Outside the villa, Yao Jingwu walked around to the back of the car and looked around.
Making sure nobody had followed him,
he opened the trunk and swiftly took a nearly human-shaped ginseng root out of its exquisite box.
Then he crushed the box in his bare hands and stuffed it into a corner.
Forget about bringing an item out of a mission world—a five-hundred-year-old ginseng root.
Even in the real world, there was no such thing as a five-hundred-year-old ginseng root.
Besides, it showed far too many signs of artificial cultivation.
Yao Jingwu glanced at the ginseng root in his hand, then tugged at it a couple of times to make it look less like a person before slowly heading back.
He thought about how to resolve the matter perfectly—to successfully get the Sweeping.
He couldn't just force the issue. They were all people from Approaching Science.
Yao Jingwu was the sort who took his pay without doing any work.
As fellow "insiders," they couldn't break the rules.
At least, Yao Jingwu didn't have the ability to break the rules without being punished.
If he tried to force it, he'd only end up worse off.
So the key was that newcomer.
Yao Jingwu's eyes darted around, and suddenly he had a great idea.
From their earlier interaction, the newcomer seemed arrogant and conceited. That sort of personality would be easy to take advantage of.
With a confident smile, Yao Jingwu strode back.
The God and Demon Walkers who'd suspected he was trying to swindle the newcomer were taken aback by his air.
Could it really be a five-hundred-year-old ginseng root?
"Try it." Yao Jingwu handed the ginseng root directly to Tang Luo.
Tang Luo took it, tore off a tiny rootlet, and put it in his mouth.
He chewed