Even in the short time they'd been in there, he knew where Xiao Yu was going with this. The short amount of time he'd spent threatening Yi Long in his own office wasn't wasted, and he remembered the pearl sitting on the desk out of the corner of his eye. He hadn't thought any thing of it at the time, in fact, he hadn't even noted it, other than the visual presence. Even as Xiao Yu explained the pearl, he noted it's look, and it's size. That pearl hadn't come from an oyster he could have imagined. It seemed rather massive compared to what he originally imagined of a pearl. "Immortality you say? Why would Yi Long have such an artifact?"<br/><br/>He knew biological immortality existed in jellyfish, and that others were researching forms of digital research, but he hadn't given much thought to the kind of immortality she seemed to be suggesting. His own mortality wasn't something he thought about constantly either, but he could see the appeal of the pearl's image. A sign of Yi Long's heritage maybe? Or maybe Xiao Yu was trying to imply Yi Long was actually immortal. "It'd explain the picture with the wheelchair," he joked, although he doubted she would have noticed the joke. The back of his mind agreed with him, telling him that even though it was ridiculous, not everything made sense. "It'd explain a lot actually," he realized as he let his mind mull it over. Was it wrong of him to actual question if the man was immortal? Many things in the past have never been replicated, from Greek fire to Damascus steel. Would this baolinzhu be any different?<br/><br/>Letting the implication of the possibility set in, Milo started asking himself a line of questions. Why would an immortal being be working at a dig? Surely, depending on his age, an immortal would have artifacts he'd personally owned. What would he be doing with the wheel chair, the tomb? A swirl of ideas popped into his head, ones by normal means he should have rejected, but he didn't. Oddly enough, it was like a puzzle piece had clicked into place. His instincts should have been telling him this was wrong, but it wasn't, and what he'd heard from Xiao Yu didn't sound crazy.<i>Surely you can't be thinking Yi Long has some cursed pearl that made him immortal.</i>Even though, he couldn't be so sure.