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Chapter 58 The Temple and Taxes(1/2)

4692, Darm Tursad, somewhere in the Queen's Palace

After landing at Emma's Imperial Capital Star, Bai Yu followed Evelyn and accepted the interviews and congratulations from the nobles. Until the title of "His Royal Highness" sounded so happy that it was repeated over and over again to boring and long-lasting, the event was over. Bai Yu's first impression of the nobles of the Imperial Capital Star Star was that there were so many people.

Then Bai Yu and Phantom were arranged to rest in a side hall in the Queen's palace group. Although it was a side hall, Bai Yu found that the size of the master bedroom inside was almost as large as the area of ​​the entire temple on Matargrad. Various royal stories, the myths and allusions in Emma's religion were portrayed as exquisite sculptures and murals, making the palace look magnificent and serious ancient. Unfortunately, Bai Yu knew Emma only by a few words from Samson who had drunkenness. Moreover, Bai Yu was not interested in these things. Bai Yu even said to the Phantom: "The Emma nobles are indeed lustful. They are nude, murals and statues everywhere." This made the Phantom extremely embarrassed. However, Ola, who always had a vicious tongue, refuted: "You are one of the group of lustful and chaotic nobles, and they are the one with the highest title."

Although Bai Yu's dormitory has a luxurious large bed and various modern facilities imitating ancient furniture, this did not make Bai Yu feel more comfortable. I don't know if she was tired or stared at by various "lustful" murals and sculptures. She was very tired but couldn't fall asleep. She always felt that the empty bedroom seemed to be breeze. In this season, the temperature in the Queen's palace complex was not a good time to blow the night breeze.

The next morning, Bai Yu, who had been tossing and turning almost all night, unexpectedly did not sleep in, but locked himself in the dormitory of the palace and watched the live celebration.

"Oh, I'm hiding more than 2,000 kilometers away and watching the live broadcast of my seal ceremony, it feels strange." Bai Yu lay on the soft couch and drank Kufei, while eating various exquisite candies and desserts specially provided by the palace, and leisurely speaking sarcastic words.

The Phantom gave her a blank look: "Don't you have to be with Evelyn?"

"No, you don't believe it when you say it. Queen Evelyn is lazy than me. She also uses a substitute to attend the ceremony, and I don't know where she is now." Bai Yu looked at the dessert in front of her and found that even if she only tasted a small bite, it was a huge workload, so she changed the tasting method from sequential tasting to random tasting.

"Normal, this palace group accounts for almost 38% of the total area of ​​the entire planet, and her resting place is completely confidential. After all, there have been too many assassinations against her in recent years. The palace is so large that its defense is always short of its strength." As Aura explained, he controlled his mechanical arm to lift a small plate of small and exquisite dessert on the low table and said, "Try this one, the one just now is too sour and can't stand it."

"Where is it? You feel wrong?" Since Bai Yu put it in the brainstem plug, Ora can share various feelings with her. Ora often expresses various opinions and comments on the food she eats. Moreover, Bai Yu found that Ora's sour and bitter taste was extremely sensitive. Once Bai Yu ate a blood cherry. It was obviously sweet and sour, but Ora was caused by the sourness in it to cause a pair of mechanical arms to lose control and hit the wall with all her strength.

"My feeling comes from your taste nerve signals. Why don't you say there is something wrong with your taste buds?" Ola retorted.

"Stop quarrel, the ceremony has begun, oh, Bai Yu, that should be you, hahaha." Phantom saw the image of Bai Yu on the projection and burst into laughter, fearing that he was holding a pillow. What surprised Bai Yu was that after Phantom took off the "black rag", it seemed that after Phantom took off the "black rag", it seemed that it had opened a knot in his heart. His emotions were no different from ordinary people, and he talked more. Although it felt strange, it made Bai Yu feel inexplicably happy.

The "Bai Yu" on the picture is wearing a long skirt and is walking up the steps with elegant rhythm of the music. The top of the steps is "Evelyn" waiting with a scepter, but the "Bai Yu"'s face is also covered with strange heavy makeup, and the face is almost impossible to recognize.

"Oh, fortunately I didn't go. I turned into such a ghost, and the black hole was scared to spit it out." Bai Yu looked at the thick white foundation on the substitute's face, purple eyeshadow and silver-gray lip gloss, and patted his chest with gratitude.

"There's no way, tradition." Evelyn's communication suddenly came in.

Bai Yu looked at Evelyn and said with a smile: "The person who formulated this tradition must be a sold unsold cosmetics."

Evelyn smiled speechlessly: "There has been nothing for the past few days. Do you want to take you around the palace? I know a few pretty good attractions."

"Forget it, your palace is too big. There is time in the future, and there are maids everywhere, like tails." Bai Yu pointed to the door of her room. She was sure that there were at least a dozen servants standing outside the door. Obviously, she didn't like the living habit of being followed all day.

Evelyn shook her head: "This is my palace complex. The best scenery in Tulsaid can be enjoyed in the palace. I haven't seen it all in hundreds of years. You have only lived in for a few hours and are you tired of it?"

"I have a suggestion, let's leave the palace and go to the nearest city to see how it is?" Bai Yu began to come up with ideas.

Evelyn thought for a moment: "It's a good suggestion. Now our substitutes are holding a celebration in the Royal Celebration Square. It's impossible to finish it in less than 10 hours. No one can guess that the real body will go to another place. The opportunity is rare, I'll pick you up immediately."

"Wait, don't bring too many followers, as there will be too many people to reveal your identity." Bai Yu reminded Evelyn, otherwise the Queen's personal servant and the Royal Guard would come out with a group of people, and how could they go shopping? It's obvious that they are big shots, and it would be strange if they are not suspected.

"Don't worry, there are only 6 of us in Ola, I only have two servants." Evelyn smiled and said, cutting off the communication.

Twenty minutes later, Evelyn's float car picked up Bai Yu and others, left the magnificent palace group, and flew towards the nearest city of San Angelo.

"I said, Her Majesty the Queen, didn't you say you could hide your identity and go to the city? Is it necessary to drive such a conspicuous suspension car?" Bai Yu knocked on the car window glass and found that it was the same material as the bridge porthole of the warship, and it was deeply refined crystalline quartz nuclear rock: "It's okay to hit the impact glass, meteorites, it seems that your personal safety has always been a problem."

"Well, it's so hot. I really don't know what the old nobles think. Do you know I have a clone? Almost once a week, either poisoning, using guns or bombs. The repair cost of the palace in the past ten years is a considerable expense." Evelyn said with a headache.

"The queen is still troublesome to money?" Bai Yu asked curiously.

"Hmph, it's just a glorious appearance, but in fact this is the biggest problem. The taxes are too small, the expenses are too much, and the tax cannot be increased casually. If it weren't for the consumption expenditure of the nobles, the Royal Fleet would have begun to cut the number of warships again." Evelyn said self-deprecatingly.

"No," Bai Yu said in surprise: "I heard that the Emma royal family has always been levied and levy, and the Emma people are all poor and have no food to eat."

But as soon as Bai Yu finished speaking, he immediately attracted the glare of a queen servant. Lu Yisha smiled and patted the servant's arm, as if she had been used to it for a long time. Bai Yu realized that what she said was that the head of the Emma royal family who was entrusting heavy taxes would sit beside her.

"Hey, it's a long story, 'Emma's people are all poor and have no food to eat'. Although this sentence is exaggerated and does not exist, it is too unfair to say that I am expending heavy taxes." Evelyn shook her head and said, "The federal propaganda is too excessive. Should I let domestic propaganda retaliate against them?"

"Well, I agree with both hands." The Phantom is obviously extremely dissatisfied with the current federal military-controlled government. Some people provide free political propaganda retaliation, so of course they are reluctant to ask for it: "Just take this federal coup as a matter of trouble."

"Don't forget Fick? Marshal Yang, that old bastard!" Bai Yu said fiercely.

Ola jumped onto the projection in the hover car and cheered: "Well, speaking of it, this Fick Marshal Yang has huge wealth of unknown origin, as well as a bunch of sexual adjutants and mistresses, names, addresses, measurements, accounts, I have them, and I guarantee that the information is complete."

"Okay, pass it to Lu Yisha, let the Empire Propaganda Department give you a special report to vent your anger." Evelyn was not very interested in fighting a vulgar fat man, but Fick Yang is the descendant of the founding father of the Federation. If she could cause some trouble for the Federation, she would still be very willing to accept it. The important thing is, and most importantly, Bai Yu is happy!

Sure enough, Bai Yu hugged Evelyn's shoulder intimately and said with a smile: "I am worthy of being my good sister."

"I would like to explain first that it is just a suppression of political propaganda. I have no intention of sending troops to attack." Evelyn said first.

Bai Yu smiled. She was not interested in the proposal to send troops to attack the Federation: "Just disgust them. If you don't care about them, let them slowly rot themselves."

"Oh, by the way, you wear this thing on your body." Evelyn handed over two smooth patterns and huge and gorgeous gem brooches to Bai Yu and the Phantom.

Bai Yu took one and looked at it and asked, "What is this?"

Evelyn also took out a silk scarf that was pinned to the neckline: "Aristocratic badge, Baiyu yours is the Earl badge of the Manda family, and the Phantom is the Earl badge of the Orell family, and there are also miniature communicators and positioning devices."

"Using the aristocratic identity again? Is it too conspicuous?" Bai Yu opposed.

Evelyn smiled: "Silly sister, do you know how many nobles live in the city of St. Anqiro? If you are an ordinary civilian, just giving way to them will be endless. So, we are now three lingering countess, which is very common on the streets of St. Anqiro."

"What should I do if someone recognizes it? The Count is a high-ranking nobleman." Bai Yu asked.

Evelyn shook her head: "These three families are extremely low-key, but they only have the title of Earl. In fact, they are no different from civilians. But we should pay special attention to the palace nobles. They can easily recognize us. If you don't want to suddenly run out of the street, and lie on the ground and kiss your boots, it's best to bring this."

Lu Yisha immediately opened a storage box in the car, which contained 5-paid women's multi-functional goggles, which could almost cover most of her face. Bai Yu and Phantom each picked up a pair, adjusted their face shape and put it on their face.

"It's so famous that it's inconvenient to go out." Bai Yu said casually.

Evelyn smiled: "Just be prepared for prevention. I believe that most palace nobles and ordinary high-ranking nobles will attend your enfeoffment celebration in the imperial power square in front of the palace. It's just your blessing. I haven't come out for a long time."

Five people got off the bus in a busiest commercial street in the city center and started hiking. Ola's floating arm followed behind. After the help of the Phantom, the two little fingers had been converted into small-caliber energy pistols. Although they could only fire more than a dozen times, they were enough to deal with emergencies. Moreover, don't be deceived by the weak appearance of the two queen servants, Ola had long discovered that there were two pocket laser shooting pistols hidden under the Ms. Luyisha's shirt, while the other had only brought a fighting knife. However, Ola found that the explosive power contained in her muscles was absolutely amazing. Three white feathers were wearing armored combat suits to attack her, and they could barely fight.

Needless to say, shopping, it’s just that Bai Yu is a little awkward to Lu Yisha’s caution, because all the queen and the snacks she wants to eat must be scanned by the brooch on her chest before they can be eaten. Evelyn’s face was natural and used to it.

"It doesn't seem as bad as the Federation described. I imagine that Emma's city was full of beggars and hungry people everywhere." Bai Yu looked at the civilians and lowly nobles on the street, constantly making way for them and saluting them. Even the civilians, everyone looked red, dressed in gorgeous clothes, neat and glamorous, which was completely inconsistent with the official description of the Federation, so he said casually.

Evelyn sighed and said, "It's so outrageous. Even the worst Kantian Dynasty was not so exaggerated. It was starving everywhere. In the era of slaves, as long as the master did not do evil deeds, slaves would not starve to death."

"Hey, can the enemy countries still praise each other?" The Phantom glanced at the two of them: "I didn't say that Her Majesty the Queen is lustful. She is considered very respectful!"

Evelyn looked at the Phantom with a grievance on her face: "Is lustful, messy? The dignified queen doesn't even have a boyfriend. No one believes it if she tells it in the Federation, right?"

"You are the queen, why are you doing so miserable?" Bai Yu asked quipped: "Does there no great nobles propose to you? Even if there is no love element, you are very popular with political factors, right?"

Evelyn held Bai Yu's arm pitifully: "No one, maybe these female officials of mine are too powerful, right? Is it Lu Yisha?"

When Lu Yisha heard the queen's mournful tone, she actually covered her mouth and looked at the waitress next to her and laughed.

"Look at what I'm doing." The female servant who was cold and silly asked coldly.

Luysha smiled and said, "This is all the credit of the Pamela court baron. The duke of the court who proposed to the queen in public last time was broken by her left arm with one hand. What's his name?"

"Hmph, the Huffman family, Rubin Huffman's Duke of the Court, dared to harass Her Majesty the Queen after drinking too much. I just wanted to drag him out. Who would have thought that his arms were so crisp, and that little injury he called like a domestic animal to be slaughtered, without any aristocratic style." Pamela said coldly.

"Haha, yes, the top master of the noble fencing club may have suddenly suffered from severe osteoporosis." Luyisha smiled and exposed Pamela's excuse.

Evelyn looked at Bai Yu with a helpless look on her face. Bai Yu looked at the Pamela court baron who could cut his arms with bare hands and asked, "Fencing Club? What is that?"

"There are three most popular sports events for Emma nobles, namely fencing, equestrian and musket. However, fencing is more interesting, and sometimes I will go to the competition." Evelyn explained.

"Does the fighting performance?" Bai Yu still didn't understand very much.

Lu Yisha sighed softly, looking at this, she remembered nothing, and said, "It's not a performance, but a competitive event. During the competition, both sides will wear standard protective gear and unblacked swords. The winning conditions are to hit the effective parts of the body. One point is to hit the torso, two points to the head and arms, three points to the throat, shoulders and wrists. In the specified time, whoever accumulates 10 points first will win. Moreover, it is a three-game two-win system, which tests the speed of reaction and explosiveness. Now it is the first of the three most popular sports events, such as Rubin Hoffman's Palace Duke, who is the top expert Emma can count."

"How is your level?" Bai Yu asked Evelyn and the others.

Luyisha smiled and said, "I am completely an amateur. Her Majesty the Queen is equal to me. As for Pamela, I dare not compete with her."

"Luyisha, what you said is so sad. Although I have to deal with you, I will win more than lose less." Evelyn said dissatisfiedly.

"Yes, Your Majesty, you will be better than me, 141 wins and 126 losses." Evelyn exposes.

"Is Pamela a master of fencing?" Bai Yu asked in interest.

Pamela nodded proudly: "Of course, it's a pity that I can't participate in the aristocratic fencing competition, otherwise the sport would have been extinct."

"Only male nobles can participate in the fencing competition. Pamela can pierce the metal protective gear with one sword with speed and strength alone." Luyisha said regretfully: "But it's good, otherwise all opponents who compete with you will die under your sword."

"So powerful?" Bai Yu looked at Pamela in horror and said, "Can a sword without a blade pierce the metal protective gear?"

"Of course, when your speed and strength reach a certain level, you can do it too." Pamela should have said.

[I analyzed the explosive power of her arm. Her right hand can produce about 1 to 1.2 tons of power, while the left hand is the most terrifying, 1.5 to 1.8 tons.] Aola said.

Bai Yu looked at Pamela's arm like a monster. Because she was hiding under her loose long sleeves, she could not see the muscles, but it seemed that Billya's arm was not much thicker.

"Her Majesty the Queen is also very powerful. In the princess' era, she was the champion of equestrianism." Luysha said.

"Fantasy equestrian?" Bai Yu found that this kind of exercise didn't sound that powerful.

"Oh, that's nothing, just ride a horse and cross certain obstacles, like a low wall, or something, but my horse is the best in the empire, so I took a lot of advantages. Later, the horse died of illness and I'm not playing anymore." Evelyn explained: "Luysha, don't just talk about others, aren't you a musketeer?"

"Murderer?" Bai Yu thought for a while: "I have seen that kind of projectile weapon in Mimatal. How can that compare? Shooting against each other? Isn't that very dangerous?"

"That's not a musket." Luyisha said: "Muskets are a very ancient weapon, using primitive black, fire, medicine, bore-loading, flintlock smoothbore weapons. The competition can be participated regardless of gender. Since the old musket can only be filled with one shot at a time, each person has two pistols during the competition. They first walk back to back and forth for ten steps before they can turn around and shoot. In addition, they also have to wear full-body protective gear, so there is no danger, at most they will be fractures."

"Then whoever reacts faster will win?" Bai Yu said.

"No, it depends on the hit position. The referee will determine the winner based on the hit position. It can only be done by hitting the body and head with a little practice, because during the game, you can only turn around, not move, and not make evasive moves, otherwise it will be a foul." Luyisha said.

Evelyn subconsciously glanced at Bai Yu, smiled and said to Lu Yisha, "Yes, I remember not long after you learned to shoot, you competed with someone. At that time, you shot with your left and right hands at the same time, and knocked down two opponents' pistols. Your opponent was eliminated without even firing a gun."

"So amazing!" Bai Yu calculated roughly. The two of them walked back to back ten steps, and the distance was about ten meters. This distance could shoot at the same time with both hands and knock out the gun in the other party's hands. The reaction speed was not just as simple as it was. Since the smoothbore musket used ancient black, fire and medicine, and relied on gunpowder to ignite the projectile, it would have to calculate the ballistics. Bai Yu nodded and said, "I finally understood why our Queen dared to go out to the streets with these two of you. If I want to deal with you, it would be safer to bomb directly with a warship."

Lu Yisha smiled and nodded to Bai Yu, indicating that she was default.

"But then again, why is Emma's movement so strange? She has never seen it in the Federation before." Bai Yu asked.

"Well, this is a bad habit passed down by the Emma Empire for thousands of years. I think you must have heard that the Emma nobles had the habit of duels." Evelyn asked.
To be continued...
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