Chapter 92: Unresolved Knots

Chapter 92: Chapter 92: Unresolved Knots

They found out who the acquaintances in Liam’s mouth were very quickly.

"Second Uncle? Fourth Uncle?" Benjamin and Isabella froze, staring in astonishment at the two men before their eyes. Elijah pursed his lips without saying anything, only nodding once in a token greeting, then opened the gate to walk straight back to his own house.

Julian hurriedly chased after Elijah, calling out once: "Elijah!"

However, the villa door had already closed, the special defense system had been activated, Julian could not take a single step further. He drooped like an abandoned puppy, trudging dejectedly back to stand beside Lincoln. Lincoln glanced at Julian once, not comforting Julian either. He looked toward the three Martinez siblings, saying:

"Come inside the house first, then we’ll talk."

Daniel had barely heard Lincoln say that sentence when he tactfully pulled Sebastian’s hand, saying he was hungry, wanting to go find something to eat, then dragged Sebastian straight over to the house next door, leaving the three Martinez siblings with their two biological maternal uncles.

The living room of the villa was not wide, the furnishings were simple as well, having only a wooden table set and a long row of shelves placed against the wall, the shelves stacked full of hand-labeled seed boxes. Lincoln sat down, his eyes sweeping across that row of shelves once before finally stopping on Benjamin’s face.

Isabella poured tea for the two maternal uncles. Her hand poured very steadily, but when she set the teapot down, the clatter of the pot’s base against the tabletop was slightly louder than necessary.

Lincoln spoke in a quiet voice: "What happened back then, your lives over the past nine years, and the current situation, we want to know all of it."

Benjamin pursed his lips, lacing his two hands together to rest them on his lap. He slowly told the story, starting from nine years ago:

"Back then we truly blamed Elijah wrongly. He truly was violated by someone..." Benjamin’s voice choked up as he spoke to this point.

Julian clenched his fists tight: "Who was it?"

"Jackson Martinez."

Julian sprang to his feet, knocking over his chair. He looked as though he wanted to charge outside to find Jackson, killing Jackson on the spot.

"He is dead already." Liam said indifferently: "The Martinez clan currently only has the three people sitting right here left."

The main line of the Martinez family had been completely wiped out by Mr. Hall’s people, while the other distant relatives had all received a decree demanding a surname change from the Government, so currently the people bearing the Martinez surname in the Lumina Galaxy numbered only three.

Julian’s anger felt as though it had punched into a cotton pillow, stifled without any way to vent. Liam looked at Julian, his complexion not looking very good. Isabella looked at Liam’s expression, knowing immediately that the gestational psychophysiological irritation was about to flare up again. She hurriedly tugged on Liam’s arm, silently telling him to try to restrain himself a little.

"That year Jackson coerced Elijah, saying that if Elijah did not frame our youngest uncle, he would kill me and sell Isabella off. Elijah had no other choice, only able to do as Jackson said. Two days later he regretted it, which was why he changed his statement. However... everything was already too late." Benjamin continued speaking.

Isabella pressed her lips tight together, tears silently falling down. Benjamin rubbed his face, only then speaking again:

"What happened afterward, everyone already knows, that main line crowd robbed clean all the family property Daddy left behind for the three of us siblings, driving us out of Altair. The three of us could only move to Sirius to live."

Sirius had previously been transferred by Joseph Martinez under Asher Vance’s name, becoming Asher’s private property. The property defaulted to the inheritance of the children after Asher passed away, so that main line crowd could not touch it.

"A year ago my pheromone disorder flared up, the whole family went to the hospital for an examination, only then learning that Elijah was not the biological son of the Martinez family. He connected it with the stories our Papa used to tell before, knowing the Hall family was his true biological family, so he went to the Solaris star system to find them. Then Liam returned."

Benjamin did not speak of all the intricate twists within that matter. Since Elijah had suffered enough already, he did not want to dig deeply into Elijah’s mistakes, avoiding gouging deeper into the wound every time it was brought up.

Lincoln set his teacup down on the table, asking: "Why didn’t you contact us? Your maternal grandfather was still agonizing over you children right up until he passed away. Even though we worried about you all, we also respected your decision, so we never took the initiative to reach out."

Benjamin closed his eyes: "We no longer had the face to ask everyone for help. When maternal grandfather passed away, we only dared to stand watching from afar. After all, at that time youngest uncle’s condition was very bad."

Julian personally righted the overturned sofa chair, sitting down on it and bowing his head to look at the floor beneath his feet, not saying a single word. His eldest brother and second brother had both calmed down from their anger long ago, furthermore two days after the incident broke out, Elijah had stepped forward to correct the story, yet Julian still could not get past that shock. Every time his father and older brothers wanted to reach out a hand to help the three Martinez siblings, he would immediately fly into a rage, his mental power constantly on the verge of rioting, so they did not dare go against his wishes anymore.

The destitute plight of Benjamin’s three siblings throughout those nine years also had Julian’s contribution.

At this moment, Liam’s smart watch rang again, it was Elijah calling. Liam’s icy expression suddenly softened, pressing the answer button:

"What is it, little one?"

Elijah heard the term of address Liam had given him, goosebumps rising all over his body. However, he remembered Isabella’s instruction not to provoke Liam, having to swallow the sarcastic remark on the tip of his tongue back down before saying:

"I suddenly got stuck on an idea halfway through, I want to ask you to come over to help for a bit."

"Mm, I’ll come right over." Liam hung up before speaking to Isabella and Benjamin: "I’m going over to Elijah’s place for a bit. I have already instructed the chef to cook dinner, later our family will go to the restaurant to eat."

Benjamin nodded: "Mm, I got it."

Liam greeted the two maternal uncles before turning his back to leave. Julian lifted himself up wanting to follow, yet Benjamin stopped Julian:

"Fourth Uncle, if you don’t want to be scooped up and flung off the planet by Liam, you had best not follow him. Elijah will probably be present at dinner later, whatever you want to ask him, wait until then to ask."

Julian sat down in disappointment, his entire body seeming to lose all vitality. Lincoln asked the two siblings again:

"This boy Liam truly resembles your maternal grandmother a great deal. What kind of person is he?"

Isabella and Benjamin seemed to have a record player switched on at the mention of their biological younger brother, talking nonstop. Every single sentence hung Liam on the tip of their tongues, praising him to the skies. Lincoln nodded continuously as he listened, even the dejected Julian was drawn in by their storytelling.

"Putting it that way, it was the boy himself who guided you two to develop your own careers? Even this eco-tourism planet idea was thought up by him alone?" Julian rubbed his chin.

Isabella raised her chin high: "That is right. Liam is very capable, he was able to revive a dead planet like Cygnus, even buying back Sirius before terraforming it into what it is now. Tomorrow is the opening day for the first trial version, if the two of you are not busy you can stay to play for a few days."

Lincoln sharply caught the word "buying back" that Isabella had let slip, but said nothing at all. He knew the things that had happened throughout the past nine years were not as simple as a few sentences from his nephew. He wanted to wait until the estrangement between the two families gradually narrowed before pressing for the detailed truth.

Over on the other side, Elijah and Liam were putting their heads together, pointing at a detail where Elijah had gotten stuck. Liam said:

"The idea is very good, but the reason you are stuck is because the reference material is too scarce. I remember there are a few related things in my pile of documents, wait for me to look for them first."

Liam opened Light of Time, rummaging through the pile of documents Nirvana had left behind to see if there was anything related to insect species. Light of Time nimbly jumped out: "Master, I know where it is. These past few days I read through all of it once, let me pull it out for you."

After that Light of Time vanished with a pop, then the thick pile of documents in the smart storage system gradually faded away, leaving behind only a list of six videos and an e-book whose author information and publication year had been encrypted. 𝕗𝗋𝘦𝙚𝖜𝖊𝘣𝙣𝙤𝙫𝘦𝔩.𝔠𝑜𝙢

He sent all the information to Elijah, the two Omegas put their heads together again to watch. Elijah watched with deep absorption, even continuously taking notes into his smart memory.

"Liam, Elijah! It’s time for dinner!"

The two interrupted Omegas unconsciously frowned. Elijah had only watched three of the six videos, unable to bear turning them off. He smacked his lips: "Why don’t we just chug nutrient fluid to be done with it?"

Liam shrugged: "Today the kitchen made sturgeon hotpot with sour bamboo shoots, are you really not going to eat? Besides, today..." He leaned close to Elijah’s ear, whispering something. 𝐟𝑟ⅇ𝐞𝔀𝙚𝖇𝔫𝕠𝖛𝕖𝑙.𝖈𝑜𝘮

Elijah’s two eyes lit up: "Let’s go! Damn it, today even if the sky falls, nobody can hope to stop me from going to watch the drama!"

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