Chapter 341 - 339: The Mystery of One’s Origin

Chapter 341: Chapter 339: The Mystery of One’s Origin

Just then, Chen Xing saw a bomb fly in.

Her Defense Shield meant she wasn’t afraid of the bomb, but she ducked into her Jiezhi Space anyway, reappearing in front of Uncle Zhong’s motorcade outside.

In the raging fire, two people who weren’t quite dead yet stirred slightly.

Chen Xing stepped into the fire and pulled the two charred figures directly into her Black Cat Space.

She glanced up at the hotel building. Surprisingly, it was still standing.

The bomb that had landed in the lobby earlier had only blown up a corner of the first floor, leaving the rest of the building unaffected.

Chen Xing immediately headed upstairs.

The two charred men were still breathing. She wanted to try and save them.

Fortunately, both men’s limbs were intact.

After placing the two men on the bed in the room Chen Ming had used, Chen Xing began to heal them.

She channeled her superpower into one of the men. The charred blackness on his skin gradually faded, his wounds began to close, and finally, his fading breaths slowly grew steady again.

Chen Xing was speechless. Even she was shocked.

’These men were a step away from death. This was no different from bringing someone back to life.’

She was so glad she had taken three whole days to upgrade her Healing Ability right after upgrading her Spiritual Ability. Otherwise, she might not have been able to save them.

With no time to dwell on it, she immediately began healing the other man.

The man she had just healed was Xiao Li, the one Li Zhong had mentioned.

He stared at Chen Xing in astonishment, still not understanding what had happened.

’Wasn’t I dead? He remembered the bomb exploding around the car, remembered the pain with perfect clarity. So why couldn’t he feel anything now?’

"I’m... not dead?" After a long moment, he turned his head to look at the man beside him.

He watched as his partner’s charred skin returned to normal and his gaping wounds slowly sealed shut...

"You... you saved our lives?" Xiao Li found it unbelievable.

"Mhm," Chen Xing replied simply, continuing to channel her superpower into the other injured man.

"Where’s Uncle Zhong?" As if suddenly remembering something, Xiao Li shot to his feet.

Chen Xing was surprised by his loyalty. "Uncle Zhong is fine. Don’t worry."

After that, he said no more.

Xiao Li felt a little relieved, but he wouldn’t be able to truly rest easy until he saw Uncle Zhong with his own eyes.

Once the second man was fully healed, Chen Xing stood up.

"Please, could you take me to see Uncle Zhong?"

So, Chen Xing brought Uncle Zhong out from the Black Cat Space.

He had only been temporarily unconscious, so Li Zhong regained his senses after a few seconds.

At that moment, Xiao Li and Little Chen were stunned.

’She just made a person appear out of thin air?’

Chen Xing offered no explanation.

The fact that she possessed the emerald earrings was no longer a secret.

’Even if Li Zhong had come for the earrings, she wasn’t afraid. If she couldn’t protect them, she wouldn’t have gone to the trouble of luring everyone here from all over the world. She could have just laid low. In a world this big, finding her would have been truly difficult. She just hated the hassle and wanted to deal with most of her problems here and now, to put an end to it all.’

After a moment, Chen Xing led Uncle Zhong to her room.

Xiao Li and Little Chen stood guard outside.

"Less than a month after you were born, your mother, Wanrou, fled the Lu Family with you... or more accurately, she fled from Xu Anguo’s control," Li Zhong began, his mind drifting back to the past.

Not long after Chen Xing’s birth, Lu Wanrou seized a moment of carelessness from Xu Anguo to escape. She sought out Uncle Zhong, who had served the Lu Family for decades.

Lu Wanrou told him that Xu Anguo planned to send Shanshan, who was not even a month old, to the Research Institute.

She had only found out by accidentally overhearing a phone call Xu Anguo was on.

So, Uncle Zhong left Lu Bingtian’s service and went with Lu Wanrou, and they hid in the Lu Family’s old estate.

It was a property in the countryside. After Lu Wanrou’s father passed away, few people remembered it besides Uncle Zhong, who had been with him for many years.

They hid there for several years.

When Chen Xing was five years old, Xu Anguo found them. He forcibly took both her and Lu Wanrou away.

Xu Anguo had slashed Uncle Zhong several times, and he only survived by playing dead.

It took him two months to recover, but by then, finding them again was easier said than done.

After years of searching, he finally found a lead on Lu Wanrou’s whereabouts three years after they were taken.

She was being held at the Research Institute in the North Sea, forced to watch her own daughter be subjected to all kinds of experiments day after day.

Uncle Zhong hired a team and, seizing an opportunity when Xu Anguo was away from the Institute, finally rescued the mother and daughter.

Of course, the money for the rescue had been given to Uncle Zhong in advance by Lu Wanrou, who had foreseen such a day might come.

To avoid being tracked by Xu Anguo again, Uncle Zhong brought no bodyguards. He took the mother and daughter to his old hometown all by himself.

It was in the coldest region of the North, deep in the mountains and ancient forests.

There, Lu Wanrou spent the eight happiest years of her life.

When she escaped, Chen Xing had lost her memories. She didn’t even recognize her own mother.

But under Lu Wanrou’s tender care, she not only came to accept her mother but also gradually began to recover her memories.

Lu Wanrou was always afraid her time with her daughter would be short. Worried that her daughter wouldn’t eat well if left alone, she taught her how to cook all sorts of delicious food every day.

As he spoke, Uncle Zhong took out a USB drive and placed it in Chen Xing’s hand. "Your mother was worried you wouldn’t remember her, so every so often, she would record your moments together... Before she died, she made me swear to deliver this into your hands personally!"

Chen Xing’s hand was trembling violently. She held it clenched for a long moment before finally taking the USB drive. "And then?"

Even knowing the story to follow would be a cruel one, she couldn’t stop herself from asking.

’Since Uncle Zhong found me with this USB drive, that means my mother... Was it too much to hope that she was still alive?’

Uncle Zhong paused, his gaze on Chen Xing filled with pity. "On the night of your sixteenth birthday, Xu Anguo found where you were living..."

Xu Anguo arrived acting like a doting father, even bringing a stuffed animal that he claimed was a birthday gift.

But Chen Xing hadn’t liked stuffed animals since she was ten.

But... she was still young and had grown up under Lu Wanrou’s devoted care, so she had no idea of Xu Anguo’s true, monstrous nature.

In a moment of carelessness, he jabbed her with a needle, knocking her out completely.

It was too late for Lu Wanrou to stop him.

Xu Anguo said, "Today, everyone here will die except for Shanshan!"

"Xu Anguo, Shanshan is your own flesh and blood! How could you do this to your own daughter?" Lu Wanrou asked, her voice eerily calm.

"If she weren’t my daughter, do you think she would have what it takes to become the most important subject at the Research Institute? It is precisely because of me—because I’ve been injecting her with various concoctions since she was in the womb—that she’s so powerful. Do you understand?"

"Are you even human?" Even though Lu Wanrou had anticipated this outcome, rage still surged through her.

’That was his own flesh and blood! How could he have the heart to do this to his own daughter? And to start when she was just a fetus?’

"So you’re saying this was all premeditated, right from the moment you first approached me?" Hatred blazed in Lu Wanrou’s eyes.

If she had ever harbored a sliver of hope that Xu Anguo might show mercy for the sake of their family, that hope was now utterly extinguished.