The end of the world starts with failing the exam

Chapter 58 The stolen ancient stone tablet

The rain is getting heavier on Sentinel Ridge.

Chen Jing's hair was already soaked by the rain, but he had no intention of holding an umbrella for himself.

He liked the feeling of standing in the rain on a rainy night.

No scruples.

Relaxed as hell.

Just like back then...

"You mean...if I don't cooperate with you...you're going to kill me?!"

"I didn't say it, you said it."

"Kill me and you'll be in big trouble! You should know that!"

"Hmm...so if you cooperate well, it's all over?" Chen Jing smiled and tilted his head, looking at the face in front of him that became extremely funny due to fear, "I don't want to kill anyone, so don't force me, okay? good?"

"Do you think I will believe it!" Smith yelled tremblingly, as if he had already guessed what Chen Jing would do next, "You are not going to let me go at all! Because if you let me go back, you will still be in trouble! You We all know this!"

"Let's take a gamble."

Chen Jing smiled and shrugged.

"If you don't bet, you will die."

"Bet, you may not die."

The stakes are not fair.

Smith knows this.

Chen Jing hardly needed to pay any chips, but he had to use his own life as the price of the gamble.

After hesitating for a moment.

Smith decided to take a gamble based on Chen Jing's advice.

Because he has no other way to go.

Smith had no doubt that as long as he dared to refuse, Chen Jing would let the monster bite his neck off in the next second.

"That stone tablet is from the ancient ruins in Antarctica." Smith endured the pain after his arms were broken and said through gritted teeth, "But when we were digging the ruins, no one found it except your grandfather. What we are concerned about The key point is the golden throne and the hourglass..."

"Continue." Chen Jing smiled and nodded.

"We never knew about the existence of that stone tablet until a month ago..." Smith raised his eyes and glared at Chen Jing fiercely, seeming to still be angry about the stone tablet, "We found... in the deepest part of the ruins... A string of secret words carved in the tunnel..."

"The place where the carvings are written is very hidden. Even though we have walked into that tunnel tens of thousands of times over the years, we have never found it..."

"What is that secret message?" Chen Jing asked curiously.

"It only translates to one sentence."

Smith struggled twice, as if he wanted to loosen Baiaji's arms, but Chen Jing ignored his struggle and still waited patiently for the answer.

"In the stone tablet, there is the key to the courtyard of the gods."

key?

Chen Jing's brows twitched.

The key to the courtyard of the gods?

Could it be that the old man disappeared because of the existence of that key...

"We didn't know what the stone tablet it referred to at the time, nor where it was..."

"Until a few days passed..."

"We found clues in several other places in the ancient ruins..."

Smith seemed too lazy to pretend anymore.

He seemed to hate Chen Jing's grandfather very much. When he said this, Smith's eyes almost showed a fierce look, and his expression was as fierce as if he wanted to eat someone.

"According to clues... we found an underground secret room on the ice layer to the east of the ancient ruins..."

"That secret room is very special...it has blocked our scientific instruments for detection countless times...if we hadn't found the mechanism to open the door based on clues...no one would have thought that there would be a secret room there..."

"Is the stone tablet placed in that secret room?" Chen Jing asked.

"Yes, but when we went there, the altar where the stone tablet was placed was already empty. There was nothing there..." Smith gritted his teeth and said, "Based on the traces left at the scene... we can be sure that there was a stone tablet placed on it. !”

"Then you doubted my grandfather?" Chen Jing asked calmly, with a hint of curiosity in his eyes, "Why do you doubt him?"

"There are fingerprints left by him at the scene, what do you think?" Smith sneered.

"..."

After receiving this answer, Chen Jing didn't know what to say.

I can only blame the old man for being too careless.

Now that you can get things from that kind of place, there are still so many clues left behind...

But then I thought about it.

It seems normal to leave fingerprints.

After all, it was 1972 when he took away the stone tablet.

Moreover, when working in a crowd of people, it is inevitable that clues will be left behind due to nervousness and negligence...

"So you came here?" Chen Jing sighed.

"That's right, when we found those fingerprints, we immediately asked the Yajing branch to retrieve all information related to your grandfather, relatives, friends, colleagues... We have all investigated people who are related to him .”

"Why are there so many checks?" Chen Jing lowered his head and smiled, kicking the rainwater on the ground with his feet, "Can't we just catch him?"

"Who has the guts?"

When Smith said this, he seemed to hate his own wrong and stupid decision.

"Since we can become extraordinary beings through the materials left in the ruins, of course your grandfather can too, and that stone tablet has extraordinary significance... so we suspect that your grandfather is also an extraordinary person!"

"So that's it..." Chen Jing looked at Smith thoughtfully, "If he is also a transcendent, and you come to arrest him rashly, you might be able to alert the snake..."

"So we have never acted rashly. Everyone wants to work out a plan with a 100% success rate before taking action..." Smith lowered his head.

Chen Jing listened to the old man's story quietly, seeming to have guessed what he was going to say.

"It wasn't until we learned that the old man was probably dead that the association quickly sent us over to take a look."

"How did you know he was dead?" Chen Jing was confused. This was also the biggest doubt in his mind.

There was no way he could tell anyone else about the old man cheating his death!

"We got a tip not long ago that your grandfather went to the hospital in the provincial capital for a check-up. The test result there was a malignant tumor of the liver, and it had spread..."

Chen Jing was stunned when he heard the explanation given by Smith.

It was like being hit hard by something.

Chen Jing's brain suddenly went blank.

"Based on the diagnosis given to your grandfather by the attending physician at that time, your grandfather would die within half a month. His body functions have deteriorated to the point where there is no chance of transformation..."

Smith seemed to be able to imagine Chen Bofu going to the hospital for treatment at that time, and he couldn't help but reveal a smile of relief on his old face.

"I heard from the attending physician that your grandfather was coughing up a lot of blood in the hospital and could not walk steadily..."

At this moment, Chen Jing's mind was in chaos.

Could it be that what Smith said was true...that the old man had liver cancer? !

but……

Why I don’t know…

"Are you lying to me...I..." Chen Jing murmured, and for the first time, another expression appeared on his face that had been smiling before.

"Don't you know?"

This time it was Smith's turn to be dumbfounded, because he could tell from Chen Jing's reaction that the other party really didn't know such a thing was happening.

"I haven't been back for a long time... He never told me these things..." Chen Jing murmured with a stunned expression, and then fell silent.

After a while.

Chen Jing took a deep breath, as if he was trying his best to endure something.

He tried to control his emotions and spoke slowly.

"last question."

"After you brought me back to the association..."

"What on earth are you going to do with me..."