I Have 10 Trillion Dollars only Usable For Simping Chapter 2670 - 1660: Wait for My Good News (2)

Tanki Liuli shot back with a question.

What kind of nonsense is that?

Could it be... a lot of humans know about this???

"Your senior sister never told you?"

Tanki Liuli went on, and at the same time lifted her head; that eternally tranquil face seemed to show a hint of change—maybe because she still had noodles in her mouth, the corner of her lips had a barely-there curve wandering around—but Boss Jiang’s mind was buzzing so hard he didn’t notice a thing.

If it were anyone else saying this, you’d be sure their brain had fried; no need to check, just hurry up and drag them off to the psych ward.

But this was Tanki Liuli.

Up on that mountain, Jiang Chen had personally watched her communicate flawlessly with a wild giant panda.

"Your senior sister knows too?"

Tanki Liuli is capable of blinking; see, she blinked right now. Though she said nothing, the expression and movement of that blink already counted as an answer.

Yeah.

Lan Peizhi is actually a master of the Daoist Sect too, the only difference is she’s way too deep into secular society, so that halo tends to get overlooked.

She’s his senior sister, you know.

"Damn."

Boss Jiang’s eye twitched; he couldn’t help sucking in a cold breath.

Could it be that there really are things in this world that exist above and beyond science?

He’d busted his ass through a million hardships to accumulate his current wealth, feeling like he could strut sideways across the servers like a boss—only to suddenly realize the game might get some kind of world-shattering expansion, and all the gold in his account could end up worthless.

You stomp, you numb too.

"You’re joking, right?"

Boss Jiang just couldn’t believe it, couldn’t accept it.

"You can call Senior Sister. She’s been involved in stuff like this before. Thanks to her efforts, a lot of disasters were avoided."

As everyone knows.

Young Taoist nuns never lie.

"Hiss—"

Jiang Chen’s eye twitched even harder.

So this is the real reason Lan Peizhi’s connections are so ridiculously wide?

On the surface she’s the godmother of the underworld, but in reality she’s a partner of the ’749’ Bureau, working with the state, quietly protecting all living beings?

"I’m full."

For once, she didn’t even finish a whole bowl of noodles. Tanki Liuli stood up and headed out.

"Aren’t you taking a change of clothes?"

Jiang Chen called after her.

"No need."

Tanki Liuli walked fast; in the blink of an eye she was out the door, disappearing from his sight.

Jiang Chen sat at the dining table, his brain a chaotic mess.

What kind of Flood Dragon was she talking about just now?

Though it didn’t really matter.

Knowing it’s a Flood Dragon is enough.

Snakes grow into pythons, pythons into constrictors, constrictors into Flood Dragons, Flood Dragons into...

Odds are this tribulation is exactly for transforming into a true dragon!

Shit.

A dragon!

He’d heard similar strange tales before; like all normal humans, this wasn’t the first time for Jiang Chen.

But hell.

He’d always treated them as jokes, memes.

No way.

As a staunch materialist, Boss Jiang simply couldn’t accept this kind of three-views-shattering intel. He pulled out his phone, deciding to verify things with Lan Peizhi.

"You found the Imperial Jade Seal?"

Her sense of humor had clearly leveled up.

Jiang Chen wasn’t in the mood for jokes; he said urgently, "Duanmu just went out."

He quickly added:

"She said she went to help a dragon."

The other end fell silent.

"A dragon?"

"To be precise, it’s a Flood Dragon, about to face a tribulation. She went to help."

Jiang Chen hurriedly explained, then couldn’t wait to ask: "These things actually exist?"

Lan Peizhi didn’t answer. Her tone was flat, unreadable, as she countered, "She told you this herself?"

"Yeah. She said you’ve handled lots of similar cases too. Don’t tell me people are really out there cultivating immortality?"

Lan Peizhi said nothing; maybe she hadn’t expected her junior to leak classified info.

"You’re really scared?"

Lan Peizhi said calmly; but the calmer her tone, the more unsettling it felt.

"What do you think?"

Jiang Chen couldn’t help raising his voice. "You lot sneaking around cultivating immortality while tricking us fools into working ourselves to death for scrap paper—how is that fair?"

"Why so worked up."

Lan Peizhi consoled him: "You have to believe in science."

"There’s a Flood Dragon in the Wusong River about to cross a tribulation and you want me to believe in science... Hey? Hey??!"

The call was hung up on him, very rudely.

Boss Jiang was furious, about to call back. Right then, Li Shuru finally woke up and came downstairs.

Jiang Chen could only force down his emotions and put away his phone for now.

"You’re awake."

He squeezed out a smile; if Li Shuru misunderstood and thought he was mad at her, that would be bad.

But his smile was way too stiff, forced, so of course Li Shuru spotted the flaw instantly.

"If you don’t feel like smiling, then don’t. No need to torture yourself."

Exactly the same spirit as "if you don’t feel like coaxing, then don’t."

Jiang Chen didn’t explain; he expressed his feelings through actions instead. No matter what the real world is actually like, as a normal human, life still has to go on.

He made two more bowls of noodles with gravy, brought them over, one bowl per person.

"Where’s Liuli?"

Li Shuru just had to bring up the sore topic.

"She went..."

Jiang Chen’s face twitched, going a bit crooked. "She went to help a monster cross a tribulation."

Li Shuru froze, staring at him.

"That’s what she told me. Her exact words."

"Help a monster cross a tribulation?"

Li Shuru repeated.

Jiang Chen nodded. "There’s a Flood Dragon in the Wusong River that’s about to become a dragon."

"..."

Li Shuru stared fixedly at him.

Could it be.

This was another one of his carefully pondered, all-nighter, out-of-the-box stratagems.

—Playing crazy and acting dumb?

Maybe a bit.

Too off the rails?

"Then why didn’t you go with her?"

"How could I go. I’m just a normal person."

Honest to a fault, Jiang Chen answered without thinking.

Seeing how serious he looked, Li Shuru picked up her chopsticks and took her time eating some noodles first.

"Any in the Pujiang River?"

"No idea. She didn’t say."

Jiang Chen frowned, looking pensive. "But even if the Pujiang doesn’t have one, there must be more than just this one. If that’s how things are, there are definitely already lots of dragons up in the sky who’ve attained the Dao."

"You ever seen one?"

Jiang Chen was stunned by the question. "How could I possibly have seen one."

"So when you fly, you’ve never run into any?"

"Have you?"

Li Shuru shook her head.

Jiang Chen slurped some noodles. "Rumors don’t come from nowhere. No wonder they always talk about a hundred-year pact. Don’t be scared—when Duanmu comes back, I’ll definitely ask her properly. She must have a Cultivation Technique. We’ll practice together; there’s still time."

Li Shuru, still eating noodles, almost choked; her smile was way more obvious than Tanki Liuli’s had been just now.

"I can barely carry a bucket of water. You really think I can cultivate? Maybe you should just train first, then pass your cultivation on to me."

"That works too."

"You looking forward to it?"

"Looking forward to what?"

Jiang Chen was baffled.

"The Cultivation World, of course. Human civilization and morality all tossed into the trash heap of history. By then, if you want a few partners, you just get a few partners."

Jiang Chen froze, then said solemnly, "I’m being serious here."

Yeah.

Too serious.

"I’m being serious too."

Li Shuru sighed lightly. "At that point you’ll have it harder than now, because in the Cultivation World, might makes right. If you want wives on all sides and a whole harem, you need real power to back it up."

Jiang Chen went quiet, bowing his head and slurping noodles one chopstickful at a time, feeling the indignant "summer bugs can’t talk about ice" vibe.

Li Shuru calmed down too, and didn’t keep "milking" the incident of him sleeping with Fang Qing.

When the sun comes up, you’re supposed to forget about yesterday.

Back in college, Li Yuanhua’s mindset was already miles above the rest.

She finished her noodles even faster than Jiang Chen, since Boss Jiang was distracted, lost in thought.

Li Shuru wiped her mouth and stood up.

"Where are you going?"

Jiang Chen asked.

Li Shuru didn’t say she was going to help Tanki Liuli.

"Forgot to tell you, Qin Shi Huang texted me last night. Said he’s not dead, and his million-strong army is sleeping with him. He asked me to fund his restoration of the dynasty, and promised to make me Empress once it’s done."

"I’m going to raise capital. Don’t tell anyone. Once I’m Empress, I’ll first appoint you Chief Eunuch, then find a chance to take out Qin Shi Huang so you can replace him."

Li Shuru walked toward the door, waving her hand.

"Wait for my good news."