"What happened after that..."
How did Wei Bo choose
He agreed to the other party's request.
From then on, the Wei family became their base for infiltrating the underground world.
The bodies of Wei Shishi's parents were also taken away by the other party, on the grounds that they needed to go above ground to resurrect them because there were no corresponding medical facilities in the underground world.
Wei Bai wanted to go with them, but the other party only brought him above the ground, let him see the sunlight for the first time, and then sent him back to the underground world.
The other party told Wei Bai that he needed to complete his mission and let the Wei family help the humans on the ground to infiltrate the underground human base. After that, he would not only be able to see his son again, but also be able to... achieve eternal life.
The sunlight that underground humans had not seen for thousands of years appeared before him, making him extremely excited. In addition, he had also arrived at the ground through teleportation at that time, so he almost did not doubt the other party's words.
At that time, he had no choice but to trust the other party. He could only trust the other party. There was nothing else he could do.
After Wei Bai returned to the underground world, he began to make plans.
"At the critical moment, some people who have been planning for thousands of years are completely missing." Wei Shishi glanced at Xu Ying.
"Ah... I have never been to that era..."
After Xu Ying met the young Wei Bai fifty years ago, she traveled directly to the present fifty years later.
How could she know that so many things happened during this period...
Previously, they traveled according to the fifty-year boundary.
After all, they can't influence the direction of the world too frequently, otherwise there might be big problems. Most importantly, they themselves can't withstand too many times of time travel because time and space are already distorted.
Traveling back a thousand years at intervals of fifty years each time is already the limit for them to ensure world stability and their own safety.
Obviously, there were almost no major problems with the previous time travel, but the last time, it was ruined...
“嘤…” Keke didn’t know whether she understood or not. She crawled two steps on the table and tugged at Wei Shishi’s sleeve with her little paws.
Wei Shishi's expression softened a little and she touched Coco's head.
This was the first time that Coco let a stranger touch it without dodging.
"For a year, Grandpa seemed to be in a state of depression in his room, but he was actually operating in secret, allowing those humans on the ground to infiltrate the ground."
Wei Shishi explained with lowered eyebrows.
"As for why he didn't use his identity as the head of the family to do this, firstly, he cannot be seen doing certain things. If he were the head of the family, he might be mistaken for missing, and it would be difficult for him to explain. Secondly, because... if he did this, the other party's infiltration progress would be slower."
As she spoke, she looked at Xu Xin and Xu Ying again.
"During that time, Grandpa has been waiting for you to come. If you had come, he might not have to continue doing this kind of thing."
"But you... didn't come until today, twenty years later."
Xu Ying sighed softly, not knowing what to say.
Wei Shishi continued, "A year later, the other party had almost penetrated underground, and they were very satisfied with the results. Grandpa no longer needed to contact them frequently, so they took Grandpa to the World Tree and injected him with a drug."
"Although that potion cannot make people immortal, it can slow down aging. That day, not only did Grandpa's haggard appearance return to the state before my parents died, but his aging speed also slowed down. That was the day I went to deliver food to Grandpa, and Grandpa also naturally... resumed his status as the head of the family."
Xu Xin whispered to himself, "Isn't that a blood vein mutation? It turns out that the other party also has this method to extend lifespan without the help of blood vein mutation."
"But there is a price to pay." Xu Ying said at this time, "The medicine they injected into Wei Bo must be injected once every once in a while, otherwise it will accelerate aging and cause death quickly, and it will also affect his mental state to a certain extent."
Wei Shishi nodded: "After that, Grandpa had no way to resist them. And by then he already knew that my parents... would never come back..."
After Wei Shishi finished speaking, she picked up the cup, took a sip of water, and fell silent.
Xu Xin had a lot of questions he wanted to ask, but seeing Wei Shishi's expression, he was unable to bring himself to ask.
"Let me tell you what happened next." Xu Ying took over the conversation and said, "I went to discuss this matter with Wei Shishi first, and then we went to question Wei Bo together. Well, my sister-in-law was also there at the time."
"When Wei Bo saw us, he wasn't surprised at all. Because he had great confidence in me. He knew that I would find out everything he did, so he was waiting for me to question him. He was already prepared for everything."
"So, he told us the story just now. He told us that he actually didn't know which of the people in the Wei family and this city were running dogs and which were replaced. Even he was kept in the dark about this."
"But he knows that in the past twenty years, the other party has been sending some people from the underground world to the surface. In the past twenty years, the number of missing people counted has more than doubled."
"He also told us that the Wei family's military factories are now under the control of the other party."
"For the past twenty years, he has been living in pain. He has been controlled by the other party. The people of the Wei family have been replaced, and people in the city have been taken away for research. Facing all this, he is controlled and can no longer resist."
"Even if he is not controlled, he cannot resist. Because once he resists, all lives will be destroyed. So... he places his hope on us."
Xu Ying pointed at herself and then at Xu Xin.
"In his opinion, only we can break this situation. Only with our arrival can the underground human base escape the fate of losing at least half of its population. Before that, he must pretend to be submissive and hold out until we arrive."
"Then we came. He...finally couldn't hold on any longer. He was caught off guard and committed suicide in front of us."
Xu Ying spoke very calmly. She did not say how Wei Bai committed suicide, and Xu Xin did not ask.
After all, there is the biggest party involved next to him.
Wei Shishi exhaled with a trembling breath and looked up: "Grandpa has really been waiting for you to come. I have secretly seen him mumbling Xu Ying's name more than once, in a daze, and even in tears. When I asked him, he just said that was the person he most wanted to see before he died."
Xu Ying pursed her lips.
It was precisely because of this that Wei Shishi was so unfriendly to her when she first met her.
Her grandfather waited for her in agony for twenty years.
Maybe it was because she imagined a lot of unrealistic things.
Or maybe Wei Bo used some more casual words in order to prevent her from caring too much.
But in short, Wei Shishi will no longer treat her in that way.
"… Can those lackeys of the alien invaders really cause great suffering to the underground world?" Xu Xin asked the question he wanted to ask, "If this is true, why do they still go to so much trouble to infiltrate the underground world?"
"… No." Xu Ying shook her head. "The people who came here are not the survivors from a thousand years ago, but the survivors from a thousand years later."
She pointed at Xu Xin and said, "They are the first few batches of your group. Their level is about the same as yours, um... slightly better. After all, they have alien technology as their backing."
"That… "
"That's right, Wei Bo... has been kept in the dark the whole time."
Xu Ying bit her lip and couldn't help sighing again.
"Those people don't have that much power. The previous incident of sending those mutant creatures to major cities was probably the largest-scale event they could do. The Wei family is actually... capable of protecting it."
According to their previous deductions, it was not the alien invaders as a whole who discovered the underground world, but that... half-human, half-monster guy that Shi Wanyun had seen before.
The monster did not let other alien invaders know about the underground world, so there has never been a large-scale attack here.
But without the help of alien invaders, there are limits to what the half-human, half-monster can do on his own.
It is impossible for it to destroy all the creatures in the underground world by itself. The most it can do is launch some beast attacks and surprise raids from time to time.
So, if Wei Bo didn't give in to the other party, maybe...
"How could Grandpa have thought of such a thing at that time!"
Wei Shishi slammed the table in a somewhat inappropriate manner: "At that time, the mutants had already attacked the heart of the human base! Even my parents, who were under the special protection of the Wei family... Doesn't that mean they can kill everyone at will?"
"That's not what I meant..." Xu Ying explained hurriedly, "I meant..."
“… If this is really the case, then grandpa’s entire life would be…” Wei Shishi clenched her teeth.
"What your grandfather did was the right choice."
Xu Xin was silent for two seconds.
"If the underground world is not breached and penetrated for a long time, the half-human, half-monster may think that the underground world is of no use, and then it is very likely to leak the information of the underground world to other alien invaders out of anger. By then, the underground world will probably be completely destroyed."
"So, what your grandfather did was the safest and most correct approach."
Xu Xin's words made Wei Shishi feel a little relieved: "Really... Grandpa, didn't do anything wrong..."
Xu Xin raised his hand and looked at the time.
Although he still had many questions to ask, a lot of time had passed.
The time in the World Tree is passing by at a hundred times the speed.
As for the details, we'll talk about them later.
"Okay, I know the facts. Now it's time to get down to business. Gather the people from the Wei family and tell them that I have something to say." Xu Xin stood up and said.
"… good."
Wei Shishi immediately picked up the communication device and started to send orders.
"Yingying, how do we build those weapons refining factories?" Xu Xin turned and looked at Xu Ying who was thinking about something.
"Huh? Ah, the factory was controlled by the other party before, so I went there and made a big fuss, cleared out the people there, and most of the equipment was half-destroyed." Xu Ying said something a little outrageous in a casual manner.
The time and space around Xu Ying are beginning to become chaotic, probably because of this incident, right
"You said before that it can be repaired. So... just move it up there like this?" Xu Xin asked.
"Well, the main body is fine. Let's just move them up there. In fact, if it weren't for our World Tree that has a hundred times the speed of time, I wouldn't even plan to move them up there. It's actually pretty good down there too."
The plan to move the factory up there was decided after Xu Ying went up there and learned that the flow rate of the World Tree was extremely abnormal.
"It's useless to be told this, so let's get started now."
"Oh, no hurry, leave the transfer to me, it's easy. Brother, your mission is to eliminate the traitors within the Wei family and make sure that those who follow us up have no problems."
"I see."
After that, everything went smoothly.
All the people of the Wei family were gathered together. Xu Xin used mind reading to confirm and found no less than twenty people whose minds could not be read.
And there is no problem for those who can read minds.
After finalizing the list, Xu Ying selected some people from outside of these people, and gathered them individually in a factory in the mountains to explain the situation to them.
These people were all workers and technicians engaged in weapons manufacturing. After hearing their explanation, they were all shocked beyond words.
"God! It's really God!"
"Oh my god! Am I... am I... am I going back to the ground?!"
"I... am I going to see the sun!"
“Are we going to realize the dream that mankind has not realized for thousands of years?”
"It's so unreal... This happened so suddenly..."
"Why is this so sudden? Our gods have appeared, isn't this normal?"
"God... didn't they say they were just humans who traveled through time using technology?"
"Ah? They can take me to the ground and let me see the legendary sun. They are gods!"
"Isn't sunlight very dangerous? Won't it cause skin ulcers and death if it shines on your body?"
"Damn, you believe all the rumors spread by the other two families? Are you still a member of the Wei family?"
"My last name isn't Wei... I've only been here for a short time, it turns out those were just rumors!"
"Huh? You're a newcomer to the factory? Then you're really lucky!"
"What about my wife and children? Can they come with us?"
"Yeah, I can't go up alone, right?"
"It's not impossible, just treat it as a business trip?"
Naturally, their families must be brought along as well, since once they go up there they won’t come down again.
This is very convenient. Those who work for the Wei family weapons workshop, for the principle of confidentiality, have their families live in the Wei family.
Xu Xin and Xu Ying gave them two hours to find their families and pack necessities.
Two hours may seem rushed, but it was the maximum allowance they could give.
If there are more, they won’t know what the place looks like when they return.
During these two hours, Xu Xin and Wei Shishi used the existing information to compile the information of those problematic people and gave it to Xu Ying.
Xu Ying originally planned to act decisively and get rid of these people directly, but was stopped by Xu Xin, who gave her his bracelet and told her to put all those people into the bracelet.
To collect the bracelet requires the other party's permission, but all you have to do is knock them out, which is a piece of cake for Xu Ying.
Maybe we can get something out of these people, so let's detain them for the time being.
However, they should all be survivors from the first few batches, and they probably know less than Xu Xin.
When Xu Ying finished doing all this, everyone had gathered at the factory.
Xu Xin and Xu Ying did not ask these people to keep it a secret, so the news that they were about to go to the ground had already spread throughout the Wei family and even continued to spread outward.
The entire Wei family was in an uproar at this moment.
Everyone gathered here had an excited look on their face.
Xu Xin used his mind-reading ability to check the situation of these people and found that there was no problem.
"You guys are really going to get me in trouble."
Wei Shishi rubbed her head in distress.
“Your message has spread. It won’t be long before everyone knows that the two gods have come to our Wei family and brought a group of people back to the ground. They will know that there is no danger on the ground and it is even more suitable for survival than underground.
Also... there are a lot of news about you two out there, some of which point to the Wei family. Now our Wei family may not be at peace."
The news is all over the place, probably thanks to that reporter.
"That's exactly what I meant." Xu Ying smiled and patted her shoulder. "Just try your best to get everyone to the ground. The arduous task is now up to you. We won't say any more. Let's go up first."
"I always feel that you are very anxious." Wei Shishi was puzzled.
"Time flows a hundred times faster, even you are anxious. Okay, let's... meet in a few hours?"
"How many hours?"
"Haha, maybe it won't take that long!"
Just like that, Xu Xin and Xu Ying returned to the World Tree with all the people and things they needed.