Chapter 354 Missing an opportunity

   "Master, should we tell Grandpa about this?" Li Ke asked.

  The off-road vehicle headed south in the face of the rising sun.

  They were alone when they came out of the 18th city, and then they met the Freemasons. After two days of excitement, they went on the road again alone.

  This is like a period of life, everyone will experience the hustle and bustle, and then return to loneliness.

  The road is always your own, and there is never a feast that never ends in the world.

  Qing Chen thought for a while: "Don't tell, the old man is running out of time, so don't let him know about your friend's death."

   "Well," Li Ke responded after thinking for a while.

  Actually, Qing Chen has no right to make decisions for the old man, but he is really worried that the old man won't survive No. 002 taboo place after hearing the bad news.

  In the evening, the old man finally woke up completely.

  At this time, Hu Xiaoniu was exhausted, so he changed to Qingchen to drive. Although he was a novice on the road, he was very proficient in driving.

  The off-road vehicle is walking steadily on the wilderness.

  In the distance is the sunset, surrounded by plains and wilderness, the whole world seems to be coated with a layer of orange-red oil paint, magnificent and lonely.

   Li Ke helped the old man up in the back row, and fed a little bit of warm water from the thermos.

  Qing Chen couldn't help but asked suddenly: "Old man, how did you meet your friend?"

  He looked up to the rearview mirror, only to find that the old man froze.

  The old man asked: "Have you seen him?"

  Qing Chen was silent for a moment: "Yes."

   "You have seen him, but you don't want to tell me, so he is dead," the old man said his guess.

   There was silence in the car.

  The old man thought for a while and said: "You didn't tell me, because you were worried that I would hear the bad news of my old friend, so I wouldn't be able to carry No. 002 taboo, right?"

   "Yes," Qing Chen nodded.

   "Don't worry, I'm not that fragile," the old man said, "Besides, I've seen too many partings in my life."

   "You seem to know that he will die," Qing Chen said.

"Let me first tell you why we met," the old man said with a smile. "At that time, I was not as old as I am now, and I especially liked to go out through the secret passages of Akiba Betsuin. Once I went to the bar I often go to. , that bar is holding a beer drinking competition."

"Most of the people in the bar were drunk that night, and in the end we were the only two left," the old man recalled looking at the sunset, "then we were also drunk, and we don't remember what happened again. According to Li Yunjing, at that time The two of us went to the Red Star Boxing Gym and said we wanted to play a qualifying match together, and we also smashed a lot of things, I had no money in my pocket at the time, and it was Li Yunjing who helped pay the boxing gym a sum of money, so we didn't get beaten."

   "Since then, when I went out to drink secretly, I would often call him out, and then do some very outrageous things. Now that I think about it, that is probably the rare joy in my life."

   "When did you know he was a member of the Age of Gods?" Qing Chen asked.

"Actually, I found out in the second year. Li Yunjing followed him for three months and found some clues," the old man said, "But I didn't expose him, and he never reported my itinerary to Shendai. It seems that as long as I If everyone pretends to be a little bit more similar, friends can continue to do it.”

The old man continued: "In the third year, his mother was seriously ill, but the Shendai family refused to let him go back to the north. He was very depressed during that time, and I knew why he was depressed, so I offered him An important piece of information, so that he has status, he is also qualified to make conditions with the family."

"He went back to the north to spend the last time with his mother, and when he returned to City 18, he took the initiative to confess everything to me," the old man said with a smile, "At that time he was very guilty, and I took the opportunity to fine him eight A glass of wine, this time I won the drink."

   "It was also from that time on that he kept telling me to use him once, so that he could have a better conscience."

"But in fact, I know that he has decided in his heart that as long as I use him once, he can choose to die without guilt, so that he won't have to suffer the torment between family loyalty and friend loyalty. Lu Doujun, and those of the Shendai family People are different. Sometimes I think, it is so rare that a character like Lu Doujun can come out of that dirty family."

   "So you know that after using him this time, he will definitely die," Qing Chen said softly, "Then why use him?"

  The old man smiled: "You may want to hear a very philosophical answer, or an answer that can make my image shine again, but my answer is very simple, because I am the master of the Li family."

  Qing Chen was silent.

  Because he is the head of the Li family, he was willing to be 'imprisoned' in the Banshan Manor for the rest of his life.

  Because he is the lord of the Li family, he wants to use the best opportunity to get rid of a person who has the best chance of being promoted to a demigod in the Age of Gods in recent years.

  There has never been a way to have the best of both worlds in this world, neither did Lu Dou in the Age of God, nor did Li Xiurui.

   "Qingchen," the old man said with a smile, "It is because you knights have never been bound by the world that I envy you, so don't learn from me."

   When Qing Chen looked up, he suddenly saw in the rearview mirror that there were two lines of tears streaming down the old man's face, but he was still smiling.

   "Old man, is this world really so complicated?" Qing Chen asked inexplicably.

   "No, if you live a simple life, the world can be simple," the old man replied: "Boy, I don't have the ability to make the world change the rules for me, I hope you can."

  …

  …

  Return countdown at 31:00:00.

  17 o'clock in the evening.

  Qing Chen in the off-road vehicle once again saw the majestic giant tree standing in the center of the 002 Forbidden Land like a skylift.

   No matter how many times I have seen it, Qing Chen will always feel particularly shocked when he sees it again.

   At this moment, Hu Xiaoniu suddenly exclaimed: "Brother Chen, there seems to be a colorful tail dragging down from the canopy of that big tree!"

   Qing Chen looked over, and sure enough, a tail more than ten meters long was dragging outside the canopy, while the opponent's body was hidden in the canopy.

  The old man was wrapped in a sleeping bag and stared blankly: "It turns out that what he said is true."

   This 'he' is Li Shutong's master, the old man's best friend.

  Decades ago, when that friend described the beauty of the outside world to the old man, the old man always felt that the other party was lying to him, because even the Federal Army had never taken corresponding photos, nor found such a magical creature.

  All of this, to the old man, is like a dream that he has been dreaming of for decades, and it finally comes true today.

  The old man looked a little crazy.

  The next moment, a cloud of shadow floated in the sky, just covering the running off-road vehicle below.

  Hu Xiaoniu poked his head out and was stunned. The huge Qingshan Falcon hovered in the sky, and the wingspan gave people the illusion that the sky was covering the sun.

   One beep.

  Qing Chen froze for a moment.

  Because he understood the meaning of the other party: "You're back so soon? Where's that old boy Li Shutong?"

   Qing Chen thought for a while and shouted to the sky: "My master went to the north, and this time I brought a new knight."

  Qingshan Falcon chirped again: "Do you want two more annoying brats? Don't bring out so many knights. Too many knights will cause trouble."

  Qing Chen: "..."

  It seems that after becoming a knight, he has met the containment conditions of No. 002 Forbidden Land, and he can even understand the meaning conveyed by the creatures in that Forbidden Land.

   Qingshan Falcon ignored the off-road vehicle and flew back to No. 002 Forbidden Land.

  The old man asked curiously: "Is this the Qingshan Falcon?"

   "Yes," Qing Chen nodded, "I have a good relationship with the knight."

  The old man asked again: "It seems to be talking to you, can you understand?"

  Qing Chen nodded: "Yes."

   "What did it say?"

   "It says welcome home the knight."

  The old man was envious: "This big falcon is quite hospitable."

  The off-road vehicle drove towards the big tree, but Qing Chen slowed down not long after.

   "What's wrong?" asked the old man.

   "There is a convoy parked outside No. 002 Forbidden Land," Qing Chen said, "There are Masonic vehicles and vehicles from the Federal Army."

   Adding up, it is estimated that there will be hundreds of vehicles. The No. 002 Forbidden Land is like a parking lot expanded outside.

  The Masonic vehicles were tattered and tattered. They had obviously experienced a fierce battle. They should have been driven into No. 002 Forbidden Land by the Federation Army.

  Qing Chen said to Hu Xiaoniu: "Look outside in the wilderness to see if there are any bullet casings."

   "Yes," Hu Xiaoniu responded: "And the bullet casings are quite dense. It seems that there was a battle."

   At the parking place of the Federal Army, there were dozens of people on guard near the car. When the other party saw a vehicle approaching, they immediately raised their weapons.

"I saw their troop number, it should belong to the 198th Division of the Second Federation Army, which is the direct line of the Chen family," said the old man, "The south has always been the Chen family's private land, spades help wilderness people and time travellers." Rebuilding their homes here is bound to mess with them."

   "More than half of them should have chased into No. 002 Forbidden Land," Qing Chen wondered, "Didn't it mean that the Federation Army generally doesn't easily enter the Forbidden Land to hunt down wild people?"

  He remembered very clearly that Dingdong's mother was driven into the forbidden land by the federal army, so she escaped the pursuit and finally gave birth to a new life in the forbidden land.

  At that time, the Federal Army was stopped on the edge.

  If there is no such shadow candidate task as Qing Huai, no one will enter the Forbidden Land with nothing to do.

  The old man said: "The No. 002 Forbidden Land is originally on the Chen family's territory, and they know it better. In the early years, the Chen family has been using prisoners to test the rules of the Forbidden Land."

   "Wait, can prisoners be brought up by them in prison?" Qing Chen asked curiously, one should not allow such a thing to happen.

   "It's not that they are already in prison," the old man explained: "They use the PCE security committee to catch the suspects, and then they don't prosecute them, and they are directly locked in Chen's secret prison for use."

  Qing Chen froze for a moment, lynching?

   Sure enough, humans will still have various ways to avoid artificial intelligence.

  Since artificial intelligence is so fair, it is better not to send prisoners to prisons controlled by artificial intelligence, but to set up secret prisons instead.

  The old man thought for a while and said: "We have nothing against them. There is also the Qing's logo on the car. They should not meddle in their own business, just avoid it."

  However, just as the old man finished speaking, he saw Qing Chen take out 'Convincing People with Virtue', and fired a shot at the convoy of the Federal Army.

  The group of troops from the direct line of the Chen family immediately chased after them.

  The old man was stunned: "What are you doing?"

  Qing Chen didn't answer, he did this only because he remembered what Li Shutong said when he first came to climb the cliff of Qingshan Mountain: You still lack an opportunity.

  Now, Hu Xiaoniu and Li Ke also lack an opportunity.

  …

  One more chapter at 11pm

  (end of this chapter)