Chapter 26: Experience through a painful life, then you will be more superior.
Lin Xiaoxiao asked, “Since you can resist the nightmare, why do you still enter? If you endure for five minutes without falling asleep, you naturally would be able to escape the nightmare’s call.”
“I thought you had sothing to say, so I ca,” Qing Chen replied, “What are you testing this ti?”
“From today on, it’s no longer a test, but the boss wants to take you on a journey,” Lin Xiaoxiao answered.
“Take on a journey?” Qing Chen puzzled, “What do you an?”
“To use nightmares to evolve human nature, to let you experience so tribulations,” Lin Xiaoxiao said, “But seeing how easily you resisted the nightmare just now, it looks like nightmares will be of no use in the future, the boss himself has to guide you.”
Qing Chen pondered thoughtfully.
This kind of nightmare was different from the last one; it was more like a lesson a teacher arranges for their students.
However, Lin Xiaoxiao then said, “Don’t think too much, the boss still rely admires you for now. Whether you can beco the boss’s student in the future is still uncertain.”
“You are envious of ,” Qing Chen stated.
“Envious,” Lin Xiaoxiao candidly admitted, “Not everyone can beco the boss’s student, at least Ye Wan and I can’t.”
“Why?” Qing Chen could not understand.
“Because both of us didn’t get through the first trial,” Lin Xiaoxiao explained, “But the boss feels, you should be able to make it through.”
“Make it through?” Qing Chen was montarily stunned.
Lin Xiaoxiao smiled mysteriously, “It’s a path from death to life, where each improvent requires surviving a predicant, experiencing pain once.”
“Then why ?”
“Because the boss says you have the courage to be in a desperate situation and yet survive,” Lin Xiaoxiao replied.
“Since it’s so painful, then why do you still envy it?” Qing Chen inquired.
“Because it is a path of cultivation with limitless potential, while Ye Wan and I already have our limits set,” Lin Xiaoxiao said sowhat longingly, “That path might be painful, but you must understand, a life experienced through pain is higher in stature.”
Qing Chen decided not to dwell on the issue and asked about other doubts he had, “How old is Mr. Uncle Li Dong?”
“Why ask that?” Lin Xiaoxiao wondered.
“Just asking,” Qing Chen said.
He asked this because: If ti in the Outer World stood still relative to him when he ca to the Inner World, then that ant he would age faster than normal people.
It’s not that his bodily functions aged quickly, but rather that he was dividing his life between two worlds.
By the ti his contemporaries were only forty years old, he might already have the appearance and bodily functions of soone in their sixties.
Therefore, he wanted to know if Uncle Li Dong’s ability that transcended the common could grant longevity.
Lin Xiaoxiao glanced at him, “Take a guess? The boss’s age is not easy to guess.”
After so thought, Qing Chen said, “40 years old?”
“Too low,” Lin Xiaoxiao replied.
“60 years old?”
“That’s not right.”
“120 years old?”
“Stop, stop, stop, don’t guess any more, you’ll guess the boss away,” Lin Xiaoxiao interrupted, “The boss is 52 years old this year.”
Qing Chen was imdiately shocked; Uncle Li Dong appeared to be no more than thirty-five or thirty-six years old.
“Look at how inexperienced you are, for soone like the boss, even living to over a hundred years old wouldn’t surprise ,” Lin Xiaoxiao said, “We followed him when we were very, very little; all these years, I’ve never seen him change.”
“Why are you following him?” Qing Chen asked.
“There’s no particular reason. , Ye Wan, and many others are orphans,” Lin Xiaoxiao lay on the hot sand, using his arm as a pillow under his head while gazing at the sky. Suddenly, it darkened and the air grew less hot, “Being born into Qing’s Family, you wouldn’t understand how harrowing life can be for people on the outside. Becoming an orphan is very easy.”
“Maybe your parents just happened to run into so gang mbers while walking down the street and got into an argunt, maybe you were targeted right after getting paid, maybe there was a chemical leak at the plant that caused contamination, or maybe you were attacked by hackers while connected to the virtual network with a neural link. Anyway, people die just like that.”
“Then you can’t afford the property taxes, the insurance company refuses to compensate, the bank takes your house away and evicts you to the streets, and nobody cares whether you live or die.”
“At that point, your life has already turned bleak and dark. Gangs want to grab you to be a drug mule, or they might torture you viciously and then record it to sell virtual lives for money.”
“At such tis, soone appears before you and says, ‘Co with , I’ll give you a new life’.”
“No matter who he is, you would follow him.”
Qing Chen silently watched Lin Xiaoxiao, and in that mont, he truly understood that his own tribulations were nothing compared to the other’s experiences.
“Why did he adopt you?” Qing Chen asked curiously.
“Because we are useful,” Lin Xiaoxiao replied, “He can’t do what he needs to do alone.”
Qing Chen was stunned for a mont. He still didn’t know what the Knight Organization and the Spades Organization’s goals were, nor did he know the colossal entity that Spade was trying to contend against. Was it the five major corporations, or sothing else?
But Uncle Li Dong adopted Lin Xiaoxiao, Ye Wan, and the others with clearly utilitarian intentions, although it seed as though Lin Xiaoxiao and his companions didn’t mind.
At this point, Lin Xiaoxiao got up, “Alright, rest early.”
The nightmare dispersed and Qing Chen remained in the dim prison cell, lying on the cold bed board.
Now that he had seen Uncle Li Dong’s enigmatic level, would his Canon be enough to trade for an opportunity to open the doors to the New World?
Qing Chen was uncertain whether Canon was sufficient leverage, and he also had no way to explain its origins.
He needed to wait longer.
Waiting and hope, all of mankind’s wisdom could be contained within these two words.
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Countdown 24:00:00.
In a corner of Prison 18.
“Is anyone there? Let out, why am I locked up here?” A voice fiercely pounded on the Alloy Gate, shouting loudly.
Liu Dezhu, a Los Angeles City transmigrator, was being detained in a solitary cell unlike the common prisoners’ cells, equipped with a surveillance cara closely monitoring the detainee.
Ever since he approached Uncle Li Dong for tasks, he had been locked in this hidden corner, neglected ever since.
Devoid of any notion of ti and without the sight of sunrise or sunset, Liu Dezhu could only guess the ti outside based on the robot’s al delivery schedule.
The sound of him beating on the Alloy Gate dwindled until he had no more strength and his throat was a bit hoarse before he stopped.
The prison seed as if he was the only one left, with no one responding to his pleas and anger.
Liu Dezhu couldn’t understand why others in the Inner World seed to be thriving, with their chanical limbs and gang mberships, and yet his situation had turned out like this.
Moreover, he had just bragged to his classmates about being a transmigrator before coming here.
After the 24 hours have passed and he returns to the Outer World, what would he say to his classmates?
When they ask, “What was your status in the Inner World?”
How could he even begin to respond?
Should he say that he had a secure job in an administrative unit of the Inner World where he didn’t have to do anything but was guaranteed als every day?
Should he say that he had successfully changed careers? Turned into a prisoner?
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