The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Although Leo has gun manufacturing knowledge far beyond this world, he does not plan to make subversive improvements to guns, such as shrinking the barrel, making special bullets, adding rifling, etc. He still follows the gun manufacturing habits of this world. He remanufactured some firearms, but he slightly improved the decoration of the firearms, so that the appearance of the firearms became more gorgeous without affecting their use, and it made people feel that they were high-end goods.

The firearms in this world are very heavy by themselves, and if decorations are added, they will be even heavier, so unless they are decorations placed in the display cabinet, the appearance of all the firearms that can be used is very simple.

Although Leo's current physical condition doesn't need to worry about strength at all, he can pick up and use even the cannons that need to be hauled by trains, but he didn't let the defect of gun weight exist like this, he was making his own When I was shooting a shotgun, I improved the metal smelting formula and created an iron alloy, which reduced the weight of the metal by one-third, and increased the hardness and toughness by nearly half.

Although Sylvia is more expert in such things that penetrate into the upper class, Leo does not intend to completely stand by. After learning about Bojie Hans' hobbies, he already has a countermeasure in mind. Those gorgeous guns that are different from the gun styles of this world are just a stepping stone, and the metal that makes these guns is the most important thing.

Sylvia visited Leo once on the way. After seeing those firearms with exaggerated barrels and gorgeous shapes, she couldn't help laughing. Although she is not an expert in gunsmithing, she can also see the appearance of such firearms. It is against common sense.

However, after listening to Leo's idea, she also agreed, and in order to cooperate with Leo's idea, she quickly bought a small smelter in Beruk City to prepare for the future.

Sylvia's purchase of the smelter also attracted some attention from the rich and powerful in Beruk City, but in their view, this is a good thing, because they have bought real estate here and established a business here. It means that Leo and Sylvia plan to live here permanently, and the huge wealth they hold will naturally be used in Beiruk City, which can make Beiruk City more prosperous.

Therefore, they also gave Sylvia great assistance in purchasing the smelter, reducing some of the troubles many foreigners would encounter when buying a smelter.

However, compared to Sylvia's purchase of the smelter, the bigwigs in Beruk were more concerned about how the banquet in Belmont Manor was being prepared.

Judging from the information collected by these big figures, the preparations for the banquet are proceeding in an orderly manner. Almost all the dignitaries who can be invited in Beruk City have been invited, and many scholars and celebrities have also sent invitation letters. , This can be said to be a rare gathering of celebrities in Beiruk City.

The matter about the banquet at Belmont Manor has also become a hot topic in Beruk City recently. Everyone is talking about how grand the banquet will be, because judging from the procurement catalog of Belmont Manor, the scale of this banquet can already be compared with that of the Federal State Council. The first family of Hauss and the fourth Hans family were comparable in their wedding reception.

Some newspaper offices who were also curious about this banquet sent their staff to guard around the Belmont Manor, wanting to see what was prepared inside.

However, the security of the Belmont family was very good, leaving no chance for them at all. Anyone who tried to break into the Belmont manor was caught by the security personnel the moment they stepped into the manor and sent directly to him. After arriving at the city police station, it is impossible to come out in a short time.

However, even so, some people still snooped on the preparations for the banquet at Belmont Manor through some special methods. This special method is to simply set up a very high suggestion shelf outside the manor, and then climb to the top of the shelf and cross the courtyard wall And the woods on the edge, and saw the situation in some open areas of the manor.

According to the reports of these reporters, Belmont Manor not only specially arranged various gorgeous and ancient bronze sculptures for the banquet, but also built a crystal palace and installed electric lights.

Although the Crystal Palace has not been used yet, everyone who saw it can infer that when the lights are turned on at night, the light of the lights will shuttle and scatter in the Crystal Palace, which will inevitably illuminate the entire manor, making everyone in it feel as if they were in the palace. Just like being in the daytime, you will not encounter some misunderstandings and embarrassments caused by the dim environment in other dinner parties.

Soon the time for the invitation came, and Sylvia hired almost all the carriages in Beruk City to pick up and drop off guests. Even though many people had their own carriages, more people, especially those scholars and social Celebrities don't own their own carriages.

When they were still thinking about how to go to the banquet during the day, the carriage hired by Sylvia was already waiting at their door, which made them feel inexplicably comfortable, and they also had a preconceived impression of the owner of Belmont Manor. .

Todd Bruce is a professor of folklore at Beruk City University. He mainly studies the folklore knowledge of various countries in the world. The framework of the evolution history of folklore he created in his early years has become the basic framework of folklore research in various countries in the world. Therefore, he also Gained great prestige and became a world authority on folklore research.

It's just that, even though he has such great achievements and prestige, his life has not improved much because of it.

Folklore is a marginal discipline in the colleges of various countries, and the resources that can be obtained from the colleges are very few, and there are not many rich and powerful people in the people who are willing to fund folklore, a discipline that only invests but has no output. Most folklore researchers Most of them will also do religious studies, so that they can earn two wages and barely maintain the family's expenses.

But a pure folklore scholar like Todd Bruce has a very difficult life, but compared to the bottom folklore researchers, Todd Bruce is not bad, after all, in addition to his daily salary, he spends every day Month also has a research award from the Folklore Society, which allows him to support himself without taking the religious part-time job he hates most.

However, his good days have come to an end recently, because his wife divorced him, and the court sentenced him to pay his wife a certain amount of alimony every month, and the amount of this alimony is almost equal to two-thirds of his After paying the alimony, let alone engaging in folklore research, I am afraid that it may be difficult for him to live a normal life.

The predicament of life also made him have to consider the suggestion of his colleagues to take a part-time job in religious studies, but if he really did this, then the beliefs he had insisted on for many years might be completely destroyed, and his aversion to religion It became a joke.

Just when Todd Bruce was hesitating at home whether he should go to religious studies, the invitation letter from Belmont Manor was carefully delivered to him by the servants of the manor.

Looking at the exquisite invitation letter in his hand, Todd Bruce had an expression of disbelief.

The banquet at the Belmont Manor was the hottest topic in the entire Beruk City recently. While everyone was talking about how grand the banquet would be, they were also concerned about who got the invitation letter.

Because this banquet is not only aimed at the dignitaries of Beiruk City, but also a large number of scholars and celebrities, every time someone in the academy gets an invitation letter, it will cause a lot of commotion. It also became an academic proof for those people.

Todd Bruce also imagined that he got the invitation letter, but this was only a fantasy. In fact, he thought that he should not be able to get the invitation letter.

This is mainly because folklore is too unpopular. It has been ranked at the bottom of the college's unpopular courses all the year round, and even the college has begun to discuss whether it is necessary to continue to allow folklore to exist in the past two years.

Therefore, when he got the invitation letter from Belmont Manor, his first thought was not that he got an invitation letter because of his good luck, but that he wondered if someone was deliberately messing with him. He didn't realize it until after repeated confirmation. I really got the invitation to the banquet.

This made him immediately have a new idea. He thought that most of the people attending the banquet were either rich or expensive, and these people were not usually seen by fringe scholars like him. If he could say at the banquet If some dignitaries are mobilized to provide funds for his research projects, then his current predicament will be solved, and he no longer needs to consider going against his beliefs and taking a part-time job in religious studies.

Thinking of this, he immediately put down everything in his hands and prepared for the banquet. He even took out the only deposit he had, bought a suitable dress, and went to the barber shop to have his hair, beard, etc. I combed them all to make myself look more tidy.

On the day of the banquet, he originally planned to take the urban train to the Great North Point area earlier, and wait there until the evening banquet started, so as not to be late due to some accidents.

But what he didn't expect was that the servant of Belmont Manor, who sent the invitation letter just before he left, was waiting outside the door, and there was a carriage with him. After seeing him, the servant immediately stepped forward and said that this day would never be over. waited on him, and had his gown ready in the carriage.

Although the dress he was wearing was bought by himself, compared to the dress provided by the owner of Belmont Manor, it was far superior in terms of material, fabric, tailoring, and style. What made him feel embarrassed was that even the fit and comfort of wearing it were much better than the ones he bought himself, as if they were tailor-made for him, which made him very fond of the owner of Belmont Manor, whom he hadn't met yet. Immediately good impression.

Now that there is a special carriage, Todd Bruce no longer needs to rush to the Great North Point to wait for the night to come. He returned to his office in the academy in the carriage, and when the carriage entered the academy, it immediately attracted many people. Attention, because the badge hanging on the carriage is exactly the badge pattern of Belmont Manor, which also made them quickly recognize that this carriage is a carriage exclusively for invited guests, and they are also suspicious of the guests on the carriage who is it.

However, when they saw the carriage parked in front of the shabby little house of the Folklore School, and Todd Bruce stepped out of the carriage, all of them were stunned as if they had seen something incredible. Obviously, they and Todd Bruce • Bruce himself agrees that it is impossible for a professor of folklore to be an invitee.

The surprised expressions on the faces of the people around him were naturally noticed by Todd Bruce. For some reason, he suddenly felt a strong feeling of complacency, which even surpassed that when he went to the New World Folklore Association. The feeling of elation when receiving a lifetime achievement award.

He didn't know whether it was a psychological reason or a physical change. He suddenly felt that his footsteps seemed to become a lot lighter, and his whole body seemed to be flying.

These emotional changes were not shown by him, and he did not look at the people around him. He just ordered the servants of Belmont Manor to wait outside, and then walked into the folklore school and came to his office. , closed the door, and then he couldn't help laughing out loud.

He didn't know why he was laughing, he just felt that laughing like this was very enjoyable. After laughing, he calmed down again, then thought about it seriously, and quickly rummaged through the filing cabinets in the office. More than a dozen folders that have been sealed for many years were extracted from the files.

These folders are some of the research projects he made before. At that time, he was still ambitious about folklore. He hoped that through the research of these projects, he could obtain results that would attract the attention of the world. Unfortunately, the college was unwilling to provide any A research fund, even if the research funds needed for these projects are only a fraction of a research project in religious studies.

In the end, all the documents he prepared were received in the folder and stored in the filing cabinet for ashes.

Now he feels that his chance has come. These research projects may have the opportunity to be brought out again, and the person who makes him feel hopeful is the owner of Belmont Manor.

Now he no longer puts his hope of obtaining research funding on those dignitaries in Beiruk City, because he feels that even if those dignitaries must have the same ideas as the academy, otherwise, his folklore research would not be possible. After so many years, no one cares about it, so the chances of success are obviously very low if you continue to start with those powerful people.

On the contrary, the foreigner, the owner of Belmont Manor, is obviously interested in folklore from the perspective of their respect and importance to them, and the other party also has a lot of funds on hand, as long as they can come up with enough attractive research projects , then the success rate of eventually obtaining research funding from the other party will be very high.