Extraordinary Puppeteer

Chapter 140 No. 9 Jasmine Street

Thursday, February 545, 2, at eight o'clock in the morning.

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The whistle of the steam liner drowned out the din of the Lamu River.

After declining the invitation of a noble lady, the young and handsome Eric slowly walked down the escalator of the passenger ship with his suitcase.

In addition to him, there were also many passengers who landed on the pier with their luggage, and rushed here from all over the Kingdom of Brent to start a new life.

'Clander, the capital of steam'

Karin, who had been in a hidden state and followed closely beside Eric, said silently in his heart.

As the capital of the Kingdom of Brent, Klander has a resident population of more than 500 million and is one of the most prosperous metropolises in the Old Continent.

It's just that the air quality here gave Karin a very bad impression when he just came here.

There is hazy fog everywhere on the pier, and the visibility is extremely low. If it weren't for the dim light of gas lamps on the side of the road, it would be easy to get lost.

The Klander Bridge, more than 200 meters away, is a landmark building in the capital of steam. It is a magnificent steel bridge, but Karin estimates that ordinary people standing on the pier may not even be able to see the outline clearly.

There are countless chimneys in the whole city, constantly puffing out smoke. Karin also had to mourn for the ordinary people living here. This kind of air quality in his hometown is not bad for murder.

Shaking his head, he and Eric quickly got away from the crowd at the pier, and sat down on a lounge chair in a square in the middle of the street.

Eric put down his suitcase and spread out the Klander city map that he carried with him.

Unlike many young people who came here with longings and dreams, he has a very clear goal - to make money, build a steam engine for the throne, and collect materials needed for professional advancement.

He left the underground cave on February 2.

But instead of going directly to a nearby station to take a train here, he returned to Wayne City, slipped on a steamer from the New World at the pier, temporarily docked in Wayne City, and sailed for more than ten days to reach capital of steam.

He and Snicker are out of sight now, and the remaining three secret puppets are still black households after a makeover.

Although the management of population and household registration files in this era is not very strict, Karin still hopes to have a flawless identity.

Both parents died, and the property was sold, and the identity of a rich family who returned from the New World with a lot of wealth was very good.

Although it can't be perfect, if you want to check it, you have to send someone to the New World to check it. It takes at least half a year to go back and forth and you may not find anything useful.

The entire Steam City does not know how many black households pretend to be identities, and there are not many more than him.

Moreover, this identity is considered a good citizen compared to those who don't care about making up stories, and the authorities will not spend much effort to get to the bottom of it.

'In any case, we must first find a place to live. '

Karin began to think about where his home should be for the next period of time.

The North District where the Klander Police Department is located, the Palace District where the Royal Palace is located, and the East District where nobles and bourgeois gather are located in the upper reaches of the Ram River. The environment and security are the best, but they are not suitable for him.

There are a large number of low-level civilians living in the dock area on the lower reaches of the Ram River, the bridge area where the Klander Bridge is located, the old factory area, and the new factory area.

There was a jumble of fish and dragons suitable for hiding, and Karin also directly abandoned it.

Many of the guys who committed crimes are hiding in these districts under the cover of some local snakes, and they are not afraid of the police coming to search, but it is nothing serious, the police don't want to waste too much effort on small fish and shrimp, so they just opened their eyes. Close one eye.

If something big news is going to happen, it is not the police but the agents of the Secret Service who are coming to your door. Those so-called big bosses dare to be arrogant and do not show the face of the police, but they are scared when they meet the agents of the Secret Service faster than anyone else.

An outsider like Karin would be at great risk of exposure if he lived there. After all, if he wanted to be promoted to a professional level, he had to make big news.

If something really happened, let the Secret Service agents come to several large areas downstream.

Those local snakes who usually sheltered a bunch of wanted criminals and black households and said how well behaved they are would promise to tell the agents of the Secret Service as soon as possible about the whereabouts of him, a face of life in a foreign country.

After excluding the upper and lower regions of the Lamu River, there are only two regions in the middle reaches—the commercial district, which is the financial and economic center of the kingdom, and the middle district, where a large number of middle-class people live.

After looking at the map and thinking for a while, Karin decided to settle in the Central District.

Not only is the public security in the central area relatively good, but most of the people living in the middle class are decent people, and these residents have serious jobs.

If there is any big news, unless there is definite information, the search in the central area will not be very intensive, at least it will give Karin enough time to escape.

After the decision was made, Karin manipulated Eric to buy a few local Klander newspapers from a newsboy on the street, and a considerable part of the pages were housing rental information.

Karin also wants to go to a special real estate agency to rent a house. Although it is more expensive, it is also convenient. Unfortunately, he is a wanted criminal and cannot show his ID
The information of each house was screened. He wanted a single-family double-storey apartment, which would be convenient for living alone, without bothering to cover up some things, and sharing a townhouse with other people was not considered at all.

After screening out several symbols and required information, Karin randomly circled one of them and prepared to visit him.

"The rent for a single-family apartment at No. 9 Jasmine Street, Central District is 2 gold pounds per week. There is a small garden, and water and coal are at your own expense. If you are interested, please contact Mr. Winston at No. 19 Jasmine Street."

At No. 9 Molly Street, in front of a clean double-storey apartment, Eric added his name to the door plate next to the iron gate and opened the iron gate.

This apartment comes with a small garden in the front yard, where you can usually grow flowers and plants.

The landlord, Mr. Winston, was also surprisingly easy-going, and he didn't care about the fact that Eric's identity certificate was lost as early as in the New World. Obviously he had heard about the situation in the New World.

It is known as a barbaric area far from civilization, full of uncivilized indigenous tribes.

Karin knew that although this statement was a little inappropriate, the New World was indeed very chaotic. There, all kinds of supernatural things existed in the open, and they were not hidden from ordinary people.

Uncivilized aborigines with extraordinary powers, pioneer colonists, gold-digging adventurers, various humanoid or non-human alien races, etc., all of these made the New World extremely chaotic.

The Black Hand clan that Secret Puppet Snicker was born in before his death was originally a small clan with some background and isolated from the world.

But after being known and exposed by Weir, those adventurers swarmed like sharks smelling blood, and had to relocate after suffering heavy losses.

And this is just a microcosm of the New World.

Compared with this, the loss of Eric's identity certificate is nothing, but Mr. Winston was still very vigilant at first.

But after chatting for a while, I found that Eric's speech and behavior were very decent, completely different from the rumored rudeness of people from the New World, and his expression relaxed.

In this way, after paying a full year's rent of 96 gold pounds, Eric became a resident of No. 9 Molly Street as a matter of course.

After hanging up the house number, Eric locked the iron gate, walked into the new home with Karin, and checked everything carefully.

On the first floor there is an entrance hall, a dining room, a study, a bathroom, and a guest room.

On the second floor there are three bedrooms, a powder room and bathroom, a living room and a balcony.

In addition, there is a basement, the basic furniture is fully equipped, and you can move in after tidying up.

Karin also appeared at this time and released the other three secret puppets and Eric to start packing up the new home.

Since then, he has finally settled down in the capital of steam.

One person and four secret puppets sat on the sofa in the living room on the second floor, and it didn't look empty at all.

But the loneliness in Karin's heart spontaneously arises, and finally started to get down to business after sighing.

Eric's spirituality began to surge, and the pen of the story flew out of his pocket to write on the low table in the living room.

(End of this chapter)