The Japanese all held their breath, anticipating the emerald that was about to appear, but in the next moment, they were stunned again.
Because after the bright yellow silk was unveiled, what lay inside was not the extremely valuable emerald, not even a low-grade one, but a brick still covered with dust, as ordinary as bricks come.
"A brick... Why?" Miyajima Tairo covered half of his face, expressing his astonishment.
"This is just a decoy to distract our vision. There are still two boxes unopened; the real emerald must be in one of those safes," Nishio Yoshiaki stated with certainty, though it sounded somewhat like he was comforting himself.
Lord Gu, donning a mask, was inscrutable. He fell silent for a while, then took out a black ceramic jar and poured the potion over the second safe.
