"Lin Ke, it looks like your hydroelectric power station was a success."
It was a telepathic message from the Mountain Giant Banyan.
Lin Ke replied with a smile, "Senior Mountain, I owe much of this to your help!"
"Please, please, Lord Lin, just call me Mountain." The Mountain Giant Banyan sounded somewhat weary. Clearly, he had yet to recover from the exertion of building the hydroelectric power station.
Still, judging by his voice, the Mountain Giant Banyan was quite happy.
But after learning that Lin Ke was the renowned Young Master Lin Ke, he no longer dared treat him as a junior as he once had.
Lin Ke might not mind, but he could not disregard propriety.
"Senior Mountain..." Lin Ke shook his head with a wry smile. "You hold no official post. We can each address the other as we see fit."
The Mountain Giant Banyan considered this for a moment before saying, "All right, then I won't call you Lord Lin either. How about just Lin Ke? And stop calling me senior. Just call me 'Mountain.'"
Lin Ke nodded. "All right."
"By the way, Lin Ke, we know you want to conceal your identity, but I don't know whether you want to hear about Lin Xuanji."
The Mountain Giant Banyan suddenly spoke again.
Lin Xuanji?
Lin Ke raised an eyebrow. "What about him?"
"I wanted to tell you earlier, when I learned you were Lin Ke..."
The Mountain Giant Banyan said gravely, "After his exile, he was confined beneath Cloud Dream Marsh. But reportedly, he's been exchanging information and supplies with the outside world all along, plotting something big."
Plotting something big?
Lin Ke raised an eyebrow, his thoughts involuntarily turning to his half brothers and sisters.
So many people bearing the surname Lin had disappeared, including Lin