Chapter 20 Trains
Seeing Alfred looking, Klein smiled back, nodded lightly, and said:
"I suddenly felt a little dangerous. ”
With that, he calmly turned around and walked to the carriage that Haggis was referring to.
"Dangerous ......," Alfred repeated in a low voice, looking around warily, but finding nothing unusual.
He slowed down, kept an eye on his surroundings, and returned unusually cautiously to the small three-story building not far away.
Pagani glanced at the solemn Alfred and asked with a little confusion:
"Is something wrong?"
He was a short distance away from the scene of the arms deal, and he could not hear the conversation clearly.
Alfred walked to the window, looked down at the horse team that had finished carrying the munitions and was about to leave, and said thoughtfully:
Dawn Dantès left suddenly, saying that he had a premonition of danger. ”
"Danger?" Pagani looked back and forth warily, but he could not detect anything wrong until Mesanyes's men had moved away from the area and disappeared into the darkness.
He immediately laughed:
"Haha, Alfred, you're too sensitive, I think it's purely Dawn Dantès who is timid and doesn't want to stay here too long!"
Alfred retracted his gaze, frowned slightly, and said:
"Maybe. ”
............
After returning to the rented hotel, Klein asked Enzo, the "winner" who had become a mixed-race young man, to open the box in his hand and take out the gold bars and coins one by one, and the points were clear.
There are a total of 30,000 rune gold pounds worth of goods here!
"Fortunately, the previous agreement with Miss Courier is equal to 10,000 rune gold coins, and there is no need to exchange it for another ......" Crane, who sat leisurely in an easy chair, drank a sweet and sour "Gwadar" drink while "supervising" the secret puppet's work.
When Enzo had finished dividing the belongings, he took out the adventurer's harmonica, brought it to his lips, and blew it.
Renette Tinicole, carrying four blonde red-eyed heads, stepped out of the void as if she had been nearby.
Her eight eyes rolled at the same time, looking at the pile of gold coins and bars that had been separated.
After a few seconds, Renette Tinicol's four heads said in turn:
"Very good ......", "...... later", "task ......", "markup......"
...... Where is the logic behind this? I paid the pay so quickly and in such a timely manner, why should I increase the price of the task in the future? Klein was stunned for a second, then sat up straight and asked:
"What?"
Renette Tinicole's four blonde red-eyed heads nodded very seriously:
"Task ......", "Pricing ......", "Depends on ......", "You ......", "Earn ......", "......", "Ability......"
And so it goes...... Klein opened his mouth, but he couldn't refute it, after all, this kind of thing is unilaterally decided by the helper, and besides, with his promotion to Sequence 4 and becoming a demigod, the tasks that need the help of Miss Courier in the future are estimated to become more and more difficult and dangerous, and the price increase seems to be a matter of course.
When Renette Tinnicol swallowed the pile of gold coins and bars and disappeared into the room, Crane gathered his thoughts and began to calculate his current possessions:
"There was a lot of money left over for this time, with 17,275 pounds of money and 65 gold coins left...... The pile of gold bars was worth £25,000...... The property totaling more than 40,000 pounds is not small in the entire kingdom of Rune, and it can be used to buy manors and fields...... Arms trading is really profitable......"
- Renette Tinicol needs gold coins first, so the rest are gold bars.
After standing up and getting the gold bars above the gray mist, Crane walked to the window and looked north.
The matter here is tentatively over, and he will next return to Beckland.
After staring at the sky for a while, Klein suddenly sighed silently:
"Bakerland ......"
............
North District, Beckland Technical University.
Audrey is walking around the campus with several members of the Rune Charity Scholarship Fund.
She was dressed in a simple long light green dress, with a white unadorned belt around her waist, her long blond hair tufted around a slightly playful gauze hat with ribbon flowers, and no ornaments on her body, except for a silver bracelet on her left wrist, which looked no different from a schoolgirl whose family conditions could only be called moderate.
- Having been to a public elementary school on the edge of the East End and a technical school in the Beckland Bridge area, she has long understood what kind of clothes to wear, unlike many aristocrats who treat charity as a social occasion.
With her clear green eyes rolling slightly, Audrey smiled faintly and carefully observed the situation of the students.
These days are the days when the Beckland Technical University issues the admission letter and the new class of students come to register.
The latter was supposed to take place at the end of August and the beginning of September, but the Beckland Technical University is a new school, and the entrance exams are later than other universities, and the results are also available, which means that the students who applied for them are likely to have taken the exams at other universities and have even been admitted, so they will register in advance to verify the number of people and determine how much more needs to be filled.
For this reason, Audrey and the staff of the Rune Charity Scholarship Fund came here to cooperate with the first batch of approved applicants to go through the admission procedures.
As far as she could see, she found that the faces of the students on this campus were full of brilliance, their demeanor was evident in confidence, and their words and deeds were full of indescribable vitality, as if they were full of yearning for the future and could see the light.
And this is very different from Audrey's experience in several public elementary schools, where students are either rude and boisterous or silent and gloomy, and what they all have in common is that they are often confused, cowering when confronted with outsiders with status, their eyes are dark, and they lack the high-spiritedness of teenagers.
"I really hope that those children have the opportunity to receive higher education, and they can work hard for a better future like the students here......" Audrey sighed silently, and her eyes swept over the pair of men and women who should be brothers and sisters next to her.
The elder brother had apparently entered the society and had begun to work, wearing a silk top hat and a thin black suit, and he looked about thirty years old, with the air of a government employee.
Out of nowhere, he borrowed an older camera, placed it on a stand, and motioned for his sister to move her body and adjust her posture while looking for the best angle.
My sister looked like she was seventeen or eighteen years old, her black hair was simply draped, and her brown eyes showed a little helplessness, but she didn't say anything, and she obeyed her brother's command carefully.
Similar combinations can be seen everywhere on campus, some with parents and children, some with a few friends.
"It's a beautiful scene...... Audrey retracted her gaze and walked forward.
It was a square with a decommissioned steam locomotive in the center, and its large, complex body stood proudly, adding a bit of industrial character to the Beckland Technical University.
............
Woo!
The monster-like steam locomotive spewed smoke and dragged its long body into the platform, slower and slower.
A little girl of mixed race, who was seven or eight years old and delicate as a doll, held her mother's hand and waited in a short queue, excitedly asking her father, who was also of mixed descent, about the situation in Dixie Bay.
As she moved slowly, she saw a gentleman with gray sideburns and a top hat holding a gold-encrusted cane and a servant with a brownish complexion walking towards the place where the first-class carriage was.
The servant looked curiously from side to side and said:
"Sir, the situation I saw during this time is not what I imagined, I originally thought that the people of Bailang would have a very difficult life, very miserable, chaotic everywhere, dirty, poor, depressing, but it turned out that there was no such thing at all, they could still drink 'Gwadar' drinks, smoke Eastern Bailang cigarettes, and even some of them could afford to buy bicycles, uh, you know, although I have Bailang blood, but I was born in Beckland, and I have never been to the Southern Continent before, of course, my words are not bad. ”
The middle-aged and elderly gentleman with a very temperament smiled, raised his cane and said:
"That's because we went to decent cities and decent areas, and the most miserable Bairan people were mostly in the countryside, and in those plantations, the rest settled around factories, forming slums, which we never had a chance to see. ”
As if sensing the little girl's gaze, the blue-eyed gentleman and his servant looked sideways and smiled kindly.
The corners of their mouths were visibly upturned, revealing eight teeth, and then they nodded slightly, withdrew their gaze, and continued on their way.
It didn't take long for the little girl and her parents to board the steam train and find their seats.
When the sound of "woo" sounded again, the little girl saw a man with dark brown complexion, soft contours, and a small red and swollen lump on the side of his face, with his head down, pressing his top hat in his hand, passing quickly, and heading straight for the head of the train.
The man then knocked on the isolation door, flashed into the cab, and said to the conductor:
"All the conductors have been replaced by our people, and the bridge ahead will be the place where the sacrifice will be held. ”
The conductor with a thick beard nodded and said:
"May God be satisfied with this cart of sacrifices.
May we have eternal life in His kingdom. ”
Woo!
The steam train crossed one bridge and then another, and after a long journey, arrived at the port of destination without any problems.
The little doll-like mixed-race girl was a little tired, not as lively as before, and under the traction of her parents, she followed the crowd of travelers and moved to the door step by step.
There are several conductors standing at the door, helping some passengers to take their luggage out of the carriage.
As the little girl and her parents passed by, the conductors all cocked their mouths, revealing their eight teeth and smiling kindly.
After the little girl jumped to the platform, she subconsciously turned around and glanced at the head of the steam car, only to see a series of figures standing outside the door, I don't know what they were discussing, there seemed to be a conductor among them, and there was a man with a lump on the side of his face before.
In less than a second, all of these people turned their heads to look over, and the corners of their mouths turned up one after another, revealing eight teeth.
The little girl withdrew her gaze and left the platform with her parents with a little bouncing.