The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

In everyone's impression, Marek, who was transferred from another lake town two years ago, is a wimp. They didn't seem to have shown any extraordinary abilities, so not only did the Security Bureau look down on their chief, but even the City Guard Office completely regarded him as non-existent.

From the fact that the city guards and guards are now confronting each other over the case, we can see Marek's status in the eyes of these people. If the city guards really valued Marek, they would not let a low-level city guard officer Confronting him, the head of the Security Bureau, it is obvious that in the eyes of the city guard, Marek is just equivalent to a low-level city guard officer.

But no one could have imagined that this seemingly useless chief of the security bureau turned out to be a hidden monster, and he could easily deal with more than a dozen city guards with good strength by himself. Judging by his relaxed appearance, it seems that he has not yet use force.

"Long-haired Marek! I know you are Long-haired Marek!" At this moment, the city guard officer who was bound first suddenly cried out in shock.

The yell of the city guard officer immediately attracted the attention of the city guard and the guards. When they heard the content of the yell, they all gasped involuntarily, and looked at Marek in shock. And there was inevitably a trace of suspicion in his eyes.

And Leo, who was standing next to the corpse to check the situation, was also attracted by the exclamation, and couldn't help but look at Marek with a calm face.

Although Leo has only been in this world for a few days, he still has a reputation for long-haired Marek.

Among the books acquired by Leo during this period, there are no less than 20 books that record the legendary deeds of this legendary figure.

Although the deeds about Marek recorded in each book are different, the image descriptions of Marek are all similar, without exception, they are giants with huge stature and infinite strength.

It was also because of this that after Leo knew that the chief of the Security Bureau was named Marek, he didn't think about this legendary figure whose reputation spread throughout the Ten Towns.

According to the description in the book, Leo learned that Marek the Long Hair was the most legendary powerhouse in the battles of defending the castle in the fog area against the attacks of fog monsters in the last hundred years. There are various deeds about Marek, and there are many books recording these deeds, but no matter which book must record one thing, this thing is Marek's battle for fame.

In that battle, Marek's defense team was sent to a certain location to block the invasion of fog monsters. Originally, the team should only face a few free fog monster groups, but because the offensive of the castle guarding the fog area on the other side was too It was so violent that a large number of fog monsters chose to detour to the area under the responsibility of Marek's team and entered the defense zone.

Facing the overwhelming crowd of fog monsters, Marek's team quickly died, leaving only Marek alone. Without any backup, Marek guarded the defense zone alone, and thousands of Wan's fog monsters blocked the defense area. When the rescuers arrived at the defense area, all they saw were the corpses of the fog monsters all over the mountains and Marek resting on a tree trunk.

Since then, Marek has become a member of the tenth fog area guarding the castle. Every time he fights, he is on the front line. Tens of thousands of fog monsters have died in his hands. , killing the person with the most fog monsters.

Originally, according to the normal rules, Marek, who had made so many military exploits, should become the top guard of the tenth fog zone guarding the castle. After the current commander in chief guarding the castle retired, he would take over the position of the commander in chief and become the commander in chief of the tenth guarding corps.

But for some reason, two years ago, the news about Marek suddenly disappeared from the guard castle in the fog zone. There were rumors that he returned to Ten Towns and became a nobleman with his military exploits. There were also rumors that he had already died in battle in the fog zone. There has been no news of Marek since.

Therefore, after the city guard officer called out the name of the long-haired Marek, the others were surprised, but also a little unbelievable, and doubts inevitably arose in their hearts.

"You know me?" Marek asked the city guard officer, and this inquiry was equivalent to his acquiescing to the identity of the legendary strong man.

The city guard officer changed his contempt and disdain from the confrontation just now, and his expression was full of respect and admiration. When he heard the question, he quickly replied like a subordinate: "I used to work in the tenth fog area to guard the castle, more than I saw the scene of Your Excellency fighting in the distance once."

Marek nodded and shook his head slightly. The whiskers wrapped around these people's bodies quickly untied and shrank back, hiding them in the hair without any abnormalities.

"You take people away now, and I'll be in charge here." Marek made the same request as before again.

It's just that this time the city guard officer didn't continue to confront him. Instead, he saluted him respectfully like a subordinate, and then commanded his subordinates to leave quickly, leaving only the guards who were still standing still at a loss. them.

Marek then ordered to his subordinates: "You guys go to the surrounding houses to inquire about the situation, and see if anyone knows what's going on here?"

"Yes." Hearing Marek's order, the subordinates who hadn't fully recovered did not dare to slack off the order as before, and the guards who were knocked down also got up one after another, watching Marek secretly. Ke, while obeying the order, went to the surrounding houses to inquire about the situation.

After the guards and city guards left, Marek could still feel the strange eyes looking at him from a distance. Thinking of the various situations he would face after his identity was revealed, he couldn't help sighing, and then walked to Leo's side , asked: "Mr. Leo, did you find anything here?"

Leo replied indifferently: "The corpse is the same as the previous deceased. The murderer was very experienced in cutting the knife, so it can be determined that it was done by the same person."

Seeing that Leo did not show abnormal emotions such as surprise and admiration for his true identity like everyone else, Marek was surprised, but also made him feel a little confused about Leo's identity. He felt that this person might not only Ordinary pharmacist association members only.

"Have you seen this man?" Leo deliberately asked Marek.

"I've never seen it!" Marek squatted down, looked carefully at the woman from the Hanossa League, frowned, and said, "The clothes on her body are also weird, it doesn't seem to be the popular style of clothes in Ten Towns." .”

Marek also quickly sensed the abnormality, and then he skillfully searched among the corpse's clothes, and put the things he found on the ground one by one.

Among these odds and ends, Leo found a lot of familiar things, such as the medal of the winner of the Hanossa Union Hunter Contest, the ticket stub of the Continental train, and so on. In addition, while Marek was searching, Leo also found some mutated organs deliberately hidden by the woman, such as a pair of huge mouths on her shoulder blades, which shows that this woman should be a member of the dark world.

Although many things were found, Leo did not find two things that must be found, one is a weapon, and the other is a potion.

Including Leo and Stampeding Hooves, no matter how confident that person is in his own strength, he will definitely prepare sufficient weapons and potions before participating in the incident at No. 9 Golden Oak Street to deal with all kinds of unforeseen circumstances. Preview hazards and injuries. But now this woman doesn't have a weapon or a potion, which is obviously unreasonable.

"This woman is not a whore." Marek said suddenly.

Leo asked knowingly, "Why do you think so?"

Marek looked at Leo, frowned, seemed dissatisfied that Leo would ask such a question, but still patiently said: "She has a very strong body, very strong, and there are many marks on her body that show that she has experienced a lot. Fighting, he is an experienced fighter, the ancestral state of his body is hidden, so..." At this point, he suddenly seemed to have thought of something, he was stunned, and then carefully checked the corpse's shoulders. The transformed mouth frowned and said, "How could this be?"

Leo asked, "What did you find?"

"What did you find again?" Marek stood up, turned his head and asked Leo seriously.

Leo was silent for a while, analyzed Marek's previous and subsequent behaviors in his mind, and said tentatively: "The ancestral behavior on her body is very strange."

"Have you been to the foggy area?" Marek asked in a daze.

"No." Leo, who knew that his analysis was correct, shook his head calmly.

"It seems that your status in the Pharmacist Association is not low, and you even know these things." Marek said something inexplicable, then looked at Leo, and waved to a guard who was looking over here, and at the same time Said to Leo: "This is not a place to talk, come to the morgue at the Security Bureau in two hours."

After finishing speaking, he didn't give Leo any chance to ask any more questions. He turned around and greeted the approaching guard, then pointed to the corpse and gave some careful instructions.

Seeing this situation, Leo didn't stay here anymore, he turned around and walked back. When he walked around a corner, he waved to a shadowy area in the alley, and then he saw the man who led him here before. Only the wise mouse ran out from the shadows and stopped in front of him.

"Go and tell the Duke of White Boots that I have something to do with it and wait for it in the house." Leo gave instructions to the elf mouse as if talking to someone.

The elf mouse seemed to understand the meaning of Leo's words after hearing it, nodded at him, then quickly jumped to the corner of the wall, and ran along the corner to the depths of the alley.

Without spending too much time, Leo returned to his temporary residence, came to the secret room of the wizard's book room, took out a stone-like object from his pocket, put it on the workbench, and took a special lamp Put the bright oil lamp in front of your eyes and watch carefully.

This stone seems to be an incomplete part of a sculpture, because it was tightly held by the woman in Hanover, so after Leo found it, he felt that it should be an important thing, but because there were other people beside him, It was suitable for a careful inspection, so he continued to inspect the corpse and put the stone into his pocket.

Now after looking at it carefully, Leo showed a little doubt on his face.

First of all, this fragment is definitely not a product of this dream world, because the words engraved on the fragment are the basic root variants of the Gamore language, which means the preface of some kind of prayer, with meanings such as greatness and kindness. And these variant characters that have no power, Leo can see them clearly without wearing special glasses, so this stone is almost certainly from outside the dream world. .

Secondly, there are some reliefs that look like scales on the variant characters, which makes Leo feel a little familiar, because the scales on the reliefs are very strange, showing an octagonal shape, and some of them in the middle look very similar to the basic characters. Similar patterns.

"Associate brain analysis." Leo ordered in his heart.

Following Leo's order, the sub-brain system quickly compared various materials in the database to find a pattern that matched the embossed scales. It didn't take long to compare the results. It came out and projected on his glasses.

"It's Him!" After seeing the result, Leo was also very surprised.

After comparison, this scale relief is actually the same as the scales on the surface of the eggs laid by the mother of many nests, even including the pattern symbols on it that look like basic characters.

In the underground city of Cage City, Leo once saw a complete statue of the Mother of Nests. Because of the environment at that time and the protection of unknown forces, the statue was very well preserved, and some details were also preserved, such as the Mother of Nests spider Those eggs that are laid in the tail part of the body.

These images were also completely recorded in the secondary brain database. At that time, Leo was just habitually recording all the new things he saw, but he didn't expect it to be useful now.

After judging the origin of this fragment, Leo took out this fragment and looked at it carefully. Perhaps because of the difference in mentality and thinking, the details of the same thing have different meanings in his eyes.

Just now, Leo judged that the eggshell scale was a fragment that fell from a certain relief or sculpture, but now looking at this fragment, he feels that this fragment is not a stone fragment of a statue, but more like a real eggshell fragment The petrified state.

At this moment, there was a knocking sound from the window, and Leo immediately stepped forward to open the window. I saw that the Duke of White Boots had already heard the report from his subordinates and rushed over. Like an acquaintance, he jumped into the room without waiting for Leo's greeting, quickly climbed up the table, and asked Leo, "What did you find there?" What happened to the body? I..."

The Duke of White Boots just said a word, as if he was blocked by a foreign object in his throat, unable to speak, his body was as stiff as petrified, and he looked at the eggshell on the table in horror scales.

When Leo wanted to ask the Duke of White Boots what was going on, the Duke of White Boots jumped on Leo's body in fright as if he had seen something terrifying, and quickly climbed into the hood of Leo's leather coat , The body trembled violently, and the emotion of fear was beyond words.