Chapter 417: A glimpse of the leopard through the pipe
Xu Cansen has been in Britain for five days. Before coming out, he didn't know that he was a homebody. However, on the night he arrived in London, he dreamed of his wife and children in Hong Kong.

But now that things have come to this, he has no way out.

He had previously fantasized about escaping back to Hong Kong while the people in Dayanming weren't paying attention and hiding in the mainland with his wife and children, but the threat from the man with the broken eyebrow was still fresh in his mind, so he never dared to take any real action.

Big Eyes Ming probably saw his mental state after coming to London, and didn't say anything harsh, but just warned him to "make the best of it".

Xu Cansen was not used to the food and weather in London, but Mingge's words and the performance of other members of the "team" also made him want to compete and refuse to admit defeat.

According to his observation, this "team" has a total of 28 people including himself. Except for the main brain Da Yanming and an ancient cultural relic expert, the other 26 people have clear division of tasks.

There are transport team, camouflage reconnaissance team, tool team, communication team, bomb disposal team, electrical team, support team and firearms team. The number of people in each team varies. Xu Cansen is naturally one of the members of the electrical trio.

His main duties are to disarm alarms, cut off power, crack electronic codes and open locks.

The electrical team is also the core of the "team", which is related to the success or failure of the entire mission and is highly valued by the big eyes.

Therefore, the people they look for are all the best of the best. They do not accept a share of the mission, but instead want HK$100 million for a single operation, regardless of success or failure.

The "team" members are all very secretive. Even when they have dinner together, they seldom talk about their past. I don't know if it's because Big Eyes clearly forbids everyone to ask each other, or if these people are concerned about the rules of the underworld. Anyway, Xu Cansen has been in London for five days and has not met everyone yet.

Even when going out to scout the location, each group is separated and only the transportation group accompanies us.

When Xu Cansen and his team were "strolling" (scouting out the area) within a few kilometers around Horton Manor as planned, apart from Dayanming, the leader, there was only a driver from the transport team who was responsible for driving.

Although it was a bit unclear, Xu Cansen had to admit that the entire action plan was carried out very cautiously. According to the other two guys in the group, before he came, the "team" had been "lurking" in several cities in the UK for several months.

Even Xu Cansen himself spent more than ten days preparing with everyone before actually taking action.

November 11th is the day for the operation against Houghton Manor.

The reason for choosing this day was that the investigation team had determined that the main members of the Horton family would leave the manor and go to the city of London to attend an aristocratic reception hosted by the royal family of the Corrupt Empire.

All members of the "team" began to rest and gather their strength during the day. They would leave their residence at twelve o'clock at night and officially sneak into the manor at one o'clock in the morning.

In addition to being excited, everyone was also a little nervous.

In addition to being worried about the success or failure of the mission, Dayanming also had the firearms team start implementing communication and outing controls in the residence early in the morning.

Xu Cansen naturally knew that this was done to prevent the action plan from being leaked, but he also became nervous.

At seven o'clock in the evening, after everyone had dinner, they consciously stayed in their respective rooms to rest and prepare.

Four hours later, at 11pm, everyone went out to check their equipment and solve possible physiological problems. At 12pm, everyone got on the pre-arranged vehicles in the garage, a total of five vehicles, two SUVs, two vans, and a small van.

Their accommodation was actually arranged on a small farm outside London, which was rented by Da Yanming in advance through connections with the Chinese community in London. The area around it was sparsely populated, which made it easier for them to hide their activities.

The vehicle was not rented, but a second-hand car purchased using the identity of a "non-existent person". Even if it was eventually abandoned, it would not be easy for the London police to track it down.

Since there were no cameras, Da Yanming and his team simply drove out of the farm and drove around the area for half an hour (to get rid of possible tracking) before heading directly to their destination - Horton Manor.

The farm was actually not far from Horton Manor. It took the five cars less than fifteen minutes to stop more than two hundred meters away from the manor.

Everyone got off the bus and started working. Since they had conducted several drills beforehand and had a six-hour pre-action discussion last night, everyone knew what to do.

The bomb disposal team, everyone in the electrical team, three members of the firearms team, plus Big Eyes and the cultural relics expert, a total of 10 people will be the protagonists who will sneak into the manor tonight, while the others will provide assistance and stand by outside the manor.

Before officially entering, everyone gathered together, checked their watches, and put on gloves and hoods. At one o'clock, the operation officially began.

The firearms team was in charge of the alert, and the bomb disposal team took less than five minutes to deal with the alarm device and gate switch at the entrance of the manor. Then, this group of people sneaked in and knocked out all the guard dogs in the manor.

There were no cameras, no doormen, and no night patrol guards. After a quarter of an hour, the outskirts of Horton Manor were completely opened to the 10 members of the action team.

Since the Horton family was just a small noble family with insufficient resources, their estate was not actually that big, covering about ten acres of land, of which lawns and gardens alone occupied two-thirds of the area.

The manor house is a typical Victorian-style red brick building, and its biggest feature is its many windows.

The villa is three stories high and covers an area of ​​more than 1500 square meters. It is located in the center of the entire manor, which is enough for a small family with less than a hundred people.

Everyone knew that there must be servants and maids staying in the villa to guard the house, so even though they were close to the edge of the house, they moved very carefully for fear of making any noise.

After arriving at a side door of the villa, the bomb disposal team opened the door quickly and everyone entered the house carefully.

In fact, Da Yanming and his men came to the UK several months in advance. In addition to scouting the area and preparing tools, they also bribed an insider, yes, a male servant inside Horton Manor.

In addition to informing the "team" of the latest situation of the manor, the butler is also responsible for finding the Horton family's treasure room, and before taking action, he also has to help knock out some people in the villa.

Last night, the male servant received a message from the communications team that tonight, all the servants, except the housekeeper, were drugged and put into a deep sleep.

After the two parties met in the house, the male servant took the expert from the firearms team to the second floor and tied up the housekeeper while she was sleeping.

At this point, there were no longer any threatening targets in this villa.

(End of this chapter)