The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Excuse me, what's going on here?" Hearing the noise from downstairs, followed by the butler's call, Leo put down the pen in his hand, stood up, walked downstairs, and saw the The temporary housekeeper he hired and the patrolmen who were pushed away by some servants asked Xu.

"Sir, good afternoon!" The captain among the few policemen saw that Leo's temperament and clothes were a bit unusual, so he restrained his aggressive attitude a little bit, lifted his police cap slightly, and greeted Leo.

Leo nodded in response and asked, "Mr. Police, is there anything I can do for you?"

The captain said in a deep voice: "A group of vicious pirates have sneaked into the city, and the city hall has requested a thorough inspection of the entire port area, even the city council building, so we hope that you can cooperate with our inspection one time."

Leo nodded, and said: "Since it is the decree of the city hall, we are willing to cooperate. Butler Robert, you will take these policemen to check the house. As long as the request is not excessive, we will try our best to cooperate, understand?"

"Yes sir." The butler bent down and replied.

After Leo finished his orders, he didn't pay any attention to the matter. He turned around and went back to the study, and continued to finish the next manuscript that was going to be handed over to Stave for publication. This time, what he wrote was more radical than the previous ones. , has added a bit of witchcraft transformation book content, about the experiment of transplanting the organs of some special animals into the human body, allowing the human body to obtain some innate abilities of those animals, and recorded several failed experiments.

These failed experimental examples are not imagined out of thin air, but real cases when Leo conducted related experiments back then, but he slightly modified it to remove all the content related to witchcraft and extraordinary power, and just emphasized When it comes to the special creatures used for experiments are creatures with strange abilities.

He believes that with this manuscript, it will definitely attract more attention from Stave, and when he completes a similar experiment based on this manuscript, the door of that secret organization will be completely opened for him.

Just when Leo wrote the final summary at the end of the manuscript and began to check whether there were any errors or omissions in the contents of the manuscript, a rush of footsteps came from the upstairs laboratory room, followed by Leo's lower study room, and then Then I heard the sound of the housekeeper blocking the police from entering.

It seems that the few policemen should have inspected the laboratory upstairs, saw the experimental items that looked like murder weapons and the remaining blood stains after dissecting, etc., and had some bad associations.

"Robert, let them in." Leo ordered without waiting for the police outside to push the butler away and barge in by himself.

Afterwards, I saw those policemen pushing the door and walking in. When they walked in, they each held their weapons in their hands. The two of them should be trainee patrol officers or something, but what they took out were innocuous batons. , while the others took out daggers and hand crossbows.

Leo looked at a few people, and asked calmly: "Am I a murderous criminal? I asked you to take out your weapons."

The captain said in a deep voice: "The room above your Excellency is really scary, and people have to worry about your identity."

Leo deliberately asked in displeasure: "Identity? Could it be that I, an anatomy lecturer of a college, set up a private anatomy laboratory at home, and can't use animals for anatomy experiments? Has the academic climate become so conservative?"

"Anatomy lecturer?" The police were stunned when they heard the words. Only then did they start to look around, and found that the room was full of books they couldn't understand, and they also saw Leo's desk, placed Wearing a very eye-catching letter of appointment from the college, and a college lecturer's robe hanging on a hanger beside him.

Seeing this scene, the tense expressions on the faces of several people immediately relaxed a lot. Although they still didn't put away their weapons, they were no longer as serious as when they just broke in.

Although Cape West Port is not a city famous for scholars, scholars in this city can still get the respect that other inland conservative areas do not have, especially those lecturers who are recognized by the college and accepted by the college. Some high-ranking officials from the city hall are not bad at all.

The police captain smiled and explained calmly: "I'm very sorry, your laboratory is really surprising, and it's easy to cause misunderstandings, so we..."

"So what now? Am I still the object of your doubts?" Leo asked before the other party finished speaking, pointing to the weapons in their hands.

"No, of course not." The police captain withdrew his weapon, and then said with some embarrassment: "Although you must have nothing to do with the person we are looking for, we still have an inspection procedure that requires your cooperation with other people in the room." As he spoke, he saw him take out a metal disc engraved with several church holy emblems from his pocket, and said, "We need you to put your hands on this disc."

Leo looked at Yuanpan, but he didn't show any abnormal expression. He knew from the very beginning that this policeman had this strange object in his pocket that the church used to find and hunt heretics, and he also wanted to know about this strange object. What is the effect on yourself.

Contrary to him, when a few servants behind the butler saw the disk, their expressions immediately changed, and then they moved back slowly, trying to leave quietly, but their actions had long been seen by several policemen. In his eyes, a step blocked the door of the room, blocking the retreat of the servants.

"It seems that not all of your servants are trustworthy." The police captain turned around, looked at the servants, and pointed the weapons in his hands at them, saying: "Now come here one by one, Put your hands on the disc."

Seeing this situation, the other servants and the butler involuntarily stepped aside, moved from the center of the confrontation to the edge, and looked nervously at the servants who were companions before.

Seeing that there was no way to escape, one of the servants could only clarify the matter: "The things in your hands are the heretic eyes of the church hunting team! You are not looking for some pirates at all, you are the lackeys of the church, you are here to find us A free man denigrated by the church as a heretic."

The police captain said very seriously: "I don't know whether you are free people or heretics. I just know that if you don't come up and put your hands on the disc, you will definitely turn into corpses and be taken away by us. Well, just obediently do as I say."

Hearing what the police said, those servants knew that the other party must have murderous intentions, and they had no way to escape. In the end, they could only obediently stepped forward one by one and pressed their hands on the disc.

I saw that after their hands touched the disc, they all emitted light red light of different colors, and the moment the light appeared, the servants became extremely nervous, but the policemen were slightly relieved .

Afterwards, they saw them order those people to step aside, and let others touch the disc one by one, as if they were going to deal with them when they left for a while.

Among the people who touched the disc afterwards, there was no one with a reddish light, all of them were white light, and the white light of a few people even showed a milky white color, and these few people were very devout believers. The gods are different.

After inspecting these people, the policeman's expression relaxed, and he also retracted his weapon, without any of the tense look just now.

"We have already checked, and there is no one we are looking for in your home," the police captain took out a card from his pocket one at a time while speaking, wrote his name on it, stamped it with his official seal, and then Handed it to the housekeeper and said, "After we leave, you put the card and the house number together, and no one will come to check after that."

After speaking, they were ready to leave.

"Aren't you going to take them away?" At this moment, someone pointed to the servants who triggered the red light of the disc and asked.

"Our task is to find pirates, not heretics. Finding heresies is the business of the church hunting team, and has nothing to do with us." The police captain shrugged, then turned his head to look at the servants who were still standing still, and said: "If I were you, you'd better leave the Cape of the West Ocean now, far away, because the church will also intervene in the defense of the city in the future, and their attitude towards you will not be as friendly as we are."

Hearing the police captain's words, those servants didn't know that they had escaped, and they didn't think much about it. They quickly ran out of the study, returned to their room, and tidied up briefly. After asking the housekeeper for his salary, he hurriedly left Leo's apartment.

When the servants ran out of the study, several police officers were about to leave. At this time, the police captain suddenly thought of something, stopped, turned to look at Leo, and said, "By the way, I almost Forgot, it seems that your Excellency has not been checked yet."

While speaking, he took out the disc from his pocket again, walked to Leo's desk, and handed it to Leo.

Leo didn't say anything, just put his hand on the disc, and then saw that the disc didn't respond at all.

"What's going on here?" The captain of the police was also surprised by this phenomenon. He took the disc back and looked at it, and said to himself, "Could it be broken?" Then he called to the housekeeper, "Come here and touch it." one time."

The butler hesitated for a moment, then came over again and touched the disc. This time the disc responded normally, emitting a faint white light.

Seeing that there was no problem with the disk, the police captain handed the disk to Leo suspiciously, but after Leo touched the disk, there was still no response.

The police captain looked bewildered, and couldn't help but scratched his forehead with his hands, then turned to his colleagues and asked, "Do you remember those people from the church mentioned this phenomenon?"

Several police officers shook their heads, and one of them said: "They only said that if the light emitted is black, there is a big problem, the red light is just for people with heretical ideas, the white light is for believers, and the purple light and gold light are for the church." Clergy, no mention of what it would be like to have no light."

Hearing what his colleagues said, the police captain turned his head to look at the calm Leo, then looked at the letter of appointment for the lecturer on Leo's desk, and said, "Since it's not black, it's fine, and we don't need to worry about it."

After speaking, he turned around and left the apartment with the people.

"Robert, you go to the people's market and find a few servants to replace them." After the police left, Leo gave instructions to the butler, then went to the hanger, picked up his coat, put it on, and picked up the coat again. The manuscript on the table, put it in the file bag, walked out of the study, and while going downstairs, he ordered: "Wait a while, when Madam comes back, tell Madam what happened just now."

"Okay, sir." The butler nodded repeatedly.

After coming out of the apartment, Leo looked at a few policemen patrolling the street, and at the clergy preaching at both ends of the street corner, then boarded the carriage called by the temporary housekeeper, and ordered to go to Stafford Continental Magazine.

While the carriage was driving, Leo opened the curtain of the window, looked at the situation on the street outside, and fell into deep thought.

He knew very well that the current martial law and large-scale search in Cape West Port must be related to the shoe upper station and the person imprisoned by them, but what puzzled him was that the church was also involved in this matter, and it seemed that the martial law and the The leading force in the search.

For example, those clergymen standing at the intersection of the street seem to be just ordinary preachers on the surface, but in fact each of them has strong fluctuations in divine power, and their bodies are far stronger than ordinary people. A hunting knight who trains and engages in hunting heretics.

In addition, in addition to the patrolling police in various urban areas, there are also church knights patrolling at night, giving people the illusion that Cape West Port has become a church city.

This incident also caused dissatisfaction among the college students and some lecturers, but these dissatisfaction was suppressed by the college's senior management, and even the dean of the Holy Prayer Academy, who was part-time the dean of the college, appeared in the college in person, expressing gratitude to everyone in the college Issue an admonition, or even a warning, to let everyone stay at home or in the academy during this time and not to go out.

This is the first time that the Dean of the Holy Prayer House has issued such a serious warning to everyone in the academy, which has caused a lot of commotion and uneasiness, but everyone is very clear that the dean of the Holy Prayer House is not joking this time. All the people who had been making trouble before were more honest this time, and even some experiments in the academy that originally involved heresy were temporarily suspended, including Leo's public anatomy class.

Now the development of the situation in the city has become a bit weird, which is different from what Leo expected. For this reason, Leo asked Sylvia to go to the underground intelligence organization she controlled to collect relevant information. Taft to find out what the situation is.

What surprised him was that when he arrived at Stave's magazine, the editor of the magazine said that Stave hadn't been to the magazine for several days and had been staying in the Holy Prayer House these days.

Leo, who got the whereabouts of Staff, thought about it for a while, then ordered the carriage again, and headed to the Holy Prayer House.