Bediwell, who was carrying Albert behind his back and was about to disembark, was suddenly stopped by the captain.
"Are you leaving?" Captain Senezel said with a smile, "Bon voyage."
"Thank you." The werewolf pretended to be humble and said, "Thank you for taking care of us these past three days."
"That's the opposite, haha." The captain forced out a fake smile: "I want to thank you for taking care of you these past three days. This trip to sea is really unlucky. I always encounter emergencies. I originally prepared it for you."
There is no use for any of the tests."
(So you are indeed one of the invigilators. You damn smiling tiger!)
"Ha, let's not talk about such unlucky topics." The captain waved his hand and tried to ease the awkward atmosphere: "In short, you did a good job. If you come to take the exam next year, I will let you fuck me for free.
The ship will ensure that you arrive in Great Britain safe and sound...as long as there are no emergencies."
"Thank you." Bedivere smiled awkwardly. The captain's tone was almost as if he was saying that the werewolf will definitely fail the exam this year and needs to take it again next year.
"And ---" the captain stuffed a card into Bedivere's pocket: "Here is the address of my old friend's hotel. You are orcs, and the supply and demand for hotels are extremely tight at this time of year. I'm afraid it will be difficult to find it."
Let’s go to a hotel. If you really can’t find a hotel, go to my friend’s place. Even though it’s a shabby little hotel, it’s better than sleeping on the street in the cold.”
"...Thank you." The werewolf's expression froze and he could only keep smiling.
Yes, that’s not good. Why haven’t you considered this issue?
Even if the times open up, orcs are still widely discriminated against in the human world. Even if you have money, you may not be able to find a hotel willing to take in orcs.
Judging from the dilapidated condition of Captain Senezel's ship, his friend's hotel was not much better. This kind of hotel can only be regarded as a last resort insurance.
The werewolf secretly cursed himself for being stupid. Why didn't he accept the invitation from the three leopard-man brothers just now? If he had been more cheeky, he would have been warming up around the stove at the house of the cats at this moment, and maybe even drank a cup of hot coffee.
Bedivere felt that he was really stupid, so he might as well find a corner and hit him to death!
Regrets will not help. It seems that we have to act as soon as possible and find a place to stay before falling into darkness.
A few hours later, London, Elsenburg, Prime Minister Merlin's office (also a magic laboratory).
On a scanner, a middle-aged man was lying flat on his back. The scanner's light continued to sweep over his body, emitting a series of continuous beeps and beeps.
"Huh, that's very interesting." Merlin used the instrument to examine the oriental man's body while moving around excitedly: "I said, can't you take off the armor on your lower body so that I can check it better?"
"
"I'm sorry," Li Daoyuan spoke in English with a strange oriental accent, which sounded unique: "The armor on the lower body has actually been assimilated to my body. It is a part of my body and cannot be removed."
"Yeah, very interesting." The prime minister hummed dissatisfied and continued to circle around the instrument several times: "Use a special particle isolator to create a photon vacuum area in the crab shell, and use this vacuum area to isolate
Anzi, keep yourself from being infected. You Orientals are quite advanced in technology."
"This was a design made more than a thousand years ago." Li Daoyuan replied, "At that time, our ancestors and your European ancestors were in a world war, and we were all fighting inextricably.
But our ancestors were more [smart], or they were smarter, and came into contact with Anzi's technology. It was originally forbidden, an evil thing that humans should not touch. And we... learned a lesson, a painful lesson.
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Although we are using special isolation equipment to survive, everything is irreversible."
"Yes." Merlin replied softly.
This light spirit has traveled through countless time and space for countless years.
Countless civilizations have risen before his eyes, and countless civilizations have fallen before his eyes.
And a certain period of history that these stupid civilizations often repeat is always surprisingly similar:
---In order to win the war, seek more powerful power, or seek immortality, they came into contact with Anzi's related technologies.
The more they studied, the more they got stuck in the mud, which eventually led to an explosion of dark particles and the destruction of a civilization.
There are many dark things in this world that should not be touched. But humans always like creatures that take the initiative to die. Even if they say not to touch them, they will not obey.
When a country is about to be destroyed in a war, it will definitely use any means to find a way to save itself;
When a king is approaching his twilight years and his life is in danger, he will definitely resort to any means;
When a planet's resources are facing depletion and the people on the planet are unable to escape from the universe and seek survival alone, they will resort to any means.
But the path that people choose is always [boundless darkness]---the stupid way that pushes civilization to its destruction. This is the price. The price for stupid humans to touch the darkness wantonly.
The same tragedy has happened too many times, and Merlin is used to it.
But the middle-aged man in front of him is still living tenaciously in the dark world. Their [dissolvable armor] can indeed isolate the dark particles and allow people to survive. These are countless civilizations that have been swallowed by the dark particles.
A rare and strange phenomenon.
---Although it's not that amazing.
"Okay, inspection completed." Merlin said, "Great armor. It's still in perfect condition after all these years. The maker is really a genius."
"Oh...thank you." Li Daoyuan sat up and moved his body: "Can you return the upper body armor to me? My body has been exposed to the air like this. I am not used to it."
"Can you borrow it for a while?" Merlin begged: "If you give me a little more time, I can copy the same technology. This is of great significance to us humans in our fight against darkness."
Li Daoyuan looked troubled. This strange Eastern man made a confused expression that was completely different from Westerners. He looked as if his face had been slapped flat.
"Please?" Merlin strengthened his pleading tone.
Li Daoyuan knew that Merlin's request could not be evaded at all, and he did not want to fall out with the prime minister, at least not now.
He sighed and said with great helplessness: "Okay...but please at least give me a top."
Ten minutes later, Oriental and Merlin walked out of the research room together.
"How is it?" King Arthur, who was waiting outside, asked with concern: "Is this guy really not infected with the dark child?"
"Indeed, there is not even the slightest trace of a hidden secret." Merlin patted his chest to confirm: "This guy is clean. Don't worry, take him back and raise him."
"I'm not a pet..." Li Daoyuan complained in a low voice.
"Very good." Arthur looked at this strange oriental man.
Although the appearance of Oriental people is strange, they are basically the same as white people. It should be said that except for the slightly yellowish color of skin, the rest are basically the same.
He is currently not wearing that wonderful armor, but is wearing a light shirt, and even the two huge crab claws have been removed.
"I really didn't know that Orientals evolved from crabs." Arthur made a joke: "And crabs can also evolve into human shapes, which is really cool."
"Your Majesty, did you say that on purpose?" the Easterner said with a helpless smile.
"Perhaps." King Arthur smiled: "I still have many things to ask you, Mr. Li. But it is already dinner time, let's talk at the dining table."
"That... I'm sorry to obey." Li Daoyuan said in a mysterious tone: "I don't need to eat, and I can't eat. I don't have digestive organs in my body. The digestive organs have completely degenerated over the past thousand years."
"What...what?!"
"It's true," said Merlin on the side. At least that's what the scan showed. The wonderful oriental man's body is completely empty.
King Arthur looked at the Orientals again with incredible eyes. Orientals looked the same as humans, but they were completely different inside!
"So, how did you survive all these years---"
"Our [dissolvable armor] will turn the food ingested from the outside into pure nutritional molecule particles and then inject it into our bodies." Li Daoyuan stretched out his hand and gestured, "So, I can't eat without the armor. Even if there is
, and can only [eat] liquid food."
Why is there such a strange setting? Arthur wondered.
"It's because all the creatures in the Dark Continent, including plants, are infected by dark particles." Merlin saw through Arthur's doubts and further explained: "They can't eat infected food directly, they can only eat it.
Reduced to molecular particles, absorbed by the armor and injected into the body."
Li Daoyuan turned to look at the Prime Minister. What he wanted to say was completely preempted by Merlin, so that he couldn't think of what to say for a moment.
"Exactly, Prime Minister." He could only praise: "As a Prime Minister, you are smarter than many of the top scientists in our country."
"Oh, thank you." Merlin replied lightly, as if he had been praised in the same way by countless people.
"Then---" King Arthur still half understood: "Are you coming to dinner or not?"
"I don't eat, but I can watch you eat and answer your questions at the same time." Li Daoyuan said: "Your Majesty, please don't mind, just eat as much as you want."
It would be extremely difficult for you not to mind when you are just eating, but the other person is looking at you dryly, right?
"Besides, I won't starve to death even if I don't eat for a month. Don't worry." The Easterner added another sentence, seemingly to comfort King Arthur, but this sentence was actually meant for Merlin.
The strange crab's upper body armor is actually Li Doyuan's "eating guy".
He was warning Merlin in silent words, please don't break it - human lives are at stake!