Bang.
Li Qianfan's heart skipped a beat with Yang Xiao's words.
He really hadn't expected his grandmother to detect his secret plan.
"Qianfan."
Yang Xiao gently stroked his head, "Your intention to go to the Black Forest, you couldn't even hide it from your parents. But you couldn't hide it from Ziyu's intuition."
Ziyu's intuition?
Ziyu could sense that I was going to the Black Water Forest?
Li Qianfan was very surprised.
Yang Xiao looked at him, saying nothing.
In her heart, she thought, "There must be some mysterious connection between you and Ziyu. Perhaps, she is the one who can save you from aging to death."
Li Qianfan picked up his phone.
But Yang Xiao stopped him, "You don't need to ask Ziyu about this matter anymore."
Li Qianfan, who was about to call Su Ziyu, put down his phone.
Yang Xiao said, "Just pretend Ziyu doesn't know. Ziyu will neither stop you from doing anything, nor will she tell Li Wujiang about her intuition. Heh heh, otherwise, Li Wujiang would immediately abandon everything and rush to Tiandong to personally guard you and prevent you from running around."
Those words...
Right!
Sister Wujiang, the doting mother, would never allow her son to encounter any danger.
"Ziyu only hopes that you can come back alive."
Yang Xiao said, "So do I. My grandson can only become a true man after experiencing the trials and tribulations like his ancestors and father."
Li Qianfan remained silent.
"I don't want to know what your combat plan is."
Yang Xiao personally poured Li Qianfan a glass of water, "But I know that your combat prowess is really terrible."
Speaking of this...
Li Qianfan blushed.
He had learned martial arts diligently under Sister Wujiang's strict upbringing before he was eight years old, hadn't he?
But he really didn't have much talent for martial arts.
Even if he worked himself to death, he could only reach the level of a first-class master.
And he was ridiculed by Du Yaoyao and others—
Could he be blamed for that!?
"Although the environment in the Black Water Forest is special, with vast white snow stretching for a thousand miles, even those with the highest martial arts skills will be vulnerable to increasingly advanced high-tech killing weapons."
Yang Xiao said, "But people with high martial arts skills still have a far higher survival rate than ordinary people."
Li Qianfan nodded, "Yes. Especially in forest combat, one's martial arts skill directly correlates with survival rate."
The trees in the forest blocked out the sky, greatly limiting the lethality of high-tech weapons.
But it allowed those with high martial arts skills to exert their strength to the fullest.
This was also one of the reasons why Rhode and others only searched and hunted King and the others outside the forest, not inside.
Because they knew very well that if they were dragged into a jungle battle, their advantage would be completely gone!
"Grandmother."
Li Qianfan suddenly understood, "The good thing you want to give me is something that can increase my combat prowess in the shortest possible time, right?"
"Yes."
Yang Xiao nodded.
"I knew it, you still love me the most."
Li Qianfan became excited, "Grandmother, where is that good thing? Hurry and show it to me."
Yang Xiao then asked, "Qianfan, do you know why, during the most critical period of your foundational training before the age of eight, no matter how hard you tried, you couldn't meet Li Wujiang's requirements?"
Li Qianfan answered without thinking, "I don't have the talent for martial arts!"
"Wrong."
Yang Xiao shook her head, "It's not that you didn't try hard, nor is it that you don't have the talent for martial arts. It's because from the moment you were born, you carried a speed limiter within you."
Speed limiter—
As the name suggests, it's a system that restricts speed.
When a car is equipped with a speed limiter, even if the accelerator is pressed to the floor, its speed can only be maintained at a certain critical point and cannot break through.
Speed is the key to how fast a car can go.
For a master—
All martial arts are invincible with speed!
As long as speed reaches a certain level, even the most powerful enemy's attacks will appear slow in your eyes, allowing you to see through their flaws and vital points at a glance, delivering a fatal blow.
Similarly.
If your speed is fast enough, when you attack an enemy, they will have no time to mount an effective defense before being hit.
Li Xiao's hands.
Li Wujiang's feet.
They had already pushed speed to the limits unimaginable for humans!
Therefore, they were invincible in close-quarters combat.
But their son, Li Qianfan, could not even match one-fifth of their punching speed.
Considered trash—
"I have a speed limiter on me?"
Li Qianfan was full of disbelief, and instinctively lowered his head to search for the speed limiter.
"Silly child."
Yang Xiao chuckled and walked over to sit beside him, hugging him as she had done more than ten years ago, patting his back gently, "I mean the speed limiter you carry within you is the original 209 virus you inherited from Li Wujiang in your genes."
Li Qianfan had already known that he carried the original 209 virus in his genes.
But he didn't know that this was his speed limiter!
"More than ten years ago, I started searching for the reason why you couldn't do your best no matter how hard you tried."
Yang Xiao said, "And I found the reason, which is that your own original virus became the speed limiter that prevented your speed from improving. I hoped to break through the original virus with various medicinal herbs. This is why I had you soak in medicinal water every night."
Li Qianfan suddenly understood.
At that time, he only thought that his grandmother was forging his immunity to all poisons.
But he didn't know that as long as he could activate the original virus in his genes, no poison could cause him any harm.
The 209 virus that came from an unknown source—
It was the most advanced and most terrifying virus on this planet!
No poison, including poisonous gas, could cause any harm to a host carrying the 209 virus.
Of course.
The prerequisite was that the 209 carried by the host was the original one.
Or, to put it simply, the only people in the world carrying the original 209 virus were Li Wujiang and her only son, Li Qianfan!
"The original 209 you carry within you cannot be activated by medicine."
Yang Xiao gently patted her beloved grandson's back and said in a low voice, "To activate the original 209, you must be with a woman who can merge with the ordinary 209 virus and become husband and wife."
Li Qianfan was stunned.
Then he looked up at the bedroom door.
He finally knew what the "good thing" his grandmother had prepared for him was.
Dai Pai Pai!
"Once your original 209 is activated, your lifespan will be at most one year."
Yang Xiao's expression dimmed, and she said, "You should know this."
"Yes, I know."
Li Qianfan nodded, "And after reaching the peak of speed, I will rapidly age within two to three months. Because I am the host of the original virus, it cannot bring me to the human peak. It will only drain all my energy and cause me to die of rapid aging."
"Qianfan."
Yang Xiao held his hand, "If you have a 60% chance of surviving the Black Water Forest, then don't activate the original virus."
Did Li Qianfan have a 60% chance of surviving the Black Water Forest?
No.
He only had a maximum of 30% chance!
"If you don't reach 60%, then go and activate the original virus. It can allow you to quickly become a top master within 24 hours."
Yang Xiao's voice was extremely solemn, "Once the original virus is activated, the energy it releases cannot be explained by modern science. But it is your biggest and last guarantee of survival! Even if you only have one year to live."
Li Qianfan remained silent and picked up a cigarette.
"Actually, what you are considering now is not how much lifespan you have left."
Yang Xiao said slowly, "But whether you want to unravel the conspiracy set up by the Rhode family in conjunction with the Dark Web in the Black Forest. Whether you want to stop more people from rushing there to shed their blood, knowing it's a death trap."
"Yes!"
Li Qianfan took a deep drag of his cigarette and said fiercely, "As long as I can prevent more brothers and sisters from going to their deaths, and rescue King and the others, and break the trap set by the Rhode family. My own life and death really doesn't matter."
"Then go."
Yang Xiao said softly, "She is waiting for you."
With a swish,
Li Qianfan stood up and quickly walked to the bedroom door.
As he was about to open the door—
He turned back, "Grandmother."
Yang Xiao also stood up, "You speak."
Li Qianfan said in a low voice, "After I leave, please take good care of Ziyu for me."
Yang Xiao said nothing.
Instead, she adjusted her clothes and formally bowed to her grandson.
This was Xuanyuan King's most solemn promise to Li Qianfan!