Chapter 385 Matryoshka Doll?
“Miss Harold, Mr. Finn, this way please.” Smith gestured towards a row of cabinets and said respectfully.
Ruby nodded and exchanged a glance with Levi, walking through several rows of cabinets before finally stopping in front of one.
In this column, each cabinet was particularly large, as if it contained a lot of stuff.
“Miss Harold, this is the safe where your grandfather kept his things, and here is the key to the outside.”
As he spoke, he handed Ruby a small key, which was very finely made.
Ruby took it and placed it in the palm of her hand and looked at it carefully, “There is no key of this design on the market.”
Smith smiled, “Yes, it was built by your grandfather himself, when his only request to store things with us was to have the keys and locks of the safe rebuilt to his specifications, which is unique to our bank.”
Hearing these words, Ruby’s eyes darted around and she probably had an idea in her mind.
Grandpa probably anticipated in advance that someone might sneak in.
Although RS Bank’s security system was one of the best in the world, there were no absolutes.
So Grandpa did it for an extra layer of security.
Even if someone did, indeed, try to get in from the outside world by any means possible, it would still be quite difficult to open the only lock in the world that was different.
This safe could not be carried away, and those who break in did not have that much time to study it, even if they wanted to.
“Mr. Smith, thank you so much for keeping this key for my grandfather all these years.”
The fact that he could hand over such an important key to Smith meant that Grandpa must have trusted him, so when Ruby looked at him again, there was more respect in her expression.
Smith waved his hand, “Miss Harold, I am honoured to have your grandfather’s trust.”
Seeing him treat her grandfather with such respect, Ruby raised her eyebrows and did not say anything else.
However, curiosity was aroused in her heart.
The fact that Grandpa had gone to great lengths to store something here, and had designed such a lock, meant that what was inside must be very important.
And Smith’s attitude towards her grandfather, in turn, gave her the feeling that what was in it must be an item of great influence.
“Miss Harold, Mr. Finn, I will leave you alone, you are free to open this safe, if you want to take the things away, just find my office when you come out.”
It was not good for him to stay where he was when it came to the removal of her personal belongings, so he said very tactfully and then left.
In the large space, only Ruby and Levi were left.
The two looked at each other, and Levi raised his eyebrows and said in a warm voice: “Are you ready to open the safe?”
Ruby did not look much nervous, and lightly hooked her lips: “Coming all the way here, isn’t it just to get what’s in the safe?”
Having said that, she squeezed the key in her hand and, without much hesitation, opened the first lock of the safe.
“It’s true that Grandpa designed the lock himself, even with a key, it’s still a bit of a challenge to open it.”
The first time she opened it, she couldn’t get it open, so she turned back and forth twice before the lock clicked.
Then she entered the code she had obtained from her grandmother’s belongings into the combination lock inside and the second door finally opened.
Inside, lying quietly, was a wooden box, identical to the one Grandma had before.
Ruby looked at it steadily and took it out of it after an interval of ten seconds or so.
A thick layer of dust has settled on the wooden box as it has not been opened for a long time.
Ruby took out a tissue and wiped it off, raising her eyes to look at Levi: “Come on, you wait for me in the lobby, I’m going to the bathroom.”
Levi was surprised: “What do you want to do? Not open it here?”
Ruby shook her head, charming eyes shining with a look of certainty: “Wouldn’t it be less fun to open it here? There’s still a good show to come.”
“A good show?” Levi was confused, “What kind of good show?”
But soon, he reacted and spoke again, “Could it be that Benjamin’s men have followed us here?”
Ruby narrowed her eyes, the corners of her mouth were full of sarcasm: “I’m not very sure, but it is possible, he is despicable and shameless. We played a trick on him before we left F Country, he won’t stop there, since he is so obsessed with my grandmother’s relics, he will definitely send someone after me.”
Levi understood: “You are trying to make a play?”
Ruby nodded and urged, “Go out first, if you linger a little longer, maybe the fish won’t take the bait.”
The two of them quickly walked out, and before they stepped through the door, as if by induction, the heavy iron doors slowly closed from both sides and clicked shut, locking them.
As per Ruby’s idea, Levi went to sit in the bank lobby and waited.
She ran straight to the bathroom with the box in her arms.
As she sat in the locked cubicle, she looked at the delicate wooden box resting on her lap, took a deep breath and slowly opened it.
Surprisingly, there was nothing amazing in the box, just a note.
Ruby was surprised and picked up the note to take a closer look and found that only a few words were written on it.
–Ancestral shrine.
Ruby: “……”
Could this be Matryoshka doll?
Running from one clue to another, getting a new clue from another, and it finally winded up in the ancestral shrine.This text is © NôvelDrama/.Org.
The ancestral shrine mentioned here would be that of the Grant family.
The Grant family was in the capital, so the ancestral shrine was also set up in the capital.
She hadn’t heard of it, but she was sure it shouldn’t be too hard to find out.
As for what was hidden in the ancestral shrine, it was not known.
She sighed, then closed the box and was about to get up and leave, but she suddenly remembered what she had forgotten and sat back down in a hurry.
Then she opened the box, tore that note to shreds, got up and opened the lid of the toilet and threw it in and flushed it.
After a few repetitions, her eyes flickered slightly as she took a bottle of pre-prepared liquid from her bag and placed it in the wooden box.
This liquid was no ordinary thing, but a special potion she had developed privately and rarely used it on a regular basis, only taking it out in special circumstances.
And now, it was the special circumstance.
Once this was done, she exited the bathroom and then went to the lobby to find Levi, and the two of them went back to Smith for the withdrawal procedure before leaving the RS Bank together.
Before walking out, Ruby held the wooden box, and while walking, she spoke to Levi with her face as usual, but her voice was intentionally lowered.