Otherworldly Apprentice Lich and Foot Knight

The next time he woke up, Zhou Lingke finally stopped falling asleep, and he also learned from Xia En what happened during the time when he fell asleep.

Mang Tan is no longer in danger, unless the generals on the front line do some stupid things one after another, killing all the soldiers on the front line of Mang Tan, but that is basically impossible.Moreover, Mang Tan was miraculous, breaking out of the protection and shackles of Blackstone Fortress, and occupied a large piece of land - the land of the Principality of Kados.As for Qika, he is too busy to take care of himself now, because the battle between the great empires, or the siege of Qika by the two empires has begun.

"Then where are we now?" Zhou Lingke didn't ask about higher-level matters, it was unnecessary.

"I don't know either." Xia En lay on his side beside Zhou Lingke, with his head supported on one hand, his clothes were still not on, and the quilt slid down, revealing most of his chest.

"Ah?" Zhou Lingke was taken aback, and at the same time rubbed his face against Xia En's chest. The skin temperature was slightly higher than his cheeks, and the steady beating heart made Zhou Lingke close his eyes comfortably.

Zhou Lingke's movement made Xia En hide for a while at first, but he stopped soon, and even put his hand on Zhou Lingke's shoulder to hug him: "We are already in the territory of Kados."

"!"

This is the rear of Mangtan's entire front, but this front is already in the Principality of Kados, which is definitely beyond Zhou Lingke's expectations.But just thinking about it, he laughed, and rubbed his cheek on Xia En's chest twice: "Boss, I want to go out to bask in the sun, can I?"

Xia En is hugging Zhou Lingke, in fact he doesn't want to move, probably this is the so-called sleepiness and laziness, but now he just wants to hug Zhou Lingke tenderly like this again - although he knows that a certain guy can't die, but every time That kind of horror and fear will not diminish. He is not used to taking chances. No one knows whether Zhou Lingke will be resurrected forever or die suddenly one day.But when he thought that Zhou Lingke had indeed not seen the sun for a long time, he could only twitch his lazy tendons, let go of his arms, turned around and got out of bed to get dressed.

Zhou Lingke was also a little disappointed by the warmth and body temperature leaving, but he lay on the bed, looked at Xia En's back (with the fruit), watched him stretch his limbs, and slowly wrapped himself up, and there was no other kind of tranquility and cozy.Then... Zhou Lingke was carried out by Princess Xia En.And Pie was obviously a meow, but like a dog, he followed behind them with his tongue out and breathing.

Sunshine, grassland, trees, flowing water, the ancient castle in the distance, and his lover and pet, this is what Zhou Lingke sees here.

"So you were placed in the castle." Shane pointed to the old castle that was only the size of a shoe box from their direction.

"You moved out with me?"

Xia En nodded, his expression distorted for a moment: "Mangtan's castle is not bad, but the castle here... I don't think it's suitable for patients to rest."

"?"

The only castles that Zhou Lingke came into contact with in Mangtan were Blackstone Castle and the Palace Castle, and he had never been in contact with the lowest-level castles.It wasn't until three days later that Zhou Lingke and Xia En, who thought they had recovered to a lively state, went to visit the local consul. He finally understood Xia En's meaning of "not suitable for patients to rest", and he felt that this should not be just a castle building The relationship between style definitely has a lot to do with the habits of local people.

This place should be the largest city nearby, but it is far inferior to the cleanliness and order of the Mangtan city they have seen before.There is a strong stench floating in the air here. There is a moat in this city. The water in the moat is dark brown. It seems that the domestic waste of the whole city has been discharged into the river. There are floating things in it... who Said that only modern times have water pollution?Fortunately, it's autumn now and the weather is getting colder, otherwise this place would only stink even more.The road into the city was paved with slightly moldy straw. Although the Mangtan guards had serious faces and frowns, Zhou Lingke was sure that their frowns were smoked.

Before entering the city, I saw soldiers stop a car carrying meat into the city, and fined the owner three silver coins, and two silver coins to buy a dung bag.In fact, it is to make a big cloth bag under the buttocks of the riding beast, and when the riding beast excretes, it is pulled into the bag.The owner of the car had a bitter face and begged bitterly, saying that he would not commit the crime again next time, but the guards used his goods to make up for it without paying the money. The owner of the car could only pay the money trembling.

Although Zhou Lingke and Xia En came here either as savages who don't need money at all, or eat public meals, they have bought things before, and they know the prices to some extent.And the owner of the car seems to be a freight forwarder, not a butcher.So five silver coins may be his wages for the day.

This punishment is too severe for car owners, but this is the law of Mantan.Not to mention his car, even King Frank's beast has to wear a dung bag before entering the city. Otherwise, in addition to fines, people with titles will also be posted on the bulletin board: When someone enters the city in a certain year and month The beast rider didn't wear a dung pocket.To be honest, five silver coins are nothing more than a drop in the bucket for someone with a high title, but I really can't afford to lose face.

They were noticed before they reached the city gate, or it was pie that was noticed.When they took out their ID badges, the guards' eyes immediately lit up, especially the way they looked at Zhou Lingke, as if they were on fire. Some even trembled, but they were definitely not afraid, but excited.And soon, the two of them could go to the local general's mansion by car.

The car is a bit run down, but clean.The problem is, as they entered the city, although they were far away from the smell at the gate of the city, there was another kind of smell floating out.Zhou Lingke thinks he is very strong, but it really stinks!

"It's okay. After a while, your nose will get used to it, and you won't be able to smell anything." Xia En looked at Zhou Lingke who was lying on the car window first, probably wanting to breathe fresh air, and then retracted after being choked. She covered her nose with her hand, but looked at her hand with disgust.Xia En has also experienced this, because it is too stinky, so it is Zhou Lingke who feels that even he is stinky.

"What the hell is this?" Zhou Lingke felt that it was a miracle that someone lived in this place all his life.

"There is no drainage system in this place." Xia En explained, "It turns out that the streets here are covered with straw, and domestic garbage is dumped on the road, and someone cleans it. Do you see the holes on the windows of those buildings? That's where the people are. Toilets, people directly use them there, and then... they fall on the street. After Mang Tan came, he used strict laws to prohibit people from dumping garbage on the street in any way, including excrement. However, although this city It’s not that big, but it has a history of more than 300 years, and how much dirty things have accumulated over the years have seeped into the ground, and how deep it has penetrated, I don’t know.”

As he was talking about this, the carriage passed by a fountain in the city. Western fountains are only second to beautify the environment, and more importantly, they are used as water sources.The water sprayed from Mangtan's fountain is clear and translucent, and it tastes extra sweet.But in the fountain they passed by, the splashed water droplets were all yellow. Although the overall color of the water was not as heavy as the moat, it was obviously not clean.As for what the water smells like, Zhou Lingke doesn't know, because other smells have covered up the smell of the water, or the two smells have merged together.

Zhou Lingke clutched his stomach, the feeling of vomiting was surging, but he finally held back, because he felt that vomiting would be more disgusting, and at the same time he began to worry about Xia Enlai.Even if his human sense of smell is suffering like this, Xia En's sensitive sense of smell will only suffer more: "Boss, you don't need to come with me."

Xia En shook his head: "My sense of taste is different from yours. What I smell is not a bad smell, but a human smell."

"??"

"Rotten flesh is a stink to man, but food to beasts."

"What you smell is fragrance?" Zhou Lingke had a frightened expression on his face.

"No." Xia En hesitated for a moment, but when he thought about his metaphor, it was really inappropriate, "For example, the smell of blood, after I smell it, what is reflected in my mind is what is bleeding, how far is it, and where is it flowing?" More blood or not much. Wait, similar information, but there is no smell or fragrance."

Zhou Lingke thought about it, and the human sense of smell can actually distinguish far less than many animals.For animals, the sense of smell is almost equivalent to the second vision, and some animals even use the sense of smell to "see" the world without vision.Xia En's sense of smell is probably the same now.

"Then you can't smell the fragrance?"

"No, I can smell it." Xia En leaned close to Zhou Lingke's neck, sniffed it twice, and even moved his nose exaggeratedly.

Zhou Lingke immediately squeezed towards Xia En again, with his hand on his waist: "Boss, I have some good news for you. I finally can't smell the smell anymore." While the two were talking, Zhou Lingke's nose had already adapted to the smell. Not only the smell of the surroundings, but also said that his nose has died in the line of duty, and I don’t know if it can recover after leaving here~

On the road, you can also see residents coming and going in the city. Zhou Lingke can recognize at a glance who is the aborigine here and who is the immigrated original mangtan resident. The reason is very simple-clean.The aborigines in Mangtan are very careful about hygiene. Although it is not as good as modern people taking a bath every day, even in the depths of winter, they will try their best to find opportunities to wash their hair or scrub their bodies.The two travelers thought that this was the general situation in the mainland, but they were obviously wrong.