480 Chen Yis Secre (2/2)

Xinxia shook her head and said, ”I can only feel her emotions and roughly read her mind. A person's brain is very chaotic when they are trying to figure something out. If I really want to know her thoughts, I'll have to cast Mind Control on her, and force her to focus on only one thing, so I could understand better. Otherwise, even a Psychic's mind would be in disarray.”

”I don't think that's a good idea for now. Chen Yi is still Zhao Manyan's cousin, let's see if Zhao Manyan was able to convince her,” said Mo Fan.

As the two were discussing, Zhao Manyan had already dragged Chen Yi to the side.

A while later, Chen Yi came back with her head lowered.

She apologized to the party and told everyone what she knew about the North Burning Valley.

The others quickly gathered their attention, since her information was related to things that were more valuable than Soul Seeds. Any Magician would be intrigued by it.

”I have a family member, whose whole body was seriously burned. Not only were her looks destroyed, but not a single part of her skin is in good condition. No matter how many Healers we hired, none of them could restore her original appearance...” Chen Yi said slowly.

”Are you talking about the uncle that doesn't have the same surname, Lu Jianli?” Zhao Manyan quickly pictured the man who was always wrapped in white bandages in his mind.

The guy lived not that far from his house. Sometimes, when he was meditating on the balcony, he would see the white mummy taking care of the plants in the backyard.

Zhao Manyan was not very familiar with the guy, but he did hear the people in his clan uttering disdainful and sarcastic remarks at him, saying that he was punished by the Heaven and left in his current state because of his sinful misdeeds.

Since a young age, Zhao Manyan had accepted their words. After all, the person did hire lots of Healers to try and heal his wounds, and any normal burn could easily be healed by the Healing Magic, or some special medicine.

”Mm, she...she's my mother,” said Chen Yi in an extremely soft voice.

”WHAT?” Zhao Manyan jumped into the air.

The others were dumbfounded too. Everyone knew that an uncle was supposed to be a man, how did he become one's mother out of nowhere? They suddenly felt extremely out of the loop.

”Have you seen her appearance before?” Chen Yi asked him directly.

”Well... no, I only heard… fine, I guess we've all been mistaken,” Zhao Manyan had a wry smile when he realized something.

As a matter of fact, Zhao Manyan had never thought the person who was always wrapped in white bandages was a woman. There were many sayings about her in the family, yet to Zhao Manyan's biggest surprise, she was Chen Yi's mother. His uncle, Zhao Yulin, had never mentioned anything about her...

”So if she's your mother, who's the person we call our aunt?” asked Zhao Manyan.

”You tell me?” Chen Yi did not explain any further and bit her lips. It must be something unbearable.

Zhao Manyan finally came to a realization, and did not dare to ask any further.