Dorian picked up the black box and tried to open it, but quickly discovered it had some kind of special electronic lock with an encrypted code.
He sighed and spoke to himself quietly, "The box got caught in the fight and got destroyed in the process."
That was the lie he planned to tell Lena if she randomly asked about the case, especially as he had just decided that he was going to break it open to see what was inside.
Then he paused, and his expression changed as a new idea hit him. "If whatever's in here is really that valuable, then I could get them to pay me ten million instead of five. Yeah, that should be enough money to properly start over with my life."
He set the black box case down on the ground and struck it hard with the side of his fist. The black case cracked and split to the sides, and now inside the broken case was another box; this one was golden in color.
