The crystal chandeliers illuminated the room, making its decor seem especially luxurious.
"I've treasured these photographs for years," an elderly man with gray hair and a face full of wrinkles told Li Bai.
"Sir, from the sound of it, you've met the Commander," Li Bai asked.
In his robotic form, Li Bai stood before a glass cabinet, looking at the yellowed photographs inside.
After sneaking out of the safe house only to be discovered by Zheng Xian, Li Bai had been taken to a hidden basement. He had assumed it was where they would hold their confidential discussion, but to his surprise, there was a concealed tunnel inside.
Zheng Xian and Li Bai sat in a compartment like a miniature train, which carried them deep underground to a secret base.
The elderly man before them seemed to be a highly respected figure at the base, but Zheng Xian did not introduce him in detail. He simply told Li Bai that he could ask the old man anything he wanted to know.
Then Li Bai saw these precious photographs from the War of Resistance. But Luo Xia did not appear in any of them.
The old man's face filled with recollection as he answered Li Bai's question. "If you mean the big brother called Luo Fei, then I believe I did meet him."
"Luo Fei was the alias the Commander used. His real name was Luo Xia," Li Bai explained.
"Can people really travel through time and return to the past?" the old man asked.
"That's what I've come to find out. Would you please describe what happened back then?" Li Bai asked.
The old man seemed lost in thought. After a long while, he finally replied, "I met that big brother in Shanghu in 1941. I was still a student