Chapter 78

"Xiao Nian, can you live alone?" Ning Chen looked at her.

This little girl.

Yet she was the one he had once protected with his life...

"I can live with my older sister from now on!" Zhang Xiaonian said.

Ning Chen shook his head. "No, your sister does not love you."

Zhang Xiaonian did not expect Ning Chen to say such a thing; she glared at him, bit her lower lip, and fell silent in a huff.

In fact, deep in the little girl's heart, she knew Ning Chen was speaking the truth.

Although she was a child, her experiences had made her more mature than other children her age.

Her eyes suddenly turned red; she lowered her head and wiped them with the back of her hand.

"If my guess is correct, that sister of yours will abandon you again in just a few days."

Zhang Xiaonian lifted her red eyes and looked at Ning Chen.

Ning Chen raised his hand and gently patted her small head.

"I will be leaving. In the future, if you truly encounter a problem you cannot solve, send a message to that number of yours, or make a call; either is fine."

"That number of my father's?" the little girl asked. "Big brother, do you know where my father has gone?"

Ning Chen looked ahead. "He will never come looking for you again."

The little girl said nothing, lowered her head again, and wiped her eyes with the back of her hand.

"After your sister abandons you again, you can return to the orphanage." Ning Chen looked ahead. "This is your fate, and it is also the only path that can completely free you from the past."

"I will set aside a sum of money for you and entrust it to the orphanage to cover your living expenses."

"I need to go do some things next. Perhaps one day I will return to find you; if you are willing then, I will take you away."

"But before that, you must remember to take good care of yourself."

The little girl stared at Ning Chen.

For some reason, this big brother was saying these inexplicable things.

But she understood them all.

And for some reason.

At this very moment, the person before her.

In her heart, a sense of authority unexpectedly arose; perhaps it was the unquestionable tone in his voice, and the sincerity he conveyed.

Perhaps it was because, in Zhang Xiaonian's seven years of life, this was the first time someone had engaged her in an equal conversation, not treating her as a child...

She looked at Ning Chen, and Ning Chen turned his face toward her.

He noticed she was looking at him, her eyes flashing with a vibrant light full of life.

Ning Chen raised his hand and gently stroked her small head.

"You must take good care of yourself from now on. You must remember that your life was exchanged by an angel using her own life."

The little girl, Zhang Xiaonian, felt that the rigid tone this person had used before.

At the moment he spoke these words, was, unexpectedly, so gentle.

"By the way, remember what happened tonight; only you and I know. Keep it secret, okay?"

Zhang Xiaonian was confused, but she nodded hard. "I remember, big brother!"

60. But Ning Chen would never know.

Ning Chen returned to the motorhome.

In his mind.

The system's navigation began.

【Detected: Host has started the next travel check-in task: First Shenhu, Namtso】

【Navigation has been generated for you】

In his mind, a navigation map appeared.

Ning Chen checked the route.

The journey: 2230 kilometers.

A long journey.

However, it can begin.

He had already obtained what he wanted here.

A Burmese man named "Luo San".

Three branches distributed across Dali, Fangcheng Port, and the Ten Thousand Mountains.

The Golden Triangle of Southeast Asia.

The targets were sufficient.

The rest was to find them and do what he needed to do.

As for how to find them.

With no other resources at hand.

His only path was the reward after checking in.

The clue fragments within it.

The previous two check-ins successfully pieced together the photo of that "Luo San".

But Luo San's appearance.

And where he was currently located.

Without the help of the clue fragments, Ning Chen himself could not accomplish this.

So, for now, continue onward.

Namtso.

That was the place Si Shiya had once wanted to go to take wedding photos.

A place Ning Chen had never heard of before that.

Si Shiya had proposed it before, and Ning Chen had always mispronounced those three characters of the name.

After knowing she had left this world.

Those three characters were completely imprinted in Ning Chen's mind.

Nine o'clock at night.

The RV drove out of Donghai City.

At the Donghai City Police Bureau.

The police returned empty-handed.

They were also utterly puzzled.

They had already been able to confirm.

Their previous deduction was wrong.

They had made a mountain out of a molehill.

The matter was far less complicated than they had thought.

Ning Chen had really returned just to take one look at the little girl Si Shiya had saved back then.

However, out of caution.

The police still found Hearing He He.

Hearing He He was brought to the police station and questioned about some matters.

It was only at this time that Hearing He He learned.

Li Feng was not that person's real name.

His real name was Ning Chen.

Two years ago, his police girlfriend had been shot and died while saving Hearing He He's half-sister.

In the police station.

Hearing He He's mouth hung wide open.

Her eyes were also red.

Until this very moment.

She finally remembered.