The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Sorry, I don't think I can help you with anything. If you are interested in research in this area, you can apply for funding and establish a project yourself." Lucius, who is not used to communicating with people, tightly held the rosary in his hand and looked at it vigilantly. The few people in front of them blocked the door of the project department and said coldly.

It's a pity that the visitors didn't have the slightest intention of leaving. Two of them shot at the same time, one grabbed Lucius' arm, and the other hit Lucius' neck artery hard.

Because Lucius stayed in his research room all year round to look up various materials, even meals were brought over by students, so the passive exercise in the academy city was useless. His body was much worse than that of ordinary people. Facing two Kong Wu The powerful young man attacked, and he didn't even have a chance to resist.

What's more, the person in front of him is also an acquaintance to him, and he is also a colleague. Although the relationship is not good, it is not bad at all. He never thought that the other party would attack him.

In this case, Lucius directly fainted to the ground, unconscious.

The moment Lucius fell to the ground, the two young men who stunned him trained him to the side, then quickly took off his clothes, took some things to make up for him, and quickly Soon he changed from a thin middle-aged man to an old corpse.

After doing all this, the two young men put it into the body bag prepared in advance, then arranged the clothes they took off before, put them neatly in the closet of the research room, and put the identity badge Put it on the table, took out a pre-written letter and put it aside, the content of the letter was roughly that he had found some clues about the first dean of the Academy City and needed to go to another country to confirm, and the letter contained himself and The handwriting on the documents written by Lucius on the desk is exactly the same.

While the two young men were dealing with the unconscious Lucius, several other middle-aged men with mentor badges on their bodies walked into the laboratory, quickly flipping through the materials in the laboratory.

It's a pity that their luck was a bit bad, and until Lucius was completely dealt with over there, they still couldn't find the information they wanted here.

Although they couldn't find the information they wanted, those people didn't dare to stay any longer, because those who were familiar with Lucius' work and rest knew very well that Lucius' students would come here to deliver meals to him soon.

Therefore, they decisively gave up the search, simply sorted out the materials in the research room, cleaned up the traces of their search for materials, left the research room, and then moved Lucius, who was disguised as a corpse, to the prepared in advance. The cart that came to carry the experimental corpse left Lucius' project research room.

Not long after the group left, Lucius' student walked through a garden in the middle of the street with the lunch prepared for him, and walked towards his office, but this time he didn't come alone to feed Lu Xiusi Hughes delivered the meal, and he was accompanied by five people. These five people were Leo and others who had just joined the school city.

Earlier, on the giant energy disruptor, Leo and Sylvia discovered that Rupert Fitz's name was secretly engraved in the many patterns on the surface of the device in the form of flange fonts, and they had already determined that Rupert Fitz Fitz is inextricably linked to the establishment of this academic city, and has also become interested in it.

Afterwards, they learned from Bohr that this device had existed since the beginning of the construction of the school city, and they indicated that the energy disruptor might have something to do with the mysterious first president of the school city, and there happened to be an institute nearby that specialized in this kind of equipment. They asked Bohr to take them to meet the scholar to see if they could find some useful information from him.

Coincidentally, on the way to the scholar's research room, they happened to meet the student of the scholar giving him lunch, so they went together, and on the way, Sylvia also made some money out of the student's mouth. Some information about the person Lucius.

Although Bohr called Lucius's title a tutor, in fact, his title of tutor was only the lowest-level scholar tutor, and most people in the academy city preferred to call such people senior scholars.

In the school city, generally as long as a research project is set up, it can be called a mentor, but in the eyes of all the scholars in the school city, only scholars whose projects have passed the school city funding application and have established research laboratories in the third, fourth or fifth city districts can be called mentors. They can be regarded as the real mentors of the Academy City, otherwise, those so-called mentors who have obtained funds from other places and established laboratories and research offices in the Second City are just senior scholars.

Lucius is such a senior scholar, because although the research project he is engaged in is very popular in the Academy City, attracting a large number of curious scholars and students who are interested in the history of the Academy City, but the first dean of the Academy City In the view of the management of the school city, the research on the mystery of identity is meaningless, because it is already a thing of the past, and it is what scholars like them need to do, focusing on the present and the future, so basically such research projects are difficult in the school. Approved in the review of research funding within the city.

It's just that, even if the University City doesn't care about this research, it won't create obstacles for those who study the history of the University City. Instead, it will provide some assistance, such as matching up these research projects that have not passed the funding review, and obtaining funds from the outside. Capital investment, the establishment of research laboratories.

The source of funding for Lucius' research laboratory comes from the Grand Duke of a remote small principality, and the Grand Duke also invested in several other projects that also researched the identity of the first president of the school city.

The reason why the Grand Duke was so interested in the identity of the first Academy Dean was because he felt that his ancestor was the first Academy President, and the reason for this Grand Duke's speculation was that his family The badges were the identity badges of the first deans of the school city, and the identities of those deans except the first dean were very clear, and there was no doubt about it from birth to death.

"What's the name of the Grand Duke?" Leo suddenly interjected after hearing about the Grand Duke.

Lucius' student replied: "Louis Fitz, that Grand Duke is called Louis Fitz."

Hearing this name, Leo and Sylvia looked at each other at the same time, but didn't say anything.

A group of people soon arrived outside Lucius' laboratory. Lucius' students signaled Leo to wait at the door for a while. He needed to ask Lucius for instructions before he knew whether Lucius would like to see them.

Afterwards, he opened the door and walked in. After two steps, he found that the research room was empty, so he stopped, looked around suspiciously, especially behind those bookshelves, and shouted several times Lucius tutor.

After no one responded, he walked to the desk, saw the tutor badge and the message on the desk, immediately put down his lunch, picked up the message and looked at it, then walked to the door and looked at Lei with an apologetic expression. Ou and the others said: "I'm sorry, Teacher Leo, Teacher Sylvia, you may have come here in vain, Director Lucius seems to have found some new clues about the first dean of the Academy City, and has now left the Academy City gone."

After hearing what the student said, Leo and Sylvia expressed their regrets, and asked the student to notify them after Lucius came back.

When they were about to leave, Leo suddenly stopped, turned his head and looked at a corner of the ground not far from the door, and saw an old rosary there, with a holy emblem of the Spirit of Knowledge hanging on the rosary , because the corners are in shadow, so the rosary is almost invisible without looking carefully.

Leo looked thoughtfully at the dust beside the rosary, and then asked the student, "Is Mr. Lucius a believer in the Spirit of Knowledge?"

The student nodded and said, "Yes, he is a very devout believer in the Spirit of Knowledge."

Leo walked to that corner, bent down to pick up the rosary, handed it to the student, and asked, "Does this belong to Mr. Lucius?"

"Yes, it is the rosary that the teacher always has in his hand." After taking the rosary, the student immediately recognized the origin of the rosary, and wondered, "Why did the rosary fall to the ground?"

"I don't think your mentor left voluntarily." Before Leo could say the answer, Sylvia had already responded, and turned around and walked to the door of the research room. While pushing the door open, she said, "We can Do you want to go in and have a look?"

Although it was a question, Sylvia obviously didn't think about whether the student agreed or not, so she went straight into the office, and Leo and the others followed suit.

Lucius' students obviously haven't recovered from Sylvia's words just now. Seeing that Leo and the others have entered the research room, they hurriedly followed, trying to stop them, saying: "Wait, you guys Wait a minute, this is the private research room of tutor Lucius, according to the city's regulations, you are not allowed to enter."

Joan, who understood the meaning of Sylvia's words, stretched out his hand to hold the student, and said, "Your mentor Lucius has been kidnapped, and what are you talking about about the rules of the school city? If I were you, now Immediately go to the city guard department."

"Ah? Kidnapped?" The student was stunned, and then asked, "How do you know it was kidnapped?"

Sylvia glanced over the table, pointed to the tutor badge on the table, and said, "When your tutor goes out to collect information, is it necessary to take off the tutor badge and leave it in the research room? ?”

The student seemed to realize something when he heard the words, and ignored Leo and his group's intrusion into the laboratory, but ran out of the laboratory in a panic, and ran towards the nearest city guard post.

Leo took a quick look at the situation inside the research room, and said in a deep voice: "It should be done by a novice, leaving too many traces, they are divided into two groups, one group deals with that Lucius scholar outside, and the other A group went into the office to search for things," he said, and after looking at the materials with signs of re-stacking around him, he said: "But they were lucky to check, and they couldn't find what they wanted. After tidying up the scene, I left in a hurry, the time should be just before we came."

Sylvia also nodded, agreeing: "Obviously these people should be very familiar with the daily life of Lucius scholars, and know when his students will come to deliver meals, so the timing is so accurate."

While talking, I saw Sylvia suddenly walked to the desk, reached out and groped behind a small wine cabinet against the wall, and then heard a click, and the wooden board on the side of the small wine cabinet moved away A hole revealed the hidden cabinet inside.

Afterwards, Sylvia took out a few notebooks bound with tape from the cabinet.

At this time, there were hurried footsteps outside, and Sylvia didn't look through the notes, but handed them to Petunia, put them in Petunia's backpack, and closed the hidden cabinet again.

The moment the cabinet door closed, Lucius' students pushed in with seven or eight city guards.

Raul, chief of the Security Bureau of the Second District of the Academic City, felt unprecedented pressure, which directly turned into headaches, tormenting him all the time.

A tutor of the Academy City was kidnapped in the Second District under his administration. This kind of thing had never happened before. He was the first of its kind, and he will definitely be recorded in the history of the Academy City. It's just that this record is not a good thing.

However, fortunately, the incident was discovered in time, and now it is certain that the kidnapped mentor Lucius should still be in the Second City, so he reported the matter to the management, and at the same time sealed off the Second City, no longer allowing anyone to enter or exit , And personally led his men to search the whole city.

It's a pity that after searching, he couldn't find the kidnapped Lucius, which made him doubt whether Lucius was really kidnapped. After all, the traces left by Lucius' laboratory were not It must be traces of kidnapping, maybe it's just some items that Lucius accidentally left behind.

But then, the entry and exit records sent over broke Director Raul's delusion, because there was no record of Lucius leaving in the records.

For the Academy City, any mentor is very important, even if it is a pseudo-tutor like Lucius, so every mentor must leave access records when leaving and returning to the Academy City, and some mentors related to important research projects even strictly Strict enough to need to record more detailed content, such as where to go after leaving, what to do outside, and so on.

Therefore, if Lucius left the school city in a normal way, then he would definitely leave a record of his entry and exit.

"Boss, why don't you go find the people who found out that Scholar Lucius left?" Director Raul felt a little helpless and began to consider whether to use some extraordinary measures, a subordinate suddenly suggested.

"Are you out of your mind? Are you still suspicious of those people?" Director Raul frowned, having misunderstood the meaning. In fact, he suspected that the discoverer of the kidnapping case might be the creator of the case at first, but soon He confirmed the identity of the discoverer, and knew that the other party was not in the academy city before, and he had been accompanied by someone since he came to the academy city, so the suspicion was dispelled.

The subordinate quickly explained: "No, what I mean is that since those people were able to find out that the Lucius scholar was kidnapped so easily, then they might have found other clues that we didn't find, so ask them for help, maybe can play a role.”