Outside Portertown, there was a bustling line of pedestrians and people queuing up to register for the city.

In the Austin Empire, all cities were divided into three simple levels, namely "city", "town", and "village", which were only a rough indication of population density, prosperity, and strength of the garrison.

Generally speaking, as "cities" are relatively developed cities, these cities will build high walls to defend against surprise attacks, the more economically developed the city, the more unwilling the empire will be damaged, so the garrison of these "cities" will be relatively strong.

Every once in a while, the empire would send officials in charge of this aspect to assess whether some towns or even villages had met the economic and population standards of "cities", and then, of course, additional troops, construction of city walls, etc., to upgrade these "villages" and "towns" to "cities".

Although Porter Town is just a "town", it should soon be upgraded to "Porter City" with its prosperity.

Originally, it was only responsible for the registration of the population entering and leaving a "town", and there were only two city guards on duty on the registration desk at the gate of the town.

Tong Xi and Andrea came to the outside of the town, and the first thing they saw was the endless procession.

Because most of the people who come to Potter City are mercenary groups or caravans, these groups can lengthen the queue by a large length, and there are a lot of wagons and carriages parked on the side......

"Wow...... I'm going to have to wait in line until tonight! Tong Xi made an exaggerated movement of his left hand to build a pergola in front of him, and made a posture to look at the end of the line in the distance.

It's just that when Andrea walked towards the waiting line with Tong Xi in her arms......

On his side, a city guard who had been maintaining order in the queue ran all the way to this side.

"Are you...... Miss Xi, right? The city guard said a question, but in an affirmative tone.

The medal on the shoulders of this city guard is very young, but there is a six-pointed star painted on it, which is the rank of the squad leader, and so on the squadron leader is two six-pointed stars, and the captain is three, and ordinary soldiers simply add a "pole" according to the number of years, a pole for five years, and ordinary soldiers can have up to five poles, that is, ordinary soldiers only need to serve for twenty-five years to be promoted to the top, and every "five-bar" can get a "pension" issued by the imperial military after retirement.

That is to say, if you want to be promoted from an ordinary soldier to a squad leader, you can't just stay up for years, you need military merit and combat performance in a period of war, and now this kind of peacetime can only rely on relationships and performance.

Of course, there is another way, that is, as long as you reach the level of a high martial artist, it is not a matter if you want to be promoted to a squad leader, this is also to change the future by your own efforts, of course, how many soldiers can you reach a high level of martial arts?

Tong Xi looked at the young officer, his eyes moved slightly upwards to recall, and found that he really couldn't remember, so he turned his eyes back to look at the other party.

"Are you ......" Tong Xi asked suspiciously, after a brief memory just now, she really couldn't remember that she knew such a person.

"I'm Xiao Liu!" The young officer pointed to his nose,

"When you were a kid, uh...... No......" As soon as the young officer's words came out, he saw that Tong Xi in front of him seemed to have little change from her "childhood......

"Five years ago, Prince Riel took you to our camp to inspect it, and I even bought you a rock sugar gourd!" The young officer, who called himself Xiao Liu, immediately changed his tune.

"Five years ago...... Tong Xi recalled a little, and remembered that there seemed to be such a number one person, when she went out with Rare's father one time, a soldier ran over and bought her a rock sugar gourd......

"Oh, I remember, it seems like there was such a thing." Tong Xi admitted with a smile.

In Tong Xi's memory, this young officer Xiao Liu was a very clever and discerning person, always knowing how to know his intentions before Lyle's father opened his mouth, and even made it possible for him to guess and finish things without opening his mouth. For example, that time, Tong Xi just glanced at the rock sugar gourd stall on the street, and this Xiao Liu immediately rushed over, and then hurriedly bought the rock sugar gourd and ran back.

This kind of person may be understood from a certain point of view as being good at "patting on the back" and being good at "performance", but these "sycophants" require a very keen ability to speculate on people's hearts, be very good at looking at eyes, and be very neat in handling things.

Not to mention anything else, just looking at it for a few years, this Xiao Liu was promoted to squad leader, which shows many problems, no matter what world you are in, this kind of "can do things" people are always popular.

And those who say that he "can only pat on the back" are a little suspicious of "can't eat grapes and say that grapes are sour".

"Do you want to go into town?" Xiao Liu, a young officer, asked with a smile.

"yes, but there are so many people, I guess we'll have to wait until tonight." Tong Xi responded.

"This little thing, I can take you in now." Xiao Liu, a young officer, said with a smile.

At this time, they were still standing next to the line, and such a blatant discussion of "cutting in line" caused passers-by in line to look sideways.

"That's not good...... Tong Xi glanced at the sights cast by many pairs of eyes in the team next to him, and said a little cowardly......

"What's this! The main reason why we set up this entry and exit registration guard is to investigate suspicious characters and protect the safety of urban residents' lives and property, and Miss Xi, how can you be a suspicious person who threatens? "The young officer Xiao Liu said it seriously and was the first to say.

"Then please." Tong Xi is not a pedantic person, why bother waiting outside the city for a day if he can open the door of convenience, how good is it to use this day to finish eating early and then lie in bed......

"It's a great honor." The young officer Xiao Liu pressed his right hand on his left chest, made a gentlemanly salute to Tong Xi, and looked at Tong Xi's left eye and blinked mischievously.

"Please~" The young officer Xiao Liu stretched out his hand and made a "please" gesture in the direction of the registration entrance, the action was too formal but there was a different kind of funny, which made Tong Xi who was sitting in Andrea's arms giggle.

Andrea, who was holding Tong Xi, walked towards the registration window according to the other party's instructions.

"You deserve to be promoted." Andrea smiled at Xiao Liu, a young officer walking beside her.