LWDC Chapter 177

Chapter 177 – Peeking at the Real People

Chapter 177 – Peeking at the Real People

Chapter 177 – Peeking at the Real People

Duan Yunhong wasn’t a naive child who believed people easily; quite the opposite, he was naturally suspicious. But he wasn’t without humanity either. With such a large operation, if he didn’t have people he deeply trusted, he would have exhausted himself long ago.

However, even among these few trusted individuals, a traitor emerged, stealing his life-saving medicine.

Duan Yunhong was amused and furious at the time, or rather, revived by the fury, barely clinging to life with half a breath for an extended period. Fortunately, his time wasn’t up yet. In a few days, he stumbled upon half a box of antibiotics, barely managing to salvage his life, or rather, half his life.

Then he dragged his sick body back to Pingdu.

His good brothers were stunned to see him alive, wanting to meet him that very night. But Duan Yunhong refused to see anyone. He believed there was no justification for this incident; all reasons, whether true or false, right or wrong, were just excuses. Moreover, he immediately began to disperse and transfer his assets and businesses, taking back all the assets originally held under his good brother’s name. The good brother, of course, was unwilling to be taken advantage of, saying, “You’re inexplicably reaping me. Even if I have no great merit, I’ve worked hard,” and launched a counterattack. For a time, the two fought so fiercely that all of Pingdu knew about it.

Duan Yunhong’s health remained poor during this period, forcing himself to appear energetic, but this didn’t stop him from acting even more ruthlessly. Assets that couldn’t be quickly transferred and recovered, he’d rather sell off at a low price, donating all the money to the camp, like a generous benefactor. Some channels unwilling to give up cooperation with his good brother’s side, Duan Yunhong would directly ruin, acting as if he wanted to die together with them. When others cursed him and warned him, he would sneer in response: “I am indeed going to die, do you want to come with me?”

This kind of crazy and sinister behavior scared off many people. Everyone secretly cursed this “sick ghost,” but dared not to confront him directly, fearing they might accidentally provoke him, causing him to recklessly mess up their affairs.

It was during this process that Duan Yunhong suddenly discovered something was wrong while sorting out the various relationships.

He found someone who seemed to have suddenly sprung out of a crack in the rock, a person he seemed to have never encountered before in his memory. Moreover, when tracking the good brother’s path of betrayal, Duan Yunhong vaguely sensed that this mysterious person seemed to be the main driving force behind it. Although he didn’t appear on the surface, every step of the way seemed to carry this person’s shadow.

Duan Yunhong then arranged to meet this person.

The person’s apparent identity was the president of a Pingdu newspaper – Lin Jianru.

Initially, the reason for the meeting was an interview, which Duan Yunhong cooperated with and completed. After the interview, Duan Yunhong looked at the president, who was still making polite remarks, and suddenly blurted out: “Who exactly are you?”

Lin Jianru smiled: “It seems Mr. Duan doesn’t know me well enough. Do you need me to give you a copy of my resume?”

“I don’t look at that kind of ‘tattered wrapping paper.'” Since he had already opened his mouth, Duan Yunhong simply went all the way, “I’ve heard about your experiences, but they’re all quite fake.”

Lin Jianru slowly blinked, actually revealing a strange smile: “You think my experiences are ‘very fake’?”

“Aren’t they?” Duan Yunhong’s tone was sarcastic, “You don’t need to say why others don’t say you’re fake. I’m also very strange that others have never suspected where you suddenly came from. Logically speaking, the appearance of someone like you, even if others believe you, should always discuss your ‘airdrop.’ But they directly accepted everything about you, as if you casually made up a myth for others, and they believed it without any doubt. Isn’t this absurd?”

“Hahahaha…!” Lin Jianru actually burst out laughing upon hearing this, even bending over. Duan Yunhong didn’t know what was so funny about his words, only thinking the other person had suddenly gone mad, and warned in a warning tone: “I don’t want to care where you came from. I just want to ask you: Did you instigate Fang Meng to betray me because you wanted to target me, or were you targeting someone else, and screwing me over was just a coincidence?”

Lin Jianru finally laughed enough, raised his head and looked at Duan Yunhong: “… You want to know the reason? You really want to know?”

His eyes and tone gave Duan Yunhong a strong sense of discomfort, and an alarm sounded in his mind. Duan Yunhong’s hand reached into his jacket, his vigilance unconcealed: “Of course, I want to know.”

“Oh, Mr. Duan even carries a gun? How scary.” Lin Jianru pushed up his glasses, but there wasn’t a trace of fear in his tone, “I’m just reminding you, what I’m about to say is more bizarre than any myth you can imagine. Remember, ‘any’. Do you still want to listen?”

“Are you trying to trick me?”

“I guarantee what I say is the truth.” Lin Jianru smiled slightly, “But it depends on whether you believe it, whether you dare to believe it.”

“No need to put on airs.” Duan Yunhong wasn’t fooled in the slightest, staring at him, “Say what you want to say. I want to see what else you can say.”

“Ha, then I suggest you don’t interrupt, don’t talk nonsense, listen to me finish before expressing your opinion.” Lin Jianru slowly said, “You think I suddenly appeared, and are also strange why others aren’t curious about my origins. Then I’ll tell you –

“I ‘suddenly appeared’ in this world.

“Others don’t question, don’t find it strange; you question, that’s strange.”

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“You’re naturally able to identify ‘non-native residents of this world’?!”

Ning Fei was completely astonished. In Duan Yunhong’s resume, it only said that he accidentally encountered a “time-space walker,” and then the other party took him to a completely different field, and he embarked on the “journey” as a walker. Only now did Ning Fei know how all of this happened.

“It’s just a feeling, a feeling that the person is not right.” Duan Yunhong replied, “But why it’s not right, where exactly the problem is, I can’t really pinpoint. I didn’t doubt his ‘resume’ at the time, just strange how suddenly such a person popped up, and others didn’t discuss it at all.”

“Stop pretending to be modest, being able to feel his strangeness means you’ve already seen through the ‘world’s generated disguise’!” Ning Fei Tsk tsk exclaimed, “Such a person isn’t one in ten thousand, it’s one in ten thousand worlds! You indeed have the capital to be arrogant, if I were you, I’d be arrogant too. You’re naturally cut out to travel through different worlds.”

Duan Yunhong kept a straight face and didn’t speak.

“Laugh if you want to laugh, why pretend to be cool.” Ning Fei kicked his calf, raising his eyebrows, “You hardly have another opportunity to show off this kind of thing, to be praised for this point.”

Duan Yunhong grabbed his foot: “Are you still listening?”

“Listening.” Ning Fei simply put his foot on his leg and asked, “Then what happened, how did that Lin Jianru bring you into it?”

Duan Yunhong replied: “Then, he said if I could completely accomplish what he wanted to do, he would give me all the luck gained from that world…”

In fact, Lin Jianru’s target wasn’t Duan Yunhong, nor his good brother, or his good brother’s woman. Lin Jianru just “foresaw” that Duan Yunhong would become an excellent assistant to someone in the future – actually a transmigrator – and mainly an assistant in terms of financial resources and relationship channels, so he wanted to make him die in advance. Since Duan Yunhong came to do this thing himself, he just needed to ensure that Duan Yunhong wouldn’t help this transmigrator in the future. It would be even better if Duan Yunhong could oppose this transmigrator. As for whether Duan Yunhong would change camps, where the money would go in the future, Lin Jianru didn’t care.

Lin Jianru felt that Duan Yunhong was too magical, too interesting, he really wanted to watch a show. So he decided that as long as Duan Yunhong achieved the goal he set, he was willing to try to pour all the luck stolen from the transmigrator in this world into Duan Yunhong. But whether Duan Yunhong could completely absorb it, whether he could completely break away from this world because of it, depended on himself. Once Duan Yunhong succeeded, he would have to return five times the luck to Lin Jianru.

At that time, Duan Yunhong was already sick of this world after opposing many people for a long time. So, faced with Lin Jianru’s story and proposal that sounded like crazy fantasies, Duan Yunhong agreed.

He decided to gamble.

Then there was a period of struggling to survive, while also opposing the transmigrator both overtly and covertly. During this period, Duan Yunhong also had many opportunities to kill his former good brother, but Lin Jianru suggested that he wait a little longer, as doing it too early would let him lose that breath of desperately living, so Duan Yunhong let that person live for a few more years.

As for the fact that that person betrayed Duan Yunhong because of Lin Jianru’s interference, it didn’t become a reason to give him leniency. Duan Yunhong believed that he was ultimately the one who made the decision, and adults should be responsible for the decisions they make.

Later, Duan Yunhong achieved the goal.

Later, Lin Jianru poured all the luck stolen from the transmigrator into Duan Yunhong as promised.

Duan Yunhong thus understood the “threshold of crossing worlds” and really became a “time-space walker.” Lin Jianru gave him a general introduction to what the walkers were doing, how they survived, and also introduced the outline of the opposition – the Time-Space Administration.

“Then I guess, he wouldn’t say anything good about the Administration.”

Ning Fei jokingly said: “He must have described the Administration like demons.”

“Just like the official information of the Administration also says we are incorrigibly evil?” Duan Yunhong scoffed, “I did once think the Administration was a rigid and unreasonable iron cage, but after actually contacting people from the Administration directly or indirectly, I felt it wasn’t so monstrous. Some people in the Administration… are quite stupid.”

Ning Fei kicked him again: “Are you saying that while looking at me?”

“I’m talking about the likes of Chong Lin, why are you jumping to conclusions?” Duan Yunhong looked at him, chuckled, “However, you sometimes indeed…”

Ning Fei immediately withdrew his foot.

“I didn’t say anything, why are you throwing a tantrum.” Duan Yunhong smiled, didn’t grab him, just sat closer to him, “Now it should be three years after I left that world. My former house is too expensive for anyone to buy, it’s just empty. Let’s live there when we go back, shall we?”

“Stop acting like you’re taking me home with you, it’s disgusting.” Ning Fei glanced at him, snorting softly, “But your world actually has two transmigrators connected so closely… it is a bit interesting.”

“Yeah. Maybe because of my departure, the world’s stability has fluctuated.” Duan Yunhong leaned closer to him, laughing softly, “The chaos I caused back then should still be able to see the remaining effects. Don’t you like to watch the fun? It’s good to watch, isn’t it?”

“Alright, alright, I get it!” Ning Fei blocked his approaching mouth with his backhand.

“Then let’s say it in advance, no more coke today, or on the way later. Otherwise, that road condition, that jerk… I really don’t want to go north!”

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