Chapter 34

The next morning, Anastasia was called by her mother. When Hwei-ru saw her, she stood up. "Ming Yue, sit down. I have to tell you a lot of things. I told this to your siblings while you were sleeping."

"Okay."

"So, the first thing is: the seer's gone missing."

"Wha-what?"

"A few days ago, she went missing. She was last seen near her house. The virus had affected some of the guards near her house and everyone was taking a lot of precautions.

"They reduced the servants and the guards at her house, and they told us that she was going to go for a walk. They did ask her if she wants them to be around them. She said no.

"She was getting ready but didn't come out of her room for a long time, so one of the staff forcefully opened the door and saw the room was a big mess like an animal had come inside. And the seer was gone as well."

Anastasia gasped. "That's crazy!"

Hwei-ru nodded and took out a file from her desk. "Open it," she said while giving it to her daughter. Anastasia opened it and Hwei-ru started her explanations.

"We found traces of the virus as well. It turns out it came from duck meat, which was imported from the mortal world.

"We have a lot of theories about how it got there, but the most believable one is that some intentionally brought the duck meat."

Anastasia closed it. "Where did it come from?"

Hwei-ru sighed. "From my birth kingdom."

"The fae kingdom?"

"Yes, most of the traces came from the fae kingdom, but there are traces in the griffin kingdom as well. I have this theory as well. The ones who bought the duck meat must want something.

"They wanted to distract us from something big. Their first step was probably throwing the virus in here, and the second step was kidnapping the seer."

Anastasia stayed silent. She opened the file once again and read the contents again. Then it clicked. "Maa!"

"What?"

"Three or four years ago, a fae tried to corner Scarlett. And was about to do something bad to her. But he's dead, anyway. Me and my friend found traces of someone controlling him.

"Probably a very strong witch. And the fae was a light fae and a normal citizen type, so it was easier for the witch to control him.

"What if the ones that are behind controlling that fae are the ones who kidnapped the seer?"

"I don't know. They might be the same ones as well, maybe not. But I did start investigating all the places, that person might be hiding somewhere."

"Okay then. We have to go in full lockdown. Nobody is allowed to go outside the immortal domain or will not be allowed to go back. We have to keep an eye on all the kingdoms for suspicious activity.

"The helpers would be from the vampire kingdom and-"

"I'm three steps ahead of you."

"I know. Also, I have to work on a vaccine in a month."

"Oh. What's a vaccine again?"

"It's umm inserting dead cells that fought that disease into your body, then antibodies are generated for an immunity.

"You would be sick for a day as the antibodies would fight the dead cells to build an immunity against it."

"Oh my god, what the heck is that?"

Anastasia sighed. "Whatever, it worked on humans. Since it's immortals, I have to upgrade it much more."

Hwei-ru panicked and yelled. "Don't you dare! When you make stuff, you nearly wipe out the entire population! Nope, nope! I won't allow it!"

"Then watch people die."

Hwei-ru shut her mouth and looked away. Anastasia nodded.

"That's what I thought. Tomorrow, I'll be gone somewhere far away with my assistant and a few prisoners for testing since I can kill the entire population in one wipe. I have to dilute it as well a lot of times."

"That's settled, then. I'll operate the forces and announce the lockdown in a few days. You can go take whoever you want for your experiments."

"Okay."

"Also," Hwei-ru slyly smiled at her daughter. "How's it going?"

"What do you mean?" Anastasia innocently asked.

"Oh, you know what I mean."

"What?"

"You're trying to show your crush you like her?!"

"Oh! It's going great, I guess. I asked her about her day and listened to everything she said. I don't know what else to do."

"Oh, if you need help you can ask me."

"Maa! Your type of help is something scary."

"I'm just teasing. And you're dismissed."

Anastasia sighed in relief. "Thank you."

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When did she realize she was in love with Scarlett? Boy, that took a long time for herself to notice it but everyone else noticed it.