Chapter 271
“Hmm... I need to ask someone about this, and besides...” Director Yang smiled meaningfully, “What I can do depends on who you, Mr. Zheng, are and what your intentions are.”
Zheng Fa sighed softly in his heart.
He was a bit annoyed by this ambiguity and hoped to get straight to the point.
“You’ve seen it; we’re conducting research.”
“Research on what?”
“Research on cultivating immortality.”
“I never thought those two words could be used like that…” Although Yang had anticipated this, hearing Zheng say it still left her astonished. After a moment, she added, “But Mr. Zheng… that kind of statement won’t convince anyone.”
Zheng Fa chuckled lightly, and suddenly, he vanished before their eyes.
Yang’s eyelids twitched, but her expression remained calm. “Mr. Zheng, this kind of invisibility… some technology can achieve that too.”
“I just didn’t want anyone else to see us.”
“Us?”
Yang was taken aback. Looking down, she realized she seemed to have disappeared into thin air as well.
When she glanced again, the driver had also vanished.
“Miss Yang, you’re from the capital, aren’t you?”
“Yes.”
Yang responded somewhat dazedly.
“Then could you please show me around the capital?”
“Huh?”
In the next moment, both Yang and Zheng felt themselves enveloped by a force, swiftly flying toward the capital.
It had taken them nearly three hours to get to this place from the capital.
Yet in less than twenty minutes, they were back where they started.
Zheng Fa seemed quite interested in the capital, visiting several places—only in the air, and not a single person noticed them.
…
When the two emerged from the nursing home, Yang still felt somewhat disoriented.
She clutched the project proposal tightly, her neck stiff, as if she dared not look back.
“Director Yang?”
The driver spoke as they reached the foot of the mountain, “Are we… just going back like this?”
“What else can we do?”
Yang’s tone carried a hint of self-deprecation.
“So… we’re just going to listen to them?”
“Didn’t Tang Muda say their goal is cooperation? They just need us to demonstrate our capabilities first.”
“...So we just believe whatever they say?”
“Do you think Zheng Fa really took us on a tour?” Yang sighed, “With his abilities… who could stop him if he wanted to do something?”
“…”
The driver’s expression changed, and Yang continued:
“You can only pray that these people genuinely want to cooperate with us.”
“And…” Yang took out a glass bottle containing a few peas, “They’ve already given us their price, haven’t they?”
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**Chapter 253: The Coordination Team and the Protected Area**
Watching the black sedan gradually distance itself from Hongshan, Tang Lingwu remarked:
“You talked for half an hour; is that really enough?”
Zheng Fa smiled and turned to Tang Lingwu, saying, “She’s just a representative for some people; she can’t make any decisions. Our demands are simple, so what more is there to say?”
“Keep it cool; if we’re good to them, they’ll feel at ease.”
Tang Lingwu didn’t quite understand this.
But the others with a bit more experience nodded in agreement.
Old Bai scratched his head and joked, “I’ve really made it… In the past, when people of this level came to Capital University, I had to stand by and clap like a seal.”
…
Just two days after Director Yang left, Zheng Fa keenly sensed changes down the mountain—
In the village below, many well-trained strangers had arrived, relocating the nearby villagers as if they were taking over the entire area.
Subtly, it seemed that no outside vehicles could enter.
It was as if the nursing home and the outside world had been deliberately isolated.
“This is a bit troublesome,” Old Bai frowned. “Are they monitoring us?”
Zheng Fa thought for a moment and shook his head. “I don’t think they mean any harm; it seems they just want to keep us cut off from the outside.”
He could see that much.
Zheng Fa and Tang Lingwu went down the mountain to the school, and these people let them come and go freely.
But if outsiders tried to enter the Hongshan area, they would be stopped.
“…” Old Bai still looked a bit gloomy. He was a lively person and had made many friends in the village, and now they were all gone.
Zheng Fa felt a bit unsettled too, and just then, Tang Lingwu’s phone rang.
“My dad is calling!”
Tang Lingwu was startled, her face showing a hint of fear, worried about involving her family.
Zheng Fa frowned slightly.
“Hello? Dad? I’m fine!”
As she spoke, the fear on Tang Lingwu’s face gradually faded, replaced by confusion.
“What did you say? Someone is offering you a project? A big shot?”
“Is it because of me?”
“What? I’m not dating anyone! Okay, I’ll ask!”
After hanging up, Tang Lingwu’s expression was a mix of disbelief and frustration.
“What’s wrong?”
“My dad said he suddenly got several big projects… He mentioned meeting some high-level people he could never meet before, and they were really enthusiastic.”
“Is this… because they’re afraid of offending us?”
Old Bai was taken aback, looking at Zheng Fa.
Zheng Fa felt the same way.
“My dad even asked if I’ve gotten close to some big shot in the capital…” Tang Lingwu continued, her expression turning a bit indignant as she spoke, “What generations and generations…”
Old Bai grinned, “Generations? Must be the immortal generation!”
Tang Lingwu thought for a moment, then shyly added, “My dad said he wants to come to the capital to visit us… I think this time he’s really scared.”
Old Bai chuckled, “Wait, your dad is only coming now? How could he be at ease before?”
“My mom was holding him back…” Tang Lingwu said a bit sheepishly, “I asked my mom to.”
Old Bai shook his head, “Your dad listens pretty well.”
“...My mom said if he doesn’t listen, she’ll make him sick…”
Tang Lingwu said, then suddenly looked at Zheng Fa, “I think this time… my mom probably won’t be able to stop him.”
Zheng Fa was taken aback. Was Tang Lingwu keeping things from her dad for his sake?
“Welcome, Uncle Tang,” he smiled at Tang Lingwu. “It doesn’t make sense that everyone else knows what we’re doing, but your father can’t.”
…
After a while, Old Bai’s phone rang too.
Zheng Fa exchanged glances with the others, all of them understanding.
Sure enough, after hanging up, Old Bai fell silent for a moment before saying, “My daughter said she’s being transferred to the capital… She said both she and her husband’s jobs are sorted out, and they said she can choose freely… all good positions.”
Zheng Fa calculated.
He didn’t have to say anything; he had no close relatives, just some distant relatives, and after his parents passed away, he had lost contact.
Tang Muda was lifelong single.
Teacher Tian only had an elderly mother.
So… if they wanted to express goodwill, they really had to start with Old Bai and Tang Lingwu’s families.
“We haven’t even become immortals yet,” Old Bai continued, “and now their chickens and dogs are rising to the heavens?”
Teacher Tian chuckled, “Now that’s what I call progress…”
…
Another week passed before Director Yang returned to the nursing home.
This time, her smile was much more genuine.
“Mr. Zheng! I really need to thank you!” Zheng Fa was taken aback as Yang continued, “The peas you gave me, we conducted animal experiments right away…”
Zheng Fa listened as she went on.
“The results were astonishing! From our observations, these peas can maintain biological life signs for an extended period, proving extremely useful for high-intensity surgeries, especially external surgeries!”
She paused before adding:
“There’s an elderly man; you should have heard of his name.” She softly mentioned a name.
Zheng Fa nodded; he had seen it in textbooks…
“The old man’s heart wasn’t in good shape and needed to undergo external surgery, but at his age, no one dared to operate…” Yang spoke with a hint of respect, “Originally, we couldn’t find anyone else, but he insisted on volunteering, saying he was close to death anyway…”
“The results were excellent!”
Those peas weren’t particularly powerful spiritual plants—after all, the spiritual energy environment Zheng Fa could create was limited.
But to modern people, they were simply miraculous.
“What’s going on with the commotion down the mountain?”
Old Bai asked.
He was still concerned about this matter.
“This issue is mainly meant to be kept relatively confidential,” Yang explained apologetically, “After all, with this mountain here… the number of visitors has been increasing lately, and there’s a chance that some rumors might leak out.”
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