—4E, 201, Last Seed, 19th, 18:00—

After calling the passing Snow Man guards to deal with the matter of the Cattle Stealing Giant, the soldiers of the Brothers-in-Arms Regiment prepared to return to Snow Man to resume their lives.

The city is a city built on a huge stone hill, especially abrupt on the plains of the surrounding plains, with its towering walls carved out of the mountain itself to discourage wildlife and robbers, and as for its defensive gates, there are three in a row on a small Z-shaped gentle winding mountain road, a solid stone wall with a moat, an urn city surrounded by sentry posts, and a hinged gate suspension bridge, and even better, the two gates at the back can be used to support the front at any time due to the advantage of the terrain. If there is no one to cooperate with such a city, I am afraid that the casualties will be very heavy if it is attacked.

Joining Arthur in the city were Ella the Huntress, Wells the Shieldman, Ria the Trainee, and Satya, the Red Guard Boxer who had just arrived, who had apparently known each other, and with only a brief exchange of pleasantries shifted the focus of the conversation to Arthur.

"I'm sure you already know what happened to Helgen," Arthur had nothing to hide from his intentions, "as the Imperial Legion was preparing to kill Ulfric Stormcloak, a dragon appeared and destroyed Helgen. ”

"Dragons? Are you sure? "Although there have been a few refugees in the snow recently, it is said that Stormcloak has sent an army to rescue their lord, and there are no rumors of dragons in the tavern. ”

"I think it's a little strange," Arthur shrugged, "the dragon flew straight into the snow, but didn't see any signs of destruction along the way, could it be that it was aiming for somewhere further north?" ”

"There are still signs." Ella said, "In the past two days, the group of comrades has received a sudden increase in the number of 'ferocious beasts attacking the farm', and it is likely that they were frightened by the dragon. ”

"The commission we received this time was also to suspect that a wild beast was attacking the cattle on the farm, but we didn't expect it to be a giant." Wells answered.

"Ria beat the giant flat~" The little girl brandished her dagger, and although her job was only to cut off the giant's hair to report work, she looked happy.

"Could it be that you are busy for nothing? Do I need to report to my lord as soon as possible? Arthur looked up at the sky, and it was nearly evening.

"The report still has to go, after all, the lord is very concerned about the battle that is taking place near his territory, but there is no need for it as soon as possible." Ella pointed to the sky, "That dragon is meant to fly, and your information must be outdated." ”

"The lord will go back to his back house after dark, if you climb up to the Genting area now, you will only see the night guard and the aunt who cleans the Longxiao Palace, why don't you come to the inn for a night's rest first?" Satya raised her hand and touched Arthur's smashed shoulder armor, "I haven't thanked you for saving me from the Red Guard Assassins and giants. ”

"Hey, your so-called thank you is for letting Hurda take out the most expensive food and drink and give him the most expensive room by the way, right? Artis, that idiot, was cheated by you for all the bounty of a mission. Ella glanced at her, the scratches on her face looked horrible.

"How can you call it a pit if you love me?" Satya brushed her hair and winked at Arthur, "What do you say?" ”

"Don't listen to her, come directly to the Moonwall of the Brothers-in-Arms, with your bravery in the battle with the giants, you are fully qualified for this," Ella interrupted Satya and said, "And you will never take money." ”

"This, hehe......" Arthur could only smile.

"Yo, comrades-in-arms, hello, comrades-in-arms." As the group entered the huge snowy gates, the guards recognized Ella and Wells, greeted them, and then looked at Arthur: "You walked with your comrades, proving that you have chosen the path of light, friend." ”

"Phew." With Ella inexplicably assisted by the guards, Satya looked rather dissatisfied.

And Arthur was looking up at this huge city at sunset, a little shocked.

From low to high, the city is divided into three areas, the plain area where most of the houses, shops and open-air markets are distributed, the winding area where the moon and the sky furnace and most of the noble residences and shrines are located, and finally the highest Yunding area where only one Longxiao Palace exists

They are unobstructed from the location of the city gate, like a tower of Babel, giving people a strong feeling, and those who come to Xueman for the first time tend to stay at the gate for a while, and the guards are accustomed to it.

And taking advantage of this, Ella and Satya made eye contact with each other for a while.

"May I ask you, were there any guards escorting the robbers from Creekwood Town yesterday or earlier today?" Arthur quickly recovered and walked a few steps to the side of the road to avoid the main road before asking the gate guards, "They should be called Loki and Thor, and maybe Hadava and Larov." ”

"I haven't heard of the latter two," perhaps because Arthur and his comrades walked together, and the Snow Man guard was very friendly to him: "As for Loki and Thor, they arrived this morning, they were originally transporting construction materials to build the western guard tower, but they didn't know that a group of robbers were captured from there, and they wanted to go into the city to report. ”

"Although it is very powerful to catch more than a dozen robbers in two people, there is no need to alarm the lord at all," another guard beside him answered: "It just so happened that our commander passed by and sent them directly to work in the western guard tower, after all, there is no need to throw the bandits who are not on the wanted list into the dungeon." ”

This...... It seems that Hadava and Larov are still leaning towards their own camps, and they all think that there is no need to report about the dragon to the Lord of Xueman, and those two ordinary soldiers are naturally not qualified to meet the lord, and they were sent away without even entering the gate of Xueman.

"Okay, thank you." Arthur thanked the guards, and then realized that Satya, who had turned his head, had caused trouble again.

The nearest building after entering Snowman City was the barracks of the guards, and there were three or four Red Guard scimitars theorizing with the guards at this time.

"Why can't we go into town?" The Red Guards led by him shouted: "Could it be that Xueman discriminates against the Red Guards? ”

As far as Arthur knew, the major cities were not completely Nord residents, and were basically populated by the arrogant Nords, the Empire who were good at managing money, the shrewd Brightons, and the brave and warlike Red Guards, and there were even Argonians living in the border cities, but the Tiger people were not allowed to enter the city.

Maybe the other races can still restrain themselves, but if the irascible Redguards heard this, they would probably do it directly—well, they did.

Satya, who was still talking to Ella, immediately rolled up her sleeves and walked over when she heard this.

Arthur carefully identified the two who had fled in embarrassment by the giants, perhaps they had been ridiculed and forbidden to act because they had been defeated by women.

"Law-abiding outsiders are naturally welcome," the guard who dealt with the Red Guards was naturally not a man of mouth, and he maintained a calm tone that was completely devoid of emotion: "But we have received a large number of complaints from you who have entered the snow and broken into the homes of the residents at will, rummaged through the cabinets, and stopped any residents with slightly darker skin for questioning. ”

"So what, we haven't broken any laws," the Red Guards, apparently at the forefront, were very skillful about this set: "We have arrest warrants, and we are ordered to arrest the Red Guard fugitives, so we can act cheaply." ”

"But some of you have broken the law," the guard's tone remained unchanged, "and he has been thrown into a dungeon after stealing the necklace she put on the table when he broke in and questioned an old lady of the Graymane family, so we have decided to expel all of the people you came with from the city." ”

"We have nothing to do with that guy, and you can't think we're in the same group just because we dress like us," the Redguard Scimitar continued, "You can cut him down, but you can't anger us because of it." ”

"......" The Xue Man guard didn't know what to say for a while, but he couldn't take it seriously.

"Really? Then I'm going to cut you down? An angry female voice sounded behind him, and before the scimitar could turn around, he was kicked on the waist and flew out, slamming straight into the shield painted with a horse's head painted by the Snow Man guard, and the guard thought about it, but still did not take it back.

With a "bang", the flamboyant and unreasonable scimitar knocked him to the ground.

"Iman! It's Iman! The other Redguards turned to see Satya, and one by one they picked up their scimitars in horror.

"Put it down!" With the order of the guard leader, the guards who had been holding back for half the weather next to them directly drew their swords and disarmed all those scimitars: "In the snowy city, swords are not allowed to be unsheathed!" ”

"Ha, although there is indeed this rule, but no one cares about it for a long time." Ella explained to Arthur.

"I said, I'm not Iman! You guys are endless! When Arthur first met her, Satya had been patient with the scimitar who questioned her identity, but now she looked furious.

"I'm Satya, the hostess of the 'Mare Banner' in Snowman City, not the aristocratic lady Iman who lost the political struggle in the Falling Hammer Province and ran away from the Skyrim Province!" Satya roared and slammed at the Redguards, while the Snowman Guards formed in a circle to prevent them from escaping and blocking the view of the other passers-by.

No, Miss Iman, have you already admitted it yourself? Arthur was speechless for a moment, and she didn't seem to need help, so she had to watch the play with Ella, who was eager to try.

"Huh......" After beating the scimitar players with punches and kicks that they couldn't stand up, Satya straightened up and exhaled, and then flew a circle of winks at the guards around him: "Everyone will come to the inn, I will ask Hulda to give you a discount~"

"Guard, guard!" The leader of the scimitars who had fainted woke up and pointed at Satya, who had left Shi Shiran, and complained, "Don't you all care? ”

"She's not armed," the guard leader said in an unwavering tone, "This is the most common bar brawl in Skyrim Province, as long as there is no human life, it is not under the jurisdiction, now, please leave the snowman." ”

A fight with a hostel is considered a bar brawl, right? OK.

Arthur looked at Satya, who had already walked away, and the scimitars who were supporting each other towards the outside of Snowman, and turned to Ella: "Well, speaking of which, where is Moon Vaska?" ”