If the First University is like the sunshine at noon, brilliant and brilliant; the silent forest is like an eternal black hole, dark and deep; then Beta Town, this small town sandwiched between the college and the forest, is the color between black and white.
Just like the color of its streets, it's gray.
In the afternoon, walking on the bustling streets of North District, Zheng Qing had a deeper understanding of this passage in his mind.
As a famous "concave area", the North District of Beta Town has the largest group of jugglers in the entire wizarding world, and naturally also has the largest poor population in the wizarding world.
And nothing can best reflect this than the clothes worn by pedestrians walking on the street.
In school, most of the robes worn by students are made of ice silk, dragon skin and other materials. Some wealthy families may also use crocodile silk and dragon skin as fabrics. But in the North District of Beta Town, these are commonplace on weekdays.
But few people use the material. As far as the eye can see, most of the clothes Zheng Qing can see are made of linen - regardless of men and women, young or old.
They were all dusty, rough, and somewhat prickly linen to the touch.
In First University, only those guys from Atlas College who advocate a life of asceticism can tolerate this kind of material.
This discovery made the marching three-person team gradually fall silent. Especially when they looked at the pedestrians on the road, the people from the North District also looked at them with inquiring eyes - there was flinching, uneasiness, but also in those eyes.
There is also malice and prying eyes - this is not a look that reassures people.
"I think maybe we should find a hotel in another area, right?" Fatty Xin lowered his voice and whispered his opinion to his two companions.
Zheng Qing immediately seconded the proposal.
Although he had never traveled far before and did not have much experience, he had read many history books in middle school and had a deep understanding of the moral standards of people under conditions of material scarcity.
"To be on the safe side, we really should move to another district." said the young public-funded student.
"It's not a matter of safety or insecurity," Fatty Xin's face turned red as if Zheng Qing's words stung a sensitive nerve. "It's just a group of magicians, what kind of threat can it be... I think the environment here is relatively poor."
, the smell is not good, and there is nothing delicious!”
As he spoke, he pretended to pinch his nose.
Zheng Qing disapproved of his behavior, but it was not difficult to understand. For a wizard from the first university to admit that he would feel guilty when facing a group of magicians, it was like letting a tiger show its timidity in front of a cat. It was ultimately a shameful thing.
But what the fat man said was not completely unreasonable.
Due to unbalanced development, the overall environment of the North District of Beta Town is indeed worse than that of other districts. Along the way, residues left after refining medicine, pale and slender animal bones, and certain
Some indescribable pasty substance.
The air was filled with a strange smell mixed with medicine residue, cat urine, and burning wood.
From time to time, a little juggler of seven or eight years old, wearing a dirty robe, would come up to the three guests and shout, "Sir, buy an amulet! Buy an amulet!" holding up long and thin red rubber band-like things!
Just one copper!"
Under normal circumstances, a copper coin cannot buy any amulet.
But seeing how pitiful these children were, Zheng Qing and others still spent some unnecessary money and bought a few.
"Change district? Which district do you want to live in? Let's not mention whether you have such a big budget, but let me ask the simplest question, how do you plan to get there?" Xiao Xiao said this without any surprise, which shocked his two companions.
Zheng Qing thought about it for a few seconds and suddenly became frustrated.
As an auxiliary town, the overall scale of Beta Town is not small, but it is very scattered. Three or five streets are winding and intertwined, along the Silent River and along the walls of Alpha Fort, intertwined together, like a side street.
The keel of the big umbrella supports the entire business circle outside the school.
The top of the big umbrella is Alpha Castle.
The umbrella cover between the keels is a large silent forest, which serves as an isolation zone and fills in the spaces between different areas.
Especially in the North District, due to historical issues, the forest belt that isolates the North District is huge, which makes the entire North District seem much more remote. Except for the porch system of First University and the Silent River Pier, there is nothing else in the North District.
The passage is connected to other areas of Beta Town.
In other words, the idea of changing residence proposed by Fatty Xin was dead before it was put into practice.
Thinking of this, Zheng Qing raised his head and glanced at the doctor to see if he had any other insights, but saw Xiao Xiao holding the 'red rubber band amulets' he had just bought and mumbling something.
"What are you doing?" the young public-funded student immediately forgot the question he just asked and asked curiously.
"We are testing what effect these amulets have and what attacks they can withstand." Xiao Xiao replied seriously, "Magic items are regardless of high or low. Even a copper amulet should be worth a copper."
"Unless that's not the amulet in your mind." Fatty Xin sneered from the side. He held a 'red rubber band' and waved it in front of Xiao Xiao's eyes. "This is actually a frog's tongue, soaked in potion, and there is no
Are there really any magic patterns engraved on it... Old people often say that frogs have broken mouths, so cutting off their tongues and hanging them on the body can ward off the attacks of those long-tongued women. But I have always believed that this statement has not been through magic.
Standard testing can only be regarded as a certain degree of superstition."
Fatty has investigated the North District several times before, so he knows the situation in this area quite well.
After listening to his explanation, Zheng Qing twisted the 'red rubber band' tied around his wrist. I wonder if it was due to psychological effects. After Fatty Xin explained, he always felt that the rubber band was full of slippery fluid.
, a vomiting feeling.
He had the urge to cut off his own wrist.
"Since you know so much about North District, why did you ask that stupid question just now?" The young public-funded student tried hard to divert his attention with other topics. Then he criticized Fatty Xin's previous proposal to change his residence.
"Oh, that." Fatty Xin disagreed and raised his stubby index finger and shook it, "I used to go to and from the North District when school started, and the campus access was open almost all day long, so I never worried about accommodation issues...
…When have you ever seen me living off campus?”
Zheng Qing ignored Fatty's answer.
Because he finally couldn't stand the greasy feeling on his wrist anymore, he felt that he needed a torch now to burn this so-called amulet into ashes.
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This chapter has been completed!