The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

After successfully evading the inspection of the sentry, Leo also adjusted the features of his face, turning into an ordinary person with the deep brow arches of the Farnese, in order to avoid the appearance of the little nobleman before because of encountering acquaintances. And exposed.

Compared with the somewhat chaotic street planning in other urban areas, the planning of the noble district is very neat, with seven vertical and fourteen horizontal streets, a total of 21 streets dividing the noble district into small squares.

Although most of the nobles who live here choose to live in apartment buildings composed of more than a dozen families, there are also many wealthy and powerful people who will buy the entire small square to build their own mansions and private gardens , the Speaker of the House of Lords is such a great nobleman.

With such a big mansion as the target, it was very difficult for Leo to find the wrong place. He didn't even need to ask passers-by, and he found the mansion of the speaker less than ten minutes after entering the noble district.

Arriving near the residence of the Speaker of the House of Lords, Leo did not approach the residence of the Speaker, but sat down in a roadside tavern about 100 meters away from the residence, and ordered some rum and A few newspapers, sitting at a small table by the side of the road, and carefully checking the inside and outside of the mansion and the surrounding situation through the spirit net.

The United Kingdom government attaches great importance to the prevention of extraordinary people and extraordinary power. Not only are all mansions and domains equipped with energy disruptors, but all the building stones used as foundations are mixed with arrangements that interfere with extraordinary power.

It is no exaggeration to say that according to the arrangement of the United Kingdom in the aristocratic area, if Leo had not obtained a complete system of psionic skills and a series of anti-interference training for psionic abilities, his mental network might not be able to survive in such a complicated state. And under the influence of the chaotic interference force, anything useful was detected.

In addition to interfering with the extraordinary power, among the people patrolling back and forth in the city, in addition to the military police and patrol police wearing various weapons, there are also some extraordinary people who have not mutated in plain clothes, walking back and forth on the streets like ordinary people.

Not long after Leo sat down, an extraordinary man in plain clothes sat at a table next to Leo, ordered some food, and looked around while eating.

This extraordinary person obviously didn't notice the special existence of Leo, and his attention was all on the people who came and went.

At this time, Leo had already found out the situation of the House of Lords speaker's mansion through the spiritual network, and when he took back the spiritual network, he scanned the body of the extraordinary person who was recruited by the United Kingdom by the way.

Leo has long known from Sylvia that since the founding of the United Kingdom, it has attached great importance to the research and cultivation of extraordinary power, and has tried its best to recruit and win over people with extraordinary power from the people, even if the person possesses extraordinary power Not a great force.

From this point of view, there is not much difference between the United Kingdom and the Empire. It is just that one is gentler and more roundabout, and the other is rougher and more direct. But both are trying to find a way to create extraordinary people.

Just as the French Empire has found an unstable way to create family members, the United Kingdom has also found an unstable way to create superhumans.

This information did not come from Sylvia, but from Leo's own investigation.

In Sylvia's Castle Black, there are also some people sent by various departments of the Kingdom government to assist Sylvia in handling the affairs of the intelligence department. Their main task is not to directly participate in the work of Sylvia's intelligence department, but to It is responsible for coordinating the relationship between the intelligence department and other departments of the kingdom, so as to avoid some misunderstandings and cause internal consumption of resources.

Among these people, seven of them are supernatural beings with certain abilities, and Leo took a few opportunities to carefully check the physical conditions of these people, and he easily found in these people They learned the secret of their becoming superhumans, and also mastered the current technology of man-made superhumans in the United Kingdom.

For others, this technology is very mysterious. When Leo mentioned this to Sylvia, she also said that this technology is highly secret in the kingdom, and all related departments only obey the king, The Prime Minister and Parliament, which are not under the jurisdiction of any other department, also have the highest executive power.

That is to say, if she sent her men to inquire about the department's intelligence related to this technology, then this department would be able to directly kill her subordinates without going through any regulations, and she would not need to be responsible afterwards.

Although the United Kingdom has done such strict secrecy, it is a pity that they met Leo, and they did not know that someone in the world could directly discover their artificial superhuman technology from their research results.

In fact, the principle of this technique is very simple, that is to use the blood containing extraordinary power to stimulate the extraordinary power hidden in one's own blood, and finally achieve the complete stimulation of these powers.

However, there are two most critical problems in the actual operation of this seemingly simple technique. One is how much blood of the supernatural power injected into the experimenter's body is suitable, and the other is how to restore the body of the experimenter after the blood is injected. There will be no rejection reaction.

These two key problems are very difficult for anyone in the world to solve, even Leo, but there is one person who can easily solve this problem. This person is Lawrence the blood wizard. The wizard who has been dealing with him all his life has already created his own blood witchcraft. Things like alleviating rejection and controlling extraordinary blood concentration must be easy for him.

In the heart of the plain-clothed extraordinary man next to Leo, there is such an implanted blood that contains extraordinary power, and this blood is always using its weak extraordinary power to stimulate the blood power of the plain-clothed extraordinary man. , and this stimulating effect is not strong, just at the limit of this person's body.

Leo felt the unique energy fluctuations of blood witchcraft in this blood, and he also sensed the power of the family from the extraordinary power of the blood itself. Obviously, this blood did not come from other extraordinary people. But from the family.

It has to be said that blood wizards choose the blood of the family members as the source of blood, which is very suitable for this kind of transformation method of man-made superhumans. Although the extraordinary power of the family members also comes from blood, it is different from the superhumans because of their own extraordinary power. The extraordinary power in the blood comes from the gods they believe in now or in their ancestors.

After losing its source, this power from the gods will gradually weaken and eventually disappear, and in the process, it is enough to stimulate the power in the blood of the extraordinary.

From this point of view, in terms of stability alone, the transformation technique of the United Kingdom is safer and more stable than the transformation technique of the Empire, but in terms of strength, it is obvious that the United Kingdom is far from being comparable to the Empire. compared.

It is very difficult for the transcendent created by the United Kingdom's transformation technique to possess strong power. For example, the plainclothes transcendent next to Leo, the power contained in the blood of the family in his body has almost been consumed, and this transcendent The intensity of energy fluctuations he possesses is only a little better than that of ordinary people, and being able to use extraordinary power three times in one battle is already his limit.

Moreover, this kind of extraordinary power urged by external force also lost its further potential. According to Leo's estimation, unless this plainclothes extraordinary person has strong perseverance, or obtains some kind of artifact that can purify the blood, otherwise his It is difficult to increase the strength any more.

When Leo was spying on the secrets of artificial superhumans in the United Kingdom through the spiritual network, the object he was spying on suddenly stood up from the chair, then quickly made a few gestures towards the surroundings, and then walked towards a person across the street. The middle-aged man who just got off the carriage walked over.

At this time, several plainclothes extraordinary people and uniformed police officers also gathered around, and they all took out the weapons hidden on their bodies, and they were on alert, looking like they would attack at any time.

The middle-aged man who was targeted also realized that he was being targeted. He wanted to return to the carriage immediately and leave quickly, but the driver of the carriage had already jumped off the carriage amidst the threats of the policemen and lay on the ground. Don't dare to move.

And the middle-aged man just wanted to jump on the driver's seat to drive the car himself, but the bones of the limbs suddenly seemed to have been hit by something, and they were broken almost at the same time, and the severe pain made the unsuspecting middle-aged man unconscious in an instant .

Those plainclothes extraordinary people immediately carried the unconscious middle-aged man into the carriage, then drove the carriage away quickly, leaving only the uniformed policeman to deal with the follow-up matters.

The entire arrest operation was very fast, less than three minutes before and after. It must be said that these people are well-trained.

At this time, the waiter in the tavern also witnessed all this. He didn't seem surprised, but said to himself: "It's already the sixth time. It seems that with the convening of the Western Continent Conference, there will only be more and more people here. The more messy it gets, I have to be more careful after get off work at night."

After hearing the waiter's muttering to himself, Leo at the side immediately thought of something, found a copy from the newspaper on the table, unfolded it, and carefully read the content on it.

I saw that the newspaper recorded that Prime Minister Rudolph Fitz proposed to the Congress to hold a joint meeting of the Western Continent. Naturally, the object of the alliance was not the ruined and chaotic city of Miria, but the Hanossa League farther north.

The newspaper did not specify the specific content of the joint meeting, but judging from various signs, it should be to fight against the empire, and the Hanossa League seemed to be a little moved, and sent people to the United Kingdom to participate in the meeting.

Obviously, this kind of thing is definitely not what the empire wants to see. Although the empire and the United Kingdom have temporarily ceased fighting, they will still send spies and killers to disrupt the West Continent United Conference.

The aristocratic district of Hanlock City will have such strict vigilance. It is not the daily vigilance that Leo mistakenly thought, but the vigilance specially made for the smooth progress of this meeting. Not only the aristocratic district, but also the congress district, administrative district and palace The state of alert has been adjusted to the highest level.

Originally, it was Sylvia's responsibility to deal with imperial spies and killers, and she should be in charge. However, when Sylvia was in Minsk, her intelligence department was divided into two. The intelligence department was already in charge of others, so Sylvia was able to stay leisurely in her Castle Black when such an important meeting was held.

However, this is good news for Leo, because in this way, if he assassinates those supporters of the Lord of the Sky Church in the Kingdom government, the scapegoat is ready.

Just when Leo was thinking about something, a carriage drove over from the direction of the Congress area and stopped in front of the mansion of the Speaker of the House of Lords. As the attendant opened the door, an old man got out of the carriage and walked in. Arrived in the mansion.

Leo immediately recognized that this old man was his target, the Speaker of the House of Lords. While recognizing him, Leo's mental net also penetrated towards him.

It's just that when he got close to the old man, Leo stopped his infiltration and exploration, because he could clearly feel that the old man had a very strong divine power of the sky lord. If he is the one, then he must possess a demi-artifact of the Lord of the Sky.

Although, Leo is confident that with his current control over psionic skills, it is not too difficult to infiltrate and check the old man's situation, but he is not sure that he will not touch the divine power of the Church of the Lord of the Sky.

However, even if he couldn't check the old man's situation, Leo could still monitor the old man's movement, so Leo's spiritual network re-infiltrated into the mansion of the Speaker of the House of Lords.

"Is there any news over there?" After returning home, the old man just greeted his family and came to his office. At this time, there were already several attendants waiting there. Standing up, before they saluted, the old man asked directly.

One of the attendants immediately replied: "The over there said that it will take four days before they can send people over, because there is a wave of out-of-control mutants trying to cross the Dibia Mountains, and they need to deal with those mutants before they can send people over. "

"Damn it, these lunatics did that kind of thing without discussing it with us, now let's finish them off! No, we can't just let it go, this time we must let them bleed profusely, so that they won't go out again There will be a next time." The old man muttered angrily, and then ordered: "Tell over there, the king is very angry, and their behavior has crossed the line. If you want to appease the king's anger, the price proposed before will be doubled. ,three times."

"Three times?" The attendant was stunned after hearing this, and said in a deep voice, "Is this too much?"

The old man sneered and said: "Not much! The Church of the Lord of the Sky has accumulated much more than you imagined over the years, and this little effort is nothing to them." After speaking, he shifted the question to another "What's going on at Castle Black?" the squire asked.

The attendant replied: "Everything is normal, there is no problem."

The old man glared at the attendant and said, "Idiot, this is the biggest abnormality, send more people immediately."