Chapter 149: Two Hypotheses
"What do you mean? Could it be that you lost the battle just now? it can't be, right?" Ye Chen was suddenly a little surprised.
The old fortune teller nodded slightly: "That's right, I lost." That Feng family girl is indeed talented, I didn't expect her to have such strength at a young age, after this battle, the old man, I found that I was really not her opponent. ”
Seeing the fortune teller's generous admission of failure, Ye Chen became even more curious: "Since you lost, why did Feng Jiuxi let us go? Shouldn't she take us to Feng's house for tea?"
The fortune teller didn't answer Ye Chen directly, but asked with a smile: "I'm just a dying person who doesn't pose any threat to them, what's the difference between dying early and dying late?"
"The dying man, the fortune teller, what do you mean by this? Are you seriously injured? Are you going to die?" Ye Chen suddenly became nervous, he hurriedly looked for a wound on the fortune teller's body, but he looked around but didn't even see a wound, "Old man, I don't seem to have a wound on your body, what's wrong with you, what happened to the two of you in the battle just now?"
The fortune teller coughed a few times, then replied, "Ahem...... I had internal injuries, so I didn't look like any wounds on the outside. But in fact, my internal organs have been shattered by that Feng girl, and it is estimated that I only have one or two hours left to live. ”
The old fortune teller said very calmly, as if he was discussing something that had nothing to do with him.
In comparison, Ye Chen was obviously not calm.
"What? There's only an hour or two left to live?"
After hearing the fortune teller's answer, Ye Chen was a little speechless for a while.
Because he had only experienced Xia Xia's death not long ago, and now the life of the fortune teller was about to come to an end in front of him, so he was inevitably a little sad.
The fortune teller smiled lightly, showing that he had already looked down on life and death: "Hey...... I've lived long enough, old man, and death is a relief for me. One thing to say, that Feng family girl is indeed very talented, and it is not a shame for me to lose in her hands. Hehe, the Feng family may really be able to regain the glory of the year under her leadership, but I can't see that day, old man, cough cough ......"
"Old man...... I'm sorry, I hurt you......" Ye Chen looked at the fortune teller with some self-reproach, because the fortune teller was injured in order to save him.
The fortune teller smiled and shook his head: "Haha, young man, you don't have to tell me I'm sorry. In fact, if you really talk about it, it should be me and Ye Tianqing who should say I'm sorry, because it was the two of us who caused you to get involved in this turmoil. I don't have much time left anyway, old man, so I'll tell you some old man my secrets at the last moment of my life. ”
"Alas...... There are too many secrets hidden in the old man's heart, and I don't know what to say for a while, hehe......" The fortune teller paused, and then continued: "Forget it, I'll give you a brief introduction to my life." ”
As he spoke, the old man began to recall: "Actually, my real name is Wang Xu, and I was born in the Warring States period you said. Oh, of course, most of you like to call me Guiguzi. ”
"What are you talking about? You are really that Guiguzi!" After hearing the fortune teller's self-introduction, Ye Chen's face was suddenly full of surprise, "Didn't you live in the Warring States Period? How did you come to the Boya Continent?"
The fortune teller continued: "Actually, old man, I have been living in seclusion in the ghost valley of Yunmeng Mountain on the earth, living a secluded life of self-cultivation and not caring about the world. But one day, a strange stone suddenly fell from the sky, and this strange stone happened to fall in my ghost valley. I was already very interested in this supernatural phenomenon, old man, so naturally I had to study this strange stone. ”
Is it a meteorite? But what does a meteorite have to do with the Beya Continent?
At this moment, Ye Chen's curiosity was full, and he hurriedly asked, "Then what?"
The fortune teller continued to recall: "Later, I have been studying this strange stone in the Ghost Valley, and finally the emperor has paid off, and I have finally gained something. In an unexpected opportunity, I discovered that this other world can actually prolong people's lives. ”
"Prolong life, how can you say that the effect of the elixir is the same?" Ye Chen continued.
The fortune teller nodded: "That's right, its effect is indeed very similar to the elixir, and in the era when I lived, there were countless alchemists who were trying to refine the elixir in various ways to achieve the effect of prolonging life." So when I found out that this otherworld could prolong my life, I boldly tried it with my body. ”
As he spoke, the fortune-telling man slowly took off his shirt and exposed his back.
And this look directly stunned Ye Chen's whole person.
I saw that the fortune teller's back was densely covered with a strange red stone! The red stone penetrated deeply into the fortune teller's skin, as if it was connected with the fortune teller's body.
"What's the situation!Is this the strange stone you said?" Ye Chen couldn't close his mouth in surprise.
The old fortune teller immediately replied in the affirmative: "That's right! Once I noticed a small snake falling from a high altitude and happened to be pierced by a strange rock, I thought that this little snake would definitely die. But I didn't expect that after this little snake was pierced through the body by a strange stone, not only was it not injured, but it was alive and vigorous, and its vitality became more tenacious. So I had doubts about the efficacy of the different stones.
Then I experimented with a wolf that was dying of old age, and as I expected, the wolf not only did not die, but also fell into a state of immortality, and the alien stone seemed to grow with their body, and could not be removed. So after seeing the success of the first two experiments, I did the experiment myself. ”
Hearing this, Ye Chen suddenly thought of something: "By the way, the last time we met in the Lele River Valley, I remembered that I took off your clothes, but why didn't I see these strange stones at that time?"
The old fortune teller smiled, and then replied, "Actually, this is just a simple trick, I used my mental power to shield my back at that time, so you can only see what I want you to see." ”
Ye Chen nodded, because what the fortune teller said was indeed doable, and it seemed that the fortune teller had indeed used a trick to hide from Ye Chen.
Ye Chen didn't dwell on this issue for long, he continued to ask, "Then what happened later, how did you come to the Beya Continent?"
The old fortune teller replied, "Because of these strange stones, they brought me to the Beya Continent. ”
"These strange stones brought you here, what the hell is going on?" Ye Chen suddenly frowned.
"That's right, it's these strange stones that brought me here. The fortune teller replied in the affirmative, and then he went on to explain, "This incident probably happened during the Qin Dynasty, when Qin Shi Huang was keen on the pursuit of immortality after he ruled the world, and then by chance, he accidentally discovered the little snake that had grown into a giant python, and also discovered the secret of immortality. But at that time, the strange stones on the giant python were about to be exhausted, so Yingzheng found me along the vine, and then hit me on the head.
At that time, I was living in seclusion on Penglai Island, and Ying Zheng arranged for Xu Fu to lead an army to arrest me in the name of seeking medicine. But Ying Zheng didn't expect that after Xu Fu caught me, he didn't bring me back to Ying Zheng, because he was also greedy for immortality, and he had long been confused by immortality.
Later, he wanted to dig out the secret of immortality in my mouth, so he tortured me, and in the process of torture, Xu Fu's subordinates accidentally broke a certain piece of foreign stone on my back, and then suddenly burst out of a powerful suction force in the broken place of the foreign stone, sucking me and Xu Fu and them to the world of Beya Continent. ”
"What happened to Xu Fu and them? Could it be that Xu Fu and they are the so-called π organization?" Ye Chen asked curiously.
The fortune teller shook his head, and then continued: "We separated after we were taken to the Beya Continent, so I don't know what happened to Xu Fu and the others. However, they are not π organizations, π organizations were actually founded by people who later crossed over from Earth. ”
After hearing the fortune teller's answer, Ye Chen nodded, so it was not surprising that the small seal of the Qin Dynasty would appear on the fragment he found before.
"By the way, you traveled over during the Qin Dynasty, and I traveled over in the 21st century, and there is a gap of more than 2,000 years between us. But why have you been living on the Beya Continent for 100,000 years, and the time we traveled to the Beya Continent is too different, right?" Ye Chen continued to ask.
The old fortune teller replied, "Actually, I have thought about this question before, and I have also discussed it with the people who crossed over later, and we have initially come up with two hypotheses. In your 21st century terms, the first hypothesis is that the universe in which the Beja continent is located is actually a parallel universe parallel to the universe where the Earth is located, and the speed of time will flow much slower than that on Earth, so there will be a lot of time differences. ”
"What about the second hypothesis?" Ye Chen then asked.
The old fortune teller muttered, "The second hypothesis is that we don't travel to the corresponding point in time, but to any point in time when we randomly travel to the Beya Continent. In other words, even people who have traveled at the same point in time may appear in different time and space in the Beja Continent. Personally, I prefer the second hypothesis, because I have been inquiring for a long time after crossing into this world, and I can't find out about Xu Fu and them. And I also saw the small seal script of the Qin Dynasty on an ancient fragment, so I suspect that Xu Fu and they have traveled to an earlier time and space. ”