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

A crisp sound rang out, and a child with a braid ran to Shaun, looking at the red apples on the apple tree, full of desire.

Hearing this, Sean stretched out 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 ran away with pleasant laughter.

Watching the child running away, retracting his gaze, dragging his old body, Sean continued what had happened before and continued to check the situation in the orchard.

After staying in this inexplicable place for a while, Sean had already figured out the situation around him. The place where he is now called Kahn Village. The village has a small population, with only about 100 people in total. Everyone in this village makes a living by growing apples. 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 swept Kahn Village, and the apple trees withered in pieces. This year and even in the future, life in Kahn Village seems to have become a problem.

"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 protect the remaining fruit trees."

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

Although I don’t know what this test is and there is no clear hint, Sean believes that there must be something that needs to be completed when he comes here.

Shawn shared the pest-proof potions with stone grass, and at the cost, the villagers needed to help him spray the orchard with these potions.

Then the disaster came as scheduled in the second year, but it was more complicated than the first year. Of course, at this time, Sean had recovered a little extraordinary power, although it was only a trivial point.

With extraordinary power and a little thought, Sean successfully solved the disaster of the second year, but I don’t know why this extraordinary power can only be used to target plants and cannot cause harm to people.

Then there was the third year, the fourth year, and the fifth year, the disasters became more and more bizarre, involving all aspects of knowledge. Fortunately, after spending a lot of effort, Sean passed the test successfully. 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 passed year after year. When the old man passed away and the child 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 moved, and soon some people asked to come to the door, saying that they could not be happy anymore, and hoped that Sean could give him a golden apple.

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

There are one and two. More and more people ask Sean for golden apples. At first, they were relatively restrained. Basically, everyone only had one, but later they wanted more and more.

When the last golden apple was picked from the tree, someone finally turned his attention to the fruit tree. He asked Sean to give him the fruit tree. The man originally thought Sean would not agree and was ready to kill Sean, but Sean agreed with a smile in his surprised gaze.

He gave his house to that person, and after a brief tidying up, Sean walked out of Kahn's village, alone, no one came to see him off, and no one came to keep him until he was about to walk out of the border of the village.

"Grandpa Sean, are you leaving?"

A crisp sound rang behind Sean, but it was the child who asked Sean for a red apple, but the little girl from that time had grown up now.

"Yes."

Stopped and turned around, Sean said as he looked at the girl.

"Grandpa Sean, don't you feel sorry for giving all the golden apples to others?"

With his eyes wide open, the girl asked again.

Hearing this, Sean smiled and shook his head.

"Little girl, do you want golden apples too?"

This time, the little girl shook her head.

"Grandpa Sean, I heard that the nobles in the city already knew about the Golden Apple. Do you think the people in the village will be in danger?"

Just as the little girl was talking, a group of robbers had already rushed into Kahn Village from another direction. They killed everyone when they saw it, ignoring the village name's begging for mercy. For a moment, screams burst into tears in Kahn Village.

"Grandpa Sean, can you save them?"

An anxious look appeared on his face, and the little girl asked Sean for help.

"I can't save them. When they seek golden apples, 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 turned particularly 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 around and left without waiting for the girl to answer. This time, Sean really walked out of Kahn's village and was not blocked by invisible boundaries.

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

"Don't even ask is your choice. Is it just a passerby who is cold-eyed and watching?"

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Om, the space changed, and after stepping out of that invisible boundary, Sean returned to the old house he lived in before, where there was a small yard, with a lush apple tree in the yard, and under the apple tree there was a white-haired old man pruning branches and leaves for this apple tree.

"Sit down, little guy."

Cut off a branch, the old man turned around and said to Sean, his face exactly the same as when Sean was in Kahn Village before.

Hearing this, he glanced at the old man, and Sean walked to the slightly worn stone table under the apple tree and sat down.

"If she could see clearly like you back then, she might not have lived so hard."

Walking across from Sean to sit down, the old man sighed.

Hearing this, Sean shook his head.

"It's different. Everyone has their own way of living. There is no difference between superiority and inferiority. If you are not her, how can she know that she will be happy after making such a choice as me?"

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

"Yes, I'm not her after all."

"So little guy, do you want to eat apples?"

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

"You can choose any of these three apples."

With a smile, the old man spoke.

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 calmed down and he looked at Sean deeply.

"Little guy, those people in Kahn Village are greedy for golden apples, so they are all dead. Don't you understand clearly?"

"Old man, I am different from them. Greed is not wrong. They are wrong because they do not have the strength corresponding to this greed."

Shaking his head, Sean did not change his choice.

Hearing this, the old man was silent for a while.

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

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

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

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

"And this one."

Seeing Sean's clean and neat actions, the old man picked the three apples and handed them to Sean, but this time Sean did not answer.

Seeing this scene, the old man spoke again.

"This is the reward for you, take good care of her."

Hearing this, Sean's blue eyes had an unconcealed fluctuation.

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