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Lombardi's words did not clear up Liao Fan's doubts, but made things even more confusing.

Liao Fan was not afraid that Lombardi was deceiving him. He would hand him over to Fister for a second interrogation later anyway, and then it would be clear whether he was telling the truth or not.

Moreover, given the current situation, Liao Fan didn't believe that the other party would continue to cover up for a Japanese who had nothing to do with them.

But in this way, many things become extremely unreasonable.

Not to mention how he would retaliate against Lombardi if he suffered a loss, Liao Fan simply couldn't understand what the other party would gain by doing so.

Thinking of this, Liao Fan looked at Lombardi, who was still huddled in the corner with his eyes closed, and asked, "Why did Mr. Okagami ask you to do this? What benefit did he give you? Or what leverage do he have over you?"

However, Liao Fan originally thought that at this point, the other party should have behaved himself. Unexpectedly, when he asked if the other party had any leverage over him, Lombardi once again showed a struggling expression.

Fortunately, this time it was only a moment, and Lombardi was like a broken jar, and he blurted out the whole story.

It turned out that when Yang Xue found Lombardi to negotiate the antique transaction last year, the man named Gangu did not contact him.

Instead, they found him when the deal was almost done.

That's because you, Lombardi, didn't care much about this transaction. Your family has a huge collection of Chinese antiques, so you can just take two pieces and exchange them with the other party. Anyway, you are just selling them to the church to save face. After all, you are also a member of the church on the surface.

However, when he thought that all this was just an ordinary antique transaction, the man named Okagaya suddenly contacted him and directly revealed his biggest weakness.

That was when he was young, and he met the daughter of a British marquis at a cocktail party.

Because he was drunk at the time, he had sex with the other person. When he woke up the next day, he learned that the other person's family suffered heavy losses during World War II because they bet on the wrong person, and the entire family was almost on the verge of decline.

After returning, Lombardi also learned that the other party was approaching him deliberately, wanting to take the opportunity to help him, the next generation successor of the aristocracy who benefited greatly from the war.

At that time, Lombardi was thinking about how to make his family more advanced, so he naturally would not want to marry a burden.

But just that one night, the noble daughter became pregnant with his child.

There was no other way, so Lombardi finally ordered someone to assassinate the family for some unknown reason, and fabricated it as revenge by Nazi remnants.

However, everyone thought that the matter would come to an end, but who would have thought that the daughter was not only the daughter of a marquis, but also Elizabeth's best friend.

At that time, Elizabeth had not yet ascended the throne to become queen, but the aristocratic circles believed that her ascension to the throne was a foregone conclusion.

Therefore, if this matter was reported, the Lombardi family would face suppression from the entire British aristocracy.

Although Elizabeth is very old now, her status in the aristocratic circle is still very high. Therefore, even now, Lombardi has always been very secretive about this matter.

But for some reason, this matter was known to a man named Okatani. Not only did he know it, but he also had a copy of the diary of the rich girl at that time.

Therefore, Lombardi had no choice but to obey the other party.

Fortunately, the man named Okada promised Lombardi that he would destroy the copy after the matter was over.

But now that I think about it, the man named Okagami must be very clear about Liao Fan's strength.

As long as he is not killed immediately, the retaliation that follows will probably not be much less severe than the suppression from the British aristocracy.

Lombardi must have thought of this, so he told Liao Fan the whole story honestly.

After listening to the other party's story, Liao Fan found the recording of the phone call between him and the man named Okagaya from his mobile phone.

But it was obvious that the person used a voice changer, and no clues were obtained from the recording.

But even so, Liao Fan still had some vague guesses.

In Japan, there are very few people who know themselves, and Okagaya...

Okatani-kun? Is that you?

Thinking of this, Liao Fan took out his cell phone again and looked at the call he received on the way to the manor.

After thinking about it, I pressed the call back button.

"Hello, the number you dialed is not in service..."

Oh, forget it. Now I have to find a way to find the other person and have a good chat.

Putting away his phone, Liao Fan looked back at the old leader who was still squatting with a headshot, shot him without any warning, and then walked out without looking back.

Opening the door and standing outside, Liao Fan looked back at the terrified Lombardi and said, "Let's go. Didn't you invite me here today to see your family's private collection?"

Following Lombardi, who had a dazed look on his face, the two walked up the stairs to the first floor. When passing by Fister and others, Lombardi seemed to be unaware and continued walking forward.

Seeing this scene, Liao Fan vaguely thought of something, made a gesture to Fester beside him, then whispered something in his ear, and continued to follow Lombardi forward.

After crossing the hall, the two came to a small room that looked like a storage room. They watched each other fumble around on a wooden cabinet for a few times, and then a faint blue light suddenly emerged from the inside of the ordinary wooden cabinet.

I walked over curiously and took a look, and found that it was a tablet computer hidden in the wooden layer.

Then Lombardi entered a complex password on the tablet, and the wall next to him suddenly popped up about half an inch.

Looking at the vaguely familiar mechanism design in front of him, Liao Fan had nothing to do and just quietly followed Lombardi into the secret room.

Immediately, a drastic change took place in everything that came into view.

If the manor outside the secret room is simple yet contains low-key luxury, then this secret room can be completely described as science fiction.

The walls of the secret room were made of a metal that looked like an alloy, and a faint white light emanated from the gaps.

The ceiling is covered with translucent frosted glass, which should be filled with low-power LED lights.

As a result, the entire ceiling is filled with even and soft natural light.

When Liao Fan turned his gaze away from the ceiling, the scene in front of him shocked him even more.

I saw that the secret room was not like what was shown on TV, where all kinds of rare treasures were piled up randomly and without any care.

Instead, each antique is well preserved in a special storage device.

Through the transparent glass directly above, not only can each antique be viewed up close, but it can also prevent various chemical reactions caused by contact with air.

Lombardi, who was standing by, was introducing to Liao Fan the mysteries contained in this secret room with an expression as if he was presenting a treasure.

However, Liao Fan was in no mood to listen to the other party's research.

After just a rough walk around, he found a way to lure the other party out of the secret room, and then without saying a word, he shot Lombardi in the head.

"Fester, how are the preparations going?"

Hearing the boss calling him, Fester, who had just hung up the phone, immediately trotted to the small storage room where Liao Fan was.

"What's wrong, boss?"

"It's okay, it's just what I asked you to prepare. Are you ready?"

"Don't worry, I've already explained everything to Miss Qiao. She said that not long after we left, she spotted several sneaky people around the villa.

After dealing with those people, Tang Shiying immediately contacted her friend in the Security Bureau.

Through the other party, Qiao Lan urgently rented a private plane at the airport, and it is now on standby at the airport.

After listening to Fister's story, Liao Fan looked up at the sky outside.

After a night of fierce fighting, it was almost 4 a.m.

As the saying goes, the darkest hour before dawn.

Although it was not completely dark outside at this time as at midnight, the visibility was made worse due to some scattered light.

Even with night vision goggles, the visibility is not much better.

Retracting his gaze, Liao Fan instructed Fister, "Tell two teams of snipers to go find the enemy in the wheat field, and the rest of you go to the storage room downstairs to move things.

Remember, be careful, any one of the things below is worth hundreds of millions.

If we can’t take everything, we’ll just have to take those Chinese antiques.”

After saying that, Liao Fan took out his cell phone again.

"Hello, Miss Tang?"

Tang Shiying, who was trying to stay awake and was sitting on the sofa browsing his phone, was startled by the sudden ringing of his phone and almost jumped up from the sofa.

However, after seeing that the caller was Liao Fan, he could only answer the call in a bad mood.

"It's me, what's wrong?"

Not understanding why the tone on the other end of the phone was a little unnatural, Liao Fan said without thinking: "Can you help me arrange two helicopters now?"

After hearing Liao Fan's request, Tang Shiying looked up at the clock in the corner and asked uncertainly, "Mr. Liao, are you sure? Now?"

After receiving the definite answer, Tang Shiying felt his head was about to explode.

After hanging up the phone, Tang Shiying looked at the clock in the corner, sighed, and dialed several phone numbers in a row.

At this time, Liao Fan had no idea how many people's sweet dreams were disturbed by his phone call.

He only knew that when his men had almost moved all the antiques from the villa's collection room, the sound of two helicopter propellers came from outside.

Walking out of the main gate of the villa, looking at the two A-109 multi-mission helicopters slowly descending from the sky, without hearing what Liao Fan said, Fister walked up from behind.

"Boss, everything has been moved. Except for a few large sculptures, everything else has been packed up."

"Okay, take some people and burn all the bodies in the villa."

After saying that, he took out two cans of thermite and a handheld signal stick from his pocket and stuffed them into the other person's hand.

After about another 10 minutes, everyone gathered at the main gate.

At this time, Tiansheng's helicopter had already landed in the wide wheat field in front of the door.

Liao Fan first watched his men put all the packed antiques into the belly of one of the helicopters, and then began to climb onto the helicopter in batches.

However, at this time, Liao Fan discovered that the number of people seemed to be wrong.

Fister's team consists of 15 people in total, which is not a problem. Except for Fister and two helping team members who went to burn the bodies, the remaining 12 people are all here.

But where was his bodyguard? Why didn't he show up?

Just as Liao Fan was thinking about this, he saw Fister coming back with two team members. He immediately grabbed him and asked, "Have you seen my bodyguard?"

When they heard Liao Fan's question, the people around him all showed strange expressions.

Liao Fan was a little surprised by this. Seeing that his teammates were silent, Fister took the initiative to say, "Boss, the bodyguard died in the backyard."

"Dead? How did he die? Weren't all the people attracted to the middle gate by you?"

"Um... he died when someone triggered the booby trap in the power room and was accidentally hit in the eye by flying fragments."

...Isn't this really unlucky?

While thinking about it, Liao Fan also squeezed onto the plane with the team members.

The 109 helicopter is rated to carry six passengers per aircraft plus two pilots.

Now it is barely enough to squeeze 8 people into a plane.

However, when the plane was flying towards the distant airport, Liao Fan suddenly thought of something.

If I remember correctly, it was my two bodyguards who helped me take the photo of the Necronomicon. When I got the book, I didn't pay much attention to look through it one by one because there were other miscellaneous things around.

Now that I think about it, it seems like everyone who has seen that book in person is dead.

His two bodyguards, Cretia, both died in unclear circumstances.

His female bodyguard was shot to death when he was trying to grab the gun. According to Lombardi, the other party did not intend to kill him directly, so if the two bodyguards had surrendered, they probably would not have died.

Cretia also seemed to have been killed by a grenade, and while everyone else in the room was unharmed, she was hit in the back of the head by shrapnel.

Now there's another male bodyguard. I wonder if the remaining one, Thompson, will be spared.

Just as Liao Fan was thinking about it, the plane had already landed on a remote runway of the international airport.

A Gulfstream G550 is parked on the runway.

Although it is not the highest-end model currently available, it is rented after all. It is good enough to have a place to sit. Why would you need a bicycle?

Watching the antiques in the belly of the helicopter being moved one by one into the storage compartment of the G550, Liao Fan took Qiao Lan and Tang Shiying, who had arrived earlier, and got into the plane first.

Due to Tang Shiying's advance instructions, there were not many crew members on the plane. Apart from the two pilots, there was only a young and sexy stewardess responsible for guidance.

But when she saw Fister and other team members behind Liao Fan, who were fully armed, ferocious-looking, and covered in the smell of gunpowder, she was so scared that she couldn't even speak clearly.

Liao Fan didn't say anything when he saw this. He just waited until the plane rose to the stratosphere, took out 20 GP gold coins from the conversion space, and put them in the palm of the female flight attendant's hand.

Then, ignoring the other person's flashing eyes, he calmly pulled Qiao Lan up and walked towards a small lounge in the corner.