260 Death (1/2)

As they stepped into the courtyard, they quickly found that there were two servant children and a chef in the house.

The two children and the chef were all two-eyed experts. They did not have much cultivation talent—or perhaps they never tried too hard to cultivate—so their strength was barely passable.

”Greetings to the masters,” the two children said in unison as they saw the four friends enter. Their faces showed curiosity and reverence.

”Who are you?” Xue Wei asked with a friendly smile on his face. The two children were both boys. They seemed to be ten years of age at most.

They were both wearing simple white clothes and their hair was tied up with a wooden hairpin.

”We are the servants in this courtyard,” one of the boys introduced them while stepping forward. ”I am Mo Yi, this is Mo Er.”

”Mo Yi, Mo Er, are you brothers?” Xue Wei asked with a smile on his face.

”We are,” Mo Yi answered. Xue Wei nodded his head and then looked at the courtyard in front of him.

The courtyard was rather large. There was a garden within the premises, and the building that towered behind the garden was rather magnificent. It was a full four floors high.

Xue Wei began advancing down the road towards the house, and the others followed behind. Mo Yi and Mo Er stayed behind, looking at one another with a strange glance before they once more caught up with the group, walking behind them in a respectful manner.

Xue Wei kept an eye on these two children. There were still many things he was unaware of after coming to the Garden of Shadows, but he had already understood that there was a lot of scheming in the royal family, so it would most likely be no different here.

These two children might seem harmless, but who knows whether or not they'd one day turn out to be two monsters that had hidden all along.

Not to mention, they would be the perfect spies. Even if the Headmaster had only sent them without ulterior motives, it was still troublesome, and thus Xue Wei was keeping an eye on them to see what exactly their plans were.

However, although Xue Wei was keeping a keen eye on them, they behaved exactly as one would expect of a servant, and the two boys quickly led them to the kitchen to greet the chef, before they showed them to their rooms.

”The fourth floor is the cultivation room,” Mo Yi explained. ”It is the best place within the entire place to cultivate.

”The third and second floors consist of living rooms, one for each of you, and the first floor contains the kitchens and rooms for us servants.”

Xue Wei nodded his head and then went upstairs, followed by his four friends. All of them looked at Xue Wei curiously as it was clear that he was thinking about something, but he did not speak it out loud so they did not ask.

Xue was not alone in glacing skeptically at the two Mo brothers; Bai Tianyi also gave them a passing glance, and both brothers also looked curiously at the white-haired young boy who seemed to be as old as them but was already a student despite being a two-eyed individual.

In the end, Bai Tianyi and Lin Xiao ended up residing on the second floor and Xue Wei and Hei Gou took up residence on the third floor.

Just as they were prepared to go out, Mo Yi and Mo Er arrived next to them. ”Do you wish for us to draw a bath for you? Or perhaps you wish to use the hot spring bathhouse that is on the first floor?”

”The hot spring bathhouse?” Xue Wei was confused.

”On the first floor, leading out to the garden, there is a hot spring bath. It is rather large, definitely able to allow for all of you to swim in it at the same time,” Mo Yi explained.

”It is a place to relax and gain strength. I can prepare it for you now if you wish.”

”No thank you,” Xue Wei answered with a smile. ”We will take a bath when we return.”

Afterwards, Xue Wei, Hei Gou, Bai Tianyi and Lin Xiao all left the courtyard and started strolling around the residential area of the core students.

No matter where they went, all the courtyards looked the same. Four to six people lived in each courtyard, and they all had the same privileges.

The people they passed by looked at them curiously, and Xue Wei and the other three returned the same glances at equal measure—or at least they would have if they each had more eyes.

Although the majority had three eyes, there were also quite a few with four, but they did not come across anyone with five.

”Guys, we have to be careful,” Xue Wei suddenly said to his friends. ”Especially at home. I feel that Mo Yi and Mo Er are not as simple as they seem.”

”They are just two small kids,” Lin Xiao said with a frown. ”How can they not be simple?”

”I don't know,” Xue Wei shook his head. ”There is something about them that makes me feel uncomfortable.”

None of the other three laughed at Xue Wei for saying that, and even Lin Xiao, who had defended the two boys, frowned.