As they followed the Three-Headed Person into the city, they began to see more and more Three-Headed People.
These Three-Headed People looked as though they had all been cast from the same mold.
Every one of them looked like an ascetic monk.
Though curious when they looked at Li Ping'an and his companions, they remained restrained.
They merely watched from a distance.
There was something indescribably strange about looking at this crowd of people, each with three heads.
Though the island was large, this city seemed to be its only inhabited place.
Li Ping'an estimated that the small city's population probably was not very large.
He reckoned there were only a few tens of thousands of people.
The Three-Headed Person who had brought them in led them straight toward the Imperial Palace in the center.
Li Ping'an had not expected this.
Why were they being taken to see the emperor right away?
The so-called Imperial Palace was really nothing more than a larger house.
Naturally, it could not compare with the palaces of the Central Plains. It could not even compare with the residences of their ministers and wealthy merchants.
Guards stood watch at the entrance.
The Three-Headed Person went inside to report their arrival, and before long,
they met the Emperor of the Three-Headed Kingdom.
Li Ping'an looked at him. His appearance reminded him of an Egyptian pharaoh, though there were still some differences.
He nevertheless bowed and gave his name and where he had come from.
The emperor ordered food prepared to entertain Li Ping'an and his companions.
It seemed that all the kingdom's civil and military ministers had arrived.
The dishes were fairly plentiful, though most were still seafood.
Fish, shrimp, and the like.
There was only one kind of particularly large egg that Li Ping'an had