The structural layout of the city of Morning Light, the capital of the Stanley Empire, is a clear reflection of a long-standing phenomenon of mankind: class.

Human society is not as simple as elves and dwarves, but always, everywhere, and everything is the same as the layout of the capital, with a top-down difference.

Elf and dwarf society, although there are also singers, kings and the like in name, there is also a difference between nobles and commoners, but in fact, for an elf, the most important thing is to improve their own ideological realm through daily meditation. The most noble elves, the so-called virtue to convince people, is not uncommon in the elven society, and for a dwarf, even if he is born a child of the king, the status is extremely noble, but to really win the respect and love of the dwarves, but must be obtained through their own adventure and hard work, a prince who has not proved himself through strength, may not be as strong as an ordinary dwarf born in the countryside.

This is unthinkable in human society, although most human beings at the request of the king, they declare that they believe in the sun god Pero, but every year, there are very few people who really dare or can go up to the temple of Perot and receive the blessing of the sun god, which is a huge gap with the huge population of the Stanley Empire.

Especially in the past ten years, the successor King Stanley XIV has long since dispensed with the routine of every king who needs to go to the Temple of Perot, and just blindly greedy for pleasure, turning a Stanley Imperial Palace in Nuoda into a garden for his pleasure.

Many nobles were also happy to be lazy, no longer going to the Temple of Pero to accept the test and blessing of the sun god, indulging in sensuality, and living a gorgeous and luxurious life far beyond the past.

King Stanley XIV, who often changed his orders and suddenly wanted to get close to the commoners, removed all the guards at the gates of the noble district and the palace district, so that people could freely come through the gate to visit the nobles and the palace, and suddenly felt that there were too many people coming, and if there were a few assassins mixed in, then he would not be in danger, so he ordered the gates of the noble district and the palace district to be strictly guarded by heavy soldiers, and no idle people were allowed to enter without permission.

In this way, it is bitter for those pilgrims.

Since the temple area is above the palace area, although there is no heavy guard, but to go to the temple area, you have to go through the noble area, the palace area, to arrive, now the king is on strict guard, even if they repeatedly declare that they are only coming to worship, but without the king's edict or the introduction of the nobles, they can not pass through the noble area and the palace area at all.

They came from afar, but they could not go up to the temple of Pero to worship, make wishes, and ask for the blessing of the sun god, but could only look up at the statue of the sun god in the temple of Pero in the city, sigh regretfully, and leave unwillingly.

However, the dignitaries who controlled the path that the upper and lower temples had to pass through, but because they had long lost their respect for the sun god, they did not dare to step into the temple to accept the torture of conscience, but never went up the mountain to worship again.

Therefore, ordinary commoners only go to and from the commercial area where the merchant's goods are accumulated, and they cannot enter the higher aristocratic district and the palace area at all, and even the drinking water channel is from top to bottom, so there is a self-deprecating irony among ordinary commoners, that is: "The water we drink now may still be the footwashing water of a nobleman." ”

Of course, this is just a joke, but in fact, the water and waste water in the aqueducts are divergent, and the water in the drinking canals is the clear water that flows from the cistern of the temple area on the top of the mountain, and is generally in the city some distance from the ground, although it is from the top down, but it is not polluted. Wastewater flows through wastewater pipes buried under the city's surface, into the moat outside the city, and then flows down the sewers of the moat into the distance.

However, this illustrates the serious class distinction in Stanley's empire. It is difficult for commoners to see the nobles, and it is closer to wishful thinking if they want to see the king.

Therefore, Dara and the others came to the capital of the Stanley Empire, and lived in a small hotel in the business district for more than half a month, but they had not yet opened the joints and found a way to enter the palace and meet the king.

During this half month, Blotto, the hero captain whom Todak revered, continued to get drunk every day, and after getting drunk like mud, he went crazy, and no matter how Todak persuaded him, it was to no avail, and even the elves who had worked with Blotto were completely disappointed in the current Blotto, and he couldn't believe that this dwarf who was drunk and dreamed of death every day was the hero who fought bravely and surprisingly back then.

According to Blotto's current situation, it is impossible for him to stop drinking for a while, or to drink a few fewer bottles, let alone hope that the drunkard will regain his former heroism.

In the end, in addition to Dara still working hard, even the old dwarf Todak, who admired Blotto the most, lost confidence in the former captain and became miserable, and things on Dara's side were not very smooth, so the old dwarf got together with Blotto, except for drinking, eating and sleeping, and ignored the rest of the things, even the usually noisy dwarf, he didn't move, making the dwarf so bored, plus Dara and the others were busy with business, no one paid attention to the dwarf, he had to entertain himself.

The most common thing Baudina does now is to walk around, wandering aimlessly through the city of morning light, while accidentally "picking up" and "picking up" that, and often picking all kinds of locks.

For the dwarf, wherever there is a lock, he never thinks that others forbid him to enter, but "someone accidentally locked this place, I have to find a way to help him unlock it" , Of course, in terms of the dwarf's lock-picking strength, except for those magicians' mansions, he doesn't dare to trespass (those doors are usually not locked, and the magicians only need to lay one or two magic prohibitions, so they are not afraid of being disturbed by others, unless the other party is also a magician), and the rest of the places, as long as the dwarf can walk, it is all the way unimpeded, and occasionally one or two seemingly complex locks can't stop the dwarf for long.

This habit of Bodina could not be changed by anyone who was familiar with the dwarf style, so every time he happened to open the door and went in to find someone at home or guarding a certain place, the reaction of others was usually to hold his head down, turn him around to face the door when he entered, and then kick him twice in the back and send him out of the house.

There are also some people who don't know the habits of the gnomes, so they directly called the guards and put the gnomes in prison.

However, it is usually locked up for a day or two, and the gnomes will be released again.

During this period, the dwarf had already visited the city of morning light, the capital of the human empire, and even the aristocratic district and the palace area, which ordinary people could not go, he had also been to once or twice, and he had also "picked up" a new small dagger with a delicate style and inlaid with beautiful gems in the private residence of a nobleman.

On this day, Dara and Lina and others got together again to discuss how to enter the noble district, and when they were introduced to the king through a nobleman, Bodina finally couldn't help but interject: "I know where there is a small door...... Seeing that no one paid attention to him, the dwarf took out the dagger again, and shouted while gesturing: "This was picked up in the mansion of Lord Count Samus, I saw that he was missing this dagger and was very anxious, if we can return it to him, maybe ......" The dwarf's voice grew quieter and quieter, for he found that no one was listening to him, and that everyone was arguing and arguing, and that Boudina's proposal was soon drowned out in the midst of the crowd's quarrels, and only Dara said to him: "Go away, Baudina, and don't make trouble." ”

The dwarf had no choice but to walk away, he was already a little tired of the whole city of morning light, he longed for new places, new adventures, and he really didn't want to continue to spend time in the city that he was already tired of. But Darla's business here is never finished, and there is always endless discussion, which makes him impatient.

Suddenly, the dwarf had an idea: if they could help them do this, wouldn't Dara and the others take him to the "River of Time"?

If you list a place where the dwarfs want to go the most, then hundreds, maybe thousands, or tens of thousands of years ago the dwarf valley is one of the must-choose for many dwarves, according to the legend of the gnomes, in the era of the dwarf valley life, is the most mechanical, technologically developed era in the history of the dwarf, almost all the dwarfs are gathered in the dwarf valley, isolated from the world, single-minded development.

The development of science and technology has made the gnomes completely omnipotent, almost omnipotent, for a long time, the gnomes used their own science and technology, armed themselves to the teeth, and became the strongest race on the continent of Tuya, and the little gnomes gave birth to pride, and even many dwarfs declared that they no longer believed in any gods, but only believed in their own technology.

For nature, the gnomes are no longer in awe, but blindly ask for and squeeze.

Finally, because of a test accident, an unimaginable explosion occurred in the deep valley of the gnomes.

At that time, the vast majority of gnomes participated in the experiment, and only a few gnomes who were not proficient in technology were not allowed to participate in the experiment, and they were far away from the experimental base, and finally escaped from the deep valley, and the flying machines, mechanical ships, and vehicles that relied on the energy of fire to run around on the ground became a myth in the mouths of the gnomes.

Because these escaped gnomes have a shallow understanding of science and technology, and they believe that this disaster is caused by those gnomes who no longer have faith, therefore, the remaining gnomes are strictly forbidden to many blasphemous scientific research with respect for their god Gal Shinkin in them, so that the once flaunting gnome technology has become a meteor and disappears in an instant.

Despite this, when the gnomes told this history, the original intention was to let future generations remember the dangers of the past and no longer develop those terrible technologies, but instead aroused the curiosity of the later generations of gnomes.

However, the dwarf valley is a place that has disappeared for a long time, and even if the current gnomes set foot in all the places on the surface and underground of the Tuya continent, they will not be able to set foot in such a place. For the gnomes, a place that has never been visited by a gnome has a greater attraction than a place where few gnomes have been.

Therefore, deep in the hearts of many gnomes, the adventure place they are most willing to go to is the legendary dwarf valley.

Bodina was not immune, and on the list of places he wanted to go, the dwarf valley was second (the first was the sun, because not only had the current gnomes not been there, but the past gnomes had not been, and even no one of any race on the Tuya continent had been). As for a place like the Gnome Valley, Bodina also knew that since it was long gone, the only way to get to the Gnome Valley was to use the "River of Time".

The last time he had entered the magical river with the rock-bottom dwarves in the northern polar tundra in the mud, he didn't see the past, but only some of the future. Some of them were already seen by Darla, and when he said it, it was also picky and uninspiring.

Therefore, the little guy's biggest wish now is not to find the magic river like Dara and others, and then find the key to the incident, but to be able to go to the dwarf valley that has disappeared for a long time.

He couldn't bear to stay in the City of Morning Light.

The dwarf begins to decide to carry out his plan, but since this is his first adventure alone, without the old dwarf and Dara by his side, there is a lot of trepidation. Because he knows that this is not a trivial matter of going to someone's house to go shopping, looking around, and "picking up" something, if he is caught, it will definitely not be as simple as being kicked in the ass once or twice.

Eventually, though, the temptation of the dwarf valley made Bodina forget the greatest danger possible and instead actively pursue her own plan.

Early the morning of the second day of the implementation of the gnome's plan, almost all the mansions in the aristocratic district had such a note pasted on the door, with only one simple word on it: River of Time.

Even the king's palace gate, as well as the small gate in the back garden, were pasted with such a note.

All of a sudden, the entire upper echelons of the City of Morning Light were in turmoil, and not only all the nobles, but even King Stanley XIV were very interested in the words on this note, and they were even more frightened and curious about the mysterious characters who joked with them at night and left the note, some said that they were seeking revenge, some said that they were offering treasures, and so on.

Later, an old court magician explained to the king the origin and origin of the "River of Time", and said that he had heard a group of strange people spreading rumors that they had found the "River of Time" and had seen many visions. This group of strange people from the north to the south, all the way to the dwarves, was taken by the elves, probably saw that their lies could not deceive people, and now it is very likely that they have come to the city of morning light, please don't take this kind of thing to heart, beware of Yunyun.

King Stanley XIV did not think so, and he was extremely interested in such an ethereal and ethereal thing if others did not believe it.

A few days ago, for example, a merchant who, not knowing what he had come up with, went through the door, and told the king what he had seen in the forest of Monica, and that he had seen many beautiful women ruling over the forest, and that any woman in it was the only beautiful woman in the world, much more beautiful than the famous elven beauties.

Everyone scoffed at this, but the king was so moved that he gave the merchant a lot of gold, and told him to go back to his hometown to find some beautiful women to meet him.

In the early morning of this day, he was looking at the maid who served him in the palace with disgust, thinking of the beautiful woman in the forest, and wishing to go there in person, but when he heard of such a strange thing as a strange note at the gate of the palace, he immediately threw the beautiful woman away again, and became interested in this river, which had never been talked about before.

After listening to the old court mage's explanation, King Stanley XIV became more interested in the "River of Time", and thought to himself, since the group was here, why not ask them in and ask them for clarification.

So, before noon, the king had sent a decree calling for a thorough investigation of who had posted the note, and when he had found it, he would order the person who had posted it to enter the palace.

It has to be said that the aristocratic officials usually procrastinate in handling the affairs of the commoners, and the nineteenth is unsatisfactory, but the will of the king is extremely efficient, and not long after the king's side issued the order, there is already a team of people who surrounded the small inn where Dara and others lived, and the innkeeper was frightened.

Even Dara was taken aback, thinking that he had been betrayed, and that the Duke had sent for him.

Who knew that the horse team outside made a fuss, and it turned out that it was just the king who had sent a note to welcome the person who posted the note into the palace to see him, and everyone was greatly relieved to hear that the team of men and horses had not come to make trouble for them.

To be honest, the dwarf didn't think that his method could actually work, you must know that for half a month, Lina has gone through almost everything, but it has never worked.

Now, he Bao Di took a random thought of a way that was not a way, and he did what Li Na had not done so far, and felt so proud, so he immediately confessed his actions last night to Dara one by one, and said: "Isn't this a good time for you to enter the palace to meet Jin? Dala you are wearing that mask now, no one can recognize ......."

The dwarf's mouth was covered by the old dwarf Todak, and he said, "If you don't speak, no one will treat you as a mute." ”

Although Todak had been drinking with Blotto for several days, after being so frightened and nervous just now, the wine had already woken up a lot, and he saw that the dwarf's mouth was not blocked, and now the whole small inn was gathered in the hall, and the knights who had come to pass the word were also guarding the door, but the dwarf was still talking, and almost revealed Darla's face, so he hurriedly stopped the dwarf.

The dwarf immediately shouted, "Todak, your hands are full of wine." "I forgot the original intention of speaking to myself.

Dara didn't wait to finish listening to the dwarf's words, and at this time she didn't care about persuading the two little ones to be right and wrong, so she hurriedly walked to the door of the inn, and said to herself, "I am the one who posted the note at night. ”

When the leading knight heard this, he was greatly surprised, and said, "Are you the only one who posted hundreds of notes at night?"

"And me!" a crisp voice sounded, looking for prestige, but it was the little girl Jenny who answered behind Dala, her eyes quietly looking at the leading knight, seeing that the other party did not believe it, explained: "I am small, and I am not noticeable when I stick up. ”

The knight thought about it, and the notes posted at night were really low, not much different from the height of the little girl. So he immediately took Dara and Jeanie with him, and wanted to leave here to meet the king.

Dara turned his head to look at the elf's cold gaze, nodded, believing that the other party had understood what he meant, so he took Jonny and left with the knights.

The knights let Dara and Jenny ride on the same horse and walk in the middle, while they keep an eye on Dara from front to back, left and right.

Dara rode all the way over, and the commercial area was familiar to him, but the aristocratic district was the first time he saw it, only to see a striking statue hovering on the gate between the aristocratic district and the commercial area, which was a golden dragon, which was said to have been incarnated into a human form, and established a rare friendship with Homan, the founding king of the Stanley Empire, and always helped him achieve victory at critical moments, and only quietly left after the founding of Homan.

Entering from the gate of the aristocratic district, it is a hundred and ten storey high staircase, which leads directly to the gate of the Stanley Imperial Palace District, and there are many houses and buildings on both sides of the staircase, which are magnificent, carved beams and jade buildings, all of which are the residences of dignitaries and nobles.

Here, Dara and the others could no longer ride their horses up, so they had to dismount and walk up. Everywhere they passed, they were guarded by soldiers wearing armor and plate armor.

Thinking back to the scenes he saw in the commercial and civilian areas, Dara had to marvel at the magnificence and extravagance of all kinds of high-rise buildings in the living area of the nobles, just looking at the appearance of the magnificence, it was already extraordinary, and I didn't know how many extravagant and valuable items in the house were things that Dara had never seen in his life.

I can't help but secretly have a sense of injustice, I don't understand why some people are born with a lot of money, noble blood, and enjoy the luxury of the world, while some people can only live in the countryside for a lifetime, such as their own family, which is also a relatively wealthy family in Simplain Village, but compared to what Dara sees today, it is really not worth mentioning.

The ornate buildings of the aristocratic quarter reminded Dara of some of the sights he had seen before, and the contrast between the two was so great that he immediately remembered the poverty and depravity he had seen in the civilian quarter.

There, there are some small alleys that do not see sunlight all year round, and the low houses are closely connected, and the water in front of the door is often not dry all year round, and there is always a pool of silt accumulated there, and passers-by will accidentally step their feet in such muddy water and wet their precious shoes.

Therefore, such a slum alley, decent people will never set foot here, and those who have to deal with these stagnant water every day, there is only one pair of shoes all year round, although they cherish it very much, every time they go to the mouth of the alley, there are always people who take off their shoes, take them in their hands, and slowly walk into the alley, and then step on the muddy water, into their own small black doorways.

There, for many years, the hollow coughs of old people and the cries of children for hunger sounded for years, and even the little girl of five years had to get up early in the morning to work, and the only wish of those people was that they would still have food to eat tomorrow and not starve to death. Survival is their only bottom line, children understand the deep meaning of hunger from an early age, and one or two lucky ones will also leave this poor land as they wish when they grow up.

But more people are like the stagnant water in front of the door, even on the best sunny days, they still continue to stay in the alley, and they can't be separated or dispersed.

Despite their hard work from morning to night, every now and then someone died, and then the corpse collectors in this part of the city arrived.

The corpse collector was an old man, always dressed in black, and whenever he dragged the corpses of the afflicted people away in a cart, the old man would mutter: "Good boy, good boy, you are now enjoying yourself, sleep in peace." ”

The corpses were usually dragged into the public cemetery behind the church in the west of the city, there were no headstones, no coffins, and the people who came here were too poor to spend half a silver coin in their lives, and they didn't need so much money after their deaths, at most they were wrapped in rags and buried in the earth.

As a result, it is often frequented by the city's bereaved dogs, but at night even the bravest wild dogs dare not go in and out of the city, because at night the cemetery becomes a world of skeletons, and the skeletons walk around the cemetery, their bones and joints rattle, and even the guards who patrol the city avoid this area at night, lest they see this terrible sight.

Only the old man who collected the body lay silently in his room and slept.

These things Dara would never have noticed before, but since he was persecuted by the Duke and experienced many dangers along the way, he came to the City of Morning Light again, and his eyes saw these tragic things that had been under his nose before, and he knew that there were many, many people as unfortunate as himself in the Stanley Empire.

There is no other reason than two simple words: class.

They are all ordinary people at the bottom, so they are oppressed and bullied by those nobles.

At the beginning of the founding of the Stanley Empire, the capital was designed like this, and King Homan's original intention may have been to encourage everyone that even if you are at the bottom, as long as you work hard, you can still develop well.

As everyone knows, hundreds of years later, this pattern is like the current political situation of the Stanley Empire, full of injustices that oppress the people from the top down.

Dara watched all the way, thought all the way, and his mood fluctuated, and suddenly there was a huge change in the rule of his country.

In the past, he was often proud of being a human being, because in a short history, human beings were able to establish a country that occupied nearly a quarter of the land of the Tuya continent and became a powerful race that could not be ignored.

But now, after all the injustices he encountered, he began to feel that the endless expansion of humanity was ultimately due to the greed of the upper classes, and that the ever-expanding lands were meaningless to ordinary civilians.

Because every expansion only means the expansion of a certain aristocratic territory, or the rise of a new upstart, for most people, they still live a life of barely full stomach and even precarious poverty.

And the so-called heroes only became heroes after countless partners sacrificed for their common ideals, and the fruits of victory are often divided among a small number of people.

Now, he began to faintly feel that being able to change these unreasonable systems and phenomena and let most people as unfortunate as him live a better life is the real hero's doing, not what he thought before, relying on his own force to fight for the country and open up territory, not to mention that it is as simple as taking risks everywhere and killing a few monsters to claim to be heroes.

Hero? Dara smiled bitterly, he hadn't even avenged his own family vendetta, but he was still here with the world in mind, worrying about the people who were also suffering, wasn't it ridiculous?

He knows that there is a "compassionate and compassionate" side in his nature, and his great compassion and sense of responsibility make him continue to unconsciously bear all kinds of burdens along the way, even if he himself has suffered heavy losses, so he will become a leader who is convinced by people of different races.

Moreover, Dara not only wants revenge, but also wants to prevent the recurrence of the tragedy that happened to him, to prevent such things from happening again, and he does not see any other way to stop the nobles from doing anything wrong in his own territory than to change the unreasonable aristocratic system.

Dara was thinking to herself, when she suddenly heard the leading knight who brought them here reminded in a low voice: "In front of you is the gate of the palace area, after entering the palace, you must look at me in the eyes of everything, remember not to take a wrong half a step." Otherwise, if you kill your head, it will not be good for us and this little girl. ”

Dara nodded, followed the knight up, and when he looked up, the mystery of the Stanley Imperial Palace District was revealed before Darra's eyes for the first time.

Directly facing the gate is a circular pool in front of the palace area, in the center of which is a tall obelisk, centered on the pool, a larger circle, with radial canals and roads passing through it, as well as several loops that divide the green meadows, gardens, and groves into various beautiful figures.

Passing through this large pool area, you will come to the main entrance of the palace area of the Imperial Palace of Stanley.

On the top beam of the main entrance of the Imperial Palace, there is a statue of a person, judging from his vigorous demeanor on a war horse, it is the founding king of the empire, Homman Stanley I, and on the stone pillars on both sides, there are statues of King Homan's left and right hands - the general of the Blade Corps Moore and the mage Artemy. All the figures are made of pure gold, shining and gorgeous.

On the stairs in front of the main entrance of the palace, there is also a red carpet, embroidered with a huge lion head and a crown, which is very majestic.

There is also an allusion in this, the first king Homan was originally born a boy from a certain tribe on the grassland, and soon after he was born, his mother was taken captive by lions, and his father was angry, in order to take revenge, he killed a group of lions and raised the little boy with the lioness's milk.

On the grassland, the lion is the king of all beasts, and he grew up eating lion's milk, so when the country was founded, many places adopted the lion head wearing a crown to commemorate this period of time when Horman was a child.

Between the pillars supporting the palace, a blue flag embroidered with a golden dragon head is hung, just like the statue of the golden dragon at the gate of the aristocratic quarter, which is to commemorate the golden dragon who once helped Homan.

The whole palace is built by neat stones one by one, except for the gold-inlaid decorations and glazed tile roofs, and the most peculiar thing is that these stones, no matter how big or small, are all a whole, without the slightest crack or flaw, and there are more stone pillars, which are also whole stone structures, I don't know how these heavy stones were transported from below when the palace was built. It is also built by the ingenuity of the builders, using local materials and stones hewn in the mountains.

At the gate of the palace, there was a neat line of soldiers, all holding heavy weapons, solemn and mighty, closely monitoring the movements around them, and the momentum was impressive.

Although Dara had already experienced all kinds of tribulations, the first time she saw such a rich, compelling, neat and majestic royal scene, she still couldn't help sweating slightly, a little nervous, but the little girl holding his hand was not afraid, and her eyes were still quietly looking at the palace gate.

After waiting for a long time, a light-footed, gentle-looking woman came and led Dara and Jiao Ni into the palace, but the knight who had come earlier was left outside the palace gate.

On the way, the woman whispered to Dara that the king was having fun in the waterfall area of the back garden, and that Dara was not allowed to make a noise no matter what they saw, and the woman blushed slightly as she spoke.

Dara asked, "What should I call you, sister?"

The woman immediately glared at Dara and said, "When I didn't ask you to speak, don't talk nonsense!" Thinking about it, this is just a country boy, why should she be like him, and besides, she secretly glanced at Darla's strong shoulders and broad chest, and suddenly turned to an interesting thought in her heart, so she smiled at Dara and said softly: "I am Baroness Van Temple. ”

Dara saw that Baroness Templer was beautiful, and she had a mature woman's charm that was different from that of a girl, and her temperament was noble, although it was not as natural and noble as Miyali's, which was from the inside out, and it seemed a little contrived, but it was also a little less impersonal frost, and the slight smile just now was quite a bit indescribable. So he nodded and followed her onwards.

The furnishings and decorations inside the palace are natural and unique, the front hall is a majestic and rich royal atmosphere, but after a few entrances and exits along the corridor, a few corridors have passed, and then they have come to the back garden of the palace, where the grass is green and flowery, the design is delicate, and the interest of life is exhausted.

Due to the fact that the city of morning light is located in the temperate zone, and the palace area is located and the sun is abundant, the garden is as green and red as spring and early summer all year round, and the scenery is picturesque.

The back garden, like the front garden, also has a circular pool with an obelisk, but the shape is small and cute, not as majestic as the front garden. Surrounding the pond is a circular cloister decorated with green vines, which looks cool and refreshing.

After the pond, there is a large lotus pond, the lotus pond is dotted with all kinds of white, pink, yellow lotus flowers, lotus leaves are like a cover, and it is beautiful in a flash.

On both sides of the lotus pond are two flat bridges, connecting the back garden with the waterfall area of the palace.

In the distance, Dara heard the murmuring of water on the other side of the lotus pond, mixed with the cheerful laughter of some men and women, as if she had encountered something pleasant.

The baroness led the way, walked gracefully, turned back in three steps, looked at Dara, smiled meaningfully, and his eyes became ambiguous, Dara was not a young man who saw a beautiful woman half a year ago and would blush, but for the charm of this mature woman, she did not have immunity like the tantrum Lina and the elf who pretended to be cold, on the contrary, every smile of the baroness made Dara feel like she had drunk some warm wine, and she only felt lazy.

But soon, the stagnant water in front of the alleys in the civilian area appeared in front of Darra's eyes again, and the faces with yellow and thin faces and blank eyes also flashed in Darla's mind, as well as the scene of corpses everywhere in the future war, which made Darra's heart shocked, and his expression instantly converged.

Therefore, when the Baroness turned her head to smile at Dara again, Dara unconsciously lowered her head, avoiding the other party's soft smile and eyes.

"I'll be here, I'll wait here, I'll come back when I'm called. The Baroness whispered suddenly, and walked forward.

Dara was startled, and then stopped, suddenly realizing that the laughter and the murmuring of the waterfall were already close to his ears.

Dara raised her head slightly, and when she saw the scene in front of her, she shuddered and shuddered, and hurriedly turned her face away, and covered the eyes of the little girl Jiaoni with her hands.

But his heart was still beating suddenly, it turned out that Dara had just looked up, and happened to see the king and a group of noble-looking men and women were drinking and having fun in the open space not far from the waterfall, and a naked beauty had just crawled out of the cistern under the waterfall.

Dara didn't know what they were doing, but she heard one of the men shouting, "What are you doing? Get out of here!

A woman smiled and said, "Lord Marquis, your maid has come up to breathe, even if she goes down again, you will lose." ”

I heard a "plop" sound, and a woman screamed "Ahh Drown in it. ”

When Dara heard this, she understood a little, and couldn't help but look back again, only to see that there were several women next to the waterfall, only draped in a piece of gauze, and their faces were panicked and trembling. And the girl who had just come out of the water, before she had time to put on a fig leaf, was kicked into the water again, and was struggling to go ashore by the pool, and a short and fat aristocratic man, thinking that it was the Marquis, also stood by the pool, and kept stepping on the girl's head with his foot, not letting the girl go ashore.

Dara almost couldn't hold it back, and was about to rush over to save someone, but then he remembered the purpose of his trip, and had to stand there in a swallowed breath.