The main reason why I pour wine with both hands is because I am afraid of spilling the wine in the jar on the table...
Seeing the old man in black carefully pouring wine, a look of helplessness appeared on Zhang Heng's face.
He is also a good wine person, but he still has very important things to do next, and he cannot enjoy the almost century-old wine in front of him.
Besides, Zhang Heng didn't forget that there was a Ducati parked at the foot of the mountain. It would be great fun if he was stopped by the traffic police of this era for drinking.
"What about that, senior, I won't drink anymore. I'll have something to do later..."
Looking at the crystal clear liquid in the pottery bowl, Zhang Heng swallowed unconsciously.
This wine is really fragrant, and it is indeed a wine that has been collected for eighty years.
"Eh? Don't regret it, little friend. This 80-year-old wine is quite rare. Every jar is worth a jar. In the past, I was reluctant to take it out to drink. Today, my friend is here, so I took it out for celebration. "
Xian Yuqi's face was full of surprise. He could see that Zhang Heng was also a lover of wine, but he refused the aged wine in his hand, which made him more and more curious about this person's origins.
"Still not."
Zhang Heng still knew clearly what was light and what was serious. After politely declining, 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 had no intention of drinking, Xian Yuqi simply ignored the pottery bowl in front of Zhang Heng and poured a full bowl for Li Baiyi at the far end.
After doing this, Xian Yuqi chuckled twice and carefully picked up the wine bowl on the table.
Without waiting for the two people at the table to say anything, they raised their necks and drank the wine in the bowl cleanly.
"Ha, good wine!"
It seemed that he had entered a state of selflessness. As the strong wine went down his throat, a satisfied sigh of praise came from the old man's mouth, completely ignoring whether the people around him would look at him strangely.
I am the only one who is free and easy.
But at this moment, a voice that sounded obviously unfriendly came faintly, interrupting Xian Yuqi's self-indulgence.
"Hmph, little friend Zhang Heng, we still have important matters to discuss. You old man, just drink one bowl and that's enough. Don't drink too much and act like a drunkard."
Hearing this, Zhang Heng's gaze that was originally looking at the old man in black turned towards Li Baiyi at the other end of the table.
The old man in white also picked up the pottery bowl in his hand and began to drink. However, unlike Xian Yuqi's booze, Li Baiyi drank slowly and slowly, without any sign of urgency.
After drinking for a long time, the water in the bowl had only dropped by a quarter.
"Haha, you're right. You can tell me what happened to little friend Zhang Heng now."
After drinking, Xian Yuqi's hot temper seemed to have softened a lot. He didn't get angry after hearing Li Baiyu's words. He laughed twice and sat on the bluestone stool.
Nice romance
However, after sitting down, the old man's hands were not idle, but he once again filled the pottery bowl with wine.
Zhang Heng saw that the two seniors were in a listening posture, and he understood in his heart that it was time to start telling.
"That's it. Before I say anything, the two seniors must be curious about the identity of the junior."
As two old monsters who have lived in seclusion in the mountains for many years, it is normal for them not to encounter unfamiliar faces all year round. Just because Li Baiyi and Xian Yuqi didn't tell them, it didn't mean that they didn't want to know.
Since Zhang Heng had said before that he wanted to ask for help from others, he would naturally try his best to satisfy the other person's curiosity while stating his own needs.
If you still remain mysterious, how can you win the other person's trust?
"Yes, we really can't tell the identity of my little friend. Zhang is a big name, and there are many martial arts families among them. Zhou Qi and I have lived here for many years, and we already don't understand the current world of martial arts.
has changed. "
Li Baiyi nodded and explained.
This rhetoric is actually the product of his cover-up. You must know that he and Xianyu Qi are descendants of Guiguzi's sect. While they are proficient in martial arts, they are also superb in deducing world affairs.
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 Heng's ancestors.
Of course, the prerequisite for completing the above operations is that Zhang Heng is indeed a child of a well-known martial arts family.
But Zhang Heng's true identity is a world breaker from another timeline. There is no possibility for him to exist in the current world.
In the words of the seventh-generation bionic bionic Hamilton, this person’s Minkowski unit is zero.
A person who has no connection with the real world is like an island in the sea.
No matter how superb Xian Yuqi and Li Baiyi's deduction abilities are, they are unable to determine Zhang Heng's origin.
"Have you two seniors ever played chess?"
Zhang Heng smiled slightly and did not directly explain his origins. Instead, he 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 more ancient game Go?"
Li Baiyi gently placed the pottery bowl in his hand on the table and said.
"Chess."
The young man's eyes are bright and his speech is clear.
"Of course I have played chess before. I think I often played chess with my master when I was young, but I was not good at chess and lost nine times out of ten..."
As if Zhang Heng's topic brought back memories of the past, Li Baiyi raised his head and looked at the sky outside the cave, his eyes full of memories.
"Of course you can't beat Master, you stinky chess player. Fortunately, Master is still a descendant of the [Vertical] faction. If he was from the [Horizontal] faction, I'm afraid he would have hacked you to death long ago..."
Xian Yuqi, who was drinking wine at the side, seemed to have heard something interesting. He 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 refused to play chess with Master, otherwise it would be my turn to scratch your head?"
Li Baiyi's face gradually became angry, but his eyes were extremely warm.
This was a memory of when he and Xian Yuqi were young. Although it was not a beautiful memory, the feeling of having elders by their side was always better than now.
"Well, that's not because the master wants to train you and me. I practice swordsmanship and you practice swordsmanship. If the sword is not strong, it will be disadvantageous. If I squat in the room and play chess with the master like you every day, my kung fu skills will not be as good as I am now. .”
Saying that, Xianyu Qiyou picked up the wine bowl and drank the fine wine in one gulp.
As if he thought what Xian Yuqi said was reasonable, Li Baiyi did not refute for the first time, but turned his doubtful eyes to Zhang Heng.
"My friend asked us if we can play chess. What does this have to do with your identity?"
Zhang Heng smiled when he heard this and crossed his fingers in front of him in a relaxed posture.
"The two seniors must have used the art of vertical and horizontal to deduce me, right? It seems that senior Xianyu Qi did it just now on the way to get the wine, right?"
As soon as these words came out, both Xian Yuqi and Li Baiyi had unnatural expressions on their faces. After looking at each other, it was Li Baiyi who asked.
"Yes, my little friend is very good at predicting things. I did make some deductions when I went to pick up the wine on Saturday, but the result..."
Having said this, Li Baiyi glanced solemnly at the old man in black.
"Hmph! Nothing has been revealed! Either my academic skills are not good, or there is something wrong with the vertical and horizontal techniques passed down by my ancestor!"
The wine jar he had just picked up was placed back on the table, and the wine inside fluctuated, creating ripples.
Xianyu Qi’s originally curved mouth
The corner of his face became more and more serious, and his taut face allowed Zhang Heng to understand the inner unhappiness of this person without any hindrance.
Seeing this, Zhang Heng hurriedly raised his fists and saluted, a small apology to the old man in black.
"Senior Xianyu Qi is unable to deduce the origin of this junior, not because there is a problem with the Zongheng technique, but because this junior is not from this world at all. In other words, this junior is like the pawn in chess who crosses the river boundary. It's from the 'other side'."
After explaining, Zhang Heng closed his mouth and waited quietly for the two old men to digest the information in their words.
After thirty breaths, Li Baiyi raised his head first, looked at Zhang Heng with interest and murmured.
"People from another world, pawns across the river... it's really interesting..."
"Is it possible that Master's original guess was correct? Is this world really not the only one? Are there other worlds?"
A look of surprise appeared on Xian Yuqi's fierce face. Although there was still some disbelief in the words in his mouth, the look in his tiger eyes was that he believed most of it.
"Zhou Qi and I just believe what you said. Since my friend is a guest from another world, there must be something important to do to cross the river boundary. There is no one else here, but it doesn't matter."
He felt curious, like a little kitten whose fur was still young, scratching Li Baiyi's heart all the time. At this moment, he wanted to know the purpose of Zhang Heng's coming here so much that he didn't even try to protect his immortality. The image of Daogu began to urge him.
"I have only one purpose here, and that is to preserve the human race!"
All the emotions in Peach Blossom's eyes converged, and in the end only heaviness and determination remained.
Zhang Heng spoke calmly and said something that made both Li Baiyi and Xian Yuqi stunned.
"The human race is in danger of being exterminated? How is that possible?!"
The two old men frowned deeply. It is not that they have never deduced the development of the human race, but because such deductions require a huge amount of effort, the time interval between each deduction is relatively long.
And when it comes to situational issues involving the development of the human race, there usually won't be too many variables.
Just like a 10,000-ton ship that cuts through the waves, it is impossible to change its course because of a small sailboat.
Unless you encounter an iceberg hidden under the sea.
"Monday, weren't you the one who deduced the overall situation last time? What happened?"
Like a tiger about to roar, Xianyu Qi questioned the old man in white across the table.
"At Master's request, the development trend of the human race is deduced every fifty years. It was indeed me who made the deduction last time, but there was no problem. The human race can flourish for at least a thousand years..."
Li Baiyi was also anxious. He was indeed not as good as Xian Yuqi in martial arts, but he was the unrivaled number one in deduction. Ever since his master left Hexi, he considered himself to be the only deduction master in the world.
Seeing that Xian Yuqi wanted to ask more questions, Zhang Heng immediately spoke and interrupted the anxious old man in black.
"Senior, don't be anxious. Senior Li Baiyi's deduction was not wrong, he just ignored a very small detail."
"Ignoring the small details... It's impossible. Those small things will not affect the development of the human race at all. If they are really similar, at best, they are just shaking the tree, not overestimating their own capabilities..."
Li Baiyi murmured, at this moment he was still doubting the accuracy of the information Zhang Heng brought.
“But sometimes it’s the little details that are easy to overlook that change the overall situation, isn’t it?”
"this……"
For a moment, Li Baiyi was speechless, and an old figure unconsciously appeared in his mind.
"Bai Yi, remember that a thousand-mile embankment is destroyed by an ant nest..."
