The Night Adorer

Annie

Sulman recognized her identity. It was on the original steam train that an investigator from the steam church, Anne kaluno, accompanied her at that time, another investigator, Captain Morrison, and a young man wearing glasses.

"Miss Anne, why are you here?"

Sulman was a little surprised. Isn't she an investigator of the steam church?

According to the tradition of the steam church, the investigators under their command enter the civilized city-state, mainly to collect materials and transport them back to the mobile castle, so that the castle maintaining an independent ecosystem can supplement their missing materials and ensure their own circulation.

When Miss Anne appeared in the orphanage, Sulman was a little surprised.

However, she immediately gave the answer——

"I have finished the collection task. I have nothing to do recently. I'll visit little Norman."

"After all, he lost his parents and came to the orphanage for the first time, although I managed a lot of relationships instead of him with the legacy left by his parents..."

"But for some things, it would be better to confirm it with your own eyes..... Right?"

Annie's hands were behind her and looked at the ground with some embarrassment. Obviously, as the baby who left the mobile castle for the first time, she was still a little astringent. In the face of these trivial things, she didn't know whether she had done it correctly.

Little Norman was the little boy who lost his parents on the original steam train. Later, he was found unconscious in the snow and rescued by Sulman. After coming all the way to Gangdian City, Anne volunteered to take over the task of sending him to the orphanage.

"Indeed......"

Sulman nodded gently and agreed with her: "it's better to confirm these things in person."

Hearing this, Anne's mouth rose, a little proud, quickly covered it up, pretended to be calm and looked at the flower yard... But her head and neck rose slightly, some like a proud white swan.

"Miss Anne, do you... Do you know this gentleman?" Some fat middle-aged security guards asked carefully.

Although Annie wore work clothes and looked no different from ordinary workers, he did not dare to neglect each other. You know, Miss Annie is an investigator of the steam guild. As a minister of the Orthodox Church, she has an unknown social status higher than them.

Even the rich squires, or the dignitaries of the upper class, dare not neglect in the face of a church official. They must express their respect, not to mention the civilians who, like him, are only slightly higher than the tramps.

As for their slander against the orphanage, the wise middle-aged security guard naturally ignored them.

"Yes, he saved us last time." Annie smiled.

Before the middle-aged security guard understood this sentence, at this time, a group of children ran out of the door of the orphanage. While they were playing, there was a little blonde boy wearing a small felt hat. Suddenly, his footsteps were surprised and looked at Sulman——

"Uncle... Millet!"

Little Norman clearly recognized the life-saving benefactor and ran over with his legs. However, his immature and vague words made Sulman's eyelids jump. Fortunately, Annie next to him corrected: "little Norman, call his brother."

She deliberately accentuated the word "brother" so that she was a little harsh.

"Yes... Yes, sister Anne."

Little Norman had never seen Annie. He was so serious that he was frightened. Suddenly, he was a little timid, like a child who did something wrong, and shouted to Sulman, "good morning... Good morning, pigeon... Brother pigeon."

You are very much like a certain stem in my last life... Surman held back the desire to Tucao, make complaints about elegance and smile, and took out the candy bag that had been prepared from his arms. It was a sweet candy with coffee like color and cocoa fruit as raw material.

In the northern cold land, due to geographical reasons, this sweet sugar produced in the panjieshu area is very expensive. For only a dozen sweet sugars, it costs about five or six silver shillings, about a quarter of gold pounds. After all, cocoa fruit is used as raw material. Even in the interior of Pan Jieshu domain, this material is also an upscale seasoning drink.

Fortunately, at the beginning of the gray iron age, the steam church invented a new sugar making method, which can make cocoa fruit into candy that is easy to preserve. Otherwise, the price of pure cocoa fruit without corruption will be more than ten times that of candy, which can not be enjoyed by ordinary people.

Children naturally like sweets. When Sulman took out the sweets, little Norman's eyes were straight. However, when he subconsciously reached out to touch the sweets, Sulman took the initiative to stop.

Some puzzled and wronged little Norman looked up at his brother, but saw him smiling——

"Promise me one condition. Half a bag of candy here belongs to you."

Little Norman nodded quickly.

"My condition is to share the remaining half bag of candy with your companions."

Little Norman hesitated for a few seconds and nodded firmly, but when he grabbed the bag, the candy bag was firmly fixed, and some meaningful and inexplicable words came from his ears——

"Remember, it's your 'companion'."

Little Norman was a little confused. The next moment, he seemed to nod knowingly and stretched out to the candy bag again. This time, Sulman didn't stop him. He let little Norman grab the candy and ran to share it with his identified companions.

Next to him, Anne looked at his eyes, slightly complicated.

As an audience who witnessed everything with her own eyes, at the moment, she couldn't help sighing: "you... You are really good at teaching children. Compared with you, I feel like a child who hasn't grown up and can't teach people at all."

Ms. Annie, please be confident and suggest changing the image to..... Sulman glanced at each other's height and smiled comfortingly: "everyone has his own direction to be good at. What's more, it's a good thing that I don't do well. Let children know too much......"

Sulman said in a tone. Instead of going on, Anne shook her head and said, "no, it can make him adapt to the environment earlier. After all, we are not his parents. We can't help growing up with him all the time..... Thank you, Mr. Sulman."

At this time, a young figure who looked just busy with his sleeves came out of the orphanage.

He was wearing the same tooling, with thick lenses on his face, and said excitedly, "Annie, I'll help them repair the sewer pipe... Ok... OK, hello."

The young man wearing glasses was Eddie. When he saw the two people talking happily, his expression changed from excitement to confusion, then to complexity, and finally returned to normal. It was called the face change of Sichuan Opera, which surprised Sulman.

Unfortunately, Annie didn't see her back to him at all. The next moment, she didn't look back——

"Eddie, I remember the gas pipeline in their kitchen. It seems that there are some problems. There are often gas transmission problems..."

"You check it and remember to fix it for them."

Eddie subconsciously opened his mouth in amazement and said, "ah?"

"What's the matter? "Can't it..." Anne looked back in surprise and stared at him with big eyes. The latter's face turned red. The next moment, Eddie opened his mouth slightly and said in a firm and decisive voice——

"OK."

With that, Eddie went back to the orphanage and continued to play his specialty.

"Eddie needs more exercise. Otherwise, he is not qualified to hold a ceremony and promote himself to an extraordinary person." Annie took back her eyes, looked at some strange looking Sulman next to her, and said strangely, "what's the matter? Mr. Sulman, are you not feeling well... "

As she spoke, Anne was a little nervous and hurriedly said, "I know a very reliable private doctor. If you feel unwell, I'll take you to her right away..."

"No, nothing."

Sulman shook his head, glanced at the direction of the orphanage and sighed silently.

This... This is too licking, isn't it?

.........................

For a pleasant exchange, the time slowly came to noon.

After saying goodbye to Annie, Sulman casually chose a cafe next to Gran street and enjoyed a cheaper lunch. In fact, it was the best set meal in the cafe.

He could feel that when he was having lunch, a faint line of sight outside the window would fall on his desk.

You shouldn't choose a position near the window... Sulman sighed silently, solved the food on the table as soon as possible, paid the bill, and wandered around the steelmaking area with a walking stick.

Compared with his previous life, this time he looked at the city from the perspective of aborigines, but he had a completely different experience.

Many street children who sell matches and young pickpockets who quietly look at pedestrians are not well dressed, but they are better than young street girls. They wander in the street because they can't find temporary work, and their faces are full of numb workers

The extraordinary, noble or church official in the eternal night world is really not the same world as ordinary people... Sulman walked silently and experienced the world from another perspective. Unconsciously, the time came to the end of the steelmaking area in the afternoon and dusk.

The streets here are familiar, impressively within the Jazz district.

"It's time to go to the party..." Sulman gathered up his spirit and walked up to the front. There was a white house with lights out, on which the sign of "golden song" club was hung.

As expected, this party should meet "Ms. Black Butterfly".

PS: this chapter is nearly 3000 words, and there is another watch in the evening.