Chapter 20 The Train

Seeing Alfred looking over, Klein smiled back, nodded slightly and said:

"I suddenly feel a little dangerous."

After speaking, he turned around calmly and walked towards the carriage that Haggis pointed out.

"Danger..." Alfred repeated the word in a low voice, looked around vigilantly, but found nothing strange.

He slowed down, kept an eye on his surroundings, and cautiously returned to the three-story building not far away.

Pagani glanced at the dignified Alfred, and asked with some doubts:

"What happened?"

He was quite a distance away from the arms trading site, so he couldn't hear the conversation over there 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 after deliberation:

"Dawn Dantes left suddenly, saying that he had a premonition of danger."

"Danger?" Pagani was not careless, and looked around guardedly, but he didn't notice anything wrong until Meisangyesi's people moved away from this area and disappeared into the darkness.

He immediately laughed:

"Haha, Alfred, you are too sensitive. I think Dawn Dantès is simply timid and unwilling to stay here for too long!"

Alfred withdrew his gaze, frowned slightly and said:

"Maybe."

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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 took out the gold bars and coins inside one by one, counting them clearly.

There are a total of 30,000 Ruen gold pounds worth of property here!

"It's a good thing that I agreed with Miss Messenger earlier that it was worth 10,000 Loen gold coins.

There is no need to exchange it separately..." Klein, who was sitting leisurely in the easy chair, drank the sweet and sour "Gwadar" drink while "supervising" the secret puppet's work.

After Enzo finished dividing the belongings, he took out the adventurer harmonica, brought it to his mouth, and blew.

Reinette Tinekerr, who carried four blond-haired and red-eyed heads, immediately stepped out of the void, as if she had always been nearby.

Her eight eyes turned at the same time, looking at the pile of gold coins and bars.

After a few seconds, the four heads held by Reinette Tinekerr spoke one by one:

"Very good..." "Later..." "Task..." "Price increase..."

...Where is the logic before and after this? I paid the reward in such a timely and quick manner, why do I need to increase the price for future tasks? Klein was stunned for a second, sat up straight and asked:

"what?"

Reinette Tinekerr nodded seriously with her four blond-haired and red-eyed heads:

"Task..." "Pricing..." "Depends on..." "You..." "Make money..." "of..." "Ability..."

It's okay... Klein opened his mouth, but he couldn't refute it. After all, this kind of thing is unilaterally decided by the helper. Moreover, as he advances to Sequence 4 and becomes a demigod, it is estimated that the missions that require Miss Messenger's help in the future will be more difficult. It's getting harder and more dangerous, and the fare increase seems justified.

After Reinette Tinekerr swallowed the pile of gold coins and bars and disappeared into the room, Klein restrained his thoughts and began to silently calculate his current property:

"The expenses during this time are not small. There are 17,275 pounds of banknotes and 65 gold coins left... This pile of gold bars is worth 25,000 pounds... A total of more than 40,000 pounds of property is not small in the entire Loen Kingdom. You can buy a manor He Tian gave birth... the arms trade is really profitable..."

Reinette Tinekerr's priority is gold coins, so the rest are gold bars.

After standing up and putting the gold bars on the gray mist, Klein walked to the window and turned his gaze to the north.

The affairs here have initially ended, and he will return to Backlund next.

After staring at the sky for a while, Klein suddenly sighed silently:

"Becklund..."

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North District, Backlund Technical University.

Audrey was walking on the campus with several staff members of the "Luen Charity Scholarship Fund".

She was wearing a simple light green long dress with a white unadorned belt around her waist. She had long golden hair surrounded by a slightly playful gauze hat with ribbon flowers. The bracelet looks no different from a female student whose family conditions can only be called medium.

During this period of time, she has been to the public elementary school located on the edge of the East District, and also visited the technical school in the Backlund Bridge area. She has already understood what kind of clothes to wear on what occasions, unlike many nobles who regard charity activities as a social occasion.

The green and clear pupils turned slightly, and Audrey had a slight smile, carefully observing the situation of the students coming and going.

These few days are the days when Backlund University of Technology issues the admission letter and the new batch of students come to register.

Originally, the latter should be held at the end of August and the beginning of September, but Backlund Technical University is a newly established school, and the entrance examination is later than other universities, and the result is also the same, which means that the students who apply for them are likely to take part in it. In addition, the university exams have even been admitted, so they advance the registration work to verify the number of people and determine how much more to be enrolled.

For this reason, Audrey and the staff of the "Luen 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 manners revealed obvious confidence, and their words and deeds were full of indescribable vitality. They seemed to be full of yearning for the future and could see the light .

And this is completely different from Audrey's experience in several public elementary schools. The students in those places are either rude and loud, or silent and gloomy. Cowardly, dim-eyed, lacking the high-spiritedness that teenagers should have.

"I really hope that those children have the opportunity to receive higher education, and can work hard for a better future like the students here..." Audrey sighed silently, and glanced at a pair of men and women who should be brother and sister.

The elder brother had obviously stepped into the society and started working. He was wearing a silk top hat and a thin black formal suit. He looked about thirty years old and had the air of a government employee.

He borrowed an older camera from nowhere, placed it on a stand, and motioned his sister to move her body and adjust her posture while looking for the best angle.

The younger sister looked seventeen or eighteen years old, with black hair simply draped around her face, and a little helplessness in her brown eyes, but she didn't say anything, and followed her brother's command seriously.

Similar combinations can be seen everywhere on campus, some are parents and children, some are a few friends together.

"Such a beautiful scene..." Audrey withdrew her gaze and walked forward.

There is a square with a decommissioned steam locomotive in the center. Its huge and complex body stands proudly, adding a bit of industrial temperament to Backlund Technical University.

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Woo!

The monster-like steam locomotive spouted thin smoke, dragged its long body, and drove into the platform, getting slower and slower.

A seven or eight-year-old mixed-race girl who was as delicate as a doll held her mother's hand and waited in a long line. She excitedly asked her father, who was also a mixture of Loen and Balam, about the situation in Disi Bay.

As she moved slowly, she saw a gentleman with gray sideburns and a top hat holding a gold cane and leading a servant with a brownish complexion towards the position of the first-class carriage.

The servant looked around curiously and said:

"Sir, the situation I saw during this time is different from what I imagined. I originally thought that the Balam people would have a very difficult life, very painful, and everywhere was chaotic, dirty, poor, and depressed, but it turned out that there was nothing at all. They I can also drink 'Gwadar' drinks, smoke East Balam cigarettes, and even some of them can afford bicycles. Well, you know, although I have Balam blood, I was born in Backlund and have never been to the Southern Continent before. , of course, my Dutan is not bad."

The very temperamental middle-aged gentleman chuckled, raised his cane and said:

"That's because we went to fairly decent cities and fairly decent areas, and most of the miserable Balams were in the countryside, on those plantations, and the rest settled around factories, forming slums, and we've been No chance to meet him."

As if aware of the little girl's gaze, the blue-eyed gentleman and his servant looked sideways and smiled warmly.

The corners of their mouths were obviously raised, and they all showed eight teeth. Then they nodded slightly, looked away, and continued to move forward.

It wasn't long before the little girl and her parents boarded the steam train and found their own seats.

When the sound of "woo" sounded again, the little girl saw a man with dark brown complexion, soft outline, and a red and swollen lump on the side of his face, with his head lowered, his hand on his top hat, and he passed quickly, heading straight for the head of the train.

The man then knocked on the isolation door, stepped into the driver's cab, and said to the conductor:

"All the conductors have been replaced by ours, and the bridge ahead will be the place to hold sacrifices."

The train conductor with a bushy beard nodded and said:

"May God be pleased with this cartload of sacrifices.

"May we have eternal life in the kingdom we are in."

Woo!

The steam train drove across a bridge and then another bridge, and after traveling for a long time, it arrived at the destination port very smoothly.

The doll-like little mixed-race girl was a little tired, and was no longer as lively as before. Guided by her parents, she followed the crowd of passengers and moved towards the door step by step.

There are several conductors standing at the door, helping some passengers take their luggage out of the compartment.

When the little girl and her parents passed by, the conductors all turned up their mouths, showing eight teeth, and smiled warmly.

After the little girl jumped to the platform, she subconsciously turned around and glanced at the front of the steam locomotive. She saw figures standing outside the door, discussing something. Among them seemed to be the train conductor and the man with a lump on the side of his face.

In less than a second, these people all turned their heads and looked over, 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 bouncing a little.