"Uncle, how do you sell this turtle?"

Zhao Lin stood in front of the stall selling turtles in the fish and bird market and asked the old man of the seller.

After solving a murder case and greatly reducing the pressure on his body, Zhao Lin asked Liang Song and others to patrol the streets, and he came to the fish and bird market near the pier.

The market is not big, only selling some ornamental goldfish, koi, parrots, starlings, as well as rabbits, turtles, crickets, gnats and other small animals, small insects.

He came here to find inspiration and see if there was a suitable animal spirit to draw on.

The Spirit Beast Diagram turned him from a weak boy into a martial artist with both strength and speed, as well as a strong sense of hearing.

There are still six squares left empty in the picture, so you have to plan ahead.

He used to fantasize about absorbing the spirits of certain animals or insects with special abilities and incarnating himself as Spider-Man and Brother Mantis.

I tried a few times as well, but all failed.

For example, if you step on a spider to death, you can indeed see the spirit, but the spirit beast diagram can't absorb it.

When he went deep into the mountains to hunt strange beasts, he killed birds by the way, and the result was the same.

The reason for this is the limitations of different body structures.

Zhao Lin felt that he had touched the underlying logic of the spirit beast diagram to absorb the spirit soul: the spirit soul could only strengthen the abilities he already had, such as strength, speed, and hearing.

There is nothing that can be done about abilities that require special organs, such as flying and spinning.

After all, he had no wings, no silk glands, or poison sacs.

Zhao Lin walked around the fish and bird market, didn't see any strange animals, and was about to leave when he suddenly saw a stall selling turtles in the corner of the market, and couldn't help but move in his heart.

The turtle is also known as the golden turtle, and there are also nicknames for Xuanyi and Hebo.

Two of the most famous features are the sturdy carapace and the extremely long life.

The carapace of a turtle is not skin, but an exposed bone, which is not available due to anatomy.

But what about longevity?

As a traverser, Zhao Lin certainly yearns for immortality, but unfortunately this is the martial arts world.

Practicing martial arts cannot live forever, at most prolonging lifespan, even if you practice to the extreme, it is difficult to break through the threshold of human lifespan of 120 years old.

In fact, because of injuries, most martial artists do not live as long as ordinary people.

As the saying goes, the thousand-year-old king is 80,000 years old, can he absorb the spirit of the turtle and live a long life?

In front of the old turtle seller, there were several wide shallow bamboo baskets, in which there were more than a dozen grass turtles, mountain turtles, green turtles, and golden-threaded turtles of different sizes and shapes.

Zhao Lin was about to step forward to ask, when a young man in brocade with a servant came over next to him.

The young man in brocade held the cricket cage in his hand, and asked the old man with a smile: "Hey, old man, how long can you live?" ”

The old man glanced at him, "It's no problem for this Wang Ba to send your family to three generations to the end, how long do you say you can live?" ”

The young man in brocade changed his face, "How do you speak?" ”

Since he was sent to the end of his descendants, the old man secretly scolded his family for being the eighth king.

The old man ignored him, sprinkled a few young leaves and rice into the bamboo basket, and said to himself: "Turtle son, eat well, don't bite people at every turn." ”

The young man in brocade had a blue face and a red face, but he couldn't do it.

Zhao Linxin said that the old man's mouth was quite damaged, but the young man in brocade was rude first, and no matter how people fought back, it was not too much, and the first one to flirt with was cheap.

He stepped forward and asked, "Uncle, how do you sell this turtle?" ”

The young man in brocade turned his head and saw Zhao Lin dressed as a headcatcher, he didn't dare to entangle anymore, and took people away angrily.

The old man said: "Back to the catcher, the grass turtle is small Sanwen, the big Wuwen, the hawksbill turtle and the golden thread turtle are more expensive. ”

Zhao Lin didn't understand the difference between turtle breeds, so he only said, "Which one lives long?" Pick one for me. ”

The old man stroked his beard and smiled: "If you live for a long time, you should be a long-lived turtle, and it will be no problem to live for one or two hundred years if you raise it." I have a turtle in my family that my father raised when he was a child, and he is still alive and well. ”

"There's a small one here, do you like it?"

Like?

Zhao Lin thought that the turtle would definitely die if it came into his hands.

"Then how much does it cost to have this longevity turtle?"

"Six Dollars ......"

Zhao Lin paid the money, carried the longevity turtle tied with straw rope, went out of the fish and bird market, and walked all the way to the river.

He found a place where there were few pedestrians, untied the straw rope, and said to himself: "Meeting is fate, and today is your death." ”

The tortoise is timid by nature, and as soon as it lets go, it retracts its head and limbs into its shell and stands still.

Zhao Lin was not in a hurry, took out the iron ruler, sat on the side and waited.

In fact, with his current strength, he could kill the turtle with one punch, but he wasn't prepared to do so.

Because according to past experience, the better the corpse is preserved, the stronger the condensed spirit energy.

A few months ago, when the Zhao family was still living in the village, Zhao Lin occasionally went to the fields to help, and once experimented with locusts.

Breaking off the locust's head and stepping on it sparsely leaves the soul clearer, while the latter takes longer to condense and is dull in color.

Zhao Lin was worried that scattering the turtle might affect the quality of the spirit, so he decided to give it a whole corpse.

After a while, the turtle let its guard down and stuck its head out of its shell.

Zhao Lin's eyes were quick, and an iron ruler hit its head.

Syllable!

The turtle whimpered.

Silver light rose and gathered above the corpse, gradually condensing the turtle's appearance.

The Spirit Beast Diagram trembled......

Zhao Lin's heart was beating violently, and he actually reacted!

This means that he can absorb the spirit of the longevity turtle and have the ability to live a long life!

Although you can't live forever, you can at least live for dozens or hundreds of years.

Zhao Lin couldn't wait to absorb the spirit soul, but out of caution, he glanced at the spirit beast diagram again, and immediately found that something was wrong.

How did the latticework turn black?

I saw that the lattice of the bear and the blackhorned antelope was pitch black, and nothing could be seen, as if it was still.

Although the lattice of the chrysanthemum bat did not turn black, it also turned gray, and only a trace of white mist spilled outward.

What's the situation?

Zhao Lin was startled and took two steps back, watching the spirit of the longevity turtle disappear in front of his eyes.

Since the three grids have changed, it means that as long as you absorb the spirit of the longevity turtle, you can certainly gain longevity, but these three special abilities are likely to be affected, or even lose them!

At this time, he looked at the spirit beast diagram again, and the three squares were all back to their original state.

Strange, why is this happening?

Zhao Lin furrowed his brows, pondered the reason behind it, and stared at the slowly flowing river without moving.

I don't know how long it took, but suddenly smiled, "I understand!" ”

There are two reasons for the longevity of turtles.

The older animals in nature get, the more aging their cells become, and the more their body functions age.

The cells of the turtle are relatively special, the human cell can divide for 50 generations, and the turtle can divide for more than 100 generations, and its aging rate is slower than that of humans.

This is an innate factor.

Another reason is metabolism.

In addition to eating and sleeping, turtles rarely exercise, their activity is small, and their metabolism is extremely slow.

If you absorb the spirit of the turtle yourself, you will not only gain the ability to divide cells, but your metabolism will also become very slow.

However, both strength and speed require a high basal metabolism.

The two are contradictory!

This is why the lattices of bears and blackhorns turn black.

After figuring this out, Zhao Lin couldn't help but secretly say that it was dangerous.

Fortunately, if you don't absorb the spirit of the longevity turtle and lose all the abilities you have, what's the use of living longer?

Although the turtle is long-lived, I still don't want such a spirit!