Chapter 689: 114. Purpose and Sudden Incident (Two in One)_4
Chapter 689: 114. Purpose and Sudden Incident (Two in One)_4
Dal looked up, shaking his head as he spoke,
“That person didn’t come from outside the Snow Mountain, but descended from the mountain itself. He probably isn’t a human from the Northern Realm; I’ve never heard of a man with black hair and black eyes.”
“A Kado person?”
Valentina furrowed her brow. Black hair and black eyes were signature features of the Kado people. This meant that the person coming down from the mountain was a pure-blooded Kado person. But what would Kado people from the Western Continent be doing entering the Snow Mountain?
Although every year, people from different factions of the Western Continent climbed the mountain to explore, Turand Family usually kept a record of those who ascended… In recent years, there had been no Kado people scaling the mountain. However, about six or seven years ago, there was a group of centaurs that had gone up.
It seemed to be an organization called the “Witch Research Association.” At that time, there were quite a few people who came, and the team was luxuriously equipped. The whole group shimmered with the radiance of magic and relics; to the uninformed, they might have been mistaken for a group out to blow up the mountain. Hence the Turand Family had dispatched people to track them for a while until they entered deeply into Sema Snow Mountain and could no longer be followed.
When they emerged, it was several months later, and the number of people in their party had dwindled to about a fifth of what they had begun with. It was said they suffered heavy casualties, and nobody knew what they had found inside… And now, with Kado people coming down from the mountain, could it be that some of those Kado people hadn’t completely left the mountain?
As Valentina contemplated this, the bright magic lamp above the room suddenly flickered, instantly drawing the attention of everyone present with its intermittent brightness and darkness.
“Zzzzzt!”
The sound of strong electrical currents kept coming, and just as Valentina furrowed her brow, thinking of asking Heidlin to inquire what was happening with the hotel staff, the whole building began to tremble as if there was an earthquake.
“Boom boom boom!”
“Miss!”
Feeling the vibrations of the building, Heidlin, who had been waiting with eyes closed behind her, rushed to the back of Valentina’s wheelchair and clutched the handles tightly. The shaking paused a bit and did not produce any further swaying. Valentina, with her face pale and panic- stricken, gripped the wheelchair handles and looked outside the window,
“Is it an earthquake? But how could this be… Clan Chief Dal, are you all okay?”
“We’re okay.”
After confirming that the Snow Fox Species group was safe, she breathed a sigh of relief. Given the unclear situation at the scene, the Snow Fox elder hurriedly covered the Seal resting in a wooden box on the table, while Dal’s daughter Juna embraced the wicker basket tightly in her arms.
As Valentina was still figuring out what had happened to the hotel, outside servants and the Turand Family staff began to shout,
“Wait, what is that?”
Valentina looked towards the window in confusion, only to hear the grating sound of bricks breaking and windows bursting from the hotel’s outer wall. The eerie noise started from the first floor and spread upwards until a heavy shadow completely covered the windows of the conference room. Valentina held her breath in fear.
If anyone had been outside at that moment, they would have seen from beneath the ground outside the hotel, massive vines that resembled both flesh and branches were growing, climbing up the hotel’s outer wall until the whole building was wrapped within them. The fleshy branches trembled slightly, and then, one by one, huge bloodshot eyes snapped open, all locking onto Valentina in the conference room.