857: Chapter 548_2 857: Chapter 548_2 The waitress began to serve them their meal – it was just for two people, but the table was packed with an array of dishes: steamed buns, dumplings, rice noodle rolls, Chencun noodles, seafood porridge, chicken feet, duck wings…
Another waitress turned on the hotel’s central video channel on the screen in the lobby!
Jiang Tang and Ye Tian had already started to enjoy their breakfast while their eyes were glued to the video screen!
On it played a news report, with the anchor speaking fervently, and continuous explosions in the high skies were shown in the video.
Jiang Tang and Ye Tian were very clear in their minds that these were the very incidents from yesterday, when their flying artifact was mistaken for an enemy aircraft, an unidentified object from extraterrestrials!
Their flying artifact was treated as a dangerous item, and the final report stated they had failed to strike down the extraterrestrial object and were still in pursuit!
Jiang Tang and Ye Tian exchanged glances, both understanding that no matter how advanced modern technology might be, it was still no match for their flying artifacts!
The two weren’t looking down on human creativity; it was simply the fact that what they were piloting as immortal artifacts couldn’t be compared to any flight device powered by gasoline!
However, humanity had already developed transportation and combat aircraft using air energy, but such advanced technology was not something ordinary people could afford to use!
These required a certain economic strength or were public commodities!
Their technology had advanced this far, which was quite ahead of its time!
Yet, they had still been poisoned by the extraterrestrials, leaving the Civilization Country in such a terrible state and humanity in such disarray!
Jiang Tang and Ye Tian believed that with their arrival, these extraterrestrials would be but dust!
The big screen switched to a hygiene broadcast reporting that there had been sudden thunderstorms everywhere last night!
After the thunderstorms, it was as if spring had returned to the earth, and across the nation, it felt like after a heavy snow, spring had come to the world!
Places bereft of plants were now seeing signs of life with the “spring breeze bringing forth renewal”!
It was a promising sign of all things growing and sprouting!
Jiang Tang and Ye Tian watched the report on the screen, and also listened to the discussions of the teahouse patrons.
The events of yesterday and last night, from day to nighttime, happened so suddenly that they had become the hot topic of conversation!
One person remarked with amazement, “Such a formidable person, if they really were the extraterrestrials out to harm us, our country would be helpless to resist!”
Someone disagreed, “They’re definitely not extraterrestrials.
With such attacks, they didn’t retaliate.
Perhaps they’re good people, the heroes who saved us!”
Another voiced agreement, “Definitely the ones who saved us.
Haven’t you seen the news report?
Sudden thunderstorms occurred nationwide.
Haven’t you noticed that your complexions are different?”
Someone responded, “Last night was the best night’s sleep I’ve had!”
Another shared their story, “I was playing in Sleepless City last night, and to my surprise, I fell asleep while having fun.
When I woke up in the morning, I found myself lying on the ground, which was really strange, and then you called me out for a tea!”
Someone else had an epiphany, “Oh, no wonder you’re dressed so poorly!”
The person thus addressed retorted, “Poorly dressed?
This is the latest in dancewear, okay?”
Jiang Tang and Ye Tian listened to these discussions, and they talked quietly among themselves.
Ye Tian, “Jiang Tang, do you feel like we have done something heroic?”
Jiang Tang, “What’s heroic about this?
The true heroes are those who silently sacrifice!”
Ye Tian, “Alright, do good deeds and remain anonymous.
You’re the good guy, the one who helps people grow rich without seeking recognition!”
Jiang Tang, “But I did leave something behind, good man!”
The clothing store owner, whose items they had taken, thought a thief had broken in when he found some clothes missing, yet the lock on the door was unbroken!
Cursing his bad luck, he then spotted something sparkling on the counter!
Upon closer inspection, it was something shiny, resembling diamonds!
Reading the note, he couldn’t believe it; it was really a diamond.
Early in the morning, he went to get it appraised and, to his utter surprise, it turned out to be a diamond of significant value!
The clothing store owner muttered to himself that whoever had left behind the diamond was a real fool but a kind-hearted one – the good person who made him rich without leaving a name!
Jiang Tang and Ye Tian savored a rich breakfast, recalling flavors from their long-ago memories.
Having eaten their fill, it was time for action!
The two of them discussed it and, with no identities at the moment, the first thing they needed to do was create one.
If they were to stay at a hotel or make payments with a mobile phone, they would need an identity!
Such trivial matters were Ye Tian’s forte.
After having breakfast, they didn’t go anywhere.
Instead, they immediately used their abilities to perform an Earth Escape, and dug an underground chamber beneath a residential house in the city!
This underground chamber didn’t need an entrance through the residential house.
They dug a very long tunnel that led to the main street outside, and a manhole cover on the street served as the exit to their underground chamber!
The two of them set up a Formation and Spirit Gathering Array in this spacious underground chamber, and even made two rooms and a living room; it was their temporary dwelling.
They also furnished it with some items from their Storage Bags, as a comfortable living space was necessary for their stay!
Building something like this beneath a residential house could be considered an infringement of property rights!
The address Ye Tian chose for their dwelling was based on his memory; this was the Ye Clan Ancestral Home, and their living space was right below the ancestral shrine.
Other places had villas, and those villas had basements, but these large ancestral shrines did not have basements built beneath them!
Why didn’t they build a house somewhere else?
They couldn’t build a house above ground as people would come to inspect it.
Nor could they build an underground chamber beneath someone else’s house as it would make noise.
The ancestral shrine wasn’t necessarily open every day.
By building an underground chamber here, they would only take a short while, and if people heard anything, they would just assume it was the ancestors coming to partake in offerings.
Jiang Tang watched as Ye Tian sat before the computer, tapping away at the keyboard.
Jiang Tang didn’t disturb him, knowing he was certainly up to something important on the computer.
Feeling somewhat idle, Jiang Tang also switched on a computer.
He didn’t do anything in particular, just browsed through some news and watched some TV dramas.
He was trying to figure out, if he were to get involved in the film and TV industry, what exactly would he have to do?
Jiang Tang suddenly noticed a software pop-up—an all-in-one video, book, confidence, and entertainment software.
An idea flashed through his mind.
What if he started a company like this?
He wondered if Ye Tian could create such software.
It was a good idea.
He would have Ye Tian give it a try when the time came.
Ye Tian continued to work on the computer.
He accessed a secret bank account through a website he had created—a piece of software so secret that no security agency had ever found it.
The account was registered overseas, but the name within it was his Chinese name.
He had both domestic and international passports, identity documents!
Not even his family knew about this secret account, this hidden software.
The inventions he had previously created were all given to the family as products, and while the intellectual property rights belonged to him, the profits and the team’s earnings all went into his account.
The team had another separate account, which was used to pay all the team members’ salaries.
This account was his personal one—if he was no longer in this world, even if his family members had his ID, they would not be able to find the account.
One needed the website and the password to access and pass the security checks.
Previously, there was facial recognition, but now he could no longer use fingerprints or face verification, because he was no longer that person, and his face was no longer the same.
Only his soul remained.
As for the account’s name, it was also Ye Tian.
Perhaps it was because of this name that he had traveled to the Cultivation World in the body of a certain young master.
Ye Tian took a glance at the account balance and then at the date on the computer, and he was stunned.
The account originally had one hundred million, but after 50 years of accumulation, it had grown to several hundred million!
Over those 50 years, the money had doubled—if he had invested it, it would have been more than this sum.
What made him freeze wasn’t the fact that the money had increased, but rather that his travel to the Cultivation World had lasted only a few years, yet upon his return, it was 50 years later!
In other words, if he were to appear in his family now, his identity would surely be that of an elderly gentleman, over 70 years old!
Whether his parents were still around, he didn’t know, as well as the whereabouts of his brothers and sisters.
To the people in his family, he would now appear as their grandfather, of the same generation!