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Chapter 169 - 169 160 Show you a treasure (asking for monthly
Chapter 169 - 169 160 Show you a treasure (asking for monthly
?Chapter 169: 160 Show you a treasure (asking for monthly votes)_2 Chapter 169: 160 Show you a treasure (asking for monthly votes)_2 The young boss’s eyes were bloodshot, as if he hadn’t slept all night. He wanted to say something, scratched his head, making his already somewhat disheveled hair look even more like a bird’s nest.
He pushed open the car door, lit a cigarette, and looked into the distance with a touch of melancholy.
Then he spoke in a low voice.
“An, my dad left me some precious wealth.”
Lin An looked at the interior of the car, touched the exceptionally fine leather on the seat, and nodded sincerely, “Yes, I completely agree.”
The young boss was taken aback, glanced back, and couldn’t help but laugh and cry, “No, An, not these things.”
He spoke softly, “Wealth is extraneous.”
Wow~
The talk of the rich is really tough.
Us working-class folks just can’t understand!
Lin An was organizing the items to put into the Space Ring last night, looking at the 500,000 in cash he got from Mr. Liu, still hesitating whether to pay off the mortgage early.
He thought a lot.
Keeping some cash might be useful in the future…
Maybe one day he’ll have to run away, flee the city, or maybe one of the women, Chen Xinmi or Feng Xin, will blow up his house…
In the end, he thought too much, but the reason came down to his poverty.
Even after getting his hands on this 500,000 cash, he still dared not spend it at will.
He really found it difficult to empathize with the young boss’s notion that ‘wealth is extraneous.’
“What exactly are you trying to say?” Lin An looked at the young boss with his woeful face and sighed. Dude, it’s painful watching you beat around the bush like this.
“An…”
The young boss turned his back to Lin An, looking up at the crown of the longan tree on the roadside, sunlight filtering through the gaps between leaves, leaving mottled traces.
“My father was a powerful Witch-hunting Knight, and me, I’m a Wizard.”
Yeah, I know that.
“He’s my father, of course he’s concerned about his son’s future. So, he found a Wizard with good potential to use as a test subject, trying to see if he could pave a way for his son in advance.”
Lin An’s eyes widened instantly, “Mr. Liu? Does he know he’s a test subject?”
The young boss turned to look at Lin An with a lewd and somewhat proud smile, “What kind of person do you think my dad is? How could he possibly let Mr. Liu know? Mr. Liu probably thinks he’s made a fortune getting those cultivation secrets.”
With an expression like a kid showing off a Transformers toy, he said, “Let me show you a treasure.”
As he spoke, he scratched his ear as if he was grabbing something, brought his hand to his mouth, slowly opened it, and gently blew.
Whoo~
A dark brown cudgel suddenly began to lengthen bit by bit in the palm of his hand.
Lin An watched this scene in amazement.
In his mind, he couldn’t help but soundtrack it— “Ding ding ding~ dang dang dang dang dang dang dang dang dang, ding ding ding~~~”
“Monkey Brother!”
Lin An exclaimed, “You’re Monkey Brother!”
“Hehehe~” The young boss chuckled, spinning the cudgel in his hands, “Looks like it, haha, but this is not the Monkey Brother’s Golden Cudgel, it’s the core of a large banyan ‘Stone Treasure.’
“???”
Lin An immediately grasped the key point, “Banyan tree? The core?”
“The specifics are too complicated, I can’t explain it all to you right now,” the young boss said somewhat listlessly, propping himself up with the cudgel, and after thinking, “Anyway, it’s about Wizard cultivation using the Knight’s Furnace method. My dad had some ideas, so he schemed to use Mr. Liu to help me experiment and see if it could work.”
“This cudgel is the means to control Mr. Liu.”
“With it, not only can I have a strong enforcer and the Witch Organization he actually controls, but most importantly, a test subject that can keep growing and provide me with references for my cultivation at every stage.”
“My dad said in the letter he left me, if Mr. Liu wasn’t greedy, this cudgel would be useless.”
“But he really knows people. Mr. Liu is greedy as hell.”
Lin An listened with a puzzled face.
He just felt…
Mr. Liu is kind of pitiful.
Really pitiful!
And he inexplicably had an intuition that if Mr. Liu regarded the Stone Treasure of the big banyan tree as his Furnace Core, then the banyan tree’s heartwood… might it be related to that “Heartstrings Fragrance Witchcraft”?
But it was too late to say anything now.
Mr. Liu had actually died, and it was likely not the one killed by Chen Xinmi, but the Mr. Liu of the big banyan tree.
What a pity.
The young boss looked at Lin An’s expression, thinking he didn’t understand, and couldn’t help but explain softly, “Actually, Mr. Liu is Kapok, the leader of the Mad Male Witch’s Hollow Organization. I originally planned to persuade Lu Jiao’s uncles and elders to agree to let me go undercover to take over the Male Witch Organization.”
Wow!
I’m exclaiming wow!
Lin An is so envious. Look, both orphans, but the young boss and he seem like people from two different worlds.
It’s just…
Lin An looked at the young boss with furrowed brows, “You could have actually told the seniors of Lu Jiao, surely they would have agreed to let you take over the Male Witch Organization…”
“No!” The young boss shook his head, interrupting Lin An’s suggestion, “An, you don’t understand, before Lu Jiao was like a dragon without a head, many people had their own ideas; this was always my way of safeguarding against them.”
“Our situation is special…”
“We are wizards, after all!”
Next, he babbled on about many things.
Essentially, it was just talk of his great loss, muttering regrets like ‘a wasted effort, such a damn pity.’
Indeed!
Lin An also felt it was a pity.
He didn’t have much ambition himself. If the young boss could take over the Male Witch Organization and control Mr. Liu to pave the way ahead, Lin An really didn’t mind following behind the young boss and mixing in.
He wasn’t asking for much.
If the young boss could share his cultivation research results with him, he would be very satisfied.
“But there is no ‘if’ in this world.”
Lin An interrupted the young boss’s incessant nattering, looking at him seriously, “If it were me, I’d keep this to myself!”
“But…” The young boss looked troubled, “My heart is in anguish. If I don’t tell you, I don’t have anyone to talk to.”
The more he talked, the more agitated he became, and with a shake, the stick he was holding turned into the length of a pen, which he handed over to Lin An, “I’m giving it to you, consider it in exchange for keeping my secret. Just looking at this thing now pains me.”
Lin An accepted with surprise, “Are you sure you don’t want it anymore?”
“Take it, take it! It’s just upsetting to look at!”
Though he said it was upsetting, when he got back into the car and started it up, the young boss’s head transformed again into that of a husky wearing an imperial crown.
The husky turned to look at Lin An seriously, “Brother, this is all I can do for you. It’s my fault, somehow you ended up as Mr. Cao’s Knight apprentice and awakened as a Wizard. I always feel there’s something fishy about Mr. Cao’s motives.”
“Before, both Mr. Cao and Mr. Zhang were about to leave Lu Jiao, but as soon as my dad died, they came back. Who knows if it was because my dad entrusted me to them or for some other reason.”
“Now that Mr. Liu has died, the Stone Treasure of the big banyan tree has returned to Lu Jiao’s hands. Such a thing will definitely fall into the hands of the Antler Leader Mr. Cao who is also an armor craftsman…”
“Given Mr. Cao’s current state, he will definitely use the Stone Treasure of the big banyan tree!”
“Perhaps in the future, you can use the core of this big banyan tree to counteract Mr. Cao and save your own life.”
“You better not use this thing to do anything that would let Lu Jiao down, otherwise, I’d become the sinner of Lu Jiao!”
“Ah, such a headache~”
Lin An watched him, dazed, and said softly, “Thanks~”
“Hahaha~” The husky head vanished, and the young boss cockily arched his brow at Lin An, “Your boss, me, has plenty of treasures. Wait till we get to the company tomorrow, I’ll teach you how to use this stick.”
With a cool flick of the gear shift and a gentle tap on the accelerator, the young boss skillfully steered the car out of the access road and back onto the main road.
“Let’s go!”