Mu Feng projected the film onto a golden mirror. In the blurry footage, a young Qin Zhang was handing a crying infant to a man in black, while the man passed back a briefcase overflowing with gold bars. The embroidery on the baby's swaddling clothes was identical to the pattern in Qin Yue’s first-birthday photograph.
"So, I was just another item on an inventory list..." Qin Yue ripped the necklace from her neck. Under Mu Feng’s Mystic Pupil, a chip hidden within the pendant shimmered into view—a tracker specifically used for smuggling artifacts.
"Your father wasn't trying to obtain the Mystic Pupil," Mu Feng realized suddenly. "He was trying to use the Mystic Pupil to locate this batch of artifacts." Su Yuqing quickly connected her device to scan the chip's frequency: "The tracker is still active. The signal points to..." She looked up sharply, "The old port district in the north of the city!"
Chapter 143