Chapter 126 I also know how to practice Tai Chi
The young Taoist shook his head. "I am not predicting the future, but rather deducing the cause and effect. If you want to forcibly change the result after the cause is known, you will have to pay a huge price."
"Then you have changed the cause and effect now. Your price is that you have changed from being in your fifties or sixties to being a young man now?" Lou Su felt that this was not a huge price to pay, right?
The young Taoist priest said, "In fact, I changed from an 18-year-old boy to the 50- or 60-year-old you have seen. I spent two years here recuperating to become what I am today. If you hadn't woken me up, I would have been a corpse and would have been lying here forever."
Several people took a while to digest what the young Taoist said.
It was like the young Taoist priest changed his fate and suddenly aged several decades. Then he hurried here and slept in the coffin, waiting for Lou Su to rescue him.
"You are the reason why I became like this, and you must be the one to wake me up." The young Taoist scratched his waist-length hair embarrassedly after saying this. "Sorry, I haven't introduced myself after saying so much. My name is Gu Xingxie, and I am a Taoist who has returned to secular life. I haven't asked for the names of these three people yet?"
"Can we go upstairs and talk? It's quite eerie in here." Ling Yao suggested.
Lou Su also felt that this was not the place to talk, "Our coordinates have been exposed, let's move to a safe place first!"
In order to avoid some stupid psychics coming to die, they decided to change their coordinates and take shelter.
They are not afraid of trouble, but they are afraid that once the superpowers start killing each other, it will play into Xiao Chou's hands.
After all, all the superpowers in the world have died, and the apocalypse is indeed over.
With the presence of Gu Xingxie, who is good at fortune-telling, their journey has become much easier. He can tell them which route to take to avoid the alien species and which direction has a safe place to stay just by calculating.
However, no one expected that the place where they finally stopped would be in front of a super large mutated banyan tree.
Its branches and leaves block out the sun, and its roots are attached to a building. There is no grass growing within a ten-mile radius, and there are no infected people or mutated animals.
They stopped right at the edge.
"Master Gu, are you looking for a few of us to lie in the coffin with you? What kind of road are you taking?" Ling Yao was looking at the banyan tree crown that seemed to have no end, and she was about to collapse.
"Don't stimulate it with strong light, or it will bite people when it wakes up." Gu Xingxie stretched out his hand to cover the flashlight that Ling Yao was pointing towards the sky.
Gu Xingxie explained: "As the saying goes, the most dangerous place is the safest. It is now in a dormant state. The building protected by its roots is very suitable for us to stay. As long as this fairy uses her supernatural power, its roots will not attack us."
Chu Xihen stared at him, "You were lying in the coffin before the end of the world?"
Gu Xingxie seemed to know what he was going to ask, and took the initiative to give the answer: "I can use the power of the stars to predict good or bad luck. Since this direction is auspicious, we came here and saw the banyan tree. Based on the characteristics of the banyan tree, we can also guess how to avoid it."
"No, wait, you were lying in the coffin before the end of the world, until Brother Lou came to wake you up?" Ling Yao then repeated Chu Xihen's question.
Gu Xingxie nodded, "Young man, what advice do you have for me?"
"Then you have never been pulled into a dungeon?" After Ling Yao said this, Lou Su and Chu Xihen were also surprised for a moment.
They certainly hadn't thought of this level and just assumed that everyone would enter the dungeon. So what about the living dead lying in the coffin?
"What do you mean by copy?" Gu Xingxie's eyes were confused. Then he saw a few lines of glowing words in the sky and shook his head. "I have never experienced it before, and it is a realm that I cannot figure out."
"No need to speculate, you will be able to experience it yourself in a few days." In the darkness, Lou Su and Chu Xihen looked at each other, then said, "Let's go in first."
Because Gu Xingxie was awakened by Lou Su's blood, and he was the one who pointed the way here, Chu Xizhi did not doubt him. She used her special powers and walked into the attack range of the banyan tree first. She made sure it was safe before returning to pick up the others.
Everyone entered the building wrapped by tree roots and saw that the first floor was full of various skeletons, both human and animal.
"Is this its garbage dump?" Ling Yao asked in a low voice for fear of disturbing the banyan tree.
"Let's go upstairs. No one can live here." Lou Su's voice was also very low.
Chu Xichi said at a normal volume, "No need to be so sneaky. It can't hear you."
After entering the roots of the banyan tree, Chu Xichi's supernatural power was always turned on, so he could feel its status.
They went up the stairs to the second floor, and the empty and clean ground made them feel much more comfortable.
"You can only use lamps, don't use open flames," Chu Xixi reminded everyone as they were setting up their tents.
Although this is common sense, Chu Xi's mind does not play by the rules.
Lingyao was the first to respond: "I know!"
After the four tents were set up in the four corners of this floor, everyone sat around in the middle again. Chu Xihen took out a bunch of food that did not need to be heated and placed it there.
The four of them had just come out of the dungeon not long ago, so they were not actually hungry. However, when Gu Xingxie saw those things, he swallowed hard.
"Excuse me, can I eat it?" he asked carefully and politely.
"Of course." Chu Xihen said.
After thanking him repeatedly, Gu Xingxie picked up a bag of bread and then a bag of instant noodles. He wanted to eat both, but he didn't know which one to choose.
"Don't be shy." Chu Xihen pointed at the things on the ground, "You can taste them all."
After all, it is normal for a person who has been lying in a coffin for two years to miss these foods.
Gu Xingxie's eyes lit up and he began to eat one thing after another, his face full of happiness.
While he was eating, Lou Su and Chu Xihen discussed the fact that Gu Xingxie had never entered the dungeon. "So there is actually a way to avoid the dungeon?"
"In a state of suspended animation, or brain death?" Chu Xihen looked at Gu Xingxie, "But his situation is very special, maybe it's just an isolated case."
"That's right." Lou Su asked Gu Xingxie, "Can you return to the state you were in before when you were lying in the coffin?"
Gu Xingxie replied: "No, my merits only bought me this one chance to regain my life. After I wake up, I cannot die again within ten years."
"What about ten years later?" Ling Yao asked.
"Then I will really die." Gu Xing Xie Si said nonchalantly: "I used up my original 70 years of life to change my fate, and now these 10 years are just what I gained."
"By defying fate, you mean you prompted Lou Su to find me?" Chu Xihen asked with a frown.
Gu Xingxie nodded, "Yes, I predicted that the world was about to face a catastrophe, but my master asked me to stay out of it, but I couldn't, so I was expelled from the sect... No, I returned to secular life."
"You've already said it. You were expelled from the sect." Chu Xisi was clever and knew how to hit people where it hurts.
Gu Xingxie shook his head seemingly indifferently, but quickly changed the subject, "Although I don't know what you are doing, I would like to recommend myself. I am the fifth person chosen by you. Please accept me!"
Chu Xihen looked at the fifth chosen one in front of him, "Besides running after the evil, do you have any other practical means of killing the enemy?"
He didn't deny that predicting the fate of the enemy was already very powerful, but he hoped that the fifth team member would have some hard skills to fight the enemy. After all, they were now wanted by the whole world and it was impossible for them to hide forever.
Gu Xingxie thought about it, stood up and posed, "I also know how to practice Tai Chi, does that count?"