Even though Jiang Yan's appetite is far beyond ordinary people because of his superpowers' fine operation ability on the body, he couldn't help but look at Lily at this time.

The two of them had been shopping on the streets of the imperial capital for only half an hour, and the girl had eaten hundreds of gold coins equivalent to Jiang Yan, which was equivalent to the savings of an ordinary civilian family for more than ten years.

It is conceivable that it is really difficult for ordinary people to support this girl.

Of course, this kind of expense is related to Jiang Yan's entirely unwillingness to care about money and choosing the best food he bought for Lily.

Jiang Yan looked at Lily, who was holding a string of meat skewers that were exquisitely emitting a trace of spiritual energy, and was enjoying Lily with a slight sneeringly, feeling speechless.

It’s rare to take the girl around the street, but why does it feel like she’s walking her pet out to feed her?

Noting Jiang Yan's gaze, Lily turned her head to look at him. Because her mouth was busy eating and inconvenient to speak, she could only express her doubts in silence.

"No, it's nothing, you'd better keep eating."

After Lily finished eating this high-end meat skewer, Jiang Yan looked at the already dim sky and felt that it was almost time to go home, so he stopped Lily's intention to continue.

"Yan..." Lily asked reluctantly. On her fair face, there were some oil stains on her delicate and rosy mouth, which slightly destroyed her originally delicate and perfect temperament that seemed to be unstained by the world, and made the girl inexplicably

There is a few more touches of closeness to the world.

"After all, I'm a girl, so pay attention to her image." Jiang Yan shook his head, took out a clean handkerchief from somewhere, gently wiped Lily. The girl also quietly let Jiang Yan move, and the two of them were both.

There was an inexplicable tacit understanding between them, as if they had experienced this kind of thing thousands of times and had long been used to it.

After rubbing, Jiang Yan put away the handkerchief and flipped his palm. A faint silver white gap between his fingers appeared. When he let go, there was no trace of the handkerchief in his palm.

Seeing this magical scene, Lily blinked and stared at Jiang Yan's palm curiously, as if she wanted to find out where the handkerchief went.

"Okay, I haven't found it anymore, it's just a little trick." Jiang Yan pulled his palm back with a funny look, and then said, "Compared to this, Lily, I'll take you to a place and introduce some people to you."

"Where..." After being changed, Lily asked without caring about Jiang Yan's way of taking things out of thin air just now.

"It's my private residence in this imperial capital. Since we've all come out, we'll just live outside and go back to the institute tomorrow."

Jiang Yan explained, and at the same time, he had a thought and sent a message to his two maids through the Internet.

"By the way, I made an appointment with you in the afternoon, and the main meal is there."

Hearing the "meal dinner", Lily felt instantly and immediately urged Jiang Yan silently with her eyes, looking quite impatient.

Because although the snacks Jiang Yan bought when she took her shopping were delicious, they were just from the hands of ordinary chefs, and obviously did not reach the level of "the delicious food she had never enjoyed" that Jiang Yan promised before.

Obviously not a real 'feast'.

"Mi--!"

As if he heard the topic he was concerned about, a soft ball of snow-white suddenly came out of Jiang Yan's clothes pocket unwillingly, and shouted excitedly.

It is Slime's "Xiaobai".

"Yes, I know! You won't be missing." Jiang Yan patted the white soft ball that was emerging and said with a smile.

In the previous battle with Lily's Yu Tianlong, Xiaobai performed well. He relied on his own abilities alone and won the battle without revealing more abilities. Of course, Jiang Yan didn't mind and rewarded it.

"Calling the time, I should have been almost ready, right?" Jiang Yan murmured, and then a reply from the Internet made him feel relieved.

"OK, let's go."

Jiang Yan pulled Lily away from the food street and came to the roadside of the main road of the imperial capital. Then he stood here and waited.

From time to time on the road in front of you, you can see horse-drawn carriages, spiritual guides, and even riding mounts of beasts that are marching like flying. Various styles of transportation are running back and forth, and some of the modern and prosperous cities that Jiang Yan remembers are already vaguely.

The scene of endless traffic flowing on the road is in the prototype.

"What's wrong?" Lily looked around, not knowing what Jiang Yan suddenly stopped here to do, so she asked.

"Wait a moment here, I have sent a letter to ask the maid to drive the spirit guide car to pick us up." Jiang Yan explained.

"Oh." So Lily also waited quietly.

After a while, a spiritual guide car on the road suddenly braked suddenly and stopped in front of Jiang Yan and Lily.

Is it the spiritual guide train that Jiang Yan said has arrived?

Lily was a little surprised. It was only less than a minute before Jiang Yanshu sent the message. The speed seemed to be expected to be fast.

Originally, Lily thought that this was the maid Jiang Yan said, but when she turned her head, she saw that Jiang Yan was also confused.

"Don't look at me, it's not this one, Gina will have to wait a little slower to arrive." Jiang Yan shrugged, not knowing where the spirit guide car parked in front of him came from, so he pulled Lily back two steps

.

Without having to be confused for too long, the door of the spirit guide car opened, a National Elves uniform wearing a similar style as Lily and Harle, but the collar was embroidered with a dark gold thorn-shaped carved heraldry, about ten years old

The five or six-year-old blonde boy walked out of the car and looked at Jiang Yan and the other two with a smile. His eyes only stayed on Jiang Yan for half a second, and then turned to Lily.

"Oh-Lily Luka, I didn't expect to meet you here. I almost thought I had recognized the wrong person." The boy looked at Lily eagerly, and the admiration in his eyes was almost unconcealed.

"Lily, it's just for you?" Jiang Yan looked at the other person, and his eyes stayed on the other person's uniform collar's emblem for a moment, and then fell on the other person's face. He found that although the blonde boy had a white face and handsome facial features, he found that although the blonde boy had a white face and elegant facial features.

, but it was a little dull in the eye sockets. Although the pupils seemed bright, there was a faint evil spirit in the depths.

Especially when he looked at Lily at this time, the evil intention hidden in his eyes increased a little, which made Jiang Yan, who had a very keen observation, feel a sense of disgust.

Jiang Yan has seen the other party's hidden evil gaze many times. When he occasionally went shopping with Gina, he often saw the same color in the eyes of some passers-by men.

Jiang Yan turned to look at Lily and asked, "Is it a friend you know?"

Lily shook her head straightforwardly: "Not a friend."

Jiang Yan said to himself when he heard this, sure enough, this guy is not the type that Lily would like.

Others may not be able to see it, but he, who is familiar with Lily, found that the girl's emotions have changed slightly compared to before.

Although Lily's pretty face usually has a very light expression, after seeing this young man, she suddenly became more colder. It was a sense of indifference that she only felt after seeing people she hated.

"Lily Luka, I feel a little sad when you say this. You know, I have always treated you as a friend." The blonde boy said with a faint smile, but he couldn't tell anything at all in his expression.

A sad look.

On the contrary, the boy looked at Lily as if he was looking at a work of art. Although he was deliberately hiding, Jiang Yan's eyesight was so keen that he could not tell that the guy's eyes were almost licking.

I kept trying to peek at Lily.

Of course, Lily noticed it, and her face became a little colder.

Jiang Yan pinched her little hand, then moved horizontally to Lily to block the blonde teenager's rude vision.

Not at all polite, Jiang Yan said in a cold tone: "Boy, you made my Lily a little unhappy. Don't you restrain yourself?"

"Your family... has such an intimate name..." The blonde boy seemed to value Jiang Yan at this time, with a cold look flashing in his eyes, and then he smiled sunny again.

, looked at Jiang Yan, and asked with a smile, "Who are you?"

"I'm not interested in knowing you." Jiang Yan said lightly.

The subtext is: I am not interested in knowing you, so there is no need to tell you about my identity.

When the blonde boy heard this, his smile immediately calmed down a little. He looked Jiang Yan up and down and said, "Little guy, it seems that you don't welcome me very much?"

Jiang Yan curled his lips and had no reaction to being called a "little guy". Anyway, his body is really just a ten-year-old child now, so there is nothing to refute about this.

The blonde boy looked at Lily behind Jiang Yan again, his eyes moved down and fell to the hands of the two holding each other. In an instant, Jiang Yan clearly saw a fierce light in his eyes for a moment.

Then, the blonde boy smiled and said to Jiang Yan: "I didn't expect that besides Hal's group of people, Lililuka would have friends like you. Let's meet me? I'm Xia Liu? Gulund."

"Xia Liu..." Jiang Yan's eyes were a little weird... Although he knew that the other party did not mean that, to him, the pronunciation of the other party's name really looked like some indecent word.

But soon, Jiang Yan narrowed his eyes again: "Gurund? And the black thorn flower's emblem...that empire's largest slave merchant?"

"Haha, it turns out that even a little brother like you have heard of my name?" Xia Liu nodded with a stronger smile: "Yes, I am the next generation chief heir of the Gulund family, little brother, if

If you are interested in the future, please come and take care of my business."

Jiang Yan pulled the corner of his mouth, thinking that this was a bit coincidental.

For various reasons, there are slaves in this world. The empire that advocates the supremacy of strength does not prohibit the transaction of slaves. As long as it does not violate the relevant laws formulated by the empire, it is enough. For example, illegally arresting slaves, plundering civilians, etc.

Strictly prohibited.

But like prisoners on the battlefield, those who sell themselves voluntarily, those who owe debts that cannot be repaid, and those who commit serious crimes, becoming slaves is what the empire allows.

Of course, even if the empire has relevant legal constraints, it cannot guarantee that slave transactions must be "legal".

As long as the interests are sufficient, businessmen dare to trample on any law and morality, such words are also popular in this world.

But at least, no one will openly confront the rules of the empire on the surface, and even if they want to make small moves, they will put them secretly.

The Black Thorn Chamber of Commerce of the Gulund family is one of the largest slave chambers in the empire. It has many industries under its jurisdiction. Just in terms of wealth, rumors can even match some of the middle and upper class nobles.

According to the information collected by Jiang Yan's sub-machine network, this Black Thorn Chamber of Commerce is the kind of black merchant who likes to "do small moves" secretly carrying the imperial law.

Of course, the other party was well concealed on the surface, and seemed to have contact with some big figures from the upper class of the empire. This was why he was able to make frequent crimes in secret but he still did not fail. Instead, he has been in a trend of becoming bigger and bigger in recent years.

The reason why Jiang Yan felt it was coincidental was that the Black Thorn Chamber of Commerce of Gulund's family was quite destined to him - although this kind of fate was all not very good.

When Jiang Yan first came out of the institute and transferred to the Imperial Military Department, the birth information that the Empire forged for him was nominally adopted by the Chamber of Commerce of the Gulund family and sold to the orphan slaves of the military department.

One of Jiang Yan's original contractors, Jeno, who was originally an underground gladiator, was in the slave arena before, and the name was "Black Thorn". Obviously, it was also one of the industries of the Gulund family.

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If Angus hadn't taken action to fish it out, Geno would have to struggle to the death in the Black Thorn Arena.
To be continued...