The Secret

Cleaning up the battlefield was the responsibility of specialized personnel. Having just gone through a battle, Cassan took Chen Miemie back to the Silver Moon Court for some rest and reorganization.

On the way to the Society, Chen Miemie spoke up.

"Master's wife, what level are these alien races coming to Sixiang City? They came all this way looking so fierce, but it feels like any random patrol team from any random society could take them down."

Cassan rolled her eyes at him.

"What do you mean 'any random society' and 'any random patrol team'? First of all, our Silver Moon Court is a super strong society, and second, we are not your average patrollers."

"I've actually always had a question. I always hear people say that we at the Silver Moon Court are all lunatics. But when I interact with everyone normally, I feel like everyone is quite normal."

"Is there a possibility that you yourself are a lunatic, so mixing in with your own kind doesn't feel strange to you?"

"Even if you are my Master's wife, I can still sue you for slander. I, Chen Miemie, am a modest gentleman. How could I be a lunatic?"

"Heh, would a normal person beat someone into a mist of blood? Would a normal person let someone stab them in the heart? Change your perspective. Find a few ordinary spectators and see if they are afraid of you."

"That's only toward enemies. I'm usually very amiable, okay?"

"Stop being glib. Down to business. For the past two days, I've noticed something is wrong with your teacher, Dawn. Yesterday during the Sunless Day, she sat on the sofa in a daze all day."

"Wow, Teacher actually wasn't studying the materials distributed by the Society properly," Chen Miemie immediately focused on the wrong point, derailing the conversation.

"What exactly are you focusing on?"

"Am I wrong? I spent all of yesterday and today's daytime, a whole day and a half, just to memorize it. Teacher Dawn can't even see and has to rely on listening. Right now, when it comes to studying, she's a slow bird. It's hard enough for a slow bird to start early, yet she still has time to space out."

"Oh, Dawn listened to it once and basically memorized it all."

"What! Impossible. Does Teacher have the Mystery of photographic hearing?"

"You're only like this because it's your first time memorizing it. For us, most of the people in there are familiar faces. We just need to pay a little attention to a few newcomers."

"You really know how to comfort people, Master's wife. In the future, I'll be a veteran too, and I'll be able to do the same."

"Back to Dawn. She spaced out all day, seemingly thinking about something. I asked her, but she wouldn't say. This has never happened before."

"Teacher Dawn is so amazing. I can only space out for half a day."

"Chen. Mie. Mie! You're interrupting again!"

"Oh, I might know the reason why Teacher was spacing out."

"What! You know? Even I don't know, and she actually told you!"

Chen Miemie laughed secretly to himself. And you say I derail conversations; your sudden, inexplicable jealousy is totally unreasonable.

"Teacher didn't tell me."

"She didn't tell you, so how do you know?"

"Because I chatted with her about some things."

Cassan looked at Chen Miemie with deep suspicion. "Impossible. I've been with her the whole time. Whenever you came over, I was there too. She can't see right now, so you couldn't have sent her messages on your smart-watch."

"I went when you weren't home, obviously."

Cassan grabbed Chen Miemie by the ear. "Still trying to lie to me. I was home the whole time, inseparable from Dawn. How could I not know if you went over?"

"Suit yourself if you don't believe me."

"What did you two talk about that you had to deliberately avoid me?"

"Let go first."

Cassan let go of his ear. "Alright, speak."

"I can't tell you."

"You little rascal, Chen Miemie, you even dare to play tricks on your Master's wife, don't you!"

"I'm not playing tricks on you, I just can't tell you."

"Why can't you? What will happen if you tell me?"

"If I tell you, I'll have to silence you."

Cassan glared at Chen Miemie, while Chen Miemie blinked, returning a sincere look.

"Really silence me?"

"Really silence you."

"You brat, full of nonsense. I almost believed you."

Even after resting at the Silver Moon Court for half a day and heading out again for street patrol, Cassan was still weighed down by her thoughts.

She understood Dawn. Dawn did things cleanly and efficiently, making decisions with lightning-fast decisiveness. She wasn't the type to speak in riddles. The two of them had shared life and death experiences many times, talked about everything, and had almost no secrets from each other.

This time, Dawn hadn't told her.

The more it was like this, the more Cassan felt like a cat was scratching at her heart.

The second half of the night was fairly peaceful, with no anomalies.

After making two more rounds, they returned to the Silver Moon Court.

Chen Miemie ran into Vice President Leng Ruxue and the Fifth Seat, the Merchant of Pain, Pain Reserve. The two of them were a team.

"You've worked hard all night. I heard you killed two Spirit Race members?" Leng Ruxue's information came quickly.

"Yeah, Cassan was amazing. She fought two on one and beat them to a pulp." Chen Miemie didn't call Cassan "Master's wife" when there were many people around.

"Oh? That's impressive, Cassan. It seems you've broken through. Congratulations." Pain Reserve easily deduced the conclusion.

The alien races that could enter the city wouldn't be too weak, otherwise they'd just be throwing their lives away. They started at Mystery 4, and in a team of two, there was a high probability of having one at Mystery 5.

If Cassan was still at Mystery 4, let alone taking on two at once, just retreating in one piece would be considered lucky.

Leng Ruxue smiled but didn't say anything.

The ones cleaning up the battlefield were the peripheral members of the Society. Normally, President Fina didn't care about these trivial matters, so the vast majority of the peripheral members' work was reported to him.

He knew very well that the two dead members were the Mystery 5 Sword of Hope, Nodin, and the support-type Mystery 4, Tea Stain.

More importantly, both of them died from having all the moisture in their bodies drained, their blood spilled all over the ground, leaving only dried corpses.

This was clearly not Cassan's handiwork.

Therefore, Leng Ruxue knew in his heart that Chen Miemie's Mystery was not limited to moonlight. His attack power was not like what he showed when challenging President Fina, where he couldn't damage a Mystery 5. He could absolutely kill a Mystery 5.

However, since Chen Miemie pushed the killing onto Cassan, and Cassan accepted it, he wouldn't run his mouth.

Leng Ruxue didn't say much.

Chen Miemie, on the other hand, pestered him.

"Vice President Leng," Chen Miemie emphasized the word "Vice."

"What is it?"

"We agreed before to arrange a room for me in the Society. Why hasn't anyone implemented it yet? Could it be that your status is too low and your words don't carry any weight?"

"I actually forgot. How about this, I'll arrange it for you right now. Do you want a single room or a double room?"

"There are double rooms?" Chen Miemie suddenly perked up.

"Of course. As long as you and your partner—I mean your official partner, the Illustrator Xi—both agree, we can arrange for you to be put into a double room."

"Are you serious?"

"Serious."

"For real?"

"For real. Hurry up and send a message to Xi. I need to confirm her true wishes."

"No need, I choose a single room." Chen Miemie was very sure. With so many anomalies on him, getting a double room would mean he'd still have to be cautious inside his own room.

Leng Ruxue was speechless. "If you just wanted a single room, what were you getting so excited for?"

"The Society is assigning housing, why wouldn't I be excited?"

"Alright, I'll arrange for you to be in the room opposite Xi's. If there's nothing else, we need to prepare and then go on patrol."

As soon as six o'clock in the morning arrived, the rainbow moon receded, and the golden sun rose.

Chen Miemie hailed a sedan chair and headed back home.

When they were still a few hundred meters away from home, the sedan chair came to a halt.

The sedan chair explained the situation: "There is a battle going on ahead. The fighting is right below the South District building, blocking the way to the apartment entrance."

Chen Miemie lifted the curtain to take a look.

It was the members of the Nanjun Society. They had surrounded Boss Zhang from the seafood shop.