Darkness Rises

Chapter 217 The Unfinished Farewell
Walking to the house in front of her, Jean Gray didn't know how to react for a moment. After all, this is the origin of her year-round escape from memory.

This is the beginning of her life and the end of a period of happiness. Over the years, this familiar house has gradually faded and darkened in the depths of her memory, but she dare not think about it.

It wasn't until she stood in front of this familiar house again that she softly said in a voice that only she could hear: "So the roof is dark green!"

"Qin!"

"Ok?"

Jean Gray looked back at Ivan who was calling her name with some confusion, and saw the young man looking at her with an encouraging look on his face: "Go, be brave, after all, he is your father, isn't it?"

Turning around, Qin took a deep breath and gently knocked on the door.

"Tuk! Tuk! Tuk!"

The waiting time of just a few seconds seemed so long that Qin, who had never received a response, even wanted to run away in fear.

But in the end she didn't have this chance.

"Here it is, who is it!"

A man's voice came from the room, Qin's body stiffened instantly, and her face was full of stiffness.

Until a man with a pale face opened the door, looked at the two strangers in front of him, a woman and a man, and asked strangely, "What's the matter with you?"

Qin squeezed her hands tightly, looking at the old face opposite, who was unfamiliar and familiar compared with her memory, her body trembled with excitement.

"Dad?"

A soft shout made the atmosphere of the scene instantly quiet. John's eyes widened in disbelief when he heard this address, and his heart beat violently as if he had been hit hard.

Looking at the grown-up face opposite, and the silhouette that vaguely resembled his wife, John's heart was instantly filled with panic and fear!
"Qin?"

The emotion revealed by this call was completely different from Qin's call. Qin's voice was both excited and nervous, and contained strong emotions.

But John's tone was completely different, full of paleness, disbelief and a trace of worry.

Before Qin could say anything, John poked his head out and looked around. After finding that no neighbor had seen the situation in front of the house, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Come in!"

Invited by her father, Jean Gray walked into the house cautiously, and Ai Wen followed behind her silently.

After entering the room, Qin's heart was full of turmoil. She couldn't help touching the cabinet at the door and the handrail leading to the second floor. Her eyes could almost be regarded as greedy looking at everything that was familiar and unfamiliar around her.

But his father stood aside shyly, not knowing what to say.

The excited Qin didn't notice the strangeness of her father, but suddenly turned her head and said to John: "Father, I didn't know you were still alive, he, Charles told me that you were dead!"

Looking around at everything, Qin sighed and said: "I never thought that I would come back here again. The family is still the same as before, nothing has changed."

Hearing his daughter's warm words, John didn't know how to answer. His anxious eyes even made Qin, who was excited, feel a little strange and uneasy.

"Would you like something to eat and drink?"

John's sudden words were full of politeness, as if he was not facing his long-lost daughter, but an unfamiliar guest who came to the house as a guest.

Such words made Qin Gray, who was full of thousands of words, flustered a little. She said awkwardly: "No, no, don't entertain me, just, it's good to see you!"

But Qin's words full of longing, in exchange for John's silence, the man looked at his daughter, then at Ivan who had been silent all this time, and suddenly said: "I'd better go pour it for you." Get some water!"

As he said that, he turned around and walked into the kitchen without hesitation.

But watching her father leave, Qin also breathed a sigh of relief silently. For some reason, the atmosphere between the two just now filled her with anxiety.

Afterwards, she looked at this familiar yet unfamiliar house again, and couldn't help but walk to the living room aside.

There is really no change here, it is almost exactly the same as my childhood memory, including this rocking chair, which has not fallen apart, and it looks like her father is still sitting on it.

Then, she saw the photo wall on the side. Yes, it was still so familiar. When she was young, this wall was covered with photos of their family of three.

Qin couldn't help but walked forward excitedly, and looked at these old photos again. She saw her father when she was young, and her mother who had been dead for many years, and... nothing!
Unexpectedly, gone!
There are more than a dozen photos hanging on the front wall, all of which are photos of her parents together, and there is no trace of her in any of the photos.

It was as if she had never been in the family at all, and her parents had never had a daughter named Jean Gray.

Qin's expression gradually became ugly.

Even, because she turned her back to Ai Wen, he didn't let him see that this poor woman's eyes had gradually glowed with a real fire.

That is the power of the phoenix that has become restless.

"Here, here is water for you!"

Ai Wen politely took the water handed over by Qin's father. Interestingly, the other party was not interested in chatting with him at all, and did not want to know anything related to her daughter.

"Qin, this is your..."

John, who was holding a water glass, saw Qin standing silently in front of the photo wall, and suddenly fell silent, and he also realized something.

"I'm not in any of these photos!"

Qin turned around, with a faint mist in her eyes, questioning her lost and recovered father.

But this shrunken man couldn't say anything, or he didn't know how to tell his daughter the truth.

Because he was afraid that the other party would kill him!
But Qin's questioning was not over, her expression gradually became ugly, and she gradually became angry: "You never looked for me, why didn't you come to me!"

"Qin, calm down, do you want to sit down and talk!" John looked a little flustered.

"No, tell me the truth, you can't hide it from me, I can read minds!"

With Qin's questioning, a memory also naturally emerged in the depths of John's mind, but at this time, the Phoenix Force in Qin's body activated independently, allowing her to perceive this memory.

"I can't raise her, I don't even know what she is, please take her away..."

These words were the original words John said to Professor Charles full of horror.

"You didn't even say goodbye to me!" Jean yelled angrily.

"But I didn't even have the chance to say goodbye to your mother!"

　Thank you "Kunpeng One Thorn" for the reward, thank you, really thank you, a good person will have a safe life!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)