The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

While Leo and Sylvia were discussing the creation of a god with some arrogance, the lumberjack family on the other side became suspicious because of the loss of a few leaves. The representatives of every lumberjack family present looked at other people. All full of suspicion and vigilance.

"There is a problem with this matter!" A representative of the very old lumberjack family said: "First, the Vinolin family somehow violated the holy deed and was punished. Now we go to take back the holy deed of the Vinolin family but I can't find it, even the leaves of the sacred tree are lost, I think this is someone targeting our family."

The old man's words didn't cause any movement. Everyone just glanced at the old man, as if they were talking about this kind of nonsense, and we all thought so.

The people in the room fell silent again, and the atmosphere became a little awkward. In the end, someone couldn't stand the awkward atmosphere, and said nonsense, "Will the sacred deed of the Venolin family be taken away in advance? That person happened to meet our team looking for the holy deed again, so he secretly took the leaves of the holy tree."

The white eyes that were directed at the old man before were transferred to this person this time, and the atmosphere couldn't help but not ease up, on the contrary, it was even more embarrassing.

At this time, a middle-aged man with a bare head and looking a bit wretched suddenly said: "The question is who is that person? Some unknown outsider? Or some of us?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone involuntarily raised their spirits, and looked suspiciously at everyone around them.

Although the person seemed to have given a multiple-choice question just now, in fact the choice did not exist at all, and there was only one answer from the beginning to the end, that is, someone around him was the one who took the holy deed and the leaves of the holy tree.

Someone said dissatisfiedly to the person who raised the topic: "Patch, if you can't speak, then shut up, don't say something unfounded, it will only affect the unity of our families."

"Unity? Do you think there is such a word as unity among our families?" Paqi touched his bald head, smiled disdainfully, and said, "We all know that it is impossible for outsiders to take away the Holy Spirit. Deed, the holy deed will only be in the area under the jurisdiction of the Venolin family. Since it has not been found, there is only one possibility, that is, it was secretly taken away by a family among us. As for the leaves of the sacred tree, they were also lost. It's so weird, it's just lost on the body, don't you think it's ridiculous? Is it really lost, or is it hidden..."

"Patch, what do you mean?" The family representative of the people who lost the leaves of the sacred tree immediately refuted: "You want to say that we deliberately pretended that the leaves of the sacred tree were taken by someone, but in fact we deliberately wanted to possess them. Those few holy tree leaves?"

Patch shrugged and said, "I didn't say that, you said it yourself, don't blame me."

"You..." Those family representatives were a little annoyed and speechless.

Seeing Patch's look of fearing that the world would not be chaotic, all the family representatives frowned unanimously, showing dissatisfaction, but they also did not refute Patch's speculation, because they had the same thoughts in their hearts. Like Patch, the leaves were thrown so strangely that it looked like an excuse.

In the crowd, a person with a certain prestige suddenly said: "Okay, I believe that none of us will embezzle the leaves of the sacred tree. Although the leaves of the sacred tree are very precious, they are not unique. New leaves are collected every year." After that, the old leaves will be distributed, there is absolutely no need to embezzle these few leaves at the risk of breaking the rules and offending all the families."

Everyone couldn't help but nodded when they heard the words, expressing their agreement with this statement.

However, this person only expressed the loss of Ye Zi and the five sense organs of those families, but he didn't say anything about the whereabouts of the holy deed, which is more critical, because he also felt that the holy deed of the Vinolin family was the same as everyone else. The deed should have fallen into the hands of one of their families.

The room fell into silence again.

Someone couldn't bear the silence, and said, "Is the sacred deed still in the area under the responsibility of the Venolin family? No one has taken it at all."

The people around looked at this person and said nothing, and that person smiled awkwardly and closed his mouth again.

"It's useless even if we sit here until we die. Obviously, we can't find anything in a short time. I still have something to do. I don't have any extra time to waste here." After a while, someone stood up impatiently and said: "You can investigate slowly, and let me know when you find out the results."

After finishing speaking, he ignored other people's gazes, turned around and walked out of the room. Seeing that someone had already started, the other people who couldn't stand the dead silence also stood up, found an excuse, and left the room.

Seeing everyone leaving one after another, the face of the representatives of the lumberjack family responsible for convening the meeting became extremely ugly. The reason why they are so concerned about this matter is that among the many lumberjack families, their family is most likely to get Vino The holy deed of the Lin family is gone now, and the next time there is a holy deed, they don't know when they will have to wait, and even if there is a new holy deed without an owner, it may not necessarily fall into their hands in the end.

When Patch was about to leave, he suddenly turned to the memory convener and said, "I think you should care more about your own family than you care about the whereabouts of the Venolin family holy deed!"

"What do you mean?" The other party obviously didn't understand the meaning of Patch's words.

Paqi sneered, and reminded: "Your young son has not been very honest recently, and he even came into contact with outsiders. Be careful, if the federal government finds out, you should be very clear about the consequences, even with the protection of the holy deed. , I am afraid there is no guarantee that your family can survive."

Hearing Paqi's words, the meeting convener's face became extremely ugly, and his anger also turned into an expression. He was not angry at Paqi's surveillance of his family, but angry at his youngest son for acting so boldly. Contacting outsiders during the period is simply putting the whole family on the fire, and if they are not careful, they will be burned to ashes.

Patch turned around and walked out of the room after being reminded. As for whether the other party would take his reminder to heart and take some measures, it was not his concern. What he cared more about at the moment was the family of the Venolin family. In whose hands is the holy deed?

When they were in the room just now, everyone thought that a certain family in the room had obtained the holy deed of the Venolin family in advance, and they were unwilling to determine the final ownership through ancient rituals, but hid it by themselves.

On the surface, Patch seemed to think the same as everyone else, but in fact he didn't think anyone in the lumberjack family had the guts to break the rules. In his opinion, either the holy deed was still hidden somewhere, or the holy deed might have been lost. into the hands of someone else, and that person was most likely not anyone from the lumberjack family.

After Patch left, he got into a carriage, and the direction of the carriage was not his family, but a small town on the outskirts of Truber Mountain.

The locals in this small town call it Mud Town, because the roads in this town used to be muddy roads. When it rains, the whole town seems to be thrown into a muddy pit. Although the town has been completely repaired now, The road was also paved with slate and gravel, and the government gave it a more formal official name, but the name of Mud Town has always been called by the locals, and no one will call the official name that is convoluted.

"There are people following behind, do you need to deal with them?" After the carriage drove into the town, the driver suddenly knocked on the wooden board behind him, and said to Patch inside the carriage.

"It's not necessary, it's just a group of self-righteous guys!" Patch said disapprovingly.

In fact, since he left the meeting place, Patch already knew that someone was following him, and even knew who was following him, and he didn't care about it. He just wanted to let someone know that he had made He made a choice, so as not to pull him to do some taboo things sometimes, wasting his hard work for so many years in vain.

The carriage drove through several commercial streets that were not very prosperous, and stopped in front of a very old-fashioned three-storey building. The small building was obviously an office building of the federal government, and there were several full-length suits standing at the door. Armed guards.

After Patch got out of the carriage, he walked directly into the small building. The guard at the door did not stop him at all. Obviously Patch's identity is extraordinary.

Not long after Patch entered, several carriages passed by the small building one after another. When these carriages passed by, they deliberately slowed down so that the people inside the carriage could see the sign at the entrance of the small building. .

"Sir, I'm afraid it's inappropriate for us to enter Josh County with such a high profile and hang the signboard of the Ministry of Education outside." In the small building, when Patch was about to go to his office on the third floor, he was caught by a young man The chief subordinate stopped him, and he said with a doubtful tone.

"Why can't you enter Josh County with a high profile? Isn't Josh County the territory of the Outer Federation? As the administrative agency of the Outer Federation, we set up a branch in the federal territory. Why do we have to sneak around, and we can't even hang the sign of the branch. Go out?" Paqi's series of rhetorical questions made the elder subordinate unable to refute for a while, and then Paqi said seriously: "I don't care what method you use to do things under other people's hands, but under mine Subordinate, you have to get used to my methods, otherwise, you should apply for transfer."

After speaking, Patch walked up the stairs, leaving the subordinate alone in a daze.

"Boss, that guy is wooing people everywhere in the department again, do you want to do something?" After Patch entered his office, his assistant walked in and asked.

"Let him go, the higher ups sent him down for disgusting people, as long as he doesn't interfere with our normal work, just ignore him, just pretend he doesn't exist." Patch threw his coat to the assistant and sat down on his own. From a small cabinet under the desk, he took out a bottle of wine and a wine glass and poured himself a glass of wine. While drinking, he ordered: "Go and take out the people who have stayed in the Misty Convalescent Manor for the past few days. Bring over the couple's information."

The assistant immediately turned around and left the office after hearing the words, and he came back empty-handed not long after, and said, "The couple's information needs special reading permission to be able to read it."

"Need special reading permission?" Paqi was stunned, then pondered for a moment, found an unused batch note from the drawer, quickly wrote down his request on it, and then picked up the seal Cover it and pass it to the assistant.

After a while, the assistant came in with a file and handed it to Patch.

After Patch signaled to the assistant that he could leave, he put the folder under the light and opened it to look through it.

There is not a lot of information in the folder, even though Patch read it seriously, he finished it quickly, and at the moment after reading it, Patch is almost sure that the missing Venolin family holy deed is there In the hands of the foreign couple in the data.

If it was an ordinary person, Patch would choose to come directly to ask for it, even if it would cause some trouble afterwards, but thinking about the harvest, it is obvious that this trouble is still within the tolerable range, but the problem is that this foreigner couple is not ordinary people, just from this From the point of view that the couple's information needs to be read by ministerial-level officials of the branch with special reading authority, the status of the couple in the eyes of the federal government is definitely not low. Using the method of dealing with ordinary people to deal with the couple will only It's asking for trouble.

"Since their identities are so important, it should be reasonable to go to their resettlement situation as the branch chief of the Truber Hill Branch of the Josh County Education Department and find out what help they need." Patch gave up and passed Strong means, after returning to the holy deed, there is another way.

Patch, who had made a decision, asked his assistant to prepare a decent gift that night, and then waited until dawn, left the office building with the gift, and drove towards the former Misty Convalescent Manor.

"Patch Crowley, Minister of the Ministry of Education and Civilization, Trouble Hill Branch?" Leo looked at the name card handed over by the butler, read the content on it, and then handed it to Sylvia, saying: "The Ministry of Education and Civilization Isn’t it a secret department of the federal government? Why are they printing name cards?”

"Maybe the Ministry of Education is not willing to stay behind the scenes anymore." Sylvia responded disapprovingly, and then her eyes fell on the name on the name card, and said, "Crowley? I remember that there was one in the lumberjack family There's a surname called Crawley."

"Coincidence?" Leo asked.

Sylvia shook her head and said, "I don't think so. It should be from the Crowley family." After thinking about it, she walked to the safe next to the bookcase and took out the Carita from it. The magic contract was placed on Leo's desk, and he ordered to the housekeeper, "Bring people in!"

Seeing Sylvia's actions, Leo couldn't help smiling, but didn't say anything.

After coming over for a while, following the sound of footsteps, he stopped outside the study door, and then saw the butler leading in a middle-aged bald man who looked a bit wretched.

The bald man came in and was about to introduce himself, but the Karita magic contract on the table happened to fall into his eyes, making him forget what he was going to do in an instant, and froze in place.