Please be my partner.

……

[Swallow Metal]: You can increase your own mass and volume by swallowing metal, and the swallowed metal will be completely integrated into yourself.

【Mechanical Transformation】: Through learning, recording, and researching mechanical knowledge, you can continuously improve and optimize your own structure, and you can also transform into corresponding mechanical creations.

It can only be activated after obtaining sufficient mechanical knowledge.

[Characteristic Reconstruction]: Analyze the characteristics of the swallowed metal, and reconstruct, combine, and adjust these characteristics and apply them to yourself.

It can only be activated after obtaining sufficient metallic properties.

After seeing the attributes of this little guy, Melen's eyes changed. This is not a mechanical dog at all, it is clearly a Strike Gundam, a space battleship, and a space fortress!

What made Melen a little surprised was that this mechanical dog, which was obviously a silicon-based life form, could actually evolve.

This somewhat overturned his previous ideas.

Logically speaking, bloodline exploration should be based on the flesh and blood of carbon-based life, but I don’t know what it would be like to use bloodline exploration on a mechanical dog.

Retracting these thoughts, Melen looked at Pinocchio with eager eyes and said seriously: "Pinocchio, can you let me raise this mechanical dog?"

Pinocchio was stunned. He looked at Mellen, then at the mechanical dog that had come close to the latter and was rubbing against him affectionately. He was silent for a while.

Melen thought for a moment and said, "I'm a beastmaster with a special profession. This mechanical dog will definitely grow better if it follows me."

Pinocchio smiled and said, "You misunderstood, Mr. Mellon. It is my honor to have you raise it."

He looked at the robot dog with deep emotion in his eyes and said, "You are my creator, so I think you are aware of my situation. Ever since I discovered that this robot dog was born from me, I have been ecstatic and have tried my best to help it grow."

"Unfortunately, it failed in the end. I don't even know where the problem occurred."

When he said this, Pinocchio's expression became gloomy, and some very distant memories came to his mind.

Shaking his head slightly, Pinocchio looked at Mellen and said with a smile: "Mr. Mellen, let this little fellow follow you. I hope you can treat it well."

Mei Lun said as a matter of course: "Of course I will!"

The lunch was very filling and the food tasted delicious.

After lunch, Mellen said goodbye and left.

Pinocchio did not try to persuade Mellen to stay. When Mellen was leaving, he said meaningfully, "Mr. Mellen, although a golden egg can fulfill a wish, if you can bring back the goose that lays golden eggs, perhaps you will get some unexpected rewards."

Mellen nodded slightly and didn't ask any more questions.

Pinocchio watched Mellen leave quietly, without saying a word.

After a long time, a middle-aged man with a haggard face and a dejected look appeared in the hall.

He asked, "You chose him?"

Pinocchio calmly replied: "Zhu, it's not that I chose him, but he is the only one we can choose."

Chapter 123: Heading to the Clouds ( Monthly Tickets Plus)

After coming out from Pinocchio, Mellen looked at the mechanical dog twisting in his palm and fell into deep thought.

The communication with Pinocchio went smoothly, but Melen always had the feeling that the other party was trying to guide him in some way, and the former did not hide it.

Although according to Pinocchio's original setting, lying will make his nose grow longer, but the opponent at this time is no longer the original little puppet, but the ruler of the fairy tale kingdom. It is not surprising that he can overcome his original shortcomings.

Besides, who says that if you don't lie, you can't cheat others?!

Moreover, Melen would not be too superstitious about the assumption that "the fairy tale characters he created would definitely be close to him."

All intelligent life has its own interests.

Before finding out Pinocchio's true purpose, Mellen's trust in him will be discounted.

These thoughts flashed through his mind one by one, and then he retracted them and looked at the mechanical dog in his hand again.

This mechanical dog has low intelligence and its movements are somewhat slow and clumsy, which are all manifestations of its weak self-awareness.

However, none of these affect the fact that it is a blue quality dog.

If it is trained well, the mecha Gundam that Mellen had envisioned before may not be impossible to realize.

Thinking of this, Melen injected a little spiritual energy into the mechanical dog's body.

After receiving these spiritual energies, the mechanical dog's eyes lit up slightly and seemed to become more active.

After observing for a while, Mellen put it into the [Blue Ring] and let Spike and Little Red Lotus take it with him. He still had to focus his main energy on dealing with the current situation. As for the matter of training the mechanical dog, he would wait until he left the fairy tale kingdom.

Now all you need to do is inject some spiritual energy every once in a while to speed up the growth of the mechanical dog.

In [Ring of Azure], Spike is concentrating with his eyes closed, which can accelerate his growth and the absorption of spiritual energy to a certain extent.

Little Honglian was a little bored, because its strength was about to reach the critical point of being able to cover up. In order not to cause trouble to its master, it had to stop getting stronger. So it focused its main energy on Melen most of the time, always paying attention to its master's every move.

When the mechanical dog entered the [Blue Ring], it was still a little confused and didn't understand why it suddenly changed places.

Spike raised his eyelids slightly and took a look, then gestured to Xiao Honglian to let the little guy take care of it, and then ignored it.

Xiao Honglian came to the mechanical dog with great interest, and the two little guys began to stare at each other.

At this moment, Spike had no idea that his laziness today would bring him so much trouble in the future!

Returning to Anna's tent cabin, the latter had not returned yet, so Melen began to organize his next thoughts.

The Kingdom of Giants, the goose that lays golden eggs, and the magic vines should all have originated from the fairy tale "Jack and the Beanstalk", but the giants that appeared in the fairy tale have become the current Kingdom of Giants, which is an expansion and improvement of the worldview of the fairy tale itself.

This change means that even if he can recall the details of the fairy tale, it may not be useful for the current situation and may even mislead him.

Not to mention the strange phenomenon that the giant kingdom only appears when the fairy tale is reversed.

Just as Melen was thinking, Anna also returned from outside.

When he saw Mellen, he immediately asked, "How was it? How was the conversation with that Duke Pinocchio?"

Melen said, "They've agreed to let me use the wishing well, but I need to complete a rather difficult pre-task."

Anna was not surprised by this. In her opinion, a treasure like the wishing well could not be used for free, otherwise the fairy tale kingdom would not have designated it as a forbidden area.

She said, "If there's anything I can do to help, just let me know. Helping you is also helping myself."

Then he added: "As long as it's not a fight."

Mellen nodded slightly and said with a smile, "Okay! If I really need you, I'll ask for your help. By the way, what did you gain from this trip?"

Anna said somewhat proudly: "Of course, don't you see who I am!"

"This time I got some information about another duke in the fairytale kingdom. Her name is Snow White, and she's a stunning beauty!"

"Snow White herself seems to be just an ordinary person, but she has seven loyal dwarf guards. It is said that these dwarf guards have the blood of the Earth Titans and are extremely powerful."

Mellen: ...

"Also, Snow White has a magic mirror that's said to have the answers to all the world's questions. If you ask the mirror how to crack the trajectory calculation, you should be able to get the answer."

Mellen: ...

"But unfortunately, the fairy tale kingdom seems to have a rule that the king should not meet the king. During the time when Duke Pinocchio was in charge of the kingdom, Snow White disappeared."

Then, she muttered to herself with a hint of confusion, "Logically, Snow White should be called the Snow Queen, given her achievements. For some reason, everyone calls her Princess."

Mellen was quite speechless about the development of Snow White's story, but with the example of Pinocchio, it was not difficult for him to accept it.

Mellen asked, "The Fairy Tale Kingdom is ruled by three dukes who take turns ruling it. Pinocchio and Snow White are two of them, so who is the third duke?"

Anna showed a look of regret and said, "I'm also curious about this question, but I've asked everyone I know, and no one knows the identity of this third duke. It's as if he never existed."

"That's it."

Melen nodded thoughtfully and didn't ask any more questions.

Next, Melen briefly explained that he would be heading to the Giant Kingdom that night.

Although Anna seemed fascinated by what she heard, she rationally said that a weakling like herself was not worthy of going with them and would be a burden if she went.

However, this does not mean that Anna is completely unable to help. She will make a divination prediction for Mellen. Of course, in order to ensure the accuracy of the prediction, and since it is still early in the night, she needs some time to prepare.

There was no point in Mellen staying, as it would only become an obstacle, so he simply left the tent.

Walking in the fairy tale kingdom, feeling those familiar yet unfamiliar fairy tales happening before his eyes, Melen's mood gradually became peaceful.

…………

Somewhere in the fairy tale kingdom, in a rented house.

Ada, Yanis and Yimeng were in the room, silent.

Yi Meng had a lot of bandages wrapped around his body, and it seemed that he had suffered a lot of injuries. At this moment, he was removing some bandages and changing the dressings for some serious wounds.

Yanis also had some injuries, but compared to Yimeng, they were much lighter.

Ada was not injured at all and was obviously well protected.

After a long moment, Anis said frantically, "What the hell is this place? Wasn't it agreed that it was just a 'town' with only a hundred or so fairy tale characters? What the hell is going on now?!"

Ada said helplessly, "This is definitely a fairytale town. As for why it suddenly became a fairytale kingdom, I'm afraid even the people outside don't know. They may not even be aware of the changes here."

"Their previous warnings must have been true. Even though the kind-hearted woman who rented us a room went crazy last night, she didn't attack us because we get along well."

Anis said somewhat discouragedly, "What's the use? If this is still the fairytale town those guys talk about, we can protect ourselves by just befriending some fairytale characters, but... this is a fairytale kingdom!"

"There are hundreds of fairy tale characters living in our neighborhood alone. Although their strength varies, they are generally at the first level. There are many second and third levels out there, and there are even more terrifying ones."

"We were lucky enough to make it through last night, but what about today? What about tomorrow?!"

Ada said calmly, "Yesterday I noticed that although most of the fairy tale characters have fallen into madness, some places are unusually peaceful. I think that's where our hope lies."

Yanis asked, "You mean..."

Ada nodded and said, "Instead of blindly befriending more fairy tale characters, it would be better to set our main target on a powerful fairy tale character. This way, our chances of receiving protection will be even greater."

At this point, Ada hesitated again and added, "Doing so may ensure our safety in the future, but it may also bring us greater danger."

"We haven't figured out the reason why these fairy tale characters are going crazy. If those powerful fairy tale characters who protect us also go crazy, I'm afraid we will become their first target."

Just when Ada was in a dilemma, Yanis said, "I believe in your choice!"

After changing the medicine, Yi Meng also came to the two of them and nodded silently.

A warm feeling welled up in Ada's heart as she analyzed, "Before coming in, I noticed the group outside were building a makeshift camp. This can only mean one thing, that we have a chance to escape from here. Their warning also indirectly suggests that perhaps our escape could bring them some benefits, which is why they chose to wait for us outside."

"Based on a rough observation, the supplies they carry should be able to sustain them for one to two weeks, which means we won't be staying here for too long."

Ada exhaled and said firmly, "We need to spend our energy during the day looking for a way to leave here, and we must not be too distracted at night, so we must seek shelter."

This point was unanimously agreed by Yanis and Yimeng.

Last night, they all suffered serious injuries in order to deal with those crazy fairy tale characters. Even with the use of the best potions, they have only recovered slightly now.

This is because I was lucky yesterday.

If this were the case every night, they wouldn't have enough time to recuperate during the day, let alone find a way to leave.

After making up her mind, Ada looked at the target she was going to attack. It was a huge building that looked like a hospital.

…………

As the sky grew darker, Mellen returned to the tent cabin.

When I saw Anna again, she looked pale and was resting, obviously having fulfilled the prophecy.

Seeing Mellen return, Anna expressed her delight and said with a smile, "The divination this time was a good omen. It means you will eventually get a satisfactory result. In addition, I also got two useful revelations."

"One is that when you are lost, move toward the light."

"The second is, do not touch the darkness."

Melen asked doubtfully, "What do these two revelations mean?"

He had expected a more detailed explanation, but Anna spread her hands and said, "I don't know. I can only guarantee that these prophecies will be useful, but you'll need to figure out for yourself what they are useful for."

Then, he muttered a little embarrassedly, "That's how my divination predictions are. Otherwise, the Special Affairs Bureau wouldn't have spread the rumor that my predictions are unreliable."

Melen smiled helplessly and didn't dwell on it too much. After all, these so-called prophecies and revelations were better than nothing... right?

After giving Anna a few words of advice, Mellen left the tent, looked at the night sky, and waited quietly.

Twelve o'clock midnight arrived as scheduled.

The eerie atmosphere began to expand again, sweeping across the fairy tale kingdom in an instant.

The peaceful and dreamy, dream-like scenery suddenly shattered, and madness and weirdness once again prevailed.