Chapter 440: Chapter 436: A Storm is Brewing Chapter 440: Chapter 436: A Storm is Brewing Fang Xiaocao took quite a while to accept reality.

At the same time, she vaguely understood why Hot Noodles was so eager to make her grow, sometimes even at the risk of forcing the issue.

Fang Xiaocao could hardly imagine just how powerful the Black-robed Person would be in the future, given the black technology he currently wielded.

Perhaps the Black-robed Person was indeed the future her, and the major BOSS she and her present self needed to jointly confront.

Compared to the Black-robed Person, the Goddess of Vengeance, Pawnshop, and even the Blacklist seemed not as terrifying as they used to in her impression.

Fang Xiaocao felt as if her CPU were overheating.

It took a good while to reboot completely.

After much deliberation, Fang Xiaocao still decided to send Tom back first.

After all, though Tom was strong, he was also human.

Tom was now injured.

And all the Sprite Ball Bombs had been used up.

Already injured, and now without the Sprite Ball Bombs, Tom’s strength was greatly reduced; staying would mean he couldn’t bring his full power to bear.

It was better to send Tom back for treatment.

Lest he suffer some lingering injury or chronic ailment.

Seeing Fang Xiaocao’s determined attitude, Tom no longer insisted and nodded his agreement to go back for treatment.

Fang Xiaocao called over the helicopter pilot who had brought her, to fly Tom back.

She watched as the helicopter carrying Tom slowly took off, heading beyond the desert, until it became a small black dot in the sky; only then did Fang Xiaocao withdraw her gaze and scan the surroundings.

“Come over here!”

Fang Xiaocao beckoned to the rescue team leader.

The rescue team leader immediately ran over.

“Princess Your Highness, do you have any orders?”

The rescue team leader asked in a soft voice.

“Everyone is from our Tomb Raider Sect, right?”

Fang Xiaocao asked in a serious tone.

“All are!”

The rescue team leader replied in a low voice.

Fang Xiaocao nodded, “Good, allocate fifty people to take up arms and surround this area with the vault as the center. If there is any unusual situation, sound the alarm immediately. The rest shall divide ten people to move the gold, pack the gold into boxes, and the others will take turns to rest.”

Fang Xiaocao made the most reasonable arrangements.

“Yes!”

The rescue team leader replied solemnly.

“Go.”

Fang Xiaocao gestured with a wave of her hand.

The rescue team leader immediately went to carry out the orders.

Soon, the rescue team of over a hundred people split into two, carrying out Fang Xiaocao’s orders and began their respective tasks.

“Princess Your Highness, these ten people are responsible for moving the gold, is this okay?”

The rescue team leader, bringing ten men, approached Fang Xiaocao and asked cautiously.

Fang Xiaocao looked at the ten men.

Each one was a strong, robust man.

“It’s fine.”

Fang Xiaocao nodded with satisfaction.

“Shall we start then?”

The rescue team leader asked in a low voice.

Fang Xiaocao smiled but did not reply.

Instead, she took out the Blood Jade Ring.

“Everyone, look at me.”

Fang Xiaocao said with a smile.

Upon hearing Fang Xiaocao’s words, the ten people, including the rescue team leader, all looked at Fang Xiaocao at once.

Fang Xiaocao immediately performed hypnotism.

Under the augment of the Blood Jade Ring, all eleven people instantly stood frozen in place with silly, vacant expressions on their faces.

Fang Xiaocao walked over to the rescue team leader.

Snap–
She snapped her fingers in front of his eyes.

“Snap out of it.”

Before the words of Fang Xiaocao had settled, the rescue team leader immediately came to from his dazed and confused state.

The rescue team leader looked at Fang Xiaocao with a bewildered face, clearly having no idea what had just happened.

“Princess Your Highness, did I just…”
“Fall asleep?”

The rescue team leader asked with confusion.

Fang Xiaocao smiled slightly, “Don’t worry about those details. Take them to work.”

The rescue team leader nodded and turned to look at his subordinates, only to be startled.

His subordinates were all displaying stupefied expressions, foolishly grinning at him.

The rescue team leader dared not say much more.

He immediately led his subordinates to move the gold.

He feared that if he talked too much, he might end up like his subordinates, turned into an idiot.

Fang Xiaocao didn’t pay attention to what the rescue team leader was thinking; sometimes, maintaining a sense of fear towards you isn’t a bad thing.

Fang Xiaocao went over to Unhappy, who was crouching on the ground, and patted him, “Go lie on top of the vault and ensure its safety.”

Ever since she learned from Tom that the Black-robed Person still had some experimental subjects that hadn’t shown up, Fang Xiaocao began to feel a sense of crisis.

Clearly, the Black-robed Person was also interested in the gold, and Fang Xiaocao worried that while they were moving the gold, an experimental subject might come out and cause trouble.

Unhappy nodded and climbed towards the vault on all fours, arriving in front of the vault, he exerted force with his limbs and leaped up onto the vault.

He lay on top of the vault, feigning sleep with his eyes closed.

Meanwhile, Fang Xiaocao sat with Hei Ta under a heat-insulated tent, waiting for potential enemies.

Time ticked away, second by second.

In the blink of an eye, half an hour had passed.

The gold was being boxed up smoothly.

During this time, the helicopter returned, bringing another batch of boxes for the gold.

Fang Xiaocao stood up, looking around with a puzzled expression. She was very puzzled.

Was Tom’s disappearance fake?

Or had the Black-robed Person died for good?

His experimental subjects couldn’t find their way?

Glancing at the sky, it was already afternoon; Fang Xiaocao could only hope that before nightfall, all the gold in the vault could be packed up and taken away.

Otherwise, she feared that tonight would be a sleepless night–not only might the Black-robed Person’s experimental subjects attack but, counting the time, the first batch of people rushed from the Pawnshop all over the place should have arrived.

If they indeed all arrived together, Fang Xiaocao felt that her side might have a hard time coping.

Including herself, there were only two and a half top-level masters on Fang Xiaocao’s side; the rest of the rescue team members were mostly second-rate and bottom-tier, and countable on one hand were First-Class Experts.

If it really came down to a fight, they would be at a significant disadvantage.

Their formation could be broken in a single round.

Thinking of this, Fang Xiaocao stood up.

She walked to the front of the vault and asked the rescue team leader, “How much more gold is there inside?”

The rescue team leader glanced at the list in his hand and replied, “About two hundred and eighty kilograms have been boxed, and an estimated twenty or more kilograms are yet to be boxed.”

“Are all the boxes sealed?”

Fang Xiaocao asked in a deep voice.

“Back to Princess Your Highness, they are all sealed,”
The rescue team leader responded.

Fang Xiaocao nodded, “Call some people over, load all the boxed gold onto the helicopter, and transport it back to the Jiang Family Manor first.”

Fang Xiaocao felt it was better to transport away as much as possible before nightfall.

If there truly were enemies attacking at night, even if they couldn’t overpower them, retreating wouldn’t result in too great a loss.

With Fang Xiaocao’s order, the rescue team leader immediately called the resting team members to start moving the gold onto the helicopter.

Fang Xiaocao took out a satellite phone and called Jiang Xinyan, asking her to prepare to receive the gold and to make ready for its defense.

She also insisted that Tom go directly to the Jiang Family Manor to take full charge of defending the gold. After arranging everything, Fang Xiaocao was still not at ease, so she simply sent Hei Ta back as well.