The Reader And The Protagonist Definitely Have To Be In True Love

(Chapter 33) Protagonist: I really want to make a chain and shackle you to me.

After two days, Violet and Alice returned to Beliard City.

Something strange seemed to be going on. At the demon sisters' home, all of the guards were silent. They looked like they really wanted to speak but didn't dare to. When the two sisters saw the monocle-wearing demon, they realized what had frightened their guards.

"City Lords of Belial City," said Rachel, smiling politely. "I think we should talk."

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The inner city of the Gnome Ruins was built according to the pattern of the Kabbalah Tree of Life, with 22 paths and 10 circular plazas that represented the 10 Sephirot. The Gate of Wisdom was situated on the plaza in the upper left corner of the inner city. According to the lore of the Kabbalah, that Sephirot represents wisdom.

Du Ze stayed in the Gnome Ruins for two days. At midnight of the first day, the doujinshi in Du Ze's hands was restored to its normal appearance – cool, very good!

A mouthful of old blood was stuck in Du Ze's throat, almost choking him. The time inside the Gate of Wisdom runs faster than the time outside with a ratio of 60:1. That is to say, Xiu has had 1/5th of the doujinshi in his hands for nearly 40 days – 40 days with 8 pages of the doujinshi is enough to make the protagonist fall!

The flowers of the motherland were destroyed by the little yellow (porn) book ...

Du Ze, forcing himself not to imagine the what Xiu was doing, went out. He liked to look at the inner city's otherworldly style of architecture. The streets are full of small houses of different styles, like the dwarves' miniature houses in fairy tales. Du Ze stooped down and entered several of the houses. Without exception, all of the houses have traces of the gnomes who used to live there. The traces were so vivid that Du Ze could even infer what they were doing: they were bathing, eating, and assembling mechanical parts. For some reason, all of the gnomes seemed to have vanished right in the middle of whatever they were doing.

Looking at the empty house, Du Ze shuddered before going back into the street. Although there was some mechanical activity on the street, it still felt deserted due to the lack of gnomes.

The gnomes ... What was the reason for their disappearance?

Du Ze is not the author, so he doesn't know what Yi Ye Zhi Qiu planned to write about this event. The reason for the disappearance of the gnomes seems to be an important story arc for "Mixed Blood," but when Du Ze was transported into this world, the reader had not yet learned how it happened.

Du Ze could not help but wonder about Old John who had been accompanying him for the last few days. The ancient-looking mechanical puppet was not written in the novel. Thinking of the differences between the novel and the present, a wild guess suddenly appeared in Du Ze's mind.

"How long have you been here?"

Hearing Du Ze's question, Old John stopped playing with the little Phoenix and replied. Lost in thought, as though sinking into a sea of old memories, his voice was full of remembrance: "Nearly forty thousand years, right?"

Old John touched the stars on his chest: "I am of the second generation of mechanical puppets. My master used the best power device for me. That is how I can live until now. But my power device is almost at its limit. In another year, my heart is going to stop." It looked at Du Ze. "It is great that I was able to see you before I die."

It seemed strange to hear a machine say "live" and "die," but the tone of voice as Old John spoke was full of woe. The mechanical puppet had been wandering in this empty city for thousands of years and even developed feelings.

Old John's words confirmed Du Ze's conjecture. In terms of time, the protagonist in the novel entered the Gnome Ruins four years later. Old John's power source had died, so he had already been shut down.