Section 34 Chance Encounters with Deer Hunters

Lulu Mara and Nan Qi were also looking at the three boys in the same group as Xu Yun looked at them.

Timmy is the shortest, and his physique is not very strong, he should be the youngest of the servants, Shuma is tall and strong, and his height is already considered the tallest existence among children of the same age, and Kerry is relatively the most symmetrical, and he can't find a fault or a weak.

This is just the feeling at first glance from the body shape.

But the three boys all gave people a very strong feeling, because it was summer, and the training clothes worn by the apprentices were all short shirts, and the exposed arms and leg muscles were well-defined, and they looked very hard.

Another thing that sets them apart from other apprentices is that they have a bad aura that can only be found in battle monks. When they stayed in the further education school, the two girls could not see such classmates.

After introducing each other, the scene fell into a slightly awkward silence.

Although Xu Yun's personality became a little cheerful after the crossing, or he peeled off the shell he once wore in the present world and began to let himself go. But in addition to communicating with a straightforward person like Floya, I still can't let go of contact with other women.

Although Xiuma is both cheerful and talkative, after all, he has just met, and the other party is a fellow nun of the church, so he does not dare to be presumptuous.

Kerry is relatively quiet and more introverted, and usually communicates normally, but when he talks to his two good brothers in private, he is extraordinarily unrestrained and a little black-bellied.

But neither side spoke, so it wasn't a problem to be so stuffy, and the other groups were already talking and laughing at least on the surface, especially the group with more girls, and the three girls got together and soon began to chirp endlessly.

"So, would you like to visit our dormitory?" Shuma opened her mouth to break the silence

Xu Yun and Kerry raised their foreheads helplessly at the same time, and silently stretched out their thumbs in their hearts - Xiuma, you are really fierce.

"Then let's go check it out." Nan Qi nodded and said with a smile, the smile was really inexplicably reassuring.

Xu Yun felt that if she changed her gender, she would shave her head again... Tsk, I don't dare to think about it, it's a bit too much.

"Since you're in a group with us, you usually train together, right?" Shuma stretched out her hand to lead the way, and the two girls walked towards the small door at the back of the schoolyard, which was the way to the apprentice's quarters.

Lulu Mara lost an idiotic look, and although she didn't speak, her beautiful gray-blue eyes could already express a lot of meaning.

"Yes, we're going to live here in the future. The instructor said that it was a joint practice, and since the joint training was of course, it was necessary to eat and live together and train together. Otherwise, walking here from the sacred area every day will be a waste of time, and the rest will be disturbed, which is not conducive to the growth and development of children of our age.

However, I have to spare two days a week to participate in the training of alchemy apprentices, and I cannot train with you all the time. ”

Nanqi replied in a quiet and gentle tone.

"Eat and live together?" Shuma grasped the point of his attention.

"Don't you want to do morning classes in the morning?" Nanqi said.

"What's the morning class?" Shuma asked directly

"We only have morning training." Xu Yun spoke.

"Morning class is to get up in the morning, clean up the housekeeping, bathe in the first morning light, open the ode to the god of wind and recite hymns in praise of the great god of wind." Nanqi explained without the slightest impatience.

"Is there a bard who is going to hear you read?" Xu Yun asked

"Bard? Didn't they all perform at noon and in the evening, in taverns or restaurants? Not visible in the morning. Outsiders are also not allowed to enter the further education school. Nan Qi replied with some confusion.

"No, I just wondered if Lord Anemo would become a bard to listen to your pious readings." Xu Yun explained.

"The god of wind is incarnated in thousands of ways, it can be a lark or a white dove, or it can be incarnated as a breeze and hide behind the white clouds." Nan Qi's tone could not hide her longing and reverence.

It is said that it is a morning training, but in fact, the three guys have not participated in it once, and they are either chopping wood and burning fires or processing ingredients and fetching water early in the morning.

With Wendy's personality, it's really possible to do what she says. Xu Yun thought to himself

"What if you can't see the morning light on a rainy day?" Kerry interjected.

"On rainy days, I have to have morning classes, but I will do it indoors. And not under the Aeolus statue. Nanqi said

"It turns out that the singing from the Aeolian statue in the morning came from you." Kerry was stunned.

"It was the choir doing morning lessons, and our chanting couldn't reach that far." Nanqi's voice was slightly lost. "And the choir singing is really good, and we can't bear to let the chanting mix in and disturb the beauty."

Lulumara nodded in agreement.

"Do you also attend morning class?" Xu Yun turned his head and asked Lulu Mara, in exchange for an idiot's look. The girl who has wrapped herself so tightly this summer has never spoken except for a word when she introduced herself.

Some of the five people were talking, and they gradually became familiar with each other, and they were no longer as embarrassed as before. While talking, I walked, and before I knew it, I was in the dormitory.

"To the west is the dormitory for male apprentices, and to the east is for female apprentices." Xiuma pointed to the small two-story building of the dormitory.

"Usually our morning training is in the small square in front of the dormitory, and the large school field is usually used by senior apprentices and knights for training." As he spoke, he was accustomed to leading everyone to the east dormitory building.

"Didn't you say that the male apprentice lived on the west side, why did you bring us to the west side? Didn't you show us around your own dormitory? Nanqi asked, a little strange in her tone.

"We live here." Shuma didn't even think about answering directly.

Nanqi and Lulu Mara looked at each other, and their eyes became strange.

"That's right, the number of male apprentices is relatively large, and the rooms on the men's dormitory are not enough, so the three of us will be arranged to live here, and we will be transferred back when there are empty rooms there." Xu Yun hurriedly explained that he was not like being regarded as a pervert by the girl he had just met.

"So that's the case~" Nan Qi nodded with a smile, but Xu Yun always felt that her answer was very perfunctory.

"The row below this one is empty, the female apprentice lives upstairs, and the next one is full." Kerry pointed to a row of two-story dormitory buildings where the three of them lived. "Of course, the three of us are living in the next three rooms now."

"And if we move in, won't we be neighbors with you?" Nanqi asked.

"Probably... Should... That's right..." Shuma realized that something was wrong, and there was no confidence in her voice.

"We live in ours, you live in yours, as long as you don't do anything against the rules, what if you live next door?" Kerry shrugged his shoulders indifferently.

When the apprentices were training in martial arts, no matter whether the opponent they were assigned to them was male or female, it was normal to fall to the ground and tear their clothes.

Moreover, there is no notion of a gender divide in Mondstadt.

Some female apprentices are even more fierce than their male counterparts. This is also a credit to Sasria as a role model for the chief instructor, the female apprentices are especially hard working when they train, and they are more concerned about their ranking in the training class.

Which kid who enters here doesn't want to be a majestic knight of high status?

"You're right, I'm thinking too much. I'm sorry," Nanqi apologized embarrassedly, even though she hadn't said anything to the detriment of the three boys before.

"It's okay, it's okay, there's a difference between boys and girls, and it's normal for you to be worried." Xu Yun stepped in as a peacemaker.

"Why is the number of your female apprentices so small, when I was grouped just now, I clearly saw the number of male and female apprentices in your class, and the female apprentices are slightly more." Lulumara spoke.

"The instructor said that it was eliminated, and the number of female students in the second and third grades who could not keep up with the training progress was relatively large. Every year, there is an assessment in the training class, and the instructors with the worst grades are dismissed according to the situation. Shuma explained

Nanqi and Lulu Mara looked at each other.

"The selection and training of knights is really cruel, and we only have repetition in our training school, and there is no such thing as elimination." Nanqi said.

Lulumara shook her head, she had been raised as a Battle Nun and knew that a similar system existed among the Battle Nuns.

'Those who lag behind in battle cannot become companions, but only become burdens. The motto of the Sisters of Combat hangs on the wall behind the teacher, and it is visible every day.

The three of them took the two girls around their dormitory, relatively speaking, Xu Yun's room was the most tidy, there was no way that his dormitory was basically a sleeping place for him, he didn't need to take cultural classes, he didn't need to write his homework in face culture classes, and the ink, quill and paper on the desk had hardly touched since the first day.

The messiest thing in Shuma and Kerry's room was also the writing desk, with a stack of paper for homework and exercises, and a clumsy handwriting that resembled a dog's pickpocket, but the two of them apparently didn't think there was anything to be ashamed of.

Being able to read and write is a proud thing in Mondstadt, and most of the children of ordinary families in the towns and villages do not even go to the free schools of the church, and either run around the mountains and play, or are ordered by their parents to work for the family.

After all, although the church does not charge tuition, it is possible to buy paper, pens, ink, textbooks and books, which all cost money, and will also take up the children's work time. Anyway, he is a civilian who farms the land all his life, so what if he learns to read and write? If you want to be a merchant, you can send it to a trading house as an apprentice, and the same is true for workers, as for farming, herding, and hunting, it is enough to learn from your parents.

Xu Yun observed the undisguised disgust on Nan Qi and Lulu Mara's faces, it seems that the education in writing and writing, the church's further education school is obviously much stronger than that of the Knights.

At the end of the dormitory visit, several people also got acquainted.

"Where are we going next? The instructor said that we would meet at the university in the afternoon, and it would be free time until the afternoon meeting, and Uncle Clark didn't let us help, so the cafeteria shouldn't have taken us to this meal at noon. Kerry said.

Xu Yun nodded, when he was busy with helpers in the morning, the workload was indeed not as good as usual, although Clark did not explain, but looking at the amount of ingredients prepared, he could guess some.

"Let's go for a walk around the city, why don't you two take us around the Holy District?" I haven't been to the sacred area since I attended the course. Take a look at the Aeolian statue and visit the cathedral. Xu Yun proposed

"Ah~" The two girls' eyes widened.

"You haven't been to the Sacred Zone yet? How does this work? As the people of the god of wind, how can they come to Mondstadt and not pray at the cathedral! Lulu Mara said angrily.

"Uh... None of the three of us have ever been, to be exact. "Shuma is busy helping his buddies share the firepower.

"Of course, the average apprentice has a weekly bath, can go to the cathedral to pray, or walk around the city. However, the three of us, as if we had been 'focused on training' by the instructor (accentuated tone), have not taken a day off since we entered the training class. Kerry helped with the explanation

"Today's half-day is our first time off. Hey, don't say it, suddenly there is no task, and I don't know what to do when I'm idle. Xu Yun said with a smile.

"Let's go, I'll take you to see the statue of the god of wind, and then I'll go to the cathedral to pray." Lulu Mara became a lot more proactive.

"How about a deer hunter meal after that?" Kerry said

When Nanqi heard that she was going to go to the deer hunter, her face showed excitement and hope, but as her chubby little hand touched her body, she paused for a moment, and then faded again.

"Deer hunters are the best, of course, but are your allowances enough? We only have a monthly allowance of twenty silver moralas, and my word is two gold moralas, but that is the allowance for the materials I use to learn alchemy. ”

"It's okay, we can slaughter the big family." Xiuma pressed her elbow on Xu Yun's shoulder and smiled triumphantly.

Xu Yun rolled his eyes, you two have already planned this stubble, you have to find a reason to kill me.

"There is no such good thing as a stipend here in the preparatory knight training class, we train here to eat and live, and if we want the knights to send money, this kind of good thing can be thought about when we dream. However, I personally have some pocket money, so it's okay to eat a meal. ”

Yikes~

The eyes of the two girls looking at Xu Yun changed instantly, and Xu Yun could clearly see the words 'rich man' in the eyes of the two.

Led by Nanqi and Lulu Mara, the new team of five went to the highest part of the Sacred District, directly north of Mondstadt, which was even higher than Uptown, almost on the peaks of an island in the middle of the lake.

Visited the huge statue of the god of wind that Xu Yun is familiar with, and compared with the modeling in the game, the immersive on-site observation can feel the grandeur of this statue and bring people to the heart.

"Wendy, it's not that I forgot the agreement, it's that I haven't had time during this time, and I'll invite you to drink another day when I'm free." Before leaving the statue of the god of wind, Xu Yun muttered a sentence in a low voice, and poured the water from the kettle hanging from his waist into the pond of living water at the foot of the statue of the god of wind.

It has to be said that the environment of the Holy District is much better than the upper town where the Knights are located, clean and tidy, with manicured lawns, flower beds and fountain pools carved like works of art everywhere.

The white doves in the statue square are in flocks, and even if they get close, they will not run away. These white doves are quite disciplined and do not leave a single drop of feces in the statue square.

After the visit to the statue, we went to the cathedral.

Towering above the highest point in Mondstadt, the cathedral is magnificent, magnificent, beautiful and awe-inspiring. It's exactly the same as the modeling in the game, and even the structure inside is almost identical.

It was not a weekend off, and there were very few people who came to the church to pray, and the nuns in charge of the sprinklers wiped the stained-glass windows with rags, while the choir children practiced singing hymns in low voices to the accompaniment of the piano.

Xu Yun regretted not being able to see the nun Victoria in the game who would give the player the first four-star holy relic.

After a short prayer, Xu Yun only made a appearance. The wind god himself doesn't care much about praying, and it's not necessary to be too involved in these gods.

This church has a slightly younger history than Mondstadt and was built after the foundation of Mondstadt.

The garden at the back of the cathedral is a cemetery that, unlike in the game, is buried with devout followers of the god of wind and warriors who died defending Mondstadt.

After the prayer, Lulu Mara and Nanqi led the three of them to the cemetery, where the old caretaker was slightly hunched over with silver hair, and was dressed in a very clean but rather old priest's robe. After seeing a few people saluting, he nodded faintly and smiled and let them enter the cemetery.

On the bronze plaque on the front of the solemn Monument of Courage and Glory, row after row of rank words are engraved, and they lie quietly together in the grave under this monument and sleep forever.

In Xu Yun's opinion, this monument is too small to show the glory of the warriors.

Here, only famous generals and leaders of the Order can have their own tombstones in this cemetery, and even important figures of the Church are buried together after their deaths.

No, the cemetery behind the cathedral is too small and delicate compared to the big city of Mondstadt.

Standing in the cemetery, you can see the entire Fruit Wine Lake over the low walls, which is the highest point in the whole of Mondstadt outside of the buildings. Xu Yun noticed that in the west of Mondstadt, the location of the Wind Dragon's ruins in the game, the dome of the palace's tower, the dome made of white rock, reflected the abundant sunlight cast by the scorching sun, even after a distance of many miles, it was still clearly visible. There was not the slightest breakage.

The golden dragon statue on the spire of the tower flickered with golden light, as if it had magical power, even if it was a long distance, the golden light still made Xu Yun feel a little dazzling.

'The Ruins of the Wind Dragon is still a great city in this era, and I remember in the game, it was the main city where the desecrated King of the Gale Wind and the Tower tyrant Decarapian lived before Wendy's rise to become the Anemo God. ’

'As far as I've learned, it's now an important hub for trade with the Northern Solstice and the Western Fontaine, where the Knights of the Wind Dragon are stationed to guard the town, and occasionally the Wind Demon Dragon Dvalin will appear, and it is a city protected by the true Demon God. ’

Coming out of the cemetery, the four children were still immersed in solemn emotions, and the jokes along the way stopped. Xu Yun didn't have much to talk about, so the five of them walked all the way to see the scenery, from the sacred area all the way down, through the Dongfeng District through Shangcheng District, passing by the Dongfeng Knights headquarters, after a little glance at the regimental emblem outside the headquarters and hurriedly left.

Although the headquarters of the Knights of the Four Winds are in Mondstadt, only the Knights of Favonius are normally stationed in Mondstadt, and the Knights of the South Wind Lion's Tooth are mainly responsible for defending the town, and most of the main forces are scattered in the towns and cities in Mondstadt.

The main force of the Dongfeng Knights is responsible for guarding the Wind Dragon City, monitoring trade and patrolling the river. The headquarters here is more of an office than a headquarters, and only one executive deputy head sits in the headquarters building all year round.

The same is true for the Wolf Knights of the North Wind, their main force is the Wolf Knights, who are usually stationed in the Wolf Command and live on the same land as the wolves. Most of the patrol knight squads in the plains are sent from the Knights of the Borean Winds, but the vast land of Mondstadt is not enough for the Wolf Knights, and other knights will also send some patrol knight squads to patrol the mountainous areas where the wolf knights are relatively difficult to navigate.

Passing through the uptown into the bustling Downtown, the Deer Hunter Restaurant sits on the edge of the most sought-after central plaza.

In the hot summer weather, although the restaurant can escape the scorching sun, the ventilation is much worse, the restaurant is crowded, and the restaurant on the first floor is like a steamer, sitting in it before eating anything and starting to sweat.

The five of them asked for an outdoor table with a large parasol to provide shade, and although there was dust outside and the food would be contaminated with dust, the rugged and bold people of Mondstadt didn't care.

Of course, it's all about coolness, with two cold meat platters, one sweet and sweet stuffed chicken, one mushroom grilled pizza, one carrot fried in honey sauce, one satisfying salad, and a large glass of sunset juice on ice.

Waiting for the meal to be served, several people watched the guests coming in and out of the meal, there were merchants from various countries in different costumes, there were tall, mighty, rough and hearty merchant guards, there were students wearing glasses and neat and polite clothes, and there were also a team of green-clothed adventurers with various styles and colors of clothing but relatively uniform.

Of course, there are also apprentices who prepare for the knight training class, and they have the same choice as Xu Yun's team, and there are also many groups that come to the deer hunter restaurant to have a meal to enhance their relationship.

"Spellcasters, assassins, shield guards, tomahawk fighters, archers, this team is fully equipped." Kerry whispered as he peeked at a group of adventurers sitting at another table outside.

"The equipment is also great, this shield, this tomahawk, it looks like a good thing." Shuma wiped her saliva, her eyes shining as she stared at the huge single-edged tomahawk that the tomahawk fighter was resting on.

"The magic guide that floats around the caster is rare." Nanqi squinted

'Elven archers, beast casters, human shield guards and tomahawk fighters, and as for the assassins, they seem to be snake spirits. Xu Yun's attention was the racial composition of this adventurer squad. The number of adventurer squad members is not fixed, there are three or five people, generally speaking, there will not be more than eight people, because ten people cannot be counted as a team, but can apply to register as a team, and have the ability to attack the relatively difficult ruins.

Of course, the agency fees paid to the Adventurers' Guild by teams and squads are different, and generally speaking, adventurers are more inclined to form squads, and no one wants to be paid too much, does it?

"A few little cubs still obediently stay in their mother's arms to feed, don't look around, be careful of eye injuries." Just as a few people peeked at the adventurer at the adjacent table, the tomahawk fighter who was sitting facing this side spoke in an unkind tone.

Xiuma's face turned red, Kerry withdrew his gaze, Nanqi looked away, and the corners of Xu Yun's mouth hooked up to meet the middle-aged warrior's gaze.

"There is no rule here that you can see what you can't see, and since you are sitting here, we won't lose anything by taking a few looks." Luluma spoke, but glared back without showing weakness.

The tomahawk brawler raised his eyebrows, his arms loosened, his legs spread wide, his hands rested on his knees, and he leaned slightly to look directly at Lulu Mara.

"I can't imagine that there is a hard thorn in a table of tender chickens, little girl, I said this for your good, I can't control my eyes, I don't know when I offended someone, and the end is not something you can bear with a hard mouth." A somewhat hideous smile appeared on the rugged face of the Tomahawk fighter.

Xu Yun didn't feel much malice, but his appearance was really vicious, in fact, this person's appearance was burly and resolute, not ugly, but several scars on his face with a length of more than two inches ruined the positive image, and the large and small scars on his body were criss-crossed, which made people inevitably feel jealous.

"I see that you are an apprentice nun in this attire, do your prayers, and don't go around stirring up trouble." Another voice interjected, a somewhat stern tone.

It was none other than half of the Assassin's snake spirit clan who spoke, a pair of golden vertical eyes staring at Lulu Mara, as if looking at their prey.