The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

After Solander left, Leo said to the real estate agent, "We are very satisfied with this manor. You can show me the contract. If there is no problem, we can sign it now."

"Sign it now?" The real estate agent asked in a daze.

He has been a real estate agent for many years, and he has handled hundreds of properties, but he has never met someone who decided to sign a contract after just looking at the house, which also made him completely unprepared.

"Is there a problem?" Leo asked back.

"No, there is no problem!" The real estate agent shook his head quickly, and then said with some hesitation: "The contracts are all in the company, please go back to the company with me to sign."

"No need, go and get the contract! Also bring the best construction company information in Beiruk City. This villa needs to be refurbished before people can live in it."

Hearing Leo's request, the real estate agent dared to be negligent, and quickly apologized, then hurried out from the basement, asked the coachman to unload a trailer horse, and then rode the horse and left the manor quickly, heading towards The nearest branch of the company rushed over.

"Do you think she can find anything?" Sylvia asked suddenly after the real estate agent left.

Although the inquiry was thoughtless, Leo was able to hear the meaning of the words, and said: "There should be nothing found. Obviously, the person who investigated the disappearance case should have discovered something, and then chose to conceal it. Everything that was suspicious was taken away, and things such as house design drawings were naturally impossible to let go. If she went to look for it, she would either find nothing, or find a modified design drawing."

After finishing speaking, Leo gestured to Sylvia, then walked to the center of the basement, then squatted down and stretched out his hands to dig up the soil on the ground, and quickly dug down, about half the height of a person, Finally touched a hard object.

Afterwards, he scraped away the floating soil on the hard object, dragged out the buried things inside, threw it out, then jumped up, and used the power of the abyss serpent to disperse the soil on his body, and then joined Sylvia Seriously look at the object in front of you.

I saw that this object is square and looks like a statue carved from stone, but the content of the carving is incomprehensible, as if something is intertwined with each other. It will inexplicably produce an extremely strong resentment.

"Is it still alive?" Sylvia asked in a deep voice.

Although this thing looks like a stone statue, both Leo and Sylvia can clearly perceive that this thing is formed by some kind of creature or monster squeezed together, but the only thing that is uncertain is whether this thing is still alive. live.

Leo looked at it and said, "It should still be alive, but it may require certain conditions to be fulfilled in order to wake up."

"It's become like this, are you still alive?" Sylvia walked over in surprise, knocked on the block, touched the relief surface, felt the obvious fossil touch on the surface, and asked suspiciously road.

"Some things will fall into a state of suspended animation due to some reasons. When they are suspended in suspended animation, they will be similar to stones. They will not wake up until some kind of opportunity is triggered, and their suspended animation state can keep their lives for a long time." Leo is very happy. Quickly give an explanation. The reason why he is so sure is because he has seen many creatures in the universe that prolong their lives through suspended animation. When the planet recovers, it will automatically break out of the suspended animation state and be resurrected after tens of millions of years.

Although Leo still doesn't know what kind of creature the cube in front of him is, he can tell from some subtle traces that the creature is in a state of suspended animation.

"Does the power in the manor and the villa come from it?" Although Sylvia did not have the monocle worn by Solander, she could still easily discover the power permeating the manor and the manor through her own perception. That unknown energy.

"Yes and no." Leo gave a vague answer, and when Sylvia asked further, he added: "The power generated is because this manor is a hidden altar, and this thing is only for the altar ceremony. It’s just part of it, if I’m not mistaken, there should be a similar thing and a small altar in four different corners around it.”

"Is it buried by the Monte family?" Sylvia asked.

Leo nodded, and then said: "However, the person who was in charge of investigating the disappearance of the Monte family may also have a problem. All the bones and other abnormal things in the basement have been dug up, but this core thing is left behind. , if it wasn’t left on purpose, I really can’t think of any other explanation.”

"It seems that this manor is a trouble." Sylvia sighed slightly, but when she said this, the expression on her face was very relaxed and full of interest, without any feeling of trouble. .

"It doesn't matter if you have trouble, such trouble is often accompanied by a lot of secret knowledge, which is exactly what we need most." Leo threw the things back into the pit and filled the soil back while talking, and said : "This should be a sect of evil gods. Since it can affect the high-level law enforcement in this city, then the background of this sect should not be low. I hope they can provide some good things by then."

While Leo was burying things, Sylvia walked back and forth in the basement a few times, and asked suspiciously: "Is this suitable for me to be promoted? I feel that this place seems to be similar to other places except for some abnormal power." There is no difference."

Leo briefly explained, and said: "Of course not now, after I finish the layout of the rune circle, this place should be transformed into an abyss-like environment, which will be of great help to your bloodline promotion."

After burying the things back, Leo and Sylvia returned to the villa above, and walked around the villa for a while, only to come out when they heard the sound of horseshoes outside, just in time to see the messy clothes of the house agent behind him. Jumping off the horse with a leather bag in hand.

After taking over the contract from the real estate agent, Leo read it carefully, and quickly found out several trap clauses, and asked the real estate agent to modify it on the spot. After reading it again, he found no problems and signed the contract , and wrote a gold check from the Commonwealth Bank.

It is precisely because of this cash checkbook that the house agent is so sure that Leo and Sylvia are capable of buying the manor, because only those who have a very large amount of deposits and valuables in the Federal Bank are eligible to become the Federal Bank's owner. Gold members, and in addition to membership badges and other items that prove their identity, gold checks are another item that proves their identity, and they are more well-known than badges.

Although Leo had already made preparations before coming here, and put some valuables such as gold and jewelry into the storage space, the size of the storage space is limited after all, and two-thirds of the things are still stored in Leo. All kinds of medicines made and some valuable strange objects, books, etc., so there are not many valuables that are finally put in the storage space.

Those valuables were not enough for Leo to become a gold member of the Commonwealth Bank, nor enough to buy the manor, but Leo and Sylvia were lucky, and encountered a mine auction in a certain country on the way to the Ott Federation , and there happened to be one of the auctioned mines that they had passed by before.

The previous owner of the mine thought that all the gold mines there had been dug out, and the remaining residual ore was not worth the effort to dig, so he put the mine on the auction house and sold it.

However, both Leo and Sylvia were able to easily discover that there were actually two complete veins of gold in that mine, which were very valuable, so they bought the mine at a very low price and spent In two days, under their guidance, the local exploration company found out the location and reserves of the two ore veins, and the value of the mine increased tens of thousands of times overnight.

The two did not intend to stay there to become mine owners, but directly mortgaged the entire mine to a mining company affiliated to the Outer Federal Bank, thus obtaining a huge sum of money, noble status, and gold members of the Outer Federal Bank identity.

When they left, the former owner of the mine seemed to want to make trouble for them, but the two of them took action to solve it. This also made some people who received the news and wanted to hit them both restrained their thoughts. Let the two of them go smoothly in the next trip.

The housing brokerage company is also a subsidiary of Commonwealth Bank. He will be specially assigned to serve Leo and Sylvia, and he can modify the terms of the contract without notifying the company. It can be seen that his identity is also important in the real estate company. Not low, obviously he also knows everything about Leo and Sylvia, so after signing the contract and completing the transaction, the construction companies he took out of his purse are all trustworthy construction companies, and will not make the clients who hire them feel uncomfortable. Any displeasure.

Sylvia took the documents of the construction company and carefully read them twice. She does not have the language talent of Leo, and she still struggles in reading and writing. She needs to read the documents twice to fully understand them. Condition.

The real estate agent didn't urge them either, and waited patiently until Sylvia picked out a company before taking over the documents, and said that they would notify the construction company as soon as possible to discuss the villa and the manor with Leo. renovation program.

After that, the two left the manor, returned to the hotel where they lived during this period, and ordered the housekeeper arranged by the hotel for them to find all the newspapers and materials about the Monte family and the disappearance of the Monte family.

Although they already knew the details about the disappearance of the Monte family from Solander, they didn't fully believe Solander's words. Some things still needed to be searched by themselves in order to have clues.

Because both of them are VIPs of the highest level, the hotel is also very attentive to their requests. Not long after the request was made, all the newspapers that reported the disappearance of the Monte family were sent to their rooms. , Information about the Monte family was also sent over in the next few hours.

The hotel side was not surprised why the two paid so much attention to the affairs of the Monte family, because the hotel had already received news that the two had bought the manor left by the Monte family before they returned to the hotel. And it was going to be renovated, so they just regarded it as a normal behavior for the two to collect information about the Monte family.

Although the information collected by the hotel did not clearly record anything related to supernatural things, Sylvia, who is extremely sensitive to intelligence information, still found some interesting content from these seemingly ordinary information.

For example, if the Monte family is counted from the source, there should be three families. These three families are New World pioneer families that have emerged in the past hundred years. They have always had a good relationship with each other. Only then did they decide to find a suitable place to live, and the Otter Federation, which had a relatively stable political situation and no conflicts with surrounding countries, became their first choice.

But for some unknown reason, the three families were all infected with the plague, and their members died one after another. In the end, the remaining members of the three families were less than forty. Such a small number of people could not be separated to support the continuation of the three families, so the three families They merged into one and formed the current Monte family.

I don't know if it was the result of the plague at the beginning, or because the three families merged into one, and something changed. All in all, the members of the Monte family were in very good health afterwards, so good that there has never been a Monte family for so many years of members have been ill.

Apparently, this thing that was regarded by the outside world as the good luck of the Monte family had absolutely nothing to do with good luck in Sylvia's eyes. In her opinion, it was obvious that the plague back then was more like some kind of special potion. People who use this kind of potion either die as if they were seriously ill, or change the essence of their lives.

Among these materials is a family portrait of the Monte family taken decades ago. This family portrait does not look abnormal, but the careful Sylvia still finds that everyone in this family portrait has problems with their eyes. Using the microscopic ability in Spirit Vision to check, it was found that none of these people's eyes had pupils.

If this photo is not forged, then the people of the Monte family must be no different from normal people in normal times, but at the moment when the photo was taken, some physical characteristics were revealed for some unknown reason, but these characteristics are too hidden , unless one possesses abilities such as spiritual vision, it is difficult to see something is wrong from a relatively blurry old photo.

In addition, the two also saw from some information in the newspaper that the investigation of the disappearance of the Monte family would be hastily concluded, and quickly defined as an unsolved case, and the case files were stored in the archive room. Almost all the newspapers involved in the disappearance of the Monte family chose to stop reporting anything related to the disappearance of the Monte family on the same day.