Barton County is bordered by the Bama Canal and is a second-level administrative district in the Upper Kyoto City area.

However, whether it is political, economic, cultural or other aspects, Barton County is not very outstanding among the "one capital and six counties" in Shangjing.

However, thanks to the new governor of Barton County in recent years, the local characteristics of Barton County close to the mouth of the West Sea have increased financial investment in publicity, and the tourism and seafood catering industry has been greatly promoted.

At the same time, it also improved the treatment and status of human living and working in Barton County, and even creatively proposed a decree to build a "human-friendly city".

The last of these decrees to build a "human-friendly city" is particularly crucial.

Every year, it attracts countless young people from other countries who are curious about the city of Shangjing, so that the number of human tourists who wander and stay in the city every year surges, even more than that of the celestial people.

Human sociologists in some countries believe that Bartonshire's decree to build a "human-friendly city" is no less significant than the policy of "intermarriage between heaven and human races" adopted by the World Conference more than 500 years ago.

In order to eliminate the racial barrier between heaven and human beings and promote the harmony and stability of the world's cross continent, an incomparably solid step has been taken.

Of course

There are also those who scoff at the experts for being pure farts.

Who will bridge the racial divide with you?

As soon as this policy came out,

Where is there a real celestial nobility in Barton County?

Now those who stay in Barton County are just some half-breeds who can't mix in the celestial people and the down-to-earth celestial people are making money, and the really powerful nobles have long since moved to other states and counties, and even to Kyoto.

As for the so-called construction of a [human-friendly city], it is just a bone or two casually thrown at the dinner table by the celestial people who have been in a high position for a long time.

You must really think that you have entered the house and eaten in the same bowl as the celestials

Then you try it on the table?

I don't have a good juice to eat.

Some young people who have been to Barton County have exposed the unfair treatment they have suffered there on the Internet, angrily accusing the so-called construction of a "human-friendly city" as a cover, and that the only place where the decree can be implemented is in the "circle" that has been demarcated by heaven and man.

The man had been to some other places out of curiosity, such as the mansion of the noble of heaven, and was arrested on the spot by the city's security management patrol team.

Without even being tried, he was thrown into a dungeon and locked up for three days and three nights, and finally contacted his family and paid a huge amount of bail before being released.

A human-friendly city?

Friendly ghost.

It's just that this kind of poignant and real experience is often quickly deleted by people from the Internet security management department after the news is exposed, and some are said to be delivered by door-to-door couriers, which fully proves that the Internet is not a "place outside the law".

in time

No one dares to talk anymore, and there is still an endless stream of people who come to Barton County every year.

Perhaps many people have also seen and accepted their fate.

If you don't let you go, you don't go.

Even if a "circle" is drawn, it is also a circle of heavenly and human cities, and even the air quality is more than twice as good.

Come and play a trip to take pictures and develop social networking sites,

Isn't it a boom?

In the morning, I took a ferry through the Bama Canal and passed through layers of strict immigration checks, and after about another hour's drive, Higashinohara arrived at the destination of the trip.

Barton County Long-distance Bus Station.

As soon as the car stopped, the people in the car poured down as if the gate had been opened and water was released.

In less than half a minute, there were only five people left in the carriage of the long-distance bus carrying more than 50 people, Higashinohara and the five people from the Mithril Club execution team of the Stafford Private Great Sword Academy in front.

Are you in such a hurry?

Higashinohara wondered in his heart, and after getting off the bus, he realized that the people who had poured out of the carriage did not leave immediately, but posed in various poses against the background of the bus.

There was a young woman looking up at the sky at 45 degrees, half her face was bright and half sad.

It is estimated that if this photo is posted on social networks, the copywriting should be "People must go to Barton once in their lives".

After getting out of the car, Higashinohara's eyes noticed that the five members of the Mithril Society's executive team had gathered in the open space in front of the car, and it seemed that they were not taking pictures but discussing something.

Although he was interested in joining the Mithril Society's enforcement team, it was clearly not the right time at the moment.

The main purpose of Higashinohara's visit to Barton County this time was to follow the address sent by the dusk survey to see if he could repair and reforge his two big knives.

What I didn't expect was that

He got out of the car and turned straight to leave.

He didn't take a few steps, but his brows couldn't help frowning slightly, and he felt a sound of footsteps following behind him.

Higashinohara didn't turn his head to look.

He walked calmly, and when he walked around a corner, he glanced at it, only to realize that behind him were the Mithril Society.

What's the situation?

Higashinohara had doubts in his mind, but soon he realized that he would be wrong.

- The other party is not following him, but seems to be going to the same place as himself, and the destination is the bus stop outside the bus station.

It seems to be a bit of a coincidence.

Higashino said secretly in his heart.

It's just that then something more coincidental happened.

On the bus, I passed Haikou Station, Shashi Station, Cultural Center Station and so on

Finally, when the next stop was about to arrive at the White Swan Harbor Station, Higashinohara found that several members of the Mithril Society were also leaning towards the middle door.

Well?

They're going to get off here too?

Although Higashinohara is not a persecution paranoia,

But it's not that simple.

If there are many coincidences, there are no longer coincidences.

However, he did not give up getting out of the car, and also leaned towards the position of the door.

Although he didn't think it was a coincidence, he didn't think that a harmless young man would be targeted by the Mithril Society's enforcement team as soon as he went out.

If they didn't guess wrong, they just wanted to go to White Swan Harbor, and the target should not be themselves.

Is it just that something happened to the white swan?

He wondered in his heart.

Next, as soon as the car stopped at the station, the people got off the bus with the flow of people.

Higashinohara jumped out of the car a few seconds before the door was about to close.

Then I stood at the bus stop and took a look, but found that those people were heading in the direction of the coastal port of White Swan Harbor.

Speaking of which, White Swan Harbour is also part of the construction of a "human-friendly city" in Barton County.

And because of its proximity to the sea, the policy is relatively more relaxed, and it can be said that Barton County is the most lightly governed area, because the relatively free environment attracts a large number of human tourists every year.

Higashinohara didn't know what the president of the Mithril Society was doing here with a few students who looked like cadres.

But looking at the solemn faces and appearances of those people, it is obvious that they will not come to the tour group to build.

Higashino had his own business, and although he was curious about it, it was limited.

Standing at the bus stop sign and looking at the direction in which the people disappeared, he shook his head and still didn't follow.

He took out his phone and looked again at the location that Dusk had sent to him a week earlier.

5-54 Ninth Avenue, White Swan Harbour, Bartonshire.

The distance shown on the map to the bus stop is about 10 minutes away.

Of course, if he let go of the speed, this ten minutes would inevitably be greatly shortened.

However, the first time Higashinohara set foot on the land of the celestials, he naturally did a good job of "despising the enemy strategically and valuing the enemy tactically", and it is okay to think about this kind of thing of using speed ability on the street.

He's been waiting for a week.

Not bad for the time of the day.

However, just after Higashinohara left in the opposite direction, it was not far ahead.

Among the group of people who were walking in the direction of the port, the deputy captain of the execution team, Filina, glanced at the back behind her from the corner of her eyes and couldn't help but say:

"It's strange, that guy seems to be on the same road with us all along, can't he be following us?"

"Are you talking about the little white face?"

Someone in the enforcement team couldn't help but laugh when they heard this, "No, no, a few people who came to Barton County from Meji Province didn't come to White Swan Harbor, and if they went to other places, they might have to be sent to the dungeon by the city security management if they didn't pay attention and walked out of the boundary." ”

"Ahh

Filina was stunned for a moment, and shook her head with a little smirk, "It's me who is too careful." ”

"I don't think His Excellency the vice captain is too careful, but looks at how handsome others are."

Someone couldn't help but joke:

"It's rare for us to take a cross-border long-distance bus, but there are a lot of people along the way, why do you only remember him?"

The vice-captain Filina was stunned, and after thinking about it carefully, it seemed that she was really handsome.

Immediately, his pretty face sank:

"I think you're the one who owes the beating."

The president of the Mithril Society, Kairutu. Feng. Caucasus couldn't help frowning when he heard this.

He also had some impressions of the young man in his mind, and when he thought about it carefully, he was stunned to find that he couldn't remember the appearance of the other party in his mind.

This is not normal!

Kairutu suddenly turned his head to look at the other four members of the enforcement team, "Did any of you see what that young man looks like?" ”

What does it look like?

Everyone frowned, thought carefully in their minds, and then looked at each other a little blankly.

At this moment, all that even Filina can recall is the charming curvature of the other party's handsome chin.

The others only saw the side face, and they couldn't remember what the front face looked like.

It is estimated that after a long time, I am afraid that even the slight arc I saw will be forgotten in my memory.

Kairutu's heart sank slightly.

This should not be a coincidence.

The most likely thing is that the other party naturally adjusts the direction of their head and body slightly every time their eyes make contact, so that people do not feel any abrupt and make their face avoid their gaze.

is like the "sixth person" in real society, and the sense of existence is extremely thin.

The opponent's ability level is not necessarily higher than theirs.

But the insight must be extremely strong.

"It's not coming for us, is it?" The vice-captain, Filina, was suddenly a little worried.

The Mithril Society's president, Kairutu, shook his head quietly, "We came to Barton County this time to carry out a secret mission from the Condor Bureau, and the specific mission objectives are not even clear to us, so there is no value in staring at us, it should just be a coincidence." ”

Kairutu's judgment is rarely wrong.

Everyone in the execution team couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they heard this, if the task was targeted at the beginning, then it meant that they were basically running in vain in the past three days.

At this time, someone in the enforcement team suddenly wondered, "But that's it. President, why is our first stop at White Swan Harbor? ”

The destination of White Swan Harbor was decided by Kailutu after they arrived in Barton County and got off the bus, and the people did not ask the underlying reason at that time.

Hearing this, Kailutu looked at the white gulls soaring in the sea and sky in the direction of the port, and said in a calm voice, "I hacked into the background of the tourist office website of Barton in the car and checked the tourist recruitment records of Barton County during this time, and the number of tourists received by White Swan Port has recently shown an upward curve. ”

Several people couldn't help but be slightly stunned when they heard this.

The vice-captain Filina hesitated, but couldn't help but remind, "But White Swan Harbor is originally a popular tourist destination in Barton County, and this season is still the peak season for caviar sales, so it shouldn't be a problem if there are more people?" ”

Hearing Filina's words, the eyes of the other three members of the execution team also returned to Kailutu's body, but they only heard Kairutu say calmly and unhurriedly:

"But don't forget, the recent turmoil within the Adjudication Division and the tragic death of a judge in the neighboring Patton County Meze Province, the Adjudication Division and the local police's martial law arrest everywhere has caused panic, and the lockdown of the local tourism industry is a setback, and the number of tourists received is not bad, why is there an increase?"

Hearing Kairutu's cold and rational words, the four members of the execution team were stunned.

Obviously, they didn't take this into account.

So in other words, the anomaly in Barton County mentioned in the investigation mission assigned to them by the Condor Bureau is likely to be an anomalous increase in tourists in White Swan Harbor?

But what does that mean?

"Could it be because of the upcoming World Conference?" Someone suddenly asked.

"It's too early."

Kairutu shook his head and said noncommittally in a cold voice, "Taking a step back, even if there is really a national representative who arrives early,

But this is Barton County,

The 'conference village' that received the delegations of the World Conference was in Baling County, more than 500 kilometers away. ”

Ahh

Am I misremembering?

The man bowed his head in disagreement.

Kairutu glanced at everyone and said solemnly, "You are all the elite of the execution team, but we haven't graduated yet, this field mission is still safety first, and any problems found in the next three days will be reported immediately, remember, it is a report." ”

"Yes."

Everyone nodded yes.

After Kairutu, who had finished instructing everyone, forgot to glance in the direction where Higashinohara disappeared behind him.

Although he said just now that he didn't need to care about the coincidence, he always felt in his heart that that figure seemed to have seen it somewhere.

Where could it be?

White Swan Harbor.

Knock knock!

There was another knock on a fisherman's door.

Squeak.

The door opened from the inside, and the woman holding the child looked at the person in her clothes with some surprise.

A black and white checkered hip-hop scarf, a blue mask, a brown cap, and a pair of sunglasses perched on the bridge of the nose.

Weather in April

This kind of dress is somewhat exaggerated.

"Is it Tanjuro Kamado's house?" Higashino, who was wandering outside the door and completed the 'one-click costume change', asked politely without changing his color.

He knows how weird he dresses, but as long as I'm not embarrassed, it's someone else.

The woman holding the child also came back to her senses, stared at Higashinohara, who was dressed strangely, and suddenly asked, "Are you here to forge a sword?" ”

Well?

Higashinohara was a little surprised.

When he was wandering outside, he saw that it was a self-operated seafood retail store and thought it would take a lot of trouble to knock on the door.

Unexpectedly, the woman in front of her actually skipped the previous steps directly.

As if seeing Higashinohara's surprise, the woman couldn't help muttering to herself:

"Yesterday too, I really don't know what you people think, find a fisherman to forge a sword."

But she was very happy that her fisherman's husband was able to earn money part-time to support the family.

Although those visitors looked scary yesterday, she was startled by the deposit alone.

This guest

It must be generous, right?

(End of chapter)