Xyrin Empire

Chapter 147: Chapter 147: The Remarkable Old Master

We watched the old man in front of us, somewhat nervously, unsure why he had kept us alone.

From the beginning, I felt I couldn’t see through this old man’s thoughts, whether it was his shocking “matchmaking” between me and Lin Xue, or his unreasonable defense of me, a sudden outsider whose name nobody had ever heard. It just didn’t make sense.

“Thanks to you speaking out,” Lin Yangtian said leisurely while sipping his tea, “it’s obvious that the Princess only listens to you. If it weren’t for you, I might have been turned into a block of ice by now…”

“…You knew?”

I immediately asked in surprise, maybe this calm old man had noticed the temperature drop just now, but to think about what could happen next—this was absolutely not something ordinary people could imagine. Ordinary people would merely consider it a strange weather occurrence, only those who could perceive energy flows would understand what was happening.

“Of course I knew, otherwise why would I send Zheng Feng and the others away, who are ordinary people? I guess, the super strength and cold air must be the Princess’ superpowers, right? At first, even I was startled that a princess of a nation could actually be the leader of a Superpower Organization…”

“Grandpa, you…”

Lin Xue finally lost her composure. The ordinary old man who usually stayed out of worldly affairs and spent his time practicing boxing or walking birds now knew so much about the existence of the Superpower Users, even aware of Sandora’s supposed identity as a leader of the Superpower Organization—it was hard to accept.

This development felt like the sleazy uncle who sells spicy hot sticks at the street corner suddenly transforming into Ultraman to save the world right in front of you. It was absurd.

Wait… Leader of the Superpower Organization? Wasn’t this something we made up in the Sahara Desert to handle Ding Ling?

We both thought of this at the same time and then turned our questioning gaze towards Ding Ling, who also showed a puzzled look like ours.

“Haha, I didn’t expect Little Xue to be so observant, yet she didn’t realize her own grandfather’s identity…” Lin Yangtian laughed heartily, and then we saw this seemingly ordinary old man suddenly undergo a transformation.

He became taller, his skin gradually paled, and his grayish-white hair completely turned silvery-white. From his physique, he no longer bore any resemblance to the old man he once was.

As Lin Yangtian “transformed,” both Lin Xue and Ding Ling’s eyes gradually filled with shock. When Lin Yangtian finally took out a black mask from within his clothes and put it on his face, they couldn’t help but exclaim in alarm: “Old man?”

Lin Yangtian’s resigned voice came from behind the black mask, sounding stifled, “You two girls have been calling me that for so many years, can’t you change it up?”

“What is this situation?” We were collectively baffled, mutually expressing our inability to comprehend this wondrous old man.

“The leader of the Superpower Organization, what do you think?” Lin Xue rolled her eyes at us, then addressed Lin Yangtian: “Old man… uh, grandpa, can you explain?”

Lin Yangtian took off the controversial mask and looking up to the sky, laughed, saying, “Well, that’s a long story… Ah, the beard… the beard…”

We watched in cold sweat as Lin Xue skillfully yanked out a handful of beard from Lin Yangtian’s chin, feeling quite impressed with this formidable grandfather and granddaughter pair.

The plot development was truly dramatic; none of us had expected that Lin Xue’s grandfather, Lin Yangtian, who was supposed to be a major businessman, would be that elusive and supremely influential leader of the Superpower Team, the Divine Dragon often spoken about in awe. Moreover, what we didn’t anticipate was that Lin Xue, having been in the Superpower Team for so long, had also never realized she had been working for her own grandfather all this time. If it hadn’t been for our appearance, Lin Yangtian’s true identity might have remained hidden even longer.

“Really, you wouldn’t even tell me about such a big thing, and I’m your granddaughter…”

After the fuss, Lin Xue still sounded a bit angry.

“I was worried that you might not be able to handle it… After all, I didn’t have the intention for you to join the Superpower Team, and if it weren’t for the greater good and your rare talent, I really wouldn’t want you to get involved in those dangerous matters. So, I hope at least in normal times, you can have a normal life…” Lin Yangtian explained this way.

Even as the leader of a powerful Superpower Organization, he was still just an old man concerned about his granddaughter… In my eyes, Lin Yangtian’s figure grew much taller.

“And besides, Little Xue, don’t you think it’s quite fun, haha…”

Oh boy, Old man, your image just completely collapsed!

Now I understand why Lin Yangtian acted that way; being the leader of the Superpower Organization, he must have already known about our small, independent, “Superpower Team” from Ding Ling, and about our identity that we disclosed to Ding Ling – the leader of a Superpower Organization. Thus, connecting to Liu Zicai’s usual behavior, it is easy to explain why Lin Xue and I are overly close—regardless of whether the Old Master’s conjecture is true or not, at least he wouldn’t believe the rumors about me and Lin Xue; he was just teasing us from the start.

“But I wasn’t joking just now,” as if detecting my thoughts, Mr. Lin immediately adopted a serious expression, speaking earnestly, “If you two really are interested, being together is not impossible. None of us are ordinary people; your mindsets should also be more open. You two are really compatible, both Superpower Users and both very promising. Young man, you’ve become the leader of an organization at such a young age, you’d be perfect as Little Xue’s husband! As for the other two girls—Miss Xu Qianqian and the Princess over there—can tolerate it, I think… Ah, whiskers, whiskers…”

“What are you thinking!” Lin Xue huffed, clenching a handful of whiskers as she angrily sat back down.

Old man, are you really some wicked writer’s tool to torment me? One Lin Xue is already enough to give me headaches!!!!

“Alright, alright, no more jokes,” Lin Yangtian stroked his chin, seeming to realize that if the ruckus continued, he might not be able to preserve even his last bit of whiskers, so he decisively decided to talk business, “The reason I met with you, even using this identity in front of Little Xue and Lingling, is that there is an important matter to discuss—between the leaders of our two organizations.”

Hearing it was time to discuss serious matters, we also had to become serious. No matter how disgraceful his earlier antics were, Lin Yangtian was still the leader of the Superpower Organization, and he wouldn’t talk nonsense at this time.

Perhaps the only one who couldn’t be serious was Sandora, who was next to me, looking impatient and continuously poking at me from behind; this girl was only concerned about today’s lunch.

But at that moment, Lin Yangtian’s words also attracted her attention.

“From Lingling, I learned that you, like us, are searching for those black crystals, and you have already acquired quite a bit of information about these crystals.”

“So, you want the information we have?” Qianqian immediately figured the most likely possibility, which also was likely to be of interest to the other party. However, though these exhausted Ghost Energy Crystals were of no use to us, easily passing on this knowledge about an energy source that’s beyond existing human technology by more than a dozen levels to them— that’s not realistic.

“No, while the research data on these crystals are important to us, that’s not the priority. What we want to know more is whether you have discovered the origin of these crystals?”

“Origin?” Sandora and I exchanged glances before responding, “Aren’t these crystals excavated from some Ancient Relics? Could there still be mines on Earth that produce such strange crystals?”

Lin Yangtian quietly looked at me, as if trying to discern my true thoughts, but in the end, he sighed and said, “It seems that our only hope has also vanished; even you don’t know the origins of these crystals…”