The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Why did you ask me to design it?" Leo asked with some doubts after hearing the commissioner's request.

The commissioner said respectfully: "That's because you are a recognized master of firearms. The shotguns you made have been regarded as high-quality works of art, and the prices at auctions remain high. Moreover, the firearms you used during the Emerald Island incident are also It proves that your firearm is not just a good-looking weapon, but a weapon that can really work."

"If you are not a weapon researcher, you may not know that if you want to make a new weapon and make it practical, you can't do it in a day or two. It will take at least a few years, or even ten years." Leo wrinkled Frowning, he said, "It's simply unrealistic for you to ask me to create a weapon of mass destruction."

The commissioner thought for a while and then said: "What if someone has already started a project before and researched some substantive results? Based on this, can you make some improvements to make it safer."

"It's safer?" Leo heard the words and quickly thought that someone had created a powerful weapon, but there might be a problem with the stability of this weapon, so he pretended to be contemplative, silent for a while, and said : "I'm not too sure about this, I need to see the actual data to make a judgment."

Leo's request made the commissioner hesitate. Although he knew that the request was not too much, he couldn't agree to the request, because the information was one of the top secret materials of the federation, let alone Leo who had just been in the office. Foreigners who have settled in the Federation, even if the identity of the Federation's own people does not meet the requirements, it is impossible to see this information.

Thinking of this, he didn't say anything else, as if what happened just now hadn't happened at all, he changed the topic and talked about the smelter, and brought the order contract for the second batch of steel for Leo to sign.

After signing the contract and discussing the delivery time of the first batch of steel products, the commissioner got up and left.

After the commissioner left, Leo did not go to the Hans family's manor immediately, but the office building of the United Smelter, found Sylvia who was handling various affairs there, and handed over the contract to her, by the way What about the commissioner wanting him to study a weapon of mass destruction.

Sylvia quickly saw through the commissioner's intentions and said, "This should have nothing to do with the federal government. The commissioner wanted to gain political achievements and entrusted you." She paused and said : "Maybe you can try to develop it."

"Why?" Leo asked.

Sylvia didn't answer right away, and after quickly signing a few documents, she asked the people around to retreat, leaving only her and Leo in the office, and then said: "One of the messages I collected before is The founders of the Otter Federation inherited part of the heritage of several churches that participated in the religious wars. There are very dangerous things in those heritages. I have never been clear about what that dangerous thing is, and the source of the news is really unreliable. Spectrum, so I didn’t tell you. Now the commissioner of the federal capital came to you to study a weapon, and inadvertently revealed that the federation now has an unstable weapon of mass destruction. Do you think this weapon will It's the same weapon that created Lake Beruk."

Leo thought for a while and said, "It's possible." Then he said, "Even so, so what, it's impossible for them to show such an important thing to me, a foreigner."

"If they don't give it to us, can't we take it for ourselves?" Sylvia said with a smile.

Leo seemed to understand Sylvia's words, and said: "You want me to make a similar weapon, and then do some tricks on it, so that people from the federal government can transport it to the storage place of that weapon. Then we'll..."

"Yes, that's what I think, what do you think?" Before Leo could finish speaking, Sylvia nodded and admitted.

Leo pondered for a moment and said, "How do you know they will send things to the collection location?"

Sylvia explained: "In the information I collected, it was mentioned that the federal government built a very large and very mysterious secret warehouse at the founding of the country. All the most important items to the federation will be stored in that In the warehouse, and only a few people know where the warehouse is. As long as the weapons you manufacture are of sufficient value and are difficult to manufacture in a short period of time, relevant materials will definitely be put into the warehouse. We may be invited to the federal capital, and then our chance will come, you must know that there are likely to be some taboo mysterious items stored in that warehouse."

Leo thought for a while, then asked again: "Is the news reliable?"

Sylvia raised her head and said, "Of course it's reliable, don't forget that this is my old profession."

Leo nodded and said, "I see, I will come up with a feasible plan in the past few days."

After finishing speaking, he said that he would go to the Hans family's manor to stay for two days. He would send someone to the Hans family's manor to inform him if there was anything to do. Then he left the office building of the joint smelter and took a carriage towards the Hans family's manor. drive away.

Although the Hans family is one of the powerful families in Beruk City, he does not belong to the local faction in Beruk City, because the Hans family is a foreign family, and it is also a new foreign family. The Hans family originally It is a big family in Tucker County, and almost all of its industries are in Tucker County. Later, due to some reasons, the Hans family chose a family strategy of outward expansion, and Beiruk City, as the hub of the federal waterway, is naturally Hans Top choice for family expansion plans.

Therefore, almost a few decades ago, the Hans family moved into Beiruk City on a large scale. The whole process can be said to be full of ups and downs, with twists and turns. In the drama, in the end, the local factions in Beiruk City bowed their heads, and the Hans family successfully gained a foothold in Beiruk City.

Although the local factions in Beiruk City have bowed their heads, there will still be some small resistance behaviors, such as not selling real estate or real estate to the Hans family, so that the members of the Hans family can only stay in the hotel opened by their family, eventually forcing Hans The Si family had no choice but to buy a piece of land in the outskirts far from the urban area, and established the family's manor in Beiruk City.

Although the Hans family has now integrated into the local faction in Beruk City, and the family has also bought a manor in the Great North Point area, the official manor of the Hans family is still the Hans family manor in the outer suburbs.

The location of this manor is very remote, a little far from the main national road of Beruk City, so the Hans family had to open a special road, and a tree called big broad-leaved fir was planted on both sides of this road. The canopy of the tree seems to be a big umbrella. Thinking of expanding all around, the coverage area is very large, so this road is covered by big broad-leaved fir all the year round, and the ground is also paved with fallen leaves of big broad-leaved fir. People who walk this road can feel a strange and inexplicable smell of corruption.

The driver hired by Leo stopped at the entrance of this road, and he was unwilling to go further. According to him, it was because this gloomy road was full of evil things. The body is damaged, ranging from illness to death.

"There is such a thing?" Leo was a little surprised, and asked, "Have you seen such a thing with your own eyes?"

The coachman shook his head and said, "No, that's what everyone says."

Leo didn't say anything after hearing the words, got out of the carriage, paid the fare, and asked the coachman to wait for him at the same time two days later, and then walked along the road covered with fallen leaves towards the end of the Hans Family Manor walked over.

Soon Leo walked into the depths of the forest path. He suddenly stopped and looked at the big broad-leaved firs on both sides. The rotten soil was swept away, revealing the most primitive road below.

I saw that this road looked like it was built with stucco, a thick layer, because it was compacted by a special method, so the ground was very solid, even after so many years, the ground still had not much damage.

Leo dug out a piece directly from the plaster on the ground, looked at it in his hand, then crushed it into powder, put it under his nose, and sniffed it slightly.

"Ash?" After getting the result, Leo couldn't help muttering in surprise: "It's actually made of ashes into plaster. No wonder the environment here is so bad."

After entering the forest path, Leo could clearly feel the strangeness around him, and the further he walked in, the stronger the strange feeling became, and even at the back he could already feel a wave of energy fluctuations surrounding it on the road.

Now that he thought about what the groom said carefully, he couldn't help thinking that what the groom had heard might be true.

Paving the road with ashes, even if it is not human ashes, I am afraid that some mysterious rituals were involved in the construction of this road. What effect this mysterious ceremony produced, Leo is still unclear, but judging from the situation of the road, it is obvious that This road is very unfriendly to ordinary people. Any ordinary person walking back and forth on this road may suffer some physical damage.

Leo didn't quite understand why the Hans family wanted to build such a road, but he knew one thing, that is, his visit to the Hans family this time should not be in vain. Judging from the situation of this road, The Hans family should have mastered some mysterious knowledge related to supernatural power. Although the other party will definitely not share this mysterious knowledge with him, books related to it are what he needs most now to understand the depth and details of supernatural power in this world However, the specific method of using mysterious knowledge is not so important to him.

After Leo restored the leaves that had been removed, he continued to walk forward. After walking a certain distance, the two sides of the road began to look a little different. Originally, both sides of the road were planted with equidistant trees, and there was nothing else in the middle. No shrubs have even been planted, but now the Hans family has erected a stone statue resembling a god between the two trees.

The reason why it is said to be similar to a statue is because this stone sculpture has not carved any specific shape, it is just an abstract-looking human body shape, and it can barely be seen from some features that it is a woman, while the head of the stone sculpture is It is blurry, the stone surface of the head is not blurry in the first place, but it became like this after being processed by people later.

It would be fine if this was the case for just one statue, but the problem is that all the statues among the trees seen on the road after that are similar fuzzy face gods, and their poses are various, giving people the feeling that they are like a group of gods The dancing lunatic was petrified.

Leo stopped in his tracks, leaned in front of one of the stone statues, and took a serious look. Soon he discovered an interesting thing, that is, the blurred faces of these stone statues were not chiseled from the surface to the inside, but It burst like this from the inside out, that is, something burst out from the face of the stone statue, which made the face of the stone statue into this blurred state.

"Why did you put such a weird stone statue on the road?" Leo seemed to be talking to himself. After a while, no one answered, he turned his head and looked at a big broad-leaved fir in the distance.

However, there was no movement at the Big Broadleaf Cedar. Seeing this, Leo smiled, looked away, ignored the weirdness of the stone statue, and continued walking towards the Hans Family Manor.

Not long after Leo left, a stooped figure came out from the big broad-leaved fir tree that Leo was looking at, and looked at Leo's back.

Indeed, this crooked figure came out not from behind the tree trunk, nor from the tree, but from the inside of the tree trunk, as if he himself was a part of the tree.

This situation was also captured by Leo's mental net, and the result surprised him a little.

In fact, just now he felt that there was a person more powerful than ordinary people hidden in that tree, but what he didn't expect was that the person didn't hollow out the trunk of the big broad-leaved tree to build a secret stronghold, but directly contacted the tree. Blend in, stepping straight out of the trees if necessary.

This can be said to be the first time that Leo has seen people in this world cast a relatively complete supernormal power, and the process of casting did not cause abnormal rejection in this world. Obviously, this world has a certain degree of tolerance for supernormal power.

Thinking of this, Leo's mood became a lot more relaxed, and he was more and more looking forward to finding useful books in the library of the Hans family manor, and his steps became a lot lighter because of his emotions.

Soon Leo walked out of this path in the forest that contained mysterious power, and the vision in front of him suddenly opened up. He saw a manor surrounded by walls standing in the middle of an orchard composed of neat and low wine fruit trees. On the hillside, there are several strange-looking buildings in the manor.

And Leo couldn't help being stunned when he saw the strange-looking buildings in the manor, and couldn't help whispering: "The Seventh Colonial Warehouse of the Federation?"