The self-introduction session was unexpectedly short, and Ishtar was basically over after telling the story she had fabricated for Nobita. Although the girls present were a little curious about this, they didn't ask much about it. No matter how confusing the identity before coming, once you enter Tiangang Lake, then everyone is completely equal, and there is no difference between high and low "blood", and naturally no one will talk about this.

Nobita had thought that coming to this izakaya was a necessary ritual, but now he suddenly realized that this was just the beginning of a larger ritual.

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"That's it...... Is it so gone? Don't need to do anything more, so it's over? After coming out of the back door of the izakaya, Nobita looked at Ishtar with a puzzled face, "Just listen to what you say, I haven't had time to speak yet." ”

"Well, the newcomer at the beginning would think so." Maddie, who was following him, shrugged and helped Ishtar explain, "Actually, this is just for you to show your face in front of everyone and let everyone get to know you, so there is no need to be particularly excited." If you want to make friends or something, don't worry, you will have to live on Linglong Island all the time. But don't be afraid...... Although it is a new environment, no one will bully you, and private fights for various reasons are prohibited on the island. So if the purpose of making friends is to form a small group to keep warm, then you don't have to, no one here will restrain you, just live the way you want. ”

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Unconsciously, this cat-eared lady who came over shook her head and popped out such a string of words, as if she played the role of a "bosom sister", and regarded Nobita as the kind of Xiaobai who panicked after coming to the new environment, which caused the latter to frequently side. At first glance, this girl looked a little out of the blue, but I didn't expect to be able to think about such a delicate thing......

Obviously, Maddie understood this surprised look as something else, and waved her hand busily, explaining, "I'm sorry, I used to be in charge of psychological counseling for newcomers, and then I transferred to work at an izakaya, so it's inevitable that some habits haven't changed...... It was an occupational disease just now, so don't pay attention to it. ”

"It's okay, I won't mind......"

"Really? You're so nice! ”

After saying this, Maddie suddenly jumped up to Nobita like a rabbit, startling him with a thrill, and his body couldn't help but shrink back. This cat lady has a very good sense of smell and intuition, and she can recognize her identity when there are so many people in the izakaya just now, and so many different smells are mixed together. At this time, there is no obstacle to contact alone, if she gets closer and smells anything...... Then I won't be able to argue.

Yellow-orange-orange eyes stared at him, as if they were going to dissect him from head to toe.

"In that case, Miss Ansesta, don't you mind if I ask more?" Maddie herself didn't feel inhibited at all, and grinned around Nobita's shoulders and asked in a standard curious baby tone, "You...... Ishtar says you have one-sixteenth Earth blood, so have you ever been to Earth? ”

"Huh?"

Nobita was stunned for a long time, and then reacted that the "Miss Ansesta" was called by him, and he couldn't help but be speechless. He looked at Ishtar pleadingly, but the red-eyed girl was also looking at him with a smile in her eyes, silent, as if she was expecting him to come up with some kind of rhetoric, and she didn't mean to help him out of the siege at all. This made Nobita complain a little in his heart, obviously it was when you made it up just now that you forced me to add a "earth bloodline" setting to cause trouble, and now you have left it alone.

No way, make it up yourself.

Can...... If you think about it, this problem is really a little tricky, and if you don't get it right, it will become a flaw.

Seeing Nobita's dilemma, Maddie couldn't help but wonder, "What's wrong?" Is there something unspeakable? If that's the case...... Then I won't ask. ”

In order not to make her suspicious, Nobita's brain worked like a flint, and finally gave a more secure statement, "On Earth...... There is a puppet force cultivated by our family, and my father once sent me there for a while. It seems that this planet hides a lot of secrets, and it is with this in mind that the Ansesta family sent me there. ”

"Eh~~~~ Sure enough, I've always felt that there is something wrong with the earth." After listening to his words, Maddie nodded again and again with a look of "sure enough", "Our old adversary, Yulian, has seven elder civilizations at the top, each of which is inextricably linked to the earth. Oh yes, except for Eloka...... And these connections can eventually converge in one ...... On a man called Nobita. By the way, Ansesta, have you heard of Nobita? Judging from his popularity in Yulian, I think he should be famous on the planet as well. ”

"Eh, this ......"

Nobita couldn't help but feel that this girl's thinking was like a wild horse getting off the leash, one second she was still entangled in the secret things hidden on the earth, and the next second she jumped directly to "Nobita", almost not letting him fall from the canopy. He turned his gaze to Ishtar again for help, but unfortunately the owner of the island also seemed to find it very interesting, and with a wicked smile on his face, he did not help him to break up the topic, but silently watched what he had to say.

"No, I don't know him, the earth is so big, as long as that Nobita hides it well, I can't find any news about him." After much deliberation, he adopted the insurance argument and tried to throw the topic back to Maddie, "This guy named Nobita...... Is it really that famous? ”

"Poof!" Isha on the side couldn't hold back her laughter, in her opinion, although Nobita's acting skills are a little lame, it is enough to deceive Maddie...... It's just that the tone of his voice forcibly pretends that he has never heard of "Nobita", and he has to take apart the pronunciation of "nobita" and pronounce it slowly, as if a foreigner who can't speak has difficulty pronouncing it. This kind of slightly contrived performance seems comical in the eyes of those in the know.

"What are you laughing at?" Maddie, who didn't know why, saw her suddenly laughing, and thought she was laughing at Nobita for not being knowledgeable, so she couldn't help but raise her elbow and gently turn Estta, and said in disgust, "Really, Lord Islander, it's normal even if you haven't heard of it, there's no need to laugh at people." Maybe the Ansesta family has been studying witchcraft in the ivory tower, so they don't have time to catch up on the latest news? It's also possible. ”

"I'm sorry, Ansesta, I didn't mean to laugh at you......" Ishtar raised his head and saw Nobita glaring at him with dead fish eyes, the angry but helpless javelin made her laugh a second time, her eyebrows and eyes were crooked, she was holding her stomach, and she almost died of laughter, and her pretentious apology was even more like she had been cut off.

"Forget it...... Ansesta, our island owner is not usually like this, today I don't know what's going on, and suddenly some people come crazy. Maddie reluctantly spoke for her own owner, but looking at her noisy appearance, this set of rhetoric is really not very convincing, "It's normal that you haven't heard of Nobita, in short, that guy can be said to be the most promising seed in the next generation of Yulian." It is said that he was personally recognized by the sowers...... That's the sower, you think! Even the seeders recognized him, and it is conceivable that the top management of Yulian has always obeyed the orders of the five new gods, and will definitely treat this person as a new star in the future. For us, of course, he is the biggest threat. ”

"Oh, that's right." Nobita really didn't know what kind of expression to use to face this comment, so he had to say nonsense in embarrassment.

"No, you can't say that." Maddie held her cheek with her hand and shook her head with some annoyance, and the cat's ears moved twice, "It should be said that it is the biggest threat on the Chaos side, no matter how powerful that one is called Nobita, and we people...... It doesn't matter anymore. ”

This sentence really aroused Nobita's interest.

"Why?" He forcibly suppressed the curiosity in his heart, and asked in the tone of those ladies in his memory, "If Nobita becomes stronger, sooner or later it will deal a huge blow to the chaos forces, right?" How can I say that it has nothing to do with you? ”

"Sure enough, you're still a newcomer, and your mentality hasn't adjusted from the past...... Maddie said with a sigh, "After joining Tiangang Lake, the outside world has nothing to do with us." It's 'absolutely' peaceful, and most of the reason why we're here is to hide from the unpeacefulness outside. Everyone has also been consciously maintaining an atmosphere of peaceful coexistence, and trying not to bring the topic of gunpowder into the area...... I hope you can do the same. ”

"Don't you really hate Yulian?" After blurting out this question, Nobita was stunned and hurriedly waved his hand, "No, Maddie, I didn't mean that...... I mean, before you came here, you all had a little bit of a ...... with Yulian Entanglement, right? ”

"It's not just entanglement." Maddie said lightly, "My two brothers, one sister, and mother all died in the Battle of Nagasaka Springs, at the hands of a god of war named Mutton. In order to prevent Yulian's people from coming to the door, my father applied to Emperor Tao Xian and let me live in Tiangang Lake. ”

After hearing the key word "Battle of Nagasaka Springs", Nobita's eyebrows raised, vaguely remembering that Amy had mentioned this battle to him.

No, not Amy...... It's the Emperor of Drama.

"Hatred is a common emotion in intelligent life, and it is far more important than the positive emotions. What's more, blood relatives were killed, how could such a deep hatred be easily let go? Nobita asked cautiously, "Maddie...... Do you really think so? ”

"......" The happy cat-eared girl finally fell silent, changed to a serious look, pondered for a moment, and said word by word, "During the time I first came to Tiangang Lake, my heart was still full of hatred. It was the Immeasurable Sea that changed everything...... It's hard for me to describe the ritual in words, except that when the ritual is over, it's going to be a little different. Of course, there is no mandatory provision for this, and you are free to retain your hatred...... For example, Captain Tina, she hasn't let go of her hatred for Lindsay until now, but it doesn't matter. ”

"This ritual is just a purification of the mind, a ...... A farewell to the past, to the war. ”

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As they spoke, there were fewer and fewer pedestrians around the three of them, and the atmosphere tended to be quiet.

On the west side of the island, a forest of stone pillars that shade the sky and the sun begins to show its form. These boulders are thousands of feet high, with the top reaching into the sky, higher than the birds, and they are truly open to the heavens and the earth, and their height and majesty make people feel intimidated. Compared to this group of Optimus Prime-like stone pillar forests, the seventy-meter-tall trees in the middle of the island suddenly seemed much shorter, and they were instantly reduced to the level of small saplings. There is a dead silence in this unique forest of stone pillars, where the pure black stone pillars stand quietly, and the eternal years have brushed past its surface without leaving the slightest trace of erosion.

"Wow-" "Wow-"

The boundless sea water laps against the base of the stone pillar, unhurried, soft and warm.