Extraordinary pedigree

Route 707, Lambeth, Fog City.

Xia Xiu, wearing a white windbreaker with a brown vest underneath and a white Panama hat on his head, got off the steam train. He reached out and pressed his hat, then glanced at the sign on the central street and headed towards his destination.

Ever since he knew that Luyuan was recruiting new students, and his first stop was Fog City, Xia Xiu changed his plan. He now planned to become a student of Luyuan through Luyuan's recruitment.

Deer Court, founded in 350 in the Terra Calendar, is located southeast of Three Portlands. It is a coeducational liberal arts college. Deer Academy is renowned not only for its pioneering integration of occult studies into the liberal arts educational curriculum, but also for its high standards of thaumatological practice, creative thinking, and active multiverse citizenship.

Deer students pursue a Bachelor of Arts degree in more than 40 majors in key areas. The school's curriculum includes a one-year occult course with a broad range of distribution requirements and graduate specialties: each student constructs their own program of study by combining a traditional major with an occult focus area, or selects from a number of established Choose among interdisciplinary majors.

Deer Yuan is one of the few organizations that is willing to accept and educate owners of different pedigrees, and has always maintained a relatively neutral political stance. Many famous figures in Terra are students of Deer Yuan, including one of the twelve seats in the Fog City Clock Tower. The four chairpersons studied in Luyuan.

Luyuan's recruitment does not value bloodlines and extraordinary talents like Clock Tower does. It is willing to recruit even ordinary people. Of course, this ordinary person must have a relatively special talent, such as excellent literary talent.

Xia Xiu's purpose at this time was to obtain Luyuan's enrollment qualifications. Luyuan had three enrollment channels.

The first is to use a thaumaturgic creature [Spirit-conscious Owl] to hold a magic envelope engraved with [Directed Cognition Instructions] in front of a person with thaumaturgy potential, and hand the envelope to them. Those who have the potential to open the envelope and read the contents will naturally know how to get to Deer Garden.

The second type is the recommendation system. Needless to say, everyone knows about this system. This is the favorite of the related households.

The third type is random selection. There are always a few lucky ones who get picked because of the nonsense the Mayor of Three Portlands is doing.

Xia Xiu wanted to become a student of Luyuan, so he ignored the first and third possibilities. Only the second method met his needs. He happened to know that there was someone qualified to recommend him in Wudu. The purpose of his trip Just come to 'worship the mountain'.

Lambeth slum.

It was clearly noon, but a fine mist still shrouded the streets. Going east from here is the industrial area. As long as you look up, you can see the black smoke screen, and the people around you are looking at Xia Xiu with strange eyes.

"Bitch! Bitch! How many times have I told you not to crush the bugs on the wallpaper? Do you think you bought the whole hotel? Why can't you just throw them out the window like everyone else? ? Damn it, you bitch!”

"cow!"

While passing by a small hotel, there was an unusually vulgar yelling and cursing, and many idle men were laughing and holding bottles of wine that did not contain much alcohol. In addition to the quarrels, there were also the lonely cries of street vendors and children on the cobblestone streets. The playful sound of chasing orange peels.

At night, high-pitched singing sounds, and garbage trucks leave a stench when they pass by. This is the style of the entire street.

The street was narrow - lined with tall, dingy houses, piled here and there, seemingly frozen in their collapse. All the houses were opened as small hotels and filled with tenants, mostly workers, special trade workers and thieves. There is a tavern downstairs in the hotel, where you can get drunk for as long as you have central coins.

On weekend nights, one-third of the men in the area get drunk and fight over women. The porters who stayed in the cheapest hotels were always fighting in their dens, beating each other with chairs and sometimes using guns.

However, despite the filthy and noisy environment, there are still some decent Wudu people living here, who work as small shopkeepers, bakers and laundresses. They only interact with their own people and accumulate bits and pieces of wealth peacefully.

This is a typical foggy slum.

Under the strange gazes of passers-by, Xia Xiu walked to the darkest part of the slum, which was the gathering place of gangs, where addictive drugs were sold, corpses could be seen everywhere, and the smell of sin flowed everywhere.

The largest gang in Lambeth is the Blanc gang. Legend has it that the leaders of the Blanc gang have extraordinary powers. There are also rumors that the Blanc gang is not a human being, but a monster in human skin.

Xia Xiu could only say that they were right, most of their members were really not human.

The composition of the Blanc gang is very complex, including wild thaumaturges, werewolves, and ghosts. This is a group of monsters who huddle together to stay warm in order to survive in the foggy city.

"Hey, kid over there, what do you want?" A rough-looking man stopped Xia Xiu. Next to him stood a man with a bare chest and a blue scarf.

"Leisi, don't scare the kid. Boy, are you here to find your mother? Do you want your uncle to take you home? Your uncle's house is very big." Kobe, who was standing next to him, laughed and scolded. Si, then asked Xia Xiu with a kind face.

"Harm~"

Xia Xiu sighed helplessly. This kind of vulgar plot always makes people feel boring. These gangsters are still so clichéd and boring.

"Come on, boy, uncle will take you to play some fun things."

Kebei stretched out his hand to grab Xia Xiu, and Xia Xiu's eyes flashed coldly. He directly raised the elbow of his right hand and hit Kebei's waist hard. Kebei felt as if his chest was hit by a giant tree. , his whole body floated out of thin air, and then flew out.

Kobe held his abdomen, curled up like a shrimp and foamed on the ground.

"You damn!"

When Lei Si saw this, he pulled out the dagger hanging from his waist and stabbed Xia Xiu in the head. Lei Si's movement seemed to be too slow in Xia Xiu's opinion. To a thaumaturge, even if they are new to the thaumaturge, in their eyes the movements of ordinary people are as slow as turning on 0.5x speed.

Xia Xiu turned sideways to avoid Lei Si's thrust, then pressed his right hand holding the dagger with both hands and broke it with force.

"Ah——" Lei Si let out a painful cry.

Xia Xiu held Lei Si's fallen dagger, then threw him over his shoulder and knocked him to the ground. He used his knees to press the opponent's fallen body, and then stabbed the dagger hard towards his head.

Click——

Blood was dripping, and Lei Si stared in horror at the dagger that scratched his cheek. He looked at the blond boy pressing on him with fearful eyes. The other person's delicate face was filled with a bright smile, and his eyes were slightly. Squinting, he could not see the boy's true emotions.

Xia Xiu looked at the frightened gangster, stretched out his right hand and placed it on his bleeding cheek, and then used the flesh shaping technique to directly sew up his wound.

"Sir, can you take me to see Mr. Stephen? I have a business here that I want to discuss with him."

Xia Xiu stood up, took off his hat and put it on his chest, and asked Lei Si very politely.

Lei Si dazedly touched his wounds that had healed instantly, as if he understood something. The other party was a being with extraordinary power like the leader. He swallowed and said hurriedly:

"Gulong——, I, I will lead the way for you, sir."