Chapter 1: The Return of the World
"The city has changed a lot more than I imagined......"
Crane looked at Beckland in front of him and slowly stepped down from the private boat provided by the Aurora Company.
Hugh, dressed in black underwear and dressed like a bodyguard, followed behind Klein - Hugh seemed quite dedicated, even though she knew that the "World" in front of her was completely unprotected, and still stood diligently behind the "World" Mister.
Now Klein looks like Dawn Dantès. However, unlike the original world line, he lacks some traces of perennial wind and sun exposure in the Southern Continent, his skin is closer to the local Rune, and he is wearing an elegant white suit.
There was a hint of white in his hair, but his whole body shone brightly. Although he is already in his forties, he feels like a gentleman in the prime of life who is less than forty years old and only about thirty-five years old.
On his chest hangs a cross pendant made of gold and silver, with a badge of the same color on the left center.
The two dazzling ornaments reflected a little in the sun, causing those around to glance twice at the middle-aged gentleman's position, a badge that represented the faith of the Creator.
And among Beckland, there are not too many people who believe in the "Creator".
In the current Beckland, although the Storm and Night Church has relaxed the control of the Aurora Church, formerly known as the Aurora Society, the problems left over from the past and the strength of the Storm Church still lead to the problem that the Aurora Church has few followers in Beckland.
The current Aurora Church in Beckland is stronger than the "Mother Earth God Church" and weaker than the "Steam Church".
And in Klein's eyes, Beckland's overall change is quite large.
In Bakeland, the previous catastrophe had nearly destroyed all of Bakeland's urban planning, and this gave Tudor the opportunity to replan the whole of Bakeland as he wished.
The establishment of a mausoleum belonging to the Black Emperor is not a good thing, Russell Gustav has been resurrected, and the Black Emperor's mausoleum here is currently unusable.
And Alista Tudor, who is now in a semi-crazy state, also wants to prevent other gods from attacking here with the help of ordinary people's armies.
In the following period, Tudor will be drawn by Russell and disappear from his body as soon as the "Prince of the Order" trait will be taken by Russell, and at that time, Arista Tudor will be able to escape his madness and become a complete "Red Priest".
Moreover, as a "hunter" of sequence zero, Arista Tudor also took this opportunity to set up a lot of traps in Bakeland for high-sequence extraordinary people and even true gods, and by the way, he also added some of his own unique war aesthetics to it.
The current Beckland is directly divided into three floors, seven areas. The central layer is Tudor, the royal palace of the House of Augustus; In the second floor, the "New Queens" is now established for the old nobles.
The "New Queens" that has now been established occupies about 50 percent of the space on the second floor, and the other two areas divide the remaining half equally.
The other two districts were the "Commercial District" for merchants without nobility, and the "New Siston" for the new aristocracy, with the former being a complete new district, and the latter being derived from the original "Hilston District".
On the third floor, outside of the second floor, there was no noble mansion, and after Tudor and George III merged and took power alone, it became a terrible machine to supply him with war materials.
As on the second floor, half of the area was given housing for the production and rest of the company's employees, and the remaining half was for all the people of the East End at the time, as well as the "new residents" who had come to Backerland from out of town to work.
And the outer ring on the third floor is also the last area.
Bordering the area responsible for production and other company employees is the current light industrial area of Beckland, which stretches outward, along the railroad and outward.
On the other hand, it belongs to those that are recognized as heavy industries that cause serious damage to the human body and environmental pollution. This heavy industrial area is adjacent to the "industrial zone" that evolved from the original eastern zone, which is spliced together like a cog on the boundary of the industrial zone.
Among these layers, the first layer is the palace area, and the first of them are all close associates of Arista Tudot, ordinary people and extraordinary people who have been polluted by the breath of the Blood Emperor. The second level is a mixture of military and church personnel, and the third level is more extraordinary people in the church.
This may seem like a compromise, but Tudor has relaxed the building conditions on the third floor, leaving it uncontrolled, allowing ordinary people who have no place to live to use their wits to dig out a dangerous urban area underneath that is uncontrolled and could collapse at any time.
And under Tudor's guidance, the people here did exactly that, and in a matter of a few months, they were able to take shape in the underground "industrial zone", limited by the high price of housing.
Instead, after arriving at the factory area outside, it was Beckland's army and police who took the lead.
Crane held a map of Beckland in his hand, paused slightly to look at the simple layout, and handed it to Hugh, who was acting as a bodyguard for the identity of "Dawn Dantès" by his side.
He tapped the ground with the cane in his hand, calculated the money on his body, and reluctantly sat on the newly built electric track in the city, and walked towards the "business district" on the second floor.
It's just that what Klein didn't expect was that there was a security system very similar to that on Earth, and in the previous Beckland, there was no doubt that such a system did not exist.
This made Klein wonder if this "electric train" was also something that Gao Wei did.
But no matter what, your security system can't detect extraordinary items...... Did you move the subway here?
Before entering the security check of the train, Klein went to the bathroom in the station very cautiously, and used the method of "pendulum divination" to divinate whether his next behavior would cause any bad results for him.
After receiving a negative answer, Klein walked into the train and bought a ticket.
Crane, who was sitting on a train that was quite close to the shape of the earth on the outside, and looked calm in the first-class carriage.
What a look...... Klein gently squeezed the wallet in his arms with his own hand, and his expression was a little sad.
Lao Gao, is it the ticket price set by you bastard?
This time it cost a pound......
Klein touched the savings he had saved before, and felt a little pain inexplicably.
Although he had a high bounty when he was a pirate king at sea, he did not have enough savings.
One is that he gave most of this savings to his crew, and the other reason is that the charms and extraordinary items that he had carried with him and forged with most of his money were destroyed by Leodro at the stroke of God's punishment.
And the 20,000 gold pounds promised by Miss Justice have not yet arrived, and now the money accumulated on him is only a little more than 30,000. He also had to pay 10,000 gold pounds as a reward for his messenger Renette's action at that time.
Because of Klein's clear goals, and his status as the Aurora Company, he took the train directly to the "Metropolitan Family Servants Association", which is now located in the business district on the second floor, to hire a butler to organize a team of servants for himself.
That's right, this is the first appearance of "Dwayne Dantès" in Beckland, and I have the secret of the goddess in me, and my existence will not be discovered by Amon and Adam who may exist here for the time being.
Crane admonished himself, pressing his hand on the palm he was holding. He is now a "sophist" but does not have a Transcendent Secret Puppet, the only thing he can use is the secret puppet of those cockroaches and insects controlled with the help of the spirit thread.
Counting the tasks given to me by the goddess and the creator, well, this time I came to Beckland not only to investigate the current blood emperor George Augustus, but also to find out what Gao Wei was doing.
And is he, as the true Creator thinks, corrupted by essentia and turned into an outer god, or a personification of essentia......
Crane's heart grew heavier at the thought of this, and he sighed, and walked out of the station and into the open door of the "Metropolitan Helping Family Servants Society".
He smiled kindly. Seeing a lady with her head down and arranging her clothes, he walked up to the reception desk and spoke in a gentle, thick voice.
"Good morning, ma'am."
Klein saw the lady look up suddenly, her face flushed slightly.
The moment he saw the lady look up, Klein couldn't help but subconsciously predict her next sentence in his heart:
How can I help you? What do you call it? The tone will be more nervous, huh...... Even a little shy?
While there was a lot of analyzed information flashing in his head, Klein heard the receptionist in front of him say:
"Sir, is there anything I can help you? Ah, by the way, what shall I call you? ”
And so it was...... After becoming a "sophist", the psychological knowledge I learned before, coupled with the "sophist's" ability to observe the micro-expressions of human beings, can basically predict what the ordinary person I talk to will say next.
Of course, I can also manipulate them indirectly through my movements, my "magic tricks" and "stage skills", guiding them to achieve what I want to do - it's similar to manipulating secret puppets.
This ability looks very much like an "audience", but in fact it is not an extraordinary ability that belongs to me, but through the combination of ability and ability, it causes a qualitative change, coupled with the influence of divinity, which finally makes me feel this way-
Sure enough, demigods are called "the dividing point between man and god" for a reason.
Klein was in a trance for a moment, then smiled mildly, and reacted reciprocatingly:
"My name is Daun Dantès and I would like to hire a housekeeper...... Well, of course, the better kind of housekeeper. ”
“…… Mr. Dantès, wait a minute. ”
The staff member paused slightly, and led Klein to the reception area, asking him to sit down on the fabric couch for a moment. He looked at the staff member and touched his face, as if he had forgotten something, and added:
"Mr. Dantès, what kind of butler do you need?"
Klein, who had been prepared for a long time, naturally answered fluently and put forward his own requirements.
He felt the kindness that the beautiful lady in front of him had been transmitting, and Crane couldn't help but let himself enter a state of detachment, as if he was only controlling the secret puppet of "Dawn Dantès" - although it was he who actually played "Dawn Dantès".
You can't indulge in this kind of cosplay...... Hehe, although it is tempting to be sought after by a beautiful girl like this, it is not "me"......
Hugh stood quietly behind Klein, not saying a word, like a dutiful bodyguard.
After listening to the female employee Belin, who had just introduced herself, said that several housekeepers who met Klein's requirements, Klein was silent for a moment.
"So, Mr. Dantès, which one would you like to choose?"
"Well, let the three of them ...... tomorrow morning."
Klein steers the play to a close according to the script that has just been typed. As a former "puppet master", Klein is quite familiar with this feeling, this feeling of having everything under his control.
After making his choice, Crane paid a deposit of three pounds and politely drank two sips of black tea before getting up to say goodbye, while the beautiful female employee kept Crane out the door and watched him board the carriage.
Mr. Dantès is very charming, and his temperament and gentlemanly style cannot be cultivated in a moment......
But he turned out to be a believer in the Creator? It's a rare sight in Beckland.
"He doesn't look like those obnoxious Intis, though." Belin walked in the direction she had come, returned to her place, sighed, and continued to do her job.
Belin thought casually as she looked up at the window. After a while, she noticed that two young men with monocles who seemed to look very similar, but dressed very differently, gathered together and seemed to be saying something.
Subsequently, the conversation turned into an argument.
Could it be that these are twins? I don't know what contradictions there are between them...... Behring shook his head slightly, putting his thoughts behind him.
A chapter today, starting to add more tomorrow~
(End of chapter)