The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"You guys made quite a fuss two days ago!" Longanus, who had just entered the door, threw his cane to the housekeeper arranged by the hotel, and said a little abruptly.

Sylvia frowned, and said displeasedly: "You're wrong! We didn't make a fuss about it."

Longanus smiled and did not refute Sylvia's words, and continued: "The little guy from Frontia's family was lucky, he was very brave in that battle, and he even killed a beast alone. Humanoid killer, taking this opportunity, the Frantia family has manipulated it again, and he should not be punished for failing the mission."

Leo and Sylvia were not surprised when they heard this. This is actually the effect they wanted to achieve. When modifying the memories of those people, they specially added a memory related to Sandro, making Sandro express Very heroic, in fact, Sandro's performance is no different from other special forces fighters of the Ministry of Education.

"You know that's not what we want to hear." Leo directly interrupted Langenus's next chatter, and asked: "We want to see what makes the Federation so confident that it can To deal with the coalition forces of the surrounding church states?"

Langenus said bluntly: "There is no rush for this matter. You must know that you are foreigners in the eyes of those guys. Unless you can show that you have a breakthrough effect on the research on that weapon, otherwise they will not be able to let you go. You were near that weapon."

"Can't you even come forward?" Leo asked.

Langenus shook his head and said: "Although I have some status here, I have not yet reached the point where I have the final say on everything. My influence is enough to make the agreement between the Federation and you fall to your side as much as possible." Not bad, the one-third of the information you got before is the limit of my ability."

Leo also gave another suggestion: "Or, you can just tell us where the thing is, and we will find it ourselves."

Langenus quickly replied: "I can tell you the location of that thing right now. It's just under the Capitol, but I don't suggest you find it yourself."

Leo was a little surprised to get the answer he wanted so easily, and then asked, "Why don't you suggest that we do it ourselves?"

Langenus replied: "You must know that this location has always been public. Even if I don't tell you, you can easily find it. Other church countries also know this location, but for so many years, that thing has been there The underground of the Congress has never been touched by outsiders. All outsiders who tried to get close fell into the hands of the Ministry of Education and Education, which was in charge of guarding. It is said that one of the arrested people was the priest of the church. I held a god drop ceremony, but even so, I still couldn’t get close to it, so there must be some kind of powerful force in it, which can prevent people from approaching through ways outside the rules.”

"There is such a thing?" Leo was stunned at the moment, and fell into deep thought.

Sylvia also asked at this time: "Then what should we do to gain their trust?"

Obviously, knowing that no shortcuts would work, Sylvia could only find a way through the right path.

Longanus said in a deep voice: "It's very easy to gain their trust, and you should also think of this."

"Help them win this war?" Leo smiled disdainfully, and said, "It's impossible for us to go to the front to help them fight!"

"That's not necessary." Langenus obviously came to be a lobbyist, and said, "The weapon you invented before has been able to generate enough trust, and now it's only a little bit short." In the briefcase, he took out a stack of documents and said, "This is the last bit of trust."

Leo took the document and flipped through it quickly, then handed it to Sylvia who was also curious, and after Sylvia read a part, he asked Longanus: "Sir, you are also a master of language. , it stands to reason that the above content should not be too difficult for you, why do you want me to help you decipher these languages?"

I saw that those documents were rubbing symbols. From the rules of the symbols, it is not difficult to see that these symbols should be a special kind of cuneiform script. Although this kind of writing is very different from the writing in the Vinylon world, as a linguistic master , Interpretation of these words should not be difficult for Langenus.

"I tried to crack it, but the result was terrible." Langenus said bluntly, and then took off the glove on his right hand, revealing a right hand that was completely distorted with flesh and bones.

When Langenus entered the door just now, Leo and Sylvia noticed that the gloves on each other's hands were weird, but they didn't ask any more questions. Now they looked surprised. Although they guessed that Langanus There may be something wrong with Si's hand, but he never thought that his hand would turn into such a hideous and terrifying appearance.

From the palm of the right hand to the middle of the forearm, all the skin disappeared, the muscles and fat inside rolled and twisted, and the bones were completely misplaced and mixed with the muscles. The blood vessels and tendons were brought to the surface, and the blood was clearly visible. The way the blood vessels flow, the entire epidermis is a very thin layer of skin, which feels like it will crack when touched lightly.

Longanus took out a bottle of potion from his pocket, and carefully applied it to that ferocious hand, as if the potion could relieve his pain. Anyway, after applying the potion, the expression on his face was obviously relaxed. .

"These cuneiform characters contain extremely strong curses, or powers. Interpreting these characters will trigger these powers, which is somewhat similar to the Gamore language." Longanus carefully put away the bottle of medicine, Explained: "Some time ago, the federal government convened seven of the most outstanding linguistic masters in the federation, including me, to interpret these texts. After interpreting about one-tenth of the content, the curse was activated. Others The six masters of linguistics were distorted by the cursed power on the spot into a flesh and blood human sacrificial pillar, and I was lucky to have a very useful gadget on hand, so that the cursed power could only be applied to the right hand, otherwise, I would have died now You can't see me anymore."

"Can I have a look?" Leo said, pointing to Longanus' arm.

Longanus nodded, and passed his hand in anticipation. It seemed that he also hoped that Leo could find a way to cure this hand.

Leo didn't touch the arm with his hands, but used the mental net to scan the condition of the arm. During the scan, he could clearly feel that there was still a force remaining in the flesh and bones of Langenus' arm, which The life form of this force is very high. Although it has not reached the level of an Omega-level high-level life form, it is much higher than Leo. It is only one step away from evolving to an Omega-level advanced life form.

In order to avoid touching these remaining powers and causing secondary damage to Langenus, Leo was very careful during the scanning process, and immediately contracted the mental net once any abnormalities occurred, but even with such care, some powers were still unavoidable, causing the Langenus felt pain, but Langanus had experienced too much pain in the past, this pain would not affect him too much, it just made his breathing a little heavier.

"It may be difficult to completely clear it in a short period of time," Leo said after scanning it carefully.

Langenus heard another meaning from Leo's words, and said, "That means there is a possibility of elimination."

"Indeed, I can use some of my power to slowly wear down the remaining power in your arm, but..." Leo nodded, then changed the subject, and said, "But I don't recommend you do that."

"Why?" Longanus asked puzzled.

Leo explained: "Now your hand can still move like a normal hand, this is because there is this kind of power to maintain the activity and basic functions of the hand, but once you lose this power, then your hand will really move. It has become a pile of useless flesh and bones." He paused for a moment and said, "If my guess is correct, those masters of linguistics who were twisted into sacrificial pillars should still be alive, right? "

Langenus nodded with a gloomy face, sighed heavily, and said, "Although they are still alive, they might as well be dead. The Federation believes that they still have a chance to recover, so they use some ancient sacrificial methods every day, Sacrificial rituals are performed on these human sacrifice pillars. Every sacrifice can strengthen their physical strength and keep them alive, but in fact this just keeps aggravating their pain. It drove more than a dozen soldiers in charge of guarding crazy."

Sylvia said with some displeasure at the moment: "Since this kind of writing is so dangerous and evil, how can Your Excellency Longanus think that we can decipher it?"

"If none of you can do it, then I don't know who can do it." Longanus looked at Sylvia calmly and said, "And you will encounter this kind of text sooner or later. Get in touch now, It’s much better than contacting later.”

Leo seemed to think of something when he heard the words, and confirmed: "You mean that these cuneiform characters come from Truber Mountain?"

"No, these words come from the secret weapon you want to get in touch with." Langenus explained: "However, according to my speculation, the source of that secret weapon may also have something to do with Truber Mountain."

Leo took those documents over and looked at them again, and said, "These documents only have original rubbings. What about the part you have researched?"

Langenus shook his head and said: "I can't give you those materials. This kind of writing is extremely peculiar. Even if the same writing is used, the content of the final research is all different, and even if it is different, the effect still exists. If I give If you read my research materials, then you will be more or less influenced by my thinking, and that would not be very good."

Seeing what Longanus said, Leo didn't make any more requests, and said that he would start research in the next two days, and he would be notified when there were results.

Seeing that his goal must be achieved, Longanus didn't stay any longer, so he got up and left.

"How credible are his words?" After Longanus left, Sylvia asked slightly suspiciously.

Leo thought about it seriously, and said, "Half, half!"

"Which half?" Sylvia asked.

Leo carefully explained: "It should be true that there is curse power in this cuneiform text, and his injury is also true, but it may be debatable that this thing came from Trube Mountain. You and I know Trube well. There is most likely something in the mountain, and obviously this cuneiform writing has nothing to do with the abyss."

Sylvia also nodded in agreement, but at the same time asked suspiciously: "This kind of lie can be easily exposed by others, it is impossible for him not to know this, why would he say such an easily exposed lie? What about lies?"

Leo pondered for a moment, then said, "Unless what he said was not meant for us."

"Didn't you tell us?" Sylvia was stunned for a moment, and soon realized something, and asked, "Is there a bugging device here?"

"Of course not, you and I have both checked, there is no possibility of an eavesdropping device." Leo shook his head and said, "But after Langenus came, there will be a eavesdropping device."

"Did he bring it with him?" Sylvia looked puzzled, but she was still a little puzzled, and asked, "Why did he do this?"

"Didn't he just say that when he encountered a curse, there was something on his body that helped him resist the curse?" Leo said in a deep voice, "When I checked his hand just now, in addition to feeling the residual curse power , and also felt the power of a divine spell. Obviously, the item on his body should come from a church of true God, and that item may still be on his body. The words he said should be directed at that item. .”

Sylvia questioned: "Is he going to shift the attention of the Church of True God to Mount Truber?"

"I don't know." Leo shook his head, put the documents in his hand on the table, poured himself a glass of wine, and said, "No matter what his purpose is, we don't need to care, we just need to pass the interpretation These cuneiform characters give you access to the secret weapon hidden by the Federation."

"Are you really going to interpret it?" Sylvia said solemnly, "I feel that what these words represent is not simple and may be dangerous, or we should go to Congress first, if we can take a shortcut , It’s better to take a shortcut directly.”

Leo did not agree with this proposal, and said: "There is no need, since Langenus dared to say that, then the situation below the Congress must be very dangerous. I have also checked the situation in the whole city with the spirit net before, and there is indeed something under the Congress. I found an extremely powerful force, that force easily swallowed my spiritual net, and even tried to impact my spirit along the spiritual net, the counterattack force that was only passively triggered is already so strong, directly contacting it, Confronting it head-on, even if we won’t suffer any harm, the commotion will definitely be quite big. So let’s follow Langenus’s method and start by deciphering the text!”