Chapter 15: Going to the White City (3)
The white wall is dotted with fresh green vines. Looking inside the gaps between the leaves, you can vaguely see the brown rhizomes on the wall.
In the sun, a group of white doves flew overhead.
The streets were crowded with people, with hawkers, travelers passing by, and caravans coming from afar.
The blacksmith made a tinkling iron on the street, making a tinkling sound.
The clown threw small balls beside the road, which attracted a burst of applause.
The towering hump looked like an island in the vast ocean in the crowd, very wonderful.
The so-called Baicheng is not as cold as its name. On the contrary, there is vitality everywhere here.
Looking up, Gray could see that the balcony on both sides of the street was full of clothes, some had just been hung on, and water was dripping. A young woman held a wooden stick and kept slapping the sheets, while a little girl lay on the balcony and stretched her neck and looked down.
A child was playing with a ball on the balcony. The ball that was hit by the wrong one hit just hit Pas, and he caught it and threw it back.
"Thank you!" the child said to Pas happily with the ball in his arms.
A stage was set up at the corner of the street, and several actors performed a new drama happily, which caused the audience to laugh.
When walking through the arch bridge, Grey saw groups of white geese swimming under the bridge. The moss on the bricks and stones of the arch bridge had a slippery feel when touched.
The two old men were fishing on the bridge, and were staring at him for whom they were fishing bigger.
On the edge of the bridge, several aunts were quarreling with each other for some reason, and their voices were so loud that they could hear them in Baicheng.
There are people here, everyone is talking and doing things, and everything is gathered into Gray's mind through magic. There are many different people, and all kinds of people form a colorful picture, which makes Gray crazy.
Underground, even the most powerful city-states of Lich will not have such impact. Although there are many undead there, most of them have no independent consciousness and they are just mechanical.
And here, every person and every life are independent individuals. New stories are happening all the time. These stories are undoubtedly fatal attraction for a boring lich.
"Knight! Knight! Knight! Knight!"
A group of children chased Elin's team and stretched out pairs of small hands towards Gray.
"What do they want to do?" Gray turned around and asked Pas.
"They want to give money." Pas reached out and touched it in his pocket, took out a few copper plates and threw them out.
Suddenly, the children were in a state of excitement.
"So that's it." Gray also reached out to touch it, but what he found was the silver coins. In fact, he only had silver coins. He threw them out.
So, this time, not only the children were boiling, but even the adults on the street joined the ranks of robbery. The scene was in chaos and even the team had to stop temporarily.
"Is that true?" When Gray turned around, he found that his companions were all looking at him with their eyes wide open, including Elin.
"What's wrong? Am I doing something wrong?" Grey asked.
"No, you did it right." Yilin said with a polite smile.
When Yilin passed by, almost half of the people would stop what they were doing and take off their hats to greet Yilin. Yilin smiled politely.
Naturally, Gray, the "stranger" closest to Elin, riding a tall horse, became the focus of everyone's attention. Countless people nodded and saluted at him, and his hot eyes made Gray a little fluttering.
"I love it here." Soon, Gray concluded: "It's the feeling of being alive!"
"Wake up, you have been dead for a long time." The black cat sarcastically said behind him.
"I'm just a metaphor, a metaphor. Do you understand? And don't you think that the lich is actually another form of life?"
"Don't think!"
“'Everyone living, who exists, who have their own consciousness is life.' This is what the Bible says.”
"Damn it! You're really watching that thing!" The black cat suddenly felt that "a lich is watching "The Knight's Guide to Getting Started" doesn't sound that bad.
Fortunately, the priests did not wear full armor, and the lichs could not pretend.
"Mr. Gray." Abby Roberts held a pen in one hand and a notebook in the other hand and squeezed to the other side of Gray, and said to Gray in a low voice: "You have no residence in White City, so we are going to arrange you in the castle. You live with the guards, okay?"
“I need a separate room.”
"Of course! And we will arrange the best room for you to stay temporarily! In addition, after you have settled, I will find someone to come and measure the size and forge a new set of armor for you as soon as possible. And horse armor is the same."
"Forge new armor?"
"Yes. It doesn't matter if you don't want others to see your appearance, and Miss Yilin has agreed. But you should at least change to a more decent set of armor. After all... you are now one of the most important knights of the Beshill family. Of course, Miss Yilin will pay for you all the fees required to replace weapons and armor."
Gray thought for a moment and replied casually: "Okay."
"Okay, that's it!" With his head down, Abby Robles began to record in the notebook.
"Have you figured it out? He wants to forge new armor for you and the Bone Horse." The black cat asked expressionlessly.
"Is there any problem?"
"You still need to measure the size?"
"Then what?"
"Then, when they take off your armor and the Bone Horse to measure the size, they will be surprised to find that you are two skeletons. The new Baron of the Beshill family is a lich. This news has been enough for half a month to discuss in the whole continent."
The bone horse stopped in fear and was suddenly hit by Mike who was walking behind.
"What's the matter?"
"No! Nothing!" Gray shook his head quickly and continued to walk forward on his bone horse, but his spine became cold.
Finally, they walked through the crowded streets and arrived at the castle of the Beshir family in the center of White City.
I have to say that compared with the castles of the Beshire family, the castle of Count Casper, or any lich castle that Grey had seen underground before, are too unparalleled.
Rather than being used for military defense, this castle is truly and truly used to live.
The towering white city walls look like snow-capped mountains from a distance. When you walk through the spacious moat and pass by the heavily defended castle gate, the Beshir family's mansion appeared in front of Grey.
The exterior wall of the castle is so big that it can be encircled into a small town, but inside the walls are not as dense as imagined, but empty and a huge garden.
Compared with the crowded streets of Baicheng, the whole world seemed to be suddenly enlightened.
The straight and spacious cobblestone paths, the green gardens on both sides are covered with various exquisitely maintained flowers, plants and trees, with birds singing and exquisite sculptures.
In front of the straight road is a huge square, and in the middle of the square is a fountain. The water splashes like raindrops, and even a rainbow can be seen vaguely. The outflowing water flows along the artificially excavated stream, nourishing everything in the garden, and flows out from the castle waterway and into the moat.
At the end of the left is a church with a tall bell tower, with colorful glass wall paintings. It is the private church of the Beshir family and the tallest building in the entire White City.
At the end to the right is an independent, thick small fortress. The Beshir family's personal guards live there, with independent small squares, stables, training grounds, and even racecourses.
Going forward along the stone road in the middle, you will arrive at a white building covered with vines. It is so exquisite that it seems that only appears in fairy tales.
At the door of the house are two sculptures of knights five meters high, riding a horse and holding a spear. Below the sculpture is a garden trimmed into regular shapes.
When he led the horse through the castle gate, Gray was stunned. If he had eyelids, he would probably open his eyes wide to express his shock. Unfortunately, there was nothing in his empty eye hole, so he could only stand still and look around. He used clumsy movements to show that he had never seen such a thing before.
Yes, never seen it.
Even the most powerful lich underground has never had such a castle. It’s not that they can’t build it, but that they can’t imagine it at all. The life of lich is nothing but magic. Perhaps because life is long enough to have no end, they don’t know how to cherish it and cannot learn to enjoy it. So much so that no matter how many years a lich lived, even if he could flatten the entire principality with one hand, it would be impossible to have a house like a duke.
For the Lich, this is like another world.
Well, this is actually another world.
"Hey, stop being alone, everyone is watching you." The black cat suddenly said.
Gray was startled and realized that he had fallen to the end of the team. Everyone else stopped and looked at him quietly. The Guma even hummed, as if he was ashamed of having such a master who had never seen the world.
"What's wrong?" Yilin asked.
"No, no!" Gray shook his head quickly and took a step forward to follow.
Turning his face, Elin continued to discuss the next thing with Abby Robles.
"Can Gray's armor be done tonight?"
"Tonight? This is too urgent, impossible."
"Then let's find a similar set for him to put on. Tonight I want to invite all the nobles in the city to come over and hold a dance. They should all know that I'm back with the army and must meet them. Maybe they have something to say, or, want to hear me. If they delay until tomorrow, I'm afraid they have any bad guesses. Gray must appear as the new baron, and I want them to meet Gray."
"I understand, Miss Yilin. I will prepare it for you. May I ask, is it sending invitation letters to all the nobles of Baicheng?"
“Yes, all.”
Chapter completed!