"My lord! My lord, are you okay?"
"My lord, you are frightened!"
"Have you been injured anywhere, sir?"
"My lord, please go back quickly. Madam is waiting for you..."
The shouts were as loud as the vegetable market, and soon they gathered together as the cavalry-like cavalry crowded each other. While several Jason's men at the front of the convoy were pushed away, several unknown men were also pushed away. All passers-by were frightened and panicked, and hurriedly fled further into the wilderness. The special envoy, which had long been submerged in the crowd, had also lost its movement early on, as if it were a debut artist being surrounded by tens of millions of reporters. There were only some faint voices, and there were still people like Duan Qing. People prove their existence: "No, don't get excited, I'm fine..."
"It's great that you're okay, sir!"
A heavily armed soldier who looked like a cavalry captain heard the sound and said, his voice carrying the same excitement as the soldiers around him: "When we heard about the incident in the capital of the principality, we thought that you would not be able to come back, sir. Something really happened to you, we, we..."
"Yes, sir! What will we do without you!"
"Sir, you can't abandon us!"
"grown ups--"
Duan Qing's jaw dropped as he stared dumbly at the group of wailing soldiers gathered around him: "Who is this Lord Bart? Is he the city lord's brother-in-law? Does he have such a high reputation?"
"The Tristan family doesn't seem to be an original family that belongs to the Free City. They moved from somewhere else." Xu Yuliu Sheng, who also walked out of the carriage, explained calmly: "As for those soldiers... they are not from the Free City. The soldiers of the city.”
"They should be servants." She whispered: "The family's private soldiers...that's probably how they feel."
"Private soldiers? Cavalry?" Duan Qing pointed forward and asked in shock: "Isn't this too presumptuous? Will the Lord of the City of Freedom destroy them?"
"Even among Tania's nobles, each family has a few thugs." The blue-haired swordswoman squinted at Duan Qing: "What's more, a free country cannot survive without force. The city is over... If you want to become a family here, how can you not have your own army?"
"but……"
"The City of Liberty is a nation."
In a low voice, he interrupted what Duan Qing was about to say, and pointed to the special envoy who was trying to maintain order at the front: "Although it is only as big as a city, you should treat it as a country, otherwise, you It is impossible to understand many existences there, such as this man named Bart Tristan, and that Rondoll, guys like them... There are at least a dozen in the city."
"They are all families with large armies of private soldiers, just like the princesses from all over the principality." She twitched the corners of her lips: "Otherwise, no one would have the right to speak in that dark place."
"...It's like an enlarged version of the black market?"
"It's kind of like that, but it's a lot more complicated than that."
The blue-haired woman turned her head and looked at the city at the end of the road: "A place that advertises complete freedom..."
"It's all very dark in the end."
Although there are still a lot of questions to ask, it does not seem to be the right time to learn all this in detail, so Duan Qing and others still plan to escort the first one hanging on them after the situation at the front stabilizes. Mission solved. But as Xu Yu Liushang said before, everything here is full of all kinds of extraordinary, because before they could talk to each other, the movement in front of them changed unexpectedly - it seemed that after listening to Bart After the Lord's speech, the soldier leading the cavalry team cheered loudly with the others. At the same time, he led his men who were applauding at the scene to start a new round of selling in the vegetable market: "Thank the sky, thank the gods, let the Lord Come back safely!"
"Thank heaven, thank God!"
"You are blessed with great fortune! If you survive a catastrophe, you will be blessed later!"
"If one survives, there will be future fortunes!"
"that……"
"My lord, please go back quickly, my wife is still waiting for you at home!"
"Yes, sir, Madam looks forward to the stars and the moon..."
"That... you..."
"Madam has been worried for several days and can't even eat..."
"Yes, sir! Madam hasn't eaten for several days!"
"Well, congratulations..."
"Walk!"
The leading soldier let out a shout, then took the lead in getting on the horse, taking his "adult" and other members of the envoy, and took the lead in running towards the Free City. Dozens of members of the cavalry team also jumped on their respective horses, each of them issued a shout of different sizes and no sense of order, and then left with the captain in a messy posture, like herding sheep. Duan Qing, who still maintained his salute, froze his hands in mid-air, and then turned his head in embarrassment amidst the low laughter of several people around him. Several passers-by in the field of vision hurriedly withdrew their smiling faces. They left as if nothing happened, leaving only a few faces at the front of the convoy looking at each other, and the confused expressions of other players who jumped out of the convoy at the rear after hearing the sound: "What's wrong? What's wrong? What happened?"
"We...were just left here?"
Looking at the sarcastic smile on the young envoy's face who was riding behind a certain war horse, Duan Qing scratched the back of his head: "That's it?"
"Probably..." Xuyu Liushang covered his mouth and smiled: "It's over."
"That's nonsense!"
Duan Qing threw his gloves to the ground and shouted at the top of his lungs: "Even if it is a mission without reward, it must be concluded with an explanation, right? What's the matter with leaving us on the road? You are playing tricks on people. Aren’t we barons? Aren’t we nobles? Aren’t we here to meet the city lord? I’ve been preparing my lines for several days, and you just showed me this in the end?”
"I don't know if they did it intentionally, but we were definitely thrown here."
Looking back at another slender figure wearing a black cloak who also walked out of the carriage, he whispered softly and replied: "It seems... it seems that it is not easy to see the city lord."
"...Can I understand that this is a design of the game?"
The smiling uncle who came forward looked forward for a while: "Because the task you are carrying is too advanced, the system does not allow you to complete it in a lazy and slippery way, so they deliberately arranged a plot like this for us. First Leave us hanging outside the city..."
"Krystal! You old thief!"
After standing there resentfully and gnashing his teeth for a long time, Duan Qing finally sighed, bent down to pick up his gloves, and walked towards the back of the convoy: "If he really dares to design such an inhumane restriction method , I will definitely look back..."
"You guys!"
A loud shout sounded in front of them again, interrupting the movements of several people at the same time: "Why are you blocking this road! Why don't you move away quickly!"
Duan Qing, who was furious, slowly turned around and caught sight of a man wearing a cowboy hat who was also riding a horse. Then he dropped the wooden barrel that had just been dumped outside the carriage expressionlessly. He spread his hands and turned around: "Which family are you a servant of?"
"I am Ricas, the security officer of the Free City." The man on the horse adjusted the brim of his hat, and then put his hand on the hilt of the sword at his waist: "Who are you?"
"Sergeant? Ricas?"
"...A foreigner?"
The man who called himself Ricas looked at everyone here condescendingly, and the fingers of his right hand began to clench tighter and tighter: "It seems that you are new adventurers... huh, you know nothing."
"Your convoy is blocking the traffic here." He raised his chin, and the sword blade at his waist also flashed an obscure light: "If you don't eliminate the obstruction, I will, in the name of the security officer, kill you. …”
"Wait a moment!"
Everyone's attention was attracted by Duan Qing's sudden shout, and then following his lowered hand, they looked at the man who looked like a police officer again: "You said... your name is Licas? "
"Why, have you heard my name?"
The man on horseback stopped what he was doing, but his eyes became sharper: "Where did you hear this from? Could it be that... you are not new here at all?"
"No, no, no, we are indeed newcomers here." Duan Qing shook his hands hurriedly: "But..."
"We have indeed heard of your name for a long time."
Rikars Van Hem, the best security officer in the Free City, originally seemed to be a wanderer living in the Free City, but he was lucky enough to meet the city lord while struggling in the bloody and dark bottom, and he turned into a One of the members of Sunshine. Relying on his understanding of the forces in the city and his considerable strength, he quickly solved several major cases. Then, using such achievements as the axis, he replaced the position of a certain police chief who had just died in the line of duty and became a free agent. One of the security officers of the city. Although some people have many doubts about his achievements and changes in certain official positions, no one can produce any strong evidence or extraordinary power to question his identity, and they have nothing This method can erase a lot of names of the criminals who died under his hands, as well as many titles like "Terminator of Crime", "Nemesis of the Underworld", "Judger" and so on.
Of course, Duan Qing had found all this information on the Internet before setting off, but this was not the first time he heard about this person's name.
He heard it from the mouth of some fat man.
"Lux Young? That damn fat guy?"
The police officer sitting on the horse looked Duan Qing up and down, then pulled the tattered cloak behind him: "That guy is not dead yet?"
"Hehe, hehe... He once told me that if there is any problem or trouble, he can find it on your head." Duan Qingpei said with a smile: "So... Mr. Police Officer, we are our own people. !”
"...Since he is a friend of that bastard Yang, then forget it."
Putting the weapon in his hand back to his waist, the man pressed his brown cowboy hat: "But... despite this, you can't block this place."
"Hurry up and start the convoy." He turned the horse's head and walked towards the side of the road first: "You have to get out of here as soon as possible."
"Uh... Sir police officer." Duan Qing said: "There are a lot of goods piled on our fleet. It can't be sorted out immediately. And there shouldn't be such a rush. Not many people pass by on this road..."
"Who's worried about you blocking traffic?"
Ricas, who was shaking, turned sideways, and his voice came back with the clatter of horse hooves: "I just want to remind you..."
"If you stay here any longer, you will be robbed soon." He whispered.
"If you don't want to be targeted by the hungry wolves here, just follow me."
As the distance approached, the outline of the City of Freedom gradually became clearer in the eyes of the remaining people in the convoy. However, in the end, they did not enter this majestic-looking city before noon, and instead followed a certain police officer. The footsteps came to a group of low houses in the suburbs. Sparse figures moved in and out of the large mud houses accompanied by the breeze. It looked no different from an ordinary village. However, according to Ricas, the peace in this shanty town was just an illusion on the surface.
"I came here with a mission."
These were the words he left when he arranged for the convoy to temporarily park in a safe area: "Do you really think... that I am here to greet you specially?"
"Then...then what is your mission?"
"Are you interested?"
The man who jumped off the horse glanced at Duan Qing: "If you want to follow, that's up to you, but..."
"I am not responsible for your safety."
Several people followed his footsteps and sneaked into the area that seemed to be a village, and stuck in front of the largest house. Then they followed the police officer's actions and listened quietly to what was going on inside the house. The sound insulation effect of the dilapidated house seemed to be very good, and even Duan Qing could not hear what the people inside were saying, but it didn't take long for his efforts to become meaningless.
Accompanied by a violent explosion, the roof of the house next to several people was lifted up by a fierce fire. A large number of figures wearing various clothes, but at this time were blown into rags, also broke through the scattered black. Fog poured out from around the village.
"This is... a gang fight."
Looking at the blue-haired woman next to him, Duan Qing muttered: "It is indeed the legendary city of freedom. It is so lively even outside the city..."
boom--
A violent wave of air flew towards the crowd in front of them, setting off a large group of fighting figures that had just collided with each other. Then, as a loud shout sounded around them, Duan Qing's voice was mixed with his Calm and calm were shocked together: "I am Licas, the security officer of the Free City! Everyone, put down your weapons!"
"You have been surrounded by me!"
