Zhang Tong froze.
W-what?
It wasn't his?
"So you can't sell it."
Xiao Xiao's lips curled upward.
At that, Zhang Tong grew agitated.
"What?!"
"Why not?"
Without realizing it, Zhang Tong's voice rose a few notches.
"I found it!"
"If I found it, it's mine!"
"Of course I have the right to decide what to do with it."
Whether he sold it or did something else with it, that was his right as the person who found it.
"It isn't yours."
Xiao Xiao corrected Zhang Tong.
"If it isn't mine, then whose is it? Yours?"
Zhang Tong sneered.
He understood now...
"You're trying to get something for nothing?"
He didn't want to pay, but he still wanted this treasure?
Dream on!
"No."
Xiao Xiao shook his head.
"It isn't mine either."
Zhang Tong's agitation came to a halt.
"It belongs to itself."
Xiao Xiao smiled.
"It isn't an inanimate object."
"It's a living creature with its own thoughts."
"It belongs to itself."
"It belongs to neither you nor me."
Zhang Tong: ...
The Xu siblings were stunned.
A-a living creature?
A creature with its own thoughts was obviously alive, wasn't it?
Wait.
Hadn't they been talking about gold?
Gold wasn't gold?
Gold was alive.
Good heavens...
The Xu siblings were so shocked they were speechless.
A living creature?
Then how had Zhang Tong mistaken a living creature for gold?
A living creature that looked a lot like gold?
What was that?
The Xu siblings racked their brains until they nearly crashed, but still came up with nothing.
"...I found it..."
Zhang Tong murmured.
Unable to think of anything else to argue, he could only repeat the words he'd already said countless times.
"I brought it out of the mountains."
"That