Chapter 6 The Blanc Gang
Route 707, Lambeth, Fog City.
Wearing a white windbreaker with a brown vest underneath and a white Panama hat on his head, Xia Xiu got off the steam train. He reached out and pressed his hat, then glanced at the sign on the central street and headed towards his destination.
After knowing that Luyuan was recruiting new students, and the first stop was Fog City, Xia Xiu changed his plan. He now planned to become a student of Luyuan through Luyuan’s recruitment.
Deer Court, founded in 350 in the Terra Calendar, is located in the southeast of Three Portlands. It is a coeducational liberal arts college. Deer Academy is renowned not only for its pioneering integration of occult studies into the liberal arts educational curriculum, but also for its high standards of thaumatological practice, creative thinking, and active multiverse citizenship.
Deer students pursue a Bachelor of Arts degree in more than 40 majors in key areas. The school's curriculum includes a one-year occult course with a broad range of distribution requirements and graduate specialties: each student constructs their own program of study by combining a traditional major with an occult focus area, or selects from a number of established Choose among interdisciplinary majors.
Deer Court is one of the few organizations willing to accept and educate owners of different pedigrees, and has always maintained a relatively neutral political stance. Many famous figures in Terra are students of Deer Court. Among the two seats, four chairpersons had studied in Luyuan.
Luyuan’s recruitment does not value bloodlines and extraordinary talents like the Clock Tower. It is willing to recruit even ordinary people. Of course, this ordinary person must have a special talent, such as excellent literary talent. .
Xia Xiu’s purpose at this time is to obtain Luyuan’s enrollment qualifications. Luyuan has three enrollment channels.
The first method is to use a thaumaturgic creation [Spiritual Owl] to hold a magic envelope engraved with [Directed Cognition Instructions] in front of a person with thaumaturgy potential, and hand the envelope to them. Those who have the potential to open the envelope and read the contents will naturally know how to get to Deer Garden.
The second type is the recommendation system. Needless to say, everyone knows about this system. This is the favorite of the related households.
The third option is random selection. There are always a few lucky ones who get picked because of the nonsense the Mayor of Three Portlands is doing.
Xia Xiu wanted to become a student of Luyuan, so he ignored the first and third possibilities. Only the second method met his needs. He happened to know that there was someone qualified to recommend here in Fog City. , the purpose of his trip is to 'worship the mountain'.
Lambeth slum.
It is obviously noon, but a fine mist is still shrouding the streets. Going east here is the industrial area. As long as you look up, you can see the black smoke screen, and the people around you are looking at Xia Xiu with strange eyes.
"Bitch! Bitch! How many times have I told you not to crush the bugs on the wallpaper? Do you think you bought the whole hotel? Why can't you just throw them out the window like everyone else? ? Damn it, you bitch!”
“Cow!”
While passing by a small hotel, there were many unscrupulous idle men holding little money. The bottles of wine were laughing, and in addition to the quarrels, there was the lonely sound of street vendors hawking their goods and the play of children chasing orange peels on the cobblestone streets.
At night, high-pitched singing sounds, and garbage trucks leave a stench when they pass by. This is the style of the entire street.
The street is very narrow - on both sides are tall, dirty houses, piled here and there, as if they were frozen in the collapse. All the houses were opened as small hotels and filled with tenants, mostly workers, special trade workers and thieves. There is a tavern downstairs in the hotel, where you can get drunk for as long as you have central coins.
On weekend nights, one-third of the men in the area get drunk and fight over women. The porters who stayed in the cheapest hotels were always fighting in their dens, beating each other with chairs and sometimes using guns.
However, despite the dirty and noisy environment, there are still some decent Wudu people living here, who work as small shopkeepers, bakers and laundresses. They only interact with their own people and accumulate bits and pieces of wealth peacefully.
This is a typical foggy slum.
Under the strange gazes of passers-by, Xia Xiu walked to the darkest place in the slums. It was a gathering place for gangs, where addictive drugs were sold, corpses could be seen everywhere, and the evil flowed everywhere. breath.
The biggest gang in Lambeth is the Blanc gang. Legend has it that the leaders of the Blanc gang have extraordinary powers. There are also rumors that the Blanc gang is not a human being, but a monster in human skin. Xia Xiu could only say that they were right, most of their members were really not human.
The composition of the Blanc gang is very complex, including wild thaumaturges, werewolves, and ghosts. This is a group of monsters who huddle together to stay warm in order to survive in the foggy city.
"Hey, kid over there, what do you want to do?" A rough-looking man stopped Xia Xiu. Next to him stood a man with a bare chest and a blue silk scarf.
"Leisi, don't scare the children. Boy, are you here to find your mother? Do you want your uncle to take you home? Your uncle's house is very big." Kebei laughed at first Lei Si said "scold", and then asked Xia Xiu with a kind face.
“Harm~”
Xia Xiu sighed helplessly. This kind of vulgar plot always makes people feel boring. These gangsters are still so clichéd and boring.
"Come on, boy, uncle will take you to play some fun things."
Kobe stretched out his hand to grab Xia Xiu, but Xia Xiu had a cold light in his eyes, and he raised his hand directly The elbow of his right hand hit Kobe's waist hard. Kobe felt as if his chest was hit by a giant tree. His whole body floated out of thin air, and then flew out.
Cobe covered his abdomen, curled up like a shrimp and foamed at the ground.
“What the hell!”
When Lei Si saw this, he pulled out the dagger hanging from his waist and stabbed Xia Xiu in the head. Lei Si's movements seemed to be too slow in Xia Xiu's eyes. To a thaumaturge, even if they are new to the thaumaturge, in their eyes the movements of ordinary people are as slow as turning on 0.5x speed.
Xia Xiu turned sideways to avoid Lei Si's thrust, then pressed his right hand holding the dagger with both hands and broke it with force.
“Ah——” Lei Si let out a painful cry.
Xia Xiu held Lei Si’s fallen dagger, then threw him over his shoulder and knocked him to the ground. He used his knees to press the opponent's fallen body, and then stabbed the dagger hard towards his head.
Click——
Blood was dripping, and Lei Si stared in horror at the dagger that scratched his cheek. He looked at the blond boy on top of him with fearful eyes. The other person's delicate face was filled with a bright smile, and his eyes were slightly. Squinting, he could not see the boy's true emotions.
Xia Xiu looked at the horrified gangster, stretched out his right hand and placed it on his bleeding cheek, and then activated his flesh and blood shaping technique to directly sew up his wound.
"Sir, can you take me to see Mr. Stephen? I have a business here that I want to discuss with him."
Xia Xiu stood up, took off his hat and put it on his chest In front of him, he asked Leisi very politely.
Leisi dazedly touched his wounds that had healed instantly, as if he understood something. The other party was a being with extraordinary power like the leader. He swallowed and said hurriedly:
"Gulong——, I, I will lead the way for you, my lord."
(End of this chapter)