Round Mirror

Chu Zhiyuan smiled. "This is also your stroke of fortune arriving, Fifteenth Uncle."

Chu Honglin shook his head. "Without you, this stroke of fortune would not have been fortune at all."

Chu Zhiyuan nodded with a smile. "Fifteenth Uncle, when we gather together, we become one another's fortune... Should we wipe these people out?"

Those two had said earlier that Thousand Mechanisms Tower was in a place no one could imagine. He had thought it was somewhere people would consider impossible, such as inside a government office.

He had assumed they were exploiting the principle of darkness beneath the lamp—hiding right under people's noses, beneath the Imperial Court's gaze, in the busiest place possible.

That would instead make it easier to conceal themselves.

Yet it was actually in this sparsely populated place.

Still, the two men had not been wrong. No one would have expected Thousand Mechanisms Tower, with its keen ears and sharp eyes, knowing everything under heaven, to be located in such a desolate place.

Chu Honglin considered it. "Should we raid this place first, then raid Feiyun Sect?"

"Fifteenth Uncle, let's raid Feiyun Sect first, then this place," Chu Zhiyuan said. "That way, they won't realize we've discovered this place."

He felt there were still things about Thousand Mechanisms Tower that remained unclear.

He could not shake the feeling that there was something strange about such a remote location.

How did information get in, and how did it get out?

If someone wanted to buy information, how would they come here?

If everyone knew about this place, it would have been exposed long ago. It could not possibly remain so secret.

Thus, they needed to observe it first and uncover its mysteries before making a move.

It was not for the Imperial Court's sake, but because he