My different world is game mode.

Chapter 877: Man and Parrot
"【City of Law】..."

"It's been decades, and this war is still not over. Even in the history of this world, this is one of the most terrible."

[Capital of Law] In the north of the world, on the White Earth Plain.

A solitary figure was moving forward across the land.

He was wearing a blue and green suit that was extremely conspicuous in the wilderness, and had a coarse cloth bag slung over his left side. Only on his right shoulder stood a small and cute cockatiel.

In the current world of [Capital of Law], few people travel alone.

This is a very dangerous thing.

Even an awakened one with advanced skills must assess whether he can protect his own safety in front of a legion of awakened ones or a truly powerful one.

But this man didn't seem to care much about his dangerous situation.

As he walked on the land, he would occasionally take out a few pine nuts from his upper pocket. He would throw them lightly with one hand, and the little parrot on his shoulder would grab the pine nuts, then quickly and neatly pry open the shells and eat the kernels inside.

The man looked at the parrot on his shoulder:

"Hey, don't just focus on eating."

"How do we get there? Didn't I ask you to memorize a map before we set out? How far is the next village now?"

"Goo-"

The little parrot on the man's shoulder swallowed the pine nuts in its mouth.

It shook its head and wagged its tail across the man's face before answering:
"Oh, I seem to have forgotten."

"..."

The man paused.

He looked at the bird standing on his shoulder, still shaking its head, and then looked at his pocket, where half of the pine nuts were still left:

"Damn white hair, let's guess a riddle."

The parrot on his shoulder spread its wings and spoke with great confidence:
"Come on! No riddle can stump me!"

Then the man spoke:

"Do you think I have memorized the map for the next trip?"

"..."

"I'm just a parrot. Isn't it a bit too difficult for you to ask me such a question?"

As soon as the words fell, the parrot flapped its wings and rushed out, ready to fly away.

But the man had obviously expected it.

As soon as the little parrot flew into the air, he suddenly reached out, grabbed it and pulled it back in front of him.

"Quack-quack-quack-"

The little white black phoenix began to struggle.

It was a pity that it was so small that the man grabbed its wings and entire body with one hand, leaving only its head sticking out and swaying left and right, like a caterpillar poking its head out of an apple.

"I have an opinion, I protest!"

"You messengers don't remember the map yourself, but let us pets remember it. This is really unreasonable."

The man's eyebrows twitched a few times.

"What are you talking about?"

“Think about whether you are a crow or a parrot now!”

"And damn white hair, let me tell you - my head is about to explode just from remembering all those names of people and places in the past few years."

"In the current [City of Law], we are the only messengers left working in the entire land. You lazy dead bird, you should at least help me share some of the work!"

The little parrot was stunned.

It looked down at the hand holding it, then looked up at the blue sky above.

Then, it seemed to have made a decision and began to struggle violently:

"I protest! I protest!"

"When you invited me to travel with you, you never mentioned that I would have to take on such a responsibility."

"Ahhh——" The man began to exert force on his hands, and the parrot's protest turned into wails.

Then it thought of a solution quickly and said:
"Don't use too much force! I have a solution!"

"Anyway, let's just follow the sun. We can't go wrong in the general direction! The [City of Law] is right in the center of the world, so it can't be wrong to go there first!"

"You mean light." The man relaxed his grip a little, but his tone was far from relaxed. "I still have a few letters to deliver to certain villages on the way. I can't tell the direction just by looking at the sun."

The little parrot uses his quick wit:
"Then try to look for it on the road."

"We can run fast enough - if something goes wrong, I can grab you and fly for a while, so we can always get away?"

The man's anger almost overflowed from his words:
"Do you think this is hunting in the mountains?"

"If I run into the wrong person, I won't be able to escape and you will become a roasted bird!"

The little parrot made a pragmatic suggestion:

"Then let's just move forward at full speed, rush to the [Capital of Law] and get a map, right?"

The man sighed:

"My dear sister, you really don't care about things."

"Although the [Capital of Law] is safe, I don't think that's where you can find the latest and most detailed maps of the surrounding area."

"In the current [City of Law] world, there is no telling when the terrain will need to be turned upside down. If you don't get the latest map around you and just follow the old version, you are simply playing with your life!"

At this point, both the man and the parrot fell silent.

After waiting for a few seconds, the little parrot, still held in my hand, spoke:

"I say - why do you think the [City of Law] hasn't decided on a new king yet?"

After being asked this question, the man's anger gradually subsided.

He loosened his hand and waited for the parrot to fly back to his shoulder. Then he sighed and said:
"Why else?"

"They had fought each other before and the winners were decided, but no one went to the royal city to take up their positions. In this rigid world of the [City of Law], it could only be that there was something wrong with their royal weapon, so they couldn't legitimately obtain the royal power."

The little parrot's eyes began to light up:
"The royal weapon of the [City of Law]! I say, what if we..."

The man interrupted the parrot directly:
"No ifs!"

The little parrot was a little unwilling:
"But this is definitely a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity..."

The man interrupted more decisively:
“No buts either!”

The little parrot felt a little aggrieved:

"I just want to..."

The man snorted coldly:
"Don't even think about it!"

"..."

For a moment, the team of one man and one bird fell silent again.

In the end, it was still the latter who spoke first:
"Well, can you give me two more pine nuts?"

"You still want to eat?" The man raised his eyebrows. "If you can't find a suitable village for supplies, this half bag of pine nuts will be all you need to eat all the way to the [City of Law]!"

The parrot standing on his shoulder was frightened when he heard this, and then flew into the sky like an arrow.

Only a few minutes passed.

It rushed down again and said excitedly to the man beside it:

"Look! Luck always favors us kind birds and people."

"Guess what—I found a team of humans ahead."

The man immediately asked:

"Human? Are they dangerous?"

The little parrot explained, and his tone revealed a sense of confidence:
"It is a team that sends young awakeners to the [City of Law] for legal training. It is safe!"

"Okay, stop thinking about it, let's go over there."

"If we're lucky, we can get some other nuts to change my taste!"

(End of this chapter)