Chapter 38: Academy's Meeting
In a wide room, there was a big round desk with many people sat around it. Each of them had a gloomy and stressed expression. There was one old man with a long white hair and long beards, he was the only one who stands. His expression only contained angry emotion until his face became red. His fist was apparently squeezed until it was white. He gave a glaring look at everyone in the room, and all the people who received his looks only lowered their head.
"You all are useless! You dare to give me that answer? This is a big red slap in our place! Our Academy! We can only wash this shame by catching those bastard people! And all the whole month, you didn't get any lead? At all?"
The standing old man was the current Academy Headmaster. He had been the Headmaster for almost fifty years, and this was the first time that there were some people infiltrating the Academy.
"Don't you all know what would happen if we didn't wash this shame? This humiliation?"
"Our credibility as the only Academy will be destroyed! This shame will be carved into the Academy's face! Into our face! Into my face! And all of you dare to be unable to locate any lead at all? This whole month! I gave all of you time to investigate those mongrels! And what you gave me was 'there was no lead at all'? HAH!" The headmaster's face became more red and redder. In the end, the Headmaster stopped his words because he was tired.
After taking a sip, the Headmaster continued to interrogate the people in the room. He swept around the room with his narrowed eyes. "And now you tell me! What have you been investigating? It was impossible to not found any lead or trace."
No one was willing to take this hot potato from the Headmaster.
After a short silence, there was another old man who stood up. He was teacher Liu, the same teacher who gave basic education test to Mingyue. But unlike easy-going expression at that time, currently, he had a frowning expression.
"Headmaster. If we looked at the trace of fighting, we could hardly deduce anything. Moreover, there is a possibility that the people from the same organization have cleaned up the scene, include the infiltrator corpse."
"From my investigation from the Green Mountain, I concluded that only three assassination organization which was capable to infiltrate the Academy at that time. Hall of Death, Black Crow Palace, and the mysterious organization that took the first place in assassination organization." Teacher Liu explained with stable tone and was looking directly at the Headmaster.
The Headmaster was grumbling because there was no any trace that could be found on the Green Mountain. Not even a drop of blood. The group of infiltrator was clearly come in and out of the Green Mountain leisurely.
In the end, he nodded to Teacher Liu to ask him to continue his words.
Seeing the Headmaster nodded, Teacher Liu continued, "For that mysterious organization, it is very impossible. They only accept big-shot assassination target, and their price was astronomically high. The infiltrator didn't plan to assassinate anyone except that unfortunate little girl. Rather, they were doing their own agenda. As for what is their agenda, I will hold it for now."
"For the other two, there is still a possibility for them to be the infiltrator. But in my opinion, it was only the Black Crow Palace." Teacher Liu explained with a grim face.
When teacher Liu was doing the investigation, he never found any lead or even trace. In the end, teacher Liu made every possible candidate who was possibility infiltrating the Academy.
From the Green Mountain, the Academy only found some traces of blood, but the assassin's body was taken by someone. But after some investigation toward this trace of blood, it turned out that the blood was from the beast on the Green Mountain. Someone had tampered with the trails of the infiltrators!
Teacher Liu realized that there was some mole inside the Academy, but he didn't dare to say it. Teacher Liu used a roundabout way to explain that there was a mole inside the Academy, and one of the most suspected people was the Headmaster himself.
The current Headmaster was the second Headmaster, but he didn't receive this title from the previous Headmaster. He was formally the Vice Headmaster at that time.
He took on the role as the Headmaster because the previous Headmaster was assassinated. When the assassination case of the first Headmaster was spread wide, many people suspected the current Headmaster since he was thirsting for the Academy Headmaster's position.
But since there was no lead, the case was closed by Royal Family. He suspected that the Royal Family was also supporting the current Headmaster. Many years passed, nobody remembered that assassination event. Except for teacher Liu. Teacher Liu realized that the current Headmaster had a strong tie with the assassination world, and now especially the Black Crow Palace.
Black Crow Palace originally was an intelligence gathering organization, but it was changed in the recent years. They transformed into an assassination organization and they aimed at the enemy of the Royal Family. Teacher Liu suspected that the Black Crow Palace was the Royal Family's dagger, and the current Headmaster was one of the Royal Family's pawn.
"Impossible!" the Headmaster suddenly smashed down the desk, but the desk was only cracked a little. People around the desk was surprised by the Headmaster's statement. Teacher Liu only looked at the Headmaster in silence.
The Headmaster continued, "Impossible for an assassination organization to assassinate a little girl. Especially for those three organization." Teacher Liu explained in a simple manner.
But teacher Liu countered the Headmaster, " If it was the mysterious organization, then yes. But for the other two, as long as someone pays the high price, they would accept any target. Even if it a little girl."
The Headmaster was angered by teacher Liu's remark. It was akin to a big slap from him. The other teacher and Academy's people in the room was deathly scared.
[If you want to fight, don't bring us into it!]
Seemed to not care about the freezing atmosphere, teacher Liu continued his words, "And Headmaster, don't forget that the target of those infiltrators was not to assassinate that little girl. It was to take something from the Green Mountain, more exactly between the forest area and the mountain area. Headmaster can check it if you want. There was some trace of excavation that was concealed, but it was definitely new." Teacher Liu said with a slight smile.
To tell the truth, teacher Liu was angered by the move of the Academy. At the end of Graduation Exam, teacher Liu himself saw the unfortunate girl in a dire condition. There was not a lot of wound trace, but her clothes were half red, coloured by her blood. Her condition was definitely Over-usage of Elemental, but this condition was far more dangerous than what teacher Liu ever saw before. Even though the unfortunate little girl was in very bad condition, she was still alive. Teacher Liu really wanted to commend her.
Teacher Liu remembered that the unfortunate little girl was the morning girl that he met at the teacher's dormitory a few years ago.
Even though other teacher said that the girl had a weak body and it should be normal, I didn't believe them. I ordered all the Academy's personnel to sweep the Green Mountain. And teacher Liu was surprised by what he found. Some trace of a fighting scene could be found at the forest area. Even though the trace was blurry, but he could see someone's effort to cover the trace. Teacher Liu imagined a little girl that was desperately running away from someone.
After sweeping through all the Green Mountain, teacher Liu found out something weird. The Academy's personnel found a trace of excavation of something in that place. He concluded that this unfortunate girl was in the wrong place and time.
The Headmaster who heard that matter was originally planning to protect the girl. Because it was connected with the Academy integrity if the little girl was killed in the Academy. But after hearing that the aptitude of the girl was low, the Headmaster suddenly changed his attitude.
Sending back the girl to her family and placed many Academy's personnel to wait the assassin bit the bait was the direct order from the Headmaster himself.
Yes, the girl was made into the bait. The Headmaster didn't care about the girl's life because of her low aptitude, and a lot of Academy's personnel approved it. Teacher Liu became disgusted by these people in the Academy. And fortunately, her family brought her back to her family's domain. Xia family's domain.
"You have repeatedly said this thing, but what exactly are they excavating for? I asked you to find it out, but there is still no result!" The Headmaster growled.
Sighing in his mind, teacher Liu answered, " From many years ago, the Green Mountain was made into an artificial mountain by the previous Headmaster. Those people involved in that project were not here anymore, so it was impossible for us to have any lead at all." Teacher Liu shook his head.
But the truth was, teacher Liu sneered at the Headmaster. After the current Headmaster gained his position, he even kicked out the loyal supporter of the previous Headmaster. Even their where about was unknown. Teacher Liu made a bold conjecture that the Headmaster silently killed those people. So it would not be weird if they didn't have any lead in this case.
But, no one knew about it.
The Headmaster's face became red, then green. All the people in the room lowered their head even lower. They wished to never attend this meeting.
Fortunately for them, the Headmaster only walked out of the room without saying anything. Received a lifeline, a lot of people in the room tried to go away before they were pulled into another mess.
Teacher Liu also went back to teacher's dormitory.
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Not long after, a plump middle-aged woman was chasing after teacher Liu. She was the teacher of Four Basic Element Class.
She was confused by the usually mild-tempered teacher Liu and today's event surprised her even more.
"Teacher Liu, why are your mood was very bad? You even got in a fight with the Headmaster." The plump middle-aged woman asked teacher Liu because of her curiosity.
Teacher Liu didn't answer her question, but only shook his head a little.
"Teacher Liu, you maybe should go to Headmaster's office to apologize. Even though he is a short-tempered person, he is not a bad person." The plump middle-aged woman couldn't help to suggest teacher Liu. She was only thinking that teacher Liu was in bad mood.
Hearing her words, teacher Liu stopped in his track and mumbled, [Not a bad person? A 'not a bad person' was willing to sacrifice a little girl as a bait? And that was considered 'not a bad person'?]
Teacher Liu was disgusted, but he only could stomach the words he wanted to say.
In the end, teacher Liu only sighed and said, "You are too young to understand." Then he continued to walk, leaving the plump middle-aged woman alone.
The plump middle-aged woman was surprised by teacher Liu remarks. "Oh please, I have spent half of my life in the Academy. How could I was considered young?" She couldn't help but rolled her eyes.
But she didn't know, what teacher Liu considered as young was those who never experience the event that happened more than fifty years ago.
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