The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Damn it, didn't I tell you not to come down?" Sylvia looked at Leo in front of her with great dissatisfaction while enduring the pain in her body.

Perhaps because of her bigger body, Leo, who was originally taller than her, looked much smaller, like a dwarf, and although the basement was expanded by Leo, it swelled more than ten times compared to her body shape She is still a bit short for her, and now she can't even turn over, and is stuck between the floor and ceiling of the basement.

Although more than ten days have passed, she has gradually gotten used to the pain on her body, but as her bloodline promotion draws to a close, what she feels is not only the pain on her body, but also a kind of killing instinct from her bloodline. This killing instinct no longer affects her mood all the time, giving her a strong urge to tear the earth apart, fly out of the basement, and wantonly destroy everything she sees.

"You made a lot of noise last night. I have to come down to check the situation in the basement. By the way, I will strengthen the surrounding rune circle." After repairing a cracked rune, Leo turned his head and looked at the other party. Sylvia on the ground.

At this moment, Sylvia has completely transformed into an abyss dragon. Not only has her body swelled many times, but her body is also covered with dark red scales, and the scales are covered with various beautiful patterns. The lava-like liquid can also be seen flowing in the pattern, which looks very gorgeous.

Just like the beautiful scales and patterns on some poisons make people forget their venomousness, these scales on Sylvia also make people ignore the hidden dangers. It is no exaggeration to say that an ordinary person sees these It might not take long for the patterns on the scales to go crazy, because the power of the abyss contained in them is full of chaos and disorder. They are like sticks stirring a crucible, which can stir anyone's brain into a pot of porridge.

Although Sylvia is very concerned about his current form and thinks that he has become an ugly monster now, Leo doesn't mind. If he is not worried that Sylvia will become angry, he will even use a general-purpose recorder to give Sylvia Via came to take a few photos as a souvenir.

Sylvia sighed slightly, and didn't say anything more. She also knew that she was almost controlled by the killing desire in her heart last night. If it weren't for the runes that Leo arranged in the basement to strengthen the basement, and can also emit If there is enough soothing force to calm people down, maybe she has already rushed out of the ground.

Although she was only venting her emotions once, the commotion was not small, like an earthquake, not only affecting the entire Belmont Manor, but even the surrounding manors. Fortunately, the staff in the manor had already They are already used to this kind of big movement from time to time. They may be surprised and flustered at first, but they are no strangers to it. Only when they feel the vibration is particularly strong, will they leave the house and gather spontaneously in a lawn Just wait for things to pass.

"I feel like it will be over in a few days." Sylvia said seriously.

Leo shook his head and said seriously: "No, it's just that the bloodline promotion is over, and your control over the power after promotion is not over yet. Only when you truly control your own power can you change back to your current form."

"Damn it, damn it!" Sylvia didn't know what to say for a while, so she could only curse again and again, maybe because she felt that cursing like this was too boring, she stopped and asked instead: "What's going on outside now?" How is it?"

Leo replied: "Is it in the manor? It's very calm. The dummy I made for you perfectly imitates you. No one in the manor can recognize you. I just know that your illness will take a while to recover completely. stand up."

"You should know that's not what I'm asking." Sylvia glanced at Leo with her vertical pupils in dissatisfaction.

Leo smiled and said: "Nothing worth noticing happened. The situation in Beruk City is very stable. The upper class is rich and rich, while the lower class is still busy with life. The sales of special steel in our factory are very good. Fang’s second batch of orders has also arrived. However, they hope that we will not only sell the steel, but also hope that we can solve the shape together during smelting. Our steel is too hard, so even if they buy back the finished steel, The post-processing is also very difficult, which slows down the progress of their outfit change."

"Are you planning to change the entire army at any cost? It's still in this peaceful era." Sylvia said disdainfully: "The peace-loving federal government is all a lie. After acquiring the new equipment, the Otto Federation may not be able to do without a national expansion."

Leo nodded in agreement.

"Is there nothing else interesting?" Sylvia asked again.

Leo thought for a while and said, "Is it interesting that the Beiruk City Government agrees to a Baptist Church preaching in the city?"

"It is not like the behavior of the officials of the Ott Federation government to allow the church to preach publicly. Although they will not take the initiative to suppress the church, they will not allow the church to preach publicly. They only agree that they exist in the form of a secret church without any private property. You must know that more than 70% of the land in the Otter Federation is the private property of the churches that preached here. Therefore, the first article in the Magna Carta of the Federation is that this is a country of one person, and God does not allow it to override people. Above." Sylvia said with some doubts: "The behavior of the Beiruk City Government is obviously contrary to the fundamentals of the Ott Federation. Didn't it cause opposition?"

"Of course I object. Now the city council has started to impeach several high-ranking officials including the mayor, and the court has also begun to initiate administrative prosecutions against them." Leo said solemnly: "However, the city government doesn't seem to care about this. There is no intention to cancel the decree, and the federal government has not issued an action to prevent the implementation of this decree. It seems that this matter should not be as simple as it seems."

Sylvia questioned: "What is the origin of this Baptist Church? It has such a great influence."

"I've been taking care of you in the manor during this time. I haven't been out, and I don't know the specific situation. I just got some information from the servants at home." Leo shrugged helplessly, and said, "I heard that this The church is different from other churches. They do not have a clear object of belief, that is, gods without belief. Their teachings believe that all people are sinful, and these sins will continue to accumulate in the human body until they reach the limit. , turned into sickness and bad luck to torture the owner. They think that water is the source of life, and only the power of water can wash away the sins on their bodies, so they will completely immerse themselves in water every time they preach.”

After hearing this, Sylvia couldn't help laughing, "How does this sect fit so well with the popular theory of the origin of water?"

Leo nodded and said: "I also felt the same way after I heard the missionary content of this church for the first time, and I heard that this church seemed to be born because of the theory of the origin of water. The missionaries of this sect were questioned by the parliament. At that time, it also used the content of the origin of water, which made those people in the city college do not know how to refute it for a while."

Sylvia thought for a while, then asked again: "Where is the place where they baptized?"

"Lake Beruk." Leo replied.

"I don't think this matter is simple." Sylvia quickly judged.

"Well." Leo agreed: "I think so too, but this matter has nothing to do with us, as long as we don't mess with us, there is no need for us to intervene, and someone will deal with them."

"Will someone deal with them? Who, the people from the city council?" Sylvia said disdainfully: "Those dignitaries are just some people who eat and wait to die. If they really want to deal with this church, they don't need to bother so much at all." It is enough to directly oppose the case in the council and reject the official decree of the city government. Of course, if this is done, the city council and the city government will really turn their faces."

Leo asked: "When you were talking with your friends in clubs and clubs, have you ever heard of a department called the Ministry of Education?"

Sylvia thought for a while and said, "Have you heard that it is not a department under the Ministry of Education? It seems to be responsible for providing the most basic cultural education for prisoners in prisons."

Leo nodded and said: "Yes, it is the Ministry of Education, but its function under the Education Bureau is just a disguise. Its real function is actually the same as those special departments established by various countries in the world of Vinylon, which are specially set up for some supernormal forces. .”

"How do you know this?" Sylvia asked puzzled.

"There is so much commotion in the manor, how can it be impossible to attract some people's attention." Leo smiled and said, "The Ministry of Education sent three people here to investigate the time of the manor ghosts two days ago."

While talking, Leo carefully told Sylvia what happened two days ago.

Two days ago, Leo was flipping through a book about the history of countries in the Old Continent in his study. At that time, he saw a mountain country named Ponca that was completely covered by a snowstorm that lasted ten months. Buried in snow, all the citizens froze to death without exception. The housekeeper suddenly knocked on the door and came in, saying that government officials were outside the manor and asked to enter the manor to investigate something.

At the beginning, Leo just thought that these government officials might just be some dignitaries in the local area who wanted to get their own shotguns. They forged their official identities to come to see him. Leo drove away, so this time he was going to drive those people away as well.

But then the butler handed him an identification document and investigation permit, which made Leo a little confused.

The first thing that made him a little puzzled was that those government officials were all members of the Ministry of Education and Culture, and anyone who had a little knowledge of the functions of the Ministry of Education and the investigation of the case should be very clear that the two had no direct connection, and no matter how they looked at it, they could not be related. go.

In addition, the object of issuing these two certification documents turned out to be the justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. The justice issued two certification documents to the Ministry of Education and asked them to come to a private estate in Beruk City to investigate certain things. These few things Putting them all together makes people feel weird.

Therefore, Leo did not let those people enter the manor immediately, but sent people to the city to find out the authenticity of these two documents.

Later, the servant who went to the city returned not only with the confirmation of the city court judge, but also with the explanation of the wisdom of the Ministry of Education from the chief of the city police department.

At this time, Leo realized that the so-called Ministry of Education is not only the manager of the secondary education of mortals, but also has some functions to deal with special matters, and the functions are very powerful, directly under the Office of the Prime Minister of the Federal Government, the Federal Supreme Council Speaker and Supreme Court Justices.

After learning about the situation, Leo let those people enter the manor, and those people didn't know whether they were resentful after being stopped outside the manor for too long, or because their original purpose of inspection was outside the villa. He just took out some strange things that looked like some kind of strange objects, went around the manor, especially those artificial gazebos, checked it, and then turned and left.

This kind of anticlimactic behavior made it useless for Leo to prepare these people to search the villa, and he didn't even have a word with these people. Afterwards, he found out that these people did not leave, but continued to stay. Beiruk City, and what's interesting is that the policewoman who went to the capital before, Exploring Rand, also returned to Beiruk City at this time, and as the reception staff of the city police station, she was specially responsible for receiving those people from the Ministry of Education.

After listening to Leo's narration, Sylvia said, "It should be Solander who discovered something in the federal capital, that's why they sent people over there and arranged for her to investigate together."

Leo said: "I think so too, but as long as they don't make trouble for me, I don't intend to interfere in this matter."

"I'm afraid it will be difficult." Sylvia smiled and said, "I guess they will come to the manor again soon, you'd better make some preparations."

In fact, Sylvia's guess was correct. On the second day after Leo talked with Sylvia, those people from the Ministry of Education and Solander came outside the manor again and told the housekeeper directly I want to meet Leo.

Leo did not let them enter the villa, but received a few people in the garden, and after seeing them, Leo felt a little surprised, because these people emitted a faint abnormal energy fluctuation, including I asked the policewoman to explore Rand, and these energy fluctuations did not come from those strange things, but from themselves.

That is to say, these people from the Ministry of Education and Solander may have one or more abilities, just like the superhumans in the world of Velen, but their abilities may not be very strong, because they The energy fluctuations on his body were too weak, so weak that even the most ordinary transcendents in the world of Velen were far inferior.