Chapter 213: Chapter 211 Tom: Collect Some Interest Chapter 213: Chapter 211 Tom: Collect Some Interest As soon as he got out of the car, Tom had placed several probes in the alley, compatible with his glasses.

With the successful placement of the probes, within a one-kilometer radius, Tom could view the entire alley on the screen of his glasses.

Moreover, these glasses provided a 360-degree, full-range, stereoscopic display and supported multiple, split-screen viewing.

With a few probes set up in the alley, Tom’s glasses could split the display into several screens.

It was an extremely useful high-tech product for surveillance, sentry duty, and early warning!

Tom leaned back on the bed, opened the antique painting that hid the treasure map, and while exploring the secrets of the painting, he passed the boring time, waiting for the lucky one to emerge among the three parties.

The dosage of the bomb Tom placed was not large.

But it was enough to ensure that once the bomb was triggered, absolutely no one in that alley would survive.

Daring to obstruct him from helping Princess Your Highness obtain the treasure map and not teaching them a lesson would invert his name, Tom.

Tom was not very familiar with ink paintings, let alone antique ones, no matter how much he examined them, he could not make out where exactly the treasure map was hidden: “Did Taotie and I, after all our efforts, end up grabbing a fake painting?”

However, changing his thoughts, Tom dismissed his own notion, even if it were fake, it didn’t matter; if he remembered correctly, lying beside him, the maid soon to assume her role, was the little darling carrying the treasure map.

If the painting was fake, Tom wouldn’t mind using a few tricks before her initiation as a maid, to dig out the true whereabouts of the treasure map.

If he couldn’t dig it out, it would mean Wan Xiaozhou had tough bones.

But he liked tough bones.

Tom had a hundred ways to grind tough bones into bone powder and then flush that bone powder down the sewer with a flushing toilet.

An hour later!

Tom’s expression shifted, he put away the ancient painting, returned it to its sealed bag, tapped his glasses’ temple with his finger, and the next second, both lenses displayed the scene in the alley.

Under Tom’s gaze, a team dressed in black, wielding submachine guns and pistols, moved in a tactical formation, slowly advancing toward Wan Xiaozhou’s car.

Their movements were very cautious.

Clearly, they were a group of well-trained soldiers.

Tom looked at his watch and clicked his tongue, “An hour, huh? They really are slow.”

“I overestimated you three.”

“But the gain isn’t bad, training such a team of soldiers, from selection, training to deployment, each costing millions is not enough, plus weapons and equipment, a few million more is still needed, it should be a lesson that’s neither too big nor too small.”

Watching the alley scene in his glasses, Tom took out a lipstick-sized cylindrical object from his pocket.

Tom unscrewed the cap, revealing a red button. He placed his thumb on the red button.

This was the remote control for the bomb in the car.

It was a fallback plan specially left by Tom.

The bomb in the car, disguised as a gift, could be triggered or detonated manually.

Tom also feared that if the opponents were too cautious to touch the car, his gift would not be received.

That would be an insult to his good intentions.

Tom wouldn’t allow it!

Tom didn’t rush to press the detonation button of the bomb.

He wanted to see if these people would take the initiative to receive his little gift.

Tom wasn’t afraid that the soldiers might flee.

He had enough confidence in his bomb.

As soon as he pressed the detonation button…

It would only take a second, and these soldiers would be dead.

In one second, these soldiers absolutely wouldn’t be able to escape the alley.

In the alley, the soldiers had the car completely surrounded.

A leader, pressing on his headset, seemed to be reporting to someone.

Tom guessed it must be their boss.

“Mistake–I forgot to place a bug,” he said after watching for a while with resignation.

The leader said a lot, and Tom tried to read his lips, but due to the poor video quality, he couldn’t make out anything useful.

He only knew that these people were from the Helan family.

“People from the Helan family, huh?”

“Fine by me!”

“Just right to collect some interest!”

Tom shrugged and muttered.

Unable to decipher the conversation, he lost his patience, didn’t want to wait any longer, as he felt sleepy.

Tom yawned and casually pressed the detonator button that made a “click” sound. He closed his eyes and counted to three.

The next second!

A deafening explosion came from outside the window.

It was Xiaozhou’s car in the alley that had exploded.

The explosion was intense and very loud.

Even through the hotel room’s windows several hundred meters away, there was a quiver.

“Ah ha~”
“What a wonderful sound~”
“Finally, I can get some good sleep~”
Tom put away the detonator, stretched lazily, lay straight on the bed, and kicked Xiaozhou off onto the floor. Tom didn’t even take off his clothes and went straight to sleep as he was.

The next morning, Tom woke up from his sleep.

He glanced at Xiaozhou, who was sleeping like a log on the floor, chuckled softly, patted his leg, and again displayed the scene of the alley on his device.

The explosion was thorough; the entire alley was scorched black. By now, the alley had already been cordoned off, and the bodies had been removed.

Seeing this, Tom nodded in satisfaction.

He was quite pleased with his artistic use of explosives.

Tom stood by the window, lighting a cigarette.

Gazing across the whole of Bar Street, he was recalling his actions from the previous night, checking if he had left any loopholes.

After confirming no apparent loopholes, Tom took out his phone, opened a food delivery app, and ordered some takeaway.

While waiting for the food, Tom sent a WeChat message to Fang Xiaocao.

[Tom: Princess Your Highness, your loyal Knight needs your support.]
[Fang Xiaocao: Tom, what’s wrong?]
[Fang Xiaocao: Did you run into some trouble?]
Fang Xiaocao replied instantly!

[Tom: Just need Princess Your Highness to come pick up your loyal Knight.]
[Fang Xiaocao: No problem, send me the location.]
Seeing Tom’s reply, Fang Xiaocao also breathed a sigh of relief: “As long as it’s safe, just being a driver, I can handle that!”

Tom sent his location to Fang Xiaocao, they agreed on a time, and then he put away his phone.

“Ding dong ding!”

The door was knocked, Tom picked Xiaozhou off the floor and put him back on the bed before going to open the door.

Outside, there was a delivery guy.

Tom’s ordered takeaway had arrived.

Tom received the takeaway, thanked the delivery guy, then closed the door.

Sitting on the bed, he ate his breakfast.

Tom picked up Xiaozhou again and threw him back on the floor, beginning to fabricate the scene.

He needed to leave a believable scene for the voyeuristic, sleazy old man.