Road to becoming the wealthiest: Starting From Treasure Hunting in the Cabinets
Chapter 938 - 524: Hide it deep, I can still find it!_3

Chapter 938: Chapter 524: Hide it deep, I can still find it!_3

"What happened?" Sean Knight pretended not to know and asked.

"Something’s happened to dozens of monks in the temple. Some are comatose, some have lost their memory, and others are suffering from mental instability... It’s said that many valuable Buddhist tools have been lost from the temple as well. Look..."

She handed her mobile phone to Sean Knight, who looked at the news full of Japanese characters, shook his head, and said,

"I can’t understand."

"Let me translate it for you—According to the monks, this morning during the early prayers, dozens of senior monks didn’t get out of bed. When they tried to wake them, they found that these monks all had some mishaps.

Later, an eminent monk discovered that the precious Buddha statue from the Tang Dynasty, which had been brought back from Central Asia, was missing from his room. Upon further investigation, they found that over a hundred items were gone! They have reported it to the police, and the police are currently investigating..."

As she spoke, she looked toward Sean Knight and Elijah Hastings.

"Don’t look at us. Just the two of us couldn’t possibly do such a thing," Sean Knight said, shaking his head, "When we went to investigate the situation, nothing was happening in the temple. It was those people in the black car, carrying stuff out of the temple. We found it suspicious and followed them..."

Emily Kelley thought about it, and it made sense. Even at their limit, Sean Knight and Elijah Hastings could only have taken a few things from the temple. For hundreds of items, they would need a place to hide them.

However, Elijah Hastings was thinking differently.

He knew his boss had great capabilities and was no ordinary person. He was sure his boss was behind this.

But he couldn’t voice this thought, although Emily Kelley was now on their side. After all, she was still an outsider, and he couldn’t reveal this secret.

Playing dumb, Elijah Hastings found Sean Knight’s analysis somewhat logical, leading Emily Kelley to believe that this incident had nothing to do with them.

"However, if these people really have something to do with Xingya Guanyin Temple, then this Xing Chan Temple definitely has issues! If something happened, it serves them right!" Emily Kelley concluded after finishing the entire news report.

The sky turned dark, and no one came out of that building, which relieved Sean Knight and Elijah Hastings.

"Guide Emily, you stay here tonight and hide well. Don’t show yourself, no matter who comes, except for us," Sean Knight told Emily Kelley at midnight, "It’s not that I don’t want to take you with us, but the operation is quite dangerous. No one is sure how many people are inside or what kind of weapons they have.

I don’t mean to belittle you, but with your strength, if you went and got caught, and they used you to threaten us, that would be a big problem."

"I understand! I understand!" Emily Kelley wasn’t the kind of person who would recklessly hurl herself into the fray. She nodded insistently, "Don’t worry, I’ll hide here and wait for your safe return! You both be careful too, safety first!"

Sean Knight and Elijah Hastings quietly approached the group of buildings.

They had previously observed occasional lights on, but now it was completely black.

The two men reached the periphery of the building, and Sean Knight suddenly gestured to Elijah Hastings, who immediately stopped all movement.

"Come with me, and make sure you don’t make a sound!" Sean Knight told Elijah Hastings, then slowly moved around to the edge of the small forest outside the main entrance.

The building was surrounded by a wall, with trees on both the inside and outside of it, but at a distance of several meters, it wasn’t easy to climb the two-meter-tall wall using the trees.

But this was no obstacle for Sean Knight and his company.

However, Sean Knight did not go over but instead signaled to Elijah Hastings and pointed at the small forest.

Elijah Hastings had better hearing than ordinary people. With Sean Knight’s hint, he focused his listening in that direction and then realized there were several people’s breathing coming from the small forest!

Clearly, someone was hidden inside!

Sean Knight signaled that there were six people hiding and waiting for them.

Elijah Hastings nodded his understanding. He was a bit surprised—had their group been discovered, and that’s why there were people lying in ambush here?

Sean Knight gestured again; he slowly moved upwind and scattered some flower powder.

This time, the operation consumed a lot of the flower powder. Sean Knight felt it was necessary to revisit the original jungle once this was all over.

Shortly after, the breathing of those people grew heavier, followed by the sound of bodies hitting the ground.

Sean Knight looked over with his Sky Eye and saw that all six people had fallen. He immediately signaled to Elijah Hastings and then headed toward the small forest.

These six people were even carrying knives!

In Japan, private gun ownership was quite difficult. Judging by their attire and the way they carried knives, they were obviously not ordinary people!

"Boss, what should we do?" Elijah Hastings pointed at the men and asked.

"Take them out." Sean Knight could tell that these thugs had blood on their hands. He wasn’t about to let these threats go!

Elijah Hastings didn’t hesitate to deliver deadly blows. The six men didn’t make a sound before they were deceased.

"Let’s go, get inside first," Sean Knight said, seeing that Elijah Hastings was about to decapitate the men, "We’ll deal with them properly after we finish our business."

The two moved into the surrounding wall without a sound.

Using his Sky Eye, Sean Knight scanned the area and approached the nearest building.

Elijah Hastings knew it was better to follow his boss at this point. After all, in terms of both sight and hearing, Sean Knight was superior to him.

If he had come alone, he might have truly been ambushed by those people.

Although he was confident he could deal with those guys, it would alarm the others!

Sean Knight reached the nearest building and found it was a storage room—similar to a miscellaneous storage area.

But peering through it with the Sky Eye, he saw items inside that infuriated him—World War II period Japanese military uniforms, and a flag with "Prosperous Military Fortune" written on it hung on the wall!

This was the place!

Fury swelled in Sean Knight’s chest but was quickly suppressed.

He didn’t yet know how many people were inside; it was best to scout around first.

"Boss, should we go in?" Elijah Hastings whispered.

"No, not yet. Let’s make a complete sweep first. There’s no one in here."

Sean Knight, with Elijah Hastings following, continued toward another building—this one resembled a Buddha Hall, and the smell of incense and candles emanated from it.

Sean Knight tiptoed close and took a peek inside. His mind was suddenly bombarded with a realization:

"Bloody Earth Guanyin!"

The two-meter-tall, eerily featured Bloody Earth Guanyin was enshrined right there!

Just as he was about to enter, he heard a sinister voice:

"I’ve been waiting for you for a long time, Chinaman!"

Darn, still ambushed!