Chapter 70: Embarking on a Journey
May 31 was the penultimate day of the final exams at the Royal Spell School of Lorraine, and late that night, Ke Zhenxi and Yuniel arrived on the outskirts of the city in a hired carriage.
Originally, tomorrow was the final party, and he was scheduled to have a good time with Xinghua, and even Xinghua hinted that it was okay. He was afraid that Yuniel would change his itinerary, so he deliberately told Yuniel this morning that he and Xinghua had a full day's romantic itinerary tomorrow.
Unexpectedly, when he told Yuniel about this, this originally understanding senior sister immediately told him that the departure time had been changed temporarily. It is said that it will be a holiday tomorrow night, and in order to avoid the rush hour of leaving school, you have to leave early.
Because of this, he was depressed for a while. I had to hurriedly go to school with Xinghua for a long time, and then packed my bags to find Yuniel.
Before leaving, the duckling, who was wandering around, came to see him off, holding a large seed made from a twisted tree spirit in his mouth, and handed it to him.
"Is this an energy locomotive? Ke Zhenxi stepped out of the carriage and carefully looked at the six-wheeled mechanical car in front of him that was two meters wide and four meters long, in the blue moonlight.
The metal body is clad in brown paint for a smooth finish, and the windows are made of opaque black glass. The whole car generally doesn't look much different from the car in Ke Zhenxi's hometown.
"Well, it was rented from 'Ridewell Travel Company' and with it, we will be home in no time. Yune's body exuded a slight wind of mana, and her delicate body slowly fell from her horse. Her fluttering, colorful long hair raised a faint halo in the moonlight, and fell beside Ke Zhenxi like a heavenly maiden.
Ke Zhenxi was stunned for a while, and his mouth looked funny.
Yunier looked at Ke Zhenxi's eating appearance, and had mixed feelings, it was good to be able to attract this man, but this image of this man was indeed a little unsightly.
The door to the cab of the car opened, and down came a slim goblin in a driver's uniform.
"Teacher Brin?" Ke Zhenxi thought he had seen something wrong, and rubbed his eyes, still not sure about it. ”
He thought to himself, "Do all the goblins look the same? No, that Charlotte doesn't look like Miss Brynn." Moreover, de Gaulle said that goblins have dark green skin tones, and only Mr. Brynn's half-breed is yellow-green, could it be that Mr. Brynn is a part-time driver?"
Yuniel saw Ke Zhenxi's doubts, and explained warmly: "It's our teacher Brin, he also wants to go home to see, and it just so happens that he can drive, so I asked him to help." ”
"Ah, that's good. Ke Zhenxi nodded, and didn't think much about it, multiple people had more help, and he also felt that this Brin was very reliable. So, he politely smiled at the Goblin Throwing Lesson, then opened the car door and helped Yunel into the car.
As soon as the car door opened, Ke Zhenxi was stopped.
The car is fully equipped and very luxurious, with beds, sofas, and washrooms, and the materials are of the highest quality.
Ke Zhenxi also wanted to enjoy it here, but he didn't have the qualifications for it.
He looked at the car a few more times with some regret, then turned his head and said to Yuneer: "Call me if there is anything." He watched Yuniel get into the car, closed the door, and walked into the passenger seat very consciously.
The structure in the cab was more similar to the cars in his hometown, and he thought he could drive them.
"Teacher, I didn't expect you to be able to drive. ”
"Well, I've learned it before. Brin expertly pulled up the handbrake, wiped off the throttle, and drove on.
Ke Zhenxi looked at Brin Green hands and asked curiously, "Teacher, your family is in the Fairy Kingdom, are they also mixed-race." ”
"My brother and I are both of mixed race, and now only my mother and brother are left in the house. ”
"Oh. ”
"By the way, teacher, how much does this car cost?
"It's expensive, 10,000 gold coins. ”
"Ten thousand gold coins?" Ke Zhenxi exclaimed in surprise, it was ten million in exchange for iron coins, which was definitely an astronomical amount for him, "Then, how much is the rent for our rental car?"
"Sixty gold coins a day. ”
"My God, my two houses together are only twenty-eight gold coins, why doesn't he take a carriage?" Ke Zhenxi felt a little pain when he thought that it would cost sixty gold coins a day to ride in this car, although the money was not his.
"This car is fast, the vehicle is also a magic weapon, it can withstand spell attacks, it is far from being comparable to the carriage, as long as you can afford to spend it, it is worth it. ”
"That's too expensive, isn't it? ”
"It's expensive for us, but the Dukes of the Horpee have money, so Miss Yuniel's pocket money should not be less. ”
Ke Zhenxi understands that no matter where he is, there is a gap between the rich and the poor, and no matter where he is, he belongs to the poor side.
Now, he looked through the car window in the direction of the school in the distance, and his heart throbbed. Somehow, he always felt that this trip might not be as simple as it seemed.
Looking at the fading school tower, he pouted helplessly, and took out a book that Yunel had given him from his school bag, this book was called "Introduction to the Goblin Kingdom", and the author was Darwin. There are three books in the full set, and he is now reading the first "Old Demon Chapter".
He turned the first page of the general section and began to read it boredly, not silently, but aloud with a stumbling voice.
"The full name of the Fairy Kingdom is 'United Kingdom of Old Demons, New Demons and Elves', and it is located at the southernmost tip of the Ancient Ao Continent, and its territory is fan-shaped at a ninety degree angle. The apex is at the southern end, and the northern side is an arc, surrounded by the east-west "Spine Mountains". The northern border, with the exception of a small part of the Shandong region, has the vast majority of its borders west of the Central Mountains. ”
"The kingdom has a population of 1.5 million, 900,000 old demons, 450,000 new demons, and 150,000 elves. The kingdom is administratively divided into one province and two territories, the west is the old demon dominion, which is subordinate to 29 autonomous prefectures and one autonomous city, the northeast is the new demon province with five subordinate cities, and the southeast is the elven dominion, which is divided into holy regions and peripheral districts. The capital of the kingdom is the Holy Demon City, located at the junction of one province and two territories. ”
Seeing this, Ke Zhenxi said, "Teacher Brin, is there a lot of communication between this fairy kingdom and the human country?"
Brin, who was driving the car, listened to this and said curiously: "Aren't you from the Principality of Kosovo? One of the three neighboring countries of the Fairy Kingdom in the Shanxi region is the Principality of Kosovo, and there are frequent exchanges between the two sides, how could you not know?"
"I am a citizen of the Principality of Kosovo, but I have been uprooted since I was a child. As soon as Ke Zhenxi saw that he had slipped his mouth, he was worried that the fake ID card would be exposed, so he quibbled and said in a humble manner, "You drive carefully, don't be distracted." ”
Ke Zhenxi was afraid that he would miss his mouth if he spoke more, so he hurriedly continued to turn the page and read aloud.
"The dominant position in the goblin kingdom is the new demon clan, although their number only accounts for thirty percent of the total number of kingdoms, and the territory only accounts for fifteen percent, but the administrative staff of the kingdom from top to bottom are basically new demon clans. ”
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"The Old Demon Dominion, located in the western part of the kingdom, is more like a collection of independent states, and the 29 autonomous prefectures under its jurisdiction are also highly autonomous. ”
"The supreme leader of each autonomous state is the lord of each state, and he is hereditary for life. The head of the autonomous prefecture is the governor appointed by the central government, who must be of the same place of origin as the state and serve a term of five years. ”
"The supreme leader of the Dominion is the Great Lord, who is elected by the state lords of the 29 autonomous oblasts for a lifetime. The current High Lord is named Galio, and he is also the State Lord of the Gargoyle Autonomous Prefecture. ”
"The head of the Dominion is the Chief, who is appointed by the Leader for a term of five years. At the end of this book, the leader of the Old Demon Dominion is Alista, who is also the lord of the Minotaur Autonomous Prefecture. ”
"The ordinary people of the Old Demon Dominion don't know much about the outside world, they only think that their autonomous prefecture is an independent country, and they think that the relationship with other states is just an alliance. The author has personally visited the Sheep's Head Autonomous Prefecture, where the heads of many villages do not even know what the country's capital is called, and for them, the lord of their state, the king of the sheep's heads, is their supreme leader, and the governor is the lord's subordinate. As for the king of the fairy kingdom, Big Potato, to this village, he is a legendary god-like existence. ”
"The new demon province with the same administrative level as the old demon dominance, there is no lord, the governor is both the supreme leader and the first leader, the term of office is five years, and the current governor is one of the 'six demons' of the eternal heavenly god monkey. ”
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Ke Zhenxi read the book as a storybook, but he also read it with relish, and soon finished reading the general part.
He also summed up his opinion: "It's really an eye-opener, it seems that this goblin kingdom is a loose alliance, the main body is the new demon province, and the old demon dominions are more like a group of separate vassal states, as for the elf dominions, they are not even subject countries, at most they are friends." ”
"Teacher Brin, do you think I'm summarizing correctly?" Ke Zhenxi said as he looked at Colombia Brin, forgetting that he was driving before, so don't be distracted.
Brin knew his "former homeland" very well, and these basic introductions that Ke Zhenxi read were not attractive to him. Out of politeness, he just nodded in response.
Seeing that Ke Zhenxi, who was energetic, did not see the teacher's impatience, he continued to turn the pages of the book and began to read the text part.
Chapter 1, The Old Demon Clan.
"What is the Old Demon Race? The so-called Old Demon Race is a broad term, mainly those intelligent beings that existed before the human race unified the continent. An important difference between them and the new demon clan is that the new demon clan is an acquired wisdom through the cultivation of animals, plants, or other things, so as to become a demon clan. And the old demon clan has been a demon clan since birth, and their ancestors have been demon clans for generations. Many of them were once rulers of the continent, such as dragons, orcs, kobolds, minotaurs, etc. There are also some weak demon clans that have never dominated the continent, typical ones are goblins and sheep-headed people. ”
Ke Zhenxi said excitedly: "Teacher, goblins are written in this book. ”
"You just read silently, not out loud. Brin's eyes slowly turned from yellow-green to dark green, and the hour-long relentless verbal bombardment of the student next to him made him collapse a little.