Chapter 7: A New Beginning
Under the light of the fireworks, a smile appeared on his face. The table, while not luxurious, gave Klein a rather familiar feel.
It was as if he had returned to the time when he was still in Tingen, and no one had to calculate him with all sorts of strange objects, and he didn't need to worry about being attacked by someone or Amon when he was not paying attention.
Klein knew that his life had changed so much compared to before. But he was still willing to indulge in it now, to indulge in a brief moment of happiness, and to leave here to become the cold, crazy adventurer Gelman Sparrow.
No matter who I play, I'm myself...... Klein, who had played the role of Sherlock Moriarty before, suddenly brightened his heart. He sat down at the table, and his heart was a little more enlightened.
Perhaps, this is one of the rules of the Facelings...... Klein picked up the chopsticks next to him, a small smile on his face.
Ever since Zhou Mingrui came to this world, he has actually been playing someone else, playing a phantom who used to be called Klein Moretti. And if you want to play the "Faceling" perfectly, this rule is essential.
If you think of yourself as someone else in the process of change again and again, or you are obsessed with the person you play who is more perfect than yourself. Then you will eventually lose your anchor to yourself and gradually step into the abyss of losing control.
Therefore, I must always remember who I am, I am Zhou Mingrui and Klein...... Klein secretly warned himself to pay attention to things in his heart, and then looked at the table in front of him.
Just by looking at it, Crane couldn't help but be surprised by the dishes on it. Compared with people in this world, they are more inclined to the style of Chinese cuisine before they crossed over.
Thinking of this touching scene, Klein was a little more moved in his heart. While listening to the sound of fireworks outside the window, Crane looked at Gao Wei in front of him.
"It's an elf-style dish, Klein and I both love it, and I hope you will enjoy it too." With a smile on his face, Gao Wei introduced to the three people in front of him—mainly to Benson and Melissa.
This is so that the siblings Benson and Melissa don't notice Klein's familiarity and nostalgia for these dishes. With that, even if the two of them felt familiar with these dishes, they wouldn't have much of a reaction.
"Gao Wei, can you tell us about these names?" Benson said to Gao Wei in front of him quite easily. For him, he and his sister have now come to the Southern Continent, and Gao Wei has also helped him arrange a house equivalent to a single-family villa.
Although the southern continent is less populated in some places, and the price of houses is far less than that of Rune, this is enough to prove the friendliness of Gao Wei himself.
Of course, Benson knew about his brother's relationship with Gao Wei, and at the same time, he also made up his mind to continue to work well in Gao Wei's company to create more benefits for him.
It's a little tacit understanding between people. The quality of a person is generally linked to his living conditions, and after the basic life is guaranteed, Benson also has the heart to think about other things.
"Absolutely." Gao Wei smiled and looked at the dish in front of him: "This is tomato and brisket soup, Klein told me that when he made this dish for you before, there was no rice here. ”
But even with bread, Klein's previous tomato oxtail soup left a lasting impression on us. That's really delicious. Melissa puffed out her mouth and clumsily tried to pick up some of the rice with the chopsticks in her hand, but in the end she failed.
"Come, Melissa, you can try this." Klein also tried the chopsticks method for his sister several times, and Melissa finally succeeded after many attempts.
Just as she was happily picking up a piece of beef brisket and preparing to put it in her mouth, she found that her brother Klein had already picked up a spoonful of beef with soup and tomato from the spoon next to her, and "snapped" it on top of the rice in her bowl.
This...... Comparing the amount of dishes between the two, Melissa was directly stunned. Then she said to Klein opposite her, with some puff of anger:
"Klein is so cunning!"
"Haha......" Klein smiled a little awkwardly, and quickly quibbled: "This is called being good at using tools, Melissa...... Ahem, you try this, you should like it. ”
Klein's chopsticks point in the direction of a dish of sweet and sour sauce and sprinkled with white sesame seeds, which makes people look quite appetizing. The tenderloin is covered with a sugar shell, but if you look closely, you can see that the golden fat and sweet and sour sauce are mixed together to form a thick layer of sauce.
"Sweet and sour tenderloin, sweet and sour dish, I think you should like it."
"Crane, you don't want to see me again, do you?" Melissa looked at her brother with some suspicion, and she vaguely felt that since Klein became an extraordinary, she had become a little mischievous.
"How can this be?" Crane asked rhetorically with some grievance, and he directly stretched out his chopsticks and sent one of the pieces of the loin reflected in the light into his mouth.
Crane closed his eyes, chewed on it with some enjoyment, and swallowed it. Melissa hesitated slightly, and finally picked it up with her chopsticks, and before she could start eating, she found that her other brother, Benson, was reaching for a fork and sticking a large piece of meat.
"Benson?"
Melissa looked at her other brother in disbelief. Benson also smiled a little awkwardly, and said to his sister:
"Klein is right, I think we still have to be good at using tools. Ahem - I haven't learned how to use this tool yet, so I can only eat the way I'm used to it. ”
"......" Melissa was stunned for a moment, decided not to argue with the two men, and began to continue eating the rice in her bowl.
Looking at the two brothers who "bullied" her on the table in front of her, Melissa suddenly felt that Gao Wei, who was quietly eating "Chinese New Year's Eve Dinner" with chopsticks next to her, was quite pleasant.
……
It's so fragrant.
Melissa sighed as she forked a piece of fish that was placed in an arch next to it.
Klein looked at Gao Wei beside him, and seemed to suddenly remember something, and said two words to Gao Wei beside him. Hearing Klein's words, Gao Wei nodded lightly and snapped his fingers.
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In the dimly lit cabin, waves of water lapped against the hull of the ghost ship. Leonard, who had just sorted his things into categories and put them in his room, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and sat on the bed thinking a little loosely.
What is Klein doing now? Are you looking at charts, or are you thinking about how to avoid pirates?
Listening to the sound of the waves in his ears, Leonard's spirit gradually sank into this darkness. He now remembered the task he had received before leaving, in order to chase down the culprit who had caused direct damage in the Great Smog of Beckland, as well as Ince. Zangwill, he and Klein set out on their way to the sea.
Suddenly, the door in front of him "snapped" open. A shadow twisted in front of him, and a little bit of green flame burned along either side of the narrow hallway, as if to point Leonard in the right direction.
"What is this?" Leonard opened his mouth in a daze, and the door on the opposite side opened, and Mariage and Leonard looked at each other.
"It's—the ship seems to be trying to point us somewhere." Marić said a little gloomily, and he glanced at Leonard beside him: "Aren't you the first mate here?" You should know what exactly this ship is trying to say? ”
"Uh......" Leonard thought for a moment, "let's follow it." ”
"......" Marić was silent for two seconds: "Won't you also set foot on this ship for the first time?" ”
“…… Well. ”
Leonard nodded, "Captain Sparrow brought me here." ”
"Alright......" Marić's voice was muffled, and he looked keenly in front of him, where a wriggling shadow appeared.
"Be careful, I don't know if the ship itself has unusual tendencies - something is dangerous, even if it's something we take advantage of." Marić whispered, ready for battle with Leonard on the side.
Although the ship belonged to the captains of the two of them, he still felt that there might be unknown dangers lurking in it.
However, the expected anomaly did not appear. Against the backdrop of the dark green flames, a wriggling shadow held two floating lunch boxes in his hands and handed them to Leonard and Marich in front of him.
He muttered:
"Chinese New Year's Eve and eat, Chinese New Year's Eve and eat ......"
His intelligence level seems to be very low.
Under the urging of this shadow, the two subconsciously took the lunch box, and saw with a blank face that the wriggling shadow completely disappeared in place. Leonard and Marić looked at each other for a split second, and both of them could see the bewilderment in capital letters in each other's eyes.
“…… I think we can still trust Captain Sparrow. Marić said to Leonard beside him with some seriousness. Leonard also nodded slightly:
"Indeed."
“……”
After saying this, the corridor of the "Lost Country" fell into a long silence. Leonard coughed lightly and said to Marich in front of him:
"This is the end of the matter, let's eat first."
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"Melissa, remember to take care of yourself." Crane touched Melissa's head across from him, and there was a slight tenderness in his eyes. Melissa pursed her lips and said to Klein:
"Klein, I'll live well in the Southern Continent. Gao Wei told me that I might be able to become a teacher here. Later, Miskatonic University will also open a charitable branch here, where I can teach general education courses. ”
"The Southern Continent may be in some danger."
Klein solemnly instructed his sister: "Don't force yourself when you encounter danger, you must run away in time, and don't put yourself in danger." Some extraordinaries can remotely curse you based on something on your body, or the blood you have left, and you and Benson must be careful not to leave too many traces. ”
"I see, Crane." Melissa raised her head and looked at her brother: "I am now the 'Ranger' of Sequence Eight, and my physical strength is much better than before, and I will no longer be unable to run like before." ”
"That's a good thing, but you also have to be careful about your extraordinary characteristics. Remember, you're just playing - there's madness in the potion. When Klein said this, he suddenly sighed: "It's a pity that this world still belongs to the extraordinary in the end, and if it doesn't have strong strength, it may still be affected......"
Before, in the Great Smog of Beckland, those innocent people who died one by one made Klein's heart extremely shaken. They didn't do anything wrong, and they didn't take the initiative to provoke those terrible opponents, but they just died, dead worthless, dead no one cared about.
For those who cared for them died almost equally, and the gods at the center of the storm would not bother with the mediocre anchor. In Beckland, the "people" who can empathize with them died almost without resistance in that disaster.
Those could be their family members, they could be their friends.
"I know." Melissa lifted her toes and looked into Klein's eyes: "Crane, I know you have a lot of talent on the Extraordinary Path, but don't feel burdened by your talent. For us, the most important thing is that you can live well and be able to live well. ”
"I know."
The corners of Klein's mouth turned up slightly, he looked at his sister and touched his head quite gently: "It's the same for me, Melissa." ”
Why doesn't he want to live the life of an ordinary person? But he knew that the end was near, and if he didn't improve the sequence, who could he rely on to help them resist the terrible end? Klein knew that the purpose of his power was to be able to survive himself and his significant others in the apocalypse.
I carried that "gray fog", and naturally took on the fate of that gray fog. Amon will hunt him down, and those that will cause the apocalypse will become hostile to him—under the memory seal of the "Source Castle", this is the limit of Klein's knowledge of the stars.
He had no choice, he had to give himself enough strength to resist under Amon's hunt before he found him, and to subdue Ince Zangwill to the Night Church before he could make a bigger plan.
Crane stood up and walked in the direction he had come. As he walked, the expression on his face became even colder, and as the muscles on his face squirmed, Klein turned into "Gelman. Sparrow".
There is also a chapter in the evening, ask for tickets~
(End of chapter)