Chapter 171 The cicada knows the coming of autumn
Seeing the plane fly away, the vague sense of danger on his body subsided. Chen Jue's pores relaxed and he let out a long breath. The heat rising from his body actually melted the falling ice and snow into water vapor.
The series of outbursts just now were quite exhausting. Through [Inner Vision], Chen Jue discovered that many of the capillaries in his body had been damaged during the intense exercise just now. Fortunately, Chen Jue's physique was strong enough and his recovery ability was extraordinary. These damaged capillaries had now begun to slowly repair themselves.
In addition, Chen Jue also discovered that he had a keen sense of perception, which would give him timely reminders when facing firearms such as pistols, and he had a keen vigilance similar to "the cicada senses the coming of autumn before the wind blows".
The founder of Chengmen Baguazhang, Mr. Cheng Tinghua, died in the hail of foreigners' bullets because he was unable to dodge.
Although Chen Jue was only facing a gun, modern pistols were many times more powerful than modern flintlock rifles.
Moreover, the foreigner Zhao Zhen that Chen Jue was facing was a master who had practiced the Yoga Mahamudra to the point where his physical body was comparable to that of Sakyamuni.
Equipped with a pistol, the power that such a master can exert is definitely greater than that of facing more than ten guns shooting at the same time.
Fortunately, Chen Jue's agility attribute has exceeded 3, with the added bonus of [Flying Through Flowers and Butterflies], his body's reaction and evasion abilities have reached several times the limit of humans.
His movement speed was not as fast as a bullet, but he just had to be faster than Zhao Zhen, so that he could avoid the continuous shooting just now.
As for using his flesh and blood body to block bullets , Chen Jue thought that his practice had not reached that level yet.
Otherwise, his intuition would not have told him that he was in life or death danger.
Although he has mastered several hard skills and most parts of his body are strong enough to withstand attacks from cold weapons, he can still be injured and killed by attacks from modern hot weapons.
"Fortunately, we recovered most of the meteorite!"
"I'll practice some more hard skills later and find a chance to see if I can take a bullet from a pistol." Chen Jue thought so, recalling the brief fight of just over ten seconds, just like the review after a game by an e-sports master, which could effectively improve his combat experience.
At this moment, Linglong lowered a rope from the ice shelf on the other side and climbed down from above. She was holding a coat that Chen Jue had taken off and a canvas bag.
After witnessing Chen Jue's incredible speed and explosive power, Linglong, a martial arts master who emerged from the battle, began to look at Chen Jue with an incredible look.
"Fellow Daoist Chen Jue, are you okay?" Linglong asked.
"It's okay! It's a pity that the other half of the meteorite was lost. It got a bargain for that foreigner." Chen Jue shook his head and sighed at Linglong.
Linglong took off the coat that Chen Jue had taken off, handed it to him, and asked Chen Jue to put it on to keep warm.
"Fortunately, Fellow Daoist Chen Jue acted in time, otherwise we would have fallen into their trap."
"Now that this half of the meteorite was taken by you, fellow Daoist, it should be considered as your trophy. You should take it all. I will just take the scattered small fragments that I found before." Linglong looked at Chen Jue meaningfully.
She asked herself that if she took action, she would never be able to do something as shocking as Chen Jue had just done.
After all, the 30-meter-long glacier crack in front of them is not something that a normal human can jump over.
In Linglong's eyes, the secret hidden in Chen Jue was definitely more terrifying than that of Zhao Zhen just now. It was beyond the limit of human athletic ability, and even a master who had formed a pill could never do it.
But Linglong didn't say it all. She was very smart and knew how to read people's minds. She knew that everyone had their own secrets, and asking around would ruin their friendship.
Chen Jue was surprised when he heard this. He glanced at the woman of the same age who was retreating beside him and asked, "Fellow Daoist Linglong, you only want those small fragments? Then you will suffer heavy losses, right?"
Linglong smiled noncommittally, then took out a flashing red dot-like signal transmitter from her pocket and said, "I haven't found a specific use for the innate Qi on these meteorites. They are of limited use to me. Since you care so much about them, I'd better let you handle most of them, which is considered to be making the best use of them."
"It's not like I suffered a heavy loss! I had already made a lot of money from the Hongmu Group before I came here. It's probably a hundred times more than the value of the nutritional supplements you wanted!"
"What? A hundred times?"
"Hiss... Hongmu Group is actually willing to do that?" Chen Jue took a breath of cold air. The value of the materials he sent to Chen Village was definitely over tens of millions. If you multiply it a hundred times, it would be tens of billions, right?
When did money become worthless?
"You have to give to gain! If you and I hadn't been asked to come out of seclusion, the Hongmu Group wouldn't have been able to find even half a piece of the meteorite. This is the price they should have paid, but you asked for too little before." Linglong smiled, and said nothing more. She kept Chen Jue in suspense and bent down to help him pick up the broken pieces of the meteorite.
"Is what I want too little?" Chen Jue pondered the other party's words, and then recalled that John had agreed to his request so quickly before, he knew that he had been fooled and was tricked by the other party.
"It turns out that those who are not of our race must have different hearts! Since John can hang out with Zhao Zhen, he is probably not a good guy." Chen Jue secretly sighed and joined in picking up the fragments.
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The two men divided the work and dug three feet underground where the meteorite fell. In total, they found hundreds of fragments, weighing more than 300 kilograms.
Moreover, the concentration of innate Qi contained in these fragments is obviously much stronger than the one carat that John sent before. The dark gold lines on the fragments are deep and shiny, and they shine even under the strong light of the polar day in Antarctica.
After searching for the debris and climbing onto the ice, the two returned to the polar vehicle and rested for a while.
About an hour later, a small plane also equipped with a jet roared in from the horizon and finally landed steadily in front of the two men.
As soon as the cabin was opened, a sturdy old man in his sixties with gray hair on his temples came out. After seeing Linglong was safe and sound, the old man grinned and shouted, "Master! Are you okay?"
"I'm fine, Uncle Fu, let's get on the plane first and talk about it when we get back." Linglong nodded to the tough old man, then boarded the plane with Chen Jue, who was full of doubt on her face, holding a pile of meteorite fragments wrapped in canvas.
As for the polar vehicle, it was abandoned on the ice by the two men.
When the plane soared into the sky, Chen Jue felt the warmth of the air conditioner in the cabin that was not available outside, and then he asked Linglong: "Daoyou, is this the hundredfold benefit you mentioned?"
Linglong took off her heavy coat, revealing her graceful figure. Then she took the windbreaker handed to her by the silver-haired old man and put it on. She lay back on the airline seat like a queen. She turned her head and smiled at Chen Jue, explaining, "I took advantage of the cross-holding of Hongmu Group to take over some of the assets of my second senior brother's Lin Group and transferred them all to the domestic Xingyi Sect headquarters. I also brought back some of the old followers of my Xingyi Sect overseas to China."
"From now on, the orthodox branch of the overseas Xingyi Sect will return to the Hua Family, and my senior brother Reggio's branch is now in name only. As the sect leader, I naturally have to consider the issue of food for my disciples in the future, and it is reasonable to ask the Hongmu Group for a few more hundred million."
Chen Jue opened his mouth when he heard this, somewhat impressed by Linglong's swift and decisive approach, and asked, "Did you just take away over 50 billion of Lin Group's assets?"
"They only took a small portion, about 10 billion, and the bulk was inherited by Second Brother's parents and younger sister."
"Otherwise, how do you think Hongmu Group invited me to come out?" Linglong couldn't help but chuckle when she saw Chen Jue's face, which looked like he had suffered a loss of hundreds of billions.
Chen Jue was speechless. Compared with Linglong's asset compensation, it seemed that he had only received some nutritional supplements from Hongmou Group.
Fortunately, Linglong agreed to leave most of the meteorites to her. Considering the reward of 8 million US dollars per carat of those meteorites, Chen Jue’s gains from this trip were definitely not less than Linglong’s.
After just sitting and resting for a while, Chen Jue saw Linglong holding a pen and paper, drawing a portrait sketch on the paper.
"Fellow Daoist Linglong, you actually have a talent for painting?" Seeing the portrait on the paper becoming clearer and clearer, with Zhao Zhen's facial features vividly displayed on the paper, Chen Jue couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.
"I learned all of these when I was abroad. When you and I have reached our level of cultivation, we must use some external arts to comfort our souls and cultivate our character."
"In ancient times, the calligraphy master Wang Xizhi practiced his calligraphy to the point of penetrating into wood, and the painting master Wu Daozi wrote with a brilliant light. Most of these ancestors were sincere in their pursuit of the path, and they proved their own path through the accompanying skills."
"If it weren't for this 'sincerity', you and I wouldn't have reached the current level of martial arts." Linglong looked back and smiled, then handed the portrait in her hand to Uncle Fu, who looked like a butler.
"Uncle Fu, send this portrait to the inner circle and have the intelligence team investigate where this person came from."
"When a wild goose passes by, it leaves a sound; when a person passes by, he leaves a name. Since this white devil has such a high level of cultivation skills, I think he is not an unknown person." Linglong ordered.
The rich man nodded when he heard this, picked up his phone and started taking pictures, obviously doing what he was told.
As for Chen Jue, he recalled the black crystal stone that Zhao Zhen took off his neck before the fight. He suddenly remembered that the thing seemed to be able to shield a person's mental imprint, so he discussed it with Linglong.
Linglong also had no clue, because the mysteries in this world were endless. Even she, a knowledgeable leader of the Xingyi Sect, could not guess the details of the black crystal for the time being.
However, Uncle Fu, who had just put down his phone after sending the portrait, suddenly changed his expression after hearing the description of the crystal stone by the two people, and reminded them: "Master! The thing you talked about with Mr. Chen Jue should be a Buddha bone relic!"
