Chapter 156

Lian Yun did not hide this matter from the people in the town. When they heard the news, they rushed over and saw Lian Yun standing in front of a windbreak with a sunflower seed lying quietly in the palm of his hand. His expression was solemn, and the people around him also became very serious.

They didn't know exactly what they were going to do, they just knew it was something useful for the town.

Under the gaze of everyone, Lian Yun finally reached out and used the [Land Improvement] skill.

"bite!"

"Congratulations, Lord, the fusion was successful!"

Lian Yun suddenly opened his eyes.

The windbreak in front of her seemed to have been drained of its vitality in just a few breaths, and it went from plump to shriveled in just a few seconds.

It's so brittle that it looks like it will fall apart if the wind blows.

“It worked.”

This is something to be happy about.

But everyone present, including Lian Yun, especially those who had fled from Kuoge City, opened their eyes wide in slight fear when they saw this scene.

They didn't understand what Lian Yun meant by "success", but they remembered clearly why they came to the small town.

The soil deteriorated and all the crops died tragically overnight.

And that shriveled appearance is exactly the same as the windweed in front of it!

Lian Yun frowned slightly, but did not investigate further. Instead, he turned around to comfort the people of Kuoge City.

"I simply used my skills to transfer the vitality of the parsnip to this sunflower seed..."

She raised her voice, but it got smaller and smaller.

The transfer of vitality?

Seeing that her condition was not right, Lana hurried forward to disperse the crowd. He also told Gerry not to let the people in Kuoge City worry, and then took Lianyun towards the residential areas.

Lina followed Lian Yun worriedly, wanting to speak but not daring to. She was anxious seeing Lian Yun lost in thought.

"...How exactly are they connected?"

Lian Yun sat on a chair beside the dining table, muttering to himself.

Lanna said softly, "Sir, could you please tell me something? Perhaps I can think about it together?"

Lian Yun closed his eyes to calm down for a while, then opened them after a long time and slowly exhaled a breath of foul air.

"Lanna, I don't understand."

The moment she used the skill, she, like everyone else from Kuoge City, thought of those shriveled plants that had been drained of their life.

Everything Lian Yun did was based on something, and it was her skills that helped her achieve it. She was just a medium.

The ultimate destination of the vitality is the sunflower seeds that are about to be born and inherit the power.

So what about the crops that have been drained?

She never thought that if the barrenness of the land had no reason, what was its purpose?

The land is gradually losing its nutrients due to invisible forces, and the food in the land is being drained of its life bit by bit.

So where did their vitality go?

"Your Excellency wants to talk about Hera, right?" Lanna suddenly spoke.

"You thought of Hera."

Lian Yun nodded slowly.

She remembered what Ico had described to her, that Hera seemed to have her life sucked out of her. She hadn't thought much of it at the time, until she saw a similar process with her own eyes today.

The speed was so fast that she couldn't even react.

Hera's body was filled with energy of unknown origin...

"Is it related to the land?" Lian Yun said in a deep voice.

The land absorbs the vitality of plants and continuously supplies it to Hera.

"But..." Lina wondered, "Isn't Hera sick because we occupied that village?"

It was from that time that Hera suddenly collapsed.

But that village did not have as many farmland, crops and land as those in Kuoge City.

If it is just the connection between crop land and magical energy, it is not enough.

So what else is missing?

Lian Yun was silent.

It’s like there’s a thin layer of paper between me and the truth. It’s right in front of me, but I can’t see it clearly.

"It's just a hypothesis, without any basis. I hope it's not true."

Lina nodded gloomily and buried her head in her arms: "I don't want Hera to know about this..."

If she knew that this is where her energy came from, she would be so sad...

Lana understood Lian Yun's current mood and comforted her softly for a while. Suddenly, she heard a knock on the door.

The three of them looked up and saw Alicia coming with Bernie and Honey.

Lian Yun nodded at them, and several people came over and sat down.

Lian Yun received Alicia's silent gaze and looked at Lina: "Can you take Honey out to play for a while?"

Lina understood that they were going to talk about something that Honey shouldn't know.

So she obediently took Honey's hand and left.

Until the two of them were out of their sight, Alicia grabbed Lian Yun's hand without saying a word, her fox eyes shining with gratitude: "Sir."

"If it weren't for you, I really am afraid I would never see Honey again."

She listened to Honey and Bernie's descriptions with horror, and could not imagine how desperate and scared Honey must be, locked up alone in the basement.

Fortunately, fortunately...

"It's just a small favor." Lian Yun paused.

Before she could say more, Alicia understood what she wanted to say: "You want to ask about my identity. I know. I let Honey leave just to make it clear to you."

"I'm a half-succubus." Alicia revealed her true identity without hesitation.

really.

Several people looked at her.

"I have very few memories of my parents, but I will tell you everything I do remember."

Alicia said seriously.

“Because I think they are not simple.”

Alicia's mother was a succubus and her father was one of the candidates for heir to the Hewlett family at the time.

After her father and mother fell in love, they were expelled from the Hewlett family, and her father also lost the qualification to inherit the family.

A few years after she was born, her mother died unexpectedly, and her father was found and captured by family members.

From then on, she never saw her father again.

It was as if they had evaporated from the face of the earth, and at the same time, the direct descendants of the same generation also disappeared.

Several succession candidates from the previous generation disappeared out of thin air, and the patriarch of the Hewlett family seemed to turn a blind eye to this phenomenon.

I was too lazy to even pretend to look for it.

"As far as I can remember, Mogo and I received the same education. We were accompanied by several other children of the same age whose parents had also disappeared."

It's not that they haven't had any quarrels, but nothing came of it.

"You all know what happened next. When I was twenty, I lost my memory and was thrown into the wilderness covered in wounds. It was a miracle that I survived."

"Mogo also said that there are more than a dozen candidates for the succession who are missing like me."

"Does it look familiar to you?"

Under Alicia's half-smiley gaze, Lian Yun suddenly couldn't think any further.

"You mean, the Hewlett family tampered with their own family members? And they used the same method every time to screen them?"

This is a bit too harsh on our own people.

Even the parents of the only candidate left, Mogo, are missing. Isn’t the family afraid that Mogo will develop a rebellious mentality?

"That's their 'cleverness'." Alicia smiled seductively.

"After I regained my memory, I can say without any modesty that I am the most dazzling and outstanding among those dozen or so heirs."

"If I'm not qualified to be the true heir," Alicia paused, "then no one is worthy."

Yet, such an outstanding girl was abandoned.

What does this mean?

Lian Yun was shocked.

"The criteria they use to select successors is not excellence, but..."

Lian Yun suddenly stopped talking.

To put it nicely, it's being well-behaved; to put it bluntly, it's being mediocre.

They don't need a successor.

Rather, it is a symbol of the Hewlett family, a label, a business card.

A... chess piece.

"You can see what kind of person they want to raise Mogo to be."

It seems that he is in a very good position and people recognize and protect him wherever he goes.

Everyone respected and feared him, afraid of offending each other.

But when they looked at Mogo, they were not looking at him, but at the Hewlett family behind him.

"And I'm not saying this to make you Mogo's savior. He knows his identity better than anyone else."

His soul was controlled and his body was filled with tubes delivering nutrient solution. He could not escape.

"We just want to tell you that the Hewlett family is not as simple as you think."

"He's been the Hewlett Young Master for so many years, but he still hasn't truly grasped the family's foundation. If you try to win him over, you might end up losing yourself."

Lian Yun silently pondered Alicia's words.

Alicia seemed to have guessed that Lian Yun, as the leader of one side in this war, must have considered many things.

Alicia explained, "Mogo said this was his fate." She paused, taking a deep breath to calm her surging emotions. "He said that to repay your help, he would become your spy in the main city."

"Please believe him too."

Alicia looked at them and said word by word, "Although he is a pawn, he is also Mogo."

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This chapter has darkness.

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