It wasn't until the moon had set and the night was deep and quiet that Alicia recovered from her excitement. She looked up and saw He Ao standing beside her. Her face flushed.

"Master He Ao, you don't need to wait for me..."

He Ao saw that she had recovered, smiled, and said softly, "It's nothing. I have something I need your help with."

Alifia stared blankly at He Ao for a moment, "Huh?"

He Ao looked at her. "Do you have a picture of your father? Can I see it?"

Alifia was taken aback and shook her head. "My father rarely took photos. After he disappeared, my grandfather hid all the photos related to him. I only kept one, but I lost it on the way here. I don't have any photos of my father on my phone either."

Prince Ronnie also disliked having his picture taken and left almost no photographs. Only some simple press releases contain photos of him as a child and teenager.

Moreover, Prince Ronnie disappeared when he was very young. So much time has passed, and people's appearances may have changed due to the influence of their living environment.

After a moment's thought, Heo went into the inner room, took out a pen and a notebook, and looked at Alifia. "Could you describe what your father looks like?"

Alifia looked at the notebook in He Ao's hand and nodded, "Okay!"

And so, one described and the other depicted, and time passed by, minute by minute.

Although He Ao inherited Vian's painting memories and could reproduce Vian's painting techniques through detailed muscle control, Vian did not have the skill of reproducing a portrait through 'description'.

However, once you understand one method, you can apply it to many others. Through continuous drawing and revision, Heo managed to roughly sketch the appearance of Alifia's father.

Alifia looked at He Ao's final portrait, her gaze flickering. Finally, she looked up at He Ao and said, "Master He Ao, you are truly amazing."

"This is for you."

Heo tore the portrait down and handed it to Aliphia.

“Eh?” Alifia was taken aback. “You don’t want it?”

"I don't need it anymore."

He Ao shook his head. He had already memorized it. Once he finished drawing this portrait, he probably wouldn't look at it again.

Alifia hesitated for a moment, then slowly took the portrait, her eyes shimmering with a hint of light.

She paused for a moment,

"Thank you."

"You've spent so much time with me too."

He Ao yawned, put away his notebook, and turned to walk into the inner room. "It's getting late, you should get some rest."

Alifia glanced at He Ao, then at the drawing paper in her arms, and carefully put it away.

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Elphia is very talented and of good quality.

People who value relationships are unlikely to do things that betray their teachers or ancestors.

He Ao closed the door to the inner room and sat on the bed.

Next, he will verify a hypothesis.

He slowly closed his eyes.

-

The deathly silence awakens those who are asleep.

He opened his eyes, sat up in bed, and glanced at the gray sky outside the window and the city, which was in a state of deathly silence.

He straightened his clothes, smoothed out the wrinkles on his sleeves, and calmly opened the door.

A dark shadow appeared in his field of vision.

The shadow was standing in front of the door, reaching out as if to push open the door to the inner room.

It remained motionless, looking ahead, seemingly watching Heo standing in front of it.

In one day, from the courtyard gate to the inner room.

Perhaps when He Ao wakes up next time, this shadow will appear beside him.

If there is a next time.

The moment He saw the shadow, some of his preconceived notions were confirmed. He gazed at the somewhat terrifying and unsettling figure and smiled.

"You came."

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The light of dawn shone on the somewhat chilly courtyard.

It is now early spring, but the mornings in Ellen still carry a slight chill.

It's a bit early today; the martial arts school's students haven't arrived yet.

He Ao stepped past the door and looked toward the corner of the yard.

The girl in the pure white training clothes was bending down, slowly practicing the boxing techniques she had learned yesterday.

The light of dawn shone on the girl's delicate cheeks.

In He Ao's vision, at dawn, a wisp of extremely subtle energy was seeping into the girl's skin and merging into her body, following her movements.

This energy flowed through the girl's entire body, and then, with each move, slowly transformed into her own power.

This process was not easy; the girl's movements were slower and heavier than usual.

As she finished a set of punches, fine beads of sweat appeared on her forehead, and wisps of white mist escaped from her mouth.

She took a deep breath, gathered her senses, and looked up. She saw He Ao standing at the door, and a joyful expression immediately appeared on her face. "Master He Ao!"

"morning"

He Ao smiled and nodded at her, "Fill in the gaps, and then consolidate."

Alifia's movements were even more skillful than last night, and she was gradually getting back on track. The next step was to keep practicing and refining her skills.

At this stage, the improvement in practice and thinking is not as significant as before, but the effort required will not decrease.

"Ok!"

Alifia had practiced martial arts since childhood, so she naturally understood what He Ao meant. She nodded heavily and then asked carefully, "Master He Ao, have you had breakfast? I have some dumplings here."

Do you sell dumplings around here?

He Ao was somewhat puzzled.

There aren't many Middle-earth people in Ellen City; the nearest supermarket selling Middle-earth goods is ten kilometers away.

"I made these myself yesterday while I was off work."

Alifia chuckled and whispered.

He Ao thought for a moment, then nodded slightly. "Thank you."

······

Alifia went to the kitchen and cooked dumplings. The two ate quickly, and at that moment, Heo received a message.

The source of the message was the military police captain, and a document file was also attached.

[This is the case information I could access concerning those opposition leaders; I hope it will be helpful to you.]

He Ao quickly replied with a "[Thank you]".

Then I opened the file.

The document contains case information organized by time and individuals.

There weren't many cases involving opposition leaders, but the military police captain listed not only those directly related to the opposition leaders, but also those that might be indirectly related to them.

The military police captain listed all these cases, including some trivial ones, which were arranged in a dense, dozens of pages.

He Ao's gaze swept quickly across the documents, his attention settling on the information of several people who were suspected of being assassinated by Jin Ya two years ago.

Clearly, the information the military police captain had was rather basic; most of the information he provided consisted of cases involving lost cats and dogs, or catching thieves.

However, many

Things are often hidden in the details, and these documents may contain some details that are not easily noticed.

He Ao got up and walked into the courtyard. As the morning light shone on him, his gaze fell on a certain line of text on the document.

Among the people Jin Ya had assassinated, one of the servants had reported a suspicious person in the neighborhood a month before his master was assassinated.

The final investigation of this case yielded no results.

However, considering the subsequent assassination attempt, it seems that Kim Ah was scouting the area.

He quickly flipped through the files of the other assassinated people, but none of them had reported such an incident.

He thought for a moment, then took a longer timeframe and carefully examined whether these people had filed similar reports in the previous few years.

He then discovered that, between four and three years ago, almost every one of these people who were subsequently assassinated had reported a suspicious person in their vicinity.

The reports of crimes were not evenly distributed, with intervals of one or two months or even three or four months. Most of them came from servants, and in the end, they were often left unresolved.

He Ao paused for a moment.

If the 'suspicious individuals' these people saw were all Jin Ya, and Jin Ya had been 'visiting' her enemies during that period, does this mean that Jin Ya never left Ruodan during those years? Or even Ellen City?

He Aosi pondered as he walked out of the courtyard gate.

As he walked out, he opened the research institute's software and sent a message to Li Le, asking for the exact location of Moonlight at Ruodan's headquarters.

[At 17 West Road, something seems to have happened inside Moonlight. The entire Moonlight headquarters, Ruodan, is under martial law and no one can enter or leave.]

Li Le quickly replied, then sent a message: "[However, it seems that Moonlight is looking for Hao Yi.]"

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