"Hm?"
Yue Wen's eyes narrowed as he stared at Ao Weilian, momentarily unable to fathom his intentions.
His parents had disappeared in River City. Afterward, people from the East Sea Dragon Hall had taken away the case files and investigative authority. Perfected One Nagiko had only told him that their disappearance was connected to the Demon Race.
Piecing together the various clues, Yue Wen suspected that a mole in the East Sea Dragon Hall had been involved in his parents' disappearance. Moreover, this mole might hold a very high rank, enough to take jurisdiction over the case directly from the Supernatural Affairs Bureau.
But a mole was still a mole, after all. They could hardly act openly.
Yet this man who had come to recruit him had said something like that to his face. Could there be more to his parents' case?
Yue Wen still knew too little about the matter to have any basis for guessing the other man's intentions. After a brief moment of thought, he simply asked, "What do you mean by that, Brother Ao?"
Dragonkin liked to be addressed as Venerable Ones when outside, but Ao Weilian seemed quite polite and was not much older than Yue Wen. Yue Wen simply called him "Brother" to subtly bring them closer.
Ao Weilian said, "I imagine you don't know much about your parents' case. It's actually a confidential matter within our East Sea Dragon Hall, too. I came to see you today, Brother Yue, precisely to explain it all."
Yue Wen nodded solemnly and waited for his account.
"About thirty years ago, our East Sea Dragon Hall obtained an ancient text," Ao Weilian began. "I can't tell you its specific contents. All I can say is that it was extremely important to us Dragonkin. We fought a difficult