"The Ugly Duckling?" Luo Nai said curiously. He crossed his legs and sat straight on a dirty tiles that were still intact but covered with dust.

"Actually, this story has a very interesting name. I think this name can make readers more interested in reading. After all, it is not short. It does not have an obscure title like many uncommon novels, plus an inexplicable introduction." Merinal quipped.

"Let me tell me?" Luo Ni said, pulling Sa Yi beside him to sit down together.

However, he did not greet Melinar. After all, Cardinal in red dress, wearing such a luxurious dress, must not be willing to be with dirt.

""A dark duck was ridiculed by the shadow of his eyes and turned into a luxurious white swan, but he chose to revenge on all the animals that looked down on it and finally sacrificed himself."

"Haha." Luo Mang smiled kindly, "You speak so fast. I have more hope of listening to this title."

"Rumored that in a farmhouse outside the northern province of Putoya, one day, an old female duck was hatching a strange egg. The egg was very special, and it was whiter and slightly larger than ordinary duck eggs."

"She had an incredible vision and fantasized that the peculiar eggs could bring extraordinary results. She hoped that she would hatch a duck that was both handsome and 'wisdom'. No matter how bad she was, she could escape the fate of being cooked and eaten by humans, and at least turn it into an ornamental or even a toy."

"But she was wrong. The hatched duck, no, can no longer be called a duck, but a 'little monster'. Its hair is black and has a bit of oil viscosity. Other ducks are white and yellow, and at most they are sporadic, either because of stains or because of genes. Therefore, it is an alien among the aliens."

"Interestingly, such ducks may be inevitable to be excluded. After all, they don't look like the same race as the ducks around them. They speculate on a person's character and wisdom based on their appearance and appearance. This practice is common in the Western Land, but often the sloppy people are geniuses, and the hypocritical people are all beasts. This reminds me of a proverb from the Fire Empire." Luo Nai interrupted, with a contemptuous smile on his lips, of course, aimed at the story.

"Let me tell me." Merinal was not angry at Luo Nai's impolite behavior, but maintained an elegant posture, including a smile.

"It is not the same race as me. His thinking and actions must be different. We can do nothing better than destroying them."

"Have you been to the Fire Empire? Or are you interested in their culture too?" Melinar asked a distracting question.

"My life has indeed been very long so far," Luo Nai did not answer directly, but instead opened her big sapphire-like eyes in melancholy, turned her head to look at the statue strangely presented by various species and materials, murmured:

"When the Lord of Machinery created me, I felt that I had already spent a very long time of confusion, pain, loneliness, melancholy, doubt, and emptyness. When the glory of the gods faded away and the lights of human beings continued, I saw another world full of destruction, killing, madness, cruelty, deception, cunning and pain."

"I have been in contact with humans for more than a hundred years in this continent. I remember that Tou II was a handsome young man who was heroic and vowing to eliminate the unintentional people and save the wasteland world. In his era, the industrial system of the empire was rebuilt and developed, basic scientific theories were re-established, mysticism was no longer strictly suppressed, aircraft began to reappear, artillery and explosives were promoted to half an era, and even the Holy Word, which was once listed as a banned book, the Dark Book and the Ancient World were re-issued and published."

"He established a monetary system that affected the entire Western Land. He was the third emperor to propose the concept of a gold standard currency in addition to the Cruzde Empire and Putoya Federation and truly put it into practice. Although the current new currency has undergone several iterations in style, it has not overturned all the previous settings and has not been issued in quantity. The policy of 35 new currency exchange for one ounce of gold has always been implemented. Although there are very few humans, even lost people, who can go from other places to Sogra Industrial Bank and the Sunnetsk Imperial Bank, are actually going to."

"It's a pity that he died of assassination. He tried to interpret the technology left over from the Cruzd Empire and was preparing to redevelop a robot controlled by individual soldiers for war. Unfortunately, the robot was influenced by mysterious forces and eventually slashed through his head with a mechanical throwing axe. Blood and burning brain tissue flowed all over the ground. He met the Lord on the ground forever without even making any struggle."

Luo Ni paused for a moment, his eyes lost their focus and stared at the dust flying in the air, and a heavy memory suddenly unblocked in his mind.

The dust was like a "heartless" wave in the early New Yuan period of the Sun Nirvana Empire. The roar of men echoed in his mind, the woman was frightened and screamed, the children's cry, and a merchant from the Fire Federation. Because he was in his heart, he did not care about his life in the critical moment of the fall of the city, but handed the guns and grenades to a man to protect him and his woman and two children to retreat. After being bitten, he curled up in the corner of his magnificent residence, waiting for the arrival of fate.

Thinking of this, Luo pinched his nose and felt a long-lost sorrow, and his eyes began to become fresh. He blinked his eyes and even noticed that some inexplicable liquid flowed out of the corners of his eyes, but it stopped abruptly when it reached the vicinity of his nostrils.

Sometimes awake and sometimes chaotic thinking did not make Luo Nai realize that this was human emotions at work. He just wiped off the liquid with a foreign body sensation, looked up at the elegant and luxurious Merinal, and continued:

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Although I have never been to the Fire Empire, the people of the Western Land, and the miserable humans who are struggling in pain and hope do not yearn for there. Almost every person who is looking for redemption will hold a travelogue of "Morock". After all, we all know that the Fire Empire has successfully blocked the virus, protected half of the territory, and built a world full of order and hope."

"In that empire's biggest wave of 'unintentional people', I did meet a dying fire federal merchant who was struggling to tell many anecdotes, including a lot of content about their culture and religion. I know that the reason he did not die immediately was because the virus was transforming his body, his reason was melting, but I did not read regrets from his black eyes. Finally, he smiled, his whole body was spasming, trembling, and after his eyes and heart turned red, I used the 'light of the weapon' to penetrate his relatively fragile neck."

“It sounds so heart-shaking.” Melinal commented:

"It seems that you have experienced a lot of joys and sorrows in the human world, human emotions, and you can even feel some indescribable existence. You should have touched on 'wisdom', but you just lack a little [inspiration], a product related to 'divineness'."

Luo Ni looked at Melinar, nodded slightly, and said nothing.

"I heard about you. That hateful [hunter] Atwood has actually been retribution from the gods. You should not understand the conditions for our lost people to contact the gods. Not to mention anything else, the most important and core point is that you cannot be full of sin in your heart, you must keep a little bit of goodwill. Even if your hands are covered with blood, at least you have to repent to the gods."

"We are born with original sin and need to be redeemed by gods. Although many "reformists" in the Third Era did not agree with the ancient doctrine, today, we who live in this sad era must have original sin. The field of human existence is called purgatory, but in reality, this world is hell. Speaking of original sin," Melinar turned his head, looking at the open giant gate with a sad face, staring at the area of ​​light and darkness that seemed to be spliced ​​together, and continued:

"Like the ugly duck in the fairy tale."

"Sorry, I just interrupted your fairy tale. I just... want to talk about something too much. I want to express as much as possible before the 'Eye of Substitution' completely destroys my part that belongs to humans. The day before yesterday, those witch doctors also said that living in a human way can minimize the process of becoming a machine, a broken copper and iron, or even a monster that only knows how to kill." Luo Nai apologized.

"Then let's continue that fairy tale. Since I want to tell it, I must have found some revelation. I hope you listen carefully." Melinar coughed twice, cleared his throat, turned his head, looked at Sayi and Luo Nian with a smile, and said:

"I just mentioned that the female duck hatched a black 'little monster'. It was indeed exorced by the ducks and even most animals on the farm, including hens, cows, big yellow dogs, fold-eared cats, brown-haired horses, and even pigeons."

"Because it is a bit similar to a duck, he has half a slender and smooth one, like a demon's tail, a pair of wings that reveal a little edge and develop within a day. In addition, one of his eyes is purple and the other is green, scattering strange light outward at night."
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