On Friday evening, Xu Wenfeng learned that Qiao Mei was coming, so he specially asked the cook to prepare a table full of her favorite dishes.
He even personally washed the freshest fruit and served it to her, his old face beaming with joy.
"Why are you here so early this time? Did you miss Grandpa?"
Qiao Mei saw the joy in Xu Wenfeng's eyes, which were covered by an electronic eye, and instead of spoiling the mood, she nodded to tell him that she did indeed want to.
"But besides this, there's something else I'd like to ask you, Grandpa."
As she spoke, she glanced at the butler, maids, and bodyguards standing to one side.
Xu Wenfeng understood her meaning. After dismissing the unrelated people, he looked at her and said gently, "Ask whatever you want. Your grandfather will tell you everything he knows."
Qiao Mei took a deep breath and probed him first: "What I'm about to say is related to the former Interstellar Alliance Army. Can you tell me, Grandpa?"
After she finished speaking, while waiting for Xu Wenfeng to think, she gave Ao Cang a look, signaling him to sense whether Xu Wenfeng had any death aura.
The feeling of death is something Ao Cang needs to actively sense.
The people he hadn't been close to before weren't close to Qiao Mei, so he could sense them without any psychological burden. But Xu Wenfeng was different; he was Qiao Mei's maternal grandfather.
Now that he had her permission, Ao Cang began to release his divine power to touch Xu Wenfeng.
Xu Wenfeng was incredibly powerful. He was momentarily stunned when Ao Cang's pale golden divine power touched him, but after seeing that he was unharmed, he didn't think much of it and instead looked at Qiao Mei inquiringly: "Why did you suddenly want to ask them? Is it convenient to tell Grandpa the reason?"
Qiao Mei had complete trust in Xu Wenfeng, so she didn't hide anything and told him about the old story she learned from Yan Qing.
However, she did not mention that Yan Qing was a man.
"So I'm very curious about why the former Allied forces captured us but didn't really mistreat us, and how they disappeared overnight."
Xu Wenfeng usually had a good temper, but after hearing Qiao Mei's last question, his expression instantly turned serious, and his voice rose considerably:
"Alright, let's leave this topic at that. You asked me about this today, so there's nothing wrong with it. But if it falls into the ears of someone with ulterior motives, that's a different story!"
“Xiao Mei, your grandfather hopes you won’t ask about this again. Only in this way can you continue to live this carefree life. Sometimes knowing too much is not a good thing.”
Qiao Mei keenly noticed that when Xu Wenfeng said these words, there was a hint of sorrow and anger in his old eyes.
Clearly, this matter is very important to him.
She wisely refrained from asking further questions. During the rest of the meal, she only asked him questions about mecha manufacturing and disassembly, as if she had never mentioned the Interstellar Alliance before.
It wasn't until evening, when she and Ao Cang went into the room Xu Wenfeng had prepared for them to rest, that she asked Ao Cang if he had sensed any death aura from Xu Wenfeng.
Ao Cang didn't answer, but the complex look in his eyes gave Qiao Mei the answer.
Qiao Mei pursed her lips and asked him, "Is it strong? Or is it like the one Gong Jing had before, which can disappear again later?"
The young man shook his head, his voice very hoarse: "No, the death aura on his body is the most concentrated I have ever seen. This may be the root cause of his leg problems. Because if death aura is carried for too long, it will cause great damage to the body."
Qiao Mei's head was still buzzing, and she couldn't quite understand why Xu Wenfeng would get involved with this stuff.
After a long time of digestion, he finally looked up at Ao Cang and asked if there was any way to help Xu Wenfeng get rid of the death energy.
"According to what you said, with such a large amount of death energy, my grandfather's other organs will definitely be affected as well, right?"
At that point, it won't just be his legs; it could even endanger his life.
Ao Cang: "I'm afraid that won't work. Although his body's functions are being eroded by death energy, they are also supported by it. Once it's removed, it's like the roots of a tree being dug up."
He didn't say anything more, but Qiao Mei understood what he meant and knew that he was saying Xu Wenfeng might lose his life because of it.
After a long silence, I asked him again, "Even if you use divine power, is there no way to solve this?"
Only after asking the question did she realize that Ao Cang himself was currently being harmed by death energy. If it were useful, he would have used it himself long ago.
But to her surprise, Ao Cang gave an affirmative answer.
"Yes, but I can't do it with my current divine power. I have to wait until my main body evolves into the final form of the black dragon before I can help him."
Given Ao Cang's current recovery speed, it's definitely impossible for him to quickly transform into a black dragon.
However, Qiao Mei still breathed a sigh of relief.
It's better to have a way to save someone than to have no way at all.
.........
The next morning, at the Federal Army Hospital.
Gong Jing barely slept all night, stubbornly standing in the rain at the hospital entrance.
He was soaked to the bone, and his face, hidden beneath his green hair, was deathly pale.
When his mother came over and saw him like this, her eyes instantly welled up with tears of heartache. She quickly stepped forward in her high heels to hold an umbrella over him and even took off her own trench coat and draped it over him.
"Xiao Jing, why are you doing this to yourself?! Your brother won't even see me now, so why would he see you? Come with me to see a doctor. Don't ruin your health by doing this!"
Gong Jing stood rooted to the spot like a needle, forcefully pulling her arm back. Even though her eyes were somewhat unfocused, the stubbornness in them remained: "I won't go back. If I can't see my brother, I'll just stand here forever!"
Yan Ge was so angry at Gong Jing's stubbornness that she could hardly contain herself. After her chest heaved violently for a while, she had no choice but to give in and turn on her personal computer bracelet to make a personal computer call to her older brother Gong Jing.
After learning about Gong Chun's accident yesterday, Gong Jing tried to call him via his personal terminal or send him messages, but Gong Chun didn't reply.
But if it were Yan Ge, perhaps he could get through.
Thinking this, Gongjing moved a little closer to Yan Ge, forcing himself to look at the light brain bracelet despite feeling like he was about to faint.
Gong Chun did answer the video call that Yan Ge made. He looked at the two people on the screen, paused for a moment, and then tried to hang up.
Seeing this, Gongjing immediately stopped him and asked him why he refused to see him.
"The reason you're so badly injured is ultimately because I didn't want to go to the battlefield with you using that method, right? Brother, do you hate me a lot, that's why you don't want to see me?"
With each word Gongjing spoke, the dizziness in front of him worsened.
When she finished speaking, she couldn't hold on any longer and collapsed into Yange's arms.
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