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"You guys stay here, I'll figure out how to get it."
The Professor said to the leader of the creatures with the sign language. The leader grunted for a while before letting the Professor an audience and honour of the proposal.
They had just arrived at the place the aliens had been leading him. But twas just a scanty market square. With wooden stores scattered all around. There wasn't anyone in sight. But he didn't want to dismiss the advances of the aliens.
The aliens had stopped before a stall which seemed to had housed horses and oxen. The Professor had only but given the creatures the luxury of the attention they deserved. But he yet had no faintest idea where to look in the stall. Probably the person had dropped the phone there.