Chapter 629: Chapter 629: Su Jin’s Method

“Lin Xiuyuan, did you get yourself into trouble?”

After the car door closed, Su Jin asked, having noticed the flash of guilt Lin Xiuyuan displayed when he looked at his family.

“Yes, I did, big trouble,”

Lin Xiuyuan admitted proactively. He quickly came clean to his family in the car about everything that had happened over the past two days, including how Jiang Yixiao had dragged him into the Jade Thumb Ring.

Everyone in the car was stunned, and Su Xiangzhe almost drove the car into a wall.

“So, how much did you reveal about the space?”

Su Jin’s voice was terrifyingly calm. She wasn’t surprised by the girl’s Jade Thumb Ring Space; she only cared about the secrecy of their own space.

“I swear I didn’t reveal anything about… our stuff. I just told her I’d seen a friend’s bag, and that the bag’s function was similar to her Jade Thumb Ring, and that friend could cast Prohibition Techniques. I couldn’t say anything about that incident…”

Lin Xiuyuan was relieved Huang Yunxiang and Lin Cheng were in the car behind them, which allowed him to confess everything to Su Jin in one breath. Otherwise, he was afraid he wouldn’t have been able to finish speaking before being beaten to death…

“At least you have some brains.”

Hearing this, Su Jin was slightly reassured.

If that was the case, she had a way to rectify the situation.

“Xiuyuan, are you saying that girl’s Jade Thumb Ring also has such a function?”

Nie Qing, who was sitting in the back seat, was astonished. Meanwhile, Lu Guanhai beside him kept indicating he was almost scared to death by Lin Xiuyuan.

Lin Xiuyuan described what the Jade Thumb Ring Space was like to Nie Qing, who then calmed down a bit and said, “That Jade Thumb Ring probably has a function similar to my storage bag, only it can fit a person inside, which does make it more advanced. It likely hasn’t been refined and cultivated by a master. But indeed, treasures appear in turbulent times, haha!”

“You still laugh, you still laugh, I was almost scared to death!”

Lu Guanhai couldn’t understand why Nie Qing was so composed. The secret of the space was taboo, and everyone would get very nervous even if it was slightly touched upon.

“Xiuyuan didn’t say anything, did he? Right, Xiao Jin?”

Nie Qing squinted at Su Jin, who seemed to already have a plan in mind.

“She wants to apply a Prohibition Technique to herself, too?”

Su Jin asked.

“Yes, she’s too foolish. On one hand, she says she wants to kill me because I learned her secret, and on the other, she pulls out the Jade Thumb Ring from her neck to show me, pfft–”

Remembering their first encounter, Lin Xiuyuan couldn’t help but laugh again.

“Really indiscreet. Are you sure you didn’t mention anything else?”

Su Jin confirmed repeatedly.

“No, I swear, the kind with a deadly oath,”

Lin Xiuyuan raised three fingers toward the sky as he spoke.

“Xiao Jin, do you have a way to distance ourselves from this affair?”

Su Xiangzhe asked.

Su Jin nodded and said, “Yes, if it’s just this. The storage bag Lin Xiuyuan mentioned isn’t ours and certainly not Uncle Nie’s; it has nothing to do with our family.”

???

Lin Xiuyuan looked at Su Jin in surprise.

What does she mean? What about the Prohibition Technique?

“Xiao Jin is smart. You, lad, can be quite clever sometimes, but how can you be so foolish at other times? Face-changing pills, huh.”

Nie Qing couldn’t help but point it out after Su Jin finished speaking, as he had already understood.

Lin Xiuyuan had only told the girl that he had seen a friend with a storage bag that could fit a person, and that friend was a master of Prohibition Techniques. All they had to do was use a Face-changing pill to create someone completely unrelated to the Heart Talk Team.

“Holy crap, holy crap, why didn’t I think of this?!”

Lin Xiuyuan was instantly overjoyed to the point of jumping up. Was stupidity contagious? He suspected that he had been infected by Jiang Yixiao.

“Lin Xiuyuan, this time only, there won’t be a next time,”

Su Jin said to Lin Xiuyuan seriously. If he ever went off running his mouth to strangers without consulting his family again, she wouldn’t mind locking him up in the Space forever.

“I got it, I promise,”

Lin Xiuyuan lowered his head; he wouldn’t cause trouble ever again.

…

It was Jiang Yixiao’s first time seeing a base as big as the one in S city. People bustled in and out of the base’s gate, each person looking different from those in the smaller base she had previously been in.

What exactly was different? She couldn’t quite put her finger on it – perhaps it was the look in their eyes.

In the mirror, she used to see her own eyes – hollow, numb, aimless, while these people’s eyes appeared resolute, content, and even anxious when aiding injured companions…

After she got out of the car, she noticed that Lin Xiuyuan’s family and teammates seemed to know many people; they were greeting each other warmly. A dark-skinned woman hurriedly came out and only after seeing Lin Xiuyuan did she happily talk to the family.

“My brother was very worried too. It’s good that you’re found, I’ll go and tell him right away,”

Liang Jiuqing felt a huge weight lift off her heart, though Xing Taining’s safety was still another heavy stone weighing on her…

Lin Xiuyuan took Jiang Yixiao to complete the city entry registration and checks, while Huang Yunxiang came over and asked Su Jin, “Xiao Jin, did Lin Xiuyuan say anything? Who is that girl anyway?”

“Aunt, let’s talk about it back at home,”

Su Jin said. She was worried that if she spoke now, Huang Yunxiang wouldn’t be able to resist beating Lin Xiuyuan up in public. If there must be a beating, better to do it in the Space, to save the lad some face.

“Lin Xiuyuan, you all don’t look like bad people,”

Jiang Yixiao said after completing the forms. She even felt a sense of gratitude in her heart.

“Brainless, a bad person wouldn’t have ‘bad person’ written on their face. And what do you mean by ‘look like’? Use your brain more,”

Lin Xiuyuan said annoyingly. If only this girl had a bit more sense in her head, she wouldn’t have dragged him into her Space, and he wouldn’t have said all that. But then again, would he have ended up meeting the King of Hell instead?…

While he was preoccupied with his thoughts, Jiang Yixiao had already handed in her Crystal Core and completed a series of checks. After securing her pink canvas bag over her shoulder, she happily said to Lin Xiuyuan, “Let’s go~”

“…”

She’s so naive, Lin Xiuyuan thought.

Huang Yunxiang looked at Jiang Yixiao coming over, the girl’s soft hair resting on her shoulders and her spirited eyes smiling at what was ahead; she seemed to be a nice girl…

Wait, what was she thinking about? Her son was still so young!

While waiting for the two hours, Lin Xiuyuan introduced Jiang Yixiao to his family.

“Is Xiao Jiang also a Water Element Ability User?”

Huang Yunxiang asked.

“Yes, Auntie, but I’m only at Level Three Water Element; I’m still quite weak,”

Jiang Yixiao answered bashfully.

“What does that matter, train slowly, kill more zombies, and you will become powerful,”

Huang Yunxiang said. So, how exactly did this girl meet Lin Xiuyuan?

“By the way, Xiuyuan, where did you go earlier? Why couldn’t any of us find you?”

Xue Wanyi suddenly remembered and asked.

Jiang Yixiao’s expression instantly became tense; she had forgotten to align her story with Lin Xiuyuan!