However, as time was passing, something seemed increasingly amiss about the current situation.
According to the initial plan, by 4:00 a.m., the members of the Wanli Society, who were divided into teams, should have all gathered here from the urban area of Yunhai City.
Yet, it was almost 4:00 a.m. and only a handful of people had gathered. There were just a few stragglers.
"Second Brother, what do you think is happening?"
One of them stepped forward a few spaces questioning anxiously while observing the sparse group arriving.
"It's already three fifty-eight now, but we have only gathered a total of five hundred men and horses!"
From the original two thousand men and horses, it was now down to five hundred!
Not just anyone else, even the Second Brother at the forefront was puzzled.
For the disciplined Wanli Society, such a situation should never occur. Gang rules require members to arrive at the assembly point half an hour in advance.
