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Chapter 151 Promise on the future
After bidding farewell to Miss Miying, the young people embarked on the road to Jinjiang City.

This time there was no need to rush with the prototype. They took a car to the hotel where the adults were staying.

When Xie Yuzhi's father saw that his children had returned safely, his eyebrows, which had been wrinkled with anxiety, straightened out. He was so happy that his eyes were moist, and he quickly stood up to welcome them.

"Dad, are you going to cry?"

Miss Xie raised her head and looked at her father.

"...Yeah, it's really rare..."

Xie Jianye smiled mockingly.

In addition to the joy, the man also felt a little guilty and complicated.

For him, his duty was originally to protect his children from growing up safely, but he didn't know when it had been reversed. It was his turn to need his children to remind and protect him.

"What did you do?"

As an adult, perhaps the most important responsibility you should fulfill in your life is to learn to let go when it's time to let go.

"You're back? Are you okay?!"

So, he just remained silent.

"No, I've lived here longer than you. Your father and I grew up in this town when we were young. So, I never thought about it..."

But now, after one summer, the uncle and nephew's attitude towards this matter has completely changed.

Xie Yuzhi explained succinctly.

After a while, when his uncle calmed down, he spoke in a low voice:
"...I think it's fine." Yan Jingxing shook his head mid-sentence, with a firm look on his face, "No, I think it's fine! Baiyue Town is very important to me."

Yan Yongzhi's expression was filled with emotion and regret. But his attention quickly returned to his nephew.

"I left Baiyue Town with Boss Xie. When I turned around, I saw that the entire town was blocked by strange things, and even the roads disappeared. It was really scary."

Xie Jianye sighed, and then looked at Yan Jingxing and Ji Chunzao beside his daughter.

My daughter's character and ambition are different from my own, and she is destined to take a different path, and she will not become an adult like him in the future.

"If I had known this would happen, I shouldn't have come to this town to teach in the first place and brought you here with me. I thought it was to take care of you and be good to you... If something happened to you, how should I deal with you? Brother and sister-in-law tell me!”

"Uncle, don't you feel it? Before those things happened, when the town was peaceful, this was a beautiful place..."

Baiyue Town was destroyed and the townspeople were injured and killed. This is indeed sad, but as long as you can protect the people around you, it is already good.

What he actually wants to say is that the children just need to take care of themselves. In fact, there is no need to... work so hard.

But Xie Jianye didn't say this in the end.

Parents should feel gratified that she and her peers can grow into strong, brave people, rather than interfere with their children's growth.

*
Xie Yuzhi and Ji Chunzao went back to see their parents, while Yan Jingxing met his uncle Yan Yongzhi.

However, there are memories about this summer that I will never forget.

I still remember that at the beginning, when Yan Yongzhi left his original place of life due to work arrangements, Yan Jingxing still felt unhappy and had a period of awkwardness.

Yan Yongzhi rushed over with an anxious look on his face, stretched out his hand to hold his nephew's shoulders, and looked him up and down.

"That's it, let's take a rest and go see the people you want to see."

"……Um."

Even if Baiyue Town has been turned upside down, even if it is rebuilt in the future, it will become completely different from the past——

"Thank you for being with her at this critical moment."

No matter what Yan Jingxing said, Yan Yongzhi finally felt relieved after confirming it several times.

As a single father, Xie Jianye thought he was already mentally prepared. But he didn't expect that this moment of loneliness and loss would come much earlier than he expected...

"We are friends and partners." Yan Jingxing replied, "Without Yuzhi here, we would not be able to win."

"understood."

He met so many unforgettable people and experienced so many unforgettable things...

"I'm fine, very healthy... I'm really fine!"

Yan Jingxing said nothing.

For Yan Yongzhi, the quality of teaching in small towns and cities may not match, but it is better to have him as a working teacher, which is better than letting his nephew stay alone in the city. Let’s not talk about whether there are dangers for minors living alone. It is easy for children to learn bad habits. Without adults watching, it only takes a matter of minutes.

Without Xie Yuzhi controlling the life-weaving aircraft carrier, it would be impossible for him to exert the true strength of his prototype and transform into a giant, let alone defeat the sea monster and the divine pillar.

Even if they have the ability to fight monsters, it doesn't mean they won't be in danger. After all, in Xie Jianye's opinion, fighting alien monsters doesn't sound like something a group of middle school students should do.

From his perspective as a parent, he would rather the children be selfish than do any harm to them.

Yan Jingxing felt that he was unprecedentedly lucky to be able to come to Baiyue Town. He could hardly imagine what kind of person he would be like if he had not experienced this period of time.

"Our home, Baiyue Town, was destroyed by monsters. We destroyed the monsters and drove them out of this world."

Xie Jianye hesitated to speak.

Yan Yongzhi's tone was full of annoyance.

"It's only been a few months, but you've already fallen in love with this place?"

"But you're not telling the truth."

"Ok?"

"Isn't it because you deceived a fiancée here and came back that you think this is a good place? In the past, I couldn't imagine that you had such ability."

"...There is also this reason."

Yan Jingxing's face turned a little red, but he didn't deny it.

Not only Xie Yuzhi, but also Jichun Zao.

Their relationship sprouted in Baiyue Town. Whether it is the current friendship or what it will transform into in the future - as long as they are still by his side, Yan Jingxing will always think of what happened in this town. past things.

"Then, what about the future?"

"what?"

"What do you plan to do in the future?"

"Aren't you going back to the city to study?"

"What I'm saying is..." For a moment, Yan Jingxing saw a very complicated look in his uncle's eyes.

"Forget it, I don't understand and can't help you. Just do your best from now on."

Yan Yongzhi patted his shoulder again to show encouragement.

He didn't say anything, but Yan Jingxing felt like he had guessed what he wanted to say.

The uncle should have known that the person who saved him that day was his nephew, and also knew that the disaster in Baiyue Town was solved by himself and his friends, but he seemed to have misunderstood something because of this, thinking that he had such a responsibility a long time ago... …

However, it doesn't seem to be bad.

*
After saying goodbye to his uncle, Yan Jingxing came to the corridor and bumped into Xie Yuzhi. After the two looked at each other for a moment, they walked in the same direction in understanding.

"What did Uncle Xie say?"

"I didn't say anything, just tell me to be safe and not do anything beyond my capabilities. And..."

The girl tucked her hair away from her ears.

"You and I are still young. Even if we have a marriage contract, we still can't do things we shouldn't do... and so on."

"Uh……"

Yan Jingxing was stunned for a moment, then clenched his fist angrily.

"Uncle Xie, who do you think I am! I, I won't do that kind of thing..."

Miss Xie, who was walking side by side with him, glanced sideways at him with a slightly strange expression.

"He said to me, why are you so excited?"

Yan Jingxing coughed dryly and put down his hand in embarrassment.

"……that's true."

"Where are you?"

"My uncle felt that I must have a great mission, but he didn't feel comfortable asking, so he just told me to 'do it well'."

"You do have a big mission."

"Really? I don't seem to have any sense of reality..."

"From the perspective of other insiders, this is how it is. Of course, whether you really take it or not is another matter. No matter which path you choose, I will be by your side."

"Thank you. Then, only the spring algae is left?"

"Yeah. She might be a little embarrassed there."

Since Ji Chunzao's parents were taken away by an alien spacecraft, his relationship with his uncle and aunt who raised him has always been cold. They have always been aware of this.

Although Chunzao didn't say it, secretly she was determined to face and solve family problems, so all they could do was watch silently.

And now...

"boom!"

Before they reached the room, the door was pushed open and the curly-haired girl stepped out.

She held her head high, like a cock that had won a fight, a bit showy; the smile on her lips showed that she was in a good mood at this time.

"...Spring algae?"

The little girl turned her head, the corners of her mouth turned upward, and she stretched out her hand and waved hard at them.

"Here you go! I just have something to tell you."

"Are you...finished? Are you okay?"

Judging from her expression, Yan Jingxing felt that the outcome of this negotiation was probably good.

To put it simply, after Xie Yuzhi and Miss Mi Ying completed their discussion, they quickly came up with the next plan and action, which was to help Xie Yuzhi seize the "palace".

Naturally, the implementation of this plan requires the three of them to work together, and each one is indispensable, just like every adventure before them.

However, according to Miss Miying, the target needs to be found and compete with other forces. It may not be limited to a certain area or even a certain country, so they need greater freedom. In order to get what they want, You may not even be able to return home for several months.

The school is not the problem, and the feelings of other irrelevant people will not be taken to heart; for young people, the only people who hope to understand are their parents.

Fortunately, their relatives are all relatively open-minded. After seeing the changes in Baiyue Town, they all readily agreed.

The only thing that might go wrong. There is only Chunzao's family.

"As I said before, since I met you, my uncle and aunt almost don't care about my business, so I can follow you around all day long."

"Well, you said it. What about now?"

"Now, I took the initiative to bring this matter up with them."

Ji Chunzao's tone was brisk.

"It was still a tacit understanding before, but now we just talk about it. They don't have to take responsibility for my affairs in the future. I can take care of myself alone, that's all."

"Oh." Miss Xie nodded, "Can you? It will be very hard to live alone without the help of a guardian."

"So, I actually lied. I have never been alone."

Ji Chunzao smiled slyly and cutely.

"I will stick to you two like brown candy from now on. Don't even think about leaving me."

Hearing this, the three of them laughed together.

The girl possesses rare sacrificial talents, and now she has inherited the power of the divine pillar, and is worshiped as a savior by the intellectualists... If information about her is leaked, it will definitely attract a lot of attention and competition. If you just want to find someone To take care of her, willing candidates can line up from one end of Baiyue Town to the other.

However, just as no one among them really cares whether Ji Chunzao will be a friend for the rest of his life, Ji Chunzao will not choose anyone else.

This pure emotion is a treasure that only belongs to the three of them.

"Ah, by the way, back to the topic just now, I have something to tell you."

Ji Chunzao pointed to the door and extended an invitation to her friends.

"How about we go for a walk and chat by the way?"

"About what?"

"As for the future, there is still... our agreement."

(End of this chapter)