"Yun Yao, what's your relationship with the person in this photo?" Ye Feng showed the picture to Shen Yun Yao and asked.
"Oh, that's my father!" Shen Yun Yao looked at the photo and said slowly, her face full of reminiscence.
"Fa... Father?!" Hearing this, a huge wave of shock surged through Ye Feng's heart. Although the photo was placed by Shen Yun Yao's bedside, and Ye Feng guessed it was probably one of her relatives, he never expected it to be Shen Yun Yao's father. What surprised Ye Feng even more was that he was not unfamiliar with the person in the photo. It was Mei You, who had clashed with him multiple times since the Ice City and even tried to kill him at the Dune.
"Uh... Yun Yao, does your father have a twin brother or anything?" Ye Feng pondered and asked again. Because although the man in the photo looked exactly like Mei You, his eyes and expression were not as wretched as Mei You's. Instead, he appeared quite sunny and magnanimous, completely lacking Mei You's gloom and creepiness.
"This... I haven't heard Grandpa mention anything like that~" Shen Yun Yao tilted her head slightly, recalling, and then replied. Immediately, Shen Yun Yao looked at Ye Feng with confusion, "Ye Feng, why do you ask?"
"Uh, nothing~ Just curious!" Ye Feng waved his hand awkwardly. His heart was in a turmoil. After all, he and Mei You were practically mortal enemies... yet he had just saved the daughter of his mortal enemy... This plot seemed a bit melodramatic...
"Mei You is the first generation city lord of Mech City, Shen Lang? Shen Lang is Mei You?" Ye Feng mused. "I used to think Mei You had killed the owner of the Silver Phantom Mech and taken it for himself... Now it seems the mech originally belonged to him..." "How did that guy get involved with the City of Arcane Arts? And why would he target Bing?" "Wait!" Thinking of this, Ye Feng suddenly frowned. Because according to Jiang Si Shan, Mei You and his companion named Bi Mao had been lurking in the City of Arcane Arts for decades, and even participated in the founding of the city back then. But according to the information he had obtained, Shen Lang of Mech City left Mech City sixteen years ago... The timeline didn't match...
"What the hell is going on?" Ye Feng's mind was filled with many mysteries.
"Ye Feng, what's wrong?" Shen Yun Yao asked, seeing Ye Feng's expression change as he looked at her father's photo.
"Uh... I just remembered something~" Ye Feng gave a noncommittal laugh and didn't explain further.
"Huh? Who is this?" Suddenly, Ye Feng's attention was drawn to another photo on the table. The photo showed a middle-aged man in camouflage.
"His name is Wei Hu. He was the first captain of Mech City's Shadow Exploration Team. He left with my father back then!" Shen Yun Yao glanced at the photo and replied quickly.
"Wei Hu... It's not that Bi Mao guy..." Ye Feng frowned.
"Um... Ye Feng, the Li... you encountered back then..." At this moment, Shen Yun Yao spoke again, but her voice was very soft, as faint as a mosquito's hum. If Ye Feng hadn't had good hearing, he wouldn't have heard it at all.
"What?" Ye Feng looked at Shen Yun Yao with some confusion, as her voice trailed off completely.
"Hoo~ Nothing!" Shen Yun Yao took a deep breath and finally shook her head.
"Bang bang!~" While Ye Feng was wondering, a not too light, not too heavy knock sounded on the door.
"Yao Yao, how are you? I've come to see you!" Shen Bo Tian's voice followed immediately, and then the door was pushed open.
"Yao Yao you..." Shen Bo Tian's expression was originally one of concern and worry, but he frowned halfway through his sentence. He found that Shen Yun Yao's complexion had improved significantly. Not only was she not lying weakly, but she was sitting up.
"Grandpa... I'm fine now!" Shen Yun Yao smiled slightly and said to Shen Bo Tian.
"Fine... Fine?" Shen Bo Tian was slightly stunned, with an expression of astonishment.
"Mhm!" Shen Yun Yao nodded seriously.
"Uh, well... you guys chat, we'll be going now!~" At this moment, Ye Feng spoke up awkwardly. He got up and walked towards the door, with Xiao Jin following closely behind. Shen Yun Yao waved goodbye to Ye Feng, and Shen Bo Tian frowned slightly, not stopping them.
"Yao Yao... this... is Ye Feng?" Shen Bo Tian pondered for a moment and immediately realized that if Shen Yun Yao said she was fine, there could only be one explanation: Ye Feng had the fifth-tier zombie virus neutralizer.
"Yes, Grandpa. Ye Feng injected me with the fifth-tier intermediate-level zombie virus neutralizer and cleaned my wounds!" Shen Yun Yao nodded and replied quickly. "I feel much better now!~"
"Yao Yao... this fifth-tier zombie virus is no trivial matter... To be safe, let me have the doctor examine you!" Shen Bo Tian was a cautious person. After pondering for a while, he suggested.
"Okay!" Shen Yun Yao did not refuse her grandfather's good intentions.
A moment later, the elderly man in a white coat whom Ye Feng had seen in Shen Yun Yao's room earlier arrived and began to examine Shen Yun Yao.
"City Lord, the young lady's wounds show no signs of zombification. She only needs a few days of recuperation!" The elderly man in the white coat looked quite surprised, but having been in the Jianghu for a long time, he knew very well what to ask and what not to ask.
"Mhm, thank you, Doctor Zhou!" Shen Bo Tian nodded to him. The other party didn't say much, just reminded Shen Yun Yao to get plenty of rest, warned her about the hot weather and the risk of wound infection, and then left.
After Doctor Zhou left, Shen Yun Yao was lost in thought, as if something was troubling her. Shen Bo Tian looked in the direction Ye Feng had left, also with a frown.
"Grandpa, just now..." After a while, Shen Yun Yao spoke first, recounting everything that Ye Feng had done to treat her. After listening to Shen Yun Yao's words, Shen Bo Tian picked up the photo of Shen Lang, or Mei You, from the table and gazed at it absentmindedly.
"Grandpa, from Ye Feng's tone and expression just now... I'm sure he's met Father..." "It's just that the circumstances are probably not what I imagined... Just now... I almost asked him if the Li Gou Dan he mentioned was the person in the photo!" "But... but I'm afraid he'll say no..." Shen Yun Yao was interrupted by Shen Bo Tian before she could finish.
"Yao Yao, the Li Gou Dan Ye Feng mentioned cannot be your father!" Shen Bo Tian looked at Shen Yun Yao with great seriousness, his eyes filled with sorrow. "Even if they look exactly alike, it absolutely cannot be your father!"
"Grandpa, why?" Shen Yun Yao's eyes glistened with tears. She looked at her grandfather with great confusion and agitation. "Father is just missing. No one has ever seen his body, have they? It's entirely possible he survived that ancient ruin, perhaps injured or something!"
"Yao Yao... I... Sigh..." Shen Bo Tian sighed deeply, his brow furrowed tightly. He looked at Shen Yun Yao for a long while, and then his hand flashed with light, revealing a circular object with a square center, like a screen.
"Is this... a Mirrored Arcane Yuan Coin?" Seeing the object in Shen Bo Tian's hand, Shen Yun Yao was quite surprised.