"We only saw a few boxes in the courtyard. Later, we asked, and the escort agency said they contained many items, not anything precious. They were merchant goods, to be guarded by them. As for the specifics, the escort agency said they signed a confidentiality agreement, so it's not appropriate to tell us."
Ming Mo mentioned the situations at the other two escort agencies. Those two agencies were smaller, and one had already sent its escorts out for missions and hadn't returned yet. They visited the other, which had fewer people, and after some thought, decided on the larger agency.
"Since we've already chosen, we'll just have to be cautious."
Then everyone slept, and the night passed without incident.
The next morning at 3 a.m., a person from the escort agency came to say that they needed to set off in half an hour.
Gu Chengyu and others hurriedly loaded their belongings onto the cart, and within half an hour, they were waiting at the crossroads.
