Goku shook his head. How would he know?
"Lord Divine Monkey, after that child heard what you said, he was overjoyed. But he did not want to become an immortal himself. He only wanted his seriously ill mother and his grandfather, whose life was hanging by a thread, to recover their health. So after returning home, he did not sleep that night. Instead, he went all over these mountains picking fruit, intending to give it to you and ask you to help his mother and grandfather recover. But once he left, he never came back." As Liu Boqin spoke, his eyes could not help but redden.
Goku froze as well, his hand holding the fruit coming to a halt. "What happened? Did he fall off a cliff, or was he attacked by a wild beast?"
Liu Boqin shook his head. "No one knows. After the child went missing, his family searched all through the mountains. In the end, they even reported it to the authorities. The government sent more than a thousand people into the mountains to search for an entire month, yet they did not find even a trace of his remains."
As Liu Boqin spoke, he slightly raised his head and let out a sigh.
"What could have happened? How could a child enter the depths of the mountains and leave behind no clues at all? That child looked like he had lived in the deep mountains for years. Since he dared to pick fruit in the middle of the night, I think he must have had some way of avoiding wild beasts." Xuanzang was deeply puzzled as well.
"Though the child was young, he was quite skilled at dealing with wild beasts. Even if he could not defeat them, he could evade their attacks. But he still