After confirming the plan, Zhou Mingrui immediately had a backbone, panic, wandering and insecurity were curled up in the corner.

It was not until this time that he was in the mood to carefully examine the remaining fragments of memory of Klein.

Zhou Mingrui stood up habitually, closed the pipe valve, and watched the wall light slowly fade until it went out. He sat down again, unconsciously rubbing the brass wheel of the pistol, while pressing the side of his head, quietly "remembering" in the dark dyed with crimson, like the most attentive audience in the cinema.

Perhaps affected by the passage of the bullet, Klein's memory is like broken glass. Not only does it lose its consistency, but it also clearly lacks content in many places, such as where the exquisitely crafted revolver comes from, whether it is suicide or homicide, what does the sentence "Everyone will die, including me" in the notebook mean? Did you participate in strange things two days before the incident?

Not only are these specific memories becoming fragments and incomplete, but the knowledge they have mastered is the same. Judging from the current state, Zhou Mingrui believes that if Klein returns to university, he may not be able to graduate, even if he has only been away from campus for a few days and has not relaxed at all.

"In two days, I will participate in the interview at the History Department of Tingen University..."

"The universities in the Kingdom of Roone have a tradition of graduates not staying directly... The tutor gave a letter of recommendation from Tingen University, a letter of recommendation from Beckland University..."

...

Zhou Mingrui was silently "watching", the red moon slanted westward outside the window, gradually sinking until a slight light shone in the east and the horizon was dyed golden.

At this time, there was movement in the room inside, and soon, the sound of footsteps leaned towards the isolation door.

"Melissa wakes up... She is really as punctual as ever." Zhou Mingrui smiled slightly. Influenced by Klein's memory, she felt like she was looking at her own sister.

However, I didn't have a real sister... He immediately complained.

Melissa is different from Benson and Crane. Enlightenment education was not completed at the Sunday school of the Goddess of the Night. When she was old, the Kingdom of Ruhn promulgated the Primary Education Act, established the Commission on Secondary and Secondary Education, and provided special funds, increasing investment.

However, in three years, under the premise of incorporating many church schools, many public primary schools were established to strictly maintain the principle of religious neutrality and not involve the dispute between the Lord of the Storm, the Goddess of the Night and the God of Steam and Machinery Church.

Compared with Sunday schools that only use one copper penny a week, the tuition for three pennies per week in public primary schools is quite expensive, but the former only studies on Sundays a day, while the latter takes six days a week. Overall, the low price is almost free.

Melissa is different from most girls. She has loved gears, clockwork, bearings and other things since she was a child, and she is determined to be a steam mechanic.

My elder brother Benson, who has suffered a cultural loss and understands the importance of education, supports Cline's dream as if he supports her sister's dream. After all, Tingen Technical School can only be considered secondary education and does not need to go to grammar schools or public schools to accumulate.

In July last year, 15-year-old Melissa passed the entrance examination and got her wish and became a member of the Steam and Machinery Department of Tingen Technical School, and her weekly tuition fee was also increased to nine pence.

At the same time, the import and export company that Benson works for was affected by the situation in the South Mainland. Both profits and business volume have been greatly reduced, and more than one-third of its employees were forced to lay off. In order to keep his job and maintain his life, Benson could only accept more heavy tasks. He had to work overtime frequently or go on business trips in a harsh place, just like these few days.

It was not that Klein had thought of helping his brother to bear it, but when he was born in a civilian, he was admitted to an ordinary grammar school, and as soon as he entered a university, he felt his own shortcomings. For example, the Gulfsak, ​​the origin language of all countries in the Northern Mainland, for the children of the nobles and the children of the rich, it was something he had to learn from since childhood, and he did not come into contact with it for the first time until college.

There are many similar aspects. Klein almost used all his strength and often stayed up late and got up early before he could barely catch up with others and graduated successfully with an average grade.

The memory of the brother and sister jumped into Zhou Mingrui's mind, and he turned his hand straight. The door of the room inside creaked open, and he woke up suddenly, remembering that he was holding a revolver in his palm.

This is a semi-regulated item!

It will scare the children!

And, there are wounds on my head!

Seeing Melissa coming out, Zhou Mingrui hurriedly opened the desk drawer while holding her temples, threw the revolver in, and smashed it with a bang.

"What happened?" Melissa looked over in confusion when she heard the movement.

She is in her youthful stage. Even if she can't eat anything good, her face is thin and pale, and her skin is still full of shiny, exuding a girlish scent.

Seeing his sister's brown eyes exploring, Zhou Mingrui was calm, picked up the things close to his hand, and then calmly closed the drawer to cover up the existence of the revolver. The touch of the other hand in the temple made him sure that the wound had healed!

What he took out from the drawer was a silver-white pocket watch with vine branches and leaves. With a light press on the top, the cover popped open.

It is the father of the three siblings, the most valuable item left by the Royal Army sergeant, but second-hand goods are second-hand goods after all, and problems have occurred from time to time in recent years, even if they have been repaired by watch craftsmen, it is the same. This makes Benson, who likes to bring it up with him and raise his identity, repeatedly make a mistake and simply leave it at home.

I have to say that Melissa may really have the talent of mechanical skills. After mastering theoretical knowledge, she began to use the tools of the technical school to tinker with this pocket watch, and recently she claimed to have it fixed!

Zhou Mingrui looked at the cover of the watch and saw that the second hand stopped moving. He subconsciously turned the top and planned to wind the pocket watch.

However, after twisting for a few turns, there was no sound of tense flowing out, and the second hand still did not move.

"It seems to be broken again." He looked at his sister without saying anything.

Melissa glanced at him without expression, walked over quickly, and took the pocket watch away.

She stood there, pulled up the button at the top of the pocket watch, and after just a few turns, the sound of a second hand moving was heard.

Normally, shouldn't pulling up be adjusted to adjust the time... Zhou Mingrui's expression suddenly became dull.

At this moment, the bells of the cathedral in the distance came, six consecutive times, distant and ethereal.

After listening, Melissa pulled up the button on the top of the pocket watch, then twisted continuously, and made the time right.

"Okay." She said briefly without any emotion, then pressed back to the top and returned the pocket watch to Zhou Mingrui.

Zhou Mingrui smiled embarrassedly and politely.

Melissa glanced at her brother deeply again, turned around and walked towards the cabinet, took toothbrushes, towels and other items, pulled out the door, and went to the public bathroom.

"Why did her expression just now have a disgusting and helpless smell?"

"The eyes of caring for the mentally retarded brother?"

Zhou Mingrui shook his head and smiled, closed the cover with a snap, and then opened it with a snap.

Repeating this action, he thought divergently about a problem.

Without a silencer, Klein committed suicide. Well, it’s considered suicide for the time being. The movement of his suicide was definitely not small. Melissa, who was separated by a wall, didn’t notice it at all.

Is she sleeping too well? Or is it that Klein's suicide is full of weirdness?

Slap, open, snap, close... Melissa returned from washing up and saw her brother's unconscious action of constantly opening and closing the lid of the pocket watch.

Her eyes were mixed with helplessness and said sweetly:

"Kline, take out all the remaining bread. Remember to buy new ones today, as well as meat and peas. You're about to attend the interview. I'll make you a stew of lamb peas for you."

While speaking, she moved the stove out of the corner, used the remaining charcoal to make a fire, and cooked a pot of hot water.

Before the water was about to open, she opened the drawer on the bottom floor of the cabinet, took out a can of inferior tea like a baby, sprinkled more than ten pieces into the pot, pretending that it was real tea.

Each of them poured two large cups, and Melissa and Zhou Mingrui shared two rye bread with tea.

There is no mixed wood chips, not much gluten, but it is still not delicious... Zhou Mingrui is now weak and hungry, and relies on tea to force the bread while complaining.

After a few minutes, Melissa finished her meal, put her black hair hanging down to her vest and looked at Zhou Mingrui and said:

"Remember to buy new bread, only eight pounds, the weather is hot, too much can easily break, and there are lamb and peas, remember!"

Is he really caring for the nerd brother? I have to emphasize it again... Zhou Mingrui smiled and nodded:

"OK."

Regarding the pound of the Ruen Kingdom, Zhou Mingrui compared Klein's meat test memory with his own comparison, and believed that it was close to the pound of his habit, which was 0.5 kg.

Melissa didn't say anything more, got up and packed up her last bread for lunch, put on the worn gauze hat left by her mother, picked up the book and paper collection tools she sewn and used to go out.

Today is not Sunday, she has to have a whole day of class.

It takes about fifty minutes to walk from this apartment to Tingen Technical School. There are buses, one kilometer and one penny, the maximum limit in the city is 4p and 6p in the suburbs. In order to save money, Melissa went out in advance and walked over by herself.

As soon as she opened the door, she stopped again and half turned her body and said:

"Kline, don't buy too much lamb and peas, Benson may have to come back on Sunday, well, remember that the bread only costs eight pounds."

"Okay, OK." Zhou Mingrui answered helplessly.

At the same time, he silently recited the word "Sunday" several times in his mind.

In the Northern Mainland, a year is also divided into twelve months, ranging from 365 to 366 days a year, and there are also seven days a week.

The previous one is the achievements of astronomy, which made Zhou Mingrui suspect that this is a parallel world, and the latter comes from religion, because there are seven orthodox gods in the Northern Continent: Eternal Sun, Lord of Storm, God of Knowledge and Wisdom, God of Night, God of Earth, God of War, God of Steam and Machinery.

Watching her sister close the door and leave, Zhou Mingrui suddenly sighed and quickly moved her mind to the fortune-telling ceremony.

Sorry, I really want to go home...
Chapter completed!