The cold wind is like a knife, using the earth as a chopping board and treating all living beings as fish and meat.
Thousands of miles of flying snow turns the sky into a furnace and melts everything into silver.
On the northwest border of Wulin Kingdom, a carriage drove away from the border town and advanced alone along the official road covered with ice and snow.
This carriage, which has common elements such as a skinny driver, strong horses everywhere, and old carriages, is actually a means of transportation created by Valima. The carriage has its own temperature and humidity adjustment, vibration and sound insulation, air freshening functions, and is also equipped with A special teleportation seat leading to the villa space.
In the warm and comfortable carriage, Kaguya, who had been scolded early in the morning because she was discovered by Eirin while hiding in bed last night playing "The Legend of Link", took a piece of paper and turned it over and over: "This is it. Our 'credentials'?"
Feiton corrected him and said, "When you do as the Romans do, the local scientific name is 'Customs Clearance Document'."
Kaguya then asked: "So, can we move freely with this customs clearance document? As foreign travelers."
"Its function is to deceive the grassroots guards, at least to allow them to enter and exit the town normally." This is not a customs clearance document obtained through normal procedures. It is impossible for a random person to come out and make nonsense of the name of a country to enter the country, but the words above are handwritten by officials. He wrote, the seal above is also genuine, which is enough. The administrative agencies in this world are not connected to the Internet. "As for free movement... I advise you to lower your expectations."
"?" Kaguya put down the customs clearance document and looked puzzled.
"Didn't Eirin tell you? One of the characteristics of this world is that most martial arts people are mentally retarded. One of the symptoms is that they like to use their lower body to think." Feiton rolled his eyes at Kaguya and said with a bit of resentment, "And You two are so beautiful, in this world you are just two walking idiot traps, you might encounter five or six bad things in an afternoon just walking down the street."
"Wow~!" How much Kaguya dislikes lecherous people can be found in "The Tale of Bamboo Tori".
Yong Lin smiled and said: "Even without me and the princess, you still have difficulty moving, right? The information from the Space and Time Administration records that more than ten years ago, the Grand Master of Yihua Palace sent the most beautiful man in the martial arts to him because he could not get it. Shoot to death, it’s not necessarily just men who are lustful.”
"Unfortunately, I can't attract bees and butterflies." Feiton shook his head with a bitter look on his face, "While I was tinkering with customs clearance documents and national currency, I found that others looked at me strangely, deliberately. I found a group of children who were the worst at lying for a test, and they ended up shouting, 'The Golden Retriever is coming' and running away."
"puff--"
"Haha~"
It's not funny at all that "the people of Wulin Kingdom dislike blond hair". It would be regarded as racial discrimination in any other context. What makes them laugh is "Fei Dun is deflated". After being together for so long, they have the impression that Fei Dun is always free and easy.
After laughing for a while, Yong Lin said: "It seems that the three of us all have difficulties in appearance. Do we need to use magic that confuses cognition?"
This is not Eirin's area of expertise, but it can still be used.
"Well, if you really want to avoid trouble caused by appearance, cross-dressing is the best option." Feiton is not a master of cross-dressing, but he is still a good one. This is a skill he specially practiced when he was a child to perform tasks. skills, "But are you sure you really want to mix in foreign objects on a journey that has no pressure to survive at all?"
The answer is, of course, no.
If tourists don’t want to experience the authentic local culture, they might as well stay at home and play games.
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Yes, in order to experience the local culture, even if he brought an advanced and comfortable villa space with him, Feiton still chose to stay in an inn in a small town along the way.
"Hmm!" Kaguya couldn't help but shiver as she got off the warm carriage, but Eirin quickly cast some kind of magic to change her feeling from 'cold' to 'cool'.
"Feiton...?" After finishing casting the spell, Yong Lin looked in the direction of the inn door.
"Local characteristics, just get used to it~" Feiton smiled, led the two of them to open the door of the inn, which was ajar due to the wind and snow, and walked in.
"Ah!?" Feiton and Yonglin, who had already realized it, walked in with normal expressions. It was Kaguya who exclaimed.
The people in the lobby of the inn are as follows: a shopkeeper hiding behind the counter and shivering, a waiter squatting in the corner and shivering, a middle-aged man with a sick face who is drinking, and a waiter standing behind the middle-aged man. A rough man, a young man standing in the middle of the road holding an iron sword that looked like industrial waste, and three dead bodies.
One of the bodies had its head cut off, and the other two had their throats pierced.
"Brother, please lend me a loan." It's a real loan, not the kind of microsecond-level 'borrow' that's used against the chasing sisters in the Moon City.
"...!" The young man who had obviously just killed someone moved out of the way, and his eyes widened in the next second.
To be precise, he first glared at Eirin who was walking in front, and then stared at Kaguya who was walking behind.
Feiton walked to the counter and shouted to the shopkeeper who was still shivering: "Shopkeeper, arrange two rooms for me and give me some food."
The murderer has not left yet, and the shopkeeper just wants to reduce his presence. At this time, he almost feels desperate when he is spoken to: "Sir, given the situation today...are you sure you want to stay in our hotel?"
Feiton turned around and said angrily: "Well, I didn't kill the person, so this doesn't affect me."
"That's what I said..." Originally, the hall was full of guests, but as soon as these martial arts people made a fuss, they ran away quietly. This is the way to seek good luck and avoid disaster.
"It's not just 'saying', it's the fact - ah, are you thinking of waiting for the next three to run away and passing the responsibility on me in front of the officers and soldiers?" Feton deliberately showed a sinister smile.
"!" The shopkeeper felt a chill in his heart. One of the ways to overcome fear is to face a greater fear. Compared with the middle-aged drinking man and the swordsman young man who have been chatting and don't intend to silence him, the golden-haired monster who clearly points his malice at him is more terrifying. .
The shopkeeper immediately stood up and shouted to the waiter: "Why don't you go and clean up the things on the floor? How long do you want the three distinguished guests to wait?"
Without waiting for the waiter's response, he walked out of the counter and quickly cleared out a dining table.
Kaguya reluctantly sat on the dirty-looking wooden bench and said weakly: "...Actually, I want to change to an inn."
"It's hard to find a vacant room in this weather. If you use money to force others to transfer the room to us, we won't do it if we can. It will affect my mood." Feiton poured a glass for Kaguya and Eirin. After hot tea, he looked at the trio of martial arts people and said curiously, "Speaking of which, the three of them killed people and didn't run away? The martial culture of the martial arts country really opened my eyes."
"..." The young swordsman ignored Feiton and only had Kaguya and Eirin in his eyes.
If this was a story with him as the protagonist, he would be called a "strikingly beautiful beauty", and then he cast a "frank and sincere look without impurities".
"The small towns near the border are far inferior to those in the Central Plains. Coupled with the weather, we do have plenty of time...cough!" The middle-aged drunkard coughed violently as soon as he finished speaking, and then took another sip of wine, " Compared to this, where is this little brother from? I have lived outside for more than ten years and have never seen anyone dressed like three people."
"Normally, the Bamboo Forest Kingdom is far away from the Wulin Kingdom, and it is just a small country. It is enough to do business with neighboring countries." What Feiton was making nonsense about was the background setting of the three of them in this world, "Well, If there hadn't been a merchant from your country who came to the Bamboo Forest Country and described your country as a country full of gold, which made the Eternal King Inaba Emperor yearn for it, I wouldn't have spent several years learning your country's language and playing the role of a little princess and a female official. guard."
"???"
"...?"
Kaguya and Eirin are satisfied with most of this setting, but why is the Eternal King Inaba and not Tsukiyomi?
"Bamboo Forest Country... Eternal King...?" The middle-aged drunkard had never heard of such a country, but he also knew that there were many things in the world that he didn't know about, so he could only say he was half-convinced.
"Now that we're talking, can I ask more?" Feiton pointed to the body that the rough man was moving out, "What happened here?"
The middle-aged drunkard shook his head and said: "There were two bodyguards among the dead. They seemed to be trying to steal the bodyguards, but I don't know what they wanted to capture."
In fact, only one of them died because of grabbing the dart, one was killed because the swordsman young man wanted cash, and the other was killed by a middle-aged drunkard who could not bear to look at him because he wanted to repay a favor with a grudge.
"Oh! Isn't this an incident that is very characteristic of the Wulin Kingdom?" Feiton applauded.
"...Ah, I can't deny it." The middle-aged alcoholic smiled bitterly and took a sip of wine.
