Dreaming for 10,000 years

Chapter 9 Idiot
Shi Fei woke up again.

He is in a cave!
The sunlight shone down from above the cave, allowing him to see clearly that he seemed to be in a well-like cave. The bottom of the cave was about ten meters in radius.

The round hole seemed to be tens of meters high? Or hundreds of meters high?
He couldn't see clearly because it was too high.

"You're so slow to wake up! That's not good for young people!"

Only then did he notice that there was a person in the shadows not far from him.

A man in a black robe whose face cannot be seen clearly.

"This is...you are..." Shi Fei almost thought he was dreaming again.

"This is a dog hole!" The man spoke in a rather old voice, like an old man: "The fox will leave its enemies here and watch them slowly die."

Shi Fei looked up at the cave entrance and said, "Dog? Die slowly?"

Obviously, Lanlan didn't kill him, but just left him here.

As for the “dog” in “trapped dog”, it goes without saying.

The old man said: "The only exit here is that cave entrance. Only someone with superb Qinggong skills can fly up there!"

Shi Fei said, "You can't do it?"

The old man did not speak, but revealed his chest. There were two huge scars under his shoulders, which were the marks where his scapula had been pierced.

He is already a useless person.

Silence fell between the two.

Shi Fei didn't know what to say, and the old man didn't have anything to say either.

I don’t know how long it had been, but suddenly a package of something came down from the cave entrance along the edge of the mountain wall.

Shi Fei opened it and found dry food and water, as well as a note.

There was only one sentence on the note: "Stay alive, I'm trying to find a way!"

The handwriting is beautiful but a little sloppy. Who else could it be other than Qingqing?
The old man dragged his body, tremblingly took the dry food and water, and started eating.

He glanced at Shi Fei and the writing in his hand and said, "Do you understand?"

"Understand what?"

"Understand the viciousness of the fox!" The old man sat in the shadow on the other side of the cave, eating dry food.

The shadows completely obscured his figure. He said, "They could have starved people to death, but they kept dropping food and water."

“Just like raising kittens and puppies!”

Shi Fei said: "Isn't he still alive?"

The old man said, "That is the most evil thing, false hope."

Death is the end of everything.

Being alive is a false hope.

The old man spoke with the tone of an experienced person, "The same goes for the note in your hand!"

Shi Fei was silent.

Giving you despair is not evil. What is evil is giving you hope and then letting you extinguish this hope with your own hands!
Swinging and tormented between despair and hope.

Was this piece of paper really written by Qingqing?
Does he choose to believe it or not?

Will he choose to wait or give up this dream?
Shi Fei was in deep thought.

A long time passed, so long that the sunlight disappeared from the cave entrance.

Suddenly he raised his head and asked, "Do you know martial arts?"

He seemed to have just heard the old man say that only with top-notch martial arts could one escape from here.

The old man chewed the dry food and muttered, "Not only can I do it, I am also a peerless master in the martial arts world. If I hadn't believed the fox's lies..."

Shi Fei said: "You can teach me martial arts, and when I learn it, I can take you out!"

"You?" The old man looked at Shi Fei with disdain and said, "You are just a piece of stubborn stone!"

"Why?" Shi Fei asked.

"You are old and your internal strength is average, so of course you can't learn it!" The old man sneered and said to Shi Fei.

Not everyone can master martial arts.

Especially the peerless martial arts!
Shi Fei said seriously: "How do we know if we don't try? Only if we try can we have hope!"

He didn't want to wait for Qingqing to save him, nor did he want to wait for the dream to end. He wanted to give it a try and seize the opportunity to escape.

As for what was outside the cave, he didn't want to think about it now.

He just wanted to see Qingqing again in his dream without any regrets. The old man heard the hope and just ate the dry food.

When the moonlight shone through the cave entrance into the cave, the old man said, "Hope... is so slim!"

"But I am willing to try!"

If there was no hope in his heart, he would have died here long ago!

"Listen carefully, boy!" The old man took a sip of water and said, "The world is divided into yin and yang, and yin and yang transform all things..."

Shi Fei listened carefully. He remembered it at first, but later on... he couldn't remember it anymore.

A person in his thirties naturally doesn't have as good a brain as a teenager, not to mention that the martial arts the old man talked about were so obscure that he felt dizzy.

The old man said, "Remember?"

After reciting the first few sentences, Shi Fei said, "Just remember these few sentences!"

"..."

The light in the cave was dim, so Shi Fei couldn't see the old man's expression.

There is no doubt that the old man's expression must be unhappy.

"go to bed!"

The old man lay down in a corner of the cave.

the next day.

Shi Fei said, "I have nothing to do, why don't you teach me again? A day's plan begins in the morning, I must remember it today! No one can remember it in one go!"

The old man thought about it and it seemed to be true.

It is true that very few people have a photographic memory and can remember something after hearing it once.

He repeated yesterday's martial arts and asked Shi Fei if he remembered it.
Shi Fei recited eight or nine sentences honestly.

"Where's down there?"

Shi Fei told the truth: "I can't remember what happened next."

This time, Shi Fei really did not lie to him.

Yesterday he memorized four sentences, and this morning he memorized five sentences.

The mornings are definitely different.

"..."

"Idiot!" he couldn't help but curse.

He had met countless people in his life, but he had never seen anyone as stupid as this.

Actually, we can't blame Shi Fei. For people who have never been exposed to martial arts, it is normal to learn slowly, just like being exposed to a new subject.

Asking Shi Fei to teach an old man mathematics is even more unbearable.

In the afternoon, Shi Fei saw that the old man was so angry that he didn't even eat lunch, so he said, "Actually, you don't have to be so angry."

The old man didn't speak.

Shi Fei said, "A good memory is not as good as a bad pen. Say it again and I'll write it on the ground in the cave. Isn't that okay?"

There was a lot of dust and branches in the cave.

The old man still didn't speak.

Shi Fei had no choice but to say, "You said it twice before. If I can't remember it, then both times were in vain. If I remember it, then your first two times were not in vain?"

The old man pondered for a moment and had to admit that what Shi Fei said made sense.

Judging from the results, he said it three times and Shi Fei was able to remember it, so it was acceptable.

So he repeated the technique again.

This time, he spoke slowly, enough for Shi Fei to remember.

Afterwards, he explained martial arts to Shi Fei.

Martial arts secrets are important, but personal instruction is even more important.

But soon, the old man lay down in the corner and fell asleep angrily again.

Shi Fei has a lot of questions, strange ideas, and cannot understand martial arts at all!

He can’t teach you!

(End of this chapter)