"How could that be?" Cheng Wenwei shook his head. "Brother, you have always loved and cared for Man'er, and taught him very hard. There is no other master as good as you. But——"
As soon as he changed the subject, he looked at Lin Wu.
"Miss Daosheng is going this time too. I'm afraid she wants to talk to Man'er about something important. Senior brother, if you go again, it may be inconvenient and will disturb Miss Daosheng."
"Yeah?"
Yuan Fengrong also looked at Lin Wu.
Lin Wu faced the gazes of the two men, narrowed his eyes slightly, and finally nodded.
"Cheng Man has been helping me with some things recently. It's my personal matter, so it's inconvenient for Sect Master Yuan to know. Besides, Xuanmen is busy here too. Uncle Yuan, you should stay and take care of things here. You don't have to go with her. Even if you go, it's useless. I will talk to Cheng Man alone then. Even Deputy Sect Master Cheng cannot stay."
Cheng Wenwei seemed surprised: "Is it necessary that even I, as a father, cannot listen?"
Lin Wu: “It is necessary.”
Seeing this, Yuan Fengrong smiled and said, "Okay, listen to Daosheng. Wenwei, you don't need to ask too much. The younger generation has their own things to do, and we, as elders, should not get involved, so as not to make things worse."
Cheng Wenwei nodded silently, "Brother, we will leave first."
"Wait." Yuan Fengrong stopped him, "There's one more thing. Since you're here, I'll ask you about it. Is there any disagreement between you and Man'er that made you both angry with him?"
Cheng Wenwei looked at him and said, "Brother, you misunderstood. There is nothing wrong between me and Man'er. It's just that he was seriously injured and refused to recover from his injuries. That's why I got angry and detained him at home to recover. You also know that if he leaves the root of the disease, it will be of no use to him in the future."
Yuan Fengrong didn't know whether there was a letter or not, but he didn't say anything else. He said, "It's good that everything is fine. Then you can go quickly. I won't keep you here."
Cheng Wenwei nodded.
Lin Wu also stood up and left together.
Yuan Fengrong even personally saw them off.
Lin Wu directly asked Cheng Wenwei to get into her car.
Cheng Wenwei did not refuse. After saying goodbye to Yuan Fengrong, he opened the back door and got in.
Unexpectedly, as soon as I sat down, I looked up and saw an unexpected person.
"you……"
Looking at Bo Yuting in the driver's seat, Cheng Wenwei's pupils shrank slightly, unable to hide his shock.
Bo Yuting pulled the corner of his mouth and nodded slightly as a greeting. After Lin Wu got in and closed the car door, he said, "Deputy Sect Master Cheng, how are you? The last time we met was probably a few years ago. It's amazing that Deputy Sect Master Cheng can recognize me now."
As he spoke, he leaned over and fastened Lin Wu's seat belt.
Cheng Wenwei was a little shocked when he saw Bo Yuting's natural behavior, especially when he saw that Bo Yuting actually acted as a driver and asked Lin Wu where he was going, and actually drove away after getting the address Lin Wu gave, he spoke in surprise.
"Master Bo Jiu? You and Daosheng??"
Bo Yuting held Lin Wu's hand, interlocked their fingers, and raised it to wave in front of Cheng Wenwei's eyes.
"Isn't it obvious?"
Cheng Wenwei: “?!!”
When did this happen?
Lin Wu, who was texting on his phone in the passenger seat, asked casually, "Are you familiar with each other?"
Bo Yuting explained: "In the past, during the regular meeting of the Five Elements, I, as the owner of the antique business, met with Deputy Sect Master Cheng. Coincidentally, in Xuanmen, the only person that my master Miao Rensui had some contact with was Deputy Sect Master Cheng."
"If my master hadn't told me to keep a distance from the other four sects, I might have followed my master's lead and socialized with Deputy Sect Master Cheng."
Cheng Wenwei was a little dazed, but after hearing what Bo Yuting said, he came back to his senses a little.
He said, "May I ask Master Bo Jiu, before your master passed away, did he leave anything behind..."
"No." Bo Yuting said, "The old man didn't say a single strange word."
Cheng Wenwei fell silent.
After Lin Wu sent the message, he put away his phone and said, "Deputy Sect Leader Cheng, can you tell me now why you secretly signaled to Sect Leader Yuan that I should stop talking and have you found another place?"
That’s right, it was Cheng Wenwei who winked at her when she was about to ask about the mural that made her stop.
Lin Wu didn't understand why this matter was kept secret from Yuan Fengrong? It seemed that Yuan Fengrong knew nothing about the murals. Cheng Wenwei had been hiding it from Yuan Fengrong for eighteen years. Why?
Hearing this, Bo Yuting tilted his head and asked, "What's going on?"
Lin Wu told him everything that happened to Yuan Fengrong.
Bo Yuting turned the steering wheel with one hand. After listening, he paused for a while and then said in an ambiguous tone, "It is said that Sect Master Yuan and Deputy Sect Master Cheng are two outstanding people in Xuanmen. They are not only brothers who trust each other, but also good allies who cannot do without each other. Now it seems that this rumor is wrong?"
Cheng Wenwei in the back seat seemed to have finally come to his senses.
He looked up at the two people in front of him, and after a long silence, he said, "Cheng did hide some things from Senior Brother, but... I just didn't want to involve him in danger."
"So, something else really happened when Deputy Sect Leader Cheng was in Blackback Mountain, right?" Lin Wu asked.
Cheng Wenwei stared at her, "Yes. As for what happened, you should know it very well. It is precisely because you know it that you asked Maner to ask me, isn't it?"
"It seems that what Cheng Man said is correct." Lin Wu said calmly, "When he was young, he saw a lot of strange murals with Deputy Sect Master Cheng. Now it seems that these contents were brought out from Blackback Mountain by Deputy Sect Master Cheng?"
Cheng Wenwei said, "I can tell you everything. But before I tell you, please promise me not to tell my senior brother about this."
Lin Wu and Bo Yuting exchanged glances.
"Can."
Cheng Wenwei took a deep breath and said, "This story begins when we were trapped in Blackback Mountain for three days."
He had not lied before. Although they were only trapped for three days, they were really exhausted and emaciated as if they had been trapped for a long time.
But God seemed to be kind to them. Just when they thought they were doomed, they unexpectedly found the things of the missing disciples of Xuanmen, including food and water, which solved their urgent needs. After they rested, they found a torn map, which was exactly the terrain under the Blackback Mountain.
On the map, there was a key mark drawn in blood, with a place circled.
They followed the path and spent two full days before finally finding it, even encountering several life-and-death crises during the process.
The place they found was an extremely large cave, and the disciple they were looking for was actually inside, but he was already dead. In addition, there were many strange murals on the walls around the cave.
"We didn't really care about the murals at the time. We just wanted to get the disciples out. But when we were moving their bodies, we found a few lines of bloody words on the ground beneath them. They were telling the people who came to write down the contents of the murals and take them out to study and find out the truth."
Cheng Wenwei said solemnly, "Those disciples went there just for the murals. This shows that the content of those strokes is very important. Moreover, they are all people who should have disappeared in the '511' case, but they appeared there, which is also very strange."
“Perhaps, if we figure out the meaning of the murals, we can figure out what happened to those people involved in the 511 case, and whether there are other people alive.”
Lin Wu asked: "And then?"
Cheng Wenwei said: "We spent a lot of effort to barely remember it, and then left with the bodies of those disciples. But in the process of leaving, we encountered an accident."