Footsteps approached, and soon, a shadow covered Xiao Kun, making him finally see clearly the man who made him stumble.
A gentleman's suit has been replaced by a black sweater and a brown casual suit. The man looked about fifty years old, with dirty short gray hair, gray beard and eyebrows, and the same gray eyes that Xiao Kun had never seen before.
"My guess is right." Without waiting for Xiao Kun to continue observing, the man who was looking down at him suddenly opened his mouth, his tone mixed with complacency and fanaticism, the corners of both sides of his mouth gradually opened up, and the voice continued excitedly : "Your body is really miraculous, you really woke up early."
"First, sir, what's wrong with me?" actor Xiao Kun asked weakly, his expression becoming confused.
The man's expression and movements did not change, he continued to look down at the child for a while, then suddenly straightened up, raised his head and let out a 'ha' laugh.
Looking down at the boy again, the man kept a smile on his face, looked at Xiao Kun's confused expression with relish for a moment, then shook his head and said: "It's okay, it's okay child."
After finishing speaking, the man turned around directly, came to stand in front of the long table on the right wall, started tinkering with some bottles and jars, and said without looking back, "Wait a minute, kid, you don't have to say anything, Just wait a little while, and I'll know all I want to know from you in a little while."
The corner of Xiao Kun's left eye twitched, put away the actor's expression on his face, squinted at the direction of the man, and a series of national curses in his heart.
Unable to see what the man was up to, the child had no choice but to ask, "What exactly do you want to do to me?"
"Oh?" The man paused when he heard the words, looked back at the boy, then continued to fiddle with the work at hand, and said at the same time: "It's okay, you don't have to answer me anything now, after all, I won't treat you as a real 10-year-old Children look at it."
"How do you know I'm ten years old?" Xiao Kun asked inexplicably with a flash of inexplicable eyes.
"There are many ways to let me know." The man didn't answer, but perfunctory.
"May I ask about my fate?" Xiao Kun continued to provoke the topic: "Will I be in danger?"
"That depends on how much value I get from you, child." The man said without turning his head.
"Okay..." Taking a deep breath, Xiao Kun asked, "What do you want to know? Can you ask me directly? After all, sir, your actions make me very disturbed."
The man's movements finally stopped, and he was silent for a moment before continuing again. At the same time, he said flatly without looking back: "I want to know many things, but the most important thing is how to make people live forever."
"So..." At this point, the man finally looked back and said, "Son, will you tell me?"
"Eternal life?" Xiao Kun said with a dazed expression, "Uh... I don't understand what you're talking about."
"Hmph..." The man chuckled softly when he heard the words, shook his head slightly and said, "So, kid, don't bother me, as long as it takes a while, I will get all the answers I want."
"But, I really don't know what you're talking about." Xiao Kun said innocently.
The man ignored it, but pulled a crucible from the side to the front and ignited it, then poured some bottles and jars of liquid into the crucible and started stirring.
After a while, the man stopped his hands, and while observing the liquid in the crucible, he said as if talking to himself: "In the face of time, the human body will eventually decay, and the soul will gradually become silent, but as long as the two If you strengthen it infinitely, you will definitely live forever. Except for the legendary gods, there is only the man 'you know who' who said that he achieved his goal, but unfortunately... "
"You know who? I know?" Xiao Kun continued to be dazed when he heard the words, and at the same time complained in his heart: "I know a ghost, I know..."
"So..." Xiao Kun sighed again, and said helplessly, "Can you make me understand?"
"Wait a minute, oh, it's done." The man said, pouring the blue liquid in the crucible into a test tube, and took out a wooden stick from his pocket and pointed it at the hot test tube.
Turning around, holding the test tube in one hand and the wooden stick in the other, the man walked to Xiao Kun's side, and slowly moved the hand holding the test tube closer to Xiao Kun's mouth.
"So what is this going to do! Can't you answer my question!" Xiao Kun said quickly, and then closed his mouth tightly.
"Humph..." Shen laughed, the man did not try to open the child's mouth, but poured the liquid in the test tube directly on Xiaokun's chin.
Xiao Kun suddenly opened his eyes wide, and opened his closed mouth involuntarily, feeling that his jaw and tongue were rapidly becoming numb.
Before being completely numb, Xiao Kun struggled to say the last sentence: "What are you going to do!"
Looking at Xiaokun's weakly opened mouth, the man observed for a moment, then nodded with a satisfied smile, retracted the test tube, turned and walked to the previous position.
While walking, the man said, "Don't worry, kid, it's just to make the next thing easier and easier."
Putting the remaining half of the test tube of the liquid medicine in the test tube rack, the man turned around and walked back, staring at the child at the same time and said: "The extraordinary physical strength, the clothes that don't match the body shape, the cracks on the wall, and... the last The fist that landed on me..."
The man leaned over suddenly, staring at Xiaokun's pupils became fanatical, and said in a gradually excited tone: "I want to know the answer to all this! Perhaps, you are the real ladder for me to embark on the road to longevity!"
After speaking, regardless of Xiao Kun's reaction, the man straightened up, took out a small porcelain bottle from his coat pocket, and sucked three drops of colorless liquid from the porcelain bottle with a straw that served as the mouth of the bottle.
Looking at Xiaokun again, the man dripped the liquid into Xiaokun's completely out-of-control mouth, and said gently: "Don't be afraid of the child, this is not poison, it was just to prevent accidents, after all, this thing is very difficult to get rid of." Come on, I don't want to waste even a drop."
Taking back the straw and capping the porcelain bottle, the man shook the porcelain bottle in front of Xiao Kun's eyes full of anger, and then put it back in his pocket.
Walking towards the wooden table on the wall again, the man picked up another crucible and continued to tinker with bottles and jars, while saying: "Be patient a little longer, child, you will be able to talk again soon, and you will tell me everything, right? "
"Yes."
Xiao Kun didn't make a sound because his mouth was out of order, but he couldn't help but respond in his heart.
The next moment, Xiao Kun seemed to understand everything, and his eyes widened in disbelief...
(end of this chapter)