The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

No matter how perfect the plan is, there may be huge deviations when it is executed. Leo and Sylvia did not wait for Schobert's list, but they waited for Schobert's death first.

Almost on the third day after meeting Schobert, the patriarch of the Ruff family, Bain Ruff, secretly came to the manor at night to meet Leo and Sylvia, first telling them that Schobert’s The death news, the other one is that the cooperation they talked about with Schobert will still be implemented by the Roof family, and Bain also brought a list. According to him, this list was handed over by Schobert before his death. for him.

Although Bain didn't say it clearly, it's not difficult to hear from his tone that he believed that Schobert's death was related to this list.

"How did Mr. Schobert die?" Leo took the list from Bain, and asked about the cause of Schobert's death instead of reading the content on it.

"I don't know." Bain shook his head and said, "I can't find any problems, it's like a natural death, but I'm sure he won't die like this, our death is not like this."

Leo hesitated for a moment and said, "Can I see Mr. Schobert's body?"

Bain shook his head again, and said: "Before I came, his body had already been sent into the mountain according to our family's rules."

Hearing Bain's words, Leo froze for a moment, then exchanged glances with Sylvia beside him, and asked, "Is there anyone you suspect?"

Bain didn't say anything, but just looked at the list on Leo's desk.

Leo nodded slightly, and continued to ask: "Mr. Bain, do you understand the agreement between me and Mr. Schobert?"

Bain nodded and said: "Understood, he told me the agreement reached with Your Excellency when he went back that day."

"Our agreement continues, and the forest farm is still handed over to your Luf family." Leo said, and pretended to hesitate: "As for the other part of the agreement..."

"Continue." Baine said hastily.

Leo said in a deep voice: "In this case, we can help you block the pressure from the Oeter Federation according to the agreement. As for Patch, you will deal with it yourself. As for the price, it will follow the content of the agreement."

"Price?" Bain was stunned for a moment and asked, "What is the price in the agreement?"

"Didn't Mr. Shobert tell you?" Leo frowned and said.

Bain quickly replied: "He passed away before he told me this. What is the price in the agreement?"

Leo pointed to the list on the side, and said: "Mr. Schobert didn't fully trust our ability, so he took out this list. When did we get rid of the people on this list through official power? , our cooperation agreement has been formally reached. At that time, I will use my official power to suppress Patch's manpower in the Federation, and you can get rid of Patch before the Crowley family comes out of the mountain. As for our assistance The reward is very simple." Then, he took out a leaf from his arms and said, "He will take us into the mountains to find the source of this leaf."

"Leaves of the sacred tree?" Bain couldn't help muttering after seeing the leaves.

Leo nodded, and said: "It seems that you know this leaf, and you should also know where the source of this leaf is. You are also qualified to continue to implement our cooperation agreement."

Bain suddenly shook his head again and again, saying: "Impossible, he can't take you to the holy tree."

"No, he will. When he is faced with greater interests and greater pressure, he will do things that he didn't want to do before." Leo looked at Bain calmly and said: "It seems that your Excellency is not prepared Complete the agreement made by Mr. Schobert, if this is the case, then treat it as if the agreement does not exist! I will still leave the matter of the forest farm to your family to take care of, and as for other matters, you have never heard of it."

Bain quickly said: "Wait, wait! I didn't say that I would not agree to complete the agreement, but the content of the agreement was a bit unexpected."

"No, you don't need to answer in a hurry," Leo raised his hand to signal the other party not to worry, and continued: "You obviously don't fully understand the agreement between me and Mr. Schobert, and some of the contents are beyond your expectations. Any promises made by the current state are unreliable, so you'd better go back and calmly think about whether you should agree to this agreement. Just during this time, I can also use my influence to resolve the list. People, let you see that I am indeed capable of helping you, and then you can decide whether to continue to implement the agreement. What do you think?"

After listening to Leo's words, Bain relaxed a little, but he didn't stay any longer, saying that he would seriously consider it when he went back, and then got up and left.

After Bain left, Leo turned to Sylvia and asked, "What do you think?"

Sylvia replied: "It should be him. He has the bloodstains I left on Schobert."

Leo said thoughtfully: "I didn't expect that this seemingly honest and simple man would be so ruthless and kill Schobert directly. After all, Schobert is still his uncle, right?"

Sylvia smiled and said: "Schobert's death is of great benefit to him, at least he can really take charge of the Luffy family, I am surprised that he can endure it for so many years, according to the information he It seems that he has been sitting as the patriarch of the Lufu family for almost twenty years."

At first, neither Leo nor Sylvia had any doubts about Bain, because Bain had portrayed himself as a reckless man so well over the years, Leo and Sylvia, who had only read the information of Roof's family, subconsciously Think of Bane as the kind of plan executor who is on the front line.

But when Bain refused Leo to check Shobert's body, and used the words of sending the body to the mountain to prevaricate Leo, it immediately aroused the suspicion of Leo and Sylvia, because they knew the lumberjack family very well. It is true that there is a practice of sending the remains of family members into the mountain, but no matter which lumberjack family will send people into the mountain on the fifth day after the death of the deceased, it has never been sent directly to the mountain like this. There have been things.

So, after the two exchanged their opinions with their eyes, Sylvia used her secret method to check the bloodstain she left on Schobert that day, and finally found that the bloodstain had been transferred to Bain, and the transferability of the bloodstain The conditions and conditions also showed that Bain was the one who killed Schobert himself.

Leo didn't care about whether Bain killed Schobert, he only cared about whether Bain could be used by him, and seeing Schobert's death now is a good thing, at least Bain didn't know Schobert What exactly is the content of the cooperation agreement, which gives him room to manipulate, such as the temptation just now.

At least two things were known through this temptation. One thing is that the lumberjack family knew where the tree that was connected to the Black Forest in the depths of Truber Mountain was. The status is very high, and judging from what they call the contract between the tree and the Karita demon, it is very likely that the tree has some relationship with the Karita demon.

Leo told Sylvia what he had guessed just now, and Sylvia thought for a moment seriously, and said, "I think I know what's going on?"

Sylvia's inexplicable words made Leo feel a little puzzled, but he didn't ask, but waited aside for Sylvia to give the answer by himself.

"Can't you cooperate with me?" Sylvia said dissatisfiedly when she saw Leo's actions.

"Uh!" Leo was stunned for a moment, smiled, and showed a curious expression in cooperation, and said, "What did you think of?"

"No sincerity." Sylvia tapped Leo's forehead with her finger, then returned to the topic, and said, "I suspect that a Karita Demon has come to this world and merged with this world."

Hearing this, Leo frowned. According to the knowledge of the abyss he had obtained, the Carita Demon has a very cautious character and never leaves the abyss, even if his contract has successfully evolved into a god of another world, and To drag that world into the abyss little by little, He will never enter that world that should be regarded as extremely safe for him, so Leo feels that Sylvia's speculation is a bit untrue.

Sylvia also seemed to be very aware that her speculation was against common sense, but she didn't care, and continued: "Under normal circumstances, it is indeed impossible for Caritas to leave the abyss. Even if they are in danger of death, they will choose Die in the abyss, because then they may borrow the power of the abyss to resurrect, or use their backhands to resurrect. But there is a situation that may cause the Karita demon to have to leave the abyss and venture into other worlds."

"You're talking about contract backlash?" Leo quickly realized what Sylvia was going to say, but he said with some doubts: "But the contract backlash of the Karita demon is just a legend, and it has never happened before."

Sylvia reminded: "You should think about it in reverse, if it didn't happen, then how did this legend come about?"

Leo was puzzled and said: "Even if the contract is backlash, the Karita Demon only needs to try to cancel the contract after coming to this world, but now that he has made so many contracts, doesn't it mean that he doesn't want to go back to the abyss?"

Sylvia shrugged and said: "I'm not too sure about this, but what I can be sure of is that if there is a Carita Demon who really came to this world, judging from the current situation of this world, his situation must be It's bad." She paused and said, "If we can find him, maybe we can..."

Leo nodded slightly. He knew what Sylvia meant very well. If it was just a simple Carita, it would not be worth the two of them going to war, but if it was someone who had already started to integrate with this world and had If the Kalita Demon can use part of the power of the world's laws, then his value will not be the same.

Especially the state of this Kalita demon is still very bad, and he doesn't have enough resistance.

Leo said in a deep voice: "This matter cannot be rushed. We need the lumberjack family to guide us to enter the mountain without getting lost, and we also need to be willing to lead us."

In fact, in the past two days, Leo and Sylvia have tried to go deep into the depths of Truber Mountain, and even secretly followed a group of lumberjack family members who entered the mountain, but in the end they encountered some inexplicable things that even they could not understand. With the power to resist, he lost his way in the mountains, and then came out inexplicably.

Leo tried to use his psionic wings to fly through the air, but it turned out that Truber Mountain's air-restriction was stronger than outside, and his psionic wings could not even allow him to glide through the air.

They also tried walking directly from the top of the tree, but they still got lost. According to the data records on the general-purpose recorder, they always circled in place, and finally turned and left towards the direction outside the mountain.

This made them realize that the power contained in Truber Mountain far exceeds the level of demigods, and it is likely to be the power of the real gods. It is only after realizing this that they gave up the idea of ​​going directly into the mountain to find the source of the leaf. idea.

In order to get Bain of the Roof family to take the bait as soon as possible, Leo sent the two improved grenades that had been made in the past two days, together with the list, to the capital through the special channel of the secret service department, and in that copy A note was added to the list indicating that those on the list may be colluding with the outside church state in an attempt to prevent the development of new weapons.

According to the normal situation, the list Leo sent over will definitely not cause any disturbance. After all, he is just a foreigner, and many of the people on the list are celebrities and gentry from Josh County. How could anyone believe a foreigner? Suspect.

But it is different now that there are new weapons. The grenade made by Leo has become the most important new weapon of the Oeter Federation. Under such circumstances, anything that affects the development of this weapon is not a trivial matter for them.

Even if they still doubt the authenticity of this list, they will definitely arrest these people first with the mentality of preferring to believe what they have, and slowly review them. As long as one of them has a problem, then the others People will definitely not be free in a short time.

At that time, as long as Bain sees this situation, he will definitely think that Leo has a strong influence on the Ort Federation, and then he will seriously consider whether to continue the so-called cooperation agreement with Leo.

In the next few days, Leo and Sylvia were secretly monitoring these lumberjack families. Compared with the internal calm of other lumberjack families, there were some small fluctuations in the Rufu family because of Schobert's death.

When Schobert was still alive, he held all the power of the Roof family. The patriarch, Bain, was just a decoration, and Bain also played his image of a reckless man very well, so that no one in the family was afraid of him. Or fear him so much that after Schobert's death, Bain wanted to control the power of the family, and many people jumped out to question Bain's ability.

Fortunately, Bain had already anticipated this. He had secretly controlled many young and strong people, and prepared a batch of weapons. When those who questioned him danced happily, he would wipe them out and completely solve the problem. The problem of excess power.

It's just that, because of this, the overall strength of the Luf family has weakened, and other lumberjack families have some small ideas.