Lu Chuxue's heart began pounding wildly. She could not imagine what kind of terrible news this flustered messenger would deliver in the next second, much less guess what sudden crisis might arise during these rare peaceful days.
Taking a deep breath, Lu Chuxue prepared herself for any bad news and calmly said, "Speak."
The messenger took several deep breaths during the brief silence before saying, "A major battle broke out in the northeast. It was on a huge scale. We received no advance warning, and by the time we discovered it, the battle was nearly over."
"The northeast?" Lu Chuxue froze. "Isn't that a non-combat zone? Did the abominations or zombies circle around through those waters and attack a human base?"
"No!" The messenger hurriedly shook his head. "Neither zombies nor abominations took part."
"Then who was it? A civil war?" Lu Chuxue was even more confused. Nearly all of China's fighting forces were defending the southern border against the zombie horde. A civil war should have been impossible.
"We can't be certain." The messenger wore a complicated, strange expression. "But according to our intelligence analysis, it appears to have been a war between Mysterious Families."
"Mysterious Families?!" Lu Chuxue's voice abruptly rose an octave as she shot to her feet in disbelief.
The Mysterious Families had always been the most feared existence in everyone's minds, even more terrifying than the Abomination King or Zombie King. Aside from Chu Han, who feared neither heaven nor earth, no other base had the courage to challenge them head-on, much less wage war against them.
Moreover, the four great Mysterious Families had always seemed like a single whole to ordinary people. The fact that war had actually erupted among them was difficult for Lu Chuxue to believe.
"Yes. It seems to be between