Chapter 451: The Land Forsaken by God (40) (1st + 2nd update) [VIP]

The people at the Knight Academy obviously knew this kid.

As they were almost at the door, the child who had been sitting on Yun Guang's shoulders became a little uneasy.

"Want to go down?" Yun Guang asked sympathetically.

The child nodded: "I will go by myself."

Yun Guang put him down from his shoulders and led him to the door. The knight standing on the left side of the door with a silver-white sword and shield looked over: "Anton? When did you go out? Who is this?"

"They are the adventurers I hired!" Anton puffed out his chest, pointed back with a mature expression, and tried to act like a mature client. "I asked them to investigate."

"Commission? Investigation?" The knight understood the words in his mind. "Oh, I see. It's a commission from the captain, right?"

"No, I posted it," Anton corrected seriously, "This is the adventurer I invited."

The knight was stunned for a moment: "You invited him?"

"We are adventurers from Besai City," Yun Guang smiled slightly, stepped forward and explained in a low voice, "We met this child outside the Adventurer's Guild. There are too many adventurers coming and going near the guild, and my teammates are worried about this child being outside alone, so we came to send him home."

Any normal adult would not think that when a five or six-year-old child says "I'm issuing a commission" he means that he really needs to issue a commission to ask for help from adventurers. Most adults, when encountering such a thing, would think that the child is just fooling around.

The same is true of the knight in front of him.

It would be fine if they just met a child on the road. They didn't expect the child to issue any commissions. Since the other party's parents showed up, they would be doing their best to send the child home.

But now things are obviously different. This child named Anton lives in the Knight Academy, and his relatives are called "Captain" by the knights at the gate of the Knight Academy. If they want to investigate the disappearance of the professional mentor, this child is the best entry point.

After all, no one knew where the four career mentors who were previously confirmed missing had gone, and no one had contacted the relatives of these mentors, so no one knew the truth behind their departure.

Anton is the son of the captain of the Knight Academy. Maybe we can find out the truth about the disappearance of the professional mentor from him.

"Oh, I see." The knight at the door was a little surprised at first, but he immediately let down his guard after hearing Yun Guang's explanation. "Anton is the captain's child. Thank you for sending him back. We will give you the reward you need first."

"It's not about the reward..." Yun Guangshi showed a trace of embarrassment on his face at the right time, "We just came to send the child home, but he must have been observing the Adventurer's Guild for a long time and thought that we were adventurers who came here on his behalf. He insisted that we go in with him all the way."

"Well..." The knight scratched his head in embarrassment. "Recently, I seem to have heard that Anton is looking for adventurers to help him find something, but no adventurer is willing to play with a child."

"Several members of our team like him very much," Yun Guang pointed at the child being pulled over by Zhao Yinglai and Bai E and smiled slightly, "I guess he won't let us go now."

Behind Guan Hongyan was Bai Jinshu. Anton obviously had a psychological trauma from this terrifying-looking adventurer. He was now hugging Guan Hongyan's neck tightly, glaring back at her bravely, as if he was not afraid of him because he had a backer.

Bai Jinshu had no interest in bullying children. He leaned on Huai Jiamu boredly and watched Yun Guang negotiate with the other party.

If the knight at the door disagrees, then the worst that can happen is that they change their appearance and pretend to be students of the Knight Academy.

Moreover, it looked like there was no need to enter this place through the main gate. Bai Jinshu looked around boredly and found at least five or six blind spots in the fence that could be climbed over.

I don't know if the people here are too confident in their security technology, thinking that no one would sneak in to challenge the knights' fighting skills in an academy that trains knights, or if this is just an academy so there is no need to steal.

If you want to sneak in without going through normal channels, there are many routes you can take.

It doesn't look like the kid left through the main gate, otherwise why would the knight be so surprised just now.

Children can come and go freely. The security level of this Knight Academy is far inferior to those professional mission locations in Besser City.

But it could also be because this is a college and the people coming in and out are students.

During the time that Bai Jinshu was observing the surroundings, Anton had been holding Guan Hongyan tightly and seemed to be reluctant to leave this team of adventurers and was determined not to let them go.

The knight was a little confused. He thought about it and said straightforwardly, "If it won't delay you, why don't you go in and wait for the captain?"

"I see your teammates like him quite a bit," he added, "Anton doesn't have anyone his own age here. The captain is in the Armor Group most of the time, so only the maids' children occasionally play with him. He might be looking for someone to accompany him by issuing commissions to adventurers. The captain is in the Armor Group this afternoon, so you can wait for him to come back and then pretend to have completed the commission and leave."

The knight didn't seem to mind outsiders entering the Knight Academy behind him.

But think about it, the Knight Academy is a place to train various knights and swordsmanship, and it is full of students who are proficient in martial arts. There is no need to worry about what a few adventurers who enter will do.

Yun Guangda nodded with a purpose, and asked naturally: "So what time do we need to wait?"

"About... four weeks later," the knight estimated, and nodded to Yun Guang embarrassedly, "Thank you so much for troubling you."

Yun Guang nodded, and together with the adventurer behind him, led Anton into the academy.

The Knight Academy should be the largest professional mission location they have ever visited.

Entering from the gate, there is a large square with a large fountain in the middle. Below the fountain is a circle of fountain pool that sparkles in the sun, and there are lush plants around the pool.

"These plants are growing much better than those outside of Cyril City," Guan Hongyan said curiously, "Looking outside, I thought it was autumn in Cyril."

The trees outside the city are withered and the ground is covered with fallen leaves, but the plants in the Knight Academy are lush and green, and it seems like two different seasons.

"Maybe it's because this is the academy's greenery?" White Eth said casually, "After all, this is a magical world. In order to make the green plants in the academy look better, it's normal to use some magic to maintain their condition."

No one took good care of the trees outside Cyril City, so they naturally turned yellow and fell according to the laws of nature.

"That's right." Guan Hongyan nodded.

Even in a world without magic, green plants would be evergreen pine and cypress trees, so this is not surprising in a world with magic.

"Anton," Zhao Yinglai asked while holding Anton's hand, "Are the little reds you mentioned those flowers?"

Following her line of sight, there were bunches of red flowers among the green plants behind the fountain. The flower structure was similar to that of a rose, but it seemed to be a species unique to this world. When the flower head was fully opened, it was almost as big as the head of a four or five-year-old child. In order to support such a large flower head, the flower stems were also extremely thick. It seemed that five or six flower stems put together were almost as thick as the tree trunk next to it.

"No," Anton looked at the flower she was pointing at and shook his head seriously, "Xiaohong is a little bigger than them."

"It's still a little bigger..." Xu Zichen couldn't help but sigh in a low voice, "Then it must be as big as a head."

Normal flowers can't be that big.

"Little Red, it's very big," Anton was still describing the flower he wanted to find. He made a circle with his hands, "and it has very sharp thorns."

"It sounds like a rose?" White Moth analyzed. "Rose stems are covered with thorns."

"My father said that Xiaohong cannot be grown together with these plants, otherwise it will eat the plants, so Xiaohong was dug out and kept in a flowerpot," Anton described.

"It should be a species that will compete with surrounding plants for nutrients," Su Hao guessed, "or the juice of this flower is harmful to other plants, so it needs to be moved out of the pot."

"The juice is harmful to other plants, so is it harmless to humans?" Guan Hongyan frowned. "Besides, even if it is harmless, the flower stems are full of thorns, and no parents would let their children touch them?"

How could any parent let their children come into contact with such a dangerous flower?

"So the captain pulled out the flower and then lied to the child that the flower ran away?" Lu Changfeng guessed, "It's hard to reason with the child, so why not just say that the flower ran away."

This speculation was reasonable and everyone nodded.

Most of the students in the Knight Academy wore light silver-white armor and carried swords and shields of the same color. It looked like a kind of equipment provided by the academy, roughly equivalent to a school uniform.

No one was surprised at Anton's appearance in the academy, but they looked strangely at those who were not wearing school uniforms.

However, most of the students passing by were n.pcs. These n.pcs had no intention of coming forward to ask questions, so everyone pretended not to notice their strange looks.

After following Anton who was leading the way into his room, he pushed open his door and dragged out a large flower pot from under the bed: "This is it."

"Do you want us to help you?" Yun Guang asked after he discovered that the flowerpot was quite large.

"No, I'll do it myself!" Anton's face flushed and he tried hard to drag the flower pot out.

"This is Xiaohong's flower pot." In order to drag the big flower pot out, Anton's face was flushed and sweat was all over his sides. "Can you find it?"

"This is too big..." Guan Hongyan gestured, turned her head and whispered, "This is bigger than my face."

"So I reasonably speculate that Xiaohong may also be bigger than your face." Zhao Yinglai whispered.

"Maybe two of them are bigger than that," Guan Hongyan said in amazement, "What kind of flowers do you Western Fantasy people raise..."

The barrage was also shocked:

[Such a big flower pot? ]

[What kind of flower is this? Has it been ripened or transformed by special magic? ]

[It doesn't look like a normal flower. It should be some kind of magical material. ]

[How could a child easily come into contact with the magical materials at home... When I was a child, my family didn't allow me to enter the cultivation greenhouse. ]

[And this isn't a wizard or a potion master, isn't this a Knight Academy? Knights also raise magical materials? ]

[And how did this kid carry such a big flower pot up here? ]

Everyone on the screen recovered from their shock and noticed this problem.

"Such a big flower pot," Bai Jinshu tilted his head, "How did you carry it into the room by yourself?"

The child took so much effort just to drag the flowerpot out from under his bed. It is impossible for one person to bring the flowerpot from outside into the room.

"Irina moved with me." The name appeared in Anton's mouth again.

"Irina is..." Yun Guang asked.

"Irina is Irina," Anton answered as a matter of course, "She can't come here often. When she comes, I'll take you to see her."

"This Irina might be the maid's daughter that the knight at the door mentioned," Zhao Yinglai guessed, "Anton, how old is Irina?"

"I can't tell you," Anton shook his head. "My father said it's rude to ask a lady's age casually."

"But Irina's age is related to whether we can find Xiaohong," Zhao Yinglai added, "and we are ladies too. I can trade my age with you."

"Then...then I don't want yours," Anton hesitated for a while, "I want Princess Disney's."

Hector:?

Why is there still something to do with him?

"I'm not Shu..." Before he could finish his words, Guan Hongyan covered his mouth.

"Don't talk nonsense, you are," she said in a cold tone, "Quick, tell him your age."

Hector: "...Ten, seventeen."

"You are so young?" Guan Hongyan was surprised.

"Seventeen?" Hector scratched his head.

"You are so young," Guan Hongyan confessed silently, "What a sin, what a sin, you are still a minor."

As expected, foreigners look older. Looking at Hector's face, she thought that this boy was at least 25 or 26 years old. Who would have thought that he was not even an adult yet?

"In our place, this is only the second year of high school," White Moth also confessed for three seconds, "I'm so sorry to let you come out to save the world before you even reach adulthood.

“But then again…” A conflicted look that could be described as “outrageous but reasonable” appeared on her face. “Generally speaking, in our place, the ones who save the world are high school students…”

Others:?

What kind of world is this where you live? Why does it depend entirely on minors to save the world?

Anton didn't notice the little episode here. After getting Hector's age, he readily told Irina's age - thirteen years old.

As expected, Irina is a minor and is the maid's daughter mentioned by the knight.

"A thirteen-year-old girl should be very strong," Bai Moth tried to lift the flower pot. "If she is the daughter of a maid, she should have helped with housework since she was young. She should be much stronger than her peers. In this case, she should be able to move this flower pot."

"But where did you move this flower pot from?" Yun Guang squatted down and looked at Anton, "Does your father know that you moved this flower pot? Does he know that you are looking for Xiaohong in the flower pot?"

"Well... I don't know." Anton hesitated for a few seconds and finally told the truth, "Father doesn't know that I have seen Xiaohong."

"Xiaohong is...Irina brought me to find her."

Everyone looked at each other.

Anton is the son of a captain in the Knight Academy, and Irina is the daughter of a maid. From the descriptions of the knight and Anton, it can be heard that she does not often appear in the Knight Academy, which means that she does not work here as a helper.

How could a little girl who seldom appeared in the Knight Academy find the flowers hidden by the Knight Captain?

"Irina is fine!" Anton saw everyone's hesitant expressions and raised his voice to emphasize, "It's impossible that Irina let Xiaohong go!"

"Well... we didn't say that Irina let him go," Yun Guang squatted down to comfort the child, "We just need some time to investigate. Can you take us to where Xiao Hong stayed before?"

Anton nodded hesitantly: "Okay."

"Dermis," Xu Zichen whispered as he moved closer to Bai Jinshu, "Do you have any clues?"

"A clue?" He saw Dermis looking at him in surprise, "What about the flower as big as a red goose's face?"

Guan Hongyan: "Hey, I can hear you. What do you mean by twice as big as my face? Is my face a unit of measurement?"

Unfortunately, Bai Jinshu ignored her protest.

"Are you here to look for flowers?" He looked Xu Zichen up and down with curiosity. "Aren't you here to investigate where the career instructor of the Knight Academy is?"

Xu Zichen:?

"Hiss..." Xu Zichen took a breath, "Yes."

Aren't they here to investigate the professional task instructor? Why are they helping the child find flowers for no apparent reason?

Even if the maid daughter could take Andong to see the flowers that were kept separately by his father, so what? Even if there was a problem, it was none of their business.

"So do you have any idea about the career mentors in the Knight Academy?" He adjusted his question in time.

"What clues do I have..." Bai Jinshu glanced at him in extreme silence, "Shouldn't this be what you asked him?"

He nodded at the child in front of him with his chin.

Anton is the captain's son. If something happens to his professional mentor, such as suddenly disappearing or dying, he should remember the disappearance of his elder, right?

Xu Zichen received two taunts from Bai Jinshu and one dissatisfaction from Guan Hongyan. He blinked and prepared to try to trick the kid.

In fact, everyone did not place their hopes on Anton. They mainly wanted to wait for his father to come back and ask him, but it would be a waste not to ask now. At least Anton would answer every question, and if they didn't want to tell him, they would just coax him into telling them. But when his captain father came back, it was not certain whether he would tell the truth.

"Anton, will we run into anyone where we are going now?" Xu Zichen asked in a roundabout way, "Will your elders chase us out?"

"No!" Anton shook his head firmly, "My father is not at home during the day."

The watch vibrated, and Bai Jinshu looked down and saw a new message from Guan Hongyan.

Guan Hongyan: [The Knight's professional mission instructor is called Adeline, and she is the dean of the Knight Academy. Ask this kid if he knows her.]

"What about your other elders?" Xu Zichen glanced at the content sent by Guan Hongyan in the temporary group chat, "Before we came, we heard that there was a fierce person named Adeline in the Knight Academy..."

"Adeline...I don't know her," Anton shook his head and consoled everyone in a mature manner, "Don't worry, I've been to see Xiaohong many times and have never been discovered."

"Yeah, okay." Xu Zichen could only nod in response.

Anton didn't know this professional mission instructor.

Does that mean that she has disappeared now as well, and disappeared at least five or six years ago?

"Let's go find flowers with him first," Yun Guang whispered, "and see if we can get some information out of his father when he comes back. We can pretend that someone is a student who graduated from here and is back to look for the principal..."

Anyway, they are leaving Cyril City tomorrow, so it would be a waste of time not to ask.

"It's right here," Anton quietly pushed open a small door and waved to everyone, "Xiaohong was here before."

"Are these... display cabinets?" Guan Hongyan walked in and saw a large glass cover at first glance. Behind the cover was a stone that was shining with a strange light.

"Water stone," she heard Dermis whisper before she could see what was glowing. "This stone turns to stone in the air, melts in water, and turns to stone again when it is fished out."

"Very rare," he said, showing a rare trace of appreciation on his face, "Most water stones exist in the deep sea, and very few are salvaged."

"This is..." Guan Hongyan turned her sight and saw another cabinet, "Fairy's wings?"

Inside the display case are two wings as thin as a cicada's wing, fixed in a photo frame by magic.

"The fairy's first molt," Bai Jinshu looked over and raised his eyebrows slightly, "It's also very rare. Generally, only when you gain the fairy's wholehearted trust and establish a close trust relationship with it before its first molt, the fairy will give you the first molt. This kind of wings is very special. Carrying it on your body can resist a fatal attack."

"Such a good thing is actually framed? Is this person stupid?" Bai E was shocked.

"This shows that the person who achieved the first metamorphosis did not intentionally approach the goblins," Bai Jinshu paused, "He also treats the goblins as friends, which is why he did this."

I would rather give up a chance to escape death than keep something given to me by a friend.

"Oh, that's quite respectable." White Eth immediately changed his tone.

"The blessing of the Elf Mother Tree," the young elf behind the crowd walked forward as if he had seen something, "There is actually such a thing in human cities now..."

At this point, everyone already knows exactly what this place is for.

This place looks like a collection cabinet built by an adventurer who once traveled all over the world and returned home.

These precious treasures are all part of his collection, and the one not far away with only a bare display stand but no alchemical glass cover should be "Xiao Hong".

Xiaohong is also one of the adventurer's collections.

"There are signs that the magic circle has been destroyed from the inside out." Enoch walked over to the display stand and took a look. "It really came out from the inside."

"Xiaohong" actually came out on her own.

"To be collected together with these things... Xiaohong must not be a simple flower," Su Hao took a breath as if he had a toothache, "Why do I feel like I'm involved in something again?"

"The last thing that was inexplicably lost from the collection room was a fairy sword, which caused the fairy war..." Enoch said faintly.

Now everyone has a toothache.

"Anton, is this your father's collection room?" Yun Guang pinched his nose and asked while squatting down.

"Here? No," Anton looked confused, but still shook his head firmly, "I have never seen him here."

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