Seeing that Su Ran didn't speak, Xiang Nan also knew that it was not the time to question carefully, so he grabbed Su Ran's arm and said, "Follow me back to the Crystal Palace first!"
After finishing speaking, Xiang Nan dragged Su Ran and ran all the way.
"Is it safe to go back now?" Su Ran was afraid again: "They are so powerful, they must know that we live in the Crystal Palace."
Xiang Nandao: "Don't worry, the Crystal Palace is the property of the Whampoa family, and they dare not touch it yet."
There is a clear difference between internal strife and foreign aggression. The Whampoa family can fight among themselves, but if outsiders want to disturb the Whampoa family, it is a different situation.
After arriving at the Crystal Palace, Xiang Nan pushed Su Ran into the room, checked carefully in the corridor, and then followed him in.
Su Ran rubbed her hands restlessly and kept walking back and forth. Her mind was in a mess and she didn't know what she was thinking.
"Now!" Xiang Nan grabbed Su Ran's shoulders and said seriously, "Tell me, what is your father's origin!"
Su Ran hesitated.
Xiang Nandao: "What secret is more important than your life? You know, if you are dead, the meaning of the secret itself will not exist!"
"A secret is important because it is in the hands of a few. If no one in the world knows it, it will be worthless!"
Su Ran gritted her teeth and said, "It's not that I don't want to tell you, it's that even I don't know what my father does."
"In my impression since I was a child, he has always been mysterious. I only know that he has spent decades studying the puppet of the Xuan Dao."
"But why do you want to study it, and what is the significance, I don't understand."
"At first I thought it was just my father's hobby, but now that I've grown up, I realize that things may not be that simple."
Xiang Nan pondered, "How old are you this year? When was the last time you saw your father? What did he tell you?"
Su Ran recalled for a while, and said: "The last time I saw him was when I was six years old, and it has been fourteen years now."
"I remember very clearly that the last sentence he said to me was to make me want to win this year's competition championship."
"This year?" Xiang Nan said sternly, "Are you sure, it's not the last one, nor the next one, but this one fourteen years from now?"
Su Ran nodded: "Of course, I remember very clearly, it's this year's class."
Xiang Nan frowned and said, "The last time you saw your father was six years old, how did you survive all these years?"
Su Ran said: "Since I parted with my father for the last time, there has always been a person to take care of me. He gave me money, taught me to sing, and taught me life experience."
"I only know that people call him Old Man Tianji, but I don't know exactly what kind of relationship he has with my father. Maybe he is a brother from the same school. I don't know much about the world of martial arts. .”
"Old Man Tianji!" Xiang Nan's heart skipped a beat.
I see! It turned out that the world misrepresented the relationship between Old Man Tianji and Su Ran. Others thought that Old Man Tianji and Su Ran were friends.
But in fact, the old man Tianji should be more like entrusted by Su Ran's father to take care of Su Ran. He played the role of an elder in Su Ran's life.
"You have to go with me." After thinking about it, Xiang Nansi still felt unsafe, and said, "I want to take you out of here, at least out of the Iron Continent. This place is no longer safe for you."
"I told you, I won't leave!" Su Ran said seriously.
"Did you die?" Xiang Nan asked.
Su Ran said: "If I can't fulfill my father's last wish, then I'd rather die!"
Xiang Nan took a deep look at Su Ran, then spread out a blank sheepskin scroll on the table, and wrote Su Ran's name on the scroll.
Afterwards, he wrote the words "Old Man Tianji" and "Su Ran's Father" and connected the names of Su Ran and these two people together.
Then, he wrote down the Yipintang masters he met today, and connected these names around Su Ran's name to form a circle.
Finally, at the center of the circle, next to Su Ran's name, the words "Champion of the Competitive Competition" were written.
"What are you doing?" Su Ran came over curiously.
Holding the brush, Xiang Nan pondered and explained, "I know I'm very smart, but I'm still not as good as some people with great wisdom."
"I have a friend who is very good at analysis. He is good at dissecting a mess of problems one by one."
"Look, this is you, and these other things are more or less related to you."
Pointing to the names on the scroll, Xiang Nan thought, "If you write all these relationships with a pen, it will be much easier to understand."
"The target of Yipintang's experts is you. They obviously want to get something from you, but they clearly want to kill you, not to capture you alive."
"That means they want to take something from you, and you don't have to be alive."
"Is there anything that can still exist after a person dies?"
Xiang Nan rubbed his chin, looked Su Ran up and down, and said, "Is there anything special about you? Think about it carefully, and don't miss any details."
Su Ran was in a daze for a long time, and said: "No, there is nothing strange in my ring, if you don't believe me, take a look."
She poured out everything in the ring, and there was nothing worth noting, except for some gold coins, storage cards, makeup boxes, clothes and so on.
Xiang Nan stared at Su Ran thoughtfully, making Su Ran feel a little uncomfortable.
"If it's not your belongings, it's most likely something on your body."
Xiang Nan thought for a long time, but he didn't think of a precise goal.
"It could be your blood, your heart, even your soul, or just your flesh and blood."
"But what is the connection between these and the championship of the competition?"
On the paper, Xiang Nan drew three more puppets of the Sky Peering Five Layer, and said, "These three are the prizes for the championship. Could it be that these three puppets are what Tianxuanzong wants?"
"No, although the realm of these three puppets is high, they are not treasures to Yipintang, and they will not spend such a high price to fight for them."
"There must be some details that I missed, or even you and I don't know."
Xiang Nan walked up and down the room, thinking constantly.
As time passed, Su Ran clutched her stomach and said, "I'm hungry, can I go down and have something to eat?"
Su Ran looked at her helplessly, and said, "Mortal, alas."
He had no choice but to take her downstairs for dinner.
At the dining table, Su Ran quietly looked at Xiang Nan while eating.
"Look at what?" Xiang Nan asked.
Su Ran said with a smile: "I found out that I really didn't hire you for nothing, you are indeed very good."
"I said it earlier." Xiang Nan said, "It's just that you don't believe it."
"You're in big trouble, do you know? Thanks to you, you can still laugh."
Su Ran didn't care too much: "What are you afraid of? I've escaped alive now. Are those who hunted down me very powerful?"
"My relationship in Amethyst City is very strong. When I find some powerful personal guards in the city, there is nothing I can do about them at the moment."
"You underestimate them." Xiang Nan shook his head, and said in a deep voice, "Those people are different from the warriors you understand."