Prefect He wiped the sweat from his forehead. "The Cangjing Group people, I don't know how, tracked me here. They found out you were coming and ambushed in the room."
"Did they know who we are?" I asked.
"Uh... The leader said that the Immortals were some kind of... White Ze demon tribe?" Prefect He clearly didn't understand these demon affairs, mispronouncing Bai Ze as 'bai zhe.' You're the one who's 'bai zhe' (worthless)!
"Haha, we really are," I chuckled. Looking at the three figures on the ground, two men and one woman, I walked up to the woman, squatted down, and pulled off her mask. "Is this your lover?"
"No, no, she's not," Prefect He said earnestly. "My one... didn't show up."
"It's fine, let's go inside," I said. They were no threat, just yellow qi, yellow qi, and green qi. Without the guns, they wouldn't have stood a chance. Yaoyao's qi-reading technique should have been able to see the 'guns,' right? For safety's sake, I had let Whale God help her take one down.
"But they..." Prefect He pointed to the three people lying on the ground. "What about them?"
I took out my phone and called Lin Chi, briefly explaining the situation and asking her to send someone to handle it.
Prefect He was still a bit uneasy, as this was his villa, and he probably didn't want it exposed.
"How about this, Little Immortal," I said. "Take the three of them across the road, far away. Wait for Shakespeare's people to arrive, and then come back in after they're done." This should put Prefect He at ease. These were all attached villas nearby, as long as they weren't right at his doorstep.
"Thank you, thank you, Immortal Venerable!"
Huang Xiaoxian found a rope in the yard, tied the three people together, and lifted them up as easily as carrying a bucket of water, swaying as she carried them out the door.
"Immortal Venerable's divine power!" Prefect He couldn't help but praise Huang Xiaoxian.
"Let's go see your treasure," I said with a smile. "Oh, I forgot to introduce you. This is our friend."
"Is it that Fox Immortal Venerable?" Prefect He guessed, remembering what had been said at dinner.
"I'm not," Diana said proactively. "I'm human."
She said it with quite a bit of pride, unfortunately, I'd have to make her a demon again later.
After Huang Xiaoxian left the villa, I closed the villa door and asked Prefect He to turn off the lights in the yard to avoid attracting attention. We entered the villa. The interior decoration was no different from an ordinary villa, even appearing simpler. I wondered if there would be large amounts of cash under the bed and in the refrigerator. I guessed that with Prefect He's intelligence, it wouldn't be that simple. He wouldn't be foolish enough to hide cash in easily discoverable places.
Antiques, probably too. There were a few items in the living room, but Yaoyao didn't even glance at them, and Prefect He didn't introduce them. They were likely just fake imitations.
As expected, Prefect He led us to a small door next to the kitchen. This door had a password lock. Prefect He generously pressed the six-digit password in front of us: 456852.
A cross-shaped password. I had used one like that before.
The door opened. On the surface, it looked like a study, but the books on the shelves were all neat sets of new books, such as the Twenty-Four Histories and Records of the Grand Historian. There were even several online novels, some still unopened. It was clearly a disguise. Prefect He pulled out one of the online novels, "The Walking Dead," and reached his hand inside, pressing a button on the bookshelf behind it. With a hum, the bookshelf slid back and parted to the sides, revealing a large door.
"Not bad," I said with a smile.
Prefect He scratched his head sheepishly. "Safety, safety first!"
Safe, but not to guard against thieves, you understand.
Inside, there was no space, but an elevator. The four of us took the elevator down. Judging by the distance it descended, we weren't just reaching the first basement level, but the second. Perhaps the first basement level was still part of the main villa space.
The elevator doors opened, and we were greeted by a small museum. It was about a hundred square meters. Four pillars in the center divided the room into a nine-grid layout. In the center of each grid was a glass display case, holding nine treasures. In addition, around the perimeter along the walls, there was a row of transparent display cases containing many more collections.
Prefect He took a white remote control from a niche and pressed the switch. All the glass on the display cases automatically opened.
"Please, Immortals!"