Mysterious as the wind, always with me

Chapter 20

Is it ridiculous?
Ridiculous!
Just less than a minute ago, Mark was still savoring the deliciousness of the crab claws, feeling the fragrant bite of Wright's spaghetti, and salivating crazily for it.

At this moment, 1 minute later, the crab, which was supposed to be dead, attacked him.

It was only a tenth of a second before the arteriovenous veins in his neck were about to get stuck.Even if he didn't suffocate to death due to lack of oxygen to the brain, most of them would die suddenly because the throat was cut off by the ensuing pincer attack.

A spiritual thread appeared just right!

"hiss!"

The lobster claws, which were bigger than Mark's palm, split into four and five under Minnie's attack, and were cut into irregular carapace fragments.The two small lobster eyeballs that were shining strangely a second ago were also chopped into several pieces.

"Huh! Huh—" Mark felt that the air was so fresh and lovely for a long time, and it took him a few seconds to come back to his senses, and asked, "Mini, do you know what's going on?"

Miss Puppet grew from the void to the size of a human being. She shook her head first, then tilted her head: "Mark... smells even better."

fragrant?
Mark's eyes widened, his head full of question marks.

"It used to be handsome...spirit...a bit fragrant...now even more fragrant..."

Mark suddenly thought of a question, is it because he used too many 20-sided dice, causing the soul to emit a soul breath that only [abnormal] beings can smell?
This is a bit of a hassle.

Mark quickly dug out the three 'blind boxes' he got in the afternoon.

The giant Conrad is nothing special, it is a soul oath, which swears with the soul imprint that as long as he completes his revenge, he will come to serve Mark for the rest of his life.

A man with this kind of revenge script must first survive before he can be useful.

Next is Miss Merchant's trade item.

A very simple knitted pocket appeared from the illusion, it was translucent at first, and then completely solidified.This means that this thing can travel through the spirit world, which is an [abnormality] in itself.

Looking at the note left by the business lady, Mark quickly understood why this thing was approved by the balance.

[(Endless gold coin purse): D-level abnormal treasure, it can automatically collect gold, silver, copper and other precious metals within a radius of [-] meters, and generate gold, silver, and copper pounds of the Victorian Empire in the pocket. Even banknote inspectors can't tell the authenticity from the fake.The disadvantage is that it will trigger the detection magic of the Church of Wealth.If you can't absorb precious metals for three consecutive days, you will enter a 'thirsty' state, and you need to invest at least three Victorian silver pounds to return to normal. 】

The note left by the business lady stated the usage: take it in the carriage every day, and walk around the city.In this way, the precious metals privately hidden by the city people will be unknowingly short of catties, but on the surface it looks like the gold, silver and bronze wares are dirty, such as dusty, dark in color or something.

Obviously, she needs a lot of money in the near future, and she doesn't care about this long-term meal ticket.

This is why she proposed to redeem the purse with an equivalent item in the future.

She was really reluctant.

Mark thought for a moment, she couldn't afford to lie to him about such a thing.After all, according to the circumstances at the time, if she still wanted to do something, it was really a death.

As for the things given by the male nobles, it is even less likely to cause accidents.

It was a silver grade gratitude roll from the Mechanicus.

It probably means that he has helped the Mechanic God, and in order to repay him, the Mechanic God wrote an IOU.The IOUs are transferable, no matter who takes the IOUs to the Mechanicus, they will do a favor within their ability, which is regarded as a favor.

Of course, the Church of the Mechanic God has tests to confirm whether the comer has used violence or other disgraceful means to transfer the gratitude roll.

This is a very aristocratic operation.He didn't need to press down on his own family property, but he also paid back the favor very well.

Typical non-stick causal operations.

"Neither of these two! This is troublesome." Mark held his chin and thought hard.

Fortunately, Mark has another identity, which may help him solve this trouble-don't forget, he is also a student of the Department of Occult Studies at the National Mistry University.

The school system of the Wright Empire is different from that of the Earth. Even though it is the end of August, in fact, the freshmen and sophomores have already started school.

Mark quickly entered the bedroom, rummaged through boxes and chests and took out his student ID card and study list, and his face suddenly became weird.

"That dead ghost is really a 'good student'!"

The university implements the credit system. In addition to compulsory courses, a large number of elective course credits are required to graduate.The original owner's grades are a bit hard to describe in one word. He is like a dead line fighter in most subjects, and he just got the D-level evaluation that just passed.I don't know if the mentors let him go because of his handsome face.

Unfortunately, there are still two compulsory courses failed.

Which just so happens to include Anomalous History.It stands to reason that if he is a junior and promoted to a senior, he will be able to graduate smoothly if he earns his credits back before July next year, and then find a clerical job and wait to die.

As long as he still wants this diploma, this hurdle cannot be avoided.To some extent, this can be regarded as a play of fate.

Mark has no interest in playing school games.

He really had no choice.

He summoned the manservant hired by the landlady and cleaned up the food dishes that were no longer abnormal.Started thinking about tomorrow's school trip.

Exhausted, he finally fell asleep drowsily under Minnie's protection.

Fortunately, nothing happened overnight.

Early the next morning, after Mark washed up, he checked the timetable and went to school after a long absence.

The Kensington school district where the school is located is also divided into upper and lower districts.The lower area is located halfway up the mountain, mainly housing staff and students’ apartments, as well as various living facilities, while the upper area is where the real school is located.

The city of St. Leiden was originally composed of two fortresses that could cover each other and were built along the cliffs. It was originally known as the Twin Cities.

With the advent of the era of steam engines and cannons, the towering city walls and dangerous terrain are no longer the core elements of CD City. The houses that the civilians built spontaneously under the castle were gradually surrounded, and now it occupies a wider area and is more beautiful. For the majestic city of St. Leiden.

The hill with a larger area on the top of the hill became the upper town exclusively for nobles, and the other hill with a smaller area became the college area. Three schools, including Mistry University, divided up this 'small' hill.

To say it is small is only relative.

Mistry University alone covers an area of ​​more than 12 square meters.Outsiders have no idea how big the buildings on the upper floors and the underground space created by hollowing out the cavern are.

After Mark went out, he walked for about 5 minutes to the cable car platform.

The total length of the cable car is 1.5 kilometers, the relative height is 280 meters, the whole journey takes 6 minutes, and the cable car goes back and forth 100 times a day.

Apart from going to school by horse-drawn carriage, this is the most convenient means of transportation.

This is a special train leading to the college. People who don't wear student uniforms or don't have a teacher's card can't even enter the station.

This kind of cable is inclined at 45 degrees, and sitting in the cable car is like entering a cable car in a metal cage, which is full of nostalgia for Mark.The cable car is not big, there are only three carriages, and it can take a hundred people if it is full.

As soon as Mark arrived at the same stepped platform, he immediately became the focus of the audience.

"Ah! So handsome!"

"I know, he is Marc Destiny from Mystery Department!"

Such dramas often happened around Mark before and after time travel.

Unsurprisingly, two fair-looking girls trotted over one after another with blushing faces. One introduced herself stammeringly, while the other was more reserved, and handed over a small envelope sprayed with perfume.

Mark accepted the small envelope politely, politely declined, and immediately heard two girls sobbing in a low voice not far away.

This...is difficult.

He could only play dumb and look at the next cable car that was about to enter the platform.

This kind of old-style cable car reminded him of the green leather train that he took by chance before crossing. It was hard to talk about comfort.The wind blowing down from the small fan spinning overhead is not as good as the hot air blowing in from the old-fashioned half-opened sash windows.

But 'in order to show the elegant demeanor of the students' the school's summer uniforms are long-sleeved.The black cotton clothing itself is the best heat absorber in summer, it is so hot that I want to die.

Imagine that later the train will be packed like a can of sardines, coupled with the cries of girls... Even if it is only a few minutes' drive, it will definitely make Mark feel like a year.

Obviously he didn't do anything bad, he just looked like a scumbag who started messing up and ended up giving up.

It is a double punishment both physically and socially.

When Mark was suffering from psychological torture, suddenly a taxi took him to the platform.

The nobles and the really dignified had their own carriages, of course.People with a certain status like bank managers need a carriage if they want to come to the noble district or the Kensington school district.

Mark rushed out of the platform and waved: "The main entrance of Mistry School!"

Under normal circumstances, the carriage needs to be reserved, otherwise the driver has every reason to refuse the carriage.

When the coachman scrunched up his face, and was about to say his rejection line solemnly, a shiny green thing flashed in front of his eyes, and all the scrunched up facial lines turned into soft curves.

For a trip, 20 Wright dollars is skyrocketing.

100 yuan?

You are the embodiment of the goddess of wealth!
Mark couldn't say anything, and directly used the money ability to reduce the dimensionality to strike, making the onlookers look stupid.

Unexpectedly, the two girls who had just been rejected cried even louder.

"He would rather take an expensive carriage than stay with me for a few more minutes!"

"..."

It took an extra 15 minutes, and after going through the mountain road with seven turns and eight turns, we finally arrived
As if fleeing for his life, Mark strode towards the school in his memory as soon as he got out of the car.

The gate of the school is quite majestic, but it is no longer the gate of the old castle.On the fence-style iron gate driven by a motor, the top of each dark iron branch is a relief of an academic subject.

There are elemental totems of the elemental system, birds and beasts of the natural system, and the vortex-shaped relief of his mysterious system.

At the door, guards in uniform blue uniforms check the student ID cards of the students.

When Mark waved his student ID card and walked in the avenue 'as before', he was suddenly stopped by a doorman with a strange pirate-style eye patch on his left eye.

"Wait! Are you going the wrong way?"

"Going wrong?" Mark wondered.

"Your way is over there!" The guard pointed to a quiet tree-lined path next to the avenue.

Mark blinked.

Even if he searched through the memory of the dead ghost, he still couldn't understand it.After entering the school gate, there are two paths leading to the main building.A standard stone-brick avenue, which is where 95% of the students walk. Of course, it is dying of the sun in this sweltering hot weather.The other is the boulevard. Not only are the ten-meter-high cypress trees on both sides of the avenue blocking most of the sunlight, but there are also various statues standing on the side of the avenue.

The dead ghost tried to take this very comfortable path before, but was turned back by the guards and was not allowed to go.

I asked the doorman, but the doorman didn't say anything.

After observing carefully, Mark really didn't think there was any difference between the students who took the two paths.

(End of this chapter)