Chapter 892: Pathways |
For the first time in years, Lily's hands trembled as she held the box that was about the size of her 10 inch tablet. She eyed the tomb of her grandmother and grandmother before slightly bowing and saying her thanks to both of them.
"This Granddaughter will come back soon," she said in the most respectful voice that she could muster. Then she held the box closer to her body and looked at Victor. "Let's go."
"Young Miss… I think it might not be logical to use the only gate that we have." The property only had one gate, using this would let the enemy spot them easily as there was also one road that would lead to the gate.
"Do you have any other idea?" Lily and Victor ran back towards the mansion. It didn't take them a few seconds to finally pass the garden and went to the backdoor of the mansion. However, Lily's face instantly turned grim when she saw the lights that were coming from the gates. Zhou Jingren's voice echoed on her ears.
"They are already at the gates. You have one minute."
She looked at Victor as her heart started beating fast. She would not want to confront both Mr. Neeson and Mr. Kuznetsov right now. "Is there any other way out of this mansion?"
"There is." Victor said. "But we have to go there by foot."
"Then good! Daohu… let's go." She looked at Victor. "Lead the way." Of course she didn't miss the slight hesitation in Victor's eyes. However, he didn't ask any more questions and started leading them towards Lily's room. This of course surprised Lily. Her room was a huge one. It was a thousand two hundred square feet big and was located on the second floor of the mansion. She immediately knew why Victor hesitated earlier.
So there was a hidden way inside her room. For some reason, this didn't surprise Lily anymore. She followed Victor inside the room and watched him go to the fire place. After pressing some sort of a secret mechanism near the fireplace, the stone wall next to the fireplace silently shifted, revealing a small pathway that was only enough for one person to pass through.
The three of them soon reached the end of the stairs. In front of them were three pathways that were small enough for a person to crawl into- in fact it was too small that they looked like holes. Victor gave Lily a wry look. ���This one will lead to a secret shop in London." He pointed at the left hole. "The center will lead to another house. And the last one will lead to a cabin a few miles away from here. The nearest one is the store and the farthest one is the cabin. It might take us hours of crawling before we reach the pathway that has enough space to walk. Young Miss… which one are we going to take?"
"The house. Let's go to the house." Lily said. Earlier, Zhou Jingren already disabled all the camera's in the house. Because of that, Lily was confident that the others didn't know about the secret door.
When Victor heard Lily's words, he immediately started crawling towards the center. "Please be careful with the dust." He uttered as he started coughing. Lilian had told him not to bother cleaning these pathways as it was too troublesome and old. It would take him days to finish cleaning just one of the three holes. Because of this, spiderwebs and dust littered the area. The trio didn't say anything else as they continued to crawl into the space. After a couple of minutes… the space got bigger and bigger until it was enough for someone like Daohu to walk without crawling. This time, the pathway was dim. Seeing this, Victor immediately used a flashlight that looked like a small bulb. "This part does not have lights as the solar panels powering the bulbs were broken a few months back. I didn't have the time to fix it." He explained, embarrassment laced his tone.
"It's fine." Lily answered. Right now, she had no time to think about the lights. Her mind was actually filled with questions and more questions. First, this tunnel was long. How did Lilian manage to hide this from other people? And who the hell made this tunnel? Did they use this during the wars tens of years ago?
The trio continued to walk towards the house that Victor spoke of unaware of the storm that was happening inside the mansion.
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Inside the mansion, Mr. Neeson and Mr. Kuznetsov sat in silence as they waited for their men to search the mansion. Clearly, they received the right information about Lily. She was here. Meaning… she was here to retrieve the thing that they wanted to have. Because of this, they immediately came here before Lord Naru and his men could. Obtaining that file was very important for the two.
"I thought she was here? This place looks empty!" Mr. Kuznetsov frowned. "Even that butler is not here."
"There should be some sort of a secret room. They must be hiding inside… somewhere in this room." Mr. Neeson said as he dialed a number on his phone. "I want you to search every stone wall and bookshelf in Lilian's office and room. That woman is pretty clever. It is obvious that she would have put some sort of a secret room near her to make her feel secure." Since he was confident that he knew the type of woman Lilian was, Mr. Neeson immediately gave instructions to check everything inside her room.