Su Qingbo looked at Ye Changchun and said with a bitter smile: "Brother Ye, how do you swallow this stuff?"
Just seeing the contract gem made him feel extremely repelled, and he felt that eating the contract gem was like eating shit.
This feels so uncomfortable.
Ye Changchun thought for a while and replied: "I didn't seem to think too much at that time. Isn't there an old saying that bitter medicine is good medicine? I thought this gem was so disgusting, it must be good medicine, so I swallowed it in one gulp."
"..."
Both of them were speechless.
Su Qingbo closed his eyes and said with a wry smile: "I will do some more psychological work to see if I can eat it. If it still doesn't work in the end, then that's it."
"Senior, don't give up, there will be no problem." Zhang Ping encouraged.
Ye Changchun also nodded and said: "Brother Su, what Zhang Ping said is right, don't give up. Don't you still have a great-granddaughter? Think about her, maybe you can do it!"
"I try my best."
Su Qingbo couldn't help but smile, and then looked seriously at the contract gem in his hand.
He still felt sick when he looked at the contract gem, but with the encouragement from Zhang Ping, Ye Changchun and the others, as well as the great-granddaughter Ye Changchun mentioned, he did have a lot more faith in his heart.
"Take it, it's a bitter medicine!"
He thought to himself, then closed his eyes and swallowed the contract gem in one gulp.
After swallowing the contract gem, he felt something slipping from his body. He instinctively controlled the water and fished it out, and the contract gem returned to his hand.
"..."
At this moment, everyone was speechless.
Zhang Ping knows that if there is always rejection in his heart, even if he eats it, he will pull it out completely.
But his knowledge came from Zhang Ping's memory. To put it simply, this was the conclusion obtained from Zhang Ping's experiment.
Now he finally saw it, and it turned out that he could actually eat it and pull it out.
"Zhang Ping, what's going on?" Su Qingbo said dumbfounded.
It took great determination for him to swallow the contract gem, but the contract gem was still not digested.
"Brother Su, is it possible that it is useless for you to eat in this state?" Ye Changchun guessed.
Although he has also transformed, the tree-man body is still a real body after all, and he can eat. However, Su Qingbo's water body is an elemental body and does not have the ability to digest.
"Doesn't it work if you change back to a human form?" Su Qingbo frowned slightly.
He thought for a while, dived into the water again, and within a moment he took out an animal fur. The fur was waterproof, but it was still dry when he took it out of the water.
Su Qingbo came to the shore, covered in animal fur, and then his body gradually transformed from a body of clear water into a body of human flesh and blood.
You can't tell how old he is from the clear water body, you can tell it when he changes back to a human.
He is too old.
All white hair, skinny body.
His weather-beaten face was covered with deep wrinkles, and there was a long scar under his eye, which was extremely hideous.
"Funny." He saw Zhang Ping looking at him in surprise, so he said.
Zhang Ping quickly apologized: "No, I just didn't expect Senior Su to be that old."
"Haha, if you are not dying of old age, who would want to maintain that form forever, but after a long time, you are really not used to the old arms and legs of humans." Su Qingbo sighed.
Then he looked at the contract gem in his hand.
Probably because of the first experience, the second time was not so repulsive.
He tried to put the gem into his mouth, and then discovered that the hardness of the contract gem changed rapidly. If it was about the same hardness as candy when he held it in his hand, then it became like tofu after he put it in his mouth.
After eating the contract gem, he looked at Zhang Ping and asked: "Little friend Zhang Ping, is it effective this time?"
"Let me see."
After Zhang Ping said this, he used the identification technique on Su Qingbo. This time, the contracted gem had indeed taken effect.
He nodded and said: "It's ready, then I'll start giving orders."
"bring it on."
Su Qingbo felt calm when the incident came to an end.
"I order you to remain in your current state of confusion. No deterioration, no cure, no sinking is allowed!" Zhang Ping looked at Su Qingbo, organized his words in his mind, and then ordered.
Su Qingbo closed his eyes, opened them after a while, and asked uncertainly: "Is this good?"
"Well, the order should have taken effect." Zhang Ping nodded.
Su Qingbo transformed back into the body of Qingshui in the next moment and said: "My physical body is too old. I estimate that if I transform a few more times, I may not even be able to use my abilities. I hope it will be useful."
"Senior Su, don't worry. My ability specializes in treating loss and depression, so there will definitely be no problem." Zhang Ping said with a smile.
Ye Changchun said with a smile: "Yes, Zhang Ping's ability is indeed useful. Brother Su, just put your heart in your stomach."
In fact, Su Qingbo felt that nothing had changed. That was because Zhang Ping's order was to maintain his current mental state, so naturally there would be no big changes.
But Ye Changchun is different. His confusion has been eliminated, so his forgetfulness is gone, and his feelings are naturally particularly strong.
At this time, little Theron climbed onto Zhang Ping's lap and cradled Zhang Ping's belly with his head.
"What's the matter, are you hungry?" Zhang Ping looked at little Theron, couldn't help but twist its little head, and then asked.
Little Theron was gesticulating. He first looked at Ye Changchun, then at Su Qingbo, and finally opened his mouth and made a small squeaking sound.
"You mean, you also want to eat the contract gem?" Zhang Ping asked in surprise.
Little Theron nodded, showing a generous expression.
It watched Su Qingbo eat the contract gem with its own eyes.
Although he didn't understand why Su Qingbo forcefully ate the contracted gem even though he felt disgusted, it felt greatly shocked.
Therefore, it also wants to give it a try.
"Let me think about it, just three orders, okay?" Zhang Ping looked at little Theron and asked sincerely.
Little Theron vaguely understood what Zhang Ping meant and felt Zhang Ping's sincerity. He thought about it and nodded in agreement.
The next moment, Zhang Ping condensed a contract gem again, handed it to little Theron with his hand, and said with a smile: "Okay, eat it."
When Little Theron saw the contract gem, he suddenly regretted it.
It slowly stepped back, but when it looked up and saw Zhang Ping's encouraging eyes, it gained courage again and looked at the contract gem with gritted teeth.
"It's okay, don't be anxious, don't force yourself if you can't eat." Zhang Ping said with a smile as he saw the dog gnashing its teeth.
He used to dream about a summoned beast.
But after treating Ye Changchun and Su Qingbo, his mood changed.
If even his partners need absolute orders before they can be trusted and entrusted to their backs, then has he failed as a human being?
So when Little Theron expressed his willingness to eat the contract gem, he knew very well that little Theron didn't actually understand the meaning of the contract gem. It just wanted to eat it because it trusted him.
Isn’t this kind of trust without any distractions more precious than the so-called ‘categorical imperative’?
Therefore, he gave up the so-called "categorical command" and only prepared three opportunities for command. Moreover, he had already thought about the three opportunities for command and the use of each command.
Little Theron looked up at Zhang Ping.
It saw kindness, love, and trust in Zhang Ping's eyes. The eyes were so warm that it suddenly gave birth to greater courage.
It looked at the contract gem, then opened its mouth and swallowed the contract gem in one gulp.