The old man squinted like a scholar and said, "Excuse me, did you wrap up the Crystal Creek Cave?" ”

His voice matches his appearance very well, and he is gentle and elegant without a hint of aggression, and the first impression can't help but make people feel good. The disadvantage is that his gestures seem to be extremely lacking in courage, and if he encounters someone with malicious intentions, he will definitely be regarded as a soft egg melon who is easy to bully.

Fortunately, although Karin is psychologically dark, she may not be malicious to such an ordinary scholar, as a super tyrant and royalty, she did not show the arrogant virtue that Long Aotian likes to see, with an indifferent smile on her face, and nodded slightly at the other party.

Mr. Scholar suddenly looked overjoyed, and took a step forward as if to come and talk to Karin, but was silently stopped by a female knight who jumped off her horse. After all, Karin is one of the most competitive heirs to the throne, no matter how much she likes to serve the Qiao family, no matter how much she likes to beat up her children, and no matter how she is only coquettish and arrogant in front of a pseudo-mother, she is sacrosanct in the eyes of others, especially her subordinates. How qualifies a stranger of unknown origin to talk to the dignified princess of the Auckland Empire?

However, although the female knight blocked the other party, her tone was very kind: "Yes, as you can see, my team and I are going to engage in a month-long woodland and cave warfare performance, so we have chartered this field. Fortunately, it is not the peak tourist season, and it should not cause trouble to people. ”

This is a female knight named Benya, the strength of the silver 5th order, in addition to serving as Karin's guard knight. also serves as a personal female official and clerk, and can be regarded as a compound talent with both civil and military skills.

"Combat exercises? Are you mercenaries? ”

The question was asked by a young man who looked like a student of a middle-aged scholar. One with a ponytail and a round face with big eyes. A short girl with a little freckle on her cheeks. Interestingly, although her profession is a "civilian", her strength is as good as the Black Iron Order, and she seems to be a very healthy and strong ...... Civilian.

Although she is also dressed as a traveler, she is a rookie who doesn't go out much, otherwise there would be no such misunderstanding. Karin's subordinates formed this team of personnel with a fierce and proud demeanor, even the honor guard that was used as the emperor's travel, no matter how you look at it, it is very similar to the mercenaries who are disparagingly called "war wild dogs". Not to mention a veteran who has been in a hundred battles, but a little bit of experience in the rivers and lakes. You can also see the difference between the two.

"Hmm...... We're mercenaries, but we're not very famous. Benia borrowed the slope to get off the donkey and casually told a lie.

"That's a coincidence, Andriol also worked as a mercenary for a while before he was admitted to college. Right? Andriol. "The round-faced girl should be a typical self-cooked, and her natural style suddenly reminded Lu Xi of a certain archmage soft girl who combed her ponytail obliquely. But if you think about it carefully, the difference between the two is still very big, over there is a natural black that looks natural and cute but is actually violent and strict, and this one here is a stupid girl paper. Before anyone else asked. She had already revealed the information of her companions, which made the young man named "Andriol" cry and laugh all over his face.

Andriol looked a little older than his two companions, but no more than twenty-five, and was as bookish as he was. But a closer look reveals that although his body does not look strong, it is actually covered by streamlined strip muscles. It looks like he should be a very explosive person. This young man is a Bronze Tier 10 mercenary who is supposed to play the role of a bodyguard in the team.

"College students?" Lu Xi couldn't help but look at the young man a few more times.

In this medieval era. Knowledge cannot be acquired as easily as in the information age, and it is naturally impossible for college students to flood with it. As a matter of fact. There are only a few universities in the world that can be called a total of total, and those who can complete their studies and step out of the school are definitely the elite of the elite.

From a mercenary to a college student, this should be a very inspirational story.

Since it was a mercenary who had walked through the rivers and lakes, Andriol could naturally see that the other party was actually a warrior armed to the teeth, and their bearing and posture were very similar to those high-ranking knights, and they looked a little nervous.

As for the halfling man with a simple and pleasant smile, wearing simple home clothes, he didn't look like he was going out of the house, but looked like a resident of the neighborhood, a temporary guest tour guide to earn some extra money.

Lu Xi's gaze stopped on the last girl. This is a girl with neat short hair, who looks very capable and bright, and her appearance should have entered the category of beauty, but it is not to the point of making people pay too much attention, at best, it is a fresh and lovely little jasper. But it was such an ordinary girl, but it attracted Lu Xi's attention for a long time, he held his chin and groaned, frowned silently, and then silently looked away.

“…… It's a lot of fun. ”

The corners of Lu Xi's mouth curled up involuntarily, but fortunately, no one noticed his small movements at this time.

In the face of so many heavily armed fierce riders, the scholar-like middle-aged man unnaturally disturbed his hair and laughed dryly. He glanced nervously at the horseback riders, who stayed on Karin for a long time, the leader of the group was so bright and imposing that it looked as if he was living in two dimensions with himself.

Yavaru couldn't help but swallow, he didn't think he had the courage to talk to such a big man, in the end, it seemed that the lady in front of him was better talkative, although she seemed to be just a messenger. The professor sighed and said in a cautious tone, "Hello, dear lady, my name is Yavaru?" Geruger is a professor of archaeology from Neosfia. ”

"Archaeologist?" Karin was slightly startled, and cast a meaningful glance at Rosalie beside her.

Belia smiled, "There are many geologists here, but this is the first time that archaeologists have encountered them. So, you're an archaeologist from Ocean University? ”

"Neosfia is not just a university of higher learning." The middle-aged scholar shook his head in annoyance. It seems to be full of resentment about the ignorance of the world: "We come from the archaeology department of the University of Red Mountain. In fact, Ocean University's strengths are in business disciplines such as finance, architecture, and shipbuilding. In terms of history and archaeology, the humanities are better at Redmountain University. ”

"Oh, that's rude." The knight smiled and apologized. She had indeed heard of the name of Red Mountain University. But I've just heard the name, so I naturally don't care too much.

Seeing that the other party's reaction was obviously insincere, Professor Yavaru sighed helplessly, and then continued, "These three are all my students, Andriol, Jena, and Shias, this is our guide Sam?" Mr. Wise. Well, as you can see, we're here for archaeology in Crystal Creek Caves. ”

"So what about ......"

"When we arrived, we found out that you had already covered the place. And the gentlemen of the rangers did not let us in, saying that we had to get your permission. So ......"

Mr. Scholar felt that this was enough, after all, he still had some scholarly pride, and his naked plea was unspeakable after all, so he could only look at Karin with his eyes, waiting for the other party to "show mercy". It's a pity that he is destined to be disappointed, a bloodless and tearless female tyrannosaurus like Karin, even if she finds a group of fluffy little animals to throw star eyes together, it is useless, let alone just a middle-aged uncle who pretends to be pitiful.

"Then all I can say is sorry. Mr. Professor, I have already paid for the charter, and there is no reason to give it to you. In fact. You can go back to Cold Harbor for a month and come back when we're gone. ”

"How. How can this be......" Mr. Scholar crossed his face, and his face was full of bitterness.

"Since it's a scientific expedition team from a famous university, it's impossible that there won't even be funds for accommodation, right?"

"I don't have that kind of money in the first place." The round-faced girl named Gina said loudly, "Our research is not supported by the academy at all. This archaeological activity was all organized by the teacher himself. ”

"Uh...... Then I can only say sorry. Belia hesitated for less than a second.

Karin was getting impatient. She can indeed smile gracefully at civilians with a pleasant face. But this is only due to her education and politeness, as she grew up in a ruling class family. The female tyrant who does not change her face to kill will never really think that civilians can be equal to her, let alone delay her business because of strangers. Karin kept smiling on the surface and gave Serbellia a look, presumably to say, "If you continue to entangle, let's get rid of it." ”

The female knight chief, who was more cold and noble than her own lord, bowed slightly, and she had been ready to do it ten minutes before.

Seeing that a historic tragedy such as "the powerful oppressing scholars" that would trigger a lot of reverie and butterfly effect was about to happen, the short-haired girl suddenly said loudly: "Wait a minute, I know that you are definitely not mercenaries!" ”

Nonsense! As long as you are not a fool, you can see that to put it bluntly, it is just a convenient excuse. Many of the people present should think so.

Serbellia waved her hand, and two knights with big shoulders and round waists jumped off their horses, as if they were ready to take the idle people out directly.

The only one in the archaeological team who could fight, the inspirational young man named Andriol, hurriedly stood in front of his teacher. With his eyesight, he can naturally see that he is by no means the opponent of this group of people, but in order to protect his teachers and classmates, he is still ready to resist without hesitation, what a sunny young man!

The short-haired girl suddenly pointed at Karin again and said loudly, "I know you too!" Winter on the shore of Black Pearl Lake is still full of flowers, right? ”

This unfinished sentence made Karin's face change.

In addition to the clams that can give birth to black pearls at the bottom of the river, Black Pearl Lake is famous for its four seasons like spring, and even in winter, the sea of flowers on the lakeside will never wither, and it is a world-famous spectacle. It is located in Calgary County, south of the Oakland Empire, near the mouth of the Chenhai Sea, and the Calgary Province is Karin's fiefdom. (To be continued......)