The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Just as Leo analyzed, the negotiations in Rabbit Skin Town on the martial law hindering the town's business went smoothly, and the militia group who enforced the martial law also knew that it was too much to use the martial law to make money. If we continue, Surely it will be outraged.

Although the militiamen here are all transferred from other towns in the Faran Empire, once something happens, they can be transferred away from here to avoid disaster, but they are also worried that if they really offend these people in Rabbit Skin Town , Maybe they will be transferred to other places and these people will find an opportunity to kill them. By then, they will have money but will not spend their lives.

It's just that they are unwilling to let these militiamen give up this great opportunity unconditionally.

In the past, the militiamen in Rabbit Skin Town were definitely the bottom group of people in the town. The mercenary guards of the caravan and the hunters who walked in the Black Forest all the year round were not easy to mess with. Those caravans had a big background. There are no permanent residents here, so they have nothing to earn at all, only a meager military salary.

Now the opportunity has come, with the martial law order issued by the military department as their backing, they can use the military department as an excuse to negotiate conditions with the Rabbit Skin Town Council and improve their own treatment.

Naturally, the ideas of these militiamen could not escape the eyes of those cunning members of the town council. Because of the military department, they did not dare to press these militiamen too hard, and were willing to spend some money to end this unreasonable disaster as soon as possible.

The only question is how much it will cost.

The members of the town council said that they gave a sum of money directly and understood this, but the militiamen are not stupid, they prefer to keep flowing, so they asked to draw a sum of money from the business tax every month for the construction of the militia.

The two sides insisted on this issue for a day, and finally reached a consensus when the sun was about to sink. The tax official can collect an additional one-thousandth of the commercial tax in Rabbit Skin Town. This one-thousandth commercial tax will be Used for militia building.

As for the martial law order, although it will not be lifted on the surface, in fact it will no longer be enforced. How it was checked in the past is still the same now.

After reaching a consensus, the captain of the militia opened the wooden door of the small town, and the tax officer and the speaker of the parliament came out together to announce the results of the negotiation just now. Because it also involves an additional tax of one thousandth, it is necessary to obtain the largest amount of the small town's business. A few big chambers of commerce would agree.

For these chambers of commerce, the one-thousandth of the extra business tax is nothing compared to their possible daily income from small town businesses. After all, the biggest part of their business has never been a legitimate business that needs to pay commercial taxes, and smuggling all kinds of contraband is the real big interest.

For these chambers of commerce, the martial law order issued by the military is like a shackle on their necks. If they cannot be lifted as soon as possible, their losses will be incalculable, and they will even offend some big shots because some customers' orders cannot be completed.

Based on the past conflicts between the Kingdom of England and the Empire of France, all chambers of commerce feel that the war between the two countries may last for a long time, so they hope that the martial law can be lifted more than anyone else.

Because of this, after discussing for a while, the directors of those big chambers of commerce finally agreed to the one-thousandth additional business tax.

As the gate of the town was completely opened, the caravans that had been waiting impatiently in the carriage square began to swarm in.

The three of Leo also mixed into the crowd and entered Rabbit Skin Town.

I don't know what the people who built the Rabbit Skin Town thought. The houses in the town were built randomly, and there was no rule such as vertical and horizontal directions at all. This also made the roads inside the town very chaotic, giving people a feeling of entering The illusion of a maze, people who come here for the first time will definitely get lost if they don't have the flower of the guide.

This is not the first time Nelson has come to Rabbit Skin Town. Although it has been a few years since the last time he came here, and some buildings have been added here, the main places in the town have not changed, such as the high school he is going to now. Tower Hotel.

Although the High Tower Hotel is called the High Tower, it is not very high. It has only two floors. The first floor is a tavern and shop, and the second floor is a hotel. The appearance of the hotel is also an ordinary manor-style hotel, and there is nothing special about it, but in fact this is the location of the black market in Rabbit Skin Town, and all the contraband flows out from here.

Nelson led Leo and Jason to the hotel, greeted the lobby manager skillfully, and took advantage of his status as a doctor to snatch a room from other mercenaries who booked the room.

When they came to the hotel room, the three of them washed up, checked the wounds on their bodies, changed their medicine, and took a short rest. After dark, they left the room and went to the black market downstairs.

Although it is called a black market, it is not really dark here. Instead, it is decorated with a large number of high-brightness oil lamps, making the light here as bright as day.

The black market is located in the small garden behind the first floor of the hotel. The transactions of contraband are all in the garden, and neither party will bring any money or goods with them. Only after an agreement is reached, will they go to the storage location to see the goods and complete the transaction.

There are dozens of shops around the small garden, and most of the shops here deal in some high-end items and some special items.

After Nelson brought Leo and Jason to the small garden, he walked directly towards a shop with a herbal sign painted on it, pushed open a glass door, and walked into the shop.

I saw that although the shop's brand indicated that it was dealing in herbal medicine, it was actually more like a grocery store. Except for a medicine cabinet with hundreds of drawers on the right side of the entrance, there was nothing related to medicine in the surrounding area.

The owner of the shop was an elderly man with the badge of a medical school herbalist, and his clothes were a bit old. He didn't look like the kind of person who could open a shop in this kind of place.

When the boring boss saw Nelson, he stood up as if meeting an old friend, stepped forward to hug him affectionately, and then asked about his recent situation. Nelson was also very respectful, as if he was facing a teacher, he answered all the boss's questions one by one, without hiding anything, and even revealed that they were soldiers of the Kingdom of England.

When Nelson revealed their identities, Jason was about to stop them, but was held back by Leo. He felt that Nelson was not the kind of person who didn't know the seriousness of the matter. To him, the other party was obviously trustworthy. Moreover, Leo is not worried that the old man will reveal anything, he is fully sure that he can solve the other party before he makes a move that is not good for him.

"Damn Duke Dewen! How dare he do this? How dare he do this!" After hearing that Duke Dewen's army actually used imine gas, the old man became extremely angry, clenched his hands, gnashed his teeth, and had blue veins on his forehead popped out, as if he was a victim of the gas.

The extraordinary anger shown by the old man made Leo feel a little puzzled, and Nelson on the side took the initiative to explain: "It was Mr. Pierre who took the initiative to add the regulation prohibiting the use of imine gas in war to the Continental Agreement." voice, said: "The teacher's daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter all died under the imine gas, so..."

Having said that, Nelson didn't continue talking, and quietly waited for the old man to calm down.

After a while, the old man gradually calmed down, looked at Nelson, and said in a deep voice, "You said just now that you were going to sue Duke Devin in Miria City, right?"

"Yes, teacher."

The old man pondered for a while, and said: "I can help you, I will write a letter, and you hand him over to His Excellency Wizemir, the Tribunal of the Continental Parliament, and it should be able to play a little role."

After finishing speaking, the old man walked to the counter, took out a pen and paper, and quickly started writing on the table.

Leo walked around the store a little bored, casually looking at the products on the table and in the display cabinet.

"Find high-energy items." When Leo walked to a pile of ornaments and necklaces that looked like some kind of religious ornaments, the sub-brain system suddenly automatically issued a reminder, making him stop.

"The location of high-energy items is displayed."

A point of light appeared in the eyes of Leo who gave the order, and the position of the light point happened to be among the messy religious ornaments.

Leo reached out to search among the pile of accessories, and soon found the high-energy item prompted by the sub-brain system.

The item was a crudely crafted necklace with a strap woven from the hair of a wild animal, and the pendant was a wooden plaque carved with chaotic lines that felt out of order. This necklace is so ordinary that no one will pick it up even if it is thrown on the ground. If it wasn't for the sub-brain system prompt, I am afraid that Leo would not have looked at this necklace more.

But after realizing that this rough necklace is a high-energy item, Leo not only wanted to find out the special features of this necklace, so he carefully checked every part of the necklace, and finally his eyes fell on that piece Dissatisfied with the messy lines on the wooden sign.

I don't know if it's a hallucination, but Leo found that when he concentrated on staring at the wooden sign, the lines on the wooden sign seemed to come alive and wandered on the surface, forming strange patterns one by one, and these patterns I don't know why it gave him an inexplicable sense of nausea, as if someone was holding a stick and stirring in his brain.

"What's this?" Jason saw Leo looking at the necklace for a long time at this moment, so he couldn't help but stepped forward and asked curiously.

"A fun little gadget."

Jason's questioning voice pulled Leo's attention away from the ever-changing lines on the wooden sign, and his mind, which was a little confused by the lines, recovered.

At this time, looking at the lines on the wooden sign, he no longer had the miraculous feeling just now. If it wasn't for the disgusting feeling that hadn't dissipated, and if it wasn't for the sub-brain system still reminding the wooden sign that it was a high-energy item, maybe he would have remembered what happened just now. things as hallucinations.

"Sort up the physical activity data three minutes ago!" Leo ordered to the secondary brain system, and soon the data was projected on his eyeballs.

By comparing the data, he discovered that just now his brain had entered an active period that was thirty times as high as the normal level. Such a strong active period had never been seen before.

Moreover, the data also showed that his body suffered a very small amount of radiation just now, but this time the radiation did not seem to have caused any harm to his body. On the contrary, it had some stimulating effects on the cells in his body. Some wounds on his body have completely healed.

"How much is this necklace?" Leo walked up to the old man holding the necklace and asked.

Seeing the necklace in Leo's hand, the old man froze for a moment, stopped the pen in his hand, took the necklace from Leo's hand, looked at it carefully, and asked, "Why did you choose this necklace?"

"I like it, so I chose it." Naturally, it was impossible for Leo to tell the truth, so he said perfunctorily.

The old man knew very well that Leo hadn't told the truth, but he didn't care. He handed the necklace back to Leo and said, "This necklace is a priest's necklace from the Witzk people, and it's worth fifteen gold flanges. For the sake of saving your face, I will save you a golden flange."

"What is so expensive for fourteen gold flanges?" Nelson was also curious about what Leo found because of such a high price.

"Deal." Although the price of fourteen gold flanges is very expensive, but Leo found a lot of money from the dead before, it is nothing to buy this necklace now. As he spoke, he took out a gold shield of the Kingdom of England worth fourteen gold phalanxes from his pocket, put it on the table, but did not leave his hand, and said, "However, I have one condition, you must tell Where did my stuff come from?"

The old man reached out and pushed Leo's hand away, then swept the golden shields on the table and put them into the drawer inside the counter, and then narrated: "This necklace is from the ancient Wetzkers who lived on the edge of the Black Forest. It was made by the priest, and it is mainly used when offering sacrifices to the night shepherd, the deity believed by the Wetzker people. It is said that this necklace can allow the owner to see the gods of the Wetzker people."

As he spoke, he paused, picked up the pen, and wrote the letter while continuing: "It's a pity that the Wetzkers refused to surrender to the Faran Empire and were wiped out by the empire's troops. Now the Wetzkers are almost extinct. Perhaps in the depths of the Black Forest, there are still some Wetzker tribes living there."

"A Wetzker ornament?" Nelson also moved over with interest, wanting to have a look at this ornament.

Leo handed it over naturally, but when Nelson took the ornament and looked at the wooden sign carefully, he was also observing Nelson's expression. However, he didn't see anything unusual in Nelson's expression. Apparently, Nelson didn't feel the mysterious high energy in the wooden pendant.

At this time, Jason also took the ornaments from Nelson's hand as if he was joining in the fun, and looked at it casually, but when his eyes fell on the wooden sign, he suddenly frowned, showing a look of disgust.

"What's the matter?" Leo observed carefully and asked in a timely manner.

"It's nothing, it's just... I just think it's not very good." Jason handed the ornament back to Leo, some didn't know how to describe it, so he could only simply express his current thoughts and said.