Under Xiahou Shaoxuan’s furious intimidation, Lian Qiguang was once again placed under house arrest.
After lying in the hospital for more than half a month, and after Lian Qiguang had tasted every variety of the hospital’s nutritional meals, he finally launched a heroic rebellion.
“Wife! Put those things down!” After being ignored by Lian Qiguang for exactly ten minutes and thirty seconds, Xiahou Shaoxuan finally couldn’t hold back anymore.
“I don’t want to stay here. If you’re capable, come and catch me.”
Facing Xiahou Shaoxuan’s anger, Lian Qiguang didn’t even raise his eyes. He continued packing his things.
“Wife, you really think I don’t dare to take you back, don’t you?”
Xiahou Shaoxuan laughed out of anger. His eyes narrowed as he stared meaningfully at Lian Qiguang’s moving back.
Lian Qiguang’s hands paused.
After remaining silent for a long time, he turned around and looked expressionlessly at Xiahou Shaoxuan.
“You don’t have any vacation left. I checked.”
“As the highest-ranking commander of a small planet, there should always be some special privileges, shouldn’t there?” Xiahou Shaoxuan leaned forward, placing both arms on the table and resting his chin on them. His threatening expression was obvious.
“You cannot abuse your authority for personal reasons.”
After staring at Xiahou Shaoxuan for a while, Lian Qiguang spoke calmly.
“Wife, that sentence doesn’t sound like something you would say.”
Xiahou Shaoxuan found it somewhat amusing, but his face showed no emotion.
“Or rather, don’t you think your saying that has absolutely no convincing power?”
“……”
Lian Qiguang was silent.
“I don’t like this place.”
Lian Qiguang’s expressionless face remained serious.
“You need to properly recover.”
“I’m already fine. I told you, I’m very strong.”
“You also said that last time.”
Thinking of how someone had confidently promised that nothing would happen, only to become a blood-covered, badly injured little bastard less than five hours later and nearly scare him into stopping breathing, Xiahou Shaoxuan’s expression darkened again.
Seeing Xiahou Shaoxuan’s darkened face, Lian Qiguang tilted his head.
After thinking for a moment, he suddenly stretched his mouth into a stiff, blank smile.
“I like you.”
“……”
Xiahou Shaoxuan froze.
“I like you the most, Shaoxuan.”
“Wife.”
Taking a deep breath, Xiahou Shaoxuan secretly pinched his own thigh under the table. He forced a stern expression.
“This trick doesn’t work anymore.”
“Then I won’t like you anymore.”
The smile disappeared from Lian Qiguang’s face. He turned around and continued packing.
“You dare!”
The metal cup in Xiahou Shaoxuan’s hand creaked from the force of his grip.
“Ji Renlin was killed by me.”
“I guessed.”
Not long ago, Xiahou Yu Chi had sent him all of Lian Qiguang’s training records. When he saw Ji Renlin’s death, he immediately remembered Lian Qiguang once saying that he would kill him.
As for the other two people, although Lian Qiguang had never mentioned them, Xiahou Shaoxuan could guess that their deaths were most likely related to him.
“Their abilities were also given to them by something I provided.”
“I know—”
Xiahou Shaoxuan stopped.
He actually didn’t know this one.
He suddenly raised his head and looked directly into Lian Qiguang’s serious eyes. A trace of surprise appeared on his face.
Facing Xiahou Shaoxuan’s shock, Lian Qiguang simply remained silent and continued looking at him expressionlessly.
“What happened?”
After suppressing the shock in his heart, Xiahou Shaoxuan’s expression became serious and his voice lowered.
“This matter is complicated.”
And he still hadn’t figured out how to make up the story.
“When I come to find you, I’ll take you somewhere.”
The space inside his ability was currently nothing but trees. All the belongings he had stored from his previous life were gone. There wasn’t much point in showing it to him.
He could tell Xiahou Shaoxuan all his secrets and all his hidden cards.
Except for one thing.
That was something he would bury forever in his heart.
His previous life.
He could not tell him that his former name was not Lian Qiguang.
It was—
An Guang.
The person countless people once worshipped like a god.
The faith of every soldier.
The savior.
Lord An Guang.
He did not want to see strange emotions appear in Xiahou Shaoxuan’s eyes.
Just like when he, as a human, first saw those zombies.
“I need to go and seal their mouths.”
“Do they know?”
Xiahou Shaoxuan’s brows furrowed so deeply they almost looked like they could crush a fly. His mind immediately began calculating how he could eliminate the problem without Lian Qiguang knowing.
“They don’t know.”
Lian Qiguang obediently shook his head.
“When I gave it to them, they were unconscious.”
“Wife.”
Xiahou Shaoxuan rubbed his temples helplessly.
“I know you have many secrets. If you don’t want to tell me, I won’t force you. But human hearts are unpredictable. Some things, you must keep buried inside yourself. Do you understand?”
“I won’t tell anyone.”
“Then why did you tell me?”
“You’re different.”
Lian Qiguang frowned slightly, a trace of confusion flashing in his eyes.
Because he himself could not explain exactly how Xiahou Shaoxuan was different.
He just knew that he was different.
Lian Qiguang’s words successfully pleased Xiahou Shaoxuan. The tightly knitted brows slowly relaxed, and the corner of his mouth lifted into a smile.
“Wife, you’ve learned how to manipulate me.”
“Next time there will be no training. I’ll be safe inside the academy. You can rest assured.”
Seeing that Xiahou Shaoxuan finally smiled, Lian Qiguang immediately turned the conversation back to the original topic, speaking seriously.
“Wife, I really don’t know what to do with you.”
Xiahou Shaoxuan knew exactly what little thoughts were going through Lian Qiguang’s head, but looking at the serious yet slightly hopeful expression of this little guy in front of him, he simply couldn’t bring himself to get angry.
“By the way, wife.”
As if remembering something, Xiahou Shaoxuan’s expression became serious again.
“The person you mentioned before, the one called Long Ying, has already been investigated.”
“Is it bad?”
Seeing the seriousness on Xiahou Shaoxuan’s face, Lian Qiguang asked.
“You need to ask my little aunt about this. The two of them know each other. She should know him very well.”
“Little… aunt?”
For a moment, Lian Qiguang’s mind slowed down.
“My father’s younger sister, Xiahou Luoyu.”
Xiahou Shaoxuan paused before adding:
“Her mind is not exactly normal. Ignore her after you get the information you need. If she annoys you too much, just beat her. If you can’t win, run.”
“……”
Lian Qiguang nodded obediently.
“Okay.”
“Xiaoguang, are you really okay now?”
Qing Mu Rong looked at the person in front of him, still unable to hide the worry in his eyes.
“I’m fine.”
Lian Qiguang nodded expressionlessly.
“You really need to take good care of yourself. You have no idea—when that old man from the Xiahou family found out you were injured, he almost flattened my academy.”
After confirming that Lian Qiguang truly had no problems, Qing Mu Rong started joking again.
“……”
Lian Qiguang remained silent.
“By the way, Xiaoguang.”
As if remembering something, Qing Mu Rong’s expression became serious again.
“Recently, the government sent people to interrogate Qing Yi and the others. Their explanation was almost exactly the same as yours.”
“They said they were attacked. When they woke up, they found some kind of fruit beside them. Thinking it was edible, they ate it, and then their abilities mutated.”
“En.”
Lian Qiguang responded indifferently. His face showed no reaction.
“They described that fruit and drew it out. Take a look and see if it’s the same thing you ate before.”
Qing Mu Rong said this while turning on the computer. After tapping several times, an image appeared on the floating screen.
It was a fist-sized green fruit.
Both ends were round, and its shape resembled a sleeping baby with its eyes closed.
It looked extremely adorable.
If this picture had appeared in the twenty-first century, countless people would have immediately recognized it and shouted its familiar name.
Ginseng Fruit.
The corner of Lian Qiguang’s mouth twitched slightly.
However, his expression remained completely emotionless.
“I don’t remember.”
“Think carefully!”
Seeing that Lian Qiguang only glanced at it before raising his head and staring blankly into space again, Qing Mu Rong couldn’t help shouting.
Lian Qiguang lowered his head and looked at the image on the floating screen.
He remained silent.
After waiting for a long time without hearing an answer, Qing Mu Rong carefully interrupted.
“How is it? Did you remember anything?”
“It looks somewhat familiar.”
Lian Qiguang nodded expressionlessly.
“Really? Then where did you find it?”
Qing Mu Rong stood up, placed both hands on the desk, and stared at Lian Qiguang with shining eyes.
“……”
Lian Qiguang.
“I forgot.”
He calmly withdrew his gaze and looked upward again.
“Xiaoguang!”
Qing Mu Rong gritted his teeth.
“I said I forgot.”
Lian Qiguang looked at him expressionlessly. His voice was cold, his eyes dark and quiet.
The way he looked at him made Qing Mu Rong’s hair stand on end.
“Fine, if you forgot, then you forgot.”
Qing Mu Rong shrank his neck and muttered quietly.
“Xiaoguang.”
Qing Mu Rong sat down again, rubbing his head with a sigh.
“Do you know? This matter has caused a huge disturbance in District One and within the government.”
“All the major families have begun making moves. Especially those old monsters in the laboratories—they’re all starting to have ideas.”
“Xiaoguang, do you know what something like this represents?”
“……”
Of course he knew.
“Right now, both openly and secretly, countless people are watching this thing.”
“Once it is found, I’m afraid another wave of chaos will begin.”
“……”
They would never find it.
Because it did not exist.
“Xiaoguang…”
“Are you finished?”
“Huh?”
“I’m hungry.”
“……”
“And you’re noisy.”
“Lian Qiguang!!! I’m the academy principal! You need to respect me! Respect me, do you understand?!”
“……”
Idiot.