"Old man, how can I sell this turtle?"
Zhao Lin stood in front of the stall selling turtles in the fish and bird market and asked the old seller.
After solving a murder case, the pressure on him was greatly reduced. Zhao Lin asked Liang Song and others to patrol the streets, while he went to the fish and bird market near the pier.
The market is not big and only sells some ornamental goldfish, koi, parrots, and mynas, as well as small animals and insects such as rabbits, turtles, crickets, and grasshoppers.
The purpose of his coming here is to find inspiration and see if there is a suitable animal soul to absorb.
The Spirit Beast Map transformed him from a frail boy into a warrior with both strength and speed, as well as extremely strong hearing.
There are still six empty spaces in the map, so you need to plan ahead.
He once imagined that he could absorb the souls of certain animals or insects with special abilities and transform himself into Spider-Man or Mantis.
I tried several times, but all ended in failure.
For example, if you step on a spider to death, you can indeed see the spirit, but the spirit animal map cannot absorb it.
When he went into the mountains to hunt exotic animals before, he also killed birds by the way, with the same result.
The reason should be the limitations caused by different body structures.
Zhao Lin felt that he had touched the underlying logic of the spirit beast map absorbing spirits: spirits can only strengthen the abilities he already has, such as strength, speed and hearing.
There is nothing that can be done about abilities that require special organs, such as flying and spinning silk.
After all, he has no wings, silk glands or poison sacs.
Zhao Lin walked around the fish and bird market, but didn't see any strange animals. When he was about to leave, he suddenly saw a stall selling turtles in the corner of the market, and he couldn't help but feel moved.
The turtle is also known as the golden turtle, and is also known as Xuanyi Duyou and He Bo.
It is best known for two features: its strong shell and extremely long life.
The turtle's carapace is not skin, but exposed bones, so this specialty cannot be obtained due to body structure.
But what about longevity?
As a time traveler, Zhao Lin certainly yearns for immortality, but unfortunately this is the world of martial arts.
Practicing martial arts cannot lead to longevity, but at most it can extend your lifespan. Even if you practice to the extreme, it will be difficult to break through the human lifespan of one hundred and twenty years.
In fact, due to injuries and injuries, most warriors do not live as long as ordinary people.
As the saying goes, a thousand-year-old king is a thousand-year-old turtle. Can I absorb the soul of a turtle and live a long life?
There were several large shallow bamboo baskets placed in front of the old turtle seller, containing more than a dozen tortoises of different sizes and shapes, including grass turtles, mountain turtles, green turtles, and golden-threaded turtles.
Zhao Lin was about to step forward to ask, when a young man in brocade clothes and a servant came next to him.
The young man in brocade clothes held the cricket cage in his hand and asked the old man with a smile: "Hey, old man, how long can you live like a bastard?"
The old man glanced at him and said, "This bastard can live for three generations of your family. How long do you think he can live?"
The face of the young man in brocade changed, "Why are you talking?"
The old man secretly cursed him and his whole family as bastards.
The old man ignored him, threw a few young leaves and rice into the bamboo basket, and said to himself: "Son, eat well and don't bite people."
The face of the young man in brocade clothes turned green and red for a while, but he couldn't get angry.
Zhao Linxin said that the old man was quite bad-mouthed, but the young man in brocade was the first to be rude. No matter how much he retaliates, he would be mean to tease him first.
He walked up and asked: "My father, how can I sell this turtle?"
The young man in brocade turned around and saw Zhao Lin dressed as a headhunter. He didn't dare to pester him anymore and led the people away angrily.
The old man said: "Come back to me, the small tortoise is three cents, the big tortoise is five cents, the eagle-billed tortoise and the golden-threaded tortoise are more expensive."
Zhao Lin didn't understand the difference between turtle species, so he just said: "Which one will live longer? Pick one for me."
The old man stroked his beard and smiled and said: "The longevity turtle is the one that lives a long time. It can live for a hundred or two hundred years if it is raised well. There is a longevity turtle in my family that my father raised since he was a child, and it is still alive and well."
"There's a little one here, do you like it?"
like?
Zhao Lin thought that the turtle would surely die if he got it into his hands.
"Then I want this long-lived turtle. How much does it cost?"
"Six cents..."
Zhao Lin paid the money, carried the long-lived turtle tied with straw rope, left the fish and bird market, and walked all the way to the river.
He found a place with few pedestrians, untied the straw rope, and said to himself: "It is fate that we meet, and today is the day you die."
Turtles are timid by nature. As soon as they are let go, their heads and limbs retract into their shells and remain motionless.
Zhao Lin was not in a hurry, took out the iron ruler, sat aside and waited.
In fact, with his current strength, he could kill the turtle with one punch, but he was not prepared to do so.
Because based on past experience, the better preserved the body is, the stronger the condensed soul energy will be.
A few months ago, when the Zhao family still lived in the village, Zhao Lin occasionally went to the fields to help and once conducted experiments with locusts.
Breaking off the locust's head or crushing it to pieces with one foot, the former's essence will be clearer, while the latter will take longer to condense, and the color will be dim and weak.
Zhao Lin was worried that breaking up the turtle might affect the quality of its soul, so he decided to give it a whole corpse.
After a while, the turtle relaxed his guard and stuck his head out of the shell.
Zhao Lin had quick eyes and quick hands and hit it on the head with an iron ruler.
Snapped!
The turtle died.
Silver light rose and gathered above the corpse, gradually condensing into the turtle's appearance during life.
The spirit animal picture started to vibrate...
Zhao Lin's heart beat fiercely, and he actually reacted!
This means that I can absorb the soul of the longevity turtle and have the ability to live a long life!
Although he cannot live forever, he can at least live for tens or hundreds of years longer.
Zhao Lin couldn't wait to absorb the soul, but out of caution, he took another look at the spirit beast map and immediately found something wrong.
Why has the grid turned black?
It was pitch black in the grid of bears and blackhorns, and nothing could be seen, as if they were still.
Although the horseshoe bat's grid has not turned black, it has also turned gray, with only a trace of white mist spilling out.
what's the situation?
Zhao Lin was startled and took two steps back, watching the longevity turtle's spirit disappear before his eyes.
Since all three grids have changed, it means that as long as you absorb the soul of the longevity turtle, you can certainly gain longevity, but these three special abilities are likely to be affected or even lost!
At this time, he looked at the spirit animal diagram again, and all three grids returned to their original state.
Strange, why is this happening?
Zhao Lin frowned and thought about the reason behind it, staring at the slowly flowing river without moving.
I don’t know how long it took, but he suddenly smiled knowingly, “I understand!”
There are two reasons why turtles live so long.
The older animals in nature age, the more their cells age and their body functions gradually age.
Turtle cells are special. Human cells can divide for fifty generations, while turtles can divide for more than a hundred generations, and their aging rate is slower than that of humans.
This is an innate factor.
Another reason is metabolism.
Apart from eating and sleeping, turtles seldom exercise and have a small amount of activity. Their metabolism is also extremely slow.
If you absorb the turtle's soul, you will not only gain the ability to divide cells, but your metabolism will also become very slow.
However, both strength and speed require a high basal metabolism.
The two are contradictory!
This is why the checkers of bear bears and impalas are darkened.
After thinking about this, Zhao Lin couldn't help but secretly thought it was dangerous.
Fortunately, I didn't absorb the soul of the longevity turtle. If I lose all my abilities, what's the use of living longer?
Although the turtle has a long life, it’s better not to let go of such a spirit!
