Outside the cast-iron gate of the Tongen Research Institute, tiny dazzling lights passed through the dark green pine needles, casting mottled shadows on the road.

Wearing baggy iron-gray overalls, a ruffled long-sleeved shirt, and two braids, a little loli stood outside the door with a flushed face, her head lowered, as if she was thinking about life and the ultimate proposition of life.

So much so that Jiangxi Lin even walked behind her without even realizing it.

"Xiao An'an, there is no class right now, why are you here here?"

Jiang Xilin gently pulled the little guy's hair braid.

An An turned around and immediately rushed over and hugged Jiang Xilin's waist.

The delicate chin gently pressed Jiang Xilin's belly, raising her little face,

"Brother Xilin."

The little cute thing's tone was a little aggrieved.

Jiang Xilin lowered his head, gently pinched her soft face with both hands, with a dazzling warm smile on his face,

"What's wrong, who bullied our cute little creature?"

"They didn't believe me. They all said I was making it up. But I really saw it. I hid under the quilt through the window and stared at it for a long time..."

The little girl opened her mouth and started to vomit her bitterness. She must have felt extremely wronged in her heart.

But even after she talked for a long time, Jiang Xilin couldn't understand what she saw or what she had been looking at each other through the window for a long time.

"What do you see?"

Jiang Xilin knelt down and held her small and delicate palm tightly, as if it would break if she pinched it.

The little cute creature blinked twice, thought for a moment, and then said:

"A head bigger than my window, with four glowing red eyes."

"So, what you saw was a monster."

"Yeah, yeah, monster, a big monster."

The little girl nodded her head quickly as if she had found a soulmate.

Jiang Xilin remembered that it was foggy all over Christa last night. He went out for a walk because of insomnia, and then he encountered a blurry shadow looking at him from a distance of hundreds of meters.

At that time, he didn't see clearly what the other person was. Now that he thought about it, what he and An An saw might be the same creature - let's call it a creature.

However, this little guy is quite bold. If an ordinary child saw something like this, he would probably be scared to tears.

Fortunately for her, she not only stared at the monster through the window, but also went around to talk to people about it the next day, which seemed like a show off.

"Aren't you afraid?"

"It was a bit scary at the time, but I wasn't afraid anymore after that."

The carefree look of the little girl really left Jiangxi Lin speechless. Should I say that those who don't know are fearless, or that newborn calves are not afraid of tigers?

"Who have you told this about?"

"With my mother and my annoying classmates."

The little cute thing said, unconsciously pouting its little mouth, and said aggrievedly again:

"But they don't believe me."

"I trust you."

Jiangxi Lin lovingly wiped An An's little head,

"Actually, I also saw the monster you mentioned yesterday?"

When the little guy heard this, his big crystal eyes suddenly showed surprise.

"Brother Xilin, you also saw it. Did it also come to your window?"

"No, I had insomnia last night, so I went out for a walk and looked at each other from a long distance away. However, because of the fog, I didn't see its appearance clearly at the time. I just felt that it had two floors.

So high."

"Well, my mother and I live on the second floor. People must be less than two stories tall, so it must be it, the monster with four red eyes."

The little girl seemed to be transformed into a detective, with a determined expression on her face. Her cute appearance immediately touched the soft spot in Jiangxi Lin's heart that she didn't want to be touched the most.

He couldn't help but hug her into his arms, but he sighed slightly.

In my previous life, due to work reasons, my daughter was always on the go when she was young.

When he got older and moved his butt higher and higher, he realized that his children had grown up and the couple had passed the age of passion.

Taking a long breath, the warm breath instantly atomized when it met the cold air and drifted away.

Now that he has changed his world and his body, he is trying hard to live a different life.

Children are very sensitive to the emotional changes of people around them.

Child An'an clearly felt Jiang Xilin's emotional changes: love, regret, longing, thankfulness...

It's very complex and difficult to describe in detail.

Driven by instinct, Abel An'an also gently hugged Jiang Xilin's head.

"Brother Xilin, you seem a little unhappy."

The little girl's voice is very soft and soft.

"I remembered something that happened a long time ago."

Jiang Xilin responded with a smile.

"A long, long time ago?"

"Well, a long, long time, so long that it seems like a lifetime ago."

While talking, Jiang Xilin slowly stood up, looked down at An An, and his doting eyes became even deeper.

An An thought about her pinky little mouth and wanted to ask a few more questions, but was interrupted by Jiang Xilin patting her head.

"Let's go, let's take you to the swing."

With that said, he took the little girl's hand and walked into Tongen Research Institute.

It's getting late anyway, so why not take her to play in the institute and then send her back to the academy after lunch.

…

Jiangxi Lin first took An An to the big office and "showed off" his working environment to her.

Then, with her cute and cute appearance, An An instantly captured the heart of "fishing girl" Angria Eileen.

So much so that when she left the office, if it weren't for Jiang Xilin's help, she would have been drowned in the snacks sent by Aileen.

After leaving the office, Jiang Xilin took the little guy to the small garden.

Then, the little guy immediately fell in love with the swing chair. He sat on it and hugged the dried squid snacks given by Eileen, giggling happily.

Jiangxi Lin was sitting on the stool next to him, gently pushing the swing chair back and forth, chatting with An An, who was constantly competing with the dried squid in his hand.

The content of the chat is very broad, ranging from hobbies to interesting things that have been experienced in the past.

But what Jiang Xilin asked the most about was actually about the little guy and Vera’s life experiences that he didn’t know about.

"Grandpa?"

The little girl tilted her head and shook her head,

"I don't remember clearly. I just remember that my grandfather had very white hair and liked to sit in the yard and read in sunny weather."

The yard An An refers to naturally refers to the yard outside the apartment building when he lived in Dongting City.

In fact, this also hides the reason why Vera would clean up the snow every time after a heavy snowfall.

Convenience for tenants to travel is one aspect, but more importantly, it is actually the memory of my late father.

Of course, what Jiang Xilin was more concerned about was the last paragraph of An An's words.

"Reading a book? What kind of book are you reading?"

"What's it called? What's it called Pei Di... Pei Di..."

An An's big, watery eyes rolled around, she opened her mouth and took a bite of the hard dried squid, and then said vaguely,

"King Pedi, Hero I and so on."

"Is it "The Heroic King, Ferdinand I"?"

"Yes, it is the heroic King Ferdinand I. I remember my grandfather told me that it is the story of the founding monarch of our kingdom who established the city and the kingdom under the guidance of the gods."

An An chewed the dried squid in her mouth hard, and her lower legs swayed gently back and forth.

He didn't notice at all that her words had made Jiang Xilin, who was sitting next to him, frowning.

"The Heroic King, Ferdinand I" was one of the three volumes that Abel Vera sold to him at a high price of one gold shield before leaving Dongting City to raise travel expenses.

The other two volumes are "Zero Prison, The King's Dream" and "The Epic of Menton".

According to what Wofk said after drinking too much at the dinner party the night before leaving, he and Vera's father worked at the Kingdom's Historical Research Institute when they were young, and spent most of the year investigating and researching various ruins.

Therefore, they both know more about this world and its past than most people.

In addition, Abel Vera's father quit the organization and moved to Dongting City.

There is no doubt that he must have some secrets that force him to do this.

…

"It seems I have to find time to read through those three books again."
Chapter completed!