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No, no, it’s obvious that Zofia is my type... cough cough cough, I think I’ve said too much.

Chapter 499 Finally saw it

"Here, the Martin Special you ordered."

Soon the boss brought out the wine glasses and the plate was full of French fries.

Beichen also woke up from his fantasy... Of course, it was just a serious imagination!

The old TV was also repaired yesterday and is now playing a program. The eyes of the guests sitting at that table are almost all focused on the TV screen.

Beichen couldn't help but look over and said, "Let me see what you are looking at so intently."

It doesn’t matter if you don’t look at it, but after a quick glance, Beichen almost choked on the French fries in his mouth.

Yes, the news is being broadcast on TV, and the protagonist of the news is exactly me.

Those people who sat in the stands with cameras during the evening game really lived up to their profession by producing the news report so quickly.

Beichen felt like laughing as he watched himself dodging among numerous obstacles, his posture being agile but not graceful at all.

Maybe I should use a more stylish pose next time?

"What happened?"

Martin asked with concern. He also noticed that Beichen had just coughed violently and his nose was about to run, so he brought him a glass of cold water.

"It's okay, thank you for your concern."

Beichen waved his hands, just suddenly a little surprised.

"Hey, is there such a new thing? In our time, it was not uncommon to win a speed race without wearing any armor, right?"

After reading the news, the old knights couldn't help but start discussing.

"Yeah, the armor we wore back then wasn't that advanced, but even so, we were still much faster than those opponents who didn't have money to buy armor. How did this guy do it?"

"Could it be that there was cheating? I saw a report saying so."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone fell silent, followed by a round of rebuttals.

"Bullshit! Those bullshit reports are not believable at all. Didn't we understand this well enough when we first participated in the competition?"

"Yes, yes. Most likely, that company is afraid that its armor won't sell, so it accused them of cheating. And look at the leaked video online and their actions. Wow, their reaction is really quick."

One person opened his terminal, and the others leaned over to watch carefully. Beichen was naturally eavesdropping on the conversation while eating French fries.

"My goodness, if I'm not mistaken, that's the latest model of armor. Several knight orders are using that product, and they lost?"

"Now I have to suspect that this kid cheated, hahahaha."

One of the guests said in a joking tone.

"My goodness, did you notice that when I crossed the finish line, I almost left an afterimage and couldn't even see my face."

"Winning two races in one day, is there any precedent for this?"

"Come on, it's not like we haven't participated in speed races before. To be honest, your muscles will be sore after running, and it will be difficult to recover without a day of rest."

"So this kid still has some energy left? Look at the time he finished the two races. The difference was barely a few seconds. Maybe he hasn't used his full strength yet!"

Not using all your strength?

Beichen thought about how long it would take him to complete the race if he tried his best.

Uh, it seems like it only takes less than half a minute to fly?

"Hey, Old Fu, weren't you also a fast runner on the battlefield before? If you were 20 years younger and competed with this kid, could you beat him?"

"Who said I ran? I was charging forward at that time, and I beat those Ursus people so hard that they couldn't even raise their heads. Hehe, if they were caught up by me at that time, no one would be able to escape."

The guest called Old Fu, whose real name was Fugwald, took a sip of wine and slapped the table.

That’s right, he was not a competitive knight before, but a second-level combat knight who participated in the war between Casimir and Ursus.

Maybe he really was chasing after the lone soldier from Ursus and killing him all the way?

Although Casimir was beaten up by Ursus in the end (laughs)

"Why is the jukebox broken again?"

At almost the same time as yesterday, a big white bear pushed open the door of the bar and walked in, frowning and saying.

"I feel like that's because you didn't assemble it yesterday."

Martin spoke up and nodded at the broken jukebox, which had gone silent while playing a song.

"Hey, Corvo, you won't make the thing explode this time, will you? You always mess up things related to Originium, and I've seen a lot of that in the past."

Fugwald said with a smile.

"You say bad things about me every day. When will you change this bad habit?"

Koval was busy repairing the jukebox, so he didn't continue arguing with Fogwald.

But after he took the thing apart and before he could do much, a burst of black smoke came out of the jukebox, which directly blackened the hair on his face.

"Ahem, how come it's really... ahem..."

After finally dispersing the black smoke and wiping his face, Koval suddenly felt overwhelmed when he looked at the messy internal structure.

“Hahaha, see that, see that, it exploded!”

The old knight on the side was laughing so hard that he couldn't stop. Not to mention the jukebox, Koval had also broken their radio at that time.

"Master Koval, let me do it."

Finally, the person Beichen had been waiting for finally came.

Hearing Xia Guang's voice, Bei Chen raised his head and saw the eye-catching golden hair.

(Although in the E2 character portrait and skin, the hair doesn’t look like blonde anymore due to the strange lighting)

Of course, the most important thing is her voice, which Beichen is very familiar with.

"Oh! Girl, why are you here today? No, no, leave this to me. Go sit over there and take a rest."

Although Maria came, Koval still took the job on himself. Even for his own face, he had to fix it himself.

"Let me do it, Master Koval."

Maria snatched the tools from the old craftsman and started repairing the jukebox. After a while, the jukebox started playing again.

"Maria is really getting better and better every day. In my opinion, it's about time for a certain old man to officially retire, right?"

The old knight on the side started to add fuel to the fire again.

"Hey, that's not the case. It's all thanks to Master Koval's good teaching."

Maria's words made Koval straighten his back immediately.

"Did you hear that, Old F? Did you hear—did you?"

"Tsk, tsk, tsk."

Fugwald rolled his eyes and downed another glass of wine.

Chapter 500: Bar Farce

Looking at Maria's face, Beichen seemed to be thinking about something. It wouldn't be a good idea to try to get close to her so directly.

Although given Maria's personality, it would be easy to get closer to him by just bringing up Lin Guang's matter and chatting about it.

But this is a bit too abrupt and can easily make people feel that you have ulterior motives.

Forget it.

Beichen grabbed another handful of French fries and stuffed them into his mouth. He thought that they would get to know each other sooner or later, so there was no need to rush.

After repairing the jukebox, Maria wiped the sweat from her head and turned her eyes to the TV screen.

"Registration for the 24th Casimir Special Tournament Knight Qualifiers has begun!"

Beichen also looked at the TV screen. The news about himself had been broadcasted, and now it was about the news about the registration for the preliminaries.

But when Maria saw the news, she seemed to remember something and her expression suddenly became lost, but she quickly shook her head and the expression on her face soon became firm.

It was probably because the Rinkou family would soon be stripped of their status as a knight noble due to bankruptcy.

Knight Yao was expelled from Casimir. A certain unknown working social animal has always looked down upon things like knight competitions. Zofia is only a branch of the Linguang family and cannot represent this family.

Of course, the most fatal thing is that Maria's parents are missing, and the Linguang family is now only in name only. Many people are eyeing this seemingly glorious name, but in fact they just want to use it for commercial purposes.

Some even went so far as to want to use the name of the Linguang family to create a knight order to participate in the knight competition. Of course, these unreasonable requests were rejected by a certain office worker with the words "I still need time to think about it."

But when the status of knight nobles was stripped away, these things would be very likely to come true, and Maria felt that she had to do something about it.

For example...participate in a knight competition and get a good result?

The idea came to her a few months ago when she accidentally heard that her uncle was in contact with a certain company, and now she has to do it.

"Tomorrow, I must sign up for the preliminaries!"

Maria made up her mind secretly.

I don’t know what happened, but Maria participated in the preliminaries much earlier than in the original plot, which Beichen did not expect.

This also led to her and Beichen meeting each other many times in the following competitions, and of course, Beichen took away a lot of points because of this.

"Girl, don't just stand there, come here, I'll tell you something interesting."

Before he could finish his words, Fogwald was punched by Koval.

"Can you call her a girl, Old Fu?"

At this time, Fogwald was a little drunk. He shook his body and said with some dissatisfaction.

"Hey, you...hiccup, you didn't dare to talk to me like this when you accompanied me to the border. Back then..."

Koval interrupted him before he could finish his words.

If this drunkard were allowed to continue talking, who knows how many of their embarrassing past events he would bring up.

"Old Fu! Are you talking big again?"

"Humph, were you my follower back then? Just tell me if you were or not!"

Fogwald took out a medal of honor from his pocket. When Koval saw this, he was also stunned.

"You still have this thing?"

As Koval asked, he turned around and took out a medal of honor from the toolbox he carried with him. Although it was gray, it was exactly the same as the one he had just seen.

"Tsk, didn't you keep it too? Just tell me if this medal is also thanks to me!"

Fugwald asked with his eyes wide open.

"Come on, if I hadn't repaired your armor, you would have been shot through by that crossbow arrow."

Koval couldn't help laughing, and reached out to knock on the armor that Fugwald was still wearing.

"Yo yo yo, you were surrounded at that time. If I hadn't rushed in to save you, you would have been captured and taken back to your hometown, hahaha."

This kind of conversation was commonplace to the other people in the bar, and everyone just watched the farce with a smile.

"My bar depends entirely on you two to liven up the atmosphere, but please don't fight. If you break any cups, you'll have to pay for it."

Martin said with a smile.

"Tsk, he's been nagging for decades, when have you ever seen him beat me in a fight?"

The old knight straightened his chest, as if trying to regain the feeling of his youth.

"I won last time. You two were arm wrestling. If I remember correctly, you beat Corvo to fourteen glasses of wine in one night."

"Uh...I was drunk and had arthritis last time, so that doesn't count!"

Classic stubbornness.

"Alas, it has been several years, Old Fu, and the followers have already put on suits and become your masters."

Koval shook his head and said helplessly.

"What words! What words are these!"