Chapter 457 - 150: [Brutal Beating] (6400)_3
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"Oh no, am I about to go nuts?"
Chen Yan looked at himself in the mirror and tried to force a weird smile.
Good, I can still joke around, so I guess I’m not completely nuts... Chen Yan comforted himself.
After thinking it over seriously for a while, he walked out of the room.
It was already night, but Chen Yan stepped out of the door, walked into the yard, then jumped over the courtyard wall and landed in the yard of Lin Qingquan’s house next door.
The late night weather was quite fine, the sky was cloudless and the moonlight felt very clear.
As soon as Chen Yan landed in Lin Qingquan’s yard, he heard a "squeak" sound from inside the yard.
Chen Yan turned his head and saw a small, thin figure crawling out of what looked like a doghouse in the northwest corner of the yard, squatting in front of the wooden door, baring its teeth at him.
Chen Yan was stunned. It was actually a big macaque?
Hmm, it should be a big macaque, right?
Lin Laodeng has a pretty unique hobby, everyone else raises dogs or cats, but he raises a monkey?
Well, the crow shouldn’t call the pig black, I have an old turtle at home.
Using his Qi Observation Skill, Chen Yan easily saw that the big macaque was carrying quite a strong Evil Qi.
Thinking about it, Chen Yan smiled and walked over.
The big macaque shrank back in fear, and finally darted into the doghouse, staring at Chen Yan approaching the door with pitiful squeaks in the darkness.
Of course, it recognized Chen Yan.
Not only did it recognize him, but what terrified it more was that at this moment, this human seemed to carry an irresistible dangerous aura!
"You’re afraid of me?" Chen Yan squatted down right at the wooden door.
The big macaque curled up into a ball, its body trembling.
Finally, Lin Qingquan’s voice came from behind Chen Yan.
"With such a strong murderous aura, of course it’s afraid of you."
Chen Yan smiled, stood up, and turned to look at Lin Qingquan.
Lin Laodeng had somehow come out of the house and was standing at the door on the first floor of the villa.
"What breed of monkey is this you raised?"
"A Mountain Demon with Evil Qi, which I transformed into the form of a monkey." Lin Qingquan smiled, "I’m going to use the Evil Qi on its body to nurture a Magical Artifact."
"Mountain Demon?" Chen Yan’s heart moved.
"No need to guess, it’s the one from that nest you killed over at Zijin Mountain before, this is one that got away and I caught it back."
Lin Qingquan waved his hand, "Let’s talk inside, I happen to have some good tea leaves."
"Drinking tea in the middle of the night, aren’t you afraid you won’t be able to sleep?" Chen Yan sighed.
Lin Laodeng glared at Chen Yan, "Climbing over people’s walls in the middle of the night, you clearly didn’t plan to let me sleep in the first place!"
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Tea was drunk anyway.
The tea that Lin Qingquan brought out indeed had a rich fragrance, and after Chen Yan drank a small cup, he felt a soothing sensation spread from his throat to his stomach.
It was as if the tea had a calming effect, making the usually jumbled thoughts in Chen Yan’s mind a bit quieter.
"Good stuff." Chen Yan praised, his eyes fixed on the ceramic jar containing the tea leaves on the table.
Lin Qingquan immediately put the jar away, "Don’t even think about it! I only have half a jar of this tea left, don’t get any ideas."
"How about a million for that jar of tea?"
"No deal!"
"A million per ounce!"
"Tch."
"A million dollars per ounce!"
"Hmph."
"Ten million dollars... "
"Stop it, cut it out with that." Lin Qingquan rolled his eyes, looking very dismissive.
Chen Yan was taken aback, then immediately realized.
For him, most of the world’s rules already didn’t apply, so money didn’t really mean anything to him, he could have as much as he wanted.
He could empty any heavily guarded vault in the world without a problem.
But...
Could Lin Qingquan be any less capable than him?
"Yeah, I was being silly, for you, money is just numbers, it doesn’t mean anything anymore."
Chen Yan nodded, poured himself another cup of tea, and suddenly grinned, "What if I rob you then?"
"You can’t beat me." Lin Qingquan shook his head.
Chen Yan stared at Lin Qingquan, his eyes scanning him up and down as if assessing their comparative strengths.
Lin Qingquan sighed, "Your problem is more serious than I thought. In just a few days, you’ve become full of murderous intent, why has your mindset become so violent?"
"I’m not violent, my mindset is still very calm." Chen Yan shook his head, "It’s just that..."
"Just that when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail, right?" Lin Qingquan made a perfect analogy, and Chen Yan nodded repeatedly.
"Yes! Yes, exactly like that."
"You’ve found that it seems like all the rules, laws, or whatever can’t touch you; this world in your eyes seems to have suddenly changed, it’s no longer the same as before... so, you’re eager to try everything, it seems like whatever you see, you want to give it a try... right?"
"Exactly." Chen Yan nodded.
"You have a ’cognitive dissonance’ issue." Lin Qingquan chuckled.
"Is there a cure?" Chen Yan chuckled bitterly, "I don’t want to turn into a nutcase or a lunatic in other people’s eyes."
He sighed softly, "I almost killed a regular person today, the person was just a taxi driver, merging into my lane, and I..."
Lin Qingquan frowned, "You wanted to kill him? Because he merged, you got mad? Road rage?"
"No, no," Chen Yan shook his head, "I wasn’t angry, but suddenly I realized, if I killed him, he’d be dead, and the world couldn’t do anything about it, just like you said earlier—eager to try everything!"