The pair walked into the elevator, which traveled back and forth between eight floors.
The receptionist pressed the button for the second floor, and a few seconds later, another line of numbers lit up in a fluorescent backlight appeared beneath it.
They were numbers three to five.
He pressed on the number five, and the elevator doors began to close.
The man glanced sideways at Yao Tang and was about to say something when she took out the USB drive again. She stuck it into the port that was nestled inconspicuously in one corner.
This linked the device to the interface.
The elevator slowed its pace.
The website that Yao Tang had logged into when she was searching for the parchment had numerous basses all over the world. This establishment was just one of them.
They provided a safe and private location for the website's members to trade their items in secret.
