Start with a photographic memory and build a memory palace

Chapter 183 The Emperor cannot live forever!
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Just when the flower slave and the tentacles were having fun.

Suddenly, she froze and stood there in a daze, not moving at all.

Seeing this, Wu Wen immediately stepped forward.

He did not act rashly, but first checked why she became like this.

Not long after, Hua Nu came back to her senses, the smile on her face disappeared, and she showed an expression of confusion and curiosity.

"Hua Nu, what happened to you just now?" Wu Wen asked.

"I seemed to have had a dream." Hua Nu said with a look of nostalgia, "I dreamed of a very special place."

"Dreaming?" Wu Wen asked, "What kind of dream? Describe it to me."

Hua Nu replied: "There is no sun there, but everything shines by itself. There are all kinds of strange trees with no leaves on the trunks. There is no grass on the ground, but all kinds of mushrooms. Some mushrooms look like flowers, big and beautiful..."

After listening to her story, Wu Wen was thoughtful.

The dream scene described by Hua Nu should be the information transmitted to her by the tentacles on his body through the connection between the two.

And that strange place is where these tentacles grow.

Wu Wen remembered that the general of Gaochang Kingdom once said that there was a strange place under the ground of Gaochang Kingdom, which was like a fairyland.

There are all kinds of strange plants growing there, as well as some insects that are particularly large and have very long lifespans.

Look at the tentacles on Hua Nu again.

I didn't expect these things to have memory capabilities.

So doesn't this mean that they are very likely to have self-awareness?

Wu Wen suddenly drew out the dagger behind him.

With a quick swing, he instantly cut off several tentacles from the flower slave.

Seeing this scene, Hua Nu was immediately frightened. Seeing the tentacles being cut off on the ground, she seemed to be able to feel the pain, and her little face became sad.

Wu Wen took out several transparent crystal bottles and put the tentacles he had cut off into them.

Holding it in my hand and observing it carefully, I saw that the tentacles in the bottle were still wriggling even though they were separated from the main body, as if telling of their tenacious vitality.

Then, Wu Wen placed the crystal bottle on the table where he was doing the experiment.
A drop of clear sugar-salt water was added to the bottle.

When the broken tentacle in the bottle came into contact with the sugar and salt water, it immediately kept one end in contact with the sugar and salt water, and its body continued to wriggle, as if it was absorbing nutrients and preparing to grow.

Wu Wen added some sugar and salt water to each of them.

But as he was filling the last crystal bottle with sweetened salt water, an idea suddenly occurred to him.

He stretched out a finger, cut a wound on it with the dagger, and then dripped a drop of blood into the crystal bottle.

When the broken tentacle touched his drop of blood, it suddenly became extremely excited, and the whole tentacle was immersed in the drop of blood, as if trying to absorb it.

Looking at this abnormal reaction, Wu Wen recalled the test he had done before.

These tentacles are vegetarian!

But now they are so excited about their own blood?
Wu Wen began to analyze in his mind.

Is it because you don’t like chicken blood that you didn’t react to it at that time?

Or is it because he only has this reaction to his own blood?

Or is it because it urgently needs to absorb nutrients to recover itself after being broken, so it greedily absorbs blood?
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All kinds of questions come to mind.

In order to solve these problems, he needs to conduct experimental tests one by one.

There's no rush for this moment.

Wu Wen first took Hua Nu to where she lived and settled her down.

Then, come back and start slowly studying these magical tentacles.

After Wu Wen's various attempts.

He discovered that the vitality of these tentacles was indeed extremely tenacious.

They are like the roots of plants. Although only a little bit is retained, these broken tentacles will grow again as long as there are sufficient nutrients.

The only problem is that they grow very slowly.

According to Wu Wen's estimation, it would take at least several decades for these broken tentacles to return to their original state.

The tentacle that absorbed Wu Wen's blood suddenly shrank after absorbing his drop of blood.

Wu Wen thought something unusual would happen, but the result was indeed like this.

So, he just ignored it and threw it into a crystal bottle, added some water, and waited to see if any other situation would occur.

In this way, in the days that followed, Wu Wen practiced, cultivated tentacles, and taught flower slaves.

Instead of teaching her some cultivation stuff, he just taught her how to read and write.

Hua Nu's talent for learning is as outstanding as her eyes, and perhaps because she has lived a hard life, she is particularly able to endure hardships and never slacks off in her studies.

Everyone likes smart and hardworking children.

This meant that Wu Wen would always teach her when he had nothing to do.

That's it.

Time passes by day by day without us noticing.

Hua Nu is also growing up day by day.

Maybe she is really different. Compared with ordinary children, her body grows too fast.

I don’t know if it’s because she didn’t have a good life before, but during the days she was with Wu Wen, she seemed to have taken a growth accelerator, so in just over a year, she grew like a five or six-year-old child, and her mind was extremely mature.

Coupled with Wu Wen’s teachings and subtle influence.

Hua Nu loves learning very much. She reads books every day, just like a little scholar, and often accompanies Wu Wen.

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this day.

Wu Wen was still staying in the practice room as usual.

At this moment, there was a sudden knock on the door, and a guard's voice came from outside the door: "My Lord, I have something to report!"

"Come in!" Wu Wen responded. The door was pushed open, and a guard came in. He saluted Wu Wen first, and then said respectfully:

"My Lord, a strange man wants to see you. He did not reveal his identity, but said that after you see this thing, you will naturally go to see him."

As he spoke, the guard took out a piece of paper and handed it to Wu Wen.

Wu Wen took it and unfolded it with confusion.

There were no words written on the paper, just two wavy lines interfering with each other.

If other people saw this strange pattern, they would definitely not understand it.

But when Wu Wen saw the two wavy lines, he recognized their meaning at a glance.

Because these two wavy lines are exactly the patterns that he drew under the test of Li Chunfeng when his master Li Chungang taught him the secret of longevity. They are patterns that use numerology to express the changes of yin and yang: sine and cosine.

Wu Wen had never mentioned this pattern to anyone else.

I'm afraid the only people in this world who knew about it were Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang who were present at the time.

Today, someone suddenly came to me with this pattern, which means that this person must be related to Li Chunfeng or Yuan Tiangang.

Wu Wen folded the paper in half and put it away, then said to the guard, "Tell him to come to the study to see me."

He first came to the study.

Shortly after

The guard then led a man here.

Wu Wen looked up at the man in front of him who was wrapped in a black robe, and his brows slightly frowned.

Then he waved to the guards.

The guard immediately understood and retreated, closing the door.

Wu Wen and the man in black robe were the only two people left in the study.

The man in black robe no longer hid his identity. He slowly took off the hat on his head and the blank mask with only a pair of eyes on his face.

Then, a terrifying but extremely familiar face appeared.

"Uncle Yuan, it really is you!"

Wu Wen stood up and walked forward.

He frowned and asked seriously: "What happened? How did it become like this?"

He looked at Yuan Tiangang's appearance carefully at this moment.

Yuan Tiangang's entire face seemed to be crystallized. Under the light, his skin was translucent like crystal and exhibited a warm luster.

Wu Wen pulled up his hand and lifted the clothes covering his arms, only to see that the skin on his arms, like his face, had become crystal clear and warm.

Reach out and touch and explore.

Wu Wen discovered that Yuan Tiangang's body was not crystallized in the true sense, but only keratinized.

The main component of human keratin is keratin.

This polymer compound is hard, tough, and light-transmitting.

Therefore, Yuan Tiangang's body looks like it is somewhat crystallized.

Ugh!
Yuan Tiangang sighed, then withdrew his hand, and said with regret and helplessness in his tone:

"The elixir of immortality I made failed."

"Failed?"

Wu Wen was quite surprised.

Because, when Yuan Tiangang was refining the spiritual pills here, Wu Wen felt that the elixir customized by Yuan Tiangang had a great chance of success.

Unexpectedly, he failed, and it seems that he tested the drug on himself, which is why he ended up like this.

Just when Wu Wen was about to feel sorry for Yuan Tiangang.

He suddenly thought of another question and then looked up at Yuan Tiangang.

Even though the elixir of life failed to be refined and had such serious side effects on himself, this did not seem to affect Yuan Tiangang's coming to find him openly.

But at this moment, he came here secretly, hiding as if he was afraid of being discovered by others. Even when conveying information, he used such unique signals.

Wu Wen asked in confusion, "Uncle Yuan, what happened? Why did you come to see me like this?"

"Ugh!"

Yuan Tiangang sighed, then said with anger but helplessness:
"In fact, the reason why I failed to refine the elixir of life is because someone didn't want me to succeed."

"Someone tried to stop it? Who?" Wu Wen asked curiously.

Yuan Tiangang turned his head and looked in the direction of Datang, and said with emotion: "It's the people of the world!"

Hearing his words, Wu Wen's expression suddenly became serious.

Yuan Tiangang’s words “people in the world” represent that no one in the world wants the emperor to live forever.

If you think about it, this is also very logical.

An immortal emperor is an extremely terrifying existence for a dynasty.

From the perspective of interests, an immortal emperor is not in the interests of any individual or any force, so everyone is opposed to the emperor's immortality.

But this doesn't seem to be a reason for him to sneak up on me!
"Uncle Yuan, what's the matter that brought you here to see me?" Wu Wen asked calmly.

"I want you to help me escape to the Western Regions." Yuan Tiangang said.

When Wu Wen heard the word "escape" from his mouth, he knew that it was not that simple.

Seeing Yuan Tiangang's inquiring eyes, Yuan Tiangang pointed at his own appearance and explained:

"Although the elixir of immortality has failed to be refined, it is indeed real, so some people don't want me to live."

"Who is it?" Wu Wen asked.

Yuan Tiangang's identity is not simple. Wu Wen is curious about who dares to hunt him down.

Yuan Tiangang smiled helplessly, then said: "It's Master!"

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(End of this chapter)