The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Mr. Patch, what can I do for you?" Sylvia couldn't help smiling when she saw Patch froze in place, and asked knowingly.

Patch is not a fool, what he wants to find is right in front of his eyes, no doubt the purpose of his trip has already been known, so he has to abandon all the countermeasures he has prepared before, and directly Said: "The purpose of my coming here must be known to the two of you..."

"Got it? What do we know?" Sylvia asked, pretending to be at a loss.

Paqi smiled wryly, he felt that his trip might be in vain, but he didn't give up, and still said calmly: "The purpose of my coming here is for the holy deed on the two tables, the holy deed Deed belongs to..."

"This thing belongs to me." Sylvia interrupted the other party, and said: "According to federal law, everything in this manor and nearby forest farms, including underground things, belongs to me. Your Excellency is from the Federal Ministry of Education and Education." Officials, do you want to violate federal laws and rob other people's private property?"

Hearing Sylvia's words, Patch knew that it was impossible to get the item, and he couldn't help but have an impulse in his mind to grab the item by force, and then use his ability to erase the memory of the two, but this When the impulse arose and affected his thinking, he became calm instead, took a deep breath quickly, suppressed the impulse in his heart, and then smiled and said to Leo and Sylvia: "If that's the case, then I don't I need to say more, excuse me."

After speaking, he was about to turn around and leave.

Leo, who hadn't spoken since just now, stopped him and said, "Wait! Don't you think it's a pity to leave like this?"

"What? Are you two willing to sell the holy deed?" Paqi stopped and turned to ask.

Leo shook his head and said, "Of course it's impossible. This thing is so precious that anyone who gets it can't sell it."

"Precious?" Paqi smiled when he heard the words, and said, "Do you really know where this thing is so precious? Or is it just a judgment based on its appearance?"

Leo responded calmly: "I think anything that may become a god in the future can be called precious, even if it is just a useless waste now."

The expression on Patch's face froze. He obviously didn't expect that Leo would be able to tell the true value of the holy deed, and this true value is a secret even in the lumberjack family. Only a few people know this secret. Others Most members of the lumberjack family just know that this thing can give each family member different abilities.

Suddenly, Patch seemed to have thought of something, and said something to Leo and Sylvia. The sentence was in a local dialect that sounded a bit like the Otto Federation. It sounds like ventriloquism.

"You are not them." Seeing that neither Leo nor Sylvia had the proper reaction to his words, Patch said something that sounded a bit convoluted, and then immediately asked suspiciously: " Who are you? Why do you know the secret of the Holy Deed?"

Sylvia smiled disdainfully, and said, "Secret? The so-called secret is only for some people, but for others, there has never been a so-called secret."

Paqi's face became a little gloomy, and he said, "You two stopped me, just want to show off to me that you know a lot of secrets?"

"Of course not," Leo shook his head and said, "I stopped you, I just want to cooperate with you."

"Cooperation?" Paqi frowned slightly, looked at the holy deed on the table again, and asked with some expectation: "Cooperation for what?"

Leo said: "Our forest farm still needs some loggers to work..."

Seeing that things were different from what he expected, Paqi's face became gloomy again, and he turned his head and left without waiting for Leo to finish speaking, without any thought of cooperating.

This time Leo didn't call Paqi to stop, but after Paqi left, he shook his head and said, "Leave without listening to the words, I really don't have any patience."

"I think even after listening to it, he will not choose to cooperate. People like him will not have any trust in others, let alone us two strangers." Sylvia said disapprovingly: "If The real problem is that he agreed to cooperate with us. His life and that of his entire family rest on that contract. Impossible to believe."

"What do you think he will do next?" Leo asked again.

Sylvia thought for a while and said: "He was able to find us, obviously he checked our information. According to the importance that the Otter Federation attaches to us, our information authority must not be low, and he should have some scruples about it. , dare not do anything to us directly.” She paused for a moment and said, “However, this person should play tricks and tell the other lumberjack families about our Kalita magic contract. , Those lumberjack families should not be like him, and our manor will probably be lively by then."

Leo smiled and said, "Wouldn't it be nice to be more lively? It just happens to do the security work for the Secret Service. In the past two days, they have complained in private more than once that they are too boring."

Sylvia smiled, and then asked, "When are you leaving for the mountain?"

"Leave after collecting enough information. During this time, we can get out the weapons that the federal government wants." Leo said while picking up the Karita magic contract, looked at it, and said: "And I still need to find out the specifics of this thing, otherwise, if I go to the mountains like this, even if I find the place where those people signed the contract, it may be difficult to find a way to control these contracts."

After hearing this, Sylvia didn't have any better suggestions, so she could only implement it temporarily.

Originally, after obtaining the Karita Demon contract, Sylvia felt that it should be easy to solve the problem of controlling the contract, because there are dozens of methods in the memory of the Abyss Demon Dragon that she inherited to tamper with this contract. Replace its core with the rules and terms you want.

But after she carefully studied the Karita magic contract, she found that there was a big difference between this Karita magic contract and the Karita magic contract in his memory, which prevented her from using the previous method to deal with it. The content of the contract has been tampered with. Even if she wants to open the contract and read its core rules and clauses, she can't do it. What's more, it seems that this world has endowed this Karita magic contract with indestructible characteristics. Whether it is Leo Neither the Thunder Gun nor Sylvia's Demon Dragon Flame could harm this contract in the slightest.

Faced with this situation, Leo can only consider starting from the source, going to the place where the lumberjack families signed the contract, finding the Karita Demon who provided the contract, and then obtaining the authority to control the contract from the Karita Demon. Otherwise, even if he and Sylvia cultivated this Karita magic contract and made it the god of contract in this world, I am afraid that this god of contract will not be controlled by them, and may even eat them back. It's not worth the candle.

However, the appearance of Patch this time made Leo think of another method, which is to find out the core rule structure of the contract by observing the assimilation between the contracts, and then analyze the method of controlling the contract. It is like cracking some kind of intelligence center, starting from observing its core changes, and then gaining control authority.

That's why Leo proposed such an almost impossible cooperation with Paqi so abruptly, but Paqi left without even listening.

Although it is not difficult for Leo and Sylvia's power to snatch their Karita magic contract from these lumberjack families who only mastered some low-level extraordinary power, but they cannot do so .

First of all, this kind of mutual engulfment of contracts cannot be just two contracts placed together, they will create a mouth to bite each other, there must be some kind of ritual, and even the active cooperation of the lumberjack family, otherwise, even if they I am afraid there is no way to let them devour each other after getting all the contracts.

In addition, Leo and Sylvia have already seen from the ownerless contract in their hands that the power of this world has penetrated into the rules of the contract, and when they think of the death of the Venolin family, they all feel that the terms and rules in the contract may It has been connected with some fate-like power in this world. If something is forcibly done to these contracts, it is likely to cause some power in this world to backlash.

Perhaps Leo and Sylvia's current demigod life forms are not afraid of this backlash, but other negative effects of this backlash may cause them headaches, such as inexplicable house collapses, and walking on the road will cause them to stumble. A big pit will suddenly appear, etc., it can't kill you, it will annoy you,

So neither Leo nor Sylvia considered forcibly attacking the lumberjack family. All they needed to do was wait for the lumberjack family to come to their door and give them a suitable excuse.

Therefore, even though Leo and Sylvia knew that the lumberjack family would send people to the manor to test these days, they did not tell these things to the security personnel in the manor. They needed the power of the Otter Federation officials to suppress and influence these people. Lumberjack family.

On the second day after Patch left, something happened in Leo's manor, but it was not people who caused the trouble, but some wild animals from Trube Mountain suddenly ran out of the woods and rushed into the manor .

At the beginning, the security guards in the manor didn't take this matter to heart, because there are often forest beasts breaking into the villas and manors near the forest, and the general manors will build walls, and Leo and Hill Via's manor was originally a nursing home, surrounded by simple fences, and no one used it all year round, so the original fence was damaged. It is normal for wild animals to run into the manor through the damaged fence.

But in the next two days, wild beasts broke into the manor one after another, and the places where these wild beasts broke in were completely different. There were two times when there was no forest, only the south of the farmland broke in, which immediately made everyone in the manor Secret service security became alert.

Kadi immediately passed the special authority of the Prime Minister's Office Secret Service Department, and dispatched a team of soldiers from the nearby gendarmerie barracks to station in the manor to increase the defense force of the manor, and also strengthened the intensity of night inspections. All weapons and equipment were replaced.

Although, in the eyes of some people, Kadi's approach is a bit of a fuss, but Kadi feels that he is doing the right thing, because he suspects that Leo has been targeted by those church countries, and those church countries are planning to Send a killer to assassinate Leo.

The reason why he has such an idea is because he knows that Leo has developed a very light and powerful weapon, and has already produced a finished product, and conducted an experiment. The result of the experiment made him, a bystander, feel horrified. A small ball the size of a fist can actually cause a destructive force like a cannonball. He couldn't imagine how many times the combat power of the federal army would increase if this weapon was sent to the battlefield.

Although the weapon is already out of the physical body, it needs to be further improved because the cost is too expensive and the manufacturing is too complicated. Cardi is very clear that before the weapon improvement is completed, this period is the most dangerous time for the manor, and it may happen at any time Some fanatical church believers came here to carry out death attacks. He had seen this kind of thing more than once when he was the prime minister's security guard.

So after learning about the progress of the weapon, he used the special channel of his secret service department to send the relevant news to the federal capital and asked for additional manpower.

Originally, he thought that there would be no danger in the past few days. After all, even if the church country knew about it, it would take time to make plans, arrange manpower, pass orders, etc. There should be enough time to wait for the support manpower from the capital Come here.

However, these extremely unusual wild animals made him feel dangerous, so he had to abandon his original plan and ask the military for help.

He knew very well that this kind of asking for help from outsiders would definitely deduct points from his final ability score, but compared to protecting the target and failing the mission, this point deduction was nothing.

While Kadi was on guard, waiting for the attackers to arrive, the creators of these beast incidents gathered together to discuss what to do next, how to enter the manor and snatch back the Holy Deed of Unowned.

The whole incident was done by a family of lumberjacks. Their family's ability is to control animals. The weak ones can only control small and weak animals, while the strongest ones may even be able to control a large number of carnivorous beasts.

After they got the news from Patch, they controlled the animals and tried to enter the manor villa to understand the situation.

It's just that the development of things was beyond their expectations. First of all, although there were not many security personnel in the villa, they were very strict. The slightly larger animals were cleaned up by the security personnel before they approached the villa.

Secondly, the villa itself is also very weird. They control some small animals, distract the security personnel with the noise made by other animals, and try to enter the villa, but the animals stop outside the villa, no matter how hard they drive them, they dare not approach the villa, as if It looked like something terrible was inside the villa.

At this time, they sent someone to find relevant information about the villa, and found that this villa, which they had paid little attention to before, was so unusual.