Although there are still some things that are difficult for Lawrence to understand about that murder case, for example, the pronunciations of he and she are different in the common Kantian language, and the middle-aged priest clearly used the word she when describing the murderer.
In other words, the murderer was a female backup dancer.
He didn't think that an ordinary woman could cut someone in half, especially since the priest had not changed much in the murderer's description.
However, thinking that he was only a person who had just become a supernatural being for a few days, Lawrence wisely did not express any opinions. He felt that since experienced supernatural beings all thought it was okay, there was no need for him to worry unfounded here. This case should be like this.
What the priest said was simply a criminal case.
Throughout the day, Lawrence had been reading the "Introduction to Alchemy" that he borrowed yesterday and learning to make something else. At 5:30 in the afternoon, he put another box in his belt
Five or six small things that can be used daily have been added.
It has to be said that Bai Ze is indeed a mythical beast that symbolizes knowledge. Its bloodline allows Lawrence to get twice the result with half the effort in learning alchemy. At least during lunch, he learned from Peter the failure rate of ordinary extraordinary people in alchemy.
It is more than three times as high as in his current unskilled situation.
After clearing the table, Lawrence took out from the cabinet the formal suit of white shirt, black vest, black pants, and black jacket that he used to meet the professor last time and put it on. Then he took out a bottle of wine that he bought from the cafeteria for 65 cents.
The home-brewed wine of St. Gutenberg's Cathedral was wrapped in a piece of beautiful colored paper, and a small greeting card was attached at the end.
When everything was ready, Lawrence put on his bowler hat and carried the bottle of wine out of the back door of St. Gutenberg's Cathedral and walked towards McKinley Street, which was not very far from St. Gutenberg's Cathedral.
Edward's family lived in that place.
"After you save money by doing a few tasks, you should go out and rent a house first, and then buy a better pocket watch." Lawrence thought while walking on the street. For Lawrence, who used to be able to take out his mobile phone to check the time anytime and anywhere, he couldn't.
He felt a little inconvenient to keep track of time. And as a college graduate, not having a pocket watch would make him look shabby and rude in social situations.
"But thank God, the Silver Federation is not Briton, otherwise, in order to maintain dignity, we would have to spend a fortune on a walking stick that is basically useless." Thinking about the habits over the ocean, Lawrence suddenly felt that he was quite lucky.
The streets here are much cleaner than where he lived before. The main part of the street is paved with square stone slabs. There are large trees with graceful postures planted on the sidewalks on both sides of the street, and in the gaps between the big trees.
There are black iron gas street lamps standing upright.
In Lawrence's memory, these street lamps with external pipe networks only appeared in this city ten years ago. In the past, these lamps were fish oil lamps, which did not smell good when burned. Today, some minor streets
The old-fashioned fish oil lamp is still lit above.
Fifteen minutes later, Lawrence appeared on McKinley Street. This street was filled with people who had some status, but some who were obviously not particularly high-status.
After entering this street, Lawrence found that there were almost identical three-story row houses on both sides of the street. Their first floor was made of white stone, and the second and third floors were made of red bricks. The roofs were made of a kind of white stone.
Gabled roof covered with dark blue tiles.
"Let me see, No. 12 McKinley Street. This is No. 8...No. 10, here we go." These identical houses caused some trouble to Lawrence, so he nailed the mailbox in front of each house.
The brass sign marked the house number of the room. So Lawrence quickly found the location of Edward's house.
At this time, the bell on the distant church struck six times, indicating that it was already six o'clock in the afternoon. Lawrence quickly bypassed the patio outside the semi-basement window surrounded by wrought iron railings, and then stepped up the three stairs and struck the black bell.
's door.
"Karl, go open the door." A middle-aged woman shouted from the room, and with the sound of kicking footsteps, the door opened, and a young boy wearing an undershirt opened the door. "Mr.
Are you—"
"Ah, I am Edward's classmate. Yesterday Mr. Frank invited me to his house for dinner." Lawrence explained that he felt that the boy in front of him looked very similar to Edward and should be his younger brother.
"Are you the Lawrence my brother always talks about?" Karl looked at Lawrence's silver hair with some curiosity. "Come in quickly, my brother has been talking about you for a long time."
After entering the door, there is a front room with a black and white mosaic floor. An umbrella stand is placed beside the door. Two brown chairs are placed against the stairs.
"Who's here?" Just as Lawrence was observing this house that he had never seen in his life, a door on the wall behind the stairs opened. A middle-aged woman with brown hair and a plump figure walked out.
"It's our guest tonight, Lawrence. My father told us yesterday." Karl turned his head and replied, and then introduced Lawrence. "This is my mother -"
"Hello, Mrs. Hans." Lawrence quickly took off his hat, bowed slightly, and then took the bottle of wine from Lawrence's hand.
"What a polite boy, just call me Molly." Edward's mother looked like a very kind and cheerful woman. She opened the package with a smile. "Ah, the wine brewed by St. Gutenberg's Cathedral. This
But it’s a nice gift. Okay, let Karl accompany you to the living room to rest for a while and eat for a while.”
After speaking, Molly returned to the kitchen to prepare dinner. Lawrence, guided by Karl, entered the living room through a door on the left side of the front hall.
There is an oriel window in the living room, and the golden-red sunset shines through the leaves of the street trees into the window. It also bathes a group of white fabric sofas in the living room in the dappled sunlight.
In the middle of the sofa is a black lacquer coffee table in the Sinian style from the eastern end of the Old World. On the table top is a slightly gaudy rose in a vase painted with red paint. On top of the table is a white tea table in the same Sinian style.
Porcelain with blue veins on the bottom.
"You may need to wait a while." Karl skillfully used the tea set to make two cups of black tea with milk and sugar cubes, and then handed one of the cups to Lawrence. "My brother and father will not be back for another half an hour.
, the police station doesn’t get off work until after six o’clock.”
After taking the tea cup, the two started chatting. Just as Edward told Lawrence before, the Hans family has a sister who is married to a port manager and a brother who will take the college entrance examination this year.
So the content of the chat between Lawrence and Karl soon turned into about the entrance exams of various universities. After chatting for more than half an hour, there was another knock on the door.
Carl immediately stood up and went to the door to open the door, and soon Frank and Edward, wearing black police uniforms, walked into the living room.
"It's good that you're okay." Looking at Lawrence's appearance that was very different from before, even though Frank had told Edward these things before, Lawrence's huge change still made him stunned for a moment, but then he stepped forward and hugged him hard.
Lawrence. "And brother, you look much more handsome now than before."
"Sorry, I really couldn't do anything for safety at that time -" Lawrence patted Edward on the back and said.
"It's okay, I understand." Edward looked relieved. "We police officers often make such sacrifices, so I understand you."
While everyone was chatting, Mrs. Hans's voice came from the kitchen. "Okay, gentlemen, it's time to eat now."
"Let's go eat, and we can chat again after dinner." Mr. Frank interrupted everyone's greetings, and then led them to the restaurant behind the stairs.