Mole

After Ho Chen and I talked a little more before he left. And then I remembered what master warned me about. Just thinking about it made my heart restless. Trying to get over it, I went to sleep.

And so the first day came to an end.

Nothing major happened on the first day, so if what the master said was true, then something major will happen today. Something that will end up very badly for all of us. I need to be careful.

While I was thinking about this, I heard a sound of an explosion. Just by listening to it, I could tell that there is a battle going on. And since I was bored just from sitting in the cave, I went in the direction of the explosion.

After reaching the site where the explosion was originated, I hid.

I saw Ho Chen was fighting another student who passed the first round just like us. The fight was intense. But still, that student was not able to defeat Ho Chen and got himself killed.

-"Follow him."

"Follow him, you mean, follow Ho Chen."

-"Yes, I think we will get to know what exactly this test is about."

"Okay, but what will we do if he discovers us. I haven't learned any concealing technique yet."

-"You don't have to worry about that, I will do something about concealing our presence."

After killing the student, Ho Chen stood there for few minutes trying to regain his strength, and then started moving again. Since the master ordered me to follow me, I started tailing him.

After running for some time, Ho Chen approached another student and started fighting him and killed him in the end. Then he repeated the same process again and again, killing five students.

Since the morning, Ho Chen killed at least six students. And the number may even increase more, and I still know about his actions before the explosion.

Why is he killing everyone? What is his purpose behind killing everyone? I thought he was an upright person, but after watching this, how can I trust a person who is killing this many students for no reason?

Thinking about all this made me mad and sad at the same time. Finally unable to resist all these doubts. I decided to approach Ho Chen directly and ask these questions.

After strengthening my resolve, I jumped in front of Ho Chen who was standing near the body of the student, who he just killed, giving a cold expression.

Seeing me, Ho Chen got flustered

-"Lin Mo, what are you doing here?"

"I was watching you kill those students. Would you care to explain to me the reason behind killing all those students? What was your reasoning behind killing all those innocent students?"

-"Innocent? Ha-ha-ha those fuckers were everything, but they weren't innocent at the very least. As for the reason for killing them, it has nothing to do with you."

"What do you mean it has nothing to do with me? And what do you mean by they weren't innocent?"

-"It has nothing to do with you. You are not a part of the sect yet, and I don't believe anyone from outside well enough for telling the reasons behind my current actions. Only a few higher-ups know about my current actions. And I want you to forget what you saw here, if you dare to tell anyone about this, then you will be the one whose body will lie here, do you understand?"

As Ho Chen said that, I felt a fierce killing intent even fiercer than the student near the river.

"Does this have anything to do with the pills they gave us?"

-"What do you mean by that?"

"I felt some abnormality in the pill while I was absorbing it. So tell me, does this have anything to do with that?"

-"So you knew all along. Then that is all the more reason for me not to trust you."

What was that thing inside the pill that knowing about is equal to losing trust? And the higher-ups in the sect know about this, then does that mean they are the ones who ordered it, or they ignored the matter due to some reason?

-"Lin Mo tell Ho Chen that the red aura will not come from out from you."

Red aura what does that mean? What the hell is going on here?'

"Ho Chen, I think you should know that the red aura will not come from me."

I said hesitantly.

-"So you even knew about the red aura. How do you know all that?"

"I just have a vast amount of knowledge than ordinary folks. Now tell me, what is that red aura?"

-"The extra impurity that was mixed inside the pill was mixed by us to find spy sent by other sects.

When they absorb this impurity, it will react with the technique that these guys practiced, and will form a red aura around their body. This aura can only be detected by me who took another pill to detect them. The purpose of this test is to allow me to get rid of these moles."

"How can you tell for sure that these people are all from the same sect? What if any other person makes the same aura by coincidence?"

-"Then it's their bad luck to train such a method. All I care about is not to allow any mole to enter here. But how did you detected the aura? You didn't take the other pill, did you?"

"No, I didn't. As for how I was able to detect the aura, it's a secret. But tell me one more thing what if they sent another person who didn't train the same method as them?"

-"You ask a lot of questions. Are you one of them as well?"

"No...no I was just curious."

-"Don't get flustered. I know you don't have any relation with them, or else you would be dead by now. Patriarch has a special method to detect such people who don't train the same method as them but work with them."

Even Patriarch is involved in this, what the hell is going on here.

'Master, can you detect this red aura?'

-"Yes, I can detect it due to a certain iris art I trained back in the days. But you need to be careful now since there were 20 students from whom I was detecting this aura before the start of the test."

'20 isn't this number a little too much. I wonder how many of them are left.'

"Senior brother Ho Chen how many moles have you got rid of yet?"

-"It should be around 13 there are still seven left, but I am unable to find them, and I need to find them soon, or else they will leak the detection method. And once this happens, then we will not be able to detect them through this method in the future."

"We only have a half-day left to get rid of them. Do you need any help?"

-"Yes, if you can help me, then I will owe you a huge favor."

"So what are we waiting for let's go."

With these words, we departed in the search of the remaining seven students.