[037] The Extraordinary World Under Steampunk?
Walking on the streets of Ian City.
With the address on the house lease contract and the map of Ian City, combined with some landmark buildings, Si Chen, who is new to the city, did not have any embarrassing situations such as getting lost.
From his point of view, this is a somewhat strange world.
The road has been divided into sidewalks and carriageways, and there is no conflict between pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages;
The cathedral in the center of the city, its spiers can be seen anywhere in the city, and the towering chimneys in the fringes and suburbs send billowing smoke into the sky;
On the horizon, the floating airship slowly passed by;
By the side of the road, several people were whispering about how much time the next steam locomotive to the imperial capital would leave;
When a street magician performs card tricks, he can feel the fluctuation of special energy from his body.
Walking all the way, Si Chen gradually realized where the inexplicable sense of familiarity came from.
The overall painting style of this world seems to be somewhat similar to a style called "steampunk" that he had heard about before traveling.
...
three days later.
A townhouse rented under the name of Keos.
Si Chen is flipping through the newspapers that have circulated in Ian City in the past six months.
Keos is exactly his alias in the small world of Hull.
Three days ago, after returning to the apartment, Si Chen confirmed his current identity through the employment documents in the mailbox and the date he learned on the way here. He just arrived in Ian City from another place, and he hasn't officially gone to work yet.
The Tiandao system is considerate in this regard, and has not arranged any "familiar" colleagues for him.
So the next day, he went to the museum to report, and after a little thought, he was able to tell the meaning of the ancient characters engraved on several cultural relics displayed in the museum, and proved his ability to the curator in person.
As a result, there is a full set of supporting documents and museum endorsement.
Even if the issue of his identity is settled.
As for Si Chen's official job, he is responsible for translating some old characters or symbols on the cultural relics received by the museum, so as to assist other scholars in their research.
This job does not require him to go to the museum every day, as long as he brings back the results of his research to share once in a while...
After all, others don't know that he can know the meaning of those ancient words with just a glance.
On the way home from the museum that day, Si Chen stopped a newsboy and asked him to deliver a copy of all kinds of newspapers sold in the past six months to his residence.
There is no need to worry about the money. When the Tiandao system arranged his identity, it also provided some money available in Hull's small world.
Although not to the point where it can be squandered.
But it is no problem to buy some idle items such as newspapers.
In the evening of that day, the newspaper boy who had already received the deposit knocked on the door of Si Chen's residence with a thick stack of newspapers.
And Si Chen, who settled the final payment for the newsboy, then began to rummage through the newspapers to see if he could find any news that could answer his doubts——
His doubts stemmed from his golden trials.
With the "murderous intent" revealed in the descriptions of the missions, even if he was forced to join the battle from the first second after he came in, until he left this world, he felt it was acceptable.
However, as far as the side of Ian City was shown before his eyes in the past few days, it didn't look like the chaotic world where all the villains would go from the east of the city to the west of the city without accidentally injuring an innocent person.
This is a bit strange.
The core of the trial is undoubtedly killing, but it is impossible for him to see people with his eyes closed and just shoot a crystallized spear?
The World Channel of Hull Small World is not like the Star Ring Small World that can open vests, and in the three days since Si Chen came in, no one on the World Channel has spoken...
Seeing this, Si Chen, who originally wanted to ask other professionals about the situation, didn't do this early bird.
Then the progress of the task just got stuck before it even started.
"Gas pipeline explosion, gas pipeline explosion... gas pipeline explosion again?"
In an Ian Daily two months ago, a detail suddenly caught Si Chen's attention.
On the same day, within the urban area of Ian City, several accidents caused by gas pipeline explosions occurred consecutively, causing dozens of casualties and hundreds of injuries.
If this is the only one, it can be said that there is a problem with the gas company.
But if Si Chen remembers correctly, it seems that there will be similar accidents in the newspapers every now and then, and every time you can see the apology statement from the person in charge of the gas company, but this company is bullish, no matter how many accidents there are, The position responsible for providing gas to the entire Ian City is still as stable as Mount Tai...
Feeling that he had caught something, Si Chen quickly looked through other reports of accidents with casualties.
The road surface without sewers suddenly collapsed, the collective food poisoning in the residential area, the lunatic who suddenly killed someone in the street for some reason and was shot dead by the sheriff who arrived... Most of the accidents happened in some areas in the entire Ian City. .
In other words, it is these areas that can be published in newspapers.
Unless there are large-scale casualties in the slums, they rarely attract attention. Even if something happens to the nobles' territories, it is a question of whether the newspapers that make a living in this city dare to publish it. The small world of Hull The nobles are still a bit powerful.
Combined with the street magician with extraordinary power that I met when I first entered this world...
The more I look at it, the more I feel that the gas company is pushed out to top the tank. After all, the gas pipelines extend in all directions, and the gas transported in it can be accepted by the general public even if it causes an accident. Who do you not blame?
"Wait a minute, isn't the area I live in right now?"
Si Chen suddenly frowned.
The ancient linguistics expert arranged for him by the Tiandao system and the status of the employee of the Ian City Museum can barely be regarded as petty bourgeoisie, not as good as those nobles with a long history, but it does not need to be careful, otherwise the family will be killed if they are not careful. At the point where food was out of stock, and the supporting rental house was located in a villa area that could effectively attract the attention of the newspaper after being listed on the accident page without worrying about causing too much trouble.
"Well... then go out for a stroll tonight, see if you can meet some little surprises..."
Although the Tiandao system did not set a time limit for his trial tasks.
But without mentioning "Killing Moment", just a [■■■■Connector] that makes the professionals who seem to know the truth on Tiandao Network ambiguous, it shows that the water in this small world of Hull is probably a bit deep.
If possible, Si Chen still prefers to complete the trial early and run away.
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