It's the smell of barbecue.

Chu Ge had never smelled such an intricate and refreshing fragrance.

It's like pinching and exploding every cell of the ingredients, releasing all the flavors contained in the deepest part of the cells, turning them into aroma bombs and smashing them into his head.

Chu Ge swallowed.

Then I heard the sound of amber spitting beside me.

Dr. Li Xinlian took two people who had never seen much of the world and kept swallowing spit, through a dense jungle, and saw a simple thatched house standing in the glade next to the stream, and a pit was dug in front of the thatched house, and around the pit was a circle of stones of different sizes, which had been burned black by the flames for many years, and were soaked in grease so fragrant that they seemed to twist a piece of oily stone out of it, which were all delicacies like dragon liver and phoenix marrow.

There was someone in front of the pit, who was skewering with willow branches, and was concentrating on grilling fish.

The fish itself is not unusual, it is nothing more than just grabbed from the stream, it occupies a fresh word, and it is rich in fat, and it is grilled to a "squeak" sound, forming a layer of extremely beautiful crispy skin.

What's more important is that hundreds of spices are piled up all over the place, and ninety percent of them, Chu Ge has never even heard of it.

"Daddy!"

Dr. Li Xinlian seemed to have turned into an innocent little girl and threw herself towards the grilled fish man.

The grilled fish man looked up, smiling like a toothless child.

Chu Ge has seen the appearance of "Lion King Li Ang" in many business weeklies and people magazines.

This former overlord of the South Seas was once known for his strength and energy.

It is said that when he was young, he used to participate in amateur strongman competitions and was still a good kickboxer.

At his peak, with a height of 1.9 meters and a weight of nearly 200 catties, he had pimple muscles, really like a lion standing up.

It's not okay to go to the battlefield, but it's routine to roam the mall, stay up for days and nights, memorize tens of thousands of names and a clause in a contract from a few years ago.

This is a great husband who pulls mountains and rivers, and he is described in eight words as "eight feet tall and dignified", otherwise he would not be worthy of such a resounding name as the "Lion King".

However, after stepping down from the throne of the helm of the Lionheart Group and "living in seclusion" for ten years, what appeared in front of Chu Ge was just a shrunken little old man, with a stiff waist, wrinkles on his face, and an unremarkable dry old man.

There is a saying that "power is the best medicine".

On the other hand, for many people in power, losing power is like losing their vitality, no matter how many days are left, and how pure they are dressed up and at peace with what they encounter, they are all struggling to breathe.

Lion King Leon should be like that.

Luckily, he didn't get too annoying.

Even, even if he forced a smile, he seemed quite approachable and personable.

After hugging his daughter, he smiled and beckoned Chu Ge and Amber to sit down and grill fish together.

His attitude is neither as lofty as that of his eldest son Li Chenglong, but full of majesty and domineering.

is not like the second son Li Chenghu who is too eager to show his enthusiasm and Corporal Lixian, so that he shows traces and ambitions.

In the process of Chu Ge and Amber taking the elevator up, he must have known the identities of the two, maybe there is detailed information, knowing that Chu Ge is a good friend of the Lord of the Red Lotus, who is very important to the Lionheart Group, and also knows that Amber, the daughter of the jungle, is a witch doctor in the tribe, and may have mastered the secret method of curing all diseases.

But he really has a calm mind without desire, and he simply regards himself as an ordinary parent, regards Chu Ge and Amber as his daughter's good friends, and entertains him warmly without any purpose, personally helping the two little guests grill fish, chatting about some customs and customs, and gossiping without bounds, so that Chu Ge unconsciously forgot that the dry little old man in front of him was a strong man who had created a business empire and a bully who galloped across the South Seas.

Only for a moment did the lion king Li Ang reveal a trace of true emotion.

The four of them were happily grilling fish and chatting, Chu Ge and Amber were eye to eye and nose to nose, competing to see who could swallow a grilled fish in one go, but spit out all the fish bones without pulling them out to form the finished fish bones.

The Lion King, Li Ang, suddenly coughed violently without warning.

It was as if two powerful storms had been generated in the lobes of his lungs, and the whirlwind with sharp blades was about to tear all his internal organs apart, and after grinding them into meat sauce, they gushed out from his mouth, nose, eyes and ears, and when the cough reached its most violent, Chu Ge even suspected that what he gushed out from the depths of his eye sockets and nostrils was not tears and snot, but brains.

It was at this moment, from the fleeting eyes of the lion king Li Ang, that Chu Ge could feel how resistant he was to his aging, he pounded his chest hard, not only to calm the cough, but also to complain about why his body was so weak, not worthy of his ambition at all, if possible, he really wanted to tear this damn body to pieces, burn it to ashes, and then use boundless willpower to clutch the ashes again, and use high temperature and high pressure to aggregate into a brand-new, steel-like iron, A new body that is harder than a diamond.

This cough lasted for half a minute.

Taking out a disposable miniature breathing mask from the medical box beside him, and inhaling the aerosol injected with precious medicine into the lung lobes, the lion king Li Ang gradually calmed down with the support of Dr. Li Xinlian.

As if he realized that his wish would never come true, he was disheartened and despaired, and his whole body was shrouded in intense sorrow.

"Daddy—"

Dr. Li Xinlian had long known about her father's illness, and said softly, "Let Amber show you, her family has been the most famous witch doctor in the tribe since thousands of years ago!" ”

"I'm not sick."

The Lion King Li Ang re-armed himself with the armor of lightness and desirelessness, smiled gracefully at Chu Ge and Amber, and said, "I'm sorry to scare the two VIPs, it's like this when people get old." ”

Having said that, after all, it is a piece of filial piety of his daughter, and the lion king Li Ang is still very cooperative with Amber's diagnosis and treatment.

Amber is a true witch doctor, an awakened person with healing powers.

When she gently grabbed the thin wrist of the lion king Li Ang with both hands, she changed the gluttonous appearance she had just gobbled up, and her whole person became solemn.

Obviously only one meter four or five, with a small and delicate figure, but the body exudes a milky white soft light, like a bodhisattva who rescues suffering.

Moreover, the milky white light that overflowed from the palm of his hand was like a living creature with life, turning into white silk threads, gently and softly spreading towards the acupuncture points around the body of the lion king Li Ang.

Even Chu Ge was beside him, being affected by Amber's life magnetic field, he felt very warm and comfortable, and the capillaries and muscle fibers damaged in the crazy cultivation were all stretched out and repaired by themselves—this feeling was similar to the repair of shock energy, but the shock energy was even more domineering, while Amber's healing technique was like a spring breeze and drizzle, moisturizing things silently.

The lion king, Leon's face, pale from coughing violently, showed a ruddy glow.

The bellows-like chest and slightly trembling hands gradually calmed down.

But that's the end of the effect of the treatment.

Amber explains in blunt Mandarin and gesturing that her healing techniques are designed to promote wound healing, increase cell activity for a short period of time, and stimulate the immune system to increase the level of defenses — in other words, to treat trauma and neutralize toxins.

Bloody injuries caused by hunting, as well as poisoning caused by snakes, insects, rats and ants, are the most common causes of death in indigenous tribes, and as a witch doctor in the tribe, it is a matter of course that in thousands of years of cultivation and inheritance, he has slowly strengthened and narrowed his superpowers to these two most important areas.

But the lion king Li Ang was neither injured nor poisoned, nor suffered from malignant tumors or other diseases, as he himself said, he was not sick at all.

It's just normal, natural aging.

When the Lion King Leon was young, it was the most chaotic and dangerous time of the Calamity Era.

The Java archipelago, which was already fragmented, was a paradise for drug lords, warlords, bandits and unruly indigenous tribes, and became a hell on earth in the catastrophe of order collapse and chaos in the world.

In such a dire environment, on the one hand, he has to defend the wealth left by his ancestors and the entire family, but also has to implement his ambition and will throughout the South Seas, rebuild a new order, and naturally bear a hundred times more blows and pressures than ordinary people from his body to his brain.

He did whatever it took to frantically squeeze his body and burn all his life in order to climb to the supreme throne and be crowned the "Lion King".

The debt owed when I was young is now bursting out, and it's time to repay the "price".