The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"What is the Taminque arrangement?" Although Merkel could understand part of the conversation between Leo and Delkan, and knew that the mayor who died at the beginning was an imposter who came from the northern snowfield, he still had I couldn't understand a lot of content, so I couldn't help asking.

However, upon hearing Merkel's inquiry, those scholars all looked at Merkel with contempt, as if saying that they didn't even know this.

However, Leo behaved very naturally, without any emotion, as if answering a passer-by's inquiry casually, and explained: "The arrangement of Taminque is a very unique arrangement of ancient texts. It is popular in the northern snowfield countries, and the users are also some primitive believers, who have different inheritances, some are good at using ancient scripts to create guardian holy objects, and some are very good at strange spells such as curses."

Merkel seemed to understand, and elaborated: "You mean that the fake Mayor Jason is a primitive believer from the northern snowfield countries, and the one who killed him was also a primitive believer from the northern snowfields." By."

"It can only be said that it is possible." Leo did not give a positive answer, and then asked: "Is the body of Mayor Jason still there?"

"It's still there. According to the tradition of the Kingdom of Aden, any public official who died in office must be buried on the spot. The tomb of the mayor of Jason is in the town's cemetery." A member of the investigation team also seemed to be killed As if affected, he vaguely regarded Leo as his superior. Seeing Leo's question, he immediately answered, and added: "If you want to check the body of that Mayor Jason, I'm afraid it will be difficult. When Mayor Jason died, he fell into the fireplace in the bedroom. When he was found the next day, his upper body was charred, and only his legs were still intact in his lower body. We and people from the church have performed autopsies on this body , and found nothing useful."

Some scholars mocked at this time: "You didn't find anything useful, but it doesn't mean others can't find it. Don't forget, you didn't find out that Mayor Jason may be fake before."

Hearing the sarcastic words of the scholar, Leo and Sylvia glanced at each other, then looked back and forth between the scholar and the investigation team thoughtfully.

They found that the scholars in the Academy City seemed to not only despise the investigation team members in terms of knowledge, but also had an emotional hostility, and seemed to dislike the investigation team members from the bottom of their hearts.

However, the people in the investigation team seemed to be used to the hostility of scholars, they just frowned in displeasure, and did not retaliate, and Merkel also invited Leo on behalf of the three of them, expressing the hope that Leo could help They investigated this incident, and were willing to cooperate as assistants, with a very low profile, so low that even those scholars who knew the investigation team were a little surprised.

Leo nodded and said: "Our couple is willing to help, but we can't guarantee that we can help you find out the truth."

Afterwards, they asked members of the investigation team to take them to the cemetery to dig out the body of Mayor Jason who had been buried not long ago. The scholars from the Academy City were also curious about the follow-up development, and they all said they would go together.

So, a group of people rushed to the cemetery like this.

The investigation team quickly found the location of Mayor Jason's cemetery, and then asked the cemetery guard to lead a few people to dig out the mayor's coffin again.

The cemetery guard also felt a little impatient with the investigation team's request, because before that, he had repeatedly dug up the corpse three times, so in his opinion, these people in the investigation team were completely messing around.

However, even though he was very dissatisfied, the guards of the cemetery still did not dare to disobey the order of the investigation team, and honestly led a few people to dig out Mayor Jason's coffin again.

After the coffin was dug out, Leo didn't ask someone to carry the coffin to a quiet place for inspection, but asked the investigation team to open the coffin.

As the lid of the coffin was opened, a smell of corpses came out. The people in the investigation team had already gotten used to this smell and did not show any discomfort. Among the scholars, except for some who studied medicine and anatomy, others They couldn't help covering their mouths and noses, and didn't look into the coffin curiously, but took a few steps back to a place where the air was slightly fresher.

Both Leo and Sylvia walked to the coffin with calm expressions and looked at the corpses inside. As the investigation team said, most of the corpses inside were burnt, and only their legs remained intact. There are obvious traces of dissection on the legs, and even the residual holy oil can be seen. It should be that the Church of True God tried to use some kind of tracking magic to investigate the source of the curse, but it failed in the end.

However, the perception ability of Leo and Sylvia is definitely not comparable to the tracking magic used by those priests. The moment they saw the corpse, they felt the curse power emanating from the corpse. This power is very weak. But persistent, it seems to originate from the corpse itself.

"Did you do the dissection of the feet?" Sylvia suddenly asked the investigation team.

"Yes, we did it." Merkel responded on behalf of the three, but his attitude was very humble, showing stronger awe than when he faced Leo just now, even when he answered Lowering her head, she didn't dare to look at Sylvia any more.

Both Leo and Sylvia noticed Merkel's attitude. They felt that Merkel's behavior should not only be due to Sylvia's stronger superior power, but also other reasons. .

However, now is not a good time to investigate the reason. Sylvia did not show any abnormality. Instead, she accepted Merkel's seemingly excessive awe very calmly, and continued: "Why do you only do the solution of the feet? Gouging, don’t you go planing your upper body?”

Hearing Sylvia's question, everyone in the investigation team couldn't help but froze, not knowing how to answer for a while.

Because when they dissected their feet, they couldn't find any clues at all, and they randomly searched for things to do. Whether it was before the dissection, during the dissection, or after the dissection, they didn't think about what they would find out. Useful leads.

After all, before they did anything to the corpse, the church had already used various methods to examine the corpse. Even if there were any clues, the church should have discovered it long ago, or it had already been destroyed by the church. Their dissection behavior was more like It is a routine behavior full of perfunctory taste.

At this time, Leo had already asked the cemetery guard to lift the body out and put it on a stone slab beside him. Then he took out a set of simple dissecting tools and began to dissect the corpse in full view. The location was not the feet, but the scorched upper body.

I saw that he dismantled the charred muscles and internal organs of the upper body very skillfully, and put them aside, leaving only a complete skeleton in the end.

At this time, the people present also noticed something was wrong, because judging by the burnt degree of the upper body of the corpse, the skeleton of the corpse should also have traces of burnt, but the skeleton they saw was a normal skeleton. There is no trace of being burned.

"What's going on here?" Merkel, who was always standing aside, was also surprised when she saw this scene, and let go of her hand covering her nose, completely forgetting the smell of corpses around her.

Leo didn't answer, but asked the cemetery guard to pile up a pyre, and then signaled to the investigation team to pick out the skeleton, put it on the pyre, and light the pyre.

Although the people in the investigation team didn't understand why Leo did this, they still followed Leo's instructions.

When the pyre was ignited and the burning flames repeatedly passed through the skeleton in the pyre, everyone present could not help but let out a cry of surprise, because they saw some blood-red characters emerge from the place where the skeleton was burned by the flames.

"It's an ancient text, a complete system of ancient texts." Delkan immediately recognized the origin of those characters, and immediately took out his notepad, and quickly recorded the symbols he saw, while the others All scholars who study linguistics also took out their notebooks to quickly record.

The people in the investigation team really wanted to stop the scholars from recording the characters, because these characters involved extremely evil superpowers and should not be touched by ordinary people, but they still didn't open their mouths in the end, because they knew very well that even if they spoke, these scholars would not Pay attention, when the time comes, it will cause some unnecessary conflicts.

"Mr. Leo, what's going on?" Merkel walked to Leo's side and asked.

"This Mr. Mayor Jason has been made into a curse artifact," Leo analyzed seriously: "I guess the original purpose of the curser is to curse the close relationship with Mayor Jason through this method." People who have a relationship, but I don’t know why the direction of the curse seems to have been disturbed, and finally turned into a curse for all the people who became the mayor of Dashu Town and their relatives and friends.”

At this time, Sylvia suddenly said: "I remember that in the study room of the mayor's mansion, there is a book introducing the customs of Dashu Town. It is mentioned in it that the mayor of Dashu Town who died during his tenure will perform some kind of ceremony. Let his heroic spirit become the guardian of the town, when the mayor of Jason died, did the town perform a similar ceremony?"

Merkel immediately replied: "It has been carried out, and it is very grand. The mayor of Jason has done a lot of good things for Dashu Town during his term of office. He is very respected by the townspeople of Dashu Town, so he has also been granted a permanent town The title of the mayor." As he spoke, he revealed a look of suddenness, and said: "Is it because of this ceremony and the title that the direction of the curse has changed, and it has become all the people who became the mayor?"

Leo didn't answer, and he didn't need to answer. He packed up his tools, and then told the investigation team that if he had any questions, he could come to the hotel where they were staying, and then told the scholars that they could go to the hotel if they had time. After visiting them and continuing to exchange various sciences, Sylvia and Sylvia left the cemetery.

The surrounding scholars did not leave immediately, they were still recording the complex patterns on the skeleton, while the three members of the investigation team looked at each other with a little smile on their faces. It is completed, but at least half of it has been completed, and the anxiety accumulated over the past few months has dissipated, especially Merkel has completely relaxed, and he no longer has to worry about failing the promotion task.

"Do you think the person who cast the curse can still be caught?" Sylvia asked curiously when returning to the hotel.

"I don't know about this either. After all, it has been a few months. That person may have cleaned up all the clues, and he has hidden himself." Leo used spiritual energy to clean up the dirt on his body, and then thought again Thinking, said: "However, the Church's control over the Old Continent is very strong. Even in the past few months, it is not impossible to catch that person. We can just take this opportunity to see how the Church of True God treats him. How strong is the control of the Old Continent?"

Sylvia also nodded, agreeing with Leo's opinion, and then said: "Do you feel that the closer you are to the center of the mainland, the stronger the power of the gods' French net, and the more extraordinary power under the French net? Active. In Cape West Port, we have encountered less than five incidents involving extraordinary power, but on the way here, we have encountered more than twenty incidents involving extraordinary power, and this time Even more directly targeting public officials of a country, it looks like we'll see more interesting superpowers."

"Interesting?" Leo looked at Sylvia and said, "Your emotions..."

"No, I'm not affected by the bloodline." Sylvia interrupted Leo's inquiry and said, "I just feel that my mentality has become younger, and my heart is undergoing some kind of transformation. I feel that waiting for my spiritual transformation When it's done, you should be able to fully grasp all the power."

Leo didn't give any suggestions after hearing this, because Sylvia has already surpassed Leo in terms of life form, and his database doesn't record what needs to be done after any life form evolves to this level.

Although he has a complete inheritance of psykers, it is only for psykers. If it is applied to Sylvia, it may have a counterproductive effect.

So now Leo seldom gives Sylvia any advice, more as an observer reminding Sylvia to control herself, and at the same time concocting a lot of wizard potions for the spirit, because the evolution to After this level, the strength of the body is no longer the end point, and the strength of the mind and spirit is what needs to be paid attention to.

After the two returned to the hotel where they stayed, Penny and Joan had already returned to the hotel. Although they had inquired about various rumors and information about the curse of the mayor of Dashu Town, they were useless now.

However, the information they inquired was useless, because they found out that in another village near Dashu Town, a member of the Theresa Kingdom Investigation Bureau was investigating another incident involving extraordinary power.

When the person who met the member of the investigation bureau described the appearance and clothing of this person, he mentioned that there was a very eye-catching badge on the hilt of the saber of this person, and the appearance of this badge was described by Joan After coming out, Sylvia immediately determined that the badge was a variant form of the Belmont family badge.