Tianjin, starting with unorthodox methods to achieve immortality

Liu Ruyan's fingers tightened slightly as she held the wine glass.

She stared at Chen Mo, trying to find something unusual on his face.

Unfortunately not.

He sat there in the moonlight, his face expressionless, his hand holding the chopsticks steady, chewing slowly.

"You won't be sad anymore once you've seen it all." Fang Yingxia repeated this sentence, then scoffed, "You talk like you've seen it all."

Chen Mo didn't reply, but Liu Ruyan suddenly spoke up, "Have you met him before?"

"Speaking of which, the seven-day mourning period for my former teammates hasn't even passed yet..." Chen Mo sighed, suddenly remembering Lin Ruoyun, who died at his hands.

Fang Yingxia opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but not knowing what to say. In the end, she just picked up her wine glass and took a sip.

She swallowed the wine and finally found her voice: "Was your previous mission the one with the infected?"

Chen Mo nodded.

Fang Yingxia and Liu Ruyan exchanged a glance.

They had heard about this matter before; it had already spread throughout the Zhenyi Division of Jinshi.

An infected person was discovered in a household in the east of the city, and a five-person team was dispatched to handle the situation.

In the end, the newly recruited members were sent to cover the rear, while the other four ran back to ask for help.

Even more dramatically, the newcomer who brought up the rear actually managed to kill the infected creature, only to disappear in the end.

Some people say that the newcomer is stupid and was clearly let down by his teammates.

Some people say that the newcomer was lucky and must have gotten a bargain.

The people who spread these rumors had never even seen the newcomer.

Now they've seen it.

He sat across from me, eating braised beef with mutton soup, his face expressionless.

"That infected entity..." Liu Ruyan hesitated before speaking, "What level is it?"

Chen Mo glanced at her. "It should be B-grade. Anyway, if you encounter something similar in the future, just run away."

Fang Yingxia couldn't hold back any longer: "Then how did you survive? And you even killed it all by yourself?"

They had previously wondered what task Chen Mo had done to earn a thousand merit points.

But unexpectedly, the protagonist of the legend was actually him.

Chen Mo didn't speak, his eyes were very calm, so calm that Fang Yingxia felt a tightness in her chest.

"It's a family secret technique; don't pry into it."

"Who cares to ask?"

His words made Fang Yingxia so angry she wanted to grind her teeth.

After hesitating for a while, she suddenly slammed her wine glass on the table. "So, did they abandon you?"

Chen Mo's hand, which was holding the meat, paused in mid-air. After a moment, he continued to put the meat into his mouth without saying a word.

"If it were me, I wouldn't abandon you," Fang Yingxia said stubbornly. "We're on the same team, so at worst we'll die together."

The moonlight shone on her face, her cheeks flushed from drinking, and her expression was so serious it was almost silly.

Chen Mo glanced at her, his gaze sweeping down her face before finally settling on her righteous and indignant expression. He twitched his lips and squeezed out a single word.

"laugh."

The look in his eyes was full of disdain.

Fang Yingxia felt extremely uncomfortable under his gaze. "What do you mean by this?"

"You wish." Chen Mo lowered his head and continued picking at the meat. "Die together? I'd rather die with you than die with you."

"I....."

Fang Yingxia was so choked that she almost crushed her wine glass, and she had an urge to pounce on him and bite him to death.

"What do you mean 'I'm dreaming'?" she glared at him. "I'm just being loyal!"

"What loyalty?"

Before she could finish speaking, a voice filled with laughter came from the side.

Five men and women dressed in the uniforms of the Town Strange Division stood in front of the stall.

The leader was a woman in her early twenties, whose eyebrows and eyes resembled Fang Yingxia's by about five or six points, only more gentle. She had a smile on her lips and was looking at Chen Mo with great interest.

That look in her eyes revealed the gossipy look of a mother-in-law looking at her son-in-law.

Fang Yingxia turned her head and saw who it was. The anger on her face froze for a moment, then she collapsed: "Sister? What are you doing here?"

"That's what I should be asking you."

The woman walked over, her gaze sweeping over Liu Ruyan and Chen Mo. "In the middle of the night, instead of going home, you're here drinking and yelling at people. Aren't you ashamed?"

Fang Yingxia's face flushed red.

Behind her stood three men and one woman, all looking to be in their twenties or thirties, wearing similar uniforms to theirs, except that the logo on their chests bore the character "镇" (town).

The group possessed abundant vital energy and their cultivation levels were far higher than the two women's; they were all experts approaching the Copper Skin Iron Bone Realm.

One of the tall men laughed and said, "I could hear you banging on the table from afar. I thought you were fighting with someone."

"Why are you fighting?" Fang Yingxia muttered. "I'm... I'm arguing with him!"

"Theory?" Fang Yingxia's sister raised an eyebrow, her gaze falling on Chen Mo. "This is your new teammate?"

Chen Mo raised his head and nodded slightly, as if to say hello.

Fang Yingxia's sister's eyes flashed with interest at his indifferent expression.

She walked to the table, and without any ceremony, pulled up a chair and sat down. "Let me introduce myself. I am Fang Yingxue's older sister, and the captain of the seventh team of the Zhenyi Division."

Chen Mo glanced at her, then his gaze swept over the faces of the people behind her before he spoke: "Chen Mo."

Just as she was about to say something more, the tall man behind her suddenly stepped forward, his brows furrowing slightly.

"Chen Mo?" He repeated the name, as if trying to recall something. "Don't you live in Willow Leaf Lane?"

Chen Mo looked up at him and said, "Yes."

The man's gaze shifted, and he looked at him thoughtfully.

"Willow Leaf Lane..." he murmured, then suddenly laughed, a laugh that held a deeper meaning. "What a coincidence."

Fang Yingxue turned and glanced at him: "Old Zhou, do you know him?"

"We wouldn't call ourselves acquaintances."

Old Zhou shook his head, crossed his arms, and looked down at Chen Mo. "Just a few days ago, a minister from the Green Gang came to me and asked me to inquire about someone."

He said slowly, "They said his brother-in-law died, and the person who did it seemed to be someone from the investigation bureau. They wanted me to help them sort it out."

As soon as the words were spoken, the atmosphere at the table suddenly changed.

Fang Yingxia was stunned and didn't react for a moment.

Liu Ruyan's fingers tightened slightly as she gripped the wine glass, her gaze shifting back and forth between Lao Zhou and Chen Mo.

Fang Yingxue raised an eyebrow, said nothing, but her gaze towards Chen Mo deepened.

"and then?"

Chen Mo looked at Lao Zhou, his eyes still completely unmoved.

Old Zhou chuckled, a hint of amusement in his smile. "I heard his brother-in-law, along with a dozen or so of his men, vanished without a trace overnight."

He leaned forward slightly, his gaze falling on Chen Mo's face.

"Was it Brother Chen who did this?"

The moonlight shone on several faces with different expressions.

Fang Yingxia instinctively tried to stand up, but Fang Yingxue reached out and pulled her back.

Chen Mo picked up the last piece of braised beef with his chopsticks, slowly put it into his mouth, and only after swallowing did he take out a handkerchief to wipe his mouth.

"you guess."

Old Zhou was stunned for a moment.

One of the female team members next to her couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Fang Yingxue raised an eyebrow, a hint of a smile flashing in her eyes, but she quickly concealed it.

Old Zhou's smile froze for a moment, then returned, though his eyes deepened: "Brother Chen's answer is interesting."

"Is it just for fun?"

Chen Mo picked up his wine glass, found it empty, and casually put it down. "So what if it is? So what if it isn't?"

The book "Tianjin: The Path to Immortality from Unorthodox Methods" is full of classic quotes, seeking resonance.