The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"It seems that your method is very effective." Looking at the dozen or so invitation letters in front of her, Sylvia handed the wine glass in her hand to Leo, picked up an invitation letter casually, looked at it, Said: "An invitation letter from the Plant Species Research Society? They didn't send it to the wrong place, did they?"

Leo shook his head and said: "In their minds, I am now a foreign scholar who has enough money to provide a large amount of sponsorship at will. It is no loss for them to submit an invitation letter. If they get sponsorship here, they count as earning money.”

Sylvia quickly selected six invitation letters from a dozen invitation letters, handed them to Leo, and said, "Just invest in these six."

Leo took a look at the invitation letter, and questioned: "I can understand the investment purpose of other research associations. After all, the projects are related to occultism and the church, but this invitation letter from the Clothing Customs Research Association..."

"The president of this research association is the bishop of the Pleasure Church at Cape West Ocean." Sylvia explained.

Leo hesitated for a moment after hearing this, and said, "Is that the church founded by the abyss superior?"

"It's not clear yet, we'll have to get in touch to find out." Sylvia shook her head and said.

This world suspended in mid-air is too close to the abyss, and the world itself can be said to be riddled with holes, so that there is no resistance to high-level aliens here. If it weren't for the extremely special laws of the world, especially for those who came from the abyss With extremely strong reverse erosion force, maybe this place has already become a paradise for abyssal creatures.

However, even so, there are still some abyssal superiors who try to enter this world and corrupt this world. Some fail completely, such as the one trapped on the top of the mountain. Some seem to succeed, but in fact fail, such as the current The Pleasant that Leo and Sylvia mentioned.

The Church of the Pleasures is a church that only spreads in the Old Continent. Not only does it not have any missionary activities in the New World, even the books related to the Pleasures do not appear in the New World. Leo and Sylvia also accidentally met It was only during a sermon ceremony at the Church of the Joyful One that I realized that there was such a church, and the sensitive Sylvia also smelled a faint breath of the abyss from the clergy of the Joyful One.

Because of this, they collected some information related to the happy people.

Speaking of which, the Church of the Joyful is a very special church. In the beginning, the Church of the Joyful appeared in this world as an underground church. After being caught, they were either burned to death or hanged, no different from other heretics.

It wasn't until one day that all the churches unanimously removed the Joyful from their list of heresies, and allowed the Joyful Church to preach publicly, that the Joyful Church became one of the official churches in the world, and this day was also called The Joymaker believers call it the Day of Glory, corresponding to the Joyful Day that is legally established by the Joymaker Church.

As for why other churches suddenly gave up the heresy ban on the Church of Joyful, no one who studies religious history has an answer, and even other churches don’t know what’s going on. A special mystery in the history of religion.

And because of its original identity, the Church of the Happy Ones has become the only special church in the world that has transformed from a heretical church to a formal church.

Leo and Sylvia are also interested in the huge mystery of the Church of the Joyful, so they are also considering finding opportunities to contact the high-level members of the Church of the Joyful. Unexpectedly, the Church of the Joyful sent it to them before they officially took action. Come to the door.

So, Leo quickly wrote several replies, five of which were addressed to himself, and the Church of the Happy Ones handed it over to Sylvia.

After writing the reply letter, Leo handed the reply letter to the temporary housekeeper and asked him to send someone to these academies, then he turned around and asked, "How are Penny and Joan? "

"Very good. The few commissions I have received recently are all very difficult ones. They have been completed perfectly and have already established a reputation." Sylvia smiled with satisfaction and said, "The disguise you helped Joan make It's also perfect, he has met Priest Hans several times in the past few days, and Priest Hans didn't even recognize that the person he talked to was the person he most wanted to find."

When he first arrived at Cape West Port, the attitude of the coordinator of Hairesa's delivery mission towards Joan's coming to the Old Continent showed that this coordinator must have something to do with the witch doctor who implanted Joan's alien-like cells. Contact, and Joan's particularity and importance in this organization are higher than Leo expected.

After that, the secret search of the whole city led by the connector also confirmed his guess, and during the search, some priests who participated in the search were able to easily find Joan's location, which made Leo doubt Joan. There is a special energy wave in his body, and the other party can use this energy wave to find Joan's precise location.

Therefore, after avoiding a search, Leo made some disguises for Joan, and used the rune magic circle to cover up and change Joan's overall temperament, and even Joan's appearance was changed through some special methods As a result, those search personnel were never able to find Joan again, and even if Joan appeared in front of the connector, the man couldn't see that the person in front of him was the person he had been looking for for many days.

After deciding to temporarily live in Cape West Port for a period of time, Leo did not let Joan and Petunia do some special training every day, but let them open a kind of detective agency in the city, while familiarizing themselves with their own strengths. The practicality of entrusting tasks, while assisting Sylvia to collect information in the city, and their first intelligence collection task was to collect the identity information of the contact person.

This task is not very difficult, because the connector is considered a well-known celebrity in the city, Priest Hans Weinier, the senior priest of the Mother of the Night Church, is now the Assistant Dean of the Holy Prayer House in Cape West , is one of the dean's right-hand men, and his other position is the captain of the heresy hunting team at Cape West, and he has thirty-three original sin knights and heresy hunters from different churches under his command. The force with the most extraordinary power in the entire Cape West Port.

It is precisely because of the identity of this Hans priest that Leo suspects that the alien god cells on Joan and the others, which originated from the flesh and blood of the Eye of Reality, may come from church organizations in the Old World, and the purpose may be to want to Through the special power of the eye of truth, it is easier to find out those hidden heretics and transcendent beings.

Originally, Sylvia's idea was to directly arrest that priest Hans, and then ask all the secrets from the other party, but Leo also felt that this method was the most effective, although crude and direct, so he agreed. In this method, Leo discovered that priest Hans had more than one protective imprint of the Mother of the Night when he was executing it, and each imprint contained extraordinary power. If he did it rashly, he might be killed Alarmed the entire Mother of the Night church.

So Leo and the others had to give up that direct but effective method, and instead use other roundabout methods to contact this Priest Hans and other people who may be members of his organization.

Leo pretended to be a foreign scholar, and began to haunt various academic gatherings, earning fame, and investing in some academic research, and gradually integrated into the academic circle of Cape West, starting with Ranco Byronville.

The reason why Ranko Byronville was chosen was that they had determined that Ranko Byronville should also be a member of that secret organization, because Priest Hans had contact with Ranko Byronville in the case of Joan , just because the place of the conversation was in a forbidden room full of various divine powers in the Holy Prayer House, Leo's spiritual net could not penetrate in, so I don't know what the content of their conversation was, but since then Priest Hans stopped Judging from the large-scale search operation, it should be related to Joan.

As for Sylvia, she went back to her old job and started to establish her underground intelligence network in the city. This was something she was familiar with, and with the powerful power she now possessed, In less than a month, she has become the queen of underground intelligence in Cape West Port. Basically, all the intelligence organizations in Cape West Port have been controlled by her, but these organizations do not know that they are controlled by one person They are still attacking each other according to the past relationship, so the appearance of Sylvia, the queen of underground intelligence, did not cause too much fluctuation in the market.

It has been almost a month since the day they disembarked. During this month, Leo and Sylvia have perfectly integrated into the society of Cape West Port, although some of their behaviors are different from those of the locals. There are still some differences, but the identity of a foreign scholar can be used to cover up the past, unlike when he just got off the ship, the words and deeds from the New World are so obvious.

Through this month's exploration, Leo and the others also had a clearer understanding of the situation in the Old Continent.

For example, the church in the Old Continent had very strict control over superhuman powers. Basically, all public and superhuman powers were captured by the church and trained as original sin knights.

Even if there are some survivors, these survivors dare not reveal traces of their extraordinary power, and they are always pretending to be ordinary people.

Correspondingly, due to environmental reasons, some accidents related to extraordinary powers that occurred here far exceeded the New World. There were as many as a dozen accidents involving extraordinary power.

Among these accidents, the vast majority are just minor accidents, for example, the sudden abnormal energy in a certain place caused some supernatural accidents like haunted houses, etc.

There are also a few accidents that are considered major accidents. For example, a space rift leading to another world appeared out of thin air, and some creatures from another world entered this world.

Such accidents involving extraordinary power are all attributed to a secret organization jointly established by the church and the local government to deal with such accidents. However, the number of members of this organization is small and it cannot handle it at all, so it is almost With the emergence of non-governmental organizations, such as certain detectives or investigators.

This kind of detectives and investigators are ordinary people, even if there are some extraordinary ones, they just perceive beyond ordinary people, and they don't have any special powerful power. The reason why they can deal with such accidents involving extraordinary power is because of that The official secret organization regularly sells them items that involve supernatural powers but can be used by ordinary people, such as some kind of shotgun ammunition blessed by divine magic.

That's why Leo discovered this, that's why Joan and Penny pretended to be a pair of brothers and sisters who lost their family members due to extraordinary accidents, and came here to open a detective agency for extraordinary accidents.

The official secret organization was very tolerant towards non-governmental organizations like the detective agency. It only met Joan and Penny two days before the detective agency opened, verified their identities, and then secretly observed them. Let's look at the abilities of the two, mainly to determine whether they have extraordinary power, and Leo had predicted this in advance, so the power of the two was banned.

Finally, after some inspections, the official organization confirmed that both of them are ordinary people, but their perception of extraordinary power is slightly stronger than ordinary people, and they can always find clues to supernatural accidents at the first time, so the two detectives It was included in their support list, and they would regularly sell some tools and weapons to deal with supernormal accidents.

Moreover, because of the outstanding abilities of the two, they soon participated in a major supernatural accident related to the space rift, which was related to the abyss, and the people who were in charge of handling this matter this time were Priest Hans and him. The heresy hunting team led by Joan and his civil organizations are only around to help prevent others from breaking in.

During this process, Joan had close contact with Priest Hans, but Priest Hans did not see Joan's disguise at all, and only regarded Joan as an ordinary private detective.

It's just that Joan's disguise is not perfect. Leo can only cover up Joan's temperament and change his appearance, but he can't change what he already has inside, such as the falsehood that already exists in him. The imprint of the divine power of the heart and the church knight swordsmanship of the church of the false heart.

It is conceivable that as long as Joan dares to fight in front of other church knights, he will definitely be recognized as related to the Church of False Heart, and then his identity will be exposed, so Leo changed the weapons used by Joan and Penny from the knights to the knights. The sword and hunter's bow have been replaced with the trait short-barreled shotgun, reducing the risk of their exposure.

Now everything is proceeding step by step. All Leo needs to do is to throw out the bait and let the fish take the bait by themselves. Besides his identity as a foreign scholar, this bait also has a copy that will soon be published in a certain professional academic journal. A research report on knights in the Middle Kingdom during the Old Kingdom period published on the Internet, and in this report revealed some information involving body modification.