C237 Sacrifice
C237 Sacrifice
After switching on the lights, the garage was lit up as if it were daytime, and the garage was regularly cleaned and maintained. All the luxury cars were shiny with oil.
Yang Chen didn't care about these famous cars that would drool after seeing them. He walked all the way to the corner of the garage and touched a brick on the wall.
After pinching the brick, Yang Chen carefully slapped it. The smooth and unscathed brick had actually been pulled away from the wall.
After exposing a small black hole, Yang Chen reached his hand in. When he took it out again, there was a small black box about the size of a palm. The material of the black box was unknown, but under the light of the lamp, it turned into a peculiar pattern.
This was the box that Yang Chen took out from the broken apartment he rented after smashing the wall.
Yang Chen looked at the box in his hand and shook his head with a wry smile, "You really know how to cause trouble."
Shaking his head, Yang Chen carefully opened the box and revealed a piece of the same black cloth. In the center of the cloth, there was a transparent crystal the size of a thumb, similar to a diamond but with black light patterns.
Yang Chen took out the crystal and put it into his pants pocket. Then, he threw the box back into the hole and covered the green brick.
Half an hour later, Yang Chen drove to the Botanical Garden in the southern suburbs.
Because it was early in the morning, the majority of people had just started work. As the most remote wild botanical garden, it could be said to be a desolate mountainous area of China and overseas. Naturally, it was so deserted that not a single person could be seen.
Yang Chen had never been here before. Because it was autumn or winter, he didn't even arrange for people to charge the entrance fees. He just drove directly into the forest.
Looking at the sign beside the small asphalt road, he parked the car outside the "apricot forest" area that Sky Dog mentioned and walked into the extremely cold forest.
Along the winding, unswept cobblestone path, Yang Chen gradually walked into the depths of the Apricot Forest.
As a living fossil, the ginkgo tree was especially thick in this area. Large fan-shaped leaves floated down and grinded into the ground.
When they arrived at an empty space of about ten square meters, Yang Chen stopped and raised his head.
At the top of the two ginkgo trees in front of them, two men dressed in tight black Ninja uniforms stood there. One was tall and sturdy, while the other was small and skinny. It was Octavo Society, Sky Dog and Tanuki that had not seen each other for a long time.
Behind Yang Chen, Ban Ruo, who was playing with a pair of dark red fingernails, with her long hair, walked out from thin air. Her face was covered by a mask with red and black stripes and her eyes that were like limpid autumn water flashed with many lights.
"Where is he?" Yang Chen asked directly.
Sky Dog laughed boorishly, "Sir Pluto, there is no need to rush. If we want to meet people, we have to first meet the Divine Stone."
"The Divine Stone is in my pants pocket, but I need to make sure the hostages are safe." Yang Chen said.
"Hehe", the leopard laughed: "I didn't expect that the 'Ten Thousand Slaughter' wouldn't be enough, the killing god Hades would actually come here to make a deal with a Divine Stone for an ordinary woman."
Ban Ruo's charming eyes glanced at the pockets of Yang Chen's pants, "Sir Pluto, as a woman, I'm a little jealous."
Yang Chen frowned, "It's not the same woman, you kidnapped two."
Sky Dog snorted: "Don't worry, as long as you give us the Divine Stone, we will return your family's old man to you first. If you let us run away for more than a kilometer without chasing, we will use other methods to tell you where your wife is … Of course, if you were to make a move on us or use some tricks to deceive us, your Heavenly Immortal wife would become a skeleton. "
"Are you threatening me?" Yang Chen asked coldly.
Sky Dog laughed sinisterly, "We know Sir Pluto hates people who threaten you the most, but please think carefully about it, your woman, your family... In our hands, as long as we are caught off guard, they will become our funeral partner. "
Yang Chen clenched his fists, but in the end, he slowly loosened his grip.
Yang Chen let out a long sigh, reached into his pants pocket and took out a crystal the size of a fingertip with a black luster.
When the crystal appeared in the three masters' line of sight, all of them simultaneously revealed a fervent gaze.
"As expected, it's in your hands!" Sky Dog laughed out loud.
Ban Ruo's eyes also shone brightly as she stared at the crystal in Yang Chen's hand with rapt attention.
"Sir Pluto, leave it to us!" The monster laughed.
"Let me first confirm Nanny Wang's safety!" Yang Chen put the crystal back into his palm.
"We can use the dignity of the Great Japan Empire's warriors to swear, if you give us the Divine Stone, we will definitely return you two safe hostages!" Sky Dog snapped.
"Your dignity is worthless." Yang Chen shook his head.
"This is slander!" Sky Dog said angrily, "No matter what you think, if you don't hand over the Divine Stone, we won't let you get back the hostage! If you dare to attack them, they will die without a timely rescue! "
Yang Chen raised his head and closed his eyes, as if he was thinking about what to do.
At this moment, Sky Dog and Tanuki jumped down from the top of the tree!
Two beams of cold light flew past where they had been standing!
"Who is it!?"
The two of them were suddenly ambushed by the concealed weapon. They were extremely furious as they looked in the direction the concealed weapon came from.
A tall and graceful woman walked out from the woods. She was wearing a white sweater and light jeans. Her face was pink and her eyebrows were like the crescent moon. She had a cold and aloof expression on her face.
"It's you again, Hua Yu …"
Ban Ruo recognized the person who had arrived. It was Cai Yan's elder sister, Cai Ning. One of the people with Eight Parts, Hua Yu.
Cai Ning's expression was extremely serious. She looked at Yang Chen with eyes as sharp as knives, "Yang Chen, the general has ordered that the Divine Stone cannot be handed over!"
After that experience in the Tibetan area, Yang Chen naturally knew who the "general" was. It was his grandfather, Lin Zhiguo, whom Lin Ruoxi refused to recognize.
"I think this is my freedom!" Yang Chen shrugged, "I have the Divine Stone, not him."
"That's right, Miss Hua Yu. If you want to stop our deal with Sir Pluto by yourself, I hope you can think it through properly."
Cai Ning shot them a cold glance. "Don't forget where we are. Just because we don't touch you doesn't mean that we don't have the power to kill you!"
"Humph, then why don't you take a look at Pluto and see if he cares about his wife's life or death!" Ban Ruo said with a smile.
Cai Ning ignored them and turned to Yang Chen, "Yang Chen, I know you have the Divine Stone. Our Chinese Iron Brigade has always known, but we did not ask for it from you because we believed that you would not join forces with those evil forces. Right now, you are on friendly terms with us, so we will not force you to ask us for Divine Stone s, but … You can't give it to Octavo Society. Do you know what kind of evil results will be brought about if you hand it over to Octavo Society!? They will pose a huge threat to China and the entire world! "
Yang Chen pondered for a moment and said, "You should know Ruoxi's identity. You should know the relationship between her and the general you are talking about."
Cai Ning froze for a moment, then nodded and said, "I know, that's why I feel great respect for the General's selflessness."
"You know?" Yang Chen couldn't help but laugh out loud, "What do you know? He kept saying he wants Ruoxi to call him grandpa and Ruoxi to not ignore him, but at this time, he actually wants a rock that isn't even in his hands to stop others from saving his granddaughter!?"
"Don't tell me you can't tell righteousness from personal relationships!? How could they compare!? The general sacrificed his family for the millions of ordinary citizens, was there something shameful about that!? Isn't it worth our respect!? " Cai Ning said loudly.
"I'm sorry, I don't have such a noble heart. I only know that my own family, my own women, even if I had to trade the entire world for them, I would not change them. If your Chinese Iron Brigade relies on selling your loved ones to protect this country, I really doubt if your loved ones are enough. "
"You …" Cai Ning fumed with rage as she gritted her teeth and said, "You are really making trouble for no reason at all!"
"I'm making trouble for no reason!?" Yang Chen sneered, "According to your logic, the soldiers at the border, the generals who have their hands tied, could it be that they are going to defend the country, not protect it?! Wasn't it to protect their loved ones that they first went to protect China? If there was no one left, where would he get his home from? Without a home, where would the country come from? Where did he come from? Sacrificing one's loved ones was the reaction of a weakling. If one could clearly save someone but was unable to do so, that person was a lunatic who had gone insane!
Previously, I didn't really understand Senior Nun Yun Miao's state of mind. But now, I finally understood how it felt for Senior Nun Yun Miao to let her son, his daughter-in-law, die on the frontline. If you don't have the ability, don't show off. "I have never heard of anyone sacrificing their family in exchange for respect in secret organizations of other countries."
Cai Ning's face darkened: "No matter what you say, the General orders me to stop you from handing over the Divine Stone to them, our backup will be here soon, and when that happens, these three will definitely not be able to escape. Before that happens, we absolutely cannot agree to their request, even if Lin Ruoxi dies, it will be for our country's sake!"
"A living entrepreneur is far more useful to the country than a dead man." Yang Chen said as he took out a crystal stone, "I can't joke around with Ruoxi's life time. This broken stone, if it were my wife's life, I would really want it too."
After saying that, Yang Chen threw the crystal in the direction of Sky Dog!
Sky Dog was overjoyed as he went forward to grab it. When the tentacles caught the ice-cold crystal, he laughed loudly and said, "Sir Pluto is really sensible!"
Ban Ruo and Tanuki also felt as if they were in a dream. They were ecstatic when they saw Sky Dog get the crystal.
"Release them." Yang Chen said expressionlessly.
Cai Ning saw the Divine Stone fall into Sky Dog's hands, her expression changed drastically as she glared at Yang Chen, "Are you crazy!? You really gave the Divine Stone to them!? "
"It's all of you who are crazy! I used a crappy stone to save my wife, is that up to you!? " Yang Chen roared.
"Is Lin Ruoxi really worth it for you to do this for her!?"
"Worth it! Every single woman beside me is worth more than this stone! "
Cai Ning was intimidated by Yang Chen's deafening words and her eyes started to sparkle.
"Keke, Sir Pluto is really a man who is infatuated with love. The person you're looking for is on this piece of paper. If you go too late, you won't have the time …"
A glimmer flashed in Ban Ruo's eyes. Suddenly, a thin piece of paper appeared in her hand. She kissed the piece of paper and then threw it into Yang Chen's hand.
Soon after, Ban Ruo, Sky Dog and Tanuki all disappeared into the forest, leaving no trace behind.
For humans, hiding in the forest was too easy. Even if Yang Chen wanted to chase them, it would not be that easy. Furthermore, Yang Chen would not dare to let go of the hostages and chase after them.
Cai Ning regained her senses and wanted to give chase, but it was already too late. She turned around and looked angrily at Yang Chen, "You did good! The general will not let you off! You are provoking us with our Chinese Iron Brigade! "