One Piece God Bucky

Chapter 122 Ageless Spring

A long time ago, a young traveler traveled through mountains and rivers and came to a land where birds were singing and flowers were fragrant. Here, it was like spring all year round, and the scenery was pleasant. Everyone lived and worked in peace and harmony.

In the center of the island, there is a village dotted with houses. People are either sitting in front of the door weaving clothes, or working hard in the fields, or working in the orchard.

Such a favorable natural environment and unprecedented natural disasters have allowed the village to have a bumper harvest every year, and the conditions of having enough food and clothing have also created the hospitality of the villagers, who invited this traveler to live in the village one after another.

The traveler travels all year round. He has experienced the violent winds and waves in the sea, experienced the infestation of pirates, wandered through the ice and snow, and passed through the barren desert. He also recorded these past journeys in his notebook. This time, he wants to Live here and record this village, because he wants everyone to know that there are many places of suffering in this world, but there are also many places of yearning.

The low river bay at the head of the village is full of clear water, gurgling down, and the river twists and turns, seemingly endless, but the clear flow in the river reflects the blue sky and white clouds. Go out of your way to explore where the river ends.

There is a meadow outside the village, which turns into a green ocean every time the spring breeze blows, and the clumps of grass are like rolling waves, one wave higher than the other, passing layer by layer towards the distance.

The traveler lived in an independent vacant house in the village for half a year. The people here are enthusiastic and hardworking, but there are also strange behaviors. The door is closed tightly, no matter what happens outside, you will not go out.

Every time a traveler can't figure it out, he will sit on the grass outside the village and think quietly. This time, he has new doubts. People in the village are free from illness and disaster, but when they reach the age At the age of 50, he will die suddenly. In the past six months, he has experienced five funerals.

The traveler thought for a whole day and didn't know what was going on, so he went to find the only elder in the village who lived a hundred years old and asked him the answer.

The elder said: I reached the end of the river by accident and drank a spring. It was because of that spring that I was able to live so long.

The traveler asked: In this case, why don't the people in the village look for the spring water, so that everyone can live a long life.

The elder said: In the first 50 years, I had parents, wives, children, and friends. In the next 50 years, I lived alone. This is my punishment for eating the spring water.

The traveler didn't say it clearly on the surface, but he felt that the elder's thoughts were too ignorant. He packed his luggage and walked along the river alone, hoping to find the so-called spring water that can make people live longer.

The river meanders. Travelers walk along the river during the day and sleep on the ground at night. The next day, a thick fog began to form around the river. A melodious sound lingered in the ears of the traveler. A shell jumped out of the river. , flapping it, expresses his meaning with singing: young traveler~why did you come here~
The traveler was very surprised that a shell could speak, but he replied truthfully: I am here to find a spring that can make people live a long life.

Shell continued to express in singing: young traveler~ you better leave here~ there is no spring of immortality here~
The traveler sneered in his heart, didn't you just say it?If not, how could there be such a name as the Spring of Immortality?
So he ignored Shell's dissuasion and continued to move forward.

Finally, he walked out of the dense fog and came to the end of the river. This is a grass covered with bright red like blood. The beautiful scenery here shocked him, which he had never seen in ten years of travel. , Looking forward, at the end of the river is a stone statue that seems to be formed naturally. The mouth of the stone statue spits out some fresh water from time to time, and it flows into a stone bowl below the water, emitting a fragrance.

After the traveler drank the spring water in the bowl, he found that he had become much younger. His skin, which was exposed to the wind and sun for many years, became as smooth as a baby's skin. He knew that this was what he was looking for, so he left Some of the water from the spring was poured into wine jugs and brought back to the village.

This time, he visited the elder again and told the elder what he had experienced.

The elder shook his head again and again and sighed: After drinking the spring of immortality, you will taste the loneliness of eternal life, and you will no longer feel the real life, just like a walking dead living in the world, this is the punishment brought by greed .

After hearing this, the traveler turned pale with fright, and then left the village, like a passing wind, never to appear again. ——The whole book is over.

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The middle-aged man closed the book in his hand, and lovingly touched the little boy's head, "This is the end of today's story."

"Father." The little boy looked at the middle-aged man with twinkling eyes, "Will the traveler really live in loneliness forever like the elder said?"

"A traveler always takes risks alone. Even if he lives in solitude, for him, as long as he can explore the world, he is happy. He doesn't care about loneliness."

"Then why is he so nervous?" the little boy asked childishly.

"There are dozens of versions of the story of the fountain of youth, and the book in my hand is only the one that is closest to the truth, but the original words of the elders are not what they said. These are the stories of later scholars. Unauthorized tampering, the truth has long been hidden in the dust of history... My grandfather once told me the true ending of this story..."

"I want to listen, I want to listen!" The little boy dragged the middle-aged man and made a noise.

"Okay, okay." The middle-aged man imitated that tone.

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The elder said to the traveler: I didn't expect that you would really look for the spring of immortality. In fact, my long life is because I didn't drink the spring of immortality. This spring water will bring vitality to people, but it will make people sick. Every household in the village hides this spring water and consumes it every day, but the price is that this spring water will take away their life span. They start to drink this spring water from the age of ten, so they can only live up to 50 years old. The reason why I deliberately concealed it is because I don't want this kind of thing to be spread outside. However, when you take the first sip and open the source of desire, this switch can no longer be turned off, and here, too. will be the end of your journey, so I choose to tell you everything now.

After hearing this, the traveler turned pale with fright, quickly packed his luggage and fled the village.

It's just that after a long time, the figure of such a traveler can still be seen, wandering in the village.

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After the middle-aged man finished speaking, the little boy asked in confusion, "Father, can the spring of immortality make people live longer?"

The middle-aged man stopped silent until he heard the little boy's words: "I think this ending handed down from my grandfather should be the real ending. The so-called fountain of youth is actually a kind of herbal juice. It is short-lived vitality and youth, but most people in the world like to expose the magnificence to the sun, and leave the dilapidated and dross in the dark...

Cauchy, you have to remember that sometimes a country that looks prosperous on the surface is not necessarily the case. As a future monarch, you should learn to understand the people from the bottom, from those invisible corners, so that Only then will you know what they need. They are the cornerstone of the construction of Santan Sidi. If the cornerstone collapses, then our Santan Sidi will also be destroyed. "

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"Your Majesty... Your Majesty..."

The chief guard gently woke up Coxi, who had been exhausted for many days, from his sleep, "Your Majesty, you will catch a cold, please go back to sleep in the bedroom..."

Ke Xi slowly opened his eyes, and what came into view was the Galo Palace. He raised his hand and rubbed his temples, and murmured, "It seems like I had a very long dream..."

Thinking of the scene in his dream, he shook his head again. If it was Diderot who was planning everything, wouldn't he really not know the truth about the legend of the fountain of immortality?But he still wants to find the fountain of immortality so frantically, probably because of his inner persistence and fanaticism, but... the fountain of immortality that the father said must be the truth?
The truth of history has always been changing, and there is no absolute, just like the flowers of the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, blooming or withering, no matter which posture it is, it is its original appearance...

Ke Xi slowly stood up from the throne, and said softly, "Let's go, follow me to meet the king father, he is just old, it's just his winter, how can I treat him because of his withering now? , and can deny the contribution he made to this country..."

Cauchy walked towards the apse with his entourage. A red snail by the window sill shook its tentacles, and then slowly retracted its body back into its shell. survive.

　This volume is over, because I have to take care of many things, I wrote it with trepidation. Of course, I still have a lot of dissatisfaction, but that's it...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)