The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Duke White Boots, what's wrong with you?" Leo turned his head slightly and asked the Duke of White Boots in the hood behind him.

The Duke of White Boots approached Leo's ear and said timidly, "I don't know, I'm just scared. The smell on that thing scares me!"

"Smell?" Leo was stunned, walked to the table, and picked up the fragment. Seeing this, the Duke of White Boots hurriedly hid at the bottom of the hood, shrinking his body into a ball.

Leo put the fragments under his nose and smelled it, but he couldn't smell anything. For this reason, Leo activated the perfect control skill and raised his nose's sense of smell to the strongest state of his physique. All kinds of things around him instantly The smell, including the smell outside the house, got into his nostrils, making it easy for him to know who walked by around the house, what they did, and so on.

However, what makes people feel a little weird is that he can't smell any smell from this eggshell scale, not even the smell of the Hannover woman who has been in contact with it and himself.

Suddenly, Leo thought of something, activated his spiritual vision skill, and immediately saw a black-gray chaotic spiritual energy emanating from the eggshell scale. This psionic energy is not very strong, and it is consistent with the chaotic nature of this dream world, so that even if Leo holds the fragment in his hand, if he does not activate his spiritual vision, he will not be able to perceive it from this fragment with his spiritual perception talent alone. to any psionic power.

After discovering the problem, Leo found an iron box, put the stones in the box, and took it to the downstairs room, then asked the Duke of White Boots who was hiding in the hood, "Is it better now? "

The Duke of White Boots, who had recovered to normal, quickly crawled out from behind the hood, climbed onto the table again, and said with some embarrassment: "I wasn't afraid just now, it's just..."

"I know." Leo did not let the Duke of White Boots continue, but took the initiative to change the subject: "I came to you to ask, what happened to the corpse I just went to see?"

"Didn't you want me to help you find the murderer?" The Duke of White Boots tilted his head and said suspiciously.

Leo asked again: "Did you see the murderer commit the crime?"

The Duke of White Boots shook his head and said, "No. But I smell the smell, that woman's corpse has that smell."

Leo didn't feel anything unusual when he heard this sentence at first, thinking that the Duke of White Boots meant the smell left by the murderer on the woman, and was about to ask about other things, but suddenly he thought about it again, and felt that he seemed to have missed it. what.

After pondering for a while, Leo asked tentatively: "You mean to say that the smell came from the woman herself, and it wasn't left on him by other people?"

The Duke of White Boots nodded and said, "Yes, that's what I meant. Didn't I make it clear enough?"

"Did I guess wrong before?" Leo couldn't help feeling puzzled, frowning and thinking.

Before, he had guessed what the unique smell that the Duke of White Boots mentioned was. Although he had thought that it was because he came from the world of Velen, he had the unique smell of the world of Velen, but because of other reasons, he denied this guess. , and turned to think that it was because of the dream body on his body, and what he encountered in the flower shop just confirmed this guess.

But now, the Duke of White Boots said that this female family member who also came from the world of Velen also had that smell on her body, which made Leo feel extremely confused, and the things that had been speculated and confirmed before were also shaken in his heart.

After thinking for a while, Leo asked again: "Duke White Boots, apart from smelling the special smell of the murderer, have you ever seen the murderer?"

"I haven't seen it." The Duke of White Boots shook his head, changed the topic, and said, "But I have seen the murderer's back."

"It's good to have seen the back." Hearing what the Duke of White Boots said, Leo immediately found a pen and paper, and quickly drew the middle-aged man's back on the paper.

Before he finished drawing, the Duke of White Boots jumped up and shouted: "Yes, yes! That's him, that's the back."

After getting the news he wanted from the Duke of White Boots, Leo's complexion not only did not improve, but became even more gloomy, because he realized that he had done something wrong before.

When he was in the flower shop, Leo guessed that there was a corpse in the middle-aged man's box, and he also confirmed this through testing, but for various reasons, he never thought of actually fighting him, but let him go. He left and didn't open the box on the spot. Now it seems that the female corpse that he saw just now is probably stored in that box.

According to the size of the box, if it was a living person, only the body of a child could be put in the box, so Leo would mistakenly think that the corpse in the box was a child. But if it is a dead person, then as long as the posture is right, even an adult can be stuffed into that box.

Leo said with a serious expression: "Duke White Boots, I want you to help me find this person."

The Duke of White Boots said suspiciously: "But I have never seen him, and my little guys don't have my sense of smell, so they can't detect the special smell of this person at all."

"It's okay, I'll draw his portrait, you just let your little ones look for it according to the image." Leo said, and quickly drew a few portraits on the paper, from the front face to the profile Face, from every angle.

"You draw really well!" The Duke of White Boots circled the drawing paper, looked at the vivid portrait with admiration on his face, and said with great anticipation: "Can you draw me one too?"

"Of course." Leo nodded.

The Duke of White Boots immediately stood on the table, tidied up his clothes, and then stood with his head held high. Just when Leo was about to start drawing, it suddenly stopped, told Leo to wait, and then ran out quickly. room.

After the Duke of White Boots left, Leo also thought that there were some herbs suitable for making paints in the secret room of the pharmacy study on the second floor, so he went downstairs to look for them, took some up, and followed the instructions of the secondary brain system information , and grind them into some pigments that can be used for painting.

Just after Leo's paint was ready, the Duke of White Boots, dressed in gorgeous clothes and wearing a wide-brimmed feather hat, came bouncing in. In addition, a few elf mice followed closely behind it. They carried a crystal-shaped throne and jumped onto the table. Under the instructions of the Duke of White Boots, they placed the throne in a more conspicuous place, and then the Duke of White Boots did He climbed up, changed a few postures, and when he felt it was suitable, he nodded to Leo, indicating that he could draw.

Seeing the actions of the Duke of White Boots, Leo couldn't help but smiled, then found a piece of paper with psychic power, and began to draw on the paper with the ink specially used for drawing magic circles. Soon he drew the appearance of the Duke of White Boots on the paper, filled in the corresponding colors, and then found a few pieces of wood to make a small picture frame, clipped the picture on the frame, and handed it to the Duke of White Boots .

The Duke of White Boots took the portrait, leaned it on his crystal throne, and looked at it carefully. Although his back was facing Leo, he couldn't see its expression, but it was not difficult to guess from its wagging tail. It's in a great mood.

After looking at it for a while, the Duke of White Boots called a few times to the elf mouse waiting beside him, ordered his men to carry away the crystal throne and the portrait, then turned around and picked up the portrait of the middle-aged man on the table, rolled it up, and used it With the little rope on his back, he said to Leo: "Don't worry, as long as this person is still in District 23, I will find him soon."

After finishing speaking, it ran out of the room in a hurry and yelled loudly outside the room, as if it was directing its subordinates to carefully carry the two things.

After the Duke of White Boots left, Leo didn't stay in the secret room, but returned to the study below, and didn't read a book, just sat on the chair, closed his eyes and meditated.

In the past two days, he was either studying pharmacy and wizard knowledge in this world, or he was dealing with other things, so he didn't have a good rest. Although there is no problem with his physical condition due to the support of the energy storage value, he still feels a little tired mentally, so before the time agreed with Marek, he decided to take a rest in this room to relieve his spirit of fatigue.

After Leo relaxed, he soon fell into a deep sleep, and his spirit also entered the dreamland.

About 20 minutes later, Leo opened his glasses suddenly, his eyes were full of murderous intent, a psionic impact erupted from him, turning into a substantial physical impact, which washed away the surrounding books and sundries. At the same time, the Gemini in his hand instantly changed into the cross sword mode, displaying the rock posture of attack and defense in the cross sword swordsmanship, looking around with great vigilance.

At some point, there was a wound on his arm, blood flowed out from the wound, and dripped down the blade of the Gemini Cross Sword to the floor, making a rattling sound.

After calming down, Leo showed doubts on his face, and then looked at his injured hand, his face was full of bewilderment, as if he didn't know why he did this, and why his hand was injured.

"Sub-brain, display the body data after falling asleep." Leo didn't feel any danger around him, so he changed the Gemini in his hand back to the glove mode, re-done it on the chair, and carefully looked at the slowly moving data on the eyeballs material.

There is not much content in the data, and Leo finished it quickly, but after reading it, the doubts on his face not only did not disappear, but intensified.

Because according to the above data, he had been sitting in a chair to rest just now, and nothing happened around him. Any reaction on his body showed that he was always in a deep sleep when he woke up.

Although there seems to be no problem with the above data, Leo found two abnormalities. The first point is that he immediately entered a deep sleep state after closing his eyes and resting, without any light sleep or other abnormalities in the middle. The sleep process that should have. The second point is that at the same time he woke up, before he was fully awake, a wound appeared on his arm, and it appeared instantaneously, taking less than a second before and after.

"What's going on?" Although Leo discovered two abnormalities, he still didn't understand what happened to him, why he was injured, and why he suddenly made offensive and defensive actions.

"Search the database and look for similar records." Leo ordered to the vice brain.

As a large amount of data was compared according to the two abnormalities discovered by Leo, each piece of information was gradually sorted out and displayed in Leo's eyes. Leo also carefully eliminated each piece of irrelevant information. He didn't stop until there were only seven messages left.

These seven pieces of information are all in line with his situation without exception. He also suddenly entered a deep sleep and was injured during the sleep process, but some of them had large and small scars on their bodies while they were still in a deep sleep, and some of them were injured. It was after waking up that the scars appeared.

What is interesting is that these seven materials come from three different places. One is the subconscious experiment report of the Earth Federation in the early days, and the other two are from the internal publications of the Vinylon World Hearsay Society. of anecdotes. As for the remaining four pieces of information are from the dream world, these four pieces of information are all recorded in a publication similar to the internal journal of the Hearsay Society, which respectively record the strange things in each lake town.

What's more interesting is that whether it is the subconscious research experiment of the Earth Federation or the two cases in the Velen world, people are still in a deep sleep, and scars appear on their bodies. Only the situation in the dream world and Leo's scars The situation is the same.

In addition, in the case of the Earth Federation, the reason why the person fell into a deep sleep instantly was because of the psychic skills performed by a powerful psyker, and the two cases in the Velen world were also done by wizards, but the four in the dream world There is no record of any external involvement in these cases.

"Is it plotted against?" Leo asked suspiciously.

From the data of these seven cases, it is not difficult to see that this incident is definitely not something that occurred naturally, and must have been influenced by external forces, and this external force may be witchcraft or psionic skills. Although the four cases of the dream world do not mention external influences, it is likely that they have not been discovered.

Thinking of this, Leo's expression became serious, and the appearance of the middle-aged man immediately appeared in his mind. No matter how he looked at it, the middle-aged man should have already made a move, and it is even possible that the female corpse was just To find his bait.

Thinking of this, Leo immediately stood up, went downstairs, and prepared to go to the security station to examine the corpse carefully, and then talk to Marek about the middle-aged man.

Just when he was about to leave, Sophie suddenly came to his mind, so he turned and knocked on the door of the maid's room.

I only heard a sound from inside the door, and after a while, I saw Sophie, who was a little pale, wrapped her body tightly with a blanket as if she was sick, rubbing her eyes as if she hadn't woken up, and asked: " Sir, do you have any orders?"

"Sophie, are you sick?" Leo frowned and asked.

Sophie shook her head again and again, and said, "No, it's just that I'm not used to the bed here, and I haven't slept well, and I'll be fine in two days."

After Leo saw Sophie, he always felt that he should do something, but he couldn't remember what to do. In the end, he could only tell her to take a good rest, and then turned and walked out of the room.