Woohoo!
Accompanied by the reverberating, thunderous sound of the whistle, the huge steam locomotive rushed into the steam train station in Tingen City with a majestic sense of power, and stopped on the platform with a clang.
This long-distance steam train uses the same design as Backlund's subway.
Its huge shape, sinuous body, black iron color and complicated machinery are mixed together, giving it a unique beauty.
After the train stopped, Varina got off with his suitcase.
After nimbly weaving through the crowd and avoiding many dirty hands with malicious intent, he arrived at the public restroom of the site.
A few minutes later, Varina changed his appearance and rejoined the crowd.
He took off the disguise on his face and put on dark trousers, a brown linen jacket, and a round-brimmed felt hat of the same color, making himself no longer conspicuous in the crowd.
Hearing the Loen accent coming from around him that was slightly different from Backlund's, Varina felt a sense of intimacy.
His time in Backlund was less than two years in total. Tingen was the place where he was born and grew up, so his experience was naturally different.
Carrying the suitcase and leaving the station, Warina walked onto the street with ease.
It's now around six o'clock in the evening.
The afterglow of the setting sun shines on the street, bringing people the last trace of dim skylight today.
This is the difference between Tingen and Backlund.
At this time, the sky in Backlund had already darkened, the smog was sinking, and the gas street lamps had to be lit in advance.
Varina looked up at the sky, feeling a sense of freedom and vastness.
Without the oppression of the gloomy environment and the constraints of the Witch Sect, he felt that his mind had broadened a lot.
The steam train station in Tingen is located in the northern part of the southern district, and Varina is not particularly familiar with it.
The South District is the industrial zone of Tingen City. Steel plants, lead factories, ceramic factories, printing factories, metal manufacturing factories, and machinery manufacturing factories are all located next to each other.
Factory workers mainly live in the Lower Street slums in the West District.
What Varina is most familiar with is the stretch of road from Jinwutong District to East District and then to University District——
That was the road he took from his uncle's house to attend the Technical School in Tingen.
Although his uncle would give him fare for taking the public carriage, he would sometimes return on foot and use the saved fare for other purposes.
In addition, he is no stranger to Zuotlan Street in the North District and the adjacent Red Moon Street.
Because his uncle's cloak shop was on Zotland Street, he occasionally went to help;
The St. Selena Church on Red Moon Street is the headquarters of the Church of the Goddess of the Night in Tingen. He used to go to worship at least once a week.
Of course, Varina has no plans to go to any of these places now.
In order to further act as an "instigator", what he needs now is a relatively loose security environment, so Iron Cross Street in the West District is a good choice.
There is not only one Iron Cross Street, but as its name suggests, it is formed by two intersecting roads.
With the intersection as the core, it is divided into left street, right street, upper street and lower street.
On this date, if nothing else happens, the real Klein family now lives in an apartment on Lower Street.
However, the people living in the apartment and surrounding areas do not think that the neighborhood is lower street. Instead, they coined the term "middle street" to distinguish it from the poor gathering place where the road extends 200 meters away.
There, five, six, or even ten people might be squeezed into one bedroom.
The environment of the real Lower Street is not much different from Backlund's East District. It's the same mix of dragons and snakes, but the scale is much smaller.
Carrying his suitcase, Varina boarded a trackless public carriage on the side of the road and headed to Daffodil Street.
This won't take much time.
About ten minutes later, he paid 2 pence for the fare and got off the bus at the Municipal Square at the intersection of Daffodil Street and Iron Cross Street.
Carrying two 5-penny copper coins as change, Varina walked for a few minutes, found a hotel nearby, and checked in as Rexxar.
After putting things away, he went out again.
After walking along Daffodil Street for a while, Varina saw the "Silver Crown Restaurant" mentioned in the original work, which was said to be delicious.
Varina estimates that this may be the nicest restaurant in the neighborhood.
The street-facing side of the restaurant uses large, continuous glass walls to separate the inside and outside. Passers-by on the street can see the elegant and warm interior decoration style of the restaurant through the glass at a glance.
It's meal time now, and several waiters wearing yellow vests walk steadily among the seats to deliver meals to the guests.
After taking a few glances, Varina opened the door and entered.
…
After the meal, Varina went shopping on Iron Cross Street and got familiar with the environment before returning to the hotel.
After locking the door, Varina used a silver dagger to create a "spiritual wall" to isolate the inside and outside of the room.
Only then did he open the large paper bag he got from the storage area.
Indeed, as Maric said, there was a formal suit inside.
Soon, Varina found more important items from the sides and breast pockets of his formal jacket.
A light yellow identification card, and two wooden boxes, one long and one square.
The surface of both wooden boxes is covered with a "spiritual wall".
Varina opened the box, and the "spiritual wall" shattered.
Inside is a groove made of shredded paper and linen, on which lies a bird's egg that is green in color and densely covered with orange-red spots on the surface. It is slightly smaller than an ordinary egg.
This is the "Agate Peacock's Egg".
As soon as the "spiritual wall" disappeared, Varina felt a slight change in the power of his potion, like a magnet encountering a different pole.
There is no doubt that this is the embodiment of the "Law of Extraordinary Characteristics Aggregation".
This is the best proof that the materials are genuine.
Varina closed the wooden box, recreated a "spiritual wall" around it, and set it aside.
Then, he opened the long wooden box.
The same groove was paved with shredded paper and linen, but this wooden box contained a sealed glass tube with a thin layer of frost on the surface.
Varina felt a similar attraction as before.
Obviously, the cold, black oily liquid contained in the glass tube is the "blood of the Black Abyss Demonic Fish".
The same process was followed again, and Varina sealed the long wooden box with a "spiritual wall".
As for the auxiliary materials, Varina only prepared the relatively rare "Shadow Lizard Scales" and brought them over in a suitcase together with the whale bone chess pieces.
As for the golden mandala and narcissus juice, it was not difficult to get these two even if he did not go to the underground trading market of the "Dragon Bar" in the dock area.
At best, you can process them yourself, as these two types of flowers must be sold in flower shops.
…
After checking, Varina put the things back into the suitcase by category.
Just when he was about to cancel the "spiritual wall" and take a bath and rest, he suddenly felt that his heart began to throb for a long time——
There was no doubt that this was Qili calling him.
"well."
Varina sighed, took out a box of communication paste from his suitcase, and walked into the bathroom.
