.

He stood in the dark and quiet corridor and could hear faint snoring everywhere.

There are quite a few people living in the rooms on the first floor. They are all the servants of Taihe Building.

Duan Rong swept his spiritual sense over and checked their dantian one by one, and found that there were no warriors among these people.

Duan Rong simply ignored these people and walked towards a hidden corner on the first floor.

There is a small door on the wall next to a cabinet. You can only see the door if you walk to the cabinet. Otherwise, the door is hidden in the shadow of the cabinet. It is difficult to find the existence of the door from other angles.

This morning, while sitting upstairs drinking tea, Duan Rong had already discovered this door.

In the morning, he was different from before in Taihe Tower. Before, his spiritual sense was mainly focused on the tea drinkers in the tower.

This time, he directly focused his spiritual sense on the Taihe Building itself.

Because, since Taihe Tower is the base of the spy network operated by Ge Rushong in Shenyun Mansion, there must be something fishy in this building.

Sure enough, when Duan Rong sent his spiritual consciousness to the bottom of the first floor of Taihe Tower and continued to go deeper, he discovered that there was an underground space under the Taihe Tower.

Moreover, there are many traps in there.

For example, this inconspicuous little door in front of you has a layer of wood-colored paint on the surface, but it is actually cast in pure iron and is very heavy.

More importantly, there are many mechanisms on this door, which are connected to bells. Once it is forced open, the alarm will be triggered immediately.

Moreover, when Duan Rong's spiritual sense penetrated the door, he found that there was another person guarding inside.

Duan Rong's spiritual consciousness penetrated this person's Dantian, and his realm was not high, only the fourth level of Inner Breath Realm.

For Duan Rong at this moment, it would be easy to knock down a warrior in the Inner Breath Realm, but the key was the door in front of him. Once it was forcibly broken open, the alarm would be triggered immediately.

In the darkness, Duan Rong stood in front of the door cast from pure iron. His eyes flickered. With his spiritual sense, he had already seen clearly the several springs that triggered the alarm.

Duan Rong suddenly took a step sideways, lowered his body, and squatted in a corner of the small door. In the darkness, he raised a finger, and vital energy flashed at the tip of his finger.

He frowned and pointed his finger at a corner of the small door. A thin stream of vital energy surged, and instantly created a small hole in the small door cast from pure iron.

A small pile of fine iron filings fell to the ground from the corner. The light inside the door was dim, and the person guarding the door did not notice the details here.

Duan Rong then flipped his hand and took out a brown porcelain bottle. He then carefully stuffed some medicinal powder into the small hole in the corner of the door, little by little.

After inserting the medicine for a while, Duan Rong estimated that the amount of medicine was almost enough, so he raised his finger again, and with the vital energy surging at his fingertips, he touched the small hole.

As the vital energy surged, the medicinal powder stuffed in the small hole was sprayed into the door. However, after a few breaths, the person guarding the door fell to the ground and fainted.

With the penetration of spiritual consciousness, Duan Rong seemed to have a clear view of the situation inside the door.

The moment the guard fell unconscious, Duan Rong turned his hand into a knife. His fingertips were flashing with vital energy, like an extremely sharp blade, cutting towards a corner of the pure iron door.

Duan Rong carefully explored with his spiritual sense and found that there was no mechanism in the space in this corner.

The path cut by Duan Rong's hand knife was roughly elliptical, but there were some irregular streamlines in many places, which were where he avoided triggering the mechanism.

At the moment when the cut marks connected, Duan Rong suddenly poked with one finger, and the finger pierced into the cut piece of iron like inserting tofu. Then Duan Rong formed five fingers into claws and directly grabbed the cut piece of iron with smooth and twisted edges...

At this moment, an irregular hole smaller than a dog hole appeared in the corner of the small door in front of him.

In the darkness, Duan Rong's eyes were as bright as stars. He stood up, and suddenly there was a crisp crackling sound from his bones. At the same time, his strong body began to shrink in circles.

Soon, his whole body became like a skinny dwarf. He first stretched his legs into the small hole in the door, and after barely squeezing his legs in, he twisted his waist in, and finally grinded his upper body, head and hands in little by little.

A candle was lit on the wall inside the door. In the dim light, one could see a dwarf strangely growing bigger in circles with the sound of crackling bones.

Duan Rong stood there, took a deep breath, looked at the small hole he came out of, glanced at the guard who had fainted at his feet, and then stared at the stairs in front of him.

The stairs went downwards, and the narrow staircase was very dark, but not far down was the corner, and at that corner, there was obviously another light, slanting over.

Duan Rong knew that if he turned from there and went down some stairs, he would reach the underground space of Taihe Building.

Moreover, Duan Rong could hear various rustling sounds and the mixed and tiny footsteps coming faintly from where he was standing... It was obvious that many people were busy in that underground space.

But when we explored during the day, it was still pitch black here.

It seems that the people here are like mice, with their day and night reversed.

Duan Rong stood there, his eyes flickering. After using his spiritual sense to investigate, he suddenly knew what the people inside were busy with.

It turned out that they were organizing and summarizing the various information they had overheard during the day.

Duan Rong roughly counted and found that there were about ten people busy in front of many wooden shelves and desks.

There was another person inside, sitting on an armchair. His square face showed a tired look and there were dark circles under his eyes. He kept summarizing and organizing information and putting it in front of his desk.

At this time, the desk in front of him was already piled with white papers covered with tiny calligraphy like snowflakes.

This person is actually the owner of Taihe Tower and the leader of this stronghold, named Qin Ya.

Qin Ya was born with an excellent memory and had the ability to remember everything he photographically. Even though the papers in front of him were scattered around, he knew exactly what was written on each piece of paper.

He looked at the paper in front of him, and suddenly frowned, as if he remembered something. He glanced around, picked out a piece of paper from a pile of messy papers, and looked at the two papers side by side.

In the dim light, Duan Rong had already walked down the stairs slowly. His footsteps were very light, almost silent. When he reached the bright light at the corner of the stairs, he actually turned directly around.

Once we turned the corner, the sounds of chaotic footsteps and rustling papers suddenly became clearer.

But no one saw Duan Rong.

Because Duan Rong had already explored it carefully, he had to walk down five more steps from here before someone could see his feet from a certain angle.

Duan Rong walked down slowly, reached the fourth step, and stopped there.

The light was obviously brighter at this time, and he could even see a swaying figure at the end of the stairs in the candlelight.

Duan Rong stood there, and suddenly he flipped his hand and took a brown porcelain bottle in his hand.

He opened the porcelain bottle and poured some medicine powder into the palm of his right hand. Then, with the energy in his palm surging, he slapped a ball of medicine powder out...

As the vitality surged, the medicinal powder was slapped to the staircase below and dispersed into the air... Duan Rong followed suit and struck again, followed by the third and fourth palm strikes...

This underground space was a closed space, and soon it was filled with drug powder...

Qin Ya put down the two pieces of paper in his hand, frowning. The two pieces of paper were about people in two different boxes, but they were discussing the same thing, except that they differed in three details...

Qin Ya was deep in thought, when suddenly his nostrils twitched. In an instant a gleam of light flashed in his eyes, and he became extremely alert.

Almost at the same time, the figures in the room fell down one by one without any warning, as if they were possessed by a ghost...

And a black shadow jumped out from the stairs, as fast as thunder and lightning.

The moment Qin Ya became alert, Duan Rong was already standing in front of him.

This underground space was very well hidden. Duan Rong was not afraid of Qin Ya making a sound and he went straight for his dantian with his first move.

Duan Rong had already used his spiritual sense to investigate at the stairs. Except for the person in front of him who was at the fourth level of True Qi Realm, the rest were basically at the Inner Breath Realm.

His drug powder that caused people to become unconscious could not penetrate the powerful true qi.

Duan Rong's figure appeared like thunder, and his attack was like a ghost, so swift and unpredictable that Qin Ya could not react at all.

Duan Rong slapped down with his palm, and Qin Ya saw that there was no way to avoid it. In a blink of an eye, Duan Rong had already destroyed his dantian.

Qin Ya's Dantian was destroyed, and under the pressure of his vitality, his true energy instantly dissipated. The drug powder that caused coma had already entered his nasal cavity and lungs. The moment his Dantian was destroyed, his eyes went black and he was about to faint.

But at the moment of fainting, Qin Ya suddenly raised his leg and hit somewhere on the side of the table with his knee.

This tiny movement was naturally captured by Duan Rong's spiritual sense.

Duan Rong's heart skipped a beat. Qin Ya had obviously triggered some mechanism before he fainted.

The mechanism was on the side of the bottom of the table. When Duan Rong explored it before, he did not notice such a hidden detail.

The moment the mechanism was triggered, Duan Rong's spiritual sense suddenly released, covering the entire Taihe Tower inside and out.

Because, through his spiritual sense, Duan Rong had discovered that the spring in the mechanism was connected to a wire, and that wire was connected to a pulley that went deep into the floor, connected to the pulley again at the corner, and went up along the wall...

It seemed that the mechanism was not triggered in the underground space, but somewhere on the three floors above Taihe Building.

The moment Duan Rong's spiritual sense covered the inside and outside of Taihe Tower, he saw a cage hanging under the eaves of the roof of Taihe Tower, under the hidden beam tenon inside the eaves. There was a carrier pigeon in the cage, but the bottom of the cage suddenly fell off...

In the darkness of the night, a piece of wood hit the eaves below with a clang.

The sleeping carrier pigeon was instantly thrown into the night wind. The pigeon lost its balance, woke up suddenly, and flapped its wings to fly away.

Duan Rong "saw" it all clearly in the underground space. He suddenly drew out his frost-patterned phosphorus crystal knife. Under the light of the red candle, the knife flashed with a strange white light.

Duan Rong infused a trace of vital energy into the blade, and then threw the blade in his hand out.

When the divine sense was used to investigate, the entire staircase was as if it were nothingness. The frost-patterned phosphorus crystal knife pierced through several floors in succession. At the moment when the carrier pigeon flapped its wings, it was pierced by the tip of the knife and nailed to the wooden beam tenon under the eaves.

Duan Rong scanned the area and confirmed that everyone in the underground space was unconscious, then he moved his body and jumped into the stairs again.

His figure flashed, and he had already arrived in front of the iron gate with a hole in it. He took the key from the guard and opened the iron gate from the inside. Because it was opened by the key, none of the large number of bells above his head rang.

Duan Rong's figure was like a ghost, moving between the rooms on the first floor. His sleeves flashed and medicine powder was scattered. In the rooms on the first floor, the guys were knocked unconscious in their sleep.

Duan Rong then jumped out of a window, like a flying bird, and climbed up in the night, stepping on the eaves and brackets, and soon arrived under the eaves of the roof.

Duan Rong pulled out the frost-patterned phosphorus crystal knife that was stuck in a beam mortise, and then took the carrier pigeon off the tip of the knife.

When throwing the knife, Duan Rong only injected a trace of vital energy into it. After piercing through several floors in succession, that trace of vital energy had been almost completely consumed. By the time it hit the carrier pigeon, it was already pure physical force. Otherwise, with the violent properties of the vital energy of heaven and earth, the pigeon would surely have been crushed into mud.

This also shows that Duan Rong has precise control over his vital energy under his powerful soul.

After Duan Rong took down the carrier pigeon, he removed the thin wooden tube tied to the pigeon's skinny claws and poured out a rolled-up piece of paper from it.

He opened the note, and under the dim light of the stars and the moon, he saw only six words written on it: Taihe Tower has been exposed!

Duan Rong stood on the eaves, the light night wind blowing his clothes, his palms surged with vitality, turning the paper in his hand into powder...

Deep in Duan Rong's eyes, a cold light flashed deeply.

The moment he saw the six words on the note, Duan Rong knew that his decision that night was not unnecessary.

He plans to capture Taihe Tower tonight using covert means.

He just wanted to investigate from Taihe Tower and catch all the spies in Shenyun Mansion in one fell swoop.

The mechanism that the man triggered before he fell into a coma was obviously intended to inform someone.

This carrier pigeon should be the last early warning mechanism of Taihe Tower.

So who was he reporting to? Why was he reporting to them? And why was he setting up this last warning mechanism?

All these illustrate a problem. Once Taihe Tower is exposed, many people will be affected. It also further illustrates the core position of Taihe Tower in the entire Shenyun Mansion intelligence network constructed by Ge Rushong.

The reason for setting up this early warning, and the reason why the man had to trigger the mechanism here before falling into a coma, was to notify the relevant people and retreat in time.

This is also why Duan Rong chose to capture Taihe Tower in the middle of the night using secret means.

He couldn't alert the enemy and had to allow enough time for further investigation.

Only in this way can we affect the entire Shenyun Mansion's spy intelligence network and deal a heavy blow!
Because after this punch is thrown, the spies everywhere will hide and retreat, and it will be difficult to catch them again.

Duan Rong leaped down from a great height like a giant bird and landed lightly on the ground. Then, he suddenly appeared in the darkness as fast as a ghost, and in a flash, he was outside the alley where Zhu Cheng and the others were hiding.

Duan Rong coughed lightly, as a signal to Zhu Cheng.

Zhu Cheng recognized Duan Rong's voice when he heard it, and asked in a low voice: "Sir..."

Duan Rong said: "Zhu Cheng, bring your people and follow me."

Black shadows emerged from the alley one after another, following Duan Rong in the darkness and flashing towards Taihe Tower...

(End of this chapter)