Xu Huo returned safely to Rose Castle. After he had given them generous gifts, neither the Werner family nor the other nobles arranged to have him followed or watched. They seemed to consider him and everything that had happened that evening nothing out of the ordinary.
Mr. Dong helped carry the gift boxes from the car to the Study Room, where they waited until Xu Huo had washed up before opening them.
The blue box was the Werner family's year-end gift. Inside the modest-sized square box was a certificate proving his shareholding in a mining company, along with a badge specially made for him by the Werner family.
The shareholding certificate guaranteed that Xu Huo would receive a substantial amount of White Cash from the company every quarter, or even every month. The badge served as identification, allowing him to enter and leave the company freely. According to Roy, this was a "lucky" gift.
The Werner family's mining companies all brought in good returns. Even a small share was enough to let a Noble family live off it for generations.
"Very generous." Xu Huo set the items aside and opened the black box.
Inside was a tiny model of a house. When he touched it, a notification appeared on his game panel:
[Time Box: An expandable location item created by a Super Player specifically for Temporal Evolution training. The size of the location will grow as the user explores it. In theory, the longer one explores within it, the more Time Boxes there will be. Any boxes added will not reset to zero when the item changes hands; they will continue to accumulate on top of the existing number.]
"Time Box..." Xu Huo picked up the item. It was obvious that the little model represented the four-state courtyard