The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Do you believe what Cassie Tally said?" After returning to the manor from Prison Island, Sylvia dealt with the documents in her hand, and suddenly asked Leo who was reading by the window.

"I don't believe it all," Leo gave an affirmative answer, closed the book in his hand, and added: "Not only can I not believe everything Cassie Tally says, but I don't even believe everything the lady says."

"Why?" Sylvia was not surprised by Leo's answer, but asked curiously.

Leo said with a relaxed tone: "Hasn't he already given the answer himself? After he came to this world, he is being changed and assimilated by the power of this world. Is the lady in the lake who has been changed and assimilated still the lady in the lake? He and Whether the lady in the lake in the Vinylon world is still in touch is debatable, at least from what the lady in the lake asked us to do before here, it proves that the lady in the lake in this world may have..."

Leo didn't finish speaking, but the meaning was expressed very clearly. Sylvia nodded in agreement after hearing it. In fact, she had doubts on the way back, but she hadn't figured out the problem at that time. , Now Leo's words just confirmed that her suspicion is not a problem.

"So what are we going to do next?" Sylvia asked again.

"How to do what?" Leo asked back.

Sylvia frowned and said, "Do you want to go to the place where he sleeps according to what the lady in the lake said, and help him solve the problem of being assimilated?"

"Have we promised?" Leo asked with a smile.

"We..." When Sylvia was about to say something, she suddenly stopped and looked at Leo with a strange expression.

"We didn't promise anything," Leo said with a smile: "We only promised that the lady in the lake in the world of Velen will find the lady in the lake in this world, check the situation, now we have fulfilled our promise, we have found the lake in this world Ms. Zhong, we know that He is being assimilated by this world, but we have not promised anything to Ms. Zhong of this world."

Sylvia also smiled at this time, and said, "You really look like a politician now."

"No, I should look like a person now." Leo retorted, and continued: "We don't need to look for it deliberately, but if we encounter it, we can also take a look. This seems to be the same person from the lake. The meaning of Ms. Zhong."

Sylvia was noncommittal about this. Although she was considered to be the lady of the lake, she didn't take this identity to heart. She only took it out and used it when needed. She never thought about a real What obligations should the lady in the lake be chosen to fulfill.

Afterwards, Leo and Sylvia had a very ordinary life for more than ten days. After handling the necessary official duties every day, they played around the city of Beruk, and nothing unusual happened around them. It felt like two The real reclusive rich man is average.

However, such a good day ended soon, because the special commissioner from the federal capital came to the manor again for the second round of negotiations. As for the content of the negotiations, as Sylvia speculated, the federal capital It is not agreed to let Leo get the mining rights and part of the jurisdiction of Emerald Island, but it can give similar powers to other places, and also gives the timber mining rights to Truber Hill in Josh County among several locations.

Although the current construction industry is mainly based on the latest reinforced concrete construction methods, almost no wooden buildings can be seen in the buildings in the city, but the price of wood is still high, because a large amount of high-grade wood is repackaged by merchants After a while, it became a high-end luxury item and entered the homes of the rich and powerful.

For those rich and powerful, if their leisure villas in the suburbs are not wooden buildings, they will appear to have no status. If the furniture in their homes is made of metal furniture like ordinary people, it will make them lose face, etc. Therefore, wood, especially The price of high-grade wood in the market is increasing almost every month. Ten years ago, one thousand yuan could buy a very good log, but now you can only buy a wooden pier that no one else wants.

Truber Mountain is one of the important production areas of high-grade wood in the entire Outer Federation, because the wood here has some golden color, and after being specially roasted, it will emit a refreshing aroma for a long time, so it is called golden Fragrant wood.

A complete set of furniture made of jinxiangmu costs more than 150,000 yuan, while a standard villa house made of jinxiangmu costs at least tens of millions. This is not counting manual and labor costs, so jinxiangmu has always been The top grade wood in the wood market.

Although there is a large amount of golden incense wood mined in Truber Mountain every year, there has never been a shortage of wood here, because this place is a very magical place for the Outer Alliance and even other people in this world. Certain plants have a much shorter growth cycle here than elsewhere.

For example, it takes nearly 30 years for a golden incense tree to grow in other places to fully grow, but it is shortened to three to six years in Truber Mountain.

Not only the Otter Federation is very miraculous about this phenomenon, even the kingdoms here are also interested in this phenomenon, and have been sending people to study it.

It's a pity that after so many years of research, I haven't researched a reason. All kinds of miraculous hypotheses are filled with related research projects, and among these messy hypotheses, there is one that is very popular with Leo and Sylvie. To Ya’s concern, the content of this hypothesis is very simple, that is to say that those certain plants and Truber Mountain are not the original organisms of this world, but come from another world, so they behave differently.

This kind of hypothesis is not taken seriously in this world, and it is even ridiculed. On the contrary, Leo and Sylvia couldn't help but smile when they saw this hypothesis, just like they saw the scene in Trouble Mountain, Joshshire. Like related legends, this situation is clearly a phenomenon of the Black Forest, and they even have reason to suspect that Truber Mountain is an extension of the Black Forest.

If we bring Trube Mountain into the Black Forest, then all the magical legends about Trube Mountain will be explained.

So long before the federal government commissioner contacted them, Leo and Sylvia had thought about going to Trube Mountain, but now the federal government gave them a better choice.

The timber mining rights of Trouble Mountain have always been in the hands of government-controlled logging companies. Because of the huge benefits and one of the important sources of finance for the federal government, it has never been opened to the outside world.

However, now the potential benefits of Leo's special steel formula have far exceeded the wood income of Truber Mountain, and the influence of steel on the military reform of the entire Ott Federation, so the federal government is willing to come up with The big cake that I have mastered for many years is to share with Leo, an outsider.

Another point is that Josh County is different from Beiruk City. Beiruk City is almost a municipality directly under the Central Government, and there is also a Municipal National Defense Force belonging to Beiruk City. The city's agencies have considerable power, even You can disobey the orders of the federal government when necessary.

Leo and Sylvia already had a certain influence in the upper class of Beruk City, and this influence is still increasing. Anyone can see that their couple will be able to influence Beruk sooner or later. The decision-making level of the city, this is something that the Otto Federation government does not want to see. After all, it is a very serious problem for a foreign couple to affect the important financial, trade and transportation hubs in the country.

But Josh County is different. It is jokingly called the Elderly County because it has the best natural scenery and the best agricultural land in the Otter Federation. It is located next to the capital county and there are three federal military bases nearby. , ready to deal with any kind of unexpected event.

Placing Leo and Sylvia here is absolutely in the interest of the Outer Federation, and it is absolutely in line with the ideas of those in power in the federal government.

Therefore, in the documents brought by the federal government commissioner, among the conditions stipulated, the timber mining rights and territorial jurisdiction of Truber Mountain definitely far exceed some other conditions, as if clearly telling Leo to choose this It is correct, so that we will not suspect that you have ulterior motives in our country.

Sireo and Sylvia could easily see through this point of caution. Although it was in line with their ideas, they didn't intend to just print it out, so Sylvia had another discussion with the federal government commissioner. After a lot of haggling, they kept testing the bottom line of the other party, and finally they were close to the bottom line, and the deal was negotiated.

Leo took out the formula of special steel and the subsequent improved formula, and the smelter cooperated with the expansion and production increase of the federal government in exchange for the mining rights and jurisdiction of a large piece of primitive forest in Truber Mountain.

In addition, the cooperation agreement between Leo and the federal government on the development of weapons was also exchanged with other conditions, such as access to some banned materials and so on.

Obviously, the federal government gave this commissioner considerable authority this time. After the negotiation conditions were reached, he did not leave and reported the new conditions to the federal government. Instead, he directly revised them, stamped the seal of the federal government, and then found The mayor, justice and chief prosecutor of Beiruk City were notarized and signed on the spot.

This also made Leo and Sylvia see Justice Rosie Hassan again. Unlike the previous situation of seeing Rosie Hassan, both of them now know that the Chief Justice of Beruk City is a god A person who knows, and a person who has completed an unknown sacrificial ceremony and stolen a part of the power of an unknown god.

So when the chief justice arrived, both Leo and Sylvia secretly observed each other carefully, and they could clearly find that the chief justice would show a very unnatural expression after entering the villa. It seemed that he had come to a place that disgusted him, but he quickly covered up the past, and when Leo mentioned that his seal was placed in the basement under the villa, his expression changed again, showing a little panic.

However, although the chief justice showed some abnormalities, he didn't have the divine power that Leo and Sylvia wanted to see, and even Leo didn't find it in him when he used his spiritual vision ability. Any abnormality, but what is interesting is that when Leo used the spirit net, he found that there was no trace of mutation on the surface of the chief justice's body, but there was an unknown force under the skin of the body, which was preventing the spirit from Net penetration.

At the same time, the chief justice also seemed to have sensed it, but he didn't know that the spiritual network he sensed came from Leo, but thought it came from the basement, so he said that he still had important things to deal with, and urgently Impatiently urging Leo and Silvia to sign the agreement.

Although I don't know what method the chief justice used to hide his body's mutation and strength, but now that Leo has confirmed that the chief justice is a member of the Spirit Society, the next step is to consider how to get rid of it. He has further dug out the secrets of the Gods Association, of course, the premise is that Leo and Silvia are interested in the Gods Association.

After signing the cooperation agreement and the research agreement, the mayor, the justice, and the chief prosecutor all left as notaries. Before leaving, the special commissioner took out another document and handed it to Leo.

This document is the information on the development of weapons of mass destruction by the Ott federal government, but it is not complete, with less than one-third of the content. It is only used as an advance reference for Leo to develop similar weapons. The follow-up information will not be handed over to Leo until Leo and Sylvia officially complete the expansion of the smelter and move to their forest area in Truber Mountain.

After sending off the special commissioner, Sylvia went to the smelter to deal with the expansion and merger, etc., while Leo stayed in the manor to study the weapon research materials of the Ott Federation.

Although this document only contains one-third of the content, and many key contents of this one-third of the content have been deleted, the remaining content is enough for Leo to deduce the Otto federal government. Follow-up research on this weapon is based on what weapon is used as the prototype.

At the very beginning of this document, the name of the prototype weapon, God's Wrath, was mentioned, which was very vivid and direct, and it was also mentioned in the follow-up what the name of this weapon was in other church records that did not participate in the religious war. Blasphemy Blood.

A god's wrath and a blasphemous blood, the meanings of the two are very different, but in fact the content is the same, because the core of this weapon is the blood of an unknown god.

From the perspective of the churches that participated in the war, this weapon was a manifestation of the wrath of the gods, because the churches that participated in the war were abusing the blood of the gods, while the churches that did not participate in the war believed that the use of the blood of the gods by those churches that participated in the war was undoubtedly an act of blasphemy.

The specific manufacturing method of this weapon was not mentioned in the document, and perhaps the federal government did not know, but they made various guesses, and based on these guesses, at least more than 50 prototype weapons were produced, and in the hands of Leo There are only three kinds of materials in the world, and what is interesting is that the manufacturing principles of these three weapons all involve religious mysticism.

An extremely anti-religious country uses religious mysticism to make weapons. If this is spread, anyone who hears it will definitely feel extremely absurd.