At eight o'clock in the evening, the red moon that should have appeared in the sky had long since disappeared, and dark clouds obscured the sky. Only the lighthouse on the dock in the distance was still flashing lights, preventing the area from falling into darkness.
Standing on the Silver Mirror Street, Rawls was wearing a morning coat, a half-high silk hat, a cane, a mustache, and heavy glasses on the bridge of his nose. He thought for a while and walked northwest along the street.
Go, that direction is the direction where the Tasok River flows into Backlund.
In the picture he foresaw, under the light of the bloody full moon, the river water was relatively clear. Judging from the current water quality of the Tasoke River in Backlund City, only the river water that has not actually flowed into several urban areas in the center of Backlund can meet this condition.
.The only way further down is beyond Backlund, and the water quality in Pulitzer Harbor, dozens of kilometers away, is better.
The Tasoke River flows from the outskirts of the West District into the core area of Backlund, passes through the Jowood District and the Bridge District, and then divides both sides of the river into the Bridge South District and the Dock District, and then continues to flow southeast out of the core area of Backlund.
In Backlund, both sides of the Tasoke River are not affluent areas. Even in the West District and Jorwood District, the rents for houses on both sides are much lower than the average rents in the two areas. The reason is that in Tasso
On the water quality of Ke River.
You must know that Backlund was already the capital during the Tudor-Trunsoest United Empire in the Fourth Age. Later, it experienced the Trunsoest Empire and became the capital of the Loen Kingdom in the Fifth Age.
With a history of 1,500 years, the population has changed by tens of millions. Even though the Tasok River is the largest river in Loen, it is inevitable that it cannot withstand pollution. Especially more than 100 years ago, Russell started the industrial revolution.
, the pollution doubles and grows upward.
It is already very good to be what it is now, which makes Rawls wonder if the royal family or the church has any special seal to maintain the water quality.
The dock area is in the southeast of Backlund, and Rawls is going to the outskirts of the West District, which means that he has to cross almost the entire core city of Backlund.
But fortunately it was only eight o'clock, and there was still an hour and a half before the subway stopped running. As long as he got to the nearest subway station before here, he could reach the West District in a short time. As for the rest of the journey, it would take Rolls
He opened his legs and hurried on.
Entering the station, Rawls bought a first-class subway ticket. The price was not expensive, only 6 pence, and there was no distance limit. He rarely took the subway before, after all, the wealthy people who lived in the West End took the subway.
Horse-drawn carriages, although the subway is divided into first, second and third class carriages, are definitely not suitable for the rich.
Holding a cane, I stood on the platform of the first-class carriage. After a while, the roaring steam locomotive came with majestic power.
It was already 8:40, and the rush hour for first-class subway rides had passed. No one got off the train, and only Rolls got on. He handed the ticket in his hand to the somewhat surprised conductor, Roll.
Si was leaning on his cane and found a seat at random to sit down.
Apart from Rolls, there was no second passenger in the entire first-class carriage. The seats in the first-class carriage were quite loose. The seats were somewhat similar to single-seat sofas, but they were far less bulky, so the comfort level was quite different.
Listening to the "Woo" sound of the whistle, the carriage door slowly closed. Bang, bang, bang, clang, the steam train began to run from slow to fast. Rawls squinted his eyes, seeming to be asleep. From here to the farthest point in the West District
From the subway station, it takes at least twenty minutes.
A few minutes later, Rawls heard the sound of the car door opening. He followed the sound and saw another steward walking out. He should be a steward from another carriage. Like the steward in his carriage, he was a young man with good looks.
female.
When the steward saw Rolls, he covered his mouth in surprise, pulled the steward from Rolls' car to the carriage where she was, and started whispering.
Rawls frowned. They did not close the door connecting the carriages. Although the conversation was very low and coupled with the noise of the steam subway, it was difficult for ordinary people to hear it, but Rawls, as an extraordinary person, could hear it.
Very clear.
"Are there any passengers in your carriage at this time?"
"Yes, I came from Luo Jin Station in the dock area. Is there anyone there?"
"No, it's not like you don't know that no one takes the first-class carriage at seven o'clock."
"But the train stopped running soon, and I got another one on here! I don't know what happened, but this is the second weirdo I met today."
"Have you met any other weird people?"
"It's not weird. She must have come from the countryside. She bought a new first-class annual ticket and sat there for a full two hours. And I heard people in the third-class and second-class carriages say that the woman was still in the third-class carriage.
I have ridden in the first-class carriage and the second-class carriage, and it was ours."
"How is that possible? She doesn't sit in the first-class carriage and takes the third-class carriage. Is there something wrong with her head?"
"I don't know, I think there should be. She was wearing the most expensive beige long skirt with ruffles in the fashion magazine, but half of her skirt was badly worn. That skirt was obviously last Friday.
It just came out, and I confirm that it is genuine."
Rawls clenched the head of his cane, feeling the temperature of the leather, and opened his narrowed eyes. Is this obsessive-compulsive disorder?
Many of the guys who pursue this kind of aesthetic in this world are not normal people. Most of them are high-sequence Extraordinaries on the "lawyer" path.
The most prominent ones are the three emperors of the Fourth Age. The asymmetrical aesthetics they pursued tortured many nobles and extraordinary people, especially those with the "Judge" path like Augustus.
Rawls even speculated that families like Augustus, who supported Solomon's First Empire, the Tudor-Trunsoest United Empire, and the Trunsoest Empire, had reasons why they couldn't stand the aesthetic asymmetry.
And for the Night Emperor Trunsoest, switching from "Prince Killer" to "Judge", from one obsessive-compulsive disorder pursuing asymmetry to another obsessive-compulsive disorder pursuing symmetry, this really won't happen
Crazy?
The Tudor Dynasty and Trunsoest Empire in the Fourth Age, after the fall of Solomon's First Empire, still maintained the characteristics of being contrary to common sense, messy and asymmetrical, and liking black. After changing the order, the anchors accumulated before must be returned.
Otherwise, it will inevitably have an impact on your own mental state.
Otherwise, Trunsoest, who became the "Judge", would definitely tear down those asymmetrical buildings and replace them with symmetrical ones. It is precisely because Tudor and Trunsoest could not remove the traces of the "Black Emperor" Solomon
, will lead to Solomon's resurrection and return from the starry sky.
A more important point is that Trunsoest, the Night King, has a great relationship with Rawls' "fog of uncertainty".