"Black Cat Duke?"
No matter what this "uncle" had said, Han Su would not have been moved.
But this title—this cat alone—made him suddenly sit upright.
Ever since Ms. Shen resolved that crisis, Han Su had remained calm. Outsiders could not tell what he was thinking, but in truth, the conversation between Ms. Shen and Grotesque Doctor had kept turning over in his mind.
He thought of Ms. Shen's resentment and fury. He thought of how she had said that there were things she had done behind Grotesque Doctor's back, including how he had initially escaped from the Ancient Castle.
The Black Cat Duke had also been mentioned.
It was as though her influence had enabled him to escape the Ancient Castle, and the conveniences he had later enjoyed inside it had also come from her arrangements. Yet the Crystal Skull she left behind contained nothing relevant.
And because everything she had done was extremely secretive, even if he wanted to investigate, he had nowhere to begin.
Until this uncle appeared.
His gaze fixed on the photograph. He tried not to look at Ms. Shen, focusing instead on the cat—its eyes, its lazy appearance—and confirmed that it was the one that had once taken him wandering through the Ancient Castle.
Han Su finally spoke slowly. "Where?"
"A small city beside Industry City."
The middle-aged man—or rather, now it was time to call him by his name, Ms. Shen's older brother, Shen Zhuohan—spoke softly. "Lakeside City."
"Before your mother betrayed the family, she lived there and had a small laboratory."
"I think that period was probably the most relaxed and happiest time of her life."
"..."
"Lakeside City?"
Upon hearing the name, Han Su hesitated slightly. Then it was as if something struck his mind.
Wasn't that one of the locations