"Hell yes. This clockwork head can see you, this wolf spirit can see you, but I can't see you. Why exactly? ”

This situation made Fu Yuanshan feel more and more strange. Everyone present could talk to Shang Luo, except for him and the Jinyi Wei he brought. It sounded like it wasn't Shang Luo who turned into a geist, but them.

"Would you like a lye ball?" Chef didn't quite understand what he meant, and Chef didn't notice what was going on here. He's been in the kitchen just now, and he's only come out with a balloon of alkaline water.

He wears a baker's apron and smells of baking.

"Can you eat this?" Fu Yuanshan asked Shang Luo, "Have you eaten it?" ”

"Do you want to eat?" Shang Luo was surprised, "It's not good. Regardless of whether you can eat it or not, I said Senior Fu, you don't need to rub this meal. ”

"I happened to be hungry. How can you fight when you are hungry. ”

"Well, I've eaten it before. This automaton is something I know. ”

"That's good." Fu Yuanshan beckoned to the chef and said, "Come on, give me something to eat." ”

"Guest, do you want to eat plain or chocolate?"

"I've tasted everything — well, the alkaline smell, it's really good. It's like the fritter Shang Luo brought last time. ”

"Good guys, do you still remember the fritters? Have you all eaten? ”

"I went to the Son of Heaven to eat a little, and that day I felt as if I had something good to eat." Fu Yuanshan replied, "I have to say that it is very delicious in terms of its own price. As a person, I have to evaluate food based on whether the price is right or not, and I eat as much as I want. The fritters are very affordable, and the flavor is very distinctive. Well, this lye water balloon is too, quite an interesting taste. And the taste is good. ”

He pinched two or three between his fingers, then motioned for the chef to give them all.

"You love to eat so much? That's great. Are you guests of the King of Rome? My master is not here, and the king of Rome is my superior. A guest of the King of Rome, but also a guest of the Empire State Building. Why are you all crammed into a small room? There's a seat outside. ”

The chef greeted the guests like a waiter. It wasn't supposed to be a senior employee like him, but he didn't mind. His passion as a chef makes him happy to do these things to entertain his guests.

"Huh?" Shang Luo was surprised, "By the way, why are you here?" ”

Shang Luo remembered that when they were separated before, the two sides acted separately. The chef insisted on confronting little Pompey at that time, and Shang Luo didn't know the outcome of the confrontation at that time.

"Before? Don't you remember? I'm the baker here [Chef], and I'm serving the little Pompey family. I've entertained you. ”

"No, no, no. Think about it. It is true that you used to be a baker in the little Pompey, but the time you were a baker and the time you met me are two different things. And the title of "Chef" is what I gave you, and your title in Little Pompey's house is "Baking Assistant III". ”

Smack.

The plate in the chef's hand falls to the ground. He looked at Shang Luo in disbelief, the events of the past flashing back to him quickly.

"I'm ??? I!!! Suddenly, he clutched his chest and shouted, and fell to the ground with his head up.

"Uh-huh???" Fu Yuanshan was stunned for a moment, the lye water ball in his mouth hadn't finished yet, "Is the clockwork boring?" I remember that the Roman stuff was going to be wound up. Which of you is going to check it out? I'm busy. ”

He's eating a balloon of alkaline water. When eating, Fu Yuanshan didn't like to do anything else.

"I'll do it." Schneider, the werewolf standing nearby, crouched down. He reached out and touched Chef's neck, frowning at the odd of things.

He removed the chef's hand covering his chest and lifted his apron, revealing the mechanical body beneath him—a hole in his chest.

"It's empty." Schneider replied, "This automaton didn't have a core from the start. I don't know how he got moving, but your words, King of Rome, seem to have made him realize that he has no heart, so he immediately loses his motivation. If you don't say it, he'll probably be able to run it for a while. ”

"Huh?" Shang Luo was surprised, "What about his heart?" Where did the heart go? ”

Fu Yuanshan smashed the taste of the alkaline water balloon in his mouth, and muttered: "Vegetables have no intention of living, people have no intention of dying, Shang Luo, there are more and more allusions to our big business." Not very lucky. ”

"I can't help it. I would have known that I wouldn't have mentioned it. ”

"He seems to agree with you, though." Fu Yuanshan recalled what Shang Luo said to the chef just now: "You just said that the real name of this clockwork man is actually [Baking Assistant III], not [Chef]. This [Chef] is indeed what you named him. It shows that he does not identify with you low, at least not less than he does with his own master. ”

"Not like that." Shang Luo replied, "He still misses his master very much. Otherwise, I wouldn't have been talking about making lye balls. ”

"That is—the opportunity for him to become a man is to ask for a seal from you. So after he didn't have a heart, all he left was the 'mouth seal' you gave him, so he knew himself to be [Chef] rather than [Baking Assistant III]. When he suddenly realized that his heart was gone, he naturally lost his energy. ”

"Is my mouth seal so powerful?"

"Of course there is. Didn't the little white dragon in "Journey to the West" say that if it sprinkles a soak of dragon urine, the weeds can become immortal mushrooms. You are a unicorn, the auspicious Rui of Tianzi No. 1. And you're already a celestial, just like me. Celestial beings like us have a lot of power just by sealing our mouths. But in the end, it was he himself who had undergone certain changes. ”

"What do you mean?"

"I've always felt that the clockwork mechanism of the Romans was a wound to the heavens and the earth, and it was obviously to keep the spirits of heaven and earth in a cage. You seem to have awakened him and enlightened him—enlightened, but not much. So after your seal expires, he will return to his previous state. So, are you going to save him? ”

"Can this be saved?"

"From my limited understanding, this would have been irretrievable. Because these clockwork people are clockwork hearts, and they are themselves cages. The metal cage outside is just a prison outside the cage. But now that he has lost his heart, he can still manipulate Clockwork's body, indicating that at least part of the cage of Clockwork that he has broken through naturally diverges to the outer layer. Although the outer metal shell is just a cage itself, it is quite rare to break through this layer alone. In time, maybe you can really cultivate your body. ”

(End of chapter)