Connected

[ Weicheng's POV ]

After the commencement of our first task with Ku Ji. The empress discontinued the remaining tasks. The book that was found was actually filled with Finance's officials who had breached the rules by graft and corruption. The name actually included the names of other officials under the Yun Clan, and the soldiers.

We were called early in the morning as they halted and ask us the details of what happened last night.

"We can't explicitly release this" The Queen said "The kingdom will fall"

"Why haven't you cleared this?" The Empress asked in a displeasing tone "If we don't release this, the ministers who are against us will definitely do this for us"

The Queen started to be conscious, her calm aura changed. She's starting to hesitate.

"There's a mole inside. The person must have told them to counter our attack today."

Bai Ku Ji forwarded as he said we were attacked yesterday and killed the guards. He thought that the assassin must have the book.

"Last night there were assassins that killed the guards" he took one of the needle arrows and gave it to the eunuch. "They used poison to eliminate the guards and run"

"Somebody did a trick on us." The Queen's voice was enraged.

Weicheng on the other hand kept wondering what book are they looking for, the thing is the book's color is gold and made of high-quality ivory parchment.

The queen looked for the book carefully and threw it in front of us. We kowtowed in front of them

"Your Majesty, please ease your anger" Ku Ji and I bowed again. I internally rolled my eyes.

"Someone must have been working behind the Ministers. If we continue this route we'll probably be ending in a cliff to kill ourselves" The Empress said. "You can stand up now"

We slowly stood up, the Empress really is the calm one. "For now; just go to the west hall. Meet your Master, I specifically requested you two to join with them."

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We went out after dealing with the Yun sisters. "Why did you accept being the Empress' pawn?"

"We are all pawns here, we just have to muster up our own courage to advance to other pawns." I said still walking.

I can feel him side-glanced at me. "You can still quit. The Yun sisters are fearless. One mistake and you'll end up in prison or it will put your end" He said.

I just shrugged and told him the same. "Take care of yourself" I walked faster until we reached the west hall.

Ku ji opened the doors as the following 6 students were all gathered up. Tae Hua, Qui Run, Eun Jo and Ji wok were part of them while the other two came from the other groups.

I can feel Laohu and my two other friends throwing tantrums now for not being chosen. The list was actually chosen by the majesty and Master Dan. Master Dan intended for Laohu to take the role in the militia to learn about the war. Mu Lin is with them at the northern border.

We were rooted at the door when Master Dan Pu pushed us aside so he can enter. "Take your seats now"

We took the other two seats when Princess Xiao entered the hall too. I looked at her in weird manner; as Master Dan Pu brings her at the front of our table.

"I am joining this team too" she announces which garnered her some looks. She smiled a little when her eyes met mine. She really does love faking her reactions. I just turned my head away as to stop rolling my eyes.

Eun Jo sits beside me and whispered in my ear "I never thought you'll be with us. This task will be in danger." he said

"I never wanted even" I said to answer him.

"I can just talk to Master Dan to remove you from the list" He insisted

I lowered my head "No, it's ok. I want to be part of this task too"

hi eyes glower "Are you sure?" I just tapped his arm at my armchair to reassure him when I noticed the surrounding. I just closed my eyes as I realized.

We were separated by Qui run using his fan behind us. All eyes were on us. I choked myself.

"Eun Jo and Wei cheng, care to share your insights here?" Eun jo and I slowly distanced ourselves "What exciting stories you have there?"

I can feel their eyes piercing on us. Eun Jo answered on behalf of us "Master, I was just telling him about Night Pavilion"

Master Dan looked at me with eager eyes "Oh, so what does he tell you about the Night Pavilion, Weicheng?"

Night Pavilion? what kind of story was with that?

I kicked his feet below, I am not even familiar with this. I haven't even heard of it. I was about to speak when Tae Hua stood up and put his jade sword at the table "If it's not necessary to talk about. Stop talking"

I looked at his furious face. His temper is the shortest among everyone. I even saw the Princess smirked at the sudden utterance of Tae Hua. She's enjoying this so much.

I saw Eun Jo just grinned. When Master Dan started to halt us "Actually, we need to discuss about the Night Pavilion"

Tae hua took his seat and listened. "Night Pavilion is at the heart of the Village of Nantong"

Nantong? The Shabby Inn?

"You mean the village of Nantong at the foot of the mountain range?" Ku Ji asked confused

Master Dan just nodded his head as he continued "The reason it was called Night Pavilion is that the pavilion only appears during the full moon"

Full moon? I was once outside of the inn. I clearly saw the whole fields without any traces of a pavilion there.

"It was the only place that holds secrets" Master said

"I thought Night Pavilion was just a myth?" one of the students asked

I heard Qui Rin chuckled "Of course not, Night Pavilion is a manifestation that the world holds dark secrets too"

"We can't barge in like that," I said not wanting to create chaos for Lady Suan Ming.

I remember her words: "The phases of the moon do not stay too long. If you happen to have things to ask me about, you can come back here again"

"The Night Pavilion will be appearing the day after tomorrow, so we need to leave by the afternoon. We have to try the other route to arrive before the full moon or we'll be unable to enter the gates"

My thoughts were on haywire as we were asked to set out later in the afternoon. So is this the moment that Lady Suan Ming told me about? Is this really all connected?