Seeing Alfred looking at him, Klein smiled back and nodded slightly.
"I suddenly feel a little dangerous."
After saying this, he calmly turned around and walked towards the carriage that Haggis pointed to.
"Danger..." Alfred repeated the word in a low voice and looked around vigilantly, but did not find anything strange.
He slowed down his pace, kept an eye on his surroundings, and returned to the three-story building not far away with extreme caution.
Pagani glanced at the solemn Alfred and asked with a little doubt:
"What happened?"
He was quite a distance away from the arms deal site and could not hear the conversation over there clearly.
Alfred walked to the window, looked down at the horse team that had finished moving the ammunition and were preparing to leave, and said carefully:
"Dwayne Dantès left suddenly, saying he had a premonition of danger."
"Danger?" Pagani was not careless and looked around cautiously, but he did not notice anything wrong until Mesanyes's men moved away from the area and disappeared into the darkness.
He immediately laughed:
"Haha, Alfred, you are too sensitive. I think Dwayne Dantes is just timid and doesn't want to stay here for too long!"
Alfred retracted his gaze, frowned slightly and said:
"Maybe."
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After returning to the hotel, Klein asked the "winner" Enzo, who had transformed into a mixed-race young man, to open the box in his hand, take out the gold bars and coins one by one, and count them clearly.
There are a total of 30,000 Rune gold pounds worth of property here!
"Fortunately, the amount of gold agreed upon with the messenger was equivalent to 10,000 Loen gold coins, so there is no need to exchange it separately..." Klein sat leisurely in the reclining chair, drinking the sweet and sour refreshing "Guadal" drink while "supervising" the work of the secret puppet.
After Enzo had divided up the property, he took out the adventurer's harmonica, put it to his mouth and blew it.
Renette Tinicole, carrying four blond, red-eyed heads, immediately stepped out of the void, as if she had always been nearby.
Her eight eyes moved at the same time, looking at the pile of gold coins and gold bars that were separated.
After a few seconds, the four heads held by Renette Tinicole spoke one by one:
"Very good..." "Later..." "Task..." "Increase the price..."
...Where's the logic behind this? I paid the reward so promptly and quickly, why do I have to increase the price for future tasks? Klein was stunned for a second, sat up straight and asked:
"What?"
The four blond, red-eyed heads of Reinette Tinicole nodded seriously and said:
“Task…” “Pricing…” “Depends on…” “You…” “Make money…” “Of…” “Ability…”
It could be this way... Klein opened his mouth, but was unable to refute. After all, matters like this were unilaterally decided by the person providing the help. Moreover, as he was promoted to Sequence 4 and became a demigod, the missions that would require the help of the messenger would probably become more and more difficult and dangerous. Raising the price seemed reasonable.
After Renette Tinicole swallowed the pile of gold coins and gold bars and disappeared from the room, Klein gathered his thoughts and began to silently calculate his current assets:
"I've spent a lot of money during this period, and I still have 17,275 pounds of banknotes and 65 gold coins left... This pile of gold bars is worth 25,000 pounds... The total amount of property is more than 40,000 pounds, which is not a small amount in the entire Loen Kingdom. I can buy manors and land with it... The arms trade is really profitable..."
What Renette Tinicole needs first is gold coins, so the rest are gold bars.
After standing up and moving the gold bar above the gray fog, Klein walked to the window and cast his gaze toward the north.
Things here have come to a preliminary conclusion, and he will return to Backlund next.
After staring at the horizon for a while, Klein suddenly sighed silently:
“Backlund…”
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North District, Backlund University of Technology.
Audrey is walking on campus with several staff members of the "Luen Charity Student Aid Fund".
She was wearing a simple light green long skirt with a plain white leather belt around her waist. Her long golden hair was wrapped in a playful gauze hat with satin flowers on it. She had no accessories on her body except for a silver bracelet on her left wrist. She looked no different from a female student from a family of average means.
During this period of time, she had been to a public elementary school on the edge of the East District, and had also visited a technical school in the Backlund Bridge area. She already knew what clothes to wear for different occasions, unlike many nobles who treated charity events as social occasions.
Audrey's clear green eyes moved slightly, and she smiled faintly, observing the students coming and going carefully.
These days, Backlund University of Technology sends out admission letters and new students come to register.
Originally, the latter was supposed to be held in late August or early September, but Backlund University of Technology was a newly established school, and the entrance exams were later than other universities, and the results were also released later. This meant that the students who applied for them were likely to have also taken exams at other universities, or even been admitted. Therefore, they moved up the registration work to verify the number of people and determine how many more needed to be admitted.
For this reason, Audrey and the staff of the "Loen Charity Student Aid Fund" came here to assist the first batch of applicants who passed the review in completing the admission procedures.
Wherever she looked, she found that the students on this campus had radiant faces, obvious confidence in their demeanor, and an indescribable vitality in their every word and action. It seemed that they were full of yearning for the future and could see the light.
This was completely different from Audrey's experience in several public elementary schools, where students were either rude and noisy or silent and gloomy. What they had in common was that they were often confused and uneasy, and when they met outsiders with status, they were timid and had dull eyes, lacking the enthusiasm that teenagers should have.
"I really hope that those children have the opportunity to receive higher education and work hard for a better future like the students here..." Audrey sighed silently as her eyes swept over a pair of people who were probably brother and sister.
The elder brother had obviously entered society and started working. He wore a silk top hat and a thin black suit. He looked to be around thirty years old and had the temperament of a government employee.
He borrowed an older camera from somewhere, placed it on a tripod, and motioned his sister to move her body and adjust her posture while looking for the best angle.
The younger sister seemed to be about seventeen or eighteen years old, with her black hair simply draped over her shoulders. There was a hint of helplessness in her brown eyes, but she said nothing and listened carefully to her brother's instructions.
Similar groups can be seen everywhere on campus, some are parents and children, and some are a few friends together.
"This scene is so beautiful..." Audrey retracted her gaze and walked forward.
There was a square with a retired steam locomotive placed in the center. Its huge and complex body stood proudly, adding a touch of industrial temperament to Backlund University of Technology.
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Woo!
The monster-like steam locomotive, spewing smoke and dragging its long body, drove into the platform, moving slower and slower.
A seven or eight-year-old mixed-race girl as delicate as a doll was holding her mother's hand, waiting in a long line. She excitedly asked her father, who was also a half-blood of Loen and Balam, about the situation in Disi Bay.
As she moved slowly, she saw a gentleman with gray hair and a top hat, holding a gold-studded cane, and walking towards the first-class carriage with a brown-skinned servant.
The servant looked around curiously and said:
"Sir, what I've seen recently is not what I imagined. I originally thought that the people of Balam would live a very difficult and painful life, with chaos, dirtiness, poverty, and oppression everywhere. But that's not the case at all. They can still drink 'Gwadar' drinks, smoke East Balam cigarettes, and some of them can even afford bicycles. Um, you know, although I have Balam blood, I was born in Backlund and have never been to the southern continent before. Of course, I speak Dutan language pretty well."
The elegant middle-aged gentleman laughed, raised his cane and said:
"That's because we went to relatively good cities and relatively good areas, while the most miserable Balam people were mostly in the countryside, on those plantations. The rest settled around the factories and formed slums. We never had the opportunity to see them."
As if noticing the little girl's gaze, the gentleman with deep blue eyes and his servant turned their heads to look over and smiled warmly.
The corners of their mouths were clearly raised, revealing eight teeth. Then they nodded slightly, retracted their gaze, and continued walking.
Not long after, the little girl and her parents boarded the steam train and found their own seats.
When the "wooo" sound sounded again, the little girl saw a man with dark brown skin, soft features, and a small red and swollen lump on the side of his face. He lowered his head, held his top hat with his hand, and walked quickly towards the front of the train.
The man then knocked on the isolation door, flashed into the cab, and said to the conductor:
"All the train crew have been replaced by our people. The bridge ahead will be the place for the sacrifice."
The train conductor with a thick beard nodded and said:
“May God be pleased with this cartload of offerings.
“May we have eternal life in the kingdom of God.”
Woo!
The steam train passed one bridge and then another bridge, and after a long journey, it arrived at the destination port very smoothly.
The doll-like mixed-race little girl looked a little tired and not as lively as before. Guided by her parents, she followed the crowd of passengers and moved step by step towards the door.
There were several conductors standing at the door, helping some passengers take their luggage out of the carriage.
When the little girl and her parents passed by, all the conductors raised the corners of their mouths, showing their eight teeth and gave them a warm smile.
After the little girl jumped onto the platform, she subconsciously turned around to look at the front of the steam locomotive. She saw figures standing outside the door, discussing something. Among them seemed to be the conductor and the man with the lump on the side of his face.
In less than a second, all these people turned their heads to look over, and the corners of their mouths curled up one after another, revealing eight teeth.
The little girl withdrew her gaze and left the platform with her parents, skipping a little.