Chapter 448 The Fourth Random Analysis

When the bell of Big Ben rang for the eighth time, more than a dozen boys and girls climbed out of the windows on the back side of the street, stretching out their hands vigorously.

Some of them climbed along the bulges in the wall to the roof, while others slid down the alley and then sneaked into the crowd on the street. The remaining children in the house started cleaning.

According to Jacobs, the children worked in separate shifts, rotating every three days and swapping blocks to avoid being targeted by the police station.

But even so, as long as they stay in Longtown City long enough, every child will eventually become a familiar face at the security station.

However, the Sheriff at the Security Station also knows very well that the little thieves all over Langtown are like little eyes inserted all over the Langtown map, able to see and hear many secrets.

Moreover, they will only steal small items such as change and pocket watches from pedestrians and will not cause much harm.

So with a little bribery and intelligence, Jacob and his children would be tolerated by Longtown's policing system.

Chen Ke followed Jacob out of the window. He watched Jacob climb onto the roof easily with his hands and feet, while he could only sit on the window sill and stare.

Jacob hung down a rope, and Chen Ke grabbed him and climbed up on the wall.

He was pulled up to the roof by Jacob. He stood on the edge of the roof and looked into the distance. The coolness in the air reached into his bones. Chen Ke saw Jacob exhale hot breath.

The Thames River was surging, and several steamships were swimming downstream. The gray-white chimneys began to emit harmful gases into the sky early in the morning. The streets were crowded with horse-drawn carriages that were unable to move forward due to road congestion.

Someone was yelling and cursing downstairs, and the horses were panting listlessly. It turned out that in the 19th century, there was already such a thing as traffic jams.

"I took a sharp breath, as if I was smoking a cigarette. Black charcoal ash could be seen dancing in the air. There must be many people in Longton City suffering from lung disease." Chen Ke said.

"Isn't it normal to have carbon ash in the air? After all, there are so many factories." Jacob was puzzled.

"So...what are we going to do now?" Chen Ke asked.

Jacob put two fingers into his mouth and blew. At the same time, the children who had climbed out of the window earlier appeared from the nearby roof.

He stretched out his palm to Chen Ke. Chen Ke suddenly understood, took out his wallet from his pocket, took out a blue holy diamond and put it in Jacob's hand.

Jacob picked up the holy diamond, raised it towards the children, and then made a gesture.

"Hmm...is this a thief's codeword?" Chen Ke thought to himself.

The children understood, retreated behind the roof chimneys and billboards, and ran away.

"Okay, I have told them all the necessary information, and then just wait quietly." Jacob said.

"Uh... what do those gestures mean?" Chen Ke asked.

"Mox, I know Edward, Orange, report back when you find him." Jacob said.

"I think the gesture you just made is not too complicated...can it contain so much information?" Chen Ke was a little surprised.

"I lied to you. I told them when you were sleeping. I just showed them the shape of the diamond and told them to be careful." Jacob patted Chen Ke on the shoulder and laughed.

Chen Ke shook his head. Jacob turned around and walked towards the edge of the eaves, and jumped down without saying anything.

"Fuck...Hey!" Chen Ke was startled. He quickly ran up and looked down, and found Jacob emerging from the haystack behind a carriage.

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With nothing to do, Chen Ke and Jacob strolled around the streets. Jacob's purpose of shopping was actually to secretly protect his children, while Chen Ke was just rolling over the road.

There was not much to do on the streets in the 19th century, and he never understood why there were so many people on the streets of Longtown.

People are crowded shoulder to shoulder on the narrow sidewalk, and there are endless carriages around them. Some horses defecate on the spot when they are stuck in traffic. The stench is mixed with coal residue in the air and damages the olfactory nerves. It also tortures the lungs.

Moreover, the sanitation situation of the people in Longtown is really worrying for Chen Ke. There are sewage flowing across the street, high-rise residents who throw feces and urine on the street whenever they disagree, and there is also a faint smell of shit coming from nowhere...

He was glad that at least he didn't need to go to the sewers on this errand. He might have been disgusting in there, definitely worse than the sewers in Opportunity City.

While Jacob was busy with his own affairs, Chen Ke leaned against the wall leisurely and observed the people of this era. He had no interest in consumption and was too lazy to wander into the store. The two dreams last night made him a little confused.

After a rare moment of leisure, Chen Ke finally began his fourth thought to clarify his situation and goals.

First of all, he lost Xu Jing. Without Xu Jing, Chen Ke would not be able to return to the 21st century United States Federation in 2009.

The thing Xu Jing entrusted Chen Ke to do was small, and there was no way to go back to 2009. Diana and Wang Ailin were afraid that they would die at the hands of Lin Yayin's assassins. This was not what Chen Ke wanted to happen.

But without Angel's Elegy, the power of Angel's Ashes cannot be 100% exerted. After all, there is no fire immunity. Chen Ke will be burned to death before the temperature of Chen Ke's palm reaches 1000 degrees.

As long as he can retrieve the Holy Diamond and cooperate with so many souls obtained in the last battle, he feels that he is still capable of fighting against another Chen Ke.

And Xu Jing is also very likely in the hands of another Chen Ke. After all, with Xu Jing's ability as a Foundation agent, there are not many things in this world that can trap her. Even if she meets the keeper, she will not suffer any loss.

But the problem is, what if things are more complicated than this...?

Maybe another Chen Ke has taken Xu Jing away from this era?

Thinking of this, Chen Ke was very anxious and tried his best to deny this hypothesis.

The cycle of the Vanhede Great Void has been completed. Chen Ke's life portal can no longer enter there, and he can't jump back to the United States Federation in 2009 from there.

Even if he uses his own ability to go back, based on past experience, it will at least lose half a month. This will undoubtedly make Wang Ailin's situation dangerous.

Diana is a member of the Administration. Even if Lin Yayin's people don't have this level of concern, Diana has a certain ability to protect herself after being injected with psychic energy, but Wang Ailin is just a scientific researcher...

Only Xu Jing can take him back to the moment when they set out.

This is what he needs to deal with now, but this is not the point. What confuses him most now is the two dreams last night.

Is this world real? Chen Ke stretched out his right hand and looked at the palm and fingerprints that were both familiar and unfamiliar.

He could feel that his body was functioning, but as we all know, without a heart as a muscle pump, blood could not circulate in the body, and without eating and excreting, the human body could not metabolize.

This state of death would cause the body to accumulate corpse spots and worry about rotting, then the muscles would become wretched, the skin would shrivel, and finally the whole person would become a mummy.

But Chen Ke's state was extremely unreasonable.

He had no heart, and his blood did not circulate, but the places that should be congested could still be congested, his face would still turn red when he was angry, and he could feel the changes in cold and warm, but he had lost the reaction to cold and warm.

Chen Ke could live without breathing, but he could still breathe on his own, eat all kinds of things, and he would lose reaction below the throat. However, from the experience of repeated injuries, Chen Ke still had internal organs.

After thinking so much, Chen Ke wanted to dissect himself to see what was inside. Not only was he full of irrationality, but this magically modified world also made him feel like he was playing a joke.

This life countdown helped Chen Ke a lot on the one hand, but on the other hand, without it, Chen Ke would not have experienced these things.

"The 742nd restart." Chen Ke said to himself.

All the questions came up with this sentence. What does this sentence mean? Chen Ke couldn't help but fantasize.

If he really only existed in a dream, would it be his dream that was restarted?

But thinking about it this way, it was unlikely. After all, restarting is an operation of clearing everything and starting over, unless those people in the dream gave restarting a new meaning.

But after the dream ended, he returned to Langdon in the 19th century, and everything continued.

Chen Ke looked at the gray sky, if only Wang Ailin was here.