Test Number 1

"Was it a good idea?" Alex asked. "Giving away my information so frivolously?" 

"To little Zhu? That's alright," Liang Shufen said. "Don't worry about that."

Alex couldn't help but worry. "You trust him enough to give away such crucial information?" he asked.

"Of course," she said. "He's one of us after all, or at least in a way he is."

"One of us? Meaning… the council?" he asked.

"Yes," the woman said. "You can think of him as the phantom 11th member of the council that never was."

"Can I ask you to elaborate a little bit more?" he asked.

"Hmm, let's see what I can tell you," she said. "Little Zhu comes from the Zhu family, although I'm not sure if that family even exists anymore. He was there thousands of years ago during the time when we formed the council. He was one of us and could have become one of us right now, except he didn't join."