This brave man is a scumbag

Chapter 651 City Lord
"It seems that the Three Eastern Courts haven't forgotten us yet."

Atalona was very tall and had an aloof temperament. In front of her, the city lord surnamed An unconsciously lowered his head.She looked down at the man in front of her, and said in a calm voice, "It seems that disasters will change a lot, but some things can't be changed."

"You have saved many lives, and even our court master has expressed his admiration for you."

Bowing slightly, the city lord said neither humble nor overbearing: "My name is An Quan, and I am the city lord of the upper capital granted by the court master Ying Ji. It is really an honor to meet you today."

"Today's protagonist is not me."

Atalona noticed An Quan's eyes, she had no other thoughts, and said lightly: "The person who is looking for you is a brave man."

Hearing this, An Quan set his sights on Zhou Li.Contrary to what Zhou Li expected, there was no hostility or dissatisfaction in An Quan's eyes. Although he was not full of admiration after seeing himself like the outside world, the respect was just right.

"It seems that many people know the difference between a brave man and a brave man."

Zhou Li didn't go around the barrier either, and said directly: "It's not me who took the source, do you know about it?"

"do not know."

Shaking his head, An Quan said, "However, Master Ying Ji once entrusted us to respect the brave ones. Although we don't know why, it is the instinct of each of us to obey the orders of the court master."

"Oh?"

Zhou Li raised his eyebrows, and said with great interest: "You? It seems that the human court is still a monolith."

"You are joking."

An Quan shook his head, and said with a slight smile: "As long as the family leader is here, the family will not be separated. The twelve cities in the north and the six counties in the south are all prosperous and prosperous under the leadership of our family leader. One piece of iron."

Zhou Li felt a little weird when he heard this, but he didn't say anything.After a short thought, Zhou Li said, "City Master An, I won't go around with you anymore. I want to see your Court Master now, what should I do?"

As if he had expected what Zhou Li was going to say, An Quan didn't show any surprise. He glanced at Atalona beside Zhou Li without leaving any trace, and then said, "I'm sorry, Mr. Brave, I can't answer your question."

Can't answer, rather than can't answer?

Zhou Li savored An Quan's words carefully in his heart, then he turned the coin in his hand, and after a moment of silence, he said, "Can you tell me the reason?"

"Master Brave, you should also know about the source along the way."

Looking at Zhou Li, An Quan said slowly: "The disappearance of the origin is an unstoppable and irreparable disaster for our human family, or for the demon court or fairy court. Surviving that terrible disaster, it was His Majesty the court master who filled the gap at the cost of the will of the courts, and sealed everything in the human court in the knot. There is no doubt about the strength of the knot, but the price is His Majesty Ying Ji. soul and body.”

"The winning season is now..."

Facing Zhou Li's doubts, An Quan was silent for a moment.After a long time, he sighed and said slowly: "I'm sorry, Mr. Brave, I know you may not believe it. However, I haven't been back to Shangjing for nearly 30 years. Therefore, there are some things that you know better than me. clear."

Zhou Li didn't say anything, he could tell that An Quan said these words from the heart.He wasn't lying or hiding anything, the sincerity in his eyes couldn't be faked.Of course, Zhou Li didn't believe it all, but asked after thinking for a moment: "Then, the Lord An has not contacted the Court Master for a long time, right?"

"It's hard to explain the situation."

An Quan smiled wryly, and said frankly: "We have a total of eighteen city lords, the only ones who can talk to His Majesty the court lord are Beiliang County and Tianfu, which are the closest to the royal capital. Words. In other words, the orders or news I get are always the last and have passed through the hands of many city lords. Therefore..."

Zhou Li was stunned, he didn't expect that the situation in the human family was far worse than he imagined.This kind of information lag is extremely fatal to any country or institution, and it is not just a problem of lag. The information transmission between people may be complete between a few people, but once it involves If there are more than a dozen people, and there are interests interfering with it, the fidelity of the information will be greatly reduced.

For any country, if such a system is implemented, it can only mean that the country is about to collapse, and the information is no longer in the main city.Or, the level of civilization in this country is appallingly low, that is to say, the transmission of messages between various regions must be transmitted in the most primitive way.

But···
Looking at An Quan in front of him, Zhou Li hesitated for a while.He didn't know whether what he thought was correct, and he didn't know what purpose Yingji had in doing so.And An Quan also saw Zhou Li's hesitation. After sorting out his words, he slowly said: "Master Brave, I know what you are thinking. But what I can tell you is that the eighteen city lords up and down Yixin, there has never been any falsification of information. If I don’t know as much as other city owners, the only reason is that I can’t know, not that they don’t want me to know.”

"The farther you are from the capital, the farther you are from civilization. This is the truth that our family leader once told me."

After listening to An Quan's explanation, Zhou Li seemed to understand something.He sat on the wooden chair without saying a word, tapping the back of the chair lightly with his fingers.After a long time, he looked at An Quan and asked, "What about the soul of the court master?"

"The soul of the court master..."

An Quan didn't answer for a while, he frowned, as if he wanted to say something, but finally gave up.He breathed a sigh of relief, and then said: "Your Majesty, the court master."

【I am here】

"Can you tell me how to meet the court master?"

As if hearing An Quan's question, the spirit of the court master who was everywhere fell into a long silence.At this moment, a needle could be heard in the entire reception room, and an indescribable silence spread among everyone.

[The head of the court... has died, so the head of the court is still alive, you... can't see it, because you are still alive]

After a riddle that the riddlers have to kneel and kowtow when they come, An Quan said to Zhou Li with a wry smile: "The soul of the court master is the spirit body created by His Majesty Ying Ji when he used his soul to establish a boundary. The spirit body contains years of experience from His Majesty the Court Master, and also possesses a certain degree of Court Master's authority, but once you ask it questions about the Court Master, it will say these incomprehensible words."

Zhou Li stared blankly at the fleeting mist. In fact, he had tried to communicate with the courtyard master's soul a long time ago.Because he knew that if the Three Eastern Courts hadn't experienced a restart, then the head of the court, Ying Ji, would definitely remember him, and Ying Ji would definitely tell him some truths that Su Yuli didn't explain.But after he asked about the soul of the court master, he also got a vague answer, but that answer was completely different from what An Quan said.

[The court master... is still alive, and you are also alive, so no one died, you can see him, but you have to die]

It was a very strange sentence, which seemed intermittent, but Zhou Li could see that the soul of the court master seemed to be trying to express something.And after adding An Quan's words, Zhou Li vaguely noticed something unusual.

These two sentences seem to have no connection, but what if they are connected?
The court master is dead, but the court master is still alive, An Quan can't see him because An Quan is still alive.

The court master is still alive, and he is also alive, so he can see him, but he has to die.

What if we exchanged death and life for the world?

Since he already realized that both Su Yuli and Ying Ji already had knowledge of another world, Zhou Li thought of this right away.He put together the two sentences and compared them, and he got a piece of news.

The court master is still alive, but he does not survive in Gaia's world, so in front of Gaia's Anquan, the court master is dead.But Zhou Li is not from this world, so the family master who lives in another world is alive to Zhou Li.

But···
It's hard for Zhou Li to imagine that he can figure it out by himself. To be honest, he feels that there is something wrong with the soul of the court master, and his intelligence is no different from that of Xiao Ai.A normal sentence has to be broken and said, and broken to different people.Of course, Zhou Li understands that some truths may not be suitable to be stated, but Zhou Li still feels that the spirit of the court master is a bit old-fashioned.

"Then if I go deeper into the human family..."

Zhou Li didn't explain what he said, but An Quan was also a smart person, and he instantly understood the meaning of Zhou Li's words.He nodded, and replied after a moment of thinking: "You are right, I know very little, maybe because Shangjing is too close to the edge of the barrier, it is easy to get in touch with the entropy spirit, so I can't know more .However, you are different, you may be able to find all the city lords and connect everything together."

After a brief silence, An Quan raised his teacup and said solemnly: "If you really solve all the disasters, thousands of people in the Three Courts of the East will always remember your name."

"maybe."

Zhou Li also raised his teacup and replaced the wine with tea. The two men touched the teacups in their hands and drank them all in one gulp.

After drinking this cup of tea, both of them tacitly stopped talking about the previous matter.

"Master Zhouli, if you need, I can send a court guard team to accompany you to other towns, what do you think?"

Faced with An Quan's kindness, Zhou Li did not answer immediately, but shook his head after thinking about it and refused: "No, we are traveling very fast, and it is easy to slow down if we bring a team."

"Too."

An Quan nodded, he could tell that none of the people in front of him had a fuel-efficient lamp.Whether it is the mighty thief hero who shakes the world, or the mad god who is afraid of even the head of the court, the mysterious and elegant blue-haired girl, and the red-eyed white-haired woman who hides all her sharpness but makes people shudder, there is no one. Do not reveal the opponent's strength.

"Then I will prepare the customs clearance document for you. According to the rules, people from one town need to go through a three-day review if they want to go to another town. As the city lord of Shangjing, I naturally have a way to speed up this process. I personally present a customs clearance document, and in the next three cities, you can act freely with this document. Of course, after the three cities, you need to obtain documents from other city lords."

Looking at Atalona at the side, An Quan hesitated for a moment, and then reminded: "Also, if possible, it's better for Lord Atalona not to appear directly in front of the timid city lord. After all, you are famous in the human court. Hehe, they are likely to be afraid of your aura and cannot avoid it."

"It's ok."

Atalona shook her head, her tone was flat, "No one can avoid me."

An Quan really wanted to wipe the cold sweat off his forehead, because he could tell that Atalona was serious.But seeing what he could do, he couldn't beat him and couldn't convince him, so he could only pray for the next few city lords.

"Then everyone, please stay overnight. It's almost midnight now. Even if there is a customs clearance certificate, the gates of other cities have probably been released. You just happened to have a rest in Shangjing, so I can add something."

Obviously, An Quan's attitude towards Zhou Li and his party was very friendly.Of course, this is also the reason why they have a good conversation with their own daughter.

"That's disturbing."

Zhou Li didn't refuse either, there was no point in rushing for a while, what Zhou Li and the others had to do was to recharge their batteries, adjust their state and solve the matter in one go.In addition, he was indeed a little tired, so he agreed to An Quan's request to let them stay overnight.

"Father, Grandpa Sun asked me to help change the tea."

Just when everyone was about to get up and leave, the girl with the ball head who was holding a tea tray knocked on the door and said something to An Quan in the room.And when An Quan heard his daughter's voice, the slightly majestic and stiff smile on his face disappeared in an instant, replaced by an awkward expression that wanted to keep a straight face but couldn't hide the smile.He cleared his throat, and then said, "Come in."

An Qing who was holding the tea tray opened the door cautiously, then smiled at Zhou Li and the others.An Qing's walking posture doesn't look like her little daughter's, that kind of just-right gait shows that she has martial arts skills, and she looks very sassy and graceful.After placing the teacups on the tea tray in front of everyone, she looked at An Quan while holding the tea tray, and asked with a faint smile on her face, "Father, do you want me to take all the distinguished guests to the guest room?"

"Since you have such a heart, then go."

Waving his sleeves, An Quan seemed very relieved of his daughter. He looked at Zhou Li, cupped his hands, and said, "Then please follow my girl to the guest room. Don't worry, although the house is not called It is magnificent in appearance, but it is more than enough to say that it is clean and tidy.”

"Thank you very much then."

Zhou Li and the others thanked An Quan, and then they left the reception room slowly.After everyone left, An Quan's smile gradually faded, replaced by a deep worry.

(End of this chapter)