Chapter 1049: [(755)] Back to Reality (Thanks to God for the reward and support) Chapter 1049: [(755)] Back to Reality (Thanks to God for the reward and support) The night was hazy.
Pei Jinye had just returned to the Federation World at precisely ten o’clock and four minutes in the evening.
To his surprise, it was already ten years later!
“Ten years… Looks like I’ve now become a missing person.”
The moment he returned to the world, Pei Jinye had already started controlling brainwaves to investigate his situation.
Ten years ago, Dragon City martial arts university had arranged for people to investigate his whereabouts.
The Investigation Team from Central State had also cooperated in the search, but what Pei Jinye hadn’t expected was that Xu Wanxiao was also exerting effort in the search from behind the scenes, and was the main contributor from the Central State side.
Nonetheless, Pei Jinye was ultimately categorized as a missing person.
Most of the people from the research institute back then had lost contact, but a few had achieved success and become well-known.
Liu Limin from dorm 317 refused the Military Department’s recruitment and joined a renowned private martial arts gym in the Eastern Continent, with hundreds of disciples now. Every year during the festivals, he visited Pei Jinye’s parents in Central State.
If one had to say who from dorm 317 had done the best, it would have to be Cao Yingjun, who was now a Sixth Rank Refiner and had become the son-in-law of the President of the Federation Refiner’s Association, gradually exhibiting the air of a master.
As for Zhong Taishu, who returned to the Southern Continent… Pei Jinye hadn’t discovered his and Situ Liyue’s whereabouts.
Among the people he knew from the research institute, there was little news in the media about Ji Wutian, Ji Yuyan, and Murong Xiyue.
Perhaps it was due to their family backgrounds that the media didn’t dare to expose them, or maybe it was something else.
Pei Jinye didn’t think too much of it.
Knowing that ten years had passed, he naturally worried about his elderly parents at home.
He calmed his mind.
Pei Jinye’s spiritual power had now reached 1.37 million, coupled with an LV6 intelligent brain, he could easily probe the situation in Central State.
But still, ten years was perhaps too long.
Had it not been for the “Heaven and Earth Life Character Art”, Pei Jinye couldn’t have endured the passing of time in that different world.
His consciousness spanned millions of miles in an instant.
Seeing that the villa where his parents once lived had been razed to the ground, Pei Jinye’s brows furrowed slightly.
“Where are they?”
…
“Xing Tian.”
“I’m here.”
Sudden silence ensued.
The communication channel that had been silent for ten years suddenly crackled with electrical noise once again.
A trace of emotion finally rippled through Xing Tian’s voice.
“Have you returned?”
“I have returned, I’m very sorry to have caused you concern,” Pei Jinye said, somewhat wistfully.
In fact, he had seen many messages in the background, including tens of thousands of phone calls.
Knowing he had become an unregistered citizen, he naturally wouldn’t directly call his parents; otherwise, it would be hard to explain where he had been these ten years.
“You’ve been gone for 10 years and 3 days. During these ten years, I’ve been continuously searching for you but to no avail… It was as if you had evaporated from this world.”
Pei Jinye said softly, “I apologize, but I can’t reveal where I’ve been just yet. I’ll tell you when I have the time in the future. Right now, I just want to know how my parents are doing.”
“Don’t worry, I’ve been secretly protecting them,” Xing Tian’s voice came through, as calming as ever.
The location was sent to Pei Jinye.
Xing Tian continued, “Over these ten years, they’ve sold off their assets in order to search for you. If it hadn’t been for Ms. Xu Jing’s intervention, your family’s hot pot restaurant might now be in someone else’s hands… Fortunately, you had left them the hot pot restaurant, so even the vast expenditures of the past two years hadn’t caused overall ruin.”
Pei Jinye listened quietly.
Xing Tian finally added, “You have now become an unregistered citizen of the Federation. Your disappearance became hot news back in the day, even Star Ring inquired about it… So, I suggest you keep a low profile for now, to avoid being discovered by it. Otherwise, you may be investigated, and it might even involve real experts.”
It still didn’t know how strong Pei Jinye had truly become.
“I was thinking the same.”
“Do you need me to arrange an identity for you?”
“No, I have my ways.”
“Alright.”
Pei Jinye didn’t chat much with Xing Tian, and after knowing that Pei Jinye had returned, Xing Tian was in no rush to talk. It knew that there would be plenty of time to come.
Inside a core warehouse in Central State.
A faint voice seemed to murmur to itself, “If he knew how much the Dark Sea has grown, he would be very pleased.”
…
Meanwhile,
somewhere in Dragon City.
Pei Jinye turned and disappeared into an alley.
Not far away, a luxury car suddenly stopped, then quickly reversed, and a young man with slicked-back hair looked toward the alley.
“What’s up, Brother Min?” The young girl beside him asked, puzzled.
“I thought I saw someone I knew…” The young man hesitated before shaking his head, “Impossible. Brother Pei has been missing for ten years… there’s no way he would appear here. When he vanished, Old Lin had turned Dragon City upside down looking for him but found nothing…”
He looked at the driver in the front, “Let’s go.”
But he still turned back to look at the alley, laughing at himself, “I must have drunk too much, to even think that I saw Brother Pei.”
The girl leaned in close, eagerly asking, “Brother Min, who is Brother Pei? I’ve never heard you mention him before.”
“Brother Pei is my big brother!”
“Ah?”
…
…
At one o’clock in the morning that day,
a plane took off from the airport of Dragon City in the Eastern Continent.
Four hours later,
Pei Jinye returned to Central State.
With a Flash Escape, he disappeared.
After reviewing a mass of data, Pei Jinye had essentially reacquainted himself with the situation in Central State.
Central Continent Councilor King’s Rule had died in an unfortunate car accident seven years ago, and now Central State had new masters…
Initially, Pei Jinye had control over five families in Central State… Throughout the ups and downs of the past decade, the slots under Soul Control had, contrarily, emptied by three.
“That means what’s left now are The Jiang Family in Da Peng City, the Luo family in Harbor City, and the Li family in Dawn City…”
Previously, he had gone to great lengths for this alliance of families, even taking control of some high-ranking officials… Now, nearly all of these people have stepped down… dead or disappeared.
“It seems these ten years were not as calm and stable as imagined.”
Although some of those under his control had died, three slots had opened, which he could keep for selecting talents in the future.
The essential plantation had been protected by Xing Tian over the past ten years and had thankfully been preserved.
These spiritual medicines and fruits had been used to develop his own people under Xing Tian’s arrangements.
…
“Regarding the Jiang family…”
Pei Jinye’s expression turned somewhat odd.
Upon searching for information, he found that the Jiang family was now in a state of decline.
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The Old Master was believed to have died failing in seclusion.
The current head of the Jiang family was the Old Master’s eldest son, who was a complete fool… The grand Jiang family empire was no longer the top power in Da Peng City.
If not for Jiang Xinrun and Feng Jiao successfully reaching Fifth Rank, the Jiang family would have likely been finished.
What surprised Pei Jinye was that the Jiang family’s greatest reliance had turned out to be Li Xiaoyin…
“Indeed, investing in her back then turned out to be an inspired decision.”