Liu Shan sensed that something was wrong because he hadn't felt anything at all.
"Gone?"
He hurriedly looked down and found that the safe was indeed completely empty.
Liu Shan's eyes widened in disbelief. He reached both hands inside and felt around, but aside from the icy texture of the metal, there was still nothing.
"This..."
"Where are my Crystal Cores?"
He turned to look at his underling.
The underling was equally bewildered.
"I... I don't know. We clearly put them in there just now. How did they suddenly disappear?"
"Yeah, how did they disappear?"
Liu Shan couldn't think of a reason either.
It was downright bizarre!
He even suspected that he had fallen under an illusion. Unable to help himself, he focused his mind, rubbed his eyes, and looked into the safe again.
But the result was the same. There wasn't even a single hair inside...
Liu Shan frowned deeply as he and his underling stared at each other, both frozen where they stood.
"What do we do?"
The people outside were still raising a huge fuss, all clamoring for their Crystal Cores.
Liu Shan knew what those people were like. One second they would be grinning pleasantly, and the next they would be cursing and pulling out blades to chop people up without the slightest regard for courtesy.
If he couldn't produce the Crystal Cores, they would definitely chop him to pieces.
"Forget it. This is urgent. I'll dip into my reserves to cover it for now, and we can look for the Crystal Cores later," Liu Shan decided.
"Mm-hmm."
The underling nodded repeatedly in agreement. They needed to deal with the people outside first.
Then Liu Shan walked over to the safe beside it, entered the password, and opened its door as well.
But when the two