Chapter 290: Former Friends... And Enemies

"Come in."

Xia Fan's mind raced. The scene in the underground center was indeed for a reason. The other party obviously noticed something, so the chain reacted.

The only doubt is why she suddenly changed her mind and gave up the investigation?

Yan Qing did not pass the message through the messenger, but chose to come quietly, proving that she did not want to leak this trip, so letting her into the room to find out her motives first was a safe choice.

There were five people and two monsters in this room, including him. Even if the visitor was a Qingjian, he believed that the other party could not hurt Li.

"Can I talk to her alone?"

Yan Qing asked as he walked.

"You have to ask her opinion on this."

"Oh? Aren't you her superior?"

"Superiors cannot force subordinates to do things they don't want to do."

Qingjian showed a thoughtful look.

Xia Fan led her to the hall, "Wait here."

Entering the inner room, the others were already in place, Qian Zhi was even more eager to try, and a layer of ice had covered her clenched fist.

Xia Fan pressed her forehead, then nodded to Li.

Everyone immediately understood - temporarily hold back and wait and see.

When he and the fox demon returned to the hall, Yan Qing actually poured herself a cup of tea and sat down to drink leisurely, "I remember there were several alchemists from Jinxia, ​​but I didn't expect the building to be so quiet. Are they not here now?"

"Maybe they are still sleeping in?" Xia Fan said.

"The weather in Shangyuan is indeed not as good as in the south, so it's not surprising to get up late." Yan Qing put down the teacup and said, "Even I can feel a bit of coolness in the air at this moment."

Is this a hint that someone is watching him?

"Then, Miss Li, I wonder if I can talk to you alone?" She looked at the fox demon.

"No need, I don't have anything to hide from Xia Fan, if you want to say something, just say it here."

"I understand. In that case..." Yan Qing took out a cloth bag from her bosom and put it on the low table, "I wonder if you have seen this thing?"

Li stretched out his hand to open the cloth bag.

Inside was a hairpin.

It was not made of jade, it looked ordinary, the wooden hairpin body was a little old, and the flower carving on the end even had a few dark brown marks, as if it had been burned by fire.

It was really strange that such a mundane thing appeared in Qing Jian's hand.

"No, I have never seen it--" Li turned it over twice, and suddenly her whole body was shocked! She pulled the hairpin head closer to her eyes, her face full of disbelief, "Where did you get this wooden hairpin?"

This exclamation distracted Xia Fan's attention.

Just at the moment when Li was extremely surprised, Yan Qing's chain suddenly moved and flew straight towards the fox demon's arm!

She was caught off guard, and one of her arms was immediately entangled by the chain, unable to move. The tip of the tip rose up like a snake, and then pierced into Li's palm.

This guy - actually wants to attack Li in front of him!

Xia Fan, who had reacted, also grabbed the other party at the fastest speed.

At such a close distance, plus the two of them were already in contact, if he used the second or higher level of flowing light or thunder, he would definitely hurt Li by mistake. The safest way is to use the paralysis brought by the first level of magic after zero-distance contact to force the two to separate.

"Don't move, I'm fine!"

However, Li stopped Xia Fan with his other hand.

"She didn't want to kill me, the chain didn't penetrate deep."

Not deep?

Only then did he notice that the chain only penetrated half an inch into his palm. Although blood gushed out, it avoided the weak parts such as tendons and bones. The front part of the chain gradually turned red, as if it was sucking Li's blood.

And the owner of the chain, Yan Qing, did not show any further attacking momentum. She closed her eyes slightly, and her eyebrows trembled from time to time, as if she was sensing something. The moment the chain loosened, she breathed a sigh of relief and opened her eyes, with the same astonishment as Li.

"How could it be... her child actually survived?"

"Answer me!" Li grabbed the other's collar and repeated with gritted teeth, "Where is the owner of the wooden hairpin?"

Qing Jian did not knock Li away, but let her shake back and forth for a few times before focusing his somewhat scattered gaze back on Li's face, "But you don't look like that person at all... What's going on?"

"You two, sit down!" Xia Fan couldn't help but step forward to separate the two, "Li, this hairpin - could it be your master's?"

Li nodded slightly, "I didn't recognize it at first because it was too ordinary, but the marks on the hairpin -"

Xia Fan looked at the hairpin as she said, and saw several fine dents on the old wooden stick.

"That's clearly a tooth mark from my bite!"

"Are you sure?"

"I still remember that my nature was still there, and when my teeth grew in my mouth, I always wanted to bite something... so my master took off the hairpin and put it in my mouth."

But now the hairpin is in Yan Qing's hand. The latter is also a Qingjian. If she is Li's master, Li should have recognized her long ago. It can only be said that this person and Li's master had a very close relationship, otherwise he would not have been able to get such a close thing. "Now it's your turn." Xia Fan asked Yan Qing in a deep voice, "What is your relationship with her master? Where is her master now?"

"Master?" Yan Qing grinned, "So that's what she told you? That's right. Since you two separated a long time ago, you naturally have no way of knowing what kind of blood is flowing in your body."

Bloodline?

"No way..." Xia Fan suddenly thought of a possibility, "Do you mean-"

"Yes, the original owner of this hairpin was named Li Mengyun, and you are her child." Yan Qing looked directly at Li Dao.

This sentence made the two of them freeze in place.

Is there really a mother-daughter relationship?

"How do you know that this person's blood is flowing on her body?"

"Weaving locks as proof." Yan Qing spread her hands, and iron ropes kept pouring out of her cuffs, as if they were endless. These chains intertwined under her body to form a uniform and dense network. "My ability can pass through blood and breath. , recording the way to deal with each type of opponent. The more enemies it has fought, the stronger the Weaving Lock will be. At the same time, it will automatically be alert to enemies that enter the alert range. In the underground center of the Privy Council's Record Department, the chain tells. I, a person who could never have appeared, walked into the net I laid. "

"And you have never fought against Li before." Xia Fan suddenly said.

"Yes, at first I just subconsciously wanted to interrogate her details, but after learning the news from the chain's 'memory', I realized that Li's blood was not ordinary."

The screening scope of this iron chain can actually be traced back to bloodline. The green swords in the Privy Council House really have extraordinary abilities.

"Wait a minute," Xia Fan suddenly thought of a key question, "The chain requires blood to record information. Doesn't it mean that you and Li Mengyun were not friends before, but enemies?"

Yan Qing sighed softly, "The correct way to say it is to be friends first, then enemies."