"If the Spinel Raw Stones weren't taken away, where would they be?" With the building surrounded by magical creatures so tightly that escape seemed impossible, Li Xiu figured he might as well spend the idle time investigating.
Judging by the degree of collapse, this house must have been destroyed by external forces. Combined with its poor construction, the interior was in shambles, with moldy and decayed furniture; the wooden table had rotted away, and the drawers crumbled at a touch.
After circling around, he didn't find any place that could store gemstones—no sign of a safe or anything like that.
Thinking about it, that's reasonable; the place had been abandoned for who knows how many years, surely many had visited, and anything precious would have been long scavenged. Rather than waste time, he'd do better to rest and consider how to escape the magical creature siege.
