He Ao removed the ticket card and tucked it back into the book before taking off the bone axe and the wooden box that had been strapped to his back since he entered the door.
He glanced at the two items, took the bone axe in his hand, and put the wooden box back into the cloth cover.
By now the cloth cover was somewhat stretched, its fibers slightly deformed.
It was by stretching this cloth cover straight that He Ao had used it as a rope to tie the bone axe and the wooden box to his waist.
The wooden box was fine, but the bone axe, weighing hundreds of pounds, had pushed the cloth cover to its limits.
Nevertheless, when He Ao had purchased this cloth cover, he specified it was for carrying heavy objects and chose one of good quality, so it had not snapped immediately, which would have been quite awkward.
He Ao, with the cloth-covered wooden box in hand and the bone axe in tow, returned to the study.