Chapter Eleven Puerto Deseado
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Xia Zuo's skin jumped on his face, but he didn't get angry at Ortega. Instead, he smiled and nodded and replied: "Yes, they are all messes!"
In the desert, two people, one big and one small, and a camel, headed towards the east of the desert. As they kept chatting, the two of them had a certain understanding of each other's situation. Xia Zuo fabricated his own life experience and said that he was a nomad. Because he could not stand the abuse, he escaped from his home, and also showed Ortega the scars on his arm.
Shazzo received Ortega's sympathy.
"Where are you going?" Ortega asked suddenly.
"Well...you talk first!" Xia Zuo didn't understand the outside world, so he could only say this.
"I plan to go to Port Desai Ador. I have obtained the admission certificate from the Royal College of England. In three days, the college's airship will reach Port Desai Ador. I will stay for one day. This time I came out for this." Ortega said, and his face showed an excited look.
Royal British Academy is the world's highest-end comprehensive institution. It not only teaches human knowledge, but is also called the cradle of fighting professionals. It is known as the two major colleges in the world together with the Hanlin School of the Yunhan Empire. Those who can enter the academy can be called the pride of a generation.
"Oh, so coincidentally, I'm going to the Royal College of England too!" Shazzo said. He had no plans to go out this time, and everything needed to be explored, so it was the same wherever he went. Moreover, although Charlie did not give him any instructions, he had given him advice and suggested that he travel to a country that spoke English first. The Royal College of England, with the word "English" and you will know that it is in the British Empire by listening to the name.
"Really, I didn't expect...oh, it's wrong. Didn't you come out after being abused by your parents?" Ortega reacted and looked at Xia Zuo with some doubts.
"Yes, my parents are very old-fashioned and don't let me go out of the desert. This time I knew I was going to England... Royal Academy, and they locked me up, so I ran out secretly!" Xia Zuo said with a calm expression. For Xia Zuo, who grew up in the nest of a bandit, he was very good at lying people.
In fact, when Shazo walked out of the desert, he did not want to go to Port Deseado, but bypassed there and found other ports to take a boat to leave Latin America, mainly because he was afraid of meeting acquaintances, but Ortega changed his mind.
Xia Zuo believed that his luck would not be so bad. The probability of meeting Peña, the only person outside who knew him in a port city with a population of hundreds of thousands, should be very low. Moreover, walking with Ortega can also avoid some troubles caused by unfamiliarity in life.
Three days later.
Shazzo and Ortega walked out of the desert and came to the wasteland east of the desert. Port Desai Ado was already far away.
In the past three days, Xia Zuo has been able to avoid topics about the Royal College of England. He is afraid of being exposed, so he always talks about some things and doesn't. He also learned a lot of information through indirect attacks.
Port Desai Addo is a medium-sized port in the Spanish colony of La Plata Province, with a population of 300,000. It has been ruled by Spain for more than a century. It can be said that it has been completely Spanishized. This port is an important fishery base in the province of La Plata, so there is always a faint smell of fish on the streets.
The streets are bustling and lively, and there are endless hawking sounds. Here, you can see all kinds of fresh sea fish. For Xia Zuo, who just arrived here, everything is full of freshness.
"Have you been here?" Ortega led the camel and looked at Xia Zuo, looking around, and couldn't help but ask with a smile.
"No, I have never left the desert. This is the first time!" Xia Zuo replied, his tone very excited, and his eyes were still staring around.
"Then you have to take a good look, and I have to take a good look. When I was ten years old, I came here with my father once, and it has changed a lot." Ortega said.
"Look... there is a wizard shop, but unfortunately only wizards can enter, otherwise I must go in and take a look..." Ortega suddenly raised his hand and pointed ahead and said.
Shazzo looked in Ortega's finger direction. It was a shop with dark walls, giving people a dark feeling. The only bright spot was a window with a wizard robe hanging on the clothes hanger.
Compared to the people coming and going at other merchants, the wizard shop seemed to be deserted. Xia Zuo walked all the way and looked around, but for a long time, no one was in and out.
"Look there, it is a craft selling, a craft made of fish bones... over there, that is a clothing store..." Ortega knew that Xia Zuo knew nothing, so he began to introduce Xia Zuo without waiting for Xia Zuo to ask.
Ortega is very good, this is how Charzo feels about Ortega over the past few days of time.
After accompanying Ortega to sell the camel and wander around the city for about half a day, the two finally arrived at the dock.
The blue sea is endless, several large cargo ships are loading cargo, and some small boats are also entering and leaving the port. The workers are working, the whistle is melodious, and the air is filled with a salty smell... Xia Zuo saw the sea for the first time, and for the first time, he saw with his own eyes that humans could actually build such a huge machinery as a cargo ship. All of this was incredible to Xia Zuo.
"It's so beautiful!" Xia Zuo murmured to himself as he looked at the endless ocean. The ocean and ships used to exist in Xia Zuo's imagination. This time he saw it with his own eyes, which was shocking.
"The airship is here, look!"
"Oh God is above it, it can actually fly!"
"Hurry, go to the square!"
On the way back to find the inn, there were suddenly a burst of noise from the busy streets. Many people pointed at the sky and made incredible screams, and many people who knew the situation ran to the central square of the port.
The British Empire and the Spanish Empire signed a truce agreement three years ago. The Spanish Empire allowed the Royal College of the British Colony to recruit students in its own colony. This was the first time the Royal College of the British Colony airship visited Latin America.
Xia Zuo looked up at the northern sky, and a huge-looking flying machine was quickly approaching the center of the port.
"They are here, we can go!" Ortegala pulled Charzo and ran towards the city center.
When the two of them came to the city center, they found that the entire central square had been blocked, with thousands of Spanish troops guarding the square, blocking the people watching the fun outside.
On the empty square, a behemoth docked at the center of the square.
The huge rugby-shaped appearance is printed with the logo of the Royal College of England. It is fifteen or sixteen meters high and is nearly fifty meters long. The air outlet at the tail is still steaming outward. There are also metal hollow wings like birds on both sides of the boat. Above the wings are small windows, and you can vaguely see figures flashing inside.
This is the steam airship "Royal College" ordered from the Steam Alliance for a large price. Although it is not as large as a large cargo ship, it can actually fly, so it feels even more incredible.
Soon, the airship cabin door opened and a long ladder was put down. Three teachers from the Royal Academy walked down from above. Two men and one woman, both in their thirties, remained under the ladder, while the two men walked towards the east and west sides of the square respectively.
On the east side of the square, the Spanish garrison made way and listed the passage. The Royal Academy teacher, who was about 34 or 35 years old, walked to the front of the onlookers, opened the notebook in his hand and looked down. He said in a voice neither high nor low voice: "Recruitment is now starting!"
As he said, several teenage boys and girls immediately rushed out of the crowd, saying goodbye to the excited parents beside him with tears in their eyes, and lined up to the male teacher.
"Voucher!" the male teacher said coldly.
The boy standing in front was full of excitement and took out a neatly blue piece of paper from his arms and respectfully handed it to the male teacher.
"Level 2 certificate..." The male teacher muttered and took the certificate, opened it and looked at it. The light flashed in his hand, and looked up and said, "Real! Go over!" As he said that, he returned the certificate to the boy. The boy held his chest with one hand, bowed slightly to the male teacher, and then walked around the male teacher, crossed the passage formed by the Spanish garrison, and walked towards the airship in the middle of the square.
"Voucher!" said the male teacher to the girl who walked up to him.
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Xia Zuo, who was mingling in the crowd with Ortega, screamed in his heart, and glanced at Ortega, who was busy searching for certificates in his baggage, and secretly thought about how to get out.
He thought he could go to Royal College of England with Ortega, but he didn't expect that he would need some proof. Before, Xia Zuo had deliberately not mentioned the matter of Royal College of England, for fear of showing his mistakes, Ortega thought Xia Zuo knew it very well, so he didn't say anything about the certificate.
"Finished!" Ortega said excitedly, and took out the blue voucher from his bag, turned to look at Xia Zuo and said, "Where is yours? Let's go there together."
"My...oh, you go first, I can't do it anymore, oh, my stomach... belly... belly... can't do it anymore..." Xia Zuo covered his stomach with one hand and arched his body into a shrimp, and his face was filled with pain.
"You go first, I'll arrive later. No, I'm going to have diarrhea!" Xia Zuo didn't give Ortega a chance to speak, waved his hand and turned around and forced the crowd away, running towards the distance.
Ortega turned his head and opened his mouth, smiled helplessly, and shouted, "Hurry up, I'll wait for you on top!"
"Okay!" Xia Zuo's painful response came from a distance, and his small figure had been drowned in the crowd.
Ortega watched and saw that Xia Zuo could no longer be found, and smiled again. He turned around and walked out of the crowd and walked towards the male teacher who was enrolling students with the certificate.
"Huh... Damn it, what else do you want to have a credential, hey!" Xia Zuo ran a few streets to an alley without anyone before stopping, muttering and lowering his head and walking forward. He probably wouldn't have seen Ortega in his life, and his desire to go to the Royal College of England was shattered.
Xia Zuo, who was walking down, did not notice that a team of people were walking towards him.
With a "bang!", Xia Zuo suddenly stopped, his body tensed up suddenly, and he felt that he seemed to have knocked over something.
"Ouch! You're blind, you dare to hit me!"
Chapter completed!