The Ghost of Fog
Chapters 12. Batu Town
An hour passed, and now Lin Tian had arrived in front of a gate above which read 'Stone City'. From a distance of five hundred meters, this young man stopped his run and walked normally towards the city gate.
Seen a lot of people in and out of the city alternately, both ordinary people, traders, or even not infrequently seen also the warriors.
When Lin Tian approached that gate, he instantly became the center of everyone's attention. Because the clothes used by Lin Tian could be said to be very 'primitive' and outdated, not even infrequently people who deliberately hardened their laughter and unceasingly let out words denouncing Lin Tian.
Lin Tian was not unaware of this, but he preferred to ignore it and keep going. Perhaps also due to staying too long at the top of the mountain, this young man became colder and cuckooier than he used to be.
When passing through the guard post, not a single gatekeeper intended to stop him, they were instead busy laughing and booing Lin Tian while pointing at his face.
"Why do you want this kingpin to come to town?"
"Hey, he's not a bully!! it could be that he was one of the people from the hinterland tribe who lost their way and forgot the way home. Huhaha...."
There were two guards who were preoccupied with denouncing Lin Tian, but just like earlier, this young man did not care and continued to move on.
"that's frivolous". Thought Lin Tian. The point is that the guards there are too demeaning to people just from looking at his appearance. Do they not know if most of the strong warriors do not want to emphasize too much?. What would happen if Lin Tian was a black warrior and did not accept their treatment?. Of course their lives must have been lost by now.
Also, other than humiliating Lin Tian, none of those guards had intended to check on him, whereas he was among the foreigners in this stone city, they should have done a strict examination of him.
But there was something strange about those people, those who were made up of ordinary people or merchants kept laughing and staring at Lin Tian with condescending gazes. But unlike those who were dressed in swordsmen let alone a swordsman who already looked aged, none of these people were laughing at Lin Tian instead, they were staring at this young man with wary eyes.
Suddenly, from the right direction, Lin Tian felt an extremely fast gush of wind towards his face. This young man only glanced for a moment towards the arrival of the wind, once he knew that the wind was coming from a blow of power in a long distance.
This young man stopped his steps and quietly channeled his profound energy throughout his body.
"Dess"
The blow wind disappeared instantly the moment it touched Lin Tian's body. The person who had sent the punch appeared to display an extraordinary look of surprise.
Then Lin Tian moved his barefooted big toe to touch the small pebble that was near him.
The pebble darted quickly towards the face of the sender of the punch just now. The person was surprised and shifted his head slightly, but too late, the pebble managed to scratch the skin of his cheek to cause blood.
"Ohhh..." The man held back the pain while holding his cheek. It turned out that that person was one of the gatekeepers of the stone city, looking from his face, he might already be forty years old. He was just behind the two guards who were laughing at Lin Tian, more precisely inside the gate guard post.
This person was again surprised to see Lin Tian attack with the pebble earlier, he did not expect that with just a flick of a big toe could fly a pebble at such speed, he did not expect that with just a flick of a big toe could fly a pebble at such speed, so quickly no one even noticed the attack except himself and the senior warriors who were around the scene.
You know he was now if Lin Tian wasn't a random person, but a great swordsman. Indeed, he had deliberately sent a long-distance punch to test the young man who he thought was very foreign, because from the beginning he had suspected that Lin Tian's identity was not as simple as it seemed.
He was grateful for not being rash to the young man, because if it happened, seeing from the attack just now maybe his life was no longer helped if the young man really wanted to kill him.
Immediately this person got up from his seat and walked up to Lin Tian, while respecting this person said, "Young master, unexpectedly it turns out that you are a swordsman. If I can tell, is there a need for young master to come to this small town?"
"Actually I didn't need anything to come here. I came to this city only intending to stop for a few days then go back on my way. Then, don't be too formal and call me Young Master, just look at me Lin Tian."
"Hmm.not a bad idea, alright, sorry if I'm troublesome." Lin Tian replied agreeing to the invitation.
But before the two men stepped foot, one of the guards who had been laughing at Lin Tian came and walked over to them.
"I'm sorry to the chairman if I was presumptuous, but I'm so curious why you're being respectful and condescending to this freak." Said that person politely as he pointed his index finger towards Lin Tian at the end of his words. Looks like the old man served as the head of the gate guard.
"Silence you're a moron!!" Snapped the guard leader while lifting his punch.
"Bwmuukkk..!!" The person bounced five steps away and fell flat on the ground while moaning in pain.
"You don't know anything, you better shut up and get on with your job!!" Back the guy snaps.
"I'm sorry for the mistakes of my men Lin Tian, we better leave immediately." Said the person who felt uncomfortable because it had become the center of attention of people.
"All right." Lin Tian replied then following from behind.
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"Uncle, why can this city be called Stone City, I see this city is mediocre as a city in general." Lin Tian suddenly asked in surprise. This young man thought that the city would be filled with shades of stone such as houses or city streets made of stone. But the fact is that everything in this city looks ordinary and nothing special.
"Hahaha, you must be a new person, it's only natural not to know about this city. The city is named Batu City because the largest income in the city comes from a stone quarry located at the western end of the city. That's why this city was named Stone Town."
Hearing this Lin Tian simply nodded his head in understanding. Again the young man asked, "Uncle I want to ask you for help, actually I have just come out of seclusion on one of the mountain peaks for several years. That's why I don't know about this world at all, so uncle, can you help me to know this world, especially the martial world??".
The guard leader looked surprised, a person like this young had already gone into seclusion??, that was how he thought. But a second later he then laughed and responded to Lin Tian's request.
"Hahaha.of course! But before that you should change your clothes first so as not to be seen as strange by passers-by." He stopped at one of the clothing stores in the city.
"Come here, buy the clothes you like, let me pay." The man said back.
Lin Tian was not unwilling to obey his words, but what puzzled him was where would he place this crystal? There was also no way he could have brought it into the clothing store.
The guard chief seemed to know Lin Tian's worries, then he said, "Let me carry that stuff of yours. Don't worry, I'll take good care of him, you can trust me."
"All right then. This take it." While handing the crystal over Lin Tian said.
"Hwaa....!!" The head of the guard was shocked and immediately jumped back when his hand touched the package.
"What the fuck, it's cold." He said while stroking his palm that felt linu due to the cold touched the crystal package.
"Huh??" Now it was Lin Tian's turn to be shocked at once confused.
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