“Mount Thoughtless is my mother’s legacy, and that’s mine, and I don’t care which one of them is the king of gambling, and I’ll give a round of applause to whoever is the better gambler tonight, but the stuff is mine.”
“What the hell do you want? Don’t mess around!”
Everyone’s attention was focused on the gambling game and no one noticed the two men, Old Mo and I, old and young, leaving the casino and heading for the fifth floor.
The staircase to the fifth floor was outside the casino, guarded by a man, and was used to store the display of the Thoughtless Mountain. You could see the fifth floor from the inside of the casino hall, but to get upstairs you had to go from the outside.
I got out of my cabin and the gale outside blew so hard against me that it almost knocked me right over. I realised that it was raining outside and the waves were at least two storeys high and if the boat hadn’t been so big, our boat might have been tipped over.
Both Mo and I stumbled, I clung to the ropes on the hull, Mo was even better, using his erhu as a crutch, but he stood as steady as an invincible man, not falling down.
“Young man, how can you not listen to advice …… quickly go back with me.”
I sneered: “Old uncle, if you still want to play on, I’ll make it clear to you. Since all the people in Jianghu have come for the Thoughtless Mountain, why have you come? You are also here for Thoughtless Mountain.”
He had rambled on so much with me, making introductions and hinting explicitly, but didn’t he just want me to go and get the Thoughtless Mountain?
Old Mo’s movements froze for a moment, and the hand holding up the erhu was released, when another big wave hit, and the salty seawater poured down upside down, and Old Mo was nailed there like a nail, not even wavering.
I still felt a nerve-wracking murderous aura over the sound of the waves, all emanating from Lao Mo’s body.
I said, “I just want the thoughtless mountain, I’m not interested in anything else. If there is really some great secret hidden inside that has nothing to do with me, I don’t even want it.”
Old Mo said, “Young man, how can I believe in your empty words?”
“There’s nothing you can do whether you believe it or not, or the two of us will fight now and both lose.”
As soon as my words left my mouth, the sabre in my hand was already turned around and directly against Old Mo’s throat, and almost at the same moment, his bow was on my neck.
The wind was gusting, the waves were whistling, and both our lives were hanging by a thread.
I was in my early twenties, but Old Mo was in his late seventies, and he was moving as fast as I was!
Moreover, this was even if I had prepared in advance.
If I had to fight hard, I’m afraid I would have a higher chance of losing.
I gritted my teeth and tried to say, “Old man, didn’t you originally lie to me like this to get me to help you get the Thoughtless Mountain. Why can’t you cooperate.”
In fact, I knew very well in my heart that this old man wanted me to make a big fuss at the last minute, and then he could fish in the water to get the Thoughtless Mountain.
Old Mo said, “There are six of the nine great clans here, what confidence do you have in taking it away in full view of everyone?”
I said, “Don’t think you guys are so great, but when it comes to getting rid of this thing unnoticed, we special forces are more experienced.”
I took a deep breath and tried to push the bowstring away from Mo with my saber, but Mo did not resist.
I knew very well that if we had both done it at the same time, he would have been a little quicker than me, but the old man let me.
“Old man, you and I will join forces. What I want isn’t even a relic, it’s the truth.”
Old Mo was not reluctant, but there was nothing else he could do. With all six clans present, not only did I not have the confidence to take the item, even he did not have the confidence to do so.
And now we were on the high seas, one couldn’t go anywhere except to stay on the ship.
It would not be difficult to snatch the Thoughtless Mountain, but if we did so to the point where everyone knew about it, we would soon be the enemy that the whole ship attacked.
Old Mo thought for a moment and changed his tone, “Young man, respect the old and love the young, you can’t cheat the old.”
This old thing who loves to pretend, I really wanted to roll my eyes to him.
I observed the terrain, the fifth floor stairway was monitored and guarded. These few people were certainly nothing, Old Mo and I could have cleaned them up with our eyes closed.
But there was no way we could sneak in unnoticed.
If we didn’t want anyone to know, we would have to climb in through the outer wall. The boat was shaking very badly, which was no more than being afraid of ordinary walls.
I had an injury on my right hand and had just soaked in seawater, which was hurting badly at the moment, and it was even riskier to climb the wall with one hand, but there was no other way out.
“We need to get into the fifth floor quickly and get this painting before the game ends. Otherwise Moon Man Bow will definitely take what’s in the painting as soon as he gets it.” Old Mo said.
“Then we’ll have to go over the wall, one floor up, and if we fall into the sea we’ll be dead.”
“You’re afraid?” Old Mo asked.
I laughed, “You could have made the joke of the year list with that one. Old man, when I was a special forces soldier, this level was considered walking on level ground.”
Old Mo and I went around to a less crowded piece of the deck first and then went straight up to the sixth floor. It was much harder to flip out on the fourth floor than it was to let the rope out from the sixth.
I tied the rope to the window pane and took the lead by hooking it and lowering it bit by bit, reaching the fifth floor window and then rolling in with a jerk.
Old Mo followed me into the fifth floor.
The fifth floor was very quiet, but at the same time, the number of security guards was very large, probably more than the other floors combined.
As soon as we both landed, we saw a security guard coming around the corner and I was busy pulling Lao Mo into hiding.
After the guard left, the more I thought about it, the more I couldn’t figure out why there were so many guards on this floor. Do we need them?
At that moment, a shout of alarm came from the next floor, which was separated by steel plates, and the sound of boiling people seemed to overturn the floor.
Old Mo and I looked at each other, could it be that the winner had already been decided? Trouble.
