At 13:42 BJ time, Xia Yan and Chu Zihang officially left their hometown where they had lived for 18 years and set off for Chicago, USA, which is thousands of miles away on the other side of the ocean.

As the planes rose higher and higher, their views of the city became more and more blurred.

It was only then that they realized that all of a sudden, their hometown was no longer a haven where they could live comfortably. It really became something that people couldn't see or touch, an illusory memory in their minds, a trace of their long lives.

Maybe on a leisurely afternoon, they will see that familiar city again on TV or in the news, and by the way, they will hook up the memories of the past, causing two or three sighs.

Nuo Nuo looked at the silent Xia Yan and Chu Zihang, thinking that the two of them were depressed because they had left their hometowns, so he comforted: "The college has a three-month holiday every year, and there is no restriction on students' travel on weekdays. As long as you can ensure that you don't fail every course, you can go home at any time. ”

One of the two looked at the window on the left in a daze, and the other at the window on the right in a daze, and did not pay attention to Nuno who was kind enough to comfort them.

Nuno was still a little pitiful for them, but seeing that the two of them began to ignore themselves again, the anger that had been subsided suddenly surged up again.

"It's not because I'm homesick, senior sister." After Xia Yan found that Nuo Nuo's face was not very good, he hurriedly said: "Look at the city below, it is obviously more prosperous and beautiful." ”

Nono looked down.

The plane had already flown over the hometown of Xia Yan and Chu Zihang, so which city was the bustling city below them now.

Nono didn't know its name either.

Only when you really fly in the sky and look down will you find that the so-called cities with their own merits are just carved out of a mold.

"Actually, every city is the same." Xia Yan said softly: "They can all become my next hometown, or the end of my life's journey." ”

"Men go everywhere, where is not home." He said: "The green mountains are the same all over the world. ”

Nuo Nuo and Chu Zihang looked sideways, as if they were surprised that Xia Yan had such a high level of consciousness.

"This sentence is so familiar." Raymond muttered as he flew the plane, "It reminds me of the male protagonist of a web novel I read before." ”

"What?" Xia Yan was stunned.

"He is an existence that stands on the river of time and determines eternity, and its name must not be called directly, otherwise it will involve great cause and effect, and touch some terrible taboos." Raymond said mysteriously.

"Okay..."Xia Yan really didn't expect Raymond to be a fanatical fan of oriental fantasy novels.

So there was an eerie silence in the cabin.

"Does my sister have a boyfriend at school?" Xia Yan broke the silence.

The corners of Nono's mouth twitched slightly.

"It seems like not." Xia Yan nodded to himself.

"It's your business." Nuo Nuo said angrily: "As long as the old lady wants to, there is no problem with changing one a day!" ”

Chu Zihang sat in the corner and sighed, obviously he didn't want to see Nuo Nuo get angry.

But Xia Yan seemed to like to hold on to Nuo Nuo's pigtails, and tried to make this senior sister angry.

"One a day!" Xia Yan said in shock: "Senior sister, if a woman like you was placed in ancient times, she would have been immersed in a pig cage." ”

"I really want to send you to the ancient times with one shot right now." Nono looked like he was gritting his teeth.

Xia Yan shrunk his neck, and it was rare to stop.

After a seven-hour and 12-minute flight, Raymond finally landed on the helipad at Chicago Airport.

It was noon in Chicago, and the sun was high in the southwest, and the warm sunlight was pouring down from the sky, covering the earth with a golden veil.

Xia Yan and his entourage got off the plane and left the airport smoothly according to the instructions of the staff.

"I'll have to report directly to the executive department." Raymond said goodbye to the crowd with great regret.

In fact, Raymond really wanted to go to the academy with Xia Yan and them to have a revisit. But as a member of the Executive Department, he also has more important responsibilities.

"Then you two just go straight to the Chicago train station and take the college's special bus." Nuno took out a "Guide for Dummies of the Kassel Academy" and two tickets marked with CC1000 and handed them to Xia Yan.

"Senior sister, what about you?" Xia Yan asked.

Nono grinned and replied, "I... I was going to play outside for two days before going back to school, after all, Professor Manstein had approved a three-day slip when he took me out, and of course it couldn't be wasted. ”

"I see." Xia Yan touched his chin, and then muttered in a low voice: "Sure enough, the road still has to be walked by yourself." ”

"Well, that's good!" Nuo Nuo patted Xia Yan on the shoulder and said, "I am very pleased that you can have such a high ideological consciousness, senior sister. ”

So Nono finally got rid of these two annoying tails, happily blended into the flow of people outside the airport, and disappeared.

Xia Yan said that he was a road idiot in the absolute sense, the kind that couldn't tell the difference between east and west, north and south. So Chu Zihang naturally took on the important responsibility of finding the way under the guidance of a fool's guide.

I have to say that the eldest brother or eldest sister who wrote this fool's guide is indeed a talent. Whether your plane lands at an international airport or an intermediate airport, there are detailed route plans for every signpost and every iconic building, so that you can smoothly enter the arms of the Kassel Academy.

Xia Yan and Chu Zihang stood in the bustling crowd, looking up at the church-like dome of Chicago Railway Station. According to Norma's schedule, they will take the CC1000 express train from Chicago train station to Kassel College.

"CC1000 Express? Haven't heard of ...... Maybe it's a regional train? But you're not right...... The new timetable contains all the information about the train schedules, so check it out...... The ticket seems to be real, but I really didn't know that there was such a train. This is the answer given by a different duty officer.

There is no CC1000 train that belongs to them on the train timetable.

Both were confused.

“one dollar，just one dollar…”

A pair of rough hands suddenly put on Xia Yan's shoulders.

Xia Yan was startled, looked back, and found that there was a tall and burly young man standing behind him, his face buried in his beard could be regarded as handsome, his candle-like shining eyes were full of longing, and the dark green checkered shirt and dragged sprinkling pants on his body had not been washed for a long time, exuding a strange smell.

Beggars... Xia Yan was stunned.

“I have no money for you.” Xia Yan said to him in English.

Chu Zihang stretched out his hand and tugged at Xia Yan's clothes, and whispered, "Let's go, don't pay attention to this kind of person." ”

"Chinese?" The other party noticed Chu Zihang's nationality and immediately changed to fluent Chinese, "Uncle reward some money to buy a cup of Coke, I am really not a beggar, I just lost my wallet when I went out." ”

Xia Yan and Chu Zihang looked at him blankly.

"Fingal von Frings, I'm not a beggar, I'm a college student." The man said as he pulled out his student ID.

Chu Zihang saw a half-decayed World Tree standing on the skin of the black document he was holding in his hand, and asked in surprise, "Are you a student of Kassel Academy?" ”

"Yes, yes." Fingal was pleasantly surprised, "You two are... Is it Professor Manstein's new student recruited from China? ”

Xia Yan and Chu Zihang nodded at the same time.

"Oh, my dear junior!" Fingal exclaimed, "Allow me to introduce myself." ”

"I am the head of the press department of the Kassel Academy, an excellent member of the student council, and a loyal dog of the rector." Fingal rubbed his hands with a smile and said, "The headmaster, his old man, gave me a task early in the morning, and asked me to come here to meet you two." ”

"It turned out to be Senior Brother." Xia Yan said with some disgust.

"Yes, yes, I'm your relative." Fingal smiled and said, "Can the two juniors lend me a dollar to buy a Coke?" ”

Chu Zihang silently took out a ten-dollar bill from his pocket and handed it to Fingal, and then asked politely, "Does Senior Brother know about the CC1000 train?" ”

"Know! Of course you do! Fingal trembled as he took the note with Alexander Hamilton's face on it, and replied, "Sit at the beginning of each semester." The campus is in the mountains, and only this train goes there, and no one knows the timetable, anyway, no one knows about the Chicago train station, and the last conductor who knew the timetable for that train died the year before, and he said that the train had been in operation since before World War II. Fingal said, "Two or three times a week, the lower class have to wait." ”

"Class?" Xia Yan asked suspiciously, "What is it?" The bourgeoisie and the proletariat? ”

"A kind of thing similar to aristocratic status, a student of high class will have some privileges, and the resources of the academy will be provided to him first, such as priority in sending cars." Fingal explained.

Xia Yan remembered the rating of the two of them by Norma, the secretary of the academy, when he was at the Regent Hotel, and asked with some hesitation: "A grade is considered ... Aristocrats? ”

Fingal was stunned for a moment, and then said affirmatively: "Of course, if you want to compare, then the A-level can be regarded as a great nobleman like a feudal lord in the academy." ”

"I really didn't expect your rank to be so high, junior brother." Fingal said happily: "But the principal specially told the car crew to pick us up tonight yesterday, don't worry." ”

"That's good, that's good." Xia Yan finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Senior brother, since you said that A-level students can be regarded as great nobles, doesn't that mean that there is another one in the academy... Is the emperor the ruler of the nobility? Chu Zihang asked slowly.

"Yes." Fingal patiently explained: "There is a supreme S-class above the A class, and that is not the emperor. ”

"But the emperor of our academy died more than ten years ago, and the throne is still vacant until now." Fingal sighed and said, "So now the feudal lords in the academy are fighting each other, trying to be the new emperor and ruling the ministers." ”