"Let's go, take me to see your research." Zhan Yue learned wisely this time, and did not let go of the hawk before seeing the rabbit.
"Okay... okay." The old man did not refuse and led Zhan Yue to his home.
After walking around half of the city, Zhan Yue finally saw the old man's home deep in an alley. To Zhan Yue's surprise, the old man's home turned out to be a large courtyard. In an academic capital where land is at a premium, it is rare to have such a large courtyard.
"Is this your home?" Zhan Yue said while looking at the courtyard, which was large but already desolate and dilapidated inside.
"Yes, my ancestors were from a wealthy family, and I still have a title. However, others have almost forgotten about me." The old man replied. He even forgot what kind of title he was considered to be in his generation. Woolen cloth.
"What do you call it?" Zhan Yue asked again, following the old man into the courtyard. The courtyard was very dilapidated. It had not been cleaned for a long time. The ground was covered with fallen leaves and moss grew on the stones.
"My name is Bai Bole, and now everyone calls me Old Monster Bai." The old man replied, leading Zhan Yue straight to the largest main room.
Zhan Yue followed him in and sighed as he looked at the empty room. The furniture inside must have been sold by the old man long ago. "Do you live alone?"
The old man nodded, "Yes, I also married a wife when I was young, but my wife couldn't bear it and left me." After speaking, the old man touched the top of his head, and the white hair on his head turned out to be Dai's hair. cover, there is gray hair under the hair cover.
Zhan Yue's eyes widened, "Are you a person with a death contract?"
The so-called Death Contractors are the type of people who are returned to mortals after the contract object of the contractor is broken. They are even more pitiful than mortals. After all, mortals still have the opportunity to become Contractors, and Death Contractors are not only about the same strength as mortals. , has no chance of rising, so his status is the lowest among all. This was the first time Zhan Yue saw a dead contracter, because it was rare for him to survive despite the broken contract object.
"Hey, when I was young, I also practiced Xuanzhe. It's just that I didn't know when I offended someone I shouldn't have offended, and ended up in this situation. My cultivation was ruined and my wife ran away." The old man looked a little depressed.
"How did you keep such a big property?" Zhan Yue looked at the house. Can an ordinary person with no cultivation really keep such a big property?
The old man was stunned for a moment and said in confusion: "Why keep it? No one comes to trouble me."
"No one has troubled you for so many years?" Zhan Yue asked puzzledly. Every inch of land in a school is precious. The courtyard covers a large area. It doesn't look like wealth that an ordinary person can keep. The old man actually said that no one has bothered you for so many years. I'm afraid it's not simple to come to trouble him.
"No matter, it's just a trivial matter. Come with me." The old man turned a lampstand on the wall, which turned out to be a mechanism. As the mechanism opens, a secret door appears on the wall. After entering the secret door and going down the stairs, Zhan Yue came to a basement. The basement was illuminated by transparent stones. It was not dark, but it was very messy, densely packed with all kinds of strange things.
"This is a study on a single-person flying vehicle." The old man said, pointing to a rocket backpack-like thing.
"This is a half-invented mysterious weapon that I originally invented. Even ordinary people can use it. In theory, it is very powerful." The old man pointed at a half-assembled thing that looked like a sniper rifle.
"Well, there is a night dire in this cage. It is possessed by a mouse and can't get rid of it. I paid a lot of money to get this for me from a mysterious monk, specifically for research." The old man Holding a cage, the cage is covered with cloth to prevent it from being illuminated by the transparent stone. There was a rat in the cage, which should be said to be a rat mummy. However, the mummy could move freely because it was possessed by an extremely weak night dire, and it was sealed in the rat's body by some unknown means.
Seeing these things, Zhan Yue was convinced that what the old man said was not entirely a lie. He seemed to be really doing research.
"Then you haven't researched anything really useful in all these years?" Zhan Yue asked in confusion.
The old man said with a grimace: "I don't know what's going on. In the beginning, I will be very interested in a certain topic, and even forget to eat and sleep. But as soon as the research progresses halfway, I will immediately lose interest and give up halfway, even if I know it is It's wrong, but I just can't control myself. However, I will find a new research topic immediately, and repeat it again and again, and finally achieve nothing. It's like being cursed. In recent years, I have basically sold out everything that can be sold at home, so I can only I went outside to solicit sponsorships, but after all, only a handful of people were willing to sponsor me.”
"Curse?" Zhan Yue's eyes lit up. The Goddess of Brightness said before that the old man was cursed, but now he was very sensitive when he heard these two words. "Are you saying that no matter what you do, you will give up halfway?"
The old man nodded, "Before, I was very happy to use your money to study the habits of this Nightmare, but then one day I suddenly lost interest. I found a broken armor that no one wanted in an antique store, and found that That thing turned out to be a super ancient relic, so I started studying it again."
The old man took out the armor from the box under the table. The armor was made of steel and was now rusty. It was said to be an antique, but there was nothing strange about it.
"Is there anything worth studying about this thing?" Zhan Yue picked up the broken breastplate and looked at it carefully, but found nothing unusual.
"Of course you can't tell anything if you look at it like this." But the old man took out a glass bottle containing a bright red and black liquid, and then poured it on the armor, and the smell of blood filled the air.
"What is that?" Zhan Yue asked.
"Blood of ferocious beasts," the old man replied.
But he saw that the metal armor soaked in animal blood suddenly moved, absorbing all the blood, and then its texture became soft, changing from metal to something like animal skin.
"This? What is this?" Zhan Yue asked in surprise.
"I found some clues from the records in ancient books. This thing is probably the active armor of a super ancient civilization. I don't know more about it. I really want to study this thing, but unfortunately, I can't even buy more animal blood ones. All the money is gone." The old man said regretfully.
As he spoke, the animal skin-like armor turned into a metal form again, without any hint of mystery.
"It's really magical." Zhan Yue thought for a while. He was not short of money. What if this thing was useful to him? "You should keep the money first, and then contact me after you use it up. Just report it directly to the guard."
Looking at the large bag of purple gold coins, the old man's eyes sparkled. He doesn't like money, but spending money is indispensable for research. "Thank you very much, sir."
"You can't give up halfway this time." Zhan Yue said again.
"Definitely, definitely." The old man nodded repeatedly, but he was not sure at all.
After leaving the old man's home, Zhan Yue became more doubtful.
"Sister, do you see the identity of this old man?" Zhan Yue felt less and less that this old man was an ordinary person.
"It is true that he has no cultivation and is a death pact, but...someone is protecting him secretly, maybe he doesn't even know it." The goddess of transparency naturally noticed the person in the dark.
"Is there someone secretly protecting you?" Zhan Yue was not surprised, "Yes, how could an ordinary person like him guard such a large courtyard? There must be someone secretly protecting him, but he just didn't know it. Who was it?" Does anyone else see how extraordinary this old man is? Or is it the wife he mentioned who has left him long ago?" Zhan Yue only thought of these two possibilities, but there is no need to find out now, until he is free next time Come here again to see the old man's progress.
"Ancient reactive armor? It's interesting. It seems to be a very ancient thing. Even you, sister, don't know about it." Zhan Yue murmured, which was also a good gain.
