"Understood." Ye Bufan left the room immediately after he finished. There was no one outside, and even if there were, he could detect and hide beforehand.
Ye Bufan went downstairs and walked towards Zhou Yan's car. He quickly got into the car and finally asked, "How do we leave?"
Seeing Ye Bufan back in the car, Zhou Yan handed him a card and said, "Just use this."
"What is this?" Ye Bufan asked curiously.
"This is a spacetime card. It can take us back to our airship," Zhou Yan replied.
"You fellow, I really don't know where you get these props. Their functions are truly bizarre." Ye Bufan inquired about how to use it and then activated the card, leaving the place.
Zhou Yan placed the previous driver back in the driver's seat, altered his memories, and then used the card to leave.
When the two returned to the airship, Ye Bufan finally resumed his original appearance and said, "A bountiful harvest. We managed to take away materials worth fifteen trillion. I can't believe it was this easy."
Ye Bufan handed the spatial belt to Zhou Yan. After examining it, Zhou Yan was very satisfied with the abundance of materials, which were exactly what he needed.
"There's still the biggest order, from the Sun Never Sets Imperial Palace. This one is worth over twenty trillion," Zhou Yan said.
"The Sun Never Sets Imperial Palace!" Ye Bufan was shocked again and asked, "Do you have a plan?"
"This one I have to go to alone. Your strength is still too low," Zhou Yan replied.
Ye Bufan felt a bit dejected but didn't say much more. He then asked, "Didn't you say you had more than a dozen prepared? It's still early. How about we tackle another one together after you get back?"
"Sure. I'll send you the information so you can take a look. I should be able to finish in about fifteen minutes," Zhou Yan said.
"Then be careful. That place is not simple; it's very ancient, and there will be even more powerful individuals there," Ye Bufan cautioned.
"Of course, I know that. Just wait for me to come back so we can pull off another heist," Zhou Yan replied.
"I think we should form a duo, how about the 'Rogue Duo'?" Ye Bufan was starting to enjoy this kind of activity, mainly because these risk-free ventures were too tempting.
"We are respectable merchants, not rogues. Watch your words," Zhou Yan said sternly.
"You're truly shameless!" Ye Bufan exclaimed.
"Thank you for the compliment," Zhou Yan smiled.
Ye Bufan watched as Zhou Yan disappeared into the airship again, knowing that Zhou Yan had gone to the Sun Never Sets Imperial Palace alone.
The Sun Never Sets Imperial Palace was not easy to infiltrate. Only he himself was confident enough to enter. Upon arrival, Zhou Yan avoided the patrolling guards and quickly entered the palace.
Besides entering through the main gate, there was no other way in.
However, the Sun Never Sets Imperial Palace also had a basement. Zhou Yan used the Earth Evasion technique to reach the basement and then traversed through it to the inner palace of the Sun Never Sets Imperial Palace.
The defenses within the inner palace were even tighter. Zhou Yan cast a concealment spell, turning himself invisible, and then released a spatial spell to hide within the void, thus evading the mental detection of the powerful individuals within the inner palace.
A powerful divine sense swept through the area, but Zhou Yan successfully evaded the opponent's formidable mental detection. He then reappeared from space and headed towards the treasury within the inner palace.
The royal treasury of the Sun Never Sets held an astonishing amount of wealth. Zhou Yan's target was not just the materials from their trade fair, but he intended to take the entire royal treasury.
This was naturally not easy and required many methods.
First, Zhou Yan needed to have superior technology to disable their surveillance and various defensive systems, which he possessed.
Secondly, Zhou Yan also needed to possess profound array formations knowledge and understand the characteristics of Western magic arrays, which was also not a problem for him.
Next, Zhou Yan needed to understand the art of mechanisms, as the royal treasury was filled with intricate traps. Anyone unaware would certainly not be able to enter.
Unfortunately, this place had long been thoroughly understood by Zhou Yan, and he was even familiar with various Western magic arrays.
With these three basic conditions met, what Zhou Yan needed to do was to avoid the patrolling personnel, and most importantly, evade the mental senses of the two demigod-level mages.
This required strength, which Zhou Yan also possessed. It was precisely because Zhou Yan possessed all these abilities that he dared to come here.
Even if he were discovered in the end, he could still escape with his immense strength. This was also why Zhou Yan had not brought Ye Bufan here.
Zhou Yan entered the inner palace of the royal palace, slowly evading the patrolling crowds. Viruses had already destroyed the surveillance and disabled all alarm systems.
Zhou Yan continued to move towards the location of the royal treasure, advancing neither too fast nor too slow, constantly vigilant of his surroundings. His mental power was incredibly strong, and he missed no detail.
Ten minutes later, Zhou Yan successfully reached the core area where the royal treasury was kept. The journey had been perilous; a slight mistake could have triggered an alarm, but fortunately, Zhou Yan had succeeded in entering.
Once here, there was no one around. The high-tech anti-theft measures here were useless against Zhou Yan.
This was the royal treasury, which had undergone numerous upgrades and modifications, with its defenses reaching world-class levels. Yet, it still couldn't stop Zhou Yan.
Zhou Yan opened the vault door and entered the password. The high-tech anti-theft system here was as good as nonexistent to Zhou Yan.
Finally, Zhou Yan took out a key. This was an omni-key, capable of opening any lock and automatically adapting to it. No matter the type of lock, this key could handle it.
Once the omni-key had adapted, Zhou Yan began to turn the vault door.
However, he also needed to break the array formation above. This was the oldest array formation of the Sun Never Sets royalty. A single failure would cause the vault door to close and trigger an alarm.
Zhou Yan had long understood the structure of this array formation and began to decipher it. Finally, after the array formation was broken, the door opened another layer, which required the royal queen's fingerprint gene to open.
This was a product of combining modern technology with array formations, and it could only be truly cracked according to the requirements.
This was not a problem for Zhou Yan, as he had long collected the necessary data and placed it into an activation switch.
After the match was successful, the entire royal treasury vault door finally opened for Zhou Yan.
It was precisely because the treasury was so complex that no one had ever succeeded in stealing from it throughout history. They were often discovered at the outermost layer.
But today, it was opened by Zhou Yan, who then walked inside.