In the same building where Luke and Dezhong were held captive, those responsible for doing so sat around a counter with a bag placed in the center. The ashen-faced stranger, skinny tattooed woman, and the other four men present waited anxiously to see what the good-looking boys were bringing into such a horrid and awful-looking place.
At first, they sat quietly, neither wanting to open the bag. They had no knowledge of what it could be, and that ignorance left them to make their own speculations. They once thought it was some form of bomb, then organs, then money, and then hazardous substances that could kill them.
"Oh, give it here." The woman grabbed it and quickly opened it. A gentle shine from the crystals bounced into their eyes as their greedy eyes looked at the bag full of beast crystals. "Beast crystals? What are a bunch of teenage boys doing with this many crystals?"