9 Energy Conversion
Young Ryan has lived in this world for sixteen years, and he has never stepped out of Reims City, running for survival all year round, after all, Reims City is also a prosperous place in the south of the French Empire, it is the fief of the Duke of Rose, and it is a transportation hub from south to north, and it is a commercial city, so even if Ryan doesn't care much about the world, he has received some information, not those teenagers who grew up in the countryside and don't know anything about this world.
This world is different from the earth.
It is a world where spirits can interfere with matter.
On Earth, the occult is just some conjecture, even if he cultivates special exercises, he can only improve the potential of the body, can maintain a clear mind, calm as a mountain, however, when he breaks out, there is still no way to go beyond the limits of the human body, in a more fashionable way, that is, he cannot unlock the genetic locks of the body.
After all, it is still the category of normal people.
This world is different, gods and demons are not ethereal legends, not the imagination of the world, but real existence, human beings also have the existence of transcendent beings, and there are stories about them everywhere.
Night watchman.
Ordinary people call those transcendent the Night's Watch.
They uphold the will of the Father and keep the night for mankind so that they will not be harmed by the monsters in the darkness.
Of course, in the past ten years of life, Ryan has never seen it with his own eyes, but he has heard a lot of legends related to the night watch, and he has also heard many terrifying ghost stories, and he is probably skeptical about this.
After all, hearing is believing, seeing is believing.
Now, of course, he is convinced.
First of all, he appeared in this world inexplicably, and then, last night, he entered a fantasy that was the same as reality, and just now he felt the terrifying aura, coupled with the mysterious golden book in the sea of knowledge, that crazy desire, and the thirst for some mysterious energy...... None of this can be explained by the science of the water blue star.
The world is different, the rules are different!
In his opinion, the Golden Book should not be something that originally existed in the Water Blue Star, once he met people, he became a mystery, not governed by the Law of the Water Blue Star, and was rejected by it.
That's why you came to this world, right?
With his mind in his head, Ryan hailed a public carriage on the side of the road and got in.
Knowing the sea, the golden light flame calmed down, and the title page of the golden book was still ajar, with a wisp of black qi rushing left and right, but it was entangled by the golden light, decomposing little by little, devouring little by little......
"Smack!"
After a while, the black gas dissipated without a trace.
Ryan's heart was shocked, and his body leaning on the carriage suddenly trembled, trembling irrepressibly, and it lasted for a few breaths before he calmed down.
He let out a long breath that felt like he was full.
It's just a mental feeling, in fact, he's hungry at the moment.
The physical and mental sensations are quite the opposite.
The black aura was supposed to be related to the sudden appearance of the vision, and the Golden Book was stimulated to operate, breaking the illusion, devouring its breath and converting it into some kind of energy.
However, it takes energy to drive the Golden Book.
At that time, he could only burn his body, and at this time, he had the feeling of hunger.
Halfway through, Ryan got out of the carriage.
His whole body was weak, like a guy who hadn't eaten for several days, sweating profusely, and panicking in his heart.
Although the Golden Book is a spontaneous reaction, it also needs to be driven by energy, and at that time, it can only be activated by burning the body, so he has the feeling that he has not eaten for several days, and if he does not get into that carriage, it is very likely that he will faint while walking on the road.
The carriage stops in the northern part of the port.
The port area of Reims City is large, divided into two districts, north and south.
Luojia Mountain is on the southern side, and the Williams Trading Company where Ryan works is also in the southern district, compared to the southern district, the northern district is much more prosperous.
Here, unlike the northern city, there are not so many private harbors, there are no yachts roaming the sea like birds, and yet, there are not many fishing boats moored here like in the south, which are full of fishy smell and dirty.
There are many large ships moored here that can sail between the Noah continent and the New World, and even the occasional huge merchant ship that enters the ocean and heads to the East, which is as huge as a small city.
Ryan got off the bus on White Elephant Street in the North District, where there are many restaurants, not the kind of high-end restaurants that require dozens of louis for a meal, and it takes more than two hours to eat a meal, and there are special dining etiquette. Of course, these restaurants are also different from those in the southern district of Ganggang or the Luojiashan community, where eating is convenient, fast and cheap, a plate of seafood fried rice costs only 10 pfennig, and a simple fish sandwich is cheaper, only 8 pfennig.
Dining in a restaurant here, for a single person, is at least fifty pfennigs.
Ryan enters a cafeteria, and it costs ninety-nine pfennig for one person, and the dishes are as you order, as you want, but the food on his plate must be eaten and not wasted.
Although the price is a bit expensive, it suits him now.
After handing over the money at the cashier at the door, and taking the plates and cutlery from the waiter in a white shirt and black vest, Ryan walked to the food serving area, where there were several long tables with many food boxes, mainly seafood, but also chicken, duck, cow, sheep and pigs and other meats, as well as a large number of lettuce salad, and the wine area on the side had a large amount of alcohol, which was also free to drink.
It's two o'clock in the afternoon, and there are not many diners in the restaurant, and there are only a few people in the large hall.
The cafeteria opens at eleven a.m. and closes at three p.m., and then, after two or three hours of renovation, reopens at six p.m., meaning Ryan has an hour to eat.
During this time, the food is not abundant, and some of the public's favorite foods have been swept away, leaving only empty food boxes.
Ryan didn't care about that.
It doesn't matter what the taste is, the most important thing is the quantity.
He quickly filled his plate, mainly meat, fish and shrimp, and sat down in the corner with his plate in hand.
Ryan glanced at the sunlight through the window, and in his sight, the dust flew in the light like small insects, and he took a deep breath, raised his knife and fork, and landed on the plate.
His speed didn't seem fast, even a little elegant, it looked like he was eating in a fancy restaurant, but the food on his plate quickly disappeared, and in a few moments, it was empty.
People were busy with their own business, the hosts were lazy and napping, the diners were whispering, and no one noticed him.
In just fifteen minutes, Ryan went to the food supply area three times, and the value of the food he ate added up to about the cost of the meal, of course, he wasn't done yet, although he felt hungry, his stomach was still a little empty.
The food has been digested.
There's heat roaming around in the body, scurrying around like a little mouse.