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The rain outside the window gradually weakened, and the cool breeze came in through the open window. Min Rou's face was as gloomy as the sky.

"My grandfather's surname is He, and his given name is Wei. I have two uncles and four cousins. They are on the island... Maybe not, I don't know." Min Rou spoke slowly, and it was a bit difficult for her to say this. But it was not because she was worried that Su Liang would go to the island to harm people, but because she had a hunch that her uncles and cousins, whom she didn't like very much, might not be good people.

"Where is that island?" Su Liang asked this most critical question again.

Min Rou frowned and thought, "On the sea... This is nonsense. We landed from Nanshan City in Gan Country, but I don't know how to describe the route from the island to Nanshan City."

Su Liang could understand. Sailing on the sea, without some professional knowledge and high attention, it is difficult to even tell the direction.

"But I have seen the sailing chart in the hands of the grandfather who sent us ashore." Min Rou sighed after she finished speaking. This is one of the most secret things on that island, and outsiders cannot know it.

In fact, if Gu Ling interrogated Min Rui, even if Min Rui was willing to explain, he could not tell the location of the island. Because he was captured that year, this time was the first time he left after more than 20 years, and he was lying in the cabin sick and listening to the sound of the waves the whole time, and rarely saw the outside.

Mrs. Min He Qianqian was able to walk freely on the ship, but even so, she could not provide a usable route.

Among the three, only Min Rou, because she had a good relationship with the old man who sent them off the island, often went to him to chat, and took advantage of his short absence to accidentally see the sailing route map. She was purely curious at the time and wanted to know the direction of the destination, so she looked at it a few more times. Fearing that the old man would be unhappy, she returned to her original state before he came back and pretended that she had not noticed the parchment scroll at all.

Min Rou did not think at this moment that in fact, one of the reasons why their family of three was allowed to leave the island and return to the Min family was that there was no one to lead them. They could not go back after leaving, and it was impossible to accurately reveal the location of the island to outsiders.

Su Liang was overjoyed. Although she asked several times, Min Rou refused to say, but did not say that she did not know, but she still felt that Min Rou might not be able to tell the specific location of the island. But unexpectedly, she actually knew it.

Su Liang immediately took out the four treasures of the study and asked Min Rou to draw the route map she knew.

Min Rou sat down, and Su Liang saw that she was still frowning and thinking, so he left quietly.

After going downstairs, Su Liang saw that the three children were lying on the carpet and sleeping, and they were covered with a thin blanket by Lao Mu. Gu Xiaonuan was in the middle, Zhenger and Ji Xiaoshu were on both sides, all facing Gu Xiaonuan. Ji Xiaoshu still had a smile on his face, and I don’t know what funny things he dreamed about.

Old Mu was sitting cross-legged beside him with his eyes closed. When he heard the noise, he opened his eyes and looked at Su Liang, and asked softly, "How is it?"

Su Liang nodded and walked over, "There are gains. She is willing to confess."

Old Mu snorted, "That's good enough, otherwise we can only use force."

After Su Liang looked at the child, she went to make a pot of tea and came back. When she took the tea upstairs to the study, Min Rou had just put down her pen.

"Have a cup of tea." Su Liang put the teapot on the table, and did not pour tea for Min Rou. Instead, he took the picture she had just drawn, sat next to her, and examined it carefully.

Min Rou stood up and poured two cups of hot tea, one in front of Su Liang and one in her hand.

The teacup was a little hot, but she felt cold from the inside out at the moment, and she really needed such temperature.

After reading it, Su Liang asked Min Rou, "How many days did you walk?"

Min Rou replied, "We set out early in the morning, and after nine nights, we arrived outside Nanshan City in the early morning." Because she thought sailing was boring, she kept counting the days.

"Tell me what shape and features these islands along the way are." Su Liang placed the map between the two of them. The map was still a little blurry, and more details were needed to ensure that the route would not be wrong.

Min Rou recalled and told Su Liang what the islands she saw along the way looked like.

Su Liang picked up a pen and marked on the map.

"Your handwriting is really beautiful." Min Rou said.

Su Liang coughed lightly, "This is not the point. Don't be distracted, think about it again, is there anything else missing?"

Min Rou felt a little embarrassed for some reason, but after thinking about it seriously, she really couldn't remember anything else about the itinerary at sea.

"Okay." Su Liang put the route map with added details aside, took another piece of white paper, wrote He Wei's name on it, marked two sons and four grandsons below, and wrote Min Rou's family of three.

At the other end of the paper, he wrote the names of Yue Mei and Yuan Ying.

"With my sister, there is also one of my masters, an old man." Su Liang described Lao Bai's appearance and figure to Min Rou.

Min Rou shook her head, "I really have never seen this senior. I only met those two once. My grandfather took them to the island at that time and didn't let me ask more questions."

Su Liang's heart sank. Lao Bai wasn't with Yuan Ying? Then where was he? Or was he killed by Yue Mei?

No, it wouldn't be...Su Liang knew that Lao Bai was special to Yue Mei and couldn't kill him easily. Maybe they just didn't take Lao Bai to the island and trapped him somewhere else.

"Is there a young man with them?" Su Liang asked.

Min Rou thought for a while and nodded, "There was a young man, tall and thin, but he kept holding her hand."

Min Rou pointed to Yuan Ying's name on the paper.

Su Liang thought, that must be Yuan Ying's brother Yuan Ye. It seems that Yue Mei took Yuan Ying and her brother to the island.

"My sister, how does she look?" Su Liang asked.

Min Rou replied, "The old woman raised her head calmly, but your sister looked very cold and haggard. She was half a step behind her. The young man who was holding her lowered his head and muttered something. I don't know what he was saying. Sorry, I didn't know anything at the time and didn't think too much."

Now that I think about it, there is obviously something wrong with the three people. But if Su Liang hadn't said that Yuan Ying was captured, Min Rou would not have thought of this for no reason.

Su Liang shook her head, "Don't be sorry, it has nothing to do with you." Then she briefly talked about her relationship with Yuan Ying and Yuan Ye, as well as the relationship between Yue Mei and Lao Bai.

Min Rou then understood why Yuan Ying was the sister in Su Liang's mouth. The story between them was very tortuous and interesting. Although Su Liang spoke in a flat tone, Min Rou still felt it was magical. This is a true story that you can't make up out of thin air.

"Who is the island owner?" Su Liang asked the core question. The owner of the island should be her "fellow countryman", the root of everything.

Hearing this, Min Rou's eyes fell on the airplane model that Su Liang took out, which basically confirmed Su Liang's guess.

"The island owner... He is a very powerful person." Min Rou seemed to have no idea where to start. After pausing for a while, she spoke again, "His name is Mo Yan, and he is about the same age as my grandfather. I call him Grandpa Mo. I have seen something like this in his yard, but it is much bigger than yours."

Finally, Su Liang and Gu Ling's guesses were confirmed, and the previous weird things were all connected at once.

There really is a time traveler who has been living in seclusion on an island on the sea for many years, and now he has come out to make trouble.

"What can he do?" Su Liang asked.

Min Rou answered, "I think Grandpa Mo knows everything and is omnipotent."

Su Liang asked, "Does he know medical skills?"

Min Rou was stunned for a moment and shook her head, "Probably not, otherwise he would have treated my father. Then I take back what Grandpa Mo said about being omnipotent."

Su Liang nodded. She felt that the real omnipotent one was her family's god.

"My grandfather said that Grandpa Mo's martial arts were very high and no one could match him... but that's not necessarily true. Maybe Marquis Changxin is more powerful than Grandpa Mo in martial arts. I don't know about that." Min Rou has quickly learned to look at her former home and everyone in it objectively.

After Su Liang wrote Mo Yan's name in the center of the paper, he drew a circle and wrote two smaller words "martial arts" next to it and drew a circle.

Min Rou continued, "Grandpa Mo can make a lot of strange things." After taking a look at the model on the table, she shook her head, "Maybe it's because I grew up on an island and haven't seen the world, I thought those things were his own creations, the only ones in the world, and no one else understands them. That's what my grandpa said. But now it seems that you can do it too."

Su Liang drew an empty circle, and the word "travel" should have been written inside, but it couldn't be written.

"Besides this, what else has he done?" Su Liang asked.

Min Rou thought for a while and said, "There are many strange little gadgets, and I don't know what they are called. By the way, Grandpa Mo wrote a beautiful book of poems, which I have read before, and he can also play very beautiful songs."

Su Liang was not surprised, she could do those too, but when it comes to playing songs, it has to be Gu Ling. She wanted to collect information to determine what Mo Yan's occupation was before he traveled through time, but she really couldn't be sure.

Then, Su Liang asked another very important question, "Is there anything special about your Grandpa Mo that makes you think he is not an ordinary person?"

Min Rou nodded, "He is indeed not an ordinary person, but what do you want to ask about?"

"It has nothing to do with martial arts or poetry and playing the piano. There are many people who can do these. Is there anything that only he can do? And it is a bit mysterious, the kind that you can't understand?" Su Liang wanted to confirm whether Mo Yan really has a portable space.

Min Rou was stunned, "How did you know?"

This means that he really has it, but Min Rou thought it was a top secret, and Su Liang, who was far away from him, had no way of knowing it.

Su Liang shook his head, "I can't explain this to you for now. Tell me first, is there such a thing? If so, what is it?"

"There is one thing that I can never understand." Min Rou subconsciously lowered her voice, "Grandpa Mo can make things disappear. Just, disappear in an instant. I accidentally saw it from a distance. Grandpa Mo was holding a piece of wood in his hand. The wood was quite large and could never be hidden on his body. Then it suddenly disappeared! Do you think I saw it wrong or imagined it? I also thought it was dazzled at the time. Later, I suspected that the incident never happened and I dreamed about it. It was not until a long time later that I saw the same thing again. Grandpa Mo didn't notice that I was peeking, but my grandfather found out. My grandfather sternly warned me not to tell anyone what I saw."

Min Rou's logic now is that her grandfather is not a good person, so he doesn't have to listen to his words...

Moreover, what happened today made Min Rou begin to doubt Mo Yan's nature. Her grandfather is the most trusted confidant of Mo Yan. Mo Yan has no children. Her grandfather's status on the island is second only to him and above all others. Therefore, Min Rou has a high status on the island. Mo Yan likes her very much and treats her like a granddaughter. This is the main reason why she can get in touch with some secrets.

At this moment, Min Rou is thinking that what her grandfather and other death warriors did must have been instructed by Mo Yan.

What Min Rou couldn't accept the most was the dead soldiers. Because she once thought that those grandfathers with great martial arts skills were good friends and brothers with her grandfather and the island owner Mo Yan, but now the facts have proved that she was too naive.

The secret she accidentally discovered made her always think that Mo Yan was either a god or a half-god, a master who transcended the world, but she didn't expect that he would now start to get involved in the disputes in the world, and his methods were not fair at all.

In other words, the grandfather Mo, whom she once admired and respected, has "collapsed".

Instead, it was the couple Gu Ling and Su Liang who made Min Rou see how the truly upright and honest strong people act. Even if they just met today.

"How big was the second thing that disappeared?" Su Liang asked.

Min Rou was a little surprised at Su Liang's focus, "It was a lot of big boxes, I don't know what's in them. Put them together, it must be as big as this room."

Su Liang looked around and sighed. When she was sure that Mo Yan had space, she knew that her previous guess was correct. The food and grass given by Yan Country were transported to Liang Country by Mo Yan using his personal space. His space must be very large to be able to hold it.

Min Rou saw Su Liang write two words "space" on the paper again, and she asked, "Do you have such ability? If Grandpa Mo is an immortal, you and Gu Hou are from the same place as him, right?" The evidence was the similar airplane model and Su Liang had some accurate guesses and understanding of Mo Yan before.

Su Liang shook his head very seriously, "We don't have such ability."

Su Liang is a time traveler, but he has no superpowers and no space. Gu Ling, a local, is born with superpowers.

It is also because the two people confirmed that they were both "different" when they met that there was a "cooperation" later.

Now their enemy Mo Yan has an unknown purpose, but the personal space makes Su Liang very afraid. If Mo Yan put a lot of explosives in his space, it is not impossible to raze the entire country to the ground...

"Does Mo Yan have any children or grandchildren?" Su Liang asked.

Min Rou shook her head, "No. In my memory, he has always been alone. I remember seeing a portrait in his study when I was a child. The portrait was of a woman with special clothes, bare arms and legs, wearing a big hat, and only a little chin was exposed. I asked him who the person in the painting was, and he said it was his lover. I asked where the person was, and he said it was far away."

He was undoubtedly a time traveler. He had a lover before he traveled through time and could not forget him, so he did not get married and have children here. This is Su Liang's current inference.

Just now, she thought of Shen Qingxue, who was suspected to be related to her life experience. She might have been sold to the people on the island by Yue Mei. But who Shen Qingxue followed, and whether Su Liang looked like her by coincidence, is still uncertain.

"Tell me about other people and things on the island. Say whatever you think of." Su Liang said.

Min Rou told Su Liang everything she knew, including how many people there were on the island, who they were, and the terrain and houses on the island.

Su Liang's paper was soon filled with the information he had collected, and he changed to another piece of paper and wrote most of it. Min Rou said that was about it, and she couldn't remember the rest for the time being. If she remembered anything else, she would tell Su Liang.

"Very good, thank you." Su Liang looked at the two pieces of paper and the sailing route map, and felt that the current problem had made significant progress. He wanted to share it with Gu Ling immediately and discuss and analyze it carefully, but unfortunately Gu Ling was not at home.

Min Rou had said a lot and felt a little dry in the mouth. After drinking the cold tea, she looked at Su Liang and said, "I've told you everything I know. Can you tell me about you and Gu Hou?"

Su Liang raised his eyebrows, "Are you just curious, or is it for something else?"

"It's curiosity, and there's another reason." Min Rou smiled bitterly, "I don't think I know enough about you. I think if I know more, it might make it easier for me to believe that what I'm doing is right. In fact, I should have asked you first, but I don't know why. Today should have been the turning point for me to decide not to trust anyone easily, but I was still convinced by you."

Su Liang smiled slightly, "It makes sense. I can tell you what you want to know."

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