The next day.
During the day, Ren Ye and the others stayed in their rooms resting, apart from leaving the courtyard for three meals.
A little after six that evening, the Wang Family's private opera performance began punctually again. Everyone attended and listened until around ten thirty before returning.
During this time, Ren Ye, Yu Weifeng, and the others also secretly kept an eye on the situation inside the Wang Residence. They discovered that after the Zhou Family members left, there were fewer soldiers patrolling the grounds, and things seemed less tense than in the previous few days.
However, for these little groups with extensive experience committing crimes, this was hardly good news.
Something fishy had to be behind such an unusual change. Someone had just died in the past couple of days, conflicts had broken out frequently, and the birthday banquet would begin tomorrow. Suddenly reducing security at a time like this might well be a fucking trap.
The ten people taking part in tonight's operation went to sleep after returning to the guest courtyard.
At one forty-five in the morning, everyone rose at the agreed time and, led by Yu Weifeng and the others, quietly sneaked toward one side of the Wang Residence.
Everyone stayed on high alert as they crept along.
Leaving aside the somewhat nerve-racking process of breaking in, it took everyone a full forty minutes or so to successfully sneak into the underground passage under Yu Weifeng's guidance.
Below the steps was a passage extending south, three meters wide and four meters high. About thirty meters away, a sealed wall completely blocked the way.
For Mad Dog, Old Qu, and Yu Weifeng, this scene was nothing short of a nightmare. The spot where Gao Ye had burned alive was only five steps away.
Mad