What kind of divination am I doing?

Lu Qiao was torn between his inner thoughts and his own mind!

It's just a sticky mouse trap! I'm a human turned mouse!

It's not a real mouse, how could it not understand what this is?

I am smart, I can succeed.

I just need to step on it once to take a bite; if I only step on the sticky mouse trap with one foot, it can definitely run away.

Stop thinking about it, just take a bite, then run. It's worth it!

Even a dead ham sausage can be deadly, and a frivolous rat can still be charming!

In an instant, the huge cat paw pressed down firmly on Lu Qiao's head.

That was the force of half the black cat's body, pressing down entirely on the tiny mouse's head on the road.

A soft hiss from a black cat: "Fool! What do you think you're doing!"

At this moment, Luqiao tensed up, a fear that came from the very bones of a mouse towards a cat.

The body becomes stiff and numb, and becomes uncontrollable.

The threat to my life instantly killed my appetite.

It's stressed!

Coming to his senses, Lu Qiao began to stammer an explanation: "Just like before, it was instinct, I couldn't control my instincts!"

"Want some? Your tail is so long, just poke it and you'll get it," the black cat replied.

"Oh yeah, I'll try it! Just one bite, I just can't resist wanting to taste it!" Luqiao explained helplessly, wagging his clumsy tail.

"Heh, really want to try it?" At this moment, the black cat stretched out its paw and gently scraped the sausage on the sticky mouse trap.

The sausage on the sticky mouse trap immediately split into two sections.

Between the two sections of sausage, red granules of medicine were inserted.

What is that? What else could it be? It can only be rat poison!

"Once this is all settled, I'll feed you as many sausages as you want. There are plenty on this street!" the black cat growled.

"I'm not eating anymore, my god! I'm not eating anymore!" Lu Qiao was perfectly sober, only feeling that this gold shop was too ruthless!

Luqiao, realizing what was happening, understood that this was the back entrance, and the gold shop was next to a street food and restaurant chain.

Without such effective rodent control measures, the jewelry store would have been ravaged by rats long ago.

Imagine you're buying and selling gold here, and suddenly a giant rat or cockroach crawls out and lands on you.

The black cat released its grip, allowing Luqiao to move freely.

After realizing that eating ham sausages might lead to death, Luqiao completely lost interest in them.

Reason completely overcame instinct, and Lu Qiao didn't want to try again in that dazed state.

"Old Shen, you really aren't lying to us?" The robber's voice came from the bathroom.

Hearing the sound, the black cat moved over. Lu Qiao calmed down and followed the black cat to the location of the toilet.

The black cat then led Luqiao to the side of the toilet, and with a flick of its wrist, threw Luqiao to the ground.

The black cat pointed to the side, indicating that Lu Qiao should peek over the shoulder to take a look.

Then the black cat leaped up onto the toilet partition without making a sound.

The black cat was well hidden, but Luqiao took a few steps forward and poked his mouse head out.

This is the staff restroom; it is not separated by gender.

There are three partitions on each side, which means there are six toilet stalls.

At this moment, of the five robbers, one was sitting on the ground, making a phone call because of a foot injury, and was also resting.

The other four people were digging around the ground, and a floorboard could be seen being lifted up and placed to the side.

The soil beneath the floor was dug out and poured into the toilets on both sides of the toilet to be flushed away.

The restroom has two washbasins for washing hands.

The water flow in the basin was turned on to the maximum, and a hose was used to direct the water to the ground.

The water flowed into the pit, softening the ground and making it easier for the men to dig through the soil.

The voice on the phone replied, "If you get caught, I'm finished too! Actually, before I called you here, I had already considered stealing myself. I've been digging this hole for almost three months, and it's already through. Just when I was about to start planning, the creditor came to the door and the landlord saw it and said he wouldn't rent to me anymore! The plan changed, so I hired you."

"With your size, do you think you could squeeze through a tunnel?" the bandit joked.

"That's why I dug the tunnel extra wide! I even considered getting involved myself, because I was afraid the people I hired wouldn't be clean!" Old Shen's voice came out.

Who are you choosing?

"No, no, I'm just a businessman. Please don't be angry, I'm a magnanimous person!" Old Shen quickly apologized.

"We've dug down half a meter already, when will this end?!" the injured man asked again.

The voice from the phone's speaker spoke again: "Almost there! Just a little more effort! It should be connected in about half a meter! At most, another half meter!"

"They said half a meter when they started digging, and now they want another half meter after going down half a meter?"

Old Shen complained helplessly, "It's all that landlord's fault! The tunnel really only goes half a meter wide! It makes me so angry. He rented it to me for three thousand US dollars a month, and I wouldn't have rented it if I wasn't planning on building this tunnel! He paid three months' rent as a deposit and then pocketed eight hundred dollars for cleaning fees. I secretly made a duplicate key and went there several times afterward, but it hadn't been cleaned at all, so the tunnel wasn't discovered!"

"You talk too much nonsense!"

"It's connected! It's connected!" someone exclaimed excitedly.

At this point, the excavated ground revealed a hole about the size of a fist, and the area below this hole was completely empty.

The water flowed downstream, and the group saw hope, so they began to work even harder to widen the hole.

The person on the other end of the phone became even more excited: "I told you I wasn't lying! I specifically dug a pit underneath, and you guys filled it with water, right? I left some foamed concrete and cement on the side, so after you backfilled it, it was seamless. I thought this plan was abandoned, but I didn't expect it to be used."

Everyone laughed after hearing this, and just then, a sound came from outside the door.

The sound was very loud; it could be heard clearly even in the toilet.

The sound was broadcast through a loudspeaker, and even the robbers in the toilet could hear it clearly.

The impeccably dressed negotiation expert, having prepared his remarks, spoke through a megaphone: "This is Mike, the negotiation expert you summoned. I am aware of the situation. You can now state your demands."

"Boss, should we throw out another piece of clothing to buy some more time?"

"No, the risk of opening the roller shutter again is too high! Let's stall for time! Anyway, Old Shen's plan is perfect, he won't find out."

The group completely ignored the negotiation experts they had called in, and finally managed to dig a gap big enough for a person to crawl through.

The robbers first shoved their injured leader into the tunnel. The leader, still on the phone, spoke up: "Old Shen, we need to renegotiate the price!"

"Give me back all the gold, I'll recast it and continue selling. How about this time, the insurance payout, from 30% to 40%? I also want to give 10% to the security guards you killed! I want to give them compensation!"

"You'd be better off not mentioning security, because mentioning it makes me furious! You son of a bitch! Do you believe I won't expose who's behind this?!"

Old Shen on the other end of the phone was clearly panicked: "No need, really no need. I was wrong about the security guard, but we can't talk to him about this. It's his fault too! He only had three thousand US dollars, why would he risk his life like that! Don't worry! We'll just make money off the foreigners, it's fifty-fifty. I'll cover all the medical expenses and the costs of hiding during this time, I'll cover everything!"

Old Shen readily agreed, knowing full well that the other party would never reveal it; it was merely a bargaining chip!

In Lao Shen's eyes, this deal would definitely be profitable, it's just a matter of how much.

"By the way, Lao Shen, what's that room at the other end of the tunnel again?"

Old Shen explained on the phone, "It's a warehouse. I'll arrange for a car to pick you up tonight. If they find out, I'll say I forgot to take my things. Even if they don't want to rent to me anymore, I still have to give them face. I'll bring some people and cement over to completely fill in the other end."

"That's more like it. The signal's bad, I'm hanging up now!" The man hung up the phone.

The lame man went down first, followed by the other two who followed.

And then he handed down bags of gold, five large bags in total.

Then a voice was heard coming from inside the tunnel: "Ah Fei, the crook you hired ran away! Once this gets out, find a way to get them out of here. I'm going to break their legs!"

The one called Afei was the one who contacted the rider to escape. Knowing he was in the wrong, he immediately said, "Boss, I was wrong. This time, I'll give half of my share to everyone."

"No need for that, brother in arms. We'll leave you to cover the rear and clean up the mess. You don't have any complaints, right? Make sure it's spotless, so no one knows we ran from here!"

"I'll clean this up so that no one outside will know we came from here!" Ah Fei readily agreed.

"Remember to backfill the pit as Lao Shen instructed! We'll wait for you on the other side, and we'll run out together when it gets dark."

Afei nodded excitedly, "No problem! Don't worry!"

At this moment, the lame man seemed to remember something and spoke up again: "Use the blood of the dead security guard to draw some talismans on the glass. These foreigners are superstitious! It's up to you!"

After explaining, four of the five men went down into the pit.

The last person left turned off the tap and picked up the mop on the wall to start cleaning.

Start carefully from emptying the toilet bowl, cleaning up the dirt and water stains thoroughly.

Next, the water was dragged into the large hole opened in the toilet.

Even the rags used for wiping were rinsed repeatedly in the sink and hung back up clean.

The one who stayed behind, aside from everything else, is really quick and efficient at his work.

Looking at the situation before him, Lu Qiao knew that the final step was to align one corner of the floorboard that had just been lifted, and then slowly lower the cover plate as he crawled down.

This place will be completely restored. After they crawl out, the pit will be filled back in, and everything will become a secret room.

No one knows where they went. The conversation also clearly stated that the other end of the pit was the house that Lao Shen had rented before.

Tonight, Lao Shen will send someone to pick it up from the other end and completely backfill the pit.

After that, the gold was returned and the insurance premium was shared.

As for whether the police will find out?

It won't be discovered for at least a short time, so this is the result of what the black cat called divination.

That matches perfectly!

The negotiator at the entrance was now shouting through a megaphone for the fifth time.

Feeling a bit insecure herself, she turned to ask, "Are you sure they called me here? Were I asleep?"

By this point, the negotiation experts had lost patience.

"Keep shouting, our technicians are already connecting to the monitoring system and will be able to see the situation inside soon."

The negotiation expert, left with no other option, continued to repeat the prepared script.

Just then, the last robber finished cleaning up the scene.

Using a towel, I went to the lobby, avoided blind spots in the surveillance cameras, dabbed on the blood of the dead security guard, and returned to the glass.

He wrote a long string of strange symbols on the glass, and to make it look real, he even pulled out a knife and neatly cut off a large corner of his clothes, then threw it into the sink.

The bandits were so nervous that they didn't even notice the rat on the roadside when they passed by the toilet.

After finishing this, I put the large tile that I had previously lifted back on, and then crawled into the hole and covered it with a board.

……

The black cat leaped down: "I saw it all, it has nothing to do with the relics! But these people are quite clever, they even knew to set up a smokescreen to confuse people."

Lu Qiao looked at the black cat and said, "It's alright, but I have an idea!"

The black cat frowned slightly: "Gold?"

"They'll be hiding in that warehouse. Once we know where it is, we can take care of those five guys and then take the gold!" Lu Qiao replied.

The black cat looked at the road and bridge: "They've already blocked the tunnel; I have no idea where the other end is!"

"It's up to me now. I'll find the place, but before that, I have two questions to ask!" Lu Qiao looked at the black cat.

"Ask away!" Black Cat looked at Lu Qiao, feeling that Lu Qiao was somewhat different from the people he had known before.

"You said that if the castle is gone, you'll have to choose a new location to connect to Outland. Does that mean you can open an Outland tavern anywhere?" Luqiao asked.

The black cat shook its head: "Yes, I can renegotiate the position if I want!"

"That's pretty much what I was thinking. Let's go back and split up. I met two locals in Chinatown outside. They know Old Shen and might know what he's been up to lately. Go talk to the bartender at the Outer World Tavern and make it clear that we'll be sending five humans in. Ask her to leave a few aliens behind to help at night. That should be enough to handle the five without getting hurt herself. If it works out, we'll give her a reward!" Lu Qiao shared his ideas.

The black cat was stunned, its eyes widening in disbelief: "Use the Outer Realms Tavern!"

"Yes, these alien races would be interested in gold, right?" Lu Qiao said, climbing onto the black cat.

"They're all lurking among humans. They're not just interested; if we get them to share the spoils, this batch of gold can be sold without anyone noticing! The stolen goods will appear all over the world!" Black Cat replied, only then realizing that Lu Qiao's plan was perfect.

The black cat rushed out of the restroom and returned along the same path as the staff passage.

The journey back was much smoother, and Luqiao was led back to the second floor by the black cat.

Looking out the window of the storage room, Luqiao and the black cat were standing outside the air conditioner.

The black cat charged up again to jump to the second floor, return to the ground through the awning, cross the road, and return to the castle.

At this moment, Lu Qiao looked down and heard and saw the situation in front of the gold shop.

The detective who used the equipment to bridge the broadband on the exterior wall cursed angrily: "Damn it, the location of the surveillance cameras in this jewelry store is very strange. There are too many blind spots in the lobby, and we can only see half of the entrance. We can't see where the hostages are."

"I'll do it!" An agent grabbed the ladder and moved over.