Chapter 116
The old man… or rather the young Qidan who used to follow Rong Yuan with an admiring look on his face, finally raised his head slowly, turned his head inch by inch, looked at Rong Yuan with a complicated expression, and called softly: "…Teacher."
"I don't deserve it." Rong Yuan said coldly: "I haven't taught you much, and you may not respect me as a teacher. So forget about this title."
Qi Dan's fingers twitched.
"Mr. Rong...Mr. Rong..." Qidan heard the indifference and disgust in Rong Yuan's voice, he stammered and chose to address him that way.
"I... I didn't expect... that you would come back... Moreover, after so many years, you are still the same as before... You haven't changed at all..."
After all, Qidan had aged to the extreme, and it seemed that every word he spoke took a lot of effort. His cloudy eyes looked at Rong Yuan, and seeing that his face was the same as before, without any sign of aging, jealousy and greed could not be controlled in his expression. Although the emotion was only fleeting, it all fell into Rong Yuan's eyes.
He looked at this student who was completely different from what he remembered and said, "But you are old, and... you are dying."
His eyes could clearly see the rapidly draining vitality from his body.
"I...I know...my...body...is no longer able to function."
He clutched his chest and gasped for breath. Every time the air blew through his trachea, it brought him great pain.
During the long sleep, his body did not remain in the frozen state, but was still slowly failing . He found that the time he had left might be shorter than expected.
He wanted to recall the past, his father who died young, his poor sister, and to arouse Rong Yuan's concern and sympathy for him. But... he didn't have time.
Qi Dan held onto the wall of the coffin, holding up his body with difficulty. He looked up at Rong Yuan with concern and begged, "Teacher, I... I don't want to die... Can you... Can you... please... save me..."
"cannot."
Rong Yuan simply and decisively rejected him.
Qi Dan's expression froze, and his face twisted involuntarily, instantly revealing a bit of the gloom and hatred that had frightened countless people. But then, with a look of sorrow, regret, and pain, he said: "I know... I, my past actions betrayed your teachings to me... and broke your heart..."
Rong Yuan slightly shifted his gaze.
It wasn't that he was moved by Qi Dan's disguise, he just didn't want to see this man in such a miserable state again.
"But at that time... I was not in a clear mind... My sister died... She died so tragically... My father... also died... My mind... was full of hatred... That's why I was bewitched by... Karenbi... I actually... wanted to... assassinate you..."
Qi Dan continued to speak intermittently.
"I regret it... Teacher... I really regret it... When you forgave me... I regretted it... I know I was... wrong... But, but you... left very quickly... I never... ever had the chance to apologize again... I have always... regretted it very much..."
"Please... Teacher... Please forgive me... For me... The most... precious thing in my life... is the time I spent studying... with you..."
Qidan spoke with deep emotion, tears streaming down his face . With his messy gray hair and aged face, he looked extremely pitiful.
"I regret two things now. Do you know what they are?"
Rong Yuan said.
Qidan paused and couldn't help but look up at him.
"First, when you came to assassinate me, I was soft-hearted and let you go."
At that time, Qi Dan came to report the death of his father Qi Yang, and took the opportunity to assassinate him. In fact, he should have known that Rong Yuan could not be hurt by such a clumsy assassination, but he still did it without hesitation.
At that time, the young man's face was filled with anger, distortion, hatred, and sadness... It was hideous, but shocking.
Although Rong Yuan was in poor health at the time, he still easily subdued him. The young man fell to the ground, crying, shouting, swearing, and yelling.
No one has ever survived after becoming an enemy of Rong Yuan. But at that time, Rong Yuan thought of the companionship of the past ten years, the sincere admiration and respect of the young man, the unwavering trust and loyalty of Qi Yang over the years, and the tragic confession of Qi Lin before his death...
Rong Yuan let him go.
At that time, he had not imagined that the young man who was full of hatred but innocent at the beginning would later commit countless evil deeds.
Perhaps, this is the reason why Rong Yuan always moves forward but rarely looks back... because when he looks back, it is always easy to find that those simple, beautiful and passionate things have mostly become what he hates.
Qi Dan's face turned pale. Since Rong Yuan said so, he must be unwilling to help him. However, he still suppressed his emotion and asked, "Then...what about the second thing?"
"The second one?"
Rong Yuan smiled self-deprecatingly and glanced at him indifferently.
Qidan felt his heart suddenly jerked, and at that moment, he seemed to have died once.
Although Rong Yuan didn't say it out loud, he seemed to have understood what he meant -
The second thing I regret is coming here and meeting him.
Seeing him so depraved.
Rong Yuan reached out and patted the freezer, then turned and left. Qi Dan breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that he had saved his life for the second time in Rong Yuan's hands. He was first happy, then proud, and then resented Rong Yuan for not helping him.
His father, his sister, and even his mother died of depression after his father's death, which can be said to be indirectly due to Rong Yuan. Until now, Rong Yuan is unwilling to help him with even the slightest favor... It is ridiculous that he once admired such a person!
Although he was filled with resentment, he knew better than anyone else in the world how terrible Rong Yuan was, but he didn't dare to express his resentment. Qi Dan took a deep breath - his body was not as bad as he showed in front of Rong Yuan - and then reached out and pressed the button of the freezer.
No response.
The old man, who had just focused all his attention on Rong Yuan, realized that Rong Yuan's slap caused the freezer to go on strike. No matter how he slapped or pressed, the freezer that looked like a coffin remained silent like a real coffin.
“No…no…no no…we can’t do this…”
Qidan was really panicking. This was his last trump card. If he didn't have the cryostat, his current body... might not even last half a day.
He turned around suddenly and saw Rong Yuan had already walked to the door, so he hurriedly stood up to chase him, but he fell out of the warehouse. He didn't even bother to stand up, and crawled forward using his hands and feet.
"Teacher! Teacher! You can't do this! I don't want to die! Teacher!! I don't want to die! Save me! Please save me!"
He shouted at the top of his lungs, tears streaming down his face. He crawled a few steps and fell down again. His nose hit the ground and blood gushed out.
Rong Yuan stood at the door, looked back at his embarrassed and pitiful appearance, and said: "Since we met, only now have you said two true words."
With a faint hope, Qi Dan raised his head and murmured, "Teacher...Teacher..."
but……
"I will not do anything to prolong your life."
Rong Yuan shook his head and said, "Death is the fate of all people. You have ended the lives of others countless times, so you should understand this truth better than anyone else."
His lips were trembling, his body was shaking, and his hands could barely support the ground.
"Go to hell with your fate!"
With great resentment and despair, Qi Dan roared: "What about you? Why are you an exception? Why don't you just die?"
"Yes, everyone will die. Do you think I don't know that?"
"My sister is dead! My father is dead! My mother is dead! Why can you live forever? Why?!! I buried them one by one with my own hands. Do you think I don't know what death is? Just because I don't want to die like them, I live desperately... I live desperately... cough cough cough..."
Qidan burst into a deafening cough, so violent that it seemed as if he was going to cough out his lungs. As he coughed, he spat out a mouthful of blood. He reached out his hand and saw his chin was bright red.
He looked at the blood on his hands, smiled suddenly, and then said: "But I know... I have known for a long time that one day, I will die! Just like my poor sister!"
Qidan tried to prop up his upper body, stared at Rongyuan, and said grimly: "When I went to bury my mother, do you know what I saw? Qilin's body was dug out of the ground by wild dogs! Bones were scattered all over the ground, and dense insects were crawling out of her eye sockets!"
Qi Dan choked up and said, "My sister... when she was alive, she always liked to keep herself clean and pretty, but after she died... I couldn't even find her entire body! Do you know? You don't know anything! You don't even want to know!"
"Rong Yuan! You are so high and mighty. We are nothing more than pets that you raise on a whim. You fiddle with us when you like us, but when you don't like us anymore, you don't even want to look at us! How could you care about the life and death of a group of ants?"
"You keep mentioning the deaths of Qilin and Qiyang only because these two things hurt me the most." Rong Yuan said calmly, "Although... I do feel sorry for their deaths, it is impossible for me to feel any regret or self-doubt, and it is even more impossible for me to feel guilty and want to compensate you. You have to understand this."
"Wha…what?"
Qi Dan was stunned for a moment, and then became furious.
“How could you…how could you say it so…so…as if it had nothing to do with you? If it weren’t for you…if you had taken action earlier, how could Qilin have died?! In front of you, what are the Moon Wolf Tribe? You knew clearly that the Moon Wolf Tribe was oppressing humans, but you still let them go, which led to…and, and my father…my father…”
"Because that was your own request." Rong Yuan interrupted him.
Qi Dan was stunned for a moment, and a look of genuine confusion appeared on his face.
"Have you forgotten what your father and his companions said when I asked them what they wanted?"
Qi Dan was stunned for a long time before he recalled a conversation from his distant memory.
[Sir, I... we have a favor to ask of you.]
[Oh? Tell me, what do you want? ]
[Sir, I would like to ask you to help us master the knowledge on the Tianzhou.]
