The death of Chong MingDe was not part of Yan's plan.

However, upon his return, Chong MingDe's lack of cooperation was expected by Yan.

As long as Yan could squeeze out the remaining value of Chong MingDe, he didn't really care about anything else.

The value of Chong MingDe to Yan lies in the technology of "creating, editing, and transferring personalities".

After painstakingly cultivating Chong MingDe to master this technology, Yan's final step in this "personality project" was to abstract this technology through Chong MingDe as a human cultivation base, and reach a level where it could be applied.

However, although Chong MingDe's lack of cooperation was expected by Yan, he didn't expect Chong MingDe's death to come so soon.

— This guy, it's a pity. I didn't expect him to have such control over his own body.

Even if Yan did it himself, he wouldn't have been able to find a way to commit suicide under the conditions Chong MingDe was in.

— It truly is quite an ability.

— What a pity.

— Really such a shame.

Yan has been adopting orphans and discovering talent from among them for many years.

Over the past few decades, Yan has raised hundreds of orphans.

And he doesn't just randomly adopt any orphan, he goes to places where there are likely to be orphaned children with high potential.

Among them, Chong MingDe and Tang Mingtuo stood out.

Not only among these hundreds of orphans, but also among their peers, they were outstanding.

Yan would be lying if he said he didn't have any personal interests in keeping such outstanding talents by his side.

But Yan is also an experienced person.

Having lived for seventy or eighty years, he hasn't lived in vain.

Forcedly using someone who is not useful in the end results in not achieving one's goals and wasting extra effort.

Don't use suspicious people, don't doubt those you use.

Once he starts suspecting someone, Yan will gradually abandon them.

So, no matter how good Chong MingDe is, if he cannot be of use to Yan, he is simply a useless pawn.

Yan does feel sad, regretful, and lamentable to some extent.

But it's not to the extent of making him depressed.

It's just that, in order to prevent Tang Mingtuo and Yu from feeling cold-hearted, he still has to put on a show.

Otherwise, if they turn against him, losing three capable assistants at once would be a huge loss.

Yan's acting successfully fooled Tang Mingtuo, and later managed to fool Yu as well.

Tang Mingtuo and Yu are both currently assigned to work in Japan, so he just needs to act for these two days.

Afterwards, when they come back, he can return to normal.

Then he can gradually cultivate replacement talents from the children he has adopted.

The technology of "creating, editing, and transferring personalities" is already mature, but due to the influence of human body structure, it is no longer possible to learn and master this technology after the age of twenty.

So Yan's next plan is to transfer his own personality and memories into a young body through the experimental subjects he has organized, and gain mastery of this technology himself.

Then, he, Yan, would be able to achieve the dream of immortality.

He didn't need his own body to be immortal, he just needed to change to a new body every few decades.

As long as he didn't die, everything else would be fine.

The most precious things are time and life. As long as he, Yan, had these two things, he would be unstoppable.