Meng Chuan did not rush to the Lifetime World at once. He still had a few things to arrange in Stone Village.
He called Little Nonpoint and Shi Yunfeng over to Willow God and told them he would be leaving for a while.
He was not sure how long he would be gone.
Little Nonpoint's eyes widened at the news.
"Uncle Meng, you're leaving again? Does that mean we can't start elementary school again?"
Meng Chuan felt a little embarrassed.
One-Stone Elementary School had become the stuff of legend.
It should have opened as soon as Little Nonpoint and the others graduated from Kindergarten, but one delay had followed another. Now Meng Chuan was leaving again.
Their elementary school days seemed forever out of reach.
"Something urgent has come up this time." Meng Chuan crouched and tapped Little Nonpoint on the nose.
"I have a friend, a very good friend. He often says he wants to be my son."
"Now he's about to die. His only dying wish is to see me once more and kowtow to me a few times in person."
Meng Chuan looked and sounded grief-stricken, as though he could hardly bear to lose this friend.
"How could I deny him a request like that?"
Leaving Stone Village now pained Meng Chuan.
After all, Little Nonpoint was about to outgrow his name and become Big Nonpoint.
How could Meng Chuan not spend these last days doting on him?
But he had no choice. Another of his illegitimate sons was at death's door, and he could not stand by and do nothing.
Little Nonpoint tilted his head. He could not understand why Uncle Meng's friend would act that way.
Shi Yunfeng found it strange too, but he could make sense of it. If the man had wanted to