Xiang Liang sat on his bed, gently stroking the now-shrunken mechanical bird, his expression complicated.
He had already begun to feel that his eldest brother was somewhat unfamiliar to him.
Yet suddenly, someone had come to his door with two grown boys, claiming they were his eldest brother's sons, and—
Only his eldest brother knew how to make this kind of mechanical bird.
It was one of the few clear memories the three brothers had from childhood. Though the eldest son of a military family, his brother had loved tinkering with such things. Their eldest brother had suffered no small amount of their father's disdain and scolding as a child. Later, their father, thoroughly disappointed in him, had simply sent him to Xianyang as an attendant to a hostage. After that, there had been no news of him.
Who would have thought that now...
"Hm?"
After lightly stroking the mechanical bird Wayfinder's head twice, Xiang Liang noticed that its head seemed to be able to turn.
He gave it a slight twist. Once he realized it was a mechanism rather than damage, Xiang Liang did not think much of it and directly twisted the mechanical bird's head one hundred and eighty degrees.
Click-click—click—
Mechanical noises sounded. The mechanical bird's eyes seemed to move twice, and Xiang Liang jolted in surprise, finding it somewhat eerie.
With the sound of gears, the bird's head twisted back into place, and it slowly floated into the air.
Words appeared out of thin air.
Xiang Liang stared blankly at them. He seemed to understand something, but more than that, he was shocked.
"My younger brother Xiang Liang, by the time you see this message I left behind, Wen Ju should have already delivered Xiang Yu and Xiang An to Kuaiji."
"Big Brother." A faint sense