At three o'clock in the morning, Lin Sanjiu stood in the howling night wind. She lowered her head and looked at the buildings not far away from her. The dim yellow light from the street lamps was like fireflies floating on a dark river. The wind flowed under her feet and rushed into the sky, returning to silence.
The most important thing to do when breaking into the museum was to be fast.
Even though it was already three o'clock in the morning, there would still be cars passing by the center of the city with a population of more than ten million. If there were cars, it meant that there might be witnesses. "The faster I break into the museum, the lower the possibility of being seen …" Lin Sanjiu exhaled softly. She crouched down at a narrow spot that was only the width of two palms.
She was currently standing on the tenth floor of a tall building next to the museum. Breaking into an office building was much easier than breaking into a museum. There were two streets and a green area between the commercial building and the museum. Looking down from here, she could see a row of trees standing tall in the night. The canopies of the trees were like duckweeds, extending all the way to the museum.
Lin Sanjiu leaped into the gale.
She tied a rope made from her Higher Consciousness around her waist, and the other end of the rope was firmly attached to the edge of the outer wall of the office building. As the wind blew against her face, she grabbed the rope and kicked off the outer wall. Then, she swung herself high into the air towards a large tree with thick branches. Lin Sanjiu's [Defense Forcefield] covered her entire body. Even though numerous branches smashed into her body and broke from the impact, they only created ripples on her [Defense Forcefield]. The moment Lin Sanjiu grabbed the branch, she retracted the rope and threw it at the lamppost across the road. With a tap of her foot, the branch broke, and she leaped towards the top of the lamppost.
The museum was only one floor high, and the surveillance range of the surveillance cameras was mainly on the ground. The security personnel in the monitoring room probably didn't expect that above all the surveillance cameras, in the dark night where only birds could fly through, someone's feet didn't even touch the ground. He stepped across the sky and gently landed on the roof of the museum's main building.
The moment Lin Sanjiu landed, she immediately crouched on the roof. Her whole body was covered in black clothes. She moved quickly and quietly. When there was no light, she could almost melt into the night. Lying in the shadow cast by the rooftop wall, she looked around but did not find any cameras on the roof. Unless an ordinary person climbed up from the outer wall, they would not be able to reach the roof. Naturally, there was no need to install a camera on the roof. Otherwise, she would have to use the recorder to activate the Pygmalion Choker. Then, she would have less time to move around in the building.
Following the location in her memory, she bent down and found the area on the rooftop that corresponded to the Pygmalion Choker.
It was not easy to cut out two holes on the concrete roof. She placed both of her hands in the shallow pit, palms facing each other, and added a layer of Willpower barrier around them. The [Mosaic Censorship] instantly shattered the roof of the rooftop. In an instant, the gravel and cement all exploded, hitting the [Defense Forcefield]. The flying gravel and the muffled rumbles were all trapped under the Willpower barrier. It sounded like a muffled groan after someone covered their mouth, unable to stir up the night at all.
The roof of the building was so thick that a single explosion would not be able to break through it. Lin Sanjiu carefully took out half of the manhole cover. She had cut it into pieces before she came here. Using the [Power of Description], she stretched and sharpened the manhole cover. Soon, she had a pickaxe in her hand. She aimed the tip of the pickaxe at the remaining concrete and smashed it into pieces five to six times. Before the pieces fell to the ground, they had all turned into cards and disappeared into her palm.
As long as she lowered her head and looked through the hole, she could see the silent glass cabinets in the exhibition hall.
Even though Lin Sanjiu did not know much about the security system of the museum, she had heard bits and pieces about the security system of the museum when she was in the Twelve Worlds Centrum. High-definition infrared cameras were an essential part of the security system. Other than that, it would be best to make sure that there were vibration sensors, sound detectors, and glass shattering detectors that could be activated at night.
Lin Sanjiu took out her voice recorder and deactivated it. She turned the volume to the lowest and put her ear to the recorder. A little girl's voice rang out. She spoke as if she was reading a piece of paper, "Your ability is that you can take a picture and save it. Then, you can create a 3D picture that can be moved around and stick it in front of others. Just like the ability of the man on the stairs of Lava Hospital … What does that mean?"
The [Pygmalion Choker] quickly heated up. This was obviously a normal reaction when the choker was working, but when Lin Sanjiu thought about the fact that there was another Pygmalion Choker not far from her feet, she felt that the choker would not be able to contain its excitement. Lin Sanjiu took a deep breath and stuck her head into the hole on the roof. She looked around and spat out two words silently, "Take a picture."
The place where her gaze swept past a moment ago blurred slightly. It was as if two identical transparent films were superimposed on each other. After they were aligned, the picture became clear again.
Lin Sanjiu extended her finger and pointed at the "picture" from afar. She moved the picture to the surveillance cameras and completely blocked their "line of sight". From the surveillance cameras, Lin Sanjiu could see the same empty exhibition hall as before. However, in the real exhibition hall, a dark figure was slowly descending from the ceiling. The figure was hanging by his ankle by a rope. If he did not step on the floor, the vibration sensor would not be triggered.
Under the dim light of the night lights, the other Pygmalion Choker lay quietly in the middle of the display case. It had lost its luster and looked like an old animal at the end of its lifespan, curled up and waiting for its time to sleep. Lin Sanjiu couldn't tell where the pickup device was from the outside of the display case, but she didn't need to look. She placed one hand on the display case and was about to turn it into a card.
However, as soon as she thought about it, the cabinet still stood there motionlessly. In an instant, all the hairs on her back stood up, and she almost let out a cry of surprise.
Did it lose its effect? Did it finally lose its effect from her ability?
Blood rushed into her eardrums, creating a rustling sound. She felt as if she had been stretched for ten minutes before the ringing in her ears subsided. Lin Sanjiu came back to her senses, but she couldn't stop the lingering fear in her heart from squeezing it out of her chest.
It wasn't that her ability had lost its effect. It was that the display case was sealed on the floor and was connected to the floor. Naturally, she couldn't turn it into a card. However, a thought suddenly popped up in her mind...
Mrs. Manas sighed and didn't say anything. Actually, she didn't need to say anything.
Lin Sanjiu enveloped the glass case with her higher consciousness. Then, she summoned her metal gauntlets and punched the glass. This was a laminated glass. Even if it was smashed by an external force, it wouldn't fall to the ground. Instead, it would form a dense, snow-white spider web on the ground. However, once the glass broke, it wouldn't take much effort to turn it into a card. In just a few seconds, she reached her hand into the hole and grabbed the Pygmalion Choker.
Lin Sanjiu didn't know if it was because she was hanging upside down, but her heart felt like it was going to jump out of her chest. It was unbelievable that the sound recorder couldn't pick up such a loud heartbeat.
Panting slightly, Lin Sanjiu turned the necklace in her hand into a card. She didn't even have the time to untie the rope. She brought the card closer to her eyes and read the words with the dim light from the card.
She was in a daze for a moment.
"There are five more items … Do you want to take a look?" Mrs. Manas asked in a low voice.
Lin Sanjiu responded with a "Yes." She flipped her body and got up from midair. The other few items were quite far away from each other. If she went to retrieve them one by one, it would be very risky. However, she couldn't care less about that now.
That strong speculation that was like a beating heart must be confirmed in the next five minutes, no, four and a half minutes.
Since she couldn't walk on the floor, she would walk on the ceiling. She had already cut the manhole cover she stole yesterday into small pieces and turned them into a card. As she slapped her palm on the ceiling, the manhole cover was removed from its card form. Lin Sanjiu maintained her posture and muttered some incantations. She used her [Power of Description] to turn the manhole cover into a metal ring and attached it to the ceiling.
Relying on the metal rings on the ceiling, Lin Sanjiu climbed on the ceiling with her hands and feet. She was more agile and agile than a gecko. Every time she was about to enter the range of a new camera, she would take a few 3D pictures and "stick" them in front of the camera in front of her. In less than two to three minutes, she had collected all the other Special Items.
This time, she didn't look at the card. After her [Power of Description] lost its effect, the metal rings would turn back into the manhole cover and fall from the ceiling. They would crash into the alarm, and by that time, she would have already left the museum.
After Lin Sanjiu crawled out of the hole on the roof, she let out a sigh of relief. Her body was trembling slightly. Robbing a museum was indeed nerve-wracking, even for a posthuman. However, what really scared her was the possibility of being discovered.
Even though she knew that it wasn't a good place to be on the roof, she couldn't help herself. As she ran out, she glanced at the card in her hand. She stopped abruptly at the edge of the roof. She stared at the words a few more times before she finally put the card away with trembling hands.
She wiped her face and closed her eyes tightly as she took a deep breath.
"Who are you?" Lin Sanjiu asked softly before she opened her eyes.
There was no one on the roof or on the road. Only the night breeze blew through the hole in the roof. For ordinary people, unless they were standing behind her, they would not be able to hear her at all.
After half a minute, an unfamiliar male voice came from the wall downstairs.
"I knew it, I knew it," he said and sighed. "When I saw those items, I was wondering what I should do if a posthuman came to rob me …"
Lin Sanjiu listened to him quietly without moving.
"Have you gotten the items?" The man stood in a blind spot. Lin Sanjiu could only hear his voice but couldn't see him. "You should have sensed something wrong with them, right?"
Lin Sanjiu recalled the same sentence on the six cards.
"This Special Item has lost its effect."
They weren't ordinary artifacts. All six Special Items had lost their effect …
"You just asked me who I am?" The man gave a wry smile downstairs. "Let me introduce myself. I am the security captain of this museum. I am a posthuman. "
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