"Brother, it really wasn't easy to find you today. But there's something I can't understand—why did you choose to look for me after all these years? I thought you had long forgotten me."
"After so much time has passed, I don't think there's much use in finding me now. The main thing is that my body has been getting weaker by the day. It's not that I don't want to do it, but I truly have the will and not the strength."
"Ever since Master sent me here, my physical condition has declined day by day. Sometimes, I even cough up bright red blood."
"I don't know why. We have doctors here who suppress some of the symptoms, but they have never found out what illness caused me to become like this."
"Let me guess—I must have been poisoned. But I don't know what kind of poison it is, so I can't save myself. More importantly, I can't leave this place at all, so there's nothing I can do."
As Ouyang Jing recounted this, Ouyang Jian was deeply shocked. He had no idea what his younger brother had experienced here over the years. He had always believed that his brother had been relatively free here.
But he felt that the only thing he could do now was help his younger brother get to the bottom of this. They could not continue being confused like this.
Now that their master was dead, investigating the matter had become even more impossible. Most importantly, they needed to find some way to determine exactly what had caused his younger brother to end up in this condition.
But Ouyang Jian did not want to discuss this matter with Ouyang Jing for now, because he felt that telling him would place immense pressure on him.
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