237 THE TRAGIC LOVE STORY (1/2)
Knock! Knock!
On the next morning, Mu Lingxi was woken up by the soft knocking that was coming from her door. As soon as she realized that it was her friends waiting for her outside, she immediately sat up.
While she was stretching her back to relieve the stiffness in her body due to sleeping she is also walking towards the door.
While she was about to open the door, she heard Chan Gu's voice on the other side calling for her.
”Su Yan????”
”Comiiiiingggg”
She answered back while yawning.
The sun has not yet to fully ascend to the sky when Long Fuzi and the rest of Mu Lingxi's friends decided to start the day.
In fact, the dawn chorus hasn't finished their first song yet when the group went on to knock at Mu Lingxi's door.
Even the early rays of the morning sun had just barely filtered into the room through the capiz windowpane when Mu Lingxi woke up.
Opening the door, Mu Lingxi tried to rub away the sleepiness remaining in her eyes.
”Su Yan, I'm sorry to disturb you but he has to go now and start our search.”
Chan Gu said when he noticed that Su Yan (Mu Lingxi) looked like he just climbed out from his bed.
”I see, no worries. Just give me a minute here. I'll just clean myself first. I'll follow you guys later after I'm done.”
”Sure, no problem. We'll be waiting for you outside then.”
With that being said, Mu Lingxi closed the door and ready herself. While Chan Gu and the others waited for her outside.
Sitting at the gazebo, overlooking the small zen garden that sat at the corner of the manor, Chan Gu and the others were given something to admire as they wait for Su Yan to arrive as well as for the sun to fully rise in the boundless sky.
After a couple of minutes, Mu Lingxi finally went out of her room to meet her friends. Looking fresh and clean with her new set of clothes. From how her skin was still flushed, it was obvious that she just had her bath too.
Last night, while the rest of them were already retiring for the night Long Fuzi was working inside the library. He tried to acquire as much information as he could regarding the apprentice necromancer that appeared in their kingdom.
He went on looking at the affairs that happened within the Kingdom of Long during the past couple of years. He also tried to investigate everything that could be related to the movement of the apprentice necromancer
He took notes of all the information that he gathered and jotted them down, without leaving a single detail.
The information that their group required, such as old reports and records of events that transpire in the kingdom for the past years can only be accessed in the book depository of the palace.
As such Long Fuzi spent most of his time last night inside their book depository. His efforts did is not for vain though. Since all of his hard work overnight pay off.
Due to his diligence in finding out about the whereabouts of the apprentice necromancer, Long Fuzi managed to get his hands over the inside information of what really happened way back a couple of years ago.
”So what have you learn so far brother?? Did you get the information that we needed”
Long Yue asked as soon as they started their morning meeting.
There are a lot of things that transpire within the Kingdom of Long for over the past 20 years. Bizarre phenomena that can't be explained through common norms should also be taken into consideration. Especially those that appear to be somehow related to the practice of soul arts.
Taking these into the account really made Long Fuzi's job a tough one. He had a hard time to filter out all those records and sort them within just a single night.
But using the clues given to them by the old hermit before, he was able to narrow down his searches and so he still managed to get some useful information despite the limited period of time.
”Twenty years ago, there were a total of three major occurrences that happened in our kingdom but I believe that only one of them could possibly lead us to the news of the apprentice necromancer that appears on our kingdom.”