Chapter 188: The Mysterious Old Man
"There are mermaids in the waters of the South China Sea,
The water dwells like a fish,
Do not waste weaving achievements,
His eyes can weep. ”
The old man jumped happily with the fishing rod on his shoulder, muttered verses in his mouth, and disappeared from everyone's sight.
It seems that all this has nothing to do with him,
Pang Xie said: "You don't compare"?
……
The old man said: "Hahaha, don't compare, you won"?
After a cup of tea, the old man returned to his home.
This home, which still seems old and shabby.
In fact, with the old man's current financial resources, he can completely redecorate this home.
But he didn't do it because he didn't want to destroy every brick of the place.
Although he knows that people can't live in memories forever, he knows even more that if he doesn't have these memories, he is afraid that he will not be able to support himself in the future.
After entering the house, the old man casually put down his fishing gear and took out the sea fish and threw it into a small fish pond.
……
Then, with a little curiosity, he took the strange fruit of the unexpected harvest and looked at it again and again, and sat down on the chair.
"What the hell is this, here you are, haven't seen it in years?"
The old man stared at this strange fruit for a long time, very attentive, and his white beard was slightly cocked.
At this time, he was more and more sure that he must have seen it somewhere.
But sometimes, the more desperately you try to remember something, the more you can't remember it, just like forgetting to write a pen.
……
The old man, who had been meditating for a long time, finally had a flash of inspiration, patted his head, looked a little excited, and said, "That's right! I remembered".
Then he got up and took the fruit and walked to the safe.
I saw him, and carefully took out the contents of it.
That's the mysterious weapons he brought with him from the twenty-second century, cell phones and signalmen
The old man turned on his phone and searched for the Devil Fruit directly.
As the screen of the mobile phone quickly popped up, the old man couldn't believe it.
The fruit was just as he thought, and although it seemed to be a little different from the picture on the screen, it was generally similar in appearance.
The reason why the old man thought of the Devil Fruit at the first time on his whims was because he was a researcher of time travel work and a pirate fan.
He once traveled astray to the two-dimensional world.
The room was a little quiet, and the old man said to himself: "It's like it, but it always feels wrong......"!
After the comparison, he always felt unreal, and only after losing the hope of returning to the modern age, he became less confident.
However, although these fruits have different appearances, they really have a feeling of being on the same path.
At this time, he thought about it, and constantly hinted at himself, laughing at himself: "Isn't this nonsense, this is three-dimensional, I am really confused."
If it's really a Devil Fruit, you can get certain superpowers after eating it.
Then the world hasn't turned upside down, not to mention that I haven't found Luffy or anything after living by the sea for so long......?"
.......
As soon as the words fell, the old man threw the fruit aside.
After all, for him, such an unrealistic thing is simply not possible in this world.
The room was silent for nearly a few minutes before it settled.
The old man cried and laughed, as if he was crazy, and decisively picked up the fruit and broke a petal. I put it to my nose and smelled it, and asked with a pungent smell of decay.
As soon as the flesh was in his mouth, the old man felt that something was wrong, and it was very unpalatable.
The old man was still a little reluctant, so he put a few petals in his mouth and chewed.
The fruit is still light and tasteless, and it is not easy to swallow.
And it was accompanied by a disgusting aftertaste that violently invaded his taste buds.
The pungent smell made the old man have to throw the fruit aside.
At this time, he felt that this thing should either be moldy or rotten, no wonder no one picked it.
The old man looked at the fruit carefully, and when he looked closely, there was no sign of decay at all, whether it was the dark green peel or the dark purple flesh, it looked very complete and full.
So, at this time, he used his knife to cut the fruit into several pieces, and the purple liquid flowed everywhere.
As he picked up a small piece and handed it to his lips, he suddenly fell into a hesitation.
The choice of fate is like returning to the time he crossed over from the future world, and he may be thrilled for a while, and he will be entangled for a while.
To eat or not to eat?
He had already given up, and seemed to look at the Devil Fruit as if he had caught a life-saving grass.
Will you have superpowers after eating, or, lose poison back to modern times?
This kind of entanglement made the old man hesitate for a long time for this piece of fruit, until he suddenly looked at everything lightly, he laughed at himself and took a bite, "Forget it, you should eat stinky tofu." If it's really poisoned, it's fine."
For a moment, the old man only felt that his mouth was like a piece of foul-smelling rotten flesh, which not only made him nauseated, but also made the tip of his tongue seem to be crawling with maggots from tarsal bones.
He struggled for a long time with this fishy and indescribable aftertaste, and finally when this aftertaste gradually faded, he stuck out his tongue and said vaguely: "Evil~"
However, before the words fell, a scene that made the old man even more unbelievable happened again. All he could see was that the pieces of fruit on the cutting board were slowly starting to disappear.
This way of disappearing frightened him, stunned him, and terrified him. Because it didn't disappear into thin air with a 'whoosh', but slowly, gradually, like when data is erased.
No! It is not so much the disappearance of the fruits as the gradual removal of these fruits in a virtual digital form.
"Hell yes, hell!" Looking at the few pieces of fruit that seemed to have split into countless small digital images and finally disappeared in Jiang Nan's eyes, Jiang Nan immediately seemed panicked.
Although he has seen this kind of incredible scene more than once in anime cartoons, it is still difficult to accept and believe when it is really happening in front of his eyes.
He stared blankly at the empty cutting board, rubbing his eyes vigorously, "Dreaming in broad daylight? Isn't that? Hallucination? Impossible! ”
He finally knew what it meant to be whimsical and dreamy.
That little bite of flesh didn't give him any strength or strange abilities.
After tossing for a long time, he smiled bitterly, lowered his hands, shook his head and sighed,
"It seems that I am thinking too much. It seems that if a person has been too long, he will get a little brain water from time to time! ”
...........
As he spoke, the old man walked to the pool where the fish had been kept.
At this moment, the sun was shining, and his tired body reminded him that it was time to make lunch.
"Let's have a braised sea fish today."
When he thought of the delicious food that he was about to enjoy in a moment, the old man immediately forgot about the 'terrifying' scene just now.
At this time, he couldn't wait to reach into the pool, ready to let the sea fish accept its fate.
However, many times, what seems to be the end is just the beginning of the story
At the moment when the old man had just put his hand into the pool, he suddenly felt as if his strength had been drained all at once.
"Ah~"