On the Seven Towers

The sunset in this world seems to be no different from that on Earth, lazily hanging in the dim sky, dyeing the whole world dark red. But the people watching the sunset do have completely different emotions.

The team returning to school is much larger than before. Not only Xiao Chen, Luo Ling and Liu Yisheng have joined, but there are also two more ox carts. An ox is also harnessed to the original flatbed cart, driven by three hired drivers, loaded with grain, and heading to school.

Luo Ling sat in the back of an ox cart, leaning against the grain pile, with her arms resting on her head, and her feet swaying with the bumps of the car. This posture is really not ladylike, but it has been such a fucked-up day, who cares?

Dusk always reminds people of home, and seeing those clouds that seem to burn like fire, she feels uneasy. Luo Ling wants to curse, but there seems to be no one to blame. Luo Ling wants to cry, but there is no shoulder. Some results cannot be changed or escaped, and a feeling of despair surrounds her heart. She told herself that she couldn't sink into despair. This wasn't the first time she was trapped in darkness. She had gritted her teeth and survived before. This time, she hoped to smile more. Luo Ling raised her tired body. She wanted to find someone she could trust to talk to. But she saw Li Jia who was following the car.

The latter was secretly looking at her, and was caught by Luo Ling's eyes. He avoided her eyes in a panic. Luo Ling thought it was quite interesting. Many boys of this age were old-fashioned. Where did this innocent boy come from?

Luo Ling looked at him for a while and found that Li Jia was worried. He always stared at the ground in front of him when he walked. He would be distracted while walking, and he didn't know what he was thinking about. During the time Luo Ling was watching him, he tripped twice.

"Li Jia, Li Jia?"

"Ah, ah? Teacher Luo, you called me."

"Don't call me teacher, today is different from yesterday, everything has changed. You should call me Luo Ling."

Li Jia smiled shyly, as if she didn't know what to say.

"You and Xiao Chen look very different, you don't look like people of the same age." Luo Ling stared at his face, Li Jia's eyes slightly touched hers and then looked at the ground, as if Luo Ling's eyes were burning, he scratched his head and replied: "Xiao Chen is older than me, he worked as a reporter for a few years after graduating from college, and then came back to study for a master's degree."

"Ah?" Luo Ling covered her mouth with her hand, looking very surprised, "I thought you were older than him, from the looks of you, you are very serious, very serious, you can be a director with a briefcase. Unlike that guy who is always smiling and laughing like a little kid. "

"Cough, cough" Li Jia coughed a few times, "Maybe I look a little old."

"However, he is quite good at speaking and doing things. It's not an exaggeration to say that he looks like a man in his thirties. It's true that you can't judge a person by his appearance. Could it be that he is actually an uncle who can be a child?"

"No, no, he is only twenty-eight and doesn't even have a girlfriend."

"Oh. So. What about you?"

"Me? Of course not." Li Jia answered a little dejectedly.

"Not having one is a blessing."

"Huh?" Li Jia looked at Luo Ling in confusion.

"Don't you know how lucky it is to not have to experience sudden separation of life and death?" When Luo Ling said this, her eyes were looking up at the sky, as if she wanted to see the sky at a glance. However, there was no point in talking about this topic, so she patted the empty seat on the car and said, "Come up and sit for a while."

"No, no, I'm walking well. So much food is heavy enough, I won't add more burden to the old ox."

"Speaking of which, we have to thank the earl for so much food." Luo Ling picked up a handful of wheat from a bag and said, "Although the farmers here resist taxes, they are actually not short of food. They were prepared to pay grain before the scarred man started trouble, so there are so many stocks. However, the temptation to destroy the earl's attempt to increase taxes is too great."

"Well, today is just the first deal. Now that it has been negotiated, we will buy all their surplus grain later. Not only the food here, I heard Zhang Hong ask, there are other villages and towns around, all of which should be included in our food supply plan." Luo Ling found that Li Jia seemed to have changed when talking about these plans. Completely throwing away the previous shyness, replaced by a kind of excitement.

However, whether such a plan can be implemented depends on what role we will play. Thinking of this, Luo Ling turned around and looked at Xiao Chen, who was walking side by side with Xi Luo, with some concern.

"Do you want me to provide protection for your town?" Xiao Chen's fingers tapped lightly on the sword hanging on his waist. He was much better than before. Except for being a little tired, he didn't look seriously injured. However, Xi Luo's request made him feel headache again.

"Yes, sir. Under the instigation of that idiot Scarpas, everyone really beat the earl away. But I know the earl will be back soon, and I don't know whether these ignorant villagers can save their lives. Instead of letting the earl go on a killing spree, it's better to seek your protection."

"I told you that our experiment had an accident, so we appeared here. Do you think a magician who suddenly came here can compete with the earl family that has ruled here for nearly a hundred years?" Xiao Chen understood their idea of ​​hugging thighs, but he couldn't protect himself.

"How could you have such a strange idea? You are a magician. Under the sky, except for kings and emperors, who else dares to claim that he is more noble than a magician. Although I don't know what it is in other parts of the world. Like this, I don’t know how everyone treats magicians in your hometown. But here, in the Kingdom of Iberia, all real magicians will receive royal courtesy. As long as you are willing to serve the kingdom, you will become a noble and have possessions. His own fiefdom. What's so scary about a count then?" Ciro said eagerly, as if he was the one who became a noble.

"But will the king accept a magician of unknown origin? There are so many others?"

"Which magician is not mysterious? Sir, although I am just a small businessman in the countryside, I have seen some markets with my father. When I was ten years old, I went to the royal capital with my father. Several times. At that time, when His Majesty was still a prince, I witnessed the magician's investiture ceremony with my own eyes. The mage wandered here from the territory of the Sea Clan and was hunted by his enemies. The old king not only decided to protect him, but also protected him. Make him a third-class magic knight and give him a place called Bird Valley. As for others, magicians always have many apprentices and servants."

Xiao Chen smiled bitterly in his heart, he knew whether he was a magician or not, "No, no, they are not my apprentices and servants, many of them are my classmates and teachers."

"Your teacher?! And classmates!" Silla became more respectful, "No wonder the castle you are in is so huge and magnificent, even more majestic and majestic than the palace in the royal capital. It turns out there are so many magicians living in it. Then There’s no need to worry about the count.”

Xiao Chen: "..."

When he was still about one kilometer away from the school, Wang Jiyuan asked Xiao Chen to invite Silla and the coachmen back, and asked Xiao Chen and others to put away the mage's robes. After all, they each had something they couldn't expose too early.

When he was a few hundred meters away from the school, he saw a large group of people looking at them from the high slope at the school gate. When they got closer, they saw three carts full of food, and the crowd burst into cheers! First they kept shouting on the high slope, and then many people who couldn't wait climbed down from the steep cliff and ran to greet them.

The one who rushed to the front was Ye Zi. She stretched out her arms vigorously and was faster than several People's Liberation Army soldiers. She was the first to climb down, shouting as she ran: "They are back. They have no arms or legs. They are all gone." Come back!"

Soon, Wang Jiyuan and his party were surrounded by people rushing down from above. Everyone asked them about their trip.

"Okay, everyone, stop arguing. Let's work together to transport the food in the car before dark. As for the situation of going to trade, I will report to Principal Guo first, and then ask him to convey it to everyone. "Wang Jiyuan asked everyone to calm down, and then said to the soldiers who ran down from above: "You guys and Li Zi and the others will work together to protect the food transportation process."

"Senior, did you get involved with the natives this time?" Ye Zi quickly found Li Jia, grabbed him and asked.

Seeing this little girl's excitement, Li Jia felt dumbfounded, "Do you really want to fight?"

"Don't beat around the bush, are you going to fight or not?"

"The gun was fired, but it was mainly for warning and no one was actually hit." Li Jia recalled that critical moment, but still felt a little weak and did not want to get entangled in this issue, "Aren't you helping them with rescue? Why?" Came to pick us up?"

"Hey, they organized people to serve as patrols to guard the surroundings of the school. I signed up. Our team happened to be assigned to assist the instructors in guarding the gate."

"It seems like they are all boys except you?"

"Originally, we didn't accept girls, but I proved to the instructor that generally three or five boys are no match for me. So I came."

"prove?"

"Well, instructor Li said he could deal with three or five boys, and then I dealt with him. Didn't that prove it?"

Li Jia glanced at the instructor with a pair of panda eyes who was accepting the task next to Wang Jiyuan, and suddenly realized.

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Xiao Chen and Luo Ling were looking at the campus at this time. Although more than half of the campus was missing and some houses were damaged, the two of them still felt a warm feeling in their chests when they saw it for the first time.

Luo Ling said with some emotion, "No matter what, with these people, the situation is much better than we originally imagined."

"Well, we're finally home."

"No, it's not home yet. Home is a place where feelings have stayed. For me now, this is just a place to stay..." After saying this, Luo Ling suddenly held her head and stumbled down.

Xiao Chen quickly supported her, helped her sit on the ground, and nervously touched her pulse and breath. She seemed a little weak, her face was pale, and her lips were purple.

"It's okay... It's just that this day... I'm too tired." She opened her eyes slightly, but she couldn't resist the tide of exhaustion. Suddenly, she felt like she had fallen into a dark abyss, and her head fell heavily on Xiao On Chen's shoulders, he just fainted.