After entering the city, the carriage stopped in front of a three-story building. The three of them got off the carriage. Anka Chanel said to Wang Zhidao, "My lord, Maria and I need to talk to the city lord first. Can you wait here for a while?"
"Okay."
Chanel nodded and walked into the house with Maria. Wang Zhi thought about observing the city. Besides the tall city wall, he wanted to see if there were any other interesting places, so he started to stroll around.
There were not many pedestrians on the street, and most of the shops were closed. This made Wang Zhi a little confused. It wasn't even completely dark yet, so why was it so quiet?
Moreover, it was a bit of an exaggeration to call this place a city. At most, it was just a slightly larger town. Wang Zhi just wandered around aimlessly. He found that there were a lot of people living on the streets here, almost everywhere.
After walking around and not finding anything interesting, he decided to go back. Wang Zhi also noticed that only the area around the city lord's place looked a bit decent, which was incomparable to the rest of the city, and he probably guessed the reason.
On the way back, he stopped when passing through an alley. He turned his head and saw a dirty little girl quietly looking at him from a dark corner. In fact, Wang Zhi had been observed by many people along the way. It wasn't strange, after all, Wang Zhi's attire was very different from theirs.
He exuded an air of nobility. He couldn't really adapt to the local customs. The clothes were given to him by Anka Chanel. He didn't know why these two women had men's clothes.
When the little girl saw Wang Zhi stop and stare at her, she was so frightened that she buried her head between her feet. Wang Zhi walked into the alley, came up to the girl, and squatted down to look at her.
It seemed that she felt the person she had just secretly looked at was in front of her, and she buried her head even lower out of fear.
After a while, when she found that there was still no movement, the little girl secretly took a peek and saw that Wang Zhi was still in front of her. She was so scared that tears started to fall.
She said tremblingly, "Sorry, sorry, big brother. I didn't mean to look at you. Don't hit me. I know I was wrong."
Looking at the little girl's reaction, she must have been often abused. He took out some bread that he got from Palos and a bottle of water from his storage space and placed them in front of the little girl.
The girl was a bit stunned at first. After a moment of daze, she wolfed down the bread. She had been hungry for too long and didn't care about the big brother who looked a bit handsome but had a terrifying aura. She just wanted to fill her stomach.
As for why Wang Zhi wanted to help this little girl, he didn't really have a big thought about it. He just simply wanted to do it, and it couldn't be said to be out of pity.
Seeing the little girl choking while eating and pounding her chest hard, Wang Zhi felt a little like laughing and reminded her that there was water.
Gululu, gululu~
After the little girl finished drinking, he asked her what her name was. The little girl also understood that the person in front of her wasn't someone who wanted to bully her, and she said softly, "I, my name is Alina. Thank you, big brother."
"Okay."
"By the way, it's better to finish the bread and don't try to save it, you know?"
"Okay, I know. Thank you, big brother."
But Alina didn't seem to have the intention of finishing the bread immediately. She should want to save it for the next meal. Wang Zhi didn't say anything more about this. He touched Alina's head, praised her beautiful eyes, and then left.
The little girl hugged the half-eaten bread in her arms and kept looking at Wang Zhi's back until he disappeared at the end of the street.
When he returned to the luxurious three-story洋房, he saw Princess Chanel and Maria talking to several men in armor. Judging from the arrogant look of one of the men who seemed to be their leader, he knew that it wasn't going to be a good thing.
When he got closer, he heard the man mocking Princess Anka Chanel.
"Yo yo yo, the princess who fled in a hurry. You're still so haughty even when you come to a poor and remote place like ours."
"Do you really think your father is still alive? Now that you've been sent here, just stay where you should be and don't cause trouble, understand?"
It could be seen that the man still had some sense of propriety. He was just verbally provoking Chanel.
Chanel was so angry that her little face turned red. Maria beside her was about to teach this rude man a lesson. Just because Maria was so afraid of Wang Zhi didn't mean she was a weak woman. Maria was stopped by Chanel, and in the end, she held back and decided to leave.
The two of them were just about to find Wang Zhi and discuss further when they happened to see Wang Zhi leaning against a tree and looking at them.
When did you come back, Lord Wang Zhi? We didn't see you just now and were about to go look for you.
"I've been here since you were being provoked by that man."
Wang Zhi's words made Chanel feel a bit ashamed. A princess of a country was actually spoken rudely to by a small city lord.
"Sorry."
It seemed that the negotiation had failed.
"It's okay."
Wang Zhi waved his hand and walked into the courtyard. Chanel and Maria looked at each other for a few seconds and thought that it was going to be a fight.
When those men saw that the princess had just left and another person came, one of them couldn't help but say, "Why, did the princess run away with her tail between her legs? Are you another lackey who's not convinced?" The speaker was Bruce, the city lord's adjutant.
Wang Zhi ignored him and said, "Open the city gate."
"What? Who do you think you are? You say open it and I'll open it? If you want to die, go find a place to hang yourself. Don't waste our time."
Wang Zhi said again, "Will you open it or not?"
Hearing this kid's arrogant tone, Bruce also knew that he was from Princess Chanel's side and said, "Boy, alright. I'll give you a chance for the princess's sake. If you can beat me, I'll open the city gate for you to go out and get yourself killed, hahaha."
Wang Zhi said that it was no problem. Chanel and Maria secretly watched them and didn't plan to stop the fight. After all, they also wanted to see how powerful Wang Zhi was. Although they could probably guess that Wang Zhi was very powerful, they hadn't seen it with their own eyes after all.
In the courtyard, Wang Zhi and Bruce faced each other. The city lord and his left minister stood with their arms crossed and watched. Seeing that Wang Zhi didn't make a move, Bruce didn't underestimate him either. He got into a fighting stance, held a greatsword in his hand, and charged at Wang Zhi.
The greatsword came down with a fierce slash, but Wang Zhi dodged to the left and kicked the greatsword away with a sweep of his foot. The greatsword flew and stuck into the wooden beam above the left minister's head.
This scared the left minister so much that he quickly touched his head to see if anything was missing. Bruce didn't even see Wang Zhi's movement, and the greatsword in his hand had already flown out. In Wang Zhi's eyes, Bruce was too slow.
When Bruce reacted, he threw a left hook towards Wang Zhi's head. If an ordinary person took this punch, they would probably be knocked unconscious.
As Bruce's punch missed and Wang Zhi ducked down to dodge, he followed up with a low roundhouse kick that hit Bruce. Bruce lost his balance and fell to the ground. Wang Zhi held back with this kick, otherwise, Bruce's entire lower leg would have been shattered.
Lying on the ground, Bruce was not convinced and still wanted to get up.
At this time, the city lord said, "Bruce, stop. The gap between you and him is too big."
Bruce was so angry from being beaten that he said, "My lord, I haven't lost yet. I can still fight!"
"Sigh, do as you like. Young man, please leave him with all his limbs intact. I will promise your request afterward," the city lord, Lete, said.
Hearing the city lord's words as if he was bound to lose, Bruce's mind was filled with anger. He pulled out the greatsword from the beam and charged at Wang Zhi again. If he had just wanted to teach Wang Zhi a lesson before, now Bruce really wanted to kill Wang Zhi.
When Wang Zhi saw this stupid armored man showing a murderous intent towards him, the next second, Wang Zhi instantly appeared in front of Bruce and kicked him.
Bang!
Bruce flew through the wall and into the hall, and there was no movement from him. His subordinates quickly went in to check on Lord Bruce's injuries. They found that Lord Bruce was embedded in the wall and there was no movement. They carefully pulled Bruce out and called a doctor to check his injuries.
Looking at the footprint embedded in Bruce's breastplate, everyone couldn't help but feel scared. Was this really a human? Fortunately, Wang Zhi had held back with this kick. Bruce wouldn't die, but he would have to lie in bed for a few months.
"Lord City Lord, can you open the city gate now?"
"Of course. But if you don't come back within two hours, the city gate will be closed, young man."
"Okay."
Wang Zhi could actually get out of the city gate by himself. The city wall was just tens of meters high. But it would be very troublesome later, and the guards on the city wall wouldn't just watch a stranger force his way through the city wall. So he had to use the proper method to make things more convenient later.
Lete asked several soldiers to lead Wang Zhi towards the city wall. He didn't plan to go and see. Because he knew the horror of the orcs. The strength that Wang Zhi had shown so far was far from enough. Going out was still a dead end. There was no need to wait for a dying person. Anyway, it didn't matter. The person beside the princess was probably not going to be won over. It was better if he died.
When he walked out of the courtyard, Chanel was already waiting there. She quickly said, "Are you really going?"
"Okay."
She could feel that Wang Zhi hadn't even been serious just now. Just thinking about the scene when Wang Zhi fell from the spatial rift, surrounded by red lightning and exuding a terrifying scarlet blood aura, she felt scared.
After walking for more than ten minutes, they arrived at the city gate. The huge city gate looked very oppressive. There were two five-meter-tall beast sculptures on the two city gates, biting the iron rings. The iron rings were connected to extremely thick iron chains that extended to the large wheels on the ground.
When they got there, the soldier leading the way said something to the city guards. The guards looked at Wang Zhi in confusion, but since this was the city lord's order, they commanded their subordinates to open the city gate.
Twenty soldiers divided into two groups pulled the huge wheels. With the harsh sound of friction, the city gate slowly opened. Wang Zhi walked out of the city gate step by step.
Chanel could only wish Wang Zhi a safe return. After Wang Zhi walked out of the city gate, the gate slowly closed.
As for why he chose to do something that seemed outrageous in the eyes of others? Although he needed to show his strength to cooperate with the princess, there were many ways to do that.
The main reason was that Wang Zhi was about to break through to the middle stage of the second level. It was too slow to absorb energy every day. Overall, the strength level in this world was relatively low, and the energy he could absorb was even less, even less than the abyss on the ore planet. After all, it was the energy of the abyss. Having gotten used to the fast pace there, he now felt that it was a bit slow.
Well, it was still faster to increase his strength by killing some creatures. In this world, the only ones he could kill at will were the orcs outside.
As for why he didn't consider killing people, Wang Zhi didn't want to do such a thing. Not to mention the insignificant blood energy of humans without extraordinary abilities, Wang Zhi also disdained to do such a thing. It wasn't his style.
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