After midnight

"Xiao Su, you have class tomorrow, right?"

"Yeah, are you going to get up early and take me there, Rei?"

"deliver."

"That's great." Xiao Su smiled and pulled Su Ziling's hand and shook it.

Coming out of the hospital and lowering the window, on the road turning home at the fork in the road, there was a ginkgo tree covered with yellow leaves, and the leaves fell rustling in the wind. Su Ziling watched a ginkgo leaf fall to the ground and stepped on it. "An Yan, how much of Ah Jiu's ability has been developed?"

"I know, I know, Brother Ling, it's 12 percent. Isn't that amazing?"

"Very impressive." Su Ziling's face suddenly turned red with shame. He thought that he might not be as good as Ah Jiu, but he didn't expect that reality would be so cruel and leave him no illusions. Fortunately, Xiao Su is still just a little girl. A kind little girl would not ask others, what about you?

"Is Doctor Wang so amazing? How did he figure that out?"

"If you say that about Dr. Wang, be careful that he won't stop talking until you can't stand it anymore."

"Ah? Really? Doctor Wang doesn't look like that kind of person."

"If anyone dares to challenge Dr. Wang's authority, Dr. Wang has 108 ways to shut him up."

Su Ziling laughed out loud, not sure if he was laughing at An Yan's way of speaking or imagining what Dr. Wang would look like. Anyway, he suddenly laughed. At this time, Xiao Su let go of the hands of the two people, trotted forward a few steps, and arrived home.

"An Yan, I have already greeted my master and will go there for training as soon as possible." Su Ziling said after changing his shoes after entering the house.

"It's up to you to decide. There's no need to rush."

"How can I not be anxious? I'm not even as good as Ah Jiu."

Having said that, Su Ziling looked dejected. His eyes kept looking back and forth at the white lines on the floor tiles. In short, he just didn't look at An Yan.

"Then do you know how tall Ah Jiu was before this?" An Yan suddenly became serious.

"How tall?"

"Five percent."

How could it be? Su Ziling didn't ask, but he looked at An Yan, very surprised, and his mouth, which had been tightly pursed, opened a crack.

"Do you think ten percent is low?"

"Ah?" An Yan knew he was 10 percent?

"When Jiu first became my disciple, my senior brother took him to see Doctor Wang. This time, Doctor Wang told me your results and also told your brother."

"my brother?"

"Yeah. Well, this isn't something to be rushed. Go upstairs and take a rest. I'll call you when dinner is ready."

Su Ziling nodded and went upstairs. At this time, Xiao Su came down from upstairs with his homework book, "Dad, please check my homework quickly. The teacher will check it tomorrow!"

"Well... let me take a look." An Yan said as he opened Xiao Su's homework to check.

Su Ziling watched the interaction between the father and daughter in the corridor in front of the second floor for a while, then opened the door and lay down on the bed. He fell into a deep sleep almost immediately. When An Yan came in with the medicine, he saw Su Ziling fell asleep without even changing his clothes or covering himself properly with the quilt. He lowered his head and stared at the medicine bottle, thinking for a second, and then put the bottle on Su Ziling's bedside table.

An Yan turned and left, closing the door.

Two days later, on a sleepy and boring afternoon, Jiu was lying on the hospital bed, sleeping soundly. A few hours after lunch, it was time for him to sleep. But today, for some reason, he only slept for 20 minutes, and suddenly he opened his eyes and felt no sleep at all.

He opened his eyes and looked towards the door, and the next second he saw a man standing at the door, looking at him quietly. The expression on his face was tangled and gentle.

"Master!" Ajiu shouted happily, very excited.

Lin Xuanfeng rushed back exhausted and came here as soon as possible, but he got scared at the critical moment. He had been standing at the door for a while and had never been afraid of seeing anyone. He jumped up and reached out to grab Ah Jiu. If he didn't come over, Ah Jiu would lift the quilt and get down to the ground.

"How is it? Does it still hurt?"

"It doesn't hurt at all." Jiu was wearing a blue and white hospital gown, looking silly.

It's not Ah Jiu's fault that he was too excited. Ah Jiu really hadn't seen his master for a long time. It had been more than half a month since he came back from Beicheng. Although Dr. Wang wrote to him once a day under the coercion of his master, the two of them had never exchanged letters or communicated directly.

Lin Xuanfeng hugged Ajiu tightly in his arms. He had been alone since his grandmother and master passed away. Although he sometimes missed his fellow apprentice, Ajiu was different from An Yan. He was still a child. Lin Xuanfeng hugged Ajiu, never thinking that he would place such an important person in such an important position in just a few months.

Did his master also love and care for him like this back then? Lin Xuanfeng couldn't help but think of his master, Zhou Qing.

"Master..." Jiu called him, not daring to say that he was in pain from being strangled.

Lin Xuanfeng loosened his hand and brought in the fruits that had been placed in the corner as soon as he entered the door. He bought some apples, then took out two red apples wrapped in paper bags and washed them, giving the larger one to Ajiu and keeping the smaller one for himself.

Crunch! Crunch! Lin Xuanfeng and Ajiu bit into the crisp red apples one after another. Ajiu looked at his master smiling as he took bites after bites.

"I don't know if Xiao Su will come to see me after school today. Now that Brother Anyan and the others are back, I don't know if Sister Wuying will come again?" Ajiu said while chewing.

"Sister Wuying, she is the one who is responsible for taking care of Xiao Su when An Yan and the others are not in Xindu?"

"Yes, Sister Wuying and Brother Yin are together."

Lin Xuanfeng knew that An Yan would ask someone to take care of Xiao Su, and he also knew that he would most likely go find Yin, but he didn't expect to hear from Ajiu about a woman he had never heard of. The word "together" does not mean an ordinary relationship.

Lin Xuanfeng took the last bite of the apple and threw away the core. "Ajiu, I'm going to see Doctor Wang and will be back soon. If he allows, I'll take you out for dinner tonight."

"Really? That's great, Master."

Lin Xuanfeng walked out with a smile, but after he left, his mood suddenly became heavy. After Zhao Yunqi died, An Yan wrote a letter to tell everyone that she had something to say, so Lin Nuan set the time and place for the meeting tomorrow, in Ajiu's ward. Lin Xuanfeng didn't know what the deep meaning of her doing this was.

He could ignore the relationship between Wuying and Yin, but Lin Nuan seemed to have something to say. At this moment, Zhou Chen probably had already met Uncle Fang. The matter of Beizhongbei City had come to an end for the time being, but he didn't know what Uncle Fang thought about Song Yu killing Zhao Yunqi.

Therefore, he still had to wait until tomorrow, after he met An Yan, before going to Xindu Building.

Arriving at the door of Dr. Wang's office, Lin Xuanfeng tried to make his steps brisk. After all, he would be punished if he was not happy in front of Dr. Wang.

The next morning, after breakfast, Ah Jiu went downstairs for a walk with the help of the nurse. Not long after, when he reached the center of the lawn, he saw Lin Xuanfeng walking towards him.

"Master, you came so early, have you had breakfast?"

Lin Xuanfeng went home last night, took a shower and had a good sleep, and he looked much more energetic.

"I've eaten. Look, I brought you some shrimp dumplings."

"Thank you, Master. You look much younger today." Jiu reached out to take it. Although he had already had breakfast, he felt hungry when he heard the word "shrimp dumplings".

"Do I usually look old, little bastard?"

"I look a little older than I do today." He picked up the shrimp dumplings and stuffed them into his mouth one by one, puffing up his lips as he ate.

Lin Xuanfeng burst into laughter, then put his arm around Ajiu's shoulders and helped him walk back. "Ajiu, your brother An Yan and sister Lin Nuan will come over today to talk about something, so you better behave yourself."

"Don't worry, Master. I'm not a three-year-old child."

After they returned to the ward, sure enough, people started arriving one after another after a short while.

Lu Li and Lin Nuan were the first to arrive. This was their first time visiting Jiu after arriving in Xindu, so they brought a lot of things. After a while, An Yan and Su Ziling arrived, and finally Yin.

Everyone was present, and after a brief greeting, everyone was waiting for someone to speak.

An Yan made up his mind and took out a piece of bloodstained letter paper. He held out his hand to Yin. "This is what Zhao Yunqi, my teacher, wrote to you before he died."

"Zhao Yunqi is your teacher? But Zhao Yunqi is not..." Lu Li looked at An Yan in surprise.

An Yan nodded, "Yes, it's just as the rumors say. I was imprisoned by Song Hongtian for ten years, and Zhao Yunqi taught me things for six of those years."

"Here! Here's what's written...Oh my god!" Yin quickly opened the letter and said quickly. He looked up at An Yan, wanting to ask An Yan for confirmation. An Yan looked surprised.

"What?" Seeing Yin so shocked, Lin Xuanfeng immediately came over to see.

Su Ziling moved closer, and Lu Li also took a few steps, but Lin Nuan was the only one standing there, staring at An Yan without moving.

"Is Song Hongtian crazy?" Lin Xuanfeng cursed uncontrollably, "He actually wants to copy the water ability and cultivate a new 'Son of God'. How is this possible?"

At once, everyone looked at An Yan, including Lin Nuan. Her face, everyone's face, showed an expression of shock and disbelief. Yin was the first to control his emotions. After all, he had read a lot of biology and chemistry materials and was mentally prepared.

The next one was Lin Nuan. Perhaps women were born with the ability to change their emotions. She frowned and quickly became worried about An Yan. She couldn't imagine how An Yan had lived all those years.

"What's the result?" Lu Li asked nervously.

"I don't know, at least not until I got out of there."

"What about now?" Lu Li asked impatiently.

An Yan looked at each of them without answering. The ward was in a dead silence. Even Jiu, who was sitting on the bed, held his breath. "There is no sign that he succeeded, but the same..."

"There is no sign that this thing has not been successful." Yin took over An Yan's words, "We only know now that Song Yu did not give up after Song Hongtian's death, and the plan is still going on."

"How do you know?" Lin Xuanfeng asked Yin.

"How do you think Zhao Yunqi died?"

"Oh, yes, why am I confused?" Lin Xuanfeng wiped his face.

"So what should we do now? An Yan, do you still remember where that place is?"

Unexpectedly, the first person to propose to solve this matter was Su Ziling. The meaning of Su Ziling's last sentence was also very clear, that is, to find it and destroy it.

"I don't remember. I was there when I woke up, and I wasn't there when I woke up."

Lin Nuan stood at the outside, farthest from An Yan. She stared at An Yan and bit her lower lip silently. She didn't say a word yet.

"Zi Ling, this is a good idea but it's difficult because we know nothing about our opponent."

"How can you know nothing? Don't you know anything either?"

"I don't know." Yin was a little impatient.

"That is to say, we now only know that there is such a thing, but we don't know anything else. We don't even have a clue, right?" Lin Xuanfeng controlled his tone calmly, but no one answered him.

"Okay, I understand." Lin Xuanfeng said and was about to leave.

"Where are you going?" Lin Nuan called him.

"Of course we have to tell Fang Hao. Whether this thing succeeds or not is too crazy. If it succeeds, we can't deal with a bunch of people like An Yan unprepared!"

"Wait a minute, Lin Xuanfeng, I have another question for An Yan."

Lin Xuanfeng stopped and looked at Lin Nuan. Lin Nuan asked calmly, "Ajiu, where is your hometown?"

As soon as this sentence came out, Su Ziling and Yin immediately looked at each other with understanding. Yin still remembered that there was a big secret in that village.

"What does this mean?" After Lin Xuanfeng knew that Ajiu was an orphan, he no longer asked about his past.

"I... I don't know." Ajiu was already panicking. He looked at An Yan anxiously.

"Lin Nuan, let me tell you. It is indeed as you thought. Jiu's hometown is surrounded by a barrier. The barrier was built by your father."

"Is it Lin Yaoyue, Uncle Lin?" Yin pulled An Yan and asked anxiously.

Everyone was attracted by Yin's actions. No one knew why he reacted so strongly, and no one noticed Lin Nuan's face suddenly turned pale with surprise.

"It was Uncle Lin. I was the one who broke the barrier myself. There is no way I could be wrong. Only he could have created that kind of barrier back then."

Yin's mind was in a mess at the moment, but he knew what An Yan said was true. He had also been to that place and felt that power. Yes, it made sense. Uncle Lin was much younger than the 76th 'Son of God', so when the 76th 'Son of God' died, Uncle Lin could have done this.

Lin Nuan's shock was completely different from Yin's. She said, "I heard from my mother that when my father was young, before he even married my mother, he suddenly disappeared for several months without any news. When he suddenly reappeared later, he was covered in wounds. It was also during that period that his marriage to my mother was repeatedly put on hold, and my father's abilities were severely damaged and he never recovered."

“When I heard Ah Jiu talk about his hometown, I thought of my father, but I didn’t expect it to be true.” Lin Nuan still couldn’t believe it.

"I've also heard from my father that when Mr. Lin was young, his abilities were not inferior to those of the 'Son of God' at the time. Later, for some reason, he, who had always been a martial artist, suddenly turned to officialdom and was no longer willing to compete with others easily. So this is the reason." Lu Li sighed.

"So, An Yan, what is the thing that is worth my father sacrificing his proud ability to do?" Lin Nuan approached An Yan's eyes. Everyone turned their eyes to An Yan's calm face at the same time.

An Yan relaxed and said in a low voice, "That's it."

"But what a genius Song Hong was at that time!" Lu Li blurted out.

"This was never done by Song Hongtian alone, nor did it start with him." An Yan said word by word, and the ward fell into a strange silence.

After a while, Lin Xuanfeng shook his body and held his head with both hands, "Oh my God! This is simply too sensational!"

Yes, this is too terrible. Everyone except An Yan was shocked and speechless. Only Yin was able to escape from this devastating emotion after a brief moment of unconsciousness. He looked at An Yan deeply, knowing that An Yan's secret must not stop there. He had too many things buried in his heart.