Chapter 22: Daddy Zack
The next day, after simply washing their faces with the water in the cowhide water bag, the three of them continued towards the Valley of the Giant Gods. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
It's just that unlike yesterday, today Joel and Chrissy are no longer following Levi as mercenaries, but are students, and the nature of their name and relationship has changed.
Chrissy seems to wake up every morning for a period of time and can't walk straight, so she falls last, ahead of Joel, who is opening the road.
Obviously, Joel is older than Rivi, but now that he has the status of a teacher and a student, he puts his posture very low, and asks Levi about everything, who calls Levi a person who can change the fate of their brother and sister.
Levi is very uncomfortable with this, but Joel insists on it, and he is not easy to refute, but Chrissy has no change to Levi, and just calls Levi "teacher" with Joel.
In the few days of this hurry, Levi taught the two of them to learn words and addition, subtraction, multiplication and division at night, and during the day, they reviewed the knowledge they learned yesterday.
Literacy is not in a hurry, Levi now mainly teaches them to memorize the ninety-nine multiplication table, addition and subtraction after the introduction to the natural multiplication, and addition and subtraction of the multiplication and division of the two brothers and sisters to completely remember it will take some time, walking on the road during the day can hear the two of them constantly chanting one by one, one two to get two and so on.
As a first-time teacher, Levi was still very happy about this, and in his opinion, it would be a sad thing to take all the knowledge he learned to the grave, and it was too late for him to be happy that someone could seriously study the knowledge he taught, but the only fly in the ointment was that neither of the two siblings was born with a physique insulated from mana, in other words, it was impossible for them to become alchemists.
The magic energy that is unconsciously absorbed in the human body will interfere with the stability of the alchemy array, so insulating from mana is a major prerequisite for learning alchemy, and the two siblings obviously do not have this condition now, and Levi has to give up the idea of letting them inherit his alchemy.
Now that they were about to arrive at the little Zhuangzi called "Nice", they would be in the confines of the Zhuangzi in half a day at most, and they had heard from Joel that they had friends who ran hotels in the Zhuangzi, and that they could go to their house for a night.
Hooking his linen backpack with both hands, Levi walked for more than two hours to find a large piece of towering ancient trees in front of him, these ancient trees looked very old, and the crown composed of a large number of leaves cut the sunlight into small spots of light and projected them on the ground, and people walked in it, and their bodies were intertwined with light and shadow.
"Mr. Levi, it's not a long walk until you're in Nice, and then you can rest," Joel said, turning to Rivi, who was walking left and right, his eyes full of worry.
"Obviously they are all under Erima's hands, escape, have been on the run for more than a year, what, why am I here, my physical strength is not growing" The continuous rush made Levi dizzy and his limbs weak, but he was still gritting his teeth and insisting.
"Teacher, why don't you let Chrissy help you carry your bag?" Chrissy behind him also came to Levi's side and supported him with her hand.
... How old is he? A gasping Revy asked himself, well, if he's twenty-three if I'm not mistaken, what about Chrissy? I heard her say she'll be seventeen by the end of this year.
What's the matter? I'm an adult, not an old pedant, and I still need a girl, or my own student to support me? No, never! Levi's heart roared!
Alchemy give me power!
Plop, but alchemy abandoned Levi at this time, and he could only sit on the ground with a desperate expression, gasping for breath, and his heart was broken at this time.
"Help, help me up, I can still walk"
"Teacher, you really look like a child sometimes," chuckled slightly, and Chrissy reached out with her strange hand and grabbed Levi's collar and threw him behind his back.
Not only does he have to help his students, but he also needs his students to carry them, and the self-esteem of being a teacher in Levi's heart is quietly disintegrating and shattering.
"I, I can walk on my own, put... Boom!" After a muffled sound, Levi stopped calling.
"Let's go, Joel, get to Nice earlier so that the teacher can rest early," Chrissy, unaware, lifted Levi's body up and walked towards Joel.
Joel glanced at Levi, who was unconscious after his head hit the hammer, with a strange look, and finally chose to remain silent.
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Nice is a small village, but in Northwell's official topographical records, it can be classified as a "town".
Once in the town of Nice, the two Joel siblings carried Rivi on their back and went straight to their friend's house, a small inn with little character, and after paying the fee, they placed Rivi in a clean room.
"Uh" I don't know how long it took, but Levi finally woke up, covering his aching head, and Levi straightened up, only to find himself in a strange room he didn't know.
But he didn't have a lot of money, the bag of silver coins that Leif had given him was still there, and the fanny pack and backpack were piled up in a corner of the room, and when he got off the ground, Levi went out of the room.
"Haha, you said that guy about your age is your teacher?
"Carmen, I won't allow you to insult my teacher" Levi heard Joel's voice.
"Okay, well, if you don't say it, you won't say it, but he's really not a liar, what can he teach you at his age?".
"Uncle Carmen, if you say that Teacher Levi is a liar, I'll smash you out with a hammer" This time Levi heard Chrissy's voice again, but who were they talking to?
Walking down the hallway, Levi found himself in the lobby of the hotel, where the Joel siblings were talking to a bearded, middle-aged man.
"Teacher, you're awake!" Chrissy immediately pounced when she saw Livi, and circled around Livi a few times, and after confirming that Rivi was fine, she was relieved, and Livi, who suddenly fainted, scared her a lot.
"Teacher Levi" Joel, who was very respectful to Levi, also stood up and bowed his head to him.
"Where is this?" Levi looked at the simply decorated inn, picking up what memories he had left, and he remembered that the three of them were supposed to be still in the woods surrounded by ancient trees.
"We're already in Nicetown, teacher," Chrissy replied.
"It's so soon, it looks like I'm really dragging you down, I'm sorry," Levi, who knew how slow he walked, said in an awkward tone.
"No, how can the teacher drag down the students, but we don't understand your physical strength, please forgive the teacher" Joel's head lowered even lower.
Levi was really fed up, only to see him walk up to Yoel and pat him on the shoulder, "Joel, you are my student, not my servant, I hate your attitude, you know?"
Hearing Levi say that he was dissatisfied with his attitude, Joel's face suddenly turned pale, but before he could beg Levi for forgiveness, Levi rushed to say, "It's right to be polite to the teacher, but it's too much for you to do this, my students don't just bow their heads all day long, be confident!"
Joel was also worried that Levi would leave him and Chrissy behind, and seeing that Rivi said so, Joel also changed his attitude, "I understand, teacher".
Seeing this, the middle-aged man standing behind the front desk of the hotel suddenly flashed an imperceptible light in his eyes, "You are their teacher?"
This middle-aged man who looked like the owner of the inn, Levi was still seeing it for the first time, and in order to reassure Joel, he did not deny the middle-aged man's question, but nodded.
"And what did you teach them?" the middle-aged man looked a little aggressive, and in place of Levi replied Chrissy, "The teacher taught us addition and subtraction formulas, words we don't know, and multiplication formulas!"
Carmen had never even heard of addition and subtraction, and he didn't know if he had made it up, but he was targeting Levi because he looked so young, and he had seen the teachers at Northwell National College, but none of them were in their twenties, at least in their thirties.
"I don't know what you're teaching, but let's talk about it, how much did you charge for this brother and sister?"
"I don't take money," Revie said calmly.
Carmen felt more and more that Levi had bad intentions, how could there be a reason to teach people knowledge and not take money, either the knowledge was fake, just to deceive the other party's trust, or it had another purpose.
Just as Levi was confronting the innkeeper Carmen, a panicked woman suddenly ran in outside the door, "Carmen, it's not good, something happened to Daddy Zack at the grocery store!"
The woman had obviously been running under the sun for a while, covered in sweat, and she could tell what was going on just by looking at her anxious face, and Levi glanced at Carmen, guessing that the other party's status in the town of Nice should not be low.
Without bothering to "debunk" Levi's ugly deception, Carmen hurriedly walked out of the front desk, came to the woman, and said in a deep voice, "What's wrong with Daddy Zack?"
"Don't ask, come with me, Daddy Zack is going to die!" The woman grabbed Carmen's hand and ran out of the hotel, but Carmen had no choice but to turn around and glare at Revie fiercely before rushing out with the woman.
The small door of the hotel creaked and swayed, and Joel and Chrissy were waiting for Levi to make a decision, and from the woman's words, Levi could deduce that there was an old man who was dying, although he might not be able to help, so it was better to go and have a look, "Let's go, let's go and have a look"
The three of them followed Carmen from a distance, and Carmen didn't say anything when she found out, running down the dusty street, and after a while, a large group of Nice townspeople gathered around in front of them.
"Shoot quickly, if you don't shoot daddy, you're going to die!"
"I don't dare to use my strength, if I keep shooting, my dad won't choke to death, and I'll shoot to death!"
"Daddy has a weird temper, but it's so uncomfortable to see him..."A female resident in her twenties looked at Daddy Zack who was struggling on the ground, and her face was full of unbearable.
"Get out of the way, Carmen is coming!" Just as everyone was helpless against Daddy Zack, the woman pushed away the townsfolk who had surrounded Daddy Zack and pulled Carmen in.