The rain at Sentinel Ridge was getting heavier and heavier.

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

He loved the feeling of standing in the middle of a rainy night in the pouring rain.

Stop at nothing.

Relaxed.

It's like back then......

"What do you mean...... I don't cooperate with you...... You're going to kill me?! ”

"I didn't say it, that's what you said."

"Kill me, you're in big trouble! You should know that! ”

"Hmm...... So if you cooperate well, won't it be over? Chen Jing smiled and tilted his head, looking at the face in front of him that had become extremely funny due to fear, "I don't want to kill people either, so don't force me, okay?" ”

"Do you think I'll believe it!" Smith trembled and roared, as if he had guessed what Chen Jing would do next, "You don't plan to let me go at all!" Because if you let me go back, you'll be in trouble! You know all of this! ”

"Take a gamble."

Chen Jing smiled and shrugged his shoulders.

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

"Bet, you won't necessarily die."

This bet is not destined to be fair.

Smith is well aware of this.

Chen Jing hardly had to pay any bargaining chips, and he had to gamble with his own life.

After a moment of hesitation.

Smith decided to listen to Chen's gamble.

Because he had 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 stele is from the ancient ruins of Antarctica." Smith endured the pain of his broken arms and gritted his teeth, "But when we excavated the ruins, no one found it except your grandfather, and our focus was on the golden throne and the hourglass......"

"Go on." Chen Jing smiled and nodded.

"We didn't know about 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 are in the deepest part of the ruins...... Found a string of secret words engraved in the tunnel......"

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

"What's that secret word?" Chen Jing asked curiously.

"That's just one sentence."

Smith struggled twice, as if trying to loosen Baiagi's embrace, but Chen Jing ignored his struggles and waited patiently for an answer.

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

Key?

Chen Jing's eyebrows jumped.

The key to the courtyard of the gods?

Could it be that the old man disappeared because of the existence of the key......

"We didn't know what it was or where it was......"

"Until a few days later......"

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

Smith didn't seem to bother to pretend anymore.

He seemed to hate Chen Jing's grandfather very much, and when he said this, Smith's eyes were almost fierce, and his expression was as fierce as trying to eat people.

"According to the clues...... We are on the eastern side of the ice...... Found an underground vault ......"

"That secret room is special...... Countless times we have shielded the scientific instruments we use for detection...... If you hadn't found the mechanism to open the door based on clues...... No one would have thought there would be a secret room there......"

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

"That's right, but by the time we got there, the altar where the stele was placed was empty, and there was nothing ......there," Smith said through gritted teeth, "according to the traces left at the scene...... We're sure there was a stone monument on it! ”

"And then you doubt my grandfather?" Chen Jing asked quietly, with a hint of curiosity hidden in his eyes, "Why doubt him?" ”

"There are fingerprints left by him at the scene, what do you say?" 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 you can take things from that kind of place, there are still so many clues left......

But think about it.

It seems that it is normal to leave fingerprints.

After all, he took the stele in 1972.

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

"So you're here?" Chen Jing sighed.

"That's right, when we found those fingerprints, we immediately asked the Yajing branch to retrieve all the information related to your grandfather, relatives, friends, colleagues...... We've all looked into the people who are related to him. ”

"Why are you looking so much?" Chen Jing lowered his head and smiled, kicking the rain on the ground with his foot, "Wouldn't it be okay to catch him directly?" ”

"Who has the guts?"

Smith also seemed to hate his stupid decision in the first place.

"Since we can become transcendent beings through the substances that remain in the ruins, then of course your grandfather can too, and that stone tablet has extraordinary significance...... So we suspect that your grandfather is also transcendent! ”

"So that's ......" Chen Jing looked at Smith thoughtfully, "If he is also an extraordinary person, if you rush to the door to arrest him, maybe you will startle the snake......"

"So we haven't been reckless, we all want to come up with a 100 percent success plan and then do ......," Smith bowed his head.

Chen Jing listened quietly to the old man's narration, and seemed to have guessed the following words.

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

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

The old man cheated on his death, he couldn't have told anyone about it!

"Not long ago, we got a tip-off that your grandfather went to a hospital in the provincial capital for an examination, and the result of the examination was a malignant tumor in the liver, and it had spread to ......."

Hearing the explanation given by Smith, Chen Jing was stunned.

It was like something had knocked me hard.

Chen Jing's brain suddenly went blank.

"Judging from the diagnosis of your grandfather by the attending physician at that time, your grandfather will die in less than half a month, and his physical functions have deteriorated to the point where there is no chance of transformation......

Smith seemed to be able to imagine the picture of Chen Bofu going to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment at that time, and his old face couldn't help but show a smile of relief.

"I heard from the attending physician that your grandfather was coughing up a lot of blood in the hospital at the time, and he couldn't walk steadily......

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

Could it be true that Smith is right...... The old man has liver cancer?!

But......

Why don't I know......

"Are you lying to me...... I ......," Chen Jing muttered, and for the first time, another expression appeared on his face that had been smiling unabated.

"Don't you know?"

This time it was Smith's turn to be dumbfounded, because he could see from Chen Jing's reaction that the other party really didn't know that there was such a thing.

"It's been a long time since I've been back...... He didn't tell me about these things......" Chen Jing muttered with a stunned expression, and then fell silent.

A moment later.

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

He struggled to control his emotions and spoke slowly.

"One last question."

"After you bring me back to the Guild......"

"What the hell are you going to do with my ......?"