Chapter 1146 — Wei Zhao's Secret Worries
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As he came to know her better, Wei Zhao knew that he had truly come to feel for this girl something he could not bring himself to let go. Yet the more that was so, the heavier the sorrow lay on him. He did not want Feng Xiaoxiao to die, and yet he was powerless.
Outsiders called him Divine Doctor Lin; he possessed a peerless art like the Xuanyuan Yulong Jue, and still he was helpless before Feng Xiaoxiao's illness. Such, perhaps, was the sorrow of a divine physician. Since ancient times there had been no few cases like this — a lifetime of healing others, and yet unable to heal the one beside you.
"Then... let's talk a while? I can't sleep either..." How could Feng Xiaoxiao be sleepy now? Wei Zhao was right there beside her; she was too excited and too nervous for sleep, and wanted none of it.
"Mm... talk about what?" Wei Zhao turned his head. In the darkness he could not make out her expression, but her bright eyes were clearly visible, and his heart stirred slightly — tenderness, pity, and more than anything, unwillingness.
Wei Zhao wanted to save Feng Xiaoxiao's life, but there was nothing he could do.
"Tell me... about you and my dad. You used to be my dad's colleague? Then now..." Feng Xiaoxiao had always been deeply curious about how Wei Zhao and her father knew each other. She did not know everything about her father's work, but she knew a thing or two.
Most of it was extremely dangerous work — how could Wei Zhao possibly be an old acquaintance of her father's? Yet judging by Wei Zhao's formidable skills alone, it was possible. But then she was puzzled again: her father's work was a lifetime post, so how had Wei Zhao become a student? And even if Wei Zhao could have changed careers, how old was he now? How could he have been her father's colleague?
So all these curiosities filled Feng Xiaoxiao's mind with questions.
"Heh, there's not much to tell. I wasn't one of your father's people — I joined as outside support, so I had more freedom and leeway." Wei Zhao shrugged with a smile. "That's all I can say. Some things fall under confidentiality rules — I'm sure you understand."
"Oh... I see." Feng Xiaoxiao was a little disappointed, but she could hardly press further.
Inside An Liwen and Su Taizao's tent.
Su Taizao was watching the two tents not far off — Gu Mengyao's and Wei Zhao's — through a pair of binoculars.
An Liwen had been the one keeping watch before, but after a while he found the work too dull: he could not hear them talking, and there was no fun in it at all, so he handed the job over to Su Taizao.
"Brother An, from what I've observed, Gu Mengyao is sharing a tent with Shen Yushu and Tang Zhi, and Wei Zhao is in the other tent with Feng Xiaoxiao. After they went in, none of them has come back out!" Su Taizao reported his findings to An Liwen.