Chapter 705
The girl looked up at the sound of her voice.
This time, her brow was clearer.
The sunlight tinted her face a pale gold, the pupils of her eyes cool as water.
It was as if a flawless sculpture had opened its eyes, its long-sleeping beauty awakening at this moment.
Su Man watched in awe, the frames of her eyes suddenly sinking a few degrees, a watery mist coalescing.
Although it was twenty-five years ago that she and Lu Yuan first met.
But because she had slept for twenty-five years, the first time she saw him was five years ago.
Everything was still vivid in her mind.
In such a moment, it was as if she saw Lu Yuan walking towards her at that time.
It wasn’t how similar her face was, but her eyes.
Ying Ziji was also stunned.
She stepped forward and was about to bend down to pick up the lunchbox.
But the next moment, her hand was caught.
The woman’s hand was cold, like the snow in winter, so cold that it was bone chilling.
Ying Zidian’s hand gave a start: “Auntie?”
“I’m sorry, I got too excited.” Su Wen wiped her tears and smiled faintly, “I heard from little Sinai that you have lived in China since you were a child? Is that right?”
“Mm.” Ying Zigui whispered, “I was born in Huacheng, China, I was abducted and sold as a child, and I didn’t leave China until I was seventeen.”
“So.” Su Wen murmured, “Did your mother and father treat you well? You’re so pretty and powerful, they must like you a lot, don’t they?”
Ying Ziji was silent for a moment, “They don’t really like me.”
Although she didn’t have any feelings for the Ying family.
But she also wondered why there were parents in this world who only valued profit and treated their children as tools.
Su Wen wrinkled her brows, sensing that this was not a very good question, and did not ask more.
Still grasping the girl’s hand, her voice paused before she asked again, “Nineteen years old?”
Ying nodded slightly, “Yes.”
“Tan Tan would have been your age if she had lived until now.” Only then did Su Wen let go of her hand and sighed softly, “I lost my temper a bit just now because you ……”
Ying Ziji knew what Su Wen was thinking.
It was because she and Su Man did look three or four times alike.
When Sinai and her had met at the beginning, she had said something similar.
Su Wen shook her head slightly and smiled, “Your nickname is Yao Yao, isn’t it? I’ll call you that from now on, it’s such a pretty name.”
She squatted down, picked up the lunch box and handed it over, “Yaoyao, there are three hundred pieces of dim sum in here, dozens of flavours, enough for you to eat for a while, I will come to the Institute more often when I am done with the matter of the Lehngar family.”
Su Man had made dim sum all night yesterday.
This lunchbox was a technology similar to a spatial folding bag, which could store a lot of food inside.
It wouldn’t expire within fifty years.
Ying Ziji’s eyes paused as he took it, “Thank you, auntie mother.”
“No need to thank you.” Su Wen smiled, “You have an experimental project due at the end of the month, go and work on your experiment.”
She watched the girl leave before turning around to leave.
All the way there, Su Man was a little distracted.
She returned to the Leingold family’s estate and ran into Mo Qian, who came running in.
“Sister-in-law, is fifth sister all right?” Mo Qian’s anxiety was not faked, “I read the news report that only the body of the divine doctor was found, but not fifth sister’s.”
Su Wen stopped and swept him a faint glance, “Do you think there’s anything wrong?”
Mo Qian didn’t dare to breathe.
The explosion was so big that the Divine Doctor had been killed on the spot.
Although no traces of Sinai were found at the scene, it was estimated that it was no better.
“Sister-in-law, fifth sister has also suffered a lot over the years.” Mo Qian wiped his sweat, “I’ve advised her several times that little miss is buried in the cemetery, but she’s still bent on going outside the city to look for her.”
“As a result, she still found quite a few people back, and they do look like you and big brother.”
Hearing this, Su Wen looked aghast, “Do you have a photo? Bring it to me for a look.”
Mo Qian did not dare to disobey and handed over all the photos he had collected over the past ten years.
They were all photos of young girls in their twenties.
Xinae had searched time and time again over these ten years and had indeed found quite a few subjects in O Chau that met various criteria.
Soman looked at them one by one.
The young girl in each photo either looked like her or like Lu Yuan.
There was even one that looked eight points like her.
Only none of them were.
Su Man fell silent and sighed.
It was.
She had buried Tan Tan with her own hands, and she had carved the tombstone with her own hands.
People could not come back to life after death.
The City of Worlds and the Kingdom of China were even two places far apart.
What was she thinking.
Sinai didn’t know then either, which is why she kept searching.
But she, being in the know, was surprisingly delusional as well.
Mo Qian carefully observed the woman’s expression: “Sister-in-law, are you not feeling well? The divine doctor’s death was also an accident, so you shouldn’t be too upset.”
“I’m fine.” Su Man slowly returned to her senses as she spoke in a light voice, “You go down.”
Mo Qian let out a sigh of relief and as he went out, his back was once again drenched in cold sweat.
At this moment, he begged Lu Yuan to come back quickly.
He wasn’t even as stressed out facing Lu Yuan as he was facing Su Man.
**
On the other side.
Ying Ziji returned to the dormitory with his lunchbox in his arms, opened it and took a piece into his mouth.
The pastry was sweet, warm and glutinous, melting in her mouth and not greasy.
She didn’t want to share these pastries with others.
It wasn’t because Su Wen’s cooking was superb, it was just because she didn’t want to.
After she ate several pieces of dim sum in a row, Ying Ziji re-covered the lunch box and put it on the shelf.
She logged onto w-net, pa*sed a few more equipment messages up, and clicked on the auction.
She had lost three billion yesterday and had to earn it back as soon as possible.
Ying pondered for a moment and went to the herbal section specifically to place another large order.
Although Su Wen had woken up, and her body did not show a big loss.
But it would be good to take a little more care.
The phone rang a little at that moment.
Ying Ziji glanced at it.
[Sinai]: Ying, I’m here.
Also just as she finished looking, a knock sounded by the window.
The 120cm tall Sinai was wearing flying shoes and floating in the air.
Ying pressed his head and opened the window to let her in.
“Huh?” Sinai saw the lunchbox on the shelf, “Sister-in-law has come to bring you snacks?”
Ying Zigui hmmed.
“Ying, there’s an unpleasant request.” Xinae was silent for a moment, “If you have time, can you spend more time with sister-in-law before big brother returns?”
Even though Su Wen was strong, she was still a woman after all.
When a daughter died at birth, it was difficult for a mother to come out of it for a moment.
“Well, I won’t need you to say that.” Ying did not refuse, picking up the car keys with one hand and lifting Sinai up with the other, “Let’s go.”
Sinai: “……”
She wasn’t in a very good mood at the thought that she was going to meet an old man who wanted to dissect her at any moment.
Norton didn’t normally live in the Sage’s House, but in a suburban villa outside the centre of town.
Ying got Norton’s place from Xiu and drove all the way to the front of the villa.
The villa was by a lake and there was a small forest next to it.
It was a good place to do experiments.
“You wait first.” Ying got out of the car, “I’ll talk to him about the precautions.”
Sinai: “……”
She didn’t really want to go.
Ying Zidian pushed the door in and smelled a faint smell of alcohol.
The next second, there was a loud “giggle” and a wine bottle smashed towards her head-on.
The impact was very strong.
Her eyes narrowed and she didn’t dodge, her hand lifted and held the bottle steady.
It was a bottle of whisky.
Norton’s favourite.
Ying put the bottle down and blandly: “I don’t drink, save it for yourself.”
“That’s fine, boss.” Norton turned down the stairway and smiled, “I thought you weren’t as strong after your injury, but I didn’t think you were bad.”
Ying looked up, “I didn’t know that before, you’re still a sage.”
“There’s nothing good about a sage.” Norton unscrewed the bottle, “I’d rather I hadn’t regained this memory and power.”
“I met with Cesar first, the other day.” He smiled coldly after taking a sip of his wine, “Still that little brat is annoying.”
Ying glanced at him, “You and him, you’re not that many years apart.”
Two middle-aged people, how dare they compare.
“Oh.” Norton shrugged, “I’m mentally older than him, he’ll pamper you, I won’t.”
“Hmm.” Ying blandly, “You only want to fight me or dissect me.”
Norton held up his hands, lazily, “I wouldn’t dare.”
“No more nonsense, I’ve brought the man.” Ying raised his eyes, “I’ve already told you the situation, that alchemical drug has entered her body and mutated in another way, see if you can make a full version of the antidote.”
“Tsk, trouble.” Norton frowned, “Fine, bring it in.”
A dozen seconds later, Sinai poked a small head in through the doorway, “Ying.”
Norton put down his bottle and slowly came forward.
Sinai saw his face.
Chapter 706
Short silver hair.
Black diamond stud earrings.
A very flamboyant outfit, but very flattering to his character.
The man has dark green pupils, like a vortex that can suck people in, hiding a smile.
But his smile did not reach his eyes, even the tips of his eyebrows were cold and his eyes were regal.
Sinai, still picking at the door, froze slightly.
No, not the old man?
Good-looking …… and a bit of a looker?
Norton crouched down in front of Sinai, his eyes level with hers.
Sinai met his dark green pupils, and the small hand that was picking at the door tightened.
Norton hooked his lips and patted her head, “Kid?”
Without waiting for Sinai’s answer, he said to himself, “It’s quite cute, like a doll.”
When Sinai heard the word “doll” after that, her heart rose to her throat.
I heard that those who liked to play with dissection also liked to make specimens.
If only ……
“Okay, I’ll take it for now.” Norton stood up, “I’ll send it back to you once I understand the mutation in her body and I’m done with the poison.”
“Mhm.” Ying scanned the vacant villa, “No one will enter your place, right?”
“Enter?” Norton sniffed and gave a cold laugh, “They dare too?”
None of the few Sages now resident in the House of Sages were combat types.
Norton’s force value was here, even the Sage Queen had to circumvent it.
“Oh, I forgot.” Norton rubbed his chin, thoughtfully, “Only the demon has, but who knows where he is, and the priestess does some divination, and the astrolabe shows the date of the demon’s return coming up.”
He took another sip of wine, “You said to me before that you divination players can’t divine people who are more powerful or close to you, the priestess is much weaker than the demon, at most she knows that the demon is coming back, she doesn’t know anything else.”
Ying Ziji’s eyes narrowed slightly, “The demon has fallen too?”
Only when a sage fell and was reincarnated, or was seriously injured, would he lose his memory and power.
Xiu had told her that the reason the Magi had never gathered was also because of the too many disasters they had encountered guarding the City of Worlds and the Earth.
As sages with powers beyond those of ordinary people, they had more responsibilities on their shoulders.
Earthquakes, plate collapses, asteroids hitting the Earth, and other disasters that could destroy continents, all have to be stopped.
So one moment one falls, another is seriously injured.
Instead, it was supporting sages like Shu who stayed alive.
“It could have fallen, or it could have just left with a serious injury.” Norton leaned over the table, faintly, “There was an internal battle between the Magi once before, a battle I wasn’t present for, but only heard about later.”
“The demon rebelled with a third of the Magi, and eventually lost for whatever reason.”
Ying Zidian wrinkled his brow, “And you?”
“Me?” Norton shrugged, “To tell you the truth, you might not believe me, I chose to become an ordinary person for fun because I was bored of not wanting to be a sage anymore.”
Ying pressed her head, “I kinda believe that.”
She really didn’t know what kind of group of people she had met.
Each and every one of them was an oddball.
On the side, Sinai listened a little confused.
For the first time she hated that her body had shrunk and her personality had become like that of a child.
When she reacted, her hand had already grabbed the corner of Ying Zigui’s coat uncontrollably, “Ah Ying, he ……”
Ying Zidian’s body leaned down, “Well, I forgot to mention that he now has a seal called Chariot, so I’m comfortable putting you in his place.”
Sinai: “!!!”
But she wasn’t so rea*sured.
Sinai didn’t have time to think about how exactly Ying Zigui knew the Sage Chariot, her thoughts had instantly pulled her back to that night last night.
The warmth of the man’s hand still seemed to rest on her earlobe, with a little heat born of friction.
Norton raised an eyebrow, his chin lifting, “What is this child of yours, blushing for?”
Sinai snapped back and rubbed her hair, her face expressionless, “I’m, hot.”
“It’s really quite hot.” Ying didn’t think otherwise and glanced at Norton, “You’re heat resistant, remember to turn on the air conditioning too.”
Norton frowned again, “Trouble.”
“I’ll go first.” Ying put a box down, “In here are some medicines, enough for you to use for a while.”
Sinai watched the girl leave as the door opened and closed.
The only two figures left in the large villa were a small one and a large one.
The hall was quite quiet.
Norton looked sideways and narrowed his eyes slightly, “I think there’s something familiar about you.”
Sinai took a small step back, “I don’t think you’re familiar.”
“Is that so-” Norton stepped in again and bent down, “Have I seen you somewhere before?”
Sinai tensed until her small body was pressed against the wall and shook her head deadpan, “No.”
“And yes.” Norton patted her head again, “If I’d seen you before, you’d be in an operating bed.”
Sinai: “……”
She was really scared.
“Don’t worry.” Norton smiled, “I’ll make sure to follow her request and try not to dissect you.”
Sinai: “……”
She wasn’t comforted at all.
If it was just a man with mortal flesh, she could still rely on the high tech products she made to instantly blast her opponent to smithereens.
But a sage chariot?
She might as well give up her dream and become a salty fish.
“Tch, kid, what to do, I don’t have any of your clothes to wear here.” Norton sized Sinai up and down, “Take you to buy some clothes first.”
When he finished, without waiting for Sinai to refuse, he lifted one hand and lifted her up with ease.
Like carrying a bag, he carried her towards the door.
Sinai almost didn’t catch her breath at once.
“So what, it’s hard for me when you’re like that.” Sinai hesitated, or protested, “Can you change positions?”
“Oh, no.”
“……”
**
This way.
Ying Ziyi had just returned to the Institute.
Several messages were received on his phone.
It was a series of photos.
The photos showed a 120cm tall six-year-old body of Sinai wearing an a*sortment of small dresses and looking expressionlessly into the camera.
Next was another text message.
[Tsk, it’s pretty good, isn’t it?
It clearly wasn’t Sinai’s tone of voice.
Sinai used to spend all her time at the research institute, wearing lab coats every day and not even bothering to buy clothes.
It was self-explanatory who it was.
Ying Ziji: “……”
How had she not noticed before that Norton had this hobby?
Really as a doll?
After another moment, a new message popped up.
[Sinai]: He’s so scary [cries out]
Ying Ziji thought for a moment and soothed.
[When you get your body back and your personality changes back, you won’t find him scary anymore.
He is not normal in the first place, you should not communicate with him as if he were a normal person.]
In his normal state, Sinai was more like a piece of ice than Norton.
The two people would not communicate at all.
Ying put the phone back and went into the lab.
The members of group b were all doing experiments in earnest.
Ye Siqing was happy to see the girl come back and waved, “Ying, we just have the last step left, when the last part is shipped back from w online tomorrow, it will be successful.”
“Well, it’s been hard work for you guys.” Ying took out a few bottles of drinks from his space folding bag, “I’ll be away from the lab for the next few days, so I’ll have to rely on you guys to complete the rest of the steps.”
“It’s a small thing.” Ye Siqing said, “If you hadn’t made the drawings, we would still be at a loss.”
Ying unscrewed the bottle and took a sip, logged onto w.com, and proceeded to browse all the news from more than twenty years ago.
One after another, reading carefully.
Outside the door, the A-team pa*sed by.
Xu Jingshan glanced sideways.
Seeing that everyone else was a*sembling parts and only the girl was playing with the computer, he gave a very contemptuous laugh.
“Miss Bi’er, it’s a good thing you didn’t let her into group A. Look at how lazy she’s become, if she did get into group A, not only would she not help, she’d top a spot, that is, go through the back door. ”
Naturally Bea saw it too, she frowned, “What do you care what they do, the experiment is progressing faster, I have to go back to the clan at night.”
She held her breath inwardly.
I really hoped that the House of Magi would soon order the Leingold family to re-elect the Grand Master.
**
The Jade Family.
The guards at the entrance of the manor saluted in unison, “Grand Master, Eldest Young Master.”
Hearing this address, Fu Yunshen raised his eyes and swept the guards faintly.
The guards’ bodies chilled and they immediately changed their words, “Duke Fu.”
Fu Yunshen withdrew his gaze.
He did not want to get involved with the Jade Family in any way.
“Xiao Qi, you wait here first.” Shaoyun looked a little gloomy, but still concerned, “I’ll go and fetch something, I’ll be out soon.”
Fu Yun Shen gave a faint hmph as he flexed his legs and leaned against a tree, inclining his head to look at the hunting ground to the side.
From what Elder Fu said, Fu Liu Ying did not know how to shoot a gun before.
But after returning from a few years of disappearance, she was able to shoot a hundred times.
It was obvious who had taught him.
Fu Yunshen’s eyelashes twitched.
Once, Fu Liu Ying was happy.
At that moment, a few mocking voices rang out.
“Yo, isn’t this the eldest young master of our Jade Family, Fu Yun Shen?”
“He’s from the Jade Family, why is his surname still Fu?”
Fu Yunshen raised his eyes and smiled, “Hm?”
These were the other young masters of the Jade family.
They were not from the Yu Shaoyun family, but they were also from the same lineage and had the qualifications to compete for the position of head of the family.
The fifth young master was about to say something when he met those peach blossom eyes.
Fu Yunshen straightened up and just raised his hand to absently straighten his shirt.
The overwhelming and ma*sive aura came over him, overwhelming people’s breath.
The fifth young master shivered and subconsciously turned around and wanted to run.
But as soon as he thought that he hadn’t come alone, he instantly came back to his senses.
“Big brother, it was really hard to see you.” The fifth young master spoke boldly, “It just so happens that we are having an archery competition today, so why not choose a day and come along and try it out too, big brother?”
He really wanted to know what a man from the seven continents and four oceans was capable of.
The three men surrounded Fu Yunshen.
The commotion here was not small and the housekeeper was alerted.
When he saw the three young masters from the first generation surrounding Fu Yunshen, he frowned and was about to stop them.
Zhu Sha, who was following behind, raised his hand and the butler, smiled slightly: “The youngsters are fighting among themselves, so we as elders should leave them alone, it is inevitable that the youngsters have injuries.”
The housekeeper paused in his steps.
Although he did not like Fu Yunshen, he was still Yu Shaoyun’s son no matter what.
These were all strong contenders to run for the next generation of the family headship, and their force levels were incredibly high among their peers.
Fu Yunshen had only been in World City for a short time, and had not gone through the proper training of the Yu family, so what could he do to fight?
The butler finally spoke up, “First Lady, the side of the Grand Master ……”
“That’s how the Grand Master came to be too.” Zhu Sha then smiled, “Manly man, can’t you want to spend your life in comfort?”
The butler could not say anything at this point.
He also wanted to see if Fu Yunshen had the strength to do so.
If he wanted to inherit the Yu family, just relying on Yu Shaoyun’s preference was not enough.
Zhu Sha sat on the viewing platform of the hunting ground, covered her lips with her hand and faintly: “Go, invite the old lady down.”
The maid saluted, “Yes.”
Only yesterday did Old Lady Yu lift her confinement, and when Zhu Sha sent someone to invite her, she immediately rushed here.
Upon seeing the man on the hunting ground, her old face instantly sank, “Sandy, I don’t want to see him, go, I’ll go with you to find Shao Ying.”
An illegitimate son, in her way.
Zhu Sha sat still and only smiled, “Mum, they are both Yun’s sons, don’t be so generous to each other, look at him, he has many good points.”
Old Lady Yu sarcastically said, “Look at what, a face?”
She only regretted that she had not stopped Fu Liu Ying and Yu Shao Yun from making contact in time.
Pulling down the Yu family’s honourable lineage.
Old Lady Yu suppressed her anger and simply closed her eyes.
On the hunting ground.
There were all kinds of cold and hot weapons next to each other.
“Big brother, please.” The fifth young master smiled impishly, “You don’t know how to shoot arrows, do you? This is the most basic skill to draw a bow and shoot an arrow, if you don’t even know how to do this, you can’t say it.”
The fourth young master directly picked up the bow and arrow, “What’s the point of talking so much? Just let big brother try it directly.”
He said, handing the bow and arrows to Fu Yunshen’s hand.