The sudden voice was brimming with authority, and there was a hint of reprimand in its tone. For a moment, the guards who had been preparing to arrest someone froze where they stood, not daring to act rashly.
Following the direction of the voice, they saw a black-haired young man in a cloak slowly step down from the carriage.
At the same time, the two guards standing to his left and right were especially eye-catching.
The common people of the New Continent generally had black hair and black eyes, but those two guards, handsome to an almost ridiculous degree, had flaxen hair and a pair of emerald-green eyes.
That feature was highly distinctive on the New Continent. Although the group was dressed in plain clothes, their identities were already obvious.
The guards were not fools. The moment they realized what was happening, their expressions changed drastically, and they dropped to their knees.
"This humble one did not know His Majesty had arrived! Please forgive us, Your Majesty!!"
In the time it took to say that, the surrounding crowd had already fallen to their knees, crying out three times for the emperor to live forever.
At the same time, the head of the Forging Department inside had clearly received the news as well and hurried out in a panic.
But Zhou Xu's attention was not on the department head. Instead, he was sizing up the lean young man who had nearly been arrested by the guards.
[Roar, roar, roar! I really should come out and look around more often when I have nothing to do. I actually found a treasure this time!]
At the time, while sitting in the carriage and looking outside, Zhou Xu had activated the Secret Peeping Eye toward the crowd out of habit, planning to scan the