Mystery: The Stars Returner

After leaving Duke Negan's mansion and on the carriage, Hastur was thinking about how to use the 53580 gold pounds reasonably.

This time, Greco helped him earn 5000 gold pounds from 53580 gold pounds. There must be a lot of behind-the-scenes operations.

A cheating operation like this will definitely not happen again in a short time, otherwise Greco would not terminate the investment.

This is already the maximum limit within the scope of his power to open a back door for himself to make money.

Next, how to invest the money is your own business, and you must be responsible for your own profits and losses.

The most stable investment is to invest in some steel plants and banks. The profit is not too big, but the advantage is stability.

If you invest in some emerging industries, your personal vision will be tested, and you may make big profits or big losses.

Hastur thought for a long time and felt that he could do the opposite.

Nowadays, with the introduction of the Corn Laws, the land of nobles has become increasingly worthless. This is the best time to acquire large amounts of land.

If you buy a large amount of land and use it to grow food crops, you will have an advantage in future turmoil.

When the war begins, the prices of food crops will inevitably rise.

The only disadvantage is that the cycle is too long and it takes a long time.

The war should start in two years. If you invest in land now, the return rate will be very low.

Hasta thought for a while and decided to divide the money into two parts, one for steady investment and the other for investment in emerging industries.

When the carriage returned to his home, Hastur had already planned the use of the money.

A fraction of 580 gold pounds was given to Butler Neil to be used for normal household expenses, of which 3000 gold pounds was stored in his own small vault and could be used to purchase extraordinary materials.

As for the bulk of the 50000 gold pounds, 20000 gold pounds are invested in banks and the steel industry respectively. The annual return rate should fluctuate between 15% and 25%, and the remaining 30000 gold pounds are used for investment in emerging industries.

This is considered a relatively high-risk proportion of wealth investment.

At first, he wanted to swap the investment proportions of the two, but in the end he chose this more radical investment method.

After all, he is familiar with the upcoming changes in the situation, and high risks also mean high returns.

After returning home, Hastur asked Butler Neil to help him prepare an investment project for various industries in Loen, and also asked him to recruit two chefs. As for other needed manpower, Butler Neil made the arrangements himself. .

It's past ten o'clock at night.

Hastur took a carriage to a bar some distance away from the Russell Memorial Exhibition to drink.

He planned to take action tonight, sneaking into the Russell Memorial Exhibition to steal the Black Emperor Card.

He had already surveyed the routes nearby and was very familiar with them.

After drinking at the bar until nearly two o'clock, Hasta staggered out of the bar door.

He had already asked his carriage driver to go back, and no one got in the carriage, so he was walking drunkenly on the street.

After walking a certain distance, he pretended to be drunk and vomited, turned into a dark alley, and then walked in the dark in the alley.

Unfortunately, I wasn't very lucky, and three little tails followed me.

She probably had her eye on him as early as when he was drinking in the bar. Seeing him drunk, she wanted to take a risk and make a fortune.

Hastur glanced behind him out of the corner of his eye. They were not carrying weapons. They probably only wanted to make money and not kill anyone.

After walking for a while, Hastur had already gone deep into the alley, and the three people following him were eager to take action.

"Okay, let them be my witnesses tonight."

Hastur paid attention. If he was found here, these three thieves could take advantage of it.

Of course, basically no one would suspect him.

After passing a corner, Hastur stopped, and then used his extraordinary ability to obtain the dark path from the third hidden chain, directly putting the three thieves into a state of slumber.

Taking advantage of this time, he hurriedly came to the position he had set up earlier, preparing to sneak into the Russell Memorial Exhibition.

He first hid his body in a hidden place, and then established a large-scale alert rule nearby to prevent any accidents from happening.

Then, in the spirit state, he quickly passed through the many walls here and came to the corner outside the Russell Memorial Exhibition.

His body blended into the wall like a ghost, and he followed the wall along the route he had planned.

As he walked forward, he saw the members of the Heart of Machinery who were responsible for guarding this place, but the other party could not see him.

The secret authority cooperates with the formulation of relevant rules, and the invisibility technique used is difficult for even Sharon to see through.

His spirit body flowed unimpeded and soon reached the second floor of Russell's manuscript storage room.

The spirit body fell off the wall like a piece of light tissue paper, and then covered the ground on the second floor, slowly melting in.

On the first floor, a huge crystal chandelier hung from the ceiling, highlighting an invisible human face.

This strange scene did not attract the attention of the extraordinary person below.

He was still holding the weapon, sometimes looking at the door, and sometimes walking back and forth on patrol. He seemed to be a little less vigilant.

Also, this is already the innermost location of the Russell Memorial Exhibition. If no accidents are discovered outside, he will be safe here.

Hastur looked at it for a while, and other parts of his body also appeared from the ceiling, and then floated to Russell's desk covered with glass.

The bookmark, which looked like a child's doodles, was within reach of the glass cover and could be touched.

The glass cover cannot block the state of the spirit body, but the things inside must have set up warning measures. Once touched, the alarm bell will sound.

At this time, the extraordinary person looked over, but could not find that there was a spirit body here, even though the spirit body was less than three meters away from his position.

He glanced away and looked elsewhere.

At this point, the Black Emperor Card is already in Hastur's possession, because even if it is discovered, he can return directly to the Hall of Stars. Then he returned to his body from the Hall of Stars.

But he wanted to try his extraordinary ability first, to see if he could use the lawyer's ability to see through flaws and find out where the warning measures were insufficient, and then circumvent the warning and take away the Black Emperor card without alerting anyone. .

Staring at the inside of the glass cover, he slowly activated his spiritual power. Things like light gray threads surrounded all the objects inside.

Although these threads will break when touched, the moment they break, they can serve as a reminder to the extraordinary people guarding the Roselle Memorial Exhibition.

This is a bit similar to the infrared detection in the movie. Once touched, an alarm bell will sound.

After watching for a while, Hastur discovered the flaw in this vigilance method.

The first flaw is that there is a certain gap between the silk threads. If you are careful, you can pinch out the Black Emperor card with two fingers.

The second flaw is that this warning method has a connection hub. As long as the operation of this hub is blocked, there will be no reaction even if the thread is touched, similar to turning off the power.

As a qualified thief, Hastur directly stretched out the index and middle fingers of his right hand to bypass the obstruction of the silk thread and successfully clamped the Black Emperor Card.

Then he pulled back his two fingers and successfully took away the Black Emperor card.

Once taken out, wrap the Black Emperor card with the spirit body to provide it with concealment, so as to avoid the scene of a bookmark floating inexplicably in mid-air.

After completing the theft, Hastur looked back at the guardian who was patrolling back and forth, and saw that he still had no reaction.

The body floated back to the ceiling, blended in, and appeared on the floor of the second floor.

Then just follow the way you came and leave the museum easily.

From sneaking into the museum, to arriving at the location of the Russell Memorial Exhibition, to stealing the Black Emperor's card, the entire process did not attract any attention.

Returning to his hiding place, Hastur directly threw the Black Emperor card into the Hall of Stars to avoid any accidents, and then the spirit body merged into his body.

He took out his pocket watch from his coat pocket and took a look at it. The whole process from when he started sneaking from the spirit state to when the spirit returned had not been more than three minutes.

"It's really simple."

Hastur walked out of the alley and came to the three unlucky guys who were still in deep slumber. He first put a certain distance away, then lifted the slumber state on them and allowed them to wake up.

In their previous experience, there was no memory of falling into a deep sleep. As soon as they saw Hastur's figure walking in front, they quickly chased after him.

Hastur in front started to trot, always keeping a certain distance from them so that they could not catch up with him, but they could still see his back.

When Hastur ran from the alley to the street, the three thieves stopped chasing and watched as Hastur stopped a carriage and rode away.

Half an hour later, in the Russell Memorial Exhibition Hall of the Kingdom Museum, the Extraordinary person responsible for guarding Russell's study discovered that there seemed to be a bookmark missing from Russell's manuscript.

He couldn't be sure for a moment whether he had remembered it wrong. After all, he had been staying here and it could be said that not a single mosquito had flown in.

In this case, how could a bookmark be lost for no reason?

But out of caution, he still called over other Beyonders and asked them to help confirm.

Finally, we came to a result: there was indeed a bookmark in the pile of Russell's manuscripts, a bookmark that looked like a child's doodles.

But now, that bookmark has disappeared.