Su Wan then took out her personal smart brain.

Her fingertips slid rapidly across the screen, the pale blue glow illuminating her delicate features.

"Great Xia Guardian Family Resource Library, permission verification passed - Enter search criteria: Chen Jianjun, Li Xiulan - bound to Chen Feng's family relationship."

The electronic voice on the AI ​​kept ringing out, but in the end...

The screen displayed only one line of glaring gray text: "No matching data."

Su Wan frowned slightly, but immediately opened another resource library and comforted Chen Feng, saying, "The Guardian Relatives Resource Library is the most well-known channel for proving military relatives in Great Xia, but in reality, more important people will not appear in this resource library."

Immediately afterwards, Su Wan's fingers flew across the screen again, directly switching the interface to the Civil Affairs Household Registration Database.

The moment the fine search button is pressed.

The data on the screen flickered for a while, but the result was still no relevant matching data.

"You're not lying to me, are you?"

"No, those are indeed my parents' names."

"Okay, I'll look for it again for you."

As Su Wan then cut off the war zone's military dependents support database, the suburban residents' emergency contact database, and even the missing persons registration database, which is rarely used on a regular basis.

Each search, those lines of text with no matching data, felt like a muffled punch, slamming onto the screen and into Chen Feng's heart.

Su Wan switched between one resource library after another, and Chen Feng's last bit of hope began to be gradually eroded, his face growing paler.

"This is very abnormal," Su Wan said, frowning. "It's as if your aunt and uncle never existed."

"Is it possible that it's due to manipulation by the Darkin Society?" Chen Feng asked in a deep voice.

"It's only a possibility. According to our inside intelligence, although the Darkkin only control Upper Daye and a small part of the city, Daye is a military stronghold and may have the ability to directly tamper with the database. And their purpose..."

At this point, Su Wan glanced uneasily at Chen Feng behind her.

"Find another person for me, a member of the Starfish City Guard: Liu Siyu."

"good!"

The crisp tapping sound rang out again.

Su Wan's wrists flew, her fingertips moving so fast they almost left afterimages. She first brought up the permission request interface, then scanned the iris verification area with her fingertips. As a faint purple halo flashed across the screen, the Sea Star City Guard's database access was unlocked.

"Name: Liu Siyu, Identity: Member of Haixing City Guard, Search Scope: Active/Retired/Registered Personnel."

Su Wan quickly typed in lines of instructions, while countless data streams of guard members scrolled wildly on the screen, and the names of various guard squads in Haixing City flashed continuously in the blue torrent of code.

Chen Feng stood behind her, his body taut like a fully drawn bow, even his breathing becoming lighter.

Unlike checking the database of ordinary residents, Liu Siyu is a registered military personnel of Daxia. Her information is stored on an encrypted server, which is far beyond the ability of ordinary hackers to tamper with or erase.

This was also the last glimmer of hope weighing on Chen Feng's heart.

As the progress bar slowly moved forward, Su Wan's fingers unconsciously rubbed against the edge of the screen.

"Beep—"

A short beep broke the silence, and the progress bar abruptly stopped.

Soon, a photo of a short-haired woman in a city guard uniform popped up; her eyes were bright and her smile was spirited. But the next second, the image, along with the entire screen of data, instantly faded to a deathly gray.

Immediately afterwards, two lines of cold, bold black text were etched into Chen Feng's vision.

With a soft click, the progress bar for searching the guard members came to an abrupt halt.

[Guard member Liu Siyu died on August 24, 1993.]

[Cause of death: Behemoth Swarm War, Operation codename ETF6058]

The air seemed to freeze at that moment.

Chen Feng stared intently at the two lines of text, his hands suddenly clenching tightly, his knuckles turning a frightening bluish-white from the excessive force.

The subtle, crisp sound of bones grinding together was so clear in the deathly silent room that it sent chills down one's spine.

"Chen Feng... I... I'm really sorry..." Su Wan's fingertips froze on the screen, her eyes darting around in a panic, her voice hesitant and trembling.

However, before she could finish speaking, Chen Feng raised his hand and waved.

Chen Feng lowered his eyes, but no one could see the emotions churning within them. All they could hear was his hoarse voice, yet he still gritted his teeth and said, "It's alright, it's not your fault."

After a pause, Chen Feng bent down to pick up his coat from the back of the chair, turned around and left, leaving behind a sentence as heavy as ice, which echoed in the empty room.

"fine."

......

Back in his apartment in the residential area, Chen Feng's inner turmoil had not yet subsided.

He slammed the door shut, tossed his coat onto the floor, and then sat down on the sofa, covering his head with his hands.

The lights were off in the apartment's living room.

The artificial light from outside the window seeped in slightly, blurring the outlines of the furniture into indistinct shadows.

[August 24, 1993]

[Cause of death: Behemoth Swarm War, Operation codename ETF6058]

This information related to Liu Siyu was like a rusty chisel, chiseling away at Chen Feng's heart.

He also remembered Liu Siyu's change in attitude towards Chen Feng after they had worked together on a mission for two months, which started from that vacation at the resort.

Chen Feng and Liu Siyu finally established their relationship as boyfriend and girlfriend.

At that time, she even jokingly said that she would ask her family members to help Chen Feng protect his family so that he could fight the enemy on the front line with peace of mind.

However...

Their sweet romance lasted only three weeks before Liu Siyu died in the war against the behemoth tide due to the invasion of the Darkborn Society...

Chen Feng covered his face tightly with his hands, his fingertips rubbing hard against his eye sockets.

As if fueled by rage, Chen Feng exuded an extremely intense aura of a powerful Earth-rank expert. The confusion and pain in his eyes were gradually replaced by a layer of cold, resolute determination...

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