The carriage instantly fell silent, and everyone stared in astonishment toward the voice.
Even the vehicle itself swerved before quickly straightening out again. Clearly, the driver up front had also been so shocked by those words that he had momentarily lost control of the Magic Locomotive.
Servini had been considering how to address the passengers' suggestions about her various policies. Those words startled her, and she looked up toward the front left, where she saw a middle-aged man who looked at least fifty glaring back at everyone who turned toward him, his face full of defiance and mockery.
"What? You don't agree? If you ask me, this Princess Royal is completely brainless! All she does is let her subordinates mess around. She listens to that Xu Yi from the Xinfei Merchant Guild on everything and has no ability of her own. Someone like her should just behave herself and spend her life as a princess. Why come here to be city lord, or even dream of becoming our queen? What a joke!"
Those words immediately enraged the passengers.
Shack pointed straight at the man's nose without hesitation and barked, "You've got some nerve! You think you can say whatever you want about the Princess Royal? What gives you the right?"
"Exactly! How dare you say the Princess Royal has no ability? Do you think we're all blind?" another passenger chimed in. "When Earl Stark was city lord, the good lives we'd finally managed to build almost went down the drain. The Princess Royal has been city lord for less than six months. Just look at how much the city has changed! Look at the lives we're all living!"
"That's right. Of all the people you could criticize, you had to drag President Xu into it? If President Xu and the