Rossi's estimate is not entirely accurate, Gu Hanhan did go with David tonight, but they did not go to David Duran's private villa in the Torini district.

Gu Hanhan only discovered this matter after the ground car left the university town and the airship took off for half an hour - the majestic figure of the sacred mountain suddenly appeared in front of his field of vision, and the golden light spread in all directions.

"Isn't that right?" Gu Hanhan pointed to the man-made floating island hanging in mid-air above the waves of the Golden Sea, "This seems to be in the direction of the Olympia district, the opposite of the Torini district.

"It's not going to the Sacred Mountain," David said to Gu Hanhan, "and we're going to the Acropolis, Duran's Mansion." ”

Gu Hanhan was taken aback: "Your family?"

David was noncommittal about this "your family", or just to relieve Gu Hanhan's tension, he especially used an indifferent tone: "It is the official mansion of the Duran family, and the patriarch of the Duran family and some people in the family do live here." ”

Isn't the patriarch of the Duran family your father? Isn't it your family? The main house of the legendary thousand-year-old family, a terrifying place where countless elderly people lurk, David Duran, what do you want to do with me in that place? Oppose feudal arranged marriages and pursue love and freedom? My universe, my mother earth! We are temporary, we really don't know each other well enough to meet our parents! What if you say that you can be friends without being forced to talk about love or love?

Gu Hanhan's scalp was numb, and he retreated on the spot without asking for any reason: "Turn around quickly, why do you want to go to your house!"

When David heard this, he realized that Gu Hanhan had misunderstood, and a trace of gloom flashed in his heart, but of course he couldn't see it at all in his expression.

"There's a meeting with Grand Priest Sittings tonight," he explained, "and it has to be respected in the etiquette of the Acropolis Mansion, all in the past." ”

Then he further said: "Actually, I have already met and talked with the high priest before I came over, and I will come to pick you up while changing clothes, and there will be a dinner party when I go back in a while." You don't have to stay too long, you can leave in about half an hour. ”

When Gu Hanhan heard that he was not forcibly dragged to see his parents, he suddenly felt a joy of escaping. She smiled and said repeatedly: "If you have something to do at night, don't have to go with me." It's the same when I go home on my own. Then he thought that he had misunderstood David before, and he couldn't help but be embarrassed, so he hurriedly went back to make up for it: "You didn't say it earlier, it scared me." I didn't even buy this banana, and I went to your house without any gifts, so that your family could see how bad it was, and it would be a shame for our mother earth!"

David smiled bitterly: "Things happen every day, but the days with you are so short, how can you lose a big deal because of a small thing?"

Gu Hanhan's excuse of "no gift prepared" made David feel inexplicably happy, because in a sense, it represented the intimate relationship between him and Gu Hanhan. He likes and enjoys the ambiguous feelings that Gu Hanhan unintentionally revealed, which is a kind of ambiguity that will naturally be revealed as long as there is a relationship, and it is so beautiful that it is intoxicating.

Therefore, he held Gu Hanhan's hand and said to her very seriously: "There is no need to care what the people of the Duran family think. We don't need their blessings, much less their approval. Including my father, I am me, and the Duran family is the Duran family, and it doesn't matter to them what happens between us!"

Gu Hanhan was surprised, but he was quickly relieved: No, the relationship between the mistress, especially temporary, does not need to be approved by the family, and it has nothing to do with others. Comrade David, the five good young people, I haven't seen you for many days, and you have finally opened your mind to embark on the correct Cotai Strip! How good this is, we can both be relaxed. In this way, when you pass the inspection period, my sister will immediately add you to the team of my sister's harmonious and stable healing relationship, and you will no longer have to worry about falling out with Helen and not having an attending doctor to treat you and save your life......

The airship flew in mid-air for about ten more minutes, and in front of it a huge obsidian structure rose from the ground, like a cliff. The shape of the tall building slopes upwards from the bottom, and then bends in mid-air in a huge arc, like a huge coulter inserted into the earth, which is famous all over the world

"Forged swords into ploughshares", this building is the headquarters of the Superpower Association. Centered on the headquarters building of the Super Power Association, there are major institutions and research institutes of the Super Power Association scattered around, and the lakes and mountains are like pearls. Together with the Superpower Headquarters building, these buildings seem to form a continuous stretch of mountains. One end is connected to the mountain, and the other end extends to the sea. It forms the gateway that divides the two worlds. On the Lighthouse Star Travel Encyclopedia, it is called Thorn Ridge.

"Thorn Ridge makes up two-thirds of the Acropolis, but the third behind it is the real Acropolis. David and Gu Hanhan stood side by side in front of the porthole, gently hugged her shoulders, and pointed to the end of the mountain to explain to her. Then he pointed to the end that stretched out to the sea: "Further on is Olympia." ”

The airship struck diagonally over the Thorn Ridge, then swooped down, through the clouds, and at the end of the sky the clouds were steaming at the junction of the sea and the sky, and the ten thousand rays of light reflected half of the sky, and the earth spread out a magnificent and magnificent sunset dusk.

In the valley of the Acropolis, 84 square kilometers of land are divided into hundreds of squares by wide avenues that intersect horizontally and vertically. Every block is a mansion of panic. Fourteen horizontal and eleven vertical, a total of 180 mansions, gathered all the wealthy nobles at the top of the entire superpower world.

Each mansion is magnificent. The roofs of high-rise buildings are hung with huge family crests, and the energy light is full of folds and dazzling eyes. A round sun sinks to the edge of the horizon, the full moon has not yet fully risen, the light of the setting sun folds through the golden sea and penetrates the clouds, and the golden color scatters the white jade road. Winged pegasus dragged ornate carriages and flew in the wind between the towering spires of the palace.

"It's so beautiful, it's like stepping into a fairy tale world. Gu Hanhan couldn't help but sigh with emotion, those purebred Pegasus with wings, she had seen in the auction album that the personal valet sent into the bedroom for bedtime - the perfect product of modern genetics, a horse worth five million earth reserve vouchers, the same as the value of Uchi - Pegasus used as a means of transportation, indeed only in the fairy tale world can only see the scene!

David nodded and said thoughtfully: "The first time I saw the Acropolis, I thought it was as beautiful as a fairy tale. ”

The airship continued to fall, and those brilliant energy emblems flashed in front of his eyes one by one, Gu Hanhan suddenly noticed that there was a emblem that was very familiar, so he pointed to a certain palace near the east and asked David: "Whose house is that?"

"Oh," David said with a casual glance, "that's the mansion of Lord Kriticus." ”

"So his home is here. Gu Hanhan flattened his mouth, "It looks average, neither big nor beautiful compared to other houses." And the place is very remote, not in the center at all. ”

"That's the way the Acropolis is, even adults can't be an exception. David smiled: "The position of the Duran family's mansion is in the center, but it doesn't mean anything." ”

He took Gu Hanhan's hand and pointed to the palace with those emblems to tell Gu Hanhan the allusion to the Acropolis: "It is said that the Acropolis was established by the first seventy-two Thorn Branch families at the beginning of the establishment of the Superpower Association. In order to facilitate the biennial meeting, they built mansions in the valley behind the association's building. ”

"In the beginning, there were only seventy-two mansions. But soon new families sprang up, and in less than two hundred years, 180 families had been squeezed out of the Acropolis Valley's small and cramped area of less than 84 square kilometers, and there were new families who wanted to squeeze in. At that time, the chairman of the Superpower Association, the father of the superpower, Li Haihe, felt the constant disputes and convened a superpower conference to replan the Acropolis Valley Plain and divide it into 180 pieces of land that were 14 horizontal and 11 vertical. Only one mansion can be built on a piece of land, and only one hundred and eighty family mansions can be built on the Acropolis, and they are permanently retained as an institution. ”

"The only way for a family to live in the Acropolis is to buy another family mansion through guò. When a family comes in, it means a family goes out. Therefore, the mansion of the Acropolis is regarded as a symbol of the family reputation of the superpower family, and no matter what era it is, the so-called first-class superpower family refers to the one hundred and eighty families of the Acropolis. Over the past 1,000 years, families have been declining, selling their mansions and leaving the Acropolis, and new families have moved in. The palace was demolished and rebuilt, built and demolished, and by now, less than thirty of the original seventy-two Thorn Branch families still have mansions left on the Acropolis. ”

The historical vicissitudes of this white-clothed pale dog are undoubtedly infectious, but Gu Hanhan is still very young, and there is emotion, but Cheng Dù, who just arrived and made her forget the "Mansion of Lord Criticus", disappeared quickly. Hearing David's last feelings, she asked, "Your family is one of the less than thirty Thorn Branch families, right?"

David was silent for a moment before he said, "The Duran family is indeed one of them. ”

So, he spoke with a self-deprecating tone: "But in fact, it doesn't make much sense. Because of the crampedness of the Acropolis mansions, the practice of building vast estates on the Beacon Star soon became popular. Many of the people who own the Acropolis mansion actually live on the estate for many years most of the time. ”

"The Acropolis," he said, "is only a city without siege."

It's like this fairytale twilight......

The airship landed over a mansion near the center of the Acropolis Valley, and before he got off the airship, Gu Hanhan saw from the porthole that the road on the tarmac was full of costumed aristocratic men and women. There were more than a hundred of them, standing behind a queue of servants in black dresses and an array of guards with gilded collars.

When the hatch opened, the chief attendant, Hebrew, who was waiting at the airship door, came forward to greet him with his attendants and servants, called "Master," and then went with David. The male and female nobles behind the servants and guards lowered their eyes and bowed deeply. But David's attitude was very cold, and it was worse than welcoming his vassals at Derwent Manor. He held Gu Hanhan's hand and walked straight between these courteous nobles, not even stingy to look at them. However, these nobles did not seem to care about such a cold reception. After David walked by, they spontaneously stood up and sat behind them.

"David," Gu Hanhan meowed at the nobles who were following closely behind the servants, and couldn't help but ask, "Are they your vassals?"

"I don't have such a great vassal. David couldn't help but let out a faint cold snort, "They are relatives of the Duran family, my dear cousins, uncles and aunts. ”