Mysterious Black Stone (3)

The lavishly clothed man sighed once more and said: "Less is better than nothing. Just take it for your needs first."

The bandaged man nevertheless shook his head. "One hundred thousand taels will not be enough! This is ten lives we are talking about! They were brothers in arms who had gone through life and death with me! I could never…. How could I….. If I do not raise the money, I will not be able to hand it over to their families. When I see my brothers in the afterlife, how am I going to face them then!?"

As the man spoke, he got so agitated that he started to tremble visibly. The ever existent pain that wrecked at his body constantly reminded him of everything that had happened that fateful day.