Chapter 38 Recovering Memory

Outside Yanyuan.

Mu Weiting's car was parked on the side of the road. He sat in the car silently, holding a cigarette between his fingers on the steering wheel. He didn't light it, but just rubbed it repeatedly with his fingertips to relieve his craving for cigarettes.

I watched as the sky outside gradually darkened and the street lights came on.

Time passed by minute by minute, and just when he could no longer wait and was about to start the car and drive into the surveillance area of Yanyuan, he caught a glimpse of Shang Youqing's figure finally appearing in the rearview mirror.

Mu Weiting chuckled, put away the cigarette between his fingers, got out of the car on his own initiative, and opened the door for Shang Youqing who was walking towards him with a sullen face.

Shang Youqing stopped in front of him and stared at him, his chest rising and falling slightly: "It seems that Senior Brother had already expected me to come out?"

Mu Weiting's eyes were as gentle as before: "Didn't I tell you that I will wait for You Qing to come out?"

"OK."

Shang Youqing nodded, but walked around him and got in from the other side of the car and sat in the driver's seat.

Seeing this, Mu Weiting raised his eyebrows slightly. Just as he leaned over to sit in the passenger seat and fasten his seat belt, Shang Youqing stepped on the accelerator to the bottom with an expressionless face. The car engine roared and the whole car suddenly flew out.

Mu Weiting looked at the soaring speed on the dashboard and the car outside the window that had scraped the edge of the elevated road several times, and immediately shouted a warning, "You Qing, calm down."

Shang Youqing continued to control the steering wheel with ease, without blinking, "Senior Brother, you are afraid of death too?"

"I'm just worried about you, Youqing. You're not calm right now—"

Before he could finish his words, seeing the front of the car about to hit the guardrail and dive down from the overpass, Mu Weiting's self-confident calmness finally couldn't be maintained. The arm that came up to stop the car showed the faint traces of bamboo green leaves. However, before he could use his skills, Shang Youqing had already turned the front of the car around and braked it steadily.

Shang Youqing turned around and looked at Mu Weiting's pale face with a cold gaze: "Brother, do you still want me to calm down now?"

"You Qing...what you did just now was too dangerous, do you know——"

"Of course I didn't know. My phoenix chick was planted with a killing barrier from birth. For three years, I suffered from illness and pain. I finally managed to shed my tail, but what I got was the killing barrier besieging my heart meridians, making it impossible to break free from the tail. And I knew nothing about this!"

Shang Youqing felt even more uneasy when he thought that the little boy's heart meridian was still surrounded by the black air.

When she thought about it...even so, He Zhimo was still raised well. During these three years, which she didn't know about, Shang Youqing herself couldn't imagine how much effort He Cong, a human being, had to put in to raise He Zhimo well.

Mu Weiting was silent for a moment, then answered her, "It wasn't me who planted the killing barrier."

"Of course I know it's not you, otherwise I wouldn't be sitting here safe and sound right now."

Shang Youqing suppressed his surging emotions and stared at him coldly, "But you knew from the beginning that the person I was looking for was He Cong, and you also knew that He Zhimo was my young offspring. Why didn't you tell me?"

If only she had known earlier, if only she had discovered earlier...

"Because there's no point in telling you. You Qing, you know it well, don't you? A phoenix chick that's been inoculated with a killing barrier can't complete its first molting. This means He Zhimo will be burned alive during this molting process! Am I telling you this just to make you sad and upset for nothing? It would be better if you hadn't known about He Zhimo's existence from the beginning to the end!"

Mu Weiting said this, and the look in his eyes on her neck became slightly painful. "You gave the Phoenix Blood Pearl to He Zhimo, right? It can indeed temporarily relieve the burning pain of the chick's tail molting, but it can only delay it for a day or two at most. After two days, the result will be the same. You can't change anything."

"So I said, He Cong will only harm you. If he really cares about you, he shouldn't let you come to him and force you to witness your own child with your own eyes—"

Mu Weiting suddenly fell silent because he saw a faint golden portal appear in front of the car.

Without a word, he pulled off his seatbelt and tried to retreat, but Shang Youqing grabbed his upper arm, and the phoenix eyes that stared at him were as fierce as fire.

"It's not anyone else's business to say how my partner is doing."

"Brother, you don't think that I came out of Yanyuan at this time just to waste time arguing with you about these meaningless things, right?"

Mu Weiting looked around and was shocked to find that the car was surrounded by a Phoenix Fire Array.

He had to look away, "You Qing, what do you want me to do?"

Shang Youqing leaned down slightly, almost looking through him. "I originally tried to use my own spiritual consciousness to remove the killing barrier from Mo Mo's body, but Brother, I found that my spiritual consciousness was blocked for a short period of time, so I couldn't remove the killing barrier."

Mu Weiting turned his head away, "You Qing can't possibly suspect me without any evidence, right?"

"Of course I have to doubt Brother. Three years ago, it was you who brought me back to Wutong Mountain." Shang Youqing lowered his eyes slightly and spoke word by word. "When I was at my weakest, you sealed off a part of my consciousness, causing the memory of my descent from the mountain to be sealed into that consciousness as well, wasn't that right?"

"You Qing..."

"Stop talking nonsense, Senior Brother," Shang Youqing stood up straight, his expression returning to indifference, "Where is the key to unlock the divine consciousness? Take me there now."

Mu Weiting looked at her for a while and spoke again: "What if I don't tell Junior Sister?"

"That's great. If you want my chick's life, I don't mind destroying everything my senior brother has."

Mu Weiting slowly closed his eyes, finally exhaled a breath of turbid air, and said in a hoarse voice: "What you want is in the underground base of the 57th Research Institute... You Qing, come back to Beijing with me."

After hearing these words, the murderous look in Shang Youqing's eyes finally faded away like a clear lake.

She didn't have time to drive to the airport, so she immediately dragged Mu Weiting out of the car and walked straight into the portal in front of the car.

A few minutes later, the Phoenix Fire dissipated before their eyes like a curtain, and Shang Youqing and Mu Weiting appeared outside the gate of the research institute.

Mu Weiting's arm was still wrapped in a circle of phoenix fire that could take his life at any time, but it was made transparent by an illusion.

Therefore, although it seemed that he brought Shang Youqing into the research institute, in fact, the initiative was still in Shang Youqing's hands.

After passing through numerous secret doors, the elevator door opened and we finally arrived at the basement level.

After opening the last iris lock, the heavy door slowly opened to both sides.

In a sealed warehouse with four sides covered in white, a transparent cover made of a material similar to tempered glass was prominently placed in the center area.

The shape of the feather placed inside the transparent cover perfectly matches the location where her heart meridian is blocked.

Without waiting for Mu Weiting to say anything, Shang Youqing's hand had already reached out.

The transparent cover automatically fell off and opened when it touched the temperature of her fingertips.

Immediately afterwards, the Phoenix Feather Spiritual Consciousness that had been sealed here for three years floated into her fingertips, then flowed along the blood vessels at her fingertips to her heart meridian, and finally released the sealed spiritual consciousness.

The next second, all the sealed spiritual memories flooded back into his brain.