The next morning, Yang Yang got up late.
Upon opening his eyes, Yang Yang saw a piece of furry caramel color.
Sure enough, Cream Puff had travelled across mountains and rivers again, but fortunately, Yang Yang went to sleep on his side, so Cream Puff was not on his face now, but lying on the side of his head.
Maybe he fell asleep later. At this time, Cream Puff’s little head tried hard to stretch out towards Yang Yang, but his belly turned to the sky, his four short paws were slightly curled up, and his body was twisted into a shrimp.
Yang Yang was delighted to see it, and he leaned over and kissed Cream Puff’s Bingbing* nose.
”Umh.”
Cream Puff hummed, rubbed his itchy nose with his short paws, and then went back to sleep.
Yang Yang smiled, turned over and stretched.
But as soon as his stretched his waist, his body issued a warning of lower body paralysis.
Yang Yang: “…”
The soreness in his waist and legs enveloped the nerves in his brain. Yang Yang took in a breath and put down his stretching hand.
——Again, the physical strength of the dual-form Lesters was really abnormal.
Of course, Archibald could not be entirely blamed for this.
Yang Yang lay flat and looked at the ceiling, while moving his legs in a small arc to adapt to the soreness after excessive exercise, while reflecting in his heart, now that he was getting older, it was a good time to excercise the flexibility of his ligaments— last night, he and Archibald actually didn’t mess around much, but for the two of them who had just practiced sexual intercourse once, the posture was a bit difficult.
”Master, you’re awake.”
The black panther beside the bed sat up, and there was a small light screen floating above his head. On it was a round square with rounded corners, which looked like a white marshmallow, facing towards Yang Yang with a big “(ω)” emoji on it.
Hearing the sound, Yang Yang turned to look at Roth, and his eyes fell on the white marshmallow: “What the hell?”
Black panther Roth said happily: “This is my simulated expression— the mobile body I have now has many functions, but there are too few facial expressions, and it is difficult to convey my emotions. How about it, is it very intuitive?”
Yang Yang looked at black panther’s mighty and domineering expression, and then looked at the marshmallow on the top of panther’s head: “… …”
Yang Yang: “It’s up to you.”
Roth: o(*////////*)q
Yang Yang: “…”
Roth: “By the way, Master, the Duke asked me to tell you, Ya Qing and Ruo Hong are leaving at 10 o’clock. Do you want to see them off? —Right now is 9:20.”
Yang Yang was taken aback for a moment before he remembered that Ya Qing and the children were both leaving today. Thinking about the conversation with Ruo Hong yesterday, Yang Yang sat up quickly.
”Hiss, yes. —Let the smart butler make a bottle of milk for Cream Puff.”
Roth: “Okay, Master.”
…
Yang Yang packed up and went downstairs. It wasn’t even 10 o’clock yet.
At this time, everyone was in the yard. There was a lot of luggage piled on the ground in the middle of the yard, belonging to Ruo Hong and the children. Monta brought two cars and was helping them move their luggage to the cars.
The children had no regrets about leaving— after all, during the annual vacation, they almost always followed Monta outside, and now they were probably more familiar with the base school than the manor.
On the other side of the yard stood Archibald and his family.
Ya Qing was standing on the side. He looked very haggard, his whole body had lost weight, and his lips had no color at all.
Compared with the gentle and sophisticated manner when they first met, when he looked like a sick young master, Ya Qing now felt like a terminally ill and somewhat gloomy patient to Yang Yang.
Yang Yang intuitively felt that Ya Qing’s current mental state was not right, but he didn’t show it on his face.
Yang Yang held the milk-drinking Cream Puff and slowly moved to the yard. First, he nodded to Monta who was loading the luggage—— Ruo Hong was holding her child and returned to her submissive look. She was looking down at the child in her arms without even looking at Yang Yang.
But when no one noticed, Yang Yang saw Ruo Hong’s hand hidden under the child’s swaddling clothes waving to him— bye bye.
Yang Yang: “…”
Yang Yang smiled inwardly, then turned around and walked to Ya Qing and the others, greeting everyone.
Archibald saw Yang Yang moving over, pursed his lips and got closer to Yang Yang, and then wrapped his tail around Yang Yang’s waist.
Yang Yang was a little tired, but the tail that suddenly rolled around his waist was long and powerful, giving Yang Yang support like a waist protector. This made Yang Yang, who had “lumbar muscle strain”, feel comfortable, to the point he even relaxed his body, leaning on Archibald’s tail.
Archibald: “…”
You’re really not afraid of falling.
Even though he thought this in his mind, his tail bent again, and the tip of the tail was placed under Yang Yang’s buttocks, quietly curving into a high stool for Yang Yang.
Yang Yang felt the attentiveness of the person next to him, and without any courtesy, he handed all the weight of his body to Archibald, then looked at Ya Qing: “Is uncle feeling better?”
Ya Qing’s eyes flickered, and he looked up. When his eyes glanced at Cream Puff in Yang Yang’s arms, he paused and then looked at Yang Yang again.
”Much better.”
Ya Qing’s voice was very hoarse and the volume was so low that Yang Yang almost couldn’t hear him clearly.
The relationship between Yang Yang and Ya Qing was not deep. It could be said that apart from the kinship relationship between Archibald, they were just strangers. So after exchanging pleasantries, they stopped talking.
But after Ya Qing answered, he suddenly looked at Cream Puff in Yang Yang’s arms.
Cream Puff was still lazying and drinking milk a lot slower than when he was awake. After coming down from upstairs, he drank less than a fifth of the milk.
That’s right, now he was narrowing eyes again.
Ya Qing looked at Cream Puff for several seconds without moving his eyes away. Others couldn’t help but notice his gaze.
”What’s wrong?”
Yang Yang asked, reaching out to smooth Cream Puff’s fur, and his palm naturally separated Ya Qing’s sight.
Ya Qing lowered his eyelids and whispered: “It’s good that the child is healthy.”
Yang Yang smiled, “En.”
Abel looked at the time and said to Ya Qing: “It’s almost time, let’s go. Remember to take care of yourself when you get back. If you need anything, tell He Wang.”
Ya Qing was originally quiet, but when he heard the word “He Wang”, the corner of his mouth suddenly twitched, as if even he himself was caught off guard. The smile showed a bit of strangeness and ridicule.
”I know.”
The expression on Ya Qing’s face quickly returned to calm, but this time his voice was hoarse when he answered, and he didn’t raise his eyes when he spoke, making his whole person feel even more gloomy.
Looking at Ya Qing like this, Yang Yang always felt something was off. Why did he look like he wasn’t over the illness’ onset yet? Or was it a case of split personality and switching personalities?
But it’s a little different. And…
Yang Yang’s heart suddenly jumped, and the soul core he received last night popped into his mind.
——What if it’s not a split personality, but a soul core?
Yang Yang was startled by his thoughts, but when he thought about it carefully, he suddenly discovered a detail that he had not noticed before. ——Abel said that Ya Qing once had the same illness as the late Duke and went crazy, but he recovered after that.
But what was the difference between the recording data collected by Roth and that of going crazy?
Moreover, Archibald also said that Ya Qing is now locked in the house when he is sick, and no one can get close to him, even Roth will be discovered if it gets close. Therefore, no one knows the specific situation of Ya Qing’s current illness.
He said he was Archibald’s guinea pig, so why did he hide his situation?
The sudden thought made Yang Yang feel confused, and his waist suddenly tightened.
Yang Yang looked up after regaining focus and saw Archibald’s face turned sideways.
Archibald put his hand on Yang Yang’s back and smiled: “Why are you in a daze? Let’s go and see uncle Ya Qing out.”
Yang Yang was startled: “Aren’t you going to send him to the star port?”
Archibald: “We’re not going. We have to see sister Ruo Hong and the others off, and——the way you walked just now, my father and the others can understand it.”
Yang Yang: “…”
Shut up, right now, immediately.
Archibald understood Yang Yang’s eyes and as asked to, he obediently stopped talking. He just stretched out his hand to pick up Cream Puff, holding it firmly in his hand, wrapping his tail around Yang Yang’s waist, and followed Abel and the others “embracing left and right*”.
*it is an idiom usually used in ancient dramas, with emperors embracing cocubines left and right.
Yang Yang and his party took Ya Qing to the door. There were two cars, one for Ya Qing and one for Abel and He Shu.
”Uncle, have a safe journey.”
Archibald said goodbye to Ya Qing, and Yang Yang also wished “safe travel.”
Just when he was watching Ya Qing getting into the car, Yang Yang suddenly had a thought, and then opened his soul vision.
In Yang Yang’s expectation, Ya Qing would suffer from soul power infection and soul palace damage, and it would definitely be serious. So he was already prepared to see a soul full of holes.
But he never expected that what he saw was such a soul power.
The moment the soul power vision opened, Ya Qing disappeared from Yang Yang’s sight, replaced by a slender cocoon-shaped soul power.
This soul power cocoon was not the common pure white, nor did it have the black or gray color that Yang Yang expected to contaminate the soul power. Even, there were very few soul power holes. No, it should be said that there aren’t many “holes”, but that there are no “real holes”.
The soul cocoon was like a cheese composed of white and beige, with a white base and large and small holes on it, but the holes were not empty, but filled with beige.
After Archibald said “safe travel” to him, Ya Qing was facing them, so Yang Yang saw his front side— at the position of the soul palace in Ya Qing’s abdomen, there was a hole that almost cut across the entire soul palace, leaving only a little white edge on the edges.
If you removed the beige color, Ya Qing’s soul power hole would look even more serious than that of the old village chief!
Moreover, why was there no soul power infection?
Ya Qing was directly attacked by a dragon-level soul beast back then, so how could he not be infected with the soul power of the soul beast?
Or is it that he, like Archibald, has black soul power that only appears in the early stages and during the onset of the disease?
”Are you looking at me?”
Ya Qing’s voice suddenly sounded.
Yang Yang was startled, retracted his soul vision, and met Ya Qing’s eyes.
His eyes were still bloodshot, but his black pupils were very bright, revealing a strange spirit.
Yang Yang was not frightened by Ya Qing. He looked directly into Ya Qing’s eyes and suddenly smiled: “En, I think uncle is not in good spirits and I was a little worried.”
Ya Qing looked at Yang Yang and also smiled. After a moment, the smile that appeared on the corner of his mouth looked like a fake smile on the face of a paper mannequin.
”I’m fine.”
Ya Qing seemed to be saying it to Yang Yang, but also to himself. He paused for a second, then repeated in a lower tone: “I’m fine.”
After saying that, Ya Qing didn’t say anything else and just got into the aircraft.
The vehicle quickly started, left, entered the road, rose onto the empty track, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
When the aircraft disappeared in the air, Archibald lowered his head and glanced at Yang Yang: “Just now, were you looking at uncle’s soul power?”
Yang Yang met Archibald’s gaze: “Yes.”
The two people looked at each other and said nothing for a while.
Cream Puff, who was nestled in Archibald’s arms, finally came to his senses. He looked at his two fathers “gazing affectionately” at each other while he holding the bottle, feeling that he had been ignored for a moment.
”Umh!”
This baby is awake!
The two people who were looking at each other looked down at the same time, and then smiled in unison.
Yang Yang tapped the bottle that Cream Puff had not let go with his fingertips and said, “You were drinking your milk for so long it’s almost cold.”
Cream Puff shook his tail: “Umh!”
Archibald smiled, but still not feeling relaxed, he looked at Yang Yang again, “What did you find?”
Yang Yang shook his head: “I have never seen his kind of soul power.”
Archibald: “What kind of soul power was it? “
Yang Yang: “The soul power hole caused by the damage to the soul palace was filled by the soul power of the medicine stone. —I have never seen such a situation among the people in the village.
Moreover, he was not infected by the soul power of the soul beast. It looks the same as when you are not sick, except your soul power is all white.”
Archibald was startled, heard the implication of Yang Yang’s words, and asked: “Do you think that mysterious man would be uncle Ya Qing?”
Yang Yang didn’t speak immediately. After a while, he said: “I don’t know. But I think there are no such coincidences in the world.”
The medicine stone Ya Qing bought by chance, the village they met by chance, the soul core and Ya Qing’s split personalities, it was a series of coincidences that looked too similar.
If there are too many coincidences, it is no longer a coincidence.
Having reached this point, Yang Yang had no intention of concealing it anymore— Archibald already understood his suspicions about Ya Qing anyway, and any further concealment would only make Archibald worried.
Yang Yang smiled at Archibald: “Let’s go. I’ll explain it to you in detail after seeing off sister Ruo Hong later.”
Archibald smiled. He liked the feeling of being unreserved with Yang Yang. However, before he could respond, he heard Cream Puff in his arms agree: “Um!”
Archibald: “…”
Yang Yang laughed and pinched Cream Puff’s ears: “What do you know? Just know to um.”
Cream Puff: “Umh!”
I don’t understand, but you can’t have little secrets behind my back!
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