The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Although the Second City was blocked and the whole city was searched, the reason given by the Security Bureau was that a cultist had sneaked into the Second City with dangerous items, so the students and scholars in the city did not know that there was a The scholar was kidnapped in the city.

Students and scholars in the city are not dissatisfied with the actions of the Security Bureau, because they are well aware of the recent actions of the Kingdom of Teresa against the Church of the Son of the Virgin and some other extreme cultists, and they have also read about the evil that happened in the Green City from the newspapers. The catastrophe of the believers, they don't want to be the protagonists in the newspapers, so when the Security Bureau searched the whole city, most of them cooperated extremely.

Only a few research laboratories that applied for funds from the school city stopped the search by the Security Bureau on the grounds of design confidentiality, but they did not completely resist the search. Search the files on the line.

At the same time, Leo and others, who had been confirmed by the Security Bureau as no suspects, came to the apartment arranged for them by the school city under the leadership of Boer.

Although the vast majority of scholars in the school city are dissatisfied with Leo and Sylvia, outsiders who directly became mentors, they will not make any deductions about the treatment of the two. The apartment where the two live can be said to be It is the best single-family apartment in the second city. It is located near the central garden. There are trees around the apartment to separate them from other scholars' dormitories. When other scholars need to squeeze into a dormitory, they can enjoy private Garden treats.

There are only ten such single-family apartments with private small gardens in the entire Second City, and they are all arranged for the tutors of the school city and some distinguished visitors, so it is reasonable to arrange for Leo and the others to live, at least on the surface so it is.

However, in the eyes of Leo and Sylvia, this is just a trick to make them easy to be squeezed out by other scholars in the Academy City, because even though these small garden apartments are nominally for the official tutors of the Academy City, the students are Basically, the official tutors in the city will not live in the second city, so these apartments have always been vacant. Leo and Sylvia living in this kind of apartment are equivalent to being completely isolated from the social activities of the second city , On the contrary, it will make them an alternative to the Second District.

Although living in a small garden apartment will not be conducive to integrating into the special society of the Academy City, in the eyes of Leo and Sylvia, it is in line with their wishes. The purpose of their coming to the Academy City is not to rush I came here to make friends, so there is no need to integrate into the society of the school city.

What's more, they don't need to take the initiative to make friends with the scholars here. They have already figured out the mentality of the scholars in the academy city from their experience on the road. As long as they have outstanding talents, there will naturally be scholars attached to them, just like Delkan and the others. , there is no need to please the scholars here.

The Little Garden Apartment had been cleaned by the housekeepers and servants arranged by Xuecheng before moving in. After Leo and the others arrived, they only needed to tidy up their belongings before they could move in. Boer, who was the guide, did not leave, but was Leo arranged it next to Joan and Penny's room, and asked Boer to take Penny and Joan to familiarize themselves with the surrounding environment and the city's facilities when he was free.

During this process, there was an episode, that is, after Bohr tidied up his room, he went to Joan's room and asked if he wanted to go out for a tour, and saw the Holy Spirit of False Heart Church on Joan's knight sword. Hui Hui, knowing that Joan turned out to be a quasi-paladin of the Church of False Heart, he was immediately frightened and sat on the ground until Petunia heard the movement and came to check the situation, and gradually recovered.

From Bohr's performance, it is not difficult to see how bad the delusional mad knight, who is known for his chaotic behavior and easy loss of control, has a bad reputation in the school city, and has basically been equated with that kind of extreme cultist.

Leo later explained that Joan was different from other delusional paladins, that he would not fall into chaos, and would not have any crazy attacks. Boer also believed it, but the decision to lead Joann around the city had to be Putting it on hold for the time being, he could only find the map of the Second City and point out the locations of some facilities in the city on the map.

After dealing with these chores, Leo and Sylvia focused on the research notes they found from Lucius' laboratory.

Perhaps Lucius was worried that his research results would be plagiarized, so although he used a common language alphabet when taking notes, the words and sentences composed of these letters came from a nearly lost ancient small language.

However, I don't know whether it is his bad luck or Leo's good luck. Among the development branches of this ancient small language, there are regional languages ​​near Cape West. I have learned the local language, and now it can be used to analyze this ancient small language.

With Leo's attainments in linguistics, he completed the common language comparison table of the words and sentences on the notes in less than an hour, and Sylvia also completely interpreted the contents of the notes according to the comparison table out.

The content of the notes is mainly some information related to the first dean of the school city. The information is fragmented. Basically, I got a relevant clue from here today, recorded it, analyzed the authenticity, and found another one from there tomorrow. Relevant clues were recorded and analyzed for authenticity. Lucius himself did not seem to have the ability to sort out and summarize the information, so the content was so chaotic that it was difficult to read normally, let alone understand the exact content inside.

However, it is not difficult for Sylvia to sort out this kind of disorderly fragmented data. After all, when she was the director of the intelligence department of the United Kingdom of France, the fragmented data that needed to be processed were much more chaotic than this notebook. .

Almost at the same time as she interpreted the content through the comparison table, her mind had already spliced ​​the fragmented data according to the hidden rules.

However, both Leo and Sylvia were a little surprised that the core content of this notebook was not the identity information or life record of the first dean of the academy as they thought, but a document from various folklore and Adventure records extracted from historical records.

In this adventure record, Lucius uses four animals to refer to the four adventurers in the adventure record. The content of the adventure record is also very simple, that is, the four adventurers came to a strange country. , found a sacred place called the original place, and then went to that place to discover the treasures in it.

When the treasure was taken out, the four had disagreements and fought. One of them was killed, and the other three also regained their senses. After taking out the treasure, a kingdom was established, and then the other two people A companion was killed and the kingdom was divided.

The story recorded in the notes is very simple and common, basically there is a similar story in the folk tales of every country, and the part that is not simple is that Lucius uses some secret words that only he knows The places that the four adventurers have visited in the story, as long as the places referred to by these pronouns are deciphered, they should be able to restore the adventure route and finally find the place called the original place.

For Leo and Sylvia, this story is not complicated and easy to interpret, as long as it is brought into the Kingdom of Teresa.

The story should have happened before the establishment of Teresa Kingdom. A four-person adventure team came here and found the treasure. One of them had other ideas about the treasure and was killed by the other three. Teresa Kingdom, if their identities are correct, they should be the founding monarch of Teresa Kingdom, the first patriarch of the Belmont family in this world, and the first dean of the school city.

It is not difficult to understand why Lucius used various pronouns and small languages ​​to record these contents. Obviously, he was worried that his research contents would attract the attention of the Teresa royal family and the Belmont family, and thus be silenced.

"Could it be that the kidnapping of Lucius was done by Teresa's royal family?" Sylvia had a hint of association after understanding the content of the note, but quickly shook her head and denied, "Impossible, If it was Teresa's royal family, there is absolutely no need for them to kidnap, they only need to summon Lucius, and even if they want to kidnap, they will definitely not send a few novices to carry out this kind of task."

Leo nodded in agreement, then looked at the note in his hand, and asked, "What do you think this original place is?"

"There are too few clues to guess." Sylvia shook her head, and added: "And the kidnapping is not necessarily because of this original place."

Leo asked again: "If it's not for the original land, what is it for?"

Sylvia thought for a while and said, "The adventurer who was killed by three companions in the original place."

Leo did not immediately agree with Sylvia's guess, but thought about it seriously, and said: "The names of the four adventurers are Darth Wolf, Scaled Lion, Long Feather Eagle and Golden Horn Bull, Lucius Although he wants to use pronouns to conceal their identities, his subconscious recognition of these four people will give him some awe, which will affect the pronouns he prepared for them."

Sylvia analyzed: "Darth wolf is a group animal that is proficient in hunting. The scaled lion is called the lion of the king. They should represent the Belmont family and the Theresa royal family. The long-feathered eagle is in many legends. The representative of wisdom, so this name is the first dean of the academy. The golden horn bull is the only fantasy creature. It often appears in some church books, often as the incarnation of gods, so the dead adventurer is A clergyman, just don’t know which church’s clergyman it is?”

While Leo and Sylvia were analyzing Lucius' notes, the Security Bureau sent someone to ask them to go to Lucius' laboratory to help investigate the kidnapping case.

Both Leo and Sylvia were a little surprised by this, because based on their understanding of those bureaucrats, the Security Bureau should be more willing to investigate by themselves at this time, rather than asking for help. .

Unexpectedly, the director of the security bureau would invite outsiders to assist in the investigation when the investigation just started, as if he didn't care about showing his incompetence in this matter at all.

Although they don't know what the head of the Security Bureau thinks, neither Leo nor Sylvia refused the matter. They ordered Joan and the others to stay in the apartment, followed the security guards, and returned to Lucius' laboratory.

After the two entered Lucius' research room, they couldn't help frowning, because the various materials piled up in the room had been packed and sealed by the Security Bureau, and the room was empty as if no one was using it. The kidnappers left Naturally, all traces have disappeared.

Seeing this scene, the two couldn't help but look at each other, and they also understood why the director of the Security Bureau invited them to assist in the investigation when the investigation had just begun.

When they came in, the head of the Security Bureau was also in the room. It seemed that he was planning to introduce the situation to Leo and Sylvia. In his mind as the director of the Security Bureau, in his opinion, whether Leo's mentor status is controversial, they are both mentors, it is obviously inappropriate for a security bureau subordinate to receive two mentors, so he The meeting decided to receive the two in person and introduce the current case to them.

Hearing the sound of footsteps behind him, the head of the Security Bureau turned to look at the person coming. After sweeping across Leo's face, his gaze was fixed on Sylvia's face. The whole person was also frozen at this moment. Only then hastily stepped forward to salute Sylvia, and said, "Raul Famir has seen His Majesty."

"You have misunderstood the person. I am not the Majesty you know." Leo and Sylvia were no longer surprised by this situation.

"Ah?" Director Raul was stunned for a moment, not understanding what Sylvia meant.

"I'm Leo, the new school tutor." Leo introduced himself.

Sylvia followed suit and said, "Sylvia, the new tutor in the academy city."

Hearing the self-introduction of the two, Director Raul realized that the two in front of him were the two Xinxuecheng mentors who discovered the kidnapping case mentioned in the subordinate case report.

Before that, he had only read about the two of them in the report of his subordinates. He knew that the two were foreign scholars. He was able to analyze the process of Lucius' kidnapping from some details that ordinary people could not detect, and even analyzed how many kidnappers there were.

Because of this, he invited the two to participate in the investigation, hoping that with the assistance of the two, the case could be resolved as soon as possible to avoid alarming the management of the school city.

But he never thought that the woman among these two people was so similar to the Majesty in his memory. Back then, he was personally awarded by the Majesty for his military exploits. That was the most glorious thing in his life. It is still unforgettable, and the appearance of that majesty is also deeply engraved in his mind, and now the appearance of the Sylvia tutor in front of him can completely overlap with the appearance in his memory, the only difference is the face in front of him. This person is more mature, which makes him suspect that Sylvia is just a disguised identity, and that His Majesty is playing the trick of stealing clothes in folk stories at this moment.