Weird Apocalypse: Rebirth Starts with Trillions of Ghost Money

After the two were seated, Chen Mu poured a cup of hot tea for the Duke.

"Duke, how have you been?" Chen Mu asked with a smile as he offered tea. "I've been very busy lately and have neglected you. I hope you don't mind."

The Duke accepted the hot tea. "Mr. Chen, you're too kind. Thanks to you, my wife and I have been well taken care of."

“Call me Boss Chen outside, but since it’s just the two of us now, just call me Chen Mu Xiaoyou, like we did at the beginning.”

Chen Mu's kind words made the Duke sigh with emotion.

The Duke watched Chen Mu rise step by step.

Throughout his life, the Duke had seen many people who rose from humble beginnings to high positions.

However, these people are often very humble and friendly when they are in a lowly position.

However, once they reach a high position, they immediately put on airs. They act superior to everyone, not just strangers, but even to former friends.

The Duke rarely saw someone like Boss Chen who maintained the same attitude from beginning to end.

I was quite lucky to have bet on Boss Chen.

After a brief chat, Chen Mu seized the opportunity to steer the conversation toward the duke's daughter.

"Have you heard anything about your daughter lately?" Chen Mu asked.

When his daughter was mentioned, a hint of melancholy crept into the Duke's expression. However, he concealed it well and did not show it outwardly.

"Not yet. Let nature take its course. There's no point in rushing it. We have to wait for fate. When the time is right, it will come back naturally," the Duke said.

Chen Mu understood that these words meant they didn't want to put any more pressure on him.

Attributing the discovery of his daughter to luck and "fate" is essentially telling Chen Mu that it's okay not to have found her yet; it's just that fate hasn't brought her there, not because he didn't try.

Chen Mu then asked, "Duke, what exactly happened to your daughter? I've never heard you explain the details of her disappearance before."

If you don't mind, could you tell me more about it?

The Duke said, "Indeed, my daughter's disappearance, to be honest, is not that strange."

At that time, she went to university in another city. My wife and I both visited the school she attended.

And she would send us a letter every month.

In theory, she should have graduated and returned two years ago, right at the beginning of the bizarre apocalypse.

However, six months before graduation, the letters she regularly sent back suddenly stopped.

My wife and I didn't think much of it, assuming that it was because graduation was approaching and we were too busy with our studies to write letters.

At the time, we thought that we would be back in a few months anyway, so whether we received the letter or not wasn't so urgent.

And as you know, Chen Mu, I was short of money at that time. Naturally, I didn't have any extra money to go to her school again.

Little did I know that from that time on, I never received another letter from her.

Six months later, when she was supposed to graduate and return, she was nowhere to be found.

She lost contact with us around that time and has been missing ever since.

Chen Mu discovered the key information and immediately asked, "You said you and your wife visited your daughter's university before?"

“Yes, we went to see it. That university was founded in a bizarre way, and it developed from a bizarre scene,” the Duke said, recalling the events.

"I remember the university was quite large, and there were quite a few eerie things inside. The living conditions were pretty good; the food, clothing, and accommodations were all quite to our liking."

At that time, my daughter was about to go to college, and it was right after the bizarre apocalypse, so there were very few strange scenes around.

Finding a strange scene on a university campus, and on a fairly large scale at that, was actually quite difficult back then.

We conducted an on-site inspection, so naturally we agreed.

"And what about your daughter? What was her attitude at the time?" Chen Mu asked.

“At the time… I remember she really liked it too. After we walked around the campus together and checked it out, she told me that she really liked the university and wanted to study there.”

Chen Mu pressed further, "So, you and your wife actually know where your daughter goes to school."

Why haven't you mentioned this to me until now? Now that you and your wife have money, haven't you tried to look for it?

Chen Mu wasn't blaming him; he simply noticed this obvious logical flaw.