"Oh? Is that so?"
Ye Feng took the small telescope with some curiosity and looked in the direction she pointed. He immediately noticed a burly man with a pipe in his mouth, wearing a sailor suit and a chef's hat, sitting on the edge of the deck of the Indomitable Warship.
The sailor-suited strongman was Ajin, nicknamed "Sailor," whom Ye Feng and Xiao Xiao had met in the ancient ruins. At this moment, Ajin was looking ahead with a dejected expression...
"Ye Feng, Xiao Xiao, you know so many people!"
Yue Feixue's voice held obvious surprise. "Let's go, we should go up to the Indomitable Warship and take a look!"
...
Soon, led by Yue Feixue, Ye Feng and his group passed through layers of checks and arrived on the Indomitable Warship.
"It's you?"
Upon spotting Ye Feng and Xiao Xiao, the sailor-suited strongman Ajin was greatly surprised.
"Yes, what a coincidence!"
Ye Feng nodded and looked at the empty right sleeve of the sailor-suited strongman Ajin. "What happened to your arm...?"
"Alas... don't mention it... It's a miracle I survived... That sea chef wasn't as lucky as I was..."
The sailor-suited strongman Ajin sighed deeply.
"Uncle Jin, who is it?"
Just then, a clear female voice rang out.
Ye Feng turned his head to follow the sound and saw a tall, slender girl dressed in purple long clothes and pants, with even her hair being purple, walking over.
The girl's large eyes held a cunning gaze...
What surprised Ye Feng was that the girl looked exactly like the artificial intelligence named "Yingyue" whom he had met in the ancient ruins before...
"Big brother, she... she... she looks so much like the robot named Yingyue that we met!"
Xiao Xiao had also noticed this. She looked at Ye Feng in surprise.
"What? Yingyue? You've met my sister?"
The purple-haired girl was startled upon hearing Xiao Xiao's words.
"Buzz!"
Ye Feng and the girl made eye contact. A purple light flashed in the girl's eyes, and Ye Feng immediately felt the surrounding scenery distort and change.
"An illusion?"
Ye Feng frowned slightly, understanding dawning on him.
The girl was about to use an illusion to probe what Ye Feng and Xiao Xiao knew, but the next second, she found herself trapped in a small cage... and Ye Feng's figure in front of her grew larger and larger...
"Such... such powerful mental strength..."
The purple-haired girl murmured.
"Tongtong, stop!"
Just then, a stern shout rang out, and Ye Feng and the purple-haired girl immediately broke free from the illusion.
In the mental clash just now, Ye Feng didn't feel much. After all, he cultivated the Soul Siphoning Record and constantly carved various talismans, so his mental strength had long been incomparably strong...
However, the purple-haired girl's face turned pale, and sweat poured down her face...
"Palace Master Yue, I am truly sorry for disturbing our esteemed guests!"
A middle-aged strongman, who bore some resemblance to the purple-haired girl but had black hair, stepped forward, bowed to Yue Feixue, and apologized.
Then, the middle-aged strongman turned his head and looked sternly at the purple-haired girl. "Zi Tong, apologize to this gentleman!"
"I... I'm sorry!"
The purple-haired girl immediately bowed deeply to Ye Feng.
"Ye Feng, this is Zi Zheng, the City Lord of the Sea Restaurant! The purple-haired girl beside him is Zi Tong, City Lord Zi's daughter!"
At this moment, Yue Feixue gestured to the middle-aged strongman and said.
After speaking, Yue Feixue nodded to Zi Zheng. "City Lord Zi, this is Ye Feng!"
"Hello, Mr. Ye. My daughter was a little rude just now, I hope you can forgive her!"
Zi Zheng smiled at Ye Feng and bowed again.
"Oh, it's nothing~!"
Ye Feng waved his hand, not bothered by it. His gaze fell on a dilapidated ship half-sunk in the sea not far away, as that ship was the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier he had recently sold to the survivor channel, with the ID "Cotton Candy."
"That nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is so damaged... are they just leaving it like that... a nuclear reactor leak is no joke!"
Ye Feng frowned slightly.
"Mr. Ye, the nuclear reactor of that ship has been swallowed by monsters, so there is no nuclear radiation now... but it has also lost its power..."
Zi Zheng's voice held some regret.
"Then... that... Mr. Ye... I'm really sorry for what happened just now..."
At this moment, Zi Tong bowed deeply to Ye Feng again. "I just heard my sister Yingyue's name... Can you... can you tell me... where my sister is...?"
"This... how should I put it..."
Ye Feng frowned. "I do know someone named Yingyue, but she's an artificial intelligence, not human. She was in an ancient ruin, but that ancient ruin has completely collapsed and annihilated..."
"Finally... I couldn't even see her one last time... Mother... I'm sorry..."
After hearing Ye Feng's words, Zi Tong's eyes reddened, and tears flowed down like rain.
"Palace Master Yue, Mr. Ye, since you're here, why don't we sit down and have some tea!~"
While Ye Feng and the others were confused, Zi Zheng spoke.
Ye Feng turned to Yue Feixue with a questioning look. Yue Feixue glanced at the distant horizon and then nodded.
...
A moment later, led by Zi Zheng, Ye Feng and his group entered a rather large room.
"This room... it's entirely in the style of a land building... and there's a lot of sand and soil... These plants are also from the land..."
Ye Feng looked around, quite surprised.
"The Sea Restaurant stays at sea all year round... so it's not easy to have the style of a land building... The sand and plants are from Tongtong's current hometown..."
Zi Zheng chimed in and began to boil water.
"Ye Feng, City Lord Zi's mother is named Zi Tong. She was a great scientist in Star Step City, and she led many people to explore ancient ruins... Many of the various equipment and doomsday shelters that humanity created to cope with the cataclysm... came from her hands..."
"This Doomsday Shelter No. 3, and the City of Ice you visited before, she was the chief designer of both!"
"Later... Star Step City was attacked, and she..."
Yue Feixue didn't finish her sentence, but everyone present understood her meaning.
"When Zi Tong was exploring and transforming ancient ruins... she encountered a great change... and had no choice but to leave behind Zi Tong's sister... Zi Yingyue..."
"This has been Zi Tong's lifelong regret. For so many years... Tongtong and I have never given up searching for her..."
"I didn't expect that in the end..."
At this moment, Zi Zheng looked as if he had aged several years.
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