The man immediately led the way with eager attentiveness, guiding Xinhai through a relatively secluded corridor behind the Battle Tent to the door of a small storage room piled with cleaning supplies.
He glanced around, and only after confirming that no one was watching did he push open the half-closed door and gesture for Xinhai to enter.
Xinhai stood at the doorway without stepping inside immediately, his gaze quickly sweeping over the storage room.
The space inside was small, filled with buckets, mops, and unopened cleaning agents. It did indeed look like an area used by the staff.
"Come in, kid. Don't worry, it's perfectly safe!" the man urged. He stepped inside first and carefully took a palm-sized sealed box bearing the Battle Tent logo from his clothes.
Only after confirming there were no cameras did Xinhai step inside. He gently pulled the door shut behind him, but did not close it completely, leaving a crack. Keeping a safe distance, he fixed his gaze on the small box.
The man chuckled and deftly tore open the seal before opening the box.
Soft black velvet lined its interior, and a vial lay quietly in the center. The liquid inside was a pure golden color, with streams of light swirling and flickering within it as though alive, radiating gentle, pristine waves of life energy.
It was a Full Restore! Drawing on his knowledge from playing games in his previous life and studying in this one, Xinhai recognized it as the genuine article—and of quite good quality.
"Well, kid? The goods are authentic, right?" the man asked smugly.
"Not bad. It's genuine." Xinhai nodded and pulled more than a dozen ten-thousand League Coin notes from his pocket, counting out eight and handing them over.
The other man looked at the thick stack of