Chapter 2762: Let him show off

In the early morning, Ye Chen changed into his own clothes and had Hong Wu take Yun Ruge to the Champs-Élysées Hot Spring Hotel to be properly settled.

As for himself, he first took the portrait of Meng Changsheng and, together with Lin Wan'er, took a helicopter back to the Purple Mountain Villa where Lin Wan'er lived.

At the same time, a Boeing 777-200LR took off from Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, heading for Australia.

Although this was already the plane with the longest range in the world, its maximum range had not yet reached 18,000 kilometers. Therefore, the captain's flight plan was to first head to Melbourne, Australia, and after refueling in Melbourne, fly to Jin Ling.

At this moment, on the entire plane, apart from the flight crew, there were only four passengers. These four were Wu Tianlin and the three elders who had just come out of seclusion.

When the three elders went into seclusion over a hundred years ago, the Chinese people had just cut off their queues. They only knew that foreigners had built planes that could fly into the sky, but they had never sat in one.

Yet now, they were sitting in a private jet as luxurious and huge as a palace, easily climbing to an altitude of ten thousand meters. This feeling made the three elders' moods unable to settle for a long time.

Seeing that the three elders had been very nervous from the moment the plane's engines started until now, Wu Tianlin spoke up to comfort them, "The three grandfathers need not worry. Modern planes are the safest mode of transport in the world, and the technology is already very mature."

Wu Bolin, the leader of the three elders, quietly wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said, "Tianlin, this iron thing is flying too high. At an altitude of several thousand zhang, it has even surpassed the clouds. It's not that I, Wu Bolin, am afraid, but mainly that if it were to fall, even if the three of us have a hundred years of cultivation, I fear we would still lose our lives!"

"Exactly, exactly!" Wu Bowen could not help but tremble as he echoed, "Tianlin, you should tell the person driving this thing to fly it lower. A height of thirty or fifty zhang should be enough. Our hearts would be more at ease..."

Wu Tianlin explained helplessly, "The three grandfathers, please rest assured. Part of the reason this plane is safe is because it flies high. A cruising altitude of over 11,000 meters converts to about 3,000 zhang. If any malfunction occurs, this altitude difference gives the plane sufficient time to adjust. To put it plainly, even if its engines cut out, it can glide for dozens or hundreds of kilometers based on its speed and altitude. If it were really flying at thirty or fifty zhang, it would crash into the ground before you even had time to figure out what went wrong."

As he spoke, Wu Tianlin added, "Moreover, with a thing like a plane, even if it falls from a height of ten zhang, it would likely be a total wreck. You three don't know, but this plane is loaded with over a hundred tons of fuel—that's about 300,000 jin. If it fell from a height of ten zhang, even a Great Luo Golden Immortal wouldn't survive..."

"Damn it..." Wu Bolin was instantly terrified and blurted out to the other two elders, "We are flying inside a giant oil barrel!"

Wu Tianlin explained, "The power of aviation fuel is much more terrifying than the fire oil of those days."

Wu Bozhong wiped his sweat while muttering, "This is too scary... If this really explodes, even if we had eight lives, it wouldn't be enough to burn in hundreds of thousands of jin of fire oil..."

Wu Tianlin said with a smile, "Grandfather Bozhong, don't worry. Planes are much safer than you imagine. Why don't you three close your eyes and meditate? Perhaps after one session of entering deep meditation, you will have arrived in Jin Ling."

Wu Bolin shook his head repeatedly, "With my butt over 3,000 zhang off the ground, how could I possibly enter deep meditation..."

The other two also immediately nodded in agreement.

For them, although their first time on a plane had a touch of novelty, it was mostly filled with fear.

At the same time.

After Lin Wan'er landed the helicopter on the top-floor courtyard of the villa, she said to Ye Chen, "Young Master, please follow me inside. I will prepare brush and ink for you so that you can write an inscription on the portrait of the Master's Master."

Ye Chen asked curiously, "I'm the one writing it?"

"Of course." Lin Wan'er smiled, "Wu Feiyan has seen my handwriting. If she recognizes that I wrote it, she might guess that we are bluffing."

Ye Chen asked in confusion, "You haven't seen each other for hundreds of years; how would she recognize your handwriting?"

Lin Wan'er pursed her lips and smiled, saying, "After you saved me last time, before I evacuated Northern Europe, I specifically left a few words for her. Therefore, it is safest for you to write the inscription..."

Ye Chen nodded, "Fine, then I will write it."

Entering the study on the first floor, Lin Wan'er came to the long desk and began to grind ink for Ye Chen. Ye Chen chose a brush that felt comfortable in his hand and then wrote the life story of Meng Changsheng in the upper right corner of the portrait.

After finishing, he smiled self-deprecatingly and said to Lin Wan'er, who was beside him, "My handwriting is a bit ugly; please excuse me."

Lin Wan'er turned her face to look carefully, then smiled and said, "Young Master, your handwriting is already quite good. One can tell you have some foundation. Did you learn it when you were young?"

"Yes." Ye Chen nodded, "I studied calligraphy for a few years when I was a child."

Lin Wan'er gave Ye Chen a thumbs up and exclaimed in admiration, "To have this kind of foundation after only studying for a few years as a child, Young Master, your talent is truly remarkable!"

Ye Chen said awkwardly, "Miss Lin, please don't make fun of me. I am well aware of my own limitations."

Lin Wan'er smiled gently and then asked him, "By the way, Young Master, how do you plan to let this painting be revealed to the world?"

Ye Chen smiled, "I'll go home in a while and give this painting to my father-in-law."

Lin Wan'er asked, "Can your father-in-law publicize this painting?"

Ye Chen nodded, "Don't worry, he will definitely have no problem. He will certainly find a way to make a big scene. I will then arrange for short-video platforms to expose it, letting him show off. I believe it won't be long before Wu Feiyan sees it."

Lin Wan'er asked again, "Young Master, if such a sensitive portrait is displayed through your father-in-law's hands, will it bring you unnecessary trouble? If Wu Feiyan follows the trail of your father-in-law, wouldn't it be easy for her to find you?"

Ye Chen smiled, "After this painting is revealed, Wu Feiyan will definitely be wary of Jin Ling. By then, in her mind, she will be completely exposed in the open, while I, as the mysterious person, will always be in the dark. With her in the open, she will definitely not dare to send anyone to Jin Ling again."

"Moreover, everyone has a preconceived cognitive bias. The smarter and more cunning a person is, the more this is true. If this painting is made public through my father-in-law's hands, I believe that out of the millions of people in Jin Ling, the person Wu Feiyan will first rule out as a suspect is my father-in-law."

As he spoke, Ye Chen added, "Besides, I will also make up a story for my father-in-law. I understand his personality; his ability to exaggerate is unparalleled in the universe. When the story I make up is told through his mouth, it will definitely scare Wu Feiyan out of her wits." ===== CHAPTER 2763 =====