The end of the world starts with failing the exam

Chapter 211 The Lion in His Old Age

The next morning.

Chen Jing was still having breakfast in the restaurant when he heard a knock on the door.

Breakfast was not rich.

Just plain noodles with fried eggs.

The alkaline water that has been frozen in the refrigerator is boiled and put into a bowl as white as jade. After just a few simple stirs, it is covered with the spicy oil sauce, and then topped with the soft-boiled eggs that flow out from time to time. Liquid... what you eat is spicy and delicious!

Chen Jing remembered that he hadn't eaten like this for a long time.

Grandma used to make it for him.

Later I did it myself.

After that... when he entered the workplace and started working, he almost always had breakfast outside. Even on his days off, he would order takeout directly at home.

But given that he only got up at noon, what he ate was not considered breakfast.

"This vice-president is quite good at choosing a time to visit..."

Chen Jing was holding half a bowl of unfinished noodles in his hand, and he only wondered whether the members of the [Ether Association] were as unreliable as Li Mobai.

"At least come back after I finish eating..."

Say it.

Chen Jing swept away the noodles in the bowl with three strokes.

Before he could get up and take the dishes to the kitchen, Qiao Youning hurriedly reached out to stop him.

"Give it to me! I'll take it and wash it! You get down to business first!"

"Thank you for your hard work." Chen Jing raised his hand and took the tissue from Qiao Youning and wiped his mouth. Looking at the graceful Qiao Youning, he couldn't help but sigh, "You are indeed different from before..."

"Huh? Is there one?" Qiao Youning just walked to the kitchen door and couldn't help but stop and look back, but she only saw Chen Jing's back.

now.

Chen Jing has already opened the door of the old house.

There was an old man standing outside the door.

He was like a heavy and silent black mountain. His burly figure almost blocked the door frame, and a suffocating sense of oppression rushed towards his face.

Sunlight seeps in through the cracks in the door frame.

Chen Jing could barely see the old man's face clearly.

Judging from the age spots all over his face, he should be older than the old man, at least in his eighties.

The dull skin is flabby and the corners of the eyes are drooping lifelessly, as if he is a dying old man. The whole person exudes an extremely strong aura of death, but what is extremely contrasting is...

He was such an old man who could be extinguished like a candle in the wind, but he had a body that was as burly as a mountain and intimidating. His extremely bulging muscles bulged out into terrifying curves under his casual suit.

He is like an old lion living on the grassland.

Even though his eyelids can only be half-opened, his thick eyebrows and pale beard remain in a state of exploding.

"Chen Jing?" The old man suddenly spoke, his strong and deep voice like a thunderclap, and his tone sounded a little confused. He seemed to be unable to believe that the seemingly frail young man in front of him... was the legendary "Old Descendant of Sequence 2".

Compared with Raphael, who is known as the Son of Moonlight, he is really far behind.

"Vice president?"

Chen Jing was not intimidated by the old man's aura. There was no trace of nervousness in his clear water eyes, but only a child-like curiosity.

At this moment, Chen Jing can be sure that this old man is not a candidate, because Chen Jing can't feel the slightest trace of the old descendant in him, and he is not even the most basic transcendent... Yes, he is just a human.

An ordinary human being.

But his momentum was stronger than Chen Jing had ever seen before.

The old man seemed to be a dying lion standing outside the door. His eyes with drooped eyelids were looking down at Chen Jing, with an appraising look in his cloudy eyes.

"Why does this person look familiar..." Chen Jing murmured in his heart, a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes. He really felt like he had seen this old man somewhere before!

at this time.

Baiaji, who was resting in the yard, still looked so leisurely. He only occasionally looked back at the old house... It can be seen from his behavior that he didn't take the old man seriously at all, and he didn't think the old man could threaten him. To Chen Jing.

The gap between ordinary humans and the ancient descendants is like a chasm.

That cannot be overcome no matter what.

"You have grown up."

The old man suddenly raised his hand towards Chen Jing, as if he wanted to touch the young man's head, but it was obvious that Chen Jing was a very vigilant person, and he did not like such intimate actions with strangers. .

So when the old man stretched out his hand, Chen Jing calmly took a step back, but still had a smile on his face.

"I heard from Li Mobai, do you know my grandfather?"

"You won't let me go in and sit down?" the old man asked.

Hearing this, Chen Jing hurriedly moved out of the way, looking a little ashamed.

"I'm rude..."

The old man smiled and without saying anything else, he crossed the threshold and walked into this old house that he had not set foot in for many years.

"The first time I saw you, you were just a swaddled baby. The second time I saw you, you were already four years old..."

Having said this, the old man slowly sat on the sofa, his burly body almost sinking in, and the smile on his face was full of memories.

"I was still young at that time and can't remember you." Chen Jing sat on the sofa beside the old man and glanced around quietly, trying to find something that could be used to greet guests.

But after searching around, I only found small snacks piled in the fruit basket.

It’s all spicy konjac, cool fish, and the like…

"You're welcome." Chen Jing pushed the fruit basket in front of the old man.

The old man remained silent without saying a word, but the corners of his eyes were obviously twitching twice.

"You are just like your grandpa." The old man looked at the various snacks in the fruit basket in front of him and couldn't help but sigh, "You don't seem to know how to treat guests."

"I don't usually have guests at home." Chen Jing touched his nose awkwardly, trying his best to search for memories of this old man in his mind.

I recalled it carefully.

Chen Jing accidentally discovered that he actually had a vague memory when he was a child, and he could match what the old man said.

That was when he was very young.

Can't remember which day it was.

In the yard of the old house.

Suddenly a burly old man who looked like a blind bear appeared.

"I have read all your information."

The old man stared at Chen Jing intently, as if trying to find something from this face, and his voice was still low.

"They say you look younger at three years old and look older at seven years old. Your growth trajectory is the same as I originally expected, but it's a little different."

Chen Jing was sitting on the sofa and felt a little uncomfortable being stared at by him. He couldn't help but pick up a bag of snacks, carefully tore open a slit, poured out the alcoholic peanuts inside, and put them into his mouth one by one. deliver.

"Why is it different?" Chen Jing asked.

"Taciturn, shy, and unsociable, he is exactly the same as your grandfather when he was young... But now it seems that I made a mistake."

As soon as he finished speaking, the old man suddenly laughed and stretched out his hand to Chen Jing.

"Let's get to know each other again...my name is Huangfu Huaisui."

The old man's rough palms were covered with calluses. When Chen Jing shook hands with him, he felt like he was holding a dead branch.

"Currently serving as the vice president of the [Ether Association], he is also one of the main persons in charge of co-initiating the Antarctic scientific expedition project with the Wood Private Foundation."

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