Bengtie: The first kiss in March was my gray hair

Chapter 150 The Watchmaker's Story

Slowly putting away the smile on his face, Gallagher said in a deep voice: "Everyone... I think you should have noticed that the message in the music box did not come from the family. It can even be said that the relationship between the person who sent this secret message and the family... is not good."

"We are just guessing at the moment." Jizi nodded calmly. "After all, it is hard to imagine... that the 'watchmaker' who is known as the father of Pinocchio would be so at odds with the 'family' that actually manages it."

"Haha, it's hard to imagine, right? But... this is the truth."

"The family has actually regarded the Watchmaker as an enemy for a long time and has been trying to catch him, but unfortunately... he has been hiding in the business myth he created, and it is hard to tell who is the one. This has prevented the hounds from catching him."

"That means... the music box Aunt Jizi received... was given by the 'watchmaker'?" Jiang Chen said thoughtfully while playing with his girlfriend's little hand.

"That's right." Gallagher nodded approvingly. "Then... guess why the family tolerated the Watchmaker, its mortal enemy... and sent such a joke to the outside world?"

"Maybe... he wants to use us, the external forces, to make the 'watchmaker' reveal some flaws." Jiang Chen said uncertainly.

"...You are right. So now you can understand...why the family agreed to let the nameless guest assist in the investigation, but was unwilling to share the information with you."

"Ah?! Wait! Wait! The more I listen, the more confused I am. What do you mean... the family doesn't want to share information with us?" The girl scratched her boyfriend's palm and asked with her big eyes in confusion.

Feeling the strange sensation coming from his palm, Jiang Chen smiled and turned his head. "Don't you understand yet, Miss Sanyue? It means... the family is using us as tools."

"No, no! Bad guy, that's not what we're asking. What we wanted to ask just now was... uh... what was it that we wanted to ask?" The girl scratched her head awkwardly and looked at her boyfriend sheepishly.

"I...I forgot~"

The smile on Jiang Chen's face froze instantly, "March, are you... serious?"

"Hehe~ You should be serious...right?"

Jiang Chen rolled his eyes at the girl speechlessly and sighed slowly. "Well, so, Miss March, what do you mean by looking at me?"

"Hey, bad guy, why are you asking even though you already know the answer? In fact, you already knew it, right?"

"After all... I am your most beloved March wife. You can't possibly not know what I'm thinking... right?"

Seeing his girlfriend looking at him expectantly, Jiang Chen shook his head unconscionably. "I don't know~"

The girl's face suddenly fell, and she puffed her cheeks and said angrily: "You bad guy! Okay, okay! You forced me to do this! Look at my trick~"

"Help me, Mr. Pioneer~"

"Hey, hey, Miss March, here I come~"

Ji Zi: "..."

Gallagher: "..."

So under the helpless gazes of Jizi and Gallagher, the two began to play around again...

About ten minutes passed...

Under his girlfriend's coquettish offensive, Jiang Chen asked her the question she had already forgotten.

"Captain Gallagher, actually my San Yue just wanted to ask you...why did you share this information with us when your family explicitly prohibited it."

"Ah! Right...right! That's what I wanted to ask~"

Gallagher stared at the sweet couple for a long time and said meaningfully, "Is this important to you?"

Jiang Chen thought about it, then smiled and said, "Of course it is important. After all... this is the question Miss March wants to ask. As long as it is what she wants, I will do my best to satisfy her..."

"Really? As long as she wants something, she will be satisfied..." Galaha nodded thoughtfully, his eyes full of memories and sadness.

After a long time, he spoke in a hoarse voice. "Actually... the reason why I told you this information is because... I am actually one of the many 'children' of the 'Watchmaker'."

"Huh?" Jiang Chen was stunned, looking at the unshaven uncle in front of him with some surprise. "You are the watchmaker's child? In that case... those messages and music boxes were sent out by you?"

"No, I didn't do that." Gallagher shook his head with a sad look on his face, and said self-deprecatingly: "As you can see, I am indeed a traitor, but I did not betray my family as you guessed. Instead, I betrayed the watchmaker and Mikhail."

Looking at the man in front of him with a painful expression, a hint of doubt flashed in Jiang Chen's deep eyes.

[Betrayed Mikhail? As a "child", he...betrayed his "father"? ]

[But if... he really betrayed the watchmaker Mikhail, then why did he tell us this information? He even told us the secret that he was the "watchmaker's child"...]

[Aren't you afraid that we won't act according to the family's plan, causing their plan to "lure the snake out of its hole" to fail? ]

[Also... where is watchmaker Mikhail? ]

Rubbing his swollen brows, Jiang Chen asked his doubts.

"Since you have already betrayed the watchmaker, you should obey the family's arrangements. Why do you still reveal information to us?"

"Hehe, maybe... it's because of guilt." The man said sadly.

"Just like you, I once had a close friend and a lover whom I wanted to protect for the rest of my life."

"We worked hard together for Pinocchio, and we have been working hard for the common goal in our hearts. It should have always been like this..." When he said this, the man's breathing began to speed up, and hatred was revealed in his eyes.

"But the damn 'Oak Family' shattered our fantasy. It trapped us in injustice and made us traitors of 'Harmony'! Although the real traitor is someone else!"

"Mikhail is old and can no longer protect his children. So we had no choice but to leave the family and find our own way out. We were completely labeled as 'traitors'."

"It's ridiculous, isn't it? The 'watchmaker' who turned this former border prison into a city of dreams has become a traitor in their eyes..."

"Haha... traitor." Perhaps because he recalled the bad past, the man clenched his hands under the table tightly, and slowly loosened them after a while, looking at Jiang Chen and the other two with a wry smile.

"After we left... the family continued to praise the reputation of the 'Watchmaker' in front of outsiders, but in fact they had already secretly nailed him to the pillar of shame."

"After we found out, we came together again, wanting to clear his name and find the real traitor."

"As long as we can find the person who is hiding behind the scenes and planning everything, Pinocchio's 'Harmony' can get back on track... We and 'him' won't have to hide from each other anymore..."

"But...you failed..." Jiang Chen said with a complicated expression.

"Haha, that's right, we failed." The man smiled bitterly and shook his head. That smile seemed to be mocking himself, but also seemed to be surrendering to fate. "We were too naive. The family is no longer the one we knew."

"Over a long period of time, the Dreamland has been affected too deeply. Under the endless pursuit, I gave up... and became a stray dog."

"Later... the family accepted me back and gave me the job of sheriff. On the surface it was forgiveness, but in reality it was a punishment. I... accepted it, and since then... I have completely cut off contact with my past."

"I see..." Jiang Chen shook the wine glass in his hand and looked at the man in front of him thoughtfully. "That means... you are still a member of the family and have not betrayed. Right?"

The man smiled and nodded, answering the question irrelevantly: "Pioneer, it's not that easy to betray your current family..."

"Really..." Jiang Chen drank the drink in the cup and slowly stood up with his girlfriend. "Then... Commander Gallagher, let's stop here today. We need to go back... to digest this information."

"…it is good."

Looking at the backs of the people leaving, the man sighed tiredly. "Ah, it's really difficult..."

"The unknown guest from the Star Train, is this the descendant you are looking for, Mikhail?"