I'm Really Going to Become an Immortal
Chapter 226 - 180 Whoa, Seems Out of My League

Chapter 226: Chapter 180 Whoa, Seems Out of My League

April 14, Sunday.

Just after nine in the morning.

Chen Yun, who had been studying nautical charts, finished the process of reviewing charts while exercising his telekinesis.

Since returning early in the pre-dawn hours after destroying an unmanned submarine detector, and after typing for a while, he had been busy actively training his telekinesis while looking at nautical charts.

During this time, he even used Transparent World to catch up on some news.

Beyond that, he hadn’t done much else, diligently occupying himself until nine o’clock.

According to his short-term plan,

After nine was his leisure time, with no specific agenda.

Xianghe Real Estate had been instructed by him to set up a salvage company and was already in the process of contacting people to come over and handle related matters with him, probably arriving in the afternoon.

So Chen Yun didn’t have much to do at the moment.

He decided to start working on something he had planned to do earlier, which was to do some artistic processing on his trophy—a Great White Shark tooth.

He carefully examined the five Great White Shark teeth laid out on the table.

Perhaps Great White Shark teeth might not be judged by conventional aesthetic standards of "beautiful," but they definitely possess a distinct beauty in form and function, revealing nature’s ingenious design.

The teeth of the Great White Shark have an impressively distinctive shape, usually triangular with fine serrations along the edges, a design that is sharp and facilitates cutting.

They looked rather wild and fierce.

After pondering over these five teeth for a moment,

Chen Yun took four of them in his hand and casually started to work on them with his nails as if they were carving tools.

His powerful ability to control his strength coupled with his sharp nails, he performed a miniature tribute to "The Story of the Nut Boat" on the four Great White Shark teeth.

Although he was limited by the size of his nails and couldn’t carve overly intricate details,

His technique indeed turned the four shark teeth into a variety of patterns.

But after a close inspection,

Chen Yun felt like the carved shark teeth seemed to be lacking something.

So he threw the micro-carvings to his silly dog Bai Jin to play with.

Then he picked up another tooth, which looked to be the most perfectly shaped.

Looking at its wild essence,

Chen Yun suddenly realized...

Maybe leaving it unadorned would be better!

What he wanted was a wild, primitive trophy.

The original flavor was the best decoration.

Displaying the hunting trophy directly on the wall, as opposed to displaying it after artistic processing or decoration, possessed its own unique charm and significance.

Didn’t you see that hunters display unadorned trophies that retain the most authentic and natural state of their prey, showing off the natural textures, colors, and shapes of the wildlife? This kind of primal beauty and Life Force often is more touching to the heart and lets people feel the strength and reality of nature.

Direct placement also reflects the essence of hunting activities—direct contact and confrontation with nature, with little human intervention, more faithfully reflecting the challenges, skills, and reverence for nature that hunters experience during the hunt.

Moreover, for a hunter, each hunt is a unique experience; an unprocessed trophy serves as a direct conduit to those memories. Every gaze reawakens the emotions and memories of that time, and this direct emotional connection cannot be replaced by any decorative treatment.

To Chen Yun, although this was just a single tooth,

He felt the principle was subtly similar.

With this thought, Chen Yun placed the uncarved tooth into a cubic container mold he had brought from Bai Shi, and then he poured in the resin and hardener he had also brought.

It didn’t take long for it to set.

Chen Yun had a Great White Shark tooth encased within a palm-sized cube of transparent resin.

Layer upon layer of resin was layered until a perfect cube was formed, safely encapsulating the Great White Shark tooth inside.

As the resin solidified, its surface changed from a flowing liquid to a solid with a glass-like texture. Crystal clear and sturdy, the light refracted inside it, giving the shark tooth new life and allowing it to display a dynamic luster in its stillness.

At this,

Chen Yun showed a satisfied smile.

Indeed, displaying it in its original state seemed much better.

The involvement of the resin was just for preserving the tooth intact and to provide a better display method.

And this sensation of encapsulating the trophy truly felt exceptionally refreshing.

Looking at the shining, resin-encased Great White Shark tooth on the table,

A gleam flashed through Chen Yun’s eyes.

He vaguely felt an urge to collect the teeth of all the fierce beasts in the world, the impulse to collect them like stamps arose suddenly.

The thought of having teeth from various beasts of the world extracted and arranged on a table or around the room after encasing them in resin was incredibly thrilling.

Perhaps he could use a room just for his collection, where in a few years, it would be filled with resin cubes encasing various trophies.

But fortunately, Chen Yun wasn’t impulsive.

He just calmly placed this trophy in a corner of his bedroom desk.

Collecting could be interesting, but for now, it was just a thought.

There was no need to run around the world just for the sake of collecting.

As he pondered,

Chen Yun’s phone rang.

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Hou Liansheng, who had the day off, followed his idea from early in the morning and decided to invite his old classmate Chen Yun for a meal.

After finding out in the wee hours that his old classmate wasn’t an official, he still chose to invite him for a meal out of a desire to make friends and considering there was nothing to lose.

So just after nine, he called Chen Yun, a classmate he hadn’t contacted in a long time, through QQ, inviting him to join him for a meal.

He naturally didn’t have a real phone number, the two weren’t that close back then, and Hou Liansheng couldn’t remember if he ever had his number. Even if he had saved it, after so many years of no contact, it would have been deleted.

Hou Liansheng managed to find Chen Yun’s QQ through their high school class group chat.

After making contact,

he chose a small restaurant in Qixi City that he had visited before for the meeting place.

He didn’t opt for the star-rated hotel where he worked.

That would have been too upscale; for a casual gathering, there was no need.

At eleven in the morning,

Hou Liansheng arrived near the agreed-upon restaurant.

Walking along the sidewalk for a short while, he reached the entrance of the restaurant, where he saw Chen Yun seated leisurely inside.

Opposite him,

a vaguely familiar person was nodding and bowing as they listened to Chen Yun.

By the time Hou Liansheng stepped into the small restaurant,

the conversation between Chen Yun and the other person had just ended.

The nodding man earnestly said to Chen Yun, "I’ll take care of everything."

After saying this,

the man didn’t even glance at Hou Liansheng by his side and hurriedly left.

Seeing this, Hou Liansheng, with a tinge of curiosity, took the seat the man had just vacated opposite Chen Yun.

"What was that about?"

Hou Liansheng asked, somewhat intrigued.

He felt that the man looked somewhat familiar,

but couldn’t for the life of him remember who he was.

"A friend, we chatted for a while."

Chen Yun smiled but offered no more details.

Looking at the former classmate who had once bought all his fish, Chen Yun changed the subject.

Seeing this, Hou Liansheng didn’t press further,

and, smiling, began to converse with Chen Yun, employing his strong communication skills.

Starting with the recent high school reunion that Chen Yun had missed, he skillfully used Chang Yaning, the high school goddess everyone remembered, to kickstart the conversation.

He understood that conversations between men always revolved around women, and Chen Yun, being quite accommodating, responded with a smile.

Chen Yun was no longer interested in his past "white moonlight," Chang Yaning.

Nor was he particularly interested in going out to eat.

The only reason he was willing to listen to an unfamiliar Hou Liansheng and join him for a meal was that someone from Xianghe Real Estate had arrived early.

So, he simply went out to discuss the salvage company’s business with the person from Xianghe Real Estate.

As a side benefit, he gave face to his old classmate who had once taken special care of his fish stall.

The two chatted for quite a while.

Having no ulterior motives, Hou Liansheng became more relaxed as the conversation went on, and their reminiscing became more lively.

They incessantly joked about former teachers and classmates.

The meal took about half an hour.

Hou Liansheng politely excused himself, and Chen Yun also nodded before leaving.

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On his way back,

Hou Liansheng reached a prominent crossroads and began hailing a cab using WeChat’s mini-program.

Looking up at the advertisements on the surrounding buildings, he thought back to the rather enjoyable one-sided conversation he just had, chuckling to himself.

"Speaking of which, Chen Yun was quite handsome back in the day, too bad now he can only sell fish."

"It seems like the fish business is doing well, though. Just now, he had a lackey bowing and scraping..."

Before Hou Liansheng could finish his reflection,

his eyes suddenly caught sight of a real estate promotional billboard by the roadside.

In a daze,

his mind suddenly cleared.

The image of the man who had been bowing and scraping to Chen Yun gradually became more distinct in his memory.

The vague recollection cleared.

That man, who had been treated at the star-rated hotel he worked at, was he not the head of a real estate and property development group from Jiangnan Province, the same man he saw just now?!

Back then, hadn’t this man hobnobbed with the vice-mayor at the Interstellar Hotel?

And this man...

was bowing and scraping in front of Chen Yun?!

Standing at the crossroads in the cool breeze, Hou Liansheng felt an abrupt clarity.

He swallowed hard.

Watching the hustle and bustle of people and the flow of traffic around the crossroads, Hou Liansheng couldn’t help but feel a sense of wonder.

Chen Yun, it seemed, was not at all the fisherman he had imagined.

But rather someone quite out of reach.

So far out of reach that he himself might not be able to climb to that level.

Are all these impressive big shots...

always this low-profile?