Hearing this question, the old man's eyes showed a hint of shame.
He seemed a little embarrassed to speak, so he glanced at the black mirror cube.
Then, he said in a low tone:
"The so-called protagonist, in my world, refers to a main character, the center of everything. You can understand it as the main character in a drama or a story.
Lin Xiaolu, did you ever think you were the most powerful person in the world? Think everything exists because of you? "
Hearing this question, Lin Xiaolu nodded without hesitation.
He often had this thought when he was a child. I think I am so powerful and everything revolves around me.
"Where's Master Wugou? Have you ever had this thought?" the old man continued to ask.
Wugou also nodded hesitantly. He had this unrealistic fantasy when he was a young novice monk, but it disappeared later, much earlier than Xiaolu.
By the stream, the well-fed old man saw the two of them nodding and laughed at himself:
"Like you, I have always felt that I was the protagonist, especially since I was obviously doing nothing and only being an ordinary delivery boy, but I encountered time travel and the two standard templates for the protagonist in the system. , which undoubtedly strengthened my idea. After all, I have read many novels and anime about our world, and I know that this is the standard treatment for the protagonist!"
When he said this, the old man seemed very excited, as if he was remembering his first time traveling and his excitement when he first discovered that he had a system.
After all, in his perception since childhood, since these two things have appeared at the same time, who else is the protagonist if he is not the protagonist? It was written like this in almost all the novels he had read!
He knew very well that if it were other people like him who encountered these magical events that he encountered, most of them would have the same thoughts as him.
By the river, the old man looked at the back of his maid Xiaohua fishing, his expression gradually returned from excitement to reality, and finally became expressionless. He only took a deep breath of the tube and spit out a large piece of unpleasant and choking white mist.
"It's a pity that I let the system down. I originally traveled through time and I was the protagonist, but when I actually completed the first mission issued by the system and the mission failed, I finally understood that I am just an ordinary person. Ordinary people who can’t be defeated by dog monsters.”
The old man held his chin with one hand, holding the tube between his fingers, and said rather unwillingly:
"I am neither the kind of warrior king with superhuman skills who can fight one against ten, nor am I a thoughtful and wise man with an absolute mind.
In fact, I am not as good as many ordinary people.
I thought that because I had the system and was a time traveler, I could be invincible in the world, but the result was that I used a carefully laid trap to deal with a dog demon with a level of Qi Condensation, and was bitten and seriously injured by the dog demon. In the end, I developed a fever. Oh my God, there was no cure, and I almost died in the end.
And the dog demon actually escaped from the trap in the end. I didn't get any reward. I only got the severe pain when my arm was bitten by the dog demon, and the despair of almost dying.
The pain and despair made me weak, so I was afraid of pain and suffering, and was used to living a comfortable life. I never went out again, and cried and shouted all day long asking the system to send me back. "
Hearing these strange self-narrations of the old man, Lin Xiaolu and Wu Gu were both stunned, and they didn't know what to say for a moment.
At this moment, Old Man Zhang broke all Lin Xiaolu's impressions of worldly masters, making him feel caught off guard.
Smoking a strange object, the old man Zhang in front of him looked bitter, and seemed to be dissatisfied with his performance. His tone was full of ridicule:
"Usually, when I brag about my awesomeness, I and the friends around me are all heroes who are not afraid of pain or death. But only when I really do it, I know how unbearable I am in the face of danger and pain. In the end Even the system thinks I can't hold up the wall with mud.
People like me have no character at all. I spend all day dreaming and hoping for pie to fall from the sky. I think that with a system, I can become the protagonist and be superior to others. I am arrogant enough to treat you I think the world is a game, and all of you are characters in the game. I even later felt that the system was too low-level and felt that he should just give me all his abilities, magic weapons, and methods. I also took it for granted that I ignored his advice that he did not temper my character and gave me rewards that would only lead to me going crazy. Thinking about it now, I was really too young and ridiculous at that time. "
Hearing Old Man Zhang's strange words, Lin Xiaolu frowned in confusion:
"So... Old Man Zhang, you are not actually a big boss?"
The old man sighed and shook his head:
"Although I don't want to admit it, the system doesn't allow me to lie, so I'm not. I'm afraid of pain, hardship, and fatigue. I just want to get something for nothing."
After saying that, he raised his head and shrugged at Lin Xiaolu.
"I'm sorry little guy, the old man Zhang you know is just an ordinary person, and I let you down."
Lin Xiaolu pursed his lips and said nothing.
From the beginning to the end, he felt that the storyteller, Old Man Zhang, was a peerless master. He even thought more than once that he might be on the same level as Senior Li Er. Even though Old Man Zhang himself had never said that he was, he really didn't expect it. , the truth is actually such a situation.
As for the future system that Old Man Zhang mentioned, he thought it should be something similar to chance.
At this moment, Wu Guo on the side listened in confusion and asked Old Man Zhang:
"Old benefactor, since Senior Li Er feels that old benefactor can't help him in his future life, why doesn't he find someone else to care for him?"
"That's because the system is bound to me."
The old man explained: "The future life can only exist in the future. It can only use people from the future and cannot affect the present. Therefore, if you want to exist in the present, you must have a host. Isn't it the same for Xiao Yu'er? The past life has entered Xiao Yu'er. The body cannot come out directly, so the past and future lives cannot exist directly. Only the present life can exist in the present in the form of reincarnated living beings."
After finishing speaking, the old man continued to tell the secrets about himself, sat on the grass and wandered:
"Later, because I was afraid of death and pain, I was unwilling to accept any more tasks. After all, the bloody injuries and physical pain were real, so I hid.
The system changed several tasks for me one after another, but I refused to go out. Finally, it issued a peaceful task for me. "
Having said this, he looked at Xiao Yu'er, who was sitting cross-legged and motionless.
"This task is to arrange for Xiao Yu'er to become a disciple of Li Mingru, who is highly recognized by the system.
As long as she grows up under Li Mingru's guidance and eventually neutralizes the extraterrestrial, the system will promise to take me back to our world and give me the Nascent Soul Realm cultivation that was not available in our time. "
Having said this, the old man became excited again, and said excitedly to the two of them with a red face:
"You don't understand. My Nascent Soul cultivation is enough for me to be invincible in our world. With just teleportation, I can make everyone in the world unable to do anything to me. I can also do things for the country and become a super Hero, or become the protagonist of an urban cool novel!"
