The end of the world begins with failing an exam

Chapter 58 The Stolen Ancient Stele
It's raining harder and harder on Sentinel Hill.

Chen Jing's hair was already drenched by the rain, but he had no intention of holding an umbrella for himself.

He likes the feeling of standing in the rain on a rainy night.

No scruples.

Totally relaxed.

Just like back then...

"You mean...I don't cooperate with you...you are going to kill me?!"

"I didn't say it, you said it."

"Kill me and you'll be in big trouble! You should know that!"

"Well... so you cooperate well and it's over?" Chen Jing tilted his head with a smile, and looked at the face in front of him that was so funny because of fear, "I don't want to kill people, so don't force me, okay?" good?"

"Do you think I will believe it!" Smith yelled tremblingly, as if he had already guessed what Chen Jing would do next, "You have no intention of letting me go! Because you will be in trouble if you let me go back! You You obviously know all of this!"

"Let's take a gamble."

Chen Jing smiled and shrugged.

"If you don't gamble, you will die."

"It's a bet, you won't necessarily die."

The bet is not going to be fair.

Smith is well aware of this.

Chen Jing hardly needed to pay any bargaining chips, but he had to take his own life as the price of the gamble.

After a moment of hesitation.

Smith decided to listen to Chen Jing's gamble.

Because he has no other way to go.

Smith had no doubt that as long as he dared to refuse, Chen Jing would let that monster bite off his neck in the next second.

"That stone tablet is in the ancient ruins of Antarctica." Smith endured the pain after his arms were broken, and said through gritted teeth, "But when excavating the ruins, no one except your grandfather found it. What we are concerned about The point is that the golden throne and the hourglass..."

"Continue." Chen Jing smiled and nodded.

"We didn't know the existence of that stele until a month ago..." Smith raised his eyes and glared at Chen Jing viciously, as if he was still angry about the stele, "We found a... A string of secret words engraved in the tunnel..."

"The place where the lettering is carved is very hidden. Even over the years, we have walked into that tunnel tens of thousands of times and never found it..."

"What is that secret language?" Chen Jing asked curiously.

"There is only one sentence in translation."

Smith struggled twice, as if he wanted to loosen Bai Aji's embrace, but Chen Jing ignored his struggle and still patiently waited for the answer.

"In the stele, there is the key to the garden of the gods."

key?

Chen Jing frowned.

The key to the garden of the gods?
Could it be because of the existence of that key that the old man disappeared...

"We didn't know at the time what the stele it was referring to was or where the stele was..."

"Until a few days later..."

"We found clues in several other places in the ancient ruins..."

Smith doesn't seem to be bothering to pretend anymore either.

He seemed to hate Chen Jing's grandfather very much. When he said this, Smith almost had a fierce look in his eyes, as if he wanted to eat people.

"According to the clues... we found an underground chamber..."

"That secret room is very special... It has shielded the scientific instruments we use for detection countless times... If we didn't find the mechanism to open the door according to the clues... No one would have thought that there would be a secret room there..."

"The stele is placed in that secret room?" Chen Jing asked.

"That's right, but when we went, the altar where the stele was placed was already empty, and there was nothing there..." Smith said through gritted teeth, "According to the traces left at the scene...we can be sure that the stele was placed there !"

"Then you doubt my grandfather?" Chen Jing asked calmly, with a trace of curiosity hidden in his eyes, "Why doubt him?"

"There are fingerprints left by him at the scene, what do you think?" Smith sneered.

"..."

After getting this answer, Chen Jing didn't know what to say.

I can only blame the old man for being too careless at the beginning.

Since I can get things from that kind of place, there are so many clues left behind...

But on second thought.

It seems normal to leave fingerprints.

After all, he took the stele in 1972.

Besides, when working in a crowd, it is inevitable that clues will be left due to nervousness and negligence...

"So you came here?" Chen Jing sighed.

"That's right, when we discovered those fingerprints, we immediately asked the Yajing branch to obtain all the information related to your grandfather, relatives, friends, colleagues... We have investigated all the people related to him .”

"Why do you check so much?" Chen Jing lowered his head and smiled, kicking the rainwater on the ground with his feet, "Can't we just grab him?"

"Who has the guts?"

When Smith said this, he seemed to hate his stupid wrong decision.

"Since we can become superhumans through the substances left in the ruins, then of course your grandfather can too, and that stele has extraordinary significance...so we suspect that your grandfather is also superhuman!"

"So it's like this..." Chen Jing looked at Smith thoughtfully, "If he is also a superhuman, if you come to arrest him rashly, you might startle the snake..."

"That's why we haven't acted rashly. Everyone wants to work out a plan with a 100% success rate, and then do it..." Smith lowered his head.

Chen Jing listened quietly to the old man's narration, as if he had already guessed what was to come next.

"It wasn't until we learned that the old man was probably dead that the association hurriedly sent us over to have a look."

"How do you know he's dead?" Chen Jing was confused, and this was also the biggest doubt in his heart.

It is impossible for him to tell others about the old man's fraudulent death!

"Not long ago, we got a report that your grandfather went to a hospital in the provincial capital for an examination. The examination result given there was a malignant liver tumor, and it had spread..."

Hearing Smith's explanation, Chen Jing was stunned.

It was like being hit hard by something.

Chen Jing's mind suddenly went blank.

"Judging from the diagnostic results given to your grandfather by the attending physician at that time, your grandfather will die within half a month, and his body functions have degenerated to the point where there is no chance of change..."

Smith seemed to be able to imagine the scene of Chen Bofu going to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment at that time, and he couldn't help showing a smile that relieved his hatred on his old face.

"I heard from the attending doctor that your grandfather coughed up a lot of blood in the hospital and couldn't walk steadily..."

At this moment, Chen Jing's mind was in chaos.

Could it be true what Smith said...the old man had liver cancer? !

but……

why i don't know...

"Are you lying to me...I..." Chen Jing murmured, and for the first time, another expression appeared on his previously unabated smile.

"Don't you know?"

This time it was Smith's turn to be dumbfounded, because he could tell from Chen Jing's reaction that the other party really didn't know what was going on.

"I haven't been back for a long time... He didn't tell me these things..." Chen Jing murmured with a surprised expression, and then fell silent.

After a while.

Chen Jing took a big breath, as if trying to endure something.

He tried his best to control his emotions and spoke slowly.

"last question."

"After you brought me back to the Association..."

"What are you going to do with me..."

(End of this chapter)