The guards with weapons in hand did not look like objects of peaceful communication, and Zhou Jinru walked briskly into a nearby bakery.

The boss quickly hung up the sign that was closed, and another young man in the store was holding a hammer to nail the wooden board to the window of the store, and when he saw Zhou Jinru coming in, he subconsciously stopped him and said, "Sorry sir, it's closed today." ”

"I just want to buy some food and won't delay you for too long."

Zhou Jinru looked at the oil-yellow doughnuts and long strips of coarse bread on the counter, and his request was agreed to by the shopkeeper.

"Sir, here's the donut and bread you want, a shilling and fourpence."

Zhou Jinru took out two shillings from his wallet, took the pennies he should find as a tip, and when he walked out of the bakery with the food, he felt in his heart that the prices of Lentinium were not ordinarily expensive, and these staple foods were enough for an adult to consume for a day, but they were worth the income of a worker in the Eastern Region and even in the slums for a week.

The food he held in his hand caught the attention of the marchers around him, especially the bread that had not yet dissipated the remaining heat, enough to make several eyes express a look of longing.

He walked slowly, holding a top hat in one hand and a food bag in the other, and if this march against the right to exchange lunch was just an emergency, Zhou Jinru would not mind if his things were snatched away.

But those eyes were just watching, and no one was snatching them, and it seemed that they were still sane, or someone else was keeping their sanity for them.

"My actions will soon get noticed by a part of the population."

Zhou Jinru thought silently in his heart, and soon, a young man in a straight uniform walked over quickly, and two companions were led behind him, stopping in front.

The young man at the head raised his hand to stop him from moving forward: "Sir, if I were you, I wouldn't be walking alone on the street now. ”

This parade cannot be ignited without guidance, it cannot be ignited by the spontaneous actions of a few people, there must be organization and premeditation behind it, these foods are bait, it doesn't matter if they are swallowed, but they can help me catch big fish...... Zhou Jinru raised his head, swept his gaze over the three young people, and said hoarsely: "I want to go home now, what should I do?" ”

"If you don't want to be captured by the gendarmes, you should find a place to hide and wait until the dust settles, and if you agree, my companion can take you to the nearest shelter."

Zhou Jinru had no reason to refuse, he followed one of the young men against the current through the crowd of marchers, and walked into a closed handicraft workshop, where the people hiding in addition to a few gentlemen who did not want to show their heads were also some women and children, and he arrived with food, which naturally attracted the attention of several children.

"Thank you, I owe you a favor."

The young man who brought him just smiled, then turned to leave, Zhou Jinru stared at his back and slowly closed his eyes.

These people hope for change, hope to use their strength to help the poor and poor to fight against the flesh-and-blood capital, the starting point is good, but there is a lack of program, the so-called change is not a dinner party, let alone the conscience of capital can be found.

Victoria, who has the upper hand in capital power, can shoot such a plot, and it seems that the producers are either supernatural or have the tacit approval of some people.

Zhou Jinru opened his eyes and saw several children looking at him with longing eyes, and he waved his hand to signal the children to come closer.

"Sir."

Older children don't dare to get too close, and some of the children's mothers are calling them back not to offend a gentleman, which is rude.

"Kids, I'm a person who likes to exchange for equal value, and I'm willing to pay for bread and doughnuts if you can tell a good story."

His words made the children tremble, and if the man in front of them had kept his word, they would not have been short of food for the day.

A young boy who looked to be in his teens asked, "Sir, what kind of story do you need?" ”

"Curious enough, or more mysterious rumors, the beginning of a conversation should start with self-introduction, children, you can call me Mr. Zhou."

The freckles on the little boy's face were slightly red, and he stammered to introduce himself: "Bill, Bill, they all call me Hat Bill." ”

Zhou Jinru did not shy away from sitting in the corner of the wall, with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "Mr. Bill, what is your story?" ”

Hat Bill had never seen a well-dressed gentleman sit in a dusty corner like them, and the workshop had apparently not been open for a while, so naturally no one cleaned it, and dust was everywhere.

"Zhou... Sir, two years ago, I was a chimney cleaner and helped a young lady clean a fireplace when I saw something terrible. ”

Hat Bill stole a glance at Zhou Jinru's expression while nervously telling his story, and he bet everything he said was true.

Zhou Jinru asked curiously: "Two years ago, you were a hired person cleaning the chimney?" ”

"Yes, my body wasn't like it is now."

Zhou Jinru guessed that it might be because his clan was a Fengho people, because the children who cleaned the chimney must be very small, and after training, they could quickly climb the chimney and clean up the soot and debris inside (Note 1).

Speaking of what happened two years ago, Bill was frustrated: "Originally, I could have continued to work for another six months, but His Majesty the King issued a document to abolish the Child Labor Act, and I lost my job, and no one dared to hire me again, as many of my companions did." ”

With Victoria without any source of income, Zhou Jinru can fully understand the situation of these children, and how desperate the heroine Adella fell into two years ago to steal the belongings of the Quiet Church, and finally was arrested by Chen and returned to the police station.

"Let's continue with what we just said, what did you see in that lady's house, please remember my needs, if you want to tell me that she has several male or female companions, sorry, I'm not interested in any of that."

Zhou Jinru reminded in a timely manner.

Hat Bill put his hands on his knees, glanced at the marchers who kept walking through the gap in the wooden door, and said slowly: "Not such a gentleman, the young lady is a lonely, she is a painter, and I suspect that it is probably because of her profession that she is a lonely." ”

The little boy pulled a crumpled cigarette out of his pocket, put it in front of his nose, and sniffed the tobacco lightly, as if it would calm him.

"I'm interested, you can go on."

"Sir, it was an afternoon when I helped her clean the chimney and accidentally slipped out of it and fell into the fireplace, but fortunately it didn't stain her living room and I wasn't hurt."

Zhou Jinru listened patiently and motioned for the other party to continue.

"The young lady was painting, and she didn't seem to notice the movement I was making, and her brush kept scribbling on the paper, and I couldn't understand what she was doing, maybe she was venting her emotions, and I was fascinated by it, and I looked at it, and on the paper that could be said to be scribbling, there was a faint eye, and behind the scribbled colors, there seemed to be a terrible monster, and I was so frightened that I immediately crawled out of the chimney, and felt restless for days."

Zhou Jinru was fascinated by what he heard and asked, "Then what?" ”

Hat Bill sniffed: "I can't help but go to the Church of Tranquility, Father Albert is a good person, Sister Sister Nun is also very gentle, I listened to his lectures, I feel much better, and I no longer have the illusion of being stared at all the time." ”

When his story was finished, Ai Ai looked at Zhou Jinru and the food.

"Nice story, I suspect now that you're a hired evangelist for the Church of Tranquility, because I want to go there too."

Zhou Jinru took out a loaf of bread and handed it to Bill the hat, he kept his promise and exchanged the story for food, which attracted the attention of several other children, who rushed to tell their stories, some were just folklore, and some may be misinformation, but Zhou Jinru was not stingy, and after distributing the last piece of doughnut in his hand, he stood up and patted his clothes: "Children, thank you for your story, I feel very happy, goodbye." ”

The gentleman with his cane pushed open the door of the workshop, and under the gaze of several eyes, he stepped into the crowd and quickly disappeared.

"Mingyuexin, what do you think of those stories?"

"Doctor, I'm just a subsystem and can't analyze these stories, but from the children's descriptions, it seems that Lentinium has members of the Deep Sea Council lurking."

Zhou Jinru did not deny it: "I think it is possible, a young lady, a painter, likes to paint some weird paintings, if she is not ready to take up arms to make changes, I think it is very likely to be one of our operators." ”

"Doctor, do you mean Miss Deep Sea?"

Zhou Jinru wore a top hat, went upstream, and said indifferently: "It is very likely that the ghost shark disappeared suddenly, and Scati went to chase her, and then disappeared, which caused a lot of commotion among the operators of Rhode Island, because the state of the ghost shark is extremely unstable, and she does not even have the ability to act, how can she disappear from the closely monitored Rhode Island?" I suspect someone did it. ”

It's not uncommon for Rhode Island to have spies from other countries, and it's the key for everyone to maintain peaceful coexistence, otherwise why did Lord Wei of Longmen stuff so many people in?

There are also Lateran, Syracuse, Victoria......

Rhode Island is full of talent on the one hand, and on the other hand, which country has not planted eyeliner?

It can only be said that Kelsey is strong, and unconsciously makes them dare not make trouble.

"The Doctor suspects that the Deep Sea Operatives are an internal agent of the Deep Sea Council?"

Zhou Jinru shook his head and said: "I didn't say that, the Deep Sea Council is good at mind control and biological modification technology, the problem of the ghost shark is in front of us, it is very clear in the medical file, there is a liquid source stone in her body, and it has even destroyed the nerves to endanger her life, resulting in an unstable mental state, according to the several events I have experienced before, it can be determined that they have both physical and mental interference and control technology." ”

It's just that these techniques don't work for him.

The rigid shield and mountain skill immunity to mind control gave him a layer of iron turtle shell, and others couldn't fight it if they wanted to, and they couldn't control it if they wanted to.

"Did you write down all those stories?"

Mingyuexin made a gesture of completion: "All of them have been entered into the database, and they can be accessed at any time, and when I return to the real world, I will compare them with similar information in the Rhode Island database." ”

Knowing that Victoria has all kinds of magical events, Zhou Jinru also wants to find some clues from those stories, but unfortunately he doesn't have time to perform the operation yet.

He walked for a while and finally came to the end of the marching crowd, only a few steps away from the Western Region.

Once encountering an unexpected situation, his means of transportation is his legs, fortunately, he usually exercises, and his overall quality has improved a lot compared to before the crossing, and he has walked such a long way, and his physical strength is well preserved, and he does not need to find a place to rest for the time being.

"Doctor, the Church of Tranquility is located in the Belgravia district, you have to walk a little further, if possible, it is recommended that you choose to take a car, that place should be familiar to you."

"Yes, I was here a while ago."

Belgravia is the upper-class residential area of Lentinium, and what Bright Moon is talking about is that Silver Gray invited him to meet him at the nearby Twilight Bar.

Zhou Jinru found an open-top carriage halfway through, where the number of single-seater carriages was not many, but it was not uncommon, and it seemed that the nobles and wealthy here were in demand for it, and the reason for the small number may be the cold weather in winter.

"We're going to walk through Chester Square, past the door of the Speaker of the Victorian Parliament, which is full of mansions of nobles belonging to one of the most powerful people in Victoria."

Actually, there are still some people who are not here.

Zhou Jinru raised his head and looked at the sky, there was nothing in the sky above Lentinium except thick clouds, and what he thought in his heart was the city in the sky that he saw in reality, and the little Lentinium floating above the moving city.

"Before the advent of the mobile city, little Lentinium did not have the conditions to take off, and even in reality, Victoria still knew very little about it."

It wasn't long before the carriage stopped on the side of an open road, and there were no carriages waiting for guests nearby, and there were very few people even on foot.

Zhou Jinru looked at the quiet church in the distance, it was so plain, without luxurious decorations, and there were not many security personnel, it was located in the corner of the Western Region, it was almost difficult to find its existence if it was not deliberately searched.

Standing outside the church, Zhou Jinru's inner doubts became even stronger, and he wondered why the heroine and her companions were allowed to enter here two years ago, since the Western Region was a gathering place for nobles and the rich.

He climbed the stairs and stretched out his hand to push open the hidden door of the church, and a beam of light shone in from the outside, illuminating the church little by little with his steps, and the people sitting on the prayer benches listened quietly to the priest on the pulpit explaining the scriptures.

"The Lord said, The light came with him."