"You're right about everything. What do you think I doubt?"
The old man's lips pulled into a grin.
"Besides, we don't even know each other. Surely you didn't go out of your way to deceive an old man like me?"
"But..."
"If you'd told me this years ago, I really wouldn't have accepted it so easily."
The old man shook his head.
"After all, it's a monster..."
The fact that he hadn't treated the other man as a madman was already an act of courtesy.
So, in his view... "No one would use a monster to fool people, right?"
Wouldn't that be an obvious lie?
Most people nowadays believed in science.
"But things are different now."
The old man smiled. "I don't have much time left."
"In the face of imminent death, even the most unbelievable things seem not quite so impossible to accept."
The old man's expression relaxed, as though he wasn't talking about his own death, which would arrive in the near future.
"Young man, you said just now..."
The old man suddenly thought of something. Childlike curiosity and excitement appeared on his face. "The monster is here... right?"
Xiao Xiao nodded.
"It was the one who wanted to come this time."
At the time, he had asked the little monster whether it still wanted to stay by Boss Bai's side. The little monster had stared at the jade sphere for quite a while.
Xiao Xiao had thought the little monster had misunderstood staying by Boss Bai's side to mean staying inside the jade sphere.
He had just been about to explain.
The little monster flew in front of him...
"It wants to meet your elder brother."
"Meet my elder brother?"
The old man froze. "But my elder brother..."
His hesitant voice abruptly stopped.