["How could my brother possibly…"]
The Scarecrow suddenly looked toward Ethan and Attendant Five, then abruptly stopped halfway through speaking.
Because it saw that Miss Attendant Five had lowered her head from blushing, while Ethan glanced at Attendant Five, and there was clearly something in their eyes.
'What does this mean…'
'This means…'
'Grass is actually green on my head?'
[T/N: Cucked people are euphemized as wearing the Green Hat. So, grass on top of head means Cucked.]
["Ethan!"], The Scarecrow was so hurt it could not breathe, though it could not breathe anyway, ["I treated you as my brother, but you actually… you actually treated me like…"]
["A cuckold!"]
Ethan looked awkward and quickly explained, "Listen to me, that was just an accident."
["I won't listen! I won't listen! Turtle chanting scriptures!"], The Scarecrow directly blocked out Ethan's voice. It even started singing to drown out its grief, ["I hear raindrops falling on the green grass~"]
"Hah!", The Cursed Doll sneered, "Now you know who your true love really is, right?"
["Hehehe…"], The Scarecrow let out several cold laughs and said, ["I fought in Syria for ten years and never suffered a wound this serious."]
"It's okay, I'll heal you," The Cursed Doll used its tiny soft hand to pat the Scarecrow's head, "Even if you don't understand me right now, I believe one day you'll understand who truly cares about you the most."
["No need!",] The Scarecrow threw the Cursed Doll onto the ground and said, ["My heart is now as cold as the butcher knife in a slaughterhouse. I won't fall in love with anyone ever again, because they aren't worthy."]
After saying that, the Scarecrow ran toward the garden.
Right now, it needed a quiet place to recover, and what place could heal someone better than the countryside?
"Hey! Wait for me!"
However, the cloth doll did not care at all that the Scarecrow did not love it. It leaped up from the ground like a fish jumping from water and chased after the Scarecrow.
Watching the pair of bickering enemies run off into the distance, everyone could not help feeling both amused and helpless.
Only Cook Four, the way she looked at Ethan carried a burning light as she said, "Lord!"
As Cook Four spoke, she moved closer toward Ethan.
But Ethan took a quick side step and avoided Cook Four, who was about to lean into his arms. "Hurry and prepare the funeral. Before Nini… that girl wakes up, I want to see her sister's funeral ready."
"Yes…"
Cook Four looked disappointed.
She really could not understand what part of her was worse than Attendant Five. Attendant Five had everything she had too.
"Yes, Lord."
Attendant Five quickly carried Nini on her back and first took her to her own bedroom before coming back down to arrange the funeral matters.
———
After Ethan settled Nini's situation, he finally handed the fragment of the divine statue he found to Nostradamus and said, "Master, look at this."
"Oh?"
Nostradamus took the fragment from Ethan's hand and said with some surprise, "Your luck isn't bad. You actually found another piece."
"Another piece?", Ethan frowned, "Isn't this the other half?"
"No!"
Nostradamus directly denied Ethan's question, "Look. This fragment you brought back has broken edges both on top and bottom, so this definitely belongs to the middle section."
"As for exactly how many pieces the Fallen Divine Statue was split into, nobody knows."
"For example, the largest Fallen Divine Statue, the hundred-meter Guardian Statue in the central plaza of the Main City, is said to have nine hundred and ninety-nine fragments, and even now they still haven't gathered them all."
"The Main City Lord even offered a reward of one hundred million Dragon Coins for each fragment."
"But unfortunately…"
"The later fragments become harder and harder to find."
"There are still about fifty-three fragments nobody has found yet. Whoever finds even one of them could probably retire immediately and live without worries using that reward money alone."
"Hiss!"
After hearing this, Ethan sucked in a breath and said, "One hundred million Dragon Coins for one fragment? Does this Guardian Statue have some special use?"
"Of course!", Nostradamus stroked his chin, which had no beard and could not possibly grow one anyway, as he said, "Right now, the entire Main City depends on the Guardian Statue to stay up."
"You should know the Main City covers over ten thousand square kilometers, yet such a huge area can float in the air using only one statue."
"It's said that when the statue first made the Main City float, they had only gathered a little over seven hundred fragments."
"As for what additional effects the fragments have now, I'm not sure either. After all, I haven't been to the Main City for nearly a hundred years."
"If you haven't been to the Main City for over a hundred years, then how do you know there are already more than nine hundred fragments now?", Ethan asked curiously, "Don't tell me you people have news broadcasts too?"
"What's a news broadcast?", Nostradamus looked at Ethan strangely, "Old White told me. Since there wasn't much to do today, Old White and I drank while chatting, and only then did I learn the world situation had changed so much."
"So that's what happened."
Only then did Ethan suddenly understand.
There was still a merchant caravan staying in the territory because it was inconvenient to leave during the Extreme Cold Night, and Nostradamus liked drinking Old White's alcohol, so naturally the two had started chatting.
For someone like Nostradamus, who had been trapped for over a hundred years, he was naturally very interested in the state of the world.
So naturally, they talked about it.
"What else did you think?"
After asking back, Nostradamus immediately stretched a hand toward a certain direction and said, "Fragment, come!"
The next second, Ethan saw the fragment he had first brought back instantly fly into Nostradamus's hand.
"Holy crap!", Ethan cried out in shock, "Master, how did you do that?"
Taking objects from afar?
Ethan was stunned by Nostradamus's method.
And he had not seen any space gate appear either, which meant, Nostradamus had not used a space gate to retrieve the fragment, but some kind of technique. Could this be some kind of "Star Absorbing Technique"?
"Red String Pulling."
Nostradamus did not think it was anything special and simply said calmly, "To put it simply, it means turning your spiritual power into a physical thing, similar to a string. This kind of string can easily stick to anything you want to grab."
"Of course, once it exceeds a certain distance, this string-pulling method stops working."
"At that point, you can only use a space gate to retrieve things."
"Unfortunately, high-level magic like space gates can only be opened by specialized spatial mages."
"Opening a space gate is that difficult?", Ever since Ethan mastered the Strange Sword Style from the Eight Godslayer Forms, he had wanted to ask Nostradamus how attacks could pass through some kind of black hole and even turn corners to strike.
Now that Nostradamus brought it up himself, Ethan naturally followed up and asked.
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