Chapter 19: Encounter with a Beauty (Three)

  "Lost some memories?" Zhang Fan's mind was filled with many thoughts. The empty space in the sea of consciousness before Count Yekaterina's death, wasn't it similar to losing memories? And Long Yi's abnormal behavior, wasn't it also a result of someone controlling his spirit and invading his sea of consciousness? Could it be that all these events were connected by an invisible thread? Then what did Ouni represent on this thread? Were their events related to the missing Professor Ouyang?

  "I think that's it, I don't remember what my name is, it seems to be Ouni or something! Because when you asked me what my name was, the first thing that came to mind was this name." She buried her head in Zhang Fan's chest and changed positions to snuggle closer to him.

  "What I remember is not much, such as my childhood, where I went to school, my parents, why I was in that place and why I escaped from there. And that man, why did he give me the invitation to go to the small wooden house to find someone, and that person is you." Ouni's words brought a series of shocks to Zhang Fan. How many things could be connected? Zhang Fan only felt that an iceberg was slowly emerging from Ouni's words.

  "Start from the beginning, we have plenty of time to listen." Although anxious, Ouni's words were soothing to Zhang Fan. Perhaps things would become clearer as they went along.

  "I think I just remember that valley!"

  "Mountain valley?" Zhang Fan quickly searched his mind, how many mountain valleys were nearby, and which ones might put Ouni in danger.

  "I don't know where that was, I could only tell it was a valley. As for why I was in that valley, I have no idea. What happened to me in the valley, I also don't know. All I remember is when I was in the valley, there was only one thought in my mind, which was to escape, to get out of this place. I remember being very scared at that time, but I didn't know why I was scared, it just was. It felt like there was something particularly frightening in the valley that would make something terrible happen to me. All I could think about was escaping, escaping. The valley was so long, so quiet, you couldn't hear any human voices on the road. But the more it was like that, the more scared I became. Because I didn't know what would appear, what would jump out and devour me."

  "And then?" Ouni's words were a bit disjointed, like someone recounting their dreams, without a beginning or an end, just a feeling. What Zhang Fan needed to do was find the information he needed, or what was useful to him, from these disjointed pieces of information.

  "Then..." Ouni furrowed her brow, constantly recalling what happened afterwards. "Oh, then I went to that small wooden hut, where a man would be waiting. Handing the invitation over to that man was enough."

  Anyone who hears Ouni's incoherent words would feel frustrated, right? She started talking about something she couldn't remember, only recalling that she had to escape, and then said she was going to a small wooden house to find a man and give him an invitation. Zhang Fan was shocked when he first heard this. The small wooden house was known only to a few people, so how did Ouni know the place? And who gave her the invitation to go to the small wooden house and hand it over to Zhang Fan? Was that person Long Yi? Ouni seemed to be confusing herself with her own words, her mind struggling to untangle the knots.

  "Man?" She turned over, Ouni raised her face, opened her beautiful big eyes, and carefully searched for relevant clues in her mind. "Who is he?"

  "Who is that?" Zhang Fan heard this, and was immediately drawn to the person in Ouni's words. Who else besides herself would be remembered by Ouni? Was it that man who gave her an invitation?

  "I seem to recall a man, who was indeed a man, gave me an invitation and helped me escape from that valley, also giving me an address, telling me to hand the invitation over to someone appearing in a small cottage."

  "Is that right?" Zhang Fan roughly figured out a clue. Ouni was trapped in the valley by an unknown person for an unknown reason, and a man helped her escape. The condition was that she would help deliver an invitation to the person who appeared in the small cabin. And that person was actually looking for Professor Ouyang's disappearance, so who would be trying to convey this message to himself in the valley, what does it mean?

  "Yes, but why did he give me that invitation?" Ouni asked herself and Zhang Fan. For someone who doesn't know their past, sometimes the past can be like a puzzle that traps them in a fog, unable to shake it off or escape.

  "Do you still remember what that man looked like?" Ouni's words reminded Zhang Fan of a person, who was the number one special agent Long Yi, saved by Zhang Fan outside the small wooden house but didn't say anything valuable before jumping off the cliff. The last message from this small wooden house was indeed from Long Yi. So is it possible that Long Yi found some clues but couldn't transmit them out himself and could only achieve his goal through this roundabout way of saving the country?

  "Hmm... He's very tall and somewhat lean. I felt his physical strength was considerable, I remember when he took me through a treacherous terrain, I almost slipped into a crevice, but he quickly reached out and pulled me up. That speed isn't something an ordinary person can achieve. However, he might be sick or something, his complexion wasn't good at all, after pulling me up, he panted for quite a while. Oh, I remember now, he's from the East just like you."

  "Eastern person?" Zhang Fan seemed to be able to confirm that the man was Long Yi, but how did Long Yi get mixed up with them?

  "Yes, like you, we are Easterners, I think you should be from the same place! The tone of speech, as well as the temperament cultivated under the same cultural influence, are surprisingly similar." Ouni was somewhat delighted that she could recall some things and confirm some matters.

  "Where did you meet him?" Zhang Fan wanted to determine as soon as possible where Long Yi had gone and what he had investigated about Professor Ouyang's disappearance.

  "I met him right in the valley! He gave me an invitation letter, and then I met you."

  "Then where did you go after we parted ways?" Zhang Fan didn't know whether what Ouni said was true or false. As for Ouni, Zhang Fan actually had a lot of thoughts about her in his heart. From a simple man's perspective, even an immortal would be moved by such a beauty as Ouni. However, apart from being a man, Zhang Fan was also a man with responsibilities on his shoulders. Therefore, apart from appreciating Ouni's beauty, what he considered more important was to find clues related to Professor Ouyang's disappearance case from her!

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  Unfortunately, something unexpected happened - the network went down, and I had to use dial-up with a small cat...

  Sorry, sorry...