Chapter 39: Sherlock Holmes and the Ripper?
After some exchanges, Gu Ran finally found out where to find a job from the conversation with the girls. He said goodbye to his sister www.biquge.info got a job in a beer hall on Ritter Street.
This beer hall is the only store in the neighborhood that pays a daily salary, and the pay is quite good, including food and lodging, and the daily wage is ten shillings. I've heard that you'll even get a penny or two tip when you meet a generous drinker. Roughly working here for a day or two, you won't have to worry about eight or nine days of food and drink.
After all, although women in capitalist countries have begun to work in this era, they cannot enter the tavern, let alone work in it, and the slightly more decent people are reluctant to do chores in the tavern, resulting in the tavern owner has not been able to recruit people, so it is not unusual to have such a generous treatment.
Gu Ran chose to do chores in the tavern for another consideration, that is, to collect information. This time, the preliminaries are for finding objects, and it is said that the target items in the demon's body will have a large drop rate. That is to say, as long as you do a few more demons in this game, you will definitely be able to pass the level.,Flat demons shouldn't be difficult.,The focus of the problem is where to find the demon Bian.。
As an intelligence center second only to brothels since ancient times, the tavern is naturally a good place for Gu Ran to collect intelligence. Drunken men relax as if they were lying on a woman's belly, excreting nothing from their heads.
After changing into the bartender's black jacket restraint uniform, Gu Ran really looked like a Chinese worker who had gone to England, and he was very familiar with drinking. He was originally a small shop to do business, and Jie's bar has been to many times, and this time he is acting in his true colors. By night, he was able to mingle with the drinkers.
After dark, the business of the beer hall is more prosperous, the whole tavern is bustling, the crowd is bustling, the seriousness and indifference of the fog are swept away under the influence of alcohol, the gentlemen take off their heavy woolen trench coats, tie their ties to their heads, and even those who have drunk too much directly take off a pair of floral trousers, and step on the wine table and shout and laugh. It all makes this place look like a carnival of neurotics.
"Hey, that new little guy, bring me a drink!" one of the drinkers yelled as he slapped the table.
"Oh-oh-it's coming!" Gu Ran, who was resting nearby, immediately turned on the faucet of the beer keg, took a full glass, and placed it on the person's table, the foam that overflowed from the cup slid down the wall of the cup on his hand, sticky and uncomfortable.
"Hey, you know what?" the drinker ignored Gu Ran and chatted with his friend next to him, "There were several robberies on York Street today, and the robbed guy was not only stripped of his tickets, but also wiped his neck and his body was thrown into the gutter on the side of the road. I heard that a group of Orientals did this!"
Gu Ran, who wanted to leave, suddenly stopped when he heard their conversation, and the group of orientals who appeared at this time were undoubtedly contestants like him. It seems that this group of guys also has no money, but they didn't think about working like themselves to make money, but used the most inauthentic means...... He could probably understand why Xi Yue had told him to be careful, some scum would soon fall and corrode once they had great power.
"Huh, are the police dogs in Scotland Yard all rubbish?" said another drinker, "Eating enough bones but not keeping the people safe, these tax thieves!"
After that, he seemed to remember another conversation, and then said: "Speaking of the safety of London, have you heard? Some time ago, Jack the Ripper came out to commit the crime again, this time another *** corpse was thrown into the sewer, which would have drifted all the way into the English Channel, but was blocked by the iron fence of the sewer before being discovered by the police dogs...... Hell, I've been in her business before!"
"Jack the Ripper?!" Gu Ran turned around suddenly, slapped his hands on the table, and asked them loudly: "Isn't Jack the Ripper a character in a novel?
The beer belly of Ou Jisan was obviously frightened by Gu Ran, he burped and said: "Don't get excited, little guy, no writer who doesn't open his eyes dares to write him into the book now, after all, no one wants to be found out that he has been disemboweled, right?"
"Gotta-! Jack the Ripper is out, so do you have to get together a Sherlock Holmes later? and then have a detective vs. murderer?" Gu Ran complained.
"Sherlock Holmes?" recalled, "are you talking about the Sherlock Holmes who lives in Room B at 221 Baker Street?
Another drinker also exclaimed, "That's right! The case that was solved by Holmes before was as mysterious as Jack the Ripper's, and it is said that some of the cases he solved were not done by people, but more like those of demons." I've also heard from people on Baker Street that the detective is just a sidejob for this guy, and that his real identity is an exorcist who specializes in hunting demons. If the Ripper is really a demon as rumored to be, then there will be a real show!"
"Your sister ......" Gu Ran was powerless to complain at the moment. This world is not only the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes, but also the Demon Hunter and the Demon, what a mess this is!
But think about it, isn't there a demon and a hunter in your original world?
The tavern didn't close until late, and Gu Ran took ten shillings from the bald, pot-bellied proprietor, plus a sevenpence tip from the guests, and it was more than enough to survive ten days of wheat bread. Now that the question of survival has been solved, the next thing to consider is to find the demon. And then kill it and get through it - though for now, he doesn't have a clue about it.
After a night of lodging on the floor of the tavern, the next morning he said goodbye to his boss and prepared to go to 221 Baker Street.
Although he has no clue about demon hunting, he does not have the radar in his brain to find demons. But he knew that the appearance of Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes in the same plane meant that related plots would definitely happen to them, otherwise the world designed by the Jedi King would not be so idle to add them. What's more, Sherlock Holmes heard that he is still a witcher, as long as he can be found, he should be able to get some information about demons, and it must not be difficult to pass the preliminaries at that time......
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(To be continued)