socalfunplaces Chapter 193 The Hidden Courtyard
Chapter 193 The Hidden Courtyard
Chapter 193 The Hidden Courtyard
It was already quite late when I returned to the courtyard house from night school.
Many people in the courtyard were already asleep.
Li Qin still opened the unlocked gate himself and entered the courtyard.
The commotion naturally woke up Yan Bugui in the front yard.
Yan Bugui did not say anything after seeing Li Qin, and did not even show his face.
After confirming that Li Qin had closed the door again, Yan Bugui returned to bed.
Since the last plenary meeting, Yan Bugui knew that he had offended Li Qin, and only a few days had passed.
Yan Bugui naturally wouldn't go up there to make things uncomfortable.
Li Qin returned home without any problems. He first washed up, and then sat in his study and read for a while.
Two hours passed quickly.
It was already late at night when Li Qin finally got up and turned off the lights in his house.
Regardless of whether anyone is paying attention, Li Qin is usually quite careful.
He would provide all the necessary cover whenever the situation allowed.
Like this time, if anyone were really concerned about his family situation, they would only assume that after washing up, he got tired of reading and then turned off the lights to go to sleep.
There will be no doubt about anything else.
After completing his disguise, Li Qin immediately used Apparition to appear in an alley near a street office in the east of the city.
Although it was already late at night, there shouldn't be many people outside.
However, Li Qin still wore an illusion spell just in case.
The neighborhood office is no ordinary place; even at night, there are still people guarding the entrance.
Fortunately, Li Qin hadn't considered entering through the main gate.
He first summoned a flock of birds, and then controlled them to fly towards the street office.
Under the cover of night, and because birds are small, they make very little noise when they fly.
So no one noticed anything unusual along the way.
Using the vision of a bird, Li Qin grasped the situation inside the street office in a very short time.
Although there were people on duty at the main gate, no one was on night shift inside the street office.
This, however, made Li Qin's actions easier.
After confirming the room where the housing information was located, Li Qin's figure instantly disappeared from the spot and then instantly reappeared in the street office.
This subdistrict office is very similar to the one in Nanluoguxiang; both are located in a courtyard house.
Li Qin appeared at the door of a room.
"The documents are in this room, but unfortunately the doors and windows are all tightly closed, otherwise we could move them directly into the room."
As long as there is a gap in the room large enough for a bird to pass through, he can control the bird to sneak into it.
With the help of the bird's vision, he could naturally teleport directly into the room.
Now it's a bit more complicated;
"The Arahomon Opens!"
Li Qin tapped the lock on the door.
As he silently recited the unlocking incantation, the door lock opened automatically.
Li Qin immediately pushed open the door gently and then entered.
To prevent anyone from noticing what was happening, Li Qin quickly closed the door again after entering the room and cast a sealing spell on the room.
That way, whatever he does in the room later won't be noticed by the people outside.
After doing all this, Li Qin released an illumination spell.
A ball of light floated up from his palm and eventually hovered above his head.
The room was instantly illuminated by the light emanating from the orb.
The first thing you see is several large file racks.
There were a lot of documents neatly arranged on top.
"Fortunately, I don't need to search for the information I need one by one."
Looking at these documents, a look of relief flashed across Li Qin's face.
There are at least several thousand documents here. If he wants to find the information he needs using conventional methods...
It's not an easy task.
However, he doesn't need to go through such trouble.
He silently recited the incantation in his mind:
"Data is flying in!"
The next second, a paper document suddenly flew out of the shelf where the documents were placed.
Finally, it flew into Li Qin's hands.
Li Qin knew that this was the information he was looking for.
He opened it immediately.
Inside are documents about some courtyard houses.
Li Qin quickly began searching among them.
"Found it!"
Suddenly, Li Qin stopped moving.
Then he took out a document from the list.
This document contains information about the courtyard house that Li Qin selected.
Li Qin did not take it away immediately, but instead looked through it first.
He first needed to confirm that the courtyard house was ownerless.
As Li Qin flipped through the documents, he quickly finished reading them all.
After reading it, he subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.
According to records, this courtyard house used to belong to a Kuomintang officer, but he died during the civil war.
This courtyard house was left unattended.
Over time, with no one maintaining it, the courtyard house fell into disrepair.
After the Communist Party took over Beijing, this courtyard house fell into even more disrepair.
The cost of the repair was too high, so it has been delayed.
"It's better without a master."
Li Qin's eyes were filled with joy.
He immediately put the information about the courtyard house into his storage ring, and then put the information bag back in its original place.
After confirming that no flaws had been left behind, Li Qin lifted the spell and left the room.
Li Qin then rushed to the next subdistrict office.
Of course, before leaving, Li Qin did not forget to lock the room again.
Next, Li Qin used the same trick again, going to several other subdistrict offices and obtaining information about courtyard houses from them.
It's unclear whether Li Qin was lucky or if the courtyard house he chose was too dilapidated.
According to the information, these courtyard houses are all unclaimed.
This saved Li Qin a lot of trouble.
Carrying four sets of information about the courtyard house, Li Qin immediately arrived at the courtyard house in the east of the city.
Next comes the most crucial part.
Use the "Loyalty and Devotion Spell" on the courtyard house.
Although it was his first time using it, Li Qin had already rehearsed it countless times in his mind, so when he actually took action...
Aside from being a little unfamiliar with the game at first, Li Qin quickly became proficient.
Originally, this role of liaison should have been filled by someone else, but Li Qin didn't trust anyone else; he only trusted himself.
Therefore, by virtue of the divine personhood, he set himself as the confidant.
That is to say, the divine status must be high; otherwise, with Li Qin's current magical attainments, he would not be able to do this.
With the successful use of the Loyalty Spell, the abandoned courtyard house in front of Li Qin suddenly seemed to be hidden by some invisible force.
It is clearly still in the same place, but it also seems to exist in some strange space.
From then on, only Li Qin could see, find, and enter this courtyard house.
No one else can find this courtyard house.
Unless Li Qin gives his permission.
Or perhaps one day in the future, when Li Qin feels he no longer needs this courtyard house, he will lift the curse of unwavering loyalty.
But that's definitely a long way off.
For now, we should continue dealing with the courtyard house issue.