The Uncanny: The Knowledgeable Returns From Warhammer

Chapter 71 Good Habits

At seven o'clock in the morning, Klein, who had been busy for most of the night, cooperated with Leonard to successfully persuade Captain Dunn Smith to suspend the investigation of the shooting case and report it to the parish headquarters. After dragging his exhausted body, he finally returned to the union on Narcissus Street. row of apartments.

Pushing open the door, the living room on weekends does not have the laziness of getting up to work in the morning in the past, and there is no running figure with a piece of bread in its mouth when it is about to be late. The warm sunlight shines through the clear oriel window on the balcony, making everything look quiet And warm.

Beside the coffee table, his younger sister Melissa had already prepared toast bread and mellow black tea for him, and she thoughtfully attached a newspaper of the day with the smell of ink next to the dinner plate.

Because he was carrying equipment with him, Klein gave up the plan to take off his coat, and sat directly on the sofa, sipping black tea and enjoying a delicious breakfast, while spreading the newspaper on his lap and casually glanced at it.

"Huh? The youngest inventor in Tingen, Mr. Ivan, was invited to the dinner hosted by the Tingen Development Committee?"

Whispering out the headlines in the newspaper that were deliberately bolded, Klein, who hardly had the habit of reading newspapers in the morning, suddenly raised his eyebrows.

"City Hall bureaucrats, treated Alvin Stimson to a grand dinner last night?"

When it comes to the Tingen City Development Committee, it is actually like most organizations with a famous name at first glance but with little effect. It has no practical administrative authority.

Most of them are composed of bureaucrats and aristocratic members of the city hall, similar to the poetry clubs and afternoon tea parties of some rich wives and noble ladies, and they are only official circles for socializing, gatherings, or invitations to certain private banquets.

But it is also because of the existence of circles led by these big figures that they can often determine the direction of certain major events in a certain banquet related to them.

"After all, you can't expect a group of curly-haired baboons to reach an agreement at a conference table with amazing efficiency!"

With a teasing laugh to himself, Klein then patiently read on slowly.

[At the dinner, Mr. Evan Stimson had a cordial and friendly conversation with the members of the committee. The members of the committee expressed their appreciation for Mr. Stimson's invention.

And invited Mr. Stimson to participate in the discussion on the future development direction of Tingen City. After the frank communication, the two sides fully exchanged opinions and determined the construction of the first flashlight factory.

According to preliminary estimates, after the first phase of the flashlight factory is put into operation, it will directly bring about 500 jobs, and drive thousands of industrial chain workers and sales personnel...]

Seeing this, Klein quickly interpreted it from another angle based on past experience.

"Alvin Stimson was at a dinner last night, spearheaded by the Tingen bureaucracy, where some were dismissive of his invention.

Another group of people saw the benefits and invited him to participate in the issue of benefit division. The two sides had a quarrel with their own reasons, but they couldn't reach an agreement.

In the end, it was only reluctantly decided on the construction of the flashlight factory. "

After the interpretation, Klein shook his head with a dumbfounded smile:
"Hehe, looking at such a big piece of cake, if these capitalist bureaucrats don't rush up and take a few bites, something will be wrong."

"The current situation is still under the escort of the major churches. I heard from the captain that Ivan Stinson is actually a member of the Heart of the Machine team. They have taken the lead in the division of interests, such as the Church of Evernight Goddess, and Stormwind. The church also took a share and promised to provide corresponding convenience."

"Without the support of the three major churches, the other party will either be treated as a rogue, or give up most of the benefits in exchange for their own safety and freedom, just like the great inventor Tesla!"

"Still, flashlights and bicycles always make people think, you have to find a chance to test Alvin Stimson."

He took a bite of the toast, and while he was thinking about it, the sound of the door lock turning suddenly came from Klein's ear.

When he subconsciously put down the newspaper and looked up, he found that Melissa, who was supposed to be resting today, was carrying an old schoolbag and wearing the pleated floral skirt that she was reluctant to wear on weekdays, walking out of her bedroom. He looked like he was about to go out after packing up.

Seeing Klein who was sitting on the sofa enjoying breakfast, he frowned again and said, "Working overtime all night will bring a burden to your body. We are still young and can save money slowly, so there is no need to be so eager..."

"If I said that I went out to guard the city of Tingen at night, you would not believe it, and would ask me if I had a fever because of irregular work and rest."

Swallowing the food in his mouth with a "gudong", he quickly poured some red tea. Klein nodded as if nothing had happened, then glanced at the calendar on the wall and asked suspiciously:

"Isn't today the weekend?"

Melissa, who was distracted from the overtime issue, pondered a little: "Tingen City Technical School invited Ivan to give a speech at the alumni association, and I asked Jenny to go and have a look together."

"Ivan..." Klein was a little taken aback by calling him by his first name. Unless he was close or familiar, he usually only called each other by their last name.

Then he came back to his senses and sighed with a smile: "I almost forgot, you and him are still classmates."

"Yes!" Melissa paused to open the door and sighed slowly, as if recalling the past, her eyes gradually showed unconcealable sadness.

This made Klein instantly understand that Melissa might have recalled the disaster that happened at Tingen Technical College more than a month ago.

Although the parish task force from the Heart of the Machine used extraordinary means to eliminate most of the influence, the death of dozens of classmates still left a considerable psychological shadow on her.

So he hurriedly picked up the newspaper and patted it, forced a smile and said:

"Hehe, I saw him in the newspaper this morning. I have to say that he is really a genius. He made such a convenient tool as a flashlight. When it starts to sell, we must always have one in our house."

"I think so."

Melissa, who seemed to have been successfully distracted again, nodded seriously, and then added: "However, the selling price will definitely be inflated at the beginning. We can wait until the price stabilizes before buying."

However, Melissa's countenance made Klein suddenly think of the comparison between the shoppers who bought new products and the consumers who exchanged goods with Ga Yaozi in his previous life, and he couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion.

At this moment, Melissa opened the door and instructed:

"After attending the event, I'm going to be a guest at Jenny's house in the afternoon, so you don't have to wait for me for lunch."

"And Klein, you should develop some good habits, um... now it's good."

The door slowly closed, and Klein shook the newspaper in his hand because he didn't know it. Then he subconsciously looked down at his current state, and realized that Melissa meant that he was about to have an "old father" like Benson. Behavioral habits.

A smile could not help showing on his face.

In the early morning, after leaving home, Melissa followed the rushing crowd through Iron Cross Middle Street, and saw Jenny, who had tiny freckles on her face and put on new clothes like her, was standing by the side of the street, her face full of excitement. Waving his arms at her.

Compared with the sallow and thin little girl who lived next door to her, her life has improved significantly. Jenny's cheeks have obvious curvature, and her skin is much fairer than before.

And since moving back to the low-cost apartment on Iron Cross Middle Street, Jenny was admitted to the Tingen City Technical School, and then got in touch with her again, inviting her to visit her home as usual.

It's just that since then, she has never seen her classmate, Jenny's brother Alvin Stimson.

Whenever I heard Jenny talk about it, she just said that the other party was very busy, and she basically never went home unless she visited the Antiquities Protection Association of Tingen City in person.

Memories flashed by, passing through the crowds of people rushing to work in the factory every day without holidays.

When she got closer, Melissa suddenly noticed that the pedestrians on both sides of the street, when they passed by where Jenny was, all looked sideways at the same time, with unconcealable novelty and envy on their cheeks.

Following their line of sight, Melissa finally noticed that behind the high-spirited Jenny, there was a machine standing upright under the wall near the street. The whole body showed a unique silvery-white luster of metal. Rubber, a brand new bike she'd only seen at the party the other day!
(End of this chapter)