Chapter 1 Carlin

Author: Four Barrel Cannon

Chapter 1 Carlin

October 3, 544 in the Prosperous Calendar of the Sixth Age.

Brent Kingdom, Wayne, Pillow Street, Wesma Press.

Carlin handed a stack of manuscript copies to the middle-aged editor behind the desk: "Mr. Witte, this is a copy of my manuscript."

Werther took the manuscript, glanced at the title - "Oliver Twist", and began to read quickly.

Karin's expression was calm, and there was no shame in his heart as a copycat, and his thoughts gradually began to diverge.

Nineteen years ago, he traveled to this world and became a newborn baby. He was abandoned at the gate of the orphanage not long after his birth.

This was a hell of a start for him.

In the first nine years after he came to this world, he often jumped repeatedly on the line of death from hunger and coldness, which made Carlin, a time traveler who had gone through nine years of compulsory education, abandon all illusions.

In this steampunk world that is similar to the Victorian era, if he does not quickly adapt to becoming a hypocritical person, let alone living until he is nine years old before being adopted, even if he has cheats, he may not even live to be five years old.

The protagonist Oliver Twist in "Oliver Twist" is his true childhood portrayal.

However, compared with Oliver, he is lucky.

His childhood life left a deep psychological shadow on him, making Carlin more utilitarian than in his previous life.

Compared with the gold pounds that can make life better and the "emotional power" required by plug-ins, the subtle guilt in my heart as a plagiarist is nothing.

"Karin, I can say without praise that you are the most talented young author I have ever seen."

At this time, a word interrupted Carlin's divergent thoughts. Werther raised his head, adjusted the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, and looked at Carlin with an expression of admiration.

Carlin showed a modest smile: "No, compared with my father, my level is a joke."

“What pen name are you going to use for your first book?”

"Dickens."

After Carlin exchanged a few pleasantries with the unsmiling editor, he took out a brass pocket watch from his pocket and checked the time as if he remembered something.

"Mr. Witte, it's getting late, and my father is still waiting for me at home."

"Your father's body." Werther sighed softly after hearing this. He opened his mouth to say something, but finally changed his words, "Please give my regards to Mr. Westmin."

Karin was silent for a while before answering: "Definitely."

Disease is always the enemy of life, especially in this era where pus from a wound is considered to be a good sign of healing. A cold or cold may kill someone, let alone tuberculosis.

Carlin's adoptive father, Mr. Westminster, is now terminally ill. If he is lucky, he can survive for a few months. If he is not lucky, he may die in the next moment.

After bidding farewell to Mr. Witte, Carlin walked out of the door of the newspaper office, and habitually took out the brass pocket watch and took a look at the time.

"Twelve twenty-six noon, I have to go home quickly to cook."

The sky in Wayne City made him feel gloomier than in the morning, but this did not hinder the flow of people on the street.

Decent gentlemen from the upper class, ladies in skirts with rouge and gouache on their faces, fat housewives, barefoot newsboys carrying satchels, uniformed patrolmen, standing gas street lamps, carriages whizzing by, that

The mid-afternoon sky was overcast with smoke.

All of these make up the bustling urban area of ​​Wayne, Brent Kingdom.

Carlin closed his pocket watch with a snap and strode towards a public double-decker carriage parked on the roadside not far away.

I looked around the roof of the carriage. There were not too many people, and there were still half of the empty seats. After paying the five pence fare, I directly climbed to the roof by pulling the railing at the back of the carriage, and found an empty seat to sit down.

Following the horse's cry, the things on both sides of the street quickly retreated in Carlin's eyes.

In his sight, on the walls of the street buildings, copper pipes were like vines and climbing up like spider webs, shining with a metallic luster. One chimney after another was spewing smoke. This kind of scenery was stuck.

Lin has long been used to it.

The difference from the previous life is that the underlying physical rules here seem to be unable to develop things like electric power technology, so we are making great strides on the line of steam technology without any twists and turns in the technology tree.

As the carriage got closer and closer to its destination, Karin, who was waiting boredly, parted with his mind and sank into an unknown space.

In the hazy darkness, a gray lake was outlined. In the center of the lake was a piece of land with a radius of more than ten meters.

There was originally nothing on the bare land, but after Karin's mind entered this space, an illusory body appeared.

As soon as my heart moved, a transparent panel appeared in front of my eyes.

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Virtual Kingdom of God

Owner:Karin

Age: 19 years old

Extraordinary Level: Level 0 Mortal

Secret transmission: "Red Breathing Technique" (source: death, path: King of Fighters)

Secret History: Not opened

Learning: not enabled

Reserved divine power: 1319 thin divine power

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Looking at the word "extraordinary" on the panel, Karin's eyes burst out with deep desire.

This virtual kingdom of God was his plug-in, accompanying him to this world and allowing him to survive the most dangerous beginning in the orphanage.

The Virtual Kingdom of God can absorb a mysterious power from other people to form a gray lake surrounding the land, but it must talk about him, whether in the heart or on the lips. This mysterious power was named "

The power of emotions”.

Thanks to the baptism of countless literary works before traveling, Carlin probably also understood some of the basic operating mechanisms of the virtual kingdom of God.

It is very similar to the belief in gods in his previous literary works. Believers pray or chant about the gods to generate the power of faith, and after being refined and processed by the gods, the power of faith can become divine power.

Of course he cannot be a god now, but the virtual divine kingdom can refine divine power like the gods in those literary works, and it is also vegetarian.

The power of emotions generated by outsiders talking about him, whether positive or negative, can be used as the raw material "power of faith" to form the lake around the land to continuously refine divine power.

However, it can be seen from the description of "thin divine power" in the panel that the virtual kingdom of God may be hindered by Carlin, an ordinary mortal, and its efficiency is not very high.

But even so, the thin divine power is still a priceless treasure in Karin's eyes.

Thanks to his divine power, he was able to survive in the orphanage without being killed, frozen or starved to death as a child.

Over the years, Carlin has also explored the effects of divine power, which to him is a panacea.

When you are hungry, injured, or sick, you can use your divine power to nourish your body.

When you exercise regularly, even damaged blood vessels can be repaired with divine power.

Eight years ago, he accidentally found a book called "Red Breathing Technique" at home.

When "Red Breathing Technique" appeared among the extraordinary skills on the panel, Karin immediately became excited.

There may really be something extraordinary in this world!

In the beginning, Carlin had no one to guide him so he had to explore alone and exercise forcefully. If other ordinary people practiced like this, his body would have collapsed long ago.

And Karin, relying on the virtual kingdom of God, didn't care whether his body could bear the food or not. As long as he couldn't survive the training, he would practice to death. If his body was damaged by training, he would use divine power to treat it.

Not only will you recover quickly, but your body will also become stronger.

Relying on this extreme training method, it took him eight years to figure out a system and correct training method on his own.

Until now, Carlin's physical fitness has far exceeded the average of ordinary people, and is still far from the limit of the human body.

But as time went by, Carlin felt that his progress was getting smaller and smaller.

He felt that this breathing method may be missing some important parts, which should be about how ordinary people can step into the extraordinary. Otherwise, no matter how much you practice, it will only strengthen your body and cannot be called extraordinary.

A strong desire emerged in Karin's heart. Whether it was time travel, the virtual kingdom of God, or the "Red Breathing Method", they all indicated the existence of extraordinary things in this world.

Unfortunately, in the nineteen years since he came here, Karin has never seen any other extraordinary phenomena with his own eyes, if it were not for the existence of the "Red Breathing Technique" and the virtual kingdom of God.

He may also subconsciously deny the existence of the extraordinary in this world.

Karin withdrew his attention, and his vision began to bump along with the carriage again.

"Killing people——"

Suddenly, an exclamation and a harsh whistle on the roadside attracted Carlin's attention, and he quickly turned his attention to the source of the sound.

I saw a young man in overalls lying in a pool of blood, surrounded by a huge crowd, and a uniformed patrolman blowing his whistle.

The carriage was speeding down the street, and this scene quickly flashed past, but the transparent soul that flew out of the man who fell to the ground was clearly visible to Carlin.

Soon the soul of the man in overalls dissipated completely.

Carlin frowned: "Why do you feel that the public security in Wayne City is getting worse and worse this year, with murders happening in the street at noon?"

He decided to go to those crowded places as little as possible in the next period of time.
To be continued...