Just as Mr. Chardon was heading toward Mount Phoenix, Charlie received a text message from Zachary. In the message, Zachary only wrote one sentence: ‘New store opening next month.’
Upon seeing it, Charlie immediately replied with a thumbs-up emoji.
This was the code that they had agreed upon. ‘New store opening’ was a slang in the tomb raiding industry which meant there was a new tomb to be raided. According to their agreement, once the Thunder Order was sold, Zachary would send this code to Charlie.
The reason for having such a code was as a precaution. If someone with ill intentions saw it, they would think it was two tomb robbers planning a new operation, not connecting it to anything else.
Upon receiving the message, Charlie knew that the Thunder Order had been sold, so he immediately called Isaac. Ten minutes later, Isaac sent several video clips to Charlie.
These video clips were surveillance recordings from the airport arrival hall and the vicinity of Zachary’s stall in Antique Street. In these clips, Charlie saw Mr. Chardon’s appearance for the first time—a tall, lean, and robust elderly man in his sixties with an appearance that seemed otherworldly and looked extremely pleasing to the eye.
If such a person was placed in a crowd, it would be hard to associate him with danger. Charlie noted Mr. Chardon’s appearance and thought to himself, ‘This man must be one of the four great earls of the Qing Eliminating Society. He bought my Thunder Order, so he’s probably going to try it out soon.’
At that moment, an earth-shattering sound suddenly echoed from Mount Phoenix in the southwest of Aurous Hill! In the sky, a thunderbolt struck directly into a valley in Mount Phoenix.
The tremendous thunderous sound shook the entire population of Aurous Hill, with echoes reverberating over the city several times before gradually fading away. At the same time, the sky in the mountainous region in the southwest of Aurous Hill was covered with dark, ominous clouds, almost as if torrential rain was imminent.
Just half a minute ago, he had chosen a huge boulder in the valley as the target of his experiment. He activated the formation within the Thunder Order, intending to test the strength of this artifact made of Thunderstrike wood.
However, to his surprise, once the formation started, it spun like a crazy tornado, absorbing a significant amount of his Reiki without completing the activation. Mr. Chardon was helpless and continued to increase the input of Reiki until one-third of his Reiki was transferred into the Thunder Order, finally completing the activation of the formation.
Just as he eagerly anticipated the effects of the formation, a dense dark cloud suddenly gathered in the sky at an extremely fast speed over the nearby peaks of Mount Phoenix. Following that, a lightning bolt, appearing as thick as a water bucket, struck down right before his eyes!
The thunderous explosion, upon hitting the ground, was excruciating for his eardrums, and the huge boulder was reduced to rubble!

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