Chapter 144 Obtaining the World Fragment, Sang Zhitao's Actions Were Moved by the Crown Princess...
Sang Zhitao was startled by the Crown Princess's actions and staggered forward two steps, then heard the sound of a door closing behind her.
She calmed herself down, looked up, and saw a tiny black cat sitting in the middle.
The black cat was extremely cute, with a delicate little crown on its head and a bow tied to its tail.
That bow must be covered in diamonds, sparkling brilliantly in the sunlight.
Sang Zhitao subconsciously looked up, wondering where the sunlight was coming from.
It wasn't until she looked up that she noticed a section in the very center of the hall that was entirely made of glass, through which sunlight streamed into the hall.
The black cat stood right under the dome, its pure black fur shimmering with a silvery sheen under the light.
"It's so well-cared for." Sang Zhitao's eyes flickered, and she rubbed her fingertips together, suppressing the urge to touch it.
The black cat licked its paw and bowed slightly: "Thank you for the compliment."
Sang Zhitao wasn't startled by his sudden words, after all, she hadn't forgotten that this was the world of beastmen.
"Who are you...?" Sang Zhitao knelt down on one knee and looked at the black cat with some curiosity.
The black cat twitched its whiskers: "I am the emperor of the beastman kingdom. You may call me Your Majesty, or you may call me by my name, Black Emperor. This is a privilege I have granted you."
Sang Zhitao choked back a sob: "Okay... Black Emperor."
Black Emperor flicked its tail, the diamonds on its bow sparkling, piercing Sang Zhitao's eyes and causing her to instinctively flinch.
Black Emperor seemed to chuckle to himself, but quickly withdrew it just as Sang Zhitao noticed. He licked his paws and said, "I've actually been looking forward to you for a long time."
Before Sang Zhitao could ask further, he continued, "Many, many years ago, I knew that our world would face a great catastrophe, and that a savior would appear. She comes from another world and will open a passage between us and that other world through the fragments of this world, bringing us new hope."
Black Emperor paused, then sighed softly: "I've waited for many years. I thought you would appear before the disaster, but I didn't expect you to appear only now."
Sang Zhitao was not surprised that he knew all this, after all, in almost every world she had been to, there were people like this.
Perhaps it was the instinctive cry for help from the world's consciousness, or perhaps it was the bond between teacher and student, or perhaps it was because I was born with the identity of a savior.
These times will more or less provide her with convenience, the local people will unconsciously develop goodwill towards her, and each world will arrange a guide for her.
Thinking of this, she frowned, recalling the original book she had written.
The book didn't mention anything about pollution diseases; it was mostly about the protagonist's growth.
"The orc world I know shouldn't be polluted like this."
Black King paused in his paw-licking motion, twitched his beard, and a thought flashed in his eyes: "Perhaps it's not that it didn't appear, but rather that the timing of its appearance changed."
Sang Zhitao was somewhat confused.
"Perhaps pollution also occurred in the timeline you mentioned, only in the far future, before you existed." Black King scratched at the ground with his claws.
"You mean... because that world line was destroyed, I was born, but the contamination happened earlier?" Sang Zhitao recalled her experiences in the world of giants.
The world consciousness there once said that the worlds to which the world consciousnesses that had taught it belonged had been destroyed, and that it had placed its mark in their timelines, which is why there are salvation stories in various worlds.
What the Black Emperor said happened to be the same as what the consciousness of the Giant World said.
She rubbed her fingertips together for a while before saying, "No matter what, saving lives is the most important thing."
Black Emperor nodded and took a few steps back.
Only then did Sang Zhitao notice a cat's paw print on the ground.
After the Black Emperor took a few steps back, the cat paw print emitted a faint light, then flipped down, revealing a pink cat paw-shaped gem on top.
Sang Zhitao felt the gemstone's attraction to her, knowing that this was the fragment of the world she had been searching for. She opened her mind, opened her arms, and welcomed the fusion of the world fragment.
This illusion was rather strange; it was completely dark, and Sang Zhitao couldn't see her surroundings. She was unable to move or say anything.
She didn't know how much time had passed when a beam of light, like a sword piercing the darkness, broke through the space, and she was finally able to move her stiff hands and feet.
The sudden appearance of light made her instinctively close her eyes.
After her eyes adjusted to the light, she opened them and found herself surrounded by desolation, with someone standing beside her who looked exactly like her.
Sang Zhitao opened her mouth, about to say something, when she saw the person suddenly wave his hand and fall from the clouds, then lose consciousness.
After the feeling of weightlessness disappeared, Sang Zhitao opened her eyes, a hint of fear still lingering in them.
Seeing her kneeling on the ground with a look of panic on her face, her trembling fingertips supporting her weight, and fine beads of sweat on her face, Black King couldn't help but sigh and patted her with his paw.
Seeing that Sang Zhitao hadn't come to her senses yet, he walked straight up to her and called out softly, "Meow~".
"...Your pinching sounds are quite good." Black Emperor was afraid that his calls wouldn't wake her up, so he quickly moved closer and rubbed against her. But he didn't expect that after just a couple of rubs, he would be greeted with a hug and teasing from Sang Zhitao.
After taking a few deep breaths of the kitten emperor, Sang Zhitao sat down on the ground and slowly exhaled, suppressing her heart palpitations: "As expected of the Black Emperor! It's so good to suck on!"
Black King was startled by her actions, but he did not resist. He just let her rub him with a look of utter despair until his smooth fur was rubbed into a bird's nest. Only then did he jump out of Sang Zhitao's arms and start licking his fur again.
Sang Zhitao rubbed her nose awkwardly and went over to comb his nose with a portable comb she had in her pocket.
A familiar door appeared not far away. After greeting the people at the base, Sang Zhitao looked at Hei Huang and said, "You discuss it with them first. I'll go rescue people first."
Black Emperor nodded, then pulled out a button from somewhere and pressed it, causing the hall doors to slowly open.
Sang Zhitao greeted the people at the base and then turned to leave.
Outside the door, the tall white tiger's back was pressed tightly against the wall, and a hint of shyness appeared on its usually cold and hard face.
The petite, girlish Crown Princess knelt before him, pulled his collar with one hand, and lowered his head slightly as she leaned in to say something.
Sang Zhitao saw this scene as soon as she stepped outside, and couldn't help but twitch her lips. She finally believed what the Crown Princess had said.
Baihu was the first to see Sang Zhitao. He quickly pushed the Crown Princess aside, coughed awkwardly a few times, and then strode forward: "Is it all settled?"
Sang Zhitao nodded. Although she hadn't gotten any clues from the illusion, she instinctively knew what she should do.
“I need to go to the highest place in the world so I can see all the polluted areas,” Sang Zhitao said directly.
Baihu frowned slightly, unable to think of anything that met the requirements.
The Crown Princess standing nearby smiled and replied, "That's easy, a memorial tower will do."
Baihu's eyes lit up, and he nodded repeatedly: "That's right, the memorial tower is not only the tallest building, but it is also located in the heart of several cities."
"However... isn't it impossible to climb the memorial tower now?" Then, Baihu hesitated, as if he had just thought of something.
The Crown Princess waved her hand dismissively: "We don't need a humanoid figure to go up. The repairs at the top of the tower aren't finished yet, and it can't support the weight of a humanoid figure."
She glanced at Sang Zhitao and said, "You're quite young and petite. I don't know if you'll be suitable. It would be best if you went in your beast form, but..."
"Your beast form isn't a large animal, is it?" the Crown Princess asked, her eyes filled with curiosity.
Sang Zhitao quickly shook her head: "No, it just so happens that I need to use my beast form to perform this."
Upon hearing this, the Crown Princess clapped her hands and exclaimed, "Then let's go there now!"
As he spoke, he grabbed Sang Zhitao's hand and quickly walked out, with Baihu following closely behind.
The History Tower is the oldest building in the Orc Kingdom, built since the birth of the Orcs. Almost every Orc King has repaired it, but the long internal strife in the past made the Orcs neglect it. It wasn't until the last two years that the royal family took the lead in repairing it again.
Along the way, Sang Zhitao listened to the Crown Princess recount history and history, comparing it with the orc history she knew.
Only after she finished speaking did Sang Zhitao ask curiously, "Why is there so little history about the orcs online?"
The Crown Princess sighed softly: "Do you know what this place was like before the orcs were born?"
Sang Zhitao was taken aback. She really hadn't thought of it. In her mind, this place should always have been a world of beastmen.
"Before this, a brilliant civilization once lived here, but unfortunately they were destroyed by greed."
The Crown Princess stared blankly into the void: "Later, they disappeared from this land, leaving behind a group of whimsical experiments."
“Those test subjects were our orc ancestors.” As she spoke, she looked at the faintly visible shadow of the history tower. “Back then, a hundred ancestors who survived from the laboratory rebuilt their homes on this land with their own hands.”
"They formed families with each other, only to discover after the birth of the second generation that their offspring possessed both human and animal forms."
The Crown Princess paused for a moment, then continued, "In our minds, we have always considered human form to be lowly and not easily transformed into it. However, we must admit that human form can do many things that animal form cannot."
"Perhaps human form is truly the true form of all civilizations. Just as humans were the ones who harmed this land and our ancestors, our ancestors degraded human form to a lowly status, and we still bear this view to this day. However, in recent years, more and more orcs have been willing to become human form."
Sang Zhitao didn't notice the emotion in her eyes, but felt a sudden jolt in her heart and a slight tingling in her fingertips.
If the orc world is a civilization that emerged after the destruction of the normal world, then what was the human world like before it?
Could this place be another possibility after the great catastrophe on Earth, like the world of giants?
Before she could figure it out, they had already arrived at their destination, and the Crown Princess pulled her out of the carriage.
Looking at the towering pagoda, the Crown Princess smiled and said, "I can only take you up to the middle level; it will be difficult to go any higher."
Sang Zhitao blurted out instinctively, "Aren't you a cat? You shouldn't be very big, so you can't climb up there?"
The Crown Princess paused for a moment before bursting into laughter: "That's because I resemble my mother, whose original form is an orange cat, not a black cat like my father. Moreover, my father's original form was a special case, unable to grow up, while mine is much smaller."
She winked at Sang Zhitao and said, "After I ascend the throne, my name will be changed to Orange Emperor~"
Sang Zhitao stared speechlessly at her petite figure, finding it hard to believe that this was the same woman who could overpower the bed.
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Author's Note: This world will be finished tomorrow.
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