Chapter 546 Golden Apple

"Grandpa Sean, can you give me an apple?"

A crisp voice sounded, and a child with braids ran up to Sean, looking at the red apples on the apple tree, full of longing.

After hearing this, Sean stretched his rusty body, stretched out his hand tremblingly, picked a fruit from the apple tree, and handed it to the child.

"Thank you Grandpa Sean."

After taking the apple, the child's happy eyes narrowed, and then he ran away with joyful laughter.

Seeing the child running away, he looked away, dragging his old body with him, Sean continued what he was doing before and continued to check the situation in the orchard.

After staying in this inexplicable place for a while, Sean has a clear understanding of the situation around him. The place he is now is called Kahn Village. The population of the village is not large, with a total of only about 100 people. All the people in this village People make a living by growing apples, and the apples produced are big and sweet. Although life is not rich, food and clothing are not a problem. However, this situation has changed now. A sudden disease has swept through the village of Kahn. Apple trees are withering in patches. Life in Kahn Village seems to be a problem this year and even in the future.

"This disease is actually a kind of aphid. Although I have lost my extraordinary power now, it is not impossible to solve it. But the most important thing now is to prevent it and save the remaining fruit trees."

The thoughts in his mind were spinning, and Sean had an idea in his mind.

Although he didn't know what this test was about, and he didn't have a clear reminder, Sean believed that there must be something he needed to accomplish when he came here.

Sean formulated an anti-insect agent using stony grass and shared it with the people in the village. In exchange, the people in the village needed to help him spray the agent in the orchard.

Then the disaster came as expected in the second year, but it was more complicated than in the first year. Of course, by this time, Sean had recovered a little supernatural power, although it was only a negligible amount.

With extraordinary power and a little effort, Sean successfully solved the disaster in the second year. However, I don't know why this extraordinary power can only be used against plants and cannot cause harm to people.

Then came the third, fourth, and fifth years. Each year, the disasters became more and more bizarre, involving all aspects of knowledge. Fortunately, after spending a lot of effort, Sean successfully passed them, and In this process, Sean also became the most famous person in Kahn Village. It can be said that everyone in the village has received his favor.

Time passes year after year,

When the old man passed away and the children grew up, Sean planted a special apple tree in his yard. It was full of golden apples. It was not that the color was golden, but that it was gold.

Faced with such a fruit tree, many people were interested, and soon someone came to the door asking for help, saying that they could not live anymore, and hoped that Sean could give him a golden apple.

Faced with such a request, Sean agreed and picked a golden apple from the apple tree for him with a smile.

If there is one, there are two. More and more people asked Sean for golden apples. At first they were relatively restrained. Basically everyone only wanted one, but later they asked for more and more.

When the last golden apple was picked from the tree, someone finally set his sights on the fruit tree. He asked Sean to give him the fruit tree. This person originally thought that Sean would not agree and was ready to kill Sean. , but Sean smiled and agreed in his surprised eyes.

After giving his house to that person, he simply packed up his things, and then walked outside of Kahn Village. He was all alone. No one came to see him off, and no one came to keep him until he was about to walk out. At the border of the village.

"Grandpa Sean, are you leaving?"

A crisp voice sounded behind Sean, but it was the child who asked Sean for a red apple. However, the little girl back then had grown up now.

"Yes."

Stopping and turning around, Sean looked at the girl and said.

"Grandpa Sean, don't you feel bad that you gave all the golden apples to others?"

With her eyes wide open, the girl asked again.

Upon hearing this, Sean smiled and shook his head.

"Little girl, do you also want a golden apple?"

This time, the little girl shook her head.

"Grandpa Xiaon, I heard that the nobles in the city already know about the golden apple. Do you think the people in the village will be in danger?"

Just as the little girl was speaking, a group of robbers had already rushed into the village of Kahn from the other direction. They killed everyone they saw and ignored the villagers' pleas for mercy. For a while, screams broke out in the village of Kahn.

"Grandpa Sean, can you save them?"

With an anxious look on her face, the little girl asked Sean for help.

"I can't save them. When they seek the golden apple, they should consider whether they have the ability to keep this wealth. This is their own choice."

Shaking his head, Sean gave a negative answer.

Hearing this, the girl's face became extremely pale.

"I can't save those greedy people, but I can save you. Do you want to follow me?"

Looking at the girl, Sean asked, then turned and left without waiting for the girl's answer. This time, Sean really walked out of Kahn Village, and was not stopped by invisible boundaries.

On the hillside, looking at Sean's retreating back, and then looking at the village of Kahn where blood and fire intertwined, the girl sighed, as if she was sighing for something.

"Is it your choice to be indifferent and just be a passer-by who watches indifferently?"

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Hum, the space changed, and after crossing the invisible boundary, Sean returned to the old house where he lived before. There was a small yard here, and there was a leafy apple tree in the yard. Under the apple tree, there was a gray-haired old man pruning the branches and leaves of the apple tree.

"Sit down, little one."

After cutting off a branch, the old man turned around and said something to Sean. His face was exactly the same as when Sean was in Kahn Village.

After hearing this and looking at the old man, Sean walked to the slightly worn stone table under the apple tree and sat down.

"If she could see as clearly as you did back then, maybe she wouldn't have lived such a miserable life."

Walking to sit down opposite Sean, the old man sighed.

Upon hearing this, Sean shook his head.

"It's different. Everyone has their own way of living. There is no distinction between superior and inferior. If you are not her, how do you know that she will be happy after making a choice like mine?"

After hearing this, his eyes froze for a moment, and the old man sighed again.

"Yes, I am not her after all."

"So little one, do you want to eat an apple?"

After the old man finished speaking, an apple tree branch hung down, with three apples on it, namely golden apples, silver apples and green apples.

"You can choose any one of these three apples."

With a hint of smile, the old man spoke.

After hearing this, Sean did not make a choice, but asked:

"Old man, can I choose the branch you cut?"

Hearing this, the smile on the old man's face faded and he took a deep look at Sean.

"Little guy, those people in Karn Village were greedy for the golden apple, so they all died. Don't you see it clearly?"

"Old man, I am different from them. Greed is not wrong. Their fault is that they do not have the strength to match this greed."

Shaking his head, Sean did not change his choice.

After hearing this, the old man was silent for a while.

"Yes, greed is not wrong, because excessive greed is the real greed."

As he spoke, the old man placed an apple tree branch as thick as his thumb in front of Sean.

"Since you want it, then I'll give it to you."

Looking at the apple tree branch handed over by the old man, Sean took it directly without hesitation.

"and this."

Seeing Sean's clean movements, the old man picked off the three apples again and handed them to Sean, but this time Sean didn't take them.

Seeing such a scene, the old man spoke again.

"This is your reward. Take good care of her."

Hearing this, Sean's blue eyes had unconcealable fluctuations.

"I will help you cover up the existence of the golden apples and branches, but remember, unless you really have no way forward and want to take that step with the help of external forces, or you have already taken that step, otherwise don't Eat the golden apples or you will die.”

The old man's low words seemed to ring in his ears, and the scene around Sean suddenly became blurry.

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