"What's that?" Atta asked, pointing to an inconspicuous stone pillar between the two houses. The stone pillar stood in the shadows between the houses, and if you hadn't paid attention to it, you probably wouldn't have noticed it at all. As the others looked at it, they understood why the female swordsman was baffled by the humble stone pillar. Because the half-human tall stone pillar has obvious traces of processing, it is about the thickness of an adult's thigh, and there is a rectangular hollow near the top, and some kind of animal is carved on the top. When you get closer, you can probably recognize the image of a lion that has been artistically processed.

"It's a hitching stake, and it's quite common in my hometown. Jian Qi said naturally, perhaps because he hadn't seen anything related to his hometown for a long time, his gaze stayed on the lion at the top of the stone pillar for a while, "This is a lioness, you see that under its left foot is its child." And judging by the ornaments on this lion ... No, that's weird. ”

In the end, the sword-seeker didn't say exactly what was weird, only that although the lion carved it was good, it didn't conform to the rules. As for where the non-compliance was, and who and what determined the so-called rules, he did not explain. It's just a hitched stake standing in the corner, and although it seems interesting at first glance, it will be so much after Kenqi explains its purpose and meaning.

When they first arrived in the city yesterday, they were focused on finding a place to live, and now they are walking through the rushing streets, and their mentality and perspective are naturally different from before. Just like the blanket shop before it, there are a certain number of shops on every street in the city, and there is no clear division between residential and commercial areas. This kind of mixed street appearance is rare in other places, after all, for most cities, the functional planning of the city is a matter of early on, but any lord or lord who has some control will choose a clear plan that is easy to manage, rather than allowing merchants and commoners to mix together.

This is mainly due to the fact that merchants are not permanent residents after all, and they cannot touch the foundations of the city when they are distinguished separately. And if businessmen are allowed to live together, it may give those who hold wealth rights that they should not have. Atta suddenly stood still, looking in a certain direction ahead, with a somewhat confused expression, "Something seems to be going on over there, I heard someone shouting." ”

The group quickened their pace, curious about what could happen in the city in broad daylight. Walking to the corner and looking inside, the source of the noise is not far from the street. At a glance, this street is no different from the previous street, the same shops, the same houses, but there are already a lot of debris on the pavement of the street at this time. Judging by the type of clutter, it is likely that they all came from the same source, and those smashed plates, cutlery, and broken seats all had a strong sense of life. As for the people who turn them into this, it's not so common elsewhere.

"Lizardmen. Cheese whispered the names of the creatures. In reality, though, these beings are quite different from humans, their shoulders are about twice to three times the width of adult males, and their bodies are unusually tall, except that their low-hanging arms and curved spine make them feel more like beasts that have learned to stand than powerful giants. They were dressed in the same clothes as humans, their bare arms were covered with dark green scales like armor stomachs, and their reptilian pupils exuded a kind of indifferent brutality. It's a bunch of guys who don't look easy to mess with.

"What are they doing?" Kenqi stepped out of his stance, although his tone was questioning, he had already determined that these lizards were doing something related to violence. But before he could take two steps, his eyes were blocked by a furry claw, and at some point Kairaz climbed onto his shoulder, stopping the sword-seeker's slightly impulsive behavior. Maybe something isn't what it seems.

"There is only one piece of large furniture left, and the family moved it fairly cleanly, and there was no garbage left on the ground like the last time. The lizardman, who was carrying a small cabinet in one hand, said to his companion as he stepped out of the door of the house. The other lizards all looked concerned when they heard this, obviously impressed by the last family in his mouth. Next, a lizardman took a long-handled brush from a nearby tool bag and began to collect debris from the pavement and push it somewhere around the street. It was just a short distance from Cheese They, so they could see a portion of the pavement open outwards with a gentle push from the lizardman, revealing the rushing river below. It turned out to be a disposal port, and when the lizardmen had swept all the garbage into the disposal and closed it, they had completed their task, and the hideous creatures whistled happily and turned away.

When the lizard-man was gone, Atta approached the port out of curiosity to open it, but as soon as she reached out, she was hit on the back of her hand by a bamboo pole. It was a dwarf who hit her, and no one knew where the little creature was hiding before he was no more than the height of a normal thigh, but now he was sitting cross-legged on the edge of the wooden bulge, chewing on some kind of pungent smell of leaves in his mouth.

"Show me the license of the hole, if you don't have it, you can't open it. The dwarf didn't show any surprise or any special emotion at Atta's appearance, and his eyes weren't even fully open.

"Isn't this a place to take out the garbage, why do you need a badge?" curiosity overcame the displeasure of being treated rudely, and the female swordswoman asked in an equal manner, with her hands on her knees, as low as she could.

The elf opened his left eye wide and looked at Atta for a few seconds before he spoke, "New here, doesn't even know the rules." You say that this hole is used to take out the garbage, then you should think about it, where will the garbage go if it is poured in? If it is poured directly into the water, the light one will naturally flow downstream with the water, but the heavy one will sink to the bottom of the water. If the water flowing downstream is all garbage, then people downstream will die. And if more and more garbage falls to the bottom of the river, the river will naturally get higher and higher, and when the time comes, this rushing city will have to become a flooded city, and all of them will have to feed the fish. How can you use it at will? The holes in this city can only be opened by those who have a license to use them, in order to control the amount of dumped goods. Even if the number is larger, you have to contact the garbage boat in advance and continue under the hole. ”

Atta, who had been told a lot by the elves, scratched her head and returned to her companion, recounting what she had just heard to the others. Kenqi felt a little guilty about the performance of misunderstanding the lizardmen just now, because according to the dwarf, the actions of those lizardmen must have been arranged in advance, at least not impromptu atrocities. Cheese, on the other hand, had a thoughtful expression, having thought about how to build its sewer system when he first came to the city, and the specification of the hole channel could indeed partially solve this problem.

Soon, however, the mage realized that there was a dwarf-like steward next to each channel, and that people could actually follow the rules, and that there was obviously something else that was needed in addition to the understandable truth. The city, I'm afraid, is not as free as it seems.