Struggle in the Steam Age

Chapter 251: Bayer Butler

Next, the road to Firwood Town is smooth, and there is no halfway killing scene commonly seen in movies. When it was close to lunchtime, Lawrence and the others finally saw the walls of Fir Town. Outside the fence is a field of golden corn. Many men and women wear cowboy hats and blue work clothes to break the corn. The entire pastoral scenery.

It may be because the world’s industrial level is still at a relatively rudimentary level, so the industrialized atmosphere fades quickly after leaving the big city. For example, the sight of corn harvesting here is not much different from that of more than 100 years ago. The black smoke from a small steam corn thresher made people aware of the existence of industrial power.

"Good afternoon., Syphil, and-Lawrence, are you back today? Fortunately, Mr. Lambert told us that you have awakened your blood, otherwise I would not recognize your changes so much." In the town After getting off the carriage at the door, a young man with two books under his arm and glasses on his face looked at Lawrence carefully and greeted them.

"Good afternoon, Hans, are you after class?" Lawrence and the others also waved and greeted. This young man named Hans is the son of a blacksmith in the town. He went to the Church of Knowledge with Lawrence and the others. Charity school. But his academic level is still a little bit worse, so after graduation, he went to the Mission School in Missoula to study as a teacher, and then returned to the town’s charity school as a teacher after graduation.

"Yes, I am going to visit my home outside Renzhen. A few students seemed a little too active in class. I must talk to their parents." After that, the young teacher shook his hands and said goodbye to Lawrence. . When he walked out of five or six meters, he suddenly turned and said to Lawrence. "By the way, Lawrence, someone suddenly came to your house this morning. That person doesn't look like an ordinary believer or a friend of your father."

"Got it, thank you." Lawrence shook his hand to Hans again and walked into the town, and then walked towards the church at the crossroads in the town after saying goodbye to Seifer. When he came to the door of the small church in the town, he found that the front door of the church was still closed as usual, so he took the key from the space bag, opened the door and walked in.

"Son, are you back?" Because the door of the church is some years old, the noise is very loud when it opens. So that when Lawrence came in, he saw his adoptive father Mr. Lambert open the door from the door that communicated with the residence and walked in, and then went to Lawrence and patted him on the shoulder. "Look, now I am much stronger than before. I look like a real man."

Lawrence looked at his father, who looked slightly older than four years ago, with a sore nose. He stepped forward and hugged him and patted his back gently, then stepped back to look at his more wrinkled face. In the hug, he was happy to find that his father's body may be better than four years ago because of the advancement of the transcendent level, but his appearance was a bit older.

After a few seconds of slowing down, Lawrence cleared up his messy mind and asked his father. "By the way, Dad, why did you suddenly call me back this time? I thought something happened to you, and I was so scared that I hurried back in an airship with a big price, and there was a killer's interception in the middle. "

"A killer actually intercepted you." After listening to Lawrence, Mr. Lambert immediately showed a nervous expression on his face. Then he began to grasp Lawrence's shoulder and carefully checked up and down. "Are you not hurt?"

"No, and I killed all the killers." Lawrence said, and then began to narrate the course of the battle he encountered, but the door on the side opened again halfway through the narrative. Now, a gray-haired old man in a tuxedo walked out of the door, and Lawrence closed his mouth immediately.

"This is?" Lawrence asked curiously like his father, because the clothes on the old man were obviously not like the ones usually worn by people in the town, but instead looked like the nobles he came out of a big family before. housekeeper.

"This is our family in the old lands. You can call him Grandpa Bayer." "When I was a kid, my father was very busy. It was your Grandpa Bayer who brought me up. You can watch him. Being an elder in our family." Mr. Lambert introduced, then he turned to the old man and said. "He is my son, Lawrence August."

"Hello, Grandpa Bayer." Lawrence bowed very seriously and said hello, after all, his father said this was the elder of the family. The old man solemnly bowed his left chest with his right hand and greeted him at the same time. "It's nice to meet you, Young Master Lawrence."

"Young master, what's going on?" Lawrence was confused after hearing the old man's words. He knew that his adoptive father was a child who had no inheritance rights in a certain family and came out and became a priest. But other than that, he didn't know anything about the situation in his adoptive father's house, so he felt a little strange about the housekeeper who suddenly appeared.

After all, he didn't know much about his adoptive father's family. He only knew that his adoptive father was about the same as Saifei's father, and they belonged to the descendants of aristocrats who were already common people. According to conventional habits, after independence, the relationship between these descendants and the main family will gradually fade. The usual contact is to contact the feelings through letters or telegrams. It is a very abnormal situation for a housekeeper in a family like this to come directly to find someone.

"Uncle Bayer only came to us today to give the funeral notice. It happened to meet me who came back at 8 o'clock in the morning." Mr. Lambert explained, "I sent you an urgent letter to ask you to come back because I was in the church. Inside, I received a telegram from home saying that your uncle Conrad died suddenly a few days ago, and the pastor was unable to resurrect after trying it. It's just that the emergency letter limited the number of words, so I didn't tell."

"What? Uncle Conrad has passed away?" Lawrence was a little shocked when he heard the news, because if he remembered correctly, that Uncle Conrad would be one year older than his father and was in his prime. Not to mention that his adoptive father once said that Uncle Conrad was an official knight, and his body was very good, unlike the kind of sudden death.

As for the resurrection mentioned by my father just now, it refers to the pastor's use of divine magic to try to resurrect those who died accidentally. However, only a handful of people can enjoy this kind of magic service and successfully resurrected.

One aspect of this result is that the cost of resurrection is very high ~ lightnovelpub.net ~ and there are detailed requirements for the specific circumstances of the deceased. Most people simply cannot meet these preconditions for casting spells.

On the other hand, unless it is indeed a person loved by the gods in this world, the success rate of this kind of spell is not very high. According to the statistics of the Church of Knowledge, on average, only one out of five deceased persons who meet various preconditions can be resurrected after casting the spell. Therefore, Lawrence did not feel strange when he heard that Uncle Conrad was not successfully resurrected.

"Yes." The Butler by Bayer showed a sad look on his face. "Your Excellency Earl Sauer died suddenly at a banquet nearly a week ago. According to the people who attended the banquet, everyone was enjoying the after-dinner drink as usual. As a result, Your Excellency Conrad just picked up a drink. Suddenly the whole person collapsed and died."

Lawrence and Mr. Lambert frowned at the same time after hearing the words of Butler Bayer, because they always felt that there should be some problems that they didn't know about, and that uncle didn't sound like a normal death.

"By the way, did you just call my uncle the Earl of Sauer?" Lawrence suddenly thought of a question and asked the Butler by Bayer, "I don't know a little about the nobles of the Old World, can you tell me about me Uncle and Earl Sauer?"