"I'm very confused. Your memorial service will be in three days, and you will have to be cremated by then. It will take at least half a month, or even longer, for us to go to Forbidden Place No. 002," Qingchen said seriously: "
You may not be able to come back in time to be cremated."
The old man said angrily: "Are you talking human language? Do I have to go through this process?"
Qingchen said: "At the funeral, everyone has to say goodbye to your body. If you run away now, will everyone say goodbye to the air? There will definitely be a problem."
"You don't have to worry about it," the old man waved his hand: "With today's technological level, it is easy to create an identical corpse. When the time comes, when the crystal coffin is covered, who dares to open it for inspection?"
"But if the ashes are not yours, then the descendants of the Li family who kneel down and worship during the Tomb Sweeping Day will not be a fake Li Xiurui? You won't receive it even if you burn paper," Qingchen asked doubtfully.
"Can you think about things in the underworld?" The old man said: "Stop talking nonsense with me and leave quickly!"
Li Ke stood weakly beside him, completely confused as to what was going on.
He looked at Qingchen for a while, and then looked at the old man for a while.
A look of confusion and panic.
Why did my grandfather who passed away just now suddenly come back to life?
Everyone has been crying for four hours. Wasn’t it in vain?
and.
Although he knew that his grandfather and his tutor, Mr. Xi, knew each other well enough to give him a dragon fish, he did not expect that his grandfather could talk to him so casually.
Moreover, grandpa seems to have changed. He no longer has the majesty of the past. He is like a skinny old man next door. His speech is no longer so rigorous and cautious, just like gossip.
Who is Li Ke's grandfather?
Just a few hours ago, this old man was the head of the Li family, holding one-fifth of the power in the federation and able to decide the future of hundreds of millions of people.
On weekdays, who would not be trembling and respectful when seeing this old man?
The old man looked at Li Ke with a faint smile: "You have never seen such a grandpa, have you?"
Li Ke nodded: "I feel like you are a fake."
"Just get used to it," the old man said with a smile: "I have been bound by one identity for most of my life, and now I can be myself. It is sad and lucky. I hope you will not follow my old path again."
Li Ke was stunned for a moment. The head of the family, whom everyone envied, actually didn't like that position.
At this time, Qingchen said: "Don't be busy educating your grandson. I still have something to ask. You can naturally go out through the secret passage now, but what about me? Where about Li Ke? We have to report it to the outside world if we disappear suddenly.
An explanation?"
"Don't worry about unnecessary things. Don't worry, the Privy Council has already prepared documents to approve your travel. Li Yunshou will also help you forge the entry and exit records," the old man said.
Qingchen said in his heart that this entry and exit record is really unreliable: "Then let's go... To be honest, if you don't accept the Zhunti method initiation, you probably won't have the chance to come back. So, do you want to read it again?
Take a look at this mountainside manor?"
The old man waved his hand: "No need, I've been watching it for most of my life and I'm tired of it."
After saying that, he walked into the house and opened the secret passage. Li Ke was stunned. He didn't know that the Qiuye Villa actually hid another secret.
Today was too magical for the young Li Ke. In just a few hours, the amount of information was astonishing.
The three of them entered the secret passage and walked through the long 2.7-kilometer corridor. Li Ke was like a curious baby, touching here and there.
"Grandpa, did you build this secret passage?" He asked: "What did you do to build this secret passage... By the way, you used to come here every year to mourn your teacher, was it just to leave from this secret passage? Yes.
Don’t you want to go out to do something very important, such as meeting with important figures from the Qing family or the Chen family?”
Qingchen was about to say something when he heard the old man cough suddenly: "Well, cough, cough, cough, now that we have faked our own deaths, don't mention those things in the past again!"
He was hinting that Qingchen should give himself some privacy. After all, Li Ke was his most beloved grandson, and some things should be kept.
Qingchen curled his lips and wondered whether the people the old man went out to meet were not from the Qing family and the Chen family consortium.
The three of them came to the end of the corridor. The old man chose a key and said, "Just drive it. I asked Li Yunjing to have it maintained a few days ago. All the parts that need to be replaced have been replaced with new ones."
"You have the final say about your car." Qingchen didn't even look at what these seven cars were. The main reason was that he couldn't find the parking lot of the community in Micro World!
Qingchen went to open the closet and showed off the wall-to-wall firearms in the secret compartment behind it.
He chose three automatic rifles, three pistols, and three small boxes full of ammunition.
The old man frowned: "Are you going to fight?"
Qingchen glanced at him: "I thought Li Yunjing would follow you to protect you at first, but you just let him go free. I have to prepare some means to save my life? Once someone finds out that you are not dead, do you know what will happen to you?"
How terrible people will come to hunt us down?"
The old man laughed cheerfully and said: "I am no longer the head of the family, so what's the point of them killing me as a dead person? But seeing that you are so well prepared, I'll give it to you."
The next moment, Qingchen looked at Li Ke: "Before going to Forbidden Place No. 002, there is one more thing to do. Li Ke, sit cross-legged on the ground."
The old man said from the side: "Are you going to officially accept him as your disciple? Li Ke, kowtow to your master."
Li Ke was startled for a moment, then knelt down with a thud, and kowtowed three times seriously. His head hit the floor with a thud, which hurt.
Qingchen looked at the old man: "We knights don't like the ritual of kowtow."
"It doesn't matter, he has already kowtowed to you. If something happens to him in the future, you will definitely have to help him," the old man said.
Qingchen: "..."
However, Li Ke suddenly raised his head when he heard this conversation: "Knight?"
The waves in his heart were rolling. It seemed that the word knight had a unique charm for the children of the Li family!
Li Ke looked at his grandfather and then at Qingchen.
Before that, the old man only said that he would become a disciple, but he did not explicitly say that Qingchen was a knight!
Everything that happened now was such a surprise to Li Ke!
"Master, what is your relationship with my seventh uncle?" Li Ke asked curiously.
Qingchen looked at Li Ke and patiently explained: "Your seventh uncle Li Shutong is my master. From today on, your seventh uncle is your master..."
The old man raised his eyebrows when he heard this. What a mess. Why is Li Shutong suddenly the same generation as him?!
Qingchen looked at the old man: "This is the grandson you chose yourself. The confusion of seniority has nothing to do with me. Logically speaking, you should choose a great-grandson."
The old man said angrily: "Let's start quickly."
After saying that, Qingchen pinched Li Ke's pulse.
The young man Li Ke looked at Qingchen opposite and suddenly exhaled like an arrow, while he himself suddenly fell into endless pain.
The old man held his breath. The last time he saw this scene was decades ago, when Li Shutong was accepted as an apprentice by his good friend.
The next moment, flame lines bloomed on both sides of Li Ke's cheeks, and his brows furrowed into the character "Chuan".
Qingchen watched silently, he was worried that Li Ke wouldn't be able to survive the questioning.
If Hu Xiaoniu can't survive it, then he can take another path and wait until all eight life and death tests are completed before being promoted to A level. But if Li Ke can't survive it, the knight's path will be cut off for him.
In his heart, Li Ke seemed to be back to his childhood again.
At the age of 6, he entered Li's School and became the best student there.
At the age of 18, he was admitted to the Fire Military Academy and became the best student there.
At the age of 22, he entered the Federal Army as a lieutenant.
He was promoted to major at the age of 26.
Later, he was recalled by his family to the Mid-Levels Manor and worked in the Privy Council.
The family arranged a marriage for him. The girl was very good-looking, but they had no feelings for each other.
He tried to establish a relationship with the other person, and the other person also tried to please him in every possible way.
But just when he thought everything was going in the right direction, the wife called someone else's name in his dream.
Li Ke asked the Intelligence Department to check and found out that it was his wife's first love.
At the age of 34, he became a director of the Privy Council and began to really participate in family affairs. Some outside media began to call him the prince of the Li family.
However, there are only documents left in his life, and in his eyes, there is only the look of awe from others.
Li Ke was sitting in his office at midnight, constantly approving documents, and then talking to various people in the official dialect he had just become proficient in.
When there was no one in the office, he suddenly felt...
Will I have to spend the remaining decades of my life in such a boring way?
At the age of 48, he took over the authority of the family head from his father.
From then on, he rarely left the Mid-Levels Manor. No matter where he went, he could not meet anyone who told the truth to him.
At the age of 60, Li Ke began to feel that his body no longer belonged to him, but belonged to his illness. The trauma left in the army in his early years began to torture his body and soul.
At the age of 80, he has a family full of children and grandchildren.
The children at home suddenly took out a birthday cake and asked him to make a wish.
But at that moment, Li Ke thought for a long time and seemed to have forgotten what the wish he had made but not realized was.
By the way, it seems like becoming a knight.
That was a wish he made every year, but it was never fulfilled.
At that moment, Li Ke's energy suddenly dropped, as if all his strength had been drained out of him. He seemed to have no interest in doing anything, and his life no longer had any meaning.
When he was 90 years old, he was lying in a hospital bed and realized that he was about to die.
At a certain moment, Li Ke suddenly realized that when he closed his eyes again, he might really die.
Beside the hospital bed, his grandson asked softly: "Do you have any unfulfilled wishes?"
Li Ke was thinking that in fact, his wish had never been fulfilled. In his whole life, he had just been a "person expected by others" and had never been himself.
Such a long life is really difficult.
But at this moment, a young man walked in from outside the ward and stood in front of him facing the sunshine outside the window.
The voice belonging to Qingchen suddenly asked him, are you willing to trade everything you have for a chance to become a knight?
Are you willing to let go of your power, climb a mountain, watch snow, and chase a dream?
Li Ke said yes with tears streaming down his face.
It wasn't until this moment that he remembered that he was in the heart of inquiry. He entered here decades ago and forgot everything outside of the heart of inquiry.
It took Li Ke almost a century to finally find his deepest wish.
I don't know how much time passed in the dark room. Li Ke suddenly opened his eyes and whispered: "Master."
Qingchen smiled happily: "Congratulations."
This means that the inheritance of knights in this world continues!
The old man asked curiously: "Does this count as asking questions?"
"Of course," Qingchen nodded.
"What if I can't get through?" the old man asked.
"If you can't make it, you will die," Qingchen said. He looked at Li Ke and said, "What are you going through in your heart? It took you so long?"
Li Ke glanced at his watch and saw that 24 hours had passed.
He looked at Qingchen and asked, "Master, can I not tell you?"
"Okay," Qingchen rubbed his head: "Questioning is every knight's secret, you don't have to tell it."
For example, Qingchen never mentioned it to Li Shutong. In fact, he was abandoned by his mother once when he was very young.
"Let's go," Qingchen said with a smile: "Let's set off to Forbidden Land No. 002."
After saying that, he changed his appearance and walked out.
Li Ke looked at Qingchen's back in a daze. He was thinking, what if when he was lying on the hospital bed at the age of 90, that young man did not open the door and come in.
Are you really dead?
Li Ke always felt that he did not go through this question of inquiry, but that this exceptionally young master helped him go through it.
In the long dream where I asked my heart, when the other person walked into the ward, his body seemed to be covered with a layer of light.
At this time, Qingchen turned around at the door and asked with a smile: "What are you doing standing around? Let's go."
"Oh," Li Ke came to his senses and ran out the door.
…
…
In the parking lot of the micro world.
Qingchen looked at the huge off-road vehicle in front of him. He opened the trunk and checked it. There were two spare tires, four barrels of diesel, and a suitcase tied to the roof. Inside seemed to be tents and emergency items needed in the wilderness.
"You are quite well prepared," Qingchen praised.
This was much better prepared than when Li Shutong took him to Forbidden Place No. 002.
However, Qingchen suddenly saw a ginkgo leaf logo on the body of the off-road vehicle.
He wondered: "Isn't this the symbol of the Qing family?"
"Yes," the old man said matter-of-factly.
Qingchen wondered: "Why is there the Qing family's ginkgo leaf logo on your car, the head of the Li family? Why are you so confident? This is obviously abnormal! You are so confident, making it seem like you are not the problem.
, but I have a problem!”
The old man explained patiently: "It will be much more convenient to have a consortium logo when you are out. Moreover, if you are embarrassed, it is also a member of the Qing family. Is there any problem?"
"Aren't you afraid of revealing your secret?" Qingchen was puzzled.
The old man smiled: "Who dares to check the consortium's vehicles? The consortium doesn't even need to go through the visa process when entering and leaving the country."
"You are really a talented artist and a bold person," Qingchen curled his lips: "If this is exposed by the media and said, 'The head of the Li family is using the Qing family's symbol to do evil,' it will really become big news in the entire federation."
"What are you afraid of? Just don't be discovered!" the old man said.
"Okay," Qingchen sighed.
But at this time, everyone suddenly discovered a very mysterious question: Who will drive?
Qingchen can't open it.
Li Ke had never learned it when he was still young.
The master and apprentice both turned their attention to the old man.
Li Xiurui raised his eyebrows: "You two little bastards, don't you want me to drive? I am a dying old man, and I just want to have a relaxing and beautiful memory in the last days of my life. This is how you treat me
?!"
Qingchen spread his hands: "But we really can't drive. How about this? You drive the car to the fourth district and we pick up another person there and he will be the driver."
The old man thought for a moment and said, "That's pretty much it."
The huge full-size off-road vehicle drove out of the Micro World Community and sped towards the fourth area.
Hu Xiaoniu had packed his things early. When the car stopped in front of him, he looked at the old man in the driver's seat through the car window. He always felt that he looked familiar, as if he had seen it in some news...
But for a while, I felt a bit out of tune.
At this time, the old man had already glued on his beard and was extremely skilled.
Moreover, who would have thought that the old man who died just now would still be alive and kicking and swaggering through the city in a punk off-road vehicle?
Qingchen waved to Hu Xiaoniu: "Get in the car, Xiaoniu, you drive."
"Okay," Hu Xiaoniu recognized Qingchen.
Before this time travel, Qingchen specially let him see the disguise he was going to make, and he was still a zard.
The old man looked at Hu Xiaoniu, and then asked Qingchen: "Is this the driver you are looking for? Is it reliable?"
Hu Xiaoniu wondered why he became the driver, but he did not refute.
Qingchen said: "You can rest assured, it is reliable."
"Brother Chen, where are you going?" Hu Xiaoniu asked.
"Leave City No. 18 through the southern entry-exit gate and go to Forbidden Land No. 002," Qingchen said.
Hu Xiaoniu was stunned for a moment. Qingchen had never told him before that he was going to forbidden place No. 002!
As the vehicle drove south and passed the entry-exit checkpoint, Hu Xiaoniu suddenly discovered that dozens of off-road vehicles were parked in front of the checkpoint, waiting for staff from the Exit-Entry Administration Bureau to verify their documents.
Hu Xiaoniu asked: "Brother Chen, where are our documents?"
Qingchen: "No."
Hu Xiaoniu was stunned for a moment: "Ah?"
The old man said: "Let's take the passage on the left and drive directly there. There is Qing's ginkgo leaf logo on the car. Although it is fake, no one will dare to check it."
Hu Xiaoniu was a little nervous. He thought to himself, old man, if you admit so frankly that the sign is fake, is there really nothing wrong with it?
Looking at the dozens of armed soldiers standing at the entry and exit gate, and drones constantly patrolling the sky, if someone finds something wrong with the sign, will they be beaten into a sieve?
However, Hu Xiaoniu's expression remained normal and he stepped on the accelerator without stopping at all.
The gate at the pass was opened. As the old man said, no one really checked!
At this moment, Hu Xiaoniu accidentally glanced at the passage next to him, and then froze: "Brother Chen, I saw Qi Duo and Zhang Lanjin in that motorcade."
