The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"It seems that these people are also quite smart. They know how to create misunderstandings, put people directly in the open, and hide some forbidden books in the carriage to attract attention, but I don't know how effective it will be?" Leo looked at the gun they were targeting. Caravan, said to himself.

Sylvia asked: "What are we going to do next, expose them?"

"No need," Leo shook his head, and then said with a smile: "At any rate, we are barely part of the same organization. It's fine if we don't help, but we don't need to expose them. We just need to stand here and see if they can get away with it. .”

Although, when faced with the invitation of those men in black robes, Leo refused to continue assisting them in solving this case, but in fact he had another idea, and after the men in black robes left, he stayed with Sylvia in the name of rest. In the bedroom, they were told not to disturb them. In fact, they had already left the apartment, easily avoided the eyes and ears of the guards of the school city, and walked out of the school city.

Without the influence of the energy disruptor, the two of them each used their power to fall from the mountain to the book town at the foot of the mountain at a straight-line distance. After that, Leo searched for suspicious people and objects in the book town through the spiritual network, and soon the kidnapper and the victim The kidnapper was found out by them.

Originally, Leo planned to find out these people, make a little noise, arouse the movement of the guards in Book Town, and then use the hands of the guards in Book Town to rescue the kidnapped Lucius scholar.

But when his mental network checked the kidnappers, he unexpectedly found that among the kidnappers, the few leaders had traces of implants on their bodies, but compared to the perfect implants on Joan , the implants on their bodies more or less caused some mutations in their bodies.

This discovery made him temporarily change his mind, and secretly monitored the movement of these people. As he guessed, even if those people were very careful when talking, even if there were only his own people around, the content of the conversation was all using pronouns or metaphors. But Leo was still suspicious. Analyzing from these riddle-like conversations, these people might also be members of that secret organization.

In addition, he also confirmed that these people kidnapped Lucius for the purpose of Lucius' research on the Beginning Land, and some information revealed from their words shows that the Beginning Land is related to an extremely important plan of the organization.

After learning about this information, Leo decided to be a bystander for the time being, and began to think about what to do with the notes he found from Lucius. The participation of the city may make things a lot more interesting.

Book Town is carrying out inspections of caravans and pedestrians in an orderly manner. Although the inspection speed is already fast, it is still a bit slow for those who want to leave or enter Book Town. However, even if they complain, they dare not substantively What kind of drastic action should they take? After all, the soldiers of the Theresa Kingdom Legion who had left the barracks to assist in the inspection were not as polite as the guards in Shuzhen.

At this moment, no matter how dull people are, they can see that something big must have happened in the city of academics, otherwise, there would be such a big movement, some purely curious people and some people with other identities People have been asking everywhere what happened, but they can't find anything. Obviously, what happened in the academic city on the top of the mountain has not yet reached the foot of the mountain.

As the inspection in Book Town became more and more careful and strict, the bookseller team under surveillance by Leo and Sylvia didn't seem to be nervous, and they didn't make any extra moves. They lined up like other caravans around them, waiting for the inspection .

Soon the inspectors came to their team. The guards in charge of the inspection inspected the goods on the caravan very carefully. Once they found anything suspicious, they asked the caravan to unload the goods. As a result, they found several places. Hidden mezzanine, found some unbonded prohibited books in the mezzanine.

Printing prohibited books in Book Town is not a big problem, but printing prohibited books requires a considerable surtax, and the amount of this surcharge may even be ten times or even dozens of times the printing price of the book itself, so Privately printing and smuggling prohibited books in Book Town has become the norm, and it’s fine if they are not found. Once found, they will be fined ten times the additional tax.

Therefore, when the caravan was found to be smuggling prohibited books, from the guards in charge of the inspection to the other caravans watching the excitement around, they were all staring at the number of smuggled books and the calculated fine amount, no one cared anymore The other people in the caravan paid even less attention to an ordinary middle-aged man who looked like he was drunk sitting next to the carriage driver.

Just like that, under the watchful eyes of the gloating people around, the caravan paid a huge fine unwillingly, then rearranged the goods, and left Book Town with a dejected look on their face.

Watching the caravan leave, Leo and Sylvia did not continue to stay in Book Town, and returned to Academic City as quickly as possible.

After returning to the academic city, they didn't go back to the apartment immediately, but went to Lucius' research room.

Perhaps it was because all the materials had been evacuated. There was no one guarding the outside of Lucius's laboratory, and it was as empty as other unused laboratories. After Leo entered the laboratory, he took those of Lucius The note was taken out, put back to the original place, and then a little movement was made, which attracted the attention of the guards of the school city who happened to be patrolling nearby, and watched the guards enter Lucius' research room to check the situation before leaving.

In the next few days, there was still no contact with the closed city of the second school city, and various searches were carried out in an orderly manner. Although the people in the school city did not find the kidnapper and the kidnapped Lucius during the search, they did find There were many other spies and secret agents lurking in the school city. These people had various identities, such as students, tutors, city guards, and even two spies were found among the cleaners in charge of cleaning.

Most of these people are members of various True God churches, and the management of the Academy City was not surprised by this, and did not execute these people with severe means, but just imprisoned these people secretly, it seems that they intend to Use these people in other ways.

As for why not disclose the identities of these people, and make representations to those Churches of True God, and then use these people as bargaining chips, it is presumably because Xuecheng is very clear about the way things are done by the Church of True God, even if the identities of these people are disclosed, the Church The other side will not admit it, but will accuse Xuecheng of framing, and use this as an excuse to do something against Xuecheng, so letting these people disappear secretly is the best way to deal with it.

In the past few days, neither Leo nor Sylvia paid attention to what happened outside the apartment. Their attention was focused on the research materials of various stagnant and abandoned projects sent by the school city project committee.

The tutor of the school city intends to formulate a research project. To obtain the support of the school city, it must pass the review of the project committee. This kind of review will not only consider whether the project has potential value, but also compare whether the new research project is consistent with the existing one. The research projects overlap, especially whether there are corresponding abandoned projects in the past research projects.

Under normal circumstances, the project committee will not participate in the creation of the mentor's research project. They always act as a calm reviewer, but this time the situation seems to be a little different. Some of the most valuable research project materials in the project library were sent to the apartment of Leo and Sylvia, and they expressed the hope that they would set up a research project team as soon as possible. The underlying meaning is that no matter what research project they set up, they will pass the review.

The operation of the project committee completely stupefied Bohr. In his memory, there has never been a tutor who has received such treatment. Even those tutors who have achieved fame in a certain discipline also need to submit their The research project proposal needs to wait for review, but Leo and Sylvia, the new mentors who joined the academy, can get such unconventional treatment, which makes him curious about their identities.

However, Bohr was destined to be unable to find any useful information. Even from his uncle, all he got was the information that Leo and Sylvia's knowledge was not weaker than that of any instructor in the Academy City. The only thing worth paying attention to is that Leo's record in Omniscient Chess is an unprecedented record of victory, but he doesn't think this will be the reason why the project committee gave them special treatment, even if everyone in the school city is keen on Omniscient Chess.

Although it was impossible to find out the reason why the project committee valued Leo and Sylvia, Bohr still knew that this was a rare opportunity for him, so he also tried his best to show his ability to do things these days, I hope that after Leo and Sylvia have formulated a research project, they can join it.

In fact, Bohr didn't know that Leo had reserved a spot for him from the very beginning. After all, compared to Joan and Penny, he could give Leo more assistance in the school city.

"What do you think of this project?" In the study room full of various materials, Sylvia handed one of the materials in her hand to Leo and asked.

"Research on the causes of corruption and mutation?" Leo finally looked at the cover, then flipped through it quickly, then shook his head, and said: "Most of the content is guesswork, and the guess is wrong, without any reference value."

Sylvia said: "We don't need reference value, we just need a useful reason. The topic of this research project is very large and involves a wide range of content. If we restart this research project, we can do it in many things." Use that as an excuse."

After listening to Sylvia's explanation, Leo looked at the document again, then nodded, and put it in the other project materials that were selected before.

Among the past research projects of these learning cities, the vast majority of research projects are stagnant projects. There are many reasons for the stagnation of projects. Applying for abandonment and switching to other research projects, the University City will rarely abandon the research project, unless it is found that the research project is a fraudulent fund, or involves some prohibited content.

For example, an abandoned research project that Leo is looking at carefully now, the data file of this research project is incomplete, not only does it not have a project name, even the data inside has been artificially deleted, altered and torn up. I am afraid that this information will just be thrown aside casually, even if you look through it, it will be difficult to read any useful content from it.

However, after reading the incomplete research project materials, Leo found some interesting contents, and from these contents, he can almost confirm that the owner of the research project materials is definitely a member of a secret organization, Because in the uncut content of this material, it mentioned some information about using supernatural beings to cultivate implants, and then improve human physique and abilities through implants, and he also found in this material a person who looked like It is the broken pattern of the seal.

Although the broken pattern was deliberately smeared with black ink, Leo can still restore the complete shape of the imprint by analyzing the difference between the ink used in the imprint and the composition of the applied ink.

"Bohr, have you seen this mark?" Leo asked Boer after recovering the mark.

"I haven't seen it." Bohr shook his head, and then said: "If you want to know the source of the imprint, you can go to the eighteenth building on Red Roof Street and find Mr. Cormier. He studies imprints, badges and totems. experts."

After hearing this, Leo prepared to let Boer lead the way, and went to the mark expert with Sylvia to inquire about the origin of the mark, but when he was leaving, Joan, who was teaching Penny swordsmanship, accidentally saw the mark with the mark on it. Zhang Zhi said in surprise, "Teacher, this is the holy emblem of the Primordial Church."

"The Church of the Primordial?" Leo was stunned for a moment, and asked, "Why haven't I heard the name of this church?"

"I don't know the specific situation," Joan shook his head in a daze, and said, "I just remember that when I was trained by the instructor in the Sanctuary of the False Heart, the instructor listed some badges of heretical churches, including this The holy emblem of the Primordial Church."

"A heretic church?" Leo thought for a while, and asked Boer: "If I want to look up information about a heretic church..."

Before Leo could finish speaking, Boer immediately gave the answer: "You can go to the restricted area of ​​the big library. There should be a lot of materials stored there, but only the instructor can allow you to look them up."

Therefore, the group's goal was changed to the large library in the city.

Although the blockade of the Second City has not yet ended, the martial law in the city has been relaxed a lot. Scholars and students in the city can move freely. Apart from being unable to leave the Second City for the time being, there are not many restrictions as usual.

After a group of people came to the big library, after the library manager checked the identities of Leo and Sylvia, they let them enter the restricted area to check the information, and they quickly found out from the rich books and materials. The information you want to find.