Chapter 21: A Strange City
The Lion City, the largest city of the Emerald Empire, the ancient imperial capital of thousands of years, symbolizes the glory and pride of the Lionheart family, and symbolizes the most important virtue and courage of the pioneering era.
More than 7,000 years have passed, the bloodline of the Lionheart family has long been cut off, and the royal bloodline that now inherits the name of the lion has already changed several batches, and it has no connection with the lion knight of the year, but even if the bloodline is annihilated in time, the name of the family is still immortal, and the thousand-year-old capital is still as glorious as ever.
The city is hexagonal, the streets of different lengths evenly divide the city into pieces, the city walls, roads, and even every building, the outside must be kept straight, and no curved lines are allowed to exist until the last resort, which makes every corner of the lion city idle and angular, which looks strange, but has a special geometric beauty.
Walking on the smooth bluestone street, stroking the cyan stone walls on the side of the street, even if you don't like the Emerald Empire, you have to admit that the craftsmen here are quite powerful, after all, it is not difficult to make each building strange, but it is not easy to make all the buildings meet a certain standard like the buildings in front of you.
"However, although it is neat and clean, and it is indeed bustling with people, it feels like the city is very strange. Holding the hands of the two children and walking down the spacious avenue, Lisa looked at the various shops in the surrounding commercial area, blinking in confusion, "And is it my delusion? ”
"Well, it's your delusion, you haven't been here, praise the Lord, the people of this city, they are really very religious, even if they walk in the streets, they don't forget to praise the gods. Holy, this is indeed a city favored by the gods. ”
It's not because of you, Lord Priest, can you stop making trouble. Whenever Pastor Tarina felt that he could adapt to the bad behavior of his boss, he could do something to tell himself that I could have done much worse.
For example, now, the monk in a black robe is holding the Dharma book in his arms, and the holy light almost emanates from his body, causing the surrounding passers-by to be involuntarily infected when they pass by, and whisper prayers to praise the gods. Indeed, it is very harmonious, very religious, but ......
"Brother, you hate it, quickly take back the divine light, even if you use magic to highlight your image in the downtown area, it will also benefit Lord Wendy and the mainstream beliefs of these cities, hurry up and take back the magic skills, let's not help them do day jobs." “
Tsk, Lord Priest, you are so powerful, Tarina felt full of sorrow in her heart, and it only took four years to twist such a lovely Lord Lisa into what she is now. Alas, Almighty and Merciful Lord, please bless Lisa-sama from becoming a man like the priest in the future, holy.
"yes, you can't do day jobs. Shuer couldn't hear the roar in Tarina's heart, he quickly withdrew his magic spell, smashed his fist in the palm of his hand, and said very seriously, "After I go back, I will ask Orlana for their payment, let's help them improve their faith, they are always embarrassed not to give some gold coins as a reward, I am not greedy, just a few hundred gold coins." ”
"Yes, that's right, just a few hundred gold coins. "That's it? Under the careful teaching of Shuer, the great demon king Lisa may have completely lost his relationship with the pure and kind priesthood, well, but there are few priests who are truly pure and kind, "No, I have definitely been here, you look at the appearance of this door and window, I noticed it just now." ”
"Definitely never came. Shure sighed, "Don't you notice, it will feel familiar, just because most of the city is exactly the same shape and layout. Not to mention the building itself, look, the size, color, and even the font on the signboard are exactly the same, and the shelves inside, no matter what they sell, are very similar, so you will have the illusion that you have been. ”
"Ah, that's true. Lisa was stunned, no wonder she always felt that the bustling Lion City was quite wrong, and Shuer said that she had also found out, and it was really like what her brother said, all the buildings, from shape to color, from layout to decoration, were extremely similar, and it was strange that the place she walked through was not familiar. The girl looked at these identical buildings blankly, and asked with a puzzled expression, "Brother, what's going on?" ”
"Hehe, it's not just the buildings, look at the people on the streets, the locals. ”
Huh, everyone isn't the same, what the hell. Little Lisa was taken aback, and quickly observed the pedestrians around her, fortunately, fortunately, everyone's appearance is still different, not everyone is a template.
However, it is still very strange, although they have different appearances, why do they always give people a very similar feeling, is it also my illusion? But the more Lisa looked, the more she felt that her feelings were not wrong, they were really very similar.
Ah, I see, it's the expression and temperament, these people who look different, but the expression and temperament are strikingly similar, modest with a little pride, polite with a little detachment, and the same is true for people and things, and not only to travelers from other cities, but also to the locals themselves, also maintain this attitude, the same almost templated, as if it has been imprinted in the depths of their souls.
"Suddenly I felt bored. Lisa hung her shoulders, and now she was in high spirits, but now she was in high spirits, and muttered, "It's obviously an ancient capital of thousands of years, why is this happening?" ”
"Isn't this good, it's very prosperous, it's very lively, and you see the streets, there are so many pedestrians, but there are few patrolling city guards, which shows that the city is very orderly, it is simply a model in the city, much better than the rose capital, tsk, the rose capital kind of place, if there are no hundreds of quarrels and dozens of mutual fights in the business district one day, the city guards will feel uncomfortable. ”
"It's good, it's always good to have order, but I always feel that the city should be colorful to be interesting, just like life, everything is the same, isn't it too boring?"
"You think it's boring, but their citizens are happy, and that's the sense of rules they pride themselves on. Hehe, not only the building strictly abides by the rules, but even the people are the same, the rules are the same, so slowly, people will become the same. ”
"Well, how is it possible, everyone is born different. ”
"Yes, maybe it's different when you are born, but under the constraints of the rules, it will slowly become the rules that determine what you should be. If you want to break the rules, you will be hostile and excluded by everyone, and even directly attacked, and you will not be able to live normally at all, and in the end, you will either be assimilated by the rules, or you can only isolate yourself from the outside world, which is the only two ways out. ”
"Mistress Luna is on top. Lisa is still a little girl after all, and her mind is not mature enough to understand the truth, "Isn't it wrong to have rules?"
"Right or wrong depends on what you think, for example, this city, isn't it good? Hehe, but I think that there must be a limit to everything, and overemphasizing the rules will inevitably lead to the results in front of you, all the buildings are the same, everyone is the same, and you can't even be sure if you've even walked through here. ”
"Huh, is that why you're going around in circles with a bunch of people?"
"Ha, I'll just say that my brother really went the wrong way, and he still quibbles. "Lord Lisa finally reacted, hum, stupid brother, I still want to deceive the great Great Demon King Lisa, so that you won't be deceived. Wait, what's wrong, who said that just now? This unique accent, this dumb tone, and this skillful skill of revealing people's scars, "Wow wow, brother, where is my axe, I want to cut wood!"
"Eh, why should you hurt the forest? Plants are cute, don't hurt them casually. It's scary, but it's good that I'm just a deer, not a tree, otherwise I would have been cut down. ”
"Well, Moria, how long have you been with us? Xiu'er rubbed his forehead with a headache, he was worthy of being a top hunter in the forest, and his concealment skills were so good that even Xiu'er didn't find out.
"Well, I guess it started when you bought Lisa the first Solan caramel stick, and you deliberately hid the extra two sticks, so that the two little ones were aggrieved and wanted to cry, until Lisa opened her mouth, and you pretended to buy two more. Moriah got out of the corner of the street, jumped up to Shure, and said cheerfully, "No, to be exact, it must have come when you were holding a candy stick, and you were degraded from color and taste to clarity, and finally let the shopkeeper count you five copper coins." ”
"Wow, my brother is so good, this can save five copper coins. ”
Alas, Lord Lisa, you are a member of the priesthood, and you should not be so careful. Tarina drew circles on her chest, and she felt that Shure's appearance was simply a test of the Lord's faith in herself.
"Well, that's when it came. Shur wasn't embarrassed at all, as if this was what a good priesthood should do, "Why didn't you come out earlier?"
"Because it's fun to watch you go around in circles, especially when you're passing through here for the third time. Moria pointed to a few buildings next to her, "It's so interesting to pretend to be calm on the surface, but to doubt life behind the scenes, hehehe, the guy who has been secretly following in the corner just now is the victim of that authoritative rule, the guy you said to her about it, I almost couldn't help but come out to be your guide, fortunately, I stopped it in time, it's so dangerous, how about it, I'm amazing." ”
"If it weren't for you running too fast to catch up with you, I would have beaten you up a long time ago. Rolling his eyes angrily, Shul didn't bother to take care of this stupid deer who was keen to tease him, and beckoned to the corner of the street, "Come here, don't hide." ”
A gust of wind blew, and Shuer felt that there was an extra person behind him, hidden in his back.
"Smack", the skillful backhand slapped at the exact position, "You guy, didn't you let you go back first, why did you keep guarding the door." ”
"Not very reassuring. Saf's voice was still so shy, "You deliberately asked me to go back, I know something must be wrong." ”
"Then you should be with Duck, too. Shul remembered his previous arrangement, "Where did that idiot go?"
"He said that there was no fight yet, and there must be no problem, so he went to drink by himself, and followed someone he didn't know, and I didn't want to go, so I stayed here and guarded. ”
"Tsk, this passive, slacking bastard. Shuer was stunned for a moment, nodded thoughtfully, and said, "Let's go, let's go to him, I will deduct his reward." ”