After the artificial gravity system was stabilized again, Hao Ren and his party embarked on the journey to Hearth City again. Now Willie knew why there were no Iron City or Liberty City soldiers on this road—because they had been notified by their respective families and hid in a safe place early. This may be a good thing, he no longer has to worry about being caught by the enemy and turning his head into a jazz's collection.
"Can you predict the time when the gravity...ascension phenomenon will occur?" Nangong Sanba asked Willy.
"The maesters know how to predict," Williby described with gestures. "They will observe the flashes in the depths of the cave, and they can hear the voices from afar. They can give warnings before the phenomenon of ascension occurs. But Sometimes it is not always true, Mother Earth will suddenly lose her power, and for this reason, those bachelors who failed to predict will have to suffer a whipping to make up for their mistakes."
At this time, they had been walking on Kingdom Avenue for a long time. Hao Ren suddenly saw that the road ahead was cut off by a "city wall" made of steel plates, plastics, tires and other garbage. It was fixed with rivets, a row of light bulbs hung on the top, and the city gate was two metal fences tied with sharp steel nails. Willie happily pointed to the front: "This is Hearth City!"
Hao Ren looked at the wall of garbage, and after a long time, he could say, "Very...very distinctive."
On a wooden tower at the top of the city wall stood sentry soldiers. When they saw a stranger approaching, they immediately raised their guns and bows and asked loudly the identity of the visitor. Willie immediately stepped forward, raised his hands and showed himself. The armor on his body: "I am Willy of the Murmo family! Open the city gate and let us in!"
"Willie?" A soldier on the wall recognized Willy's face, then laughed loudly, "Haha, look, our 'warrior' has returned from the battle, and two arms and two legs It's all there!"
Another soldier noticed Hao Ren and his party following Willy: "Who are those people?"
"They are my friends," Willy tried to make his voice sound dignified, and he straightened his chest and replied loudly, "I have vouched for them. To let them be protected in Hearth City, open the city gate immediately! "
The soldiers on the wall seemed eager to continue laughing at Willy. But it seemed that they were afraid that the other party would have a little bit of aristocratic status after all, so they pulled the mechanism and opened the two fences at the gate of the city. Hao Ren followed his young guide into the "Heart City". He found that this so-called "city-state" was actually just an old dilapidated factory. The original wall outside the factory was about to collapse, so the locals A new city wall was built on the old site of the wall with metal plates and various garbage, and there was a large open space inside the city wall. This open space should be the original open-air stockyard of the factory. Now it is covered with various iron shacks, and it has become the military camp and civilian city of Hearth City. The original factory building is in the center of Hearth City. It is a three-storey reinforced concrete building. The main body is still intact. You can even see a few unbroken windows. Stripes of dyed cloth: without a doubt, this is the palace of the castellan, and the castle of the nobles.
Many soldiers walking around the civilian city came to say hello when they saw Willy. There was taunting and mocking, not all malice, but very little kindness either. Soldiers who dare to taunt directly have another emblem besides the military emblem hanging on their chests. And those ordinary soldiers who only had military badges on their chests didn't dare to go too far after seeing Willie. Hao Ren then guessed that the second emblem should be the identity of a nobleman's children.
Willie was supposed to be a nobleman too - yet he looked almost on the verge of losing that honor.
In "Castle". That is, in front of the gate of the old factory, Willie took a few deep breaths, and then mustered up the courage to step forward: "I will take you to meet my father, he is the governor here."
Hao Ren followed the young man into the factory that had been abandoned for hundreds of years. The factory has also been completely remodeled. Those huge machines are useless. Now they are covered with wooden boards and iron sheets, and become the bases and partitions of various sheds and stairs. The whole factory looks like A weird and densely packed cage. Willie led the crowd to the top floor of the factory. The situation here is slightly better: this is the original office area, with neat offices and rest rooms.
Willie stops at a red door. He tidied up his armor before carefully knocking on the door.
After getting permission from the people in the room, he pushed open the door and signaled Hao Ren and his party to follow behind him.
A middle-aged man with thinning hair was sitting behind the desk in the room looking through the documents. He seemed to know who was visiting, so he didn't raise his head: "I didn't expect you to come back alive—I thought you would Died in the scrap iron alley, so that your blood can at least maintain the dignity of our family."
"Father," Willie lowered his head, seeming to be used to this kind of teasing, "I'm back."
The middle-aged man closed the document in his hand: "I should have said that you are not a member of the Mormo family, you are just a low-level soldier living in the iron camp, so I wonder if you did not report to the military camp after you came back, And what you came here to do first.”
The middle-aged man looked up at Hao Ren and his party. These strangers in strange clothes made him frown: "I heard that my son brought back some homeless refugees from outside, and I thought they were as bad as him... Who are you?"
"Travelers from other places just pass by here," Hao Ren said in a flat tone, "We will fight side by side with your son in exchange for permission to rest in your castle."
"Fighting side by side?" The governor of the castle repeated the word with a strange expression, "It must have saved this fucking idiot from the battlefield."
Willie bit his lower lip, and suddenly took out some colorful pieces of cloth from his arms: "Father, I really fought! This is the spoil I brought back!"
These pieces of cloth were the emblems he had pulled from the soldiers of the Iron City State. The governor of the castle didn't show any smile after seeing these emblems, he just took the cloth pieces from Willy's hand with a straight face, and threw them on the ground fiercely.
"Only a beggar would pick up other people's trash from the ground," the governor yelled at Willy. "Your sword doesn't even have a drop of blood on it. Could it be that these emblems were given to you by their masters?"
The poor young man was silent, and he picked up the pieces of cloth with a face full of shame, muttering and unable to utter a word.
"Useless things, you will only follow those wizards and listen to their crazy words. You are not even as good as your two sisters. Fortunately, you are just an illegitimate child, otherwise I would die of shame because of you," the governor of the castle said angrily. He muttered, but when he looked at Hao Ren, he restrained his bad expression, "As for you... you have helped the High Tower Kingdom on the battlefield after all, Hearth City welcomes brave fighters like you. You can join us at the bottom of the castle. Find a place to rest in the tin area, come and go freely at any time, but don't wander around the castle at will."
Hao Ren had a lot of questions in his mind and wanted to ask the man in front of him, but he realized that the other party might not be the kind of person who was easy to communicate with, so he put down his thoughts for the time being, and decided to inquire about this "world" in other places in "Intellectual City". "Case. They bid farewell to the Governor of the castle, and then left the place under Willy's leadership.
The Governor's young son was not at all comforted and relaxed by the meeting, in fact he left his father's room practically drenched in sweat. Lily asked curiously: "It seems that your father doesn't like you very much?"
"I'm just an illegitimate child, and in the High Tower Kingdom, illegitimate children are not considered family members. The law stipulates that we must have the same status as the lower status of our parents, even the king's illegitimate child, let alone me, Willy smiled wryly. "My father wanted me to be a soldier, but I'm not made for it. I prefer to hang out with maesters. They tell stories about the world before. I think that's more interesting than fighting."
Hao Ren's heart skipped a beat: "The story from the past in this world? Can you let me meet those 'scholars'?"
Willie nodded happily: "Of course, I can arrange for you to meet with Master Oro, he is the most knowledgeable person in this place—even though my father doesn't like him, the master is still highly respected in Hearth City." (to be continued~^~)