Zhang Heng had the three women wait by the roadside while he quietly slipped into one of the nearby prefab buildings as the workers gathered together to discuss what to do next.
This was where the construction workers usually ate and took their lunch breaks. There were only three people inside now: the head cook, his assistant, and someone sprawled over a table, snoring loudly. Zhang Heng lowered his body and silently slipped into the adjoining rest room under cover of the dining tables. He took several sets of workers' uniforms from beside the wire-frame beds and changed into one himself. During this, he heard the cook complaining, followed by footsteps approaching the rest room.
Zhang Heng swiftly scanned his surroundings before finally rolling beneath a wire-frame bed by the door.
Through the gap between the bed frame and the floor, he saw a pair of boots enter from outside. Judging from their style, they belonged to the cook's assistant. The man muttered to himself as he came in and took something, then left again. The moment he was gone, Zhang Heng rolled out from under the bed.
Throughout the entire process, he had perfectly controlled every movement of his body. Combined with the effect of the Heart of Keleisi, although the two had been less than half a meter apart, the assistant had not noticed someone behind him at all. Zhang Heng had even had time to glance at what the man was holding: a box of mints.
The cook took it from his assistant, still grumbling about something as he opened the box and tossed a handful of mints into his mouth to soothe his throat...
Five minutes later, Zhang Heng returned to the three women with the uniforms. Kratos raised an eyebrow. "Now I believe you really