Chapter 153: Negotiations and bargaining chips (Part 1)

Facing Yang Sheng’s questions, I once again found that I had lost. Every time it seemed that he would suppress me in various ways and then let him achieve his own goals. The only thing that comforted me was that before he arrived, I destroyed the soul of Kunlun in advance. Is this a small victory?

My emotions at the moment were not calm, and it was obviously not suitable to talk to Yang Sheng. In the drizzle, I said to Yang Sheng, “You give us half an hour, and then we’ll talk again.”

“Do you think you are qualified?” Yang Sheng pointed his finger at the old man, Xiao Chengqian’s great-uncle.

I was silent for a moment, and my emotions were obviously not yet completely erased from my wisdom. I said, “Our friendship is completely gone. I don’t think you came all the way here just to bring him here to hit us. You don’t have to go to all that trouble. You could have just killed us. You also have something to talk to me about, right?”

“I’m not going to kill you all because of him.” Yang Sheng pointed to Sharma and said slowly, “His family has a certain status in the Indian practitioner community, and together with the old man who is already dead, the impact is even greater! Otherwise, do you think you will be safe in India?

Yang Sheng’s implication was that Volma and Uncle Johnny had protected our safety in India, otherwise we would have died long ago. He was also hinting to me that it was because Volma and Uncle Johnny had enough influence in the Indian practitioner community that he could not act here because of taboos.

Yang Sheng is a very wise man, otherwise he would not have become a young genius valued by the country. His wisdom is also equally outstanding in other areas, such as negotiations and other confrontations… In the past, he was so obsessed with his research that he couldn’t even take care of himself.

Now that many years have passed, it seems that he has also changed, becoming very good at talking, and suddenly taking the initiative into his own hands, showing that he has no scruples at all. It is only because he is on someone else’s turf that he doesn’t kill me, and he brought his cousin, while I had to ask him.

I really was about to believe what he said. After all, whether it was the Wal-Mart family or the family of Uncle Johnny, they really had such influence in the relatively independent circle of cultivators in India.

But the past of the deserted village kept coming back to me. At that time, he was also so real, and even when we parted, he was so sincere. But in the end, he still lied to me. The shadow of that helicopter and the departing back view is almost a shadow of my life, because it was the first betrayal I had experienced in my life, and it was so unforgettable.

So, I instinctively didn’t want to believe him. Under such emotions, I quickly discovered a loophole in the conversation. Since he didn’t want to fight just because of the restrictions, why did he have to talk nonsense to me? Why did he have to make this scene? Why did he have to hint at me to beg him?

Because he knew that I would definitely ask what was going on. He just didn’t want me to see his purpose.

When I thought about this, my heart was a little relieved. I said to Yang Sheng, “I need half an hour. In addition, you take away the corpse. I don’t think you mind if we take him away, right?” I was referring to Xiao Chengqian’s eldest cousin. I was also testing Yang Sheng.

After I said this, Xiao Chengqian suddenly became agitated. Obviously, he really wanted to take his loved one with him. After being missing for so long, he would not be willing to just see him for a moment.

Yang Sheng was silent. He was smart enough to know what I had guessed. He was probably thinking about the best way to deal with the situation. This is only natural. I could wait for him.

The excitement had already begun to subside. After all, I was the mainstay. In the face of confrontation, I had to be calm even if I forced myself to be. During this wait for Yang Sheng, all kinds of unfavorable emotions disappeared more and more quickly.

“Okay.” Yang Sheng finally said only this word, and then he stopped talking. On the contrary, the younger generation all showed an expression of incomprehension, not knowing why Yang Sheng would agree to this. However, they seemed to be very afraid of Yang Sheng, and one by one they showed an expression of resentment, but in the end they did not dare to question Yang Sheng.

My cousin was led over by Xiao Chengqian, who was already calm and alert. Throughout the entire process, my cousin acted as if he was completely unaware, just letting Xiao Chengqian lead him, without showing any emotions at all.

I could see that Xiao Chengqian was very upset. After bringing his cousin back, he was a bit lost. I walked over and patted Xiao Chengqian on the shoulder, saying to him, “Calm down. Since the person is back, there is still a long way to go! We still have a lot of work to do and many people to find. You understand? You can’t fall down. Every partner and brother is so important. We can’t lose you. Similarly, you will never lose us.”

My words obviously moved Xiao Chengqian a little. He looked at me with emotion, then nodded solemnly, and put the cloak he had just picked up on his cousin’s body to prevent the rain from wetting him. Then he stood quietly next to his cousin, looking much better than before.

Then I went to my brother Chengxin and said to him, “Let everyone sit down and try to calm everyone down.”

“What are you going to do?” Chengxin asked me.

“I think the mantra is not enough. I need to find a way to calm myself down completely before I can talk to Yang Sheng,” I said seriously.

After I said that, I started to go crazy. I ignored everyone’s gaze and began to do various physically exhausting exercises on the rock, such as push-ups, squats, and sit-ups… During the process, I kept silently reciting the mantra of calmness in my heart.

What I didn’t say was that because of my previous confrontation with Patel, my spiritual power was exhausted and I had been wanting to sleep. Without repeated stimulation, I would really fall asleep, but I now needed a real, hard-to-come-by deep sleep, so I was torturing myself like this.

Under the strange stares of the crowd, I exercised frantically for more than ten minutes, then, withstanding the fatigue, I said to Brother Chengxin, “Nourishing pills, give me one.”

Brother Chengxin handed me a pill with great confusion. After I took it, I immediately stuffed it into my mouth. Before the pill had even dissolved, I had already collapsed on the rock, mumbling, “Don’t disturb me, and wake me up when the time is up.”

A deep sleep is probably a lucky thing for an hour during the whole sleep process, and deep sleep is precisely the best way to restore various human abilities, and it can even bring a lot of positive emotions. The longer the time spent in deep sleep, the better the person’s mental state after getting up, the happier the mood, and the calmer the emotions. If the time spent in deep sleep is short, even if a person sleeps for more than ten hours, the situation will be the opposite.

Deep sleep is even the tireless pursuit of Taoists. According to theory, people who can enter deep sleep at any time only need to sleep for two hours a day, and they will be more energetic and efficient than those who sleep for a long time. This is simply a way to extend life. How could Taoists not pursue it?

In order to achieve absolute calmness and quick thinking, I deliberately stimulated myself in this way in order to be able to enter a real deep sleep in the face of extreme fatigue. This is definitely a feasible way, but the process cannot be replicated. After all, the experience of this day was so ups and downs.

I fell asleep on the rock, and I had no concept of time. When Brother Chengxin woke me up, I thought I had slept for at least a few hours. The jacket my friends kindly covered me with was wet, so I used it to wipe my face and I was completely awake.

In that moment of clarity, I knew that my recent ordeal had actually allowed me to enter a deep sleep. Because I was so exhausted, I had recovered a lot, and my brain felt much more flexible. I even thought of some clues as to what Yang Sheng was up to.

He must be trying to find the Kunlun Legacy through me. He got the information from somewhere and knew that I was closely related to the Kunlun Legacy!

Thinking like this, I felt like I had the best trump card in my hand, and I felt more at ease when facing Yang Sheng.

I slowly walked towards Yang Sheng, stopping five meters away from him, and then said, “If you don’t mind, I really want to know what your news channel is.”

“I didn’t expect that you would go into a deep sleep just to talk to me. Your brain is a little better now, but it’s still some low-level stuff. It’s too non-replicable and too random. It’s not going to help humanity at all, is it? Chen Chengyi.” Yang Sheng obviously couldn’t answer my question, so he changed the subject.

“Don’t talk to me about your perverted science. You can’t even see people now. Do you think you’re successful?” I sneered at the corner of my mouth. Obviously, I didn’t want to hide my sarcastic attitude towards Yang Sheng.

“Heh, people at the forefront are naturally different, but when everyone is the same, then there is naturally no problem.” Yang Sheng said very calmly, but I felt a hint of horror in my heart.

I thought I couldn’t talk nonsense with this person anymore. His words made me feel like I was seeing the end of the world… I could only choose to reveal my cards and talk to him directly.