Mu You got in the car with Lin Hai, who immediately hit the gas pedal and took off.
During the ride, Mu You turned on his satellite phone, using the surveillance bureau’s internal intelligence channels to look up the founder of the Lin Family.
Moments later, he found the information he was looking for.
Shu Yingshow, born in 1935, currently 87 years old, married the founder of the Lin Group in 1976 and had a child, and then...
The information was nothing special, the life of an ordinary person as expected. However, with his suspicious eyes, Mu You saw a problem. Born in 1935, married in 1976, she was already 41 years old when she got married and had a child. It wasn’t impossible, but compared to the norm, it was quite unusual.
Mu You speculated that she might be the real Pisces. Her actual age was certainly a lot more than what was shown in the records. Her name was probably changed after she came to Earth. In that era, the internet had not yet risen, and it was easy to change identities.
At this point, he noticed that Lin Hai’s driving direction was not towards the northern district, where the Lin Family was located, but towards the outskirts.
Seeing the surroundings becoming more and more desolate, as if he was driving straight into the mountains, Mu You asked curiously, "Does your grandmother live in the mountains?"
"Yes, my grandma doesn’t like the atmosphere in the city, but has a liking for these mountains in the countryside. Many years ago, she leased this mountain, built a mansion in it, and has been living here ever since," Lin Hai explained as he drove.
During their conversation, the car entered the mountain road and soon stopped in front of a large mansion at the foot of the mountain.
Mu You got out of the car and took in the lavish estate in front of him. Lin Hai was being too modest. To say he built a house in the mountains was putting it lightly. This was clearly a luxurious manor, the kind where a bus could fit.
Mu You followed Lin Hai through the gate. Along the path, there were guards and security, but with Lin Hai leading the way, they all passed smoothly without anyone questioning Mu You’s identity.
After passing through a garden, the two arrived in a villa within the manor.
This place should be where Lin Hai’s grandmother lives. Strangely, there weren’t any guards here. Lin Hai led Mu You upstairs to one of the rooms on the second floor.
In the room, there were seven or eight men and women, mostly middle-aged, who seemed to be elders of the Lin Family.
Lin Xue was also there, sitting by the bedside of an elderly woman, feeding her medicine.
The elderly woman lying in the only bed was frail and thin, with white hair and sunken features. Her nose was attached to an oxygen tube, and her body was covered with IV tubes and medical devices.
The elderly woman herself was staring blankly at the ceiling, not moving at all. It was only when Lin Xue brought a spoon to her lips that she moved them slightly. Nevertheless, she could only manage to swallow a bit of the spoonful, instantly spitting out the same amount.
Despite this, Lin Xue continued to feed her patiently, spoonful by spoonful, immediately wiping away any medicine that was spat out with a towel.
As the two entered the room, the people inside turned their gaze towards the door. They were all taken aback when they saw the figure standing behind Lin Hai.
One of the middle-aged men came over immediately, looked at Mu You with knitted brows and asked in a low voice, "Little Hai, who is this?"
"Second Uncle, this is a master healer I invited to treat Grandmother!" Lin Hai quickly explained.
"Nonsense! What are you thinking, inviting strangers into our house at such a critical time?" The man’s brows furrowed even more, clearly displeased.
But Mu You noticed that even when they were scolding each other, they were whispering, as if afraid to disturb the old woman.
Lin Xue, standing by the bed, had by then noticed Mu You at the entrance and called out in surprise. She quickly put down the bowl and spoon, placed a towel on the elderly woman’s chest and walked over to him.
"What brings you here?" Lin Xue asked as she approached.
"Sister, the master said that he could cure Grandma!" Lin Hai quickly chimed in.
However, by now, the old woman in the bed had also noticed the activity in the room.
When her cloudy eyes fell on Mu You near the door, her body stiffened and her pupils contracted sharply. She suddenly became agitated, and reached out shakily in his direction, as if trying to grasp something. She made a hoarse whimpering sound in his throat but couldn’t form complete sentences.
At the same time, all the medical instruments in the room started fluctuating and sounding various alarms.
All the people in the room were shocked, thinking that the old woman was having another episode, and hurriedly crowded around her.
Lin Xue was also startled and was about to rush back to the bed, but was stopped by Mu You.
"Give this to your grandmother." Mu You handed the bottle of Potent Purification Potion to Lin Xue.
Lin Xue looked at the blue bottle in her hand, then looked into Mu You’s eyes. She nodded and walked to the bedside to slowly pour the medicine into the old woman’s mouth.
The medicine seemed to have magical properties. It was not liquid but seemed like a condensed gas. It immediately turned into strands of blue airflow and sank into the elderly woman’s body as soon as she took it.
Much to everybody’s surprise, as soon as the medicine entered her mouth, the old woman calmed down, and all the instruments monitoring her vitals quickly stabilized.
Then, something more unexpected happened: the elderly woman sat up on the bed, supported by her arms, and even started to speak.
"Everyone... leave...please..."
The hoarse voice broke up between words, showing that the elderly woman was still very weak. But for a woman that all the doctors had declared only had three days to live, being able to speak was a miracle in itself.
However, her words puzzled everyone present: was she asking them all to leave so she could be alone with this stranger?
"I said... everyone... leave..."
The old woman raised her voice when she noticed that no one was moving.
At this, everyone hurriedly calmed her and promptly left the room.
"Little Snow, you go out too..."
The old woman’s voice softened considerably when speaking to Lin Xue.
Lin Xue looked at her grandmother, then at Mu You, and nodded. She silently left the room and closed the door.
Only when there were only two people left in the room did the old woman lookup at Mu You. She tried her best to smile, then took a moment to choose her words before saying, "Child, I sense a familiar energy in you... do you... recognize..."
She couldn’t finish her sentence because she saw the Canary appearing on Mu You’s shoulder.
The Canary flew to the bedside, stopped by the old woman’s hand and said, "Al..."
At this call, a tide of emotions the old woman had suppressed for half her life could no longer be held back, and she tearfully exclaimed, "Master Vivian... I knew it... I knew you were still alive..."