The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Originally, Leo thought that after he took the healing potion, the chaotic stomach pouch would digest and absorb all of it before the potion took effect, and convert it into energy storage.

However, the real situation is somewhat different. After the healing potion is digested, it not only provides the Chaos Stomach with a huge energy storage value of nearly 20 points, but also has a very large effect on the spiritual energy and the daily value of various physical qualities. Visible restorative boost.

Among them, the spiritual energy directly increased by ten points, which was much higher than the spiritual energy he consumed to make the medicine.

The consumption of strength, agility, and physique due to lack of rest has all recovered by about five points.

As for the daily value of will and spirit, there is also some improvement, but the increase is far less than other statistics, almost negligible.

Leo, who had personally experienced the effects of the medicine, divided the ten medicines into five, handed them to Adeline, and said, "You take one, and you give the remaining four to Anne, and give them to her, Nelson, Catherine and others." Jason each took one, and told them how to use and the effects."

"Okay." Adeline was not polite. She took the potion, found a small leather bag from the tool cabinet against the wall, and put five potions into it. They might be damaged by collision. I put on some cushioning towels and left the hospital.

Leo tidied up the laboratory and did not continue to refine wizard potions, not because of time and energy, but because there were always one or two herbs among the remaining herbs needed for the potion formulas, which were very So rare that even medical schools aren't sure if some of these herbs exist.

After putting the five wizard potions into the bag, Leo also left Anne's hospital, called a carriage, and headed to the villa area of ​​Crescent Moon Lake.

It took half an hour for Leo to reach the villa area. The reason why it was so slow was that there were gendarmerie checkpoints on the main streets of every block along the way.

Leo knew from the newspapers in the carriage that during the time he was making wizard potions in Annie's Hospital, what happened in Miria City.

Seventy-three members of the Continental Congress were assassinated, sixty-nine of them died instantly, and only four survived.

Although due to the nature of the Continental Congress, some countries and dignitaries who have been damaged by the judgment of the Continental Congress will often use assassination methods to deal with some people they are hostile to, but like now, more than 70 people have been assassinated in one day. This is the first time since the founding of the Continental Congress that members of the Continental Congress have been involved.

More than 70 members of the Continental Congress occupy half of the seats in the entire Continental Congress. The absence of these people has caused an unprecedented shutdown of the Continental Congress. And because there is no precedent for a shutdown, the administrative officials of the Continental Congress don't know how to deal with it, which plunges the entire Continental Congress system into chaos.

In addition, because of the incompetence of the security department of the Continental Congress, many members of the Continental Congress were assassinated. Some members of the Congress said that the security department is no longer suitable for the security of Miria city.

So following the suggestions of some members of the Congress, the Administrative Bureau of the Continental Congress invited the First French Legion stationed in Bordeaux to be responsible for the defense around the city of Miria. The city is under full martial law, and the investigation of the assassination of a member of parliament is handed over to the General Police Department of Miria City to investigate.

Although the whole city is under martial law, it does not prevent the residents of the city from crossing blocks. It is just that when moving between blocks, they will need to be inspected by the gendarmerie, and the inspection of people carrying weapons will be much stricter. There are many Those who have problems will be immediately arrested by the gendarmerie, handed over to the patrol team stationed here, and taken back to the police station for detention.

When Leo was inspected, because he had a document signed by Ljungberg himself, proving that he was a special agent, the inspection was not very intensive. let go.

After arriving at the villa area of ​​Crescent Moon Lake, the guards here are stricter than other neighborhoods. Even if he has the certificate signed by Ljungberg, he is not released, but waits for the people at the villa to reply. Only then let him in.

Under the guidance of Vaschi, Leo entered the villa. The old man Rembrandt was sitting in the living room, seriously flipping through the newspaper in his hand, carefully looking at the contents, and the coffee table in front of him had been piled up. more than one newspaper.

When he came to the old man, Leo couldn't help asking: "What do you think of what happened outside?"

The old man put down the newspaper in his hand, motioned for Leo to sit on the sofa beside him, and then asked, "What about you? What's your opinion?"

Leo was silent for a moment, then said, "I think the situation is weird."

"Strange? Well, this word is very suitable here." The old man nodded when he heard the words, and asked again: "Why do you feel this way?"

"Everything is abnormal." Leo thought for a while, and said: "For example, the atmosphere, it is reasonable to say that the whole city is under martial law, and after things like military police entering the city and setting up checkpoints happen, no matter what the cause is, the people at the bottom should feel panicked, but However, I found that the people in each block did not appear to be so flustered, and even the market in the block was trading as usual, without any impact. If I hadn’t met the gendarmerie who set up checkpoints, I wouldn’t even know what had happened It's such a big deal."

The old man smiled and asked, "Such a big deal? Do you think it's a big deal that seventy-three people from the mainland congress hospital were assassinated?"

Leo was a little surprised by the calmness of the old man, and said puzzledly: "Isn't this a big deal? It directly led to the suspension of the Continental Congress, and may even affect whether the Continental Congress will continue to stay in the French Empire?"

"Hmm! So it seems that the matter is very big." The old man nodded, but changed the topic again, saying: "But it is a big matter for the Continental Congress, but what about you? For the ordinary people in Miria City What? Will the presence of the Continental Congress affect your life?"

Leo was stunned, and said with some uncertainty: "It should be! Without the Continental Congress, is Miria City still Miria City? Politics and business should be affected, and these influences should also spread. How can it be said that it has no effect on the bottom-level residents of Miria City?"

"It seems that you don't know what kind of political environment Miria City is." The old man smiled and shook his head, and said, "If I explain it, I'm afraid I can't explain it clearly in a day. You just need to know a little The presence or absence of the Continental Congress does not have much impact on Miria City, at most it just loses a little international reputation.” He paused for a while, and gave Vaschi an order to let her go to the study for the document. Then he turned to Leo and asked, "What do you think of the assassination of these seventy-three congressmen?"

Leo felt that the old man's question was a little weird, but he didn't think too much about it. He directly guessed and replied, "It should be Rupert Fitz's counterattack. He suffered a big loss from me yesterday,"

Afterwards, he will accept Ljungberg's invitation to speak out about the assassination of Rupert and his men yesterday.

"Longberg?" The old man seemed to have thought of something interesting, with a smile on his face, and said, "I see, the most important part is here."

Just when Leo was puzzled by the old man's words and wanted to ask, Vaschi had already taken out a folder, and handed it to Leo at the old man's signal.

Leo looked at the folder with some confusion. He found that the folder contained all the information of the members of the Continental Congress, so he couldn't help asking: "Is this the information of the 73 members of the Continental Congress?"

"Yes." The old man nodded and said, "After reading it, tell me what they have in common."

Hearing this, Leo lowered his head and carefully looked through the materials in his hand. Although there were as many as 73 copies of these materials, they were not difficult to read because they had been sorted out in advance. He didn't use the sub-brain system to collect and analyze the data, so it took him about half an hour to finish reading.

After closing the folder and thinking calmly for a moment, Leo said slowly: "They have three things in common. First, they are all secret supporters of the three heirs of the French royal family. Second, they all advocate that the Continental Congress should Thirdly, none of them are from the Velen continent, and they are all politicians and scholars from the other two continents.”

"Not bad! Very good! You are much better than Vaschi for finding out what these people have in common so quickly, she...cough cough!" Not necessarily, when the words came to his lips, he took them back, coughed twice, then turned back to the topic, pointing to Leo, and said: "Some things don't need to be overcomplicated, what kind of power! What kind of hostility! What kind of allies! Don’t think about those things, just look for the root cause, often it is easy to get the real answer to some seemingly complicated things. For example, the assassination of the 73 members of the Continental Congress, the root cause Where is the point?"

"The beneficiary of the assassination incident." Leo's mind quickly became clear.

"Then who is the beneficiary?" the old man asked again.

Without even thinking about it, Leo said, "The Faran Empire."

"Very correct, but not comprehensive." The old man added: "If you add the Kingdom of England, the answer will be complete."

"The Kingdom of England?" Leo vaguely thought of something, but he didn't fully think about it, and his face showed confusion.

"Although the Velen Continent is the largest of the three continents, the political system on the Velen Continent is the least among the three continents. Except for the French Empire and the Kingdom of England, only the Seven Kingdoms of the Hanossa Alliance in the north are barely in the two continents. The power of the great power is overwhelming." The old man came to the desk in the living room, found a map of the Vinylon world, spread it out on the table, pointed to the geographical locations of the countries on it, and said: "Compared to the bipolar map of the Vinylon continent, In terms of political system, the other two continents are multi-polar political systems. Although the two continents have their own powerful countries, those powerful countries are not enough to have an absolute advantage in front of other countries like the French Empire and the Kingdom of England.”

Leo asked suspiciously: "Is the situation in these countries related to the assassination of the members of the Continental Congress this time?"

"Of course it is." The old man smiled and said: "Although the Continental Congress is the product of Miria I's wisdom, in the end it did not develop as Miria I envisioned. For the French Empire, the Continental Parliament is the A cancer, but in the past this cancer would send a lot of benefits to the French Empire, so the French Empire has never made up its mind to cut it off. But when the Continental Congress began to secretly intervene in the succession of the French Empire, the Continental Congress sent No matter how great the interest is, it must be cleaned up, and it will be very difficult for the French Empire to clean up the Continental Congress, so naturally we need to find an ally..."

"The Kingdom of England!" Leo said with a gloomy face, "You mean the war on the eastern continent is actually a drama?"

The old man did not give a positive answer, but asked Leo back, "Tell me, what is the cause of this war?"

"I remember it seems to be for a rare mineral deposit in the eastern continent." Leo recalled his memory carefully and said.

The old man said again: "What if I tell you that the so-called mine has been hollowed out inside, but there is a layer of camouflaged mineral veins on the surface?"

Leo's face was extremely gloomy, and there was a faint murderous intent in his eyes. As the old man gradually revealed this deep secret, his confused thoughts began to become clear, and he said: "This war If the purpose is only to lure out those members of the Continental Parliament who have evil intentions, wipe them all out, and take the opportunity to force the Continental Congress out of the French Empire, or to control the Continental Congress. Then why did Duke Dewen use imine gas to attack us? Is this also pre-arranged? Is it using the lives of those of us at the bottom of England to make this scene more real?"

"I think the person who appointed this plan in the high-level of the two countries is not a good person, but he can't do such a thing." The old man shook his head and said: "You should recall that the Kingdom of England was in Venaya. After landing in Hong Kong, have you ever encountered decent resistance from the army of the French Empire? Although the army of the French Empire is no longer comparable to the First Army that galloped across the country back then, it is not without resistance, let alone The army of the Kingdom of England. The two sides have been in a stalemate in the Bretui area. Although the fighting was fierce, there were also casualties, but the casualties were very light until the appearance of Duke Dewin."

Leo frowned and said, "You mean Duke Devin was an accident?"

The old man didn't answer, but asked skippingly: "Do you know why Anne brought you to me, hoping that I could intervene in the proceedings of the Continental Congress against Duke Devin, but I refused?"

Leo said in a deep voice: "You have seen through these hidden things at that time, so..."

"No, no!" The old man shook his head and said, "It's because I can't see through this matter that I will reject Anne's proposal, even though Duke Dewen is the person I hate the most." He paused for a while. , Said: "In fact, I have been paying attention to this inexplicable war from the very beginning of the war between France and England, but I have never understood what the purpose of this war is. Until last night, the seventy-three members of the Continental Congress The congressman was assassinated, the gendarmerie entered the city, and the First Army Corps took over the defense, and I gradually saw the group drama on this big stage."