"My lord! Are you alright, my lord? ”

"Your Excellency, you're frightened!"

"Did you hurt anything?"

"Go back, my lord, Madame is waiting for you......"

The rambling shouts like those of the vegetable market soon gathered together with the mutual congestion of cavalry, squeezing away several of Jason's men in front of the convoy, and at the same time scaring a few unknown passers-by into panic, and hurriedly fleeing towards the farther field. The special envoys, who had long been submerged in the crowd, also had no movement of their own early, as if they were like debuting artists who were being surrounded by thousands of reporters, only some faint voices were still proving their existence by people like Duan Qing: "No, don't get excited, I'm fine......"

"It's really good that you're okay, my lord!"

A heavily armed soldier who seemed to be the captain of the cavalry heard this, and his voice was as excited as the soldiers around him: "When we heard about the accident in the capital of the principality, we thought that you would not be able to come back, but if something really happened to you, we ...... it."

"Yes, sir! What would we do without you! ”

"Your Excellency, you can't abandon us!"

"My lord—"

Looking at the pile of soldiers who were crying and crying in a daze, Duan Qing's jaw was so shocked that it was about to fall: "What is the origin of this Lord Bart?" The brother-in-law of the city lord? He has such a high reputation? ”

"The Tristans don't seem to be an original family that belonged to Free City, they moved from somewhere else." The whisper who also walked out of the carriage explained lightly: "As for the soldiers...... They weren't soldiers of the Free City. ”

"They're supposed to be family members." She whispered, "The family's private soldiers...... That's probably how it feels. ”

"Private soldiers? Cavalry? Duan Qing pointed ahead and asked in exclamation, "This is too presumptuous, isn't it?" Won't the lord of the Free City destroy them? ”

"Even the nobles of Tania have more or less a few thugs in each family." The blue-haired female swordsman squinted at Duan Qing: "What's more, it's a free city that can't survive without force...... Want to be a family here, how can you not have your own army? ”

"But ......"

"The City of the Free is a nation."

Interrupting Duan Qing's words in a low voice, he pointed to the envoy who was trying to maintain order ahead: "Although there is only one city as big, you should treat it as a country, otherwise, you will not be able to understand the many existences in it, such as this man named Bart Tristan, and that Longdor, guys like them...... There are at least a dozen in the city. ”

"They are all families with large groups of private soldiers, just like the lords of the principalities." She tugged at the corners of her mouth: "Otherwise, no one can have a say in that dark place." ”

“…… Like an enlarged version of the black market? ”

"It's kind of like, but it's a lot more complicated than that."

The blue-haired woman turned her head and looked at the city at the end of the road: "A place that flaunts complete freedom......"

"In the end, it's all very dark."

Although there were still a lot of questions to ask, it didn't seem to be the right time to learn all about it in detail, so Duan Qing and the others still planned to solve the first escort task hanging on them after the situation in front of them stabilized. However, as the whisper said before, everything here was full of all kinds of extraordinary, because before they could talk, the movement ahead changed unexpectedly—it seemed that after listening to Lord Bart's speech, the warrior who led the cavalry team cheered loudly with the others, and at the same time began a new round of vegetable market sales with his subordinates who were applauding on the spot: "Thank the heavens, thank the gods, let the lord return safely!" ”

"Thank the heavens, thank the gods!"

"My lord is blessed with a great life! If you don't die in a great disaster, you will have a blessing in the future! ”

"If you don't die in a great disaster, you will have a blessing!"

"The ......"

"Go back, my lord, Madame is still waiting for you at home!"

"Yes, my lord, Madame looks forward to the stars and the moon......"

"That...... You ......"

"Madame has been worried for several days, and she can't even eat......

"Yes, sir! Madame hasn't eaten in days! ”

"Well, congratulations ......"

"Let's go!"

The warrior in the lead let out a shout, and then took the lead in stepping on his horse, leading his own "lord" and the rest of the legation to run in the direction of the Free City. Dozens of members of the cavalry team also jumped on their horses, each of them shouted in different sizes and without any sense of neatness, and then left with a disorganized posture and followed the captain like sheep. Duan Qing, who still maintained the salute movement, froze his hands in mid-air, and then turned his head slightly embarrassedly in the low laughter of several people around him, and several passers-by in the field of vision hurriedly withdrew their smiling faces, and left separately as if nothing happened, leaving only a few faces that were still looking at each other at the front of the convoy, and the confused expressions of the other players who jumped out of the convoy behind after hearing the sound: "What's wrong, what's wrong, what's going on?" ”

"We ...... Just left here? ”

Looking at the sneering smile left by the young envoy who was riding behind a certain war horse, Duan Qing scratched the back of his head: "That's it?" ”

"Probably ......," Whisper covered her mouth and smiled, "It's over." ”

"!"

Throwing his gloves on the ground, Duan Qing shouted loudly at the top of his voice: "Even if it's a task with no reward, it has to be explained before it ends, right?" What's the deal with leaving us on the road? What about playing people, right? Aren't we barons? Isn't it an aristocrat? Didn't you come to see the lord of the city? I've been preparing my lines for days, and you're going to show me this at the end? ”

"I don't know if they did it on purpose, but we were actually thrown here."

Glancing back at another slender figure wearing a black cloak who had also walked out of the carriage, he replied softly, "It seems...... It doesn't seem like it's easy to meet the lord of the castle. ”

“…… Can I understand that this is a design of the game? ”

The smiling uncle who stepped forward looked ahead for a while: "Because the task you are carrying is too advanced, the system does not allow you to complete it in any lazy and slippery way, so they deliberately arranged such a plot for us and hung us out of the city first......"

"Christo! You old thief! ”

Standing there hatefully and gritting his teeth for a long time, Duan Qing finally sighed, bent down to pick up his gloves, and walked towards the back of the convoy: "If he really dares to devise such inhumane restraints, Lao Tzu will definitely ...... when he turns back."

"You guys!"

A loud shout rang out in front of them again, interrupting the movements of several people in unison: "What are you doing in this way!" Don't move out yet! ”

Duan Qing, who was angry, slowly turned around, and took into view the figure of a man wearing a cowboy hat who was also riding on a horse, and then dropped the barrel that had just fallen outside the carriage with an expressionless face, and turned around with his hands spread: "Which family are you?" ”

"I'm Rikas, the security officer of Liberty City." The man on the horse lifted the brim of his hat, then put his hand on the hilt of the sword at his waist: "Who are you?" ”

"Officer? Ricas? ”

“…… Stranger? ”

The man who called himself Rikas looked at everyone here condescendingly, and the fingers of his right hand began to clench tighter and tighter: "It seems that you are new adventurers...... Hmph, guy who doesn't know anything. ”

"Your convoy is blocking traffic here." He raised his chin, and the blade of the sword at his waist also shone with an obscure light: "If you don't remove the obstacles, I will ...... you in the name of the security officer."

"Wait a minute!"

Everyone's attention was attracted by Duan Qing's sudden shout, and then with his falling hand, he looked at the person who looked like a police officer again: "You say...... Your name is Ricas? ”

"Why, have you heard the name of this official?"

The man on horseback stopped what he was doing, but his eyes became sharper: "Where did you hear that?" Don't...... You're not new to this place at all? ”

"No, no, no, we're really new here." Duan Qing hurriedly shook his hands: "It's not ......"

"We've heard of your name."

Rikas Van Heim, the best security officer in Liberty City, turned out to be a wanderer who had wandered into Liberty City, but was lucky enough to meet the lord of the city during the bloody and dark bottom struggle, and became one of the members of the sun. With his knowledge of the forces in the city and his good strength, he quickly solved several major cases, and then used such merits as the axis to replace the position of a certain sheriff who had just died in the line of duty, and became one of the security officers of the Free City, although there were many doubts about his merits and the change of a certain official position, but no one could come up with any strong evidence and extraordinary power to question his identity, and they had no way to erase the names of the outlaws who died under his hands. As well as many titles like "Sin Buster", "Hapranomy Buster", "Inquisitor" and so on.

Of course, these materials were all found by Duan Qing from the Internet before he set off, but it was not the first time he had heard the name of this person.

He heard it from the mouth of a fat man.

"Lux Young? That dead fat man? ”

The police officer sitting on horseback looked Duan Qing up and down, and then pulled the tattered cloak behind him: "That guy is not dead yet?" ”

"Hehe, hehe...... He once told me that if there is any problem or trouble, you can find your head. Duan Qing said with a smile: "So...... Officer, we're our own people! ”

“…… Since it's Yang's bastard friend, forget it. ”

Retracting the weapon from his waist, the man pressed his brown cowboy hat: "But...... Still, you can't stay in this place. ”

"Let's start the convoy." He turned his horse's head and walked first to the side of the road: "You must get out of here as soon as possible. ”

"Uh...... Your Excellency Officer. Duan Qing said: "There are a lot of goods piled up on our convoy, it is impossible to sort them out immediately, and there should be no need to be in such a hurry, there are not many people passing on this road......"

"Who's going to worry about you getting stuck in traffic."

Ricas, who was shaking his body, turned sideways, and his voice came back with the sound of rattling horses' hooves: "I just want to remind you ......"

"If you stay here any longer, you'll be robbed." He whispered.

"If you don't want to be targeted by the hungry wolves here, just follow this official."

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As the distance approached, the outline of the Free City became clear to the eyes of the rest of the convoy, but instead of entering the majestic-looking city before noon, they followed in the footsteps of a certain police officer into a cluster of low houses on the outskirts. Sparse figures and a breeze swept in and out of the large earthen houses, which looked no different from ordinary villages, but according to Ricas, the peace of the shack area was only a façade.

"This official came out with a mission."

These are the words he left when he arranged for the convoy to stop in a certain safe area: "Do you really think ...... Is this official there to meet you? ”

"That'...... So what is your mission? ”

"You're interested?"

The man who jumped off the horse glanced at Duan Qing: "If you want to follow, you can do whatever you want, but ......"

"This official is not responsible for your safety."

Several people followed his footsteps into the area of what appeared to be a village, stuck in front of the largest house among them, and then followed the officer's movements, quietly listening to the movement inside the house. The dilapidated house seemed to be soundproofed very well, and even Duan Qing didn't hear what the people inside were saying, but it didn't take long for his efforts to become meaningless.

With a violent explosion, the roofs around several people were blown up by a violent firelight, and a large number of figures dressed in various colors and decorations, which were blown into rags at this time, also broke through the scattered black fog and poured out from all around the village.

"It's ...... Gangsters are on fire. ”

Glancing at the blue-haired woman beside him, Duan Qing muttered, "Sure enough, it's the legendary city of freedom, even outside the city is so lively......

Boom –

A violent wave of qi flew towards the pile of people in front of them, setting off a large number of bloody figures that had just collided together, and then with a loud shout that sounded around them, Duan Qing's voice was shocked along with his calmness: "I'm Rikas, the security officer of Liberty City!" Lay down your arms for me! ”

"You're already surrounded by this officer!"