Volume II: Steam Rhapsody 1882 Chapter 34: The Power Machine
A few days later, Francis woke up at half past nine on Monday morning, and the first thing he did was to get rid of little Elsa who jumped out of bed to play with him.
Since the beginning of this week, Francis has become an official member of the Golden Dawn, and no longer has to be a wild hunter to earn riel or blindly search for blueprints.
In other words, Francis has officially stepped into the world of truly extraordinary power as an ordinary person.
Picking up Aisha and putting her back on the ground, she walked to the large table on the first floor and grabbed a few sandwiches, nibbling on them as she walked straight to the Moon House.
Mei was now sitting at the workbench with glasses on, counting the rewards that Francis had brought back, and at the other end of the workbench were some complicated alchemy instruments and many kinds of potions and potions. During the inventory, Mei had to take a look at it from time to time. This is to make a stock of enhancement potions for Francis's pockets, and when he saw Francis's sleepy eyes, he couldn't help but smile and educate; "It's not good to be so lazy on the first day of being an ordinary person."
Ordinary people are just a relative joke, and if she could, May hoped that everyone in this mansion would be so lazy all the time.
After counting the remuneration, excluding the expenses, Francis brought back a total of five hundred and thirty-one Jinruier, this number Mei was quite pleasantly surprised, and she was mentally prepared for Francis to lose half of it.
Buying potions, potions, and sword oil costs a hundred kiloel, and Mei uses a long iron ruler to accurately set aside the roughly corresponding number of kireel, repeating each one.
The purchase of alchemy instruments owed a loan of fifty gold riel to the Welsh merchant.
The building maintenance and renovation of the mansion was allocated another fifty gold riel.
The monster who escaped from the forbidden forest of the mansion owed a hundred gold riel for hurting people's lives, and many miscellaneous items such as food, etc., totaling eleven gold riel, of which the food cost for half a year was actually only half a gold riel, and the majority was related to extraordinary items.
With two hundred and twenty gold reels left, this errand can be said to be very fruitful, not only solving the embarrassing situation of the Francis family, but also allowing them to spend a few festivals with dignity.
After hearing the joke that Fang Caimei said, Francis said that he really needed to rest like this, and a high-quality sleep can make people re-energized, which is very important for Francis's requirements for mental stability.
Turning over the other coats that May had knitted for him from the moon house—all of them were black, and when he rummaged through them, he found them all the same, and Francis simply found one to put on.
At the same time, May saw news about the new king of Thebea in a highly-breaking monthly newspaper with Francis's name appearing.
Although May was present at the time, she did not know about the substantive transition of royal power, and only regarded it as fake news in the newspaper for the sake of attracting people's attention.
"Don't be so swaggering, beware of someone staring at the Moon House, you see you're in the newspaper."
Francis turned around, picked up the newspaper and began to read it, and after a moment of silence returned it to May, and said lightly; "yes, fake news."
With the Black Sword and the twin-shot Pfister musket found, Francis is ready to head out for the city of Wales.
Because according to the information left by the first Shadow Meeting, Alice is now Francis's liaison superior, in other words, Francis's current job is to go to Alice's Dream Shop in Wales to get information, or do some errand that he thinks is appropriate.
At present, there is a shortage of manpower in Wales, and only Alice is in charge of this area in Golden Dawn. Now that Francis has come, he has doubled the number.
As for the salary, Alice gave an offer of five hundred silver riel a month for a full-time employee in the Dream Shop, and Francis's extra errand income went all to him. To be sure, the pay was very generous, and Francis did a good job of doing it at the beginning.
With a special hot drink made by May, flipping the Infinity Door, Francis walks out the inner door of Alice's Dream Shop.
Looking around the shop and seeing no one in the store except for some phantom bubbles floating up from the potted plants of the strange plants that Alice had planted, Francis found a seat and sat down to drink a hot drink, staring at the strange open book in the display case.
On the two that can be seen, there are some ancient symbols that Francis had seen on the mural of silence.
Sure enough, this kind of professional thing is almost impossible to come into contact with without touching the Golden Dawn and joining the church.
Being a free man would have left Francis at a loss, but Francis is now considered a 'professional'.
"It's hard not to give you a raise, Mr. Francis, so early and so good."
Hearing it before anyone else heard it, Alice made a joke weakly, and walked through the illusion with a resentful expression, her face stained with a lot of black engine oil, and at the same time dragged a huge steel machine like a steam engine behind her, and walked in tiredly.
The otherwise serious atmosphere was much lighter because of Alice's funny appearance, Alice wiped the sweat from her forehead and said to Francis; "It was dismantled from the church's steamboat, this is the power engine, you can see if you can find anything else besides fixing it."
This ship engine power core should belong to a church fleet that was 'accidentally wrecked' a few days ago, and the members of Golden Dawn found out and took the opportunity to dismantle it and steal it.
When they remembered how to deal with this problem, the people of Golden Dawn remembered that a few days ago there was a newcomer named Francis, the only mechanic among them all, so a telephone hotline called Alice to move the power machine back.
As for why it was dismantled and why the power machine was stolen, they did not say.
In addition, how to help Alice move back to Wales, they don't care, let Alice figure out how to go by herself.
The reason is that even though youth is permanent, Alice is an old woman in her two hundreds, and she is the only one in charge of Welsh, so Alice can move out by herself.
Ignoring Alice, who had been talking about the cause and effect, Francis crouched in front of the power machine and observed, touching here and there with his hands from time to time.
Then interrupted Alice, and said calmly; "It doesn't seem complicated, you can leave it to me."
"Thank God, thank earth, thank you for having you."
Alice, after saying the strange proverb of thanksgiving, gestured to find a seat to rest for a while, but Francis said a question; "It's just that we have to move back to the Messiah."
Alice pretended not to understand the meaning of this sentence, and her face was flustered, and her tone trembled and she laughed dryly; "Haha, yes, I know your last name is Messiah..."
Francis tilted his head, "They said, Alice has to move this." ”
So later, the first time May and Alice met was to find that Francis had Alice, who was covered in black engine oil, dragging a huge power engine to the Messiah alone.