2 The Knowledge that Came with Me (2/2)

Joel laughed loudly and patted Lucien's shoulder again. ”He's fine. Our Lucien is the guy who's gonna carry forward my dream of becoming a musician!”

Lucien was not really paying attention to them. He half-heartedly said with a giggle, ”Yeah…I wanna be a musician…”

Seeing Lucien laughing, Alisa felt relieved and continued her nagging again, which actually helped Lucien know more about the city.

The City of Aalto was a big and prosperous city, located close to the Dark Mountain Range. It enjoyed the reputation as the City of Psalm and was full of opportunities.

This area was named Aderon, which was the place where the poorest of peoples in Aalto gathered. Besides, because of his absence due to illness for the past couple of days, Lucien had already lost his job as a porter in the market.

A moment later, the four of them arrived in front of Lucien's place.

Alisa invited Lucien for dinner but he politely refused her, ”Thanks, Aunty Alisa, but I need some more rest.”

Before leaving, little Iven moved closer to Lucien, and asked curiously, ”Lucien, when did you decide to become a musician? You never told me about it before…”

”5 minutes ago,” Lucien answered emotionlessly.

”OH… I… SEE…” Iven nodded admiringly.

After getting into his shack, Lucien locked the door from inside. He sat there unconsciously and buried his head deep into his elbows.

”No kidding! I'm in a different world!

”A crazy world where magic actually exists!

”In this world, they burn people alive! With gallows!”

Lucien's strong emotions finally burst out. He was surprised and scared. Xiafeng was kind of shy and not really experienced in his own world. Before, he often panicked facing difficult situation, but this time, Xiafeng himself was even surprised seeing how he managed to remain calm until now.

Difficulties forge a person stronger. Time went by and night came. Lucien finally calmed himself down; Since he had decided to live in this time period, now he should not panic, worry or be scared at all. He should plan for his future carefully. If he died again this time, he was pretty sure it would be forever.

He stopped himself from worrying about his parents and friends. When he was about to plan for what to do next, hunger struck him. It felt like there was a fire burning inside his stomach. Lucien swallowed his saliva several times and decided to find something to eat first.

He walked towards the only crate in his place. Inside of the big box, except for some old clothes, there were two loafs of ”bread-shaped” black thing and seven copper coins.

Hunger controlled his brain. Lucien hurriedly took a big bite.

”Crack!” This bite almost destroyed Lucien's front teeth. ”What the hell? It's like a wooden club?”

It took Lucien quite a while to make sure the thing he was holding was a real bread, which was just hard enough to knock out an adult.

Fighting against his hunger, Lucien found some flints in the crate and started roasting his bread.

”Brown Braised Pork, Spicy Chicken Wings, Roasted Beef, Kung Pao Chicken…” he muttered while staring at the bread as it was being roasted. When the bread became a little bit soft, Lucien could not stop himself and took a hurried bite… It was like…chewing a piece of wood.

But, that was all Lucien had. He devoured the bread and sighed. ”I'd rather die if I'm gonna eat this every day… I must earn more… I don't want to live like this.”

Then he thought about the bishop and the pastors. Neatly dressed, they looked so noble with their incredible divine power. Lucien felt excited. ”I wonder if I could learn that power and become like one of them…” But the next moment he changed his mind, ”…No…a person like me going to church, it's like myself asking them to burn me to ashes. I don't know if there are other ways there, say… that blessing?

”What about all the knowledge I learned in my previous world. Is it still useful here?” Stuffing the bread into his mouth, Lucien started thinking about how to make a living. When he was retrieving the knowledge he learned in the university, he found something astonishing present in his brain.

After taking a close look, Lucien's eyes opened wide in surprise. ”These are… these are the books from the library. They also came here… with me?”

All the books collected in the library were present there in his mind. Instead of describing them as memories or, say, Lucien's own knowledge, they were more like projections or visuals placed into different categories, ready to be read by Lucien anytime.

Lucien tried to read them with great curiosity. But, Lucien found that he could not open a majority of them. They were locked.