Chapter 14 Borrow It for a While

Jiang Xiaoqian had been a good girl since she was a child. She was angry and anxious.

She had been loved by her parents and teachers since she was a child. She had never been late or left early, let alone stealing things.

Today, her brother asked her to steal? Was he her brother?

"Don't push me into the fire pit. Have you ever thought about what will happen if I am found out? I may be fired, and I may even have to be imprisoned. I think you'd better give up."

Jiang Xiaoqian waved her hand and glared at her brother with indubitability.

"It's not what you think. I just borrow it to study. I'll return it."

Jiang Xiaobai said seriously with eagerness.

If you don't go, how can I get the pieces?

Now the world seemed to be peaceful, but in fact, it was full of danger.

He wouldn't believe that he was the only cultivator in the world.

Not to mention the enemies in the past, even the ancient masters and demonic beasts, who might exist in the ancient relics now, which made he had to be tackled with full strength.

Compared with the past, his current strength was far from enough, and his personality was much more cautious than before. He had to make a plan before taking action.

His biggest wish now was to collect all the fragments and see what the information was left in them. Jiang Xiaobai, an ancient man, still lacked obvious reverence for the laws.

"But why can't you discuss with the research institute yourself?"

Jiang Xiaoqian didn't like to borrow, hoping to obtain things more gently and steadily.

"My silly sister, do you think it's possible? Can you lend those things to an outsider casually?"

"What's more, I just borrow it for research. I won't take it as my own."

"But I still..."

"Well, just tell me if you want to inquire about the mysterious man. I can help you." Jiang Xiaobai interrupted her immediately.

"Well, I really can't do it!"

Jiang Xiaoqian frowned and weighed the pros and cons for a while.

"Borrow it, mysterious person; borrow it, mysterious person..."

Jiang Xiaoqian didn't expect that she was almost convinced by him. Subconsciously, she also thought that it was "borrow"

"Can you do it or not?" Jiang Xiaobai smiled, trying to intrigue her.

"I can't."

"Okay, let me help you. I have a plan."

"Well, you have planned it!" Jiang Xiaobai gritted his teeth.

Five days later.

"Brother, I have known something about what you asked me to pry." Jiang Xiaoqian came back from the lab and reported the progress of the task.

"How about the security measures?"

"Very tight. The surveillance cameras are all over. There's no corner left. Every door needs a credit card to enter and exit with a clear identity. For different identities, the degree to get close to the fragments is also different."

"It's mainly about swiping the cards? Seems not so strict."

Jiang Xiaobai was confused. Were these the security measures that a top laboratory should have?

"The main reason is that even if this piece of the fragment has been studied for a long time, no result has been obtained. But for the insistence of Professor Zhao that this piece of the fragment is not that simple, this piece would have been thrown into the warehouse. Now, this piece of the fragment is not very important to them, and therefore the security measures are not so complicated."

Jiang Xiaoqian didn't know whether she was happy or frustrated. If the security measures are tighter, maybe she wouldn't have to borrow?

In that way, she can claim that it's not that he didn't want to go, but she really couldn't do it.

"In that case, we should take action as soon as possible, in case more dangers are lying ahead."

"Well, you are on duty tomorrow afternoon. You have to find an excuse to leave the lab before you get off work. Then you can enter the lab."

Jiang Xiaobai was in high spirits and told his sister his plan and the matters needing attention.

Frowning, Jiang Xiaoqian listened quietly.

It was the first time that she had done this, and it was inevitable that she felt nervous.

It was Sunday today, and the lab was a little quiet. Only one member of the project team was still finishing the last part of their work.

Jiang Xiaoqian sat uneasily in a small office. Almost all the people around her had left. She could only pretend to read a new archeology magazine to hide her uneasiness.

Jiang Xiaobai stared at the screen, on which was the scene of Jiang Xiaoqian sitting in the office.

The monitoring network of the lab had been hijacked.

With Jiang Xiaoqian as his assistant, it only took less than ten minutes for Jiang Xiaobai to hijack the monitoring network of the lab.

Jiang Xiaobai's right hand was flipping on the keyboard, while her left hand was holding his phone and playing games.

On the screen, Jiang Xiaoqian found an excuse to leave the lab as planned and came back soon.

During this period, Jiang Xiaobai cut and connected the images. In this way, he could prove that Jiang Xiaoqian was not present.

Otherwise, Jiang Xiaoqian, as the one on duty, would become the most suspicious person.

The people in the lab gradually left. Jiang Xiaoqian looked around and found that she was the only one left.

In the basement of the lab.

"Teacher, why don't you go home and have a rest?"

Xiao Wu passed by and found that the teacher was still in the underground office.

Few people knew that there was an underground passage hidden under Professor Zhao's office.

At the end of the passage, there was an unknown secret office.

This place was confidential. Only those who got permission would be allowed to enter. Without permission, not to mention entering, they didn't even know the existence of the office.

"Xiao Wu, I have gained so much this time. It's a pity that I don't work hard on it. There must be a big secret hidden in the divine source stone. We only need to get a few outcomes and that would be extraordinary. I don't dare to slack off."

Hearing the teacher's words, Xiao Wu felt a little ashamed.

His teacher was about to retire but was still hardworking.

It was hard for him to idle away a minute, let alone a day.

Just as he was about to persuade the teacher into an early rest, a crystal ball with an ordinary appearance on the table suddenly emitted a red light.

He had seen that there were three crystal balls in total in the whole lab. As long as the balls felt something strange approaching, the mother ball would give out a reminder, and one piece of the mask was randomly placed.

"Teacher, is there an invader?"

"Don't panic! Don't act rashly."

Professor Zhao put his hand on the crystal ball. The red light slowly faded, and then a scene appeared.

Jiang Xiaoqian cautiously stepped into the storage room where the fragments were stored. She came all the way smoothly. All the doors opened automatically when she walked to them. She reached her destination so easily.

"Teacher, is she... Jiang Xiaoqian? How could it be her?"

Xiao Wu vaguely remembered that this was a student who was invited to the research institute by his teacher. It was said that she was very talented in archeology.

"Don't worry. Let's wait and see what she wants."