Guan Chen nodded and told her from the beginning.

"Before knowing the news about the meteorite, the Huo family had already been screening for people who might be successful in recruiting in order to build up their own power for their plan to enter the underground city. The Leng family in the North City was one of the people they chose."

"After learning about the meteorite, they investigated and determined that the cenote where the meteorite was found was actually in a place that had been guarded by the 36 villages in Lingnan. They couldn't go in openly, and they didn't want to reveal their identities, so they selected people from other places to go to the Zhangjiazhai on their behalf."

"It just so happened that they were eyeing North City at the time and had their eyes on the Leng family, so they simply used this incident to test whether they could reach a cooperation with the Leng family. So they first designed a car accident for Leng Linfeng, the young master of the Leng family, and deliberately left clues to attract him to Lingnan. After arriving here, Leng Linfeng found Dayuling all the way and asked around for Zhangjiazhai, which had little contact with the outside world at the time and whose location was unknown."

At this point, Guan Chen frowned.

"Unexpectedly, the black market funeral industry has been entrenched in Lingnan. Leng Linfeng's inquiries attracted the attention of the funeral industry owner. He discovered that Leng Linfeng had dealings with an unknown force, and followed the clues to find the existence of the Huo family. Seeing that the Huo family was acting in a sneaky and unclear way, he wanted to take action against them."

"As the saying goes, a powerful dragon cannot overpower a local snake. At that time, the Huo family had just arrived in Lingnan and were far less powerful than the funeral industry, which had been entrenched for a long time. They did not want to conflict with the funeral industry and affect their plan to find meteorites, so they took the initiative to win over the funeral industry. I don't know how they talked, but in the end they really reached a cooperation."

"So the owner of the funeral business helped the Huo family and acted on their behalf. He took the initiative to find Leng Linfeng and took him to Zhangjia Village, hoping to promote their cooperation. What they never expected was that they accidentally ran into Zhang Yuge, the son of the former owner of Zhangjia Village, and he heard most of their plan."

Lin Wu understood, "In order to prevent the plan from being leaked, they killed Zhang Yuge and pretended that Zhang Yuge was bitten to death by a poisonous snake. At the same time, they also thought of a way to successfully enter the place guarded by the Thirty-Six Villages. That is to pretend to be Zhang Yuge and use the identity of the village chief's son to persuade the village chief to work for them?"

Guan Chen nodded: "Not bad!"

Lin Wu said: "The one who pretended to be Zhang Yuge was the owner of the funeral business. Is Leng Linfeng who went to Zhangjiazhai with him real?"

Guan Chen nodded again: "That's right."

"What happened next? Why did Leng Linfeng become fake? Why did the funeral home owner change Leng Linfeng's identity? Where did the real Leng Linfeng go?" Lin Wu asked.

Guan Chen said: "Their plan went smoothly at first. They confirmed that there was a meteorite in the Thirty-Six Villages, which was exactly the kind they needed, so they set out to go in and get it. But they didn't expect to be discovered by the people of the Thirty-Six Villages at this time, so they had to leave in a hurry. However, the leader of the Zhangjia Village discovered the death of his son and asked them for an explanation and wanted to expose them. The Huo family took the leader and his family to another place and killed them as well."

Lin Wu was surprised: "Didn't it get sent abroad?"

"no."

Guan Chen shook his head.

"After that, the Huo family did not give up on the meteorite. They wanted to wait until the turmoil in the Thirty-Six Villages subsided before entering. However, the North City was also looking for Leng Linfeng. In order to avoid being discovered, Leng Linfeng had to return to the North City first. He had reached a cooperation agreement with the Huo family and would help the Huo family build their own power in the North City, so he brought a member of the Huo family back. The Huo family did not want their identities to be discovered, so they used the identity of Zhang Yuge, who had disappeared."

"And the funeral director stayed. He is familiar with the Thirty-Six Villages, and the Huo family needs him to lead a team to search. Three years ago, he did lead a team in, and successfully brought out some meteorites for use first. The time I just mentioned that might have been seen by outsiders was also the time when the funeral director led the team."

"Later, the owner of the funeral business proposed to return to the north. He said he had a grudge against several other black market businesses and wanted to go back for revenge. But he also said it was inconvenient for others to know his identity. It happened that he was already familiar with Leng Linfeng, so from time to time he would wear a human skin mask and pretend to be Leng Linfeng. During this time, Leng Linfeng would leave and work for the Huo family."

Guan Chen looked at Lin Wu, paused, and said, "During the time you were in North City, you met a funeral director who pretended to be Leng Linfeng. Moreover, you found out what they were doing, so they had to temporarily abandon North City. They were afraid that the fake Zhang Yuge would reveal the truth, so they killed people to silence them."

After listening to it, Lin Wu suddenly understood.

She originally thought that because of his personality change after the car accident, no one discovered that Leng Linfeng was fake.

It turned out that no one doubted it because Leng Linfeng really would go back.

She frowned and said, "What about the three pendants circulating in North City? They must be made of meteorites here. Since meteorites can only help them resist the abilities of people like Lu Guichi and are only used when entering the underground city, they should be very precious. Why would they make them into pendants to give away?"

"It was just that they were unlucky and ran into you, so the plan was forced to stop. Later, after learning about the minerals in Surabaya Prison, they thought that was the raw material and gave up their previous approach."

"So that's how it is..."

Most of the previous doubts were answered, and Lin Wu's thoughts returned, with his attention focused on the pendant he was wearing.

She took it out and asked Guan Chen: "This is also made of the meteorite here, right?"

Guan Chen nodded, "It can counteract the restriction Lu Guichi just placed on me. It must be made by the meteorite here, but how do you have it?"

"Gu Shiqing, my second brother gave it to me." Lin Wu said, "He was worried that I would suffer if I ran into Lu Guichi in the future, so he gave it to me as a talisman."

Guan Chen was surprised: "Gu Shiqing is a member of the Huo family?"

Lin Wu immediately shook his head: "He is not."

"Then where did he get it from?" Guan Chen wondered, "Could it be that the Huo family really leaked the news that night three years ago? But if that's the case, the Huo family must have run into Zheng Mingxian, Shi Xing's people, right? You know, it should be Shi Xing who knew. How could your family know? The Gu family didn't have any dealings with the Five Elements at that time."

"So I suspect that my second brother is working for the same organization as Shi Xing. That organization found out the whereabouts of the meteorite three years ago and sent people to sneak in here to obtain the meteorite."

Lin Wu pinched his fingertips, suppressed his emotions, and put the pendant back.

Looking at Guan Chen, she said, "I will find a suitable opportunity to get Han Yuesong and the others to talk about this later. I won't mention it for now."

"Let's get back to the point. You've explained the Huo family's affairs to me. But not Lu Guichi's."

Guan Chen said reflexively: "He refused to tell me, I don't know..."

"You care about him so much. Knowing that he is going to do something dangerous, won't you try to find out?" Lin Wu interrupted directly, "What's more, you have been exposed just now - you said that I am not suitable to know, and it will be dangerous if I know. Isn't this referring to Lu Guichi's matter?"

As for the affairs of the Huo family, she currently did not realize that she would be in any danger if she knew about it, and it was obviously not enough to reach the level that Guan Chen had said.

Guan Chen was silent.

After a long moment, he sighed, "Okay, I know."

"Before, he really refused to tell me. But at that time, he and I were both at the Huo family's residence. I threatened him that if he didn't tell me, I would confess my identity to the Huo family. The Huo family would definitely kill me then and would not give up because of Lu Guichi."

"He relented and told me a little bit."

Guan Chen looked at Lin Wu, and after a while he said, "I just said that there are many people like Lu Guichi in the underground city, and ordinary people don't have the ability like Lu Guichi."

"So Lu Guichi is actually a native of the underground city?" Lin Wu was surprised and thought of many things. "Is the underground city now closed and outsiders can't get in, and he can't get in either? So he helped the Huo family to open the underground city and go home?"

(End of this chapter)