After being universally criticized online, I went viral on military-themed variety shows.

Chapter 324 Mystery easily attracts investigation; the suddenly delivered photograph of the stone embryo.

Jiang Hanying had just arrived at the hotel with the snacks she had packed when Guan Shan knocked on the door and came in.

As soon as I entered the house, I saw a table full of snacks. Jiang Hanying was holding a red willow mutton skewer in her hand, and her mouth was covered with chili powder. Her eyes twitched involuntarily.

"Didn't you have dinner with Duanmu Long?"

"Yes."

“Those things on the table…”

"It's a late-night snack."

"Where did you have dinner? Were you still hungry?"

“It’s…” Jiang Hanying thought for a while but couldn’t remember the name of the shop. She turned to Pei Yuan, who was silently cutting fruit in the kitchen, and asked, “What’s the name of that shop again?”

Pei Yuan: "Eat until you are seven-tenths full."

Jiang Hanying: "Yes."

Guan Shan searched for the restaurant's name on his phone and immediately saw a lot of posts.

The reviews are mostly positive, with only a few negative ones complaining that the restaurant is too small and you have to wait for a table every time you go.

But this doesn't change the fact that it's just a cheap, roadside restaurant.

"You took Duanmu Long to eat at a place like this?"

“Yes, Pei Yuan spent the whole afternoon looking for this place before deciding on it. It’s really cheap and delicious. We walked from the hotel and waited outside for half an hour before we could get a seat. Unfortunately, the restaurant lives up to its name; I didn’t get full, so I bought these to bring back and eat.”

Guan Shan: "..."

Walk over there!
We waited for another half hour!

Everything in front of my eyes went dark.

Pei Yuan brought over a plate of freshly cut fruit. Seeing Guan Shan's speechless expression, she pursed her lips and pretended not to see it.

When she learned that Miss Duanmu was also going to have dinner with them, she secretly asked if they should go to a more upscale restaurant, but Sister Hanying directly rejected the idea and suggested that they find a good restaurant in the afternoon.

But let's not talk about these things.

Guan Shan barely managed to process this established fact before asking, "What if I'm done eating?"

"We parted ways after eating. She went back to her place, and I went back to the hotel. I'm not a three-year-old anymore. There's no need to escort her to her doorstep, is there?"

Guan Shan: Let's forget about having this guy in front of me take the initiative to befriend Duanmu Long!

You'd be lucky if you didn't completely offend someone!
*
A quiet villa located near the film studio.

Duanmu Long went inside and changed his shoes. He glanced at his short boots, which had accumulated several stains and dust overnight, and simply threw them into the trash can to avoid seeing them.

Although these boots were her recent favorite, they were now dirty, and she certainly wouldn't wear them a second time; keeping them was just an eyesore.

"Taki?" Duanmu Rongrong was doing hand care on the living room sofa when she heard the noise from the door and called out.

Duanmu Long responded and walked over, "Grandma."

"Why are you back so early?" Duanmu Rongrong asked, looking up at him. When she saw Duanmu Long's somewhat annoyed expression, she asked, "What's wrong? Didn't you like the food?"

"The food was alright, but I'm a bit too full."

"You're stuffed? That's rare!"

"They ate everything, and I felt bad leaving any, so I ate it all."

"What do you want to eat?"

Duanmu Long paused for a moment, then recited a few simple and unadorned names of the dishes.

Duanmu Rongrong: "..."

He paused for a moment before asking, "Where did you go this time...?"

"The place Jiang Hanying's assistant found was just a small roadside restaurant. We waited outside for quite a while. A meal that cost less than a hundred yuan ruined a pair of boots."

After Duanmu Long finished speaking with a frown, he rubbed his stomach, which was still a little indigestion. "Just this once, I'm afraid to eat with Jiang Hanying again. She even wanted to take me out for a late-night snack, so I quickly made an excuse to come back."

Duanmu Rongrong coughed lightly.

This was the first time she'd seen this kid get the short end of the stick! "It seems your lifestyles are quite different. Hanying is more easygoing and down-to-earth, while you've been more particular since childhood and can't let go of your inhibitions all at once. Since there's such a big difference, do you still plan to continue being friends with her?"

Duanmu Long thought about it for a long time this time.

Seeing this, Duanmu Rongrong did not urge her, but waited quietly for her to make up her mind.

"Grandma, I always feel that Jiang Hanying is different from all the friends and playmates I've known before."

have to.

This is because my curiosity got the better of me.

Perhaps there's still a bit of resentment.

"Alright, stop thinking about it. Be careful not to get stuck on it. Let Xiaoru make you a bowl of digestive soup. Drink it and go to sleep."

Duanmu Long obediently got up, "Grandma, you should go to sleep early too."

Duanmu Rongrong watched her return to her room, then shook her head with a helpless smile, "This child."

The nurse was gently massaging her fingers when she heard the sound. She looked up and carefully said, "It's rare for Miss to be so interested in someone."

“Jiang Hanying,” Duanmu Rongrong murmured the name, ignoring the nurse’s words, she looked out the window with a distant gaze, her voice growing even softer, “That is indeed a mysterious child.”

The more mysterious something is, the more people want to explore it.

Human nature!

*
After seeing Guan Shan off, Jiang Hanying told Pei Yuan to go back to her room to rest, and then quickly washed up and went to bed herself.

She was half asleep when she was woken up by the noise from the next room where someone was checking in. She opened one eye, reached for her phone, and checked the time; it was only 11 p.m.

Just as I was about to close my phone and cover my head to go back to sleep, my finger accidentally tapped on a picture message at the bottom of the screen that I couldn't see clearly.

Once I saw what the picture was of, all my sleepiness vanished instantly.

Without thinking, I immediately sent a video call.

However, this time I waited for quite a while but still couldn't get through.

She had no choice but to edit another message and send it: "Where did you take a picture of this?"

After waiting for a while without receiving a reply, she simply clicked on the picture, zoomed in, and looked at it carefully again.

The light in the picture was dim, and there was a hazy fog obscuring the view, but that didn't prevent her from clearly seeing the subject of the photo.

It was a baby curled up!

It's made of stone!
The eyebrows and eyes are still a bit blurry, but the nose and eyes are already visible.

Based on her understanding of this type of stone fetus, she knew that she was about to give birth.

She couldn't say for sure what the exact time would be.

But that doesn't matter anymore.

Born from the earth and nurtured within the stone, it is a spiritual embryo.

If it hadn't been discovered from the beginning, that would have been fine. On the day of birth, if the stone fetus successfully transcended the tribulation, it would become a mountain spirit. If it failed, it would return to being a stone and wait for millions of years of nurturing before trying again.

But it has now been clearly discovered.

It's not a good thing to gain popularity before giving birth.

The moment a person is born, the moment they take their first breath of air, their innate pure energy is transformed into impure energy.

This creature, already exposed to the impure energy of humans before even being born, still aspires to successfully transcend tribulations and become a mountain spirit?

difficult!
They are more likely to be taken advantage of!
Jiang Hanying hadn't received a reply from her cheap owner yet. She thought that her cheap owner was still in the mountains when they video chatted last night, and now that they had found this thing, a whole day and night had passed. Could it be that the phone had run out of battery and shut down?
I should have tried to re-bind it in this world.

It's a pity that hindsight is always 20/20!
Jiang Hanying only put down her phone after the commotion next door had subsided after almost an hour.

As a result, perhaps because I had been looking at the photos for a while, when I closed my eyes, the image of that stone embryo was still in my mind.

It even has a more vibrant feel than a simple picture.

Don't go and call her "Mother" in her dreams!
The dream was so beautiful that she didn't dare to go back to sleep!