On the New Year, the city of knowledge has a unique flavor. The city is brightly lit, and even the most remote corners will be illuminated by the lights. The crowds on the streets are no longer as crowded as at night, but they still maintain a considerable number. Most people wander on the streets in their own hometown costumes to celebrate the New Year. Even the cold wind in the middle of the winter night cannot extinguish people's enthusiasm for fire.

"Happy New Year." A goblin wearing a purple one-piece suit ran past several people. After experiencing the divine punishment of the second century and the earth collapsed in the third century, the number of goblins with tenacious vitality has decreased to a relatively dangerous number for a race. But even so, you can still often see these small people born as researchers and technicians in the capital of knowledge. While the goblins in purple clothes ran past, they reached out while greeting. Catherine naturally reached out to high-high highs with him. This is the etiquette of goblins, and the action they should take when greeting each other.

"Happy New Year." A lizard man walking upright came towards him and stretched his tail to a group of people in the adventure group. The lizard man was a whispering swamp inhabitants, and there were not many people, and they were rarely seen outside the swamp. Because of walking upright, their hind limbs became more developed, and their joints also had some subtle changes to adapt to their body posture. However, most of the body was still no different from lizards. Some scholars once believed that lizard man should be classified as orcs and belonged to a branch of orcs, but both orcs and lizard man strongly opposed it because they were created by different gods and could not belong to the same race at all.

Catherine looked at the lizardman in embarrassment. The action of the lizardman greeting each other was to entangle the tails, but obviously this action was a little more difficult for Catherine. Just when Catherine didn't know how to deal with it, Panis walked up, reached out to hug the lizardman's thick tail and shook it hard, and said with the same greeting: "Happy New Year."

"Is this how humans respond to the lizardman?" Seeing the lizardman leaving happily with a big mouth, Catherine asked quietly, "Hold the other person's tail a few times?"

"Yes, to be precise, the race without tails always responds to the lizard people like this." Panis explained: "Race with tails can just deal with the same tail."

"What an interesting race," said Catherine. "It's very interesting."

"Aowu." A harsh howling sounded, and several orcs turned out from the other street with their arms around each other. Among the wolf clan, bear clan, tiger clan, deer clan, cattle clan, and seven or eight different ethnic groups were mixed together and wandering around the street drunk. The bear clan members happened to see Panis and a group of people, swaying over and stretching out huge fists at the several people. Catherine smiled and swung her fists. The two fists, which were twice as different, met in the air, making a dull collision sound.

"What a lot of strength." The bear man shouted in a stiff common word, hugged his fists and ran back to his friends. He rubbed his fists and accepted the ridicule of his friends. This is often the case with the orcs of the bear clan. When they meet, they will compare their strength first. If they have enough strength, they will be good friends.

Along the way, we met countless people. Every person we met, regardless of the same race or not, would show a sincere smile and greet each other for a happy new year. At this time, in the capital of knowledge, there is a harmonious and warm scene everywhere.

"It's so lively." The extroverted Michelle shouted: "I really hope it's New Year every day."

"I don't want it, that means I can only live for seven or eight hundred days. It's so terrible." I don't know which corner I heard a muffled response. Although I couldn't see the respondent, the meaning of the obedience was obviously a dwarf with a lifespan of about seven hundred years. The dwarf's timely response caused a burst of kind laughter from people around me, which made Michelle's face blush and hid behind Lina and did not dare to show her head.

There are not only people on the streets. There are countless shops, even at midnight. Most of the shops still have their doors open. On this special day, no businessman is willing to give up the opportunity to make money once a year. The owners have all set up the styles of goods in their shops. If the counter is not enough, they must be seen at a glance. After all, no one knows whether there will be any customer who will be interested in those strange goods that have been ignored for a long time.

"Haha, it's so fun." Everyone just passed by a group of tourists in strange costumes. The group dressed up as evil devils who took away the princess from fairy tales and brave knights who went to fight against the devil. The two camps that were supposed to be incompatible with water and fire were surrounded by girls dressed up as princesses, running around the streets with laughter and laughing, occasionally chanting a few lines loudly, drawing out weapons and gestures, which attracted a lot of applause.

"You are really intriguing." A charming voice suddenly appeared in everyone's ears. Two women who had been standing in the shadow of the light but seemed to be ignored by everyone inadvertently poked their heads out of the shadow: "I haven't had enough fun yet."

"Happy New Year." Catherine greeted him: "You haven't left yet, I thought you've gone back."

"I have to do something, I'll be delayed for a few days." Wan Yan gave Panis a charming look and then replied: "I didn't expect to meet you just now."

"It's just right, I want to find you." Catherine said, "I'm sorry to apologize to you for something."

Indulge was startled by Catherine's formal apology and asked in confusion: "What's wrong?"

"I have a good friend who is going to get married. Her father asked us to send her to Free City, so we may have to go to the Innocence City a few days later." Catherine explained to the indulgence: "I agree to your commission, I wonder if it can be temporarily pushed back?"

"Why did I do?" Indulgently sneered and said, "This is worthy of your formal apology? It's a few days later. That murderer is not committing a murder every day. If you go a few days earlier, you may not have something to do. It doesn't matter, as long as you can get there within a month. There are so many things to do in the New Year, and we originally expected to give you some time to handle the things at hand before going."

"That's so thankful." Catherine said embarrassedly: "Thank you for understanding."

"Okay, okay, that's what I don't like the most about you knights. It's so rigid in doing things." He waved his hand impatiently: "We'll leave first if it's okay. See you in the City of Innocence."

"They are so free and easy, they can leave as soon as they say they want." Seeing the two ladies holding hands, leaning against the wall and disappearing into the shadows, Lina muttered: "But now, I'll have plenty of time to send Freya to Free City."

"I hope everything goes well." Catherine is not as optimistic as Lina: "I'll do it. If you go to Free City here, it will take fourteen days to walk on the convoy. From Free City to Innocence, it will take as fast as six days for us to move forward with light-fitting equipment. The time is actually quite tight. And don't forget the threatening letter. If you encounter any trouble, it may not be enough time."

"Sister, don't worry. What can happen? It seems that someone is jealous of the beauty that Wisk married and deliberately wanted to make trouble and make the wedding impossible." Lina said indifferently: "Don't worry, there will be no big problem. Anyway, we are not right. It should be said that it is tomorrow. We will set off tomorrow morning. It must be too late. Hey, Vivian, what you saw just now is here."

"What?" Vivian asked in confusion: "What did I see just now?"

"Bookstore." Lina pointed to a shop next to her: "Didn't you say you saw a bookstore on the way to the show?"

"Oh, you said that." Vivian looked around and looked: "Yes, it's this one. Almost all stores open in the New Year. But only bookstores are exceptions, so this one with doors is very conspicuous."

Vivian is right. Business places such as bookstores and library scrolls are often not open in these days. Because one common feature of these places is quiet, while the New Year's characteristic is the warm atmosphere and the two are completely incompatible, so the operators simply avoid these days to avoid affecting the atmosphere in the store.

When you walk into the bookstore, you can find that the bookstore is obviously new, and the door and the decorations in the store are obvious. The owner is a middle-aged man in his forties, and he shows that he is not familiar with this industry during the conversation. So he chose to open his business today according to the experience of other stores. Fortunately, although the bookstore is open, no one comes in and makes noise. Occasionally, there are a few customers, and they are very disciplined and keep quiet.

As soon as Lina entered the bookstore, she seemed to see her lover who had been separated for many years. Her eyes were filled with warm light, and she gently stroked the cover of each book.

"That lady is okay?" The bookstore owner saw Lina's performance and asked Panis at a loss: "Why does something seem to be wrong."

"It's okay, she just take a look, don't worry." Panis looked around and said, "Just do if she doesn't exist."

But unfortunately, the boss obviously could not regard Lina as if it was not there, because she had been walking around the store for a while and grabbed the boss's clothes and pulled him to a locked display cabinet: "Put it open for me, I want to read this book."

"This is not possible." The boss refused firmly: "This book is different from other books. It was passed down by my great-great-grandfather. It is said to have a history of three hundred years. It is considered an antique. If you want to sell it, it will be sold at the price of the antique."

"I have to check it out first to confirm whether it is the real thing." Lina insisted: "What if the cover and the content inside are not the same book? There were businessmen who used to cheat people like this."

"I am a member of the Business Federation, which is a guarantee of integrity." The boss said proudly: "It is absolutely impossible to treat customers by deceptive means."

"Then tell me, how much?" Lina asked, "I can pay first, but I'll see the book right away."

"Of course there is no problem." The boss opened the display cabinet and carefully took out the book with gloves and wrapped it in velvet cloth: "You don't have to bargain for five hundred gold coins, this is an out-of-print book. Maybe this is only one left in Quanyala. This price is really not expensive."

"You..." Lina gritted her teeth hatefully: "Okay, I'll buy it. Sister, lend me some money first and pay it back to you when I get home."

"Isabella, I finally found you, hehehehe." As soon as the transaction was completed, Lina immediately opened the cloth bag impatiently, turned it directly into the boss's distressed eyes, turned it over a few pages, immediately holding the book and walking out, making strange laughs while walking.
Chapter completed!