Chapter 297 You don’t want others to know that you’re pretending to be dead

Shen Cheng's smile made Ji Chan realize that she was a little anxious and accidentally said what was in her heart.

Once a person has a goal, it means that he has desires, which means that he will be exploited and coerced.

Shen Cheng had already thought about how to control this prophet: "I am not a member of the Eternal Empire. Even if a civil war really breaks out here, it has nothing to do with me."

Ji Chan just said "oh" and didn't say anything else.

Seeing this, Shen Cheng continued, "I hope you can help me find someone. His name is Du Tianming, and he should be in the Eternal Empire now."

Ji Chan shook his head: "I don't have the strength to do divination now, you should ask someone else for help."

"Is that so? Goodbye then."

Shen Cheng stopped pestering him and stood up to leave. Ji Chan had no intention of trying to keep him.

This is a gamble to see who can keep their composure.

When Shen Cheng was about to step out of the living room, Ji Chan finally lost her temper and called out to him, "Where are you going?"

Shen Cheng looked back at her: "I will leave the Eternal Empire."

Ji Chan looked at him as if he was looking at a sulky child: "The prophecy will definitely come true. Even if you leave the Eternal Empire and run to the ends of the earth, it will still be you who ends the civil war. The whole world will use all kinds of coincidences and accidents to get you back on track. I believe you must have scoffed at the prophecy at first, but now you have come to the Eternal Empire. Doesn't this prove that the prophecy will definitely come true?"

Shen Cheng retorted calmly: "I don't question the authenticity of the prophecy, but there is no fixed timetable for the prophecy, right? I can delay the time as much as possible, until the civil war in your Eternal Empire lasts for ten or eight years, until no one wants to fight, and then I will come back to clean up the situation. This is also in line with the content of the prophecy."

"You are so cruel!"

Ji Chan covered her mouth with her hands, her big eyes filled with surprise: "Once a civil war breaks out, the number of casualties will surely be in the millions or even tens of millions. Can you bear to watch so many innocent lives die?"

Shen Cheng blinked his eyes: "I can choose not to look!"

Ji Chan: “…”

The two of them stared at each other for a while.

Finally, Ji Chan gave in: "Come back, I will help you find someone."

Shen Cheng asked curiously, "Aren't you incapable of fortune-telling?"

"That's true, but we still have so many outstanding fortune tellers in the Astrology Palace, so we should be able to make do with them."

"But that's not enough."

Shen Cheng shook his head: "It's just helping me find someone, it's far from enough for me to help your Eternal Empire prevent a civil war."

To be honest, although he is very powerful now, he is not strong enough to restore peace to a huge empire that is on the verge of civil strife.

But now is the stage of bargaining, and of course I am assuming that the stronger I am, the better.

Ji Chan had guessed that Shen Cheng would push further: "Then what else do you want?"

Shen Cheng revealed his true purpose: "Help me find the Eternal Blood."

Coming to the Eternal Empire to find Du Tianming was just a coincidence; his real purpose was to find more Eternal Blood.

The Astrology Palace has a very special position in the Eternal Empire. With their help, we will get twice the result with half the effort.

Ji Chan curled her lips: "What other requests do you have? Tell us all at once."

Shen Cheng thought for a moment and said, "If you want me to fulfill the prophecy and restore peace to the Eternal Empire, then you, the Astrology Palace, must use all your strength to assist me."

"No, no, no."

Ji Chan shook her head repeatedly. She knew Shen Cheng would push his limits, but she couldn't agree to such an excessive request.

Ji Chan hopes that the Astrology Palace can stay out of the ensuing chaos, but Shen Cheng's request will force the Astrology Palace to be involved and face countless troubles and dangers.

Shen Cheng said calmly: "Is there nothing to discuss?"

Ji Chan raised his hands and crossed them in front of his chest, and was just about to say "da mee".

"Is that so?"

Shen Cheng leaned forward slightly, staring at her sitting on the chair, and said with a smile: "Prophet, you don't want people outside to know that you pretended to be dead."

Ji Chan stared at him, his eyes gradually widening: "I have never seen anyone as shameless as you."

"If I am shameless, then you are shameless."

Shen Cheng sneered: "You made up this bullshit prophecy yourself, and now you want to stay out of it. Do you think it's possible?"

Shen Cheng did not feel any happiness about the fact that he had become the reincarnation of the so-called Eternal Emperor.

On the contrary, there is a feeling of being manipulated by others and being treated like a puppet.

If there weren't other more important things to do, Shen Cheng would have been determined to resist this so-called fate and prophecy.

Shen Cheng's blunt rebuttal caused Ji Chan to fall into silence for a long time.

Shen Cheng didn't urge him, and even sat down again.

After a few minutes, Ji Chan sighed helplessly: "Okay, I agree to your terms."

Shen Cheng then extended his hand to her: "Then I wish us a happy cooperation."

Ji Chan glared at Shen Cheng, then raised her soft and boneless little hand and held it tightly with his.

“Actually, I still have a doubt in my heart.”

Shen Cheng held Ji Chan's hand tightly and stared into her eyes: "Our cooperation seems like I'm forcing you to agree, but is there a possibility that you are pretending to be reluctant, and your real purpose is to cooperate with me?"

If a person who is called a prophet cannot even predict what will happen to him in the future, then he does not deserve such a prestigious title.

Just like Yan Qiuli’s master Pei Mu, his divination is certainly not as good as that of a prophet, but he can know clearly what will happen to him in advance.

Therefore, Shen Cheng suspected that he had been under Ji Chan's calculations since he stepped into the Eternal Empire. He was guided step by step to cooperate with her, and ended up thinking that he had gotten a great advantage.

"Your senses are really sharp."

Ji Chan's eyes flashed with surprise, and then she smiled slightly: "But you totally guessed the opposite."

Ji Chan let go of Shen Cheng's hand, slowly stood up, and looked down at him.

"I had predicted our cooperation a long time ago, and my real purpose, everything I did including faking my death, was to get rid of my cooperation with you."

Shen Cheng was slightly stunned.

"Don't you want to keep the Astrology Palace out of this by faking your own death?"

"Yes, I really hope that myself and the Astrology Palace can stay out of this. The best way is to stay away from you, the source of trouble."

Ji Chan rubbed his temple with his hand and said in distress: "I thought I was foolproof, but I never thought that you could guess that I was not dead, which made all my plans useless."

At this point, she couldn't help but sigh: "Sure enough, the destiny is set, even if I spend my best efforts, I can't change it."

Ji Chan had seen the future long ago and knew that he and Shen Cheng would definitely cooperate. In order to change this future, Ji Chan planned to fake his death because he didn't want to meet Shen Cheng.

In the end, Shen Cheng saw through her death and brought the deviated fate back on track. The future of cooperation between the two parties was ultimately not changed.

That's why Ji Chan sighed like that, even she herself couldn't change her own fate.

Shen Cheng was silent for a moment before he said, "You could have just refused to cooperate with me. Wouldn't the future have changed?"

"I refused, but you still threatened to expose my fake death?"

Ji Chan glanced at Shen Cheng unhappily: "I made such a big scene, even pretending to be dead, but you still saw through me. What's the point of holding on any longer?"

Shen Cheng could hear the helplessness of being cruelly manipulated by fate in her tone.

The prophet suffers more in this regard than ordinary people, because ordinary people do not know their destiny or the future.

The prophet has seen the future but is powerless to change it. It is like knowing there is a cliff ahead, but no matter how he changes direction, he will eventually fall down.

"last question."

Shen Cheng looked into Ji Chan's eyes and said, "Since you are so afraid of trouble, why did you make this prediction?"

"If I said I was for world peace, you wouldn't believe me."

Ji Chan sat back in his chair and scratched his head. “But I did want to find a future for the chaotic Eternal Empire. I used this to do divination, and the answer was far beyond my expectations.”

For a fortune teller of Ji Chan's level, every divination is equivalent to peeking into the future, which requires extremely high power and cost.

And regardless of whether there is a result or not, you cannot pause in the middle, otherwise you will suffer serious backlash.

So, Ji Chan realized something was wrong as soon as she started divination, but she couldn't stop. She could only keep paying the price with her own strength in the hope of getting a result.

Finally, when she had exhausted all her strength, she finally got a divination result, which was the prophecy that Shen Cheng had seen.

This prophecy is Ji Chan's greatest achievement in her life. Even if it happens again, she will do divination without hesitation.

However, once this prophecy is leaked, it will definitely bring about fatal disaster. Now in the entire Eternal Empire, except for the Eternals at the lower level, the middle and high-level Eternals will definitely not want the Eternal Emperor to return.

Because his return means a reshuffle, which means that the middle and senior management will lose their vested interests.

The struggle for interests has always been extremely bloody, and regime changes have resulted in bloodshed.

That's why Ji Chan wanted to stay out of it and change the future of himself and the Astrology Palace.

The results are all there. Everything she did was in vain. Fate cannot be changed, and the future cannot be altered.

After learning about Ji Chan's mental journey, Shen Cheng only had one comment.

"You asked for it."

……

Xiao Qingque and the other two had been staying on the plane the entire time and had no idea what was happening in the Astrology Palace, but they were not interested in finding out.

Tianxuanxing and Bai Qiuning were still discussing the experimental issues. Xiao Qingque was lazily lying on the chair, killing time using the card-playing app on his mobile phone.

The technology of the Eternal Empire is no worse than that of the Human Federation. It also has computers and networks, but the two sides are not interoperable, so no matter how hard you try, you can't get over the wall.

Xiao Qingque's mobile phone card was issued by the Human Federation, and there is no base station of the mobile phone card operator in the Eternal Empire, so of course he cannot receive any signal.

She wanted to sneak off the plane several times to ask for the WiFi password of the Astrology Palace, but in the end she thought it was too troublesome and gave up the idea.

Suddenly, Xiao Qingque felt two huge mountains appear in his field of vision. Looking up, he found that Bai Qiu Ning was sitting next to him.

This made Xiao Qingque feel a little surprised.

She herself is a bit socially anxious and doesn't like dealing with outsiders, but Bai Qiu Ning can no longer be described as socially anxious, she is simply a socially isolated person.

Except for Shen Cheng and Tian Xuanxing, Xiao Qingque had never seen Bai Qiu Ning take the initiative to communicate with other people.

So even in their small group, Bai Qiu Ning keeps to herself. Xiao Qingque and Yan Qiuli would not look for her if they had nothing to do. Both parties usually do their own things, and they seem to keep to themselves.

So when Xiao Qingque saw Bai Qiu Ning taking the initiative to sit next to him, he was deeply surprised.

She opened her mouth, not knowing what to say for a moment.

"Qingque."

Bai Qiuning looked down at her and took the initiative to speak, which was very rare: "Do you like Shen Cheng?"

"what?"

Xiao Qingque was stunned for a moment and sat up from the chair.

The fact that Bai Qiu Ning took the initiative to speak was enough to surprise her, and she actually talked about topics related to love, which was completely inconsistent with her character as a cold and icy beauty.

Under Bai Qiuning's emotionless gaze, Xiao Qingque finally came to his senses: "Why did you think of asking me this question?"

Bai Qiuning replied calmly: "Because of curiosity, don't you want to answer this question?"

"It's not that I don't want to, but I don't have an accurate answer."

Xiao Qingque scratched his head and carefully reviewed the relationship between himself and Shen Cheng.

She definitely didn't hate it, after all, she and Shen Cheng had tried all kinds of positions, and she was not a casual person.

As for whether he liked her or not, Xiao Qingque himself was completely unsure.

The relationship between her and Shen Cheng is too special. They are not like relatives, not friends, and not lovers.

If I have to describe it accurately, it is a parasitic relationship.

The two of them were like two seeds growing together, nourished by the sun and water, and at first they had to rely on each other for survival.

In the end, Shen Cheng's seed grew into a towering tree, and Xiao Qingque became a vine parasitic on him, and even the branches and trunks had grown completely together.

Seeing that Xiao Qingque couldn't give an accurate answer, Bai Qiuning changed the question: "Then when you see Shen Cheng with other women, do you feel angry?"

"Angry? No."

Xiao Qingque shook his head, then rubbed his hands a little embarrassedly: "I might be excited, haha."

Every time she saw Shen Cheng with other women, she would feel a little inexplicably excited, as if the author had seen precious material and wanted to write him into the novel.

"excited?"

Bai Qiuning was slightly stunned.

Then why did she feel so angry every time she saw Shen Cheng with another woman?

He wished he could tear the women around Shen Cheng into pieces and imprison Shen Cheng alone for his own.

Bai Qiuning frowned and looked at Xiao Qingque, a thought emerging in his mind - although both of them look like human women, the difference in thinking may be even greater than the difference between humans and dogs.

(End of this chapter)