28. Leaf dust
I made a pact with Loki for a year that if I didn't get rid of the fallen gods within a year, then I would give him my soul so that he could stop the gods from waging war on earth. Now, before I know it, a third of the year has passed, and there are less than ten gods killed by me, and at the current pace, if I want to completely get rid of the gods in a year, even if I am given ten years, I will never be able to do it.
Supposedly, I should have acted more intensively in this situation, but I followed Ye Chen, an invisible rich man, to Yunnan on his private jet.
Of course, I'm not going to make this choice, and I'm going to confront the gods in a more intense, positive way, and to go head-to-head you have to have as much power as the gods, so I have to have allies.
I don't know much about the Netherworld, and even Qiao Wei and Chang Le don't know much about what the world on the other side is like, and we don't know what kind of existence the Netherworld is like, but after seeing the Underworld Insect Guard, I have made one thing clear - the Underworld and the gods are on opposite sides.
Rather than gambling my hopes on the god of good fortune who doesn't know what medicine to sell in the gourd, I prefer to take the initiative myself.
The guard of Hades who guarded the insects was not born in Hades, he was once human, but he was transformed into his current appearance by an unknown force. Although he said that there are no gods in Hades, if there are really no gods in Hades, who turned him into a guard of Hades?
Perhaps the word "God" is not the right word to describe it, so I used the term "Lord" instead.
No matter how empty and empty Hades may seem on the surface, it is clear that there is a powerful force there that controls and maintains order in Hades, and it is this force that turns people into guards of Hades. Perhaps, like the gods, this power does not exist in the form of organic lifeforms, and once we can communicate with this power that dominates Hades and rely on it against the gods, I think my side will have a much better chance of winning.
So in the end, I chose to go with Ye Chen to the little-known village in the big ravine of Yunnan, because it may be very close to the Yin Cao Difu.
I don't know much about Ye Chen, and similarly, Ye Chen doesn't know my details, so we all did the same thing before we set off for Yunnan, which is to probe each other.
Qiao Wei and I are not experts in doing this kind of thing, but Chang Le is an expert in this area. Because Chang Le already had a general understanding of Ye Chen when he was tracking down the whereabouts of the golden cicada, Chang Le handed over a detailed information about Ye Chen to me in less than three days.
Ye Chen, a Chinese-American who is 34 years old in Chinese New Year's Eve, came to China seven years ago and now lives in Hainan. Ye Chen's parents are in business in the United States, they are not well-known figures, and their assets are not rich, and the reason why Ye Chen has his current financial resources is not his parents, but his brain.
To put it simply, Ye Chen is a genius, a genius who makes money.
Ye Chen's IQ is not outstanding, but the financial quotient is amazingly high, at the age of fourteen he earned the first pot of gold in school in school, and then began to invest in various futures and stocks, at the age of twenty Ye Chen dropped out of school to concentrate on playing the stock market, and at the age of twenty-five had assets of more than 100 million.
Maybe he also understands the principle of "accept it when you see it", so at the age of twenty-six, Ye Chen stopped from the stock market and began to turn to antiques, although antiques are also venture capital, but the risks in this are just leisure and entertainment for Ye Chen, who has already earned a lot of money and worry-free food and clothing.
Although it is entertainment, Ye Chen has played antiques for so many years, but he rarely misses, not only did he not lose money, but further expanded his assets. In my opinion, it is not so much that playing antiques is Ye Chen's hobby, but that making money is his greatest pleasure.
When I was twenty-five years old, I had just graduated from college, and I was still working hard for the more than 2,000 fast wages per month, and Ye Chen had already started from scratch and had hundreds of millions of family properties.
Fortunately, I'm not an ordinary person anymore, to put it mildly, I'm fighting against the gods for the fate of all mankind, I'm simply a savior-like existence! As long as I think of this, I feel that Ye Chen and I are no longer on the same level, and my mood is much more comfortable, regardless of whether this is a Q spirit or not, in short, I am very happy.
And another cool point is that Ye Chen is still single so far.
Ye Chen's sexual orientation is normal, and he has also tried to pursue the opposite sex, but the results have all failed. Like many rich people, Ye Chen is also worried about whether the woman he chooses only takes a fancy to his property, so when he gets along with the opposite sex, he always deliberately conceals his financial resources, and he is very suspicious, and it is impossible for people to find true love in this state of doubt, so Ye Chen, who is invincible in the shopping mall, is a complete failure in the love field.
I once asked about the gods of "Fu Lu Shou Xi Cai" in a phone call with Zhu Yue, and Zhu Yue's answer was very simple, whether it was Fu Lu or Shou Xi Xi or Cai, in the final analysis, it was one word: luck! Therefore, the five lucky stars that are circulated among the people are actually the gods of good fortune, or the gods of luck, but the manifestations of good luck are not the same for everyone, so there are five lucky stars.
Ye Chen's life was not all smooth sailing, so it can be judged that he has nothing to do with the God of Fortune.
There is basically no black history to dig up on Ye Chen's side, and I can rest assured of him. On the other side, Ye Chen also completely dug up the details of me and Qiao Wei, the so-called money can make ghosts grind, Ye Chen actually found the person who made the documents for me and Qiao Wei, and naturally knew the identity of me and Qiao Wei's wanted criminals.
However, Ye Chen did not call the police, he chose to listen to my explanation and Qiao Wei's explanation. He also talked about the reason why he made this choice, and in his opinion, what people like us who know yin and yang, ghosts and gods do often cause misunderstanding among the public, so it is very likely that we are wanted is just a misunderstanding.
Because I already knew Ye Chen to a considerable extent, I didn't hide it from him, so I told Ye Chen the truth about the experience of me, Qiao Wei, and Chang Le going to the pilgrimage island and the arrival of the gods.
Just like when we heard us talk about Hades and Hades before, Ye Chen was also very interested in what we said about the gods, and it seemed that his interest had shifted from antiques to catching ghosts and killing gods, and he also proposed that he should be our financial sponsor, and the only condition was that we should bring him with us when we acted.
After getting to know Qiao Wei, I understood a truth - making a rich friend is a very beneficial thing. Now that a person who is richer than Qiao Wei takes the initiative to send it to the door, I naturally have no reason to refuse, and Qiao Wei and Chang Le also feel that Ye Chen's joining will be beneficial to our future actions, so we decisively agreed unanimously.
Both sides have a certain degree of understanding of each other, and there are no secrets to each other, and the cooperative relationship established in this situation can still be trusted, so we chatted very well and felt very comfortable on the way to Yunnan, but our mood gradually became depressed as we got closer and closer to the lost village.
The environment can sometimes have a considerable impact on a person's mood, and I am now experiencing this emotional change.
The village is deep in the mountains, and the only road leading to the village is not an asphalt road, it is just a dirt road carved out by the villagers in the mountains. Probably because no one has entered the village for a long time, so there are a lot of weeds growing on the dirt road, and the car is very difficult to move forward on the road, and it is very bumpy, and the speed is completely unable to get up, and the lush branches and leaves of the big trees on the side of the road completely block the sun, making the mountain path dark and abnormal.
There were a total of eight people who came to Lost Village this time, and in addition to me, Qiao Wei, Chang Le and Ye Chen, there were also four bodyguards brought by Ye Chen. Eight of us sat in two mountain jeeps, and at nine o'clock in the morning we entered the mountains, and after four hours of staggering along the potholed mountain road, we finally met the man who had come to pick us up.
It was a thin, hunched man, and when he came into sight, he started waving at us until we drove close to him.
"Hello Boss Ye, you have come all the way here, and you have worked hard." The hunchbacked man greeted the jeep in front of Ye Chen and said.
"It's not hard, it's not hard, you can come and pick us up in person, just call someone to come and help us take the way." Ye Chen responded with a smile as he got out of the car and introduced us to each other: "This is the village chief of Jincian Village, and these people are my friends. I heard that something strange had happened in the village in the last year or two, so I asked a few of my friends to come and have a look, and they were all experts. This is Qiao Wei, this is Thunder, and Chang Le ......"
The village chief nodded politely at the few of us in turn, but he didn't mean to shake hands with us, and he didn't show the slightest smile on his face from beginning to end, and his expression was a little gloomy.
After Ye Chen introduced a few of us, the village chief also spoke: "Welcome, it's a pity that nothing strange happened in the village, you may have to run for nothing, but Boss Ye, you are a noble person in our village, your friends are our friends, if you want to come to the village to play, we are welcome at any time." The village has already prepared wine and food, and you must be hungry after driving for so long, come on, I'll take you into the village. ”
With that, the village chief turned his head and plunged into an overgrown path in the woods.
Obviously, the road behind was no longer open to traffic, and all of us got out of the car, and several of Ye Chen's bodyguards also carried the equipment they brought under Ye Chen's orders, and then followed the village chief into the mountain with Qiao Wei.
"I'm sorry, there aren't many people in the village, and we don't go out much, so we don't pay much attention to these roads, you are used to city life, it may feel quite inconvenient to come here, right?" The village chief said as he led the way in front.
"I think you can consider building a decent road, if a pristine village like Jinchan Village develops tourism, it will definitely help improve the quality of life of the people in the village, and the scale of the village will develop better, what do you think?" Ye Chen said politely.
"Boss Ye has a point, but ah......" The village chief suddenly stopped and slowly turned his head, and glanced at Ye Chen with eyes that were deeply in his eye sockets, "We don't want too many outsiders in the village, and we don't want development, the current situation is quite good." ”