Chapter 3: The Ancestors' Legacy

  As he emerged from the game space, a pungent smell of urine suddenly wafted up, and Zhang Heng couldn't tell if it was an illusion or not. His senses seemed to have increased tenfold. He raised his fist in disbelief, looking at it twice, wondering if the power gained in the game space could also be brought into reality.

  In the cramped bathroom, I washed my face and forced my brain to calm down.

  "Where did you go?" Yaya leaned on the bed, holding her phone with earbuds listening to music, looking at Zhang Heng coming back, took off one of the earbuds, squinting her eyes and smiling as she asked.

  Zhang Heng's mouth curled up slightly as he sat down on his bed and said, "I'm not going anywhere, I just went to pee."

  "Oh!" Jia Ya looked at Zhang Heng with a puzzled expression, but quickly withdrew her gaze. She put on her headphones and listened to the music, her brow furrowed slightly. Since Zhang Heng returned, she had caught a whiff of blood from his body...

  Ignoring Jiao Ya, Zhang Heng lay on the bed, resting his mind. In the game space, killing monsters was also tiring, but in the game he had already reached level three!

  The rumbling train had been swaying for over a dozen hours, and Zhang Heng finally arrived home.

  Destination: Tiannan Province, Yunhai City.

  Of course, Zhang Heng's home is not in Yunhai City itself, but in the suburbs.

  "I'm here, a few beauties, fate will meet again!" Zhang Heng smiled and pulled out his suitcase from under the bed. He didn't ask the girls where they got off yesterday.

  "Hehe, we're quite fated, aren't we? My sister is also heading to Yunhai City!" said Lanlan, with a playful smile on her face, jumping down from the upper bunk.

  Zhang Heng was taken aback and smiled: "It's really quite a coincidence!" Since they got off at the same place, Zhang Heng naturally helped the few beauties carry their things!

  After leaving the train station, Jiao Ya took out a pink mobile phone from her pocket and said: "Tell me your number!"

  Zhang Heng didn't take it seriously, smiled and told the other party his number. The beauty shook him a bit, then waved her phone and said with a smile: "We'll contact you when we have time!" After that, the three girls and Zhang Heng parted ways.

  "Hehe!" Zhang Heng smiled foolishly, thought for a moment and still saved the other person's phone number. Although this accidental acquaintance has a low probability of contact in the future, it is possible that there will be another 'opportunity' later on.

  Zhang Heng's family situation is quite special, and he often doesn't want to go back home. It's not that his family members are mean to him, but rather an intangible barrier that makes it hard for him to fit in. After his parents divorced, Zhang Heng grew up with his grandparents and rarely lived with his biological parents, as both sides had their own families. When he stayed with his biological parents, he felt like an outsider.

  When I went to college, my grandparents passed away due to illness, but the two elders left their house to Zhang Heng. Perhaps they were afraid that the two elderly people who had taken care of their grandson since childhood would suffer some grievances. As for Grandpa and Grandma's will, my uncle's family didn't have any opinions, but my aunt's side had some subtle words, however, my uncle's family didn't say anything, and it was settled like this in the end.

  My uncle's family has been very good to Zhang Heng since he was a child, because his family had no sons, only one daughter.

  "Wow, brother you're back!"

  The door was opened by Zhang Rou, Zhang Heng's younger half-sister. Her two big eyes saw Zhang Heng and excitedly called out in a loud voice. The little girl was only thirteen years old, just entering junior high school, but she had been very fond of Zhang Heng since childhood. When she was young, Zhang Heng didn't like taking her out to play, she would grab onto Zhang Heng's clothes and cry loudly, refusing to let go, just wanting to follow him everywhere, a little shadow.

  Zhang Rou jumped up and hugged Zhang Heng's neck, hanging on his body. Zhang Heng smiled bitterly: "You're such a big girl now, still so impulsive, be careful that you won't get married in the future! Come down quickly!"

  "If I can't get married, then let brother take care of me!" Zhang Rou jumped down from Zhang Heng's body and said with a playful smile.

  Wang Fang is Zhang Heng's stepmother, and Zhang Heng's father Zhang Jianguo are ordinary workers in a chemical plant. Generally speaking, they are not bad to Zhang Heng, and the two get along well!

  "Has Xiao Heng come back?" Wang Fang asked, wiping her hands on her apron as she walked out of the kitchen.

  "Ah! Come back and stay for a few days!" Zhang Heng smiled and nodded, while Zhang Rou voluntarily helped him pull his luggage.

  Wang Fang didn't ask much and Zhang Heng didn't say why he came back. They chatted for a couple of sentences, then Wang Fang went into the kitchen to cook!

  In the evening, Zhang Jianguo came home from work and had dinner together with his family.

  "Stay home tonight!" Stepmother Wang Fang said after dinner.

  Zhang Heng shook his head, a two-bedroom one-living room house, a collective house built by the chemical plant. Zhang Jianguo and Wang Fang lived in one house, Zhang Rou lived in another house, where would he live? The sofa?

  The house left by Grandpa and Grandma Zhang Heng is not far away, although it belongs to the suburbs, but it's not far from the city center, located at the junction of urban and rural areas.

  "Right, brother, why don't you just stay at home and sleep with Rourou on the same bed, okay?" Zhang Rou's eyes were fixed on Zhang Heng's, filled with expectation.

  Zhang Heng couldn't help but laugh and shook his head, saying: "I'd rather not share a bed with you, you'll kick me off the bed while I'm sleeping!"

  "That was when I was a kid, now people are really honest when they sleep!" Zhang Rou pouted.

  Zhang Jianguo waved his hand and said, "Alright, let him go live in the old house. This time you're back, are you still planning to leave?"

  "Haven't thought it through yet!" Zhang Heng didn't know either, but being at home was always better than being outside, this place was his roots after all!

  "Then think carefully, you're about to graduate in half a year, right? It's good for you to find something to do or think about doing some small business on your own. You make the decision yourself. There's still some money at home, when you've thought it through and decided what to do, just go ask your Aunt Wang!" Zhang Jianguo puffed on his cigarette.

  Although the father and son did not talk much in the past, it does not mean that Zhang Jianguo is not concerned about his own son.

  "Hmm!" Zhang Heng nodded in response, and suddenly felt a warmth in his heart!

  "Ah!" Zhang Jianguo got up and walked back to the bedroom, and soon came out with a long, black-red wooden box. He handed it to Zhang Heng and said: "This was left to you by your grandfather before he passed away. Your uncle was also present at that time!"

  Grandfather's heirloom?

  "What is this?" Zhang Heng took it over, opened the wooden box, and inside the box was only a piece of thick, hard cowhide paper that had turned somewhat black. On it were written two kinds of text, one in English and another in an unknown script!

  It turns out that Zhang Heng is also a college student, and his English is barely passable.

  "This...this is a deed for buying an island?" Zhang Heng's head jerked up in shock, staring at Zhang Jianguo with his mouth agape.

  "That's right, this was left by your grandfather's grandfather. In those days, our ancestors bought an island from the British and local indigenous people near the Malay Archipelago, also known as the South Seas Islands!" Zhang Jianguo obviously knew what Zhang Heng had in his hand and nodded to explain.

  "Ancestral private island?"

  I poked him, Zhang Heng's eyes widened, this is awesome, if the contract to buy the island in his hand is still valid...

  "That's right, not only is it valid, but if the British royal family doesn't become extinct, even now, that island and the surrounding waters within 8,000 meters are all ours, the Zhang family! You hold this contract to purchase the island, you can inherit the ancestral property, have ownership, inheritance and management rights!" Zhang Jianguo's face showed a hint of a smile, nodding his head.

  At first, when he heard his father mention it, the shocked look on his face was no different from Zhang Heng's.

  "But trading is not allowed. The island and the surrounding sea area with a diameter of 8,000 meters are all private property of the Zhang family."

  Not allowed to buy and sell? Even if it's not allowed to buy and sell, that's still considered Old Zhang's territory.

  "But Dad, why did you..."

  Zhang Jianguo interrupted Zhang Heng's words, with a hint of deep-seated decline on his face, and said in a low voice: "Ability, do we still have that ability in the Zhang family now?"