Before dawn the next day, Mirai ate the breakfast Bing Zi had prepared the night before and left Xinglei Castle early.
Huangshui Town, a small town in the southern part of the Hyder Autonomous Region, was Mirai's first stop—and his most important one. Re Cheng's family lived there.
Mirai searched through his memories and found that he knew very little about Re Cheng. Fortunately, the four of them had interacted briefly before. If he knew where Re Cheng lived, things would be easy!
As far as I knew, several years ago, Re Cheng's father had been assigned as a guard in Wastewater Town under the Wastebone Knights. As he grew older, he was practically the town's head of security.
However, Re Cheng's father was somewhat obsessed with knighthood and considered it an insult to a knight's dignity. From then on, he developed a drinking problem. Whenever Re Cheng mentioned his father, a trace of sorrow would unconsciously show on his face.
After half a day of travel, we arrived at Huangshui Town in the southern Heidel Plains.
Though its name included the word "town," after getting off the carriage, Toon found it no different from a village with over two thousand residents, less than half the size of Laixing Castle.
However, due to its more southern location, Huangshui Town appeared even more desolate.
Fortunately, the people living on this land had not given up hope. Though their clothes were not very bright, most of them still worked hard and struggled on.
Some townsfolk saw someone in fine clothes step down from a carriage outside town. Knowing that this person was no ordinary man, they looked at him with even greater reverence.
If, when he had first arrived in this different world, he had still been satisfied with the way others