"No matter what, local security should be under local jurisdiction! Since there is no document against you, you are not wanted. Okay! That's it! You can leave!"
The gavel landed on the table one after another, making impatient sounds.
This voice not only fell on the table, but also fell on Anderson's heart.
He looked across the long table at the Speaker of the Noble Parliament who was wearing a wig and holding a gavel. He opened his mouth, as if he wanted to defend something, but facing his ruthless and cold eyes, he was speechless.
The Speaker pointed to the door behind him and looked at him with a look that he seemed to have seen in his father. This look forced him to turn around and stiffly walked out of the door.
When the carved door closed behind him, a conversation rushed into his ears along with the air squeezed out by the door.
"I thought there was something important going on in the east, but it ended up like this? A waste of time!"
"It's such a trivial matter, and it has to be brought to the parliament. Who will care? The next issue, the next one!"
"What a waste? Who cares? Are we, the residents of Baator, not human beings?"
A pungent feeling gathered in his chest, followed his mouth, nose, and rushed into his eyes.
Anderson suddenly clenched his fists, and the image of the girl falling to the ground came to mind again. He wanted to rush back to the room and argue with them using force.
"Maybe I saw this girl when I was patrolling? Maybe she is one of those girls who gathered together in the market?"
This thought lingered in his mind. He turned back and looked at the powerful guards standing at the door. He successfully controlled the anger in his heart and chopped down a foreigner outside and started fighting with the guards in the noble council.
Definitely a different concept.
He left the parliament depressingly. After walking out of the deep hallway, he looked back, and then he couldn't help but tremble. The dim lights, the hallway, and the exquisite decoration were so similar to the stained door in front of the hotel.
It's just another mouth that eats people.
However, he didn't know what to do now. He wandered along the streets of the royal capital, not knowing where he could go. With the fall of the gavel, the impression of prosperity and stability established by his life in the past sixteen years,
At that moment it collapsed like an illusion.
His father was a minor nobleman who became a businessman and lived in the outermost area of the aristocratic area, so his life was more like that of a slightly superior rich man than that of a nobleman.
His childhood was not spent in a deep-walled compound and hordes of servants, but in his father's motorcade and growing up in the noise of the market.
Therefore, his self-perception falls at the intersection of the two groups: "I am just an ordinary resident with a little status!"
He cared about both sides and was reluctant to give up on both sides, which made his heart be torn back and forth, as if it was about to split into two.
He walked in confusion until he was stopped by someone: "Hey, little guy, are you a student?"
Anderson raised his head and found that he was standing under a watchtower.
"W-where is this?"
The guard covered in steel armor looked at his appearance and raised his mask: "Knight Academy."
Knight Academy? This steel armor? Is it a place to train those upright and brave knights in the novel?
"Can I enroll in school?"
The guard laughed: "Then you must at least have a set of armor, right? Real armor and weapons are not those fake ones."
He pointed to the armor shops across the street.
Although the decorative armor is not completely incapable of combat, at least it is light and comfortable, but few people who wear them come back alive. After all, if you are a dishonest person and you are too bright and showy, you will get burned.
Anderson was speechless. His armor was left at home, and there was no possibility of going back to get it.
"Then do you know where to buy armor?"
"Do you want to customize it yourself? Then go to Hongshan. You can customize armor there, real combat armor, and it's not too far away."
The guards completely mistook him for a rich young man who had sneaked out, although the truth was not far from the truth.
"Then how do I get to Hongshan?"
"You go to the dock, wait until the cargo ship to Hongshan is ready, and give the ship boss some money. Just in time, there is a cargo ship at the beginning of the month in three days."
So in the early morning three days later, Anderson appeared on the dock on time.
After some inquiries, he found the fleet heading to Red Mountain. But strangely, the place was full of people twisting armor boxes. It didn't look like a cargo ship dock at all.
He was a little confused: "Is this the boat to Hongshan?"
"That's right! Come on up!"
When he jumped onto the deck, the gentle chattering next to him reached his ears.
"Is this a kid who sneaked out from some house?"
"Hahaha, it's interesting to be so bold."
"Didn't you say this is a cargo ship terminal? Why...it doesn't look like a cargo ship."
Anderson secretly asked a man next to him who looked about the same age and was wearing an attendant's uniform.
"It's a cargo ship, of course, but there are a lot of people going to Hongshan recently, so the ship will be sent as soon as there are enough people. If there are not enough ships, you have to compete for seats."
The little attendant with a green look on his face answered his question.
"Let's go!" the shout of the boat boss spread throughout the pier. With a push of his pen, the wooden boat took Anderson and others on it and left the pier. Now he was dumbfounded: "It's broken, I don't even have a chance to regret it."
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He had no choice but to sit down: "I hope Hongshan can have a clean bed."
Amidst the gentle rocking of the ship, he, who had not had a good night's sleep since leaving home, felt that his consciousness was gradually becoming blurry. Soon, he fell asleep leaning against the armor box on the deck.
When he woke up, he was greeted by the smiling eyes of a group of people: "Little guy, how dare you go out alone? Did you fall asleep on the boat? It won't be surprising when you wake up and find yourself under the water.
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Anderson's face turned red: "I, I really have never been out alone."
He looked around. It was already dark, and there was a light mist on the river.
"Well, good luck to you. None of you here are interested in treating you to wontons."
"ravioli?"
"A kind of food that is thrown into the water. Where are your elders?" The man seemed not to want to continue the question and took it over.
"I had a falling out with my family and ran out on my own."
"Hahaha, it's interesting. Then you can stay here first."
"Look, look, what is that!"
A bright voice came from the front: Dirty!
A group of people hurriedly lay down in the direction of the sound. The boss of the boat was so anxious that he shouted: "Don't stay aside, the boat will capsize if it is overloaded! Come back, come back!"
A black shadow approached quickly on the water, and the waves cut by the bow even flew out. Everyone was dumbfounded: "What is this!?"
It wasn't until they saw this tall, shiny metallic ship heading towards them that the knights reacted first: "Get ready for battle!"
The knights on the ship were about to prepare for battle when they heard the captain of the ship shout:
"Don't panic! This is Hongshan's ship! All their ships are like this! They were built by alchemists! They are here to tow us forward!"
"Oh! Got it, it's an alchemy ship."
These people immediately relaxed, as long as they didn't fight! Water fighting is really not everyone's strong suit.
Besides, the mechanical creations that have never been seen before will become less scary as long as they are given the title of alchemist. They have built too many inexplicable but useless machines.
"It's a bit slow today, old Fisher!"
A shout came from the big metal ship.
"It's obviously getting dark early now!"
The ship made a small radius turn on the river with an indescribable lightness, and slowly came up. Someone showed his head at the stern of the ship, and dropped a thick rope from above.
"Old Fisher! Tie up the boat, and the new boat will take you away today! You have earned it!"