Lin Wu asked unexpectedly: "Then do you know what they are going to do?"

Gu Chengbai choked and subconsciously looked at Bo Yuting with some caution.

Bo Yuting said angrily, "Gu Chengbai, you know more about what happened back then than I do, and you pretend to know nothing. You have been trying to get information that I have worked so hard to find out over the years! There is no such thing as you. I trusted you so much in vain."

Gu Chengbai: "Oh, you sound like you trust me so much."

Bo Yuting wanted to roll his eyes, but he held back because of his image in front of Lin Wu. He said, "So you really know what they are going to do, such as... the dungeon?"

Gu Chengbai's heart skipped a beat and he looked at Lin Wu.

Seeing that neither of them was surprised, Gu Chengbai understood that what they said before was true and he knew everything he needed to know.

He pursed his lips and said, "Yes."

Lin Wu asked: "What happened? Before Gu Tangfeng set out, he told you about the underground city? But no one else told their families. And how did he know about the underground city?"

Gu Chengbai looked at Lin Wu with a complicated gaze, mixed with indescribable emotions.

He sighed slightly, "My uncle didn't tell us about the dungeon because he knew about it from us."

"What did you say?!"

Lin Wu and Bo Yuting both looked surprised.

Gu Chengbai spoke of the past in a calm tone, "I was already sensible by then. I remember it was a very ordinary afternoon. Dad came back from outside, but his face was not very good. When he saw my uncle was at home, he directly called him into the study upstairs for a private chat. Shiqing and I felt something was wrong, so we followed him over to eavesdrop, and we heard Dad talking about a mysterious and dangerous underground city."

"But dad and uncle were very alert. They found us and chased us away. I don't know what they said afterwards, but after that conversation, dad and uncle became busy. Uncle also disappeared frequently, and sometimes came back with injuries all over his body."

"Not long after, he suddenly said goodbye to our family. We then learned that he had found those people from the Bo family and wanted to form a team to go overseas. By the time we found out, it was too late. They had already planned their itinerary. The night before my uncle left, he had a long talk with my father. The next night, we didn't see my uncle. He had already left."

Gu Chengbai looked at Bo Yuting with a slightly cold tone.

"Do you think you're the only one who lost his uncle? So did I."

"They left that time and never came back. When we heard the news of their death, we in the Gu family didn't believe it and were determined to find my uncle. But my father stopped us."

"It was at this time that Shiqing and I learned from Dad that my uncle and his friends were going to look for an underground city. I asked him what an underground city was, and my dad said he didn't know. It was because he didn't know that those people went to investigate and figure it out. He also said it was very dangerous there, so we shouldn't send anyone to look for it. He also tried to dissuade people from other tribes and the black market, but no one listened."

Having said this, Gu Chengbai suddenly stopped, seeming to be hesitant as to whether to continue.

Lin Wu asked: "And then?"

Gu Chengbai said slowly, "Bo Yuting should have told you what happened next. Those people kept searching, suffered heavy losses, lost hope and gave up. In the end, they had little contact with each other, and the situation in the capital gradually became what you know now."

Lin Wu nodded, "I know that. Probably only the Gu family and the Bo family are still searching. The Bo family doesn't want to give up Bo Qingcheng, so what about the Gu family?"

Gu Chengbai stared at Lin Wu, and a look in his eyes made Lin Wu feel a little confused.

In fact, Gu Chengbai also said something shocking: "The Gu family continued to look for it because of Uncle Tang Feng, but more importantly, it was because of you."

"……I??"

Bo Yuting's face changed slightly, and his tone was anxious: "How could it be because of Lin Wu?! Madam Gu lost her child in childbirth, weren't you sure she was gone?"

Gu Chengbai was somewhat satisfied with how nervous Bo Yuting was about Lin Wu, and said, "It is indeed because of Wuwu. You all know that Mom had a difficult childbirth in North City eighteen years ago and almost died. Do you know why this happened?"

This is exactly what Lin Wu has always wanted to ask.

Ever since she knew that there was something strange about Chi Yangzhi's difficult delivery, she began to wonder whether this had anything to do with the conflict between the Gu and Huo families.

"The official version I found out is that the teacher met the Gu family's enemy and was frightened and had a difficult delivery."

Lin Wu said, "But I felt something was wrong later. After careful investigation, I found that the Gu family didn't know that the teacher was in North City at that time. Gu Tangzhang has always cared about my teacher. Even he didn't know the whereabouts of my teacher, so how could the enemies of the Gu family know? Now that you mention this, is it related to the Huo family and the underground city?"

Gu Chengbai noticed how Lin Wu addressed Chi Yangzhi and Gu Tangzhang, and realized that Lin Wu also treated them as strangers. Perhaps he was closer to Chi Yangzhi because of their teacher-student relationship, and he couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.

But he didn't feel lost for too long, because Bo Yuting urged him, "Gu Chengbai, don't say half of what you want to say, speak clearly."

Gu Chengbai, whose sadness was interrupted, looked at him unhappily: "Why are you in such a hurry? You have to let me start from the beginning."

His gaze returned to Lin Wu, and Gu Chengbai's eyes softened.

He said softly, "The story of encountering an enemy was deliberately spread by the Gu family. You were right in your investigation. We didn't know that Mom went to North City at that time. I remember that Mom was pregnant with you and was almost full term, but one day, she suddenly said that the school had a project and needed her to go for a few days."

"You know how dedicated Mom is to her studies. Seeing that Mom insisted on going, Dad had no choice but to agree and wanted to go with her to take care of her. But Mom firmly disagreed. At that time, Mom was emotionally unstable during her pregnancy, and Dad was afraid that she would get angry and have a miscarriage, so he had no choice but to hire a nanny and ask colleagues at school to take good care of Mom. But we didn't expect that Mom didn't go to school, but went to North City."

"Dad was really worried about Mom, so he went to visit her secretly and found out about it. But he couldn't find Mom's whereabouts in North City, so he immediately rushed to North City. But Mom had already been in trouble. He received a call from Mom, saying that she was in the hospital and had a difficult delivery, and someone was chasing her. When Dad finally arrived at the hospital, the child was already..."

Gu Chengbai looked at Lin Wu with heartache.

He suppressed his emotions and continued, "Those people were very powerful. Dad was short of manpower at the time, so he had to take Mom away in a hurry. It took several twists and turns before we could settle down."

"Afterwards, Dad tried to track them down, but they disappeared without a trace. No matter how hard Dad tried, he couldn't find any trace of them. It was not until Mom woke up from her postpartum coma that she told Dad something about the underground city in her unclear consciousness. Only then did Dad get a clue."

After hearing this, Lin Wu and Bo Yuting were quite shocked.

Lin Wu was even more incredulous: "So the one related to the dungeon... is the teacher??"

Gu Chengbai nodded: "At that time, my mother was in danger and had a difficult delivery, which made my father very angry. After getting the clue of the underground city, he has been investigating. In fact, at that time, we didn't know anything about the Huo family. I don't know why it happened later. My father didn't tell me. I only know that he suddenly got some clues about the underground city and told my uncle. After that, there was the '511' case."

He looked at Lin Wu again.

"After the '511' incident, we, like several other companies, thought about giving up."

"But mom said that it was that person related to the underground city who killed you, and mom insisted on avenging you. Sometimes she said that you were not dead at all, and those people took you away, and she must find you back. And mom also said that if we don't deal with them, our whole family will be in danger."

"Dad then insisted on investigating. However, the Gu family was actually the same as the Bo family. It took them several years to find out a little bit of information about the Huo family. But because of Mom, our attention was only on finding the underground city, so we were not very eager to pay attention to the Huo family."

(End of this chapter)