"Why?! They are my companions! ”

"Rules are rules." "We have reason to suspect that this plague was spread by those black people," said the person in charge, impatiently. Hurry up the security check now, or you won't even want to go in when the city is closed at six o'clock. ”

The old man snorted coldly as if he had expected this, and strode to the security checkpoint. Shuying took Qiu Xuan's hand and looked at her worriedly and reluctantly.

Qiu Xuan felt a little funny, but her heart softened, and she patted her shoulder comfortingly. "It's okay, my wounds have already scabbed, we can leave after a day at most to find someone from the mercenary group, don't worry."

Sparse Shadow relented, though still complaining about the fact that the people didn't treat black people as human beings.

After checking all the mechanics and magicians who were traveling with them, the patience of the soldiers in charge of security was poor. "What is this?" The soldier snatched the machete from Qiu Xuan's hand and asked in a very bad tone.

"Knives." Qiu Xuan said stiffly.

"Dangerous goods are not allowed to be carried by black people." The soldier threw the machete into the open space behind him, "What else is on you?" Take it all out! ”

"It's gone."

"Gone?" The soldier sneered, and several large strides came over and began to search his body rudely.

Qiu Xuan stood in place and endured and endured, clenched his fists before restraining himself from the idea of punching him, gritted his teeth and stood for him to search.

"Aha, what is this?" The soldier straightened up, holding a necklace in his palm, as well as a ring, with an unremarkable pattern. He shone the ring twice against the light source, then pursed his lips disdainfully, his fingers touching the birdcage necklace with some excitement.

"Well, a black man dares to hide rare metals. These are all confiscated, and you can go. ”

Rubbing his fingertips on the surface of the necklace twice, the soldier frowned and looked at the girl who seemed to have been pressed the static button, and then repeated, "I said, the security check is over, you can go." ”

"Give it back to me."

“…… What did you say? ”

In the shadows where the sun could not shine, he saw the lowly, fragile, lowly, and wounded black girl slowly raising her head to look at him, and saying word by word in a calm tone: "Return, give, me." ”

At that moment, the soldier had the same sense of insignificance and powerlessness as he faced the mayor of Chuanliu Town when he was just starting out, and he stood there and froze. Then he reacted and shook his head, laughing at himself just now.

"What are you?" The soldier spoke almost angrily, "You, just you, the lowest black man." I have countless ways to make it better for you to live than die in it. ”

Saying this, he became angry, stretched out an arm and grabbed Qiu Xuan, but was intercepted by another metal arm in mid-air.

The old man, who had walked away and turned back, stared at him with a calm face, the metal arm clutching his arm. "What do you think you're doing," he said, "are you proud to do it to a little girl?" ”

"What do you think you're doing?" The soldier twisted his face and struggled with the grip of terror, "Maintain a black man, you're throwing our mechanic's face!" ”

"It's you who is disgraced!" The old man threw the soldier directly against the wall with a flick of his arm, making a loud bang, "No matter how much Lao Tzu looks down on black people, he won't do anything, let alone bully others!" ”

Qiu Xuan stood in place and watched this scene coldly, and after a while, she raised her feet and walked to the old man's side and said "thank you", and then walked straight to the fallen soldier, squatted down and took back the ring and necklace.

She stared at the soldier's face for a few seconds, and seemed to remember it completely before she stood up and walked back to the area dedicated to black people.

"Little Princess...... Tsk, what's that, Qiu Xuan. The old man called out to her from behind, and she turned back.

"Stay overnight and we'll leave tomorrow morning." The old man pondered for a long time, and finally held back such a sentence.

"Got it." Qiu Xuan turned her back and waved at him, "Thank you, please drink another day." ”

"Who did the girl's family learn from...... old man muttered alone for a long time, and when he saw that no one paid attention to him, he had to scold and walk back, but there was a smile under his messy beard.

"We, tonight, live, quarantine."

"Who's with you 'us'." Qiu Xuan squinted at the number one who followed him with a little headache, and the cold sense of technology reflected by half of the cold hard metal on his side made them attract the attention of all the black people along the way.

"What are you doing here?"

"I don't know, what I am now." Number One spoke quite seriously, "So they put me under the category of a black man." ”

served. Qiu Xuan stopped talking, she followed the prompts to the place where she was going to sleep tonight, and then watched the black people scattered around and fell silent.

Scattered on the ground literally, the messy and filthy floor was covered with shabby, smelly fabric, and the black people were lying on it and huddled together like this. If it weren't for the fact that it wasn't bedtime, it would really look like a mass grave.

When Qiu Xuan walked in, everyone was looking at her.

And it was only then that she really realized what the word "black" meant to the continent. Most of the black people who don't come from that good background, they really belong to the bottom of the steam age. Their skin had become dark and cracked due to years of exposure to the sun and coolies, and they were rough, inferior, barbaric, hairy and blood-drinking, and even deprived of human rights and were traded as slaves.

The old man's ridicule of her "little princess" was not unreasonable, she was too out of place compared to a real black person. Even though she was as embarrassed and covered in wounds as they were, she still stood here as disobedient as a spark in the night.

"Yo," a stout man stood up from the ground in silence. He didn't wear a shirt, there was a smile on the corner of his mouth, and his eyes stared at Qiu Xuan with an obscene/obscene gaze, "Little beauty, this is ...... Separated from your family? ”

"What do you want!" Another man shouted, "All of us here can be your 'family'!" ”

Everyone laughed, as if they could make up for the discriminatory treatment they had received on the outside in one person in this filthy and foul-smelling area.

Sometimes, inexplicable malice towards a person does not only happen to people of noble birth who look down on inferior people. More often than not, the kind of bullying and oppression from among the weaker from among the weaker is even more like walking on thin ice.

Qiu Xuan looked at all this with a cold face.

"Need help?" Number One stepped out from behind her, and the mechanical arm folded into a cold light.

A Guide to Otherworldly Wanderings

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