Translator: AnubisTL
As for how Scar Dog had followed them, it was simple: he had used the blind man's eye mask and clung to Chen Jiang's coattails, making his way to the security room.
Scar Dog removed the eye mask from his head and tucked it into his chest. Instead of speaking immediately, he held his breath and studied the surveillance screens.
The screens displayed live feeds from seven or eight cameras positioned around the warehouse exterior.
But there was nothing unusual to see.
This meant no one had yet discovered the commotion they were causing inside the warehouse.
He glanced at Brother Jiang, and they exchanged a fiery look of determination.
Without hesitation, Chen Jiang strode out of the security room toward the center of the warehouse, while Scar Dog remained behind to destroy the surveillance backups.
After about a dozen steps, Chen Jiang reached a steel frame towering dozens of meters high. He pulled a dagger from his chest and pried open a wooden crate on the frame, revealing rows of neatly arranged, visually striking energy blocks.
The crate contained roughly thirty to forty energy blocks.
Inside the warehouse, there were nearly a thousand such crates!
Chen Jiang casually picked up an energy block, held it to his nose, and inhaled deeply with a satisfied expression before tucking it into his coat. "I like the mechanical race."
Just then, Scar Dog, who had been tasked with destroying the surveillance systems, and Li Hao, who had emerged from the restroom after hearing the signal, arrived before Chen Jiang.
Scar Dog gazed at the densely packed wooden crates and grinned, his expression slightly excited. "It seems the heaven's eye project can finally move forward."
"But Brother Jiang, how are we going to carry all these energy blocks? The space bracelets won't hold that much, right?"
"We can't just take some and destroy the rest—that would be such a waste!"
"Idiot," Chen Jiang said, rolling his eyes at Scar Dog. "You're so used to being poor, you don't even know how to spend money when you finally get rich, do you?"
"With this many energy blocks here, who needs a space bracelet?"
"Just open seven or eight phantom gates and transfer the entire warehouse's worth of energy blocks out. Simple."
"Exactly!"
A glint of excitement flashed in Scar Dog's eyes. "Why didn't I think of that? This is perfect! We just need to find a temporary hiding place for all these treasures."
"But..." He hesitated, his voice tinged with doubt. "The phantom gate and map manifestation will create quite a commotion in the night. We can only open gates up to a thousand meters away, which means the first gate will definitely be spotted by the guards at the city gate."
"Could something go wrong?"
"Don't worry, Brother Jiang," Li Hao interjected. "There's a natural cave less than 400 meters beneath us. It's semi-arid inside, with only a small pool of water. We can temporarily store the energy blocks there."
"Oh?" Chen Jiang raised an eyebrow, a calm smile playing on his lips. "Excellent. Let's get started then."
The three exchanged glances, then wordlessly rolled up their sleeves.
Li Hao's 3D map, composed of white light, reappeared in the air.
Scar Dog casually grabbed an energy block from the wooden crate and crushed it in his hand.
Instantly, a phantom gate materialized before them.
Scar Dog first crawled through to scout the other side, then emerged, turning to Chen Jiang. "It's a bit damp, but otherwise no problems. There's wind, but no visible exit and no light."
"Good."
Chen Jiang nodded slightly and stepped up to the steel frame. He pried open a wooden crate, confirmed it contained energy blocks, then lightly placed his hand on the crate.
A flash of white light.
The crate vanished into his space bracelet.
As he continued touching crate after crate, the wooden boxes on the steel frame disappeared one by one, reappearing in his space bracelet.
Then, he walked straight through the phantom gate.
After depositing the crates from his space bracelet in a cavern several hundred meters underground, he reemerged through the phantom gate and repeated the process.
Scar Dog followed suit, loading crates into his own space bracelet, passing through the phantom gate, and unloading them in the same underground cavern.
However, his space bracelet wasn't as large as Brother Jiang's, limiting how much he could carry at once.
Li Hao, lacking a space bracelet, stood cautiously nearby, acting as a lookout.
No one was better suited for this role than Li Hao.
His map manifestation ability clearly displayed the movements of alien race players in the vicinity. This meant he could detect even the slightest approach of mechanical race soldiers toward the warehouse in real-time.
At that moment, the only sounds within the warehouse were the droning hum of massive ceiling fans and the faint panting of Chen Jiang and his group.
Everything was quiet, and no one had discovered them.
Time gradually passed.
After nearly three hours, the vast warehouse was now completely empty.
The once densely packed rows of steel frames stood barren, like a honeycomb stripped of its honey, their emptiness radiating a sense of desolation.
Only a thin layer of dust hinted at the energy blocks that had once occupied them.
They hadn't counted the exact number of energy blocks they'd moved.
All they knew was that they'd moved a lot—a lot, a lot.
Midway through their operation, they had experimented with a new method: opening the phantom gate directly beneath the steel frames.
This would have allowed them to transport the entire steel frame in one go.
However, the steel frame was far too large; their phantom gate couldn't open wide enough.
Still, this led to the discovery of a new attack method.
By placing one end of the phantom gate beneath an enemy's feet and the exit a kilometer in the air, they could instantly teleport the enemy to that height, leaving them to plummet freely.
The sudden loss of footing would leave enemies with no time to react.
Unfortunately, they hadn't yet had a chance to test this method.
It had to be said that Scar Dog's innate ability energy drive, which initially seemed rather useless, revealed many surprising applications upon closer examination.
Li Hao's innate ability map manifestation, on the other hand, was like having full-map vision.
By now, dawn had broken, and a faint, fragile sunlight slowly filtered through the windows in the warehouse ceiling.
In summer, the day always arrives so early.
"Brother Jiang," Scar Dog said, stretching his slightly weary limbs before grinning. "Everything went smoothly. This batch of energy blocks is enough for us to pull off something big."
"Should we leave them a little 'gift' in the warehouse?"
"After all, the human race values reciprocity."
"Having received such a generous gift, we should at least offer something in return."
(End of the Chapter)
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