Gu Zhe looked at Li Mai and raised an eyebrow. "You have many questions?"

Li Mai nodded, "I guess so!"

"I'll give you three chances to ask questions," Gu Zhe said.

Li Mai stood up, paced around for a while, and asked, "Where is my grandmother now?"

Gu Zhe paused, not expecting him to ask that question.

He thought for a moment, then waved his hand, producing a crystal box the size of a coin, inside which were two golden crystal chips.

Li Mai stared blankly at the two chips. So, were these her grandparents? Had they both turned into chips?

As expected of a research family, they've all been turned into chips.

Thinking about herself again, she realized she might not even be as good as them. After watching silently for a while, she nodded and asked her second question.

Do you know everything about my daily life?

Gu Zhe shook his head. "I don't know. My abilities are limited right now. This world is short of energy, and many of my machines can't be started. I can only come to see you occasionally."

"What kind of spiritual practitioner are you?" Li Mai couldn't tell what kind of spiritual practitioner he was, so she asked.

It seems this person has a story to tell. After a researcher died, he was able to come back to life and even become a spiritual practitioner. There must have been many stories in between.

However, Li Mai currently doesn't have much curiosity about him, and she won't ask any questions about it. She has no recollection of this man who claims to be her father, let alone any father-daughter relationship with him.

She originally wanted to ask you what your purpose was in coming to see me, but after asking the first two questions, she felt it was unnecessary to ask them, so she asked this question instead.

Gu Zhe smiled. "Metal element!"

Li Mai nodded, understanding. No wonder he could suddenly appear here from a neighboring country; it turned out he was a metal-type spirit root, and the metal-type spiritual root attribute was spatial displacement. He could go wherever he wanted. Of course, the higher the spiritual power, the farther he could go.

"Have you finished asking your questions? Do you have any more questions for me?"

Li Mai countered, "You can also ask me three questions."

Gu Zhe smiled, then slowly suppressed his smile and asked, "Has your memory not fully recovered yet?"

Li Mai nodded. "Yes, I only remember things from my previous life after I had been asleep for a hundred years. I have no memory of anything before that. I only remembered a few fragments from you just now, about Grandpa."

Gu Zhe nodded. "It seems that the chip was damaged during your century-long slumber."

Li Mai felt the same way.

"Is he good to you?" Gu Zhe asked his second question.

Li Mai knew he was referring to Zhou Quan, and nodded. "Yeah, that's good. We never realized that this body of mine was still the body from my previous life. I always thought that I was like him, a soul that traveled to this world."

“He is, but you are not!” Gu Zhe shook his head.

Li Mai now knows that's not true; her body is still her own, it's just that it has grown up again since childhood.

"Have you experienced any unusual symptoms since you became pregnant?" Gu Zhe asked the last question.

Li Mai shook her head. "No, the symptoms are the same as other pregnant women. At first, I feel nauseous and vomit. After the vomiting stops, I crave sour foods."

Gu Zhe nodded, then looked at Li Mai and asked, "It's good that everything is normal. May I take a look at your sea of ​​consciousness?"

Li Mai shook his head. "I've finished asking the three questions."

Gu Zhe paused, nodded, and smiled helplessly. He was quite cautious, which was a good thing, just like his personality.

Suddenly, he sensed someone approaching, and the figure vanished instantly. In Li Mai's mind, a sentence appeared: "Baby, Daddy's leaving now. I'll come see you again when I have time."

He made a great discovery today: he learned that his daughter had been craving sour foods since she became pregnant.

Upon hearing his words, Li Mai silently looked up at the sky. In her memory, she had never called him "father."

She didn't quite believe that he was only visiting her because she was his daughter.

It turns out that Grandma really was his biological grandmother; he just didn't remember her.

However, was her marriage to Zhou Quan, which she arranged for herself before her death, a task given to her by Gu Zhe, or a way out she planned for herself?

What exactly do they want from me and Zhou Quan?

Is this ordinary married life that Zhou Quan and I are living now what they want to see?

Or perhaps, Gu Zhe was after his own bloodline and that of Zhou Quan?

Thinking of this, Li Mai slowly narrowed her eyes.

Not long after Gu Zhe disappeared, Elder Yang appeared, glancing around in confusion. "Why did I sense that other spiritual cultivators had appeared just now?"

Li Mai shook her head. "I didn't notice. I've been here the whole time. Could it be because I used spiritual power?"

Old Yang nodded, "Perhaps. Let's go, I'll take you back!"

Old Yang sensed an unfamiliar presence, but Li Mai said no, suggesting it was someone he didn't want him to know. Therefore, he added another layer of protection to his spiritual energy defenses.

Li Mai nodded and followed Old Yang back to his courtyard to rest inside.

Lying in bed, her mind was still filled with the words Gu Zhe had just spoken and all the things she had experienced in her memory. She wanted to figure out what arrangements and predictions he had made in her life.

She wondered if Gu Zhe's visit to her was to continue his research, or to keep an eye on Zhou Quan.

As she lay there, Li Mai fell asleep.

"Hehe, Mom, hehe!"

In Li Mai's dream, two adorable children appeared again, chubby and playing around her, occasionally turning back with a grin to call her "Mother."

Li Mai quietly followed them, watching them, and wondered, "Could this be the child I'm carrying?"

Could it be that I'm having twins? The two children look like a boy and a girl, but I can't see their faces clearly. I just see them being very happy by my side.

She wanted to walk towards her two children, but every few steps she took, they took the same few steps, like the relationship between planets and stars, always revolving around her, and the distance between them remained constant.

And so, Li Mai spent the whole night playing with the two children in her dream. When she opened her eyes again, she was momentarily bewildered as she looked around. The children were gone, but she could still hear their joyful laughter and their cries for their mother.

She slowly placed her hand on her abdomen, so could she be carrying twins?

She raised her hand to check her own pulse, but couldn't feel anything.

While hesitating whether to use her spiritual power to explore her body, Li Mai finally gave up. Whether it was one or two, they were her children. She would protect them with all her might and wait for them to be born and meet her.

An hour later, Zhou Quan returned, bringing with him two bloodied people.

The entire Tianxiang Village was in an uproar.