"It doesn't matter." The high-dimensional down-seeker calmly replied, "We are 'high-dimensional down-looking', this is a matter of course. ”

"This has been the case since we crossed into this world."

……

Seeing Gao Wei and Mr. Z walking out of the door, Klein prepared to hunt Ambassador Indis, quietly changed into clothes that were easy to move around, and slipped out in the night.

Klein still vaguely felt something wrong with Gao Wei and Aurora's attitude in Beckland, and was ready to investigate it alone. Coincidentally, not only Mr. Z but also Gao Wei have left their side today, and now is a good time to secretly investigate the true purpose of the Aurora Society.

Previously, in the plans about the "Witch Sect" and the "Aurora Society" that Klein checked in the internal materials of the Aurora Society, Klein found a key node in the content of the plan - in the plan of the Witch Sect, the most critical problem is that the object of their attack seems to be in the "East End" of Beckland.

Crane, who didn't know much about Beckland, still didn't understand what "Eastside" meant, so Crane was visibly puzzled about the purpose of the Aurora Society.

Dressed in pitch-black night clothes, Crane jumped off the walls of the Aurora Manor like a cat. He landed on the mud that was still a little damp because of the rain before, and gave full play to the extraordinary ability of the "clown", and his body jumped out a little lightly.

After a battle and a simple funeral for the sacrificial "Bishop of the Rose", the deepest night had passed a little. The sky began to glow slightly, and the pale white and yellowish mist filled the surroundings, and the figures of people coming and going were blurry, and the cold of the early morning soaked into the clothes.

"It's only three or four o'clock in the morning, and there are already so many people on the street......" Crane muttered, walking against the wall at full speed. As he walked, he quietly surveyed the pedestrians in front of him.

Klein was wearing a night suit, but it was actually just a black, exercise-friendly black outfit. Dressed like this, the clothes that made Crane look old but not torn were not remarkable, and as a result, the numb pedestrians around him did not hide from Crane's seemingly snooping eyes.

Because in those dark alleys, more and more unscrupulous peeping eyes are looking at the pockets of these pedestrians. They just covered their pockets and continued to hurry forward.

But looking at it, Klein felt frightened. The scene in front of me was a bit shocking, the streets were now full of workers in shabby clothes, and some of them were wearing some of the clothes on their thin bodies.

Their faces were dull and numb in the darkness of the night, as dull and terrifying as zombies in a horror movie. Most of them had a look of hunger on their faces, and some of them walked and walked, when suddenly their bodies stopped and fell directly to the ground.

Most of the people behind those who fell directly paused in their footsteps and stepped straight over. Some of them had a glint in their eyes and leaned down to search for the contents of the corpses. Klein suddenly felt a little unbearable in his heart, but he didn't bother and continued to walk forward.

As he walked, he saw a middle-aged and elderly man in his forties and fifties, with gray temples and a thick jacket, who was trembling and trembling and pulling out a cigarette and a box of matches with half a box left in his inner pocket.

The middle-aged man lightly lit his cigarette and took a deep puff of it. The cigarette in his hand burned a little, and the smoke came back from his nose, refreshing his tired mind a little. But at this moment, a young man suddenly came out of his blind spot and hit him hard.

The man exclaimed, and the things on his body spilled all over the ground, and the young man wanted to grab a scattered thing on the ground and run, but a strong hand grabbed his wrist in time.

"Ahh

The young man exclaimed and gave Crane a vicious look. When he found that the person who grabbed him was much stronger than him, he quickly shook off Klein's hand and ran towards the alley.

Crane exhaled deeply, and suddenly felt a little uncomfortable in his heart. The middle-aged and elderly man stood up a little embarrassed, and thanked Klein in front of him:

"Thank you, thank you. If it weren't for you, I'm afraid my food would have been snatched away, and if I hadn't eaten today, I guess I wouldn't have been able to find a job in the future! ”

The man wanted to hold Klein's hand, but when he saw that his dirt-covered hand and Crane's clean hand were about to touch, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and withdrew his hand a little embarrassed: "I'm sorry, sir......"

He was a little worried that the man in front of him, who was dressed in old clothes but was obviously much better off financially than them, would find him a little offended.

"It's okay." Klein sighed, looking at this man who could already be regarded as an old man because of his old face, his heart suddenly touched a little: "Actually, I am a university professor in advance, and I am here to secretly investigate the situation in the East End of Beckland - this is related to my topic. Why don't you sit in a café on the side and tell me about the East End? ”

It is said to be a café, but in fact this is a subtle statement of the Rune people. In more detail, it's a restaurant. But it's not just coffee, it's also a wide variety of food, and it's one of the cheapest restaurants in Beckland's East End.

The tables and chairs here are quite greasy, and you can feel the cheap smell at a glance. This middle-aged and elderly man was originally a little worried that the atmosphere here would make the "professor" in front of him feel uncomfortable, so he was still thinking about the expression of this person in front of him who was obviously not of the same class as them.

When he saw that Crane's face unconsciously softened, revealing some familiarity with the environment of the café here, the worry in his heart suddenly disappeared - he was able to hang out in the East End of Beckland for such a long time, and naturally he had developed some skills to observe words and colors.

The middle-aged man scratched his throat to hide his squirming Adam's apple.

Crane motioned for him to sit down, and went to the place where he ordered, and asked for two large cups of tea, a plate of lamb stewed with tender peas, two loaves of bread, two pieces of toast, a portion of butter, and a serving of artificial cream, for a total of 17.5 pence.

"You eat first, and when you're full, you can talk to me about the East Side in detail." Klein had seen the breakfast that the middle-aged man had picked up on the ground, it was just a coarse black bread - I am afraid that this kind of food would not be able to fill the stomach of an adult.

Crane felt some pity inexplicably.

He was afraid that the poor man in front of him would not accept it, and he deliberately emphasized: "You may have a long time sitting here today and tell me about the East End in detail, so please be sure to lift your spirits." This survey is very important to my report. ”

The middle-aged and elderly man wiped his eyes and said with a slight choked voice:

“…… You are really a kind person. ”

"If you've been hungry for a long time, don't eat too quickly." Klein admonished.

"I know, I have an old fellow who died like this......"

The middle-aged man muttered to himself, but at Crane's reminder, he tried to slow down his eating, and every now and then took a sip of tea. After a while, he finally eliminated the food in front of him, and unconsciously hiccuped comfortably.

"It's been a long time since I've eaten this full." The middle-aged and elderly man said comfortably: "Mr. Professor, please ask the questions you want, I will try my best to answer the questions I can." ”

"I understand." Crane nodded, took a pen and paper from his belongings, and prepared to start writing, "First question, sir, what's your name?" Well...... You don't look like the kind of homeless person you've been wandering all the time. ”

"My name is Kohler, you can call me Kohler Sr." The man who called himself Old Kohler smiled a little bitterly: "Mr. Professor, you may not know much about this place, a large part of the people here are not willing to become homeless - maybe my statement is a little strange, but I mean that the vast majority, well, the vast majority of people have stable jobs in the first place. ”

"It's unlucky, I was a decent worker, I had a wife, two lovely children, a boy and a girl."

"But a few years ago, a contagious disease took them away, and I was hospitalized for a long time, I lost my job, I lost my wealth, I lost my family, and since then, I have often been unable to find a job, no money to rent, no money to eat, and I have to wander in different streets and certain parks, which makes me very weak and makes it more difficult to find a job......"

There is a sadness in Old Kohler's words, but there is also nostalgia for the past and those sweet memories: "Like me, most of the homeless people here are like me, and have to wander outside because they have lost their jobs. Once you start wandering, you can't find a job; If you can't find a job, you can only continue to wander......"

"In this vicious circle, your body becomes bad. And for those young women, losing their jobs means becoming street girls. ”

"Among the street girls in the East End, you can see the homeless women, the unemployed women and maids, and sometimes even some down-and-out aristocratic ladies...... Haha, it's only at times like this that I can feel that they are no different from us. ”

He smiled a little sadly: "But there seems to be less of this kind of situation recently, since a few factories opened by nobles have joined an organization called the 'Federation of Industry and Commerce', the treatment of workers who can enter there is slightly better." Even if they get sick, they will be subsidized a little bit after that, and they will be able to get new jobs after that. At least, at least I won't be able to find a long-term stable job like I did......"

"It's just that there seem to be some factories in this alliance that are even more excessive, and the workers who go there don't know where they're going. Therefore, I don't dare to rush to join the factories in these alliances. Old Kohler smiled bitterly:

"Even if I'm living a hard life now, I'm at least alive now. It's better to be alive than anything, and with us, missing is no different from dying. ”

At least alive...... Klein suddenly felt a stagnation in his heart, and his eyes suddenly became a little sour. He looked at the window in front of him in some silence, and saw faces with obvious hunger. Some are quite sober, these are residents of the East End, and some are numb and tired not like humans, these are vagabonds.

The line between the two is not clear, and the former can be transformed into the latter at any time, just like the old Kohler, like the old Kohler said that those who once had a peaceful life. Under the hurricane of the times, Klein felt that these people were like reeds, easily blown to the ground.

And what old Kohler said, the name of the so-called "Chamber of Commerce and Industry" Klein had seen in the information of the Aurora Society, and the confidentiality of that information was very high, at least the identity of the Aurora Society's divine envoy could be accessed, and the author of that information was Gaudi Abraham.

Klein speculated that this incident might be something that Gao Wei's "fellow" was trying to promote.

This means ......

Klein's eyes flashed, and he began to think about the "disappearance of workers."

Why did these people disappear? Is this the Aurora Society's instigation, or is someone doing some small actions under the nose of the Aurora Society?

Crane unconsciously banged on the table in front of him and began to think. After a long time, Klein looked back, only to find that the middle-aged and elderly man was asleep, curled up in a chair and asleep.

After a few minutes of silence, Klein went over to wake him up and gave him a copper penny: "This is the cost of the interview." ”

"Okay, okay, thank you, thank you!" The middle-aged and elderly man didn't come back to his senses for a while, and when Klein walked to the door, he raised his voice and said, "I'll go to a cheap hotel to take a shower, get a good night's sleep, and then look for a job." ”

"Okay." Klein's eyes softened a little, "Old Mr. Kohler, the information you gave me today is very useful, and later—well, we can all meet here for the rest of the day, and we can make an appointment to talk about other things about the East End." ”

With a smile on his face, Crane continued to say to old Kohler in front of him, "Of course, I also need you as my guide to take me to investigate the East End. ”

"In return, I can pay you two sules at a time. One part is what you tell you, and the other part is your cost as a guide. ”