The most shameless alchemist in history

At that moment, a sound came from behind. Du Lei stared blankly and quickly saw a boy who looked to be about ten years old walking over. He was holding a curved knife and left shallow footprints on the ground as he walked.

"Hey, is there someone over here? Hey, who are you?" The little boy quickly noticed Du Lei's presence and asked warily.

“I am… Dure, who are you?” Dure hesitated for a moment before telling the little boy his name.

He didn't know why, but he felt a sense of familiarity when he saw the little boy.

"What? Your name is Du Lei? Then who am I? Are you kidding me? If you're going to impersonate me, at least make it believable. Someone like you dares to impersonate me?" The little boy scoffed, leaving Du Lei completely stunned.

"What did you say? Impersonating you?" Du Lei was a little confused for a moment.

“Yes, I know that I, Uncle Du Lei, am very famous in this area, but you can’t impersonate me like this, that’s not right!” the little boy said in a pretentious manner.

"Impersonating you... I didn't impersonate you. Wait, you mean your name is also Du Lei?" After a brief moment of surprise, Du Lei quickly frowned, thought of a possibility, and asked in astonishment.

“Of course, I am Dure, Dure from Hot Spring Village!” the little boy said proudly.

"Du Lei from Hot Spring Village... wait, you mean, this is Hot Spring Village?" Du Lei was initially a little confused.

But gradually, he seemed to find some clues, and he immediately asked the little boy.

"That's right, this is a hot spring village, a tourist village famous for its hot springs. The hot springs in the village are amazing. Soaking in the hot springs can relieve fatigue, beautify your skin, and even fight aging. It's just too good to be true! How about it, aren't you tempted? Here's what we'll do: when you go to the mountaintop bathhouse, just mention my name and say that I recommended you. The owner will definitely give you a discount," the little boy said, patting his chest.

"The mountaintop bathhouse...is the owner of the mountaintop bathhouse named Hart?" Dure quickly remembered something and asked.

"Oh, you know Hart? Oh, so you're a regular customer. How boring." The little boy waved his hand, his interest vanishing instantly, showing none of his previous enthusiasm.

"What's the date today?" Du Lei continued to ask, looking both nervous and excited.

"I think you're crazy. Why should I tell you? Seriously. Alright, I have to get back to work. Don't hang around me if you have nothing better to do. Oh, by the way, go over there. This area is my territory. If you want to hunt, go somewhere else, understand?"

The little boy looked at the young man in front of him suspiciously; he couldn't help but find the guy suspicious.

However, there have been quite a few strange mercenaries appearing in the village recently, so he didn't take it too seriously.

"Am I... hallucinating? How can I see things from when I was a child, and so vividly..." Du Lei wasn't stupid; he quickly realized that the little boy was himself from back then!

Now he is watching his younger self doing everything he used to do, which shocks and utterly unbelievable him!

"What day is this again? Let me think about it carefully..." Du Lei thought quickly.

He tried hard to recall anything related to that day, and various images kept flashing through his mind.

These scattered fragments are memories of the past, but they lack a thread that can connect all the clues!

"What bad luck today! It's bad enough to run into a lunatic this early in the morning, but I can't even find a single prey. Waaah, am I going to go hungry? No, I have to hold on a little longer. I absolutely can't give up so easily."

The little boy not far away was shivering from the cold, and his lips were also frozen and turned blue and purple.

If it were someone else their age, they would probably be sound asleep by a warm fireplace at this time.

But he couldn't. With no family to rely on, he had to struggle to survive on his own.

"Huh, what's that over here?" Just as the little boy was feeling very frustrated, he suddenly made a discovery.

Because not far ahead was a trap he had dug earlier, used to ensnare his prey.

After all, he was too young. Although he could use tools, he wasn't strong enough.

If he encounters prey that is even slightly larger, he is completely outmatched.

To solve this problem, he had no choice but to resort to traps.

To do this, he dug many traps nearby, and if he was lucky, he could find some small prey.

If he encounters a large animal, such as a wild boar, and gets trapped in a snare, then he can find a way to capture it, which would be enough to feed him for many days.

"Did you catch any prey? I thought I'd go home empty-handed today, but it seems I'm pretty lucky today." The little boy, who had been a bit dejected, immediately went over to dig at the trap, since it had been covered up by the snow.

However, judging from the marks nearby, it's clear that prey has fallen into the trap.

Realizing this, the little boy excitedly dug in the snow, imagining what prey he had hunted.

"I remember this day was..." Du Lei, who was not far away, had been watching this scene the whole time, and he was thinking about it carefully in his mind.

As time went on, more and more fragments surfaced in his mind, and he was just a little bit away from remembering them all!

“That day… I went out to look for prey… but I didn’t find any… but I found that the trap was loose… so I dug through the snow, and then under the snow was…” Dure recalled carefully, and he remembered more and more details.

He continued thinking along this line of thought and soon made some progress; it seemed he was about to remember it.

"That's right, I dug him out of the snow!" Dure exclaimed, finally remembering what day it was!

Not far from him, the little boy, still filled with unknown emotions, excitedly dug at the snow.

"If it's a wild boar, then I can get through this winter without any problems. And I can even use the wild boar skin to sew a piece of clothing. What if it's a deer? That would be passable too. Anyway, I'm not picky. So..." The little boy excitedly dug around.

He soon made a discovery, just as he was feeling incredibly excited.

He suddenly realized something.

"Huh, what is this...?" He dug for a while, but what he dug out was neither a wild boar nor a deer.

Instead... a hand?

"I didn't come to the wrong place. This is definitely the trap I dug. What's going on?" The little boy was completely confused.

He even doubted that he had dug the wrong hole.

"I must have dug up the wrong thing. This is clearly a dead person. But... let's dig it out first. Maybe we can pull something valuable off it?"

If it were any other little boy, he would have run away in fright after seeing this.

But the little boy remained very calm, because to him, this scene was nothing.

He had done similar things many times before.

Before this, he had dug up many dead bodies in the snow.

Because there were so many dead bodies nearby, he couldn't figure out what was going on with those mercenaries and adventurers, why they always liked to come to the hot spring village... To be precise, their target was North Mountain.

Well, they came, but many people were caught in the blizzard and collapsed along the way, which puzzled the little boy greatly.

He really couldn't understand why these people were doing this.

At first, he was quite scared when he dug up the dead body; he still had some sense of awe.

But gradually, this fear disappeared, because he discovered that encountering dead people was not a bad thing.

Because these dead people were wearing weapons, silver coins, and other random things.

After they died, these things became ownerless.

In the little boy's opinion, it would be better to dig these things out than to let them lie dormant in the snow and ice.

This way, they can still be of value!

He held the same view this time as well.

So he was somewhat disappointed that it wasn't a wild boar or a deer.

But he still chose to keep digging, to see what he could find this time!

"Hey, I'm exhausted. This guy... looks pretty young, and his body isn't badly decomposed. He looks like he just fell asleep. Could he have died recently? But I haven't seen anyone with that face in the village lately."

The little boy tilted his head and looked at the person in front of him, feeling somewhat confused.

"Never mind that, let's check if he has anything valuable on him first." The little boy was used to this kind of thing, and he immediately reached out to feel around, but at that moment, his hand was suddenly grabbed.

"Huh?" The little boy was stunned for a moment. He saw that what was pulling him was a hand.

A hand that doesn't belong to him.

"This feeling is... no way? Has it come back to life?"

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854 Such a good relationship

Dure watched this scene as an observer, witnessing what had happened, and was greatly shocked.

He couldn't understand why he was there. He tried to leave, but there was no other way out except for the vast snow-covered mountains.

Moreover, the icy, bone-chilling feeling in the cold wind is so real that it cannot be an illusion or a dream.

"Hey, what are you standing there for? Can't you come and help me?" the little boy shouted at Du Lei.

"Help you? Help you with what?" Du Lei was still in shock and asked in surprise.

"Of course you should help me pull this person out! Look at him, he's still breathing!" the little boy shouted.

Dure was somewhat confused, because he remembered that he had dug the guy out of the snowdrift all by himself without asking for help from anyone else. But now it seemed that the little boy, who was himself back then, was asking him for help, which was different from his memory.

Despite his many doubts, he still stepped forward to help the little boy pull out the person who was almost frozen stiff.

"I thought he was dead. I didn't expect him to be alive. He suddenly grabbed my hand just now, which really scared me to death. I'm unlucky. I didn't find any food today, but I did find a bundle. Hey, don't just stand there! Help me carry this guy back. Look how skinny I am, how can I carry someone as big as him?" The little boy rolled his eyes at Du Lei and said.

Dure looked at the man the little boy had dug out of the snow. He looked to be about twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, with black hair and an Asian face. This face was so familiar to him that it shocked him.

Although he was filled with doubt and suspicion, he still carried the man on his back and followed the little boy's directions back to the village.

Of course, even without the little boy's directions, he knew the way back to the hot spring village.

After all, this is where he grew up, and he is very familiar with it.

Dure didn't understand why he was there, but he believed that everything existed for a reason.

Until he could leave, he had no choice but to go back with the little boy.

Before long, he carried the man back to the hot spring village, where a little boy greeted them from afar at the village entrance.

"Du Lei, are you back? Did you go hunting again today? Did you catch a wild boar or a deer? How about I come over for dinner tonight?" The little boy was about ten years old, about the same age as Du Lei. Compared to the unremarkable Du Lei, he was quite handsome and had a lot of potential.

Du Lei immediately recognized the little boy; wasn't he Black Wind?

"Go away, don't even think about coming to my house to freeload. I didn't find any food today, and I just found a guy. He was lucky to run into me, otherwise he would have frozen to death in the frozen snow." Little Dure said irritably.

"One person...not two? By the way, uncle, what's your name?" Black Wind asked Du Lei, looking him over suspiciously.

“My name is… Redu.” Redu couldn’t bring himself to say his real name.

"I told you your name isn't Du Lei, you have another name. Why did you have to impersonate me? Alright, Black Wind, get me some food from your house later." Little Du Lei suddenly realized that he had always thought that the guy couldn't possibly have the same name as him, so he just confessed!

"Du Lei, you know my family is very strict, I don't have a chance," Black Wind said somewhat awkwardly.

"Fine, since you don't have a chance, then when I catch some prey in the future, don't come to my house to freeload," Little Dure said irritably.