Chapter 177 - Peeping into the Real Person
Chapter 177 - Peeping into the Real Person
Duan Yunhong is not a child who trusts people easily. On the contrary, he is suspicious by nature. But he is not inhumane. With such a big business, if he didn't have anyone he deeply trusted, he would have been exhausted long ago.
However, among these few people, a traitor was revealed who stole his life-saving medicine.
Duan Yunhong was so angry that he laughed, or rather, he was so angry that he managed to hold on for a while longer by just holding on for a breath. Fortunately, he was not destined to die at that time. A few days later, he accidentally got half a box of antibiotics, and he barely saved a life, no, half a life.
Then he dragged his sick body back to Pingdu.
His good brothers were shocked to know that he had come back alive, and they came to his house at night to see him. But Duan Yunhong was completely gone. He believed that there was no reason for this matter. All the reasons, whether true or false, right or wrong, were excuses. Not only that, he also immediately set about dispersing and transferring his assets and businesses, and took back all the assets that were originally under the name of this good brother and transferred them away. Of course, the good brother was unwilling to be bullied. In his words, "I was harvested for no reason. Even though I have no credit, I have worked hard," so he fought back. For a time, everyone knew that the two were evenly matched.
Duan Yunhong's health had been poor during this period, and he was holding his breath to stay strong, but this did not prevent him from being more ruthless. Unable to quickly transfer the recovered assets, he would rather dispose of them at a low price and then donate all the money to the camp, like a boy giving away money. Some channels were unwilling to give up cooperation with their good brothers, so Duan Yunhong directly discredited and ruined them, as if he was determined to die together with them. When others cursed him or warned him, he would just sneer back, "I am really going to die, do you want to come with me?"
This kind of crazy and vicious behavior scared away many people. Everyone cursed this "sick ghost" in secret, but did not dare to confront him in person. I was afraid of accidentally provoking him and letting him mess up my affairs without considering the consequences.
It was during this process that Duan Yunhong suddenly discovered something wrong from his review of a number of relationships.
He found a person who seemed to have suddenly jumped out from between the rocks. It seemed that he had never seen such a person before in his memory. Moreover, when tracing the path of his good brother's betrayal, Duan Yunhong vaguely realized that this mysterious man seemed to be the main driving force behind it. Although he does not appear in public, every step seems to be accompanied by this person's figure.
Duan Yunhong made an appointment to meet this person.
The other party’s apparent identity was the president of Pingdu Newspaper—Lin Jianru.
The initial reason for the meeting was an interview, and Duan Yunhong cooperated and completed it. After the interview, Duan Yunhong looked at the president who was still speaking politely and suddenly asked, "Who are you?"
Lin Jianru smiled and said, "It seems that Mr. Duan doesn't know me well enough. Do you need me to give you a copy of my resume?"
"I don't read that kind of 'tattered wrapping paper'." Since he had already brought it up, Duan Yunhong simply went straight to the point, "I've heard about your experiences, but they all seem fake."
Lin Jianru blinked slowly and actually revealed a strange smile: "Do you think my experience is 'fake'?"
"Isn't it fake?" Duan Yunhong said sarcastically, "You don't have to tell me why others don't say you're fake. I'm also surprised that others never doubted where you came from. Logically, even if others believe in you, they should keep discussing your 'airborne' appearance. But they just accepted everything about you, just like you made up a myth or legend to others, and they believed it without any doubt. Isn't this ridiculous?"
“Hahahaha…!” Lin Jianru actually burst into laughter upon hearing that, even bending over with laughter. Duan Yunhong didn't know what was so funny about what he said. He just thought that the other party had gone crazy, so he said in a warning tone: "I don't care where you come from. I just want to ask you: You instigated Fang Meng to betray me. Did you want to target me, or were you targeting someone else, and you just tricked me by chance?"
Lin Jianru finally stopped laughing and looked up at Duan Yunhong: "...You want to know the reason? Do you really want to know?"
His eyes and tone made Duan Yunhong feel extremely uncomfortable, and alarm bells rang in his mind. Duan Yunhong reached into his collar, his face showing no sign of hiding his vigilance: "Of course, I want to know."
"Oh, Boss Duan also carries a gun with him? How scary." Lin Jianru pushed his glasses, but there was no panic in his tone. "I'm just reminding you that what I'm going to say next is more bizarre than any myth or legend you can imagine. Remember, it's 'anything'. Do you still want to listen?"
"You want to cheat me?"
"I promise I'm telling the truth." Lin Jianru smiled slightly, "But it depends on whether you believe it or not."
"No need to be so mysterious." Duan Yunhong was not intimidated at all and stared at him. "Just say what you want to say. I want to see what else you can say."
"Ha, then I suggest you stop interrupting and stop talking nonsense. Listen to me first before you express your opinion." Lin Jianru said slowly, "You think I suddenly appeared, and you are wondering why others are not curious about my origins. Then I will tell you -
"I just 'appeared' in this world.
“It’s not strange if others don’t question it; it’s strange if you question it.”
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"You can actually recognize 'non-natives of this world' naturally?!"
Ning Fei was completely surprised. In Duan Yunhong’s resume, it was only said that he accidentally met a "time and space walker", and then the other party took him to a completely different field, and he embarked on his "journey" as a walker. It was not until today that Ning Fei finally understood how the key point of all this happened.
"It was just a feeling that something was wrong with that person," Duan Yunhong replied, "but I couldn't figure out why or where it was. I didn't doubt his 'resume' at the time, I just wondered why such a person suddenly appeared and no one else was discussing him."
"Stop pretending to be modest. If you can sense that something is wrong with him, it means you have seen through the 'disguise created by the world'!" Ning Fei sighed, "Such a person is not one in ten thousand, but one in ten thousand worlds! You do have the capital to be arrogant. If I were you, I would be arrogant too. You are born to travel between different worlds."
Duan Yunhong kept a tense expression and said nothing.
"If you want to laugh, just laugh. Why are you trying to be cool?" Ning Fei stepped on his calf and raised an eyebrow. "It's hard for you to have another chance to show off something like this. It's better to be praised for this."
Duan Yunhong grabbed his feet and asked, "Are you still listening?"
"Listen." Ning Fei simply put her feet on his legs and asked, "Then, how did Lin Jianru introduce you to the sect?"
Duan Yunhong replied: "Then, he said that if I can completely accomplish what he wants to do, he will give me all the luck obtained in that world..."
In fact, Lin Jianru’s target was neither Duan Yunhong, nor his good brother or his good brother’s woman. Lin Jianru just "foresaw" that Duan Yunhong would become a great help to someone in the future - actually a time traveler - and that his help would mainly be in terms of financial resources and relationship channels, so he wanted to kill him in advance. Since Duan Yunhong is doing this personally, we just need to make sure that Duan Yunhong does not help this time traveler in the future. It would be even better if Duan Yunhong could fight against this time traveler. As for whether Duan Yunhong would change camp or where the money would go in the future, Lin Jianru didn't care.
Lin Jianru thought Duan Yunhong was such an amazing and interesting person, and he really wanted to watch the show. So he decided that as long as Duan Yunhong achieved his goal, he would try to give all the luck that he had snatched from the time travelers in this world to Duan Yunhong. But whether Duan Yunhong can completely absorb it and completely escape from this world depends on himself. Once Duan Yunhong succeeds, he will have to return five times the luck to Lin Jianru.
At that time, Duan Yunhong was fed up with this world after having been against many people for a long time. So when faced with Lin Jianru's story and proposal that sounded like a crazy fantasy, Duan Yunhong agreed.
He decided to take a gamble.
Then it's a period of survival, while fighting against the time traveler openly or covertly. During this period, Duan Yunhong had many opportunities to kill his former good brother, but Lin Jianru suggested that they should wait a little longer, as doing it too early would make him lose the courage to live. So Duan Yunhong let that man live a few more years.
As for the fact that the man betrayed Duan Yunhong because of Lin Jianru's interference, it was not a reason to let him off. Duan Yunhong believes that he is the one who makes the final decision, and adults should be responsible for the decisions they make.
Later, Duan Yunhong achieved his goal.
Later, Lin Jianru, as promised, gave all the luck he had snatched from the time traveler to Duan Yunhong.
Duan Yunhong thus understood the meaning of "crossing the threshold of the world" and truly became a "time and space walker." Lin Jianru gave him a general introduction to what the walkers were doing and how they survived, as well as an outline of the opposing side - the Space-Time Administration.
"Then I guess he won't say anything good to the Administration."
Ning Fei joked, "He must have described the Administration as the devil."
"Just like the official information of the Administration, they also describe us as unforgivable?" Duan Yunhong sneered, "I did think that the Administration was a rigid and unreasonable iron cage, but after actually having direct or indirect contact with people from the Administration, I felt that they were not so terrible. Some people in the Administration... are quite stupid."
Ning Fei kicked him again: "Look at me, right?"
"I'm talking about Chonglin and his ilk. Why are you taking it so personally?" Duan Yunhong looked at him and chuckled. "But sometimes you do..."
Ning Fei immediately pulled his foot away.
"I didn't say anything, why are you angry?" Duan Yunhong smiled and didn't grab him. He just sat closer to him. "It should be three years after I left this world. No one can afford to buy my old house, so it happens to be vacant. Let's live there when we go back, right?"
"Stop using that disgusting tone of voice that says I'll go home with you." Ning Fei glanced at him and snorted, "But it's really interesting that two travelers in your world are so closely connected."
"Yes. Maybe because of my departure, the stability of the world has fluctuated." Duan Yunhong approached him and laughed softly, "The chaos I caused back then should still have residual effects. Don't you like to watch the fun? Isn't it nice to watch it?"
"Okay, okay, I get it!" Ning Fei blocked his approaching mouth with her backhand.
"Let's make it clear in advance. Today and on the road afterwards, I won't buy Coke. Otherwise, with the road conditions and the traffic jams... I really don't want to go north!"
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