Chapter 20 Childhood Playmates

Squirrel Street, the intersection of the middle and lower city districts of [Steam City]. If you look down on the city, you will find that this street is roughly crescent-shaped.

This middle and lower buffer is the most diverse place in the city. Here you can see people who flock to [Steam City] with dreams and try to work hard through their own struggles. Most of them have a natural advantage, that is, they are young enough to fight and venture out.

A guy becomes a stockbroker with a keen sense of smell, fights financial tycoons to complete social class promotion, or an actor or dancer is chosen by a big shot and becomes a bed partner, and then lives a life of luxury and debauchery.

Of course, you can also see many people who have fallen into the abyss in this place.

The boss of the bankrupt company, the main labor force of the family injured or dead, and the unlucky person who was cheated, they are obsessed with the good days in the past, and still try to maintain the futile and ridiculous style. And more people who were originally poor, who have been poor since the previous generation and cannot save wealth, are still poor in this generation. They work hard on Squirrel Street and place their hopes on the countless opportunities in this city with steam roaring.

Some people became rich overnight.

Some people lost everything.

It sounds like a gambler who got red-eyed at the gambling table, and the winner is always the city, everything of the loser fertilizes the city, and the winner feasts on blood and flesh.

Such a scene is unforgettable for Lynn.

What a terrible night it was, with creditors, insults, intimidation, shoving, chopping hands and feet, slave ships, and debt collection, the destruction of a poor child was almost at hand. Fortunately, Detective Douglas was kind and asked those people to get out, so Lynn had the opportunity to settle down in Squirrel Street with the help of others.

Lynn's father was originally a well-known figure, and his sugarcane and downstream product business even supplied to the Far South. When Lynn's father began to be generous, he would often sponsor some church orphanages or welfare institutions, and Lynn could even recall that the time was so long that he could even recall it when he began to remember things.

It was also because of this that Lynn got a childhood sweetheart, who helped a lot in settling down in Squirrel Street.

Ambition cannot be eaten.

Before leaving your name in this era, the priority is how to solve today's dinner. Lin En, who has an empty pocket, has no magic to conjure food, and does not want to challenge his hunger tolerance. In desperation, he decided to shamelessly find his childhood sweetheart to overcome the difficulties in front of him.

Sophia, that's her name.

[Good Luck Bar], on the edge of the Midtown area next to Squirrel Street, is said to have surprisingly good luck the next day after getting drunk all night, and everything goes smoothly. Perhaps looking for self-righteous luck in a hangover is just an excuse to numb yourself with alcohol.

Sophia works as a barmaid in the bar. The boss lady is not bad. It is said that she offers her a weekly salary of 20 soles, or 1 gold pound.

The reason why she is worth this price is that before becoming a barmaid, Sophia, who left the orphanage, was mixed in a gang, and mixed well. With her agility and courage, she quickly gained her own position in Squirrel Street. Now she still has some face on the street, and can deal with the drunkards in the bar who are blind and make trouble and pay protection fees.

‘When the basic gap that the superstructure power cannot reach, someone will automatically fill it. The form of filling may be clans, gentry, churches, gangs...’

Lin En silently recited some knowledge that popped out of his super memory brain, and pushed open the door of [Good Luck Tavern] in the already red sunlight.

In the folklore of Albion, every day when [Burning Sun] sets in the west, [Weaving Moth] will flap its wings to bring the gauze of the night stars to the whole world. However, [Burning Sun] and [Weaving Moth] often conflict. In order to pray for the smooth rotation of the gods, people will put down their work and pray at this time. Of course, nowadays, few people except church personnel will follow such customs.

But the silver-haired ponytail girl who is praying at the bar in front of her obviously retains this living habit brought from the church orphanage.

Sophia's long silver-gray hair was tied behind her neck with a ribbon. Her upper body was a loose top that was easy to move. She didn't wear an ankle-length skirt like most girls, but a modified work pants, which was also for kicking or running. What was noticeable was that there was a long scar from her left eye to her face, which made her look very fierce.

"Lin En!?"

Hearing the movement at the door, the big sister immediately showed a look of joy with a pair of lake green eyes similar to those of the young Lin En but lighter in color.

"I thought you shouldn't be busy at this time, so I came to find you."

Lin En walked over a little unnaturally, with one hand on the bar.

"It will take another two hours for this place to be lively. Do you want to drink something? I'll treat you." Sophia reached out and hugged Lin En's shoulders, not caring about the scenery in the loose top. Lin En saw everything he should and shouldn't see. This kind of thing has happened more than once or twice. Sophia, who spent her childhood with Lin En, is too carefree to be a girl.

To use Sophia's rude words:

When you cried and hugged me, I was the one who wiped your tears and beat away those little bastards who bullied you with a stick. What's wrong with hugging Sister Sophia more? What haven't you seen?

Indeed, Lynn's childhood was basically covered by Sophia. Before she was thirteen years old, she was Lin En's father's playmate. The two of them got along in childhood as the eldest sister and the weak follower. Until she was thirteen years old, Sophia left the church orphanage and followed her own path. Xingzi went to the streets to work hard for a living, but the actual relationship was not far apart.

So, if you have a childhood sweetheart who knows all the embarrassing stories of your childhood, when she carelessly hugs you, Lynn's shame can make him carve out a three-bedroom apartment on the floor.

Before traveling through time, Linn didn't really want to see Sophia. One reason was that she felt ashamed, and the other was that she was embarrassed.

It can only be said that adolescent boys are worried about gains and losses and need to have strong self-esteem.

"Something happened to me yesterday." After breaking free from Sophia's arms, Lin En patted her troublesome claws in vain as she smiled and rubbed her head.

"Is there a bastard bullying you? I'll help you break their legs!" Seeing her brother hesitate, Sophia opened her mouth and broke their legs.

"You can't beat the hell out of a certain police officer at Elba Field."

"Huh? Were you caught while looking out?" She was the one who introduced the boy's gang to the job. When Sophia thought of the terrible name "Poor Man's Grave", she quickly jumped out of the bar and looked at Lin up and down. kindness.

"It's not that, it's just that I did something I shouldn't have done." Linn, whose face was deformed like a Shiba Inu being rubbed, stared at her eldest sister's head expressionlessly. "In short, four people in the gang died. In order to survive, I threw all the money I hid to the police. Today I went to the fish market with people from the [Suppression Bureau]. The charges against me were cleared not long ago. Lost."

Lin En's description was very brief, but even so he could tell how dangerous it was, and Sophia was naturally distressed and hugged him tightly.

"Don't be afraid, I'm still here."

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