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Chapter 315 Stone Embryo, Teacher Duanmu
"what happened?"

"……fine."

"Okay, let's hurry inside. We need to leave before dawn, otherwise we'll be delayed for another day."

Fortunately, the one left outside to keep watch in the end wasn't the one with the strongest intuition.

After the three people disappeared into the crevice between the rocks, Li Chengxiao breathed a sigh of relief, glanced around, and then walked away.

He spent more than half an hour circling around, climbing directly from the side and rear to the top of that rock.

After glancing at the people below who were still focused on keeping watch, he found a relatively flat rock to sit down and prepare to rest for a while.

With the back of his head resting against a slanted rock, before he could even catch his breath, Li Chengxiao glanced at the sky directly above him and his gaze became fixed.

My breathing stopped too.

The astrological chart that Jiang Hanying showed him in the video before...

They waited for nearly two hours, and then the sky began to lighten with the first hint of dawn. Finally, there was movement below again.

Li Chengxiao propped himself up on his knee and looked down, and saw the three people who had gone into the rocky interior earlier struggling to squeeze out of the cracks in the rock one by one.

He initially thought the three people had gone inside to retrieve something, but when he saw that they came out empty-handed and had nowhere to put anything, he realized he had guessed wrong.

"How about it?"

"everything is normal."

"That's good. When you come back next time, it will be time for delivery."

"Yes, we've finally waited for this. All this hard work has been worth it."

"Alright, it's getting late. Let's hurry down the mountain. I don't want to run into the Que family."

"Let's go, let's go, I want to have another meal of steamed buns sold in the town down the mountain before going back."

The four people walked towards the direction of the human-faced tree as they talked.

The person at the back couldn't help but look back at the direction of the rocks after walking about twenty meters, then frowned and looked away.

Li Chengxiao waited patiently for another half hour, making sure that the group had gone far away, before brushing away the small water droplets that had condensed on his shoulders and head. He then went back down the same way and stopped in front of a crack in the rocks.

As the sky gradually brightens, the once-bright stars in the sky slowly disappear.

Without the cover of night, the chances of being discovered if they continued to pursue them had increased considerably. In addition, one of them had a keen intuition, so after much consideration, he decided to give up the idea of ​​continuing the pursuit.

The advantage is that the crack became clearer as the sky brightened.

Compared to the identities of those four people, he admitted that he was more curious about what was inside the crack.

Moreover, based on the conversation between those four people, it's clear that they will definitely return to this place again.

From a distance, he had assumed the crack was caused by rock action.

Only after a close inspection was it confirmed that the crack was caused by lightning.

Just like when lightning strikes a tree, it usually splits the tree in two.

Now the object struck by lightning is a harder rock, which wasn't split in two, but only a large crack was created.

However, what did those people mean by childbirth?
Looking at the narrow crack in front of him, barely wide enough for him to squeeze through sideways, Li Chengxiao pursed his lips and stepped inside.

Go inside and you'll see.

There was no light inside the crack, but luckily his phone still had power, so he turned on the flashlight and illuminated the irregular, winding passage ahead.

The further you go in, the more humid the air becomes. Tiny water droplets gradually cover the stone walls on both sides and overhead, and the stones under your feet become slippery, requiring extreme caution when walking. Before long, even your breath seems to be filled with moisture.

Logically speaking, even if the inside of the rocks is damp, it should be cold and damp, but the further he moved in, the warmer it felt.

Later, when the moisture reached a certain density, it even formed fog under the increasingly higher temperature.

Walking through it, one might even have the illusion of being immersed in hot spring water.

Even with a flashlight, visibility was reduced to less than two meters.

Is there a hot spring inside?

But he couldn't smell the sulfurous odor characteristic of hot springs from the steam. After moving around in the winding, narrow passage for a while, the space in front of him suddenly opened up.

Finally able to face forward directly from the side, Li Chengxiao couldn't help but let out a soft sigh of relief, raising his hand to wave away the mist blocking his way.

Just as I was about to take another step forward, "thump!"

The sudden sound echoing through the space made him abruptly stop in his tracks.

Before he could figure out where the sound was coming from, there was another one.

"Boom!"

The voice was slow and deep, yet remarkably powerful.

When the sound rang out, the entire space seemed to resonate with it.

Including him, who is standing right here!
When the third "thump" sound rang out, Li Chengxiao finally stood in front of the source of the sound.

Under the light of a phone flashlight, what was clearly a rock had taken on the outline of a baby curled up in the womb, and even human features were faintly emerging.

"Stone embryo..."

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After autumn arrives, it gets light later.

Jiang Hanying was fast asleep, sprawled out on her back, clutching her blanket. She turned over when she heard a knock on the door, and then turned back over when she heard the door open.

When Pei Yuan's footsteps stopped at the master bedroom door and she was about to knock again, she lifted the covers and sat up. "Don't knock, I'm awake."

Pei Yuan immediately put her hand down. "Sister, you go wash up first, and I'll check the luggage I need to bring."

When Jiang Hanying finished washing up and changed into the clothes Pei Yuan had chosen for her, she saw that not only Pei Yuan was in the living room, but Guan Shan was also sitting on the sofa.

Guan Shan put down his phone and looked up at Jiang Hanying's face. Seeing that she looked pretty good, he said, "Good morning!"

Jiang Hanying greeted him with a "Good morning" and was about to sit down on the sofa opposite him.

Guan Shan stood up: "Don't sit down, go change your shoes and get ready to leave."

Jiang Hanying: "..."

Do you want to be in such a hurry?
The car was already waiting downstairs.

After the three got into the car, they headed straight for the airport.

Jiang Hanying didn't get to eat breakfast until she entered the VIP room.

They had barely taken a couple of bites when three more people entered the VIP room.

A young girl in a pink suit was helping an elderly woman in a dark cheongsam walk ahead of her.

Despite being described as an elderly woman, with a head of completely white hair and obvious fine lines on her face, she didn't look old at all.

The moment you see her, it's easy to think of the saying: Time never defeats a beauty.

Even the radiant face of the girl next to him paled in comparison.

The man walking behind the old man and the young man had an unremarkable square face that would be easily lost in a crowd, and he was wearing a Zhongshan suit and had a lean build.

However, as soon as this person entered, Jiang Han's gaze swept past the old man and the young man in front of him and landed on him.

This bodyguard has seen blood, and quite a lot of it!
The other person was quite perceptive; the moment she looked over, the other person looked back at her.

Of course, it was also because she didn't try to hide her gaze at all.

Their eyes met, and Jiang Hanying casually looked away as a tissue was handed to her.

It fell onto Guan Shan's face along with the tissue.

"what?"

"Stop eating, wipe your mouth, and come with me to say hello to Teacher Duanmu."

"Duanmu..." Upon hearing this surname and glancing at the old lady already seated in the corner, Jiang Hanying recalled the cast list she still remembered. The Empress Dowager's name seemed to be Duanmu Rongrong.

She's used to seeing two- or three-character names, but four-character names are rare, so she remembers them the best!

"You didn't rush to take me out just because of this Teacher Duanmu, did you?"