Doomsday Paradise

Chapter 376 Because She Is Lin Sanjiu

...It seems inappropriate to say that this place is gloomy.

Walking in a dark alley, Lin Sanjiu put his hands in his trouser pockets, and kept looking around several times, feeling more and more uncomfortable as he walked.

The visibility here is very low, and there are always visible particles of mist floating in the air; countless straight chimneys in the distance are spewing out thicker and more smoke without stopping. After soaking in it for a long time, even the nasal cavity There is a smell of sulfur.There is obviously no trace of rain, but whether it is on the ground in the alley or on the wide road, there are always potholes of dirty water. If you accidentally step in, it will splash all over your calves.

The sparse residential buildings along the way look like they have been corroded by mildew and moisture for 50 years. There are thick layers of black stains spreading on the walls, along the road that just reached the height of Lin Sanjiu's eyebrows. Water dripped from the eaves.Even in the real world that has encountered the doomsday, it is rare to see such a dirty appearance.

Snow White is wearing a soft and smooth white satin dress. After walking for more than ten minutes, the hem of the skirt has turned yellow, black, and full of mud spots—but what is more ugly than this dress is her face. .

The dwarf stopped at the edge of the city, and did not send the princess back to the palace; Lin Sanjiu glanced at her, thought for a while, and finally gave up on taking care of the other party's mood, and asked directly: "Will you Born in this kind of place? To be honest, you and this city look like two cartoons..."

"Of course my kingdom is not like this!" Snow White raised her voice all of a sudden, and sharply retorted: "Although my kingdom is small, it is a beautiful place with blue sky, clear water and shaded trees——I don't like this place. know!"

"You don't know him?" Lin Sanjiu paused, "Then I have to go."

Snow White's skin turned red all of a sudden, and her pretty little face was already twisted anxiously, "No, I know this place, don't go... Oh, I mean, this place is mine Kingdom, but it wasn't like this before—"

I had guessed this kind of thing a long time ago - the reason to leave was to make Snow White anxious; while turning a deaf ear to her words, Lin Sanjiu tore a piece of paper from the wall of a residential building.

She didn't know how many years it had been pasted here, so she touched the ashes in one hand; the paper was soaked in the moisture and lost its toughness, and there were circles of yellow stains on the surface, even the original printing. It’s hard to see what’s on it—it’s just that almost every place the eyes can see is covered with such paper, from the street all the way to the end of the alley.

Shaking it lightly, Lin Sanjiu looked carefully; even Snow White shut up, and stretched her neck thinking about her toes.

... After watching for a full minute, Lin Sanjiu put down his hand in a daze.

Among the mildew and stains it took a little discernment to make out what was written on it; but if she read correctly, it was a leaflet.

A leaflet for election canvassing.

From the thick bold font at the bottom, you can vaguely see the words "VOTE/FOR", obviously for someone canvassing votes; the string of English names behind is long and unfamiliar, Lin Sanjiu looked at it for a while, and finally recognized it A "McDuck" came out.

Shocked, she immediately shifted her gaze back to the circles of yellow stains, and suddenly understood why the stains on this part of each piece of paper turned yellow——

"Scrooge, is Mike Duck your father?"

She turned her head and stared fixedly at Snow White.

The petal-like bright red mouth of the girl slightly opened into an "O", which didn't seem to be of duck blood—"What stupid things are you talking about?"

"Look carefully for yourself," Lin Sanjiu impatiently covered her face with a piece of paper, "This is a flyer made by Scrooge and McDuck to compete for the president of the country!"

She vaguely remembered that this character seemed to be Donald Duck's uncle, who seemed to be rich...While watching Snow White gradually change her face, Lin Sanjiu thought uncertainly.That's right, you can only compete for the presidency if you have money. Although this is a cartoon world, the internal logic is quite realistic...

"When did our country implement democracy!" Snow White screamed again, causing three or five crows to fly up from the roof not far away. "Where's my father? And my stepmother?"

Since she knew that Lin Sanjiu wouldn't have any answers, she didn't care about her appearance, she lifted up her skirt and held it in her hands, and rushed forward; Lin Sanjiu sighed, and followed up.

Although the city has expanded by at least three or four times, but fortunately the palace as the central symbol of the building is still firmly guarding the center of the city - almost lost in the cobweb-like alleys several times, the two finally found the location of the palace.

Seeing the palace from a distance, Snow White's anxious expression suddenly eased a little.

Even if he has never been here before, Lin Sanjiu can guess that in this dirty and gloomy city, probably only the palace still looks the same as before: every palace building is as white as jade, exquisite and full of fantasy style The roof of the building stands high and low in the dense fog, occasionally flashing a little golden reflection, which is precisely from its golden engraving and decoration.

"It matches your painting style here," Lin Sanjiu said after Snow White, "...It's just that the air is so dirty, why is the palace so clean?"

"You don't understand, there is a special person in the palace who is responsible for wiping the outer walls..." Snow White replied just now, almost as if in response to her words, a group of people walked out from the gate of the palace not far away. People carrying buckets and cleaning tools; everyone covered their faces with a rag, set up a shelf, and began to paint under the wall.
After coming in for so long, apart from the mice and crows in the gutter and the faces passing behind the window, this was the first time Lin Sanjiu saw a living thing.

"Let's go," she tugged at Snow White's sleeve, "Since someone is here, let's just go over and ask, what's going on with this Mike Duck, and where is your father?"

With this pull, Snow White didn't move at all.

Lin Sanjiu paused and looked back at the girl.

Although she didn't exert any force this time, Snow White can't be moved only by being pulled—but at this moment, the girl is as if her soul has just been taken away by someone, and she is stupidly motionless, with her mouth opened a little bit. The child looks demented.

Following her sluggish eyes and looking forward, the old men who are not tall and covered in dirty gray are stumbling closer and closer——

"Baixue!" The old man who just ran out from the cleaners team, almost all the wrinkles on his face still contained strips of black mud, and his complexion was yellow due to malnutrition: "Baixue, you are back! You It's all right, my baby girl..."

—is this the king?
Snow White maintained a dumbfounded look, and was embraced by the old man; after a while, her eyes suddenly turned red, she quickly pushed the old man away, and looked him up and down in disbelief: "—Father? What, what's going on?"

"Oh, you can't call me king father anymore," the skinny old man waved his hands hastily, "Now the country is getting better every day under the rule of Mr. McDuck; the status of any king is in the past... ..."

From the back of his withered and aged skin, Lin Sanjiu took a lot of effort to see a silhouette somewhat similar to Snow White.

But she doesn't care about family affairs and state affairs, and it seems that the stepmother doesn't exist anymore, so she should leave...

"Who the hell is that duck! Father, why did you make it look so ugly!" Snow White blushed, with veins floating on her neck. Here comes the President—”

"Hahaha, of course this is what the people mean."

A somewhat rough voice suddenly gave a "quack" laugh behind the old man, and immediately silenced all three present.

The former king was the first to react—the old man hurriedly turned around, bowed his head respectfully, and called "Mr. President".

When he turned around, Lin Sanjiu and Snow White could see the people behind him clearly.

—Of course, it's not actually a person.

There is a top hat on the head, a pair of disc glasses on the duckbill, half of the chubby body is wrapped in a black dress, but the lower body is not wearing anything - it looks like the one in the cartoon Donald Duck is almost the same, only the long and fluffy short hair on the two cheeks shows that it is an old duck.

Compared with Mickey Mouse, McDuck looks much more normal-although he is more than half the size of ordinary people, and he can almost swallow Snow White's face in his beak when he opens his mouth; At the same time, it also blinks from the two sides to the middle.

"So you are Snow White," McDuck caressed his dress reservedly, and said to her with a smile, "...the affairs of your royal family in the past have been properly settled long ago; now this country has ushered in a new era. I hope you will not be in the way of its progress."

As soon as he lowered his head, McDuck obviously noticed the flyer held in Snow White's hand.

"Oh, why is there such a thing?" It seemed embarrassed and waved its wings, "Congress passed a resolution a long time ago, appointing me as the life-long president of this country, these leaflets should also be cleaned up... Why don't you wipe the outer walls of the palace today?"

The words it turned to the old man seemed to have ignited Snow White's boundless anger—she pushed her father away, and took two steps towards Mike's huge duck face: " What do you mean by 'solved'? Where's my stepmother? Also, how dare you let my royal father do chores, you bastard!"

"Oh, how dare you say I'm a poultry." Old McDuck's eyes were narrowed into two vertical slits, and his duckbill was flattened into a smiling arc: "Your stepmother is not from the country, she has returned to her own country. The monarchy has continued to be her princess...but now you are not a princess, which is a bit ironic."

Snow White was already stunned by these words, and she didn't know if she was still digesting the news for a while, but she couldn't say anything; taking advantage of this time, Mike Duck saw Lin Sanjiu in a blink of an eye.

"Oh, this must be a tourist from afar, right?" It politely opened half of the duck's wings, and quickly blinked its two erected eyes towards the middle. "...I heard from my nephew that there are tourists coming here for sightseeing, but I didn't expect to meet so soon. I have a heartfelt request for you. If you agree to me, I will I can give you all the help you need."

It bites the word "everything" very loudly.

With such hints, Lin Sanjiu immediately thought of Minnie Mouse's golden ring.

As long as you find that ring, the round will be over—the cat doctor outside is now alone between the soul and the puppeteer, but these two guys are not affected by it, and I don’t know what’s going on now ;The only puppeteer who can be called combat power, but fell into a coma, in case someone approached them with malicious intentions...

Don't hesitate to think about these thoughts, once you think of them, Lin Sanjiu is so anxious that you can go out immediately.

"What's the matter?" She couldn't help asking softly.

"It's very simple." McDuck said, rubbing his wings, "Snow White has too much opinion on me, I hope she can go to live in another land... I have already found a place, you just need to escort her there , this matter is over. At that time, no matter what you want, I can give it to you. "

When it said this, its expression was as if the two father and daughter beside it did not exist—it took a long time for Snow White to realize what McDuck meant, and her face immediately turned pale.

"No!" Mixed with anger and fear, the girl screamed; after taking a step towards Lin Sanjiu, she stopped vigilantly and stared at her: "You promised me to help me deal with my stepmother! Now that she's gone, you have to help me deal with this duck! It's a deal!"

Who made an agreement with you——Lin Sanjiu glanced at her, then turned to Mike Duck.

McDuck smiled as if he was holding the winning ticket, and tilted his head towards her: "...how? Do you choose to help me, a president with a wealth of private wealth, or this penniless little girl?"

I knew this was another multiple-choice question——

Lin Sanjiu took a deep breath, put his hands in his trouser pockets again, and looked up at the dark sky.

"If I had known this, I might as well have let Snow White eat the poisoned apple and die... It's such a troublesome thing." She withdrew her gaze from the sky, moved her neck and shoulders back and forth, and her knuckles let out a "cluck" a few sounds. "Sorry, sometimes I'm not very clear-headed, just get used to it... I'll choose a penniless little girl."

　The chapter testimonial said that there are sensitive words, and the entire chapter is not allowed to be posted and is waiting for review... I deleted the testimonial and tried to repost it... Maybe it will be posted twice, what should I do...

Only the thank you list is left, if there are any sensitive words, it will be the name of one of you...

It seems that the sensitive word is a certain name
　
(End of this chapter)