Chapter 149 The Silent Thief's Performance
After leaving Duke Negan's mansion, Hasta was thinking about how to use the 53,580 gold pounds reasonably in the carriage.
This time, Greg helped him earn 53,580 gold pounds from 5,000 gold pounds, and there must be a lot of shady operations in it.
Such cheating operations will definitely not happen again in a short time, otherwise Greg will not stop investing.
This is already the maximum limit of his power to open a backdoor to make money for himself.
Next, how to invest this money is his own business, and he must be responsible for his own profits and losses.
The most stable investment is to invest in some steel mills and banks. The profit is not too big, but it is stable.
If you invest in some emerging industries, it will test your personal vision, and you may make a lot of money or lose a lot.
Hasta thought for a long time and felt that he could do the opposite.
Now with the introduction of the "Corn Law", the land of the nobles is becoming less and less valuable. This is the best time to acquire a large amount of land.
If you buy a lot of land and use it to grow food crops, you will gain an advantage in the future turmoil.
When the war starts, the price 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 rate of return is very low.
Hasta thought for a while and still felt that the money should be divided into two parts, one for steady investment and the other for investment in emerging industries.
When the carriage returned to his home, Hasta had already planned the use of the money.
The remaining 580 gold pounds were given to Butler Neil for normal family expenses, and 3,000 gold pounds were kept in his own small treasury, which could be used to buy extraordinary materials.
As for the big 50,000 gold pounds, 20,000 gold pounds were invested in banks and steel industries respectively, and the annual rate of return should fluctuate between 15% and 25%, and the remaining 30,000 were used for investment in emerging industries.
This is a relatively high-risk wealth investment ratio.
He also wanted to swap the investment ratios of the two at first, but in the end he chose this more radical investment method.
After all, he was very familiar with the changes in the situation that followed, and high risk meant high returns.
After returning home, Hasta asked Butler Neil to help him prepare a list of investment projects in various industries in Loen, and asked him to recruit two chefs. As for other needed personnel, let Butler Neil arrange them himself.
It was past ten o'clock in the evening.
Hasta took a carriage to a bar some distance away from the Roselle Memorial Exhibition to drink.
He planned to do it tonight and sneak into the Roselle Memorial Exhibition to steal the Black Emperor Card.
He had already surveyed the routes around here in advance and was very familiar with them.
After drinking in the bar until nearly two o'clock, Hasta staggered and staggered out of the door of the bar.
He had already asked his coachman to go back, and he walked drunkenly on the street without taking a carriage.
After walking for a distance, he pretended to be drunk and vomited, turned into a dark alley, and then walked forward in the alley in the dark.
Unfortunately, his luck was not very good, and three little tails followed him.
It is estimated that they had already targeted him when he was drinking in the bar, and seeing that he was drunk, they wanted to take a risk to make a fortune.
Hasta glanced behind him. They were not carrying weapons. They probably only wanted to steal money and not kill people.
After walking for a distance, Hasta had already gone deep into the alley. The three people following him were already impatient to take action.
"Well, let them act as my witnesses tonight."
Hasta had an idea in his mind. If he was really found here, these three thieves could be used.
Of course, basically no one would suspect him.
Passing a corner, Hasta stopped, and then used his extraordinary ability of the Night Path obtained from the third secret chain to directly put the three thieves into a sleeping state.
Taking advantage of this time, he hurried to the position he had stepped on before, ready to sneak into the Roselle Memorial Exhibition.
He first hid his body in a hidden place, and then formulated a large-scale alert rule nearby to prevent any accidents.
Then, he quickly passed through the heavy walls here in the form of a spirit and came to the corner outside the Roselle Memorial Exhibition.
His body merged into the wall like a ghost, and he moved forward along the wall along the route he had originally planned.
As he walked forward, he saw the members of the Mechanical Heart who were responsible for guarding this place, but they could not see him.
The secret authority cooperated with the formulation of relevant rules, and the invisibility spell performed was difficult for even Sharon to see through.
His spirit body was unimpeded and soon came to the second floor where Roselle's manuscripts were stored.
The spirit body fell off the wall like a light and thin paper, and then covered the ground on the second floor and slowly melted in.
On the first floor, an invisible human face was highlighted on the ceiling with a huge crystal chandelier hanging.
This strange scene did not attract the attention of the extraordinary person below.
He still held the weapon, sometimes looking at the door, and sometimes walking back and forth to patrol, and seemed to be a little slack in vigilance.
Yes, this is already the innermost position of the Roselle Memorial Exhibition. If there is no accident outside, he will be safe here.
Hasta looked around for a while, and other parts of his body also appeared from the ceiling, and then floated to Roselle's desk covered by a glass cover.
The bookmark that looked like a child's graffiti was within reach of the glass cover.
The glass cover could not block the spirit state, but the things inside must have set up warning measures. Once touched, the alarm would sound.
At this time, the extraordinary person looked over, but could not find a spirit here, even though the spirit was less than three meters away from where he was.
He glanced over and looked elsewhere.
At this point, the Black Emperor card was already in Hastur's pocket, because even if he was discovered, he could go directly back to the Hall of Stars. Then he would return to his body from the Hall of Stars.
But he wanted to try his extraordinary ability first to see if he could use the ability of the lawyer to see through the flaws, find the place where the warning measures were insufficient, and then circumvent this warning and take the Black Emperor card without alerting anyone.
Staring at the inside of the glass cover, he slowly urged the spiritual power, and things like light gray silk threads surrounded all the objects inside.
Although these threads will break when touched, they can give a warning to the extraordinary people guarding the Roselle Memorial Exhibition at the moment of breaking.
This is a bit similar to the infrared detection in the movie. Once touched, the alarm will sound.
After watching for a while, Hasta found the flaws of this warning method.
The first flaw is that there is a certain gap between the 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, Hasta directly stretched out the index and middle fingers of his right hand to bypass the cover of the thread and successfully pinched the Black Emperor card.
Then he withdrew his two fingers and successfully took away the Black Emperor card.
Once taken out, he wrapped the Black Emperor card with a spirit to provide it with secrecy, so as to avoid the scene of a bookmark inexplicably floating in the air.
After completing the theft, Hastur looked back at the patrolling guardian and saw that he still had no reaction.
His body floated back to the ceiling, merged, and appeared on the second floor.
Then he followed the way he came and left the museum easily.
From sneaking into the museum, to coming to the Roselle Memorial Exhibition, to stealing the Black Emperor Card, the whole process did not attract any attention.
Back to his hiding place, in order to avoid any accidents, Hastur directly threw the Black Emperor Card on the Hall of Stars, and then the spirit merged into his body.
He took out the pocket watch from his jacket pocket and took a look. From the time he started sneaking from the spirit state to the time he returned from the spirit state, the whole process was less 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 sleep. He first pulled a certain distance away before lifting their deep sleep and letting them wake up.
In their previous experience, they did not have the memory of falling into deep sleep. As soon as they saw Hastur walking in front of them, they quickly chased after him.
Hasta in front of him started to jog, always keeping a certain distance from them, so that they could not catch up with him, but they could still see his back.
When Hasta ran from the alley to the street, the three thieves stopped chasing him and watched Hasta stop a carriage and ride away in the carriage.
Half an hour later, in the Kingdom Museum, the Roselle Memorial Exhibition Hall, the extraordinary person who was responsible for guarding Roselle's study found that there seemed to be a bookmark missing in Roselle's manuscript.
He couldn't confirm whether he remembered it wrong for a while, after all, he had been guarding here, and it can be said that not a mosquito had been allowed to fly in.
In this case, how could a bookmark be lost for no reason?
But out of caution, he still called other extraordinary people to help confirm it.
In the end, a result was obtained: there was indeed a bookmark in the pile of Roselle's manuscripts, a bookmark that looked like a child's graffiti.
But now, the bookmark has disappeared.