Chapter 72 Unexpected encounter
The wheels wrapped in iron sheets ran across the spacious road, and small stones splashed out, and I don’t know what they encountered and creaked.
A carriage with exquisite appearance but a lot of smoke and dust on the outer wall was shuttled through the street full of cars and pedestrians, which was somewhat abrupt.
"Huh~ I haven't entered the city for more than half a month, and the atmosphere here makes me miss it."
Donald looked at the city scenery outside through the car window... There was nothing good to look at. As a city developed with minerals, the industrial structure of Panshi Castle destined that this city could only become a heavy industrial city, which means that the whole city's appearance would never be easy to see, at least it would not look good under the decoration of the large chimneys with rolling black smoke.
Of course, for Donald, who spent most of the month in wastelands and remote towns, this kind of city is already a very good resting place.
"We will act separately later."
Xia Ruisi maintained her usual elegance and looked at Donald and said.
"According to the plan you mentioned before, shouldn't you take me to see your friend next?"
Donald pursed his lips and asked back to Xia Ruisi's sudden request.
"I will take you to see her, but that's something I will do after I communicate with her first and ask for the other party's consent. I remember I should have told you before that her situation is somewhat similar to mine. She and I are friends... just friends!"
The implication of these words is very clear. Xia Ruisi’s relationship with the other party is not good enough to bring a stranger to visit her at will.
Of course, Donald doesn't believe it if he doesn't want to avoid Donald's idea of discussing something with her friends first.
But it was all here, and Donald was not going to turn against Xia Ruisi at the end, so hesitated for a moment and raised his hand to knock on the wall of the car behind him. Barlow, who was driving in front, stopped the car immediately.
"I'll wait for your reply, but please don't let me wait too long. I've always been a patient person, but that's on something worth waiting for."
Opening the car door and getting off at the entrance of a restaurant. Feeling the hustle and bustle of the crowd, Donald pressed his silk top hat and his eyes quickly turned to a nearby cafe.
A cup of hot bitter coffee and a few plates of exquisite small cakes.
Near the window, Donald looked at the crowds coming and going outside, occasionally turning his eyes to their cheeks and hands, thinking about the work of these people or what they were going to do.
The bitterness and sweetness are intertwined in the mouth, which tastes much better than the barbecue you ate all the way and the vegetable soup in the town, and it feels very good.
"Sir, given that you ordered more than 2 shillings, this is a coupon that we have attached for the concert today and tomorrow."
The waiter at the cafe put a long card on the table and said with a smile.
"concert?"
I picked up the card and glanced at it. I found that there was one at 1:00 pm, and now it was 12:30 noon. If nothing happened to Xia Ruisi, it would probably take half a day. So I shook the card and asked,
"It sounds nice, I don't want to spend money on my ears to suffer."
"Of course, this is a concert at Rock Castle, which was a popular festival in the past...but now it is no longer so perfect because of some changes in the city, but I promise you it will not disappoint you. After all, although the place will change, the artists living in the local area have not left."
The waiter seemed quite confident about the concert, and he had a little pride on his face when introducing it.
"It sounds pretty good, I'll go and see it."
After eating another piece of pastry, Donald was thinking about where to spend the time while waiting. Regardless of whether the concert was good or not, it would be better than sitting in this cafe for an afternoon.
With a goal, Donald naturally would not continue to sit still, so he got up and left after drinking coffee.
I walked along the street with Finger. The latter has been in the carriage recently. He rarely lets the wind out. Now he finally lands. He is very happy to be around Donald, smelling the mixed smell in the air, and looking for wooden boxes beside the road to grind his claws.
Donald was also enjoying this rare private leisure time at this time. The journey with Xia Ruisi was undoubtedly exhausted. The two seemed to be cooperative ally relationship, but the degree of trust between each other still had to be questioned. Although each had compromises, guarding against them was inevitable.
“Stop industrial invasion!”
“Art needs more space to live!”
“Stop industrial invasion!”
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Turning a corner of the street, there was a parade on the road shouting slogans. Donald stood by and looked for a while and found that there were still quite a few people, mostly well-dressed young people or middle-aged people, and occasionally you could see a few old women and old gentlemen.
The things these people called for were written on the slogans they held, roughly to make the government on the side of Rock Castle stop industrial expansion and restore the art city to its former glory.
What really attracted Donald to stop and watch was the mixed band in front of the team, which was probably formed to show the importance of art, playing some movements while walking, which was unexpectedly nice, and the people around who stopped like Donald were the best proof.
"We are the Rock Castle. In the past, artists from the surrounding areas rushed to us to hold concerts as honor. But now we have to beg each other... What's this? It's all the stupid people in the government who made the city look like now!"
Someone complained to his companions on the roadside, and his companions were obviously very dissatisfied, talking about the fact that the black smoke emitted from the factory would cause physical damage to people and quickly gained quite widespread resonance.
The development of industry is not all good, it is unquestionable.
However, Donald didn't have the heart to pay attention to this now. At first, he just stopped because of curiosity. However, as he followed the parade for a while, he unexpectedly found that his mental state had some positive changes.
Perhaps normal people will have such a change in their mood when they hear beautiful music, but Donald is different. As an awakened wizard, his will is not so easily shaken. You must know that even Stefini's talent effect cannot shake his mental state when he is prepared. How can such an ordinary music team change him?
There is only one possibility, that some people in this music team are alien disciples or other abilities!
Similarly, there is no need to say much about the effect of music that can change the wizard spirit of Donald for ordinary people. After walking a few streets, there were many more people joining the parade or intoxicated by the music next to them.
Donald followed and observed for a while, and soon he discovered that not only in the music team, but also in the parade behind him, there were several silver five-string harp pendants decorated with leaves hanging around his neck.
This is a token, Donald affirmed this, but for a moment he couldn't remember what the emblem represented. I don't know if it was because I had never read this information before or because I remembered it too long and I couldn't remember it very clearly.
Fortunately, this does not seem to be an evil technique. The effect of these music is limited to making people feel happy and involuntarily wanting to listen to it for a while. It seems that some people in the parade want to use this method to increase their momentum.
Donald did not mean to stop this. Even though he was supporting his city in industrialization, it did not mean that he liked such large factories that destroyed the environment.
After asking the passers-by next to him that the parade would go to the place where the concert was to give a speech, Donald had no intention of leaving, so he just followed it, just taking a walk to pass the time.
Rock Castle Grand Theater.
At the end of the parade, when Donald arrived here, he found that there were many people standing on the Grand Theater Square. In addition to the audience walking inside, some people may have come specifically for listening to speeches. When they stood in front of the theater, they knew that it was a temporary wooden platform, waiting for the speaker to appear.
Of course, Donald would not listen to such speeches. When he arrived outside the theater, he immediately prepared to go in. Now there are only a few minutes left before the concert begins.
However, just as he walked to the door, he stopped and his brows furrowed involuntarily.
His eyes turned to the two people at the front entrance of the theater and looked at them with squinted eyes. The two men also noticed Donald's existence, looked at each other and walked quickly towards him.
"These guys can really see them everywhere. Is the world outside so chaotic?"
Donald never expected that he just wanted to attend the concert, and the ticket checkers at the door would be two demon contractors. He had the Demonic Decree's Determination Book to lock in these two people almost immediately. On the contrary, the two people also noticed him.
After attracting Finger into his arms, Donald raised his hand to point at the two men, put his palms up, stretched out his index finger and hooked it, and then took a step back and left. This crowded square is really not a good place to do it.
Chapter completed!