Black Stone Slab (1)

In a private teahouse room on the third floor of the HR Alliance Mall building.

Luo Zhe and Tong Yang sat facing each other.

After Tong Yang had brewed tea for everyone, he smiled and said, "I never imagined that just over half a year ago, you were a novice Fighter fresh out of school, and today you've grown into someone Beyond War God, a powerful councilor. The ways of the world are truly unpredictable!"

Luo Zhe picked up his teacup, took a sip, and replied, "You're not bad either. When you took me to see Supervisor Zhuge, you were just a regional instructor at Dojo. Now you're the head of the Tong Group."

At this point, Luo Zhe and Tong Yang exchanged a knowing smile and stopped the conversation.

Whether it's Luo Zhe or Tong Yang, in their current positions, whether passively or actively, they can obtain a lot of secret information. For example, Luo Zhe knows everything about the past conflict between Tong Yang and the Tong Family, and how he colluded with Zhuge Tao and others to try to seize the wealth accumulated by the Tong Family over the years.

In fact, when he first discovered Tong Yang's relationship with the Tong Family, he once thought that he would be a tool for Tong Yang to contact Zhuge Tao, or even a cover to cover up his relationship with Zhuge Tao. He might even be made a scapegoat when things were exposed.

result--

Luo Zhe was just overthinking it all.

Certainly!

Regardless of Tong Yang's original intentions, it was precisely because of his recommendation that Luo Zhe was valued by Zhuge Tao and recruited into the Dojo ahead of time, and even gained the opportunity to enter the Elite Training Camp.

Although Luo Zhe believed that with the Dimensional Space at his disposal, neither War God Level nor even Planetary Level could stop his progress, the fact that he had grown to this level in just over half a year was undeniably due to the significant improvement he had made in the Elite Training Camp.

Ultimately, this is all thanks to Tong Yang's appreciation for talent.

The two drank their tea in silence, one cup after another.

Suddenly, Luo Zhe spoke up, "Brother Tong, let's Heaven Opening. We haven't seen each other in a long time. Your sudden visit to the airport to see me isn't just about catching up, is it?"

Tong Yang paused, raised the teacup to his lips, smiled, then downed the tea in one gulp and said, "Since you're so straightforward, I won't beat around the bush with you."

"Oh? I'd like to hear more." Luo Zhe looked at Tong Yang quietly.

Tong Yang leaned back in his chair, looking up at the ceiling, and said in a reminiscent tone, "Given your current status, you must already know that although I am the second oldest in the second generation of the Tong Family, I am actually not valued at all."

"After all, I'm just an illegitimate child."

"Actually, I don't care about anything related to the Tong Family. Even when I planned to overthrow the Tong Family with Zhuge Tao, it was only to get revenge on my old man. He only ever cared about the Tong Family and never cared about my mother. He didn't even come to see her when she passed away."

Luo Zhe remained silent. As the saying goes, "Even an upright official finds it hard to settle family disputes." As an outsider, it was really inappropriate for him to say much about the conflict between the father and son.

Tong Yang smiled and said, "Actually, I know that Zhuge Tao doesn't care about my so-called ' Tong Family Overthrow Plan' at all. As a Dojo manager, he has no chance of becoming the head of a core family in the HR Alliance. All he cares about is the 30% of the profits I promised him back then. Even the president Zhou Zhengyong, who joined later, was lured in by the profits."

"Oh?"

This was somewhat unexpected for Luo Zhe. He hadn't expected that someone as seemingly honest and kind as Zhou Zhengyong would be so concerned about such small gains and losses.

"Hehe. But, the day before the plan was to be implemented, I regretted it."

"I bet Zhou Zhengyong and the others would never guess that the old man was able to get help from the core experts of the HR Alliance in time because of my tip-off." Tong Yang unceremoniously lifted his foot and put it on the chair next to him, laughing loudly.

Luo Zhe glanced at them subconsciously, and yes, they were still those Winnie the Pooh socks.

"Luo Zhe, do you know? My husband is a very stubborn man. Once he's made up his mind, not even nine donkeys could pull him back."

"But this stubborn man, from the very beginning of the Great Nirvana era, tenaciously held on to the Tong Family, preventing its collapse, day after day for decades, never yielding once! But—"

That night, I went to see him in the hospital. He was lying in bed, barely clinging to life. He actually apologized to me! He actually apologized!

Tong Yang's voice choked up a little, "He apologized to me, saying he was sorry to my mother and to me, that he hadn't taken good care of us."

How ridiculous!

"I'm thirty-three years old! How could I have so easily broken down my mental defenses with that old man's verbal attack?"

"Actually, the day Zhuge Tao and I fled the Tong Family, even if no one had stopped us, I wouldn't have left. Because I knew the old man had changed, and even if things were exposed, he wouldn't really lay a hand on me. Besides... even if I lost the gamble, the worst that could happen was death."

Tong Yang poured himself a cup of tea, drank it all in one gulp, and then said, "Actually, to be honest, I should thank you. If it weren't for you, given the old man's personality, he wouldn't have handed over the Tong Group to me so easily. And my younger brother, Tong Xin, wouldn't have given up his position as acting chairman of the Tong Group so easily either."

A long silence followed.

Luo Zhe waited and waited, but Tong Yang remained silent. He blinked and asked in confusion, "And then?"

"That's all. Is there anything else you want to say?" Tong Yang turned to look at Luo Zhe, blinking as if to ask, "What else do you want to hear?"

That's it?

Luo Zhe was so angry he felt a pain in his liver. "So you came here today just to talk to me about this? Old Tong, you're the chairman of the Tong Group, don't you have any serious business to do?"

"Isn't there a saying, 'When there's work, the secretary does it; when there's nothing, the secretary steps in'? Is the company not busy enough, or is the company secretary not attractive enough, so you're free to chat with me about personal matters?"

Upon hearing this, Tong Yang burst into laughter, tears streaming down his face. "Where did you hear that joke, you little rascal? You've gone bad! With that smooth talk, you must have been flirting with girls quite a bit."

Wiping away the tears from the corners of his eyes, Tong Yang reached out to stop Luo Zhe, who was about to speak. He took out a Black Metal Plate from his pocket and handed it to Luo Zhe, saying, "Actually, I really did come here this time because I need your help with something."

"What's up?"

Luo Zhe took the Black Metal Plate with a puzzled look, and immediately noticed its difference. "It's so light!"

The metal plate looked as if it had been smashed by a heavy object. The remaining part had six sides, the longest of which was about eleven or twelve centimeters long, and the shortest of which was only three or four centimeters long. It was clearly just a Black Metal Plate about the size of a palm.

But to Luo Zhe, the weight felt like that of a pencil.

Luo Zhe examined the strange metal plate carefully, turning it over and over, but no matter how he looked at it, it was just a pure Black Metal Plate with some patterns on the surface. Touching the palm-sized Black Metal Plate, it was cool and smooth, just like the feel of jade.

Luo Zhe looked at Tong Yang and asked curiously, "What exactly is this? It just looks like a broken metal plate. Is there anything special about it?"

Tong Yang shrugged, saying helplessly, "That's precisely why I wanted you to help me research it."

You don't know either?

This piqued Luo Zhe's curiosity. Logically speaking, the HR Alliance's technology is among the best on Earth, unless it's a product of an alien civilization!

"Where did you get this?" Luo Zhe asked quickly.