Chapter 3 Carentis City
From a high altitude, this city-state is almost circular, with a diameter of about twelve or thirty kilometers, surrounded by a majestic city wall about forty kilometers and more than thirty meters high. Inside the city wall is the outer city, mainly living by ordinary people. In the center of the city-state, there is a circular area that is obviously artificially raised, with an area of about one-eighth of the outer city. The base is compacted by soil and stone about twenty meters high. A circle of more than ten kilometers long city walls are also built on it. It is not as tall as the exterior wall, but is flattering and more beautiful. Inside the city wall is a towering and majestic castle group.
On this high ground is the inner city, which is the area where the Lion Heart Royal Family lives. It is also located in the core political institutions of the Lion Heart Empire. Only the royal family and important officials have the right to enter.
The towering inner city and the wide and flat outer city form a shape similar to a flat straw hat. This is the capital of Lionheart, Karentis, which means the place where the royal family of the Carrentis lives. Of course, people are often willing to call it Karentis directly.
The airship slowly landed in the flying port on the east side of Karentis City. Everyone escorted down with yellow beards with shackles. There were already a whole army of fully armed soldiers waiting outside.
The leader was a thirties with a mustache. He stepped forward and saluted: "Hello, we are the first team of the Imperial Security Law Enforcement Team. I am the captain Sinclair Grant. This is my ID!" Then, he handed over his ID to Alex, who was walking in the front. After Alex checked it, he also presented the Dragon Slayer family badge and a handwritten letter with the seal of the Grand Duke Travis.
"I am Alex? Dragon Slayer, the current Dragon Slayer's brother, Travis? Dragon Slayer, I'm very happy to know you!" As he said that, Alex smiled and stretched out his hand in a friendly manner. Although he lost all his money last night, Alex still had to maintain the noble demeanor in the face of the officials of the imperial capital.
The law enforcement team is the most elite security force in the Lion Heart Empire. It is similar to the armed special police on the earth. It is specially used to deal with special security cases, but has a higher status and is directly under the central management. Because it often needs to deal with bandits with high combat responsibilities, the members are very strong, and each team will even be equipped with a formal magician as an auxiliary. For such an important department, as its team leader, Sinclair is of course also a noble family. However, in terms of noble bloodline, it is not a little worse than his brother Alex.
Therefore, although Alex does not have a position now, Sinclair dared not neglect. He stretched out his hand to shake Alex and said respectfully: "The officer is here for a long time, and the criminal is handed over to us. But you, the person who has caught the bandit, need to follow the officer to go to the referee to make a record. I wonder if it is convenient..."
"Captain Grant is so polite!" Alex smiled and said, "Yellow Beard is extremely guilty. It is the wish of every citizen of the empire to get the punishment he deserves. We should cooperate with him with all our strength!"
Sinclair nodded, thinking that this young man not only has good strength and decent behavior, but also does not have the airs of a great nobleman. He admires Alex very much in his heart.
"If every citizen has the awareness of a brother, our job will be much easier!" Sinclair laughed and said, "I wonder where the hero who captured the yellow beard is now?"
When talking about this topic, Alex's face changed slightly, but his unhappy expression flew in an instant. He turned his head with a smile and introduced: "It is the Zhao Qiankun Zhao Yingxiong behind me, who is from the East..."
When Alex turned around, Sinclair had already reached out to catch the yellow beard and was valued by the Dragon Slayer family. Even civilians had an unlimited future, so Sinclair naturally did not dare to neglect. But who knew that Alex sideways and revealed a young man digging his booze.
The smile on Sinclair's face froze. The young man looked less than twenty years old. He seemed a little surprised when he found that Alex was introducing him. After discovering that Sinclair stretched out his right hand, he pulled his finger out of his nostrils, rubbed Alex's pants, and grabbed Sinclair's hand with a snap.
"Hello, hello, hello... My name is Zhao Qiankun, and everyone calls me Zhao Dayingxiong, I caught the yellow beard!"
"You... Hello..." Sinclair took a lot of effort to pull out his hand, thinking why is this thing like this, uneducated, unconventional, and unhygienic, and not practicing martial arts. He was not a trainer when he saw the movements. Could it be that he had made a mistake?! As he said that, he looked at Alex next to him and found that the man was also disgusted. He wanted to wipe the place where Zhao Qiankun had his nose wiped, but he didn't dare to move due to face, and he felt uncomfortable.
In short, the Dragon Slayer Gong still has to give him the face. After a few simple greetings, everyone from the law enforcement team led a few horses to Alex, Zhao Qiankun, Xue Lian and others. Everyone pressed their yellow beards and got onto the prison cart and escorted them to the imperial capital Karentis.
To be honest, Zhao Qiankun only rode a horse in the park's photo-taking attraction that costs ten yuan a day in his previous life, so he had no experience in how to control this beast. Although he didn't have to worry about being afraid of heights after becoming a skeleton, and his reaction was fast enough, his physical fitness still couldn't hide his poor riding skills. Following everyone behind him, he slowed down the progress of the large army, making the law enforcement team's impression of him a little lower.
Although he had already experienced the majesty of Karentis when he looked down from the sky, when he was really standing at the foot of the city gate wall, Zhao Qiankun was still deeply shocked!
There is a city wall that is ten stories high, with a very thick wall, and it can even accommodate eight horses in parallel. Every two hundred meters, there will be a tower equipped with equipment to guard the city, and people stand guard day and night. There are also teams of fully armed soldiers patrolling day and night, and the military looks are purged!
About two meters away from the city wall, a moat that was more than ten meters wide was dug. The river water was drawn from the mother river of the Kingland Plain and flowed through the Green Water River on the south side of the city of Karentis.
Zhao Qiankun walked across the suspension bridge with the law enforcement team, and could see the thick wooden city gate and the half-lifted Qianjin gate in front... Of course, this is what the saying on earth. Given the abnormal physical strength of the experts in this world, this gate is definitely more than a thousand jin! The iron sheet is wrapped in solid wood and inlaid with iron nails. It is ten meters square and one meter thick. Zhao Qiankun roughly calculated that the weight is probably at least sixty or seventy tons! If this falls and gets stuck in the gate groove, no matter how many troops you have, you can't break through!
Continue walking in and you can see that there are also two city gates on the inside of the city wall, and outside the city gate, there is a huge iron fence half hanging.
Two whole fortifications can ensure that the city gate is foolproof!
Zhao Qiankun was sighing at the style of the city gate. The guards guarded the gate had experienced the documents and let them enter the city.
What a lively scene!
It is true that the population density here cannot be compared with the modern cities on earth. The streets are not wide enough, and most of the buildings are low-rise two to three floors... But this urban pattern similar to the medieval era can make people feel the lively atmosphere.
The relatively narrow streets make the pedestrians look crowded; the hawkers doing business on both sides of the street shout and bargain with customers loudly, and occasionally hear the clumsy apprentices being scolded; the women finished their work and chatted in groups at the door, spreading rumors between the streets and alleys; the children played and scrambled, exploring adventures between the alleys and the streets with wooden sticks...
This lively scene made Zhao Qiankun feel very friendly, but before he could enjoy it, the lively scene was destroyed by the law enforcement team that was with him.
To be precise, it was not the law enforcement team who did it intentionally. When these special policemen wearing special armor appeared, the whole street seemed to be quiet. The vendors restrained their stalls, and the pedestrians consciously moved away, watching the people escorting the prison vans passing by with a look of fear and curiosity.
"Haha, Mom's riding posture is so strange!" Tong Yan Wuji, a child suddenly pointed at Zhao Qiankun at the end of the team and shouted, scaring the mother quickly covered the child's mouth.
After hearing this, Zhao Qiankun turned his head, manipulated the horse to the child, and looked at him condescendingly. The child didn't understand what fear was. His mother had already shrunk into a ball, hugged the child tightly, and begged: "Sir, the child is ignorant, don't be as knowledgeable as him..."
Of course, Zhao Qiankun would not blame the child: he just smiled: "Because I was lazy when I was young and didn't learn equestrian well, I am only laughed at on the street now. I regret it now... So remember my little brother, no matter what I want to do in the future, I must start working hard now, and I must never be lazy!"
The child nodded vigorously: "Yes!" Zhao Qiankun turned his head abruptly under the child's mother's gaze, and caught up with the large army that had already walked away.
"I'm quite caring, I can't tell you are still an educator!" Xue Lian slowed down and skillfully manipulated Ma Er and Zhao Qiankun side by side.
Zhao Qiankun glanced at her: "I didn't see that you were so good at riding!" As he said that, Zhao Qiankun struggled to pull the reins: "Come on, teach me how to control this damn beast!"
"Hey! Don't talk nonsense!" Xue Lian was shocked when she heard this: "These trained war horses are very smart. They can understand simple words, maybe they know you are scolding them!"
"Don't joke with me!" Zhao Qiankun disagreed: "No matter how smart he is, he is just a beast, what else can he do to me?"
Before he finished speaking, the war horse under his crotch suddenly made a long neigh, and the man stood up, overturned Zhao Qiankun to the ground, then pointed the horse's butt at him, shook his tail, and sniffed.
"Hey, this beast is so fucking..." Zhao Qiankun sat on the ground, speaking speechless to the swaying horse's butt in front of him.
Through the streets and alleys, led by the law enforcement team, the team soon arrived at the western area of the imperial capital. There were no bustling crowds and messy houses here, all of which were neat and regular large buildings. This is the administrative law enforcement area of the imperial capital, and it is also a place where ordinary officials and civil servants go to work.
The group came to a huge building. The building had five floors, the battlefield was vast and the layout was solemn. It was surrounded by iron fences and guards patrolling day and night. It was empty and no one lived around it. The main entrance was hung with the national emblem of the Lion Heart Empire - a huge golden lion head!
Chapter completed!