"If this business goes well, maybe I can really try and stay here as a detective. Wait until my life is stable before I contact Chaofan and see if I can find hope of returning home."
Watching the leisure time at the entrance of the club, the stranger thought of his far away hometown, and Shade couldn't help but sigh.
After estimating the time, since Mr. Lawrence also entered the club, it was impossible for the two of them to come out within an hour.
"They have something to do, should I find a place to take a rest?"
He thought to himself, looked around, and successfully saw a tavern called "Screaming Hound" on the corner of the street.
This kind of tavern, which is open on the main road and is open during the day, is usually not particularly messy, especially since it is only two o'clock in the afternoon. Shade pinched the ten pence bill in his pocket and licked the cracked ones.
Lips, confirming the current time, hesitated for a moment, and then walked over.
Pushing open the door of the tavern, the first thing he saw was a row of gas lamps on the wall, illuminating the somewhat dim interior. There was a smell of alcohol and fermented food in the air, which made him uncomfortable as he was still hungry.
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Shade now knows that the lamps used in this era are all gas lamps. In addition to gas pipes, there are usually steam pipes climbing on the wall. The gas pipes are slightly thinner, and the outside of the steam pipes will be wrapped.
heat insulation.
The round wooden tables in the tavern are all empty. There is no one there now. There are only three customers sitting around a wooden table away from the bar and against the wall playing cards. There is also a picture of a snow mountain hanging on the wall next to the table.
Landscape oil painting.
They were three men who did not look wealthy. Although there were no patches on their clothes, the dark clothes were washed and turned white. The hats placed on the table had obviously been used for a long time and were piled up in wrinkles.
Maybe they just wanted to take a rest on this leisurely summer afternoon. Shade didn't bother him and walked to the bar where the bartender was standing, thinking he was just going to buy a glass of ice water. But he heard cheers from one of the card players:
"I win again this time!"
The middle-aged man with a beard and messy hair stood up and threw the cards in his hand on the table with great dignity:
"Look, it's exactly 21 o'clock."
As he spoke, he looked around proudly, but it was a pity that he and his friends were the only ones here. When he saw Shade who had just walked through the door, his eyes lit up:
"Buy this gentleman a glass of rye!"
The man who won the card but was not rich said to the bartender. Shade turned around and looked at him in surprise. After a moment of surprise, he nodded slightly to express his gratitude:
"Thanks for the kindness, but I think a glass of ice water will suffice."
He is not good at drinking, and he does not know the content of the so-called "rye wine". Moreover, he is still performing detective activities, so there is no need to be exposed to alcohol.
Obviously, the price of a glass of water was much lower than the price of a glass of wine. The three men thought that Shade was saving money for them, and they immediately liked him. Seeing that Shade had no companions, they invited him to play cards together.
But Shade didn't know how to do it, so he could only watch them play from the sidelines. The men were also very enthusiastic about teaching Shade the "Rhode Card" skills.
The playing cards in this world are very similar to the playing cards in the previous life. There are also four suits, 54 in total, but the four suits are sun, moon, stars and flowers.
The mainstream method of playing cards is based on rules similar to "blackjack", which is called "Rhode Card". There are other rules such as Solitaire, ghost card drawing, and comparison of big and small, but the Rhodes card game is popular all over the world. It is said that this kind of card playing method is popular all over the world.
The inventor of the game is called Rod.
Playing cards are generally made with pictures on the front, with suits and numbers marked on the upper left and upper right corners. Therefore, a series of playing cards with special patterns issued in some special eras are particularly valuable.
The most recently released special series of Rhodes cards, with only 1,000 sets released, is called the "Fairy Tale Series".
The three men playing cards are not rich, and they don't know much about the so-called special series of Rhodes cards, and they can only give a rough idea.
They only know that some people among the nobles are crazy about pursuing those rare cards. In particular, some cards not only have special card patterns, but even contain special game rules.
Those cards are extremely valuable. It is rumored that Ford Auction House sold a special card for 12,000 pounds last year.
Shade quietly calculated the prices and thought about the "Sun 3" sandwiched in his diary. He didn't want to laugh, but had deep doubts about whether the card he inherited was genuine.
But if the card with the woman sitting sideways and holding up the Silver Moon card was authentic, his last worry about his future life would disappear.
After chatting with three men playing cards in the tavern for an hour, Shade stood up and left. When he returned to the door of the newspaper office, the original seat next to the mailbox was occupied by a young man wearing a brown vest and glasses.
This was probably a real reporter, so the young detective moved to stand next to the black iron street light pole.
The street lamps are generally cylindrical, and are also powered by gas. Shade was standing beside them leisurely, but his eyes accidentally saw the nameplate. The nameplate clearly stated that you must not smoke under the street lamp pole, otherwise you will be responsible for the consequences.
Shade imagined what might happen and subconsciously stayed away from this dangerous place.
The sun was gradually setting in the west, and Shade had been waiting patiently. After the feeling of hunger reached its limit and disappeared in the afternoon, his body felt much better. He planned to wait until around five o'clock, and if Mrs. Lasoya didn't show up yet, then he would set off.
Go to the church of [War and Peace Church] to receive relief food.
By the way, you can also take a look at what is going on in the church in this world and confirm whether the church has extraordinary power.
"However, I have that voice in my head. I won't be captured as soon as I enter, right? There are also secrets about outsiders..."
He was also a little worried about this, but without knowing anything about the situation, there weren't many choices that Shade could make.
Perhaps because he noticed that Shade thought of her again, the woman's voice in his mind sounded again:
[Observe his ring.]
This sentence has appeared before at noon, but then the personal pronoun was female, but this time it is male.
Shade immediately looked up at the door of the club, and sure enough he saw a young man carrying a suitcase walking out. On the finger of his right hand was the white pebble ring he saw on Mrs. Lasoya's finger at noon.
Because the shape is so unique, Xia De believes that there is no mistaking it.
Both of them put the rings on the middle fingers of their right hands, without any further prompting from the voices in their heads.
"It's really interesting. Why did the owner of the ring change?"
Shade was thinking, after seeing the man wearing the ring leave the club, he did not look for the empty carriage, but blended into the crowd in the evening, followed a fat man in a hurry with a briefcase under his arm, and walked eastward along the street.
Go.
The fog in the steam city blurred his figure. If he didn't chase him, Shade would soon lose the man's whereabouts.
"Should I catch up? The voice in my head is definitely not just talking nonsense."
He thought to himself, turned around to avoid the direction of the club entrance, unfolded the map in his notebook one-eighth, and looked for the direction of the [War and Peace Church] church. The church that distributed relief food was to the east of the current location.