Chapter 291 Twenty-eight Years Old

• "You were still away, attending college, at the time, and one day a group of foreigners showed up in our village for sightseeing," Alex recalled with an unpleasant expression. "On the surface, they claimed to be tourists and pretended to be innocent, but in reality, they came for the Universe Apparatus in front of Edward's house! The people in the village warmly entertained them and showed them around.
• "Later, when they were about to leave, they proposed to purchase the Universe Apparatus at a high price. However, Edward, who had been guarding it all his life, naturally wouldn't allow it to fall into someone else's hands. So, he rejected their request.
• "After that, several years passed, and they never came again. We never really made anything of it either, only thinking that those foreign tourists liked antiques. Until one day, when we almost forgot about it, a group of armed people suddenly attacked the village…"