Tomb raiding: Intercepting Yin Xinyue and building a family of immortals

In the wheat fields outside Cangzhou, more than a hundred miles from the capital.

Su Chen rested and recuperated, and soon it got dark.

The importance of the two rings was even greater than Su Yitian had imagined.

However, Su Chen also understood that there were thousands of fully armed troops during the day, and if a direct conflict were to break out...

He and Black-backed Sixth Brother might have a chance to break through at the cost of serious injuries, but Su Renxiu and Su Yitian would most likely lose their lives.

So he chose to wait until nightfall, then sneak into the bandits' camp under cover of darkness to retrieve the two rings.

The night was dark, as if ink had been spilled across the earth.

Su Chen took a deep breath, tucked the two Mauser pistols into his waistband, and carried the Guanshan knife on his back.

They then followed the railway tracks to the military camp where the bandits were stationed.

Once outside the military camp, you can see squads of patrolling soldiers. The train has also been requisitioned by them and used as a temporary camp.

Taking a deep breath, Su Chen deftly evaded the patrolling soldiers and slowly ventured deeper into the camp.

He searched for a while and then focused on the soldiers' tents next to the train.

Under the cover of night, Su Chen cut open the tent from the back and sneaked inside.

There were seven or eight bandits inside, fast asleep.

With a cold face, Su Chen slid through the darkness and slit their throats one by one.

Only when the last bandit was killed did he hold the Guanshan knife to the bandit's head and slap him awake.

"If you dare utter even one more word, your head will be chopped off!"

"Do you understand?"

The bandit opened his eyes to find a long, gleaming knife pressed against his neck. Terrified, his legs trembled like leaves, and he blinked rapidly to indicate that he understood.

"I'm asking you, where are the fat guy and the thin guy who were in charge of the inspections during the day?"

The bandit soldier quickly said, "They're in that tent next door, sir! They're the ones who robbed you, not me..."

Upon hearing the sound, Su Chen glanced at the small pile of pocket watches, wristwatches, and silver dollars not far away, snorted coldly, and tightened his grip slightly.

The Guanshan sword was incredibly sharp, and in an instant, it severed the man's neck.

ho ho...

The bandit soldier was seen breathing heavily, blood gushing from his neck, his eyes wide open, and he soon lost consciousness.

"When you were shooting other people's husbands and raping other people's wives and daughters, why didn't you say this..."

Su Chen put away his Guanshan knife and wiped the blood off the blade with a bandit's clothes.

This was his first time killing someone, and he killed eight bandits in one go.

Su Chen had expected to feel unwell, but seeing the blood-soaked scene inside the tent, his mind was unusually clear, even calmer than usual.

He let out a soft breath and didn't linger in the tent. He quietly left the tent, hid in the shadows, and continued to grope his way to the tent where the fat and thin bandits were.

This tent is closer to the train and has fewer people inside.

Clearly, these two men held high positions in the military, likely at the squad leader level.

Otherwise, I wouldn't get any inspection work!

After Su Chen sneaked in, he immediately spotted the fat and thin bandits. Surprisingly, the thin one was not asleep and was still on the bed, counting the silver dollars one by one.

Hearing someone enter the tent, the skinny man paused for a moment and subconsciously looked up.

Their eyes met, and Su Chen felt a chill in his heart.

"You're just unlucky..."

Immediately afterward, before the skinny man could react, Su Chen darted to his side like a rabbit, his Guanshan knife slicing across the man's neck with incredible precision.

puff...

The iron cut through flesh, spurting out countless drops of blood.

Su Chen took two steps back, avoiding the skinny man's blood, and ignored him, pulling the fat man straight out of the bed.

"Qian Duoduo, stop fooling around... I'm eating a pig's trotter..."

The fat man was half asleep and thought it was the skinny man calling him, so he mumbled something with his eyes closed.

Su Chen didn't tolerate him. He flipped his Guanshan knife over and slapped Su Chen's face with the back of the blade.

The fat man was startled awake by the coldness of the blade and instinctively opened his eyes.

When he saw clearly the person in front of him and the knife to his neck, his eyes immediately turned to terror, and he instinctively wanted to scream for help.

However, Su Chen was agile and before he could shout, he punched him in the stomach, causing him to bend over in pain and unable to make a sound.

"Listen carefully, I'll only ask you once! Where is my bracelet?"

"Woooo..."

The fat bandit's face was contorted in pain, and it took him a long time to recover.

Upon hearing Su Chen's question, he shamelessly knelt on the ground.

"Hero, please, don't kill me! It was Qian Duoduo who tried to steal your bracelet, it has nothing to do with me, and Commander Zhao took your bracelet!"

"Commander Zhao?"

"He's the one who rides horses during the day. His name is Zhao Jinfeng, and he's Commander Guo's brother-in-law. He usually likes these lucrative jobs and has made a lot of money! This time, they've supposedly arrested the eldest son of the Yin family, the son of the richest family in Beijing. He's incredibly wealthy, which is why Zhao Jinfeng was so eager to come and guard the railway."

Su Chen's heart skipped a beat, and he asked in a deep voice, "Where is Zhao Jinfa you mentioned?"

"Right in the sleeper car of the train, that bastard lives on the train himself while his brothers live in the middle of nowhere..."

It's clear that these bandits have suffered a lot at Zhao Jinfa's hands.

However, a bad soldier is just one bad soldier, but a bad general makes a bad army.

Judging from Zhao Jinfa's actions, these bandits had committed many evil deeds of oppressing the people.

Thinking of this, Su Chen did not hesitate and raised his Guanshan knife.

In an instant, another head shot into the sky.

"We need to speed things up. There's a dead person inside the tent; they'll probably be discovered soon!"

Su Chen took a deep breath, ignoring the hundreds of silver dollars that the fat and thin bandits had stolen from the table, and hurried toward the train.

……

The train was quiet, and there were no soldiers patrolling.

Zhao Jinfa probably thought that since his superior had already taken over the capital and was unstoppable in the Zhili region, he didn't need to worry about anyone daring to provoke him.

Another point is that the fat bandit was right.

Zhao Jinfa was in charge of blocking the railway, and he did indeed make a lot of money off the tracks.

He hijacked more than just this one train; in the past two days, he has stopped almost all trains heading to Beijing, whether they were going to Tongzhou or other routes.

In just two days, they made more than 80,000 silver dollars, and all of it was moved and piled up in the sleeper car.

Su Chen opened one of the wooden crates and saw that it was filled with glittering silver dollars.

I couldn't help but curse inwardly!

"Damn it, I went through so much trouble going down into the tomb and risked so many dangers, and I only made a few thousand dollars. You're really greedy!"

Thinking of this, Su Chen's eyes darted around.

He silently asked himself, "System, can I store things in this space?"

"Activating the system space function requires a payment of 10000 silver dollars. Each cubic meter of expanded space requires 1000 silver dollars!"

"It really does have that function!"

Su Chen was overjoyed!

However, the price is a bit high. The initial setup fee is 10,000 yuan, and it costs 1,000 yuan per cubic meter to expand it.

In the past, the few hundred dollars he had wouldn't even have been enough to cover the activation fee!

but……

With so many dollars right now, might as well use them.

Thinking of this, Su Chen did not hesitate and placed his palm directly on the box full of silver dollars, silently thinking to himself.

"System, activate the spatial function!"

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