Tomb Raider: The Fox's Ways to Seducing the Kirin

Cheng Ji nodded in response, walked to the old man, and greeted him politely: "How are you feeling lately?"

The old man turned his head and looked at the young man in front of him who had not changed at all, his thoughts drifting away.

Five years ago, the old man fainted for the first time. The hospital found out that he had many chronic illnesses due to years of overwork and had not received timely medical treatment, so he became ill. Zhang Qishan came to visit him with a purpose, and seeing that Zhang Qishan was still alive after taking the corpse-eating pill, he felt he had gone astray.

In the second half of the same year, Zhang Qishan, who returned to Changsha from Beijing, ordered the official launch of the Zhang Qiling Plan.

Just when Zhang Qishan had just left the capital, Cheng Ji appeared in front of the old man quietly.

Looking at the old man who was becoming increasingly thin due to illness, Cheng Ji gave him a choice.

Immortality or natural death.

At that time, the old man was already attracted by immortality and could no longer think about anything else and did not care about the consequences at all.

The old man looked at the person who appeared out of nowhere in front of him, and he knew that the other person must have extraordinary abilities and was not an ordinary person.

Then he spoke eagerly: "Eternal life, I choose eternal life!"

Cheng Ji didn't say yes or no, he just walked to the table nearby, picked up a mirror from the table, held it in front of the old man, and asked in a low voice: "Do you think this is you?"

When the old man heard this question for the first time, he was a little confused: "Of course it's me, who else could it be?"

Cheng Ji didn't say anything, he just put the mirror away casually, and a mirror two palms wide disappeared from the boy's hand just like that.

He was sure that it disappeared suddenly; he saw it clearly and he didn't even blink.

Cheng Ji ignored the old man's shock, but helped him up from the bed and spoke his mind: "I will take you to a place, to be precise, I will take you into a very real dream."

The old man didn't know what kind of magical spell this was, but in order to gain longevity and eternal life, he nodded anyway.

Cheng Ji's eyes turned blood red at this moment, and the color at the end of his eyebrows made the boy's originally cold face look even more charming.

The moment he met the young man's eyes that made him unable to look away, the old man fell into a dream.

Indeed, reality is nothing like a dream.

In this dream, he got immortality as he wished, and also obtained the so-called secret of the Zhang family.

He even regained his youthful appearance and possessed the abilities and bloodline of the Zhang family.

At first he did feel good. After all, it was a really good feeling, something he had never experienced in his life.

But the good times did not last long, because the blood of the Zhang family obtained through blood transfusion would have to guard the secret of the bronze door for the Zhang family.

He was puzzled at first as to why such a good thing had to be hidden and not made public. Until he entered the door, he found that the secret inside was simply unacceptable to ordinary people. It was a disaster for ordinary people.

Only at this time did he begin to think about the consequences of immortality.

He found that none of the points were what he expected.

Immortality means that he is about to lose everything he has now, including rights, status and identity.

His contribution will certainly be erased and lost in history.

Because the chance of immortality was only barely preserved by the Zhang family through extremely strict family rules and regulations, any hope of allowing a person to successfully obtain this hope of immortality is an experiment with a very high failure rate.

Only after he got this thing could he understand the Zhang family's helplessness in keeping their name hidden for three thousand years.

What made him completely collapse and walk out of the dream was that in the following decades or even hundreds of years, all his friends and relatives were separated from him by the Yin and Yang, leaving him alone in this world. This feeling was too painful.

It was at this time that he really began to think, was his initial idea really correct?

The answer is so obvious that you don’t even need to think about it.

The moment this thought appeared in his mind, the old man also exited the dream.

Just like when he entered the dream, Cheng Ji was still standing beside his bed, quietly waiting for him to regain consciousness.

The boy asked the same question again: "Are you still determined to live forever?"

The old man showed his first sincere smile in the past few years: "No, I want something ordinary."

Cheng Ji took out the mirror that had just been put away as if by magic, held it in front of him again, and asked the same question again: "Do you think this is you?"

"Yes." The old man answered firmly.

"What about the face you saw just now?" Cheng Ji did not finish the question, but instead brought up his own face when he first looked in the mirror and asked if it was him.

This time he did not answer as straightforwardly as the previous two times. Instead, he thought about it seriously and shook his head gently.

That's not the real him.

He didn't want to become that person again.

Later, when the old man wanted to withdraw his order regarding immortality, the young man refused again.

"Why? Give me a reason."

Cheng Ji chuckled and told him that he would tell him when the action started.

Who would have thought that this wait would last five years.

After regaining his thoughts, the old man chuckled and replied with some emotion to what Cheng Ji had asked him just now: "I haven't thought about this recently, but this life has become easier. It's really thanks to your visit to me that time, Xiao Cheng."

Cheng Ji also smiled and shook his head: "You have made great achievements, so you should not have such thoughts. If you had not listened to the slander of the villain and got into trouble, how could it be my turn to lecture you."

"Hahaha, you dare to make fun of me now. Time flies." The old man asked Cheng Ji to sit on the sofa, and he stood up and walked to the table, handing Cheng Ji something he had prepared long ago: "You haven't told me yet, what are you going to do with this?"

Cheng Ji took it, flipped through two pages, and after making sure there was no problem, he told him the whole situation.

After talking about the Wang family, Cheng Ji sighed: "After the last cleansing of the Nine Gates, there are still many fish that slipped through the net, and they have already reached a cooperation with Zhang Qishan. If I don't clean them up, I will still be the one who has a headache."

After hearing Cheng Ji's explanation, the old man couldn't help but feel a little puzzled: "Based on your ability, this shouldn't be difficult. Why do you have to go through so much trouble?"

Cheng Ji pointed to the sky helplessly: "No matter how powerful a person is, the sky is still the greatest. Once there is such a person who disrupts the original trajectory, he will definitely be wiped out by the sky, and no one can escape."

The old man reached out and patted the boy on the shoulder: "I'm old now, if you need anything from me, just tell me and I'll do it for you."

Just as Cheng Ji was about to say something, the old man stood up, smiled and added: "It's too late, so just consider it as my thank you gift to you five years ago."

After saying that, he stood up, walked to the door of the tent, opened it and walked out.

Cheng Ji also stood up and bowed deeply to the old man who was walking away.

If nothing else, he deserves it.