The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Can you please tell me what happened at that time again?" The agent of the Ministry of Education sat on the chair opposite Leo, took out a pen and paper, and asked.

It has been two days since I came back from Lake Beruk. In the past two days, various inquiries have been made one after another. Not only the soldiers and security guards who survived on the Kraken have to be questioned, but even Leo and Langenus People of this status cannot avoid it.

It seems that this is the fourth time that Leo has been asked about the same thing. The first two times were in the temporary office of the special investigation team in the urban area, and the last two times were in Belmont Manor.

For this kind of repeated inquiries, Leo did not have much resistance, especially when he learned that they were in the water, such a serious incident happened on Lake Beruk, he understands that the Ott Federal Investigation Team idea.

The entire anti-smuggling fleet of the Internal Revenue Service lost more than 90% of the ships, with thousands of casualties. This is not counting the fishermen on Lake Beruk, the gangster docks, etc. If all the missing persons are added up, there will be a total of 10,000 many people.

Before the war with the church coalition started, more than 10,000 people were lost, including thousands of excellent soldiers and a complete fleet. They can't even sleep at ease, because they are very worried that this is the method of those churches.

Therefore, the survivors of this disaster naturally became their only clues to the truth. Ordinary soldiers and secret service security personnel are really the focus of the entire investigation, especially those sailor survivors who disappeared on other anti-smuggling ships but appeared on the Kraken inexplicably. Almost everyone thinks that this mystery can be solved The key lies in these people, so the interrogation efforts are also placed there.

Foreigners like Leo, although they seem to be the focus of suspicion, after understanding what happened, they all think that Leo is an outsider who was accidentally involved. In addition, Longanus guaranteed Leo, As well as the importance of Leo himself, the inquiries to him were soon over, and most of the subsequent inquiries were just to confirm whether there was any missing information.

In addition, the Orth Federation's emphasis on Leo has also been raised to a higher level, not only because of the special steel and weapon research and development, but also because of the relationship between Langenus and him, and the federal government has already dived into the water from the day Those people in the public know some things about Leo that are different from ordinary people, such as strength and so on.

They didn't pay too much attention to this aspect, because they all knew that there were some people with special abilities in this world. People with great strength like Leo were not uncommon, and from their point of view, they were much less threatening .

Soon this questioning ended as usual, and the agent of the Ministry of Education and Culture who made the questioning packed up his things and said, "This is the last questioning, and no one will disturb you any more."

Leo nodded, then deliberately showed a curious look, and asked: "Can you disclose the progress of the investigation? If it is inconvenient, please don't say it."

"It's not inconvenient, because there is still nothing," the agent of the Ministry of Education replied without thinking too much, "However, it is basically certain that it was not caused by external forces. Bachelor Langenus thinks it is probably The Emerald Island incident triggered some things left over from the religious wars, and other people also think it is very likely." He paused again, and said: "Although it may not be caused by external forces, the investigation team Assessing what hidden dangers may still exist in Beiruk City, the higher-ups hope that if Mr. Leo has nothing else to do here, it is best to go to Truber Mountain to receive the items in the agreement as soon as possible, and by the way, complete the other half of the agreement. "

Leo thought for a while, and said: "Okay, I got it! You go back and tell them that after these two days, the management problem after the integration and expansion of the smelter is resolved, I will set off for Truber Mountain with Sylvia .”

Seeing that he got the reply he wanted, the agent from the Ministry of Education also showed a smile on his face. After saluting to Leo, he turned and left from the garden.

At this moment, Sylvia came over with a box in her hand, and seeing the back of the agents from the Ministry of Education and Culture left, she couldn't help frowning, and said, "Are they treating you as a suspect?"

Leo shook his head and explained: "This is the last inquiry, and it should have nothing to do with me, but we may have to leave early."

Sylvia sat next to Leo and said, "It's okay, there are too many troubles here, it's okay to leave early, I only need half a day to deal with the rest of the things." He handed over the box to him, and said: "I have used all the methods I can think of, but I still can't destroy this thing. You said that there is such a trace of immortal divinity in it. I think it may be true. Maybe only after we become gods, Only then can this thing be completely destroyed.”

Leo took the box, opened it to look at the divine core, and put it in his storage space without paying attention.

After returning to the manor, Leo tried various methods to stimulate or destroy the divine core, but the results were all the same. The divine core remained in its original state and was not affected in any way.

After that, Sylvia also tried some methods of the abyss, and the result is still the same.

The divine core is very precious, and its immortality can be said to be a way to the gods, a shortcut to evolve into a high-level Omega. If its mystery can be solved, then Leo can be sure that he can evolve in a short time To the life form that could only be looked up to in the past.

However, now this thing is like a stubborn stone, no matter how much Leo stimulates it, it will not give any response. In this way, this thing is worthless to him, and he can only temporarily treat it as a collection Put away the items, and try to unlock the mystery after finding the correct method in the future.

As for the so-called correct method, it is undoubtedly the research materials of the God-making sect. Although Langenus said that those materials were completely destroyed by various churches as taboo knowledge, Leo would not fully believe it, and perhaps some materials would be destroyed. Destroyed, but regarding the immortal nature of the God Core, he felt that those churches should still stay. After all, as long as people are human, they will definitely have greed and selfishness. It is difficult for normal people to resist the temptation to become a god, so he does not believe Those churches will completely destroy the research materials on the God's Core.

"Are you sure that Longanus is the old man Rembrandt?" At this moment, Sylvia suddenly asked.

"Yes, I'm sure he's old man Rembrandt." Leo answered in the affirmative, but then he paused and said, "But he's not old man Rembrandt now."

Although Leo's words were a bit convoluted, Sylvia was able to understand the meaning of his words, hesitated a little, and said, "Should I go see him?"

"It's up to you." Leo shrugged, then smiled again, and said, "However, it should be difficult for you to see him now, because he should be well protected by the federal government now. His stature and importance in the federal government may be much higher than I expected."

As he said that, Leo couldn't help but think of the nervous look of those people on the shore when Longanus got off the boat. At that time, those people took him away directly. Until today, Leo has never seen him again. A letter sent by someone said that he had other things to do for the time being, and he would go to the new manor in Leotrub Mountain to meet him after a while.

From the seal of the letter paper, it is not difficult to see that the letter paper has been opened and read before it was delivered. As for who opened it, it is self-evident. He can continue the relationship with Langanus and get some special treatment from the Otter Federation, such as shortening the inquiry time like this time.

In the next two days, Leo and Sylvia dealt with the matter of the smelter. They only proposed the basic conditions for the personnel arrangement of the management, and the specific management personnel were allocated by the federal government.

As for things like mergers and expansions, Sylvia has already formulated a complete plan and solutions for problems. If those managers can't do it well, then she really has to doubt the authority of the Otter Federation officials. Is there a problem with ability.

The Belmont Manor was not sold, and they left some of the hired servants here to take care of the daily maintenance of the manor, while the other servants were directly sent to the new manor in Truber Hill, and by the way, directly in Beruk City Additional servants were hired to fill the vacancies.

The news that Leo and Sylvia were going to leave spread in Beiruk City. Although many people knew from other channels that the two would leave in the future, they didn't expect it to be so soon.

Although Leo and Sylvia have left Beruk City, the people in Beruk City will not underestimate the influence of the two, especially some high-level dignitaries have learned that Leo and Sylvia couple and Lang When the relationship between Maester Gnus was extraordinary, they all felt that the influence of the two in the Otter Federation would not weaken at all, but would become stronger.

So in order to maintain the relationship between each other, some invitations for dinner parties, receptions and club activities were also sent to the two people's tables in the past two days, and the two only selected one important dinner and one club event to participate in. After a while, other invitations were declined.

On the third day, without disturbing anyone, the two took the train to Josh County and left Beruk City. Almost on the same day as the two left, the logistics operations command of the federal army entered Beruk City. Start making material preparations for the coming war.

Although the investigation of the Beruk Lake incident has not yet come out with a result, negative news related to it has begun to spread in foreign countries, and various churches call it the scourge of heaven, which has accelerated the change of the external situation, leaving There is not much time for the Otter Federation, and all plans have to be put into operation in advance.

Although the Belluk Lake incident brought some troubles, the result was not particularly bad. The loss was only the anti-smuggling fleet of the Internal Revenue Service. The fleet of the federal army did not suffer any damage, and it would not cause any damage to the follow-up plan. Trouble, and all the obstacles on Lake Beruk have been cleared because of this incident, which will actually make the follow-up plan more smoothly.

Many low-level people who are sensitive to the situation have also felt the changes in the atmosphere across the country. The most notable one is that the number of trains transporting various military supplies has increased a lot. This has undoubtedly compressed the operating space of civilian trains. It remains unchanged, but because of the increase in the stop time of the station, the time taken for the same journey is doubled or even several times that of the past.

The train that Leo took was called Freedom Star, and it was the fastest civilian train in the Otto Federation. If it departed from Beruk City at the normal speed, it would take about four days to reach Joshburg, the capital of Josh County. , but the problem is that after they left Beiruk City, the train was stuck at a city transfer station next to Beiruk City for a day, and then almost every large city transfer station had to be stuck for a day or two. At the end of the day, their train had just entered the territory of Josh County.

However, what makes people dumbfounded is that they just drove into Josh County and got stuck in the small border town of Tap, because this is the station of a group army, which has begun to be deployed to the northern region for garrison, and a large number of soldiers need to reach the train to go north. Civilian trains had to give way to military trains.

For Leo and Silvia, although a lot of time was wasted on the road, they didn't care at all. Instead, they happily regarded this as a two-person trip and enjoyed the leisure time every day.

However, this does not mean that Leo did nothing. In fact, the Otto federal government is not willing to see Leo wasting precious time on the road. When the train was stuck at the station for the first time, The federal government sent a group of five assistants to bring over some materials that Leo needed to develop weapons, so that Leo could develop weapons on the road.

For Leo, research and development of weapons is very simple. In fact, he already had several sets of plans in his mind before he set off, but each set of plans deliberately left some very serious flaws. It will increase the power of the weapon, but it will make the weapon very unstable, and it will appear that it may be detonated just by transporting it.

Borrowing this method, he avoided feeding the federal government too much at one time, and at the same time compressed the patience of the federal government a little bit, giving them the illusion that a weapon was not developed because the information provided was not enough, so as to get more data of.

The effect of this method is very remarkable. Before reaching Josh County, he has already obtained almost two-thirds of the information about that weapon, and he also knows the name of that weapon. Odd to say so, but very familiar to Leo, Botta Greet, aka Lighthouse Director.