When Shen Feng left the clinic, Lu Kaiwen began to size up the furnishings inside, only to discover two children, one large and one small, on a bed. He didn't recognize the smaller child, but the older one looked so much like the young master from the City Lord's mansion!
Lu Kaiwen's rank wasn't high, and he shouldn't have known things that only the upper echelons of Yuzhou were privy to. However, his teacher, Niu Baiye, knew quite a bit. Through his teacher's revelations, Lu Kaiwen had also heard about the disappearance of the two young masters. Moreover, he heard that a few days prior, Deputy City Lord Chang Jianyi had personally visited the laboratory to discuss something in detail with his teacher.
Now, looking at the two children in the clinic, Lu Kaiwen found them increasingly familiar. The sizes of these children also perfectly matched the two infants who had gone missing from Fengshen Palace – one was six months old, and the other was almost two years old. This was too much of a coincidence!
"Could it be that I've run into the scoundrel who stole the two young masters?" Lu Kaiwen thought to himself.
Upon thinking of this, Lu Kaiwen immediately became vigilant. He reached into his pocket for his mobile phone, which could quickly contact people in the city.
However, at that very moment, Shen Feng rushed into the clinic, washed a milk bottle, filled it with soy milk, and handed it to Xiao Hu. Xiao Hu was truly hungry and began to suckle on the bottle, his crying stopping. However, the high fever on his forehead had not yet subsided.
Afterward, Shen Feng fed Xiao Long a small steamed bun. Xiao Long had already grown his baby teeth and spoke indistinctly. Upon seeing the bun, he grabbed it tightly and said, "Daddy eat, ba ba, eat..."
"You eat, you eat!" Shen Feng sat by the bed, holding Xiao Long. Now that both children were awake, he finally breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed the two little ones were not in serious trouble. However, he still felt furious thinking about how those scoundrels had fed the infant flower pollen.
Lu Kaiwen had intended to quickly contact people in the city to report the matter, but now, looking closely at the person before him, their voice and build were too similar to someone he knew, and he hesitated.
Xiao Hu drank the soy milk from the bottle continuously. The soy milk wasn't too hot, so it wouldn't scald him. Xiao Long, meanwhile, was nibbling on the steamed bun in small bites and wanted more. Shen Feng quickly handed him another steamed bun, looking at the two children with affection.
After much thought, Lu Kaiwen finally made up his mind and decided to test the other person: "Brother, from where do you hail?"
"From Chuan Province!" Shen Feng, thinking the man was asking about his hometown, casually replied.
However, Lu Kaiwen continued to ask, "What is your name? How old are you? And where are you currently residing?"
"Do you want me to recite my ID number? Are you checking my household registration?" Shen Feng said displeasantly. By now, Shen Feng could tell that the other person was trying to guess his true identity.
"Uh, brother, I'm not checking your household registration. I'm just curious and want to get acquainted. You remind me of someone I know!" Lu Kaiwen dared not acknowledge him rashly, as he might be mistaken.
Shen Feng stopped playing coy and said directly, "Last year, I, along with a few others, captured an evil dragon in the Yangtze River. We finally slew it in the mountains. After resting for a night, we went our separate ways! Do you understand?"
"I understand, I understand, you are the City Lord..." As soon as Lu Kaiwen heard this, he didn't need Shen Feng to remind him further and was about to reveal the truth.
But at this moment, Shen Feng coughed forcefully and said, "The Buddha says: It cannot be spoken!"
"I get it, I get it. I won't say anything, and I don't know anything!" Lu Kaiwen replied with a smile. Upon hearing what Shen Feng had said, he immediately understood who the person before him was. He must be Shen Feng, the City Lord of Yuzhou.
When the group had killed the crocodiles in Dongting Lake, Lu Kaiwen had been nearby. He was an eyewitness, so after hearing Shen Feng recount the events on the Yangtze River, he immediately knew the other person's identity. After all, Ke Yiming had died overseas, Zheng Xiqing was still in the Dabie Mountains, and the other Old Zhang was likely in the Three Gorges, and his build didn't match the person before him. Therefore, there was only one possibility for the person before him.
Gu Yanxiao saw that the two seemed to be speaking in riddles and couldn't help but ask, "What are you two talking about? Do you know each other?"
"Yes, yes, I'll introduce you later. We have a life-and-death friendship!" Lu Kaiwen said with a smile.
Shen Feng placed Xiao Long on the bed, grabbed Lu Kaiwen, and walked aside. He then asked, "When did you find a girlfriend? Why did you let her live outside the city? Isn't it better to have her live in the city with you?"
Shen Feng could tell that Gu Yanxiao was likely Lu Kaiwen's girlfriend, otherwise, why would Lu Kaiwen come to visit her?
However, as soon as Shen Feng said this, he immediately provoked a strong reaction from Lu Kaiwen: "Don't talk nonsense. She's not my girlfriend. She... she's Ke Yiming's wife!"
Upon hearing this news, Shen Feng was immediately skeptical. He looked at the serious Lu Kaiwen and asked, "You're really inconsiderate. Ke Yiming fought alongside us, and now that he's dead at sea, you're snatching his wife. You... you're truly a scumbag!"
At this moment, a scene flashed through Shen Feng's mind: Lu Kaiwen, smitten by her beauty, had secretly brought Ke Yiming's wife to Yuzhou but dared not announce it. Therefore, he arranged for her to live outside the city. Now, everything connected – it was all the work of this scoundrel Lu Kaiwen.
"That's not true! Listen to my explanation!" Lu Kaiwen quickly grabbed Shen Feng's hand and pulled him aside, whispering the whole story: "Actually, Gu Yanxiao married Ke Yiming because her family supported it. After all, having a son-in-law who was an ability user was something to be proud of. But Ke Yiming went out to sea with you and died there, didn't he? So, her family forced her to remarry, and her intended was also an ability user!"
Hearing this, Shen Feng nodded. It seemed the matter was much clearer now, but it was a pity for a woman from a prominent family who didn't even have the freedom to choose her husband and had to obey her parents' arrangements.
Lu Kaiwen continued, "Do you think I'm poaching her? She fled from the Three Gorges in a hurry and escaped all the way to Yuzhou, finding a way to contact me and ask for help. I thought, since we're friends, I can't just watch her be captured by her family. So, I arranged for her to stay here. Normally, she sees patients, and as long as she keeps a low profile, no one will find her!"
"Oh, I understand. You're just helping out, right?" Shen Feng nodded.
Shen Feng turned his head and saw that Gu Yanxiao was still wiping Xiao Hu with alcohol for physical cooling. Giving him an injection was out of the question for now, as he had inhaled hypnotic pollen earlier, and it was unclear if there were any special substances in Xiao Hu's body. Gu Yanxiao was also very gentle while taking care of the children.
Seeing this scene, Shen Feng continued to ask, "You said before that Ke Yiming fell for a honey trap. Now it seems that's not the case! If it were truly a honey trap, why didn't she go back? Why is she hiding instead?"
"Uh, maybe I was mistaken!" Lu Kaiwen scratched his head awkwardly. A year ago, he had indeed said that. The main reason was that after Ke Yiming met Gu Yanxiao, they quickly got married – a whirlwind romance, in short, a flash marriage. Lu Kaiwen didn't believe their relationship was genuine and thought Ke Yiming must have fallen for a honey trap.
However, things had turned out completely differently than Lu Kaiwen expected. Gu Yanxiao was willing to hide in a dangerous place like Yuzhou rather than return. If it were truly a honey trap, she should have looked for her next target after discovering the plan had failed. This showed that Gu Yanxiao was not that kind of person.
And now that Lu Kaiwen saw Shen Feng had returned, he felt immensely relieved. He believed that in this situation, the City Lord could definitely resolve it. Those scoundrels from the Dragon Bureau would surely be driven out by the City Lord.
Just then, a person walked in, saying as they walked, "Doctor, please bandage my wound. Huh, Brother Feng?"
The person who entered wore a mask and loose clothing, covering his left side near the ribs as he walked. The person was Yue Hengyi. He had done a simple bandaging himself, but since he wasn't medically trained, he didn't know the proper bandaging techniques. After asking around, he came to this small clinic outside Yuzhou City.
"You're injured? What happened? Are the enemies that strong?" Shen Feng looked at Yue Hengyi, who had just walked in, with surprise. There weren't many enemies in the southern district, yet Yue Hengyi seemed to be injured.
Yue Hengyi sat on a chair and shook his head, "Don't even mention it. I was shot in the back. Some guy can use invisibility. He placed your brother-in-law in the middle of the street, and I thought it was safe to approach. I didn't expect this kid to be hiding in the shadows and quietly shoot me!"
As he spoke, Yue Hengyi casually placed a cloth bag on the ground. The bag was round and had a bloody smell emanating from it. It was obvious that this was a human head.
"Don't just leave that there. Put it in a plastic bag and seal it tightly!" Shen Feng reminded Yue Hengyi. After all, there was a woman in the clinic. If she saw this, she would likely be terrified on the spot.
Yue Hengyi pointed to the hot weather outside and said, "In this weather, can you just wrap it up casually? If you put it in a plastic bag and seal it, it'll start to smell in a day!"
Gu Yanxiao had lulled Xiao Hu to sleep. Xiao Long toddled over to Shen Feng, and Shen Feng quickly picked him up. Then, Gu Yanxiao began to bandage Yue Hengyi's wound. Although Yue Hengyi had wrapped gauze around himself several times, Gu Yanxiao was not satisfied. She cut off all the gauze, cleaned the wound, disinfected it, and then bandaged it.
While bandaging, she said, "You're not ordinary people, are you? I see you have aThrough-and-through wound, and it was caused by a pistol bullet. If it were a rifle bullet, there would be a large hole on the spot. However, your recovery ability is too strong. The wound on your body is already slowly healing. Don't engage in strenuous activity for the next four to five days, and you'll recover. If it had hit your liver or kidneys, you would have died on the spot!"
Gu Yanxiao also felt that the person before her was extraordinary. Although he was lucky that the bullet didn't hit his internal organs, his recovery ability was too strong, and the time of injury was very short. Yet, at the wound site, the bleeding had already stopped automatically, and even without bandaging, it would heal quickly.
After the bandaging was finished, Yue Hengyi couldn't help but ask, "What's next? We need to make plans, right?"
As he spoke, Yue Hengyi pointed to the sleeping infant on the bed and the restless Xiao Long in Shen Feng's arms. His meaning was clear: they couldn't take the children into battle. Even evolved humans couldn't intervene in battles between ability users, let alone the two children.
Shen Feng also sobered up from the joy of rescuing the children. After a moment of thought, he knew he couldn't take the children into battle. He could only entrust the children to someone else's care temporarily. For tomorrow's wedding, he had to make arrangements.
"Lu Kaiwen, you take care of the two children here. If the situation turns bad, retreat. I'll come to pick them up in a few days, and I'll give you a small reward!" Shen Feng said directly to Lu Kaiwen.
Lu Kaiwen couldn't refuse and could only nod in agreement. Shen Feng and Yue Hengyi stayed in the clinic for another two hours before leaving quickly. Gu Yanxiao vaguely sensed that something was wrong but couldn't pinpoint what it was.