"Master Marquis, do you know that person below?" the deputy general asked doubtfully.
Huo Qubing shook his head.
"He was able to subdue that female devil... I thought that in this world, only the Marquis could subjugate her." The scholar in Confucian uniform looked at the mysterious man wearing a burnt black hat and robe, with a look in his eyes.
Shock emerged.
"He is very strong." Huo Qubing said in a deep voice, "I thought that I was the only one in the world who had reached that state... Now it seems that is not the case."
"You mean, he has also reached that realm?!" This time it was the deputy general's turn to open his mouth in shock.
Lin Qiye subdued the female prisoner purely by relying on the power of his body, so even they did not notice the fluctuations in his mental power. However, Huo Qubing's realm was far higher than that of the scholar and deputy general. He could naturally see that Lin Qiye was exuding energy with every move he made.
It smells like the ceiling of humanity.
Huo Qubing silently stared at the figure carrying the unconscious female prisoner in one hand and dragging several monster heads with the other, wondering what he was thinking about.
After a long time, he slowly spoke:
"Please go upstairs and talk."
Hearing Huo Qubing's voice, the man walked upstairs. After realizing that these monster heads were in the way, he threw them down the restaurant and carried the female prisoner up to the restaurant.
When he entered the room, the deputy general and others saw his face clearly, and the look of horror on his face became more intense!
Under the blackened bamboo hat, there was actually a young face. He looked about the same age as their Marquis. He had a broken sword hanging on his waist, and his aura was restrained, like an ordinary person.
Seeing how young Lin Qiye was, even Huo Qubing was stunned for a moment, looking a little strange.
"I have met the champion." Lin Qiye cupped his hands and said.
"Your name is Lin Qiye?" Huo Qubing asked, "Where is your ancestral home?"
"Um...ancestral home..."
Lin Qiye was startled and hesitated a little, "My ancestral home is Cangnan."
"Cangnan?" Huo Qubing turned to look at the scholar. The latter's face was also full of confusion, and he shook his head at him, saying that he had never heard of it.
"Looking at your age, you should be of the same generation as me. Why did you call yourself a junior just now?"
Lin Qiye hesitated for a moment, then took a deep breath and spoke seriously: "Because I come from more than two thousand years later, so I am naturally considered a junior."
As soon as he finished speaking, the restaurant fell into a dead silence.
Huo Qubing, the deputy general, and the scholar were stunned on the spot. After a long time, the deputy general finally spoke with a smile:
"More than two thousand years later? This little friend really loves to joke...hehehe..."
The Confucian scholar thought for a moment and said with some uncertainty: "Are you kidding? I don't think so... Nowadays, there are more and more strangers in the world. If there is someone who can transcend time, is it not impossible?"
"Yan Zhong, do you really believe that he came from two thousand years ago? That's two thousand years!"
"I'm just saying it's possible."
While the two were arguing, Huo Qubing kept looking at Lin Qiye, his brows furrowed tightly:
"Can you prove it?"
Lin Qiye's eyes swept over his whole body. Except for the crimson cloak under the bamboo hat and the Tian Cong Yun Sword at his waist, there was nothing that belonged to the original era. Fragmentary items such as mobile phones had long been shattered when traveling through time.
Lost.
Then rely on prophecies to prove your identity?
But the problem is that Lin Qiye, as an ordinary person who became a night watchman in the middle of high school, knows very little about history. His knowledge of this era is limited to Liu Che, the Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and the champion Hou Huo Qubing and Feng Langjuxu.
He doesn't know anything else... He can't tell Huo Qubing directly. After the Western Han Dynasty, there will be the New Dynasty and the Xuan Han Dynasty. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there will be three kingdoms, and there will be endless wars, right?
There is no way to verify this thing!
Lin Qiye struggled for a moment, and could only speak half-guessingly, "In the future, you will defeat the Xiongnu, climb Langju Mountain, and build an altar to worship heaven..."
The scholar glanced at him suspiciously, "The future? Wasn't that what happened the year before last... isn't it known to the whole world now?"
"..."
Damn it! How do those historical travelers in novels happen to know so much historical knowledge?
Lin Qiye cursed secretly in his heart, and then seemed to think of something,
"Master Hou, has the Evil Suppression Department been established now?"
Huo Qubing's pupils shrank slightly.
He turned to look at the scholar and deputy general, both of whom also looked confused.
Huo Qubing did have plans to establish a special office dedicated to suppressing evil spirits... But it was just a temporary idea. Except for the scholar, the deputy general and the unconscious female prisoner, he never told anyone else what happened to the young man in front of him.
knew?
"You..." The deputy general looked at Lin Qiye in astonishment. For a moment, he didn't know what to say.
Huo Qubing stared at Lin Qiye for a long time, turned around and sat down on the chair. He did not answer Lin Qiye's question, but slowly spoke,
"Have you had dinner?"
"……No."
"Sit down and eat something together." Huo Qubing said calmly, "Don't waste this table of food."
When Lin Qiye saw this, he didn't refuse. He sat down at the table and started eating with chopsticks.
After traveling through more than two thousand years in one breath, Lin Qiye felt hungry for a long time. Although this body seemed to be able to survive without eating, Lin Qiye would not miss the opportunity to satisfy his appetite.
Seeing Lin Qiye eating like a starving ghost, the scholars and lieutenants on the side had strange expressions. This young man who appeared out of nowhere seemed to be full of doubts.
Don't be the assassins who came to kill Mr. Hou?
Just when the two of them were on alert, Lin Qiye seemed to have remembered something, pointed at the unconscious female prisoner beside him and asked:
"Master Hou, who is this?"
"Death row prisoner." Huo Qubing glanced at the female prisoner and said calmly, "This witch has a weird ability. She can eat strangers who are weaker than herself alive and transfer their faces into her body. She just needs to replace the faces of those strangers.
, can use their abilities.
Moreover, as long as she swallows a stranger alive, she can graft the other person's lifespan to herself. As long as she keeps swallowing strangers alive, she can have immortality. The longer she lives, the stronger she will be and can swallow strangers alive.
More strangers... If they cycle like this, they will be immortal and extremely powerful.
The flaw is that the people she swallows alive will always exist in her body, torturing her mind, and the level of the ability she swallowed will be fixed. It takes a lot of time and energy to improve the level of a certain ability."
Lin Qiye nodded slightly. Huo Qubing's description was similar to what he saw in the files... and the stranger Huo Qubing mentioned should be the owner of the Forbidden Ruins.
According to Lin Qiye’s understanding, [Eternal Life Yan] is the only one among the many forbidden ruins that feeds on its own kind. It is also known as the most evil forbidden ruins because the process of collecting "Yan" can only be eaten alive.
, extremely cruel. But equally, the longevity and power it can achieve are beyond the reach of ordinary forbidden ruins.
If the seven great kings in the world were given personalities, then the fifth king [Eternal Life Face] would definitely be a ferocious evil king of immortality!
Although Lin Qiye knew about the existence of the fifth king's ruins, he had never heard of anyone owning this king's ruins. He couldn't help but asked in confusion: "What is the name of this prisoner?"