929 Worth It Too (1/2)
The men lowered their heads.
'We thought of this as well, but… wasn't third senior uncle inside? How could there be an issue when he was standing right there?'
'Who could have known that even third senior uncle would have failed to stop the enemy?'
'Besides… what's the point of us staying there when he can't even stop him? What can we do even if you condemn us?'
These were the thoughts that were running through the members' minds, but no one dared to voice them out.
”You know how large your responsibilities are, yet all of you gave chase to a cat! Who's going to guard against the person behind this cat then? Who's going to protect the school's arcane treasures? Are we opening our doors to them?”
”Don't know what to reply now? Got nothing to say? Isn't this the reality, though? Your foolish actions have opened our doors to the enemy for him to steal our collections and escape unscathed! Am I wrong for punishing all of you? Men, take them away! Start administrating the penalties!”
Everyone in Cangwu Union became nervous once they heard their leader's commands.
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”Leader, I'm afraid that it's hardly efficient to investigate things like this now. An appraisal is more meaningful before reacquiring the loss,” the senior uncle told the leader when there was no one else around.
He was the only one who had confronted Yun Yang, the mysterious thief, face to face, thus he knew better than most how terrifying this thief was. If they were to probe into it according to how they were doing it now, a lifetime would probably still be insufficient to come to a conclusion.
”I know!” Hong Changtian sighed and said, ”Senior Uncle Wu… Our sect has taken a solid blow this time… It'd be a moderate failure to lose the essentials… Worse comes to worst, this will be the end of our school!”
Senior Uncle Wu let out a deep sigh and nodded with empathy.
”The timing of our treasured collection being stolen is tricky, it's right at a point when we can barely do anything.”
Hong Changtian said lowly, ”The contest is near. Our sect may go down or up in level and we don't have the room to pursue this, yet we can't act like it never happened…”
Senior Uncle Wu understood what the leader meant instantly.
”The secret scriptures are significant to us, but no matter how important they are, they won't be as crucial as maintaining our sect's level.”
”My mind is only on going through the grand tournament. Once we manage to maintain or even ascend the ranks, we'll have at least three years to play with. Then, we can look into this matter during this period and put a closure to it.”
”However, if we make a hoo-ha out of this and inject the strength of our experts into the investigation now, it's secondary that we'll be depleting our forces – it's uncertain if we would attract more malicious attention from this and add insult to injury. We won't be able to take on more disasters.”
”If our sect goes down in ranking due to this matter, you and I are both eternal sinners of Cangwu Union!” Hong Changtian exclaimed with a sob.
Both his fists were clenched tightly, resentment pouring from his eyes.
The thief was abominable. He could have stolen any treasured resources of the heaven and earth or any divine weapons, but he had chosen to steal the sacred collection of scriptures instead.
”Whoever stole our treasured scripture collection must suffer through his death once we have found him!”