The Shen family’s child?
Shen Cheng grasped the key words and looked at the woman again, his brain working rapidly.
The memory goes back from the present to childhood, from the elementary school campus to my home, and finally locks on an old photo in my grandfather's bedroom.
"Grandma?!"
Shen Cheng blurted out subconsciously, but after the voice spread, the two did not even look at him, but continued to communicate.
The girl in the white dress continued, "Everything I create is 'balanced.' If you wish to gain something I give you, you will inevitably lose something of equal value. Can you accept this outcome?"
"I, no, we, are mentally prepared for this, which is why we came to you."
The woman replied with a smile.
——Did the things here happen in the past?
Chen Cheng remembered what the girl in the white dress had told him about the "deal" between his grandmother and the girl in the white dress.
The woman obviously didn't look too old, which made sense since his grandmother had passed away shortly after he was born.
Is this the scene of the transaction that took place?
At this moment, the gentle voice of the girl in the white dress also inserted into Shen Cheng's mind at the right time:
"No need to say anything, just watch quietly."
Shen Cheng nodded, without turning around to ask around, and quietly watched the conversation between his grandmother and the girl in the white dress.
"'You guys'? It seems this choice wasn't made by you alone."
The girl in the white dress whispered, "But, you spent so much just to have such an 'equal exchange' with me? I don't understand."
Price? What price?
Shen Cheng was a little confused for a moment. Was his ability actually obtained at the cost of his grandmother's own life?
So what was the price my grandmother paid?
"What you give is not life itself, but only its existence."
The woman said, "With just these, our chances of winning are slim. Therefore, we would like to concentrate these things in the hands of one user. After all, whether these things can play their true role depends on their user."
"The same question again, are you sure he can bear this weight?"
"He can certainly do it."
The woman still answered with such certainty.
"What if he can't afford it?"
"Then, the blame for the price paid for this bet will be placed entirely on me. After all, he is my grandson..."
Looking at the woman's doting gaze, the girl in the white dress nodded: "Okay, I promise you, as for how to use these abilities, it's up to you."
The woman nodded: "Thank you."
"By the way, what's his name?"
"My family's surname is Chen, and my father-in-law gave him the name Cheng, which means "Cheng" in the prime minister's name. His name is Chen Cheng."
“…Okay, I’ll remember that.”
The picture stopped here, and then the two people gradually became blurred, and finally everything turned into a vast expanse of white.
Shen Cheng subconsciously stretched out his hand to his grandmother and opened his mouth to say something, but after thinking about it, he put his hand down silently.
A smile gradually appeared on his face, and Shen Cheng felt as if the clouds in his heart had been cleared and the sun was shining.
At least, Shen Cheng completely understood the origin of his abilities, as well as the most sincere expectations of his vague relatives in his memory.
If I don’t do such an important task as saving the world, who will do it?
This is the mission I was born to fulfill...
"This is the deal I made with your grandmother—perhaps I should have shown you this a long time ago."
The voice of the girl in the white dress came from behind him. Shen Cheng slowly turned his head and saw the girl in the white dress standing there with her back to him.
"I can see that you're feeling a bit lost. You feel that your abilities are like a mayfly in the current situation, unable to change anything. This won't benefit you in the upcoming mission."
The girl in the white dress said softly, "I don't know if this can help you, but this is all I can do."
"No, this helps me a lot, thank you."
Thinking of his grandmother's confidence in him, Shen Cheng raised his head and said, "But I still have a question."
"Please go ahead."
"My grandmother...what was the price she paid for meeting you?"
Regarding this issue, Shen Cheng is also the most concerned: "Dean He Ling also needs to pay these prices to meet with you, right?"
"Yes, but He Ling is the human I chose to interact with, so the price of meeting me will be relatively small."
The girl in the white dress seemed to sigh silently. "And the price you pay for meeting me is the very thing you humans value most—life."
Shen Cheng: “…”
So, is that why my grandmother passed away so early?
"Originally, this transaction should have been conducted between your grandfather and me, but your grandfather has a very important mission, so all of this can only be done by his wife and me."
Shen Cheng couldn't help but ask: "Then what exactly is the ability you gave me?"
"My agent."
The girl smiled faintly and said, "This is the 'authority' I have given you. As my agent, you have an innate affinity with all life in nature... and control over it.
Moreover, because you are my agent, you do not need to pay any price to talk to me."
“…”
Shen Cheng was silent.
It’s not so much that he kept silent on his own initiative, but rather that Shen Cheng didn’t know what to say when faced with this fact.
The agent of "Nature" sounds very powerful, but Shen Cheng couldn't feel any sense of reality for a moment.
"Do you have any other questions?"
The girl in the white dress continued to ask.
Chen Cheng shook his head, but thinking that the girl in the white dress was facing him, she should not be able to see his movements. He opened his mouth and was about to speak when he heard the girl in the white dress say:
“Since there is nothing left, then so be it.
Also, although the chances of success are slim and I can't do anything else to help, as someone who has been watching you grow up, I firmly believe that you will succeed."
As the girl in the white dress finished speaking, the white space gradually dissipated.
Just when Chen Cheng thought he was about to enter the dream again, another environment connected to the white space just now gradually appeared.
What came into view was a pitch-black cave.
Seeing this, Shen Cheng's mouth twitched slightly, but it just happened to be that he had something to discuss with the dragon head mural.
Walking deep into the cave, Shen Cheng knocked on the dragon head mural as if knocking on a door:
"Old charlatan, are you there?"
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