If you were made a mascot, you would become a legend in the police force.

This warehouse in the backyard of the municipal police station is rarely visited. It's filled with evidence from old cases or confiscated items that no one has claimed.

The gate was locked tight, but that was no problem for Li Tuantuan.

He looked around and, seeing that no one was around, stretched out his bear paw and gently twisted the rusty iron lock.

"Click."

The lock cylinder was violently crushed.

"Gah! Boss, with that kind of strength, you'll definitely make a fortune if you join a demolition team after you retire from the army." Coal Ball landed on the door frame, dutifully keeping an eye on the surroundings.

Li Tuantuan pushed open the door and was immediately greeted by a musty smell and dust.

The house was filled with wooden crates, some broken furniture, old bicycles, and even a few dusty stone lions.

"Jin Dou, it's up to you. Find something with spiritual energy, or something valuable." Li Tuantuan patted Jin Dou's bottom.

Jin Dou jumped off Li Tuantuan's shoulder, its little nose flapping rapidly in the air. It seemed to have entered a state of excitement, its golden fur gleaming slightly, and its sapphire-like eyes sparkling in the darkness.

It darted swiftly through the pile of junk, sometimes darting into broken cabinets, sometimes climbing onto old boxes.

Li Tuantuan followed behind, moving her feet carefully, afraid of stepping on something.

"Squeak!"

Jin Dou stopped in front of a pile of discarded broken porcelain shards and rotten mud pots, and frantically scratched the ground with her little paws.

Li Tuantuan walked over, cleared away a few broken earthenware pots, and saw a round object buried in the soil.

The thing was about the size of a fist, covered in dried mud, and looked like an ordinary ball of dirt.

"That's it?" Li Tuantuan asked with some disdain.

But as soon as he reached out and touched the ball of earth, the system emitted an urgent notification sound:

[High-purity spiritual energy carrier detected! Item name: Dust-repelling Bead (damaged).]

[Item Description: An ancient magical artifact used by cultivators to purify their spiritual energy. Although damaged, it contains a large amount of pure spiritual energy.]

[Recycling Value: 3000 Merit Points. Alternatively, it is recommended that the host absorb it directly, as it can significantly increase the body's self-healing speed.]

Li Tuantuan's eyes widened instantly. Good heavens, there really are treasures hidden in this warehouse!

This must be the loot from that tomb-raiding gang. Since it wasn't very valuable, they just dumped it in this old evidence warehouse.

He held the dust-repelling bead in his hand, with no intention of taking it back. What he needed most right now was physical recovery, especially the bald patch on his back.

He sat cross-legged on the ground, following the [Spiritual Energy Guiding Technique] given by the system, trying to draw the energy from the bead into his body.

A cool current flowed from his palm into his arm, then gathered on his back. Li Tuantuan squinted his eyes in comfort, feeling the itch on his back intensify, and he could even feel his pores expanding wildly.

"Cool!"

While secretly absorbing spiritual energy, Li Tuantuan gestured for Jin Dou to continue searching.

Jin Dou wasn't idle either; it rummaged through a pile of moldy files and found a wooden box. The box was half rotten, and inside was a yellowed map.

Li Tuantuan picked it up and looked at it. The map was from the Republican era and depicted the mountains deep in the Qinling Mountains.

Strangely, several places were circled in red on the map, with signs like "Restricted Area" and "Keep Out" written next to them.

Li Tuantuan's heart sank. He was reborn as a panda in the Qinling Mountains and was very familiar with the terrain there. The points circled on the map were the deep forests he had previously dared not approach.

"Gah! Boss, look, there are words here." Coal Ball flew down and pointed to the back of the map.

A line of hastily written text was on the back: 【Keep Out.】

Li Tuantuan stared at the line of text for a long time, feeling that this map was not simple. He carefully folded it and stuffed it into his specially made little pocket.

Just then, Jin Dou suddenly let out a scream and jumped back into Li Tuantuan's arms.

"Squeak squeak squeak!"

Jin Dou pointed to a corner at the deepest part of the warehouse, her eyes filled with fear.

In that corner stood a huge iron cabinet, its door half-open, the inside pitch black.

Li Tuantuan stood up, still clutching the faded dust-repelling bead in his hand. He felt a chilling aura seeping from the cabinet, making the hairs on his body stand on end.

"Who's there?" Although Li Tuantuan couldn't speak, her low growl sounded particularly muffled in the silent warehouse.

A sound of fingernails scratching metal came from inside the cabinet, followed by a pair of gleaming green eyes that lit up in the darkness.

Li Tuantuan was startled. Before she could react, she heard footsteps outside the warehouse.

"Who's inside? Is it Gun Gun?"

It was Lin Wan's voice.

Li Tuantuan secretly thought to himself that if he were caught red-handed, his "heroic image" would be ruined.

He quickly stuffed the dust-repelling bead into his pocket, grabbed the gold bean, and made a gesture towards the coal ball.

The coal ball immediately flew over, grabbed the latch on the warehouse door with its mouth, and held it firmly from the inside.

"GunGun? Are you in there? I saw the lock is broken." Lin Wan pushed the door from the outside, her voice filled with anxiety.

In a moment of quick thinking, Li Tuantuan glanced at the half-open metal cabinet and suddenly remembered that he was still a panda.

He lay down on the ground, grabbed a few broken clay pots and put them on his head, then made a series of "hmm hmm" sounds as he acted coquettishly.

Lin Wan pushed the door open forcefully, and the beam of her flashlight swept haphazardly through the warehouse.

When she saw Li Tuantuan covered in dust, with a clay pot on her head, and acting cute in front of a broken cabinet, she was completely stunned.

"You little fatty, what are you doing here in the middle of the night instead of sleeping? Demolishing things?" Lin Wan breathed a sigh of relief and walked over to pat the dust off his head.

Li Tuantuan then grabbed Lin Wan's leg, wearing an innocent expression that said, "I just came in out of curiosity."

Lin Wan didn't notice his little tricks, and just helplessly pulled him outside.

"Go back right now. If Director Chen finds out you sneaked out in the middle of the night, he'll definitely put you in solitary confinement."

Li Tuantuan obediently followed, but before leaving, he looked back at the iron cabinet.

Those emerald green eyes disappeared.

But he was certain that something else was hidden in that warehouse.

Moreover, he had just absorbed the spiritual energy of the Dust-Avoiding Pearl, and he felt that a thin layer of down had grown on the hair on his back.

"Damn it, I almost got caught. But I'll definitely be back in this warehouse sometime," Li Tuantuan muttered to himself.

But he hadn't realized that the reason Lin Wan came to see him in the middle of the night was because something big had happened at the bureau.