3. Like the sun
"Bang dang. Bang Dang"
In the cramped and humble wooden house restaurant, Ingrid, a young girl from Swali, propped her cheek with one hand and looked at the man beside her in amazement.
At this moment, the table in front of Fisher was already stacked with an innumerable number of porcelain plates, and this was the result of the pig breed chef having already taken some of the plates in advance.
Fisher used the utensils provided by the store to elegantly divide the food into suitable sizes, but the process did not slow him down in the slightest. To Ingrid, even the hardest bones of an animal were as thin as a piece of paper under the knife and fork in his hand.
And this familiar action made Ingrid more and more sure that the man in front of her was not a native human from the Southern Continent, but a gentleman from the Western Continent.
Gentleman to gentleman, Rao is so, Ingrid couldn't help but have a stiff expression when she saw this, and after a pause, she asked,
"How long has it been since you eaten?"
Fisher glanced at her, and there was nothing to be embarrassed about, since the girl had something to ask for herself later, even if she didn't want her to ask for it, and then she happened to be able to give her magic that was much higher than the value of the meal, it was better to eat a good meal first.
He slowly lowered his knife and fork, and touched his lower abdomen, which had become completely flat, and from the torn garment, his waist had completely returned to its original state, but Renee's strength was completely gone.
Renee, where did you go?
Originally, there was a Hart Bird in the wallet that was connected to Renee, but when they reunited with him earlier, the Hart Bird had already flown out. Fisher and Renee were so immersed in the joy of reunion that they forgot to let her let another Hart bird in. Without the postcard contacting Renee, Fisher's thoughts on the wallet became irrelevant, and he was lost while in Sanctuary.
On the face, he took a napkin and wiped his lips, and instead of answering the previous question of the girl next to him, he said,
"Go out and talk?"
Ingrid pursed her lips, took out several hundred Nario from her bosom and threw them on the table, then got up and walked out of the small dining room first, and said to the pig race in Longting by the way,
"No need to look for it."
"Hey, go slowly, you two."
Fisher glanced at the pig breed who had taken Nario behind the counter with a glint in his eyes as if he had seen a treasure, and after a pause, he also stood up and walked out of the dining room in the footsteps of the girl from earlier.
It was noon in the southern continent at this moment, the sun was shining in the sky, and the wind in the wilderness was blowing slowly, blowing up the already long black hair on Fisher's head.
And on the street, because Fisher had been glanced at before, there were no other sub-people who came to watch, and now it seemed that he and the girl were the only ones in this not too lively town.
When she came out, Ingrid was standing in the middle of the road in the doorway, looking up into the distance, and Fisher looked in the direction she was looking, and saw that she was watching the smoke rising in the distance.
The place seemed to be a factory.
Hearing the sound of Fisher going out, Ingrid, who was about to raise the camera on her chest to take pictures, turned her head and said to Fisher through gritted teeth,
"Uncle, where did you come from, you have eaten me so much, and you have eaten me for a week"
Uncle?
Although the girl in front of her does look young, she should not be more than twenty years old, and although she is indeed in her early thirties, she should not be called that no matter how you say it
Asuka, Tang Ze, who is younger than you, didn't call me that.
Fisher thought unconsciously.
But touching the long hair on his head and the beard that he hadn't tidied up for a long time, he didn't deny the other party's name, only said,
"It's okay, half full."
"Huh."
"Well, I have something I want to ask."
"Wait, shouldn't I ask you first? I just invited you to dinner. ”
"Tell me."
Ingrid glanced around at the quiet surroundings, then hooked her hand at Fisher, and asked as she walked forward,
"How long have you been here, uncle?"
"Just arrived."
"Just arrived? What do you mean, has it only arrived in the past few days? ”
"Almost."
Ingrid touched the beret on her head with a little headache, pouted and said,
"I also expect you to tell me a little bit about the factory in front of me, there is nothing to shoot in Longting City, I have asked all the residents here, and all of them are silent about the factory, I see that you are a native of the Western Continent, and I thought."
This town is not big at all, and the girl in front of her is walking fast, and the kung fu of chatting is already almost to the edge.
In the end, Ingrid covered her head and squatted on the ground with a headache, looking very unwilling to look at the smoking factory in the distance, but she didn't care that Fisher ate her and cost her a lot of money.
This girl's family background should be very good.
Uncle Fisher glanced at the smoking factory in the distance, surrounded by a tall wall, and couldn't help asking,
"What does the factory produce?"
"I don't know, I just know that this is the land that the New Dragon Court [rented] to Nari. The legal power here is directly under the Golden Palace and the Pioneer Company, and they have built a lot of factories here, which is similar to the attributes of the Nali Consulate next to the Dragon Palace in Longting City. ”
Fisher's eyes narrowed, feeling more and more that something was wrong, and thinking of the new Nario she had just taken out, he couldn't help but ask,
"Ingrid, what year is it?"
"Uncle, which country's calendar do you use?"
"Nari."
Ingrid looked up at him and muttered,
"You're from Nari, you look like an antique. This year has just begun, and when I think about it, it is exactly the fifth year of Queen Elizabeth. ”
Fisher's eyes couldn't help but move slightly, and then he turned his head to look at Ingrid in disbelief, and even Emhart, who was in his arms, poked his head out in extreme shock and looked at Ingrid as well.
You know, when Fisher just left this era, Elizabeth had only been on the throne for about half a year, and now when he came back, the other party had been on the throne for five years, which is equivalent to four and a half years after he left his own time?!
"How is this possible?"
"Uncle! You. What's in your arms? It's ugly."
Ingrid looked at Fisher, who was very surprised, and was about to say something, but was immediately startled by Emhart in his arms.
At first, she thought it was some kind of spirit spirit East XZ in Fisher's arms, but when she looked closely, she realized that it was a book with eyes and a mouth!
"Your mother, you repeat, do you believe in the great book sir"
Ingrid opened her mouth and quickly raised the camera hanging around her neck, and slammed the shutter at the book that poked her head out and cursed.
"Click!"
Suddenly, Emhardt's eyes were instantly covered with white light, and he was frightened, and while quickly retracting into Fisher's arms, he shouted in a bullduck's voice,
"Ahh It's hex! Fisher! My eyes! This girl knows sorcery! ”
"Emhart, we came back with a deviation and we shouldn't"
Fisher patted Emhart's body and said with some headaches.
But Emhardt, squinting at the eyes that were not clear to him, interrupted him, and said firmly,
"It must be Bymun's fault! That guy hurts a lot! ”
"No, it could be my fault."
Fisher glanced at his waist, which was completely healed, and actually had a little guess in his head.
It has to be said that it was a mistake to release the power that Renee left for himself in the Tree Continent, and the power was taken out and re-sealed into his body, which was likely to lead to the direction and strength of its effect on the thread of fate, so he couldn't return exactly where he should have returned.
This analysis makes sense, because at that time the power was completely out of control, and although it finally quieted down again for unknown reasons, it must not have been as it was, otherwise it would not have even shifted from the chest to the waist.
But Emhardt only felt that Fisher had been brainwashed by that bad woman.
Fisher turned his head to look at Ingrid in front of him, looking incredulous, and then asked,
"Tell me about what has happened since Elizabeth ascended the throne six months later, and everything that has happened until now."
"Hey, uncle, I'm the one I've invited you to eat, right now."
"Tell me, and in return, I'll take you to the factory."
Ingrid's eyes, hidden behind her sunglasses, lit up slightly, and then she stood up, coughed lightly, and said to Fisher,
"Deal! Hey, no, didn't you just come to the Southern Continent in the past few days, and you don't know anything about the Western Continent, so where did you go before? Northside? Sea drifting? ”
"Get to the point."
Ingrid glanced at the equally curious Emhart, who was hiding in Fisher's arms, and continued,
"Well, in fact, your empress has nothing to say, now she is not in the Western Continent, but even in the whole world. Nari is too under her leadership. Well, I can't describe it, but to be honest, it's a big gap from the previous one, and even from the eyes of me, a Schwali, I am extremely envious."
She snapped her fingers and counted all the things that had happened in the past.
Ingrid knew a lot about Nari's domestic affairs, but she only knew a very specific outline.
Ingrid only knew that Elizabeth's reform of the economic system had become a model for learning in the western continent and the north, and she seemed to have appointed many new officials, adopted an examination selection and assessment system, and changed the golden palace era that was originally passed down by surname into a name transmission, so that the image of every emperor was completely out of the shadow of the Godlin family.
Therefore, now Elizabeth Godling's official name can be [Elizabeth Empress] and [Elizabeth I], but more people still like to call her "Sun Empress" and "Golden Empress".
In a short period of time, Nari, who reformed the system, burst into an astonishing vitality, and various new technological and magical achievements were common, but after all, a lot of information and data were not disclosed to the public, and Ingrid did not know the specific circumstances inside.
She could only get a glimpse of what the empire was like as the sun rose today in the growing number of Nari factories, the increasingly wealthy Nari people and merchants, and the growing diplomatic and military prowess.
After stabilizing her own backyard, Elizabeth's ambitions for foreign expansion soon became apparent.
With Nari's old, love-hate neighbor Schwally, Elizabeth became more and more proactive in her economic and military strategies. For four and a half years, although there had been no open war, anyone with a discerning eye could see that Empress Schwali was losing in the game with Elizabeth.
Elizabeth reclaimed only one piece of the disputed territory that had been blurred between the two countries for hundreds of years, but it was precisely that piece that was the territory that Nari and Schwally had disputed for the longest time.
The Nari army was stationed here, and Schwally could only wait and see from afar.
Together, Elizabeth separated all the churches and magic associations that were nominally affiliated with Kado, and established an organization completely controlled by Nari, and Elizabeth personally went to ask Haytham to be the first president, but the other party resigned due to old age, and it didn't take long for the legendary magic master to announce his retirement and retire completely.
All in all, the current Western Continent has completely become the territory of the Nari Dominant Order.
Although there will be problems in this, both at home and abroad there is a certain dissatisfaction with Elizabeth, the empress. But this dissatisfaction stems mainly from her near-absolute power, rather than from what she does or what she achieves.
Those who resented her cursed her, despising her as a "dictator" and a "tyrant"; Those who loved her sang her praises and praised her as "the sage" and "the sun".
The constitutional monarchy, which had been accumulated for a long time and was almost about to take shape, had been completely distorted by Elizabeth's power on the day of the death of her originally moderate brother, and perhaps someone in the future would reflect on the system and phenomenon that Nari now exists in name only, but obviously, Elizabeth doesn't care about these at all.
All she wants is today and now, like the rising sun.
Fisher listened with a blank face, the West Continent had changed so much in the four and a half years she had missed, but as she had said when she had left, she would have done better than Dexter when she had bloodily wrested power from her brother.
Fisher didn't know if Elizabeth was happy with the status quo, but from the rather shocked and exclamatory tone in Ingrid's mouth, many people in the Western Continent were shocked.
"Uncle. Uncle"
Fisher was slightly stunned, but Ingrid's call in front of him still pulled him up from his thoughts, and the other party raised his eyebrows helplessly and asked him,
"You're still listening?"
"Well, I'm listening."
"How about it, do you feel like you're back home after a long absence?"
"A little."
"Hey, it's really strange, every time the Nali people in Longting City talk about their empress and domestic affairs, they have a proud look on their faces, and you can't see any expression at all. Hey, uncle, could it be that you are some kind of fugitive who was expelled by Nari and then smuggled into the Southern Continent? ”
Don't say it, don't say it, in a sense, Ingrid is right.
Fisher shook his head with a bit of a laugh, and then asked,
"What about the Dragon Court, who is the leader here, and what about the Dragon Court City you mentioned earlier?"
Ingrid's expression was slightly stunned after hearing this, and then she pouted and said,
"Who else could it be, Green Dragon King [Isel]"
Fisher frowned and couldn't help asking,
"So, have you ever heard of a name called Rafael?"
Until now, Fisher had some nostalgia for his sudden departure for so long. Four and a half years is not a short time in the current era when myths are dying out and immortal species are scarce. A lot of mundane things change, and while it may be nothing for a whale race like Jasmine, who can sleep for decades, it's not the same for Rafael, who fights in the South, and Valentina, who sleeps in the North.
In particular, when Fisher heard that the current leader of the New Dragon Court was a name he had never heard before, he became increasingly worried about Rafael's current situation.
Unexpectedly, Ingrid, who had a relaxed face before, turned pale after hearing "that name" in Fisher's words, and she didn't know what she had in mind, as if the name came from something very terrible.
"What, does the name mean something?"
"Of course, I'd heard the name before I came to the Southern Continent. Although I haven't seen her in person, she is said to be an extremely violent and bloody dragon-like race, known for her blood-red scales. She is the leader of a violent resistance group, and she is the opposite of the existing Dragon Court, and it seems that she also claims to be the Dragon Court, but who knows who is orthodox"
"And that dragonman is famous because she brutally killed many, many humans."
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