Charlotte couldn't have imagined that he would be sent to Kilmainham Prison for official business, be appreciated by his senior sister, Miss Meinilman, and even have an unexpected promotion and salary increase.
However, no matter how perfect the beginning was, it couldn't relieve the pressure in his heart.
The room gradually darkened. Charlotte didn't turn on the light. There was no light to turn on. There were no street lamps on the road outside the window. After nightfall, it was pitch-black, completely different from the world he came from.
Every city had street lamps. After nightfall, the lights were bright, even brighter than the stars in the sky. Such a world was in the past.
After a long time, Charlotte gently clenched his fist, waved it a little, and whispered, "Teacher Huang Haisheng, you did very well today."
"Please keep working hard tomorrow. Come on."
He gave himself an encouragement, took out the kerosene lighter, gently turned the gear, rubbed the flint, and lit an oil lamp in the room.
There was no light to turn on, but there was a lamp to light.
Although it was dim and yellowish, the oil lamp was also a lamp.
Charlotte looked around the room that belonged to him for a while. The Savings Association Apartment was only provided to single young people, so the layout of the apartment was all one-room units.
It had a separate bathroom, indicating that there were sewer projects in this era, but there was no separate kitchen. One could only use a kerosene stove to boil coffee, make some soup, or simple wheat porridge.
The layout of the room was a combination of a bedroom and a study. There was a desk, not too big but sufficient for writing, a closet for clothes, and a single sofa.
When Charlotte saw the gas stove, he couldn't help feeling hungry. He hadn't eaten anything all day.
Miss Meinilman seemed to have forgotten about this. She didn't eat anything either and naturally didn't prepare food for Charlotte.
Charlotte stood up, lit the kerosene stove by the dim kerosene lamp, found a few potatoes, some vegetables that looked like peas in the room, a bottle that looked and smelled like curry seasoning, and also found half a black and hard loaf of bread.
There was no electricity in this era, but the apartment had tap water. Charlotte filled half a pot with clean water, peeled and cut the potatoes into pieces, threw in a handful of peas, added two spoons of seasoning. After the water boiled, he broke the black bread and threw it in.
A few minutes later, he served dinner on a plate.
To be honest, the taste was very bad.
But having been hungry for a whole day, Charlotte didn't care about the taste and quickly finished eating this pot of food. He also boiled half a pot of water and made some black tea.
The black tea was also in stock. The taste was very strong, very different from the black tea on Earth. It tasted a bit like pepper water mixed with chili peppers, very strange and refreshing.
Charlotte frowned and took a sip, sat back on the rattan chair, took out the diary, hesitated for a moment, and didn't open it.
When he returned from Senis, he entrusted his luggage to the Imperial Post for shipping and only brought this diary with him. Because he only discovered this diary before leaving, Charlotte hurriedly flipped through the last few pages, confirmed that its original owner died from summoning an evil god, and hadn't carefully browsed the entire content.
The light of the oil lamp was weak. Under such lighting conditions, he didn't want to read anything, which was bad for his eyesight.
What was more worrying was that this diary was tainted with the aura of an evil god. The predecessor died from summoning an evil god, and there might be some "unclean" things.
Sipping the black tea in small sips, Charlotte slowly recalled the documents he saw during the day to pass the time.
To be honest, he didn't expect to see so many exciting secrets.
Most of these documents were related to one person.
Zimmerman Axell Robin!
This guy was of noble birth. His original name was: Zimmerman Robin!
Five eras ago, Saroseth Robin assisted King Axell and helped him ascend to the throne from a commoner. With loyalty, bravery, iron blood, and achievements, he became the perpetual inheritor of the highest title in the Fals Empire.
Before Saroseth's sudden emergence, the Robin family was the oldest noble in the Ingilima Empire. Countless scholars, military strategists, adventurers, peerless generals, and unrestrained swordsmen emerged from the family!
In the nascent Fals Empire, the power, prestige, and status of the Robin family surpassed that of the Ingilima Empire era.
Zimmerman showed extraordinary talent from a young age. He entered Harbosk Public School at the age of six and graduated with the first place in the third year and was admitted to the First National College.
All public schools in the empire implement a credit system. The average time to complete all courses is six and a half years.
Harbosk Public School is the top-ranked public school in the empire, and the studies are particularly strict. It is common for students to take eight years or more to complete their studies, and even students who have been there for more than ten years are not rare.
Zimmerman was able to complete his studies within three years and graduate with the first-place score. It was enough to be proud among all his peers. Saying that he was a rising star of the empire was not even a compliment.
Charlotte graduated in five years, but his graduation score ranked 89th. The Lehman Public School he was in was far inferior to Harbosk and was just a second-rate school.
Zimmerman Robin's resume is more than that. At the age of thirteen, he calmly completed his studies at the First National College and was admitted to Royal Hogwidge University again with astonishing grades.
And as a once-in-a-century genius of Royal Hogwidge University, he completed his studies before the age of twenty.
After graduation, he declined the generous job assignment, chose to join the Imperial Navy, and within a year, he was promoted from the captain of a third-class ship to the commander of a naval fleet with five warships. He commanded the fleet to consecutively sweep away eight pirate fleets and captured the Eastern Li Kingdom, which had been a headache for the empire, making it an overseas dependency of the empire.
Originally, he should have logically become the governor of the Eastern Li Kingdom, but this guy refused the appointment and...led his troops in rebellion!
He joined the largest pirate group.
This favored son of heaven immediately became the most wanted thief at the top of the empire's wanted list, with a bounty as high as five hundred thousand gold écus, unprecedented!
Before he was on the list, the original pirate king, who ranked first, had a bounty of only one hundred and sixteen thousand gold écus. The bounties of the top ten thieves combined were only four hundred and eighty-six thousand gold écus.
At that time, an indescribable craze swept through the empire. No one guessed why he would give up a bright future and degenerate.
The king was extremely furious and publicly humiliated the patriarch of the Robin family several times.
The patriarch, in a rage, announced the abolition of his surname and declared in the newspaper: "The Robin family will never accept the traitor of the empire."
No one could have imagined that this audacious guy actually did something even more earth-shattering!
Less than half a year after Zimmerman Robin joined the pirate king's fleet, he challenged the pirate king head-on and killed this pirate king, who had roamed the seven seas for more than fifty years and could even faintly contend with the Imperial Navy, in a designed public occasion.
And it took him three years to unify the sixteen pirate fleets of the seven seas and became the new pirate king with high prestige.
Then, Zimmerman Robin made a decision that shocked the world. He commanded the joint pirate fleet to return to the empire.