My autobiography is definitely not a tragedy!
Chapter 220 - 171: Ordinary Road

Chapter 220: Chapter 171: Ordinary Road

The next day at noon, Meng Lang somewhat eagerly pulled out the latest update.

Then he saw what he had expected, yet it was beyond his expectations...

"Ordinary Road"

Author: Meng Lang

—Ghostwritten by Haitang!

emm...

The experiment was successful, but his feelings were somewhat complex.

This meant that currently, in his Elf Ball, there was only "Lawyer Lin" as the small elf pet that could battle.

Why was that?

Did the others not have enough favorability to meet the capture conditions?

But Haitang’s favorability towards him seemed to be just average!

He hadn’t seen Weiwei conquer him in just one night, while Haitang was still making waves...

Last night, just to ask for a blood type, he almost finished off half a liter of white wine!

The difficulty of the two was clear at a glance!

Could it be... she outwardly refused, but in her heart, she had already crazily fallen for him?

Well...from her complete protection of me last night, and her "assassination" attempt on Weiwei, this could be stretched to explain that.

Is this what they mean when they say the mouth disagrees but the body is honest?

However, history taught me that those who are too narcissistic are often deluded...

I wonder if there will be answers in this book?

Meng Lang shook his head, temporarily putting aside this question and refocusing his attention on the book.

The cover’s background featured a vaguely familiar range of mountains, lush and brimming with life.

On closer inspection, this seemed... to be Meng Family Village?

The hill he had seen growing up, he was unlikely to recognize it wrongly.

But why Meng Mountain?

He flipped open the book, and a font quite different from the delicate script of the past came into view.

"I once crossed mountains and seas

as well as crowds of people

All that I once had

vanished like smoke in a blink of an eye

I’ve been lost, disappointed,

lost all direction

Only when I saw the ordinary

did I find the only answer...

There was a time when his favorite was this song, "Ordinary Road".

I asked why he liked this song.

He said it was like a portrayal of his life.

But I didn’t agree.

Most people might be ordinary, but he was different, he had talent and perseverance far beyond ordinary people.

In my memory, it seems that starting from one day in April 2018, he suddenly stopped hiding this talent.

He started to be busy all the time, often not seen for days.

His encounters with Gao Yuan also became more frequent, and later I learned.

He had actually joined a major scientific research team at Changqing Biological as one of the main leaders.

Although I don’t understand why a Chinese department salesman with extraordinary driving skills would also be proficient in Computational Biology...

Perhaps, only the term "genius" can describe such talent that surpasses ordinary people.

Forgive me, initially, I even misunderstood the books in his study as some kind of "decoration"...

Latter, two persons suddenly appeared around him.

One called Cheng Biao, who didn’t seem like a good person, and one named Ah Xing, who didn’t seem like a bad person.

Despite being the youngest among the three, these two treated him with utmost respect, more like he was the leader.

Once I accidentally heard them calling him boss.

Latter, the two created a security company, apparently not a small one.

In a subtle way, I felt this guy was busily planning something...

I just quietly watched from a distance, watched as his changes grew bigger and bigger.

He was always escorted everywhere, busy as if he timed his phone calls with a stopwatch.

Until that day at the end of 2023, a disaster that changed the course of his entire life arrived...

When I heard the bad news and flew back from Beijing to the hospital,

What I saw was a man wrapped in bandages on the hospital bed, already having lost both legs.

"Life is full of accidents, isn’t it?" he said with a bitter smile.

The instigator was named Hu Dazhi, who had just been released from prison.

Sent to jail by Wang Zhao Ping.

The charges were illegal debt collection using usury, and violent methods such as intentional injury, unlawful detention, and threats of intimidation, organizing a group that harmed public security, serving a five-year sentence.

At the time of the accident, the other party drove a dump truck and rammed it crazily, if not for Cheng Biao and Ah Xing risking their lives to push him away, he would have lost more than just his legs.

Two dead, one severely injured.

"When a person has nothing left, that’s the truly terrifying time.

Cheng Biao was like that in the past, and now so is Hu Dazhi.

Destiny is indeed a strange loop...

If you ask me what the most painful insight about this incident is, I would tell you.

’If you don’t remove the roots, the spring breeze will bring them back to life...’

If back then I had been ruthless, listened to Cheng Biao’s advice, perhaps my life wouldn’t have turned out so tragically..."

Yes, what he often liked to say was "if".

But how many ifs are there in life, and if there were so many, where would regrets come from?

I’m not clear on the past grudges, but from that day, the way he looked at me seemed to have changed...

He had me push his wheelchair to Changqing Biological.

Rabies, X virus, Alzheimer’s disease...

The research in the laboratory was high-end, so cutting-edge that each was at the forefront of human biology, each a complex affliction that had long troubled humanity.

They were even secretly researching a type of neural enhancement drug with astounding effects...

Oddly named, the project was called "Naihe Bridge Plan," and the product was called "Mengpo Soup 4.0"...

I asked them why they were researching these, to make money?

He told me that only by overcoming these terminal illnesses and pains could he defeat death and humanity advance toward a far-off future...

"Honestly, the purpose of our organization is ’Death Resistance’!"

In the past, what I thought was merely a jest on his lips.

Was actually a declaration that he and his organization were earnestly striving to fulfill...

This astounded me.

What astonished me even more was that he seemed to have no sense of confidentiality, even showing me various technical data far ahead of this age.

Then he diligently explained what this experiment and that experiment were each for.

Even though I was not interested at all.

"Why tell me all this?" I asked him curiously.

"The life and years I have walked through need a witness, from a unique perspective.

Because even the greatest writers can only pen from their own perspective.

So if someday, I leave before you do, then please write my autobiography for me.

Tell me from your perspective... the future of this world."

"But why me?"

"Hmm... perhaps all this is destined, and both you and I, cannot resist it."

His words always seemed inexplicably mysterious.

But I did not refuse.

Perhaps, it was just because of that phrase "destined"...

However, this touch of emotion was soon replaced by anger.

Not until he appeared at a shareholders’ meeting at Changqing Biological did I find out what this guy had been hiding!

He not only secretly controlled a world-renowned medical group... owning over 20% of the shares in Changqing Group, but he had also established Mengshan Pasture, and even held numerous hugely profitable technology patents.

The funds he invested in each research project.

To me, those were astronomical figures.

The lawyer’s income grew rapidly, by 2022 I had started practicing independently, making 1.2 million, by 2023, 1.5 million, by 2024, 2 million.

However, to him, the wealth I would make in a lifetime might just be a fraction of one project investment.

"Where did you get all this money?"

"The world is actually full of money, money in credit cards, money in the stock market, even picking up a fishing rod could make you rich overnight.

It all depends on whether you receive the enlightenment from the universe or not."

"Isn’t this the money of that organization behind you?"

He told me with a smile, "The organization’s money is his money, and his money is still his own.

Because long ago, he had lost touch with the organization.

As for when he might reestablish contact... that might have to wait for another life..."

I expressed some protest and anger.

I was not merely angry about his deception but furious that I was the last to know!

Even Xiao Yu knew about it since 2018.

That elbow-out girl...

"Why conceal it only from me?"

"Before, you didn’t like nouveau riche."

"And why tell me now?"

"Because now, this world needs you."

"..."

Since being in a wheelchair, he seemed to have resolved some inner conflicts, and his life’s pace also slowed down.

"The one who indulges me is me, the one who presses me is also me.

Heaven made me lose my legs, perhaps just so I could slow down and enjoy life.

After all, I have no legs anymore, to keep pushing the Earth forward would make even a brother unable to watch."

He said his mission was over, and he wanted to live for himself for a lifetime.

Read books every day, grow flowers.

The tasteless aspects of the world, including poetry, wine, philosophy, love, are often futile.

To chant futile poetry, get drunk on futile wine, read futile books, cherish futile emotions, and ultimately become a futile person, yet thus live a flavorful life."

His only busy work was collecting technical data on mechanical prosthetics.

He said he would recreate a pair of nimble legs for himself.

Years later, we were still friends.

He said his biggest regret was not that he missed the best person, but that when he met the best person, he had already used up the best of himself...

In 2037, his Alzheimer’s progressed, and his memory started to fade.

"How is that possible? It should have been next year..."

I didn’t understand his astonishment, but fortunately, the special drug developed by Xiao Yu effectively delayed the process.

Later, he took me to Mengshan Village, where he had secretly built a peculiar shelter!

Then from his lips, I learned the whole truth.

"It actually... turned out to be this way..."

"Promise me, survive!"

"If you die, my story ends, but if I die, your story will continue for a long time..."

In 2038, due to old injuries from a car accident and severe treatment reactions, he finally left this world.

Only then did I realize that I was not as strong as I had imagined.

You say I have a sea of loneliness in my eyes, but that’s just the gloom you left behind when you came and went...]