1030 Half A Daughter

After hearing Lin Qiao say that she needed to protect and take care of her little brother, Wu Yueling was less reluctant to go out. She could not let herself become the reason for Teng to have less fun after all.

Teng immediately lay on Wu Yueling's lap as he wielded his limbs and chuckled, "Yeah, Ling Ling, you have to protect me. You see, I'm so tiny and weak. I'm still a baby!"

Lin Qiao somehow couldn't bear watching him.

Lin Xiaolu looked at Teng and said, "Maybe you can make a few rolls on the couch so that you'll look more like a baby."

"Do I need to roll?" Teng said carelessly, "I am a baby!"

"Short arms and legs," Tongtong joined the conversation.

Teng didn't know what to say.

"Haha… Tongtong, someone might hate you for telling the truth," Lin Xiaolu covered her mouth and laughed.

"Why?" The four-year-old Tongtong was so confused, "Mommy said that kids shouldn't lie."

Lin Xiaolu didn't know how to respond to that. She thought for a moment and then said, "Well… Um… Because the truth could be unpleasant to the ears… I'm not telling you to lie… Hmm, it's not like that. Anyway… just don't always say what you want to say."

"Alright…" Tongtong nodded as he looked at her without fully understand her meaning.

An hour later, Duan Juan came back with the information about Bai Xuer and her people, while the four kids had returned to their room for a nap. Lin Qiao was waiting for Duan Juan on the couch in the living room.

"Bai Xuer and her people are up to something unusual. Their leader has been secretly gathering information about our base. Since you didn't show up in Sea City Base in the past year, they figured that you spent the whole year in All Beings Base. That's why they came to you. They wanted to get some useful information from you. I guess Bai Xuer was pretending, while it's Ding Biao who has been planning things behind her," Duan Juan handed Lin Qiao a name list and some files as she spoke.

Lin Qiao expressionlessly took over the name list and said, "I read Bai Xuer and Ding Biao's minds earlier today when I saw them. They made me a target, so let's see if they can cope with the consequences. What's that woman's story?"

"Bai Xuer has a good friend named Jiang Anan, who is a level-four earth-power possessor," Duan Juan continued, "That woman is Jiang Anan's mother. Not long ago, Jiang Anan and Bai Xuer left the base together with the hunters' group for a mission. Jiang Anan returned severely injured two days ago, and is in a coma now. I heard that she risked her own life to save Bai Xuer from danger out there and ended up in a coma. Jiang Anan's mother is ill, and Jiang Anan has been paying for her medical costs with the zombie nuclei that she earned. So now, Jiang Anan's mother doesn't have enough nuclei and credits to send her to the hospital."

"So, she went to ask Bai Xuer for help?" said Lin Qiao knowingly.

"Bai Xuer and Jiang Anan were very close," said Duan Juan, "She was Jiang Anan's only friend. I guess Jiang Anan's mother had no one else to turn to."

"Was Bai Xuer really saved by Jiang Anan?" Lin Qiao put her fingers on her chin and said, "If it were true, it's not impossible for her to leave her injured friend to die. After all, she is a very selfish person. I guess she never really saw Jiang Anan as a friend."

Lin Qiao didn't know Bai Xuer well, but from on Lu Tianyu's vague memory about her, she learned that the woman was not a good person.

"Jiang Anan did save her. Many other hunters knew about that. Ding Biao tried to cover it, but the word still spread out," Ding Biao nodded and said.

"Was Jiang Anan blind? How could she be friends with such a person…" Lin Qiao clicked her tongue and curved her lips downward.

"Perhaps Bai Xuer is too good at pretending," said Duan Juan.

Lin Qiao furrowed her brows slightly and said, "Wait! You said that Bai Xuer was Jiang Anan's only friend, right? Doesn't she have other friends?"

Duan Juan shook her head and said, "I heard that Jiang Anan is a little isolated. She doesn't like making friends. Before meeting Bai Xuer, she usually left the base alone for hunting. She joined Bai Xuer's team only after meeting her."

Lin Qiao pondered for a moment and then said, "Something doesn't feel right. I want you to find out when and how Bai Xuer met Jiang Anan. I also want Jiang Anan's background information. She was a loner, so why did she suddenly become friends with Bai Xuer? Now, Jiang Anan is in a coma, and Bai Xuer doesn't want to have anything to do with her."

Duan Juan blinked and said, "Earlier today, I found that Ding Biao seemed to want Bai Xuer to kill Jiang Anan and her mother in secret. Perhaps there is something that we don't know yet."

Lin Qiao waved a hand and said, "That's what I'm thinking. Give me Jiang Anan's location. I'm going to take a look at her."

She felt that something unknown might be happening between Bai Xuer and Jiang Anan, and that the latter might know something. So, she decided to go and see the girl before she died.

"Yes, ma'am!" Duan Juan left.

Soon, Wu Chengyue came home.

"I heard that you encountered some trouble earlier today in the market?" Wu Chengyue walked toward the stairs while talking to Lin Qiao, who nodded in response. His men were following them, so he must have known about what happened.

"I guess you don't need my help," Wu Chengyue shrugged and continued.

Lin Qiao gave him a bland glance and stayed silent. Clearly, she did not want to answer the unnecessary question.

"Oh, I heard that Ling Ling did well. She used to be strongly repulsive to crowded and strange places. She didn't seem to react strongly today." His subordinates reported to him about that, and he was happy to hear it.

"So?" Lin Qiao looked at him and said.

Wu Chengyue narrowed his eyes in a smile and said, "So, please take her out more often. I'm kinda busy, and I don't think I have the time for that."

Lin Qiao gave a cold smile and responded, "Like I'm not busy. Don't you forget that Ling Ling is your daughter, not mine."

Wu Chengyue smiled carelessly while saying, "I'm thinking of her as your daughter too. I also believe that you've actually been seeing her as your own child as well, at least half a daughter of yours, right?"

Lin Qiaos stayed silent as she could not refute that.

She liked Ling Ling. Ling Ling was a nice girl, and she loved Teng. Indeed, she had been seeing Ling Ling as one of her own children. Now that Wu Chengyue had pointed that out, she did not know how to disprove that.

As Lin Qiao didn't say a word, Wu Chengyue went upstairs smilingly. "I'm coming down later to make dinner. Of course, I won't mind if you want to do it."

"Do you want me to blow your kitchen up?" said Lin Qiao.