0370 Chapter Seven: The Wisdom of Mortals (Section 76)
Five minutes later, another group of three men and two women came from the lower city area towards the same city gate.
After checking the documents in their hands, the city guard had a strange look on his face, which was obviously mixed with a bit of distrust. Mei Bixi, who was in the team, saw this detail in her eyes and frowned slightly.
As far as she knew, the inspections between the upper and lower cities had always been just a formality, and no one would bother with the details at all. Especially after the name of Lan Taigong was revealed.
It's not that Mr. Lan Taigong has a prominent position, it's just that this guy runs back and forth too much.
Considering the size of the royal capital of Vanbaea, there are a total of forty-six gates between the upper and lower city. Each gate is guarded by the men of Grand Duke Enah.
And the probability of someone passing through each door...is once every forty days on average.
It was strange enough for the city guards that there were people passing by in front and behind in five minutes, let alone under the same name? What was Mr. Lan Tai going to do? Isn't it enough to send a group of people?
Of course, the people who brought Mei Bixi here were completely unaware of these circumstances and were still urging the city guards to let them go as soon as possible.
"There is indeed nothing wrong with the document..." After abnormally checking it again and again, the city guard handed it back: "The next step is the blood test."
Mei Bixi and the others were stunned, and then a red-eyed woman pointed at the city guard's nose and cursed: "This is a humiliation! Don't even think about touching me!"
"You are just fulfilling your duties, how can you talk about humiliation?" The city guard sneered: "If you don't want to undergo a blood test, you can contact the nobles in the inner city to vouch for your identity."
He stood inside the barrier, while the visitors from Xiacheng District who applied to enter the city stood outside. Only specially enchanted customs clearance documents could be delivered to each other across the barrier.
If he doesn't let him go, what can people outside do to him, even if they have incredible abilities and overwhelming resentment?
"You...you wait! I'm going to call someone right now!" the woman traveling with him yelled angrily.
In Vanbaie, nobility is more appropriately described as race than class. In other words, all pure blood races, no matter how low their strength or how poor their family background, are also nobility.
This is a country of vampires, and it is natural for nobles to enjoy certain privileges. However, there is no such ridiculous rule in Fanbaia that requires high-level powerful men on the path to ascension to bow down and make way for low-level nobles.
Duke Lan Tai was extremely wealthy, and it was not uncommon for him to have pure-blood nobles under his command. The group of people around Mei Bixi were really working for Duke Lan Tai, so of course they had to ask those vampires who were also servants to run errands.
As long as there is a pure blood registration guarantee, as long as the person entering the city is not wanted, the city guards must let them go according to the rules. This is one of the privileges of the Vanbaie nobles.
This phenomenon is actually very reasonable, because except for the blood servants who run errands for nobles in the upper city such as the House of Commons or Lan Taigong, basically no one needs to enter or exit the boundary between the upper and lower cities.
The reason why the city guard was set up to manage the passage was mainly to prevent the poor people from the lower city area from running into the upper city area. For the mortals of the four major gangs, it was simply impossible to find a noble guarantor.
Seeing the woman with the same surname about to turn around and leave, Mei Bixi waved her hand gently, and a gentle force emerged from the earth, firmly holding the woman's feet in place:
"How long will it take to ask someone to pick me up?" she asked with a frown.
The woman was not annoyed at being blocked, and was quite polite to Mei Bixi. She suppressed the anger in her heart and said, "It won't take more than three or four hours at the latest. We can find a small shop from the Artisan Gang to wait. There is always one like this at the city gate.
place."
Gu/span Mei Bixi was in a very unhappy mood. At this juncture, the person who could think of borrowing the name of Lord Lan Tai probably thought of it through the issue of the ruins.
And who else can focus on the ruins and need to hide their identity and sneak into the upper city? The answer is ready to come out.
At the same time, the inner city, Magical Girl Street.
"Are you sure there is nothing wrong with the name of this street?"
After word by word, Zhen Cheng glared viciously at the little loli with blond hair and red eyes, gritting his teeth. The latter obediently turned his gaze to the two-dimensional beautiful girl sign hanging in the middle of the hall.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, this master looks like a foreigner at first glance. All the streets in the capital of Vanbia are named like this. Next door over there is Lich Ranch Street, and the junction of the two streets is Steam Industry Avenue...
…”
An old man with bulging nose hair and fat body, but looking at the force field around his body, he was undoubtedly a mage and said with a smile. Looking at Zhen Cheng's eyes, his smile turned into the shape of the sound hole of a violin, full of lust.
Zhen Cheng vigorously pressed the black lines all over his head and said fiercely to the owner of Fat House: "I won't complain about how you understand Lich Ranch and Steam Industry to be the same style, but you are called a magical girl here.
How do you explain those gadgets that are all over the street outside your door?"
Zhen Cheng pointed to the door of the store. Outside the transparent store blocked by the arcane stance, there were crowds of inexplicable creatures with mean smiles on their faces and even greasier than the store owner.
Well, to avoid misunderstanding, let’s call them humans. And… they are all mages.
"Sister, think about it. If there was a street named 'Magical Girl' in my hometown, who would choose to move there?" Elogens said with a half-smile.
Zhen Cheng was stunned for a moment, then sighed deeply, turning his ambiguous gaze to the blond loli: "So, you brought us to a place like this to deliberately harass people, right?"
The little loli smiled coquettishly, her eyes wandering around, and finally took Zhen Cheng's hand and asked her to bend down, whispering in her ear:
"You may have noticed that it is not convenient for my identity to be exposed, and you don't seem to want to be too public. Moreover, the promotion of a mage is also quite dangerous if someone secretly causes trouble.
The mage tower here is rented, so there is no possibility of someone secretly targeting you, and the security is relatively high. Most of the residents living around are poor mage, and the residents outside look down on the people here, so the confidentiality is very reliable.
Of course, if you don’t trust me, you can go shopping and find another store. But there are really not many similar mage towers in Vanbaia."
"No, that's it." After hearing the end, Zhen Cheng suddenly remembered the teacher's advice. Qu Yun must have predicted something before she said something like trying to trust and rely on the people around her, right?
After paying some "Shensu", the universal currency for unifying the universe, that she received from Gesha, Zhen Cheng climbed up the tower. For safety, she also brought Sister A up with her, leaving the blond Lolita in the lobby of the store.
Three hours later, when the two came down from upstairs, Zhen Cheng had a bright yellow belt hanging on her body.
It is wrapped around the neck like a scarf, crosses in an "X" shape on the chest, and hangs down on both sides of the outer thighs. The poem title is written on it, "The witty words are written in sequence, and the poems are full of laughter and laughter."
It is Zhen Cheng who wears the robe that symbolizes her identity as an arcane mage, but she rarely shows it on weekdays.