Book 2 Chapter 6-Making Plans

After they left McKings they all went to Diana’s house. Apparently Diana has this secret room in her basement that no one but her and her father knows about. It was actually quite lavish inside. The walls were painted bright white. A fancily decorated round table at the center of the room. The chairs look really comfortable too like they were sofa chairs. The walls were covered with special polymers. On the round table were 8 seating areas and in front of the seating areas were virtual augment reality projectors. Once activated a physical screen will appear.

“Alright, everyone take a seat and we will begin,” Katrina instructed.

Lintian walks over to one of the seats and sat down. His body cushioned into it slightly.

“Diana your father really knows how to make a secret room,” Sam muses.

“Pfft my underling this is not even the true secret room,” Diana laughs heartily.

Katrina ignores their chatter and began clicking away on her screen. Then in the middle of the table a building pops up.

“Okay, lets begin now.” Katrina said.

Everyone quieted down and turns their head towards her.

“Before I begin to tell you the plan I want everyone to know the risks, obstacles, and dangers involved,” Katrina warns. “First I will begin with the obstacles. There are 55 floors to this building. Our objective is on the 44th floor. 11 floors down from the top and 44 floors up from the bottom. This 44th floor is a secret floor. There is no blueprint or anything to this floor that can be found. The people who built this floor are either dead or gone. So technically there is 56 floors but everything shows 55. The secret 44th floor is between the 43rd floor and the 44th. We will call the secret 44th floor, floor X.”

Everyone nodded their head.

Lintian raises his hand and asks, “how did you find out then?”

“We placed a special tracker made by Joe on the perpetrator. It could not be detected by normal means. Furthermore I had the privilege of going through his security system and found some interesting stuff before he stole my stuff.”

“Oh, ok.”

“Anyway with Joe’s tracker we found that he was 44 floors above the ground but when one of our scouts pretending to be the cleaning crew went onto the 44th floor they were actually one floor above that X floor. Even through in the elevator they pressed the 44th floor button.”

“I see.”

“Yes. Furthermore on each floor there is a detection spell. It will pulse at a rate of 3 seconds. While that is going on there are no blind spots in the cameras on all the floors. Furthermore you need a keycard to open up each door in the building. To make matters worse he has five master realm practitioners on floors from 40 to 48. So a total of 40 Master realm practitioners protecting the item he stole from me. Not only that there are 20 martial realm practitioners on each floor excluding the X floor. So there is a total of 1100 martial realm practitioners in the whole building.”

Hearing all that Lintian’s jaw drops to see floor. Hearing that there is a total of 1140 practitioners in one building is kind of scary. Even if 1100 of them is not close to his strength but still facing 1100 without absolute power is still scary. An example would be an army of ants. 1100 of them crawling towards you and their bites will hurt. Even through you can kill one or two with ease. Maybe even fifty of them with ease but 1100 of them is a different story. Lintian looks around and it seems everyone but him have been briefed already.

“Now the biggest problem lies in getting into the floor. It is in the elevator. It requires a special key. Then the door leading to the room is locked by biosecurity. Weight, eyeball scan, fingerprint, and voice password and the most annoying part is that it also require his qi to open.”

“!?!?!?” Lintian felt a little overwhelmed after hearing all that. From the sound of everything it was impenetrable fort for anyone in the Master realm down.

“Thats why this is so risky. One person getting caught will set off a snowball effect. Two make things harder we cannot let them know it is us who did it. So you can’t you any techniques that will lead it back too you. Got it?” Katrina asks sternly.

“Yes,” Lintian, and Sam answers while everyone else nods his head.

“What realm is the person who stole your stuff in?” Lintian asks.

“Heaven’s realm,” Katrina said a little effortlessly. “But this is where the good news come in. His son has also been on that floor before without his father around him. Meaning he has excess too it. Luckily during his last visit to my Lotus family business building we have his eyeball scan, fingerprint, and we even recorded his voice. Furthermore we know what his weight is so that makes things easier. The only thing we don't have is his qi. That is why we plan the day of the heist on your friend’s birthday. One both of them will be out of the building and distracted. Second with so many people around it is easier to get that qi. Any questions so far?”

“How are we going to extract the qi from him?” Sam asks.

Joe stands up and holds up a pair of gloves. “These gloves are something I invented. As long as he releases qi from inside outward then when these gloves touch it the gloves will absorb his qi. It is then stored in a crystal inside the glove.”

“So who will go up against him to absorb the qi?” Lintian asks.

“Any of us,” Katrina said out loud. “As long as one of us have the opportunity we will do it. Joe made 6 pairs of those gloves so it is more than enough for all of us to have one.”

“We will move on to the main plan. Step one is to get the qi and step two is to get in the building. Step three is to retrieve the stolen object. I will hand you each a file for your part of the plan. It will detail what you have to do. For now I will give you a brief overview of the plan so you know what to expect. For extracting qi there is really no plan at all. We will make it as we go along for that one. Once someone extracts the qi we will signal everyone that it is time to move. Then you will all make an excuse to move out or leave the party. Since there are 500 guest at that party it is not suspicious if five of us leave.”

Every nods their head agreeing to it.

“I will have five cars outside ready for everyone. It is a 35 minute drive at a pace of 100mph to get to the building. Once we get there we have 30 to 40 minutes to retrieve it. The plan has two parts too it. Lintian you will be disguised as the son of the Valiant family, Michael Valiant. He is fifteen this year and is about an inch taller than you so no one can really tell the difference anyway. Sam will follow you disguised as his body guard. Once you get in the building you have 10 minutes to get to floor X. I think you should be able to do it in 3 minutes top. Once you get to the door on floor X. Diana, and I will cause a ruckus on the first floor. This will cause a distraction. Everything else after that will be on your disc. Joe will be updating us constantly on the Valiant’s family movement.” Katrina paused for a bit to check for understanding.

“Alright, now everyone look at the detailed part of your mission,” Katrina instructed and a bing popped up on everyone’s computer.

Lintian looks at his detailed mission and his eyes nearly popped out of its socket.