Chapter 314: Birmingham
Three days later, Lu Ziyu sent the reluctant Li Yanjun and others on the plane, and he also took Liu Chendong, Chen Bei, Lucy and others on the train to Birmingham.
In addition to adding Xiaohui and Vulture, the staff is basically the original team he took to Gaoling City, so I won't go into details here.
Birmingham is the second largest city in England, but compared with ancient cities such as London, the city was actually very young. In the 14th century, it was just a small village, but later gradually developed into a big town. Until James Watt, the father of the Industrial Revolution, invented the two-way cylinder steam engine here, Birmingham became the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution made Birmingham very prosperous, and various industries developed very quickly. Birmingham was the manufacturing center of railway locomotives, steam engines, and ships at that time, and was an industrial and financial center.
The Birmingham Mint is the earliest independent mint in the world. Until 2003, British coins were still manufactured in Birmingham. Lloyd Bank was established in Birmingham in 1765, and HSBC's predecessor, Mirand Bank, was established in Birmingham in 1836. More than 25% of the UK's export products are manufactured in the Birmingham region. The economy is currently shifting to the tertiary industry, and the financial industry and tourism are also developing quite rapidly. The auto show is held every two years at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, and in 2003, the time for holding the auto show is changed from October to May every year.
But during World War II, Birmingham was the worst-destroyed city in Britain. The Victorian buildings were almost completely destroyed, so most of the streets in Birmingham today are buildings from the 1950s.
In addition, Birmingham is well-known to the world, including the University of Birmingham and the Birmingham Football Club.
The University of Birmingham is one of the top ten universities in the UK. It was established in 1900. Until today, whenever people see the 100-foot-high clock tower, the landmark building in Birmingham, you will think of the first president of the University of Birmingham. The clock tower was built to commemorate him. Currently, the number of people in the school exceeds 26,000, and there are more than 3,500 international students from more than 150 countries.
As for the Birmingham football team, there is no need to say much, many people are even more familiar with it than Birmingham itself.
It was founded in 1875 and its early name was "Little Heath United". It has always been a relatively active team in the Premier League, with a large number of well-known stars such as Dugary, Heaman, and others.
However, people in other cities in the UK call Birmingham an ugly city because its architecture is neither as historically beautiful as other British cities nor the luxury of modern cities. Most of them are buildings that were hasty built in the fifties.
However, what made Lu Ziyu feel most deeply was the roads in Birmingham. I am afraid that no city in the world can be more complicated than Birmingham. While listening to Wilson introducing Birmingham, Lu Ziyu looked at the maze-like traffic map on the map, and felt a faint pain in his eyebrows.
At this moment, Liu Chendong behind him suddenly shouted: "Is there Chinatown in Birmingham?"
Everyone looked up and saw that there was a row of shops with Longhua-style roofs not far from the railway station, and there was a dirty building that looked like a flower-faced cat not far from it.
Lu Ziyu compared it on the map again and smiled bitterly: "I think I'm afraid."
Lucy pushed her glasses with her fingers and said lightly: "It's worthy of being an ugly city. I believe that Mr. K's aesthetic view is not very satisfactory. He actually chose such a city as his nest."
Wilson, the only British man, smiled embarrassedly and said, "Go to the canal. I have asked someone to rent a house there as a temporary place to settle down. In the afternoon, I will find someone familiar with Birmingham to take us to take a walk first and get to know the city."
Facts have proved that Wilson's choice is pretty good. The Birmingham Canal is indeed the most attractive place in Birmingham's landscape besides the Town Hall. The red and white buildings are all more or less simulate some Victorian styles.
After lunch, everyone visited the art gallery and jewelry street again, and they lost interest. The inexplicable one-way line made people dizzy.
After returning to his residence, Lucy connected to the police system in Birmingham and began to see if there were any signs. In the end, everyone identified several more rampant forces in the area.
One of the organizations has a very peculiar name, called Greenskin. The leader is Poland, named Quentin, nicknamed Greenskin. It is said that he was a very powerful pirate in the past, with his own fleet and islands, but later he was blinded by someone and went ashore. Now he runs this bar and two underground casinos in Birmingham, which are semi-secret. It is said that this person has very little connection with K and Blood Shadow.
But Lu Ziyu's method is to hit him one by one until he hits the blood shadow's nest.
So that night, Lu Ziyu and others appeared in a remote and dark alley in Birmingham. As soon as they appeared, the hippies on the street stared at them. However, these people must have seen that these people were not good at it, especially Enik and Chao Wu. They looked so cruel that they felt chilling at first glance. They didn't dare to go forward at the moment. They walked along the way, and the hippies on the street were all over the nails followed.
Lu Ziyu and others were too lazy to pay attention to it, but they gathered more and more. Seeing that Lu Ziyu and the others seemed to dare not speak, they became more and more courageous. Several gangsters riding motorcycles wearing flower turbans began to pull the accelerator and roared at Lucy and Uesugi.
Lucy was fine, but she still looked like she was not hot, but she just pushed her eyes and wrinkled slightly.
Uesugi Yin stopped doing it. He slid his clogs under his feet and floated up like a light red butterfly.
Seeing this, the group of hippies couldn't help but widen their eyes in surprise and made a sound of praise, but before the sound of praise had fallen to the ground. A dragon-like sword sound suddenly arose, and then the hippies felt a glimmer of light in front of them.
When they came to their senses, Uesugi Yin had already returned to her original position and was still following Lu Ziyu slowly. It seemed as if the scene just now was full of hallucinations.
But at this moment, the roar of motorcycles behind everyone suddenly stopped, and then there was another scream: "Oh, my god, what happened in my car? Hell."
All seven motorcycles were split in half. Not to mention those gangsters, even Chen Be and others couldn't help but sweat in a cold sweat when they saw this, and thought to themselves: "When did this woman who calls her master behind the boss's butt all day long become so powerful."
Lu Ziyu didn't look back, but just smiled slightly, as if all this had been expected, and said, "It seems that you have learned a lot in the Ye family's sword score? It's good to reach the level of "All the Pass". It seems that you can touch the essence of the sword art by taking another step."
Uesugi Yinna nodded quickly and said, "Yes, Master, that Ye family's sword score is indeed very mysterious. It's a pity that my power is too weak to exert it, so I can only take a little artistic conception."
Next to her, Liu Xiahui heard her master's cry cheerfully and couldn't help but suck his teeth. He leaned over to Uesugi Yin and whispered: "I said, Yin, can we change the name? For example, boss or brother Ayu, aren't they all good? Why do you have to call him Master? Isn't this just for nothing to make me shorter?"
Uesugi Yin glanced at him coldly and said lukewarmly: "As a teacher for life, one day, and the grace of preaching and teaching is not a joke. Besides, does this matter have anything to do with you?"
When Liu Xiahui heard this, he couldn't help but feel depressed. He walked to Lu Ziyu and sighed and said, "Master, you should accept me too. At least we can be a senior brother and sister."
Chapter completed!