Chapter 121: Poisoning (3)
"Cho, stay here with Seol for a bit. Dad and Mom have somewhere to go for a moment. Someone is sick, so we're going to check on them, alright?"
"Yeah, Cho can stay with Auntie. We had fun together for the past few days, right? Dad, have a safe trip."
— Tsrut!
After telling Cho to wait for a bit, I followed Military Strategist Zhuge Hu as we rushed to the guest quarters where regular visitors of the Martial Alliance stayed.
Since I was staying in a secluded annex behind the Lord's Hall—being one of the Five Venoms, with Seol and Gong as guests—we had been assigned a more private residence. However, Zhuge Hu’s nephew, Ji-ryong, must have been given lodging in the general guest quarters where most visitors to the Martial Alliance stayed.
"The Five Dragons and Three Peaks... Nothing special about them, huh?"
The area around the guest quarters was already surrounded by warriors of the Martial Alliance, sealing off the entire vicinity. Judging by the commotion near the entrance and surrounding area, it seemed like they had placed the whole place on lockdown.
A poisoning incident involving the nephew of a Martial Alliance strategist was bound to trigger an emergency response.
Passing through the heavily guarded warriors, we reached a long corridor lined with rooms resembling small one-room lodgings. We stopped in front of one.
Standing outside were three familiar faces—Kwon-ryong, Geom-ryong, and Gungbong—each looking deeply concerned.
"Strategist!"
"Yes. Did anything happen while I was away?"