"Family misfortune?"
Ye Feng looked at Wang Batian with some confusion, not knowing what this person was up to this time.
"Sigh!~"
Wang Batian glanced at Xiao Xiao, then at the moaning, bandaged man on the ground. "I'm not afraid you'll laugh at me, little brother. This is Wang Shaoda, my son. I've been strict with him since he was young... but... but this kid is useless..."
"This kid was instigated by others, and he actually had the intention to harm little girl Xiao Xiao... Fortunately, he didn't succeed in the end..."
"Otherwise, I really don't know how I would face you!"
Wang Batian looked heartbroken.
Ye Feng frowned slightly and didn't respond.
"Little girl Xiao Xiao, I'm truly sorry!"
At this moment, Wang Batian bowed to Xiao Xiao and apologized.
Immediately, Wang Batian glared at Wang Shaoda on the ground, "Unfilial son, why aren't you quickly rolling over to apologize to little girl Xiao Xiao!"
Hearing Wang Batian's words, Wang Shaoda was startled and flipped over, wriggling over to kowtow and apologize to Xiao Xiao.
"It's... it's okay..."
Xiao Xiao seemed a bit startled and quickly waved her hand.
"Thank you, little girl Xiao Xiao!"
Wang Batian looked up and sighed again, "It's embarrassing to say, although I was strict with Shaoda, I was still tricked by someone!"
"Shaoda's intention to harm little girl Xiao Xiao was entirely instigated by someone!"
As he spoke, Wang Batian's tone carried obvious anger.
Then, he clapped his hands again, and two lean, robust men were brought in by guards. These people had clearly been tortured and could not even stand, so they had to be supported by the guards.
Almost at the same time, Xiao Xiao's body trembled, her small hand grabbed Ye Feng's hand, and sweat beaded on her palms. She was clearly very nervous.
Ye Feng was quite puzzled but didn't show it.
"Repeat what you said in the prison before..."
Wang Batian stepped forward and said sternly.
"We... we are..."
Although the two lean, robust men had endured torture, their minds were quite clear. They quickly recounted how Wang Shaoda had gone to Wu Laogou to buy Xiao Xiao.
According to the two lean, robust men, Wang Shaoda didn't know he was going to buy Xiao Xiao at first. Instead, he was investigating the mecha theft case and had no choice but to pretend to cooperate with Wu Laogou and his gang... That's how the conflict with Ye Feng arose...
"Damn, Wang Batian is a first-class master at distorting facts and confusing right and wrong!"
If Ye Feng hadn't stayed at Wu Laogou's lair for a while before, and had only quickly rescued Xiao Xiao and left, he might have been misled by this Oscar-worthy performance.
Ye Feng remained expressionless. He was curious why Wang Batian was trying so hard to please him.
"Little brother, I was deceived before. After a lot of investigation, I dared to tell you! "
"But it's worth resolving the misunderstanding between us!"
At this moment, Wang Batian spoke again.
"So that's how it is~"
Ye Feng looked at the miserable Wang Shaoda and said, "Since it's in the past, let's let it go. I already hit him back then!"
"Why don't you quickly thank little brother Ye!"
As soon as Ye Feng finished speaking, Wang Batian kicked Wang Shaoda, who was crawling on the ground.
"Ah!"
"Thank you, uncle, thank you for your magnanimity! Thank you, uncle!"
After a cry of pain, Wang Shaoda began to thank Ye Feng.
"What kind of weird address is this!"
Ye Feng's mouth twitched slightly, and he felt disgusted. Wang Shaoda was older than him, yet he called him uncle...
After being reprimanded a few more times by Wang Batian, Wang Shaoda left with the help of the guards.
"Little brother, I know you must have many questions now, after all, the person behind this matter is not ordinary!"
At this moment, Wang Batian spoke again. "These two people are being held by me. Little brother, you can come and question them anytime!"
Hearing this, Ye Feng frowned slightly. He naturally knew what "not ordinary person" meant.
According to what the two lean, robust men had said, they were just pawns, and the manipulator behind this was a giant of Mecha City, the Shen family...
However, Ye Feng didn't believe it easily. After all, he and Xiao Xiao were just ordinary explorers in Mecha City at the time, and they hadn't shown any special talents. Was it worth it for them to go to such great lengths to deal with him...
"By the way, little brother, I heard you were attacked. I happened to get some news!"
While Ye Feng was thinking, Wang Batian spoke again, and with a flash of light in his hand, several photos instantly appeared.
"Little brother, these two assassins are named Chuan Shan Jia and Bao Wen Zheng. They are notorious Silver-tier mercenaries!"
"One of my subordinates personally saw the person who hired them was Su Guoxi, the deputy commander of the Guard Army. The reward given to them was five hundred Arcane Yuan coins, just withdrawn from the bank, still in their unopened packaging..."
"It's a pity that my subordinate has gone missing... and there's no concrete evidence..."
At the end, Wang Batian seemed unwilling and a little regretful.
Hearing this, Ye Feng immediately thought of the Arcane Yuan coin boxes with the Shen family's emblem that he had found in the spatial rift fragments of Chuan Shan Jia and Bao Wen Zheng...
"Uh... that's... Patriarch Wang, you didn't just ask me here to tell me all this, did you!?"
Ye Feng pondered for a moment and asked.
"Sigh!~"
Wang Batian was slightly taken aback. He waved his hand, signaling the guards to take away the two lean, robust men, and then sighed, "Little brother, I'm not afraid you'll laugh at me. My ancestor left behind quite a substantial family fortune, but entering the place where the ancestral property is stored is a bit special and requires a specially made key to open it."
As he spoke, Wang Batian's hand flashed, and a black safe instantly appeared. Upon opening it, inside were five flat, round objects, about the size of a fist, covered with mysterious runes. They looked like some kind of stone.
"Keys?"
Ye Feng looked down at the five stones in the safe, then looked up at Wang Batian, looking puzzled.
"Precisely!"
Wang Batian nodded. "These are the Five Rings of Black Mist, the keys to opening the door to the Wang family's ancestral property!"
"My ancestor left instructions that only by deciphering the secret of the arcane runes on the Five Rings of Black Mist can they become true keys!"
"Little brother, I, Wang, am a rough person. Although I have managed some businesses, I am completely ignorant of these arcane runes..."
"If you can help decipher them, the Wang family will be greatly rewarded!"
After speaking, Wang Batian's hand flashed, and more than a dozen football-sized arcane origin stones instantly appeared on the ground beside the table.
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