Volume 3 Hello, Eri Chapter 337: Odin's Crusade Team, Assemble! (I)
35 degrees north latitude, central Mediterranean Sea, Republic of Malta.
This is one of the smallest countries in the world, consisting of only a few islands. Malta has been a well-known destination in the UK since the 19th century. After World War II, the world was re-divided. In 1964, Malta officially declared independence. Now it is the only country in the world that is a member of the Schengen area, the European Union, the Eurozone, and the Commonwealth. This is the survival wisdom of small countries, they have to hug thighs everywhere.
Malta has always been known as the heart of the Mediterranean and is a famous leisure resort. According to official data, the first three of the country's five major islands are inhabited, while the last two are closed for ecological protection, and ships are not even allowed to sail close.
But there has been a rumor among those tourists who drive their own sailboats that these islands are actually inhabited. If you cruise along the edge of the ecological protection zone, somewhere in the indentation of the island, you can see a natural harbor with luxury yachts and sailboats with white sails moored in it. The white hotel-style building is just behind the harbor.
Their words were not rumors. This was indeed a special building, so special that only a very few people were qualified to know of its existence. It was like a real paradise.
Chen Motong was sitting at the table cutting bread slices in a gentle manner. If someone familiar with her saw this scene, they would definitely be alert. When it comes to eating, she doesn't pay too much attention to etiquette even in top restaurants. In her words, eating is the happiest way for humans to gain happiness. Why should we impose so many dogmas on ourselves on the road to finding happiness? As long as she doesn't eat too wildly, it is her right to enjoy food as she wants.
But now her posture was extremely traditional. She spoke softly to the girl next to her, as quiet as a princess from some principality, and had nothing to do with Nono from Kassel Academy.
This is a long white table. Both sides of the table are filled with elegant girls like Nono. The corners of their white skirts rise and fall in the morning breeze of the Mediterranean. Young musicians sit in the morning light and play classical music. The sound of everyone talking is not even louder than the sound of the knife and fork touching the plate.
All of them are either rich or noble, and ordinary bankers can't even get a rank here. Some of them have true royal blood of a certain country, and some of them even have families that monopolize a local business. They are like girls who are born princesses in fairy tales. Power and wealth have been bound to them since they were born. They are the type that all Cinderellas dream of becoming.
Nono from Kassel College certainly doesn't fit in with this style. It can be seen from the way she cuts the ham that she really wants to put the fork against her throat at this moment. Eating and talking like this is undoubtedly a huge torture for her. She can only resist this impulse by forcibly slapping herself in the face in her head.
The full name of this building is Golden Iris College. There is no place to find the enrollment notice of this college, and there is no graduation exam. The only way to enter is through the introduction of a certain director. And the status of that director is very high. The people he can contact are very amazing in terms of financial resources. Almost all of them are the best among normal humans.
The academy only recruits female students from all over the world. These girls in white dresses come here and will learn an aristocratic lifestyle in two years, from social etiquette to Shakespeare's stage art. The isolated life and top teachers will allow them to travel back to ancient Europe to become brides truly prepared to marry into the royal family of that era.
This purpose means that all the girls are already engaged, and they come here to study just to improve themselves, including Nono.
The Gattuso family had never been very supportive of Caesar and Nono's engagement, and had dissuaded them from their relationship hundreds of times. After countless struggles, Caesar finally got fed up and simply wrote a letter full of swear words, saying that I can only be with Chen Motong in this life, and you only have two choices, either agree or get out of here and become his heir.
When Caesar sent this letter, he was actually ready to run away. He planned to take Nono away from these damn old guys. Unexpectedly, the reply two hours later was that the family agreed to Caesar's marriage.
Caesar was not happy with this answer, but was very alert. A matter that had been mentioned hundreds of times would change its attitude just because of a letter? But he could not imagine the reason behind it. After the family agreed to his marriage proposal, Nono's father Chen Hao flew to Rome from China, and the father and daughter entered the church of Gattuso's family together.
The church is actually a medical institution. The aluminum alloy cryogenic boxes are filled with Gattuso's elderly people. Their bodies are like ancient tree fossils, pale and wrinkled, with muscles clinging to their bones. Many of them are even 300 years old, relying solely on cryogenic medical technology and dragon bloodline to prolong their lives.
But as some mysterious liquid was injected into their bodies by medical staff, these old people briefly regained their refreshed appearance and began to look like elderly wise men. They had an interview with Nuonuo and Chen Hao that lasted several hours.
Caesar didn't know the content of the interview. He only knew that after this incident, Nuonuo disappeared from his sight. The family explained to him that Chen Motong was far from qualified to be your bride. If we agree to your marriage, we will let her work hard to become a suitable bride for you.
This is why Nono appeared in the Golden Iris Academy. The Gattuso family asked her to come here to restrain her witch side and grow into the future mistress of the Gattuso family. She will be in charge of an ancient mixed-blood family, not some four-wheel drive toy on the street.
In fact, this kind of thing is not in line with her personality, but growing up is like this. When you are young, you can be arrogant and waste your time, love and hate, and look for everything that can make you happy. But you will eventually become more and more mature and tired of the world. A prodigal son cannot be a prodigal for a lifetime. There must be a place where he belong.
Nuonuo knew very well that her destination was Caesar. She once claimed that she had been in love since elementary school, and her ex-boyfriends could form the captains of two football teams, but she was indeed sincere to Caesar, otherwise she would not be willing to run to such a remote place for Caesar. There was no internet or mobile phones in Golden Iris College, and external contact was strictly prohibited unless the college allowed it.
But on the other hand, Nuonuo was afraid of the engagement with Caesar. After getting married, she would no longer be the red-haired witch Chen Motong. She would become the gentle Motong Gattuso, holding the hands of children and strolling in the forest, with a gentle smile and a friendly attitude, and her dealings with others were impeccable. How could such a girl still drive a red Ferrari on the highway?
Nono knew that this kind of thinking was very selfish, but she just couldn't change this bad habit. She felt that she would never grow up and maybe it would be like this for the rest of her life. Only Caesar would tolerate her willfulness, her selfishness, her nonsense... So in this life she could only marry Caesar.
When a girl falls in love, she always has to give something. A girl who doesn't give anything doesn't love you at all. What Nono gives is the lonely time at the moment. When she eats, she always thinks of her life in Kassel College. Just as Archimedes said that if you give him a fulcrum, he can move the earth, Nono said that if you give me a steel pipe, I can handle the Siberian grizzly bear. Seeing that the beautiful and slender girls around her are all living so well, she occasionally develops malicious intentions and thinks of robbing a girl with a fork pointing at her forehead, and yelling like a robber, "If you don't send me out, I'm going to kill you!"
These things were in line with Chen Motong's style, they were fun and crazy enough. When thinking about these, Nuonuo would laugh silently, and bread crumbs would fall from her mouth, so the nun's small wooden stick would hit her head. The thing was soft and long, but the nun could hit it just enough to make people feel painful but not injured.
Late at night, the Golden Iris Academy was under curfew, and nuns with flashlights walked silently in the corridor. There was a strict class schedule here every day, and of course the work and rest schedule had to be kept stable. Lying in bed and staying up late were absolutely not allowed.
Other girls might accept this kind of restriction calmly, but Nuonuo absolutely could not. She would sing wildly in the bar in the early morning. Asking her to go to bed at 10 o'clock in the evening was like a torture.
She changed into her swimsuit and opened the window. The building was in an elegant European style. Although it looked good, it lacked security. The nuns probably wouldn't have thought that there would be girls among the trainees who were as agile as monkeys. Nono could easily climb up and down the decorative grooves.
She would do this many nights, sneaking to the other side of the island to swim. There was a cliff several dozen meters high, with rocks as sharp as canine teeth. The sea waves were smashed under the rock wall, making a thunderous sound.
Of course, that kind of coast is not a comfortable beach, but it can avoid the sight of the security guards and nuns of the academy. Nono climbed down the cliff with her bare hands, swam out for several thousand meters and then swam back. Several times she was able to swim to a place where she could see other islands, where the lights were bright, and tourists played on the beach of the seaside hotel late at night. The laughter of girls and the golden light of the bonfire were as tempting as Satan's apple. Nono really wanted to just swim away and never come back, but in the end she swam back to the academy in shame.
This made her feel like an old woman, no longer having that lawless energy. Isn't this the end of a generation of heroic female heroes? After Huang Rong married Guo Jing, there would no longer be legends of female heroes in the martial arts world. People would only talk about Huang Rong, isn't that the wife of the hero Guo! People would not talk about what earth-shaking feats she had done in the past, but only talk about her beauty and the love-hate relationship between her and the hero Guo, as a topic of conversation at the table after dinner.
She crawled back to her room and was stunned. She didn't close the window when she left, in order to facilitate her return. But in such a short time, the strong night wind blew the window shut. The windows of Golden Iris Academy are bulletproof glass that can only be opened from the inside. This is also for the safety of the students. After all, the girls here are very important. If they encounter robbers, it will be a big deal.
She had no choice but to climb down again and look for an entrance that was not closed.
Sure enough, Nuonuo found an open window in the corridor on the third floor. Although it was only opened at a small angle, with her figure, squeezing in was OK except for her stomach which was a bit uncomfortable.
She landed lightly, like a leaf, without making any sound, but she immediately stood up and pressed against the wall, moving carefully on tiptoe.
It is impossible for the Golden Iris Academy to open the windows for ventilation at night, because there are legends about this place in the outside world, and there are always curious people who want to take a look, not to mention the complicated family relationships of the students. Making this building a fully enclosed secret room every night is a necessary security work here, and it is absolutely impossible for a window to be opened on purpose.
Relying on his profiling ability and observation of his surroundings, Nono can quickly review what happened in his mind.
There were traces of tools on the window side and white paint powder on the floor. This window, which could only be opened from the inside, was forcibly pried open. The perpetrator must have been an expert at this, otherwise the noise would have surely attracted the attention of patrol officers.
The entrance to the building was small, which meant that the intruder was thin, perhaps even smaller than her. Maybe a girl? Had she heard of the legend of this island and wanted to take a look at the scenery? Or was she a thief from a cooperative gang? But on the way here, she didn't notice any suspicious movements.
The intruder bypassed the island's security and avoided the patrolling nuns. He was probably not a spur of the moment guy. There was not even any trace of water stains in the corridor. It was obvious that he was very professional and came with a clear purpose.
Nono herself didn't realize that she was smiling. The red-haired witch from Kassel Academy felt her dragon blood boiling again. She was not nervous at all, but extremely happy.
A thief! An intruder! In the Golden Iris Academy, this kind of thing is like a rare prehistoric species. How could she be afraid? It's better to say that she encountered a super awesome toy! She came from that crazy academy. In her eyes, the girls and teachers on this island are just fresh meat that can only fill the gaps between her teeth! Scream! Be afraid! Princesses who opened their eyes in the middle of the night and found someone watching them! Your female knight Nono is here!
Although she had no weapons in her hands, Nuonuo was very confident. With the training she had received, even ordinary people with knives or guns in the dark would hardly be her opponents. Finally, she had a chance to stop disguising herself as Shuyuan. With golden flames looming in her eyes, she sneaked in the darkness like a creeping nocturnal tiger.
