The dirt road outside Qinghe was bumpy all the way, accompanied by the squeak of the carriage, and the crackling sound of Litt cutting through the air when he flicked his whip lightly from time to time, and the carriage turned a few corners, even though Luo Mu's eyes were cheerful.

Behind is the lush mountains and forests, and the front is already a wilderness, and just in the distance, a majestic city stands in the wilderness, not close, the majestic city of Maryland itself has the momentum of overwhelming over, the city wall is very wide, to the left and right sides of the full stretch of tens of thousands of zhang, hundreds of zhang of the city wall covers the sky, with the sun tilting, in the sunlight shining with cold colors, in the center of the city wall, above the left and right city gates, each inlaid with a huge blooming Bauhinia flower, the symbol of the bauhinia is symbolizing Corvo, a powerful empire。

At each of the four corners of the city, there are satellite stations extending from the city walls, and on the satellites stand extremely high minarets, on which are constantly entwined with circles of crackling electric snakes, which are said to be the most powerful weapons invented by Adams Angelo.

And Luo Mu is still a certain distance from Maryland, after the huge outer edge of the city wall shocked the children of this countryside for the first time, the spires in the city that rose to the sky and exceeded the city wall once again deeply impacted Luo Mu's heart, and the top towers of the Gothic houses in rows were a hundred feet beyond the edge of the city wall, just in the most central position of the city, and Luo Mu knew that that was the destination he was traveling today.

From Luo Mu walked out of the mountains and forests into the plains for nearly three hours, Luo Mu and his party came to Maryland's city wall, Luo Mu couldn't help but raise his head, looking at the city wall above, the russet city wall was extremely smooth, Luo Mu looked at it, the huge oppressive force suddenly came, as if the city wall was about to collapse, Luo Mu didn't dare to look again, quickly closed his eyes, sat quietly in the carriage and waited to enter the city.

While driving the carriage forward, Litt instructed Luo Mu and Ke Rui without looking back, "Don't talk much when we get to the city gate in a while, the guards here are very difficult."

After a while, the carriage arrived at the gate of the city wall, a redbud on the left and right sides of the city gate was very conspicuous, Luo Mu took a closer look, the bauhinia on the city gate had a total of five petals, each petal had a smooth stamen, and at the top of each stamen, there was a delicate small six-pointed star in the center of the petals, the whole bauhinia was purple-gold, and the color had fallen off a little under the long-term wind and sun, but it was still clear that there were only four six-pointed stars on the top of the five stamens in the bauhinia.

Luo Mu couldn't help but say to himself, "Why are there only four stars?"

While waiting for the officers and soldiers guarding the gate to check his permission to enter the city, Little turned back to Luo Mu and gave him a look, signaling him not to speak.

There was probably only a small group of soldiers guarding the door, all of whom were wearing medium-length scarlet single-breasted soldiers' uniforms, black trousers, a red thread about two fingers wide at the trouser line echoing the jacket, a pair of knee-length riding boots, a white girdle with a conspicuous gold buckle in the middle, and a brightly colored redbud flower on it.

The soldiers on either side of the gate were armed with a man-high rifle with a cold saber at the head, a long rifle that could only be used in the army, and a red yellow helmet with a brim, and a redbud flower painted on the center of the helmet on behalf of Corvo.

The officer standing at the gate of the city to check the documents for entering the city did not wear a helmet, the dress was the same as that of a soldier, and the stripes at the position of the epaulette were obviously much more complicated than the standing soldier, the officer had a Chinese face, the top of the head without a helmet was slightly hairless, the officer's eyes were bright, and the two eyebrows were extremely thick, he looked down at the permission to enter the city that Little carefully handed over in his hand, his brows wrinkled subconsciously, and he raised his head and asked, "What are you doing in the city?"

Litt hurriedly turned around and said, "Eh, General, we are fishermen in Qinghe, isn't this a ten-year-old child in the family who wants to come to our Marlan to try the sinking pattern, and by the way, see the world"

The officer waved his hand impatiently at Little's nagging, "Okay, let's go in quickly, you must go out of the city before tonight, and you must not stay overnight in the city," and then threw the paperwork back to Little, turned around and motioned for the next person to move forward.

The two soldiers standing to the right and left of the gate removed their crossed long rifles, and Little, who had no time to respond to the officers, hurried the carriage into the city.

After the city gate, there is a very long tunnel through the city wall, the road is paved with bluestone, and the whole passage is a little cold, except for the crisp sound of the horse's hooves hitting the stone slabs, and the sound of the wheels of the carriage running over the ground.

Out of the tunnel, the brilliant light that suddenly descended made Luo Mu can't help but raise his hand to cover his forehead and squint his eyes, but the scene in front of him made him reluctant to close his eyes, for fear of leaving even a point, it was an extremely wide road, enough for eight carriages to drive side by side, the streets were lined with gorgeous buildings, the whole city seemed to climb all the way from the side of the city wall to the huge tower in the center, under the city wall were two or three story houses that were slightly too flat, and the closer to the central tower, the more tall and spacious the houses became.

And right now, Luo Mu's houses around him are already beautiful that he has never imagined, the houses are not all white, and some of them are painted blue or yellow, the low houses nearby are basically merchants, the second floor always has a small balcony stretching out of their own home, most of the balconies are bred with beautiful flowers, all kinds of flowers, different flower fragrances are wafting in every corner of the city, even the balcony fence has its own characteristics, just like Luo Mu is looking up at this home, the vertical fence is actually twisted out with iron bars like slender roses, even the leaves are carved lifelike。

The exposed floors on the front of the balconies are carved with smooth and beautiful patterns, not only the balconies, but also the corners of the houses, the steps, and even the floors along the streets.

Under the balcony on the second floor, there is a long or short roof of different colors, and a small sign is hung below to indicate the business items, and the boss sits lazily in the merchant on the first floor, reclining down, comfortably looking at the Corvo Times newspaper at noon, and there are also diligent bosses who are constantly shouting, selling new items in the store recently.

Litt drove the carriage forward slowly, even if he couldn't see Little's face, Luo Mu could feel that Litt was indescribably happy, and even the movement of throwing the horsewhip was a little lighter, Litt said as he walked, "Since our queen took office, our life has been getting better and better, by the way, Xiaomu, what did you ask just now?"

Little turned his head to look at Luo Mu and asked, Luo Mu turned his head and pointed to the city gate, "Why does the bauhinia flower have five petals and five stamens, but only four stars?"

Little laughed, turned his head and flicked his horsewhip lightly and said, "Hey, this, I didn't hear what you said just now, if you just said this in front of the faces of those soldiers at the door, they would be happy, maybe they would have let us stay in Maryland tonight."

Little paused and continued, " The stars on the petals of this redbud symbolize the size of the city, the more stars, the bigger the city, it will take about ten years, that will be the north of the Disney Empire crazy, under a false name, the whole country attacked Rootia, almost paralyzed Rootia, not to mention, actually sneaked thousands of nearly 10,000 people to attack our Corvo's Maryland City, that force is like falling from the sky, if you have to go to the north, then our Maryland City naturally can't agree, but Maryland City is said to have only two regiments of troops stationed at that time, a total of two or three thousand peopleAs a result, he fought with the army of 10,000 people of the Discart Empire for nearly a week and did not let them pass, and the reinforcements who waited for him made dumplings for the 10,000 people of the Discart Empire, speaking of which, Maryland is just a third-order town according to the size, and after this battle, Her Majesty was very happy, and personally came to Maryland, and set up Maryland as a second-order town, and personally allocated funds to Maryland to let it expand, isn't this the current Maryland, and anyone in Maryland is proud to mention this matter."

Little said and his eyebrows danced, as if he seemed to have participated in the big war, or even the celebration banquet after the big war, Luo Mu listened to Little talk about ten years ago, but did not stop to observe the surroundings, there will be a thin street lamp every fifty meters on both sides of the street, and there is a diamond-shaped turquoise crystal floating on the top of the street lamp. Angelo invented the power machine, using the fish oil extracted from the body of the deep-sea giant whale as the power, the world finally had electricity, and the generation of electricity and the power machine and the collision of soul power produced a great incremental effect, the splendor of this civilization almost made the world attention, and Corvo also jumped from a second-order country that was not known before to become one of the six great empires in the world.

The street lamp pole is also carved with extremely gorgeous patterns like the surrounding houses, each street lamp is the same, the blue crystal at the top still emits a faint blue light in the daytime, the street lamp seems to be no longer a street lamp, more like a work of art that should be treasured.

The passers-by walking on both sides of the street are dressed in gorgeous costumes, women wear slightly large skirts, or more concise pleated skirts, the layered pleated skirts exude amazing charm, the long skirts worn by women are mostly lace, chests, cuffs, mostly white and slender and beautiful lace yarn edges, most of the tunics made of precise and tight fits are sewn with whale baleen, the accurate size outlines the waist of every woman on the street is so beautiful and moving, most of the women's hair has rounded waves, it is summer, the woman wears a slightly high and beautifully decorated lady's hat, or holds a delicate small umbrella decorated with the same lace。

Men mostly wear ironed shirts of various colors, gray or black trousers, and a high top hat.

And the driving on the road is not all like Luo Mu's general carriage, the richly decorated carriage with a roof drove past Luo Mu one by one, but what caught Luo Mu's attention the most was that even in the streets of Maryland is still extremely rare four wheeled cars, the name of the car Luo Mu still heard from the teacher, I heard the teacher say that this thing runs much faster than the carriage, but the price that discourages ordinary rich people makes this thing a very rare object.

Are the streets full of well-dressed people? Of course not, Luo Mu actually saw more people on the street who were dressed even more tattered than himself at home, linen short clothes, cropped short jackets, black rubber overalls and shoes were almost standard, most of these workers' faces were filled with indifference to everything around them, silently doing their work, and more dilapidated carriages than Luo Mu's house abounded, and even some carriages were not pulled by horses, but by people desperately pulling the grass as high as the hill, they were like living in the shadows, incompatible with everything around Maryland。

Luo Mu turned his head to look at Little's back, Littlet was actually wearing a linen shirt that he usually wore when fishing, which was the same as the workers around him, it was said that his daughter-in-law sewed it by herself, and the stitches of the two ribs were already a little open, Litt also looked at the people around him, the sun was shining on his head, and there was already sweat left to flow into the flesh folds that appeared on his neck because of his head, maybe a little itchy, Litt scratched his neck and muttered to himself

"What a beautiful city, hey, the richest and poorest people are here."