Steel Chang'an

Chapter 3 Introduction Three Knights Contest
Knights are a very special class on this continent.

Based on the seven mecha giants who pioneered the world, humans created the first generation of mechas on the Pangu Continent.They abandoned the cumbersome shape of the space mechs, and became the main force in the battle for the continental plate with a model tonnage more suitable for ground warfare.

The so-called knights are mech warriors who have received formal training.On the battlefield, knights have strong individual combat capabilities, and a knight group composed of several knights can become a fortified force to break through the enemy's formation.In large-scale wars, the forty-ton mecha knights are the main attacking generals, leading the [-]-ton mecha knights to form a forward squadron, and attacking with the mechanical infantry. This is the most common way of fighting on the Pangu Continent.

An excellent knight can change the entire battle situation by himself, which makes the knight the embodiment of heroes on the Pangu Continent.On Pangu Continent, every teenager has a dream of becoming a knight.

This is why the annual knight competition in Chang'an City can become a grand event in the entire continent.

The crowds outside Chang'an City were bustling with people, all of them came for this annual grand event.

Mu Yun tidied up her clothes, followed the flow of people ahead, and walked towards the security check entrance of Chang'an City Gate.

"Come to see the knight competition?" The old man at the gate of the city glanced at Mu Yun up and down.These days, he has seen a lot of young people like Mu Yun. They all have young faces, with excited faces, and they come to Chang'an City from all over the mainland in small groups.

Compared with those excited teenagers, Mu Yun who was alone seemed a bit lonely.The weather was very hot, but he was wearing an old cloak that had been washed white. Among the well-dressed crowd, he looked a bit shabby and out of place.

"Have you bought the ticket yet?" The old man asked again kindly after scanning Mu Yun's identity information.Tickets for this year's Knight Contest are hard to come by. Looking at the young man's attire, he doesn't know where he came from. He was afraid that he might not be able to find his way when he enters the city. , you have to hurry up, enter the city and go east to Tongque Terrace..."

"I don't need to buy a ticket." Mu Yun said.

He knew that the old man had good intentions, but if the old man kept on nagging, the people in the long line behind him would not agree, not to mention that he still had serious matters to ask.

"I just want to ask, to participate in the knight competition, where should I go to register after entering the city?"

"What? Say it louder?" The old man blinked his eyes, unable to turn his head around for a while, "Why do you want to register?"

"I want to participate in the knight competition." Mu Yun said loudly, "I am a knight."

The old man asked Mu Yun to amplify his voice, and he really amplified his voice.As a result, the people behind Mu Yun couldn't help laughing when they heard the poor country boy declaring that he was a knight.The people behind didn't know what the people in front were laughing at. When the people in front described it like this, the people behind also laughed loudly.

Then, Mu Yun's voice was drowned out by laughter from all directions.

Can anyone be a knight?On this continent, there is a saying that knights are born nobles.

Not to mention how expensive a mecha is, even the cost of daily maintenance of the mecha is enough to make an ordinary family bankrupt, plus the knight armor that must be worn to operate the mecha, and the energy consumption of weapons. Expenses, not to mention commoner children, even aristocratic families with weaker foundations may not be able to afford it.

The so-called knight class is the most authentic nobles on this continent.

That's why there are so many ordinary teenagers on this continent who yearn to become knights, but all they can do is to find a job that has nothing to do with knights after they grow up, and after they have some spare money in their pockets, buy A ticket to the common seats of the Knights Competition, to cherish the memory of the boyhood dream.

To put it bluntly, you claim to be a knight, so at least you have to look tall, handsome and rich.

Mu Yun is seven feet tall, which is considered tall for a 16-year-old boy.He was so tall that his pair of old army trousers of unknown age were not enough to wear them. Under the trousers, two bare legs were inserted into a pair of large old army boots; his appearance, if you look carefully, can be called He is upright and tough, even a bit handsome.It's just that he has gray hair as a young man. Even though he shaved his hair very short and stuck it tightly to his scalp, it still covered the top of his head like a layer of hoarfrost.Usually when people look at him, their attention will be attracted by his white hair. They just feel that this young man looks weird and even a bit ominous; I can't find any relationship at all.

After all, Mu Yun's appearance, claiming to be a knight, is really not convincing.

"I'm really a knight." Mu Yun said seriously.

This time even the old man who was looking at the city gate was amused. He took a sip of tea from his teacup and said to Mu Yun, "Blow, keep blowing."

People outside Chang'an City are also waiting to see what tricks this bragging young man can play.

But Mu Yun had finished speaking.

He knew that his words were not convincing.But he didn't need to convince anyone.

He is a knight, is a knight.Cavaliers just need to prove themselves on the battlefield.

So he just stood there, waiting for the answer he wanted.

He just wanted to know where to register for the Knight Contest.

The people behind Mu Yun began to get impatient.

Facing this stubborn young man, the old man who watched the city gate had nothing to do.

"I just looked at the gate. Do you think I can know where to register for the knight competition?" The old man said helplessly to Mu Yun, "After you enter the city, look for it yourself, ah, look for it yourself."

After sending Mu Yun away, the team outside Chang'an City resumed order and continued to move forward.

About this young man who claimed to be a knight outside Chang'an City, some people made jokes about it at first, but after a few waves of people queuing up at the security checkpoint, they were quickly forgotten.

Only the old man still vaguely remembered the identity information of the boy, who seemed to be called Na Han.

Baima City, Mu Yun.

"I am a knight, and I want to sign up for the knight competition."

On this day, Mu Yun repeated this sentence many times.

He bumped into many walls, suffered a lot of stares, and took many detours, and finally found the registration office for the knight competition - in the Beiya in Chang'an City.But at that time, the affairs officers in charge of registration had already left work.

Mu Yun was not in a hurry, she found a wall and squatted down, planning to nest here for the night, and waited for dawn to open the office.

He wasn't really so poor that he didn't have a penny in his pocket. On the contrary, he had a lot of money for an ordinary person.

But he couldn't spend that money, at least, he couldn't waste it on sleep.Every penny is precious to him.

Besides, the night in Chang'an City is not cold at all.The wind blowing on the body at night is much cooler than during the day.There is no sand on the streets of Chang'an City, unlike the northwest desert, if you sleep in the open, the sand can bury people alive.

After all, energetic boy.Mu Yun nestled at the foot of the wall for the night, and at dawn the next morning, the guards of Beiya had just started their duties, and he yawned and opened the two gates, and he stood at the gate of Beiya energetically.

Things went smoother than Mu Yun imagined.

"You said you were a knight, so what is your title?"

The affairs officer in charge of the registration glanced at Mu Yun, and he was not frightened by his shabby and weird attire, nor did he take a few more glances at his weird white hair, and calmly drank Barley tea asked.It seems that there are not one or two teenagers who go to Beiya every day claiming to be knights to participate in the knight competition.

"I don't have a title." Mu Yun said.He felt a little hot in his ears.

"Then you are a hedge knight." The steward nodded.In addition to knights of noble origin, some descendants of well-to-do small businessmen can also become knights through personal hard work.They have to gain the appreciation of a certain lord through their outstanding personal performance and establish military exploits in the war before they can get the title.Winning prize money and gaining fame through the knight competition is also a way for hedge knights to get ahead; although the affairs officer feels that Mu Yun doesn't even seem qualified to be a servant of a hedge knight.

"Chang'an City is no smaller than other places. There are no titled knights. If you want to participate in the knight competition, you must have a referrer approved by the Chang'an shogunate. Who is your referrer?" The affairs officer took a sip of tea and continued to ask casually .

"I have no referrals."

"I have neither a title nor a recommender. I'm sorry, but I can't let you participate in the knight competition." The affairs officer felt that he had asked so many questions, and this country boy should also know that it is not easy to make trouble here. And retreated.He yawned and waved his hand, indicating that the door is there, you boy, hurry up and stop wasting my time.

But Mu Yun didn't leave.

"I have a mech, and I can drive it. Let me participate in the knight competition, and I will prove to you that I am a real knight." Mu Yun said seriously.

The clerk had a headache, thinking how could this country boy be so ignorant, he had to ask the soldiers to throw him out before he would leave?The secretary was about to swear, but when he saw Mu Yun's serious expression, he suddenly felt that this kid might be telling the truth.

If it was a knight's attendant, or a mecha soldier in a military camp, who stole the master's mecha and wanted to sign up for the competition, then the problem would not be so serious.This is quite a serious felony.

"Where did you get the mecha?" The officer asked sternly, while quietly beckoning to the soldiers, he was going to get the whereabouts of the mecha from Mu Yun's mouth first, then arrest him and interrogate him slowly.

"It's a relic of a friend." When he said these words, Mu Yun showed a sad expression on his face.

Looks like the country boy got his mecha from some dead knight, thought the steward.

"Can you prove that the mech belongs to you?"

The young man hesitated for a moment: "It doesn't belong to me yet." Mu Yun replied honestly, after thinking for a while, he added, "I mortgaged it."

"I'll redeem it. As long as I win the Cavaliers Championship."

The man told him that if he wanted to redeem this mech, he could exchange it with the champion of the Knight Contest.

He must redeem the mecha, an important relic and the only thing in this world that belongs to him.

Therefore, he must come to Chang'an City, must participate in the knight competition, and must win the championship.

"So, you plan to use a mecha that doesn't belong to you to participate in the competition, and then become a champion?" The affairs officer couldn't help but sneer.A country boy who doesn't know the heights of the sky and the earth, thinks that if he is lucky enough to get a mecha, he will be able to fight all the invincible opponents in Chang'an City?

"I must win the championship." Mu Yun said seriously.

Regarding this arrogant country boy, the secretary didn't bother to waste any more words.He is the affairs officer in charge of the knight competition, and he doesn't want to lower himself to ridicule a country boy.

"You can go to the prison to get a champion Dangdang." The officer said, two soldiers came up from the left and right to hold Mu Yun's arm, "Stealing a mecha is a felony, if you take the initiative to explain the whereabouts of the mecha, you can avoid the death penalty. But living crimes cannot be avoided. You can think about what to do next to avoid some physical pain."

"I did not steal the mecha." The boy struggled stubbornly, freed a hand from under the soldier's arm, and held up a crumpled note, "This note can prove that I am telling the truth. I have the right to Participate in the Knight Contest."

The soldier took the note from Mu Yun's hand, hesitating whether to hand it to the officer.

"You can just throw away that kind of thing." The officer said, he was afraid that there might be lice on the thing he took out from the country boy, "Take him down, don't waste my time."

The soldiers did not carry out the order of the steward. "My lord," said the soldier with a strange expression on his face, "you'd better read this note."

The officer frowned, and reluctantly picked up the note from the soldier's hand with two fingers.With just one glance, the clerk's face also changed, becoming ugly.

There was only one line of simple words on that note, and the content of the words was unremarkable. It just said that Mu Yun of Baima City pledged the armor Xifeng to me, and this time he was authorized to use this mecha to fight.

But the inscription below that line is terrible.

That is not a name, but a pattern.

A ferocious wolf's head, with a black seal on the bottom of the words, opened its mouth wide, as if it would burst out of the paper at any moment, and pounced out to bite someone.

Everyone knows what this black wolf head represents on Pangea.

wolf head.

The wolf head of the Northwest wolf.

The evil wolf on the Northwest Continent, the leader of Liangyue's army, Liangyuecheng.Apart from the lady in Daming Palace, she is the most powerful person in Chang'an City today.

The weather in Chang'an City was very hot, but the sweat dripping from the officer's forehead was a bit cold.

Even if it was just the wolf's head printed on the paper, there was an invisible oppressive force that forced him not to say anything more, and immediately asked the soldiers to release Mu Yun, and helped Mu Yun to participate in the knight competition as quickly as possible After completing the formalities, he personally sent Mu Yun out of the gate of the Beiya.

After finishing this series of things, the secretary immediately locked the door, and opened an encrypted straight line from under the seat.

Soon, a figure appeared on the opposite side of the clerk's desk.

A very nice figure.The photorealistic image perfectly shows his gorgeous clothes and the feather fan gently shaking in his hand.

Just judging from his clothes, it can be seen that this person's rank is much higher than that of the secretary.When the clerk saw this figure appear, he immediately bowed and saluted.

After all, the clerk said that he was the host of the knight contest, but at best he was just a handyman doing errands on the stage.It was this young-looking official who actually presided over the knight competition behind the scenes.

The sixth member of Junji Pavilion, the assassin of Chang'an, Mr. Wen Xi.

The official knew that Mr. Wen Xi had a high status. If he hadn't happened to be assigned to host the knight competition, the official would never have had the opportunity to talk to him directly, even to his hologram.

Therefore, he reported as concisely and clearly as possible: "The Northwest Wolf finally sent someone to fight."

"Oh?" Mr. Wenxi shook his fan lightly, "Since the Liangyue Army has been stationed in Chang'an, they have been very cautious, lest they be caught and their ambitions for Chang'an will be caught. The knight competition is of course a knight and a knight The battleground for victory between the two parties is also a great opportunity for all forces to show their force to shock the world. In order to avoid suspicion, the wolf head did not hesitate to give up this great opportunity, and publicly ordered his Xuefeng Knights not to compete in the knight competition. Now even if he You want to go back on your word, but which knight can you send to fight?"

"Yes..." The secretary originally wanted to say that he was a shabby country boy, but since Mu Yun was holding a note from the wolf's head, how could the secretary dare to look down on him.But it was a bit embarrassing for the secretary to admit that Mu Yun was a knight. In desperation, he could only say vaguely, "He's a weird boy."

Then, the affairs officer described the situation when Mu Yun came to sign up.

Mr. Wenxi frowned after hearing the report, "It seems that the Northwest Wolf is planning to use this boy to make some moves in the knight competition. If the boy loses, it will be nothing to the Northwest Wolf But if this young man really wins the championship, the whole continent will see it for all to see. The Snow Wind Knights of the Northwest Cangwolf did not have a single member, and just sent a nameless boy to trample all the knights in Chang'an City under their feet. In this way, the Chang'an shogunate will lose all face."

At that time, the Northwest Wolf will take advantage of the opportunity to create momentum. Without the wolf head speaking up, someone will naturally denounce the cowardice and incompetence of the Chang'an shogunate for him, and even mobilize the people to petition, asking the wolf head to take over Chang'an and serve as the young shogunate in the Daming Palace. The protector of the lady.

What a big game of chess.

It's just that this weird boy, can he really win the championship?
Mr. Wen Xi thought to himself, shaking the lupine lightly.He is known as the third wisdom in Chang'an City, and he is good at inferring the whole chess game from the movement of a chess piece.But this time, he felt that he had seen the chess game clearly, but he couldn't understand this chess piece.

"Could it be that even Mister thinks that this young man is really capable of winning the championship in the Knight Contest?" Looking at the expression on Mr. Wen Xi's face, the affairs officer finally couldn't help asking out the doubts in his heart.

"Ha, what are you kidding? I have never met that young man, so how do I know how strong he is?" Mr. Wenxi shook his fan, "I only know that the wolf head of the Northwest Wolf seldom writes with a pen himself. , because he really doesn't know many characters, and he can write even fewer characters. There are not many people in the whole continent who can make Langshou write a note with his own hand. Based on this alone, that kid is somewhat capable Bar."

The clerk thought for a while, the words on that note were indeed ugly, if you look carefully, there are still a few words with wrong strokes.

To make the wolf head expose his ignorance and leave a note, does this young man really have some skills?

If this eccentric boy really wins the championship, then the scene at that time... can't be watched.Thinking of this, the clerk became more and more frowning.

On the contrary, Mr. Wenxi, as if he had suddenly figured out something, smiled, and patted the shoulder of the secretary with a fan from the air, "Don't worry, even if the Northwest Wolf's wishful thinking is successful, then It is not so easy for a young man to win the championship in Chang'an City.

"In our Chang'an city...isn't that person still there?"

That person... Although Mr. Wenxi didn't say his name, the officer's eyes lit up, "That person hasn't made a move for a long time. Could it be that he will also fight this time?"

"If I come forward to invite him to play, he will still sell me some face."

After Mr. Wenxi finished speaking, he was about to quit the call. After thinking about it, he asked one more question: "By the way, what's the name of that boy?"

"It's called Mu Yun." The officer quickly replied, "White Horse City, Mu Yun."

"White Horse City... I seem to have heard of it somewhere." Mr. Wen Xi pressed his fan against his chin, but couldn't remember where he heard about this place for a while, "Forget it. Remember this name, and go find out his details .” But it was no longer to the officer, but to someone who was really by his side.

"I'm afraid it won't be long before everyone in Chang'an City will know this name."

Baima City, Mu Yun.

(End of this chapter)