"No need to thank me. After using this 'last gasp' talisman, your life will soon come to an end," Mi Li said calmly.
Zu'an was startled. "Tsk tsk tsk, the Empress is indeed ruthless. But I like this kind of ruthless, beautiful, and powerful woman..."
Han Zhong slowly shook his head: "I am not truly alive in this inhuman state. Thank you, Your Majesty, for freeing me from this predicament."
Mi Li gave a casual reply, clearly not caring much about the other person's feelings, but more concerned about something else: "How have you been able to live so long?"
"Back then, we were searching for the elixir of immortality for His Majesty. After many years, I found a sacred medicine among the legendary elves and refined it into a pill. Unfortunately, His Majesty was very suspicious and made me take it first. At first, it was fine, but soon the green hair on my body grew wildly, and then my mind became more and more fading. No matter what I tried, I couldn't slow it down. In the end, I became this inhuman and ghostly appearance, completely losing my mind and becoming a monster..." Han Zhong's tone was extremely calm, as if he were talking about something that had nothing to do with him. Obviously, the long years had made him indifferent to life and death.
Zaun noticed that he mentioned the elves in his words. He didn't expect that there were elves in their time. It seems that the Qin Dynasty in this timeline is not the one in my world.
Actually, Han Zhong's path to finding the elves wasn't entirely wrong. Back then, Qiao Xueying used her "Half a Lifetime's Fate" to give him half of her life force. If Qin Shi Huang had been able to find a large group of elves to share half of his life force with, he could have lived for at least several thousand years.
However, upon further reflection, he realized that the Half-Life Bond was the greatest secret of the Elven race. Few elves had ever used this ability since ancient times, and outsiders had no idea that they possessed it; otherwise, it would have brought about the extinction of the race.
Thinking of this, he felt a warmth in his heart. Xue'er was indeed deeply in love with him. Speaking of which, he really missed her after not seeing her for so long.
At this point, Mi Li continued to ask, "Then why are you here?"
"I don't know, I've lost many of my memories..." Han Zhong shook his head helplessly.
"And what about Ying Zheng? Did he find the elixir of immortality later?" Mi Li asked again.
"I don't know, at least not when I lost my mind," Han Zhong sighed deeply. "There's no such thing as immortality in this world. I've come so close to achieving it, but unfortunately, I'll only become a mindless monster. Even if I could live forever, how could that be considered immortality..."
At this point, his expression suddenly changed, and his gaze towards Mi Li turned to horror: "Your Majesty, why did you..."
Mi Li interrupted him directly: "Now it's my turn to ask you questions, not yours. By the way, I just noticed that the main deity in this Fishbone Temple is actually Xu Fu. Why is he worshipped? And the inscription even refers to him as the Supreme One?"
"Xu Fu? Xu Fu!" Han Zhong was initially bewildered, then suddenly clutched his head, his expression one of extreme pain. "I don't know, I don't know... Hahaha, you're all going to die... You're all going to die... No one can survive..."
Mi Li's expression changed, and she was about to ask him a question when she found that his voice stopped abruptly. Upon closer inspection, she found that he had already breathed his last, but his face still retained a ferocious and terrified expression before he died, as if he was facing something extremely terrifying.
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