After getting on a newly arrived carriage, Judge Yagoda asked Lawrence where he was going next. "Where should we send you next? Is it your family's mansion here?"
"No, of course not. That mansion is just an ordinary house." Lawrence shook his head, and then he asked Yagoda. "Can you recommend a safer place to live? I want you to live there.
From the information collected, I should know that if you include this time, I have been ambushed twice. Although I had a chance to escape and even successfully counterattacked twice, I really can't guarantee that I will be as good as this time next time.
It’s your luck to be able to escape again.”
"If you say so -" Judge Yagoda frowned, and then asked a seemingly unrelated question. "If I remember correctly, you are not the biological son of Priest Lambert.
Is it right?"
"Yes, but I am the kind of adopted son who is recognized by the family. Otherwise, my surname would not be August." Lawrence emphasized that the transfer of inheritance rights in this world is somewhat similar to that of Lawrence's previous life in Europe. One of them is that there are
Illegitimate children who are related by blood have no inheritance rights, but adopted children who are not related by blood can have inheritance rights as long as they are recognized by the family.
For example, the older of Lawrence's two cousins who died this time had an illegitimate son who was over one year old, but he had no family inheritance rights. This is why the Earl of Sauer family needed to invite Mr. Lambert from the New World.
reason.
The reason why there are such regulations that Lawrence feels are slightly inhumane is because according to tradition, the birth of illegitimate children is often considered to be a result of moral corruption, and they are born with some kind of original sin.
Therefore, illegitimate children are also a dishonorable existence in this world. The reason why Lawrence has to clearly explain his identity to the other party is to avoid being considered as the kind of person who is regarded as inferior in social life, even if he himself
I don’t think illegitimate children are inferior to others, nor do I agree with this mainstream view in society.
But it was obvious that Yagoda was not very concerned about whether Lawrence was orthodox or not, but asked in a doubtful tone. "In other words, you don't have any secrets about the Earl of Sauer family now? Then why did the other party
What about the two massive attempts to murder you?"
"You're right, this is indeed a bit strange." Lawrence was also lost in thought at this time. In aristocratic families, the secrets of a family are often only passed on to the eldest son who has the right to inherit. Therefore, outsiders like Lawrence seem
It is basically impossible for a branch of a family who is exiled to the New World to master family secrets.
On the other hand, because Lawrence is not a biological child of August's family, the common blood inheritance in this extraordinary world will naturally not appear in him. Therefore, after being mentioned by Yagoda, Lawrence suddenly fell into deep thought.
, because he really couldn't figure out why those people wanted to assassinate him one after another.
"Okay, don't think about it. I thought that after interrogating the prisoners, I should be able to find the reason why those guys attacked you." Yagoda, who had just established a friendship with Lawrence while fighting side by side, patted him.
The shoulder of my new friend comforted me. "But your worries before are justified. I think you can temporarily stay in the dormitory of our court today."
Regarding his itinerary these days, Lawrence has ruled out the idea of staying in a hotel or going to Count Sauer's residence in the capital Wendobona for a few days due to safety concerns. Therefore, he can choose from
There are not many places to live.
In the original plan, Lawrence had planned to go to the Church of the God of Knowledge in the city to temporarily settle down. After all, he had a badge issued by the Church of Knowledge. With that badge, he could go to the church to earn a living for a week or so. It should be no problem.
.
However, since the development of the Church of Knowledge in the Old World is far less than that of the New World, the Church of Knowledge in Wendobona is not as big as St. Gutenberg's in Eagle Fort in terms of scale and staffing, except that it has a longer history.
Church. Lawrence was hesitant to go there out of fear of getting them into trouble.
Therefore, after hearing Yagoda's suggestion, Lawrence immediately changed his original plan, because the other party still issued such an invitation even though he knew that he might cause trouble, which means that the other party should be able to deal with the next possible attack. It will not be because of
This caused them extra trouble. However, he still had a little doubt about the invitation of this new friend.
"The dormitory of the Inquisition? Can outsiders also live there?" Lawrence asked curiously. In his impression, the Inquisition should belong to some kind of secret operations organization, and the dormitories there should not be open to the public. That's right.
Like in the 1970s and 1980s, it was impossible for ordinary people to live in the Lubyanka dormitory.
"Our dormitory does not only provide accommodation services for our members." Yagoda smiled and shook his head. "Sometimes some important witnesses or people who need protection will live in our dormitory. Make sure that
Under our protection when needed, our dormitory is actually more like a hotel run by the Inquisition."
Perhaps to support his statement, Yagoda added: "For example, those young people in the tribunal who have not yet started a family or singles like to stay in the dormitory, because it can provide a series of products at very low prices but with very good overall quality.
Services such as room cleaning, catering, and mail collection.”
"Sounds good indeed." After thinking for a while, Lawrence decided to accept the invitation of his new friend to temporarily live in the dormitory of the Inquisition. After all, it should be safer to live there.
The Tribunal's dormitory is located behind the Tribunal's headquarters building made of heavy gray stone. It is a four-story building built of red bricks and gray stones on a hill. This small building is connected to the Tribunal building through a wall.
The connection, together with the headquarters building of the tribunal, forms a relatively closed space.
"Are you building a fortress?" After getting off the carriage and walking through a door on the wall into the space surrounded by walls and buildings, Nora couldn't bear the urge to complain in her heart and spoke out.
idea.
It’s no wonder that the little doll said such a thing, because after walking through the door, Lawrence discovered that those ordinary red brick walls that looked like two stories high from the outside actually had a thick trapezoid with a larger bottom and a smaller top from the inside.
The top of the embankment-like structure is one and a half meters wide. If you stand on the top of the embankment-like structure, the walls that are a little higher can just be used as breast walls.
In addition, this piece of grass that seems to be for everyone to relax has several half-meter-high steel-concrete structure platforms. In the middle of the platform is a steel door. It should be the reinforced basement entrance.
"You know the nature of our place, so some precautions are still necessary." Yagoda shrugged and said, "After all, our place is the target of attacks by many evil people, not to mention that this city was
It is the frontline of the battle between civilization and barbarism, order and chaos. Therefore, when many old buildings in the city were constructed, they considered that if the city wall was breached, these buildings could be used as street fighting supports that could fight independently and cooperate with surrounding buildings.
point."
"And the location of our tribunal happens to be one of the most important highlands in the south of the city, so it was built as a key fortress from the beginning."
And when Lawrence took Nora under the guidance of a staff member and walked into the room where he was going to live for the next few days, he realized this. This room was very clean, but the area was much smaller than it looked.
.Because the walls of the room are much thicker than normal rooms.
Not to mention that the window facing the street is not only slightly smaller in size, but there are also finger-thick steel plates on both sides of the window in the room that can be slid to the window through slide rails to block the window.
"I always feel like I'm living in a fortress." Nora complained to Lawrence after looking at the house, "This house really doesn't look like a normal dormitory."
However, Lawrence didn't feel anything was wrong, and he even felt that this place was very good in his heart. After all, after being hunted down twice by people outside who couldn't figure out their identities for no apparent reason, he felt that only in such a place could he feel safe and secure.