The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

After listening to Sophie's narration, Leo was silent for a moment, indicating that Sophie could leave. After closing the door, he sat at the table, put on his glasses, and wrote and drew on the paper on the table.

Although the rumors about the flower shop in the 27th district sounded unreasonable, it was more like the same kind of business in the 23rd district deliberately spreading rumors to slander the reputation of the flower shop, but after thinking about it, this matter really has nothing to do with the flower shop ? Leo doesn't think so.

If there was only this one rumor, Leo might believe that it was a man-made rumor, but Sophie mentioned that the prostitute named Melinda was carrying a valuable and precious ornament before she disappeared, so things changed. It's not that simple.

According to the books I read before, silver shellfish are a kind of unique shellfish produced in Silvermoon City. They usually stay in the lake and only climb ashore at certain times. When the shell fades off, the silver shell will regenerate a new shell, and the shell that fades is the jeweler's favorite raw material for high-end jewelry.

The reason why jewelers like silver shells as jewelry materials is because in the process of refining jewelry, if some silver shell powder is added, the jewelry made will be as new forever, and after absorbing enough moonlight, it will naturally emit a stream of light. The soft light gives the wearer an indescribable and inexplicable hazy beauty.

It is precisely because of this characteristic of silver shells, and the fact that they are rarely produced, that there is a ten-fold price difference for the same piece of jewelry with or without silver shell powder. Even in Seventh Lake Town, there are silver shell jewelry and There are only a handful of aristocrats who are so rich that they can give away casually without attracting attention. The seventh is the Alcott family, and the Nowitzki family is the second. As for the other noble families, they are not a little bit worse than these two noble families in terms of background and wealth.

Now, it happened that a heir of the Nowitzki family who had the qualifications and financial resources to give away silver shell jewelry at will also died, and was disguised as a murder after his death. No matter how he looked at it, Leo felt that there must be a connection. He also found that the speculation he made in the morgue of the Security Bureau seemed to be wrong, or more correctly, it was incomplete. There must be infighting in the family, but there may be other reasons besides the infighting in the family that made Novus The heir of the Ji family died.

"Could he really fall in love with a prostitute?" Leo suddenly had a bold but very possible guess in his mind.

If the Nowitzki family heir really fell in love with that Melinda, then if something happened to Melinda, he would definitely start an investigation. With the ability of the Nowitzki family, it should not be the clues to find out these murders. It's too difficult. In this way, he becomes a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh that the murderer must get rid of.

Thinking of this, Leo muttered, "It seems that the flower shop in District 27 is still the key."

"Bang, bang, bang!" At this moment, there was a knocking sound outside the window of this room, and Leo's mental network found a large group of elf mice hiding on the eaves outside with packages on their backs, but The figure of the Duke of White Boots was not found, but from the gaze direction and body orientation of the elf mice, he was able to analyze that the Duke of White Boots should be standing by the window.

Leo went to the window and opened it, only to see, as he expected, the Duke of White Boots, who was able to block the detection of the spirit net, was standing by the window, raising his hand, ready to knock on the window again.

"Sorry! Did I come too fast to bother you!" The Duke of White Boots quickly saluted Leo and said.

"No interruption, come in!" Leo stepped aside, found a piece of wood from the side and put it on the window sill, forming a slope.

"Thank you." For Leo's careful care, the Duke of White Boots was very grateful. After thanking Leo, he squeaked twice at the group of rats climbing on the eaves behind him, and the group of rats immediately ordered The man walked through the small eaves aisle, walked down the slope, put the package on the ground, then walked back around the road, and changed into the house.

Seeing this scene, Leo sat down at the desk and waited for the other party to deliver the trade items he was going to choose to the house one by one.

Although the Duke of White Boots didn't show it, Leo could still tell from some of its actions that it still didn't trust him very much, and at the same time was very afraid of this room full of traps. That's why it didn't enter the house by itself, but asked its subordinates to pretend to be carrying the trade goods, enter the house first, and check the situation of the house.

After each elf mouse entered the house, it would put the goods in different places, and then walk back through other routes. Such obvious tentative actions fully revealed its thoughts and purposes, and it did not realize it.

Leo didn't say that he was the Duke of White Boots, but pretended that he didn't find anything, and sat there quietly waiting for all the items to be delivered.

Not long after, forty-three items that were about the size of a fist were all delivered to the room. At this time, the Duke of White Boots walked into the room with some relief. The straight tail shows its nervousness.

Leo picked up the five high-energy substances from the table, walked to the side of the Duke of White Boots, sat cross-legged on the ground, put the high-energy substances in his hands in front of the Duke of White Boots, and said: "These are the things you want, right? ?”

"Yes! Yes! That's them." When the Duke of White Boots saw the items he urgently needed, the timidity in his heart disappeared instantly, and he swooped on one of the pieces of high-energy matter that was half the size of its head, hugged it tightly, and deeply Fearing that this thing would disappear from sight, he sniffed it vigorously with his nose, as if he was smelling some strange fragrance.

"Relax, no one will snatch you." Leo couldn't help smiling when he saw the exaggerated behavior of the wise elf mouse.

"Take it! Who dares to snatch my baby!" Leo's words seemed to have greatly stimulated the Duke of White Boots. He jumped up and stood on the largest piece of high-energy material, pulled out the toothpick and rapier at his waist, and He looked around warily.

When he saw only Leo around, and Leo was looking at him with a smile on his face, the Duke of White Boots realized that he had made a big joke. He quickly put away his sword, lowered his head in embarrassment, and looked at Leo. Said: "Mr. Dodd, I'm sorry! I was too nervous just now, after all, this thing is very important to me."

Leo smiled and pointed out: "Duke White Boots, you are not a qualified businessman, and you have revealed all your cards at once. If I want all your trading items greedily, I am afraid you will have to agree to it." .”

"Ah!" The Duke of White Boots froze for a moment, then looked at Leo trustingly, and said, "You are a noble person, you wouldn't do this."

"Never underestimate the greed of human beings. Sometimes human beings will behave noble and fair because the price is not enough. When the price is right, no matter how noble people are, they will become shameless and humble." Leo seemed to think of something , The tone of the speech was also slightly sentimental, but this emotion quickly dissipated. Before the Duke of White Boots could fully understand the meaning of these words, he pointed to the pile of trade items and said, "We will wait for the number to exchange. , Five for five, I hope to find five useful things for me from these things."

"Let me help you." The Duke of White Boots ran over very actively, hugged the nearest package and sent it to Leo, and then hugged the high-energy material tightly.

"You don't need to do it, I'll do it myself!" Leo said as he unwrapped the fist-sized package in front of him and looked at the contents.

I saw that there was an exquisite jewelry in the package, which was obviously very precious. It should have been carefully selected by the Duke of White Boots according to human habits, but it was a pity that this item was useless to Leo.

Seeing Leo repacking the things, the Duke of White Boots was a little frustrated, but he quickly regained his energy and urged: "Look at the other ones, look at the other ones, there must be something you like inside."

Leo signaled the Duke of White Boots not to be impatient, and stretched out his hand to untie these small packages one by one. Most of the packages contained valuables such as jewelry, which were not what Leo wanted. In the end, only three items interested Leo. , since all three items are psionic items.

From the Turing root on the items, it can be seen that the three items should be remnants of a set of psionic items, and there are obvious signs of damage on the items. This kind of damage is not caused by cold weapons, but more like It is a trace of damage caused by high-energy weapons such as lasers and high-beam ions. It happens that Leo is very familiar with this type of damage trace and can recognize it at a glance.

Leo took the three psionic items whose original shapes could not be seen, looked carefully in front of his eyes, and found that there were some small writings on the fragments, which he had never seen before. Ancient cuneiform.

"Hmm! What's going on here?" Leo put the text on the fragment into the database, and compared it with the languages ​​he had learned to see if he could find the pattern, but at this moment he suddenly understood, like After discovering something extraordinary, the realization fell on the reference piece again, and the expression on his face was a little more surprised.

The reason why Leo suddenly showed a surprised expression was because he found that he could read the text clearly without wearing special glasses.

He has tried many times before, and found that as long as it is ordinary characters, no matter what kind of characters are written and who is writing them, even if he writes some characters himself, without wearing special glasses All writing is blurred and confused, and only the Gamore language, which has magical powers, is immune to this disturbing power.

"Is this also a Gamore language?" Leo was puzzled. At this time, the analysis and comparison results of the sub-brain system came out and showed in Leo's eyes.

I saw that according to the comparison of the language structure, 97% of this cuneiform font is Blok language. Blok language is a kind of ancient French language family. It has been withdrawn from the main language system before.

It’s just that this language is the source of all cuneiform scripts in the Franco-language family, so people have been studying this language all the time, making this language relatively well preserved in all Franco-language families. The main grammatical structure and a few letters Words are preserved.

After seeing the analysis of the sub-brain system, Leo immediately realized that the three sets of psychic item fragments probably came from the world of Velen, so he could see these words clearly without using special glasses. And judging from the use of this text, this item was probably brought into this dream world by wizards or other people who use psychic powers in the world of Velen a long time ago.

"Where did you find these three things?" Leo asked as he placed the three psychic fragments in front of the Duke of White Boots.

The Duke of White Boots was also very happy to see that Leo was interested in the three items he brought. Hearing the inquiry, he quickly jumped in front of Leo, looked carefully at the three pieces, and quickly remembered After knowing the origin of these three fragments, the mouse also showed a serious look on his face.

"Mr. Dodd, is this thing important to you?" The Duke of White Boots asked in a deep voice.

Leo responded: "It's not important, it's just useful to me."

The Duke of White Boots hesitated for a moment, and said: "I get along very well with you, so I don't want to cause any harm to you because of this transaction. I was busy packing just now, and I didn't notice, so I took these three items The thing that should be taken out has been taken out, you may cause trouble if you hold this thing, and even..."

"Don't worry about me, I won't be in any trouble." Leo could hear that the Duke of White Boots was really worried about his safety, and perhaps more of it was because he didn't want to lose a suitable trader, but he still accepted the offer , Smiling and reassuring.

Seeing that Leo didn't take his warning seriously, the Duke of White Boots was a little anxious and wanted to end the transaction, but his eyes fell on those pieces of high-energy matter, but he hesitated again, struggling in his heart After a long time, he finally couldn't bear the temptation of the few pieces of high-energy matter, and told the origin of the three fragments: "They all come from the Wizard Tower, the first chief of the Wizard Association."

Hearing this answer, Leo couldn't help being stunned. He didn't expect that the things collected by the Duke of White Boots would involve such a big figure as the first chief wizard.

Perhaps it had already been said, and the Duke of White Boots had no worries, and continued: "This thing was stolen from the treasure house of the first chief wizard's tower. At that time, someone sneaked into the treasure house to steal something, and later alarmed the wizard. The tower's magic puppet guards, those puppet guards all went to chase the thief, so I sneaked into the treasure house and stole three things that I could afford. Later, the first chief wizard put the entire Silvermoon City under martial law, saying that The thief stole a very important thing. I want to find the thief. But I know very well that the thief was discovered by the magic puppet guards without taking anything. The only thing missing from the treasure house is the three pieces I took. thing."

After listening to the Duke of White Boots, Leo suddenly asked without thinking: "Are you the first chief's pet?"

The Duke of White Boots was stunned when he heard it, then shook his head again and again as if he had heard something disgusting, and said, "How could I be the pet of that bad old man? This is simply an insult to me. If you don't look good, I will definitely fight you now, and use your blood to wash away my reputation."