The old man in front of him became fierce in an instant, even if he still looked like an ordinary farmer, but in Zhao Nan's senses, it was completely different.

This is an old man with more stories than I imagined.

When the atmosphere was silent to the extreme, he was forcibly disguished and regained the identity of Iverson, an old man who became a university scholar, suddenly completed the appearance of a crescent moon with his eyes, and said with a smile: "Young man, do you like to drink tea?" ”

"If it's tea, black tea will do." Zhao Nan nodded.

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Inside the house, Iverson was skillfully brewing tea leaves that smelled very fragrant, and Zhao Nan was sitting quietly opposite him.

"What is the rank of a scholar?" Iverson asked nonchalantly.

Zhao Nan, who was not surprised at all, responded in the next second: "Senior scholar, probably a few people who are still close to the university." ”

"You're not a scholar, are you?"

"I've only been to Pompeii."

When the name of this ancient city was mentioned, the old man's hand in making tea trembled slightly, and he quickly regained his steady, his eyes looked out of the window, and he said softly: "I, I haven't been back for many years." I wanted to go back, but I made up for it...... In other words, I don't dare to go back. ”

"Why?" Zhao Nan asked knowingly.

Iverson sat down, holding the brewed tea in both hands, and took a slow sip, "Would you like to hear the story of my sinner?" ”

Probably wanting to pour out the sorrows in his heart for many years, Iverson looked at him inquiringly. How did Zhao Nan just shake his head: "No need." To be honest, I'm not interested in your past. All you want to know is that you showed up, but why hide your identity and get closer to Locke. What are your intentions for it. ”

Iverson turned the teacup in his hand, "I said it, I think Locke and Sisi are my own children, and I just want to look at Locke quietly." That's all. ”

"The emotional circuit is what you put on Locke."

"yes. I did put it. A bitter smile leaked from Iverson's face: "The hatred of destroying the city back then almost made my reason collapse. I don't hesitate to want revenge. But I can't seem to do much on my own. The direction I'm dedicated to isn't leaning towards combat-type magic techniques. The Natal Battle Doll you have on hand...... Actually, it's more suitable to say that it's an auxiliary type. ”

"So you're going to activate the final work as your vengeance?" Zhao Nan said.

Iverson said softly: "At that time, I could almost be said to have disregarded a qiē. It's not just Locke. And many, many more. I've made a lot of humanoid magic figurines, and I've implanted emotional circuits in them. I thought that as long as there were enough of them, a perfect circuit would be born from these test samples. Locke was made by me during my travels, and was later handed over to a certain Sage...... You must have gotten Locke from Master Ulysses. ”

Zhao Nan nodded.

Iverson sighed and said, "To be honest, Locke was only made on a whim at the time, as a thank you gift from that lord for taking me in for a while. With my skills at the time, the emotional circuit could have been more perfect, but I didn't. Probably subconsciously not optimistic about this child. Merely. Fate is impermanent, the least favored child of the year, but it grew up as an outstanding ...... among many 'brothers' Even speaking, it is only one step away from perfection. “

As he spoke, he looked at Zhao Nan deeply, "When Locke was still living here some time ago, he was often able to hear about you from his mouth. It said that the gentleman it served taught it many, many things. I think Locke can have that kind of growth. It must be thanks to you. At the same time, Sisi is also specially prepared for Locke, right? ”

Zhao Nan shrugged and said, "An accident." Later, I found it interesting...... In fact, with Sisi as an opportunity, Locke's growth also exceeded my expectations. ”

"I thought about it a lot. No matter how many experiments I make, I can't get to perfect shape. There's a glimmer of persistence in Iverson's eyes.

This was almost the same as the glint in the eyes of those old scholars that Zhao Nan had known in the Star Spirit Realm.

“…… No matter how much they behave like a living being, they still lack something. I couldn't figure out what went wrong. It wasn't until I saw Locke that I understood. What exactly is lacking in the failed test piece? ”

"Love."

"Whether it's the love of a loved one, or the love between friends, or even the love between lovers." Iverson smiled bitterly: "If a person doesn't know how to love someone, how can he be called a complete person?" Not to mention the creation of a true soul out of nothing. However such a basic question, I ...... We ignored it from the start. It's just a matter of adding deduction loops. It is used to analyze and imitate the behavior of living beings. I thought that if I relied on this kind of imitation, I would eventually grow into a real person. ”

"And I, myself, am a bad old man who doesn't know how to love, just carried away by hatred, how can I create a magic tool that really knows how to love?"

Zhao Nan's fingers tapped on the wooden table, and he could more or less feel a sense of twilight from the old man's body, "Listening to your tone, how do I think you seem to have given up your revenge on the destruction of the city?" ”

"What if you kill all the people of the Noldor Kingdom? Those who died in the first place will not be resurrected because of this. Iverson said indifferently: "And many of the enemies of the year have long since died of old age." Can the so-called revenge only take revenge on their next generation? Aiming the butcher's knife at those who didn't know the inside story of the year, just because of the sins brought by blood, let them die a tragic death among the innocent? I can't kill all of them, and then the hatred for me will continue to be inherited through blood at the same time. Their descendants come and kill me, and my descendants go and kill them. So, when will it come to an end? ”

With a special sigh that only an old man can have, Iverson took a deep breath and said: "Behind the endless vendetta, there will only be a ruined ending." Pompeii is history, so let it be. Originally, the original hatred and the destruction of the city could not have been opened without the intensification of the contradictions between the two sides. ”

He looked at Zhao Nan and said in a self-deprecating tone: "Maybe you don't know that before Pompeii was wiped out, the Noldor Kingdom was actually a slave country, and it had been exploited by Pompeii, constantly providing manpower and materials for its research and development. It's almost time to exhaust the state-owned Cheng dù...... But it couldn't satisfy Pompeii's appetite, so it finally made the whole country of Noldor unbearable and resisted angrily. ”

"Is that so......" Zhao Nan took a deep breath and closed his eyes.

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The task of receiving the wrath of the scholars was only recovered from the remains of the scholars of Pompeii who had been destroyed, and with it the anger and resentment of all the dead in Pompeii.

But before this, there was a history that Zhao Nan did not know. Zhao Nan didn't expect that before the destruction of the city, the relationship between Pompeii and the Nordo Kingdom was similar to the relationship between landlords and serfs.

"I don't know where I should go, I've always been a world wanderer. If you don't get to a place, you will stay for a while, and if you feel that you are almost there, you will leave. There's a hint of wonder in Iverson's eyes: "Until I came to Tanya City, I didn't think about staying for long, but I never imagined that I would meet that child again." And its growth is even more incredible to me. In this way, I lived next to it and watched its every day. ”

"But when we met again this time, I glanced at Locke a little." Iverson looked at Zhao Nan with doubts: "First of all, the original power furnace on Locke's body was not the one I made at any time. And if you look at the technique, it should be the handwriting of a good friend of mine back then. However, he was clearly born in the flames of Pompeii. Or I can understand that this is undoubtedly the inheritance of my friend, so it is not necessary to be able to make this power furnace. But this time goodbye Locke, he actually has another power furnace on his body...... And this power furnace is clearly from another test product back then, that is, I made it myself. ”

"That's why you deliberately made Locke drink the so-called medicine...... In fact, it is just some special materials with a repair function. The purpose is to bring me out and meet you, right? ”

"yes, I just want to know about another power furnace." Iverson said, "If you can, for the sake of fellow scholars, please sue me...... The other child, what the hell happened to it? ”

"So, Mar is also from you?" Zhao Nan stared at the other party, "That kind of half-human, half-magic tool." ”

Iverson was silent for a long time.

"As I said, in order to get revenge, I did almost everything to complete the real emotional circuit." He said apologetically: "I wonder if it is possible to graft the true inspirational number through guò since it cannot be completely artificially made." ”

He looked at his hands, his face turned pale and trembled, "So, how do you ask me to use these blood-spattered guilty hands to do the so-called revenge......"

Half-human, half-magic equipment...... Naturally, it is impossible to succeed at one time.

So how many times did you fail before you succeeded?

Zhao Nan suddenly felt a chill...... Sure enough, the scholars who fell into paranoia are a bunch of crazy people, real crazy people! (To be continued......)