I became an old man in my leisure time

Last night, Gu Ke really didn't want to experience the feeling of being wrapped in wet and cold mist, the cold air penetrated into the joints of his bones, and fainted again.

Basking in the sun, he closed his eyes, recalled what he saw and heard after waking up, and thought in his heart.

The eldest lady should be a relatively important and key person, and the performance of Sister Bai... is a bit interesting. She has been testing his, or the little eunuch's background, and she also wants to know the news of other people down the mountain.

Then why didn't she go down the mountain to see it herself? Was she feeling safe and worry-free or was she careless, or was there another reason?

Why didn't the original owner eat and rush here overnight?

What happened down the mountain? Will anyone of the group of people with the original owner come up and find that he is not like the original owner?

Amidst the disturbing thoughts, a few quarters of an hour passed.

Until a slight noise came, Gu Ke opened his eyes and saw Sister Bai walking over with a short girl.

Sister Bai was holding a roll of bedding in her hand, while the short girl was holding a large bowl of hot porridge, with wisps of hot steam rising.

After a while, Gu Ke felt that he had drunk the most delicious wheat porridge in his life, provided that there was really wheat in the bowl.

He had never farmed before, and he said millet porridge just because that thing was somewhat similar to this large bowl of thick hot porridge.

As for the scratching of the throat, whether it was bran or debris, he didn't care anymore.

After a mouthful of hot porridge, his whole stomach seemed to come alive, clamoring wildly-I want food!

After drinking the hot porridge, Sister Bai had spread the bedding on the worn-out futons for him to use as a floor mat, and then told the short girl to explain the rules here and left.

The short girl just agreed, squatted beside him and watched him curiously finish the hot porridge, and then chatted with him casually.

Then Gu Ke found that the girl might not be here to teach the rules, because she went off topic after just a few words.

Such as whether it is fun down the mountain, whether there are rivers, trees, fields and prey, what did he do before he met Xiao Jiji, all these things only reveal one meaning - gossip.

But Gu Ke did not hate this girl.

This is not because she is only 1.4 meters tall but has the strength of a D-level player, nor is it because her legs when squatting squeeze her pectoral muscles more eye-catching, it is purely because she is innocent.

She is just curious, curious about things she does not understand.

...

In this way, Gu Ke settled down in the left side hall.

A bowl of porridge every morning and evening - yes, except for the porridge for breakfast on the first day, which is still thick, it is all porridge afterwards.

He was not dissatisfied.

From the short girl, she learned that her surname was Xiong and her name was Xiaoman.

Gu Ke felt that she should at least change one character, from Xiao to Da, which might be more accurate and vivid.

The Bai sister in her mouth is named Bai Suqing, and both of them are now maids of a certain young lady.

Before coming here, they were all reserve maids in the training department of the Dawu Dynasty. They could only be called maids before they officially entered the palace.

Xiaoman didn't know why the eldest lady brought a group of maids to live in the desolate Yulong Peak.

Gu Ke didn't ask Bai Suqing.

It was Bai Suqing and Xiaoman who brought him into the ancestral mausoleum and told the eldest lady, so that he had the opportunity to receive treatment from the eldest lady.

There is no doubt that these three people have saved his life.

Gu Ke was not a good person in his previous life, but he was a clear-cut person. It was impossible for him to turn against others because he was rescued and then turned against them because of poor food.

Besides, Xiaoman and the others ate almost the same. They had some pickles a few days ago, but now they have none.

The eldest lady should eat better, but it is limited, because... they didn't bring much food.

Hearing the news leaked by Xiaoman, who had no ulterior motives, Gu Ke felt even more strange: so many maids and servants were sent to serve the mysterious young lady, but they only provided manpower but did not prepare food. What was this operation?

So on the third day, he asked Bai Suqing for permission and began to walk outside the ancestral mausoleum.

The most important rule here is not to disturb the young lady, so as long as Gu Ke does not go to the main hall, no one will care what he wants to do.

In the ancestral mausoleum, besides him, there are only the young lady, Bai Suqing, Xiaoman and ten other maids.

Gu Ke walked in the wasteland outside the ancestral mausoleum with a dead branch about 1.5 meters long that he searched for as a walking stick and self-defense weapon.

Next to him was the lively and active Xiaoman. She couldn't sit still and heard that Gu Ke was going out to find wild vegetables and food today, so she followed him immediately.

Bai Suqing did not stop him.

Well, it shouldn't be because Gu Ke, a little eunuch, is too weak and his strength is not as good as Xiaoman. Someone comforted himself in this way.

Xiaoman chattered as she walked.

Her voice was a little low, not as sharp as that of an average little girl. Although she spoke a lot, it didn't make people feel noisy.

Besides, Gu Ke was very interested in what she said: "I walked around the door a few times a few days ago and found that there were only weeds and shrubs here, and there were no wild vegetables..."

"I used to be very good at finding wild vegetables in the mountains in my hometown..."

"There are not even big trees here, and there are no berries on the ground..."

"Ah, this place is too bad, worse than my hometown..."

Gu Ke interrupted her from time to time and asked her a question. The more answers he got, the tighter his brows frowned.

What Xiaoman said was right. The barrenness of the plants here exceeded his expectations.

In most wilderness areas, even in semi-desert areas, you can find some edible things.

For example, underground plant roots, branches, leaves and fruits of trees, flowers and plants, and snakes, insects, rats and ants can also be eaten in emergency survival.

But where Gu Ke and Xiao Man walked, there were only low and scattered weeds and shrubs. The two searched and searched separately, but did not find anything edible.

What's more outrageous is that there are not even snakes, insects, rats and ants here.

Gu Ke remembered that when he climbed Yulong Peak that night, there seemed to be no insects or birds along the way.

Living in the left side hall these days is also terribly quiet. There are no traces of mosquitoes, snakes and rats in the dark corners, and even the most common spider webs in movies and TV dramas are gone.

And Xiao Man mentioned the stone gate when entering the Yulong Valley, and the army soldiers and patrol guards of the Zhenfu Division who "escorted" all the way but did not come in in the end.

If this was an ordinary ancient world, Gu Ke might think of the valley as saline-alkali land, heavy metals, radiation and the like.

But Xiaoman mentioned that there were warriors who practiced martial arts in the Dawu Dynasty, and there were also evil and terrifying monsters in folk tales, as if it was foreshadowing that the Dawu Dynasty ancestral mausoleum in Yulong Valley was abnormal.

However, Gu Ke just took note of these and was not too nervous.

Having experienced a lot, he is not afraid of death now, and of course he does not want to die.

There is no contradiction between the two.

Not afraid of death means seeing the dark side a lot and living a second life.

But being alive, living comfortably, is not a bad thing.

Gu Ke took Xiaoman around the ancestral mausoleum hall for a long time, and took some dead branches and weeds back by the way.

Because Xiaoman said that there was not enough firewood here, and he had to get some shrubs and weeds to supplement it every day, so he could only boil water and cook.

Gu Ke once again confirmed how "luxurious" it was that Bai Suqing and the eldest lady were willing to take him in and provide him with a little hot water and porridge every day.

In this situation, most people would be kind enough to give him a bowl of cold water and let him fend for himself in the side hall.

…

In the blink of an eye, it was nightfall, and Gu Ke huddled in a corner wrapped in a thin blanket.

Two bowls of porridge a day could only maintain basic living needs.

Walking outside and picking up some dead grass and shrubs was okay, but he didn't need to do any heavy physical work.

So after returning from going out, he would lie down wrapped in blankets to reduce consumption and maintain body heat.

In his mind, he was thinking about the situation he had inquired about in the past few days, and from time to time he thought of some things in his previous life.

After the ups and downs of his mood, he gradually calmed down.

The past life is like smoke, and the present life is insignificant, but that's all.

Thinking of this, suddenly a roar sounded from afar, and fell on Gu Ke. The roar was slightly crisp, like a girl.

He was slightly startled, and then he heard another cry.

At the same time, there was a rumbling sound of gas explosions.

Listening to its direction, it was from the main hall.

Gu Ke hesitated for a moment, and decisively lifted the blanket and stood up.

He had heard Xiaoman say that a warrior could be as strong as an ox, and that the masters in the legend could split mountains and rocks, and he was very interested.

Hearing the noise at this moment, maybe someone was fighting.

Affecting innocent people? On a day like this, Gu Ke was afraid of being affected.

He would not be stupid enough to rush into the most dangerous place, so he could just check from a distance.

If he was unlucky like this, then he was unlucky.

Walking quickly to the gate of the left side hall, Gu Ke suddenly found that a full moon shrouded in a light gray-red mist rose in the sky without him noticing. It turned out that today was September 15th.

But under the moonlight, everything was also covered with a layer of red and gray that seemed to be there and not there, which made people feel uncomfortable.

Squinting slightly, Gu Ke walked along the path of the passage towards the main hall in the middle, which was higher.

During this period, the roaring wind and the woman's voice kept shouting, but he noticed that the rhythm of the noise was slowing down, and things seemed to be over.

He quickened his pace and finally arrived a few dozen meters away from the main hall.

At this moment, his vision blurred for a moment, and then two shadows, one red and one white, shot out from the corner of the main hall and passed him in an instant.

Gu Ke turned his head subconsciously and heard a shrill howl. The white translucent mist suddenly turned and rushed down towards him.

"How dare you!" The familiar girl's cry sounded, and the crimson flame followed closely, blocking him in front of him in an instant and colliding with the white shadow.

Boom!

Gu Ke's eardrums roared in the sound of airflow, and the whole person rolled out in a twilight.

"Death to the weird creature!" The second cry sounded.

Boom!

A more violent airflow came, and Gu Ke, who was rolling a little slower, accelerated to the second stage and continued to roll.

The roar disappeared immediately, but his ears were still buzzing.

"Usable energy source - soul source detected, the Xiuxian master player system can be activated."

"The soul source is too far away, please get the soul source as soon as possible to complete the activation."

Gu Ke was dizzy and dizzy, and he was stunned when he heard the voice echoing in his mind: What the hell is this?

Wait, what system?

Is it... system?

Yes! System! System!

For a moment, Gu Ke felt extremely uncomfortable, but his heart was so excited that it seemed to jump out of his chest.

The mood at this moment, perhaps only the feeling of a poor person winning tens of millions or hundreds of millions of lottery tickets can be compared with it.

Faintly, a voice seemed to say something not far away, but he didn't hear it clearly.

It wasn't until someone supported his shoulders and he turned from lying on his side to sitting on the ground that Gu Ke barely suppressed the ecstasy in his heart.

Looking up, he saw a person who looked blurry and double in front of him.

He pressed his head with both hands, closed his eyes and rubbed it hard for a few times. His scalp hurt. Gu Ke opened his eyes again and pointed to his ears: "Sister Bai, I still have some tinnitus. What did you say just now?"

The person who helped him up was Bai Suqing. She looked better after hearing this, but her face was still serious: "Why are you here?"

Since Gu Ke came here, he naturally had a plan in mind: "There was a lot of noise just now. I was worried about you and Xiaoman, so I came to see you. If you need help, I can help you."

As he spoke, his eyes moved to the girl in a red robe a few meters behind Bai Suqing.

She stood sideways with her hands behind her back and her head facing him, which was a bit arrogant and distant.

Could this... be the legendary young lady? He muttered in his heart, but he did not stare at the other person, but observed with his peripheral vision.

Her body suddenly trembled slightly, and she coughed a few times and then barely stopped.

Gu Ke found that there seemed to be a small piece of crimson on the ground in front of the girl.

He couldn't help but be shocked: Is this... injured?

Then he thought about it and doubted himself: Could it be that he was injured by the translucent mist monster because he helped me block that attack just now!

"Su Qing, there is a strange crystal over there, go and collect it." After the red-clothed girl said this, her figure flashed, and she flew over the eaves again and returned to the main entrance of the hall.

Gu Ke watched her leave, and his eyes swept over the place where she stood just now, confirming that there was really a small piece of crimson liquid there.

With his experience in the lower class, he was 80% sure that the shape was blood, but the color of this blood was much brighter than that of ordinary people. Under the scarlet moon, the deep red blood beads faintly emitted a faint light.

"It's okay, go back to sleep, don't come here casually in the future." Bai Suqing looked at Gu Ke deeply, turned around and found a gray-white translucent crystal on the ground not far away.

Gu Ke looked at the crystal in her hand, and a prompt sounded in his mind: "The soul source is found, and the system activation can be completed."

He remained silent: This is obviously the spoils of the young lady, why did he get it? You can't tell others that you have a system.

Bai Suqing's eyes were very subtle just now, and it was obvious that his sudden behavior caused some suspicion.

Most people would not go to trouble themselves.

And Gu Ke's body is almost as weak as a chicken, even worse than Xiaoman, so it is naturally suspicious to approach him.

But there are gains and losses.

It is precisely because he is too weak and it is almost impossible for him to threaten anyone that Bai Suqing became suspicious and gave up investigating.

But it is impossible to give him that strange crystal for nothing.

Gu Ke got up silently, returned to the left side hall under the crimson moonlight, and lay on the floor.

"System?" He called out in his mind tentatively, but unfortunately he never got a response, so he could only sigh and give up.

...

The next morning, Xiaoman came to deliver porridge, but Gu Ke, who had been tossing and turning in the middle of the night, had not gotten up yet.

After calling a few times, he finally opened his eyes, rubbed his dry eyes, thanked Xiaoman, and asked about what happened last night.

Xiaoman was at the scene anyway, and knew more than he did when he arrived later.

And this matter was a big "big deal" among the maids, almost everyone was frightened, but they couldn't help but be curious.

As long as two or three people got together, they would talk about what happened last night.

Xiaoman went to the kitchen to help after opening the door in the morning, and she heard almost everything.

But she was small and unfamiliar with them, so she didn't dare to interrupt.

Gu Ke asked at the right time, and she chattered about what she had experienced last night and what she heard from others, and talked about it in a mess.

While drinking porridge and listening to Xiaoman's casual narration, Gu Ke roughly understood what happened last night.

First, the maids heard the ugly cry of the strange creature first, and Xiaoman also heard it.

Then, the lady in red suddenly appeared and fought with the strange creature.

Finally, it was the part that Link saw, the strange creature was blown to ashes by the lady, leaving only a strange crystal.

After listening, Gu Ke asked: "So the thing last night was the evil and weird strange creature in the legend?"

Xiaoman nodded: "Yes, fortunately the lady is powerful, otherwise we would all die in the hands of the strange creature..."

Gu Ke didn't care about this, because Xiaoman, who came from a poor mountain valley, didn't know what level the lady's strength was.

"Have you heard of the strange crystal?" He asked again.

As a result, Xiaoman shook his head blankly, obviously he had never heard of it.

It seems that the soul source (strange crystal) required by the system is not a well-known common sense. Gu Ke sighed in his heart: In this case, it will be more difficult to get the one that Bai Suqing took away.

After dinner, he took Xiaoman out as usual and continued to explore the area around the Ancestral Mausoleum.

What made Gu Ke sigh in his heart was that after the attack of the strange creature last night, Xiaoman and the maids did not receive any instructions.

No alert, no sealing, no prohibition of wandering, nothing.

Before, it might have been that the young lady was generous, but after she seemed to vomit blood last night, Gu Ke couldn't help but feel shrouded in clouds: I'm afraid it's not that she doesn't want to, but that she can't do it.

And Bai Suqing asked him about the situation at the foot of the mountain, but Xiaoman said that no one from the maids went down the mountain.

So, those people at the foot of the mountain... have they been abandoned?

With a lot of thoughts in his mind, Gu Ke still got up every day to eat and explore the surroundings, without showing any abnormality.

This wait lasted for half a month.

On the first day of October, Gu Ke finally asked Xiaoman to take him to find Bai Suqing.

The sky is overcast today, and wisps of mist are flowing in the mountains. The autumn coolness of the past few days has now brought with it the slightest hint of winter chill.

The maids rarely go out unless necessary.

But when Gu Ke saw Bai Suqing, she was sitting on the stone platform on the side of the hall, leaning against the stone pillar behind her, looking at the gloomy sky, her eyes wandering, and she looked like she was distracted.

The slightly raised face reveals one side of the lower jaw, as well as a slender and white neck. The curves are pleasing to the eye and the color is bright and white, as if it was carefully carved by a master.

Gu Ke asked Xiao Man to wait for him at the entrance of the Ancestral Mausoleum Hall. He strolled to stand two meters away from Bai Suqing and said, "Sister Bai, are you running out of food?"

Bai Suqing's eyes slowly retracted from the air, condensed, and then lowered, falling on his face.

The silence lasted for almost half a cup of tea before she nodded: "Yes."

Gu Ke: "Miss, do you have a solution, or...do you have one?"

Bai Suqing smiled calmly: "You are much more careful than others."

Gu Ke was not happy about this compliment, but just waited for the answer quietly.

Bai Suqing seemed to be a little more interested. A pair of faintly green eyes glanced at him, only to find that he looked very different from the one he saved more than ten days ago.

After thinking about it for a while, Bai Suqing realized that Gu Ke's demeanor and posture looked bland at this time, which was somewhat similar to her own.

Well, this man behaved the same way when the monster attacked that night.

But at that time, most of her mind was on the eldest lady, so she didn't pay much attention to it.

But then she thought about the desperate situation she was in now, and there was really no need to hide it.

So Bai Suqing nodded slightly: "She shouldn't have it, and I certainly won't have it."

Gu Ke always paid attention to her expression, and felt more confident after seeing this: "I have searched around here, and there is nothing edible, and there should be nothing down the mountain, so... we will definitely starve to death?"

Bai Suqing nodded again.

Gu Ke could deduce this situation from the details, so naturally he couldn't hide it.

Moreover, he is weak and has no ability to threaten Xiaoman. What's the use of knowing about it?

Doesn’t the eldest lady know about this? Doesn’t Bai Suqing know? They all know it, but it's useless. They can't get out of here at all.

If the little chamberlain gets mad after hearing this, then let him go first.

Rather than starving to death, being killed instantly is not that bad.

Gu Ke didn't know that the seemingly gentle and calm eldest sister in front of him was thinking about how to send him on his way without pain. He just followed his preconceived idea and asked: "Then, what if I can find a chance to survive?"

Bai Suqing's eyes moved slightly: "What do you want?"

She didn't think that Gu Ke's solemn interview was just to do good deeds every day.

"I want that weird crystal." Gu Ke said, "It's the one left behind by that weird thing."

If the eldest lady still has other strange crystals, he is not sure that there is the soul source that the great player system of cultivating immortals needs.

Bai Suqing frowned: "What did you do with that thing?"

Gu Ke: "No way?"

Seeing his calm face, Bai Suqing couldn't help but emphasize: "The magic crystal is useful for those who only practice the three rounds of the magic clan's heavenly spirit. Ordinary people can easily be deceived by it. If you are so weak, you will become weak faster." ”

You have a weak kidney! Gu Ke subconsciously complained in his heart, and then thought about the current condition of his body, and suddenly felt the sadness in his balls.

After a moment of silence, he put away his nostalgia for the important spare parts of men in the past and said: "You can watch from the sidelines. If I really turn into a monster, you can do whatever you want."

Bai Suqing was startled when she heard this and couldn't help but laugh: "That's right, you won't be you by then anyway."

The so-called deception is the process of transformation into a deception.

This process is irreversible, at least Bai Suqing has not heard of it, and at most it can only be delayed.

But with Gu Ke's weak body, which has never been cultivated, he will lose his human consciousness in a day or two at most, and his life will have nothing to do with him now.

Gu Ke struck while the iron was hot: "Then, deal?"

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