Struggle in the Steam Age

After a brief thought, Lawrence naturally chose the samurai muscles. Because this is the only option among the four options that can improve combat power in a short time.

After being attacked and losing his life, Lawrence desperately wanted to improve his combat effectiveness. Because this world is much more dangerous than the one in his previous life, and now he has no other life to squander.

After thinking about his choice in his heart, the four flowers changed at the same time. Three of them withered quickly and then disappeared, while the selected one quickly matured and turned into a yellow fruit the size of a cherry wrapped in gray mist, and then fell into his outstretched palm.

It's just that it's different from what I imagined, this fruit didn't sit quietly in his hand, but disappeared directly into his hand the moment it touched his palm.

In an instant, a large number of memories were instilled in his mind. Lawrence saw how this Greek named Patrododo learned how to make pottery with his father when he was a child, and then married, had children, served in the army, joined the army, inherited his father's shop, and finally died in a plague. overall experience.

It's just that most of the memories in it seem to be in the clouds and mist, and they can't be seen clearly at all. Only the parts related to exercise appear very clear.

In just a few minutes, these memories were completely absorbed by Lawrence. At this time, he opened his eyes and looked at the hand over and over again, but there was nothing in it. But he could feel a change in his body, and this fruit should have become a part of his power.

"Looks like I'll have to work hard to save money in the future." Lawrence muttered and returned silently. After opening his eyes again, he had already left the magical space named Jianmu Space by himself and returned to the bed in the bedroom.

Originally, he wanted to check his body and see what the talent he had acquired had brought him. But at this time, a sense of drowsiness hit his heart, and he quickly fell asleep.

After he fell asleep, the talent he had just acquired was activated. Gentle power overflowed from the center of his brows little by little, and then began to travel throughout his body.

With the flow of this energy, Lawrence's muscle fibers began to become thicker, his bones became tougher than before, and his heart and lung function became stronger.

This energy just wandered round and round in the whole body, and it was not until dawn that these energies were completely absorbed into the body and disappeared.

As the long night wore on, the sun leaped from below the horizon. Golden light enveloped the entire city, and Eagle Fort came alive again. The gas lamps on the side of the road were extinguished one by one, and people going to work in the morning crowded into the street, filling the road with noise.

"Lawrence, Lawrence, it's time for you to wake up. A few days ago, you asked me to remind you that your professor has something to see you today." Aunt Susan's wake-up sound came from the door of the attic, accompanied by her knocking on the door .

The knock on the door woke Lawrence up. At this moment, he suddenly remembered that at the graduation ceremony three days ago, his tutor, Professor Black, told him to go to school today, saying that he had some good things to ask him. In addition, he may have to receive the playmate who also recently graduated and returned to the Federation according to his adoptive father's instructions.

"Thank you, Aunt Susan, I'll get up now." Thinking of this, Lawrence raised his hand to cover the sun shining on his face through the dusty skylight glass and shouted, and then supported the bed board with his hands and climbed up.

"Huh!" Lawrence noticed the changes in his body through the sunlight at this time. He remembered that when he took a shower yesterday, he found that his body was a little lacking in exercise like his previous life, and the muscles on his arms were loose. But now, he was pleasantly surprised to find that the muscles of his arms protruded after a little effort.

"It seems that the strengthening effect yesterday is really good, but unfortunately there are not many such opportunities." Lawrence said after carefully examining his body. He knew that his silver coins yesterday did not have much effect, and what was really valuable was the protective button his adoptive father gave him. It's a pity that even such a simple magic item is not available to ordinary people at all.

After feeling a lot of emotion, he quickly finished washing and then went to the cabinet and began to take out his clothes. Fortunately, the set of clothes that I asked the tavern proprietress to wash after falling into the sewer yesterday was only the blouse and corduroy trousers that I usually wear, so it will not hinder my meeting with the professor today.

Soon, a young man wearing a pair of black trousers, a vest of the same color, and a woolen coat appeared in the mirror behind the washbasin. It might be some kind of illusion. Lawrence felt that he was much more handsome in the mirror than yesterday Less, and more masculine too.

"Okay, let's go!" After tidying up the wrinkles on his body, Lawrence put on his bowler hat and went straight to the bar downstairs.

At this time, Aunt Susan was cleaning up the mess left by the morning shift workers after breakfast. When she heard the sound of the stairs, she turned to look at Lawrence and said, "Good morning, our college students, this morning we have oatmeal, cheese , bread and boiled eggs, what would you like to eat?"

"Everything, and for three." Lawrence took out two ten-cent copper coins and handed them over. "It's better to hurry up, I'm almost starving."

"Ha, that's right. Young people like you can eat to have a healthy body." Aunt Susan walked to the back kitchen with the used tableware. Ten minutes later, she was carrying a table full of A plate of things was placed on the table in front of Lawrence.

Seeing him wolfing down his breakfast, Aunt Susan hesitated and said, "By the way, have you offended someone recently?"

"No, why did you say that?" After receiving Lawrence's original memory, he found that he was a shy young man before, and the experience of growing up in the church made him treat people kindly and have a good temper. So in the past few years in college, he didn't have any enemies. On the contrary, he got along well with everyone and made a few friends. So he didn't know why Aunt Susan asked such a question.

Looking at Lawrence's blank face, Aunt Susan explained: "Boss Jack came here for dinner this morning, and he specifically told me that his subordinates absolutely did not attack you yesterday."

"That's it, I trust him." Lawrence said after emptying the food in his mouth. Jack is the gang leader in this area, and he only does things like collecting protection money or pimping on a daily basis. Besides, he has neither the guts nor the ability to do anything else.

And Lawrence, as a college student of this era, is definitely not something that a gangster like Jack dares to provoke, especially it is even more impossible to kill him in the head for more than 20 yuan. After all, once such a thing is discovered, there will definitely be no good end for a local household like Jack.

Not to mention that Lawrence has been using his professional skills to help people around him with cost-effective treatment and accumulated a lot of contacts since he lived here, and many people around him owe him favors. So no one nearby would want to risk public outrage by attacking Lawrence.

"But Jack asked me to tell you that one of his subordinates noticed two strange young men coming out of the alley where you were attacked yesterday, and one of them was wearing a worn bowler hat."

"Barder hat?" Lawrence frowned slightly, realizing that something was wrong. Because the people living around are workers, they only wear one kind of fedora. The bowler hat belongs to the unique clothing of the middle class in those societies, and workers generally don't wear it.

"I thought it was a simple robbery, but now it seems that there is something more hidden behind it." Lawrence thought, frowning as he was about to push the door out after breakfast. "We still have to find a way to investigate this matter. An enemy hiding in the dark is really too dangerous."