I don't know why, after walking into this rose garden, Lu Lie had an inexplicable faint sense of security. I haven't experienced this feeling in years...... It's like, back to the feeling of the mother's womb becoming a fetus.

Wrong...... This place, he must have been here! Lu Lie suddenly seemed to remember something, his eyes searched around, and after not finding any counterpart in his memory, he began to become a little confused.

Thankfully, his confusion didn't last long. Because the old man, who was sitting under the big tree with his eyes closed, seemed to notice that the guest had been brought, he moved his eyelids slightly, and said in a faint voice: "The guest is here...... Kids, I have some important things to say to my guests in private, so get out of here. ”

The little girl who brought Lu Lie into the Rose Garden, and the two little girls who were hiding behind the old man and beating on the back, jumped up and ran away together after hearing this.

After arriving in the garden, only Lu Lie and the old man were left. The old man spoke again, "Child, you are here." Come, don't be restrained, find a stool in the middle of this garden, and sit next to me. I have much to say to you. ”

Lu Lie hesitated for a moment, but still found a long bench nearby, slowly walked towards the old man, placed it next to the old man's bamboo chair, and sat down. He looked at the old man: "Hmm...... Have we ever met?"

"Hehe, hehe......" Hearing Lu Lie's unconvinced tone, the old man laughed lightly, "That was a long time ago, so long ago that you have forgotten it." It was winter, and you were lying in the snow outside the garden as a child, and you were about to die. At that time, I thought about doing some good deeds, and I had someone bring you in...... I didn't expect that such a small thing for me at that time would develop profoundly and change many people and many things. ”

The old man opened his eyes. Unlike his decaying and old shell, his eyes are as sharp as two small knives, and he can see any secret in a person at a glance. He just looked at Lu Lie like this: "It's been nineteen years, Lu Lie, your body has really changed a lot." ”

"Hehe, yes. Nineteen years can indeed change many people and many things. Not to mention others, even I sometimes can't recognize myself. ”

Lu Lie replied absentmindedly.

Although he had a certain familiarity with this rose garden, Lu Lie still didn't remember that he had been here. The old man looked at him for a moment, then closed his eyes again.

Lu Lie still hasn't dispelled his vigilance against this garden. Because his enemies are all over the world, even if he has fled so far away from the imperial capital, even if he has been away from Beacon City for a long time, there may be people who still covet his head anytime and anywhere, and want to sacrifice his head to the one who is now sitting in the imperial capital and controlling everything.

If there was the slightest disturbance in this garden, he would be ready to rise up at any time and take this seemingly angry old man hostage and take him out of this garden.

As if seeing through Lu Lie's thoughts, the old man said lightly: "You seem to be very uneasy here." I can feel that you've been hunted all the way, and you're still nervous until you're here. You are like a wounded tiger, ready to burst out and hurt others. ”

Lu Lie didn't deny it at all: "I'm sorry, although it's rude to say that...... But I can't remember being here in my memory. This Rose Garden, and you who invited me in, are completely aliens to me. ”

"And I, on the other hand, have never trusted strangers. ”

After listening to Lu Lie's words, the old man said slowly: "I see, let me see...... It seems that a large piece of your memory is missing. ”

Lu Lie was noncommittal.

"Do you remember the first Shikigami you had on the tree, the Rose Tiger? Do you remember why you gave it that name? It's because ...... I think of you, as a vagabond, wandering to this city in the cold winter, and being rescued by the owner of a rose garden when you were about to freeze to death in the ice and snow. ”

Lu Lie's pupils shrank into two points.

When the other party said the word giant tree, he almost wanted a tiger to pounce on the old man and hold him hostage. But in the end, Lu Lie, a dangerous beast, still resisted the desire to attack, and after the old man said this, the surroundings of the Rose Garden were also quiet, and there was no sign of ambushes rushing up to capture him.

"Who are you?" Lu Lie was angry and frightened in his heart, he strode forward and asked coldly.

Why did this old man know about the giant tree, and what did he know about his past?

Lu Lie is now like a frightened bird, any slightest wind and grass will make his nerves tense to the maximum.

The old man's eyes narrowed, "You're too nervous, young man. I think I've already said it, I've saved you in the cold winter of this city. It's not a very good attitude towards Eun Gong, young man. ”

At the moment when the old man's eyes cut at him like a knife, Lu Lie felt an instinctive sense of crisis. He couldn't hesitate any longer, and flew directly at the old man with an angry roar. But it was still too late, and in front of Lu Lie, all the scenery collapsed, and the old man and his bamboo chair disappeared into the shade of the tree, along with the giant tree that held up half of the rose garden. However, the Rose Garden did not disappear, and only Lu Lie was left alone in the center of the entire Rose Garden.

"What is this? illusion?"

Lu Lie tried to swing two punches in the direction where the old man had disappeared just now, but he didn't touch any substance.

"Grandpa, may I come in?"

Just as Lu Lie was standing in place, looking dazed, he heard a childish voice coming from outside the garden. Lu Lie turned his head and saw the old man standing at the gate of the garden, although he was also an old man at that time, he was much younger than now, and he was able to stand up.

The old man opened the door, and a tiger-headed little head poked in, looking curiously at everything in the garden.

"Grandpa, can I really come in?"

"Of course, come in quickly. The old man just touched the other man's little head lovingly and said.

Seeing the child's face, Lu Lie's mind exploded: this is actually the face of his past self!