The aroma of food reached her nose, Mu Xiaowan was cooking in a large, ill-fitting apron, and Xiao Chen looked around.

After three days of ventilation and the purchase of some furniture, the old house finally had a little more smoke and smoke.

Xiao Chen sat on the sofa and broke away from the inner view.

"I'm finally back to my peak."

He pulled off the gauze on his abdomen, and the wound already showed a light pink color. Although the healing-type awakened ones have low combat effectiveness, they are very rare and are the favorites of various combat groups.

"Spirit 140/146."

"The Force 144/147."

"Physique 152/159."

Xiao Chen believed that with his current strength, if he could deal with the killer back then, even if he couldn't defeat him, he would still have no problem running away.

"There seems to be something missing at home."

Xiao Chen looked at the empty cupboard and suddenly thought that it was naturally missing a family photo.

Most of the things in the house had been emptied, but Xiao Chen remembered that there was a family photo hidden in one place.

He climbed up the wooden stairs to the second floor and knocked on the wooden board on the left side of the stairs, and a crisp echo came.

"It seems I remember correctly."

Although I have been away for three years, all the memories I had once seemed to come back after I moved in.

This was the place where his father, Xiao Jun, hid his money. Xiao Chen saw him once and Xiao Jun made a deal with him.

Don't tell his mother and give him an extra 50 pocket money every week.

The father and son settled the deal happily.

In fact, Xiao Chen has relatively few memories of his mother. He only remembers that she was a gentle woman, but she disappeared a few years before Xiao Jun disappeared.

At that time, her father had not yet adopted Mu Xiaowan.

After his mother disappeared, Xiao Jun's personality changed. From cheerful and casual, he became a little gloomy. He only ate hastily when he returned home, and then immersed himself in his own research.

So much so that during the years when Xiao Chen was in junior high school, he and Xiao Jun rarely talked to each other. Xiao Jun became more and more isolated and silent, and he never even showed up at Xiao Chen's parent-teacher conferences.

Thinking about it now, my father must have been greatly affected by his mother's disappearance at that time, but Xiao Chen was still too young at that time, and I'm afraid Xiao Jun could only keep it in his stomach if he had anything to say.

Now Xiao Chen wanted to talk to him again, but there was no such chance.

Gently prying open the wooden board, Xiao Chen used the flashlight of his mobile phone to shine inside.

This secret compartment had been opened once when he and Mu Xiaowan left three years ago and took away several thousand dollars inside.

If it weren't for these thousands of dollars, I'm afraid they wouldn't be alive today.

This is the second time he has opened this secret compartment, but...

When the flashlight shone in, Xiao Chen's expression changed slightly.

It's been touched inside!

Xiao Jun not only hid money in it, but as an awakened member of the medical department, he also had scientific research capabilities. In those three years, he often wrote a large number of manuscripts, which he also put here, and told Xiao Chen

Be sure not to move around.

Xiao Chen had no interest in these things in the first place, and he had not touched them when he left this home last time. He clearly remembered that the stacks of manuscripts were stuffed in a box.

But now, everything else is there, but the manuscript is gone.

Standing there, Xiao Chen couldn't calm down for a long time. It wasn't until Mu Xiaowan asked him to eat that he came back to his senses, turned his head and looked at Mu Xiaowan blankly.

Could it be that he is really still alive?

Is it the manuscript he took away?

Xiao Chen quickly recovered from his excitement, shook his head and put the answer behind him.

This possibility is too small.

Except for him, all members of the team that my father belonged to were killed in action. The notice stated that they encountered a wandering high-level mutant beast in a low-danger area and were defeated. Except for one person, all the others were killed.

He was said to be missing because no body was found.

The survey team went out of the city several times to search, but could not find it. However, because the body was not found, it was finally treated as missing.

Although he had been comforting himself like this, the most real answer in Xiao Chen's heart was actually that it was obvious that that man could not come back.

From the initial shock and ecstasy, Xiao Chen gradually calmed down.

There was a cold light in his eyes.

Something that had always been puzzling suddenly seemed to have been pried open.

His father belonged to the Survey Corps, a branch of the military. Although he had reached the second level of awakening and had a very high status in Jiangcheng, Xiao Chen knew that his father's real strength was as a medical researcher.

Big pharmaceutical companies once came to recruit him, but he rejected them all.

Although Xiao Chen didn't know the reason, he could feel that these people were aiming at Xiao Jun's research.

In the three years after his mother disappeared, his father was very depressed and spent almost all night writing manuscripts. Xiao Chen had neither read nor understood what he wrote, but he had heard him talk about some things about infected people.

After he disappeared, he was obviously a direct relative, but he didn't get anything belonging to him, not even a pension, and his file was changed to orphan.

At that time, Xiao Chen just naively thought that some people saw that he was weak and wanted to embezzle the money.

But now.......

Thinking about the worst, maybe someone took a fancy to his research data, but the old-fashioned and persistent Xiao Jun refused to cooperate, and then someone secretly killed him and took away the data?

It's not impossible.

Xiao Chen certainly wouldn't have thought this way three years ago, but in the past three years, Xiao Chen has survived in the slums, and those innocence and simplicity have long been gone.

He needed to find out, but now...

Xiao Chen knew that his ability was not enough.

"Brother, come quickly, the food will be cold later."

Mu Xiaowan was still sitting at the dining table waiting with a happy face. Xiao Chen took a deep breath and dismissed these thoughts from his mind.

It was all speculation, but he left one thought.

After finishing a full meal, Mu Xiaowan was about to turn on the TV when there was a gentle knock on the door.

"Excuse me, is this Xiao Chen's house?"

guest?

The brother and sister looked at each other, Mu Xiaowan walked to the courtyard and opened the door, and a handsome and sunny man walked in.

"Who is so good at craftsmanship? You can smell the fragrance outside."

Xiao Chen was slightly stunned. He had seen the person who came. It was Xu Zhaohua, the Night Criminal Division who turned the tide that night!

Xiao Chen was not surprised at all that he could find him.

But why did he come? Xiao Chen thought for a moment and came to his senses.

"Xiao Wan, pour some water for the guest."

"This is your sister, she's really cute. Xiao Chen, please don't be too busy. I'm here to talk to you about something."

Xu Zhaohua took the tea and said thank you.

After looking at Xiao Chen carefully for a while, Xu Zhaohua showed a puzzled expression.

"How come you got better so quickly?"

Xu Zhaohua was aware of Xiao Chen's injuries that day. Although he saw that Xiao Chen had awakened earlier than others, Xiao Chen's recovery speed still exceeded his expectations.

"Oh, Brother Liu gave me a Huoluo pill. It is very effective. Besides, my physical fitness is already good."

This was the rhetoric prepared by Xiao Chen in advance.

Xu Zhaohua nodded. He could see that Xiao Chen, a young man, was wary of most people, and he didn't want to pry more.
Chapter completed!