Chapter 5: The Smell of Black Powder
"Xia Zuo......" Vivian muttered, a sweet smile hung on the corner of her mouth, and said: "He is very good, he likes to read, he doesn't spend money like me, although he is younger than me, he always takes care of me when he is with me......"
As she spoke, Vivien's face flushed a faint flush, and she felt as if she had said the wrong thing, the ...... There's a weird feeling about it.
She stopped, quietly glanced at Fanny, saw Fanny listening carefully, and at the same time looked up at the magic blue parrot on the dead wood branch, did not show a different color, did not look at herself, for some reason relieved, and asked softly, "Why did the teacher ask about him?"
"Oh, it's nothing...... "Fanny turned to look at Vivien, "Excuse me, aren't you very close to him, do you notice anything wrong with him, or something that makes you feel uneasy?"
"No, the teacher is so strange today, why would he ask that?" Vivien was a little surprised.
"I care about you, I'm just an apprentice like you......" Fanny said, and a faint smile appeared on her usually cold and arrogant face.
Although Fanny is strict with Vivian, she genuinely cares about Vivian.
She's a very weird person, and she's also a very maverick in the academy, not very gregarious, and the other teachers are just colleagues, no deep friends, but she has a good relationship with the dean's legendary martial artist Barnett, but this kind of goodness is also based on her respect for the strong, that's all.
"Have you seen him lately?" asked Fanny again.
"No......" Vivien shook her head, looking a little lost, raised her hand and grabbed the big pointed hat on her head, and said, "I've been to him a few times, but he's not there, I don't know where Lu Dao went." ”
As Vivien and Fanny spoke, a breeze blew into the room, and a black crow flew into the room with a dark streamer of light from the side porch of the room, hovering for a week, and landing beside Fanny.
Boom!
With a muffled sound, the white mist rose, and the black crow turned into a woman, who looked a few years older than Fanny, with flaxen-colored hair in a bun with a wooden hairpin on it, and wearing a black wizard robe that also represented the rank of the great wizard.
This woman's facial features are quite beautiful, but she has a whole totem tattoo on her left cheek, which not only makes her lose her beauty, but even looks a little ugly.
This woman is the owner of this "Gandalf Wizard Shop", Solina Gandalf, whose strength has reached the nine-star Grand Wizard, and her transformation technique can already be said to be superb, only one step away from breaking through the legend, powerful, but a very strange woman.
It is said that things gather people in groups, but in fact, this is true, Fanny's temperament is a little weird, and so is Solina, so the two are so weird that they have no friends and become close friends.
"How do you have time to see my old friend?" asked Solina, looking at Fanny, her voice soft in contrast to her appearance.
"Didn't you have anything to do to shop around, have you received anything good here lately?" asked Fanny with a faint smile, glancing around.
"Nope. Solina immediately shook her head and said simply, as if she was afraid that Fanny would take something.
"Oh......" Fanny replied indifferently, and then looked at Vivien, who was standing honestly, and said, "How is she?
"She's stupid, why did you take on such a stupid apprentice?" said Solina very politely.
"How can I ......" Vivien immediately retorted, but in a low voice, and then lowered her head, pouting a little unconvinced.
Fanny smiled helplessly, and didn't blame Vivien, because she knew Solina, this woman always likes to give people problems, and it's a very weird kind, not to mention Vivian, even she has suffered here with Solina.
............
Xia Zuo won, it was incredible, no one believed that Xia Zuo would win, but he really won.
He's hiding his strength, which is what most people will hear in their heads after the fight, and a few others are thinking that Xia Zuo might be a strong martial arts professional, but the idea is only passing through their minds, and no one is sure that Xia Zuo is really a martial arts professional.
There were so many spectators at the scene, and there were many powerful fighting professionals, if Xia Zuo was really a fighting professional and used the abilities of a fighting professional to win, then there would always be someone who could see it, not to mention, there really was no strong fighting professional who would be bored enough to participate in this kind of fighting competition, it would be a complete waste of time.
Xia Zuo returned to room 77 underground, passing through the underground square, he was greeted by a pair of different eyes, for them, Xia Zuo's previous label has always been mysterious, and now, it is more powerful, and some people even assert that Xia Zuo's strength can be ranked in the top ten of the underground fighting arena, of course, some people think that Xia Zuo is just explosive, lucky win, for a while, all kinds of rumors about Xia Zuo emerged.
Some people have stepped up the investigation into Xia Zuo's identity, but basically nothing has been achieved, and the official secrecy measures of the underground fighting arena are very strict, unless you are the Queen of England, don't want the underground fighting arena to spit out the slightest information about Xia Zuo.
Xia Zuo never cared about all kinds of things in the outside world, it has been nearly a year since he left the desert, Xia Zuo has gotten rid of the previous confusion, and established two goals for himself, one is to save enough money to buy a big ship that can drift on the sea, so as to travel around the world, and the other is to read books, read enough 10,000 books.
May 14, 1811.
After reading late after the fight, Xia Zuo slept until the afternoon and woke up, and after completing the off-match formalities at House, he left the underground arena at 2 p.m.
This is the first time he has left the underground arena in a month, and because of his ten consecutive wins, Xia Zuo has already qualified for the Ultimate League, so this time he leaves, Xia Zuo may not return to the underground martial arts again in a few months.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, in the east of England City, in the dilapidated street of the slum, two or three shops were open, but the business was bleak, a dilapidated blacksmith shop, the sound of bells and bells was endless, and the dirty curtain half-blocked the door, and the people on the street could only see people walking in the blacksmith shop, but because of the curtain, they could not see the specific situation in the blacksmith shop.
The dirty curtain was suddenly opened, the thin palm was withdrawn into the robe, and the figure shrouded under the black robe walked out of the blacksmith shop, stood on the street and glanced left and right, then found the right direction and walked in the direction of the Royal College.
Xia Zuo grew up in the desert, and the harsh environment and special education made him have some abilities that ordinary people did not have, and in the desert, he would never lose his way.
In the city, he will not, although he has only turned around England City twice, but he has accurately memorized the various signs in the city, such as the bell tower standing high in the southeast, so that he can walk back to the Royal Academy without asking for directions anywhere in England City.
Xia Zuo didn't see it, just as he walked out of the street outside the blacksmith shop, two figures immediately walked out of the blacksmith shop and followed Xia Zuo's footsteps.
After passing through a few streets, Xia Zuo turned into a small alley, standing at the mouth of the alley, his footsteps suddenly stopped, his nose moved, his brows furrowed slightly, he stretched his arm into his robe, leaned in front of his nose and sniffed.
The brow furrowed even deeper.
Xia Zuo's sense of smell was extremely keen, and he smelled a special smell that had been lingering around him, thinking that he had accidentally rubbed something on his body, but it wasn't...... The smell followed him all the time.
It seems to be ...... The smell of black powder!