The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"What's going on here? Was there a corpse here just now?" Leo was reminded by the sub-brain system, checked the inspection records just now, and looked at the location of the corpse just now, with some doubts on his face.

Although he has seen the contents of the record, Leo still finds it hard to believe the things in the record. It is understandable if only one corpse disappears, but when the corpse disappears, the memory related to it also disappears. Somewhat incredible.

Not to mention whether someone could silently erase some of his specific memories with his current level of psychic power, but just to erase other people's memories is a bit inconceivable.

Although there are some powerful psykers in the Earth Federation who say that they have the ability to erase a person's memory, the so-called erasure of memory is just blocking and isolating a certain memory cell in a certain way, or directly erasing a memory cell. Only by directly killing the memory cells at the location can the effect of erasing memory be obtained.

This kind of thing sounds very simple, but the actual operation is very difficult. It is difficult for even an Omega-level psyker to be perfect, and there will definitely be various loopholes in other memory content that has been erased. , even if they don't need to be reminded by the secondary brain, ordinary people can easily find problems with their memory.

However, now Leo finds that although the memory related to the corpse has been erased, there is no abnormality in the memory array related to it in his own memory. He can clearly remember that the white-haired woman came from a space gap He broke in from the middle, and then he blocked the pursuers through the king and queen, and closed the teleportation gap.

Carefully analyze this memory through the accessory brain system. It is not difficult to find that this memory is very complete without any loopholes. On the contrary, adding the content recorded in the sub-brain system will make this memory a bit superfluous and uncoordinated.

This situation gave Leo an illusion that there was actually no problem with his own memory, but that the autopsy record of the sub-brain system was extra information tampered with by external forces.

Leo didn't take this delusion to heart. In his opinion, if there is really an external force that can tamper with the analysis records of the sub-brain system, then it is not a problem to tamper with his memory directly by the way. Naturally, it is impossible for such a situation to exist. loopholes.

"Is it because this is a dream world?" Leo speculated about the current situation in his mind.

According to some rules of the dream, once you leave the dream, the memory in the dream will definitely be affected, and it is not incomprehensible to disappear directly. This situation has already been reflected in Peter Alcott.

However, Leo didn't know why his memory would be affected after the corpse disappeared.

If it is only because the corpse is an outsider, then the female family member of the Velen world who entered the dream world with him should also belong to an outsider. Why won't her body disappear, and her memory will not be affected by anything? What about the impact?

While all kinds of questions puzzled Leo, he was once again puzzled and worried about the various anomalies in this dream world, worrying that one day he would be silently wiped out just like that corpse because he touched the rules of this world. go.

At this moment, there was a knock on the door downstairs. Leo checked it through the spirit network and found that it was Wizmir. Judging from the expression on the other party's face, it was obvious that he was in a good mood and should be able to give He brings a nice piece of good news.

Leo left the white-haired woman in the room alone, got up and left the room, went downstairs, opened the door, and said to Wizmir, who was about to knock on the door, "Seeing your expression, there should be something good over there." Got the news?" As he spoke, he stepped aside and motioned, "Come in! Come in and tell me."

"No need! It's better to say it outside, this room is too evil, and only a capable person like you dares to live in it." Wizmir stood at the door without the slightest intention to go in, after a polite refusal , let’s get down to business: “There is indeed good news from the Nowitzki family. However, I didn’t talk about this matter with the current Patriarch of the Nowitzki family, but I talked about this matter with the brother of the deceased. It means that as long as you can help find out who did the evil thing, you don’t need to do it, and the rest can be left to him. In the end, no matter whether someone catches it or not, what you want will be handed over to you .”

"There is such a good thing?" Leo was a little surprised by the conditions that Wizmir said, but soon he thought of something, and said with a smile: "Could the victim's brother be Nowitzki now?" The first heir of the family, right?"

Wizmir nodded with a smile, and said: "There are a lot of criticisms against the new heir within the Nowitzki family, so this heir hopes to do something useful to improve his reputation, but he doesn't want some Things got out of control and involved me, that's why I made such a condition."

Leo asked again: "I'm not the only one involved in this matter, right?"

Wizmir smiled and said: "There are indeed some people who are similar to me. They just use this as a warm-up before entering the abandoned capital, and they don't think about whether they can succeed, so you don't have to worry about them."

"I really don't need to worry about them." Leo smiled and said to Wizmir, "You wait here for a while."

After finishing speaking, Leo turned around and walked upstairs to the study room, found a pen and paper, and quickly drew the specific image of the middle-aged man on the paper, then took this picture, went downstairs, and waited patiently. Wizmir handed it over and said: "This is the appearance of the murderer in the 23rd District murder case. Not long ago, he was still living in the flower shop, and now he has disappeared, but according to my estimation, he should still be on the Seventh Lake. Town. Another piece of additional information, this person is a wizard, and very strong, at least I am not absolutely sure that I can take him down."

Wizmir didn't expect that the matter would come to fruition so quickly, so he couldn't help being stunned, and a little bit of doubt arose in his heart, wondering whether Leo was just looking for someone to be the murderer of the murder so that he could swindle him from the Nowitzki family. bounty.

However, when he took the portrait and saw the person drawn by Leo on the paper, he was stunned.

The reason why he has such a performance is not because he knows who the person in the portrait is, but because the portrait of the person transformed by Leo is too real, so real that not only the face and figure of the person are drawn, but also Even the very special temperament has been drawn. Looking at this portrait is like seeing the person in the painting standing in front of you. An invisible pressure rushes over your face, and you can't help but hold your breath Breathing, I can't help thinking that it is this person.

If it was just a general portrait of a person, it would not produce such an effect. The portrait drawn by Leo is different from the general portrait of a person. Not only did he borrow the restoration ability of the sub-brain system to perfectly restore the character on paper, but he also added a little trick when drawing this portrait, using psychic skills such as psychic skills to transfer the psychic power similar to that person The breath is attached to the paper, and it can produce a shocking effect when ordinary people are unsuspecting.

Wizmir gradually came back to his senses, and while carefully rolling up the portrait in his hand, he said: "What a terrible guy, just looking at the portrait makes people feel chills. But your paintings are even more extraordinary, I have never I have seen such outstanding portraits, even the family painters of the Alcott family in the First Lake Town may not be able to compare." As he spoke, perhaps feeling that there was something wrong with his words, he quickly explained: "Of course, based on your His status is naturally not comparable to that of painters from aristocratic families."

Leo signaled Wizmir that he didn't need to explain anything, and he didn't mind the wrong words, and then turned to the topic: "After this thing is handed over to the heir of the Nowitzki family, when will I get what I want?"

"As long as it is confirmed that it is this person, the payment will be made immediately. The reputation of the Nowitzki family is still trustworthy," Wizmir replied, and then said cautiously: "It won't take too long to confirm, but those Nobles especially like to play tricks, so please be careful."

"Will he still send someone to assassinate me?" Leo said with a sneer.

Witzmeer reminded: "As long as there is no proof for the nobles, it never happened."

Leo said threateningly: "In this case, when Mr. Wizmir troubles you to send the portrait, please also say this sentence to the heir, and say that I agree with this sentence and hope that this sentence It won't be used on him."

"I will definitely convey your words." Wizmir nodded in agreement with Leo's request, then bowed and retreated, escorted by several bodyguards, and disappeared into an alley not far away.

Leo turned around and closed the door, shook his head slightly, and said with a smile: "I'm afraid this slippery guy will be used by him this time. But anyway, it's good as a reward for him to help me get that magical object." gone."

Witzmir's positive attitude towards the murderer in District 23 just now was very abnormal. Judging from his personality, if there is no huge benefit in it, it may be difficult for him to be so proactive.

Although Leo didn't know what benefits Wizmir could get from this matter, he knew very well that he might be used by Wizmir once in this matter as a tool to show his so-called strength, otherwise, He will not deliberately remind him to be careful of the dirty tricks of those nobles for no reason, and he will remind him repeatedly.

Leo didn't care about being used by Wizmir in this way. After all, he was also using Wizmir, whether it was obtaining treasures from the Nowitzki family or getting a place to enter the abandoned capital. As long as Witzmir's affairs don't affect his affairs, it's nothing to help the leader by the way and repay a little debt of favor.

Going back upstairs, Leo checked the situation of the white-haired woman, found a blanket to cover her, and then opened the entrance to the attic secret room of the mechanical study as he had planned before, and went up there to find some The parts are assembled and produced according to the mechanical design diagrams sorted out and analyzed by the sub-brain system.

Although the number of parts in this secret room is not many, but the types are very complete, and the parts required on the design drawings can be found here, although the various tools are very different from the tools of the Earth Federation. He encountered some small troubles, but after getting familiar with these mechanical tools with a large number and different functions, his production progress gradually became normal, and there were no more accidents.

After about three hours, more than a hundred parts taken out of the drawer have been combined into four trigger-type mechanical grenades that look very rough.

Just like the gunpowder grenade in the old earth era, the lethality of this trigger-type mechanical grenade against the enemy still depends on the shrapnel produced during the explosion, but because this trigger-type mechanical grenade cannot form a relatively evenly distributed blast like a gunpowder explosion. The force to push the fragments can only rely on the elastic force of this special spring to eject the fragments, so the attack direction of the grenade fragments is not as scattered and covers a wide range as the gunpowder grenade.

The mechanical grenade designed by Leo has only nine precisely calculated small blades. At the moment the trigger device of the grenade is touched, the thirteen special springs inside the grenade will release the backlog of elastic force at the same time, and this elastic force It will push the nine blades to nine different attack directions, causing lethality to surrounding enemies.

This also means that this kind of mechanical grenade must be released in mid-air to achieve the best lethality, and this release time must be accurately calculated so that no mistakes can be made, otherwise this weapon is likely to hurt the user. or themselves.

"I just don't know how powerful it is?" Although this mechanical grenade was made completely according to Leo's design, as the designer, Leo could not estimate the power of this grenade because he lacked the most important one. Data, that is how strong the special spring can be.

When making the grenade, Leo had tested the strength of a special spring. Although the strength of this spring was much stronger than the similar mechanical spring of the Earth Federation, it was also much weaker than he estimated.

It's just that this is only the result of a single part test, and it cannot be used as the final evaluation of the spring's elasticity, because from the content recorded in the book, the mechanical parts of the dream world will vary with the number of parts combined, materials, operating structures, etc. Factors produce supernormal kinetic energy of different sizes.

Now the strength of this kind of special spring may only be stronger than that of ordinary springs, but if it is placed in other mechanical devices, the strength it produces may be due to this extraordinary kinetic energy characteristic, resulting in a force that Leo cannot estimate. Power comes, so now Leo really wants to find a target who can use this mechanical grenade.

Just as Leo put away the mechanical grenade in a special leather item, hung it on the bullet belt around his waist, and was looking for a suitable target in his mind, there was a rhythmic knocking sound from the small window in the attic secret room, followed by Seeing a gap in the window, a mouse head with a hat protruded from the gap. After seeing Leo, he immediately said: "Mr. Dodd, the person has been found, in the root nest."