Chapter 154

December 22nd: My body is becoming increasingly weak. Sometimes I'm sitting still and fall asleep without even realizing it. When I wake up, I'm in a daze for a long time, and it takes me a while to remember what I was doing. I'm getting old, really old.

January 1st is another New Year. Lingling, Happy New Year! Smile, Grandpa will be fine.

On January 19th, Aqiu said she wanted to take me back home. I felt it was unnecessary. It wasn't a medical issue. I knew my body, and going back wouldn't change anything. Everyone reaches their end someday. It's just hard work for her. She's been really hard for these past 16 years.

[On February 4th, Lingling hasn't had an attack in over five years. She's very smart and sensible. She'll take good care of herself. Even without me, she'll be fine. But with her health, she probably won't be able to get married in the future... I wonder if she'll regret it...]

February 6th, Lingling, Aqiu, goodbye.

The notebook stopped at this page for a long time.

Click.

A tear suddenly fell, leaving a round wetness on the white paper.

The room was very quiet, and Xiang Bie looked at the girl beside him in silence.

Perhaps noticing his gaze, the girl sniffed and quickly turned to the next page.

Next page, blank.

The next page is blank.

Behind it, it's all blank.

Mu Ling turned back and saw that the date on that page was February 6th.

My grandfather passed away on February 8th.

Mu Ling still remembers that spring, it was extremely cold...

“Pah.”

“Pah.”

“Pah.”

More tears fell.

Xiang Bie frowned, took the notebook away, and then held Mu Ling's face.

The girl's eyes and nose were red from crying. Xiang Bie tried to wipe her tears, but they were not wiped away completely.

He sighed and slowly took her into his arms.

Mu Ling grabbed the clothes on both sides of the man's body. She buried her whole face in his shoulders. Her silent tears turned into soft sobs, and slowly, the sobs became louder and louder.

Xiang Bie held the back of her head with one hand and patted her back with the other, comforting her silently.

Suddenly, Xiang Bie felt a little uncomfortable.

He closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, his pair of black pupils turned ice blue.

He lowered his eyes to look at the girl in his arms. Her arms were completely covered by her sleeves, but even though he couldn't see what was going on inside her sleeves, he knew that her scales had come out again. Just like what was written in the record book, she would get sick when she was emotional. He exhaled lightly and said nothing, just continued to hold her.

Time passed minute by minute, until after ten minutes or so, the crying became quieter.

Mu Ling came out of Xiang Ge's arms. She sobbed twice and wiped her face with her sleeve.

She wiped her hair into a mess, and Xiang Bie raised his hand to push a few strands of wet hair away from her face.

"I'm fine." She said in a muffled voice.

Xiang Bie said "hmm".

Mu Ling took the notebook again. She closed it with care, stroked the cover, and said, "This is the first time I've seen this notebook today. Grandpa didn't have many belongings, and I packed them all myself. I can be 100% sure that this notebook was definitely not at home before. It's here now because someone put it in recently."

After sniffing, she continued, "The key has always been with me. That means Grandpa had already decided that I would have to read this notebook sooner or later. But after he passed away, I didn't inherit it. So who took the notebook away then? And who put it here now? When did he put it there? Did he know I would come back?"

"If so, why did it predict that I would come back? I came back because of the Harvest. So, tracing back to the past, was the Harvest's arrival at Piccolo Zoo also arranged by someone? Just to let me meet it."

"The first batch of ten war beasts for the war beast nursery were selected by me and my staff. If the harvest was arranged, then there must be a traitor among my staff."

"Calling him a traitor isn't accurate either. He has this notebook, so he must have read its contents. You can't read it without a key, even a toy lock like this can be pried open with a paperclip. If he's read it and knows my life story, but hasn't come to arrest me, it means he has no ill will towards me. He must have a reason for letting me know my past in this roundabout way. Why did he tell me this four years after my grandfather passed away? Why not four years ago? Was it because I was too young then? I'm grown up now."

"If he is still willing to wait for me to grow up and become independent, it means that he cares about me. Besides grandpa, who else would care about me? Only my great aunt. Only my great aunt knows of my existence. It was my great aunt who has been supporting grandpa for the past twenty years. But my great aunt has passed away. So who else could it be? Could it be another member of the Bai family? The last time I saw my cousin Bai Su, he asked me to come home for dinner. So the Bai family also knows about me and accepts me. The probability is very high that it is them."

At this point, Mu Ling raised her head again, and scanned the entire room with her red eyes: "Is there a surveillance camera here? Is anyone watching my current reaction? Or..."

She suddenly stood up, walked to the window and looked out: "Is he near me? Is he peeking at me from somewhere?"

Perhaps it was because she received too much information at once. After crying, Mu Ling quickly entered a state of thinking and alertness.

She quickly analyzed the situation and kept observing, not missing any corner of the room.

Seeing that she was too nervous, Xiang Bie stood up, pulled her and asked her to sit down, saying, "Let me check."

As he spoke, he carefully observed every corner of the room, even turning over the mattress to take a look.

Half an hour later, he patted the dust off his hands and shook his head at Mu Ling.

Mu Ling walked to the window again and looked outside: "There is no surveillance in the room, which means that the other party does not want to invade my privacy. This is indeed a person who cares about me, but he must be sure of my movements, so he is nearby, at least his people are nearby, or, his people have followed me from the God King Planet all the way back to Planet 877."

Xiang Bie shook his head: "The latter is impossible. The federal army has been secretly protecting you. If someone is following you, they will know."

Mu Ling was stunned.

Xiang Bie said: "You didn't bring Lao Zhou and the others with you, so the federal army must be worried. Since we left the house, someone has been following us."

Mu Ling nodded, understanding: "So, he is waiting for me on Planet 877..."

Having said that, Mu Ling was silent for a moment, then began to pack up.

She locked the notebook, put it back in her bag, closed all the windows, locked the door, and pulled Xiang Bie out again.

Halfway through the walk, Mu Ling stopped again, turned to look at Xiang Bie, and asked, "Brother Xiang, do I look like I've been crying?"

It was a little dark here, with only a dim street lamp nearby, illuminating the ground vaguely.

Xiang Bie lifted her face, brushed her hair, and said, "Smile again, and you'll feel better."

Mu Ling forced a smile, turned around and continued walking forward.

Soon, they returned to the food stall street where they had been. Someone saw them coming back and raised their hands to greet them again.

Mu Ling smiled and said to the owner of a certain stall, "Boss, two plates of fried skewers and two bottles of Coke."

Then, she walked over to a table of customers in the restaurant and said with a smile, "Brother Liu, can we sit down?"

Brother Liu was having supper with his friends. He also knew Mu Ling. After all, they were old neighbors. Seeing that Mu Ling wanted to share the table, he was naturally happy: "Come on, come on, sit down."

After Mu Ling sat down, she pulled Xiang Bie next to her.

After Xiang Bie also sat down, Mu Ling took the Coke sent by the boss and started a conversation with Brother Liu: "Brother Liu, what are you doing now? Are you still working as a real estate agent?"

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Six o'clock in the morning.

After waking up from bed, the old woman dragged her clumsy legs and slowly moved to the wheelchair.

Because the whole house is barrier-free and the wheelchair can go anywhere, she first went to the bathroom to wash up, then went to the kitchen, took breakfast out of the refrigerator, put it in the oven to heat it up, and then she turned on the computer and started watching the news.

I watched the news for a while when suddenly, the doorbell rang.

The old woman was stunned, turned on her computer, and looked outside through the video doorbell.

The doorbell was blocked and the camera was filled with darkness.

"Um?"

The person blocking the doorbell obviously had bad intentions. Raising an eyebrow, the old woman clicked on the video doorbell of the house opposite.

You didn't expect that the house opposite is also hers.

Through the surveillance camera opposite, she finally saw the situation outside the door. Outside her door, there was a man and a woman standing. They were two very young men and women. Just looking at their outlines, they looked very familiar.

Old woman: “…”

How did they find it?

“Ding Dong.”

The doorbell rang again. The old woman didn't say anything, just looked at the surveillance screen.

The two young men knocked on the door for a long time, but seeing no movement from inside, they began to look at each other.

Suddenly, the stern young man turned around, his icy eyes accurately looking at the door of the house behind him, and said, "There are surveillance cameras there too."

The girl turned around and saw that there was indeed a surveillance camera. She frowned and said, "What a mistake. He knows it's us."

Having said that, the girl let go of her hand that was blocking the video doorbell and said to the camera: "Hello, since you asked me to come back, let's meet. You don't have to pretend that you are not inside. I heard that you are not mobile. You should not go out so early, right?"

The old woman said nothing, but her brows were tightly furrowed.

The girl waited a moment, then continued, "You might be wondering why I came here. You might not know, but Planet 877 is really small, and the old town is even smaller. I've lived here for twenty years and know every neighbor here. I have a neighbor named Brother Liu, a real estate agent. I told him I wanted to sell my grandfather's old house and asked him about the market conditions in the area over the past six months. I was just trying to get a feel for whether anyone had rented or bought a house recently, but he specifically mentioned that six months ago, not long after I left, a major client came in and bought two buildings in one go."

The girl smiled and said, "Although you rarely go out, you are very generous. Plus, your house has been renovated and is fully barrier-free. It's a big renovation. People living in the old city rarely do such lavish renovations. So, it's no secret where you live. You can find out by asking around. Of course, others probably won't be able to find out. But it's different for me. I grew up under everyone's watch, and no one here is on guard against me."

“Ding Dong.”

The girl rang the doorbell again, her tone gentle but firm: "So, stop struggling and open the door. You are surrounded by us. There is no need to resist any more."

In the room.

Old woman: “…………”

Taking a deep breath, the old woman's face became stern.

Bai Huanting, you have done so many bad things!

Look at what kind of granddaughter you have raised. She is exactly the same as you!

I hate the academic bully the most!