Lord of the Mysteries

Chapter 355

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Beckland eastern district, a crossroads.

Mike Joseph saw a lot of poorly dressed children on the street, rubbed their mouths with a handkerchief and planned to give them some pennies.

However, his actions were stopped by the former vagabond old Kohler:

“Those are thieves!”

“The thief? Their parents? Or is this controlled by the gangster?” As a veteran journalist, Mike has never been to the eastern district, but he also vaguely heard that there are several gangsters controlling the flow of Lang’er child stealing. Or begging.

“Parents? They either have no parents, or they used to be thieves, or they are still doing it. Of course, Mr. Reporter, you are right. Many of them are indeed controlled by gangs. It is said that those gangs will teach them How to steal, for example, hang a gentleman’s coat on the wall, put a handkerchief in the pocket, hang a pocket watch outside, through repeated practice, steal the handkerchief without shaking the pocket watch, oh, this is what I do vagabond At the time, I heard what people said in the charitable institution. ”Old Kohler whispered,“ I remember the smallest thief I caught on this street, only 6 years old, hey, 6 years old … ”

He seemed to think of his lost child after being sick. Unable to bear took a crumpled cigarette out of his pocket, but he didn’t want to smoke, but just sniffed it.

“6 years old …” Mike was a little shocked by this number.

Klein listened quietly, sighed:

“This is the eastern district.”

He looked around and adjusted his mood:

“It’s closer to the jungle, not the human race society.”

“Our interviews should be treated as an adventure, knowing to avoid the dangerous living creatures and to keep away from the little things that don’t seem to do much harm to you. Well, I mean mosquitoes in the jungle. “”

“Mike, if you expose the thickness of your wallet in front of those children, even if you protect well and don’t let them steal, you will encounter a destined robbery in the next adventure. If you dare to resist, Maybe the body that floats in the River of Tasok will have one more in the morning.”

“Mr. Detective, you are right! There are so many people in the eastern district. A few are missing every day. No one cares.” Old Kohler agreed.

Mike’s expression was calmly listened to, silent for a few seconds, suddenly opened the mouth and said:

“13510000.”

“Ah?” Klein’s nephew was obviously dumb because of a cold.

Mike walked forward:

“This is the preliminary statistics of the population of the eastern district.”

“But I know that the actual number is definitely a lot more than this.”

“So much?” Old Kohler was shocked.

Although he has experienced the day and night of the eastern district, he intuitively knows that there are many residents here, but didn’t expect to be as much as this.

This is several times the population of Thengen City … Klein subconsciously compares the most familiar places.

He looked at the crossroads a few steps away:

“Where are we going next?”

Old Kohler looked up and said:

“10000000 Don’t go straight. The block is controlled by Zmanger Party. They are very fierce and totally unreasonable. If they are found to be interviewed by reporters, they will definitely beat us up!”

Zmanger Party? Isn’t that the gangster that caused my 10 gold pound to lose my mindlessness? He ’s still a punisher, well, I do n’t remember his name … Fortunately, the 10 pounds were finally exchanged for the Divineator ’s Sequence Seven, Sequence Six, and Sequence Five ’s magical medicine formula, in exchange for “black eye “In exchange for the life of Intis ambassador … I don’t know which side the manuscript about the third generation differential machine was finally obtained … Klein recalled what happened at the beginning of last month.

“Zmanger Party? The gangster composed mainly of highlanders?” Mike looking thoughtful and asked rhetorically.

“Mr. Reporter, have you heard of them?” Old Kohler surprisedly said

Mike sighed:

“They involved a lot of cases and they have some reputation outside the eastern district. It is said that members have been involved in an Intis spy case.”

… next to you is the party, the informant, the victim… Klein silently added.

“You decent gentlemen are all understood Zmanger Party, why don’t the police arrest them all?” Old Kohler asked with bottom-level thinking.

Mike’s expression suddenly became a little ugly, and he coughed twice:

“We can only take away those who have done the case. The rest have no evidence and cannot be arrested. And the eastern district is so large and has so many people. It is hard to find anyone who wants to hide it.”

Speaking, he sighed:

“It’s easy to destroy a Zmanger Party, but as long as there are highlanders coming to Beckland, as long as they still retain the tradition of fighting and ruthless, and have not found other ways to make a living, it is only a matter of time before the new Zmanger Party appears.”

This is a complicated social problem … Klein pointed to the left and right sides:

“Choose one side.”

Old Kohler looked towards the street on the right:

“The Huili Party is active there, as long as they do n’t provoke the street and the bars. Well, girls who do that kind of business wo n’t be noticed by them. sleeping.”

The word “Huili” means “unlawful” in the Ruen language. The gang of this name can be said to be quite self-aware.

Klein and Mike had no opinion on this. Under the guidance of the guide, they entered the block.

The buildings here are relatively good, and the environment on the street is not so dirty. The air is filled with the taste of food and beverages such as street oyster soup, sautéed fish, ginger beer and the smell of fish and fish.

Walking here, Klein had an inexplicable familiarity, like returning to Thengen City, returning to Iron Cross Street and returning to the street outside the apartment where he originally lived.

The only difference is probably that Beckland is closer to the sea and has more developed traffic. There are quite a few sea fish here.

“It’s a better apartment nearby. I’ve wandered around several times before and found that the gentlemen and ladies inside are well dressed, um, and clean.” Old Kohler pointed to a pale-yellow 3-storey building.

The three of them approached and found a sign hanging at the door of the apartment with pocket watches, wall clocks and screwdrivers, and the words “repair clocks” written on them.

“Is there a watchmaker here?” Klein unearthed a similar scene from the original self’s memory shard.

At that time, Benson, Melissa and he went to a similar place to repair the silver pocket watch from the father legacy, but the item was repaired several times, and they all quickly broke down until they were completely tamped by Melissa and became that time. The most decent thing on Klein.

After Klein’s “death”, this pocket watch with double value of money and emotion was not buried.

Should it belong to Benson now? I don’t know if he took out the pocket watch every time, would you think of me… Klein suddenly blinked and outlined his mouth.

“It should be.” Mike is not sure.

If there is a problem with his pocket watch, it is usually sent to the original watch store, which is assigned to the subordinate’s repairman or entrusted to the long-term cooperation of the craftsman.

Just entering the apartment, they saw a middle-aged man with a beard.

This gentleman just came out of the bathroom and was about to return to the room. When he found three strangers coming in, he asked quickly:

“Do you want to repair the clock?”

It’s a coincidence… I met the craftsman directly… Klein was a little surprised.

Mike took out his pocket watch and laughed at with a smile :

“Yes, my pocket watch has always been out of time recently. You can take a look at me.”

He did not reveal his identity, and he planned to conduct interviews by casual chatting.

The middle-aged man suddenly smiled, and led them into a two-bedroom, half-covered room, pointing to the chair beside the wooden table:

“Let’s wait, I’m going to get the tools.”

“Your tool is not at home?” Mike asked strangely.

The watchmaker shook his head with a smile :

“How can it be?”

“A set of tools is very expensive. I can’t afford it by myself. I can only buy the set on March 3th and use it for anyone who has business. Therefore, we moved to a piece, hehe, this is more convenient, If you are too far apart, you have to spend extra time and public carriage fees to borrow tools. “

He said that he went out and walked to the side.

It turned out that it was no coincidence that we met the clock Artisan. Many of the residents here are watchmakers… Klein is awkward.

Old Kohler looked at the room and said enviously:

“Before I was sick, I lived in this kind of place. My wife would sew up clothes at home, 2 children, 2 children …”

Mike sighed and slammed the voice:

“I thought the clock Artisan was very rich.”

“Me too…” Klein squeezed his nose.

…………

After a friendly conversation with several guests in the apartment, Klein and the others once again embarked on an adventure.

They walked 100 meters, and suddenly heard someone arguing on the street.

The two ladies greeted each other with all sorts of indecent language, letting Klein learn a lot of vocabulary that had not been heard before.

The reason for their quarrel was that the woman on the left accused the woman on the right of making the environment of her apartment dirty and made noise, while the woman on the right scolded the woman on the left and thought it was her own problem. No one asked her to solicit guests at night and sleep during the day.

“That is a laundry mistress?” Mike listened a little and frowned.

“Yes, I know her. She is a widow, and she is helping her two daughters to wash clothes.” Old Kohler gave a positive answer.

Mike thought for a few seconds and said :

“Take me to see their home.”

Old Kohler nodded, led 2 people around the scene of the quarrel, and entered a dilapidated house that was obviously not as good as the apartment just now.

Just outside the room at the laundry mistress, Klein immediately felt wet.

Inside, there is a piece of dress that hasn’t been dried yet, a young girl of 17-18 years old is squatting in front of a large basin, washing up foamy things, and a girl younger than her is holding a wrap The hot iron of the wet linen, carefully handling the item that has been washed and dried, her action is cautiously, it seems that she has been scalded many times by steam.

This is both their workplace and the place where they sleep at night. The moist water vapor fills the room and immersed them in their bodies.

In addition, the stench of various odors is so obvious.

“Don’t you feel uncomfortable?” Mike squeezed his nose.

Klein in a low, muffled voice

“I am sick……”

His sentence did not bring a little smile.

Mike released his finger and walked into the room, saying to the two surprised girls:

“I am a reporter, I want to interview the laundry mistress.”

The girl in the clothing is numbly shook the head :

“We have a lot of things to do and we can’t delay.”

Mike’s interview request was rejected.

He came out with a heavy expression and walked back to the street silently.