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As the horse-drawn carriage drove into the eastern part of the city, the houses on both sides of the road were visibly dilapidated, and single-family or townhouse villas became scarcer, corresponding to low-rent apartments.

Every city has a large number of poor people, and the metropolis is no exception.

As the largest slum in the Kingdom of Winton, there are countless people from the bottom of the society living here, who have no savings, or very little, and can only do some manual labor to obtain daily food, and the environment here is also extremely harsh, with broken roads, mud, foul air, and rampant sewage.

Merry is no stranger to this, after all, she grew up here, she knows hunger and poverty, and she has witnessed the darkness and deceit of the world early on.

It's just that when I have enjoyed the luxury of high society and set foot here again, my psychology has undergone some subtle changes.

This feeling reached its extreme when Merry got out of the carriage and stepped on the stinky ditch-like alley to a very dilapidated and old apartment.

"Merry? Isn't it only Tuesday today? How did you get back? When she pushed open the door, her mother, who was washing the dishes, asked in surprise.

Yes, Merry's home is here.

"I'll come back and see you."

Merry said calmly, her gaze sweeping over the gloomy apartment house.

The family is as poor and cold as ever, only the size of a palm, but it is full of people.

At this moment, hearing his voice, a hunchbacked middle-aged man poked his head out, his face full of numbness:

"How much money did you bring back?"

Mei Li felt a wave of nausea in her heart, but she still threw away the accumulated savings in anger, with some force, almost like a beating.

However, the man named Father didn't care, and finally showed a smile.

"What about Joan? Where is she? Merry asked.

"I went to the public toilet, and when I just went out, it was just a little bigger, and I ate more." The man muttered dissatisfied.

"I'll go find her." Mei Li said coldly, then turned around, and looked at her timid mother who was holding a rag next to her, and her tone finally softened, "I'll come back later." ”

After saying that, she went straight downstairs, through the cold and cramped corridor, her eyes lit up, and she happened to see a thin hemp rod-like girl who was only eight or nine years old walking back slowly.

Seeing Mei Li, the eyes of the little girl named Joan lit up: "Sister! You're back! ”

As she spoke, she ran over, and a real smile finally appeared on Mei Li's face, squatted down, hugged her sister, and said, "Well, I'm back, and I brought a gift for Joan." ”

"Gifts? Is it eaten? Sensing her sister's question, Joan looked up, her eyes full of longing, which were so large because of her emaciation.

"No," Merry said, then laughed before her sister showed disappointment, "but it's an infinite number of times better than food." ”

"What is it?"

"Come, let's find a secluded place, and my sister will show you." Merry got up, took her sister's hand, looked around cautiously, and then took the latter by the hand and hid in a corner of the apartment.

She remembers that the house was not rented out and was quieter.

At this moment, the last rays of the setting sun are also completely gone, and the Watton Metropolitan has entered the night.

Yes, Merry is going to send tonight's wish to her sister, and as for the possible leakage, since she wants to make the family live a good life, it is inevitable that she will also think of a statement.

After entering the hallway and confirming that there was no one around, Merry pulled her sister to sit on the cold steps, and then carefully took out the "prayer candle" and a matchbox from her arms.

"Joan, my sister has just learned magic and can conjure what you want, do you want to see it?" Merry asked gently.

Joan blinked and nodded vigorously, not suspicious of him.

"The magic is very simple, wait for my sister to light this candle, and then, you can make a wish for it, whatever you want, just say it."

Seeing her sister nodding, Mei Li took out a match, stabbed it, and slashed it.

Immediately, the half of the candle, which seemed to never burn out, lit up.

"Come, make a wish." Merry urged.

"Is anything okay?"

"Of course, anything."

Joan swallowed her saliva and looked awkwardly at the flames in front of her, her hands clasped together in front of her as if pulled by some force.

Feeling the temperature of the candle close at hand, and the shriveling of her stomach, she thought about it, her eyes were momentarily confused, and in the bottom of her heart, a voice gradually amplified:

"I make a wish...... I want a cake, no, two, no...... I want a lot of cakes...... Even if you eat it for a hundred years, ten thousand years, you can't finish the cake......"

In the quiet hallway, the dim light of the candle illuminated the two sisters, and the flame shook slightly, and then a halo of light waved.

The halo is getting bigger and bigger.

penetrated walls, apartments, streets...... Silently swept across the entire Eastern District, and continued to spread.

……

……

North End, inside the Earl of Ander's residence.

The handsome and tall second son of the earl was sitting on the sofa with his eyes distracted, staring at the empty coffee table with his two eyes, and his ears echoed the words of the church personnel who had come to the door with the police department to "investigate" during the day.

Yes, as the second son of the earl, he knew a little about the so-called supernatural power, and knew that that power did still exist, hidden in the churches of every city, secretly maintaining order in the kingdom.

"But...... How can it be...... The beautiful young lady...... Why doesn't it exist? ”

He muttered to himself, scratching at his hair in pain, his eyes full of pain.

Suddenly, something appeared out of thin air in his field of vision.

He was stunned, looked up, and found a cake on the coffee table in front of him, about the size of a basin, three stories high, full of cream, and a large strawberry with bright red on top.

"Who brought it? I'm not in the mood to eat right now! He yelled a little depressed.

The servants who came to hear the sound looked at each other, and a maid hesitated and said in a trembling voice, "Young master, that didn't put it, it was...... It came out of nowhere. ”

"Out of nowhere? Ha? Are you making fun of me? The young man snorted and was about to say something more, when suddenly, to his horror, saw two more cakes on the coffee table.

……

In the laundry.

After dark, the women scattered home, and the shop fell silent.

Mrs. Steel, who looked mean, grimaced, returned to her room.

took off his coat, pressed the switch on the gas light, and was stunned to see a large four-story cake on the table.

"The gods are above!" She let out a low sigh, and then with some surprise, although she didn't know where it came from, she walked over quickly, pinched a strawberry and stuffed it into her mouth...... Then he squinted his eyes in enjoyment.

But when she opened her eyes again, she was stunned to find that the cake in front of her had become five.

……

Thorn Flower Street.

"Miss, it's not safe to go out so late."

In a certain mansion, the elderly maid couldn't help but say.

However, Miss Daisy, who was obviously in a bad mood, didn't bother to pay attention to her, and just said, "The housekeeper will accompany me, I'm just going out for a walk." ”

At the same time, he pushed open the door and walked out.

"It's better to wait for the master to come back......"

"Ahh

The next second, the older maid standing in the corridor heard a frightened cry from the young lady outside the door.

She hurriedly ran out, and then was shocked to find that on the street, on the building, there were cakes at some point, densely packed, I am afraid that there are thousands of them.

And counting fast!

Even the yard is so full of floors that it's almost impossible to get foothold.

Farther away, horse-drawn carriages on the street were also forced to stop.

One by one, the citizens were stunned to avoid the delicious large cakes that appeared out of thin air, and some people were simply drowned in the one-man high cream that fell from the chimney.

"No!"

"Damn it!"

"What's going on?"

It's chaos.

……

Metropolis, church headquarters.

Brightly lit.

"Grand Imam! An extraordinary event has occurred!! "When a church transcendent ran and anxiously pushed Anne away. Hathaway's room.

Just as I saw Hathaway, dressed in a crimson robe and wearing a crown of pure white flowers, holding a small cake with frost on her front.

In the bedroom next to her, every second, a new cake appears out of thin air.

……

……

"An anomaly?" Leaving the mountain martial arts hall, in the study.

Lin Tuo, who had just drunk a cup of coffee, only saw that the aether cloud above the sand table, to be precise, above the Winton Kingdom of the Northern Continent, suddenly fluctuated abnormally.

It's like boiling water, boiling.

Without hesitation, he immediately sat down, turned on his powers, and the surrounding scenery shattered, and a magnificent temple suddenly emerged.

The moment he entered the illusion space, Lin Tuo looked at the sand table beside him, and then with the help of his ability, he found that the thread of ether belonging to Hathaway was shining slightly.

He immediately reached out and touched, pulled.

In the next second, a slightly hazy figure in a red dress appeared next to the round table, Hathaway's expression was obviously extremely serious, and she quickly bowed and saluted:

"Observer, the anomaly you mentioned may have appeared, and at this moment, the entire metropolis is being filled with cakes at a terrifying speed, and is rapidly spreading outward......"

Cake?

Hearing this, Lin Tuo was stunned, and then forcibly asked with an expressionless face, "Is the source location of the anomaly locked?" ”

"East End! We sensed an extremely violent mana fluctuation in an area of the Eastern End! I've sent someone! Hathaway spoke quickly.

Eastern...... Lin Tuo recalled, found that he had no impression, thought about it for a while, and said:

"Very good, you rush to deal with it immediately, if you can't control the situation, you have to find a way to figure it out, it shows the form of power, once you grasp it, give it to me as soon as possible."

"Yes!"

"Be careful." Lin Tuo admonished, and immediately sent Hathaway back, and the ether thread that represented her disappeared, obviously, the Grand Patriarch had finished his cultivation and rushed to the scene.

Lin Tuo kept moving, looked at the other two countries, and pulled Olrod and Neftu in to explain the situation.

Immediately, he did not dispel the illusion, but just set his eyes on the sand table of derivation.

Look at the place where the "Metropolis" of the Kingdom of Winton is located.

Then, Lin Tuo's breathing was slightly tight, and he saw that terrifying scene.

The whole city is being swallowed up by the cake of exponential growth.