At night.
The R&D building.
The two of them began sneaking around, gradually stuffing the valuable spirit-medicine ingredients from the laboratory's stock into bags—not that they didn't want to use a Storage Item, but to prevent theft by insiders, everyone working in the research building was forbidden from carrying any item with storage properties.
Even so, smuggling some things out wasn't too difficult for them. After all, they had done similar work many times over the past few years.
"The Holy Son was attacked this morning, and patrols were obviously several times tighter in the afternoon... Should we just forget it?"
"We've already taken everything out, and you're talking about giving up now? Don't worry, I asked around. The shift-change time in our building hasn't changed! This batch of ingredients is worth quite a bit. It'll only take half an hour. Let's move faster!"
"This isn't like before... Previously, all the departments coordinated with one another. We only had to deliver the goods to the underground garage, where someone would receive them. But this time, we're lining our own pockets... The risk of getting the goods out is still too high."
"You TM, if you're not doing it, get the hell back there right now! Stop wasting my time here!"
But the more one worried about something, the more likely something bad was to happen.
While the two were arguing, a beam of intense light suddenly shone over!
Their expressions immediately changed. A man wearing the park security team's uniform was striding over with a flashlight in hand... The garage had been dim to begin with, and with the light shining straight at them, they couldn't see the man's features at all.
"Didn't you say nobody would be here at this time?"
"How should I know..."
The man had already