The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"These are the list of prohibited items in the warehouse. Is there anything you two want to see?" The manager brought Leo and the others into a room, motioned them to sit down at the table, and then took out a document to put on it. Arriving in front of them, he said.

Leo didn't pay attention to the list, he didn't even look at it, he handed it to Sylvia, then looked at the two managers in front of him, and asked directly: "Are there many people like you?"

The two managers didn't understand what Leo meant by asking, and they were all stunned.

Seeing this situation, Leo added: "What I want to say is that in the academy city, are there many people like you who can limit extraordinary power?"

Hearing Leo's question, Sylvia also temporarily moved her eyes away from the list, and then looked at the two managers.

One of the two managers quickly came to his senses and asked in surprise, "How do you know we can limit extraordinary power?"

"Are you a Transcendent?" Another manager seemed to realize something, his face changed slightly, and he asked in confirmation.

"That's right!" Leo admitted.

After hearing Leo's confession, the manager immediately walked up to Sylvia, apologized to her, and then took back the list of prohibited items from her hand, and said to Leo and the others in a serious manner: "Don't you know that extraordinary people are not allowed to touch prohibited items? Please leave now, and I will report this matter to the management."

"Wait, these two new mentors who have just joined the Academy City are not very clear about the rules of the Academy City," the captain of the city guard who was with Leo and the others hurried forward and argued: "The rules you mentioned are just The subsidiary contraband management rules are lower than the city management rules in terms of execution level, and now these two new mentors have obtained the permission of Director Raul of the Security Bureau of the Second City District, and they can..."

"Director Raul is only the director of the Security Bureau of the Second City, not our direct superior." The manager interrupted the captain of the city guard and said, "And the Security Bureau has no right..."

Just when the manager was about to refute the captain of the city guard, a loud noise came from outside, and then everyone felt the ground tremble slightly, as if a slight shock had occurred.

Neither the captain of the city guard nor the manager of the contraband warehouse understood what was going on, and they froze in place. However, Leo and Sylvia realized what was going on from the direction of the sound and the location of the source of the vibration. .

Afterwards, they ignored the other people who were still in a daze, and immediately turned and walked out of the room, walking quickly outside.

At this time, the staff in the building were also disturbed by the loud noise and the subsequent shock. They ran out in panic, and looked in the same direction in shock. The guards in the building Although they are also very curious about the things outside, they still fulfill their duties, holding hands at the entrance and exit, and checking the identity of those entering and exiting.

Leo and Sylvia were let out without any hindrance. The moment they walked out of the gate, they also looked in the direction of everyone's eyes.

In the distance, a burst of soaring dust rose from the ground and spread to the surroundings. There should have been a four-story building at the bottom of the dust, but it has disappeared at this moment. In the memory of Leo and Silvia, this four-story building should be It is the location of the research laboratory of the tutor Philip Dinan.

At this time, the captain of the city guard and the two managers also ran out, and also looked towards the place where the accident happened.

The two managers didn't know what happened. Although they were curious about what happened there, they had responsibilities and couldn't leave at will, so after just a glance, they put away their curiosity and turned around. Back inside the building.

On the other side, the captain of the city guard was stunned for a long time when he saw the movement over there, and suddenly thought that the place where the accident happened was the laboratory where Robert, the chief of the security bureau, led people to search. His face suddenly turned pale, and he didn't talk to Leo and the others. Then he took a step, pushed away the crowd, and ran towards the accident site. At the same time, he took out a whistle-shaped object from his waist and blew hard while running.

Following the sound of a sharp whistle, similar whistles sounded in other places, and people continued to relay, allowing the sound of the whistle to spread to the entire Second City in a short time.

At the entrance and exit gate on the edge of the urban area, the guard who handles the gate immediately prevents people from entering other urban areas and people from the second urban area from leaving the moment he hears the whistle, and then directly closes the gate, leaving the second urban area behind. Completely blocked.

In the urban area, the faces of those who heard the whistle became a little serious, and all of them lost the desire to talk, and quickly walked towards their respective offices or dormitories where they lived. Soon the streets in the urban area became It was empty, only a large number of city guards patrolling the streets vigilantly.

Leo and Sylvia did not go to the accident site to check the situation, but returned to the apartment like everyone else after hearing the whistle.

Although the incident happened a few streets away from their apartment, they could vaguely see what happened there because of the dust flying in the air.

After Leo and Sylvia returned to the apartment, Penny couldn't help asking them curiously what happened outside.

"A building has collapsed." Sylvia simply responded as she handed the coat to Petunia.

Bohr on the side shook his head and said, "It's definitely not as simple as a building collapsing. Now the urban police whistle is blowing outside. Only when there is a major danger like a cultist attack, the city guard captain will blow the urban police whistle." According to urban regulations, as long as the urban police whistle is sounded, the entire urban area must be completely sealed off, and then the management will send a central city guard to check the security of the urban area. Only when the urban area is completely safe will the urban area be reopened."

"Does this happen often?" Joan asked curiously.

"How could it happen so often?" Bohr quickly shook his head and said, "The last time it happened was when my uncle was a student in the Academy City, decades ago."

Hearing Boer's words, Leo and Sylvia were stunned for a moment, and looked at each other, as if thinking of something, then Sylvia asked Boer: "I ask you, what will happen to the captain of the city guard?" Was he allowed to blow the city guard whistle to completely block the city? If he just saw a house collapse in the distance, and the head of the security bureau might be inside the collapsed house, the city guard captain could blow the city guard whistle. Whistle?"

Bohr didn't understand why Sylvia asked such a question, but he still thought about it seriously, shook his head, and said, "No, only when more than five city guard captains confirm that they have encountered or may have extreme evil Attacks by believers or heretics can recall the city guard post, otherwise, it is not allowed to take out the city guard post and use it.”

"Take out the city guard post?" Leo asked in a deep voice, "Isn't the city guard post worn with you?"

Boer thought for a while, shook his head, and said, "I don't remember wearing it with me. The city guard post should be stored in a locker in the middle of the hall of the Security Bureau, and it will only be taken out when needed."

After listening to Bohr's narration, Leo and Sylvia looked at each other, and then laughed at the same time, while the other people around them looked blank and didn't know what they were laughing at.

In this way, the two returned to the room with a smile, and then Sylvia walked to the wine cabinet, poured a glass of wine for herself and Leo, walked over with the glass, handed it to Leo, and restrained her face With a smile on his face, he said: "We have been so smooth recently, so smooth that we are a little arrogant. If this situation should not have happened before."

Leo also nodded, and said: "It's true that I'm a little arrogant, thinking that no one can fool me, I can see through everything, but I was slapped in the face by an ordinary person."

At this moment, both Leo and Sylvia understood that the chief of the city guard arranged by the director of the security bureau should be with the person who kidnapped Lucius, and that Lucius should no longer be in the second city. The purpose of the captain of the guards to use the city guard post is to block the whole city and focus the attention of the management of the school city on the second urban area. There is no way to send people to chase the kidnappers and kidnapped people who have fled outside the city in time. .

As for the city guard post in his hand, he either forged it, or he stole it from the lobby of the Security Bureau.

I have to say that the captain of the city guard is really good in disguise, and there are no flaws in the details that are easy to reveal his mind, such as the heartbeat, breathing, and sight of the whole contact with Leo. If the guard post requires a certain process, maybe they haven't had any doubts about this person yet.

"Do we need to intervene?" After Sylvia's self-deprecating smile completely subsided, she said angrily: "It's really unpleasant for an ordinary person to play tricks like this."

Leo thought for a while and said, "You can act, but you need to wait for someone from the Academy City to invite you before you act."

Sylvia asked again: "When do you think the Academy City will send someone?"

"It should be soon." Leo judged.

As Leo judged, Xuecheng did send people to the apartment where the two lived very quickly, less than half an hour after the collapse of the building.

The people who came to the apartment this time were a few people wearing black robes and uniforms. From the marks on these people's uniforms, it could be seen that they should also be part of the city guard system.

When he saw these people, Bohr moved closer to Leo and reminded him in a low voice, "They are men in black robes from the central city guard, and they specialize in dealing with incidents involving extraordinary power."

Hearing Boer's reminder, Leo nodded, motioned Boer to step aside, and then asked these people: "Is there anything I can do to help you?"

The leader of the black-robed people did not show any arrogance, but kept his posture low, and asked the two of them: "The main thing is that I want to ask Lei about the incident that happened in the second city not long ago. Mr. O and Ms. Sylvia."

"Let's talk in our study!" Leo and Sylvia did not refuse, nodded, turned around and walked upstairs.

Seeing this situation, the man in black quickly followed.

After the group came to the study room of the apartment, they each sat down, and then the black-robed man asked Leo the complete story, and Leo did not conceal or modify too much, and carefully explained what happened after he came to the second city. Narrated it again.

The whole matter was not very complicated, and the black-robed man understood it after listening to it once, and then he asked again: "Why do you judge Felipe Dinan as one of the kidnappers?"

"You misunderstood. I just said that among the few mentors who refused to cooperate with the search, Felipe Dinan was more likely to be the kidnapper. This does not mean that other mentors are not worthy of suspicion." Leo shook Shaking his head, he explained: "So the suggestion I gave at the time was to ask him to send someone to search all the tutor's research rooms at the same time. Is there something wrong with Feili's tutor's research room?"

The men in black robes looked at each other, but did not answer Leo's question. The leader of the man in black robes did not change the question, but continued to ask: "Why do you think that Felipe Dinan was kidnapped?" who is more likely?"

Leo explained seriously again: "Because I have seen the research project of Philip Dinan, this research project and the research project of Lucius scholar seem to overlap in some places, such as the life research of the first dean of the academy, etc. Wait, that's why I think Felipe Dinan might kidnap Lucius because he hasn't made any progress in the research and intends to find clues to breakthroughs from Lucius, who has a similar research project."

The black-robed man was silent for a moment after hearing this, and asked again: "Did you notice anything unusual about Keto when you were in contact with him?"

"Who is Keto?" Leo asked back.

The man in black replied, "It's the captain of the city guard that Director Raul arranged for you and Ms. Sylvia."

"No problem was found at that time." Leo shook his head and said.

"At that time?" The black-robed man was taken aback.

"Yes, it was at that time, because we had just arrived in the Academy City, and we didn't understand some of the regulations and guidelines of the Academy City, so when the man blew the police whistle in the city, we thought it was a normal operation," Leo said truthfully. He replied: "But after returning to the apartment, we learned from Boer that the city guard captain's behavior was completely unreasonable. There still needs to be a process for blowing the city police whistle and blocking the whole process, which cannot be decided by a city captain, so I now think he should have a problem."

Hearing Leo's words, the men in black looked at each other again, and nodded slightly. It seemed that they accepted Leo's words.

At this time, Leo also asked, "Is something wrong with Director Raul?"

The man in black hesitated for a moment and asked, "Why do you think so?"

Leo said in a deep voice: "When you come in, ask Felicity Dinan. Director Raul personally took people to search his laboratory not long ago, and the building that collapsed should be Felicity Dinan from the location. The building where the laboratory is located, so..."

The man in black nodded and said, "Yes, something happened to Director Raul, and the kidnapper is also missing, and the kidnapped mentor Lucius has not been found. We have no clue when we come here. Director Raul is in a coma. I recommended two assistants before, so we are here."