Please be my partner.

It was like pressing the refresh button in a game, the smoke, wreckage, dead fairy tale characters, everything was reversed.

The fairy tale kingdom has once again regained its original dreamlike splendor.

Elves are flying happily in the air, a rainbow stretches across the sky, colorful waterfalls fall from the clouds into the river, and beautiful fish are swimming freely in it.

Even the werewolf who had been squatting beside him obediently, and who was suspected to be Little Red Riding Hood, disappeared at this time.

The hustle and bustle of life is rising, and those fairy tale characters who got up early have begun their normal daily routine.

Melen walked in silence in this country, and everything was reset.

An uncle helped a naughty child who fell to the ground and handed him a candy with a smile.

Last night, Melen saw with his own eyes that the child had eaten the uncle till not even a bone was left.

The Rubik's Cube Building welcomed a new batch of visitors. They were amazed by the high-tech Rubik's Cube Building. The people in the Rubik's Cube Building were also proudly introducing their latest research results.

The three little pigs were proudly talking about their next work, which would be a special building made of wood, stone and steel, created by the three of them.

Before she knew it, Mellen arrived at Little Red Riding Hood's house and saw Little Red Riding Hood wearing her red cloak and carrying a basket, as if she was about to go out.

After seeing Mellen, Little Red Riding Hood immediately greeted her cheerfully and seemed very happy.

"Uncle, good morning!"

Little Red Riding Hood skipped over to Mellen and said with a smile.

Mellen responded with a gentle smile, patted the little girl on the head, and said, "Are you going mushroom picking again?"

Little Red Riding Hood nodded quickly and said, "The mushrooms are so fresh this morning. Uncle, would you like to have some mushroom soup later?"

Melen showed a look of regret and said, "I have something to do today, so I'm afraid I won't be able to enjoy the delicious mushroom soup."

After a few pleasantries, Mellen pretended to be casual and asked, "Little Red Riding Hood, did you sleep well last night?"

"Last night?" Little Red Riding Hood shook her body and said, "It was not bad. I seemed to have had a nightmare at the beginning, but then, the nightmare disappeared. Then I was always with someone who made me feel very warm. Hehe, just like you, uncle."

Mellen nodded thoughtfully. Little Red Riding Hood's words gave him a better understanding of the events of the night.

After watching Little Red Riding Hood skipping away, Mellen stopped investigating the situation and went straight back to Anna's tent.

After entering the tent, I saw Anna wearing a purple hooded cloak, gesturing regularly with her hands on the crystal ball, and blurry images flashed in the crystal ball.

This scene actually made Melen feel as if time had been reset and everything had returned to yesterday.

Shaking his head and throwing away all the nonsense, Mellen sat opposite Anna.

When Anna stopped, Mellen asked, "What were you doing just now?"

Anna said as a matter of course, "Of course, it's to predict your actions today. As a [Fortune Teller], I'm able to hold such an important position in the Special Affairs Bureau thanks to this ability of prediction. Even if I can't make my wishes come true, at least I can turn danger into safety!"

Mellen nodded and asked, "So how about my actions today?"

For Mellen, no matter what prediction Anna makes, it will not change his schedule for today, but it doesn't hurt to listen to it.

Anna smiled and said, "Your fortune today is a very rare 'great success'. This means that what you are about to do today has a very high probability of getting the desired results."

"Oh?" Mellen said with a smile, "Then I'll borrow your good words."

Then he asked, "Will you go with me?"

"Well..." Anna seemed a little moved, but also a little hesitant and worried. Finally, she shook her head and said regretfully: "Although I still want to meet this Duke Pinocchio, forget it."

She added, "You go meet Pinocchio and find out about the wishing well. I'll continue to use my current identity to help you find out if there are other ways to resolve the trajectory settlement."

"After all, both of these methods rely too heavily on the forbidden object of the Fairy Tale Kingdom itself."

Mellen nodded and said sincerely, "Thank you very much."

Whether it is the [Lucky Gold Coin] or the Wishing Well, they can only be fully effective in the fairy tale kingdom. Once they are in the outside world, their effects will be greatly reduced.

But if we can find extraordinary items like [Death Doll], or extraordinary abilities like [Damage Transfer], we can better solve this problem.

Chapter 122 Mechanical Dog

Today is the second day of entering the fairy tale kingdom.

After saying goodbye to Anna, Melen began to head towards the core of the fairy tale kingdom.

Looking at the scenery around him which was not much different from yesterday, he inexplicably thought of the group of outsiders like him.

Now Melen has almost figured out the reason why Linet and others captured everyone and threw them into this forbidden object.

I just don't know how many of the fifty or sixty people who entered here are still alive after what happened last night. I don't know how Ada and the other three are doing now.

Shaking his head and retracting these thoughts, Melen began to speed up.

After a lot of effort, Melen arrived at Duke Pinocchio's residence... the Mechanical Castle.

This is a huge metal castle that looks like it is made up of pieces of Lego bricks, with a large number of mechanical dolls patrolling and guarding it.

When they sensed Mellen's approach, a patrolling group of mechanical puppets stopped and one of them walked out to him and said, "This is Duke Pinocchio's castle. Please explain your purpose."

Melen said, "My name is Melen. I'm an outsider. I'd like to see Duke Pinocchio. Please let me know."

The robot's eyes flickered and it said, "Informing, please wait."

A moment later, the team of stationary mechanical puppets quickly gathered towards him, and the mechanical puppet that was communicating with him also took a step back and merged into the team.

The mechanical puppets lined up in a row and made uniform invitation gestures.

"Dear guest, please!"

It was clearly a group of mechanical puppets making the sound together, but it sounded like there was only one voice.

Following the direction they indicated, Mellen walked towards the interior of the mechanical castle.

He doesn't need a special person to lead the way for him, because the various mechanical puppets on the road will show him the direction.

On the road, you can see various types of mechanical puppets. Patrolling is only a small part of them. There are also guarding, maintaining, cleaning... There are many kinds of them. They are like screws, maintaining the operation of the entire mechanical castle.

Soon, Melen came to an empty hall. In the depths of the hall, sat a young figure.

His face was so delicate that it didn't look like a human. He wore a dark red slim-fitting suit and a red cloak, and had a majestic and heavy temperament.

Mellen walked up and looked at him. Neither of them spoke first, and the atmosphere was a little solemn for a moment.

After gazing at each other for a long moment, Pinocchio suddenly smiled and began to speak in a shocking manner: "Should I call you a stranger? Or should I call you Father? Or... Your Excellency the Creator?"

Mellen's heart skipped a beat. After a moment's silence, he said, "My name is Mellen, Mellen Warwick."

Pinocchio understood what Mellen meant, nodded slightly, and said, "Hello, Mr. Mellen."

Melen exhaled and asked, "You know me? How much more do you know?"

Pinocchio stood up and walked to the edge of the hall, where there was a huge window overlooking part of the fairy tale kingdom.

Pinocchio said: "In this country, the vast majority of citizens are muddle-headed. They think they live happily every day, but they don't know that their own destiny has never been in their own hands."

Pinocchio turned to look at Mellen and said, "If they are like this, why haven't we been like this too?"

This statement was a bit incoherent, and Melen felt that the "we" did not seem to refer to him and Pinocchio, but Pinocchio and others.

Before Mellen could ask, Pinocchio shook his head and said, "Mr. Mellen, tell me why you are here."

Melen could only suppress his thoughts and said, "Mr. Pinocchio..."

Pinocchio interrupted Mellen and said, "Please call me by my first name. You are qualified."

Seeing Pinocchio's serious expression, Melen did not object and said, "Pinocchio, I heard there is a wishing well in the fairy tale kingdom. I want to use it. I wonder what the price is?"

"A wishing well?" Pinocchio nodded thoughtfully and said, "If it's Mr. Mellen, he can use it at will."

Mellen was delighted, but before he could be happy for long, he heard Pinocchio continue, "Unfortunately, the wishing well cannot be used normally now."

Mellen frowned and asked, "Why?"

Pinocchio said, "For the Wishing Well to activate its power, it must invest enough energy. The amount of energy here is far beyond your imagination. The current Fairy Tale Kingdom does not have this condition."

Mellen's frown deepened.

He asked, "Is there no other way?"

Pinocchio said calmly, "Of course there is."

This abrupt turn almost made Mellen's jaw drop to the ground, with a groove stuck in his mouth, not knowing whether to spit it out or not.

He always felt that the other party was deliberately setting a trap for him, but he couldn't help but jump into it.

After taking a breath, Melen said helplessly: "Tell me, what should we do?"

Pinocchio smiled and said, "Above the clouds, there is a kingdom of giants. In the kingdom of giants, there is a goose that lays golden eggs. This goose was originally part of the wishing well. Each of the golden eggs it lays contains enormous energy. You can throw them into the wishing well to make a wish come true."

Melen nodded thoughtfully and said, "So, if I get a golden egg, I can go to the wishing well and make a wish?"

Pinocchio nodded and said, "Yes, as long as Mr. Mellen can get the golden egg, the wishing well will be open to you freely."

Meren asked, "Then how can I get to the Giant Kingdom?"

Pinocchio said: "Every time the fairy tale turns around, a magic vine will grow somewhere in the fairy tale kingdom, leading to the clouds. Following the magic vine, you can reach the giant kingdom."

"It's important to note that the Giant Kingdom only exists in the world of fairy tale reversals. If you can't follow the magic vine back to the ground before the reversal ends, you will be trapped in the Giant Kingdom and can only wait for the next fairy tale reversal to come."

When Melen heard the word "fairy tale reversal", the first thing that came to his mind was the incident late at night, and he immediately asked this question.

Pinocchio answered in the affirmative and explained, "Any fairy tale is beautiful when it is first created, but as time goes by and fairy tales spread more and more widely, they will inevitably spawn horror fairy tales, dark fairy tales and other versions, and these are also part of fairy tales."

"This leads to extreme contradictions in fairy tale characters, and these contradictions are the source of the reversals in fairy tales."

"When the night falls, all the fairy tale characters affected by the fairy tale reversal will inevitably fall into madness, endlessly trying to destroy everything they can see."

Mellen thought about the places he saw last night, like the Ice Queen Ice Cream Shop, which seemed unaffected by the fairy tale reversal. So he asked, "I saw some fairy tale characters last night who weren't affected by the fairy tale reversal. What does that mean? Don't they have corresponding horror fairy tales?"

Pinocchio shook his head and said, "Every fairy tale character has a corresponding horror story. This is the inevitability of this world. The reason why some fairy tale characters are not affected is because their strength has, to some extent, transcended the limitations of the fairy tale itself, integrating the influence of both sides."

Melen nodded as if he understood something. There are differences between fairy tales.

Furthermore, the "necessity of this world" mentioned by Pinocchio should represent one of the rules of this forbidden object.

Next, the two talked a lot about the fairy tale kingdom, fairy tale characters, and even about this world!

Melen felt more and more that the Pinocchio in front of him might know much more than he imagined.

Before he knew it, it was almost noon. Pinocchio said with a smile, "Mr. Mellon, please do me the honor of having lunch here."

Mellen thought about it and didn't refuse.

Pinocchio said, "Before lunch is ready, why not go to my collection room and take a look at my masterpieces."

This aroused Melen's interest even more. According to Anna, Pinocchio had been a well-known master carpenter, construction master, and mechanical master a long time ago, and had many epoch-making creations.

Under Pinocchio's enthusiastic guidance, the two soon arrived at the third underground floor of the castle, which was a very large space.

Just a cursory glance revealed that it was dozens of times the size of the castle hall, with hundreds of pillars, each of which was topped with mechanical creations of varying sizes.

These mechanical creations have one thing in common, which is... precision and a geometric beauty.

Mellen picked up a rectangular object that looked like a mechanical clock. He could clearly hear the sound of the gears turning and the mechanical collisions, which was very pleasant.

As they walked along, Pinocchio talked endlessly about the origin and function of each creation, and even each one had its own independent story. Most of them were made by Pinocchio himself, and a few were made by other craftsmen.

Mellen was listening with great interest when he suddenly caught a glimpse of blue light from the corner of his eye. He quickly glanced in that direction and saw a small mechanical dog on a pillar looking at him. Its eyes... were bright and sharp!

Mellen looked a little shocked, no longer caring about anything else. He took two quick steps and came to the palm-sized mechanical dog.

This is a mechanical dog with an extremely delicate shape, but its unique black and white color scheme, coupled with its clear eyes, always reminds Melen of a magical species of dog... Husky!

Seeing Mellen's attention to the robot dog, Pinocchio said, "A long time ago, I passed by a small village. The people there lived a very hard life. The adults had to work hard to make a living, and the children, without their companions, often had no smiles on their faces."

"So I thought about making some toys that could accompany children. This mechanical dog is the first mechanical pet I created. I also added a lot of rare and special materials to it. After it was successfully built, it unexpectedly awakened itself. So I didn't give it away, but kept it with me."

"Over the years, I've been trying to help it improve itself, but without exception, I've failed. In fact, as time goes by, its self has even dissipated, so I can only seal it here."

While Pinocchio was talking, Mellen looked at the robot dog's attribute panel...

【Name】：Robot Dog

[Race]: Mechanical Construct (Blue)

[Racial Level]: Zero

[Racial Skills]: Devouring Metal, Mechanical Transformation (not activated), Characteristic Reconstruction (not activated)

【Evolution direction】: →（???）

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