Thanks for the invitation. I am a parasite in Terra.

Laurentina looked at the black tea and the small cake beside it with some resentment.

Dull.

The other men and women in the cafe were leaning against each other, saying all kinds of sweet words, and occasionally feeding each other cakes with forks.

But...but the situation here is simply...

"Dad, stop reading the newspaper and have a bite of the cake. It's delicious!"

The little girl at the next table raised her fork and spoke to the middle-aged man in front of her who was also reading a newspaper.

"Okay~ Dad won't watch."

........

Damn it, they are exactly the same!

Laurentina listened to the noise behind her and looked at the couples nearby.

No, we can't just sit there and wait for death!

"What's wrong, Laurentina?"

Her call brought Zuo Jian's thoughts back to the small cafe, and at the same time, allowed him to focus again on the newspaper in front of him.

To be honest, most of the content in the newspaper is not worth paying attention to.

Many places are filled with advertisements from businesses, trivia and gossip about female celebrities.

The only information worth paying attention to are the few short sentences in the corner.

[Chernobog City Lord Assassination Case, Ursus border city-state was suspected to be attacked by assassins, and two city lords were assassinated one after another.]

However, compared to these, he obviously cares more about——

Zuo Jian squinted his eyes and looked at the address of the publishing company marked on the daily newspaper.

Londinium....

Can the newspapers in the capital be synchronized to these marginal cities? Is it printed by the newspaper branches? But the content should be the same...

That is to say.... Victoria's newspapers can...

"Left room - stop reading the newspaper."

Laurentina pulled Zuo Jian's arm and made him put down the newspaper.

"What's wrong......"

Before he could finish his words, he saw a fork holding a small piece of cake and bringing it to him.

"Zajian, ah——"

"?"

He looked at the cake in front of him with some confusion.

"Honestly speaking, the main purpose of eating is to help you adjust your mentality and spirit. According to this standard, I don't think I need to occupy your part..."

"I think this will make me more relaxed, so, ah——"

Laurentina still held the fork, seemingly showing no intention of backing down.

Seeing this, Zuo Jian felt helpless, but he couldn't refuse, so he had to obey the other party and opened his mouth.

The fork was put into his mouth and he swallowed the cake down into his throat.

"How's it going? Is it delicious?"

Laurentina held her face and looked at Zuo Jian with an expectant smile.

The latter looked at her face, hesitated for a moment, and then sighed.

"Actually, I can't actually taste this stuff. This body's tongue hasn't evolved specifically for taste, which isn't really necessary."

He took the fork from Laurentina and dug gently.

The next piece of cake was then fed to Laurentina in the same manner.

By the way, he also touched her head.

"So, just eat by yourself and don't worry about me."

"Hmm..."

Laurentina held a fork in her mouth and looked at Zuo Jian. I don't know what she was thinking.

However, the next moment, she suddenly supported the table with one hand, grabbed his collar with the other hand, and turned his head towards her.

Seeing Zuo Jian's puzzled look, Laurentina moved forward and their foreheads touched together.

"Laurentina?"

Before he could react, he tasted the sweet taste of cream and fruit in his mouth.

She was synchronizing her feelings with Zuo Jian.

"Hey, so now I can taste it, right?"

Looking at Laurentina's eyes full of expectation, Zuo Jian couldn't even answer for a moment.

Honestly.

He doesn't like this kind of sweet food very much.

But......

Looking into the other person's clear red eyes, what was reflected in them was my own face.

“Yes, it’s delicious.”

"hey-hey."

She smiled, propped her cheek with one hand and leaned on the table, then handed the fork to Zuo Jian again.

"Zajian, feed me."

"?"

"Can't you just eat it yourself?"

"No, I've already fed you, shouldn't you feed me back?"

"Didn't I just feed it back?"

"Hehe, there is an old saying in Yan country, called... dripping water..."

"A drop of water should be repaid with a spring of water. Where did you see this? And this kind of saying is obviously not used in this kind of place."

He sighed and looked at his shark, which was sometimes a little willful and capricious.

"Okay, okay, I can't do anything about you. Open your mouth."

He reluctantly took the fork, cut the cake into pieces, picked up a part of it and put it in front of Laurentina.

"Hmm~"

"Speaking of which, you deep-sea hunters, do you have a secret code for the streets?"

Zuo Jian continued to feed Laurentina as he spoke.

“Mmmmm—”

"Swallow it and then talk!"

"Well, yes, what's the matter - um."

Another piece of cake was fed to Laurentina's mouth.

"Then our next destination should be Londinium. Victoria is more developed than I thought. A lot of information can be transmitted from her capital to various mobile cities."

"So, instead of searching blindly, we can go directly to Londinium and try to spread the information to the whole of Victoria through newspapers and radio."

"And...if possible, while I'm spreading the word about finding your teammates, I also plan to look for the escaped Deep Sea Bishop."

"Hmm--Amaya?" Laurentina swallowed the cake and looked puzzled.

"You care?"

"How should I put it...it feels very strange."

Zuo Jian touched his chin. Ever since he saw the word "evil" on the deep-sea hunter's safe house map, this weird feeling has been deepening.

At the same time, my heart kept telling myself that I must find Amaya.

Or.

Find the piece of flesh and blood that Amaya took away.

As expected, with his current level of perception, even if he couldn't control that part of the flesh and blood, he could still feel the other party's level of activity.

But he didn't react at all.

This means that the flesh and blood have basically entered a deep dormant state, and its manifestation is basically withered gray-red residue.

Theoretically, even a mad scientist like Lyco could not reactivate that part of the activity.

To put it bluntly.

Safety.....

But...what is this feeling?

Zuo Jian was puzzled, but it was obvious that this kind of intuitive instinct was not something he could ignore.

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On the cold ice field, the howling cold wind mixed with gray snow emerged from the depths.

Twisted pupils opened from within the crazed flesh and blood.

The Ursus people rely on their inner guards to block the evil demons, and their huge army keeps those twisted beings outside the borders of civilization.

But... no one knows that everything this country has built here is just to resist the remnants of that "existence" occasionally.

What really holds them back in that endless ice field is the balance that has always been maintained on Terra.

Some people say that the development of Terra civilization is almost on thin ice, and it is purely by luck that it has reached its current position.

Fortunately, the development of civilization is based on a balance of mutual restraint.

And now...because of some foreign existence.

The precarious balance was broken ahead of time.

The existence of the ocean curled up its tentacles again and stopped its original spread and evolution in order to survive.

The presence of land creates a weakening.

Black crystals are spread all over the earth, but no matter how the new civilization uses or isolates them, their total amount will always remain the same.

What disappears will always come back to what exists.

And now...

...they have weakened.

A small part disappeared.

It's completely gone, gone forever.

As if being swallowed.

The crystals of the earth also stopped spreading and expanding.

In the balance of three-way constraints, the ocean and the land chose to curl up at the same time.

...But the ice fields did not know why they were curled up, they only knew that the balance was broken.

The time to break free has come.

.......

..

Ursus border.