Seemingly unconsciously, the old man walked back to the open space where they slept last night. A layer of dew accumulated on the chair made of tree stumps, but the old man didn't care so much and sat on it after dropping his bag.
He wiped his face, as if to make sure the tears had not flowed down when he wasn't paying attention, but fortunately his wrinkled face was dry.
He was glad he didn't cry.
"Why are you still following me?"
The forest guard suddenly discovered Li Mo's existence. He wanted to drive him away, but now he was not even in the mood to sigh.
"I want to go back too, but I have no money and I have lost my luggage."
Li Mo took out his pocket, which was empty except for a few leaf residues. He followed the old man's example and sat on the tree stump opposite. The dew immediately soaked into his pants, making him feel uncomfortable.
But he understood that the most uncomfortable thing now was the old man in front of him who was trembling all over.
"If you want to go back, you can only wait until the cooldown time of the transfer magic is up. If you use this kind of ultimate move once, you have to wait for a long time before you can use it again."
"Come on, it's just that your magic power supply is not enough. Your sickly body is not suitable for magic at all."
"Haha, did you reveal your secret?" Li Mo said haha to cover up his embarrassment.
"Did you use transfer magic to get here?"
"Yeah." Li Mo nodded.
"No wonder you calculated when she would come." The old man smiled and tried to ask the other party, "Then how did you calculate that you could find me? If you didn't find me, would you really have let her do whatever she wanted?"
"How could it be? I already said hello to her when I came here. She couldn't enter the forest. Now she's blocked outside and can't come in either."
Sure enough, I was set up by this young man again.
He has paved a way out from the beginning and has no intention of putting anyone in danger, but he can still threaten others with these non-existent things without any hesitation. Just thinking about it makes people angry.
"Seven percent of the truth is mixed with three percent of the lie. It's really a clever method."
The old man's eyes with blood rushing to his head were filled with murderous intent, which made Li Mo break out in cold sweat.
"What? You were fooled yourself. This is the battlefield between you and me. The loser can't complain."
"In a few days, when the magic power is restored, get out of here, and don't appear in this forest again. There is no water for you to drink, no food for you to eat, and even the rain that falls here, you can't. You can't touch it, you should live your life comfortably in your office, you should find someone..."
The old man didn't seem to want to delve into it, he just kept chattering.
"Old man, are you such a talkative person?"
Li Mo, who had been listening quietly, suddenly murmured softly.
"You should..."
The words faded and then fell into silence.
Li Mo sat in front of him and understood everything from his eyes.
"Why don't you go back if you can't bear it?" Li Mo asked, "If I look back at that time, old man, you will definitely not be able to help but look back, right?"
"Who knows what hasn't happened?" He raised his head and glanced at the young man, "And if you want to take me back so much, why don't you look back?"
"That's what I thought. Your daughter is right. You are a hero. You should not live a life of sleeping and sleeping in the woods every day." Li Mo spread his hands.
"She is probably the only one who thinks I am a hero."
"There's still me." Li Mo pointed at himself and said.
"I could have been a hero! It's because of you! Ahem..."
The anger that came up stuck in his mouth, making the old man cough. He took out a small bottle of wine from his bag, unscrewed the cap and put it to his mouth.
The wine Li Mo knew was made from potatoes and corn. It was very popular in the army in the early years. Many of his subordinates liked to drink it. It was very strong.
"Didn't I tell you not to drink?"
Li Mo wanted to grab the bottle from his hand, but as soon as he finished speaking, the bottle slipped from the old man's trembling hand.
The wine that fell on the ground trickled out of the bottle and soaked into the sand.
"hateful!"
shouted the old man, and in a rage he threw the bottle cap into the sand that had been used to bury last night's campfire.
"I told you to stop drinking."
Li Mo picked up the wine bottle and poured the last bit into the soil.
"I don't want to drink anymore. This is the last bottle." The old man took a breath and let Li Mo pour out his wine, losing his previous anger. "You haven't answered my question yet. What do you say? Get the answer."
"Because you said you have your reasons. In this case, I have no reason to meddle."
"Don't you mind your own business too much? If you really didn't want to mind your own business, you shouldn't have come in the first place."
The old man's voice was hoarse, and Li Mo noticed that he actually smiled. However, the old man was not laughing at the contradiction between what he did and what he said, but more like he was laughing at himself.
"Kid, you have grown up and changed."
The old man clearly remembered the boy who said "Kill them all" with an expressionless face.
But his shadow at that time seemed unable to overlap with the boy in front of him now.
"Is that so? I don't have much consciousness. After all, it was a long time ago. At that time, I was just... so tall." Li Mo gestured with his hand to show his height at that time, which was similar to that of himself sitting down.
"I have indeed grown up."
The distance between the palm and the ground is filled with visible years.
But when I hold it with my hands, I can't catch anything.
"But, I feel like I haven't changed at all. Even the sun will compromise with the wind and rain for a while, but I am never willing to compromise with growing up. This is my last little willfulness when I was a child, and now It’s probably my greatest pride as an adult.”
He stood up from the tree stump with his legs, put on his usual smile, dropped the empty wine bottle in his hand and handed his hand to the old man.
"I want to ask you one thing, old man, let me see the dragon too."
