Gu Zhilin paused for a moment before shaking his head and saying, "No, I didn't formally take on a master. I studied at a Taoist academy, mostly through self-study. The masters there are similar to teachers, but if you insist on calling them masters, that's not bad. There were also some fellow disciples studying with me."
Lu Jin'an felt that it should be similar in nature to the combat academy, so he didn't ask any more questions.
Gu Zhilin continued walking forward, but stopped at a booth with a tortoise shell design.
His dark eyes were fixed on the tortoise shell in the display case, and the few copper coins next to it.
Lu Jin'an clearly sensed that the other person's mood was off and was about to ask.
Gu Zhilin quickly looked around again and, sure enough, found a giant saber, taller than a person, next to the tortoise shell.
Lu Jin'an didn't know the name of the sword, but he felt that such a huge sword couldn't be used by humans, and its weight was not suitable for combat.
However, Gu Zhilin reacted strongly to the knife and the tortoise shell from before.
He turned his gaze back, placed his hand on the protective cover of the tortoise shell, and his eyes seemed a little moist.
"What's wrong?" Lu Jin'an asked worriedly.
But then Gu Zhilin's voice trembled slightly as he said, "This is mine."
"What?"
“I said this tortoise shell, copper coins, and that saber over there are all mine. I thought they were all lost, but I didn’t expect…” Gu Zhilin’s voice choked up.
This tortoise shell was given to me by an old master when I first started learning Six Lines divination. He used it for many years, and he remembered every single line on it very clearly.
He handled copper coins every day; how could he not recognize them?
As for that saber, it would be considered an antique even in the 21st century.
It's a weapon passed down from the academy; I obtained it after defeating everyone in the academy.
Because it was so big and heavy, it took him many years of hard work to master the swordsmanship of this saber.
Although he doesn't use it often, these are all traces of his existence in the 21st century.
It gave him the feeling that he had truly lived in the 21st century.
Lu Jin'an originally brought him to the museum hoping that seeing familiar things would cheer him up, but he never expected that he would find his own things.
Gu Zhilin looked longingly at the things inside the protective shield, and suddenly felt a little sad. They were his own things, but he couldn't take them away.
He suppressed his reluctance and turned back to Lu Jin'an, saying, "They'll be well protected here, right?"
Lu Jin'an nodded. He understood the other party's reluctance and knew that once it entered the museum, it no longer belonged to a private individual but to the Earth Alliance.
He didn't know how to comfort the other person.
"It's alright, as long as I know they're okay." Gu Zhilin sighed. "If I miss them in the future, can I come here to visit them?"
“Of course.” Lu Jin’an nodded.
"Actually... I just feel that seeing them makes me feel like I'm truly alive."
Frozen for a thousand years, he awoke to find the world drastically changed, and he could not find any evidence of his own existence.
Lu Jin'an understood the other person's loneliness.
Having seen his own items, Gu Zhilin lost interest in the other exhibits.
I spent the entire afternoon there with the tortoise shell and the machete, only leaving when the museum closed.
This time, Lu Jin'an didn't offer to take Gu Zhilin home, but instead told him to go home on his own and be careful.
Gu Zhilin, feeling conflicted, didn't think about why the other party had changed their career path and simply got into his flying car and left.
Little did he know that after he left...
Lu Jin'an made a phone call to her father.
Lu Shiyu was somewhat surprised to receive a call from his son, because his son had been independent since childhood. Usually, when they, as parents, didn't contact him, the boy would never contact them.
"You don't seem to be working lately? Why did you suddenly decide to contact your dad?" Lu Shiyu couldn't help but tease.
"Dad." Lu Jin'an sighed helplessly at his father's unserious behavior, "I wanted to ask, is there any way to get the items from the Alliance Museum out?"
"What's wrong, son? Our family isn't short of money. What do you want to do with the antiques?" Hearing his son's request, Lu Shiyu stared wide-eyed at his son in the holographic image.
“Who told you I was going to steal it?” Lu Jin’an felt that he didn’t get along well with his father. “I said I would get it through legitimate means.”
"If we use the proper methods, then things will get a bit complicated." Lu Shiyu stroked his chin. "You should first tell your dad what exactly you've got your eye on."
"It's not me, it's my future partner."
"That ancient person?" Lu Shiyu was naturally aware that his son's best partner had been predicted by the computer, but he had always been skeptical about it.
After all, his own son knows very well that the concept of a partner has never been in his vocabulary.
It was only in order to drive the "Brilliant" vehicle that I decided to go find the other party.
Didn't that ancient person reject you?
Speaking of this, Lu Jin'an recalled the last time Gu Zhilin told her to wait for him. The man smiled and said in a good mood, "So we're future partners. I think it should be soon."
"Okay, since he's your future partner, what has he chosen?" Since my son says it will happen soon, he must be confident.
“A tortoise shell, three things called copper coins, and a saber.”
"What is that turtle shell?" Lu Shiyu had thought the other party would be interested in something related to technology, but he didn't expect it to be a turtle shell.
"Yes, I brought him to the museum today, and he recognized those things as his."
Lu Shiyu was initially surprised by the ancient man's taste, but now he spoke up.
He imagined that if he entered an unfamiliar environment and found something he used to own, he would really want it.
"Did he ask you for it?" Lu Shiyu asked, raising an eyebrow.
But Lu Jin'an shook her head: "He didn't want it, he just said he would come to visit often in the future, but... I think since it's his, shouldn't we return it to him?"
Lu Shiyu almost laughed in anger when he heard his son's words: "Since when did the things excavated by the Earth Alliance become private property? Lu Jin'an, where did you learn your Alliance Law?"
Knowing he was in the wrong, Lu Jin'an still asked persistently, "There's no information in that thing, can't we really return it to him?"
"He said it was something that could prove he existed."
Upon hearing this, Lu Shiyu sighed and said, "Alright, I'll go think of a way."
After saying that, he hung up the phone, without caring about his son's feelings.
But Lu Jin'an was very happy. Since her father said he would think of a way, there was a good chance that there really was a way.
He glanced back at the museum and for the first time felt a strong urge to go in and steal something.
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