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Chapter 314 Memory Seal, Encountering a Human-Faced Tree in the Mountains

"Found it, here you go!"

Jiang Hanying took the paper from Pei Yuan, waved to her, turned around and went back to the master bedroom. She unfolded the paper with one hand and laid it flat on the bed. After sitting cross-legged, she clicked the camera to flip the screen and said, "Coming!"

Li Chengxiao stared intently, and the first thing he saw was a pair of hyperactive toes at the bottom of the lens, before he noticed the pattern in the center of the lens.

He remained silent for quite some time after that.

When Jiang Hanying heard that things had quieted down on his end, she didn't urge him on.

Keep holding your phone still.

As time slowly passed, she was so bored she was about to pick her toes when she finally saw the person who seemed to be stuck in the small window move.

"Where did you get this pattern?"

“It was provided by a victim in the case we investigated before,” Jiang Hanying replied, then eagerly asked, “So, what do you think? Does this pattern look familiar?”

Li Chengxiao looked up at the Milky Way in the sky again. The mountain he was on was not low in altitude, and it was autumn now. Even at night, the sky was still clear and the stars were so clear that they seemed to be within reach.

"This looks like... an astrological chart?"

Jiang Hanying immediately punched the bed with one hand.

He pressed on, asking, "Anything else? Anything else?"

“It should only be a part, not the whole thing.” A rare look of confusion appeared in Li Chengxiao’s eyes. “This pattern does feel somewhat familiar to me, but I can’t remember when I saw it before.”

Jiang Hanying was both happy and a little disappointed upon hearing this.

Kaixin believes that the cheap master's memories have not completely disappeared; she now suspects they have been sealed away.

Disappointment was that the pattern failed to break the seal; it only instinctively felt familiar.

The key issue is that she has absolutely no idea how her cheap master's memories were sealed, or by whom.

Without knowing these two points, even if she wanted to solve it, she wouldn't know how.

Just as I was fretting over this, I heard my cheap master's voice again.

"And what about you? Why did you think of showing this to me?"

Taking advantage of the fact that the camera hadn't turned back yet, Jiang Hanying rolled her eyes at the person on the screen without any attempt to hide it.

Why else?
Of course, it's to see if this can help someone regain their memories.

That way, she can finally settle her score for being abandoned back then!

Why is she even bothering to interrogate someone who has lost all their memories? It's pointless!
As for how to explain it now?

Jiang Hanying: "Oh, my phone's about to die, I'll hang up now, I'm going to sleep, I have to get up early tomorrow!"

If you want to know, come and catch her!

And she's flying out of Beijing by plane tomorrow.

Even if they come over, they won't be able to catch them, hehe!
Li Chengxiao: "..."

Watching the screen snap away so quickly, he sighed softly and was about to put his phone back in his pocket.

Another video came in.

He answered the call instinctively, and Li Jingmo's face immediately appeared on the screen.

"What's with that look? Are you disappointed that I was the one who hit you?"

Li Chengxiao: "...No."

"Did you get through when I called you? Were you video chatting with Hanying?"

"Ah."

Li Jingmo breathed a sigh of relief; his assist had worked perfectly this time.

It was worth it when he saw that Jiang Hanying's show had ended and specifically reminded the silly guy on the other side.

At least they knew to make a video call to check on me.

"Why didn't you chat for long?" "She said she had to get up early tomorrow and went to sleep first."

Although he strongly suspected this was an excuse to avoid his questions.

But it's not bad to use it to appease his brother now.

"They're probably exhausted. Hanying and the others have been working very hard these past few days investigating the Sacred Heart Welfare Home case. The show is over now, but the case still hasn't been solved."

"How to say?"

"Didn't you two talk about this when you were video chatting? It's just..."

Li Chengxiao glanced at the camp that had suddenly become active not far ahead, then stood up and interrupted Li Jingmo's long speech, "I have something to do here, I'll hang up now."

After saying that, she followed Jiang Hanying's example and decisively hung up the video call.
Li Jingmo: "..."

Midday on the moon.

The moonlight draped the dense forest in the mountains in a silvery veil, and also shone on the group of people who were stealthily walking through the mountains.

Li Chengxiao, with a somewhat solemn expression, lagged far behind them, deliberately choosing to walk in the shadowy corners where the moonlight couldn't reach.

The others ahead were very vigilant. Even though he was being careful, he was almost discovered several times, but luckily he was quick enough to hide.

However, this also proves that these are all extraordinary and powerful figures.

He's all alone now, so he can't be too careful.

Actually, there is a safer option: to abandon this tracking.

But this option only flashed through his mind for a moment before he dismissed it.

This mountain is an unknown wild mountain with steep terrain that is not conducive to development. Apart from a few adventurous hikers who occasionally come to challenge themselves by climbing, even locals living nearby rarely come here to climb and exercise.

The fact that these people appeared here so late at night, and they didn't seem like adventurous hikers, suggests they might have some ulterior motive.

If he hadn't discovered these people's whereabouts in the first place, that would have been fine, but now that he had, he wanted to figure out what they were up to!
We traveled along, stopping and starting, and time passed by quietly.

Although he couldn't hear what the people were saying from a distance, after following them for so long, Li Chengxiao could tell that they seemed to be looking for something, or somewhere.

He stopped abruptly as he passed a somewhat familiar mountain hollow.

His gaze fell on a century-old tree growing at an angle, no more than three meters away from him.

From his angle, the shape of the tree canopy under the moonlight resembled a giant human face, complete with ears and facial features.

It's actually a bit scary when you look at it at night.

Li Chengxiao stared at it for a moment, his initial shock subsiding. He then turned his head to look in the opposite direction, following the direction the person's eyes were facing.

The group of people had stopped in front of a rock that was about five or six meters high and exposed.

After hesitating for a moment, I quietly approached.

His intuition told him that this was the destination those people were heading to.

The closer he got, the slower he walked, until he could faintly hear the voices of those people before he stopped.

"One person keeps watch outside, while three go in."

"There's no need to leave anyone outside, is there? Who would come to this remote mountain in the middle of the night?"

"We still need to be on the safe side. I have a bad feeling about this today; I've had a vague sense of unease since we set off."

As soon as he said that, the other three people exchanged glances and immediately gave in.

"Never mind then, let's leave one person outside."

Upon hearing this, Li Chengxiao couldn't help but glance at the person who had said they had a feeling of unease.

In less than a second, the other person suddenly turned their head and looked in his direction.

He swiftly dodged behind a tree, and Li Chengxiao even held his breath, immediately activating his stealth skill to its highest level.

What a strong intuition!