Chapter 13: To England

Early in the morning, Xia Zuo woke up from the dilapidated guest room, stretched his waist and slowly got out of bed, walked to the window, opened the window and looked out.

This is a dilapidated inn in the north of Puerto Desaiaddo, the most chaotic place in the entire harbor city, where taverns are everywhere, filled with mercenaries, hunters, thieves, criminals and other people of Puerto Desaiaddo, and sometimes even rare martial arts professionals can be seen here.

Xia Zuo's guest room is on the second floor, standing by the window and looking out, the street is already full of people, very lively, unlike other places, in the north of the city, the most common thing to see is not merchants and tourists, but a samurai with swords.

The crime rate in the north of the city is very high, and the dead are commonplace for people who live in the north of the city, Xia Zuo has observed here, so he came here to find an inn to spend the night, because he knew that the little fat man would never dare to come to the north of the city, otherwise as a rich son, he would either be hijacked for ransom, or directly robbed and killed and thrown in the wilderness.

In recent years, Latin America has been in turmoil, there have been indigenous people trying to resist the Spanish colonial rule, seeking independence, the most turbulent era in Latin America has begun, Xia Zuo when chatting with the fish seller, heard a lot of long sighs, the outline of the 'outside world' has begun to clear in his mind.

Looking out the window, Xia Zuo woke up, yawned again, returned to the bedside, and took out a beautiful money bag from his baggage, as well as a white piece of paper with only patterns but no words.

There are three gold coins and thirty or forty silver coins in the money bag, I have to say that the little fat man's family is really rich, for ordinary families, it is already incredible to have an income of one gold coin a year, and this little fat man actually brought three gold coins with him as pocket money, it is conceivable that his family is no longer ordinary rich.

Xia Zuo looked at the money bag again, poured out the money inside, counted it, and then pulled a piece of cloth on the baggage, picked up the coins, and carried them into his arms, and the exquisite money bag was stuffed under the bed by him.

Picking up the white paper called the voucher again, Xia Zuo flipped through it and looked at it carefully, but he didn't see any difference.

Yesterday, Xia Zuo made a special inquiry and learned about the admission requirements of the Royal British Academy, there are two ways to enter the academy, one is the regular selection method, and the other is the voucher.

The Royal British Academy's credentials are divided into three types, the first, the first-level credentials, which are black, and no more than five are issued each year, and those who can get the credentials are all trainee martial arts professionals with great potential.

The second, the second-level credentials, blue, are issued fifty per year, and as long as they have the potential to become a martial artist, they can also obtain the second-level credentials, or those who have a wealth of basic knowledge and can become scholars in the future may also receive the second-level credentials.

The third, three-level certificates, white, are issued three hundred per year, and there is no requirement.

Anyone with a third-level white certificate can enter the academy, the reason why it is so stipulated, first of all, this is a means of collecting money, and secondly, because the British Royal Academy adheres to the idea of 'giving others a chance, but also giving themselves a chance', and ordinary people can't get a certificate, only the rich and noble families or nobles can get the certificate through various relationship channels, from this aspect, the British Royal College has also improved its background strength because of the white certificate.

What Xia Zuo is holding in his hand now is a third-level certificate, completely anonymous, with only the pattern of the school emblem of the Royal British Academy on it, it is said that the certificate has been blessed by the great wizard of the academy and cannot be forged, so Xia Zuo has always wanted to see something special from the certificate, but he has never seen it.

Near noon, Xia Zuo, who had been hiding in the inn all morning, left the north of the city and went to the central square of the city.

The central square is still in a state of blockade, the Spanish garrison has been replaced, and they are still maintaining a neat queue, confining the square within the onlookers, and the crowd of onlookers around has decreased a lot, but it is only relatively speaking, there are still many people looking around the outside of the square, pointing at the "Royal Academy" steam airship in the center of the square.

In order to keep a low profile, Xia Zuo wore a civilian costume that is most common in Puerto Deseaddo, and his thin body was very inconspicuous in the crowd.

Xia Zuo began to wait silently.

Soon after, the male teacher of the academy who was in charge of checking the vouchers on the west side of the square took out his pocket watch from his bosom, looked down, got up from the chair prepared for him by the Spanish garrison, turned around and walked towards the center of the square.

"It's over, they're leaving!"

"Hurry up and ask Uncle to come and take a look, the airship is about to fly!"

There was a commotion in the crowd, and the people who were calling friends were excited, and they had never seen how the airship took off on its first visit to Latin America.

"Hey, wait, wait!" Just as the male teacher was about to enter the passage formed by the Spanish garrison, Xia Zuo waved the voucher in his hand and rushed out of the crowd, the soldier did not stop him, he ran directly in front of the male teacher.

"Why is it so late?" said the male teacher's voice with some displeasure.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry for your trouble!" Xia Zuo bowed his body, nodded his head, and handed the voucher in his hand to the male teacher.

The male teacher glanced at Xia Zuo again, touched his hand on the voucher, and after a flash of light, he withdrew his hand, waved his hand at Xia Zuo and said, "Go in!"

"Xie Lu Xie, Xie Lu thank you!" Xia Zuo held the voucher in his hand, bowed twice to the male teacher, turned around and ran towards the square, looking not calm at all, just a lively child.

Xia Zuo quickly ran to the airship and was stopped by the female teacher who had been standing under the ladder at the door.

About thirty years old, **, wearing old-fashioned clothes, but with a bit of beauty between his eyebrows, long golden hair tied behind his head, looking very capable.

"Credentials!" the female teacher said in a cold voice.

Xia Zuo stretched out his hand and handed over the voucher, and after the female teacher took the voucher and glanced at it, she returned it to Xia Zuo, and then looked at Xia Zuo with a scrutinizing gaze, looking at the past from top to bottom, and even Xia Zuo's burden was not turned over.

Xia Zuo felt uncomfortable for a while, as if he was about to be seen through by this gaze.

"Name, gender, age!" the female teacher suddenly withdrew her gaze, lowered her head and picked up the notebook and pen, and asked at the same time.

"Shazo Windsor, male, thirteen years old. Xia Zuo replied quickly without hesitation, in fact, his real name should be Xia Zor Windsor Mijatovic, Miyatovic is a surname unique to the Sersa people, and Windsor is his father's surname, he went out this time, of course, he had to remove the surname belonging to the Sersa people, otherwise it would be very troublesome.

"Okay, go to the third-class cabin, find a random place to sit, don't move around!" the female teacher lowered her head and wrote a few strokes in the notebook, and looked up.

At the same time, in a beautiful building next to the square, by the window on the second floor.

"God above, am I not mistaken?, how could he ......?" said Peña, dressed in a rich gown, standing beside her father, her eyes wide and her mouth covering her little mouth, looking out the window.

"What's wrong honey?" José asked with a smile as he turned his head to look at his daughter, looked out again, and said, "What do you see?"

"Look at that ......" Peña raised her hand and pointed outward, but her voice suddenly slowed down, and she couldn't speak.

"What's that?" José looked in the direction Peña was pointing, the huge steam airship, and at the doorway below, the three teachers had come together, talking in a low voice, and were thinking about walking on the airship.

Peña was sure that she had seen Xia Zuo, and although Xia Zuo had grown taller, she believed that she could not be mistaken, and at this time Xia Zuo had already boarded the airship, so there was no one at the door.

"What's wrong?" asked José as he raised his hand and stroked Peña's hair, tilting his head to look at her, and asked in a low voice of concern.

"I didn't ...... Nothing!" Peña looked out stunned for a moment before slowly shaking her head and saying, "Look, it's about to take off!"

Whew!

As the hatch of the steam airship closed, several white gases suddenly erupted from under the airship, making a gurgling sound, and the people around the square were stunned for a moment, and then shouted loudly.

The airship began to rise slowly, as if it had been subjected to witchcraft, and it was hard to believe.

Gradually, the airship rose to a height of hundreds of meters, and the huge propeller behind the boat began to rotate, faster and faster, as the vents around the propeller spewed out a few thick white gases again, the airship began to accelerate, and flew towards the northeast sky obliquely, looking smaller and smaller, and soon disappeared into the blue sky, completely gone.

"Father, I want to go to England!" Peña said to Jose after watching the airship disappear into the sky.

............

Xia Zuo felt that he had been deceived, and it was the female teacher who deceived him, she said that she could sit casually in the third class, but when he arrived at the third class, he found that the third class was almost full, so Xia Zuo had to sit next to a wizard who no one wanted to approach.

There were hundreds of people in the entire third-class cabin, different skin colors, different languages, different clothes, and they seemed to come from different places in the world, and among these people, there was only one wizard, and the seat next to him was always empty, no one dared to sit down, and wizards always gave people a very eerie feeling, even if it was a wizard at the apprenticeship level.

In the afternoon, over the South Atlantic, inside the Royal Academy.

Xia Zuo held the armrest full of metallic texture, his forehead was covered with cold sweat, and he looked very bad. At this time, the airship encountered an air current, so there was some bumps, and Xia Zuo had a feeling of wanting to vomit.

On the seat next to Xia Zuo, a wizard who hid his whole body in a black robe sat quietly, holding a large hat with a pointed round edge in his hand, and did not make a sound.

Xia Zuo smelled a special smell, it seemed to be the aroma of some kind of herb, it was the wizard who came to him, originally this smell was very light, it belonged to a very good smell, but for Xia Zuo, whose sense of smell was beyond ordinary people, it was like an emetic drug, which made Xia Zuo more and more unable to control himself.

"Excuse me, can you open the window for me!" Xia Zuo couldn't stand it anymore, turned his head and wrinkled his face, and said with difficulty.

The wizard was indifferent and didn't seem to hear Natsuzo's words.

Xia Zuo couldn't help it anymore, and sat up suddenly, his body crossed over the wizard's body, and his hand pushed hard against the round small window.

I pushed a little harder, but I didn't push it!

Twice, half of the force, still not pushed!

Three times, I used all my strength, and I still didn't move!

"That window can't be opened!" the tall boy sitting behind Xia Zuo couldn't help but remind.

"Didn't you say it sooner...... ...... vomit"

"What are you doing? it's disgusting!" the girl's scream suddenly rang out.