Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Secret of the Lost Years
A huge carriage stopped at the door of the tavern, surrounded by vigilant knights, this carriage is somewhat similar to the ancient Chinese carriage style, Xu Cheng does not know if it is the cultural influence radiated from the East in this world, but after closer inspection, he can still find some very different style characteristics.
A large part of this carriage is made of bronze parts!
Eight unusually tall and strong black horses pulled the extremely heavy carriage together, and the muddy road on the ground left two deep ruts as the carriage passed.
Xu Cheng observed the inside of the carriage and found that the material inside was not bronze, and he couldn't tell what the specific material was for a while, but at least it looked like it had a silver color, and Xu Cheng took out a captured short sword from the small Sumeru ring.
With a gentle scrape, a layer of silver powder was scraped off, and when it came into contact with the air, it oxidized and blackened at an extremely rapid rate.
The bronze parts of the interior of this carriage are all coated with a layer of silver powder!
Xu Cheng turned his head to look at Li Zhi and found that he was also a little puzzled, which was really a bit strange, because when such a heavy and sturdy bronze carriage was manufactured, most of its functions had basically been removed.
No livestock can pull such a bronze carriage for a long time, and this thing can only move inside the national capital even if it breaks through the sky.
"This carriage is a little weird!" Xiahou Min looked at the carriages around him, and his brows were slightly furrowed, and he obviously noticed that something was wrong.
It's just that there are those guard knights all around, and some of the trial team members don't dare to have too much communication, as the so-called car must have a road before the mountain, and the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge, Xu Cheng hesitated for a while, and still felt that seeing the move was the best choice, and his intuition told him that Li Zhi must still have something hidden in his heart, but he didn't know why he didn't say it.
During this period of time, Xu Cheng also gradually trusted Li Zhi, he had a feeling of hiding this matter from Li Zhi, and the first thing that jumped out of his heart was not anger but rhetorical questioning, in the rhetorical question, Xu Cheng automatically thought of the reason for Li Zhi in his heart, and he felt that Li Zhi must have chosen to conceal it because of some things or facts that he had to follow.
The strange bronze carriage was not fast, because through the tiny window, Xu Cheng could clearly see the knight walking slowly with the car.
Not far away, the knights could clearly see the guards at the entrance to the palace.
After about twenty minutes, the unusually heavy carriage slowly stopped, and Anna, who was sitting at the door, was the first to poke her head out, and saw that they had reached the gate of the palace, and the guards were exchanging something with the chief of the knights who were escorting them.
Soon the carriage started slowly again, and with the heavy iron-clad gate opened, Xu Cheng and his party finally entered the human palace of this world.
Not long after, ten minutes at most, the carriage stopped again, and this time the leader of the knights poked his head into the carriage and told the trial team that they could dismount and prepare to go to the king.
After they got off the bronze carriage, they were driven away by two knights, and the knight leader led them into the palace not far away with the remaining knights, Xu Cheng saw a burly man in the prime of life sitting on the high throne in the center at first glance, it was obvious that this was the current human king.
Compared with the young and handsome Godfrey I saw before, the temperament of the human king is obviously more down-to-earth, with a wild beard, pale blonde shawl hair and a muscular figure, at first glance, people can feel a kind of domineering majesty exclusive to the emperor.
The crown on his head is very peculiar, a bit similar to angel feathers, olive branches and two lions several things are combined in an orderly manner, angel feathers are carved from silver, olive branches are made of white gold as for the lion is carved from gold, the eyes of the lion are inlaid with two rubies of excellent color, I have to say that this crown is much more beautiful than the props seen on TV, Xu Cheng did not expect that there would be such exquisite craftsmanship in this backward world!
"This king has heard that you claim to be warriors from the Far East, and that you have been ordered by your own king to come and help us defeat those wretched creatures in the dark!?" When the human king spoke, Xu Cheng could barely see his lips, and could only keep shaking his golden beard.
"Yes, Your Royal Highness, we have indeed come to fight those monsters in the darkness as you said!" Li Zhi replied with an attitude that was not much different from last night.
Xu Cheng looked at Li Zhi, and suddenly understood in his heart that the reason why Li Zhi used this tone and appearance that was neither humble nor arrogant might also have the purpose of playing tricks, after all, they had appeared under the banner of a distant eastern power since the beginning of the fight, if he was afraid or abnormal, it was likely that these strange strangers would be instantly picked up all the loopholes that had been inadvertently revealed before, in this situation, such a situation would be fatal!
As for whose life will be taken in the end, to be honest, Xu Cheng himself doesn't know.
The king was clearly not the same as Godfrey's, and his temper was more akin to that of the valiant man with a straight bow, accustomed to asking questions directly when confronted with questions and doubts.
As now, the human king asked impatiently, "Okay, I know what you are doing here, and I know who arranged for you to come, I know everything!" But you have to prove your strength first, I don't believe in some old thing's presbyopia like everyone else! ”
Li Zhi raised his eyebrows, Xu Cheng felt a trace of surprise in his eyes, this trace of surprise was very rare, it was likely that this king was suppressed by Li Zhi when he didn't even notice it.
Xu Cheng didn't think that a person who could still dominate the dark race and the Light Society in this kind of troubled autumn would have no ability, just like just now, the king's unacceptable straightforwardness and uprightness simply moved some of their details to the table in an instant.
The attitude of the human king is obvious, he knows some little Jiujiu in the hearts of you people, and he does not directly oppose it, but he wants to control as many things as he can, and what others say and pass on will not be easily adopted by him!
Li Zhi nodded indifferently, the meaning is also obvious, they have confidence!
Almost instantly, a large number of palace guards came out, looking like the same as the master, they were all stunned and buried in the characters, and they didn't hear the king's orders, and directly held the silver-plated long sword and killed it, the shouts were full of killing intent, Xu Cheng was 100% sure that these soldiers had indeed seen blood on the battlefield and crawled over the dead people.
Looking at the guards whose eyes were slightly red, Xu Cheng also raised his vigilance, he thought that this was just a test, but now it seems that the testers did not regard this as a test, they were directly fighting with their lives!
Bah! It's really damn unlucky, and it's unlucky to meet such a group of killers. Xu Cheng was a little depressed in his heart, he didn't expect that there was a desperate battle waiting for him in this palace, and the key was that he couldn't really kill people, after all, what do they say, it is also a bridge between the son of a human and the king, if someone dies, maybe they will have to stop the construction of this bridge indefinitely before it is completed.....
What a fucking grievance!
Xu Cheng also did not put the seedlings. The knife pulled out the scabbard, and went directly to the Zhanzhao heroes on the TV before, beating the approaching soldiers with a relaxed face to cry dad and mother, and was stunned to wake up this group of red-eyed madmen one after another.
The murderous spirit of these soldiers is indeed enough, and the characteristics of not wanting to die are also obvious, but the strength is not good, and hundreds of soldiers were stunned by Xiahou Min, Gao Feng and Xu Cheng who cried and shouted at their mothers, and directly doubted their lives in their hearts.
It didn't take long for the king himself to take it anymore, he had some helplessness to stop the chaotic hall, and the angry and ashamed guards hurriedly retreated to the high platform under the throne, staring at these ruthless people tightly, and every guard who fought could feel that these people could easily kill them, but they had been restrained, especially the man with the strange long knife, and he never let his knife come out of the sheath.
"Enough, I believe you have this strength, in that case, let's have a good talk." The king looked at the trial team a little helplessly, he arranged it like this, firstly, he wanted to test the waters, to see what kind of strength the recommended person was, and secondly, he also wanted to leave a dismount, but it backfired, and this dismount was on his own body.
As the saying goes, stealing chickens does not make rice, the king is also a little ashamed at the moment, he didn't expect that the brave soldiers who fought in all directions, hundreds of people could not deal with three people, if this matter spreads, I am afraid that his face will not be able to hang up!
Li Zhi can naturally understand the king's heart, and this kind of tiger-headed and rat-tailed thing will be embarrassing even if it is a person.
"Your Majesty, we have no intention of fighting against human warriors, we are all trained to deal with those creatures in the dark, so this competition is not fair, if it is more brave and fearless, I am afraid that your subordinates are superior." Li Zhi's words are obviously to break the current embarrassing atmosphere for the king.
Li Zhi continued: "Can we know your name? We've come from afar, and we haven't had time to understand some basic attempts. After speaking, he also bowed slightly, which can be said to have given the king enough face.
How could the king not know that Li Zhi was looking for himself to go under the stairs, and he was not stupid, he said solemnly: "This king's name is Edshimon Potomister, if you want me to say that you are almost exactly the same as that old thing said, powerful warriors can always get my respect, and in the future, you can call this king Ed." ”
Li Zhi bowed deeply, and at the same time, a hand secretly reminded Xu Cheng and his party to bow together.
Ed saw several powerful warriors bow respectfully, and a sense of satisfaction arose in his heart. He smiled and stood up from his throne, which was not as jeweled and delicate as Godfrey's, for his throne consisted only of an extraordinarily finely carved lion roaring in the sky, as if swearing his supremacy!
I have to say that this is the same as Ed himself's temperament, and with his golden beard, Ed is almost a humanoid lion.
"Six hundred years ago, our Potomiste family was a new aristocracy in the harbor city, and the dark creatures were already very arrogant at that time, but fortunately, the world was still dominated by humans at that time, although there were some powerful vampire families who occupied some land, but they could only be regarded as small ......tumors in general," Ed said here and sighed, "I know that more than three hundred years ago, the damned Grand Duke Victor actually brought himself and a large number of powerful people under him into the vampires, And he himself has directly become one of the greatest figures in the dark world, and since then humanity has been in a state of decline, and has survived until now......"