I haven't come back for more than three years, and the Lion Fortress is still the same. If it weren't for the three floating battle fortresses still floating in the sky above the fortress, who returned from the battlefield, and seemed to carry the atmosphere of bloody battles, perhaps people wouldn't feel that there was anything in the fortress at all. Many knights had just experienced a big battle.
Zhang Tie turned into Cui Li again and walked into the Lion Fortress calmly without any hindrance.
The Chinese knights guarding the entrance to the fortress were still Chinese knights, but they were already unfamiliar faces. No one Zhang Tie knew. From the meticulous clothes and serious expressions of those young knights, Zhang Tie knew that this They are a few knights who have just come to the earth and yuan world for a round of battle.
Knights who have just arrived to serve in the Earth Yuan world will have the aura of newcomers to the Earth Yuan world, and they will do everything in a strict manner. This is slightly similar to the recruits who have just entered the army.
For more than three years, especially after going through a series of battles and killing nearly half a dozen demons and earth knights, Zhang Tie's body has unknowingly acquired an aura that only veterans of the Earth Yuan Realm can have. , indifferent, and cold.
"That person just now seemed to be the Earth Knight?"
"Ah, so young..."
"Perhaps he is a master from the seven major sects!"
"This man has the murderous aura that has gone through a great war. Perhaps he just came back from Tiewei Mountain..."
"Ah, Black Iron Knight, did I see it wrong!"
"Zhang",... Amid the subtle exchanges and awe-inspiring eyes of several young knights, Tie swiped his identity card on the machine at the city gate, and then entered the Lion Fortress.
Zhang Tie's Lion Fortress identity card still retains the one used to enter and exit the Knight Tower, and has not been replaced, but that identity card is of the Black Iron Knight level. When the knights guarding the gate saw Zhang Tie's identity card, they were a little unsure whether Zhang Tie was a black iron knight or an earth knight.
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The entire fortress was filled with the unique smell of melon wine.
Just on the street. Zhang Tie could see many drunken knights and auxiliary combatants lying on the street.
Zhang Tie did not laugh at these people. Because he knows the mood of people who have returned alive from the battlefield. After extreme depression and tension, only carnival and strong alcohol can release the pressure.
The concentration of watermelon wine is not high, but when Zhang Tie first came to the Lion Fortress, he knew that some knights even built a simple distillation equipment, which could make the concentration of watermelon wine close to alcohol. For many knights, For me, this is enough flavor.
In the Lion Fortress, watermelon wine brewed from grain is also an important resource. The fortress prohibits "purification and squandering" of such resources, but at this time, after the war, the smell of water melon wine floating in the fortress made Zhang Tie know that the so-called regulations of the Lion Fortress, at this time , will behave very humanely.
In addition to the gap in strength, most knights are actually similar to ordinary people. He has the joys and sorrows of ordinary people.
There was a carnival atmosphere throughout the fortress.
Some people hugged and kissed on the street, while others cried bitterly after getting drunk...
At this moment, joy and sorrow are as strong as the black mist of the first abyss, in the release of carnival. The interweaving spread throughout the Lion Fortress, making Zhang Tie feel a little bit infected.
Although Zhang Tie, who had just returned from the Tiewei Mountain battlefield, did not know the specific statistics of casualties on both sides after the war, he understood it well after having been guerrillas on the battlefield for such a long time. This war, for both the human race and the demon race, is a major collision between the top forces of both sides since the beginning of the holy war. There were definitely a lot of casualties among the knights on both sides, and both sides suffered considerable losses. Such a war has just ended. Both sides need time to summarize and review, and at the same time lick the wounds after the war. Therefore, in the short term, the Earth Yuan Realm and the First Abyss will return to a relatively peaceful confrontation, and a large-scale knight battle is expected There will be no fighting in the next few years, and the two sides will continue to compete on the ground battlefield.
Zhang Tie is ready to return to the ground.
But before returning, he had to go back to the Lion Fortress to "finish things".
When he thinks of returning to the ground, for some reason, Zhang Tie will think of the news he heard from the demons on the battlefield a few months ago that Emperor Xuanyuan has disappeared!
Zhang Tie wanted to go to the Tower of Glory first.
Cui Li had been away from the black-armored battle fort for several months. If he had no achievements at all, it would be unreasonable. So Zhang Tie had not yet prepared a record for Cui Li. The horns of a minotaur earth knight and the hardest chest of a black iron knight. That piece of scale armor, these two things can be used as proof of Cui Li's military exploits.
In the Black Iron Castle, Zhang Tie still has the horns and kill certificates of several demon earth knights, but taking out those things will only push Cui Li to the forefront. It would be bad to go too far, and it would not be good for Cui Li. Li Li said that after killing the Demon Clan's Shadow Demon Earth Knight, he was able to kill another Demon Clan's Earth Knight and Black Iron Knight. Such a feat can already be respected by many Earth Knights in the Lion Fortress. To establish Cui Li's status as a master of earth knights among the human race, everything is just right, and too much is not enough.
Zhang Tie had just turned a corner and suddenly saw two acquaintances in the distance.
Bram and Cecilia were kissing passionately by the flower bed on the street. Neither of them noticed that Cui Li had just turned to this street.
The place where Zhang Tie was was almost a hundred meters away from the two of them. There were many knights in the Lion Fortress, and the two of them did not pay attention to a big man turning around the corner in the distance.
At this moment, Bram no longer had an arm on his body, so that when he and Cecilia kissed passionately, he could only hold Cecilia's waist with one hand.
Their lips parted, and Bram knelt directly in front of the female knight Cecilia. He held Cecilia's hand with one hand, raised his head, and looked at the person in front of him affectionately. Muscular female knight, "Marry me. Although I only have one hand, as long as I live, no matter what time, even in the end, I will use this hand to protect you. Unless I die in front of you, there will be no one else." Can hurt you."
Cecilia looked at the man in front of her who was usually taciturn but was willing to risk his life to protect herself at critical moments. Tears poured down her face. She said nothing and just nodded.
There were a few people drinking on the roadside. When they saw this scene, they couldn't help but cheer.
For men and women, sudden wealth may cause couples who have been together for many years to divorce, but experiencing life and death together may make two people who are not holding hands decide to hold hands and walk together.
Felton staggered out of the roadside tavern with a bottle of wine, pointing at Brahm with a satisfied smile on his face, "You... you guy... I've seen it before... before, you You have liked Cecilia for a long time, right..."
Bram, who usually didn't talk much, just smiled naively. Cecilia glanced at him, but tightly held his only hand.
Felton beat his chest and said, "You have plucked the flower of knighthood in the French Empire. How do you let us knights from the Western Continent live?"
"There is a secret potion in the Lion Fortress. As long as we serve here for a few more years and accumulate enough merit points, we will definitely be able to cure your injuries!" Cecilia looked at Bram and said crisply. , as a female knight, Cecilia is a very decisive person.
Bram was about to say something, but his eyes suddenly widened because he saw a bald man with a sincere smile on his face, walking towards the three of them.
"Cui Li..." Bram shouted.
Felton and Cecilia turned their heads together and saw Zhang Tie.
"Ah, it's really Cui Li..." Cecilia was also surprised.
Felton, who seemed a little drunk just now, saw Zhang Tie and rushed towards Zhang Tie like lightning.
"Hahahaha..." Zhang Tie laughed and gave Felton a manly bear hug, "Felton, long time no see!"
Felton was very excited and beat Zhang Tie's chest and shoulders hard, almost incoherently, "We just returned to the Lion Fortress and heard the news that you are still alive. Good guy, they all said that you killed a The Shadow Demon, the most difficult demon clan, is an Earth Knight, and you won the most dazzling reward in the Tiewei Mountain War Zone... It’s unbelievable, have you advanced to the Earth Knight level?”
"Yes, I was lucky enough to survive in the ruins of the temple, and I was promoted to an Earth Knight!" Zhang Tie also patted Felton on the shoulder, and at the same time opened his arms again, and spoke to Bra, who only had one left hand. Mu gave a bear hug, then separated, glanced at Bram's lost right arm, and frowned slightly, "Bram, what happened to your right hand?"
"During the collision of the Tiewei Mountain battle formation, we fell away from the human knight formation. At the critical moment, in order to save Cecilia, Bram's right arm was instantly attacked by the demon formation. Dissolved..." Felton, who was a bit chatty, rushed to tell the reason, "But Brahm also made a profit. This guy lost a right arm, but he took off all the flowers of knighthood in the French Empire. …”
Hearing Felton's words, Zhang Tie knew that it turned out that during the last knight formation collision, when he was plotting against the demon knights, among the fallen human knights, there were several people he knew from Felton. , the three people are still alive now, there is really no second explanation except that they were lucky. However, although Brahm survived, he still paid the price.
"I'm glad to see you. You coming back alive is the best news we heard when we returned to the Lion Fortress!"
Compared with Felton and Brahm, the meeting between Cecilia and Zhang Tie was more subtle... (... )