When they left, Fino drove alone. He didn't go to the scavenger's castle that Dean had seen before, but went directly to the residential area. He stopped under the high wall and let Dean get off the car.
"Don't I have to be a scavenger?" Dean was puzzled.
Fino jumped back into the carriage and said impatiently: "We have already tested you, so you don't need to go there again. In a few days, someone will take you to report." With that, he shook the reins in his hand and the black carriage sped away.
Dean frowned slightly. He turned and walked along the street towards Jura couple's house. Fortunately, he had followed Aiur's carriage back once and remembered the route. Otherwise he would have gotten lost.
By the time he returned to 108 Lincoln street, he was tired and panting. His body was sweating and his legs were sore. Although Jura couple's house was not far from the high wall, only seven or eight miles away, but his body hadn't recovered from the cold storage. His physical strength was much weaker than the average child of the same age.
Jura couple stood in front of the door and looked around. When they saw Dean appear from the corner of the street, their eyes lit up and they quickly greeted him.
Greger said: "How come no one sent you? Did you walk back by yourself? "
Jura gave him a white look: "Let's go back first."
Greger came to his senses and immediately picked up Dean's tired and weak body. He quickly went back to the house. After closing the door, Jura found a cotton towel to wipe Dean's sweat. She asked with concern: "Child, are you okay? Those people didn't do anything to you?"
Dean saw their reaction and knew that most of them knew something. He asked: "Do you know?"
"Someone came to inform us that you are qualified to join the guards." Greger looked at Dean's flushed face and suspiciously asked: "Did you pass the test?"
Dean thought that his identity as a "scavenger" also needed to be kept secret. "I have passed. In a few days, someone will take me to report, but I don't want to go. Can I refuse?"
If he could choose, he would like to learn the law first, master more things, and then go outside the giant wall to see the scenery there.
Gray heaved a sigh of relief and said in amusement, "Do you know how many people want to go but don't have the chance? You still want to refuse? Being able to become a guard will allow you to not have to worry about food, drink, sickness, and death for the rest of your life. You just have to stand guard every day, and you will have a large salary. Furthermore, no one will dare to bully you. How great is that?"
Jura gently looked at Dean: "Do you still want to learn the law?"
Dean nodded seriously.
"I asked for you." Jura smiled and said: "When you go there, you can learn the law. Not only the law, but also medicine, geology, sewing and so on. It's a comprehensive school."
School? Dudian was startled.
Many people couldn't tell the difference between a college and a school. To put it simply, a college specialized in one field, such as law school or sewing school, while a school was made up of many colleges, and the things they learned were very comprehensive!
"What's the point of learning the law? When you become a guard, you won't have to worry about anything." Gray patted Dean's shoulder, smiled and encouraged him: "I heard that there will be elimination in the training. You have to concentrate and don't get eliminated."
Dean's heart relaxed. Comprehensive study? This was exactly what he wanted.
"Auntie." Dean seized the opportunity and said to Jura: "I want to borrow some pocket money. I will definitely return it to you later!"
Jura was surprised for a moment, then laughed: "How much do you want? I'll give it to you. There is no need to borrow or return. We are a family."
"Yes." Gray smiled and said: "I have lived here for so long. Dean should change his words."
Dean pretended not to understand his words. He estimated in his heart: "About one hundred copper coins."
"So much?" Jura and Gray were surprised. One hundred copper coins was almost equal to their living expenses for half a month. Gray asked: "What do you want to buy that you need so much?"
Dean had long thought of a reason: "I want to buy something to eat and go back to visit my friends in the orphanage." Then, he silently said in his heart, "I will borrow you first, and then go back to visit you later."
Jura smiled and said: "That's right. Here you go." Then, he took out a stack of green copper coins from his wallet, counted them, and handed them to Dean.
Since the emergence of printing technology ten years ago, the Star Sea Bank under the management of the giant wall of Sylvia had issued a large number of banknotes. In just a few years, the banknotes had replaced the coins and circulated to every household in the residential area. People had gradually become accustomed to using light banknotes to trade.
"Thank you!" Dean immediately took it and put it in his pocket without counting it.
Seeing this, Gray didn't say anything more. He waved his hand and asked Jura to prepare dinner.
The next morning.
Dean got up on time. After washing and eating breakfast, he said goodbye to Jura and Gray and went straight out. Although he did not know when the scavengers would send someone to pick him up, he did not need to go to law school for the next few days.
"Sulfur …" Dean vaguely remembered the method of making gunpowder. It was a festival when his sister told him to make firecrackers. But he did not know what else was needed in addition to sulfur. After all, he was still young at that time and was not interested in these things.
Dean did not go directly to buy sulfur, but called a carriage and went to the slums to get something that belonged to him.
Soon, after entering the slums, Dean went directly to the direction of the Meishan orphanage. Then when he was four streets away, he turned into a remote and broken street. Along the way, the smell of feces and rotten insects made him slightly frown. It didn't take long for him to come to a huge garbage dump.
The garbage dump in the slums was really a garbage dump.
Here, you absolutely could not find anything of value. It was a fool's dream to want to find treasures in it.
Therefore, even the poor would not come here because all the items that were discarded here had long been turned over.
Dean stood far away and could smell a strong rancid smell mixed with feces and urine. Many poor or homeless people were happy to solve the problem of excretion here.
There were seven or eight black garbage dumps, and they were as huge as hills. Dean came to one of the garbage dumps, looked around, and after confirming that there was no one nearby, he squatted down and lifted a black cloth full of garbage and unknown mucus. This black cloth revealed a small hole, just enough to accommodate his thin and small body.
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