After saying that, Ningguang fell silent.
But Zhong Baiye and Lumine could piece it together: Keqing must have used her status as a member of the Liyue Qixing to lead an unknown number of Fatui in an attack on the Jade Chamber.
"But why would the Fatui attack the Jade Chamber?"
Zhong Baiye voiced another of his doubts to Ningguang.
Ningguang answered him without a moment's hesitation.
"They wanted to know where the Exuvia of the Geo Archon was being kept. Once I told them, they all withdrew. That gave us time to deal with the situation at the Jade Chamber."
Everything fell into place. Zhong Baiye and Lumine could hardly believe that Keqing was the key figure in all this.
They wanted to find Keqing right away and ask her face-to-face whether she had a reason for doing this.
Boom!
But the distant explosions brought them back to their senses. Their priority now was to hurry to Yujing Terrace and stop the Fatui.
Ningguang saw what Zhong Baiye and Lumine were thinking and immediately spoke up to stop them.
"It's already too late. Even if you went now, you wouldn't accomplish anything."
Lumine immediately protested, "Are we supposed to do nothing and just watch?"
Seeing Lumine dare to speak to Ningguang that way, the secretary wanted to step forward and say something, but Ningguang stopped her at once.
Ningguang gazed at the distant flames and spoke slowly.
"Keqing's betrayal did come as something of a surprise, but I made preparations for a situation like this."
Then Ningguang pointed toward Yujing Terrace in the distance.
"I anticipated that someone would try to seize the Exuvia of the Geo Archon, so I stationed every Vision holder in the Millelith at Yujing Terrace to guard it."
As she spoke, Ningguang turned her