A moment later, the clerk verified the data on the screen, glanced at Lu Chao, and nodded. "Sir, this locker of yours has been in storage for over thirty years. You now need to pay the storage fee, which comes to a total of 300,000 Alliance Coins."
Lu Chao nodded, unsurprised by the steep price. After all, this was the safest private storage area on Earth Star; an annual storage fee of 10,000 was quite reasonable. Moreover, the clerk had clearly seen a lot in her line of work. She didn't ask any extra questions about the storage box just because he looked young.
Shortly after Lu Chao paid the fee without hesitation, the young woman operated the screen and uploaded the retrieval command. Amidst a mechanical CLACK CLACK CLACK, lines of charging light flickered across the safe wall behind her, accompanied by the whirring of gears and treads. It was as if an internal conveyor system was being used to retrieve the heavily guarded item from some unknown location within the building.
