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The beginning of the 001 story

The most pleasant season for the climate in Eagle Castle is summer. As the largest port city in the White Eagle Federation, the sea regulates the temperature of this city very well, making the temperature here very suitable for human survival.

Because the sky cleared up after many consecutive days of rain, and the fresh sea breeze blew through the city during the day. The city that was usually shrouded in black smoke from the chimneys of factories in the city suddenly became much cleaner. Therefore, many people

Taking this opportunity to go out on foot or in a carriage, the streets became noisy.

However, this kind of noise is only limited to a few busy roads in the city. Just turn a corner and leave the main roads in the city center, and everything will be quiet again. There are only one or two people wearing wrinkled woolen clothes on the small roads occasionally.

Workers in dark coats and felt hats with irregular brim hurried past.

Underneath the streets of these urban areas is a very fashionable new underground drainage pipe system that was introduced from the Old World to the New World. Each main pipe is made of red brick hoops, allowing an adult to walk upright inside.

Liang En is lying motionless in such a sewer.

Smelling the sticky odor at the tip of his nose, he felt the cold sewage soaking half of his body. As Liang En, who had only received all the memories of the original owner of this body ten minutes ago, he had to accept the fact that he had inexplicably traveled through time just after taking a nap.

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"Hiss—that's a cruel attack." Liang En felt the stabbing pain coming from the back of his head and cursed in his heart. Fortunately, it might be because his body had a soul again, and he could feel that he was feeling this.

Control of the physical body is slowly returning.

A few minutes later, Liang En used all his strength to get up. Then he straightened up and leaned against the wall of the sewer, breathing heavily. This single movement almost exhausted all his strength.

"Why are you so weak? You must not get sick!" Liang En was secretly worried in his heart. Now that he can save his life and come back, it can be regarded as a life after the disaster, but the sequelae left by this will be really miserable.

In particular, he found from Lawrence's memory that the development of medical standards in his era was not optimistic.

This is a world similar to the one after the outbreak of the first industrial revolution. The only difference from his hometown is that supernatural powers really exist in this world. It is a world where magic and trains, dragons and difference engines coexist.

Half a century ago, the roaring flames in steam engine boilers ignited the dawn of the industrial age, but supernatural forces are still around us as they were for the previous dozen centuries.

Magicians who pursue all kinds of new knowledge, druids who try to maintain the balance between industrial development and nature, demon hunters who use enchanted bullets and alchemical potions to eliminate evil, and even those goblins and kobolds still wandering in the wild have shown that

The extraordinaryness of this world has not disappeared because of the rise of industry.

However, although there are extraordinary powers in this world that can make flesh and bones white from life and death, only a few people can enjoy such treatment methods. And once most people get sick, the only thing they can have is

Some healers who don't know whether they have received professional training provide medical services that are completely random in whether or not they can be cured. This is why he is so worried.

Fortunately, after taking a breath for a while, he found that his physical strength was slowly recovering, so he simply leaned against the dirty wall and used this time to sort out the memories he had just received.

From this memory, Liang En learned that the name of his body was Lawrence August, the adopted son of the priest of the Church of Knowledge in a small town west of the White Eagle Federation with only over 1,200 people.

In such a great era, as the adopted son of a clergyman, Lawrence was lucky. Although his adoptive father was not very good at expressing himself, he spent most of his time dealing with official duties or conducting various bizarre experiments.

But at least it provided him with educational benefits that most people in this era cannot enjoy.

Therefore, four years ago, Lawrence was admitted to one of the best universities in the White Eagle Federation: Far Harbor Comprehensive University in Eagle Fort, relying on the letter of introduction his adoptive father received from the parish priest and his excellent grades.

After four years of study, Lawrence finally got his bachelor's degree in medicine with excellent results. He originally planned to buy some interesting things and mail them back as gifts. But when he was choosing souvenirs for his adoptive father and his friends, he was unexpectedly surprised.

I found an oriental-style bronze mirror in a second-hand store that really suits my eyes.

After some bickering, Lawrence bought the mirror at a relatively reasonable price and planned to give it to his childhood friend who went to a girls' school in the Old World. But what he didn't expect was that this would cause him misfortune:

Maybe it was because the bulging money bag he took out when paying for something attracted the voyeurs. As a result, on the way back to the rented room after shopping, someone hit him on the back of the head. When he opened his eyes again, he was feeling...

Liang En is the dove occupying the magpie's nest.

Recalling this, Liang En felt that part of his body had recovered. So he tried to stand up holding on to the sticky wall. After standing firm, he leaned against the wall and followed the guidance of the light to a place a few meters away.

He was under the manhole cover. Then he slowly climbed up to the ground along the iron ladder for maintenance, step by step.

"Thank you very much for stealing the manhole cover, otherwise I might not be able to recover from my current state." Liang En muttered after crawling out of the sewer, and then he walked on the gravel road full of mud and followed his memory towards the rental house.

Walk to the house.

As a clergyman serving the God of Knowledge, Lawrence's adoptive father invested most of his allowance in experimenting and subsidizing schools affiliated with the church, so that Lawrence himself relied entirely on scholarships and odd jobs during his college career in the past few years.

I brought it with the money I earned.

Therefore, since the school did not provide dormitories for students, he could only find a place to live in the attic of a pub near the workers' area. Compared with the rooms rented by ordinary college students, the only advantage of this place is that the rent is cheap.

But on the other hand, all public services in this area are very poor. For example, public security relies on the voluntary maintenance of surrounding residents, and various cases emerge in an endless stream. It is also common for Lawrence to be attacked during the day and then have all his valuables wiped away.

has happened.

Fortunately, the robbery took place during the day, so he only lost his belongings and his belongings, which were thrown into the sewer. If it had been at night, he might have really started with a pair of underwear, and all his equipment had exploded.

After staggering for more than ten minutes, Liang En pushed open the door of the tavern where Lawrence remembered renting, and walked into the tavern with the jingling of the bell on the door.

Because it was working time now, the workers who were the main consumers did not appear here, and the pub seemed empty. Only the fat owner Susan stood behind the wooden bar and wiped the shelves with a rag.

"Oh, Goddess of Fortune." Aunt Susan turned her head when she heard the noise at the door, and saw Lawrence, who was covered in dirt and looked like a drowned rat. "Lawrence, did you fall into the sewer?"

"It's worse than that, Aunt Susan. I was robbed and thrown into the sewer. I finally climbed out from underneath." Liang En imitated Lawrence's usual tone of voice and said, "Can you give me some help?"

Can I provide some hot water? I think I might need a nice shower."


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