The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Because of various unexpected changes, Leo is very concerned about the things stored in the palm space. If it is not for participating in the vigil, it will be very important for him to fulfill Peter Alcott's promise. Maybe he will stay in that cabin now Inside, research how to smoothly take out the things in the space.

It was precisely because of his mentality that he didn't care about the situation of the wake meeting at all, and he was not interested in paying attention to the situation in the wake hall. After sitting down with Wizmir, he devoted all his attention to the study of the palm space.

Although Leo and Wizmir have taken the initiative to keep a low profile, their behavior and the atmosphere in the hall seem out of place. After all, when everyone stood up to chat and chat with other people around, two people came in and sat down. Sitting on the chair, they didn't say anything, and they didn't intend to stand up and talk to other people, which made the two of them stand out in the wake hall.

Perhaps no one paid attention to the two of them at first, but soon some eyes fell on them.

For Wizmir, the exclusive businessman of the ninth chief, those who are interested can still recognize it. If it was in the past, maybe someone has already taken the initiative to say hello to Wizmir now, but these interested people are well-informed, knowing that the status of the ninth chief is a bit worrying, so they have no idea of ​​making friends. This was the case until Wizmir's position was consolidated.

Compared with Witzmir, who was easily recognized by interested people, Leo, a stranger, is more likely to arouse the curiosity of interested people. This kind of curiosity is not because they have discovered any special temperament in Leo. Rather, they wondered how such a stranger with black skin disease was qualified to sit in the wake hall.

After discussing Leo's identity, someone soon recognized Leo's origin. After all, Leo's sale of wizard potions was a matter worth mentioning in the aristocratic circle. Such a special skin color naturally caused some curious people to investigate.

After knowing Leo's identity, some people who knew something about Peter Alcott's will couldn't help but feel that their trip was not in vain, and they might see a good show.

Afterwards, a few restless good-for-nothings joined Robert Alcott, the hot-tempered heir of the seventh Alcott family, and whispered that Leo, who should not have appeared in the The people in the Wake Hall told Robert Alcott.

However, what disappointed everyone was that the eldest son, Robert Alcott, who was most concerned about Peter Alcott's legacy, did not rush to Leo as they wished, and drove Leo out of the Wake Hall.

On the contrary, after knowing Leo's identity, Robert Olquert just turned his head, looked at Leo calmly, said nothing, continued to participate in the vigil with his surroundings as if he didn't know about the will The factory management personnel of the meeting exchanged ideas to improve the factory system and other matters.

However, while Robert Alcott calmly accepted Leo's arrival, a woman wearing a black veil standing not far from him seemed very displeased after hearing Leo's arrival.

I saw that she stared at the ignorant Wizmir with eyes full of resentment, obviously she regarded Wizmir who brought Leo to the Wake Hall as the main sinner who ruined her good deeds.

Afterwards, she shifted her gaze to Leo again, and sized him up a little brazenly, her eyes made no secret of her distaste for his skin color, even if Leo was in deep thought, she could still feel this feeling. Strong feelings of disgust.

Leo, who was out of the state of contemplation, raised his head and looked at the source following the disgusted gaze. When he saw the woman in black veil and black robe, her expression was very calm, so calm that the other party seemed to be ignored a feeling of.

On Leo's side, the sub-brain system can easily analyze from the other person's position, clothing and the attitude of the people around her that this woman should be Peter Alcott's biological mother, that is, the seventh Alcott. Matriarch of the Cotter family, Anna Alcott.

Leo didn't have any unusual views on Anna Alcott, although she first married her father and then her son, and gave birth to four sons for her son. The descendants of seniority, but these are the reproductive customs of the aristocratic family in Hushang Town, and cannot be viewed by external customs.

However, Leo would not underestimate this seemingly weak woman, not to mention that Ms. Anna has been in charge of the seventh Alcott family for decades by her own means, allowing her husband and son to be safe. Andre XIII became a puppet-like existence. The hidden power that Leo discovered from her now is enough to make Leo have to treat her as a real opponent.

According to outside rumors, Anna Alcott is an ordinary person whose body has not shown any ancestral status. This can be called a felony in any noble family. Ordinary servants can't compare.

However, Anna Alcott was very lucky to meet a father who doted on her and a son who trusted her extremely, and both of them happened to be the heads of the seventh Alcott family.

However, in Leo's view, this Anna Alcott's past experience and rumors may not be described as just good luck, and it should be related to Anna Alcott's own true strength. . Because even though Anna Alcott didn't have any traces of ancestry on her body, as a wizard, she was not as weak as the rumors outside.

How strong is Anna Alcott? Because there is no specific comparative data, the secondary brain system cannot analyze it. But judging from the psionic energy fluctuations emanating from Anna Alcott and the wizards and wonders of all sizes on her body, the entire Seventh Lake Town, except for herself, Marek, and the expeditioners who had just arrived a few days ago Except for Charles Langco, no one else should be her opponent.

After staring at Leo, Anna Alcott turned around and said a few words to the people beside her. Then, under the watchful eyes of some caring people in the Wake Hall, she walked directly to Leo and sat down.

Anna Alcott's actions were also seen by the members of the Seventh Alcott Family. Most of these people showed some surprised expressions on their faces because they didn't understand the situation, wondering whether this What does the quasi-family mainly do.

Only Robert Alcott, who understood the situation, frowned slightly, and a trace of displeasure flashed across his face, but he didn't intend to stop his mother, but only allocated part of his attention to spy on the changes in the situation here.

"Fifty thousand." Anna Alcott didn't even carry out the etiquette conversation ceremony, and directly revealed a number.

This straightforward way of talking, if you change it to a duller person, you won't understand what it means, but Leo can easily understand that the five hundred thousand should be the money to buy the mechanical puppet.

"I'm not short of money!" Leo replied calmly without turning his head to look at Anna Alcott.

"Silver moon coins." Anna Alcott said again.

This time, not only Leo was a little surprised, but even Wizmir, who was about to stay out of the matter, couldn't help but let out an exclamation after hearing the word "Silver Moon Coin".

The main currency in Lake Town is the Federal Coin issued by the Lake District Alliance, which is also the only legal currency recognized by the Lake District Alliance, but the Silver Moon Coin is a special existence. It is not in circulation. It is a magical currency specially developed by the Wizards Association of Silvermoon City for official wizards. It is mainly used for some witchcraft-related commodity transactions and is not in circulation.

And because the production of this currency requires the wizard's witchcraft, the manufacturing process is very complicated, so the quantity is not very large. According to incomplete statistics, the wizard association has produced less than 20 million silver moon coins in total.

It is precisely because the number of silver moon coins coming out of the flow channel is extremely rare, and the origin is special, so the nobles of the Lake District Alliance are also flocking to silver moon coins, thinking that transactions between nobles should also be settled in silver moon coins, so as to distinguish between nobles and commoner class.

Therefore, in the aristocratic circle of the Lake District Alliance, the ratio between the silver moon coin and the federal coin has always been high, from the initial ratio of 1:2 to the current 1:12, which means that Anna Alcott The 50,000 mentioned is actually 6 million in federal currency, which is more than the lifetime accumulation of an ordinary noble family.

The reason why Witzmir was so surprised was not because of the huge and eye-catching number after the silver moon coins were converted into federal currency, but because of the silver moon coins themselves.

As the exclusive merchant of the Ninth Chief, Wizmir is naturally very aware of how strong the purchasing power of Silvermoon Coins is in Silvermoon City, and even more aware of how scarce the number of Silvermoon Coins is. Taking the Ninth Chief as an example, even such a high-ranking and powerful chief wizard, it is impossible for him to take out as much as 50,000 silver moon coins at a time, and it is already very remarkable to make up 20,000 silver moon coins at the top.

As for the other chief wizards, the situation is similar to that of the ninth chief wizard. Only the first three chief wizards are in a better situation, but it still needs to be considered carefully to take out 50,000 silver moon coins at one time.

Now Anna Alcott took out 50,000 silver moon coins so easily, and the seventh Alcott family that Anna Alcott belonged to was not the strongest in the entire Ten Towns family. It's hard to imagine how profound the family background of the entire Alcott family is, not to mention the internal strength of the family, but in terms of financial resources alone, it may not be as good as pulling together the ten chiefs of the Wizarding Association.

Compared with the strength and heritage of the Alcott family that Witzmir associated with the 50,000 silver moon coins, Leo focused more on the mechanical puppet worth 50,000 silver moon coins.

The psychic puppet maid of Peter Alcott really shocked Leo. If it is placed in the universe where the Earth Federation is located, such artificial intelligence robots are not without it, but in such a world where technology is still in the steam civilization , such a mechanical puppet is extremely amazing.

From the moment Peter Alcott wanted to bring the psychic puppet into the abandoned city, Leo knew that this psychic puppet was not ordinary, but now Anna Alcott's performance made him understand that he was right The value of this psychic puppet is somewhat underestimated.

According to Leo's understanding, as a puppet created by the psionic power, once the puppet psyker who endowed it with the psionic power dies, the puppet will lose any vitality. The only valuable place is the mechanism inside the puppet. structure.

But now Anna Alcott is willing to spend 50,000 silver moon coins to buy the disused psionic puppet from Leo. Even now, in that psychic puppet, Peter Alcott's big secret may still be hidden, and this secret should be known to Anna Alcott.

"Seventy thousand." Seeing that Leo didn't respond, Anna Alcott continued to add another twenty thousand silver moon coins.

This time, her voice was much louder, causing other people who were paying attention and those who didn't pay attention couldn't help but turn their eyes away. When those who didn't know the situation learned from other interested people that 70,000 silver moon coins were involved, the hall of the wake immediately became much quieter, and from time to time some voices gasping for air could be heard in shock.

As children, Robert Alcott and others looked at their mother in dissatisfaction after learning about the situation, but no one stopped their mother's seemingly crazy behavior.

"I'm not short of money, Mrs. Anna Alcott." Leo also felt a little uncomfortable being the object of crowd watching, frowned, and responded coldly.

Hearing Leo's answer, the dignitaries in the surrounding Seventh Lake Town felt very different, not to mention the power of the Seventh Alcott family, the 70,000 silver moon coins paid by the other party alone was considered a huge sum of money. Many aristocratic families may not be able to own such a huge sum of money even in their lifetime.

But Leo, a stranger with black skin disease, so casually rejected Anna Alcott's deal, and it was not difficult to hear from his tone that the other party seemed to have no regard for the Alcott family at all, which made Everyone couldn't help but suspect Leo's identity again.

Hearing the refusal, Anna Alcott did not make any further gestures. She stood up without saying a word, and just left the wake directly, not even planning to attend the announcement of the important legacy , which means that she is equivalent to giving up the part of the inheritance that should have been inherited.

Seeing Anna Alcott's unexpected move, even the dullest people in the Wake Hall could clearly realize that the actual power holder of the Seventh Lake Town was angry, and very angry.

As for the other members of the Alcott family named in the will, they looked at Leo with extremely grateful eyes, because Leo's refusal undoubtedly did them a favor. A piece of the inheritance that Kurt didn't want.

At this time, an old man with wrinkles on his face walked out from the crowd, came to the front desk of the Wake Hall, put the document bag in his hand on the wooden platform, hit it a few times with a mallet, and said: "I Announce the start of Peter Alcott's wake! Shut the doors of the wake!"