Bulwark of Light

Chapter 216 Coward (Part 2)

Zhao Xilai quietly stared at the necklace.

According to the council’s intelligence, Owl was able to create an extraordinary sealed artifact…then this necklace should have come from him. It only takes a moment to wear it to expel a person’s spirit.

After admitting all this, Zhao Qi only felt more relaxed than ever.

He laughed and said, “I have no talent, no courage, nothing. I just want to live a better life.”

“This is called selfishness.” Zhao Xilai said lightly, Dao: “Compared to other people, you have lived a good life.”

He was born with a golden key.

From the moment gu gu fell to the ground, he was destined to live a life of fine clothes and food.

“Then I want to live a more selfish life.” Zhao Qi snorted, his expression did not change, he clutched the necklace and said casually, “Is there any problem?”

The old man looked at his son in disappointment.

“What the Liberty Auditorium did…I didn’t leave any evidence. You all were in a dream, and the auditorium’s surveillance cameras were broken…No one would know I did it.”

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Having said this, Zhao Qi raised his head and looked around.

This is a premium custom-made exclusive ward. As Zhao Xilai’s status, there will be no surveillance or camera in the room.

“Do you really think… this thing can be done seamlessly?”

The old man spoke slowly.

Zhao Qi startled.

“After everything is over, let’s go to Beizhou.” Zhao Xilai slowly propped himself up and sat up. He picked up the tea cup on the bedside table and handed it to his son, indicating that the tea was cold… Dump yourself.

Zhao Qi, with baleful intent lingering in his brows, was dumbfounded.

He subconsciously bent over, took the tea cup, then replaced the father with new tea leaves, and then brewed it with hot water. He was very skilled at this movement and practiced it hundreds of times throughout childhood.

When he was younger, he was always eagerly running to pour tea and water for the father, but the memory of that time has been blurred.

I vaguely remember that the father at that time was not so serious and not so cold.

“I still have a few friends in Beizhou… The people of the Lin Family always keep their word, they won’t hurt you.” Zhao Xilai coughed in a low voice, stretched out a hand, and covered his lips , his voice became hoarse and weak, “Even if… they look down on you.”

When he brought the hot tea to the father, Zhao Qi suddenly remembered that he had come to “visit relatives”. what is the real purpose.

He didn’t want to pretend anymore.

I don’t want to hold back anymore.

He knew that the freedom hall used the necklace, and he couldn’t hide it from the father and the woman… After all, he was the most redundant existence in this fight, the prey at the bottom of the biological chain.

He spent the whole night convincing himself to live selfishly.

Be selfish!

To come here…is to show off to the father and…prove my “ability”.

Maybe it was the bewitching of the devil in his heart that played a role. There was a voice in his heart that kept repeating, asking him to vent his accumulated anger to this world and to those around him who looked down on him. !

With… this necklace!

“Northern Continent?”

Zhao Qi tried hard to make his voice sound cold, and sneered disdainfully: “What a joke, who is going to which place?”

Zhao Xilai took the hot tea, took a sip, and looked at his child sympathetically.

No speaking.

Everything goes without saying.

Zhao Qi looked at the face that ignored him, only to feel that his fingers started to tremble again. At first he thought he was nervous, but now he realized… it was anger.

“Those who are greedy for life and fear of death should not enter Beizhou.”

Zhao Xilai said softly, “The fortress does not welcome cowards, nor cowards… The question now is not whether you want it or not. I would like to go to Beizhou, but, is Beizhou willing to take you in?”

“…”

Zhao Qi clasped his fingers together silently.

“You seem to want to say something.”

The old man looked directly at his son, speaking slowly, “If I guess right, you want to be angry. Rebut me and say that I am not a coward… If you want to prove it… use this necklace and put it around my neck.”

Zhao Qi thought he had heard it wrong, and he looked at it in disbelief. old man.

“You came to see me today, didn’t you have such an idea?” Zhao Xilai smiled and stretched out his hand, motioning Zhao Qi to stand closer. He gently wiped his palm in front of his neck and said: “I’m too old to resist. You put a necklace on me, and I fell into a deep sleep… It won’t take long for my spirit to be exiled. In what you just said, it’s not called murder.”

Zhao Qi looked at his father in a trance, and subconsciously stood closer.

“Pa” sound!

A loud slap knocked him to the ground.

The necklace was thrown from the air and fell to the ground with a piercing scattering sound.

Zhao Qi clutched his swollen cheeks, and all his energy was awakened by the violent slap.

He raised his head and looked in fear…but he didn’t see the furious expression of the father in his imagination.

“Do you know?”

“You have nothing now… you only have the last bit of conscience left.” The old man said softly: “Maybe it’s because of cowardice, maybe It’s because I protect you so well.”

“From the day Nan Zhi publicly opposed the bill, I’ve been thinking about what I’ve done over the years, the decisions I’ve chosen, and what exactly What’s right, what’s wrong…”

These voices vaguely reached Zhao Qi’s ears.

“I have dedicated my whole life to Huazhi and the building built by Lu Cheng…I don’t have the innate talent like him, and I can only let Huazhi come here in my life. “Zhao Xilai muttered, looking at his child, “A person’s energy is limited, he has tried everything in his career, and in other areas… he has failed very well.”

Zhao Qi held it silently. face, curled up in the corner.

“I have completed the revision of the last will. I will deliver this building to Lu Nanzhi, and Cui Zhongcheng will cash out part of the shares and establish a trust fund that is exclusive to you.” The old man calmly said : “If you want to take out that inheritance, you should obediently and honestly go to North Continent. If it is a man, stay in North Continent fortress for five years. If you don’t become a deserter, return to Eastern Continent after five years, which will prove that You are not a coward, you are not a coward, you are worthy of Lao Tzu’s inheritance.”

“There is still a way before you—”

“Kill me. “

Zhao Xilai looked down at Zhao Qi and said coldly: “Use this necklace, or whatever you want… let me sleep forever in this ward, if I die today, then you will It has nothing to do with all inheritance. But presumably you don’t need it anymore, because to do such a thing is to completely lose the last conscience. In this world, people who completely abandon morality will surely live well .”

“Come on.”

“Make a choice.”

Zhao Qi looked at the necklace that fell in front of him. The devil’s whisper sounded again, and he mustered the courage to hold the necklace, only to find that he couldn’t stand up.

All strength was drained.

The flames that filled his chest, the anger he thought…was not anger at all.

It’s fear, it’s fear, it’s struggle.

both of his hands covered their heads tightly, knelt on the ground, and finally weeping bitter tears.

The necklace was clenched tightly by him.

Then… release again.

(End of this chapter)