Floyd noticed that Jim didn’t look right. So, he asked, “What’s the matter, Master Jim? Why are you staring at him like that?”
Jim pondered for a while before asking, “Didn’t you feel that something was wrong with Tom?”
Floyd scratched the back of his head. “Is that so? Everything seems right to me. Tom’s a little scaredy-cat. He might be spooked because he has to deal with all of us.”
Jim was searching for the silver box with Floyd. He paused and turned to look at the latter.
“How do you know that he’s a scaredy-cat? Have you dealt with him before?”
Floyd continued to search for it while he responded to Jim. “Yeah. Mr. Ivor and I have been following up on this collaboration several years back. We’ve dealt with him plenty of times. He wouldn’t have invested in this place otherwise.”
“So, that’s how it is. I might’ve been reading too much into things, then.”
‘Ivor is an extremely perceptive guy. If he’s dealt with Tom before, then Tom’s probably fine. I’m getting worried for nothing.’
Floyd didn’t quite catch what Jim was saying. “What did you say, Master Jim? I didn’t hear you.”
“It’s nothing.” Jim shook his head and dropped the matter. “Let’s just hurry up and search for the silver box. We have to get back to Bonnie and Ivor as soon as possible.” Floyd nodded, “Alright. Gotcha.”
Tom exited the storehouse and straightened up his back, his eyes filled with menace.
“Men, come over here.”
A bodyguard dressed completely in black came to him.
“Your orders, master?”
“Lock the shed and keep the two guys in there at all costs.” Tom glanced back at it, the menace deepening in his eyes.
His bodyguard nodded and responded, “As you wish.”
Meanwhile, Bonnie and Ivor were in the heart of the tunnel.
She checked her surroundings before she picked up something and put it in her palm to look at it. “There are, indeed, a lot of mineral resources here. Many of them are rare where we came from, but they’re as common as pebbles here.”
“Different environments yield different gens. What we’re seeing here is something you could never find in Pyralis.” He walked over and touched the wall. “Furthermore, my company can find uses for all the minerals here. It looks like this trip is well worth it.”
“They are fine gems.” She agreed with his sentiment wholeheartedly. “Let’s go deeper. We might find more rare gems.”
He noticed the lights were dimmer in the deeper parts of the tunnel. He couldn’t resist holding her hand.
“I don’t think we should go in further for now. Let’s just wait for Floyd and Jim instead.”
‘I can’t explain it, but I feel uneasy. I can’t ignore this feeling that Bonnie and I are walking into some sort of danger.’
She heard him and stopped in her tracks.
“I guess you’re right. We should just wait here. Otherwise, they might have trouble finding us.”
“Okay. Let’s head outside and wait
for them there.” Rubbing his
eyebrows gently, he could feel the unease growing more intense. His grip on her hands tightened involuntarily.
Sensing his anxiety and noticing his tight grip, she asked, bewildered. “What’s wrong?”
