Volume 1 Clone Army Chapter 76 Dragon and Phoenix Pearls
When Li Jiu saw the shocked expression on the old driver's face, he couldn't help but frown and felt a little confused.
Li Jiu was surprised because he didn't expect the other party to give him a pack of cigarettes on his own initiative, but why did the uncle do that?
Didn't he just glance at me? Was there any need to be so shocked? Was there something dirty on my face, or was there something wrong with my face...
"Huh? That is..." Just as Li Jiu was puzzled, he suddenly caught a glimpse of an almost undetectable blue light flashing in the old driver's deep eyes, and he couldn't help but exclaimed .
However, when he looked carefully, he found that the uncle's eyes had returned to normal black and white, as if the blue light that Li Jiu had just seen had never appeared.
But Li Jiu was certain that he was definitely not seeing things, and that the scene just now could not possibly be an illusion!
"Uncle, you..." Li Jiu was suspicious and wanted to ask.
"Oh... sorry, your cigarette fell, let me pick it up for you." At this moment, the old driver suddenly interrupted Li Jiu and leaned over to the back seat to pick up the cigarette on the ground for Li Jiu. He looked very enthusiastic, in stark contrast to his previous indifference...
"Hey, hey, uncle, don't! You drive carefully, let me do it..." Seeing that the old driver was driving at high speed without paying attention, Li Jiu hurriedly stopped him, and quickly bent down to pick up the pack of Sabre cigarettes that fell on the ground.
"Haha, okay, then I'll continue driving." Seeing this, the old driver, who had been expressionless all the time, actually smiled and immediately returned to the driving seat.
Li Jiu held a cigarette in his hand and looked at the old driver's back, looking a little confused.
He really wanted to ask the old driver what had happened just now, but from the other party's reaction, the uncle didn't seem to want to talk about it anymore, so he had to suppress his doubts for the time being.
Strangely enough, after this incident, the old driver did not smoke again, but drove the car attentively, which made Li Jiu more confused...
With a "sizzle", Li Jiu tore open the cigarette box, took out a cigarette and lit it.
Although he was somewhat puzzled by the old driver's reaction just now, the key point now was to satisfy his craving first, so he put the matter behind him for the time being.
"Inhale...exhale..." Li Jiu took a deep breath. The familiar smell made him feel comfortable all over.
Li Jiu smoked a cigarette, thinking about what had just happened.
The old driver, a heavy smoker, drove a shabby car, and treated customers coldly... After seeing my appearance, he reacted abnormally, with blue light in his eyes, and his attitude suddenly became enthusiastic...
This series of fragmented information made Li Jiu feel weird...
Although he couldn't piece together anything useful, he seemed to be certain of one thing... that is, this old driver might know him, or have seen him somewhere...
But this doesn't make sense. I'm a clone warrior, and I just woke up. How could I have met this old driver?
"Huh? Death number...could it be..." Li Jiu suddenly raised his eyebrows, as if he was thinking about something.
It was true that he was a newly awakened clone warrior, and he was also certain that he had never seen this old driver before. But before him, weren't there 98 other guys who looked exactly like him...
Could it be that this old driver had seen his unfortunate predecessors before...
Thinking of this, Li Jiu finally had a sense of sudden enlightenment and his brows relaxed.
Considering the age of this old driver, he must have existed before the war began. It is not impossible that he has met his short-lived predecessors.
If this was the case, then Li Jiu could barely understand why the old driver had that expression just now. Perhaps he had really met one of his predecessors before, and later learned that the short-lived guy had died, so he was a little surprised to see him at this moment...
After figuring this out, Li Jiu no longer paid too much attention to this matter.
After that, Li Jiu and the old driver didn't say anything more. He smoked a cigarette and lay on the back seat to take a rest, occasionally looking through the car window at the scenery passing by outside.
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There was no conversation along the way. When the blue hovercraft was about to reach the base of the Night Rose Mercenary Group, the old driver in front suddenly took out a box from his body.
It was an exquisitely carved, quaint mahogany box, a square in shape, about the size of a palm. It looked quite old and seemed to be quite valuable.
When he saw the box, Li Jiu finally understood why the uncle said he was not short of money. This mahogany box alone must be worth at least hundreds of thousands of Alliance coins!
However, when the old driver opened the box and Li Jiu saw clearly what was inside, he was shocked.
Because, in that box, he saw a bluish-white jade ball as big as an egg. It was a hollow jade ball carved with dragon and phoenix patterns!
The carving technique of the jade ball seemed to be extremely superb, and the dragon and phoenix patterns on it looked lifelike, as if they were living things!
Obviously, the value of this hollow jade ball is far greater than that of the mahogany box...
After seeing this scene, Li Jiu became confused again. He didn't understand why this old driver, since he had such a valuable thing, would bother to drive the sports car so hard. Isn't this just asking for trouble?
"This is the Dragon and Phoenix Pearl. It has been with me for some years. I'm giving it to you today." At this moment, the old driver suddenly said something that surprised Li Jiu, and his tone sounded very serious.
Moreover, while speaking, the old driver actually closed the box and handed the entire box including the dragon and phoenix exquisite ball inside to Li Jiu.
"Give...give it to me? Uncle, you are not kidding me, right?" Li Jiu said in amazement.
What kind of joke is this!? Li Jiu couldn't even estimate the approximate value of such a valuable item, and the old driver just gave it to him so casually?
This made Li Jiu suspicious. What exactly was the old driver's intention? What was his intention...
However, from the tone of the old driver, it didn't seem like he was joking...
"Yes, it's a gift for you. To be exact, it's not given to you by me, but by someone else." The old driver said solemnly.
"Others? Who?" Li Jiu frowned, becoming more and more confused.
"An old friend." The driver responded briefly, as if he didn't want to say more.
"Do I know this person?" Li Jiu was slightly startled and asked curiously. He really wanted to know who would give him such a valuable gift.
"You don't know him, and he doesn't know you." The old driver shook his head.
"Then how do you know that this thing is for me?" Li Jiu continued to ask.
"Because I know you." The old driver answered very affirmatively.
"Have you seen me?"
"No."
"What I mean is, have you seen anyone who looks like me?" Li Jiu added. He wanted to know whether this old driver had really seen those short-lived predecessors before him.
The old driver was silent for a moment, hesitated and said: "No."
"Then how can you say you know me?" Li Jiu said depressedly. He was speechless. This old driver had never seen him before, nor had he seen his own clone warrior with the same genes. How could he be sure that the person he was looking for was him?
"You don't need to know the specific reasons now. In short, you just need to know that I will never recognize the wrong person. Take it, this thing is very important to you!" The old driver said with unusual firmness, and his tone sounded very sincere.
Perhaps it was the sincerity of the old driver that influenced Li Jiu, and he subconsciously took the mahogany box containing the dragon and phoenix beads...
Li Jiu stared blankly at the box in his hand, feeling a little puzzled. How could he accept such a gift without knowing why? Who was this old driver? Who asked him to give the gift?
Besides, why did I meet him by such a coincidence...
"Okay, get off the car. We have arrived at the Night Rose Mercenary Group base." Just when Li Jiu was full of questions, the old driver suddenly stopped the hovercraft and said calmly.
Li Jiu hesitated for a moment and did not get off the car immediately, because he really wanted to find out the truth, but looking at the attitude of the old driver, it seemed that it would be impossible to get the truth today...
"I want to ask one last question. What is the use of that dragon and phoenix exquisite bead? Why is it so important to me?" Li Jiu spoke again before getting off the car.
"Although the Linglong Pearl itself is very rare, its function is actually just a storage device, which is equivalent to the USB flash drives and memory cards you have seen in the virtual world. The things stored in them are truly priceless treasures." The old driver did not hide anything on this issue and said it directly and clearly.
"Memory?" Li Jiu frowned, feeling very surprised.
"Get out of the car." After answering the last question, the old driver seemed not to want to say anything more and indifferently ordered the passenger to leave.
Therefore, Li Jiu had no choice but to walk down helplessly with a lot of questions in his mind.
After Li Jiu got off the car, the experienced driver drove the old blue hover car back along the original route without hesitation.
"Inhale...exhale..." Li Jiu lit a cigarette, took a long puff, narrowed his eyes slightly, and watched the old driver leave.
When the hovercraft completely disappeared from his sight, he shook his head helplessly, smiled bitterly, and turned to walk towards the gate of the base in front of him...
At the same time, on the suburban highway, a blue hover car was speeding along, and the experienced driver inside had a satisfied smile on his face.
"Haha, this is really the case, after searching everywhere for something, it finally comes to me without any effort!" The old driver also lit a cigarette, took a puff comfortably, and laughed heartily.
"A pure Yang body, a fate of the ultimate Yang! I never thought that in this world, there would actually be such a person who defies the heavens..."
"Father God, I, Pang Tianyuan, have been wandering in this world for so long, and I have finally completed the task you assigned me. Now, I can finally follow in your footsteps..."
As the old driver spoke, his deep eyes revealed a dazzling blue light that was a thousand times stronger than anything Li Jiu had seen before. It was like a dazzling star, illuminating the entire hovercraft into a dreamy blue ocean...
