“I’m looking for Principal Henderso. It’s urgent. Is it convenient for him to speak?”
“He’s taking a shower.”
“Um… Hand the phone over to him, then!”
Alex imagined the scene and thought, ‘Have these two just finished the grand task of making babies? So, Xerxes placed the phone next to her before taking a shower, right?’
Alex naturally became moody when he thought about the uncertain fate of his beautiful master, Jade.
Hence, right after Xerxes took the phone, he said directly, “Principal Lawlor… Jade Benmore, my master, is dying. Do you want to see her for the last time?”
Clank!
A commotion could be heard. Those words had clearly stunned Xerxes.
After a while, a distorted voice came. “What’s going on? Explain it to me!”
Alex said, “I can’t explain here, but you’d better head to Mount Sota right now. Remember, be quick. Also, come alone and don’t bring Mandy along. That’s all. I’m going to be busy.”
Alex then hung up the phone.
Martiny looked at him as if she had seen a ghost. “It’s not too good to scare Uncle Xerxes like that, right? You will scare him to death.”
Alex said, “He has a beauty next to him so that he won’t be… Alright, let’s get ready. We’ll have to set off.”
***
In fact, Xerxes was almost scared to death. It wasn’t only him even Mandy was also overwrought as well.
However, since Alex had made it clear, Mandy didn’t go with Xerxes but stayed at home temporarily to wait for the news. After Xerxes hastily put on his pants, he summoned a golden bamboo boat out of the blue and rushed toward Mount Sota.
In fact..
Freya said, “Uncle Xerxes, don’t be anxious first. Commander Benmore is fine now.”
Xerxes was startled. “How is she fine?”
After a moment, he came to his senses and pointed at Alex. “Oh, you rascal. Are you pulling a fast one?”
Alex said, “I’m not deceiving you. She’s being hunted by a nest of Undying and has been trapped inside for a day. Tell me. Do you think that she’d survive?”
After Xerxes heard that, he had ants in his pants. “Then, why are you still standing there? Hurry in and save her!”
After a few minutes, Luna led the group to somewhere in the depths of a forest at Mount Sota. She pointed at a cave entrance. “I climbed out of here last time.”
Alex approached it and looked inside.
The tortoise shell of Genbu hidden in his body suddenly shook, as if it wanted to rush out of his mind palace right away.
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