The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"It can't be another world." Leo said with certainty: "This is a space orbital rift, not a subspace rift. Although the two are very similar, they are fundamentally different."

After hearing what Leo said, although Longanus couldn't fully understand what he said, he could still understand a general idea, which made him heave a sigh of relief.

It seemed to him that as long as it wasn't another world, there was still hope for everything.

"The information I investigated about the Belmont family in this world may not be of much use to you. There is only a little useful information in it, and you can easily find it even if you check it yourself." Langenus said while looking at the information. To a distant view oil painting of Mount Trube on the wall, he said, "But if you want to investigate Mount Trube, I can give you some help."

"Did you also investigate Truber Mountain back then?" Sylvia asked knowingly.

Langenus said: "Mount Truber is so special, it looks so like the Black Forest, how can I turn a blind eye." Then he looked at the two meaningfully, and said: "And the abnormality of the lumberjack family is not only you who can see it." Discover."

Sylvia asked rather dissatisfied: "Are you spying on us?"

"It's not surveillance, it's just concern. After all, Leo was recommended by me. If he can't produce any results, I have to bear part of the responsibility. Fortunately, he didn't let me down." Langenus quibbled After a while, and before Sylvia retorted, she brought the topic back and said: "I have sent more than 30 expeditions into Truber Mountain. Some departments of the Federation have also formed many expeditions, but in the end These expeditions were either completely lost in the deep mountains, or came out inexplicably, forgetting everything they had experienced in the mountains."

"Didn't you ask members of the lumberjack family to guide you?" Leo asked.

Langenus replied: "Of course, the lumberjack family was able to go deep into the depths of Truber Mountain and come out intact. This was discovered by the federal government a long time ago. They recruited many members of the lumberjack family to accompany them. The expedition team went into the depths of Truber Mountain together, and the result was that without exception, they didn't remember what happened in the mountain, even the members of the logger family."

As he spoke, he paused for a moment, and then said: "The weirder thing after that is that all the people who participated in this incident, whether they were members of the lumberjack family, members of the expedition team, or the planners of the expedition, The approvers all inexplicably died at the same time due to some flawless accidents, just like the Venolin family who died suddenly due to an accident not long ago. Do you know the reason for this?"

"Because of the contract they violated." Leo replied briefly, and then said to Sylvia, "It seems that our plan has to be changed. The method of leading the way with the lumberjack family can be cancelled. I didn't expect that The binding force and execution force of the contract will be so strong that even people who have not directly participated in it and are only a little bit involved will be affected."

Sylvia said solemnly: "Based on this effect, this is definitely not a Karita magic contract, or even any kind of abyss contract. It seems to be more dangerous than we expected."

Langenus saw Leo and his wife talking about something he couldn't fully understand, so he interjected in a timely manner and asked, "Can someone explain to me, what contract?"

Leo said: "Since you have investigated the lumberjack family, you should know that the lumberjack family has a contract, right?"

"I know, you're talking about the golden contract, right?" Langenus thought for a while, and said, "This golden contract was also targeted by people back then, and even senior officials of the federal government obtained these few logs through some means. However, no matter how you protect and store these contracts, these contracts will eventually disappear and return to the hands of their respective lumberjack families, and those involved in this matter will also encounter some bad luck, or Physical injuries, or blocked careers, like those..." He paused for a while, as if realizing something, and said: "You mean those who died in accidents actually died from these lumberjack families Under the power of the golden contract?"

"We think so." Leo nodded, and then briefly told Longanus about the Karita magic contract, but he didn't say in detail that the contract came from the abyssal creatures. And this contract represents an unformed god of the contract, just saying that this contract was signed between the lumberjack family and a certain location deep in Truber Mountain.

However, this information seemed to have reminded Longanus of something, and he could only hear him muttering, so it turns out that there is such a connection.

Although both Leo and Sylvia were curious about what he thought of, they didn't ask to disturb his train of thought.

After a while, he seemed to be able to recover from contemplation, looked around, then stood up, and said to Leo: "Tomorrow I will send someone to send over all the materials I have on hand, and I will go back to the capital to get some thing."

After finishing speaking, he didn't give any further explanation, and walked out of the villa quickly while avoiding the space gap around him.

"What do you think he thought of?" Sylvia asked suspiciously.

"I don't know." Leo shook his head and said, "However, I know that our team to explore Truber Mountain will increase."

The spatial rifts inside and outside the villa did not last for too long, and before dawn the next day, all the spatial rifts disappeared under the induction of Leo's mental network.

It's just that the space rift disappeared this time, because Leo's spiritual network had exact sensing targets, and the number of targets was extremely large, so that Leo was able to sense a faint trace of energy from the position of each space rift at the moment the rift disappeared. Afterwards, he recorded the energy wave fluctuations after these space cracks disappeared, and input them into the general-purpose recorder to build a three-dimensional module, presenting the space orbits that could not be judged before in the form of energy parabolas. .

Leo immediately found a world map, trying to find out the position on the other side of the space orbit by calculating the parabola.

It's a pity that when he saw the most accurate civilian world maps, he realized that he had overestimated the map accuracy of the world. Those world maps, let alone the land areas of the old and new continents The drawing is not right, the coastlines of the old and new continents are abstract to the extreme, which is enough to show how unreliable these world maps are.

Although it was not possible to locate the exact position of the other side by calculating the parabola, Leo was almost certain that the other side of the space orbit was probably somewhere in the Old Continent, which was consistent with their previous judgment.

The books Longanus mentioned were delivered the next day, but he seemed to have a lot of books. He didn't finish moving them from morning to night. Leo even had to move the villa for these books. All the guest rooms and attics in the room were vacated before they could barely be placed.

In addition, these books are not those publicly printed books that the outside world can find casually. These books are research books that are extremely rare in print and only specific experts will purchase. This will undoubtedly greatly enrich Leo's database.

Because considering that the books related to the church promised by the special envoy would also be delivered in the near future, Leo had to do it himself. With materials, a piece of land was leveled next to the villa, and a simple library was built as quickly as building blocks.

Although there are secret service security guards next to the villa, and the army patrols back and forth from time to time, but their senses such as sight and hearing are all distorted by the rune circle arranged by Leo. All of Ou's actions turned a blind eye and listened but did not hear.

Until the next day, when they saw a house made of wood appear out of thin air next to the villa, they were all in shock and panic. Such a strange thing was completely beyond their common sense, so they even reported to their superiors.

It's just that their superiors seem to be busy preparing for the war and cleaning up the restless elements in the country. No one takes it seriously, because it's just an illusion created by them inhaling too much miasma in the mountains. Those weird legends finally made them regard this as another weird legend of the convalescent villa manor, and the replies they gave were without exception to let them turn a blind eye to all this and do whatever they wanted.

After receiving the reply from their superiors, the secret service security and the army protecting the manor did not pay too much attention to the house that appeared out of thin air, but they would deliberately avoid it when patrolling.

A few days later, a large number of religious books were also delivered, but when Leo ordered the secret service security and military personnel to move the books to the temporary library he built, those people shirked for various reasons , In the end, some people were hired in nearby villages to carry these books.

At the same time, the internal strife in the Luffy family of the lumberjack family has temporarily subsided under Bain Luffy's powerful methods these days, but because his methods are too tough, he also annoyed some people in his own family. , these people may not do anything when Bain Roof is strong, but once Bain Roof declines, they will probably aim their knives at Bain Roof's vitals. Luffy is also very clear.

During the civil strife in the Luf family, some businesses of the Luf family in Josh County were annexed by other lumberjack families. Even so, it was already a traumatic situation for the Luf family.

Facing the family's internal and external troubles, Bain Roof's first thought was to seek foreign aid, and Leo became the only choice he could make now.

Although he has been dealing with internal affairs of the family these days, he is also paying attention to the situation in Josh County, especially when he learned that those on the list he took out were successively arrested by the special investigation team of the federal government At that time, I instinctively thought that this was what Leo did, and I also felt that Leo did have extraordinary influence in the Otter Federation.

It's just that Bain Ruffy at this time has a different idea from before. Before that, he still wanted to join forces with Leo to deal with Patch Crowley and take away the Vinolin family's Holy Leap , and then get rid of the other members of the Crowley family, and then take away the holy deed of the Crowley family, but now all he wants is to let Leo help him stabilize the situation inside and outside the family and help the family recover its strength.

For this reason, before he went to see Leo, he had already considered the trading chips he could take out.

"I can take you into the mountains." One night, Baine came to Leo and told Leo directly what he wanted.

Leo knew why Bain compromised so quickly, he was not surprised, but he didn't respond immediately, because what Langenus said that day made him realize that even if the lumberjack family led It may not be safe to enter the mountain, so he pretended to be hesitant, and then told Bain what happened to the expedition team led by the lumberjack family back then, and then asked Bain what was going on.

Bain was stunned after hearing this, then hesitated for a moment, and said a little aggrieved: "We can't blame us for this, it's the result of the federal government's disobedience, we've said it repeatedly, we can't let so many people enter the mountain, They didn't listen, and sent more than a thousand people, more than a dozen teams, we have no way to bring so many people, in the end we can only..." He paused for a while, and did not continue his words, but his meaning has been expressed Completely, and then changed the subject: "If you want to enter the mountain safely, you need to have the imprint of the holy deed. We, the lumberjack family, were born with this imprint, and outsiders need to give the imprint through a special method, like It’s because our family has already reached its limit when dealing with two or three people, and if there are more, it will be impossible to complete.”

"Two or three people? That's enough." After listening to Bain's explanation, Leo nodded and said, "Since we have reached an agreement, then how do you want me to cooperate with you to deal with Patch? Laurie?"

"No, I don't want to deal with Patch Crowley now." Bain shook his head hastily, and said, "I hope you can use your relationship with the federal government to help my family get some business help."

Of course Leo knew why Bain Ruff made such a change, but he deliberately made a look of displeasure, and didn't answer him immediately, but showed a thoughtful look.

For some reason, Bain felt an inexplicable pressure at this moment, and as time passed, the pressure became more and more intense. In the end, he couldn't bear the pressure in his heart, and said: "As long as my family can develop smoothly now, I am willing to Take the Bane family to join you, and help you deal with Patch Crowley."