"Be careful once you're inside. If anything dangerous happens, withdraw immediately." Seeing that his companion was about to set out, Mu Qi offered a reminder.
"This gemstone appraisal shop looks completely ordinary. Most likely, nothing like what you described will happen." Zhang Zhao smiled.
"It's better to be careful."
"Okay, I understand."
Under Mu Qi's watchful gaze, Zhang Zhao quickly approached the shop.
When he reached the entrance, he immediately took some tools from his pocket.
"Click, click, click."
With the tools, Zhang Zhao easily opened the locked door.
He gently pushed the door open, then hurried inside.
Mu Qi, standing guard outside the shop, saw Zhang Zhao disappear from sight and immediately turned his head to survey the surroundings.
The shops across the street were all closed. Apart from a restaurant several dozen meters away with its lights on for the late-night crowd, the entire street was still extremely quiet.
Mu Qi leaned against the large roadside tree and patiently waited for his companion to return.
Time passed. After roughly six or seven minutes, Zhang Zhao dashed out of the shop.
"You're out already?" Mu Qi looked astonished when he saw his companion return.
According to his expectations, Zhang Zhao should have needed at least a dozen minutes to search the shop for that thing. Now, he had taken only half that time. It had gone so smoothly that it seemed almost unreasonable.
"I found that thing." Zhang Zhao came before his companion, speaking excitedly.
"What does it look like?" Mu Qi asked curiously.
Although both of them knew that the mutated creature desperately desired that thing, they had no idea what it actually was.
Zhang Zhao took a metal box from his pocket. Looking at the utterly ordinary box, Mu Qi spoke.
"That?"
"Be patient." As he spoke,