20: Action Plan

As a high-end restaurant in Jin Yun City, Luanfeng Restaurant was far beyond the likes of Huihai Restaurant, a medium-to-small establishment.

At this moment, in a private room at Luanfeng Restaurant.

Xiao Shi, dressed in black clothes and pants, with a wide black bamboo hat covering his head, sat at a round table. The brim of his hat was pulled low, concealing most of his face in shadow.

He held a wine glass in one hand, contemplating his plan.

Thump, thump!

Not long after.

A knock came from outside the door.

“The door isn’t locked, come in.”

Xiao Shi responded indifferently.

The door to the private room was pushed open, and a person draped in a gray robe, with his entire face hidden beneath a hood, walked in.

He walked straight to the seat opposite Xiao Shi.

“Greetings, Sir.”

The gray-robed man removed his hood, revealing a weather-beaten face. It was a middle-aged man with a two-finger-long scar on his cheek.

He looked somewhat fierce.

His vital energy fluctuations were roughly around the Entering Martial Realm Fourth Level.

In front of Xiao Shi, he appeared very respectful.

“You are Yin She?”

Xiao Shi asked.

The person had been summoned using the Night Watch’s special communication method. If there were no surprises, this person would be the Night Watch Division’s mole embedded in Kuangfeng Stronghold.

“Yes!”

The middle-aged man took out the token that confirmed his identity.

Xiao Shi nodded.

“How much do you know about the Huihai Restaurant Owner’s wife?”

Yin She pondered for a moment, his gaze sweeping over the wine glass in front of him. With Xiao Shi’s nod of approval, he picked up the glass from the table, took a sip, and spoke.

“Ever since Kuangfeng Stronghold Lord abducted the Huihai Restaurant Owner’s wife, she has been housed in a separate courtyard within the stronghold. No one is allowed near that courtyard without Kuangfeng Stronghold Lord’s permission.”

“Not many people in the stronghold have seen the Huihai Restaurant Owner’s wife. Kuangfeng Stronghold Lord never allows her to leave the courtyard by a single step…”

Xiao Shi looked thoughtful at this and asked again.

“Were all the Night Watch who snuck into the stronghold to rescue her in the past arranged by you?”

“Some of them were…”

Yin She nodded.

“There were also some arranged by other moles, but those moles were all rooted out afterwards. Now, only I remain.”

Xiao Shi took a sip of the wine in his glass.

From the information Yin She provided, it was not difficult to see… Kuangfeng Stronghold Lord clearly knew that Night Watch would continuously come to rescue her, and he must have taken precautions for this.

Even if Xiao Shi had not seen that courtyard, he could imagine that it was probably already a trap set by Kuangfeng Stronghold Lord.

Perhaps this was also the reason why Kuangfeng Stronghold Lord did not allow people from the stronghold to approach the courtyard.

“How did those Night Watch fail before?”

Xiao Shi asked again.

“In terms of identity, they all hid very well and didn’t reveal any flaws, but when they went to rescue her, they couldn’t succeed.”

Yin She shook his head.

He also didn’t know exactly where those previous Night Watch had failed.

After all, his task was to arrange identities for these Night Watch, allowing them to sneak in, and he would not act with them to rescue her.

Xiao Shi’s eyes showed contemplation.

If he were to rescue her by following the path of those previous Night Watch, the probability of success would be extremely low.

Indeed, he still had to follow his own plan.

“I need to know how many people are usually in Kuangfeng Stronghold?”

He looked at Yin She.

Yin She thought for a moment.

“The number of people in Kuangfeng Stronghold is approximately two thousand, but people from other strongholds occasionally visit, so the number cannot be fixed.”

“Two thousand people?”

Xiao Shi frowned.

This number was much higher than he had imagined, which was not conducive to his plan.

“How is Kuangfeng Stronghold distributed? Is there a map?”

Xiao Shi asked again.

“Yes!”

Yin She took out a relatively simple map, apparently made by himself, which roughly depicted the distribution of Kuangfeng Stronghold.

Xiao Shi focused on the location of that separate courtyard, and at the same time, he asked Yin She some other questions.

He gained a relatively comprehensive understanding of Kuangfeng Stronghold.

Then, combining it with his own plan, he conducted an analysis.

“It should work!”

Xiao Shi made a judgment internally.

“Does Sir need me to arrange an identity for you?”

Yin She asked.

“No need.”

Xiao Shi shook his head.

He would not use the methods of those previous people to rescue her.

Kuangfeng Stronghold Lord clearly already knew about their method of rescue and had been guarding against it strictly.

This made Yin She pause.

If it wasn’t to arrange an identity to sneak in, he really couldn’t think of any other way Xiao Shi could go to Kuangfeng Stronghold to rescue her.

Surely he wasn’t going to just fight his way in alone to rescue her?

Yin She looked at the Night Watch in front of him with confusion.

He always felt that this Night Watch was different from the Night Watch he had encountered before… “What do you need me to do, Sir?”

He asked curiously.

“I need you to help me transport a batch of wine inside.”

Xiao Shi gently swirled the wine in his glass, his eyes flickering.

“Deliver wine inside?”

Yin She was even more confused.

“Does Sir intend to poison the wine?”

He guessed.

Xiao Shi shook his head.

He had considered the method of poisoning, but it wouldn’t work.

The poison he had, Corrosion Blood, needed to come into contact with blood to react.

If it were mixed in wine and drunk, it would not have any effect.

Moreover, even if it had an effect when drunk, it would be impossible to poison everyone in Kuangfeng Stronghold. As soon as one person was poisoned, the others would know there was poison in the wine.

It was impossible for everyone in Kuangfeng Stronghold to drink the wine at the same time.

“If it’s not poisoning… then what is the purpose of Sir wanting me to deliver this batch of wine?”

Yin She was completely puzzled.

“You only need to help me deliver this batch of wine inside, and then find a way to hold a banquet, where everyone inside Kuangfeng Stronghold can come and drink the wine.”

Xiao Shi instructed.

“…Yes!”

Although Yin She did not know Xiao Shi’s specific plan, as a mole for the Night Watch Division, he would obey all arrangements made by the Night Watch… Before Yin She left, Xiao Shi first gave him a pot of wine, telling him to take it back to the stronghold so that Kuangfeng Stronghold Lord would know he had such fine wine, and to use this to hint to him that in two days, he could acquire more of this wine.

Xiao Shi believed that once Kuangfeng Stronghold Lord tasted this wine, he would definitely support Yin She in holding a banquet in the stronghold at that time.

As for how Yin She would explain the origin of these fine wines, that was not something Xiao Shi needed to worry about.

As an excellent mole, Yin She would naturally find a reasonable explanation.

“Two days for preparation, that’s enough!”

After leaving Luanfeng Restaurant, Xiao Shi began to act according to his plan.

First, he needed to collect a large number of creatures like insects and birds.

By killing them, he would increase the quantity of fine wine he possessed.

Although he currently had a lot of fine wine… the supply needed this time was quite large, and the wine he currently had might not be enough.

Finding these insects and birds in Jin Yun City was not a difficult task.

Xiao Shi directly paid to hire a group of people to collect them.

In less than a day… the insects and birds in his hands already numbered nearly ten thousand!