At this point, he became excited.
If it wasn't for the fact that he was shackled, he would definitely be dancing in joy.
"At that time, a series of huge question marks popped up in my head.
"What? Dragon City actually transmigrated from Earth to the Other World?
"What? This damn Other World has zombies running amok and monsters roaming around?
"What? I'm already in my seventies or eighties, and I'm still an all-powerful Supreme Boss?
"What? I secretly built a laboratory underground and captured hundreds of heinous criminals to conduct research on?
"Can you imagine what kind of crazy waves these questions would raise in the mind of an innocent eight or nine-year-old child?
"I spent three days and three nights before I gradually digested all the memory fragments and slowly accepted reality.
"But even now, I still don't think of myself as Saber Jin Wanhao. I am A 'Ji, and I only want to be A' Ji, a normal boy from Earth!"
Meng Chao and Lu Siya looked at each other.
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"Wait, there's a flaw."
Meng Chao narrowed his eyes and pointed at A 'Ji's silver eyes and canine teeth. "Why would a normal boy from Earth have a silver eye? Also, what's with that canine teeth of yours that look like a werewolf's and a vampire's?
"Not to mention that you can use Celestial Tyrant's Star Shattering Slash.
"All this evidence proves that you didn't simply 'roll back' to when Jin Wanhao was eight or nine years old. Instead, you retained a lot of Jin Wanhao's memories, personality, and even abilities when he was an adult.
"Therefore, whoever believes your bullsh * t and considers you to be an ignorant, common young man from Earth is the one who is as stupid as a pig and doesn't know what's going on when you butcher them!"
A 'Ji's face turned red, and he looked slightly embarrassed.
But in the next second, he returned to his cheeky and carefree state.
"As expected of Big Brother Chao. You really have a keen eye. Even this can't fool you."
A 'Ji said, "Alright, I admit that I'm not completely a nine-year-old boy from Earth, but I'm really not the Underground Emperor Jin Wanhao either. If I had to describe it, I'm probably the fusion of the eight-year-old A' Ji and the sixty-year-old Jin Wanhao to form a brand new personality!
"In any case, at the moment he went through spirit energy deviation and coincidentally regained his youth, the past Saber Jin Wanhao died. There is no doubt about it."
Meng Chao thought about it.
As for the relationship between "personality", "soul", and "body", it was profound and not worth discussing at the moment. It was better to focus on more practical issues.
"Alright, I'll pretend that you're telling the truth. But why did you go to Leprosy Village?"
Meng Chao asked, "Isn't it better to stay here comfortably?"
"No. It's very bad."
A 'Ji shook his head. "This place might be hidden, but it's still the territory of the gangs. No matter how sturdy the door to the secret lab is, it will be broken one day. If I stay here, I'll just be a sitting duck.
"If I sneak into Leprosy Village, I can maintain a certain distance from the gangs. It's also rather chaotic there, so it'll be easier for me to hide and study my secrets. I'll figure out what I should do next.
"So, over the past few months, I've spent most of my time in Leprosy Village."
Meng Chao was a little stunned. "You want to break free of the gangs' control? But aren't you the gang leader of the strongest gang in the lair, Golden Tooth? Even if you've … shrunk, your fingerprints, irises, and auricles haven't changed. Your cells and genes haven't changed either. You'll definitely have a way to prove your identity, and you'll have a group of friends you can trust. "
"Forget it!"
A 'Ji said with wide eyes. "I finally got rid of my status as Golden Tooth's gang leader and regained my freedom. There's no way I'll go back and be the Underground Emperor!"
"Is … being the Underground Emperor not good?"
"It's not a matter of whether it's good or not," A 'Ji said.
A 'Ji said, "Wealth, power, cars, and beautiful women. These are all very good things, but what's the point of them to a child who's only eight or nine years old?
"Besides, even if I want to be the Underground Emperor, the objective conditions don't allow me to do so.
"The living environment in the lair is really bad, and the fights between the gangs are really brutal. This is a small world of martial artists, and there's a day when there isn't bloodshed. Every superstar who appeared to be in the limelight on the surface was secretly trembling with fear. At every moment, they had their heads on their waistbands, living a precarious life on the edge of a knife.
"In the past, Saber Jin Wanhao used his peerless strength to suppress all those who refused to obey him. He made the powerful, fierce, and ruthless people, including Phantom Bear Xiong Wei, submit to him.
"During this process, he naturally offended a lot of people and even formed a blood feud that would not end until he died.
"When Saber Jin Wanhao started showing signs of decline and didn't have long to live, a lot of forces of power became restless. Quite a number of people tried to assassinate him, but since he kept hiding underground, they didn't manage to kill him.
"If the world learned that the domineering Underground Emperor in the past shrank into a nine-year-old child, how do you think Jin Wanhao's enemies, rivals, and competitors would treat me?
"This is especially so since this secret laboratory and the other secret warehouses still contain all the natural treasures that Jin Wanhao spent his entire life collecting. Those are cultivation resources that can help a nameless nobody to become a top-tier expert. But only I know the coordinates, passwords, and methods to open them.
"The child has money and swaggered through the streets. Once my identity is revealed, I won't even know how I died!"
These words were reasonable and had a deep insight into the dark side of human nature.
Asking an eight or nine-year-old child to become the gang leader of the strongest gang in the lair was the same as throwing him into a group of hungry wolves. It was no different from throwing him into a group of hungry wolves.
"Besides, even if he really regained everything about Saber Jin Wanhao, so what?"
A 'Ji said. "Jin Wanhao worked hard his entire life, but at the end of the day, he obtained the title of Underground Emperor. Even with that title, he was still a puppet of the nine great mega corporations. He had to go against his own will and help the nine great mega corporations do the dirty, tiring, and dangerous work that no one can see.
"The strongest thing I can sense from Jin Wanhao's memory fragments is his resentment toward the nine great mega corporations. He constantly wants to break free of the mega corporations' control, but all of Dragon City is owned by the mega corporations. When he's in the game, he can't do as he pleases, so there's no way he can escape the mega corporations' control.
"Now, I've changed and changed beyond recognition. No one knows who I am, so I'm like a fish in the ocean and a bird in the sky. Only an idiot would go back to inherit Jin Wanhao's identity and walk right into a trap! "
Meng Chao cast Lu Siya a glance.
He finally understood where A 'Ji's animosity toward Lu Siya came from.
Lu Siya just listened quietly without batting an eyelid. She did not show her attitude or stance.
Even when A 'Ji mentioned that all of Dragon City was owned by the mega corporations, she did not say anything.
"So, you snuck out through that secret tunnel and ran to Leprosy Village?" Meng Chao continued asking.
A 'Ji nodded.
"Saber Jin Wanhao built that secret tunnel a long time ago. His original goal was to create a backdoor. That way, when he used the excuse of going into isolated training, he could shake off Golden Tooth's eyes and ears and run out to 'hunt' heinous wanted criminals. Then, he would bring them in to conduct experiments," A 'Ji said.
"After I returned to the past, I panicked, but I also knew that I couldn't let anyone know about the secret lab.
"Coincidentally, there was a wanted criminal with a lot of crimes who didn't die, but he was tortured to the point of death by Saber Jin Wanhao. I treated him as Jin Wanhao's substitute, and through the door of the lab, I made up a huge lie to Red Brows Su Lun.
"In truth, my lie was really clumsy. With Red Brows Su Lun's intelligence, he should have been able to see a lot of flaws in it. At that time, I was worried that he would summon a large group of Golden Tooth members and charge in regardless of the cost. I was even prepared to give up on everything in the secret lab and run away with only the most valuable cultivation resources.
"I didn't expect that Red Brows Su Lun would accept everything I said and not question me at all. He even helped me handle all the matters in Golden Tooth and didn't expose anything."
Meng Chao thought about it and could not help but smile.
A person would only believe what they wanted to believe.
Red Brows Su Lun was naturally a little smart.
But at that time, he was focused on the Vortex's scheme.
He wanted Saber Jin Wanhao to be half dead and paralyzed in bed. In fact, he might even end up in a vegetative state.
As long as Jin Wanhao was really hiding in the underground lab, he did not care about Jin Wanhao's condition.
In any case, as long as the Vortex's scheme succeeded and the lair descended into chaos, even if Jin Wanhao came back to life, it would be useless.
"Once I arranged everything in the secret lab, I left through the secret tunnel and went to Leprosy Village," A 'Ji said.
"The old village chief of Leprosy Village was once Saber Jin Wanhao's comrade-in-arms. They've been in close contact over the years, and Jin Wanhao has given Leprosy Village as much help as he could within the limits of his authority. Otherwise, the descendants of the zombie virus infectees wouldn't have been able to live to this day.
"Compared to the wolves in the gangs, I trust the old village chief of Leprosy Village more.
"Of course, I wasn't stupid enough to meet the old village chief directly. I just used Jin Wanhao's name to ask the old village chief to provide me with some help.
"At that time, I hadn't thought about what I wanted to do or what path I wanted to take. I just wanted to recover some of the Saber's strength so that I could protect myself. Also, I wanted to get a brand new identity in Leprosy Village. I didn't need it to be legal. I just needed it to be logical and plausible."
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