Xiang Beifei stared at Xiao Sheng.
This guy, he had been secretly surveilling them for such a long time?
"So the cameras in my house were also installed by you?" Xiang Beifei inquired.
"I just wanted to make sure he wouldn't get into trouble."
Xiao Sheng did not deny it. The cameras weren't items from his system, but he could obtain them.
"Surveillance is not a good habit," Xiang Beifei said indifferently.
"After you became famous at the school, a lot of people had their eyes on him, so I had to take further steps to ensure his safety," Xiao Sheng replied calmly, without any sense of urgency in his speech.
Xiang Beifei still did not completely trust this man.
"Are you Unrestrained?"
"No," Xiao Sheng responded indifferently.
"Then why do you want to protect my grandfather?" Xiang Beifei asked.
Xiao Sheng did not answer immediately but sat on the ground tending to his own wounds. His injuries were quite severe, the bleeding had stopped, but his breath was still very chaotic.
He took out some herbs and potions from his system space and poured them over his wounds in one go.
He had a very powerful fusion ability, able to extract any component suitable for healing his wounds from any herb and merge it into his injuries.
About a minute later, he said, "Your father once saved my life; I needed to do something."
"That reason isn't sufficient."
Xiang Beifei wasn't so easily convinced. He watched Xiao Sheng while he was still reviewing the system logs of the last few days, checking what Xiao Sheng did while he was missing.
But there didn't seem to be anything suspicious.
"That is the only reason I have, believe it or not," Xiao Sheng said as his wound started to heal. He looked up at Xiang Beifei and spoke in a calm voice, "I didn't expect you to grow so quickly. You're nothing like the youth I knew from years ago."
"I just 'awakened the system,'" Xiang Beifei said.
The somewhat autistic youth from years ago wasn't Xiang Beifei. He had only come to this world last April.
After all, as a martial artist in the God Refining stage, Xiao Sheng's cultivation and strength were incredibly powerful. He observed Xiang Beifei from a great distance, and at that time, the newly system-awakened Xiang Beifei couldn't detect him at once. As for four years ago, that autistic youth was even less likely to notice.
Xiao Sheng had to agree.
In this world where everyone could exploit glitches, many people changed suddenly, starting from the moment they awakened their systems.
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Because no matter what kind of earth-shattering changes a person undergoes, no matter how bizarre their behavior is compared to the original person's character and actions, it can be explained by the system.
So Xiao Sheng did not give it much thought.
"Have you been monitoring us all along?"
"I was only responsible for looking after you, to prevent you from getting into trouble," Xiao Sheng said, "After you entered Liangzhou University, with Ye Changfeng and Professor Luo there, I stopped paying attention to you and only looked after the old master."
Xiang Beifei was still pondering the credibility of Xiao Sheng's words.
Xiao Sheng didn't try to make Xiang Beifei believe anything in particular. He answered when asked and kept silent otherwise, without any rush to provide explanations to gain Xiang Beifei's trust.
"How much do you know about my grandfather?"
Xiang Beifei scrutinized Xiao Sheng, who looked completely different from the "waiter Xiao Zhang" he met for the first time. That Xiao Zhang appeared very cheerful and was very enthusiastic.
But the Xiao Sheng in front of him wasn't.
The real Xiao Sheng didn't seem like someone who liked to show his feelings through his expressions. Even after going through a life-threatening battle, it seemed like he didn't take it to heart. Even when Xiang Beifei displayed the strength of the God Refining stage, he accepted it easily.
"Not much, only that he is not just a simple N-level Awakener," Xiao Sheng said soberly.
"And the reason he came here?"
"I'm not sure, he just sits on this mountain and stares off into space," Xiao Sheng said, pointing behind him.
Xiang Beifei turned to look but did not see any peak.
The clash between the four God Refining stage individuals had caused immense destruction, with debris scattered across two to three miles radius, leaves and branches strewn all over, and several mountains were even cut in half, crushing a lot of vegetation.
"Wait," Xiao Sheng said.
The dirt around seemed to be churning slightly, as if something was trying to crawl out from underground, but Xiang Beifei quickly realized it wasn't that there was something beneath but rather the soil itself was comme reassembling autonomously.
The earth was arching upward, and the shattered rocks began stacking, slowly forming the outline of a mountain.
About ten minutes later, a mountain peak over fifty meters tall had rapidly risen, and this mountain continued to grow. As it reassembled, many weeds and plants also grew from the land and covered its surface.
In the vast wilderness outside the domain, many plants were incredibly resilient. The soil was full of various plant spores. Even the martial artists at the God Refining stage weren't able to completely destroy them at once; they would grow rapidly, and an area that had been destroyed a few days could recover quite a bit.
"This mountain is three hundred and sixty-one meters tall. Anything can happen in the wilderness outside the domain. Many desolate beasts like to build mountains as nests, so the rugged mountains you often see are often reshaped by different desolate beasts with their abilities."
For a desolate beast to create a large mountain wasn't difficult; the wilderness outside the domain had a very strange terrain because different terrains were home to different desolate beasts. Sometimes, they would forcibly transform some areas to suit their own survival.