Chapter 1536 The Invisible Secret Entrance
At two o’clock in the morning, Imperial Garden was enveloped in silence.
In a second-floor bedroom, Kyle glanced at the clock, picked up his mobile phone, and gave Saul a call.
The best time to venture into the hideout in Maupay Manor was in the middle of the night. The Maupays would all be asleep, so this was the only time uninvited guests had a chance to enter.
Saul was drowsy from sleep when the ring tone on his phone woke him up. Feeling annoyed, he stretched out his hand and answered the call with his eyes closed.
“It’s wrong to disturb sleeping folk! I’m hanging up!”
Kyle was taken aback.
“Meet me in twenty minutes outside Maupay Manor,” Kyle commanded.
“No… Don’t… Wanna…”
“Can you repeat what you said?” Kyle’s voice was stern.
“Maupay Manor…”
Even in his drowsiness, Saul found the caller’s voice familiar. Opening his eyes, he saw the image on the screen of his mobile phone and became wide awake. It was totally unexpected of Kyle to call him in the middle of the night.
“Mr. Kyle, I’m sorry. I wasn’t fully awake just now. Why do you want to go to Maupay Manor at this time of the night?”
“See you in twenty minutes.” With that, Kyle hung up.
For a moment, Saul was speechless before he let out a sigh.
How can I expect Mr. Kyle to give me an explanation at this hour? I’m just expected to follow orders.
Immediately, he got up to get ready for the trip.
After twenty minutes, the two of them met outside Maupay Manor.
“Mr. Kyle!”
“You’ve been to the hideout with Juan before, right? Lead the way. “
“Yes, sir.”
In a short while, Saul was at the entrance of the hideout with Kyle. “Mr. Kyle, there’s a secret mechanism here.”
Saul pushed the hidden wall mechanism, and an area of the ground under his feet slowly moved to one side, revealing a secret passage leading to the basement.
The two of them went down the steps and entered the hideout.
“Mr. Kyle, please be careful. The last time I came with Mr. Juan, we walked along this secret passage. Somehow, we overshot and ended up at the exit.”
“Where does the exit lead to?”
“A forest in the outskirts.”
“Do you have the coordinates?”
“Yes, I made a point to save it at the time.”
The two walked along using the flashlights on their mobile phones. As they walked, they looked out for junctions along the passage.
They were afraid that if they just walked along the main passage, they would end up at the exit again, finding nothing.
“Mr. Kyle, do you think there could be hidden doorways on the walls on either side of us?”
Kyle paused in his steps and carefully studied the walls with his sharp eyes.
If there’s a secret door, where would it be?
As they checked the walls, they suddenly heard footsteps. Kyle signaled Saul to turn off his flashlight as they pressed themselves against the walls.
As the footsteps drew nearer, they became increasingly uneasy.
“If we’re discovered, we’ll fight together and end it quickly.”
“Yes, sir.”
After Kyle spoke, they saw a man yawning sleepily and shining a torch on the steps as he walked past them.
“Mr. Kyle, he didn’t notice us.”
“Follow him.”
“Yes, sir.”
They stealthily followed him and retraced their path for about one hundred steps. Suddenly, the man stopped and pushed hard against the wall with his hands.
In the next instant, a secret door opened in front of them and the man went in. He then shut the door behind him.
“Mr. Kyle, it turns out that there is a secret mechanism in the walls.”
“Yeah.”
Steven was apparently very cautious. The secret door blended so well into the wall that it could not be seen.
The pair went over and pushed hard against the wall. Yet no matter how much they pushed, the wall did not budge, which puzzled them both.
“He clearly only pushed on the wall without doing anything else. Why won’t the door open?”
Kyle did not reply.
He, too, found it strange as he began to carefully study the wall.
“Mr. Kyle, let me try again.”
This time, Saul pushed against some unknown part of the wall, whereupon a bell instantly started ringing shrilly.
