Chapter 4: The Girl and the Singing of Baker Street
London is the capital of the United Kingdom and one of the most attractive cities in the world, but this refers to the London of the 21st century, not the London of the 19th century. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
From the first day to today, it has been 3 days, from Southampton all the way, the speed is not slow, the key is that the area of England is so large, this feels like going from Beijing to Tianjin, if you take a carriage from Beijing to Kunming, you try it.
The farthest distance in the world in the 21st century is when I stand in Tiananmen Square, but I can't see Grandpa Mao.
In the same way, in the 19th century, the farthest distance in the world was when I stood on the banks of the River Thames and couldn't see Big Ben.
"Big Ben, so it's after 1858? The second yagami war should also be over. Looking at this iconic classic building, Yi Xuan also roughly guessed the background time of this world.
Soon Carl took Jack and Yi Xuan to his house, his home was in an alley, Carl was not married, and his mother was a tailor, and later died, before Carl became an exorcist, he was just a staff member of a publishing house, until one day a group of people in black uniforms found him, and he left his hometown. After Carl opened the door, there was a musty smell inside, and there were cobwebs on the corner of the table, Jack subconsciously covered his mouth and nose, and Yi Xuan was speechless, how long has it been since he came back?
Karl smiled and said: "Yi, I know that it is not easy for you to come to the UK, plus there has been a trade war in our two countries, so unfortunately, the current British are still very prejudiced against the Chinese, you will live in my house first, so be it, anyway, I basically can't go home, you are here to be my housekeeper, I am afraid that I will give you 300p a month?" ”
Jack patted Yi on the shoulder and said, "Yi, don't trust this capitalist, he will oppress you, and then you will become a slave like those workers in the factory who will never get paid, you should bargain with him, 500 pence, so that he will suppress you, and then give you 300 pence." ”
Yi Xuan looked at Jack's playful eyes, and laughed all of a sudden, Carl couldn't help laughing, a middle-aged Welshman, a young man from England, and a young man from China, their friendship with each other in the two days of the road can be described as rapid progress, they hated to see each other late, they talked about the world, from the ancient Great Wall, to the beautiful mountains of Scotland, from the exciting football game to the modern evolution of capitalism, what surprised them was that Yi Xuan knew a lot, And they have a lot of knowledge that they don't know, if it weren't for the fact that they knew that Yi Xuan was only 17 years old, otherwise, they would really think that he was a professor at a certain university, but in fact, there were many of them that Yi Xuan bragged about, which was the benefit of reading books often.
Jack and Carl quickly said goodbye to Yi Xuan, and Carl also gave him his key, and their news had already been sent to the London branch yesterday, so they were about to rush to report the speculation to their superiors, and then tell Yi Xuan not to go out at night, because London is still a bit big, and now there are many exorcists who have gone out, if something happens, it is really difficult to deal with, such as demons.
Yi Xuan naturally understands this, and when the two friends went out, he lay on the bed weakly, not to mention anything else, just talk about Carl, he always pestered himself to tell him the story of "Zombie Taoist", but he blamed himself for being cheap, and he had to tell some stories about ancient Chinese exorcists, which made Carl want to go to China to meet Mao Xiaofang, I fainted. And the elegant Jack is more about discussing some oriental classical literary works with Yi Xuan, such as "XX Plum" and the like, Yi Xuan rarely found a Welsh who has a common language with him, so he naturally talks endlessly.
Carl and Jack put away their exorcist clothes after entering London, Yi Xuan was puzzled at first, but later reacted, this is to protect him, they are not like the hero of "The Exorcist Boy" Aaron Walker can see the demon soul hidden in the body of ordinary people, they are worried that because Yi Xuan is with him, he will be seen by the demon hidden on the street, thus hurting Yi Xuan, Yi Xuan is very moved, although Britain and China have a war at this time, but I have to say, These two Britons really don't have any prejudice against themselves.
Knock knock! Just when Yi Xuan was lying down and resting, there was a sudden knock on the door, Yi Xuan was resting after being nervous, and he was suddenly pulled up and guarded by the knock on the door, he looked through the small window, it was a girl, and the girl saw that she was also surprised, Yi Xuan opened it, and asked, "Who are you looking for?" Is there something wrong? ”
The girl looked a little shy, and she asked, "Didn't Karl come back?" Are you his tenant? ”
Well? Not bad! Carl is a little interesting, this exorcist is really worth it, Yi Xuan said with a smile: "Hello, my name is Yi, a traveler from China, oh, I am a painter and novelist, I am good friends with Carl, he saw that I had no place to live, so he let me live in his house, help him look at the house, clean up." When the girl saw Yi Xuan's introduction, she also replied: "Hello, my name is Yelena, I am Carl's neighbor, he brings me gifts every year when he comes back, but this time he is not there." Seeing that the girl was very dissatisfied, Yi Xuan smiled and said nothing.
I have to say that Yi Xuan's image is still very good, white and clean, well-dressed, and very handsome, and the impression of sunshine boys is often better. It didn't take long for Yi Xuan to get acquainted with Elena, and speaking of which, Yi Xuan also took out the pencil he still held in his hand when he entered the super fantasy space, and drew a portrait of Elena. He has a bad problem, that is, he likes to turn the pen, when he was watching TV that day, he controlled the board in his right hand and turned the pen in his left hand, and as a result, he brought the pencil directly in.
Yi Xuan was very glad, fortunately Lao Tzu didn't take a bath at that time, otherwise he would have come in naked.
At first, Carl and the two also had questions about Yi Xuan's hairstyle and dressstyle, have you seen people in this century who wear bangs and biased hairstyles or wear modern jeans and Australian coats? However, Yi Xuan soon explained that this is a popular trend in the East, which is very surprising, in the current Qing Dynasty of China, basically no one has a braided hairstyle, but more natural vertical crowns or simply short hair like themselves, which is really unscientific, the Manchu court did not require the whole country to keep braids or wear full clothes, and it is very free in this regard, which is very different from their own world!
Yi Xuan thought about it carefully, this may be some differences in the world plane, it is impossible for every world to be the same, according to the parallel time and space extended by the "grandmother paradox", if the world of the exorcist boy is a really independent world, then it is very likely that this world has undergone a change in the nature of history at a certain point in time, such as the appearance of holiness and demons, which further evolved into the world of the exorcist boy, as for why the Japanese manga artist Katsura Hoshino drew a "Exorcist Boy" Exactly the same as this world, Yi Xuan was a little puzzled, whether it was because of the comics that there was this world, or because there was this world in the first place, just because of some reasons, Hoshino Katsura in a certain situation thought of the idea of this exorcist boy, so he drew it, it was really incredible, the more he thought about it, the more chaotic he became.
Yi Xuan swore that he didn't spend as much time thinking in his life as he had in the past few days.
Soon Yi Xuan used the pencil in his hand to draw the portrait of Elena, the lifelike girl in the painting, the introverted girl in reality, Elena couldn't believe her eyes, she simply took a photo.
"By the way, Yi, you said you were a novelist?"
"Well....kind, would you be interested in hearing my story?" Yi Xuan winked at Yelena, and Elena went directly to the living room, set up a stool, sat next to Yi Xuan, and began to listen to the book.
Yi Xuan smiled, "Reasoning at Half Past Three in Summer" has been seen by Zhang Zhenyu and Yuan Xiaofei, two dead friends, but I didn't expect that the third viewer turned out to be a girl from another world, and she also wants to be Mr. Talk, where can I find this kind of treatment?
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In an office that no one else could enter, the old marshal of Ilka was carefully observing some intelligence information given to him by his disciples, although he was over 80 years old, he was still the most respected person by everyone, and he was also one of the five generalissimos in the entire central hall, and he was solemn at the moment.
"Is what Komui said true? Maybe there's something big going on in London? ”
Then he raised his head and looked at the seven exorcists standing in front of him, and said, "Carl and Jack, your observations are actually very keen, and I agree with your thoughts a little, but I am afraid that all the exorcists in our branch will be transferred to various parts of Europe, and they may become the targets of demonic attacks at this time." ”
The seven exorcists were also very confused, they were going to go out, but they were forcibly stopped, and when they heard Jack say this, they felt a little funny, and an exorcist named Robert laughed and said: "Carl, will you be too sensitive, frightened by demons, if we don't go to find those demons, then what about ordinary people?" Don't forget that they are still threatened by demons, and besides, if the demons still dare to come to trouble our branch, don't forget, our teacher, Marshal Ilka, is here. ”
Karl's face was anxious, and he said: "No, teacher, the recent demonic activities feel like playing hide and seek with us, which has not been encountered in the past, and the Chinese "Art of War" says some deceptive art of war: turn the tiger away from the mountain, and strike the west. I'm afraid these are the conspiracies of the Millennial Count. ”
As soon as he finished saying this, several exorcists present immediately laughed, and Welbeck even laughed: "The Chinese art of war? Kaljack, don't forget that the Chinese can't save themselves with the art of war. But not every exorcist is like this, among them is a silver-haired young man with a curse on the right side of his face, but he said: "Although I came to report for some missions, I think Mr. Karl is very reasonable, well, in fact, I feel very bad in London these days, and I have a sense of depression." ”
Robert said contemptuously: "I said it's not trivial, Marshal Kuros just promoted you to exorcist a few days ago, and with a kick here, you won't have us to know about this place." ”
Jack was dissatisfied with Robert and said: "Arlene is a parasitic exorcist, he has a special perception of demons, and he can see the soul of demons, so there is no reason to ignore his opinion." ”
Carl also said: "That's right, Yi's sixth sense also said that something big is going to happen in this place. As soon as he finished speaking, he realized that he had leaked his mouth, and he said that he would not bring Yi Xuan up.
"Who's Yi?" The old marshal asked. Everyone also looked at Carl, and Carl had no choice but to tell some things about Yi Xuan, and everyone had different expressions after listening to it, especially what Yi Xuan said about the possibility that there is a high-level demon LV2, and even LV3 said not necessarily, but there is a question, how could Yi Xuan know about this kind of thing? He even classified the demons, and they were so clearly divided!
The old marshal pondered for a while and asked, "Tell me Carl, is that Yi an exorcist?" ”
"No, certainly not, there is no reaction of holiness in him, and neither does our holiness respond to him."
Marshal Ilka said strangely: "He said that he has a sixth sense and knows a lot about the situation of demons, so where did he get the information?" He told you that there was going to be a big event in London, which was puzzling. ”
Jack said helplessly: "It's easy to say that he may not be accurate, but he has a strong premonition that within 5 days, oh, it shouldn't be within 4 days, I'm afraid there is a great chance that something strange will happen." However, since he himself is not sure, we are reporting this speculation on behalf of the two of us. ”
Marshal Ilka frowned: "He is a perceptual person, the sixth sense is also the so-called telepathy, there are not many such people in this world, but I have seen such perceptual talents in the central hall, they are not exorcists, but they do have an extremely sensitive foreknowledge of danger." ”
After thinking for a while, the old marshal made a certain decision, he said: "You don't leave London from now on, see if there will be a disaster in 4 days, if there is one, then we will deal with it with all our might, if not, it doesn't matter, it should be a disaster drill, after all, the main purpose of our Black Order is to kill demons, it is always good to be careful." I'm going to report some things to the Central Hall from my own point of view. ”
"Yes!" All the exorcists responded.
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On the night of the fourth day when Yi Xuan came to the exorcist boy, there were still 3 days left before the limit of 7 days, and everything seemed so ordinary and quiet. After Elena's introduction, Yi Xuan sat in a bookstore outside an alley to help people draw some illustrations and portraits, and at the same time, accompanied by Elena, Yi Xuan also spent a little time to go to the place he wanted to go - Baker Street.
It's a pity that this place is still the same as his own world, there is no so-called 221B Baker Street, at most it is only 85, Yi Xuan originally expected to be able to meet Sherlock. Sherlock holmes.
"Hey, it seems that this world is really just a stage for exorcist boys."
Outside Baker Street, not far from Yi Xuan, there was a little blue-haired girl with a pumpkin umbrella, who was running and jumping and singing:
"The Millennium Gong is looking for it.
I am looking for the most important heart.
Is that you?