"Are you checking the household registry?"

Leng Yebai looked at the Base Commander with a dissatisfied expression.

Why does this person ask so many questions right off the bat?

"Can I?"

The Base Commander’s eyes brightened slightly.

If he really could check the household registry, he’d like to investigate Leng Yebai’s ancestors for eighteen generations!

Leng Yebai: ...

Like hell you can.

Bai Yifan glanced back from the driver’s seat.

The Base Commander, who had appeared so impressive and cold at first, now had an entirely different demeanor, with a hint of teenage angst on his serious-looking face.

Just like Brother Leng.

Back then, he also thought Brother Leng was extremely aloof.

Later, he discovered that Brother Leng had a silly streak under his aloof exterior.

The Base Commander seemed to be heading in the same direction.

Bai Yifan couldn’t imagine how he would react if he saw the Base Commander, who could casually wipe out zombie dog packs, acting silly.

Probably, it would be like getting struck by lightning!

"Cough, cough..."

Bai Zhengxuan coughed lightly twice, also feeling that the Base Commander mystifyingly resembled Leng Yebai with his serious face and lack of seriousness!

The Base Commander, seeing that Leng Yebai was ignoring him, asked Bai Zhengxuan again, "Excuse me, old man, what is your relationship with him...? Is he your grandson?"

There was a moment when the Base Commander didn’t want to ask this question.

But just standing together, this family exuded a warm atmosphere, really like a family.

Maybe he was just overthinking it; could such a coincidental encounter really happen in the world?

Leng Yebai was probably really one of them!

"He’s his grandfather." Bai Zhengxuan nodded with a smile, "He married into our family, so he’s one of us now."

"Married in?" The Base Commander was stunned for a moment, with a glint in his eyes, "Then what about his childhood?"

Bai Zhengxuan looked at Leng Yebai and said seriously, "You should ask him about that."

Leng Yebai seldom spoke about his childhood, but seeing how cautiously he experienced family affection, it was clear he suffered a lot as a child.

Orphanages may seem philanthropic, but not all of them are without hidden agendas.

"I grew up in an orphanage," Leng Yebai said, tightening his grip slightly around Bai Xiqin’s fingers.

"Then—what about your parents?"

The Base Commander suddenly stood up from the sofa and took a step toward Leng Yebai.

His heart began pounding uncontrollably.

After searching for more than twenty years, had he finally found his son?

He had a strong hunch that perhaps this person with bright eyes, just like his wife, was really his son.

His only son, the only memory his wife left behind, the only hope keeping him going.

He still remembered the scene when his wife passed away, lying weakly on the bed, holding a photo of their son.

She refused to close her eyes until death.

Because their child was lost, and his so-called brother had no idea where he had thrown him.

In this vast sea of people, he had used all his connections but never found his son.

Over twenty years ago, finding someone even in an orphanage was difficult because not every parentless child had their DNA entered into a database.

"Both parents deceased," Leng Yebai said.

As a child, he also wondered why he had been left at the orphanage entrance. According to the old people at the orphanage, when he was left there, he only had a thin sheet, extremely frail.

Whoever abandoned him hadn’t intended for him to survive!

At the time, he thought maybe his parents had died, which was why his childhood was so tragic.

The Base Commander’s face went slightly rigid, and he asked again, "What is your birth date? Do you really know who your parents were? Where are they buried? How did you come to know your last name is Leng? Whose last name is Leng?"

"I don’t know!"

Leng Yebai irritably ruffled his hair, ignored the Base Commander, and immediately got off the bus, striding away.

"He had a hard childhood, doesn’t know who his parents are, was abandoned at an orphanage, and doesn’t know his birth date. The surname Leng is one he chose for himself, not followed by anyone else’s," Bai Xiqin quietly explained to the Base Commander before chasing after Leng Yebai.

The Base Commander froze slightly, his fingers pressing against the place on his chest where he carried a pocket watch. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

He thought if his son had survived, whether or not he was Leng Yebai, he would have such struggles!

Not knowing why he was thrown away, not knowing his birth date, not knowing whose surname to take, and even not knowing whether his parents wanted to find him.

"Base Commander, what’s this?" Bai Zhengxuan handed another cup of tea to the Base Commander, looking slightly puzzled.

The Base Commander looking like Leng Yebai was one thing, but why was he asking so many random questions?

"Sorry, I lost my composure." The Base Commander forced a smile at the Bai Family, "Leng Yebai’s eyes look a lot like those of my late wife. I had a son who was stolen from me over twenty years ago, and I think..."

The Base Commander didn’t finish his sentence, but the Bai Family members all filled in the blanks.

The Base Commander and Leng Yebai look too much alike.

One lost a son over twenty years ago, and one was abandoned over twenty years ago.

They look so similar.

They suspected Leng Yebai was really the Base Commander’s long-lost son, but they had no proof.

"Xiao Fan, don’t you think Brother Leng and the Base Commander look alike?"

Bai Anhai suddenly asked Bai Yifan.

The other members of the Bai Family all looked at Bai Yifan.

Bai Yifan blinked, not understanding why his dad would ask him this question.

Anyone with eyes could see that Leng Yebai and the Base Commander looked exactly the same!

"I think Brother Leng and this guy here look exactly alike; it’s highly possible he is the uncle’s long-lost son!" Bai Yifan said.

This was the Bai Family’s first reaction upon hearing that the Base Commander had once lost a son.

Now that even the prophetic Bai Yifan had said such a thing, their suspicions grew more certain.

The evidence was there.

"If it is, if it is, if..."

The Base Commander tightly clenched his fingers together, murmuring lowly, his eyes vacant, as if recalling something.

"Base Commander?"

Bai Anhai waved his hand in front of the Base Commander’s face.

"Huh? What’s going on?" The Base Commander snapped back to reality, bewilderedly looking at Bai Anhai.

"Nothing, just wondering if you should organize them to repair the base?"

Bai Anhai pointed to the superpower users outside. Although they weren’t surrounding the bus, they were glancing at it intently, looking very nosy.

"Ah, sorry! In-law, I’ll be right back!"

The Base Commander stood up abruptly and quickly walked off the bus.

"What did he call me?" Bai Anhai stared at the Base Commander’s back in a daze.

He hadn’t even done a paternity test and was already calling him an in-law?

"With a face like that, looking exactly like Xiao Leng, who needs a paternity test?" Liu Jing quietly watched the Base Commander from the bus window.

Even a real biological son wouldn’t necessarily resemble him that much.

"But can Brother Leng believe it?" Bai Yifan asked.

It’s not a matter of believing; it’s a matter of acceptance.

The Bai Family fell silent for a moment, saying no more.

For someone who grew up in an orphanage, the concepts of parental and familial affection have long faded; suddenly having someone claim to be his father would be hard to accept.