We looked at the old man in front of us nervously, not knowing why he left us alone.
From the start, I felt that I couldn't see through this old man's thoughts. No matter if it was his shocking words of 'matchmaking' me and Lin Xue, or his unreasonable protection of an outsider who had appeared out of nowhere and whose name I had never heard before, it was all unreasonable.
"It's all thanks to you stopping her." Lin Fan leisurely sipped his tea as he said to me. "I can tell that this princess only listens to you. If it wasn't for you, I'm afraid that this old man would have turned into a block of ice by now …"
"… You knew?"
I immediately asked in surprise. Perhaps this calm old man had already noticed the drop in temperature, but he could also think of what might have happened afterwards. This was definitely not something that a normal person could imagine. A normal person would just treat it as an anomaly in the weather, only a special group of people who could sense the flow of energy would understand what had happened.
"Of course I knew, otherwise why would I let the ordinary people, Zheng Feng and the others, leave? I'm guessing that arm strength and cold air should be this princess's superpower, right? I was also shocked at the start, a princess of a country is actually the leader of a superpower organization … "
"Grandpa, you …"
Lin Xue finally couldn't sit still anymore. The ordinary old man who usually didn't care about the affairs of the world and passed his time by boxing and walking his bird was actually so knowledgeable about the existence of superpowers. He even knew about Sandora's identity as the so-called leader of a superpower organization — it was really hard to accept.
This kind of development was as if the perverted uncle selling spicy soup on the street that you passed by every day suddenly transformed into Ultraman to save the world in front of you.
Wait … Leader of a superpower organization? This saying seemed to be used to deal with Ding Ling back in the Sahara Desert, right?
We thought of this at the same time and looked at Ding Ling inquisitively, but the latter showed the same puzzled expression as us.
"Haha, I didn't think that Xiao Xue, who is so good at observation, couldn't see through her own grandpa's identity …" Lin Xue laughed heartily. Then, we saw that the seemingly ordinary old man suddenly changed.
He became taller, and his skin gradually turned pale. The greyish-white hair on his head also completely turned silver-white. From his figure, one could no longer see the old man's original shadow.
As Lin Yangtian 'transformed', Lin Xue and Ding Ling's eyes were filled with shock. When Lin Yangtian finally took out a black mask and put it on his face, they could not help but exclaim, "Old man?"
Lin Yangtian's helpless voice came from behind the black mask. He sounded annoyed, "How many years have you two little girls been calling me that? Can't you change it?"
"What's going on?" We were all confused. We couldn't understand this miraculous old man.
"Leader of the Arcana Organization, what do you think is going on?" Lin Xue rolled her eyes at us. Then, she turned to Lin Yangtian. "Geezer … Grandpa, can you explain?"
Lin Yangtian took off the mask that was filled with all kinds of points of ridicule and laughed. He said, "Well, it's a long story … Ah, beard … beard …"
We watched as Lin Xue skillfully plucked a bunch of beard from Lin Yangtian's chin. We were really impressed by this powerful grandfather-granddaughter pair.
The development of the plot was really dramatic. None of us could have imagined that Lin Xue's grandfather, Lin Yangtian, who was supposed to be a big businessman, was actually the leader of the Arcana Organization. What was even more surprising was that Lin Xue had been in the organization for such a long time, but she had never realized that she was working for her grandfather. If it weren't for us, Lin Yangtian's real identity would have been kept a secret.
"Really, why didn't you tell me about such a big thing? I'm your granddaughter …"
After the commotion, Lin Xue said angrily.
"I was worried that you wouldn't be able to accept it … After all, it wasn't my intention to let you join the Arcana Organization. If it wasn't for the big picture and that your superpower was too rare, I really didn't want you to get involved in such dangerous things. So, I hope that you can at least live a normal life …" Lin Yangtian said.
Even if he was the leader of a powerful Arcana Organization, he was just an old man who cared about his granddaughter … Lin Yangtian's figure became much bigger in my heart.
"Plus, Xiao Xue, don't you think this is interesting? Haha …"
Collapsed, old man, your figure has completely collapsed!
Now I finally understood why Lin Yangtian did what he did. As the leader of the Arcana Organization, he definitely knew about the existence of our independent organization from Ding Ling. He also knew about the identity we told Ding Ling, the leader of a Arcana Organization. With that, considering Liu Zicai's personality, it was easy to explain why I was close with Lin Xue. No matter whether grandpa's guess was true or not, at the very least, he wouldn't believe the rumors about me and Lin Xue. He was just messing with us from the start.
"But I wasn't joking just now." As if he saw through my thoughts, grandpa Lin immediately put on a serious expression and said seriously, "If the two of you are really interested, it's not impossible for you to be together. None of you are normal people, so you should open up your thoughts. The two of you are really suitable. Both of you are Arcanists and have a bright future. Young man, you became the leader of an organization at such a young age, so you're really suitable to be Xiao Xue's husband! As for the other two girls — — This Miss Shallow Shallow and the princess over there, I think … Eh, beard beard … "
"What are you thinking about?!" Lin Xue angrily sat back in her seat while holding onto her beard.
Old man, are you sure you weren't sent here by some evil author to mess with me? Just one Lin Xue alone is enough to give me a headache!!!
"Alright, alright, let's stop joking around." Lin Yangtian rubbed his chin. He seemed to realize that he would lose his last bit of beard if he continued to make a fuss. Thus, he decided to get down to business. "The reason why I met with the two of you this time, and even used this identity in front of Xiao Xue and Lingling, is because I have something important to discuss — — as the leaders of the two organizations."
Hearing that they were going to get down to business, we couldn't help but become serious. No matter how disrespectful he was just now, Lin Yangtian was still the leader of the Arcanist Group. He wouldn't speak carelessly at a time like this.
Perhaps the only one who couldn't be serious was Sandora, who had an impatient expression and kept stabbing me in the back. The only thing that this chick cared about was today's lunch.
But in the next moment, Lin Yangtian's words attracted her attention as well.
"I found out from Lingling that you guys are the same as us, searching for the black crystal. Furthermore, you guys have quite a bit of information regarding the crystal."
"So, you want the information that we have?" Qian Qian immediately thought of the greatest possibility. This was also the thing that the other party was most likely concerned about. However, even though these psionic crystals that had already exhausted their energy were completely useless to us, it would be unrealistic for us to tell the other party about this energy source that was more than a dozen levels beyond the current technology of mankind.
"No, to us, even though the research information regarding the crystals is important, it isn't the most important. What we want to know is, do you guys know the source of the crystals?"
"Source?" Sandora and I exchanged glances. "Weren't these crystals excavated from some ancient ruins? Could it be that there are still mines that produce these strange crystals on Earth? "
Lin Yangtian looked at me in silence as though he was trying to see through my true thoughts. In the end, he sighed and said, "It seems like our only hope has disappeared. Even you guys don't know the origin of these crystals …"
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