The entire Gao Family lay shrouded in darkness. Even the mountain paths and houses across the rolling ranges could not be seen, all of them swallowed by the dark, carrying an air of mystery and fear.
"Very strange." Gao Manqiu stopped atop a low peak and looked into the distance.
Chu Han knew little about the Gao Family and asked, "Is something wrong?"
Gao Manqiu said, "Old Gao isn't here. The others who should have been at their posts aren't on duty either."
Chu Han surveyed the distance. "So, I haven't sensed any signs of life anywhere along the way. Could the Gao Family have moved their base too?"
Gao Manqiu frowned, uncertain. "Even if they moved, it wasn't everyone."
Chu Han raised a brow. "What do you mean?"
After thinking it over, Gao Manqiu decided to tell Chu Han the truth. "The Gao Family has a mountain peak that is a Forbidden Zone. No branch family members may enter, and even the younger generation of the main line has only been there a handful of times. Every time, they could not even figure out where the path was."
"Is that where the Gao Family keeps something it needs to protect?" Chu Han immediately thought of that possibility.
Gao Manqiu shook her head. "No one knows. Although the Gao Family is currently managed by Gao Yuanxun, he only handles the trivial matters on the surface. Even Gao Yuanxun cannot enter that core mountain peak at will. And many members of the Gao Family's main line have disappeared without explanation. I suspect..."
"You suspect those people are all on that mountain peak?" Chu Han's heart tightened, but he could not understand why. "But what would be the point of doing that?"
"Who knows what the Family Head is thinking..." Gao Manqiu's