chapter 102
Evan said in a low voice: “I’m hanging up now.”
Without waiting for Ethan to say anything more, he hung up the phone directly.
The sky had completely darkened, and the temperature in the mountains plummeted accordingly, with the chill quietly spreading through the air.
He put away his phone, turned around and walked back. From a distance, he could see me and Liz sitting close together, eating and chatting happily. He paused for a moment, then walked into the tent and took out two thick coats, one large and one small.
He handed the large one to me.
Seeing this, I said: “I’m not cold-”
“Put it on.” His tone wasn’t heavy, but it brooked no refusal. He shook out the coat and gently draped it over my
shoulders.
Then he handed the small one to Liz.
When that thick warmth enveloped me, blocking the bone–chilling mountain wind, my body did indeed feel much warmer, so I didn’t continue to refuse.
After finishing the barbecue, the bonfire party also began. We walked over with the crowd.
As soon as we reached the crowd, someone joked with a laugh: “Oh my, this family of three is so dazzling!”
I was stunned and quickly explained: “We’re not a family of three.”
Those people laughed even more heartily, teasing: “Not now doesn’t mean not in the future.”
I was speechless and could only force a smile without continuing the conversation.
Soon after, Liz ran off to play with children of similar age. The area around the bonfire immediately became lively, with children building snowmen and having snowball fights, laughter rising and falling.
Most people around the tents had come in groups of three to five. Some were chatting, some playing cards, and others had taken out guitars and started singing. The winter night felt particularly warm.
After Liz left, Evan and I weren’t particularly familiar with each other, and the atmosphere gradually became quiet. I sat by the fire, weaving a butterfly with some dry grass; he opened his laptop and focused on typing on the keyboard.
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After a moment, he suddenly spoke: “You’re a healer?”
I nodded: “Yes.”
“Milo seems to take good care of you. I heard he’s recently preparing a medical company–are you one of his people?”
“I suppose so.”
His hands paused, as if thoughtful, then he asked: “Have you heard of a healer called ‘Moonveil“?”
The dry grass in my hands also paused for a moment, and I answered in a calm tone: “I’ve heard of them. In our profession, very few people haven’t heard this name.”
This wasn’t bragging, but fact.
Evan could see that I didn’t seem to want to chat much with him, and he knew that I had maintained that distance from him from beginning to end.
He knew the reason, so he didn’t continue to force it.
After a while, he turned his laptop screen toward me: “Take a look, is this the evidence you’re looking for?”
I leaned in to look and found that the screen was displaying exactly the post I had once published anonymously on the medical forum.
I remembered that post very clearly. It was something I had casually posted on the forum late at night when my thinking was blocked, and it had sparked passionate discussion within the forum. Later, when I overcame the problem, I forgot about it, and that forum completely shut down a few years later. The data should have disappeared along with the server going offline.
But now, it was appearing completely intact on Evan’s computer screen.
I was very shocked. “Are you a hacker?”
The corner of Evan’s mouth curved into a faint smile, his voice light: “Not professionally, I just know a little about data recovery and system penetration.”
“That’s not called ‘knowing a little.“”
Looking at the familiar data and charts on the screen, I said in a low voice: “With this evidence, it might be a great help to me.”
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