Chapter 082 Fool's Fairy Tale (Part 3)
"Um...are you willing to go back to heaven with me?"
When Dong Jin was tossing the golden apple playfully, the little prince beside him spoke again hesitantly.
When Dong Jin looked at him, he blushed and said hurriedly: "It's very dangerous on the ground these days. If you want, you can live in heaven for a while."
"There is a small juice fountain in my castle. You can drink it anytime if you are thirsty! But if you eat this apple, not only will you be...even if you are still alive, you will not be able to enter the castle!"
Dong Jin did not ask why after hearing this.
The little prince looked quite innocent, but innocent was not stupid.
Judging from his expression and tone, "You may die if you eat the apple, but you cannot enter the sky castle if you don't die" should be common knowledge known to everyone in this world.
He finally made the creatures in the town ignore his origins, and made the little prince feel that he was one of them. How could he reveal these details?
So Dong Jin threw the apple again and directly glanced at it at the cost of his life.
[Golden Apple: 50% mortality rate for ordinary people.]
[The higher the physical fitness, the higher the survival rate after eating.]
[After surviving, the body of the eater will evolve to a certain extent. The final evolutionary form and abilities of the eater are determined by his own personality and past experiences.]
Although there is not much updated information, Dong Jin has already figured it out.
The reason why he couldn't enter the castle after eating the apple was simply because he was no longer a pure human at that time. It seems that in this so-called fairy tale world, the relationship between humans and fantasy creatures is not harmonious...
"Do you think I will be in danger on the ground?"
There are many ways to get intelligence. You can't just ask directly, but you can always ask back.
He said lightly while opening his backpack and taking out the things he bought today one by one.
Whether it was the cat he let out of the cage or the utensils he wiped clean, they all turned into princes and princesses in luxurious clothes in the end. As soon as these people were rescued, they surrounded Dong Jin and invited him with gratitude:
"You must be born with extraordinary talent! Come back with me and be my teacher!"
"Ignore her. Teaching her will only waste your talent. Please become my knight."
"You must have spent a lot of money today. I have a box of gems. Come back to the palace with me and I will give them all to you..."
At this time, Dong Jin, who was in the center of the crowd, just smiled and looked back at the little prince who was squeezed aside.
Perhaps Dong Jin's eyes encouraged him. The little prince opened his mouth and seemed to want to say something, but before he opened his mouth, Dong Jin, who walked out of the encirclement with two steps, grabbed his wrist.
Then he was pulled out of the sight of other princes and princesses.
After running all the way to the edge of the town, Dongjin wanted to give himself a perfect score without even taking a breath.
Wasn't his operation just now fairy-tale-like enough? Although he didn't pull Cinderella, a prince in distress would do.
As long as they were worth five stars and helped him pass the level, he treated them equally, whether they were men or women, humans or beasts.
It was unknown whether the little prince was dizzy from running around or was fooled by Dong Jin's decision to choose him without hesitation. As soon as the little prince stopped, he spoke intermittently: "I know that you must be very capable and not afraid of the heavy rain in nine days. But please follow me back to the castle... This is not a reward, but a request to you!"
"Maybe I don't have many things, but as long as I have them, you can use them."
Hearing this, Dong Jin put away the golden apple he had been holding for a long time and looked at the shy but determined little prince in front of him.
Even if this person did not have the "innocent and kind" evaluation given by the Eye of Truth, Dong Jin could see that he was indeed a heartless person. So far, only this little prince made him feel a little bit like being in a fairy tale world.
How to say it? He had been deceived by this kind of person so many times that he almost had a conscience.
"Then from today on, until the rainstorm is over, I will be your teacher and your knight. What do you think, my little prince?"
At this moment, the answer he got was no other than a nod.
After successfully getting in touch with the little prince, Dong Jin soon followed him to the castle in the sky.
Originally, Dong Jin was still guessing how the little prince would go back, but he didn't expect that the way to return was to cut his palm and use blood to summon a rainbow, and then let the rainbow take them to the sky.
On the way back, Dong Jin was still trying to get the little prince to say something in a roundabout way.
The little prince was really simple-minded.
He asked a question casually, and this person could happily answer ten sentences, and even said everything he didn't ask. So when Dong Jin arrived at the Biscuit Castle in the sky, he had already understood the background of this copy.
It is said that a long time ago, this world was flooded with rain and countless people died.
Later, the kings of various kingdoms discovered that there was a strange fruit tree in the forest. As long as humans with pure blood prayed to the fruit tree, the frequency and scope of disasters could be reduced.
So for the lives of their people, they worked together to build this sky city, transplanted the fruit tree into the castle for protection, and then led their princes and princesses to pray to the fruit tree every day and night.
Since then, the candy rain has indeed not been as frequent as before.
It’s just that the princes and princesses were cursed because of the reversal of the sky, and from time to time they would fall to the ground in various forms when praying.
"Look, that's the fruit tree. The golden apples are also produced by it."
The moment he stepped onto the cotton candy ground, the little prince pointed to the huge fruit tree in the distance that was shining with golden light and said to Dong Jin.
"I heard that when the fruit tree produces rainbow apples, all the disasters in the world will disappear. But we have been praying very hard, but the rain nine days later did not show any sign of getting smaller. Am I not devout enough?"
"I really hope that the rainbow apples can appear soon, otherwise what should I do in the future..."
The little prince's depressed voice interrupted Dong Jin's meditation.
Dong Jin did not say anything to comfort him, but just lowered his eyes to estimate the approximate height of the entire city.
Although the estimate is not very accurate, this city is located at an altitude of about 2,000 meters.
Generally speaking, cumulonimbus clouds are mostly below this altitude, so no matter how heavy the candy rain is, it will not hit here.
Combined with this point, recalling the story the little prince just told... it's quite interesting.
The little prince didn't know what Dong Jin was thinking, his emotions came and went quickly. After regaining his spirits, he waved to Dong Jin happily and said, "Please stand here."
"Everyone who enters the castle for the first time must look in this mirror, it can reflect the original appearance of the person entering the city. Don't worry, as long as you have never eaten fruits similar to the golden apple, it is an ordinary mirror to you."
The little prince seemed to be afraid that Dong Jin would find it too formal, and before Dong Jin opened his mouth, he immediately explained in detail.
After all, this was an order issued by the king. If he didn't look in the mirror, no matter how much he begged, he couldn't take Dong Jin in.
Can it reflect the original appearance?
When Dong Jin first saw the huge round mirror that was taller than a person, he was still wondering whether he should follow the local customs and ask it "Who is the most beautiful person in the world?" It turned out that this thing was not a magic mirror at all, but a magic mirror.
If he had chosen to eat the apple just now, he would not be able to enter this door now.
Thinking of this, Dong Jin, who is still a pure human being, stood in front of the mirror without hesitation.
At this moment, the scenes inside and outside the mirror are almost the same, and his breathtaking face is still reflected in it. The only difference is that Dong Jin's eyes in the mirror are a little lighter?
"Great, I'll take you to see your father now!"
The little prince was obviously not used to using honorifics. Once he was happy, the "you" in his words became "you" again.
Immersed in joy, he could not notice the tiny difference, not to mention that Dong Jin used his dramatic power to readjust his eye color to match the one in the mirror the moment he looked into the mirror.
So the little prince was unaware of it from beginning to end. He continued to complain to Dong Jin, "I really don't know why my father doesn't allow other creatures to enter the castle. What do you think will happen if I eat the apple?"
Dong Jin listened casually as before. Just
before he was about to walk through the huge mirror, he turned his head and looked back at the mirror, seemingly intentionally or unintentionally.
After looking into his disguised eyes in the mirror again, Dong Jin suddenly smiled silently.
Dong Jin didn't know what kind of creature the little prince would become.
But he knew exactly what he would become when he saw the description of the golden apple.
- He would definitely be a butterfly.
- A butterfly that stepped on every key node and stirred up storms.
It seemed that this copy was indeed the last copy before he was exposed.
Because once he evolved into a butterfly, even if he could cover his eyes, as long as the butterfly wings changed color like his pupils in the sunlight, his true eye color would still be exposed.
It doesn't matter.
Since he was destined to be exposed, let him dance in the storm for the last time when the butterfly flapped its wings.
"Ha..." At the same moment, Lei Ming in the commentary booth also laughed.
Dong Jin had a premonition that he would evolve into a butterfly, and Lei Ming outside the copy was even more certain of this than he was.
- Because that was his little butterfly.
——The stumbling, yet fearless little butterfly.
"...What are you laughing at?"
Kai, who was also in the commentary booth at this time, could not ignore this laughter.
He looked at the laughter of Dong Jin and Lei Ming in perfect sync on the screen, and finally said the first sentence of the day.
"It's none of your business." Due to the repeated reminders of the commentary booth's wording standards by the will of the universe, Lei Ming reluctantly swallowed the curse. But what he said next was more sinister than simple curses: "You can laugh if you want to, no one is holding you back."
"So why don't you laugh? Are you born not to like laughing?"
"It shouldn't be. You are the God of Carnival. How can there be a God of Carnival who can't laugh in the universe?"
The audience in the commentary live broadcast room were still secretly expecting these two to say something.
However, it was just a few simple words. Forget the initial expectations. The low pressure in the commentary booth that was about to surpass the virtual space made them silent.
After a long time, an audience member bravely sent a bullet screen:
[Ten floors below is the God and Demon Arena. How about...you go and have a game first?]