Chapter 10 Instant Change

Putting down the knife and fork, Ryan exhaled a long breath.

The sunlight penetrating through the window and felling on the dining table had moved forward a few centimeters. Now, it was almost three o'clock.

Forty-five minutes.

In forty-five minutes, the food in his stomach was about four or five kilograms. Normally, Ryan's stomach should be bulging. At this moment, it was difficult for him to even get up. If he moved a little, his stomach would feel extremely uncomfortable. If he moved violently, his intestines would most likely be broken.

Eating so much in a short period of time, except for trained people with a big stomach, ordinary people would not be able to do it.

However, Ryan's lower abdomen was extremely flat, like a plain, not a high mountain. The four or five kilograms of food seemed to have disappeared into a deep well without a trace.

The digestive system of the body naturally could not do this. No matter how strong the stomach was, it was impossible to digest and decompose so much food in such a short time and convert them into energy.

This was the effect of Book of Gold.

While eating, Ryan visualized Book of Gold in the sea of consciousness. A golden light spread out, like a stream slowly flowing down. His entire body was bathed in the golden light, submerged by the water-like golden light.

Ryan could feel the changes in his body. It was almost instantaneous.

The situation wasn't right and it wasn't easy to test, so he didn't know what exactly had changed. However, he could faintly feel that his strength had grown, and he was no longer as weak as before.

If he met the two guys from last night again, he would not need to stimulate his body's potential. As long as he remained calm, he might be able to kill the two of them.

Book of Gold actually had such benefits.

In the future, doesn't it mean that you don't need to cultivate and only need to eat a lot to become strong!

Of course, this was impossible.

Even if the restaurant was still open, Ryan could not continue to eat. He had already reached his limit by digesting the food and converting it into energy.

At this time, there was no golden light flowing out of Book of Gold. The stream was already dried up.

In his opinion, this was normal.

The golden light that flowed out of Book of Gold should have been transformed from the devoured wisp of black gas. After this energy was exhausted, it would no longer exist. Without the assistance of the golden light, Ryan naturally would not be able to continue. Even if he could still eat, he would not be able to quickly decompose and digest it.

Ryan stood up and glanced at the waiter who was leaning against the wall not far away.

The waiter yawned and walked over to Ryan. He casually glanced at the plate in front of him and found that there was nothing left. He nodded to Ryan and made a careless salute.

Ryan also nodded, picked up the top hat on the table, put it on, and walked out.

There was a public carriage parked at the corner of the street, next to a tall street lamp. Unlike a private carriage, the public carriage that rented passengers had a sign on it. On the black carriage wall, there were blue, white, and yellow parallel horizontal lines.

This time, Ryan did not hail a public carriage.

This place was four to five kilometers away from Mount Louga's neighborhood. Along the way, a wide street reaching until the foot of the mountain. There were many pedestrians on the road. After all, there were many trading firms here. The Williams Trading Firm, which Ryan served, was also in the northern part of the port. However, there were still two streets away from White Elephant Street where he was now. The firm was closer to the port.

It was still early, and he decided to walk back.

There were no more finney left in his pocket, so he could only walk back.

Lanceton was located in the southwest of Franka Empire. Amur's people departed from the southern Amur continent more than a thousand years ago. They crossed the sea and conquered the Elijah Kingdom of the southwest peninsula. After that, they crossed the Elijah mountain range to invade Farland. Amur's people also dominated Lanceton. It had been about fifty years. At that time, the king of Farland, Louis III, drove Amur's people out of the Noya Continent with the help of the Holy See.

Because of this contribution, Louis 竇｢ became the Emperor, and Falan turned from a kingdom to an empire.

At that time, the powerful Bourne Empire on the northeast side of Falan was only a City-State Alliance and has no threat to Falan at all.

This is a place featured by different nations because Amur had once conquered this region. Lanceton's people had black hair and black eyes, and in the north of the capital city, where Balin was located, there were much blonde hair and blue eyes.

Ryan did not know much about the history of the Noya Continent and Franka Empire.

He went to the trading firm as an apprentice at the age of thirteen and did not enter the school to study. Now, although he also had lessons in the night school, what he learned was knowledge of arithmetic. After all, his goal was to become the manager of the Williams business club.

Now, he naturally could not be as indifferent to the outside world as before.

The sun fell on the street, and the sea breeze blew with the damp air. On the sidewalk, there were beautiful trees with purple flowers on them. These flowers were the unique iris in the south of France with charming fragrance.

There were tall street lamps not far away, and in the evening, workers came in a carriage and opened the glass covers on the top of the light pillars one by one, using long torches to light the street lamps.

At that time, these streets would become very beautiful.

On the street, patrol officers, wearing a black uniform and a high hat in the shape of a pot helmet, were patrolling with a police baton on his waist. Although the number of patrol officers was not comparable to the number in northern Lanceton, where the nobles lived in the commercial district, it was still a deterrent.

As for the Mount Louga community where Ryan lived, he could occasionally see patrol officers on the outskirts of his residence during the day. The inner area of Mount Louga, or the area above the mountainside, was the restricted area for patrol officers.

"evening paper!"

A newspaper boy wearing a cap walked over from the other end of the street shouting.

Lanceton was a big city with several kinds of newspapers. The high-end newspapers included DailyMail and Daily Mirror. DailyMail was favored by the noble. They were both based in the capital city, Balin. Some newspapers were established in Lanceton, like Daily News or Commercial News closely connected to the business.

The night newspaper belonged to Lanceton's Daily News. The daily newspaper was sold in the morning while the night newspaper at night.

The newspaper was more serious and paid more attention to the truth. The evening paper was casual. The title of the evening news was more sensational and the content was more curious.

Reading newspapers was a way to understand this world.

This world is very dangerous.

Not to mention the mysterious enemy who was secretly targeting the youth, just the nightmare last night and the illusion he encountered in the cemetery today inevitably made him vigilant. The world was not as quiet as he saw in front of him.

Ryan spent five finneys to buy a night report.

There is political news, commercial information, advertisement, story, and police...

It was no different from the newspapers on Earth.

As Ryan walked, he read ten lines in a single glance.

Right now, he had clear ears and bright eyes, and his memory was excellent. No matter if it were for current him or him during Earth's time, he couldn't reach this level. The reason for this should be because Book of Gold played a role, right?

Two minutes later, Ryan stopped.

His eyes fell on the police column. There was a black-and-white photo with a case introduction. The author of the column was scolding the police and complaining about the incompetence of the police. The title was: The serial killer committed another murder, and another innocent woman was killed!