The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The auction in the mine was going on normally, there was no disturbance, and there was no intentional price increase. Before the auction started, almost all the participants knew that there would be those who would participate in this auction. The auction is over, and even some participants have discussed some auction items in advance to avoid raising prices with each other.

The participation of the Dodd Group is not surprising. People from the Dodd Group in Berberante will participate in almost every similar auction, and buy the needed mines at a reasonable price, but the appearance of Sylvia is a surprise. Unexpectedly, everyone thought that the participants were people from the Dodd Group office, but no one expected that Sylvia would be there in person.

Although Sylvia was determined to win those mines, she did not do anything too outrageous. After all, the Dodd Group will still need to conduct various transactions here in the future. If she does too much, she will only give The men in the local office add some trouble.

If the presence of Sylvia and Leo was an accident for the participants, then after the auction started, the auction organizer temporarily announced the addition of 14 mining rights to the auction, which was another accident. Everyone was caught off guard.

Because the sudden addition of fourteen mining rights was completely out of the participants' plans, and those participants who had negotiated earlier did not include these fourteen mining rights in their discussions at all. It also directly led to the complete nullification of all the previous discussions. Perhaps this is the effect that the Northern Tribal Alliance, as the organizer of the auction, wanted to achieve.

Someone immediately proposed to postpone the auction by one day, on the pretext of not having prepared sufficient funds, but this excuse was rejected by the person in charge of the auction, who agreed with the large IOUs of the participants and started the auction without giving any chance at all. As a result, the auction fell into an unplanned price increase starting from the first mining rights.

The auction will use the tokens issued by the northern tribal alliance itself. The reason for the tokens is that this currency has not been recognized by the entire northern tribes, and can only be used in a few cities that are completely controlled by the northern holy mountains.

In order to promote this currency, the Northern Tribal Alliance had to force people who participated in auctions and other transactions to exchange their resources for equivalent tokens and exchange them back when they left.

This move of the northern tribal alliance seems to some people to be a satire on the civilized society outside, because the currency system in the civilized world outside is beginning to collapse, and when people are practicing the most primitive barter, the wilderness tribes are Efforts to build their own currency system, people can not help but have a kind of illusion that civilization is transferring.

The sudden act of currency promotion and auction by the Northern Tribal Alliance also caught Sylvia by surprise, because several of the 14 extra mining rights were owned by her in the past. The mines she likes are all high-quality mines that the Dodd Group needs, but now they suddenly appear at one time, and the funds she can mobilize are not enough for her to win these mines, especially after she went to the Southern Tribal Alliance to negotiate After the arms-for-food deal is concluded, there will be even less additional funds that can be used. If they are used forcibly, it may affect the normal operation of the Dodd Group.

After hearing Sylvia's problem, Leo at the side immediately waved to the attendant arranged by the auction house not far away, signaling him to come over, and then asked the attendant to call the person in charge of the auction house.

Not long after, the director of the auction house came to Sylvia and Leo's side, and after saluting to them, he asked Leo, "What's the matter, Mr. Leo."

"You should know my identity?" Leo asked an inexplicable question.

"Of course, the last tower wizard." The director of the auction house said truthfully: "As long as anyone who pays attention to Ms. Sylvia can't ignore you."

"You should also know the potion I made, right?" Leo asked again.

Hearing what Leo said, the director of the auction house's eyes lit up immediately, as if realizing something, he said quickly: "Of course I know, the effect of your wizard potion may only be comparable to the potion made by the great shaman of the Holy Mountain." Comparable."

"A potion made by the Holy Mountain Shaman, are you kidding me?" Sylvia smiled disdainfully and questioned.

Facing the doubt, the director of the auction house did not refute, but just showed an awkward but decent smile.

He is very clear that the potions made by the so-called Great Shaman of the Holy Mountain cannot be compared with the wizard potions made by Leo. Now only Sylvia still holds a certain amount of wizard potions in the outside world, and these wizard potions are all made by Sylvia. It was given as a gift, and for people living in this turbulent era, having a bottle of wizard potion made by Leo is equivalent to an extra life, so the underground world has always been flocking to the wizard potion made by Leo .

It's not that no one has thought of imitating Leo's wizard potion, such as Shamanism and the Church of True God have done it. Although they have inspired some inspiration from the wizard potion and created their own potion, in terms of efficacy, let alone Compared with the wizard potions made by Leo later, even the wizard potions sold by Leo on the black market in the Kingdom of England in the early days were not as good.

"There are five groups of potions here, and their effects are..." Leo took out some wizard potions with different effects that he made not long ago from the storage space, introduced the effects of the potions one by one, and then asked: "How much can these medicines be mortgaged?"

The director of the auction house didn't even think about it, and directly reported the sum of the limit funds that he and other directors could provide. He knew very well that if he couldn't take down these five groups of potions now, he would leave and buy the potion. When the others come back after discussing, I am afraid that these groups of wizard potions already have new owners.

After hearing the offer, Leo looked at Sylvia, waiting for her to make a judgment.

Sylvia also quickly estimated the value of the potion in her mind. She knew very well that the price offered by the director of the auction house must be high, but not too high, and this fund can just supplement her purchase of mining rights. It is necessary, so I nodded, expressing my approval of the transaction.

After seeing Sylvia nod, Leo didn't ask the supervisor to issue any proof or other documents, so he gave the things to the other party, and then returned to a state of silence.

Around, many people saw Leo taking out the potion. Although they didn't hear the conversation between Leo and the director of the auction house, they all guessed what Leo was doing.

Although they were also very envious of Leo's wizard potion, they did not intervene halfway to grab something from the northern tribal alliance. First, the price they offered might not be higher than the northern tribal alliance's bid. If I get it, I'm afraid I will offend the northern tribal alliance, and the loss outweighs the gain.

With the support of sufficient funds, Sylvia quickly won three of the fourteen mines he valued, but an accident happened to the fourth mine, which raised the price slightly higher than her expectation, and finally When she hesitated to raise the price, she was bought by others.

However, fortunately, there were no accidents in the mining rights of the mines that were normally auctioned afterwards. After an auction, the Dodd Group represented by Sylvia obtained a total of six mining rights, of which the mining rights The shortest is only four months, while the longest is as long as five years.

After the official auction ended, everyone left one after another. Several participants of the auction came to Sylvia and Leo when they left, wanting to see if they could buy wizard potion from Leo.

But before they opened their mouths, Sylvia flatly rejected them. Sylvia knew the value of those wizard potions in Leo's hand. If she didn't really need a sum of money just now, she would never agree. Leo used the wizard's potion to exchange tokens from the Northern Tribal Alliance, even though the price was very high.

After rejecting those people, the two left the auction house in a carriage and drove towards the Dodd Group's residence in Beberant.

On the way, Leo suddenly asked Sylvia, "Are you interested in going to the Green Manor again tonight?"

"Why?" Sylvia looked at Leo in confusion, and asked, "Did that guy imply that you will have an auction tonight?"

"Of course not." Leo shook his head and said, "I sense something in Green Manor, something that the shaman in the northern holy mountain didn't find."

Sylvia was stunned when she heard the words, and suddenly thought of the past owner of the Green Manor, guessing: "Is it something from the evil god?"

Leo hesitated for a moment, and said uncertainly: "It is possible that the location is in the auction house just now. According to rumors, it is the place where the Kantor family performed the blood sacrifice ceremony of the evil god. Since the thing appeared there, then It will more or less have something to do with the evil god."

Sylvia pondered for a while, and asked doubtfully, "Didn't the Kantor family take away the things back then? I remember that although the Kantor family fled suddenly, they were well prepared and their various assets were transferred in advance. If there If there are really any evil spirits, they should take them with them when they leave."

Leo speculated: "It may be that no one in the Kantor family knew that there was an evil creature buried in their manor."

"It is possible. Several of the successive patriarchs of the Kanter family were assassinated suddenly. It is also possible that some secrets have not been handed down." Sylvia nodded slightly in agreement, and then asked : "What the hell is that thing, did you find out just now?"

Leo shook his head and said: "That thing has a self-hiding barrier, which can imitate the energy fluctuations around it, if it wasn't for some abnormal energy waves that were touched when I took out the potion, making it and the surrounding energy The fluctuations appear uncoordinated, maybe I can't find that there is such a thing XZ underground."

While saying these words, Leo couldn't help but think of the process of discovering the mysterious item just now. After discovering the item, his attention was completely shifted from the auction to the item. A way to perceive or stimulate that thing.

Although his rationality can be sure that the thing does exist, no matter whether it is his supernatural perception or the ability of the mental network, he still can't find it. This kind of dislocation between perception and cognition makes him feel interesting and also Very curious about this mysterious thing.

It was already evening when I returned to the office of Dodd Group. Sylvia dealt with the mining rights of several mines obtained at the auction, and ordered the people in the office to gather enough people to mine as soon as possible. As for For the problem of insufficient manpower, it is very simple to go directly to Henry Jones. There is a quota of 100,000 people for the first batch, and it is not a big deal to attract people to become a round of miners first.

Leo is not idle. He will take out the book he got from Carson Sangers and study it again. Just like the mysterious thing he discovered earlier, he is also curious about the content of this book.

Time soon entered midnight, and after Sylvia sent the last processed document to Su through the universal recorder, she and Leo ate a little food together, and then met with everyone in front of everyone. Leo went back to his room to rest.

However, after returning to the room, Leo used rune traps to create a small illusion that the two of them were resting in the room, and then jumped out with Sylvia from another window in the room, bypassing Guard, came to the street.

Although it was late at night, the streets of Beberante were still very lively, and many taverns were still open, and the caravan mercenaries and adventurers who came and went here were drunk and dreamy in the taverns.

Drunk people can be seen lying in a corner everywhere on the street. The patrol team going to and from the city streets will throw these people one by one into the trailers in the team, and drag them to the temporary resting place in the city, waiting for tomorrow's drink. It is already a common thing for them to impose a uniform fine on them after waking up, and these fines are also part of their salary.

Under the effect of Leo's phantom witchcraft, none of the people around saw Leo and Sylvia, but when they approached the two, they would choose to avoid them because of the influence of an invisible force, but they They didn't feel any strange about their evasive behavior, as if they thought their evasive behavior was a natural behavior.

In this way, Leo and Sylvia came to the Green Manor unimpeded all the way. Compared with the hustle and bustle of the auction during the day, the Green Manor in the middle of the night looked very deserted, except for the main building where there were many soldiers from the Northern Tribal Alliance going back and forth. Apart from patrolling, there was no one else in the manor, and the underground special auction house was a place they avoided. Obviously, those bones still made them feel uncomfortable, even though the shaman of the holy mountain had stated that there was no evil force here, But psychological scruples cannot be resolved with one or two sentences.