The story begins at the home of John, a history professor at Harvard University, and on this day, after working here for ten years, he suddenly decided to quit his job and move, and his friends who learned the news were reluctant to come to see him off one by one.

But after hugging one by one, another female professor, Sister Di, suddenly found that there was a painting in John's house that was suspected to be the original work of Van Gogh, but after listening to it, John said that he didn't care, saying that it was just a copy gift from a friend, saying that it would be good if it was genuine.

At this time, the archaeologist Art also brought his student and lover in, and gave him a book about primitive people as a parting gift.

And the anthropology professor on the side, Lao Hei, also followed up and asked everyone's curious question: "Why did John leave in such a hurry?" After all, you are not only the youngest professor of history, but also the head of the department, and most people will never give up all these achievements easily. ”

He even teased, "Did he make a mistake and run away in a hurry?" ”

And John laughed after hearing it, so he had to quickly explain that he just liked to live in a different place for ten years, but this reason was obviously untenable, although everyone didn't believe this answer, but they were embarrassed to ask more.

Sister Di also hurriedly made a joke to ease the embarrassment, saying: "John has not changed in ten years, he does not look old at all, I really want to know how he takes care of him." ”

But what Sister Di didn't expect was that the unintentional act in this sentence actually involved a huge secret, just after Sister Di finished speaking, she didn't expect John to start pacing at this time, as if there was something unspeakable.

Then the curiosity of the people swelled again, and they asked again and again, but John still did not answer anything, and then he only asked a question: "What do you think if a man lived from the Paleolithic to the present day?" ”

Everyone was stunned when they heard this question, but they didn't think much about it, thinking that he was going to write some science fiction novel, so they all came out to offer advice, how to make this setting not produce bugs?

So Lao Hei started from the human way, saying that the Paleolithic Age was 14,000 years ago, and people at that time actually compared with modern people, there was no obvious gap in figure, appearance, and intelligence, but they didn't know much. And after tens of thousands of years of evolution, learning knowledge is profound to a perverted level.

At this time, Harry, a biology professor on the other side, also said his thoughts, most ordinary people die of chronic poisoning and cell failure, and if this person's cells can be perfectly regenerated and the body can be perfectly detoxified, immortality can theoretically be achieved.

And when it comes to this, everyone is interested, immortality is a matter that everyone pursues, but it seems that neither is it possible, but it is also possible.

Just like when Columbus began to open up new routes and Copernicus founded heliocentrism, they were not understood by the world, and even thought they were crazy.

The answer to all this is just that humanity has not yet discovered it.

What John said immediately afterwards made everyone stunned: "Heliocentrism says that another man proposed earlier than Copernicus that I had the opportunity to sail with Columbus, but I did not like to take risks, I was not sure that the earth was round, and I was afraid that he might fall off some edge." ”

Everyone thinks John is joking, after all, who would believe that a person can live for 14,000 years? But looking at John's serious and serious face, everyone couldn't help but start beating drums in their hearts.

At this time, John also "added fuel to the fire" again, saying: "Every ten years or so, people start to realize that I don't get old, and I will leave that place." ”

Everyone seemed to be petrified in an instant, thinking that I would treat you as a friend, but you would like to be my ancestor.

If you write a novel, you will write a novel, and it will be boring to engage in this trip.

But despite everyone's doubts, John continued to speak: "From the existing archaeological data and anthropological research, I am the Croëmanu 14,000 years ago. But after only living to the age of 35, he has maintained his current appearance, and has never been old or dead, so that he is regarded as a god by the tribe. But it wasn't long before the Blues began to fear me again, and even hunted me down, because they thought I was stealing their lives to keep me young. So I was forced to start moving and integrating into new groups, and thus I also learned to start leaving regularly.

But luckily, they were all nomads at the time, so I didn't seem obtrusive.

It wasn't until the post-glacial period 2,000 later, when they began to migrate to warmer and lower altitudes, that John even saw the mountains of the British Isles off the coast of what is now France, just as you would see Mount Fuji in Japan. ”

While this may sound fanciful, both the anthropology professor and biology professor Harry have proved that what he said is true, could this John really live for so long?

Later, Art quickly raised doubts, saying that these are already in the textbooks, and anyone can say whatever they want, how can they prove that what you say is true?

And John also admits that he does rely on literature, otherwise he wouldn't be able to remember so many memories, ordinary people can't even remember the events of their childhood, how can they still remember the events of tens of thousands of years ago?

At first, John also felt out of place with everyone, and even suspected that he was cursed, until later he began to comfort himself, thinking that this was the Heavenly Lord.

So ten years passed like this, and he lived in a place that kept changing, and even pretended to be his son.

But this is Sister Di also suddenly asked about the Van Gogh painting, John also replied directly: "Actually, it was Van Gogh himself who painted him, and the signature behind the frame was his former name, and even at that time, the two of them often discussed how to integrate nature into the artwork, but with Van Gogh's death, I followed the French immigrant to the United States." ”

But the question arises at this point, having said all this, why did John suddenly tell them this truth at this time after so many years of concealing his migration?

In the face of everyone's doubts, John was also rarely silent, and then said that in fact, he always wanted to say goodbye to everyone with his true identity, because after all, he was also afraid of loneliness and longed for friends, and he didn't want to be lonely forever.

As soon as these words came out, everyone's atmosphere instantly fell into sadness, and John turned his head and carried the rest of his luggage into the car, but he didn't expect that at this time, Sister Di suddenly confessed to him, it turned out that she had already fallen in love with John at first sight, and John also confessed that he also had a good impression of her, but he was not destined to give her happiness.

Because of the more than 14,000 years, he has experienced too many joys and sorrows, and he can only watch the death of his lover, he can't remember how many beloved women he said goodbye to, and he doesn't want to touch his feelings easily, and he will leave again in ten years, and the two can only end the topic helplessly.

After returning to the room, everyone's curiosity did not cool down at all, and John continued to tell his story: at that time, I didn't know that thousands of years later, the climate began to gradually warm, and John was still hunting reindeer and mammoths.

But unexpectedly, Art interrupted him again, saying: "I can actually guess what you say later, you will not go north, and then settle down by the lake, and learn to grow food and domesticate animals, after all, those textbooks are written." ”

But John was still very calm about this, with an expression that you are a good man and you said correctly, and then began to slap his face: "But not to the north, but to the east." At that time, I only thought that the sun would be warmer from whichever side it rises, so I came to what is now the Mediterranean, and at this time the world just entered the Bronze Age, and I followed the route of the Oriental trade, witnessing all kinds of miracles along the way, and even became Sumerian in 2000, which is later known as ancient Babylon, and this is the earliest known civilization system in the world.

Subsequently, he drifted at sea as a Phoenician for a while, and drifted to India. ”

Even though people still don't believe what John says, it's still interesting to listen to it as a story. But just then, a new guest came to John's house, and Art saw that John was a little nervous, so he called the psychologist Will to call him.

But now no one can prove that what John said is false, and John cannot prove that what he says is true.

Lao Hei also said that since this is the case, it is better to let him continue, but in the end, who can convince whom?

For example, Will, a newcomer, decisively asked, since John, you have lived for so long, haven't you ever been sick?

And John was very honest that he had not had it before, and in the last few hundred years, he had yellow fever, the Black Death, and smallpox, but these diseases that killed thousands of people did not treat him, not even his eyes.

And Harry, who was on the side, was immediately excited when he heard this, isn't this a living specimen?

He also insisted that John go with him to the lab and have it thoroughly checked.

But John immediately refused, saying: "If I really go, I'm afraid I won't be able to get out, and I'm not begging you to believe it, in the tens of thousands of years of human development, there is still very little to know, just like I have learned so far, even if he has obtained ten doctorates, but I am only a latecomer to that era, and I can't surpass that era and me." ”

Hearing these words, Will couldn't help it, he was about to die, time was his worst enemy, so he pretended to hold a gun at John and asked him if he would be immortal?

But John said that he was just living for a long time, and if he was shot in the head, he would definitely die, he was just more able to live like Wang Ba.

This answer also made everyone breathe a sigh of relief, and at the same time felt a little pity, because they also wanted to know if John would be shot and killed.

But then Will asked, what did he think about death?

And John also said that in the primitive period, their concept of death was actually very practical, that is, a person could not get up after falling to the ground, but infection and natural aging were indeed incomprehensible, and in the face of various deaths for a long time, John also felt more and more numb to this.

John said, "I met a certain man, I knew his name, I said a few words, and then he died, and the others were like the waves of the sea, and the tide came and went, and they were like the waves of wheat, which drifted in the wind." ”

Hearing these words that were very similar to Versailles, Will's heart, which had finally calmed down, became excited again: "Then this John, when your relatives, friends or family members died, did you ever think that maybe you really stole their lives, or maybe you deserved to die? ”

This caught everyone off guard, but they didn't expect Will to really bring a gun, and the atmosphere in the room instantly dropped to freezing, but Will didn't choose to shoot, just turned around and left.

But knowing that Harry was telling the story, it turned out that Will's wife had just passed away yesterday, so you can imagine how hard John's immortality was to him.

Hearing this, John hurriedly chased after him, and in order to prevent Will from doing something stupid, he comforted him and took his gun at the same time, but then John also realized that there were no bullets in his gun at all.

When he returned to the house, in order to liven up the tense atmosphere, he asked John if he had ever encountered the same kind of person.

And John also immediately expressed his affirmation, he had met the same as him in the 17th century, and as soon as the two met, they felt that each other was the same kind of person, so they quickly exchanged information, but the other party claimed that he was from another time and space, another time, another place, but in the end, the two talked freely for two days and two nights, and in the end, neither believed anyone, after all, no one knew whether the other party was talking about it in order to attach himself to his topic.

It wasn't until 200 years later that John saw each other again at a train station, but he soon disappeared after John, and the matter was over.

After hearing this, everyone couldn't help but boldly guess whether there were many people who were immortals at that time, but they were not exposed, but John said that he didn't know either.

Then he continued to tell the story, and after John said it for a long time, Will, who had calmed down, went back and forth, but when he came back, he didn't expect that John had become more and more outrageous, and even said that Galileo, Newton, Edison, Van Gogh and other great people were his friends, and even their ideas had consulted him, but he didn't expect John to talk more and more.

And Will, the psychologist who saw this exaggeration, for him, John is now tantamount to a mental patient, and everyone is now beginning to agree that John is either drunk or crazy, but unfortunately, their group of top people in various industries cannot refute him.

At the end of the story, everyone stopped talking and fell silent. And after returning, Will finally couldn't stand it anymore, he turned on the light again in anger, and couldn't stand John's influence on everyone anymore. He forced him to tell the truth right away, or else he would be sent to psychosis as a psychologist.

That remark finally made people breathe a sigh of relief, and everyone's doubts were strongly proven, but then they began to anger and curse again, angry John, and spread the word to everyone, and John turned a deaf ear, just thanked everyone for giving him inspiration, and constantly added settings to this story.

For example, Sister Di found the Van Gogh painting, Art gave him the book about primitive people, and Lao Hei found a knife from ancient times. At this time, everyone realized that everyone was angry and bored at the same time, and finally decided to leave.

But just then, the schoolgirl said, "It's a pleasure to see you again, Dr. Oldman." ”

John didn't answer, but Sister Di, who knew him well, knew that John would never tease her like that, he just didn't want it to end.

And John also admitted it calmly, and also said the name he had used in different worlds, but when he said the last name, Will behind him was stunned, but as if he heard the truth that he couldn't believe!

It turned out that John turned out to be Will's biological father. In order to hide his secret, John chose not to say goodbye, and at this time Will could no longer accept this fact, but even became so emotional that he had a heart attack and died on the spot.

This is the first time John has witnessed the death of his loved ones, yesterday's son lost his wife, and today he lost his son, but he is used to seeing life and death, but he still seems very calm, maybe this is also the price that the living must bear, but now he has to leave this familiar place again and go to the next unknown decade, but now he is not alone, but with the company of Sister Di.

In the end, it may not matter whether John lived for 14,000 years or not, what matters is that they believe in the changes in this issue and the world, believing or not is a choice. So if there is such a person around you, will you choose to believe him?