The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"This is the place where the last ray of energy fluctuations remained. They did something, and it was over soon, and they were cleaned up afterwards, very clean, and the technique was very skillful. It should be done by veterans." In the relatively secluded alley, Leo looked at the surrounding situation and gave the analysis result.

"I smell a little bit of the abyss." Sylvia frowned slightly and said.

"Abyss?" Leo said suspiciously, "Why didn't I feel it?"

Sylvia explained: "Because the smell of this abyss is very messy. I don't know how many times it has been switched. The smell is almost as light as it is. Even if I don't perceive it carefully, I'm afraid I can't tell it apart."

After hearing Sylvia's words, Leo couldn't help laughing: "It's really interesting that a power from the abyss attacked a quasi-palavalier and a psyker apprentice in a city where the church dominates!"

After speaking, he looked around again, walked out of the alley, and then turned his head to look at the weird avenue leading to Heicheng District on the left.

Although the dock area is located in the Baicheng District, it is very close to the Heicheng District. There is a special road leading directly to the Heicheng District. Call it Porters Avenue.

In order to prevent the porters from taking advantage of the opportunity to work at the wharf to other places in Baicheng District on a whim, when building this avenue, they built two rows of high walls with special shapes on both sides of the avenue. The body is inclined inward, the surface is very smooth, a high wall that ordinary people cannot climb at all, and those porters who walk under the high wall will feel inexplicably suppressed, and this feeling will make them grow old on the pier. Honestly don't make trouble.

Sylvia walked over, and after seeing Leo's actions, she seemed to confirm, and asked, "Do you think the people who attacked Joan and Penny came from the Heicheng District, and they were also taken to the Heicheng District?"

"Suffering is not only a hotbed of faith, but also a fertile ground for crime." Leo said meaningfully.

After finishing speaking, Leo lowered his head to look for clues. This time he did not use any supernatural power, but relied on his body's five senses beyond ordinary people. Soon, he confirmed the attack of Joan and Penny from the traces left on the ground. After leaving the alley, he was carried into a carriage, and the direction of the carriage was the Chamber of Commerce Street in the dock area, and the destination was Heicheng District.

"Go to the Chamber of Commerce Street first." After Leo told Sylvia his discovery, Sylvia immediately made a judgment and said.

Leo also nodded in agreement. Although it was easy to find Joan and Penny along the tiny traces of the carriage rolling over them, they wanted to know that the attack on Joan and Penny was just an accidental action, or whether there was a targeted attack on them. Sexual, if it is targeted, who is behind it, and whether it is related to the two of them.

With a series of questions, Leo and Sylvia followed the subtle clues on the ground and came to the source of the carriage, the Red Sail Chamber of Commerce.

Leo and Sylvia quickly learned about the situation of the chamber of commerce through their own methods, but the doubts in their hearts not only did not weaken, but intensified.

Because, this chamber of commerce is a typical black market chamber of commerce. They mainly sell some shady things, and they also occupy a place in the black market in the black city. It is not a big chamber of commerce. The chamber of commerce has no connection either.

But such a chamber of commerce sent people to attack the knights of the false heart church. The behavior of this chamber of commerce can only be described as crazy. You must know that the people of the false heart church are all lunatics, and they can usually do it. Self-restraint, once there is an excuse, let alone a black market chamber of commerce, even other churches dare to do it directly.

However, judging from the current investigation situation of the spirit network, the people in this chamber of commerce are obviously not crazy, but all normal people, which makes people a little puzzling.

Leo and Sylvia didn't stay outside the chamber of commerce for too long, and directly entered the chamber of commerce. They easily blocked the perception of the people around them through witchcraft, making them invisible in front of these people, and then they came to the chamber of commerce In the president's office on the second floor, standing in front of the fat president.

At this moment, the president hadn't noticed that there were two more strangers in the room. He was flipping through the ledger on the table, and kept cursing in a low voice, as if he was extremely dissatisfied with the amount of donations to the forces behind him recently. I think I'm spending too much money.

Sylvia was not in the mood to wait for this man to finish his complaints, and directly stretched out her hand to press the president's head, and when her hand touched the top of this man's head, a pendant worn by this man's neck suddenly released There was a burst of black light, but this light was quickly extinguished by Sylvia's powerful abyss dragon power just after it flashed, and the president also fainted.

"There is aura of abyssal power on it." Sylvia cast the abyss spell to search the memory of the president, and at the same time took off the pendant hanging from his neck and threw it to Leo.

Leo took it in his hand and looked at it, and said: "It's very rough, with a bit of primitive shamanism style, the material should be bones, not the bones of extraordinary creatures, but ordinary bones, but there are a lot of bones attached to the bones. These negative energies do not come from the abyss, obviously the bone provider must have been tortured in extreme pain during his lifetime, and it was only under strong emotions that such strong negative energies were produced.”

"By torturing creatures to generate pain and resentment, this method is really rough, and only those lowly people in the abyss will use it." Sylvia looked at the pendant with disdain, and then put her hand Take it away from the president's head, and the president has passed out, lying unconscious on the table.

"Any clues?" Leo asked.

"Community meeting, have you heard?" Sylvia said in a deep voice.

"The Commonwealth seems to be a street mutual aid club in the Black City." Leo's spiritual network once covered the entire St. Paulia Port, and his understanding of the various forces in the St. Paulia Port even surpassed that of the city's managers. .

Although the Commonwealth is an inconspicuous small organization in the eyes of the managers of St. Paulia Port, Leo is very clear that the coverage of this Commonwealth has spread all over the Black City, and they take the opportunity to help people in various blocks. The people in the black city area already have a certain influence, because their actions have not touched the bottom line of the church, and the members of this organization have not tried to gain higher power and status, so the city council is concerned about their existence. Also open one eye and close one eye.

Sylvia said: "Today there is only one carriage going to the Black City, and this carriage is specially used by the Commonwealth to transport property. This black market chamber of commerce was established with the support of the Commonwealth. The money was handed over to the Commonwealth Association, and today the carriage was used to deliver a sum of offering, but that sum of offering was added temporarily."

Leo frowned, and said, "The carriage that transported property stopped halfway to transport people, something is wrong."

Sylvia continued: "In his memory, there is nothing related to Joan and Penny, not even anything related to the abyss."

Leo asked, "Where did this pendant come from?"

Sylvia smiled and said: "You would never have guessed that it was given to him by a missionary of the Daru Church stationed in Heicheng District. That missionary has an unusual relationship with the Commonwealth, and it is regarded as the umbrella of the Commonwealth in terms of the church. "

"Daru Church?" Leo quickly found the information of Daru Church in the brain database.

The Daru Church is not a Church of the True God in the conventional sense, because it is a church born in the New World, and its believers are not very wide, so in the Old World, the Daru Church was not recognized as the Church of the True God. And the New World just thinks that the Daru Church is not an evil heresy.

The Daru church was born on the coastline of the New World. Daru is a mysterious existence that roams the coastline of the New World and its surrounding seas. He often appears in sea storms to help people and ships in distress out of danger, so soon there will be A group of believers.

Afterwards, people who received the blessings of Daru appeared among the believers, and these people became the earliest missionaries of the Daru Church. Under the propaganda of these missionaries, the Daru Church gradually took shape, and finally became a complete system church.

Because Daru rescued shipwrecks every time he appeared, he was also considered a kind god, and he did not encounter too many obstacles in the process of preaching.

In addition, what is more important is that compared with the land god system with many gods and a complete system, the sea god system is still very chaotic, and there are no other sea gods competing with it for believers or other resources. Acceptance was also very smooth.

With the increase of ocean trade, the faith of Daru has gradually spread. Almost all ships traveling between the two continents will have a shrine to Daru, and they will pray to Daru when they encounter shipwreck. The rapid growth can be said to be the fastest growing among the churches that emerged in the New World.

Among the various churches in St. Paulia Port, the Daru Church was the last to enter, so it did not have much power in the city, and because Daru's divine power was at sea, his church shrine did not It was established in the Baicheng District, but on a reef protruding to the ocean at the junction of the Docklands and the Black City. That is to say, he is the only church among the churches in the city that built its own temple.

Leo didn't expect that a little investigation would actually involve the Church of the True God. He couldn't help but wonder if continuing to investigate would involve the entire church in St. Paulia Port.

After that, the two looked through the various ledgers in the room. In addition to discovering that the Commonwealth used this chamber of commerce to carry out various smuggling activities, they also found that the Commonwealth seemed to be conducting some child trafficking activities, and the trafficked children were not Not from the countries of the New World, but from the Old World.

Although, on the surface, the New World countries do not allow any slave trade, but the human trade is not prohibited, because the New World has been developed for so many years, but there are not many suitable places to live, and the environment in many countries is not very good. People are willing to live There are naturally not many people there, so in order to maintain the country's reproduction, some countries often secretly conduct a large number of population transactions to fill the gap in their own nationals.

In human trafficking, adults are not the most popular, because adults already have their own ideas, don't traffic them in, even if they are given normal resident status, they will not live in peace, and will try to leave, even There will also be deliberate disruption, rebellion, etc., so unless there is an urgent need to supplement the adult workforce, there will not be a large number of adults trading.

In the population trade in the New World, children are the main business of the trade, because children can be cultivated and reshaped, and their abilities are not enough to allow them to return to the Old World. When they are capable, they have already regarded this place as Own home, will not leave.

Although the countries in the New World do not oppose human trafficking due to their own reasons, it is not a good reputation after all, so they will not carry it out with great fanfare. Most of them are only entrusted to different ocean-going chambers of commerce. Big chambers of commerce will secretly engage in this kind of business.

However, such businesses are definitely not handed over to the current black market chambers of commerce and bottom-level organizations in countries with a lack of population, because these bottom-level chambers of commerce and forces are unreliable in their eyes.

Therefore, the human trafficking of the Commonwealth is definitely not due to those countries where the population is scarce, and the church does not need to use this method to cultivate believers. In this way, there is only one answer that can be thought of, and that is the heresy of the cult that has been completely suppressed by various churches. , only these shady forces need to maintain their number of believers through this method of human trafficking.

"What do you think about throwing these ledgers into the hall of the city council?" Sylvia easily analyzed the secrets hidden in these ledgers, and selected a few of them that were quite important, and then turned to Lei Ou said.

"I have no objection." Leo nodded, and added: "But we have to wait until someone finds it."

After speaking, the two searched the room again, and after confirming that they found nothing useful, they left the office and walked out of the chamber of commerce in full view.

Afterwards, Leo continued to follow the traces of the carriage towards the direction of the Heicheng District, and soon walked across the Porter's Avenue and came to a very large central square.

This square presents a triangular shape, and there is a statue at the top of each corner. The statue should be erected later, and it should be a well-known figure in the Port of San Polia.

The square is like a steel knife splitting the porter's avenue that is rushing straight in two. One half extends to the Heicheng District, and the other side leads to the temple of the Daru Church on the cliff in the distance.

Because of the Daru Church, this square is also called the Salvation Square. Every day, many believers of the Daru Church who have participated in the morning ceremony will gather in this square for daily exchanges. The crowd division of the square is not ugly. Find out the origins of these believers, because neither the believers in the black city nor the believers in the white city can talk to each other, and they gather with each other, with a gap in between, like a gap of identity.