THE ADVERSE EFFECT

'You don't pick up?' Ma TiHua asked as he saw Shen YeZun ignoring Shen Wei's calls, 'Ah Wei will be so worried...'

'It's alright, Da Ge will understand...' Shen YeZun lowered his gaze.

Ma TiHua sighs, 'Stop in front of the ice cream stall!' He said to the driver. After the car stopped, Ma TiHua climbs down the car and returns with two cups of ice cream in his hands. 'Here...' He passed one to Shen YeZun, 'Your favorite Mocca flavor...'

Shen YeZun's smile lifted unconsciously, 'Thank you, Uncle Ma...' Eat the ice cream like a kid, Shen YeZun tries to forget his nightmare. And like knows exactly what Shen YeZun needs, Ma TiHua indulges the man's every whim.

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'What?' Zhao MingAn looks at his elder brother and Shen Wei in turns, 'What happens one week ago?' He demands an explanation.

'You said that YeZun helped YuXuan, what did he do?' Shen Wei tried to avert the conversation.

'I don't know. Professor Shen said that the work was classified...' Zhao MingAn replied, 'Wait! My quest-'

'When did they do the job?' Zhao YunLan helped his lover.

'Around the same time when I ambushed Mr. Ma Jr...' The poor Zhao MingAn is successfully averted.

'Do you think what I think?' Zhao YunLan asked Shen Wei.

'Mhm...' Shen Wei nodded.

'Ah Ming, we have to go...' Zhao YunLan said as he grabbed his little brother's arm.

'Where to?'

'See your mistress...' Zhao YunLan replied, 'Lin Jing, check on Mr. Ma TiHua's DNA test report! Find out if there is any potential of DNA report forging!' He said.

'What?' Zhao MingAn never had the answer as Zhao YunLan dragged him outside.

'Alright...' Lin Jing replied as he saw the three disappear behind the door.

'Ge, don't tell me that you'll bring me to see Mr. Ma Jr!' Zhao MingAn turns frantic when they arrived at the Ma Manor.

'Well, that's basically what we going to do...' Zhao YunLan smiles as he drags his younger brother.

'No way!' Zhao MingAn struggles, 'I don't want to see him! You don't know how scary he is...'

'Tsk, it's for investigation! Do you want to help YeZun or not?' As the magic word was used, Zhao MingAn has no option but to comply with his elder brother's request.

'Zhao YunLan, do we have to go to this extent? YuXuan will answer everything that we want to know anyway...' Sees how Zhao YunLan treats his younger brother, Shen Wei feels sorry for the young man.

'Are you sure that he will answer honestly regarding his father? Every family member will protect each other...' Zhao YunLan retorted as he strode inside the Manor.

'Zhao MingAn!' Ma YuXuan rushes downstairs to grabs the young man's arm soon after he spotted Zhao MingAn. 'I miss you so much! That stingy creature and my father forbid me to see you...So glad that you come and visit me. Do you miss me too?' He winked his eye to the awkward young man.

'YuXuan...Where is your father?' Shen Wei asked.

'I don't know...' Ma YuXuan seems ignorant to Shen Wei's question, 'He can be anywhere and everywhere he wants...'

'About the job that you did with YeZun...What kind of job was that?' Shen Wei asked again.

'That's a secret project, how can I share it with you?' Ma YuXuan sighs. Despite his playful attitude, this feminine guy is very serious about his job.

'But Mr. Ma...I need to know. Can you please tell me?' Zhao MingAn pleaded.

'No, baby...Don't plead...' Ma YuXuan clutching at Zhao MingAn's shoulder in a spoiled manner, 'Actually, my father is currently excited about a discovery his archeology team's findings...'

'What findings?' Zhao YunLan asked.

'What kind of findings, Mr. Ma?' Zhao MingAn repeated the question as Ma YuXuan seems to refuse to reply.

'Just an ancient stone monument inscription...' Ma YuXuan leans his head to Zhao MingAn's shoulder, 'I wonder what so good about that...'

'But, you said it is a secret project...'

'That what my father asked me, babe...' Ma YuXuan pinched Zhao MingAn's cheek, 'Actually, all YeZun did is just pull the crystal ball from the monument...'

'What!?' Shen Wei seems so shocked.

'What?' Zhao YunLan is confused.

'YuXuan, where is the monument right now?' Shen Wei asked.

'In the place it belongs...' Ma YuXuan replied lightly. 'Don't look at me like that! I also don't know where the location is...My father's man who drove us there...' He said when Shen Wei glared at him.

'Do you have a brother, Mr. Ma?' Zhao YunLan asked.

'Well, who knows...I'm an adopted kid and I never see my father have a relationship with any lady but we will never know, will we...' Ma YuXuan replied.

Zhao YunLan nods, slowly averting his eyes to look around. When he scrutinizes his surrounding, he realized something that many people will never see. 'Mr. Ma...These photographs...' Zhao YunLan points to the pictures that hang on the wall around them.

'My father's ancestors...' Ma YuXuan replied.

'Ah, I see...' Zhao YunLan nodded, 'Alright then, we have to excuse ourselves...' He said as he takes some pictures around the living room. After he is done taking pictures, Zhao YunLan pulls his younger brother from Ma YuXuan's clutch, 'Mr. Ma, see you again another time...'

'But...' Ma YuXuan who is startled by the sudden act, is about to protest.

'Mr. Ma, my brother has a lot of tasks as a student...You will not like to see him get a bad mark, will you?' Zhao YunLan explained diplomatically.

'Mhm, alright...Come again, handsome!' Ma YuXuan waves his pink handkerchief.

'Zhao YunLan...What's the matter?' Shen Wei asked soon after they are outside.

But Zhao YunLan lifts his hand as he on the phone, 'Lao Chu...Can you go to my house? Ask Zhang Shi to give us the sketch of the astronomer's face...' He said soon after the phone is connected.

'What is it?' Shen Wei asked again.

'I think I start to get the big picture...' Zhao YunLan replied, 'I'll explain it in the headquarters and you have to explain to me what about the monument...'

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'YeZun...What happened to you? Do you like to share with me?' Sit together in a beautiful garden, Ma TiHua asked Shen YeZun softly.

Shen YeZun lowered his head, 'Uncle Ma...What would you do if you suddenly realized that you have an awful past?' He swirls the coffee with the spoon.

Ma TiHua's eyebrows twitch a little the smirks as if he knows what happens, 'YeZun...Do you want to go with me?'

'Where to?'

'To the place where you could get the answer for every question you have...' Ma TiHua wipes Shen YeZun's lips corner with his fingers.

Shen YeZun lowered his gaze slowly. Honestly, his intuition told him not to go but his curiosity shouts louder in his consciousness. 'Alright...' He replied.

'Then, I will pay for our bill, you wait for me in the car...' Ma TiHua pats YeZun's hand tenderly. 'Meet me at the site!' He said to someone on the phone soon after Shen YeZun left him.

At the same time, Chu ShuZhi who watching Ouyang Zhen's house together with Guo ChangCheng received the call from Zhao YunLan but when he was about to leave, they saw Ouyang Zhen prepare his way to leave the house. 'Chu Ge...You go and do your duty, I will follow Professor Ouyang...' Guo ChangCheng propounds his idea.

Chu ShuZhi is silent for a moment, leaving the pure young man to do shadowing errand seems out of place but to send him to see an unfamiliar DiXing man like Zhang Shi is also not an option. 'Alright, but if he rides a car, don't follow him anymore!' He said finally.

'Mhm...' Guo ChangCheng nods.

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'Now, can you explain to me what's happened?' Shen Wei asked Zhao YunLan soon after they arrived at SID's headquarters.

'Before I answer your question, answer mine first...' Zhao YunLan requested, their conversation automatically draw their subordinates' attention.

'Alright...'

'Do you feel any dark energy around the Ma Manor?'

Shen Wei lowered his gaze, 'No...' He says, 'I don't see anything strange...'

'Right! Just like another normal place of normal HaiXing people...' Zhao YunLan said meaningfully.

'What do you mean?' Shen Wei asked.

'Look at this...' Zhao YunLan said as he shows the man the picture he took with his cellphone.

Shen Wei takes the phone and starts to look at the pictures one by one so that the curious members of SID, 'What so wrong with the pictures?' Zhu Hong asked.

'Don't you think that Mr. Ma and his ancestor are "too alike"?' Zhao YunLan asked.

'What so wrong with that?' Wang Zheng asked back, 'They are his predecessors...To be look-alike is something normal...' She proceeds.

'Tsk, if they merely look alike then I will not bear any suspicion against them. But take a look! They all are too look-alike as if they are the same person in disguise...' Zhao YunLan tries to convince his comrades.

'Let me see...' Zhao MingAn pulls the cellphone from Shen Wei's hand and goes to the computer nearby, 'If we delete some physical traits and soften the old pictures then...' Zhao MingAn muttered while he works as the curious SID members look at the screen.

'That's it!' Zhao YunLan shouted soon after every picture finally reveal the face of the same young man that they currently looking for. 'Now, your turn...' He looks at Shen Wei, 'What made you so shocked when that Xiao Ma told us about the pillar and crystal ball...' Shen Wei slumped to the sofa, he seems still can't believe what he just sees. 'What happened?' Zhao YunLan asked again.

'Do you remember about the myth that I told you long ago?' Shen Wei finally returned the question.

'About the myth of the two chambers?' Da Qing asked back.

'Yes...'

'I'm listening...' Zhao YunLan sits beside his lover.

'I don't really remember, everything happened when I was just a little kid...' Shen Wei starts his story, 'As you know that our family was poor and my parents decided to went to the HaiXing land to seek a better life. But after the meteor struck HaiXing, the situation got worse and they both died...Just before my father died, he told me this story...'

Meanwhile, Guo ChangCheng who stays alone to keep watching Ouyang Zhen realized that the old man is about to leave the house. He can't lose the man, that what inside his mind. Ignoring Chu ShuZhi's advice, Guo ChangCheng sneaks into the car trunk. Nobody knows who the dumbest one as Ouyang Zhen who could hear a huge 'thud' voice in his trunk not even check it, just hit the gas and drive the car away.

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'Uncle Ma...This place...' Shen YeZun can't talk more as he recognized the place. Yes, this is the place where he went with his childhood friend a long time ago.

'Yes, the archeology site I've been telling you so many times...' Ma TiHua replied.

'But Uncle Ma...How this site can answer my questions?'

'Can you see what's surrounding us?' Ma TiHua lifts his both hands to make YeZun begin to pay attention to his surrounding, 'This is the relic and site I told you were left by your ancestors...'

'And?'

'YeZun...You already remember your past, don't you? Can you remember the story about the myth of the two chambers?'

'The myth of the two chambers...' Shen YeZun lowered his gaze, 'The myth of two places with strange phenomena of time...'

'True...' Ma TiHua replied, 'One of them has an unlimited time where you can stay without being influenced by the movement of the time outside, and the other kept the fountain of the eternity...The unlimited elixir of youth...'

Shen YeZun snorts, 'Uncle Ma, it just a myth...How can you believe that? We even don't know whether that place is real or not...'

'Of course, it's real...In fact, I've been looking for it for over ten thousand years...' Ma TiHua smiles, 'And now, I found both the map and the key...'

'Over ten thousand years? Uncle Ma...Your age is not even more than seventy years...'

'Boss!' At the same time, Lin Jing rushes to find Zhao YunLan, 'There...There is something strange with Mr. Ma's DNA...' He said in a stutter.

'He is a DiXing?' Da Qing guessed.

'No, his DNA is pure HaiXing but from his blood that preserved, I learned that his cells' ability to do self-regeneration is magnificently rapid...' Lin Jing answers, 'It's mean that he never can get hurt, sick, even aging...'

'What!? But how is that even possible?'

Separated miles away, Shen YeZun is equally shocked when Ma TiHua took off his fake mustache and wipes the soft make-up that makes him seem old. 'I also surprised at the first time, YeZun...' Suddenly, Ouyang Zhen's voice heard, 'But through several tests, I realized that Mr. Ma is not lying...'

'Long time ago, I was just a normal scientist...Until one day, in the middle of exploring a virgin cave, there was an earthquake that makes me fall and separated from my friends. Who will think that the accident opens my way to a marvelous discovery? In a dying state, a drop of water miraculously heals me. When I searched around, I found the crack where the water leaked out but that place was severely damaged by the meteor struck and the stone wall was collapsed again when the second earthquake shakes the land. Years later, after I was rescued, I realized that the water is not just healing me but makes me eternal as my physic did not deteriorate by the time. At first, I was panicked and hide but then I thought...Instead of being scared why don't I use this gift?' Ma TiHua takes a deep breath, 'That is the time when I start to learn about DiXing's society, their history, their culture, their technology...When I learned enough, I decided to build a time machine and change history...'

'But I don't see how that answers my question...'

'Take a look at the engravements on the pillar and walls...They speak about you, the key of the gates that lead to the two chambers...' Ma TiHua answered YeZun's question, 'You was born to be the leader of this planet, YeZun...Your power is unlimited...' He walks into a wall and presses a button, 'Can you see? I prepared for you your army...' He said soon after the wall is opened.

Shen YeZun walks towards the one-way glass behind the wall, and there he could see numerous humans that kept inside tubes and many scientists control their vital signs makes him speechless with what he saw, 'YeZun...Join me...' Ma TiHua whispered in YeZun's ear. 'I know who you really are...In front of me, you don't need to hide...'

Shen YeZun lowered his gaze, thinking deeply before he finally nods. 'Alright...'

The adverse effect, a harmful or abnormal result. An adverse effect may be caused by the administration of a medication or by exposure to a chemical and be indicated by an untoward result such as by illness or death. Many times we try our best to mend a situation after we know we did a mistake but sometimes, the effects are already unexpectedly reached a dangerous level...

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