"Yesterday evening, Superintendent Tian from Yaoguang District came to see me. He told me about your escape and asked me to think carefully about the future of this city and what choice to make."

The middle-aged blacksmith put down the hammer and the iron block on the pliers, took a hot towel from the shelf beside him and wiped his upper body, then put on a white shirt and the gold-rimmed glasses at hand.

This is a man with a very elegant and refined temperament. Seeing his current attire, it is impossible to associate him with the shirtless blacksmith a second ago.

The man named Feng Yanyi, who was only called Uncle Tie in Bian City, looked up at Feng Zi with a smile.

"Long time no see, Xiaozi."

Feng Zi clenched her fists and looked at Feng Yanyi. It was obvious that she saw the excitement of her elder, but she did not show the most straightforward intimacy as she did to Li Wei.

She just stood there, pursed her lips and responded.

"Long time no see, Uncle Feng."

Feng Yan nodded. He did not continue to say anything to Feng Zi, but turned to look at Li Wei, his eyes obviously mixed with a different kind of interest.

"They are so good at fighting and have developed independent consciousness. I can't imagine any other explanation for this kind of change in biological humans except for their evolution in the direction of science."

Li Wei looked Feng Yanyi up and down.

"Are you a scientist?"

Feng Yan smiled and did not avoid the question.

"Not now."

As he spoke, he turned around and took out a slender dagger about 60 cm long from a shelf nearby. The sharp blade reflected the jumping flames. Even someone who didn't know much could tell that this was a very good weapon.

Feng Yanyi inserted the dagger into the sheath and handed it to Li Wei.

"This is for you. It's a thank you gift for protecting Xiaozi and bringing her here."

Levi took the dagger on the spot without any hesitation and casually turned it twice in his right hand. It was indeed much easier to use than the steel bar.

"Can you give me and my little niece some privacy? Young man, you can go to the border market and take a look around. Tell Thirteen what you want to eat or buy, and he will pay for you."

Levi naturally had no objection. He waved his hand at Fengzhi who seemed to be hesitant to speak, then turned around and left the blacksmith shop.

In the hot room, only Feng Yanyi and Feng Zi were left.

Feng Zi's voice was calm, yet one could hear the dissatisfaction in it.

"You shouldn't have let 626 go."

"You immerse yourself in your research projects all day long. Of course, I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but it's obvious that you have no sensitivity to how people interact with each other."

Feng Yanyi picked up the piece of iron he had just been forging, studied it carefully, and then put it into the quenching pool.

As the "sizzle" sound of the cold and hot mixing sounded, he spoke slowly.

"This creature has developed his own independent consciousness. You should face up to the relationship between you two instead of maintaining the original feelings towards the puppet. To be honest, I am surprised that he is willing to help you escape from the peripheral vision zone to here. You are not at a loss for the reward of an alloy steel sword."

Fengzi's expression became particularly serious.

"We help and support each other, and never think about what we need from each other."

"If that was the case, he would not have accepted the sword after I said it was a reward."

Feng Yan said calmly.

"Uncle Feng, you know why I came to Sun City."

"You shouldn't have come."

His answer made Feng Zi's already pale face even paler.

Feng Yan leaned against the forging table unmoved and slowly lit a cigarette for himself.

"Over the years, the police chief surnamed Tian has planted many of his men in the border city. You broke in so openly, they must have known about it. But without communication equipment, they want to spread the news. They have to wait until the train arrives in Yuguang District tonight."

"It will take until tomorrow for the police to come here. Take advantage of this opportunity and leave quickly using the backup identity that Lao Feng left for you before he died."

Fengzi clenched the corner of her linen shirt with both hands, and she looked a little weak.

"When this city was renamed the Sun, you and your father clearly agreed to make it different from all other dungeons."

"Everyone is naive at times." Feng Yan flicked the ash off his cigarette. "It's useless to just be passionate about many things. The rules of this world regarding people have already been determined. Your father was the moth that flew into the fire, so someone has to stay alive to deal with the rest of the mess."

He looked at the thin and frail figure.

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"The people living in the border city are the families of the friends who fought with me and your father in the past. I must protect them in this city. I have already tried my best just to do this. If you want to take back what your father left behind, I can't give you more help."

"After all, I'm not a scientist anymore."

There was a long silence in the blacksmith shop.

It was not until the cigarette in Feng Yan's hand burned his fingers that he threw the cigarette butt into the iron stove.

"Let's go. Whether you are willing to listen to me or not, you should take away the things that Lao Feng left behind."

Feng Zi pursed her pale lips and followed him with a complicated expression, and came to a utility room next to the blacksmith shop.

"All those odds and ends your dad used to like to collect from various places are here."

It was a cardboard box, filled with scattered little gadgets of unknown use. Feng Zi quietly put away all the things inside.

"There is one more thing. I don't know if you know it or not, but the news I got from Inspector Tian is that someone from Tian'en Company reported to the police that you were abducted by a biological man and the two of you eloped."

Feng Yan took a puff of his cigarette and said after slowly exhaling the smoke.

Fengzi was very indifferent to this.

"I've already escaped, so of course they can put any excuse on me."

"This is not a random excuse." Feng Yan put out his cigarette. "If you hadn't proposed to take away what Lao Feng brought to this city, there would be many people in the Sunlight Council who would want you to stay and inherit your father's political legacy. After all, you are the most suitable one."

"In Tian En's branch in Sun City, someone wants to stigmatize you and pull those who originally supported you to their side."

"Let them do whatever they want." Feng Zi leaned against the wall with a cold expression, "I have never wanted to save this city, nor have I wanted to save anyone. I just want to take away things that don't belong to those people."

Feng Yan looked at Feng Zi's weak yet resolute appearance and couldn't help but sigh and shook his head.

"If the experiment hadn't turned your body into what it is now, I believe you can definitely do it, but there are no ifs in this world. Now you can barely even walk normally, so why don't you take care of yourself and live a good life? This is what your parents both hope for."

Feng Zi didn't say anything else. She seemed to have lost the desire to communicate with Feng Yanyi. She just held on to the wall, wanting to leave the room and leave this border town.

(End of this chapter)