Rossi's estimate was not completely accurate. Gu Hanhan did leave with David tonight, but they were not going to David Duran's private villa in Torini District.
Gu Hanhan only discovered this matter after the ground vehicle left the university town, embedded in the airship and took off for half an hour - the majestic figure of the sacred mountain suddenly appeared in front of his field of vision, with golden light spreading in all directions.
"Isn't that right?" Gu Hanhan pointed to the man-made floating island suspended in mid-air above the waves of the Golden Sea, "This seems to be in the direction of Olympia District, which is opposite to Torini District.
"We are not going to the Holy Mountain," David told Gu Hanhan, "we are going to the Acropolis and the Dulan Mansion."
Gu Hanhan was startled: "Your home?"
David didn't comment on "your family", or maybe just to relieve Gu Hanhan's nervousness, he used a calm tone: "This is the official residence of the Dulan family. The patriarch of the Dulan family and some people in the family are indeed It’s to live here.”
Isn't the patriarch of the Dulan family your father? It’s not even your home! That kind of legendary main house of a thousand-year-old family, a scary place where countless elderly people lurk. David Duran, what do you want to do by taking me to that place? Oppose feudal arranged marriage and pursue freedom of love? My universe, my mother earth! We haven't gotten to know each other well enough to meet our parents! Did you agree to be friends without forcing us to talk about love or not?
Gu Hanhan's scalp was numb, and he backed down on the spot without asking the reason: "Turn around quickly, why should I go to your house if everything is fine!"
When David heard this, he realized that Gu Hanhan had misunderstood. A trace of sadness flashed through his heart, but of course he couldn't tell it from his expression.
"There happens to be a meeting with the High Priest Sitings tonight," he explained. "This must be considered respectful according to the etiquette of the Acropolis mansion, so we can only go there once."
Then he went further: "Actually, I have met and talked with the high priest before coming here. I will come to pick you up while you are changing clothes. There will be a dinner when you go back soon. You don't need to stay too long, you can leave in about half an hour."
When Gu Hanhan heard that he was not being forced to see his parents, he immediately felt the joy of escaping. She smiled broadly and said repeatedly: "If you have something to do tonight, don't insist on asking me to go with you. It's the same when I go home by myself." Then she thought that she had misunderstood David before, which made her feel embarrassed, so she quickly went back to make amends: "You too If you didn’t tell me earlier, I would be shocked. I didn’t even buy any bananas, and I came to your house empty-handed without any gifts. It’s so bad for your family to see this, and it’s an embarrassment to our mother earth!”
David smiled bitterly: "Things happen every day, but the time I spend with you is so short. How can I lose the big for the small?"
Gu Hanhan's excuse of "not preparing a gift" made David feel inexplicably happy again, because in a sense, it represented the close relationship between him and Gu Hanhan. He liked and enjoyed the ambiguous feelings that Gu Hanhan showed unintentionally. It was a kind of hazy ambiguity that would naturally show up as long as they had sexual relations. It was so beautiful that it was intoxicating.
Therefore, he held Gu Hanhan's hand and said to her seriously: "There is no need to care what the Dulan family thinks. We neither need their blessing nor their approval. Including my father, I am me, and the Dulan family is the Dulan family, and whatever happens between us has nothing to do with them!"
Gu Hanhan was surprised, but soon relieved: That's right, the relationship between mistresses, especially if it is temporary, does not require family approval and has nothing to do with others. My dear young man, Comrade David, I haven’t seen you for a long time. You have finally enlightened and embarked on the right golden path! This is great, we can both relax. In this way, when you pass the inspection period, I will immediately add you to my team of harmonious, stable and healing relationships. From now on, you will no longer have to worry about breaking up with Helen and not having the attending doctor to treat you and save your life...
The airship flew in mid-air for about ten more minutes, and a huge obsidian building rose up in front of the field of vision, standing like a cliff. The shape of the tall building slopes upward from the bottom, and then curves through a huge arc in mid-air, like a huge plow thrust into the earth. It is world-famous.
"Forging swords into plowshares", this building is the headquarters of the Super Power Association. With the headquarters building of the Super Power Association as the center, the major institutions and research institutes of the Super Power Association are dotted around. The lakes and mountains are set among them, like pearls. These buildings, together with the superpower headquarters building, seem to form an endless mountain range. One end is connected to the mountain, and the other end extends to the sea. It forms the gateway that separates the two worlds. On the Beacon Star travel encyclopedia, it is called Thorn Ridge.
"Bramble Ridge accounts for two-thirds of the Acropolis, but the one-third behind it is the real Acropolis." David and Gu Hanhan stood side by side in front of the porthole, gently holding her shoulders and pointing. Explain to her the end that connects to the mountains. Then he pointed to the end extending towards the sea: "Further ahead is Olympia."
The airship climbed diagonally over the Thorny Ridge, then swooped down and passed through the clouds. The clouds were steaming at the end of the sky where the sea and the sky met. Thousands of rays of rays of light reflected half of the sky, and a magnificent sunset spread across the land.
In the Acropolis Valley, which is surrounded by mountains and rivers, the 84 square kilometers of land are divided into hundreds of squares by broad avenues that intersect horizontally and vertically. Each square is a huge mansion. Fourteen horizontally and eleven vertically, there are a total of 180 mansions, gathering all the top wealthy and noble families in the entire superpower world.
Every mansion is magnificent. Huge family emblems are hung on the roofs of tall buildings and mansions, and the energy light ripples and shines, dazzling the eyes. A round sun sank on the edge of the horizon, and the full moon had not yet fully risen. The rays of the setting sun broke through the golden sea and penetrated the clouds, and the golden color filled the white jade road. Winged Pegasus dragging magnificent carriages flew between the towering spiers of the palace.
"It's so beautiful, it's like walking into a world in a fairy tale." Gu Hanhan couldn't help but sigh. Those purebred pegasus with wings were the auction albums that her valet sent to her bedroom for fun before going to bed. I have seen it before - the perfect product of modern genetics, a horse worth five million earth reserve coupons, which is equivalent to Wuqi's worth - Pegasus serves as a means of transportation, a scene that can only be seen in a fairy tale world!
David nodded and said considerately: "The first time I saw the Acropolis, I thought it was as beautiful as a fairy tale."
The airship continued to fall, and the flowing energy emblems flashed before his eyes one by one. Gu Hanhan suddenly found that one of the emblems was very familiar, so he pointed to a palace near the east and asked David: "Whose house is that?" "
"Oh," David glanced casually and said, "That's Lord Critikus's mansion."
"So his home is here." Gu Hanhan pursed his lips, "It looks ordinary. Compared with other houses, it is neither big nor beautiful. And the place is very remote, not in the center at all."
"That's how the Acropolis is, even adults are no exception." David smiled: "The Dulan family's mansion is in the center, but it doesn't mean anything."
He held Gu Hanhan's hand and pointed to the palaces with emblems and told Gu Hanhan the allusion of the Acropolis: "It is said that the Acropolis was built by the seventy-two Thorny Branch families who were the earliest at the time of the establishment of the Super Power Association. . In order to facilitate the meetings held every five years, they built mansions in the valley behind the association building."
"In the beginning, there were only seventy-two mansions. But new families soon emerged. In less than two hundred years, 180 families were squeezed into the narrow and cramped area of the Acropolis Valley, less than 84 square kilometers, and there were also new families. The family wanted to squeeze in. At that time, Li Haihe, the chairman of the Superpower Association and the father of superpowers, felt the constant disputes. He convened a superpower conference and re-planned the Acropolis Valley Plain into fourteen horizontal and ten vertical sections. One hundred and eighty pieces of land. Only one mansion can be built on one piece of land, and only one hundred and eighty family mansions can be built on the Acropolis, which will be permanently reserved as an institution."
"If a family wants to live in Acropolis, it can only buy another family's mansion. When a family comes in, it means a family goes out. Therefore, the mansion in Acropolis is regarded as a symbol of the family reputation of a superpower family. No matter which era, the so-called first-class superpower families refer to the one hundred and eighty families in Acropolis. Over the past one thousand years, families have continued to decline, sold their mansions and left Acropolis, and there have been emerging families. Move in. The palace has been demolished and rebuilt, built and demolished again, and now, of the original seventy-two Thornbough families, there are less than thirty families left with mansions in the Acropolis."
This kind of historical vicissitudes of life is undoubtedly contagious, but Gu Hanhan is still very young, and there is some emotion, but it has just happened that she has left "Lord Critikus's Mansion" behind. To such an extent, it quickly disappeared like a fleeting glimpse. After hearing David's last sentiments, she asked, "Is your family one of the less than thirty Thornbough families?"
David was silent for a moment, and then said: "The Dulan family is indeed one of them."
Therefore, he spoke with a self-deprecating tone: "But actually this doesn't mean much. Because of the cramped quarters of the Acropolis mansion, the practice of building vast manors on Lighthouse Star became popular very soon. Many People who owned acropolis mansions actually lived on the estate for many years.”
"The Acropolis," he said, "is just an unsieged city."
Just like this beautiful fairy tale dusk...
The airship landed over a mansion near the center of the Acropolis Valley. Before getting off the airship, from the porthole, Gu Hanhan saw that both sides of the road to the tarmac were filled with aristocratic men and women in costumes. There were more than a hundred of them, standing behind a queue of servants in black dresses and an array of guards with gold-trimmed collars.
After the cabin door opened, Hebrews, the chief attendant waiting at the door of the airship, came forward with his attendants and servants to greet him. He called "Master" and then followed David. The male and female nobles behind the array of servants and guards all lowered their gazes and bowed deeply. But David's attitude was very cold, worse than the reception he received at Derwent Hall as a vassal. He held Gu Hanhan's hand and walked straight past the polite nobles, not even glancing at them. However, these nobles did not seem to care about such a cold reception. After David passed by, they stood up spontaneously and cluttered behind him.
"David," Gu Hanhan glanced at the nobles who were following closely behind the servants, and couldn't help but ask, "Are they your vassals?"
"I don't have such great vassals." David couldn't help but let out a faint snort, "They are relatives of the Dulan family, my dear cousins, uncles, aunts and uncles."
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