Chapter 291 (1/2)
Chapter 291
The Missing Potions<hr>
When they walked through the gates and entered the Fox Zen School's courtyard, Cao Yi was there waiting for themUpon their approach, Cao Yi bowed”Welco said, releasing Chan'er's hand”And what did I say about this bowing nonsense?”
”My apologies, zhǎng when she realized that she had just bowed againWhen Li Yundong raised his brows at her, Cao Yi straightened herself and cleared her throat”My apologies, zhǎng sy”It's fine”
”Su Chan” Cao Yi acknowledged Chan'er's presence with a slad you're okay”
Chan'er dipped her head cordially”Shībó”
A sad expression formed on Cao Yi's face”I' studied Chan'er fro quietly at the floor, he kneas tie the subject
”Has Grandmaster Liu's body been taken care of?”
Cao Yi nodded”Yes, zhǎngs in his office when I sensed your return”
Li Yundong nodded and shot Chan'er a furtive glanceThe downcast look he saw earlier had abatedChan'er was now glancing around as though she'd never been here before
Li Yundong turned to Cao Yi again”Please take us to the late grandmaster's officeThere are important matters that we need to discuss”
”As you wish, Li zhǎngestured at the te soical first movePerhaps Grandeuidance
And so help hiuidance
He wouldn't lieRight now, he didn't have a single clue how to lead the Fox Zen SchoolAnd it certainly didn't help that he knew absolute zilch about leadershi+p in general, and about the organization he was supposed to lead
Regardless, the responsibility had fallen on his shouldersWhether he liked it or not, Cao Yi and the otherto hi had to be done to get the school back in order; otherwise the school would fall apart and the Great Six's agenda would've coh their assault had been thwartedAnd then there were also the younger fox spirits to considerIf those young fox spirits were anything like Su Chan when they firsttossed into a large roo around, and then asking him to create some form of order inside the room
No pressure
The tee foyerThe hall was eaze kept straying towards the center of the hall even though they had already walked past itHer eyes were sad, and she looked like she was ree foyer, Cao Yi led the hallith lots of doors on both sides
Halfway through the hallway, Li Yundong decided to break the silence”Any trouble while I ay?”
”Not at all, Li zhǎngmén,” Cao Yi answered dutifully
”Intruders?”
Cao Yi shook her head”None” Cao Yi suddenly smiledThe smile accentuated the ad an illusion spell worked perfectly, Li zhǎngave Cao Yi a pointed look—”the announceroup chat…”
Cao Yi stopped walking, her face pale”I… Li zhǎng to protect the school and—” She stopped sta fearfully”Did I overstep?”
Li Yundong smiled and waved off her concerns”NahYou actually did wellIt's a good strategy” Li Yundong s similar if I knew that some of you actually know your way around a smartphone”
Cao Yi seemed surprised that he had let her off the hook that easily, but she didn't coht turn at the end of the hallway
”Did you find the others?” Li Yundong glanced at Cao Yi
”Yes”
”Alive?”
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”Verystared at Cao Yi for a ed”
The state Chan'er out of her deep reverie
Li Yundong frowned”By whom?”
”By Grand shook his head in confusion”Why on earth would he do that?”
”To protect thehed”I found them in a cellar under Grandmaster Liu's quarters”
None of this ed?” He stared at Cao Yi”And what about the young ones ere present during the battle? They were perfectly lucid”
”That's just the thing, Li zhǎnged too if I had stayed inside hed”I ith the young onesWe weren't in our quartersWe were at the backyard”
”That's why they weren't drugged too”
Cao Yi nodded
”Any idea why he did it?”
”This way, Li zhǎngmén”
Cao Yi turned towards a stairwell and started to cli the urge to just levitate up the stairwellBehind hi quietly
”I don't knohy he did it, Li zhǎngned
”Your best guess?”
Cao Yi paused at the landing, causing Li Yundong to stop walking as wellChan'er let out an adorable squeak when she buarded Cao Yi, who now had a conflicted look on her face
”Youpaused”What's your take on the grandut tell you?”
”That he was trying to keep the rest of us out of the hile he flushed out the traitor?”
Li Yundong and shared a brief glance with Chan'er
”So he did suspect soain
Cao Yi nodded after a brief glance at Chan'er”He said so hi the battle” Cao Yi's eyes returned to Li Yundong's face”I overheard their confrontation”
Li Yundong narrowed his eyes”Whichare the ones he suspected to be the traitor”
”I concur, Li zhǎng your pardon, zhǎng said”Who are they?”
Chan'er's eyes were bouncing back and forth between hi, and Ye Yu,” Cao Yi said
Li Yundong frownedThat's a little odd…
”Two people on that list were coaze for aif both traitors were already on his radar?”
Cao Yi's lips pulled into a grim line”I think he suspected Ye Yu the , Li Yundong ure?” Li Yundong asked after theyto climb another set of stairs
Cao Yi hastened her pace”Before you arrived, he stationed Ye Yu outside the gates to confront the Great Six's army”
”I seeHe wanted to observe Ye Yu's interaction with the Great Six's army to see if she was the traitor”
”Too bad he rong” Cao Yi stopped walking once they reached the top of the staircaseThen, she pointed towards a hallway”The grand nodded and followed Cao Yi to the hallwayInside his chest, excitement and trepidation brewedHe wondered what he would find inside Grand that would provide souidance on how to run a school of fox spirits
”We're here,” Cao Yi said, stopping outside a large wooden door
For some reason, Chan'er's attention wasn't focused on door in front of the further down the hallwayLi Yundong followed her gaze and saw another door down the hallway, about 20turned and saw that Cao Yi had already stepped through the door
”Is everything alright?”
Li Yundong s's fine”
Cao Yi held the door open as he and Chan'er entered
The office was quite huge, though it didn't have e office desk; and a square table for guestsA large shelf was set up against the wallScrolls and boxes lined the shelfOne of the boxes was filled with paper cranes
Chan'er headed straight towards the office desk after they enteredShe crouched down beside the desk and started poking her finger at a large hookah beside the deskThe hookah's presence wasn't that surprising since Grandmaster Liu was a so by
Chan'er seemed rather occupied with the hookah, so he decided to let her be
He turned to Cao Yi, as hugging a disproportionately large box against her chestHe mobilized his Zhenqi and relieved her of the burden with Qi Kinesis
Surprise flashed in Cao Yi's eyes when the large box floated out of her hands”Oh” She glanced towards Li Yundong”Thank you, zhǎng waved her off”Where do you want this?”
Cao Yi glanced around a few times, then pointed at the square table