Chapter 56 Duel Club(1/2)
The Duel Club's usual activities are held in Colonel Bozukhof's villa.
Colonel Bozhuhof is very famous. When Winters went to the land, he heard about this famous playboy and duel master in the army when he was young.
In Hailan City, where the wealthy businessmen are everywhere, the salary of the officer is nothing. However, Colonel Bozhuhof is an officer from the wealthy business family and inherits a large inheritance and can be allowed to squander his hobbies.
Because of his warm and superb swordsmanship... and his generous property, Colonel Bozukhof became the manager and organizer of the Duel Club, and generously provided his villa to the club as an event venue.
That is, he provided a list of real and fakes to Major Moritz, which led to Winters having to replace the two school officials to "get" the real list.
"Moritz has been exposed, and I have never participated in the Duel Club activities. Bozhof will be very alert to the two of us, but no one will notice you, the trainee officer, and no one cares where a warrant officer is trained."
Lieutenant Colonel Field explained why this task could only be completed by Winters: "And you just came back from the United Provinces and loved swordsmanship, and it makes perfect sense to participate in the Duel Club activities."
The Lieutenant Colonel patted Winters on the shoulder and said emotionally: "You are the person Moritz and I trust the most. Apart from you, there is no other officer in the entire army worthy of our trust, so we handed over this task to you. Do you want to let our trust down?"
Time has returned to the present, and the sun has set. Most parts of the city are in darkness, but Colonel Bozukhof's villa is brightly lit.
Winters and his group had just arrived at the gate of the villa.
"It's a hell." Winters cursed in his heart: "Why did I agree when I was so angry?"
Newcomers in the workplace are easily semi-forced to do things they are reluctant to do because they don’t know they can say “no”, and that’s what Winters is now.
"Wow! It's so generous." Andrey was amazed and handed the reins to the servant in the doorman: "This Duel Club is rich enough."
Although rich families may not necessarily light a lot of lamps, people who can light a lot of lamps must be very rich. This is a simple and crude way to distinguish.
"It's not that the club is rich, but that the patrons are rich." Lieutenant Colonel explained to Andre with a smile.
The best way to enter Colonel Bozukhof's villa openly to "get" things is to participate in the activities of the Duel Club every Wednesday and Friday night.
Obviously, Colonel Bozhuhoff has become vigilant about Major Moritz, and Winters certainly cannot be introduced by Moritz to join the club.
Therefore, he went through Antonio's relationship and found Lieutenant Colonel of the Third Legion as his referee, and also pulled Andre over to cover it.
As for Bud? The external admissions of Bad's swordsmanship is really sparse and ordinary, and he is also very uninterested in duels.
Winters took out two pieces of candy from his small bag and fed it to Qiangyun. The horse sniffed twice happily and licked Winters's hand with unsatisfactory feelings.
"This horse is tied to one side alone, and do not put it with other horses." He instructed the servants of the Bozhuhof family to hand over the reins to the other party.
The servant in the striped robes nodded and took the three horses away.
"What's wrong with good luck?" Contel asked curiously.
Winters sighed and replied helplessly: "I seemed to smell the little mare a few days ago, and then I started fighting with the horse in the same groove, biting my mouth full of mane."
Andre laughed: "That's not good for son."
The three of them laughed and said, entering Bozhuhof Villa.
It was not until he really entered the Duel Club that Winters discovered that the atmosphere of the entire club was extremely relaxed and natural. There was no recommendation, and the swearing and other fraternity ceremonies were allowed to move freely after registering on the guest sheet at the entrance.
No wonder Major Moritz said that he was drinking and chatting at the Duel Club, because most people in the club were eating, drinking and chatting, and many people brought their female relatives to come.
This is very different from the scene where Winters imagines a group of serious men fiddling with muskets and swords in a secret room.
"Brother Contel! You haven't been here for a while."
Before seeing the person, I heard the sound of him first.
A man with a rosy face and tall brown curly hair walked over and gave Lieutenant Colonel a bear hug.
"I not only came by myself, but also brought two 'fresh blood' over - Winters and Andrea." Lieutenant Colonel pointed at Winters and introduced: "All of them are pure Venettas, this term warrant officer who returned from the United Provinces."
Lieutenant Colonel patted the brown curly man's arm again: "This curly bear is the master here, the organizer of the Duel Club, Colonel Bozukhof."
The pronunciation of "colonel" was specially dragged by Contel, and Winters and Andre subconsciously wanted to salute. Bozhuhoff reached out to stop the two of them, punched Lieutenant Colonel Contel on the shoulder, and said generously: "What kind of military salute? Contel and I were born a few years ago. This is a place where friends who like swords gather together to play, regardless of military rank, only sword skills. How about it? If you are interested, do you want to go up to fight tonight?"
"What are you doing? The two juniors came for the first time and asked them to play swords. Isn't this a bully?" Contel said to Bozukhov: "At least, it makes people familiar with the atmosphere, right?"
Bozhukov laughed: "Swordsmanship is the most powerful when I first left school. Don't you know this? Then you, the referee, take the responsibility and lead them around."
Then he looked at Winters and Andre again: "Don't be polite, just treat this as your own home. If you have any needs, please come to me."
Let's talk, Bozhuhoff and the three nodded and returned to the living room.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Let's go, follow me to visit this mansion. The toilets here are hard to find. If you find this place interesting, you can come by yourself in the future... Welcome to bring your female companion." Lieutenant Colonel brought two glasses of wine for Winters and Andre, and led two warrant officers to visit the first floor of the mansion.
Contel is not exaggerating, the toilets in Bozukhof's villa are really hidden.
Winters found Contel was very familiar with this place and secretly speculated that the lieutenant colonel should also be a core member of the Duel Club.
In the hall, Lieutenant Colonel Bozhuhof knocked on the glass with a silver spoon, and a few crisp sounds attracted everyone's attention. The guests in the club spontaneously emptyed a place in the hall and formed a circle.
Two swordsmen wearing full armor walked out and stood in the open space in the center of the hall.
"Gentlemen, ladies, please allow me to introduce the two players in the first group of the game tonight." Bozukhof stood between the swordsmen and introduced the two aloud.
Winters had no intention of listening to what Bozukhof was saying, and when everyone's attention was focused on the center of the venue, he knew that his chance had come.
"I'll go to the bathroom," he said softly to his two friends.
"Can you recognize the way?" Lieutenant Colonel asked with an eyebrow raised.
"Don't worry, you won't get lost."
In order not to arouse anyone's vigilance, Major Moritz was not present tonight. The Major drew a complete floor plan of Bozhuhof's villa for Winters, not only on the first floor but also on the second floor.
The first floor of this villa is regarded as a living room and an activity venue, and all guests can move without restrictions. However, the second floor, which is separated by the first floor, is not open to the public, and the stairs leading to the second floor of the first floor lobby have been converted and sealed.
Downstairs is the city that welcomes all guests, and upstairs is Bozhukov's private place. There is a reception room, Bozhukov's office, and several bedrooms - although Bozhukov's house does not live here.
Winters' goal is Bozhuhof's office, where all the documents of the Duel Club are stored.
The reason why Lieutenant Colonel Field chose the method of "not being discovered and robbed" is because the Bozhuhof Villa is completely a functional building with no property. The defense here is similar to that of a private house, even worse than a private house, and almost unprepared.
Winters left the hall quietly, silently reciting the words of Lieutenant Colonel Field: "The third-rate thief is wearing night clothes to steal things, and the first-rate thief is wearing dresses to steal things. The more calm and natural you act, the safer you will be."
After chanting it three times, he grabbed the raised wood on the exterior wall of the house and climbed up.
"Doesn't you? If someone sees me climbing a wall, I will be arrested even if I wear a crown?" Winters angrily scolded Lieutenant Colonel Field in his heart.
After reconstruction, there was only one entrance to the second floor of the villa, and a servant was guarding the door, and only guests who were very close to Bozhuhof could pass through. So Winters could only climb the wall.
It’s useless to think too much. Whether anyone is watching or not, Winters gritted his teeth and used all his strength to climb upwards. This is the most dangerous part of the plan. If he is found halfway through the climb, he will be done.
Fortunately, Winters did not hear anyone screaming until he climbed onto the balcony.
Everything was going well, but Winters' heart was still beating violently, and even his ears could hear the sound of his heartbeat. He took a few deep breaths and carefully looked at the balcony.
Everything was as expected by Lieutenant Colonel Field, the balcony wooden door was locked from the inside. Winters pulled out a thin short knife from his boot and penetrated it into the crack, easily pulling the door latch.
Recalling the floor plan drawn by Major Moritz, Winters walked through the corridor and arrived at Bozhuhof's office. An iron lock was hung on the office door, which was directly pried open by Winters' brute force.
Lieutenant Colonel Field didn't expect Winters to grow into a thief who could slip through the door and pick the locks, nor did he intend to secretly confiscate a list. Lieutenant Colonel just wanted to tell Bozhuoff that if you don't give it to me, I'll get it.
So Winters brutally pried the locks all the way and finally pried open the drawer of Bozhuhof's archive rack. The Duel Club does not have a real "core member list" and Bozhuhof will not copy the names of those core members one by one on parchment.
What Field wants is the financial bills, donation records, meeting records, etc. of the Duel Club, which record the names of people who are closely involved in the club.
Winters took out a polished copper piece, searched for the files under the light green light emitted by the light technique, and loaded up all the suspected useful files.
Things went too far, and Winters felt his fingers twitching excitedly.
The thing has been obtained, and the rest is how to leave.
Three minutes later, at the entrance of the second floor of Bozhuhof's courtyard, the servant who was guarding the door opened the door for Winters attentively. Winters nodded and walked out.
This is the most test of luck and shame in the whole plan. Field concluded that such a gatekeeper would only pay attention to the person who went in, rather than the person who went out. As long as Winters looked calm and natural, he could walk out openly.
Wenters turned into the garden and picked up a bundle of documents from the bushes. Wenters brought out all the documents that were covered, but it turned out that it was too thick to carry them close to each other, and it was also very conspicuous in his hand.
He was quick to learn that he tied the documents into bundles and threw them into the garden shrubs.
Everything went perfectly as planned. Winters sneaked into the stable. The groom was just drowsy at the door and didn't notice him at all. He found Qiangyun, put the documents into the saddle bag, and fed Qiangyun a piece of candy.
Now, as long as Winters looks normal, he can use "I'll check it out by the way to see if the horse is tied alone" to explain why he has been using the toilet for so long and after spending a while, he can leave with two friends without realizing it.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Just as he left the stable with a whistle, a man wearing a long-brimmed hat and brown hunting suit walked into the stable. The man kicked the groom's legs and woke the groom up as if he was going to pick up the horse.
Winters subconsciously looked at the person. This person was not as tall as Winters, and his upper half was covered with a hat. Winters could only see the part below his nose.
The man's beard on his jaw was messy, not the kind of beard he had deliberately accumulated and trimmed, but it looked like he hadn't shaved his beard for seven or eight days.
Winters thought the chin was a little strange, but he didn't realize what was wrong until he walked out for more than twenty steps: the color was wrong.
The color of the front of the man's jaw was abnormal, not because of the dim light or because of his beard. It was a color that Winters was very familiar with. Winters had seen him many times, and it was a bruised purple color after being severely hit by external forces.
Winters immediately turned around and returned to the stable, strode to the man in his hunting suit. He patted his shoulder and asked him with a smile: "Friend, has the injury of his chin healed?"
A normal person would look back when he was patted on his shoulder, but the man was shocked and said nothing, neither paying attention to Winters nor looking back at Winters.
Winters smiled and said to him, "Your sword and gun are all in my place. If you want it, I'll send it to you?"
Winters kept staring at the other party's hand, and after saying this, the other party clenched his fists.
Originally, Winters was not sure of this person's identity, but he just spoke out to test him, but when he saw the other party's reaction, he already understood it.
No more nonsense, Winters swung his long arm and punched the other party hard in the back of the head. He was now sure that the guy in front of him was the assassin who had been kicked to his chin.
The assassin did not expect that Winters would start a sudden attack and was hit hard on the back of his head, and he was dizzy in an instant. But he also had his own tricks, and he turned around and shook the things in his hand hard on Winters' face.
Winters, who was about to pursue the victory, was thrown into the face of grass and straw fragments, and foreign objects entered his eyes. In an instant, tears flowed and nothing could be seen.
To be continued...