The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

After Staff left, Leo and Sylvia glanced at each other, then laughed.

They didn't expect things to go so smoothly, and everything was proceeding according to the script they expected, but after thinking about it carefully, they felt that this matter was logical. After all, they had prepared in advance and designed several sets of corresponding plans. Taft and Clem didn't even think about being counted before they came.

After laughing, Sylvia asked a little puzzled: "What exactly is that thing you mentioned? Why did that Climb behave so badly?"

Hearing this, Leo explained a little bit what the device was used for.

After hearing this, Sylvia was stunned, and asked, "What do you mean, this thing is the same as what Sara uses, which means that I can also use that device to learn the knowledge in it?"

"There is still a gap between the two. The device used by Sara, the king-picker, is more advanced, more advanced, and the knowledge is also more advanced." Leo explained: "The learning materials that come with this device are all basic knowledge, and from that Judging from Clem's performance, the basic learning modules on hand should be incomplete, otherwise, he wouldn't behave like that after hearing the number of complete modules I mentioned." Then, he looked at Hill Via said, "Why do you want that learning device?"

Sylvia shook her head, and said with a look of disgust: "If it is a high-end product like Sarah, I will be interested, but this kind of basic product is fine. What are you going to do next?"

Leo sat lazily on the sofa and said, "The next step is to wait for Clem to deliver the learning device to the door. We don't need to do anything at all."

Sylvia was puzzled again: "The way Clem used it was really wrong?"

"It must be wrong!" Leo said very firmly: "Even if I see that ancient device, I may not be able to use it, let alone him."

"Are you interested in that device?" Sylvia asked doubtfully, "You probably don't need that either, do you?"

"I really don't need that set of things," Leo nodded, and said, "Actually, it doesn't matter to me whether or not that Clem sent the things over. What I want to know has already been found out just now." .”

Afterwards, Leo briefly narrated the information he found out. For example, Clem's learning device was found by himself, and it was not distributed by a secret organization. Judging from Stave's performance, it is obvious that the The secret organization did not understand this set of devices, nor did they grasp the basic knowledge of it. The internal structure of this secret organization was obviously not as strict as they expected, and so on.

After Leo finished his narration, he asked, "Is there any news from you? Judging from Stave's performance just now, those places should be related to the secret organization behind him, and it looks like something is going on. kind of experiment."

"My people can't get close to that side. Several temptations have attracted the attention of people there, and I have people withdrawn." Sylvia shook her head and said, "What about you? Your spiritual network still can't Did you find out what's going on there?"

Leo also shook his head and said, "No, the interference there is very serious, and my mental network will be disturbed if I get close to it. The effect of this interference is very similar to the interference device in Velen World, but the effect is much greater. "

"Could it be..." Sylvia heard a hint of association.

Leo didn't need Sylvia to finish his words to understand the meaning, nodded and said: "It's possible, this secret organization must have some kind of connection with the world of Velen."

"Why don't we do it ourselves?" Sylvia said excitedly, "Just go in and see what's going on inside. Anyway, the guards there can't possibly hinder us."

Leo did not adopt Sylvia's proposal, and said with a smile: "There is no need, we have more suitable candidates."

Sylvia also immediately thought of who Leo was talking about, and nodded in agreement.

Afterwards, Leo directly sent an order to Joan and Penny, who were disguised as detectives, through the spiritual network.

Joan and Penny's detective agency is located on the second floor of an ordinary apartment building in the commercial area of ​​the port, five blocks away from Leo's apartment.

This apartment building is a very ordinary three-story building. The first floor was transformed by the homeowner into a facade along the street and rented out to a pastry chef. The two rooms on the second floor were rented out to two people to set up offices. One is Joan's detective agency, and the other is a firm specializing in customs declaration and taxation for the Ocean Chamber of Commerce.

Detective is a new thing that has been passed down from the New World. Because Cape West Port is the cargo hub of the two continents, it has been exposed to the profession of detective for a long time.

However, in Cape West Port, detectives did not have a very good reputation at first, because the earliest detectives were mainly responsible for assisting the police station and army controlled by the powerful in the port to hunt down members of those anti-rich organizations. Although their reputation is slightly better now, But it's not much better, and many people still use hounds to refer to people who are engaged in the profession of detectives.

The reason why Leo let Joan and Penny choose this profession as their hidden identity is mainly because the threshold for becoming a detective profession is very low, as long as you hang a sign, it will be fine. As for whether the detective agency can be maintained, it depends on Personal ability, and Joan and Penny's abilities are very suitable for this line of work, which can be seen from the fact that their detective agency is already well-known in this neighborhood.

The other is that with the status of detectives, they can use the excuse of investigating things to appear in various places in the city, so that they can carry out some actions, such as the order that Leo suddenly passed to them now.

When Joan and Petunia received the order, they were sorting out the investigation result documents of several commissioned matters in the office.

Although the detectives were just their disguised identities, they did a great job. The cooperation between the two went from being unfamiliar at first to becoming proficient, and they became two well-known detectives in a short period of time. Among them, Petunia made the most progress. , or Penny, who used to be a hunter, is very suitable to become a detective.

During this period, Penny not only applied the psionic skills Leo taught him to the detective commission, but also created some psionic skills of her own very innovatively. That is, in the process, she silently Stepping into the level of a second-level psyker without interest, this incident also surprised Leo.

As for Joan, although he is not as good as Penny, with Leo's assistance, he gradually began to master the power of the implants in his body instead of being passively affected by the implants. Actively activate the power of the eye of truth in the implant.

It's just that most of the time he won't activate this power, because once he activates this power, he will see the real side of this world, see the magnificent temple surrounded by indescribable monsters, On the other hand, he is surrounded by countless monsters, and his mind will be pulled into the state of the Paladin of the False Heart in an instant, so unless he uses the power of the Paladin of the False Heart, he will never activate this power.

Successfully becoming a Paladin of False Heart may be the greatest benefit of his ability to control the power of the implant, because his state just meets the special standards of a Paladin of False Heart to recognize reality, control reality, and escape from reality, so there is no obstacle He was promoted to a paladin, but he didn't get any magical skills from the false heart, so he can only be regarded as a poor paladin.

However, this does not mean that his strength is much worse than that of the real Paladin of False Heart, because he did not obtain the magical skills that a Paladin should have from False Heart, but he obtained Leo from Leo for him. With Joan's current strength, there should be no danger as long as he is not surrounded by high-ranking clergy from various churches here. This is why Leo thinks Joan and Penny are up to the task. the main reason.

"Which one to choose?" After receiving the instruction from the Spirit Network, Joan asked Petunia who was across the desk without even thinking about the difficulty of this task.

At this moment, Joan's appearance was transformed into a red-haired young man in his twenties by the witchcraft made by Leo, which is very different from his previous appearance. This transformation is not an illusion disguise, but directly through The power of witchcraft and strange things changes the position of his facial muscles, fat and movable bones, and shapes his appearance from the bottom up, so even if he encounters some extraordinary power that breaks the illusion, his appearance will not change, and he can only do it again. The appearance can only be changed back by using witchcraft wonders.

"The residence of the upper." Petunia, who was also changed and looked ten years older, quickly made a choice.

"It's a good choice." Joan nodded, then got up and opened the cabinet, took out the weapons stored inside, and equipped them with Penny.

Afterwards, instead of going through the main entrance, they jumped out of the rear window, avoided the main street patrolled by the police, walked into a small alley, and moved towards the shanty town where the upper was stationed.

Just like the slums in all cities, the shantytowns in Cape West Port are also full of gangsters and gangsters. Most of the people living in the shantytowns are refugees from other places who have escaped from the war, and some are nobles from a certain place. Runaway slaves, etc., they basically have no status here, and the things they do are the hardest and most tiring. It can be said that they are the bottom of Cape West Port.

In order to survive in this area, these low-level people had to stick together and take care of each other, so various gangs appeared in this gray area that was classified outside the urban area, and because of these The power of gangsters and the city government's laissez-faire attitude towards this area have made it an extra-legal place in Cape West Port. With the continuous addition of foreign refugees, the area of ​​​​this gray area is also increasing day by day. Almost one-third of the size of the port city, and the number of poor people living here is equal to the number of people living in the city.

According to the statistics of a major newspaper in Xiwangyangjiao Port, there are as many as hundreds of gangsters, large and small, in the shantytowns, and new gangsters are born every day, and old gangsters will die at the same time. Few gangsters can survive for a long time. Standing in this area, but this kind of thing is not absolute, the upper is one of the few gangs that can survive for a long time.

The shoe upper was originally made up of a group of barefoot men. Barefoot men are another name for noble serfs. Noble serfs were barefoot all their lives. The better ones would weave straw sandals with straw ropes. It is a luxury.

The shoe upper was not called this name when it was first created. After several fights with other gangsters, they were not in a hurry to search for loot. Instead, they took off the shoes of the corpses on the ground and put them on themselves, so they had a shoe upper. and gradually replaced the original name.

The current shoe upper has nothing to do with the original barefoot man. There are rumors that the upper management of the shoe upper has taken refuge in a certain powerful man in the city, and has received the secret support of the big man. This makes the shoe upper not only have a better Equipment, and even built a luxury residence in the shanty town.

The location of the shoe upper is located in the southwest corner of the shantytown, close to the sea, connected to the cliff, and the overall building looks like a fortress. It is reasonable to say that the officials of the Cape West Port will never allow this kind of fortress to appear in the shantytown, but From the site selection and construction to the final completion and settlement of the shoe upper's residence, no one was sent from the city to stop it, which further confirmed the rumor that the shoe upper took refuge in the powerful.

There is also a rumor about Upper, that is, the reason why Upper chose this cliff edge to build a port is because there is a secret passage leading directly to the bottom of the cliff, where there is a hidden smuggling pier, through which Upper is smuggled Pier got a lot of money to recruit in the shanty town and become one of the biggest shantytown gangs.

Recently, the people in the shantytowns have started to stay away from the upper station, because for some unknown reason, the upper person has become a little unreasonable. Anyone who comes close to their station, even if they just pass under the outer wall of the fortress, will be killed by them They were caught and beaten severely, and the beatings were considered light, and some people were even directly beaten to death.

However, even though people in the shantytowns were avoiding the shoe upper station, many people still found that late at night, some carriages with completely enclosed carriages would enter and exit the shoe upper station, feeling as if the shoe upper was doing something shady.

Although some people in the shantytowns reported this kind of incident to the urban area, they did not attract the attention of the officials in the urban area. In other words, the officials there were basically the umbrella for the upper, so there was no investigation on the upper, but a report The victim's body appeared in a stinking ditch in a shanty town.

At the same time, other gangsters in the shantytowns who tried to spy on the secrets of the shoe uppers were also warned by mysterious forces.

Therefore, until now, the upper station is still a taboo topic in the shantytowns.