Chapter 260: 21 Years Ago

() The area outside Notting City is locked down at 8 p.m. and has a curfew inside.

Xia Feng was not in a hurry now, but the desire to know the answer in his heart still made him lose patience, so he was too lazy to ink with the military police guarding the door.

Parking the off-road vehicle on the side of the road, Xia Feng took advantage of the night to touch the fence alone, jumped into it.

The muddy streets were deserted, and there was not even a street lamp in the dark, and according to the memory of the day, the summer breeze turned around the alleys, and it took half an hour to find the small second floor of Old Man Derek.

The courtyard was surrounded by a wooden fence, and Xia Feng climbed directly into it, walked up the steps, and knocked on the door.

"Fellow open door, Penguin Logistics!"

A moment later, the lights inside came on, and Old Man Derek's voice came from inside.

"Who!"

"It's me, Xia Feng."

The door opened, and Derek, draped in a blanket, poked his head out.

"Why are you here again? What about the south wind? ”

"Nanfeng is at home, and I'm here alone this time."

Hearing Xia Feng say that he was coming alone, Derek's expression immediately changed, he narrowed his eyes, and his voice changed from informal roughness to deep.

"What are you doing here?"

Xia Feng turned from a hippie smile to a serious one.

"I have something to ask you, about the south wind."

"Didn't you ask all the questions you wanted during the day?"

"I did ask, but you didn't answer me."

"What do you want to know?"

"The truth."

.............

On the sofa in the living room, Xia Feng and Derek sat on one side.

Perhaps worried that the light would attract attention, Derek turned off the light and lit a candle on the coffee table, the room was dim, and the faint light of the candle reflected on the faces of the two.

Derek's voice came.

"What do you want to know?"

"What the hell is the identity of the South Wind."

Xia Feng didn't want to beat around the bush, Old Man Derek definitely knew something, because his current attitude spoke for itself.

It can be seen that Derek did not intend to hide it as much as he could, his attitude was more like a kind of boredom and exhaustion, which may be a major secret, but for him who is not long in life, the importance of this secret is no longer worth guarding to the death.

But even so, he had no intention of casually telling a stranger.

Derek's old face stared at the candlelight.

"The truth of some things, I don't know maybe it's a good thing, something that can't be changed, it's better to just treat it as if it doesn't exist."

The summer breeze turned its head sideways.

"If you don't think it doesn't exist, it's just your self-deception, even if everyone forgets it, but something still exists, as long as it exists, sooner or later it will surface."

"What about surfaced, that kind of thing can't be changed by people like us."

"It can be changed."

"Oh? Who's going to change, south wind, heh, don't be naïve. ”

Xia Feng looked at Derek quietly.

"I'm here to change."

"You?"

To be honest, even if Derek didn't tell him the truth, Xia Feng guessed it by feeling, and he had an intuition that this matter had something to do with the major events prophesied by the distant mountains.

Although Victoria seems to be calm now, when the storm really starts to choose, including Vina, so everyone involved will be involved.

"Old Mr. Derek, do you believe in fate?"

"Fate?"

"That's right, I didn't believe in fate before, but now I understand a little, I think fate represents not fate, nor is it impossible to change, but something that the person must go through, if you want to move forward, you must overcome your own fate, and no one can escape it."

The trance of candlelight was reflected in Derek's pupils.

"What the hell are you trying to say?"

Xia Feng said in a deep voice.

"Nanfeng has his own fate, this is something he can't escape, maybe in your eyes he can be incognito and live his life as a gangster, but the fate of this country will not allow it."

"What do you mean?"

"There will be a major event in Victoria in the near future, this is a crisis that is enough to upend the country, I don't know what the true identity of the south wind is, but if his identity is related to it, he can't escape it."

An imperceptible flicker of flickering in Derek's pupils.

"So what, even if he can't escape it, he still can't change anything, it's not that I underestimate him, people's power is limited, and the things he faces are so complex that they are beyond imagination."

"It can be changed."

"What do you know?"

"I really don't know, but I'm sure it can be changed, no, it has to be changed."

Derek stared solemnly at Xia Feng's face.

"Who the hell are you?"

"I'm the one who changed history."

The air seemed to freeze at this moment, and Derek and Xia Feng looked at each other for a long, long time.

Eventually, his eyes loosened.

"Huh."

Derek picked up another candle and lit it side by side on the coffee table, and as the candle was added, the light in the room became much stronger.

Derek leaned back on the couch, losing his aggressive momentum, at this moment, he was just an old man in his last years.

"Well, I don't understand what you said, but I'm tired, I'm really tired, I thought I was going to take these past events to my grave, but now I decided to say it, like you said, if you want to change something then do it, as long as you can do it."

Xia Feng solemnly lowered his head.

"Thank you."

"Say, what do you want to know?"

"Tell me everything you know, and I'll change the rest."

Everyone has a selfish side, and no one is an exception, and Derek can see that Xia Feng just wants to get the information he wants to know from his mouth to complete a plan that he doesn't know about.

It's just that whether to say it or not, it doesn't matter to him anymore, the ore disease has made his organs fail to the point that he can't look like it, he will be tormented by pain every night, and every day the sun rises, he will see it as if it was the last time in his life.

If it was a sin he had committed, then before he died, he should make it possible to make amends.

Therefore, he chose to believe in Xia Feng, and the most important reason was that South Wind believed in Xia Feng, which was the first time since Derek adopted South Wind that he had accepted an outsider.

The blood flowing in Nanfeng's bones is arrogant, and the people he can believe in are definitely not ordinary people.

Derek took out a small box from under the coffee table and dusted it off, and he took out a badge from the box, which was a Victorian military insignia.

The candlelight-lit face and eye sockets are deep-set, full of traces of time, and the old melancholy voice seems to pull back the memory to a long, long time ago.

"It all started 21 years ago."