Summary of the previous chapter: On the last day of the new year, that is, on the fifteenth day of the first month of the twenty-fifth year of Jian'an, Ma Xiaoquan went to the palace of the king of Wei to meet Cao Cao, who was terminally ill, and completed the conversation with Cao Cao

+++++++++++++++++++++++ Cao Cao laughed, and he didn't know where he got the strength, grabbed a wine glass, and drank all the wine in the cup.

"Du Kang! Well, good wine, haha, good wine~~Come again~"

Ma Xiaoquan nodded and asked Cao Cao: "Xiao Cao, let me ask you, don't you still believe that I am an immortal?" ”

Cao Cao was stunned for a moment and nodded: "That's right, there are no immortals in this world at all, I believe that you, Lord Shangxian, are not real immortals!" ”

Ma Xiaoquan laughed and said: "The one who knows me is Cao Cao, haha~~ That's right, I am indeed not a god, I am a person, a normal man." ”

Cao Cao sighed and said, "You finally admit it~ Then how old are you?" ”

Ma Xiaoquan quipped: "Mengde, how old do you think I look?" ”

Cao Cao narrowed his eyes and calculated, and said, "If you count according to the first meeting between the two of us in the sixth year of Zhongping (189 AD), your age is at least fifty years old. ”

Ma Xiaoquan stood up, turned around in front of Cao Cao and said, "Do you think I look like a fifty-year-old person?" ”

Cao Cao shook his head and said: "It's not like it at all, your face hasn't changed when you and I first met, but your thoughts have changed a lot."

Ma Xiaoquan smiled: "Of course, I have been in this era for more than 20 years, and I have frequent contact with a powerful man like you, if my thoughts do not change, then I will become a mallet!" ”

Cao Cao's eyes widened and asked, "Era? I've heard this word from you more than once, who are you? ”

Ma Xiaoquan sat back and asked Cao Cao, "Do you really want to know?" ”

Cao Cao nodded very strictly, and he couldn't see that he was a terminally ill person at all.

Ma Xiaoquan thought for a moment and said: "Count from now on, count backwards about 1,800 years, um~~ I am a person of that era~"

"Eighteen hundred years? You" Cao Cao opened his mouth, but he began to calculate quickly in his heart, and after calculating for a long time, Cao Cao was in the clouds and fog.

Ma Xiaoquan shook his head and said with a smile: "Mengde, hehe, you don't understand, right?" It's okay, I'll do the math for you."

Cao Cao nodded and motioned for Ma Xiaoquan to count.

Ma Xiaoquan said slowly: "In the era I live in, we call the era in which you live in Meng De ancient times. ”

"Ancient?" Cao Cao was stunned for a moment, then nodded, "I understand, we also have the former dynasty and the ancient one." ”

"Well, it's good to understand~" Ma Xiaoquan said, "Meng De, in ancient times, we divided it into 'BC' and 'AD'. ”

"B.C., A.D.?" Cao Cao shook his head, indicating that he didn't understand.

Ma Xiaoquan smiled: "It doesn't matter if you don't understand, it's the twenty-fifth year of Jian'an, if you follow the overall calculation method of my era, this year is called '220 AD'." ”

Cao Cao sighed and asked, "Then next year will you be called '221 AD'?" ”

Ma Xiaoquan gave a thumbs up and praised: "Smart~"

Cao Cao asked again: "Then in the years you have calculated, are many things recorded in writing?" ”

Ma Xiaoquan clapped his hands and praised: "Too smart! ”

Cao Cao suddenly realized: "No wonder from the beginning, many of your judgments are particularly accurate, especially every time I encounter danger"

Ma Xiaoquan shrugged his shoulders and said, "You can also say the same." ”

"Can I think that you don't have the ability to foresee the future?"

"Precognition? Hehe~~" Ma Xiaoquan shook his head, Ma Xiaoquan already had the ability to predict, but he didn't know how to use it.

Cao Cao saw Ma Xiaoquan's shaking as Ma Xiaoquan's admission, and couldn't help sighing, sighing with relief.

"Shangxian oh no, I shouldn't call you Shangxian now, can I call you Ma Xiaoquan?"

Ma Xiaoquan smiled: "Of course you can, didn't you hear that I have been calling you Meng De since I sat here?" ”

Cao Cao laughed, clapped his hands and said, "Hey, I'm actually more used to the title of 'Xiao Cao'." Haha Ma Xiaoquan, let me ask you, since you know a lot of things about me at the beginning, why don't you help me for example, for example, the death of my Ang'er (Cao Chong), for example, the early death of my Chong'er (Cao Chong), for example, the year of the crusade against Dong Zhuo, you helped me kill Dong Zhuo early, for example"

Cao Cao said a lot in a row, for example, Ma Xiaoquan nodded quietly while listening, and waited until Cao Cao finished speaking, Ma Xiaoquan stopped nodding.

Ma Xiaoquan said: "Mengde, you said so much if, if it were me, would you go so lightly to help?" ”

Cao Cao pondered for a moment and shook his head.

"That's right, in fact, you also understand the truth, you didn't believe me from the beginning, and I Ma Xiaoquan didn't trust you from the beginning, of course, we have been with each other for so many years, we can't help but say that it is a kind of fate, and it is also a kind of interest driven Meng De, am I right?"

"Hmm~That's right~"

"Well, since we don't believe in each other, do you think I can help you even if I know your past?"

Cao Cao shook his head.

"So," Ma Xiaoquan came to a simple conclusion, "I need balance, I need to find balance from you, or everyone I know"

Cao Cao sighed and said, "I understand, from the beginning, you Ma Xiaoquan didn't treat me as a friend, right?" ”

Ma Xiaoquan waved his hand: "It wasn't before, it's now~"

Cao Cao smiled bitterly: "I want to think that Cao Mengde will be all my life, kill Dong Zhuo, destroy Yuan Shao, Ping Northwest, unify the north, go down to Jiangdong, and divide the world into three parts~ There is no friend who can really be worth befriending, those who are close to me, even my son, except for being afraid of me, just want to cling to me At this moment, I Cao Cao finally has a friend~ Haha, come on, have a drink!" ”

Cao Cao said, raised his glass and touched it with Ma Xiaoquan, and Ma Xiaoquan also unceremoniously drank with Cao Cao.

The two put down their glasses, looked at each other and laughed.

Ma Xiaoquan asked Cao Cao: "Mengde, aren't you curious about what happened after you left?" ”

Cao Cao shook his head: "After I left, I turned to dust, I don't know what they (referring to my children and grandchildren) did, Ma Xiaoquan at all, you know, I don't believe in any gods, devils and monsters all my life, so I don't want to know about the future, and I don't bother to know about it at all." ”

"And if you were given another ten years to live, would you want to know?"

Cao Cao's eyebrows twitched, and then he shook his head: "If you know your fate in advance, you will wait comfortably, such a life, there is no meaning to live, I don't know is a blessing, I don't know it's the best Ma Xiaoquan, you ask me this question, do you have any questions about yourself?" ”

Ma Xiaoquan smiled and nodded.

Cao Cao glanced at Ma Xiaoquan meaningfully, and said, "Actually, you and I are very similar at this point, aren't they?" Although I was tempted, I didn't want to touch that line."

Ma Xiaoquan nodded with satisfaction, picked up the wine glass and touched another glass with Cao Cao.

"It's just," Cao Cao drained the wine in his glass and asked with some confusion, "What I don't understand is that you, Ma Xiaoquan, came to this era to find the solar recorder you want, but why do you want to build a Ma family?" ”

Ma Xiaoquan said: "Mengde, I know you don't believe in gods, demons and monsters, but can you believe in fate?" ”

"Fate?" Cao Cao thought about it, and nodded very seriously, "I believe ~ The so-called life sometimes has to have, life has no time to force it, think I Cao Cao was also a gentleman when he was young, who would have thought that I would have today's achievements?" Isn't that fate, what is it? ”

Ma Xiaoquan said with a smile: "On the one hand, it is fate, and on the other hand, it is also the result of Meng De's occupation of the right time and place and your own efforts. ”

"Hey~~" Cao Cao sighed, "Living to my age, I suddenly feel that these are all virtual, all virtual Ma Xiaoquan, why don't you get old?" Your face is still not old, but your body is already the same as mine."

Ma Xiaoquan shook his head: "I am still me, I really haven't gotten old, what is the reason, presumably even if I explain it to you, you won't understand." ”

Cao Cao asked, "Is it that in the era you live in, people have found a prescription for immortality?" ”

Ma Xiaoquan smiled and said, "You can also say the same." ”

"I see, no wonder you don't get old, well, and your ability to resist fire, is it possible for people of your time to do it?"

Ma Xiaoquan shook his head: "How is it possible, if everyone can, then the world will be chaotic." ”

Cao Cao sighed twice: "In this way, Ma Xiaoquan, even if you are a person like me, you are also an ordinary person, and your ability to resist fire alone is not something that people can have." ”

Ma Xiaoquan smiled slightly and did not say anything, nor did he explain to Cao Cao again.

The current Ma Xiaoquan, in addition to being able to physically cross, except for the flame girl Xiaoshuang in his body, and the foreknowledge that he can't use at all, has temporarily lost all his superpowers, in other words, Ma Xiaoquan is now a person who can be killed.