Ren Xiaosu had often heard people mention Ren He. Lee Young-yoon, Qin Sheng, Zhang Qingxi, and the others had mentioned him before. Yang Xiaojin had also mentioned him, but no one had ever seen the Knight's spiritual leader with their own eyes.
When the Knight mentioned him, there would always be a look of longing in his eyes.
And when others mentioned him, most of them would be filled with admiration.
It was as if he was a legendary figure who only existed in legends and did not exist in reality.
Now that the people from the Sanctuary suddenly said they actually had a photo of Ren He, Ren Xiaosu felt that the photo seemed to have suddenly brought the legend and reality together.
Then it forcefully pulled the legendary figure into its own world.
Even outsiders felt that the photo looked almost identical. Ren Xiaosu realized he finally had no way of avoiding it.
Of course, he had never avoided talking about his past. Instead, it was his identity as an Experimental that might be associated with him, as well as the dark times in his past.
What had happened in the past 200 years since The Cataclysm?
Perhaps the answer was finally going to be revealed.
Back in Winston City, Chen Jingshu had painstakingly arranged for Ren Xiaosu to meet Zhang Haoyun.
At that time, Ren Xiaosu was a little puzzled. Couldn't he just get Chen Jingshu to pass on the message? Why go through so much trouble?
Now it seemed that the Templar had only arranged this meeting because they wanted Zhang Haoyun to observe Ren Xiaosu up close.
"I was wondering why y 'all dared to bring me to your lair. So it's because of my face." Ren Xiaosu said, "Where's that photo? Can I have a look at it?"
The man shook his head and said, "Not for the time being. It's not that we don't want to show it to you, but the photo and some other information are hidden in an even more secretive place. We won't be able to get them anytime soon. But you don't have to worry. We've already confirmed your relationship with the Templar, so we won't continue to treat you as an outsider. Let me introduce myself again. My name is Xu Anqing. "
As they spoke, Ren Xiaosu noticed that the way Chen Jingshu looked at Xu Anqing was a little unique. He wondered if the two of them had a more special relationship.
Ren Xiaosu said, "I only have one question. When Ren He snatched the black Eye of Truth from Russell, what was it used for? I saw in the Sorcerer's Journal that Russell said in the letter that Ren He wanted to use the Eye of Truth to save his child. What happened to his child?"
Xu Anqing continued to speak to Ren Xiaosu, "Anan and Chen Cheng's father has already brought some people back to Ghent City, but they have other things to do now, so they can't come and see you for the time being. Stay underground for a few days. He will come and tell you more important information. "
"Understood. Anan's father is the current leader of the Sanctuary?" Ren Xiaosu confirmed.
"Yes," Xu Anqing replied, "but regarding the secret of Ren He stealing the Eye of Truth, perhaps Summer Russell can tell you."
Just then, there were some arguing sounds coming from the corner of the tunnel ahead. It seemed like someone was pushing Mego and saying, "Can you not be so close to Miss Summer?"
Mego roared angrily, "And who are you? Get lost! "
Ren Xiaosu was stunned when he heard this. Speaking of which, it was the first time he had seen Mego so angry. It seemed like the power of love was enough to inspire courage in a person's heart …
"We can talk about other things later. I'll go and see what's going on first," Ren Xiaosu said to Xu Anqing.
The next moment, he passed through the dim tunnel and arrived beside Mego. He saw that the tunnel had instantly lit up after it turned a corner, and there were burning torches hanging on the walls on both sides.
"What's wrong?" Ren Xiaosu asked Mego.
Mego said pitifully, "They won't let me go!"
Ren Xiaosu turned around and saw about ten young people in wizard robes gathered in the tunnel. They all had a simple silver wizard hat emblem on their chests.
The emblem of the Berkley family was a lion, and the emblem of the Tudor family was a turquoise. Ren Xiaosu had never heard of a wizard hat emblem representing any family.
Off to the side, Xu Anqing noticed Ren Xiaosu looking at him. He explained, "The Witch Hat is a new organization formed by up-and-coming witches. Just like what Russell did back then, they're committed to overthrowing the old aristocrats and establishing a new order. They're also building a witch school to break down the barriers between the aristocratic families."
Ren Xiaosu looked at those people and saw that the dozen or so young people came in all shapes and sizes. There were both men and women among them, but a young girl with blonde hair and blue eyes stood out from the rest. Her gaze was fixed on Mego and she seemed to be concerned about him.
However, the concerned look disappeared in a flash. The girl said to Mego, "Mego, I'm already someone else's fiancée. You should go back."
Hearing this, Mego was a little dispirited. "Xia, I … I came here to look for you."
"I know," Xia replied calmly. "Recently, everyone in Ghent has been talking about your return. How could I not know about it? But if you come back so ostentatiously, not only will you get yourself killed, but you will also drag me down. "
Mego's eyes slowly turned red. "Alright, then I'll go. But you must take care of yourself. Although I don't know what you want to do, you've always been assertive since you were young. I just hope that you'll be fine. I can do whatever I want … What are you doing?! "
Mego glared at Ren Xiaosu.
Before he could finish, Ren Xiaosu stepped on his foot and interrupted him.
Ren Xiaosu was surprised. "Doesn't your foot hurt?"
"Ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch …" Only then did Mego react. Then, he hugged his foot and leaned against the wall of the tunnel, wailing. He only felt that his foot was burning. It was very likely that his bone had broken!
Ren Xiaosu looked at Xia Russo and the group of young people and said, "Since you've heard about Mego going north, then you should know how powerful he is now. No matter what you plan to do, it's a good thing to have him stay and help."
Actually, Ren Xiaosu guessed that this Miss Xia just didn't want Mego to be involved in the conflict, so she coldly chased Mego away.
After all, the concerned look just now couldn't be faked. If she really wanted to draw a line, there would be no need for Chen Jingshu to go so far to give him money, right?
However, Ren Xiaosu hadn't figured out the situation yet, so he didn't want to casually say anything. In any case, he would help Mego stay first, lest this naive girl cried and thought that she had fallen out of love.
Speaking of which, he really worried a lot about the Northwest.
At this moment, a young man closest to Xia Russo suddenly said, "Of course we've heard about Mego, but wasn't it because of Chen Jingshu and Anan that he could successfully reach Ghent City? We all know what level he's at. You don't really think he's that powerful, do you? "
Ren Xiaosu was stunned. So, everyone still didn't believe that Mego was that powerful.
Of course, these people weren't wrong. Mego was indeed a little weak …
Actually, Mego's strength was very transparent. Everyone knew that he had only become a wizard two years ago. Even if Russo was reborn, he probably wouldn't be able to achieve anything in such a short time.
Therefore, when these people who knew the inside story heard the news, their first reaction was that Chen Jingshu and Anan were very powerful, not that Mego was very powerful …
After all, Anan and Chen Cheng had become wizards at the age of six, not to mention Chen Jingshu. No matter how they looked at it, she was more reliable than Mego.
Someone said to Chen Jingshu and Anan, "Everyone, it's been hard on you all this way. I heard that you killed many people from the Tudor family. That's really satisfying. Now that even the Great Wizard Kyle is dead, the Tudor family's power has been greatly weakened. This has also increased the success rate of our operation."
The group of young people became excited, as if all of them had a grudge against the Tudor family.
However, Chen Jingshu and Anan's expressions were as strange as one could imagine.
They knew very well that the reason they could come to Ghent City was completely because of this monster, Ren Xiaosu, who was helping Mego. It had nothing to do with them at all.
Chen Jingshu looked at Ren Xiaosu, but she found that Ren Xiaosu was smiling and didn't refute anything, so she didn't come out to explain.
If he didn't explain himself, then he must have other plans.
Qian Weining, who was behind Ren Xiaosu, took a step forward and wanted to say something, but he was stopped by Ren Xiaosu.
"It looks like all of you are elites of the younger generation of sorcerers, so why don't you understand the simplest logic?" Ren Xiaosu said with a smile, "If y 'all wish to overthrow the order of the Sorcerer Nation, then you'll have to unite all your forces. How can you push people away?"
The young wizard next to Xia frowned and said, "Xia obviously doesn't want anything to do with Mego anymore. Why are you still pestering him? Isn't it better to be a little wizard at the frontier? Why risk your life in Ghent City? Also, who are you? "
The young man was quite friendly when he called Miss Xia. Ren Xiaosu thought to himself, Could he be Comrade Mego's love rival? That Miss Xia was indeed a natural beauty, so it was indeed expected that Comrade Mego would have one or two love rivals …
These people saw Qian Weining and the others following closely behind Ren Xiaosu, so they thought he was someone with status, so they were quite polite when they spoke to him.
Ren Xiaosu explained, "I'm Mr. Mego's follower. Who are you?"
"Oh, you're Mego's follower." The young man suddenly laughed. When he heard that the person was just a follower, he relaxed a lot. "My name is Tit Norman."
Ren Xiaosu suddenly asked, "Tit Norman … Hey, what's your middle name?"
Tit Norman's face suddenly lost its smile. "I don't have a middle name yet …"
In the wizard organization, whether one had a middle name or not meant whether one had become a grand wizard or not.
Under normal circumstances, no one would suddenly bring up someone's middle name. It was like hitting someone without hitting their face.
However, Ren Xiaosu felt that if one did not hit their face first, what was the point of hitting someone?
Wizard Tit frowned and said, "You're just a follower. How can you call a wizard by his name? This is disrespectful to wizards. "
Ren Xiaosu laughed. "Then what should I call you?"
Wizard Tit said coldly, "You're a follower, and I'm a wizard. Calling someone by their name is disrespectful, and calling me elder makes me sound old. What do you think you should call me?"
Ren Xiaosu went silent for a while and said tentatively, "Dog?"
Wizard Tit: "???"
Mego, who was originally feeling wronged and feeling sorry for himself, suddenly laughed out loud. Even Qian Weining and the others laughed.
At this moment, Little Mego thought to himself that Ren Xiaosu was really nice to him. He was willing to stand up for him at this critical moment.
Wizard Tit took out the Eye of Truth from his belt, as if he wanted to threaten Ren Xiaosu.
However, Little Summer said to the young Wizard Tit, "Tit, why did we overthrow the rule of the old nobles and establish a wizard school? Isn't it because we want to give normal people a chance? In the future wizard kingdom, everyone is equal. How can you still have such a dirty concept of hierarchy? "
After hearing this, Wizard Tit quickly explained, "No, Summer, it was a slip of the tongue!"
Miss Summer's tone softened. "I know it's hard for you to change your mind in such a short time, but don't do it again, okay?"
Ren Xiaosu was amused. He whispered to Xiaomei, who was next to him, "Your childhood sweetheart, Miss Xiaoxia, has quite a high EQ. She suddenly spoke up to divert those people's attention and help me out. After that, she immediately softened her tone to avoid a huge internal conflict. She's a person who can do big things. She's better than you. "
"If you didn't say those last three words, our friendship could be stronger." Mego gritted his teeth. "What do you think I should do now? Leave?"
"Leave?" Ren Xiaosu laughed. "Of course not."
The light of the torches on the walls of the tunnel swayed. The atmosphere seemed to be a little tense. The young wizards and the Burning Knight led by Ren Xiaosu seemed to be at daggers drawn.
In the end, it was Xu Anqing who broke the silence. "This is not the place to talk. Let's go into the Gate of Secret Keys."
As he spoke, he called everyone to continue walking deeper into the tunnel and stopped in front of a graffiti.
There was an eastern dragon painted on the wall. However, the style of the painting was not as subtle as the ones in the Middle Earth. Instead, it was more flamboyant and colorful.
The man took out the red Eye of Truth from his waist and rotated it on the dragon's eyes. The dragon seemed to have come to life and started swimming on the wall.
There was a soft sound of gears in the tunnel, and he walked straight to one of the walls. Before entering, Xu Anqing turned around and said to Ren Xiaosu and Mego, "Welcome to the underground world."
The wall rippled. After Xu Anqing walked in, no one could see anything wrong with it.
When Ren Xiaosu saw this, he wanted to ask the people in the Sanctuary. The Gate of Secret Keys was very suitable for his brothers in the intelligence system. A safe house created with this method would be very safe. Moreover, the other forces in the Middle Earth had never come into contact with such a thing.
Everyone entered in a line. What many people did not notice was that Miss Xia was slowly falling behind everyone.
Mego was about to barge into the Gate of Secret Keys when he was pulled back by Ren Xiaosu. He did not know whether to laugh or cry. He said in a low voice, "The lady is falling behind. She obviously wants to talk to you. Why are you in a hurry to go in?"
Xiao Mei looked at Xia, who was looking at him silently.
Li Chenggong and Liu Ting, the two sheep people, looked around. It was their first time seeing the Gate of Secret Keys, so they did not dare to enter.
However, when everyone else had entered the Gate of Secret Keys, the two of them were still hesitant to be the third wheel outside.
Ren Xiaosu angrily slapped the back of their heads, then grabbed the two sheep people by their collars and threw them into the Gate of Secret Keys.
Mego looked at Ren Xiaosu with a touched gaze. He thought to himself, 'This good friend of mine really knows what I'm thinking. He's deliberately creating a chance for me and Xia to be alone.'
At this moment, Ren Xiaosu looked at Mego and said, "You go in first."
"Huh?" Mego was stunned.
"What's there to 'huh' about?" Ren Xiaosu said to Mego, "Let me talk to Miss Xia alone."
Mego suddenly felt a little dizzy. Why was this a little different from what he had imagined?!
What happened to the promised chance for him and Xia to be alone? Why did it turn into Ren Xiaosu and Xia being alone now?
"Forget it, you can stay here lest you misunderstand." After Ren Xiaosu said that, he turned to Xia Russell and asked, "Did your ancestors pass down any information about Ren He?"
"I know you're going to ask this." Xia said calmly, "Actually, I knew it the moment I saw your face."
"This face saves me a lot of trouble." Ren Xiaosu touched his face. "Do I really look like her?"
"Yes, very much." Xia said, "What do you want to ask?"
Mego looked at Xia, then at Ren Xiaosu. He could not understand how his sweetheart's family was actually related to Ren Xiaosu?
However, he could only listen quietly now. Right now, Ren Xiaosu was most concerned about his parentage. Everything else was not too important.
Ren Xiaosu said to Xia, "Why did Ren He take away the Eye of Truth?"
"In order to save his child," Xiao Xia replied, "His child contracted a disease called cancer and needed treatment."
This answer matched up with many of the things Ren Xiaosu was thinking about.
The Pyro Company's Laboratory 39 was conducting anti-cancer research, and the appearance of the Experimentals was because a new species had appeared after the cancer cells reached a balance.
The ruler of the Experimentals, Black Robe, was already dead. However, Black Robe once said that a completely cured human had appeared in Laboratory 39 before. He was a powerful and perfect Homo Evolutis, Experimental 001.
This Experimental 001 was completely different from those gray-faced monsters. He had a perfect nucleus of the opposite sex.
Black Robe said that if this Experimental 001 was mixed in with humans, he would definitely be very powerful.
At that time, Ren Xiaosu still thought this Experimental 001 might be Yan Liuyuan.
But now, Ren Xiaosu suddenly felt he might be that Experimental 001 instead.
"But what does the Eye of Truth have to do with cancer?" Ren Xiaosu asked.
In his opinion, the treatment of cancer depended on science. But now, it seemed like it was heading toward metaphysics.
Xia said, "According to the ancestors, Ren He's son had actually cured his illness. But after he was cured, an even more difficult situation occurred."
"What situation?" Ren Xiaosu was taken aback. "Is there anything more troublesome than cancer?"
"I only know one thing about this." Xia answered, "The other party said that if the sick child's illness is not controlled, he might disappear from the world and exist in another form. Therefore, that knight needed the black Eye of Truth, because the Eye of Truth can help humans gather their spiritual will. "
This sentence hit Ren Xiaosu right in the head. Condensing one's willpower, dissipating from the world, and existing in another form. These words finally connected all the truths he had previously known together.
Qing Zhen had once speculated that cancer cells might not be a disease, but an extreme evolutionary process. It was just that humans could not withstand the energy extracted during the evolutionary process.
If one day, someone could control the mutation of the cell nucleus of cancer cells and had a body strong enough to withstand the evolutionary process, then there might be the first true God in the world.
Li Shentan had once said that the path he took was actually to develop his brain. When a person's brain development reached 70%, he was only one step away from becoming a God.
As for what would happen after becoming a God, no one knew.
He might turn into a beam of light, or he might turn into a World Tree. No one could say for sure.
However, there was a high probability that he would lose his human state, lose his emotions, and turn into a unique will in the world, the will of the world.
Then, according to this theory, Ren He's son had become a true God after he was cured of cancer.
After he was cured, his brain continued to develop. In the end, when his brain development exceeded the critical threshold, he would become the will of the world and the true ruler.
If all of this hypothesis was true, then Ren He's purpose in taking away the Eye of Truth might be to help her son recondense the will that had dispersed, so that her son could retain his "human" state and emotions.
Back in the Jing Mountains, Ren Xiaosu had thanked the palace seven times in the face of the Experimentals. But before that, he had asked the palace if there was really no other way. The palace had asked in return, "Should we open the seal?"
At that time, Ren Xiaosu had asked what would happen if the seal was opened.
The palace had answered, "We will lose everything."
This "everything" probably included his body and his emotions.
When his memories retraced to this point, Ren Xiaosu felt that he was only one step away from the truth.
He asked the palace in his mind, "Is my guess … correct?"
"Mission clue collection not complete. Unauthorized to inform."
Ren Xiaosu was stunned. Why was the palace giving such an off-topic answer?
No, that wasn't right. The palace would never go off-topic.
So when the last clue was collected, the mission's reward was the truth about his past!
At this moment, Ren Xiaosu was a little curious. If he really was that so-called No. 001 Experimental, how did he manage to survive cancer? Were all the cells in his body the legendary nuclei of the opposite sex?
Moreover, if he was the No. 001 Experimental, how could he explain Yan Liuyuan's origins?
Suddenly, Little Xia interrupted Ren Xiaosu's thoughts and said, "Your ancestor left something for you. It's in Ghent."
Ren Xiaosu asked curiously, "Who left it for me?"
"Your ancestor, that Knight," Little Xia answered.
Little Xia did not know how complicated Ren Xiaosu's past was. She only felt that no one in this world could live for more than 200 years, so she subconsciously assumed that Ren Xiaosu was a descendant of Ren He who was separated by several generations.
Ren Xiaosu wondered, "Why would something he left for me end up in your hands? We're thousands of miles away from China. "
"Because the Cataclysm was imminent, that Knight of China was not confident he could survive it." Little Xia said, "He had his responsibilities, and he foresaw that he might have to sacrifice his life for his responsibilities."
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