The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"The knight's battle card?" Baron de Maupassant was taken aback, not understanding what Leo said.

Leo then explained: "In ancient times, knights often challenged other famous knights in order to become famous. Generally speaking, the challenged knights would not refuse such challenges. To show fairness, the challenged would decide on the duel event. ...If Jacques Huppert is really a real knight who abides by the ancient knight law as you said, and received my knight's invitation, then he will definitely accept my challenge."

"Really useful?" Baron Maupassant, who didn't know much about ancient knight duels, questioned Leo's method.

"Of course ordinary knight battle posts are impossible to use, but my knight battle posts are different." Leo thought of the knight's family crest in the vision of the twins, and then asked Baron de Maupassant for a pen and paper, and quickly wrote it on the paper. He drew a family crest and handed it to Baron de Maupassant, "Put this crest on my battle post, he will definitely accept it."

Baron de Maupassant took the paper and looked at it, and saw that the family crest was very simple, that is, two crossed swords with vines wrapped around them. Although he still didn't understand what the mystery was, he still put the paper in his pocket and decided to try according to Leo's method.

The reason why Leo was so sure that a coat of arms could lure Jacques Huppert into the bait was because the coat of arms contained information about the twin spiritual weapons. If Jacques Huppert is really a descendant of that knight, the Huppert family who inherited the complete cross-sword swordsmanship must also know the existence of the twins, and they are more aware of the importance of the twins to this set of cross-sword swordsmanship.

The other members of the Huppert family may no longer be interested in the cold weapon of the twins. After all, no matter how powerful personal swordsmanship is in this industrial age, it may not be better than a steam crossbow controlled by an ordinary person.

But for a master swordsman who can practice dual-wielding cross swords to the point of proficiency, a set of cold weapons that match swordsmanship is obviously very attractive, not to mention that this weapon is also a symbol of the heir to the orthodox swordsmanship. As long as Leo hinted in the battle post that the winner could get the ownership of the twins, the possibility of Jacques Huppert's objection was almost zero.

Baron Maupassant asked again: "How do you plan to write the battle post? Are you going to post the battle post in your current capacity?"

Leo shook his head immediately, and said: "Of course I can't write it according to my identity, so I will write the post in the name of the descendant of the Perini family, and help me prepare a full body armor similar to the disciplinary knight of the Holy See, which can cover my face For the ones that are all covered, the duel time is set at ten o'clock tonight, outside the camp of the First Legion."

"Outside the camp of the First Legion?" Baron de Maupassant frowned and said, "If you kill Jacques Huppert, how are you going to get out so close to the camp?"

"Don't worry, I have a way to get out." Leo smiled confidently, and did not continue this topic.

At this time, the carriage stopped outside the Sky Tower. Baron de Maupassant stepped off the carriage, motioned to Leo, and said, "Come down! Emily has been awake for three days, go and see her!"

In Leo's mind, the little free woman with witch blood appeared, nodded, then got off the carriage, followed Baron de Maupassant, and came to his exclusive room in the Sky Tower.

I saw a tall, beautiful woman with striking purple hair sitting in the center of the room at the moment. When she saw Baron de Maupassant coming in, she immediately stood up and was about to go up to him, but when she saw Leo following behind But when he stopped, there was a hint of doubt in his eyes.

I don't know if it's because of this gorgeous lace skirt and exquisite makeup, or because of the complete change in the figure and temperament of the woman in front of me. Even though Leo knew in his heart that the woman in front of him should be the woman named Emily, and he could still see the shadow of that little woman in appearance, but he still had a feeling in his heart that this woman was not Emily.

"This is Mr. Leo Dodd, my friend." Baron de Maupassant walked up to the woman, kissed her cheek very intimately, and then introduced.

Hearing Baron de Maupassant's introduction, Leo had a bad feeling in his heart.

I saw that woman who looked somewhat similar to Emily, but was more beautiful and had a more noble temperament, walked up to Leo with hesitation in her eyes, stretched out her hand to him, and said, "Nice to meet you, how much?" De, I'm Emily Belmont."

Leo didn't show any doubts in his heart, but he politely shook the fingertips of the woman who called herself Emily, and said, "It's nice to meet you too, Miss Belmont."

When Leo held the opponent's hand, not only Leo felt an inexplicable connection between himself and the opponent, but even this Emily had a surprised expression on her face, and the suspicion in her eyes became more and more thick.

When Leo let go of her hand, Emily couldn't help the doubts in her heart, and asked Leo: "Did we know each other before, Mr. Dodd, why do I have... an indescribable feeling?" ?”

Leo frowned and didn't know how to answer. Baron de Maupassant stood up to make a rescue at this time, stretched out his hand to hold Emily in his arms, and said, "Honey, I'm still by my side, and you actually stood up in front of me?" I would be sad if I said that to another man."

"You won't be sad, you philanderer who loves one another!" Emily turned around, pinched Baron de Maupassant's nose very affectionately, and said, "Sit here for a while, I'll prepare Some refreshments."

After finishing speaking, she picked up the fluffy lotus leaf skirt and walked out of the room, walking towards the back kitchen of the Sky Tower.

After Baron de Maupassant closed the door, Leo couldn't help being puzzled and asked, "What the hell is this? Where's Emily?"

"Is she Emily?" Baron de Maupassant said.

Leo was stunned, and suddenly remembered all kinds of rumors about witches, and couldn't help but said: "I know that the witch's blood will change after awakening, but will it change so much? In a few days, it seems to have completely changed. Just like a person."

Baron de Maupassant gave Leo a white look, and then said in a deep tone: "This is just the most common change, you haven't seen the kind of change where a deformed body turns into a normal person within a day, that's called a change. people."

I don't know if it's an illusion, but Leo felt that when Baron de Maupassant said these words, it was as if he was talking about himself.

Leo was silent for a while, then questioned again: "I know that the awakening of the witch's bloodline will change the appearance of the witch, but I have never heard that after the awakening of the witch's bloodline, even people's memories will be changed. If she is Amy Li, why did her memory become like this?"

"In the past, Emily was just an ordinary little woman at home. She saw the corpses of her parents and husband with her own eyes, and they were tortured corpses. She was sucked blood and almost died. Her psychology has long been It collapsed at that moment." Baron de Maupassant sighed slightly, and explained: "When she woke up, she was in a daze, not only did she not know how to speak, she even didn't know how to do the basics of eating and walking. , so I managed to compile a set of memories for her, so that she can continue to live with another identity."

Hearing Baron de Maupassant's words, Leo thought more in his mind. He felt that Emily's reaction after waking up was not only greatly stimulated psychologically, but also because of the brain damage caused by a large amount of blood loss. .

Although the powerful witch blood has repaired the damaged brain, it cannot repair the memory in the brain, or even the basic survival skills such as eating and walking, which have been trained since childhood. Now it can be said that Emily can live like an ordinary person. It is a miracle , even the medical technology of the Earth Federation cannot treat such a brain-damaged patient.

However, what made Leo feel more like a miracle was that Baron de Maupassant could create a complete false memory and stuff it into Emily's mind without any rejection, just like Emily's own memory.

For this reason, Leo couldn't help being curious, and asked about the situation related to this memory.

Baron Maupassant replied very naturally: "This is Emily's own memory. I didn't create it. I just created an environment that can produce this memory."

Hearing this, Leo quickly found a relevant information in the vice-brain database, and tentatively asked in a deep voice, "Are you a dream builder?"

Leo has read various records about witches from the occult books given by the old man Rembrandt. Just like the abilities of the family members are not fixed, the abilities of each witch are not fixed, but some abilities can be changed every few days. After generations, it reappeared on the witch with awakened blood. The dream builder is such an ability.

In the books that record witches, there are very few records about the abilities of witches, but compared to the abilities of other witches, the abilities of dream builders are relatively detailed. One is the ability to construct a dream world that is almost real, and the other One is to change people's memory through dreams.

It's just that the dream builder's ability to create a complete life memory like Emily's has never been seen in the dark world data he collected.

Hearing Leo's question, Maupassant didn't deny or admit it. Instead, he joked as if he was changing the subject: "You even know about Dream Builder. It seems that you have learned a lot from Rembrandt these days. No wonder I think your temperament is becoming more and more like a scholar."

Leo ignored Baron Maupassant's clumsy way of changing the subject. He thought that the dream builder was the exclusive ability of a witch, and no other family members or wizards had similar abilities and witchcraft.

As a result, Leo looked at the pure man with all the male organs in front of him with a strange face, but he had a somewhat feminine temperament, and couldn't help asking: "Are you a witch?"

Having said all this, Baron de Maupassant knew that it was useless to argue, so he readily admitted: "What? Can't I be a witch?"

"But your body...?" Leo didn't complete the sentence, but pointed to his lower body implicitly.

Baron de Maupassant's face turned red in an instant, and he gave Leo a hard look, then walked to the soft cushion in the room and sat down, casually threw a fruit on the low table into his mouth, using this action to ease his embarrassment, Then he said: "I am just a skin. I think it would be easier and more convenient to live in this world with a man's body, so I created a man's skin."

"Skin?" Although Leo could understand every word Baron de Maupassant said, he didn't quite understand the meaning of this sentence, and he didn't know whether this skin was the skin he understood.

Seeing this situation, Baron de Maupassant stood up, walked towards the screen of the room, and warned Leo: "No peeking! Otherwise..."

As he spoke, he clenched his fists towards Leo as if in a demonstration, before disappearing behind the screen.

After that, I saw the clothes worn by Baron de Maupassant put on the screen one by one, and then heard a painful muffled sound coming from behind the screen. The voice was male at first, then gradually narrowed, and finally became female voice.

What happened behind the screen made Leo very curious, and he almost couldn't help but release his mental net to scan the situation behind the screen, but in the end he still didn't do so, but put away his curiosity temporarily, quietly Waiting for the result.

Not long after, the humming stopped, and then a slender lady's hand stretched out from behind the screen, pointed to several black lace leather skirt suits on the hanger beside Leo, and said, "Help me take the clothes away." Come here, you won't let me walk out naked!"

Although he had already guessed the result, Leo still showed surprise when he heard Sylvia's voice from behind the screen.

He took off the leather skirt suit and handed it behind the screen. He couldn't help being puzzled and asked, "Wouldn't you be gender-displaced like this?"

"Gender misalignment? This term is very new at that time, and it sounds like a medical term." Sylvia seemed not ready to answer Leo's inquiry, and she was a little hesitant to talk about him, but after thinking about it, she felt that she should say something It's better to be clear, so I added a sentence at the end, saying: "I am very clear that I am a woman, but I am a little different from ordinary women."

Having said that, Sylvia didn't continue to speak. Leo seemed to understand the meaning of her words, and didn't ask any more.

For some reason, the atmosphere in the room suddenly became a little awkward. Neither party spoke anymore, only the sound of Sylvia getting dressed.

Not long after, Sylvia, who was dressed, came out from behind the screen. Except for her temperament and some habitual small movements, she had no similarities with Baron de Maupassant.

Seeing Sylvia at this moment, Leo didn't know what to say for a while, opened his mouth, and finally said, "Is the deformity you mentioned yourself?" After asking this question, he immediately realized that he had said a stupid question, and immediately turned around and said, "I'm just talking too much, you don't need to answer."

"Yes, I am that deformity." Sylvia did not show any abnormal expression, but admitted very calmly.