Chapter 38 Recovering Memory

Outside Yanyuan.

Mu Weiting's car was parked on the side of the road. He sat in the car silently, holding a cigarette between his fingers on the steering wheel, but he didn't light it. He just rubbed it with his fingertips repeatedly to relieve his craving for cigarettes.

He watched as the sky outside gradually became darker and the street lights came on.

Time passed by minute by minute, and just when he could no longer wait and was about to start the car and drive into the surveillance area of Yanyuan, he caught a glimpse of Shang Youqing's figure in the rearview mirror.

Mu Weiting chuckled, put away the cigarette between his fingers, got out of the car on his own initiative, and opened the door for Shang Youqing who was walking towards him with a sullen face.

Shang Youqing stopped in front of him, staring at him, his chest heaving slightly: "It seems that Senior Brother had expected me to come out a long time ago?"

Mu Weiting's eyes were as gentle as before: "Didn't I say that I would wait for Youqing to come out."

"Okay."

Shang Youqing nodded, but walked around him directly, got in the car from the other side of the front, and sat in the driver's seat.

Seeing this, Mu Weiting raised his eyebrows slightly. Just as he leaned over to sit in the passenger seat and fasten his seat belt, Shang Youqing expressionlessly stepped on the accelerator to the floor. The car engine roared, and the whole car suddenly flew out.

Mu Weiting looked at the soaring speed on the dashboard and the car body outside the window that had brushed the edge of the overpass several times. He immediately reminded him in a hurry, "Youqing, calm down."

Shang Youqing was still controlling the steering wheel with ease, without blinking, "So, senior brother is afraid of death too?"

"I'm just worried about you, Youqing, you're not calm right now--"

Before he could finish his words, seeing that the front of the car was about to hit the guardrail and dive off the overpass, Mu Weiting's self-confident calmness finally couldn't be maintained. The arm that came to stop him showed the faint appearance of bamboo green leaves. However, before he could use his skills, Shang Youqing had already turned the car's front on the spot and braked it steadily.

Shang Youqing turned around, sizing up Mu Weiting's pale face with a cold gaze: "Brother, do you still want me to calm down?"

"Youqing... what you did just now was too dangerous. Did you know—"

"Of course I didn't know. My phoenix chick was planted with a killing barrier from birth. For three years, it suffered from illness and pain. I finally made it to the stage of molting, only to be surrounded by the killing barrier and its heart meridians, unable to break free from the tail. And I knew nothing about this!"

Shang Youqing felt even more uneasy when she thought of the black energy still lingering on the cub's heart meridian.

She thought... even so, He Zhimo was still raised well. During these three years, unknown to her, how much effort He Cong, a human, had put in to raise He Zhimo well was beyond her comprehension.

Mu Weiting was silent for a moment, then replied, "It wasn't me who planted the killing barrier."

"Of course I know it wasn't you, otherwise Senior Brother wouldn't be sitting here safe and sound."

Shang Youqing suppressed his surging emotions and stared at him coldly, "But you knew from the beginning that the person I was looking for was He Cong, and you also knew that He Zhimo was my young offspring. Why didn't you tell me?"

If she had known earlier, if she had discovered it sooner...

"Because there is no point in saying it, Youqing, you know it very well, don't you? The phoenix chick that has been planted with the killing barrier cannot complete its first tail molting. This means that He Zhimo will be burned to death during this tail molting process! Am I telling you this to make you sad and upset? It would be better for you not to know about He Zhimo's existence from the beginning to the end!"

Mu Weiting said here, and his eyes on her neck also became a little stinging, "You gave the Phoenix Blood Bead to He Zhimo, right? The Phoenix Blood Bead can indeed temporarily relieve the burning pain of the chick's tail molting, but it can only delay it for one or two days at most. After two days, the result will be the same, and you can't change anything." "

So I said, He Cong will only harm you. If he really cares about you, he shouldn't let you come to him and force you to witness your own child with your own eyes--"

Mu Weiting suddenly fell silent, because he saw a faint golden portal appear in front of the car.

Without saying a word, he unbuckled his seatbelt and tried to retreat, but Shang Youqing grabbed his upper arm. The phoenix eyes that looked at him were as fierce as fire -

"It's not anyone else's turn to say what's going on with my partner."

"Brother, you don't think that I came out of Yanyuan at this time just to waste time arguing with you about these meaningless things, right?"

Mu Weiting looked around and was shocked to find that the car was surrounded by a phoenix fire array.

He had to shift his gaze back, "You Qing, what do you want me to do?"

Shang Youqing leaned down slightly, almost seeing through him, "I originally tried to use my own heart meridian consciousness to remove the killing barrier in Mo Mo's body, but senior brother, I found that a small part of my consciousness was blocked, so I couldn't remove the killing barrier."

Mu Weiting turned his head away, "You Qing can't suspect me without any basis, right?"

"Of course I have to suspect senior brother, it was you who brought me back to Wutong Mountain three years ago." Shang Youqing drooped his eyes, and spoke word by word, "When I was weakest, you blocked one part of my consciousness, causing the memory of me going down the mountain to be sealed in that consciousness, wasn't it?"

"You Qing..."

"Stop talking nonsense, senior brother," Shang Youqing stood up straight, his expression returned to indifference, "Where is the key to unlock the consciousness, take me to get it now."

Mu Weiting looked at her for a while, and spoke again, "What if I don't tell junior sister."

"That's great. If you want my young chick's life, I don't mind destroying everything my senior brother has."

Mu Weiting slowly closed his eyes, finally exhaled a heavy breath, and said in a hoarse voice, "What you want is in the underground base of Research Institute 57... Youqing, come back to Beijing with me."

At these words, the sternness in Shang Youqing's eyes finally receded like a clear lake.

Without wasting time driving to the airport, she immediately dragged Mu Weiting out of the car and walked straight into the portal in front of the car.

A few minutes later, the phoenix fire dissipated before their eyes like a curtain, revealing Shang Youqing and Mu Weiting outside the research institute's main gate.

Mu Weiting's arm was still engulfed in a halo of phoenix fire that could kill him at any moment, but it was made transparent by a deceptive trick.

While it appeared that he was leading Shang Youqing into the research institute, in reality, Shang Youqing still held the initiative.

After passing through numerous secret doors, the elevator doors opened, finally reaching the basement level.

After unlocking the last iris lock, the heavy door slowly slid open.

In a sealed room surrounded by white walls, a transparent cover made of a material similar to tempered glass was prominently placed in the center.

The shape of the feather placed inside the transparent cover perfectly matched the location where her heart meridian was blocked.

Without waiting for Mu Weiting to say anything, Shang Youqing had already reached out.

The transparent cover automatically fell off and opened when it touched the temperature of her fingertips.

Immediately afterwards, the Phoenix feather consciousness that had been sealed here for three years floated into her fingertips, and then followed the blood vessels at the fingertips to the heart meridian, finally unlocking the blocked consciousness.

The next second, the memory of that blocked consciousness also flooded back into the brain.