Gaoyang and Du family.
Jiang Xi lowered her eyes and pondered, "Could it be that this Du family and my grandmother's Du family were from the same clan hundreds of years ago?"
Yan Zheng glanced around and frowned: "Does this mean that you and they share the same ancestor?"
This sounds incredible, even a bit outrageous.
How could that be? They've been around for hundreds of years.
First the murals, then the bells, and then this stone tablet—the more Jiang Xi thought about it, the more uneasy she felt.
She smiled wryly and said, "I used to be a staunch materialist. But now I can't explain why, out of the three of us, only I could sense that bell? And why that little girl was able to enter my dream with the bell?"
Isn't all of this incredible?
But once blood ties are involved, everything becomes plausible.
"You think we came here because of this?"
Yan Zheng pondered for a moment, then put his arm around her shoulder and said, "Instead of guessing here, why don't we go back and ask Yan Jing'an? He was the first to discover the time-space swap, so he might know more about it than we do."
When the two returned to the stone house, the sun was already in the afternoon, and Yan Jing'an was sharpening arrows at the door.
Yan Zheng put his arm around the dazed Jiang Xi and led her into the courtyard.
Seeing the two return, Yan Jing'an looked up and asked them how things went.
Jiang Xi snapped out of her daze and asked him, "How did you discover that the two timelines could travel between each other?"
The question came a bit suddenly. Yan Jing'an glanced at Jiang Xi and said, "Since her death."
Without needing an explanation, Yan Zheng and Jiang Xi already knew who this "she" was.
"The day the cold wave hit. I was preparing for training because there was a very important competition the next day. Jiang Xi has been with me since graduation; she's my manager. That night, she went to my house to pick up her competition supplies. I waited for her until the early hours of the morning, but she never showed up."
Yan Jing'an did a lot of mental preparation before continuing, "That night, the temperature suddenly dropped, and heavy snow fell everywhere. In an instant, the whole world was in chaos. Later, I joined the rescue team thinking of going... to find her."
His fingertips trembled slightly, and his voice was choked with emotion: "But she is already..."
Unable to continue, Yan Jing'an wiped his face with his hand: "She has been... frozen in the river."
Hearing this, Jiang Xi flinched slightly. Yan Zheng noticed her reaction and grasped her fingertips.
Jiang Xi felt a tightness in her chest. How could a perfectly healthy person end up in the river after a snow disaster?
Yan Jing'an took a breath and said, "She was murdered by a Thai organization. The person behind it was someone I had defeated before, and also a contestant in the competition the next day."
Yan Zheng sneered, "Acapan Riel?"
Jiang Xi looked at her in surprise, her eyes asking: You know?
Upon hearing this name, Yan Jing'an's eyes suddenly sharpened, and veins bulged on his forehead: "That's right, it's him."
"I only hate myself for not crippling his hands back then. Letting him freeze to death would have been too easy for him."
Whenever this person is mentioned, he feels like he could skin him alive.
Jiang Xi was somewhat confused: "But if his target is you, why would he hurt... Jiang Xi in this world?"
Yan Jing'an's eyes reddened: "Their original intention was me, but I was basically always in the training hall, so they didn't have a chance to make a move. So they wanted to use Jiang Xi to lure me there."
"They thought it was simple: as long as they locked me up somewhere or injured me, I wouldn't be able to participate in the competition the next day."
"But they didn't expect the cold wave to arrive so quickly that day, and the highways were completely blocked. Jiang Xi had studied martial arts, and the first thing she did when she woke up was to jump out of the car. Those people were no pushovers either, and before long, she was pushed into the river."
"Although Jiang Xi has some martial arts skills, she can't swim, and it was so cold that day."
He didn't say the rest, but Jiang Xi had already guessed the outcome.
Yan Jing'an continued, "From then on, I often dreamed of her, dreaming that she was calling my name in the water."
"As time went by, I don't know if it was God's blessing that I met you, but I thought I could undo all the mistakes. That's why I thought of going to find you and stop these things from happening."
Yan Zheng frowned and asked, "You've used so many methods, but you won't tell me directly what the future holds. What's the reason you can't bring yourself to say it?"
Yan Jing'an shook his head: "It's no use. All information that might reveal the future development trend will be erased and cannot be transmitted at all. I tried to tell you through videos and text, but as soon as I spoke, I was forcibly bounced back to the present world."
"It's as if there's some unseen force repairing all the loopholes in the spacetime after I appeared. As for natural disasters and death, these are things that can't be spoken of."
A moment of silence fell over the room.
Jiang Xi asked, "Then what about my maternal grandmother? No, I mean, Jiang Xi's maternal grandmother in this world? When did she pass away?"
Yan Jing'an looked at her, puzzled: "She didn't die. At least when I came here, she was fine."
Jiang Xi was stunned: "How could that be? He died when I was very young."
Yan Zheng thought for a moment and said, "There will naturally be subtle differences between the two worlds, so this kind of thing is not impossible."
Yan Jing'an grasped the key point: "Why ask her?"
Yan Zheng recounted to Yan Jing'an all the key information they had just discovered on the stone tablet.
Yan Jing'an pondered for a moment and said, "After the snow disaster, I brought my grandmother to the resettlement center, and I sometimes go to see her."
The old man, in his seventies or eighties, had difficulty seeing clearly and had miraculously survived the snowstorm. Whenever he went to see him, the old man would immediately get up and grab his hand, no matter what he was doing, upon hearing his voice.
Yan Jing'an said, "When we found Jiang Xi's body, I went to see my maternal grandmother. I was afraid she couldn't bear the bad news, so I didn't tell her. But my maternal grandmother seemed to have sensed it. She held my hand for a long time without saying a word. When I left, she suddenly said, 'I will let you see her again.'"
"At first I thought she was just old and couldn't handle the shock, so she was a little confused."
"But now that you mention it, it reminds me that every time I returned from this world, she would ask me if I had seen Jiang Xi, and also ask me how I was?"
Yan Jing'an felt extremely guilty whenever he thought of this.
I used to think that my grandmother was confused, but now I think that everything that happened may be closely related to her.
Jiang Xi's eyes involuntarily reddened: "So, maybe it was Grandma's ability, but how did she do it?"
Yan Zheng said, "Just like when we came here, there are too many supernatural things that cannot be explained."
He held Jiang Xi's hand: "If you can't figure it out, then don't think about it anymore. Grandma did this because she wanted you to live a good life."
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