After midnight, the city is as prosperous as the City of Hope. Even in Queens, which has the best security, there are very few pedestrians.
Gray Lint analyzed that this is partly because there are too many unsafe factors in the extraordinary world. Even ordinary people who have not been exposed to extraordinary power have more or less heard of many people who lost their lives due to accidents at night.
s story.
On the other hand, because the world has not realized large-scale electricity use, street lighting at night can only use gas, which is relatively backward.
Looking back at the oriel window, Gray Lint exhaled, still having trouble falling asleep.
"Maybe this is Ye Gonghaolong!"
Gray Linte sighed softly.
"If I could just experience the fantasy and beauty of the extraordinary world in books and words, I would still be quite happy and yearning for it. But if it were the real world... well, I can only say that I hope the gods will protect me and my death will not be too miserable."
When he was on Earth, his original name was Zhong Jianshu. He was a newly graduated wage earner with few hobbies, mainly reading online articles and playing games.
Recently, he just finished reading the book "The Secret" with the help of his college roommate.
He was naturally yearning for the extraordinary abilities in the book, but Zhong Jianshu could only say that the twisted and chaotic rules of the underlying world were too terrible.
I don’t know why, today, no, it should be yesterday’s daytime, the Earth’s Clock Book replaced the Queens’ Gray Lint.
The reason why the word "replacement" is used is because although he calls himself Graylingt, he is very clear that he only receives and reads Graylingt's memory as a bystander, without any memory integration.
This also makes it difficult for him to adapt to his current status.
Somewhat surprisingly, Gray Linte completely inherited the knowledge of the original work that he had memorized on Earth without any problems.
"Although I basically don't remember the details of mystical knowledge, I am sure that I know the 'starry sky'."
"This shows that I am involved in a high level. Which 'He' is the handiwork? Or is it a high-sequence magical item?"
Due to the lack of analytical conditions, Glerint was unable to draw results.
In addition, regarding his own state, he can only basically determine that Klein is different from the original work because he has read the original work, which is impossible for those "bacon" in the original work.
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Concerning the timeline of this mysterious world, Gray Lint determined that it was about half a year before the original protagonist, Klein Moretti, "came into the world".
The basis is that next Thursday, that is, five days later, will be the seventeenth birthday party of Audrey Hall, the youngest daughter of the powerful noble Backlund, member of the Kingdom's House of Lords, and the great banker Earl Hall, and it is now the tenth birthday party.
Early February.
As a fan of Audrey in the original work, and carrying the identity of her male best friend, Gray Linte was quite excited.
There seems to be no mention of Audrey's birthday in the original work, only the social coming-of-age ceremony is set at the end of next year.
Of course, next week's birthday party is only private.
The reason why Graylingt received the invitation letter was, firstly, because he had a good personal relationship with Audrey, and secondly because of the viscount who died young. Graylingt’s father, Lorenz Mariano, was once the Count of Hall.
A staunch political ally.
After Lorenz Mariano died of illness, the Intis "socialite" Samira Balanta, who was married to him, who was also Gray Linte's biological mother, remarried back to her home country - the Republic of Intis compared to the Kingdom of Loen
It needs to be much more open, and Sharmila Bharata was originally the only daughter of the Lord.
Gray Linte could only say that he was very happy about this. After all, it was very difficult to truly treat an "acquaintance" who was a "complete stranger" as a real relative, and it was quite easy to expose the secret.
When Lorenz Mariano died of illness, Graylint was only sixteen years old. Being isolated and helpless, he was almost single-handedly promoted to the title of Viscount by Count Hall, so he could be said to have great respect for this elder.
Unfortunately, Earl Hall is an outsider after all, and it is inconvenient for him to over-discipline Gray Lint. As a result, the viscount has almost no talent and can only be said to be polite.
"That's not bad. I mean, I'm a noble after all. I'm much richer than the protagonist in the original work!" Gray Linte complained secretly.
As a viscount with no real power, Graylingt's wealth originally came mainly from two parts. One was that 100,000 pounds was handed over to Earl Hall's bank to operate on his behalf, with an annual income of about 9,000 pounds. The other was that the money was worth 120,000 pounds.
The annual rent income from fields, pastures and woods is twelve thousand pounds.
However, he fully believed in Earl Hall's vision, so he sold most of his real estate in the past two years, retaining only the minimum share necessary for a nobleman. A total of 220,000 pounds was invested half in the bank and half in the shipping industry.
The annual income is about 21,000 pounds.
Facts have proved that Earl Hall is very wise and far-sighted. Now Gray Lint has investment assets of 250,000 pounds and a monthly income of 2,000 pounds.
In addition, he owns five estates, two large and three small and medium-sized. There is also this large villa in Queens, and two properties in Bridgewood and Hillston.
A small villa located in the West End.
Of course, most of this wealth is difficult to misappropriate in large quantities, and Graylingt's real working capital is slightly less than fifteen thousand pounds.
Although Glerint believed that he was not extravagant, his consumption was actually a bit exaggerated when it came to the "respectability" of the nobles.
Because he lives alone, there are relatively few servants.
There was a butler, a valet, a page, two maids, a laundress, a coachman, a gardener, and a cook.
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To be honest, even if Gray Lint was fully able to pay them, he thought it was too extravagant and unnecessary.
Perhaps poverty limited his imagination, and he believed that even if services were needed, hiring two or three servants would be completely sufficient.
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Thinking about these miscellaneous things, Gray Linte finally slowly entered the dreamland.
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Early in the morning, Gray Lint was awakened by his valet Harsh.
Today is Saturday, and he is going to visit Earl Hall to ask how to become an extraordinary person. This is the established agenda that he arranged for a servant to send a greeting card yesterday.
"Mr. Mariano, do you want to dress more formally or more casually?" Harsh didn't know what Gray Lint's purpose was today.
In the past, Gray Lint's visits to Earl Hall or Audrey were actually relatively casual. Firstly, because he did not inherit the title, he just visited friends as if he were visiting elders. Secondly, there was basically nothing serious to do.
But Gray Linte had other plans today, so he decided to be a little more formal.
"Formal wear, a little more casual, Uncle Hall is not an outsider."
"Okay, Mr. Mariano."
Under the service of the valet, Gray Linte finished his breakfast quite uncomfortably.
"Now I still focus on getting familiar with the environment. I will definitely change this process in the future." Gray Linte secretly made up his mind.
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In his last life, well, let's just count this life, Gray Linte's parents divorced when he was young.
Such an experience made it almost impossible for him to gain much sense of security from interpersonal interactions, which was the main reason why he longed for extraordinary power.
In addition, after reading the original work, he was still deeply affected by many aspects and had many regrets. Perhaps God asked him, a person who knew the plot, to come here in the hope of changing something?