The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

For ordinary people in the city of Nice, the attack on the Rock Church may be a big event, but it is only for the believers of the Rock Church, and in the eyes of believers of other churches, it is just a chat after dinner.

On the contrary, the massacre of the Moxi Theater Troupe affected the hearts of these ordinary people even more. After the news spread, many people began to gather outside the Nice City Police Station, asking the police to investigate the matter strictly, and there were also a large number of Nice City dignitaries who also He sent his envoy to the police station to meet the chief and express his concern about the case.

The Moxi Troupe is a local theater troupe in the city of Nice. It was established one hundred and seventy-three years ago. The identity of the founder is extremely limited. He is one of the twelve heroes of the Acropolis War of Nice City, Domingo Farms.

As the hub center of the New World, the city of Nice has accumulated a large amount of wealth. Although no one has conducted statistics, there is a generally accepted rumor that the wealth of the city of Nice is equivalent to the sum of the wealth of the top ten powerful countries in the New World.

It is precisely because the city of Nice has such a huge amount of wealth that the surrounding countries covet the city of Nice. In the end, they couldn't stand the temptation of wealth. Several countries around the city of Nice decided to unite to attack the city of Nice, so the three-year war Thus broke out the Battle of the Acropolis of Nice.

Because the city of Nice had anticipated it in advance, it hoarded a large amount of food and military supplies. Therefore, during the three-year war, the logistics supply of the city of Nice did not have any problems. The only problem was the shortage of manpower and soldiers. It was difficult to make up for it. At the end of the war, not only women went to the battlefield in the city of Nice, but even the elderly and children also went to the battlefield. Civilians and nobles protected each other, criminals and police detectives protected each other. This kind of thing can be seen everywhere.

During the three-year war, countless heroes emerged in the city of Nice. Among them, there are twelve most famous heroes. These people were honored as twelve heroes after the war. Each hero has a huge statue, Standing on both sides of the six city gates of the city of Nice, they are admired by the world.

At the beginning of the outbreak of the Patriotic Battlefield, Domingo Farms and the Moxi Theater Troupe established by him were already the most famous theater troupe in the New World. Even gods can't help but listen to songs.

During the war, Domingo didn't care about his status as a master of chant. He always took the lead and fought against the enemy on the front line. He defeated the enemy's offensive countless times. With his extraordinary attacks, his position rose all the way. Became one of the moat governors.

Later, when the battle was at its most intense, a city wall had a serious loophole due to the negligence of the defenders at that time. Once the enemy discovered this loophole, the city defense would inevitably be breached, and the defense line of the entire city of Nice would also collapse.

For this reason, Domingo used his special status at that time to lead a group of dead soldiers to raid the enemy's central army position, thereby attracting the enemy's attention and buying enough time for the defenders of Nice to repair the loopholes in the city wall, but he therefore Falling into enemy lines, all his men died and he was captured personally.

When the enemy general knew that he was Domingo Farms, the master of chant, he did not kill him immediately. Instead, he cut off his limbs, made a frame to fix them, and then put the All the officers and generals were found, and Domingo, who had severed his limbs, was placed in front of the army, under the walls of the city of Nice, and forced Domingo to sing a chant, hoping to blow the morale of the defenders of the city of Nice.

However, at that time, Domingo Farmus did not sing his best hymn according to the idea of ​​the enemy general, but held back the pain in his body, and sang his song with a perfect singing voice like the sound of nature. The song written on the battlefield, this song not only did not lower the morale of the soldiers defending the city, but instead made them high-spirited. He cast an unknown mysterious magic, which attracted the disciplinary power of several gods, and directly wiped out himself and all the enemies around him.

Because almost all the senior generals of the local coalition army died together with Domingo from the punishment of the gods. When the generals in the city of Nice discovered this, they immediately led the best soldiers to launch a counterattack. The army was annihilated, with no one to command, like loose sand, beaten to pieces, and suffered heavy casualties.

Although this time the coalition forces that besieged the city were not completely resolved, it also seriously injured the coalition forces. This incident can also be said to be a turning point in the Battle of the Acropolis of Nice City. The subsequent war became a war of attrition. Nor was there a single threatening siege.

After the war, Domingo Farms was enshrined as one of the twelve heroes of the Acropolis, and the song he sang before his death, which has no name, was also named Nisyon. Not falling, became the city song of the city of Nice, and when shaping the statue for Domingo, the master craftsman in charge of this matter did not shape Domingo's complete body, but shaped his limbs before his death. In order to let the people of Nice always remember Domingo's suffering for the city of Nice.

Also because of Domingo Farms, the Moxi Theater Company he established also received special attention in the city of Nice. Not only did he have privileges that other theater companies did not have, but in the Theater Association formed later, the Moxi Theater Company also had a lot of privileges. Little power, and almost all the scripts written by the playwrights of the city of Nice are premiered by the Moxie troupe, and then handed over to other troupes for performance, which makes the Moxie troupe have a considerable reputation in the city of Nice, and even the entire New World prestige.

Today, such a famous and special troupe has been massacred, from the troupe director, manager, down to the new actors who just joined the troupe, as long as they are in the troupe, everyone is killed without exception. Only a few actors and actresses who were not in the troupe because they were dating some powerful people in the city were spared, and after the incident, they were immediately protected by the police station.

"Everyone, please rest assured. Please trust our detectives. They will immediately find out the real culprit who brutally massacred the Moxi Troupe and give an explanation to all the people in Nice." The chief of the police station stood on a temporary podium outside the police station gate. On the Internet, after answering a few questions from the reporter, he formally told the surrounding people that he would take this case seriously and promised to find out the real culprit as soon as possible.

After finishing this speech, the chief of the police station returned to his office, but at this time he was not as stable as he was outside, but looked desperate, and couldn't help cursing again and again, using vicious words It seemed that he was cursing some mortal enemy, but it was strange that the object of his cursing was not the murderer who massacred the Moxi Troupe, but the Moxi Troupe, the victim of this incident.

At this time, there was a knock on the door, and the police chief immediately held back the anger in his heart, took a few deep breaths, calmed down his excitement, and said, "Come in."

As his voice fell, a police officer wearing the uniform of a senior detective walked in, closed the door, bowed to the police chief, and said: "The things you ordered have been done, and the scene has been completely sealed off. Everyone who has been in contact with them has been given a gag order, and a separate area is divided, and they are not allowed to leave, and the survivors of the Moxi Troupe have also been detained and are undergoing special interrogation, and the result will probably be tonight."

"Very good!" The police chief breathed a sigh of relief, nodded approvingly, then thought about it seriously, and said, "Go to the mission area immediately, contact the heresy punishment department over there, and ask them to send someone to assist in the investigation. The matter is obviously related to heresy and evil gods, and they have been hiding it for so many years, they also bear an unshirkable responsibility and are obliged to assist us in solving this matter."

"Yes." After hearing this, the police officer asked the chief of police to sign a warrant, and then left the office with the warrant.

Not long after the police officer left, someone knocked on the door of the room again, and after the chief of police responded, a man in butler clothing walked in.

"Butler Langley, why are you here?" Seeing the butler, the chief of the police station quickly stood up and asked.

The butler saluted the police chief and said, "Master asked me to invite you to the mansion."

The chief of police frowned and asked, "It's about the Moxie Theater."

The butler nodded and said, "The others are also in the mansion now, and they need to ask you, Director, some questions."

The police chief hesitated for a moment, then nodded at the butler, turned around and picked up his coat, left with the butler, and boarded the carriage waiting outside the side door of the police station.

The carriage passed through half of the city of Nice, and entered the urban area on the side of the city with a large number of luxurious mansions. This urban area used to be called the golden area, because the World Bank of Nice was once located here, and the bank's large treasury also it's here.

However, the World Bank in Nice later went bankrupt, and its business was divided into seven small banks. The bank headquarters and treasury were naturally transferred to other places. This place was bought by real estate developers to build luxury houses, because the name "Golden District" is too vulgar. Yes, so after the construction of this urban area was completed, some people wanted to change the name of the urban area, but there was no suitable name all the time, and things fell off. In the end, there is still no official name.

However, because the people living here are the wealthiest and most powerful people in Nice, the folks also call this urban area a powerful area.

After the carriage entered the noble district, it passed through several relatively quiet avenues and arrived in front of a rather luxurious manor.

In the city of Nice, every inch of land is expensive, and there are only a handful of mansions in the entire city of Nice that have a manor like this. From the golden shield badge at the gate of the manor, it can be seen that this mansion belongs to the descendants of one of the twelve heroes of the Acropolis War.

The carriage stopped outside the door, and the attendants at the door stepped forward to open the door. The butler and the police chief got out of the carriage, and walked straight into the mansion without saying anything.

Under the leadership of the butler, the two of them soon came to the small conference room on the side of the main room of the mansion. After the butler opened the door, the chief of police entered the room, and the butler closed the door behind him.

I saw six people sitting in this room, two of them were very young and only in their twenties, and the other four were elderly people. Among the two young people, one of them looked very similar to the portrait on the wall of the room , should be the owner of this mansion, and it is worth noting that these six people are all wearing a blood-red etiquette ribbon, which means that the six people are all descendants of the twelve heroes of the Acropolis.

Although only four of the Twelve Heroes of the Acropolis survived back then, six of them left descendants, and the others either had no descendants or were born as church knights.

Although the descendants of these six heroes of the Acropolis did not hold important positions in the city council and government of Nice City, and most of them had only false titles, the Chamber of Commerce under each of their names accounted for 70% of the Acropolis' business share. This allows them to still have great influence in the city of Nice, and can even decide who can become the speaker of the parliament.

After seeing the six people, the police chief immediately saluted the six people respectfully, and then stood straight in front of them, waiting for their questioning.

An old man among the six people was the first to ask in a deep voice: "I just heard about the Moxi Troupe. Before I could feel sad about it, my subordinates sent another piece of news about the Moxi Troupe. That news made me very angry, and I wanted to make sure, is it true? Is what's in the basement real?"

"Yes." The police chief knew very well that at this time, absolutely do not lie or say unnecessary words, just answer honestly, so he said the report he saw: "There is no accurate figure yet, but just from the Judging from the bones found on the surface, there are nearly two hundred of them, and a passage was found in the basement, which should lead to a larger secret room. There are more bones in there, and all the bones are children, none of them Adults. We suspect..." As he spoke, he hesitated for a moment, and then continued: "We suspect that these bones are those cases of missing children that have not been solved over the years."

Hearing this, the faces of the six people present showed angry expressions, and some of them were even more angry with trembling hands. The reason why they were so angry was not only because of the missing and killed children, but more importantly What's more, there are also children in their family who are on the missing list, and there are many brothers and sisters who are very close to several people. This is also their heart knot for many years.

Because the city of Nice is a city with a very large population flow, there are mixed fish and dragons in the city, and the disappearance of children happens almost every day. It is generally considered to be kidnapped, and investigations often have no results, such as Heroes of the Acropolis The disappearance of the members of the family, even with various methods of investigation, still has no results. Most of them think that it is the enemy of the hero of the Acropolis, such as the few allied countries back then.

However, now that they discovered that the source of the disappearance of those children was actually in the city, and it was also related to the twelve heroes of the Acropolis, how could this not make them feel angry.

The owner of the mansion calmed down quickly, gritted his teeth and said: "We will grant you the greatest investigation power, and our people will cooperate with your investigation. We only have one request, to thoroughly investigate this matter, no one can Let go."