Chapter 290: Searching for the Hermit (4)

The main reason why the wine is poured with both hands is because I am afraid of spilling the wine from the jar on the table......

Looking at the old man in black's careful pouring of wine, a touch of helplessness appeared on Zhang Heng's face.

He is also a good winemaker, but he still has important things to do, and he can't enjoy the nearly 100-year-old wine in front of him.

Besides, Zhang Heng didn't forget that there was still a Ducati parked under the mountain, and if he was stopped by the traffic police of this era because he was drinking, it would be a lot of fun.

"What's that, senior, I won't drink it, I'll have something to do in a while......"

Looking at the crystal clear slurry in the pottery bowl, Zhang Heng swallowed his saliva unconsciously.

This wine is truly fragrant, worthy of 80 years of ageing.

"Huh? Xiaoyou don't regret it, this 80-year-old wine is quite rare, drink a jar less than a jar, in the past I was reluctant to take out to drink, today Xiaoyou visited, this is taken out for celebration. ”

Xian Yuqi's face was full of surprise, he could see that Zhang Heng was also a wine lover, but he refused to age the wine in his hand, which made him more and more curious about the origin of this person.

"Still can't."

Which is more important, Zhang Heng still knows which is more important, and after politely refusing, he picked a bluestone stool and sat down, quietly waiting for the old man to finish pouring the wine.

Seeing that the other party really didn't mean to drink, Xian Yuqi simply skipped the pottery bowl in front of Zhang Heng and poured a full bowl for Li Baiyi at the farthest end.

After doing this, Envy Yuqi chuckled twice in his mouth, and carefully picked up the wine bowl on the table.

didn't wait for the two people at the table to say anything, they craned their necks and directly wiped out the wine in the bowl.

"Ha, good wine!"

As if he had entered a state of self-forgetfulness, the liquor entered his throat, and a satisfied admiration came from the old man's mouth, completely ignoring whether the people around him would cast strange glances at him.

I am the only one, and I am free and easy.

It's just that at this moment, a voice that sounded obviously not very friendly came faintly, interrupting Envy Yuqi's self-absorption.

"Hmph, Zhang Heng Xiaoyou still has important things to discuss, you old ghost can drink a bowl is enough, don't drink too much and go crazy for a while."

When Zhang Heng heard this, his gaze, which was originally looking at the old man in black, was deflected and turned to Li Baiyi at the other end of the table.

I saw that the old man in white also picked up the pottery bowl in his hand and began to drink, but unlike the booze of Envy Yuqi, Li Baiyi's drinking movements were slow and orderly, and he didn't look in a hurry.

After drinking for a long time, the amount of wine in the bowl only dropped by a quarter.

"Haha, that's right, what is the matter with Zhang Heng's little friend, I can say it now."

After drinking, Envy Yuqi's fiery temper seemed to have eased a lot, and he didn't get angry when he heard Li Baihe's words, laughed twice, and sat on the bluestone stool.

Good-looking romance

However, after sitting down, the old man's hands were not idle, but once again filled the clay bowl with wine.

Zhang Heng saw that the two seniors had put on a listening posture, and he knew in his heart that it was time to start telling.

"That's right, before I say it, I think the two seniors must be curious about the identity of the juniors."

As two old monsters who have lived in seclusion in the mountains for many years, it is normal that they have not met unfamiliar faces all year round, and Li Baiyi and Xian Yuqi don't say it, it doesn't mean that they don't want to know.

Since Zhang Heng also said before that he has a request for others, while saying his needs, he will naturally satisfy the other party's curiosity as much as possible.

If you are still there and remain mysterious, how can you win the trust of the other party?

"Yes, the identity of Xiaoyou, the two of us really can't see it, Zhang is a big surname, and there are many martial arts families, Zhou Qi and I have lived here for a long time, and we don't know about the rivers and lakes now

It's changed. ”

Li Baiyi nodded and explained.

This rhetoric is actually the product of his disguise, you must know that he and Xian Yuqi are the descendants of Guiguzi, and while they are proficient in martial arts, their attainments in deducing world affairs are even more superb.

Even if they are hidden in the mountains and forests, as long as they are willing, it is not difficult to find out all the eighteen generations of Zhang Hengzu.

Of course, the premise for the above operations to be completed must be that Zhang Heng is indeed a child of a famous martial arts family.

But Zhang Heng's true identity is the Elder of another timeline, and for the current world, he has no possibility of existence at all.

In the words of Hamilton, a seventh-generation biocyborg, that is, the Minkowski unit of this person is zero.

A person who has no connection to the real world is like an island in the ocean.

No matter how amazing the deduction ability of Xian Yuqi and Li Baiyi is, it is impossible to determine Zhang Heng's origin.

"Have the two seniors ever played chess?"

Zhang Heng smiled slightly, and did not directly explain his origin, but took a detour and asked the two old men if they had any experience playing chess.

"Playing chess? Are you talking about chess, or the older game of Go? ”

Li Baiyi gently rested the pottery bowl in his hand on the table and spoke.

"Chess."

The young man's eyes were bright and his speech was clear.

"That's naturally played, I think I used to play against my master when I was young, but I didn't know how to play chess, and I lost nine times out of ten......"

It seemed that Zhang Heng's topic evoked past memories, Li Baiyi looked up at the sky outside the stone cave, his eyes full of reminiscence.

"Of course you stinky chess basket can't play Master, thanks to Master or the successor of the [Vertical] faction, if he had been sent by the [Horizontal] faction, I'm afraid he would have hacked you to death a long time ago......"

Envy Yuqi, who was drinking wine on the side, seemed to have heard something interesting, smiled disdainfully, wiped the corners of his mouth full of wine with the back of his hand, and mocked unceremoniously.

"You old ghost, isn't it because you refuse to play chess with your master, otherwise it would be my turn to scratch my ears and cheeks?"

Li Baiyi's face grew angry, but his eyes were extremely warm.

This is the memory of him and Xianyu Qi when they were young, although it is not beautiful, but the feeling of having elders by their side is always better than now.

"Well, that's not because the master wants to temper you and mine's 'will', I practice the knife and you practice the sword, the knife is not dominant, if I squat in the room and play chess with the master like you every day, how can I have the current attainments in kung fu."

As he spoke, Envy Yuqiyou picked up the wine bowl and drank all the wine in it.

It seemed that he felt that what he said was reasonable, Li Baiyi did not refute it for the first time, but turned his puzzled eyes to Zhang Heng.

"Xiaoyou asked us if we could play chess, what does this have to do with your identity?"

Zhang Heng smiled when he heard this, crossed his fingers in front of him, and put on a relaxed posture.

"The two seniors should have already deduced me with the vertical and horizontal technique, I think it should have been done by the seven seniors of Envy on the way to get the wine, right?"

As soon as these words came out, the faces of Xian Yuqi and Li Baiyi both had unnatural expressions, and after glancing at each other, Li Baiyi asked.

"Yes, Xiaoyou is like a god, and it was true that one or two things were deduced in the process of going to get wine on the seventh day of the previous week, but the result was ......"

Speaking of this, Li Baiyi glanced at the old man in black solemnly.

"Humph! Nothing came out! It's either that I'm not good at learning, or that there's something wrong with the vertical and horizontal art passed down from my grandfather! ”

The wine jar that he had just picked up was put back on the table, and the wine inside fluctuated and rippled.

Envy Fool Seven's mouth was originally bent

The horns became more and more severe, and the tight face allowed Zhang Heng to understand the unhappiness in this person's heart without hindrance.

Seeing this situation, Zhang Heng hurriedly clasped his fists and saluted, and made a small compensation to the old man in black.

"The seven seniors of Envy and Fool can't deduce the origin of the younger generation, not because there is a problem with the vertical and horizontal arts, but because the younger generation is not from this world at all, in other words, the younger generation is like the pawn who crossed the river boundary in chess, coming from the 'other side'."

After some explanation, Zhang Heng closed his mouth and quietly waited for the two old men to digest the information in his words.

After thirty breaths, Li Baiyi took the lead in raising his head, and Xiao looked at Zhang Heng with interest and muttered.

"A man from another world, a pawn who crosses the river boundary...... It's a lot of fun......

"Could it be that Master's original guess was correct? Is this world really not the only one? What other worlds exist? ”

A look of surprise appeared on the fierce face of Envy Fool Seven, although there was still some disbelief in the words in his mouth, but the look revealed in the tiger eyes was already half of it.

"Zhou Qigu and I believed what you said, since Xiaoyou is a guest from another world, then there must be something important about crossing the river boundary in your heart, there is no one else here, but it doesn't hurt to say it."

Curious feeling like a little milk cat with unrequited fledgling, scratching Li Baiyi's heart all the time, at this moment, he actually wanted to know the purpose of Zhang Heng's coming here, so much so that he didn't maintain his image of the fairy wind bone, and began to urge.

"I have only one purpose here, and that is to preserve the human race!"

The emotions in Peach Blossom's eyes all converged, and in the end, only heaviness and resoluteness remained.

Zhang Heng said lightly, and said something that made Li Baiyi and Xianyu Qi stunned.

"Is the human race in danger of extinction? How can it be?! ”

The brows of the two old men furrowed deeply, it was not that they had not deduced the development of the human race, but because this kind of deduction required a huge amount of mental energy, the time interval between each deduction was relatively long.

Moreover, when it comes to the development of the Terran lineage, there are usually not too many variables.

Just like a 10,000-ton ship breaking through the waves, it is impossible to change the course of the ship because of a small sailboat.

Unless it's an iceberg hidden under the sea.

"Monday, didn't you do the last time you deduced the overall situation? What's going on? ”

Like a tiger about to roar, Envy Seven questioned the old man in white across the table.

"At the request of the master, the development trend of the Terran lineage is deduced every fifty years, and it was indeed me who made the deduction last time, but there is no problem, the Terran lineage can still prosper for at least a thousand years......"

Li Baiyi was also anxious, he was indeed inferior to Xianyu Qi in terms of martial arts, but he was the first in deduction, since the master drove the crane west, he thought he was the only deduction master in the world.

Seeing that Envy Yuqi was still going to ask, Zhang Heng immediately spoke, interrupting the anxious old man in black.

"Seniors, don't worry, Li Baiyi's predecessors didn't make a mistake in their deduction at that time, but they just ignored an extremely small detail."

"Ignoring the small details...... It's impossible, those little things won't affect the development of the human race at all, if they are really like them, at best, they are just grasshoppers shaking the tree, and they can't do anything about themselves......"

Li Baiyi muttered in his mouth, at this moment he was still doubting the accuracy of the information brought by Zhang Heng.

"But sometimes it's the details that change the big picture that are easy to overlook?"

"This ......"

For a moment, Li Baiyi was speechless, and an old figure unconsciously appeared in his mind.

"White, remember, the embankment of a thousand miles was destroyed in the anthill......"