Chapter 16: Zhong Zhi

"Hey! Wake up!! "How are you feeling now?" The armored woman lay on the cold floor in a daze, listening to an unfamiliar shout. Her mind went back and forth between the past and the present.

The armored woman's name is Zhong Zhi, and she is 23 years old this year. She is the eldest daughter of Zhong Shan, the lord of Bell City, a knight of the Gran Empire, and the captain of the first guard of Bell City. Born in a famous and aristocratic family, she is serious and enthusiastic in doing things outside, righteous and kind, and is widely loved and sought after by people. As the eldest daughter of the family, she has been a role model for the family for a long time. Zhong Zhi worked hard to learn etiquette, worked hard not to lose to his brothers in battle, and worked hard to become an imperial knight. At the age of 18, she followed her family tradition and wore a special armor 'Liushi' that only the eldest daughter of each generation could wear.

But she is like this, but she has never been recognized by her father. Zhong Zhi always sees her father's back, no matter how hard she tries, her father refuses to give a smile. Growing up, her perception of her father was cold and cold. The good thing is that she also has a mother who loves her and two younger brothers who protect her, which gave her some balance in her heart, which was broken until this morning. Zhong Zhi received a bolt from the blue that her father had married her. The other party is the Norman family, the royal family of the Grans Empire, and Zhong Zhi is going to marry the eldest son of the Norman family, Chardlivi Norman. Just because of his father's words, Zhong Zhi, who has never even been in love, is now going to marry someone he has never met.

The Norman family is one of the three major royal families of the Grans Empire, and the patriarch Childwell Norman is a brother and sister to the emperor of the Grans Empire, which makes the Norman family have shou'ya in the Grans Empire

'To power. The Zhong family, the lord of Bell City, and the Norman family are family friends, and the Zhong family, who has oriental blood, can not develop and grow in the Grans Empire without the support and maintenance of the Norman family, and each generation of the Zhong family and the Norman family will maintain the emotional bond between the two families in the form of political marriage. This marriage involves the interests and power of too many people, and orders cannot be disobeyed. Zhong Zhi's mother and younger brothers knew the importance of this marriage and could not speak for Zhong Zhi. And what saddled Zhong Zhi the most was that her father rarely smiled when he said the news. It turned out that as long as he got married, his father would be happy, but his father didn't see it when he worked so hard. Tears welled up in her eyes in an instant, swept across her beautiful cheeks and landed on the hard, cold ground, and she curled up and twitched quietly.

Zhong Zhi doesn't want to get married, and even if she does, she wants to marry someone she likes, not a stranger she has never met. Zhong Zhi still has a dream that has not been fulfilled, and since he was a child, Zhong Zhi often sneaks to the tallest tower of Zhong Zhicheng when the adults are not paying attention. Through the tallest tower of Bell City, she could see the moat stretching into the distance, and the end of the moat connected to the place she longed for most, the sea. She had never seen the sea with her own eyes, even though it was only half a day's or so away from her horseback riding. The moment she learned from the book that there was a sea in the world, she was extremely yearning. How she wanted to smell the umami sea breeze and taste the salty and astringent water. Riding the waves on the vast expanse of the ocean on a sailboat is her lifelong dream.

Zhong Zhi does not accept the fact that she is about to get married, and today she snatched the door from the house, wanting to escape the life of being bound like a caged bird. Amid the shouts of her servants, she galloped to the outer edge of Bell City, where she happened to encounter a group of Red-Eyed people who were about to smuggle into the city, and they seemed to have killed several of the citizens of Bell City. After all, this is Zhong Zhi's native place, and she still carries the responsibility of the captain of Zhong City's first guard team on her shoulders. As a result, a battle broke out between Zhong Zhi and the Red Eyed Crowd, and the Red Eyes fought and retreated, and were finally forced into a small alley. The next thing is to meet Mako, and then a fierce street battle ensues, and in the end, only the red-eyed group named Meihua Qi escapes, and the rest are captured.

"Hey, why are you crying?" Zhencheng looked at Zhong Zhi in confusion and cried inexplicably. After Zhong Zhi fell into a coma, he and his subordinates worked together to carry her back to the City of Zhong City Pavilion. Then he called his doctor to expedite his diagnosis and treatment. Seeing Zhong Zhi writhing in pain on the ground, Zhencheng kept frowning. He had no other way, and he was unfamiliar with Zhong Zhicheng, so he could only provide limited treatment at the moment. Just now, Zhong Zhi stopped struggling and writhing and began to cry silently. "Hey, what do you mean?" Maseung continued. If Zhong Zhi didn't answer, he might keep talking.

"Why did you save me?" Zhong Zhi finally spoke, her voice a little hoarse.

"Well, I don't know. I want to save. Of course, part of the reason is because you're beautiful. Zhencheng sat on the spot, looking at Zhong Zhi in front of him, and speaking generously. I don't know why, he talked to Zhong Zhi very naturally, and there was no sense of crampedness. If it had been on Earth in the past, Makomi would have been nervous and didn't know what to say.

"Who are you?" Zhong Zhi continued to ask.

"My name is Zhencheng, I... I don't know what to say, I can't explain who I am right now. Masamu scratched his head.

"My name is Zhong Zhi, and I am an Imperial Knight and the captain of the First Guard of Bell City." Zhong Zhi told Zhencheng about his identity. It's the only identity she can be proud of.

"Oh. Hello, Zhong Zhi. "Zhencheng didn't understand the status and identity of these names that Zhong Zhi said at all, he only remembered the name Zhong Zhi." Well, I want to ask, do you know the identity and origin of the gang you fought with today? Maseung asked urgently.

"I don't know, I just know that they broke into a warehouse in Bell City, and then split up, and I chased a handful of them here." Zhong Zhi sat up with difficulty. "I see that you are very skilled, and there are some helpers around you, are you a mercenary or a bounty hunter?" Zhong Zhi asked rhetorically.

"Bounty hunters? No, I'm not. Makoto shook his head, this profession Masei had only seen in the game before.

"Oh, okay. These guys are doing a lot of bad things, and I guess the information about this gang is already on the bounty list of the bounty club. If you want to know more information, you can go to the Bounty Clubhouse, their intelligence and information are more detailed and rich than anywhere else. ”

"Okay, thank you." Zhencheng nodded and thanked Zhong Zhi.

"No, it should be me who thank you, thank you and your clothes." Zhong Zhi lifted the black cloth covering her body and gave it to Zhencheng, which Zhencheng had covered while she was unconscious.

The "little thing" really took over the cloth clothes and quickly put them on his body, just now he had been naked, and it was a little cold in this dark night.

"My brothers should be in a hurry now." Zhong Zhi suddenly looked out of the window with a little vigilance and looked around. She piggybacks on her feet and stands up slowly. "I'm going home," Zhong Zhi said with a frown, her face not at all feeling of comfort when she was going home, but a little more sad.

"Oh" Zhen Cheng looked at Zhong Zhi who stood up blankly, with a full body, a seductive figure, and her delicate face with three-dimensional facial features.

Zhong Zhi combed his straight black hair, and his movements gradually returned to normal. Her dark gold exoskeleton armor glowed with a faint glow, as if it could help speed up the wearer's recovery. Zhencheng glanced at the doctor next to him, and the doctor didn't make any more moves, which meant that Zhong Zhi had almost recovered.

"And then this!" Zhong Zhi took out an emerald green badge from somewhere on her chest and said, "This is the Zhong Zhi family's permission badge, holding this badge can give you some authority in this city." I don't know if it can help you, but at least it will help you sleep in a better place than this. Zhong Zhi winked at Zhencheng, she had already seen through Zhencheng's current embarrassing situation.

Zhencheng made an embarrassed but polite smile and watched Zhong Zhi gradually walk away. He had a hunch in his heart that he would meet this girl again.