Tomb Raider【Filling My Heart with Unresolved Feelings】

With his shoulders drooped, he gave a bitter smile that was full of bitterness. He said helplessly, "Why are you doing this? Some secrets should never be revealed. What the Zhang family protects is far beyond your imagination. Although I have left the Zhang family, I know enough, so much that I just want to stay away from everything."

The young man was unmoved. His body was as firm as a mountain. He said slowly, "I will not blindly get involved in the dangers and secrets you mentioned, but I must know the parts related to the current situation. You must tell me the forces behind you, your purpose, and your connection with Zhang Dafoye's actions back then."

The hunched-shouldered man remained silent for a long time. His face seemed to be covered with a thick layer of dark clouds, his brows were furrowed, and his eyes showed struggle.

Finally, he sighed like a deflated ball and said, "Forget it, since you are so persistent, I will tell you something. I am indeed Master Fo's man. Because of the clan rules of the Zhang family, intermarriage with outsiders is not allowed. Therefore, Master Fo's father chose to leave the family for his other half, so he also became an outsider of the Zhang family. The Qiongqi tattoo came from this. For various reasons, Master Fo wanted to return to the Zhang family's ancient building, but he had already left the Zhang family. If he wanted to go back, he could only be led by the Zhang family's spirit. And when you..."

The man with drooping shoulders paused for a moment, as if recalling some painful past events, and then continued, "So I became the spirit who led the way, but the mission failed, and I found that things were developing in an uncontrollable direction. At that time, countless people from the Nine Sects were killed or injured, and some people were directly abandoned, and I was one of them."

The young man asked, "Are you doing this now to make up for your mistakes? Or do you have other purposes?"

The man shook his head with a look of fatigue in his eyes. He said slowly, "We just want to prevent tragedy from happening again. Although the action failed, it left many hidden dangers. Some people are still coveting what the action was aimed at. We must stop them."

The young man frowned, his eyebrows like two tangled caterpillars, and he asked in confusion: "What is that thing?"

He pursed his lips and said firmly, "This is something I cannot say."

After thinking for a moment, the young man asked again, "Did you have any relationship with that archaeological team 20 years ago?"

The slumped shoulders replied without hesitation: "No, I didn't interfere in this matter."

After the young man got the answer he wanted, he turned and left.

He looked at Zhang Qiling's back with his shoulders drooping, his eyes showing a complex emotion, relief, as if he had just put down a heavy burden, and a hint of unspeakable worry, as if he had a premonition of a storm coming. He knew that the information he had revealed was like a stone thrown into a calm lake, which would stir up ripples.

When the little brother returned to the yard, everyone immediately surrounded him, like a group of hungry wolves seeing their prey. Wu Xie asked anxiously, "Little brother, what did he say this time?"

The young man roughly recounted what the man with the tattered shoulders had said about his relationship with Zhang Dafoye and what happened after the operation failed that year.

After hearing this, Wu Xie put his hand on his chin, his eyes narrowed slightly, as if he was trying to think about something. After a while, he slowly said, "So, what happened back then was very complicated, and now there are still people coveting the things that the action was aimed at, this thing must be something very special. Although Ta Jianbo refuses to say what it is, we can look for clues from other people who participated in the action or related locations."

Hei Xiazi stretched lazily on the side. His body was like a bow that was stretched and then rebounded. He yawned and said, "It's easy for you to say that. It's been so many years. The people back then are either dead or like Vice President Zhang, hiding away and not wanting to be involved. Relevant places? They are also very dangerous places. It's not easy to find them with the few clues we have now."

Xie Yuchen shook his head slightly, his eyes showing a hint of confidence, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, and said: "Not entirely. We now know the relationship between the collapsed shoulders and Zhang Dafoye, as well as some general circumstances of the operations back then. I think we can start with the Nine Gates families that participated in those operations back then, and maybe we can find some missed information."

The young man nodded, indicating that he agreed with Xie Yuchen's opinion.

Fatty Wang scratched his head, his eyes full of confusion, and said, "But it's been so many years, can we still find the person? Even if we do find him, will he be willing to tell us these things?"

Xie Yuchen smiled slightly, and that smile was like a flower blooming in spring, full of confidence. He clapped his hands lightly and said, "We need to investigate this. I have some connections in the underworld, so I will ask someone to find out the whereabouts of the descendants of each family. Anyway, this is the most feasible solution we can think of at the moment."

Hei Xia Zi looked at Bai Mumu who had fallen asleep in Xie Yuchen's arms and said with a smile, "Let's put her in the house to sleep first. She was whimpering when she woke up this morning. It's obvious that she didn't get enough sleep."

Xie Yuchen stared at Bai Mumu who was sleeping soundly in his arms. His eyes were as gentle as the lake water under the warm spring sun. The serious and cold look just now was completely gone.

Seeing this, the others also lowered their voices consciously for fear of disturbing her.

Hei Xiazi stretched out his index finger and gently poked Bai Mumu's heaving belly, jokingly saying, "She's well-behaved when she's asleep, but when she's awake, she's like a little pepper, poking me at every turn, so fierce."

Xie Yuchen immediately slapped Hei Xiazi's hand away and whispered, "Stop making trouble. It won't be good if you wake her up."

The young man also glanced at him warningly, and Hei Xia Zi immediately withdrew his hand obediently and stood still.

Wu Xie said with a smile: "Xiaohua has been traveling for such a long time and must be very tired. Now is the perfect time for you to carry Mu Mu in and rest for a while."

Xie Yuchen also felt that what Wu Xie said made sense. He gently adjusted his posture to make Bai Mumu sleep more comfortably in his arms, and then said, "I have reserved all the rooms around here. You don't have to squeeze into one room."

Several people looked at each other and said, okay, since the great god of wealth Jie has spoken, they will no longer be polite.

Wu Xie stretched, yawned and said, "Then I have to find a comfortable room to catch up on my sleep. I've been worrying about this for the past few days."

Fatty Wang chuckled, rubbed his hands and said, "Then I have to pick a room with a big bed. My back and waist are sore from sleeping in that shabby place these days."

Hei Xia Zi looked indifferent and said lazily, "It doesn't matter where I sleep, but if there's a quiet place where I can lie down for a while, I'd better take it. It's not my own money anyway."

The young man didn't say anything, just nodded silently, then turned and walked towards a house. He has always been a man of few words, but his actions always speak faster than words.