The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"You don't really suspect that this thing was done by the medical school?" Ljungberg saw Leo's changed expression, and immediately shook his head in denial: "This is impossible!"

"How is it impossible?" Leo retorted: "The medical school is very suitable for these conditions. You must know that the reason why the medical school was able to obtain such a detached status and huge influence back then was because of the great plague that year. Using Miria City to recreate the disaster of the year, and then jumping out to be the savior when it is out of control, no one will think that the plague has anything to do with them, and they can also gain great prestige from treating the sick."

"The reason? Just for a little prestige and influence, this kind of reason is not sufficient." Ljungberg also immediately retorted: "With the current prestige and status of the medical school, why should they risk becoming the enemy of the world?" Is it dangerous to do such a thing?"

"No, my reason is very good, because the current status of the medical school is in jeopardy." Leo seemed to be awakened, and he quickly connected various clues in his mind, saying: "The influence of the medical school and The peak of power is due to the emergence of the Continental Congress, so the relationship between the School of Medicine and the Continental Congress is very close, and it can be said that they share weal and woe. Now the French Empire directly smashes the Velen Continental Parliament by force, and then sweeps up the trash. They swept aside, leaving the Continental Council of Velen in name only. Countries on other continents will definitely attack the Continental Council of their own continent after seeing the precedent of the Faran Empire. Velen disappeared."

Listening to Leo's analysis, Ljungberg's face was a bit ugly. Obviously, he still has a good impression of the Continental Congress. He wanted to refute Leo's analysis, but he couldn't find any reason to refute it, because before that he In his heart, he already thought that the Continental Congress might not be able to do it anymore.

"If the Continental Congress is late, what will happen to the medical school that has such a close relationship with the Continental Congress?" Leo asked a question, and then asked himself: "When I came here, I was in Sylvia. I saw a newspaper there, which mentioned that the French Empire has begun to take over all medical facilities in the empire, and established an imperial medical department belonging to the empire, which is dedicated to governing and managing all medical institutions and medical practitioners in the empire." He said. , he paused, looked at Ljungberg, and said: "Just like the Continental Congress, with the French Empire as the vanguard, other countries will definitely follow suit. By then, hospitals and doctors in all countries will be separated from medical schools. The power and status of the medical school will be devastated. Guess what will happen to those who have enjoyed a position of power and find that it will be lost?"

Ljungberg couldn't answer such questions. As the chief detective of Miria City, he had experienced countless cases. In those cases, there were countless people who became lunatics because of the loss of power, status, and money. Although he didn't believe that everyone in the medical school would attach so much importance to power and status, but it didn't need many people, just a few such power-hungry people at the top, then Leo's speculation was very likely to happen.

"If there is any news, I will go to you." Ljungberg was not in the mood to continue the conversation with Leo. He said something to Leo briefly, then turned and walked out of the room. The sound of hurried footsteps shook his anxious mood show out.

After Ljungberg left, Leo didn't intend to stay here any longer. He casually found a rag in the room, wiped the blood on his hands, and prepared to leave. Just when he was about to leave, he stopped again, as if thinking of something, pondered for a moment, turned back to the two corpses with fear marks, dug out the fear marks on the skull, put them in his pocket, and then Only then did he go downstairs and leave the scene of the murder.

Leo, who left the murder scene, was not in a hurry to look for clues elsewhere, but went straight to the camp where the blood wizard was. He needed to go to the blood wizard to confirm something, which might be what he guessed just now one of the evidences.

Compared with the night, Miria City is not very safe during the day, and even some places, such as the junction of the two gang-controlled areas, are more chaotic during the day, and Leo has seen it no less than five times along the way. The gang fights for territory and supplies, and the number of participants in each fight is no less than two hundred.

Seeing these fighting scenes, Leo couldn't help thinking that these people put their current energy of cannibalism on resisting the army of the Faran Empire. Perhaps the Faran Empire would not be able to occupy the city of Miria so easily, perhaps Now the French Empire is still mired in the quagmire of war in the city of Miria.

The battle of Miria City was a joke to Leo, who had experienced countless wars. From top to bottom, he lost the will to fight that he should have. The upper-class people chose to escape, or the so-called retreat, while the lower-class people chose to surrender, willing to be lambs to be slaughtered at will. Leo couldn't help guessing that even if the French Empire didn't use airship bombing, it only needed to send a large army to press in step by step, and I'm afraid Miria City would be destroyed by itself.

The city of Miria has been peaceful for too long. The people who live here may not have experienced war for several generations, and the entire city has not considered the possibility of being attacked from the initial construction to the subsequent expansion, so no one was built. Fortifications, without considering the layout of the city from the military terrain.

Obviously, Rupert and other high-level leaders of the United Kingdom can also see that Miria City is a sieve full of holes. With their current military strength, they can't carry out any defense at all, and can only be passively beaten. Instead of sitting here and waiting to die, it is better to keep the vitality Come down and build defenses in more favorable areas.

Just like the high-level leaders of the United Kingdom, the French Empire obviously saw that Miria City was not a good place to station troops, so they simply abandoned most of its areas, and only held the urban areas along the railway that served as transportation lines in their hands.

In the end, only a group of poor people who had no country and were abandoned by all countries remained in this city. It is no wonder that the Freedom Front established by Ljungberg will form a force so quickly. Feelings of anger and humiliation in desperation have something to do with it!

Leo, who was walking on the road, did not encounter any trouble. After all, anyone who is not too stupid can see that Leo is not an easy person to deal with. Those ordinary refugees who are easier to deal with.

After Leo came to the blood wizard's camp, the guards at the entrance of the camp recognized Leo and let him in without stopping him, but he was stopped by two giant men who were not as strong as ordinary people in front of the tent, and then A giant khan bent over and entered the tent, and informed the blood wizard who was dealing with Leo's matter inside.

"There are clues so soon?" After hearing the report from his subordinates, Lawrence Hillman put down what he was doing, walked out of his tent, and asked Leo who was waiting outside.

Leo didn't beat around the bush, but asked directly: "I want to ask, how did you know that the blood research data you want is in the hands of the medical school scholar, and how did you know that the scholar didn't have the data?" Take away the ones left in the underground chamber?"

Hearing this, Lawrence was stunned. For a while, he didn't quite understand why Leo asked such a nonsensical question, but he still answered truthfully: "I have been concerned about this blood research for a long time, so I have been Let the insiders of the medical school always pay attention to this research material, until not long ago, there was no news about this material, and I knew who had this material. After that, I sent someone to investigate..."

"The person you sent to investigate is also from the medical school, right?" Leo asked, interrupting the blood wizard.

"Yes." Lawrence Hillman seemed to hear something from Leo's words, nodded, and continued to say while thinking: "That person is also one of the senior officials of the medical school, and he can find some useful information. Information, this information was also found out by him. You must have found out what happened next, I sent someone to get the information, but I didn’t expect it to be involved in the plague ring.”

"Is that document in your hands now?" Leo asked in a deep voice.

"I've found it." Lawrence Hillman said with some disappointment on his face, "However, the blood research data is still a bit different from what I expected, and it's not very useful to me." He said, a little impatiently "Shouldn't you tell me now why you're asking me these questions?"

Leo did not hide what he had guessed before and told the blood wizard, but after hearing it, the blood wizard did not try to deny it like Ljungberg, but fell into deep thought, but the expression on his face became more and more gloomy .

Unlike Ljungberg, Lawrence Hillman spent a long period of time in the medical school and other affiliated institutions of the medical school in his early years.

Although his research projects and academic level at that time were not enough to gain attention in the medical school, let alone become a high-ranking member of the medical school, but judging from his experience in the medical school, Leo's guess was not random and aimless . Because if a great plague can really help the medical school regain power and status, those people in the medical school will definitely be able to do this kind of thing. After all, living people are just some consumed research materials for them. That's it, there are countless living human research objects secretly sent to their operating tables every year, and the so-called casualties are just numbers in their eyes.

In addition, he knows better than Leo that not only the French Empire has started to take over all the medical institutions and personnel of the medical school in the French Empire, but even the United Kingdom, which has a good relationship with the medical school, has also started to do this secretly. , I am afraid that other countries are similar. Once the matter is completed, the influence of the medical school may fall to the bottom, and the only place that can be fully controlled is the small piece of land where the headquarters of the medical school is located.

"Your guess is very reasonable. I also think those guys in the medical school are going crazy." The blood wizard who wanted to understand the problem not only did not show anxiety and anger, but swept away the gloom on his face and showed an excited smile , quite gloatingly said: "But it doesn't matter if it's a medical school or not? Someone has to come forward and confess. My shoulders are too small to bear this crime. The giant medical school is just right."

Hearing Lawrence's words, Leo could easily guess what the other party was thinking. According to the meaning of the blood wizard, even if Leo's guess was wrong, he would find a way to make this guess come true. At the same time, I also took myself out.

If it was before, Leo would not have any additional views on this kind of thing. For him, finding the plague ring is the goal, and the process and consequences are not what he considers. But now with the disappearance of the secondary brain, some changes have taken place in the thinking, emotions and even the soul of the brain. This change has given him ordinary human feelings, such as the feelings between men and women towards Sylvia. In addition, he also has likes and dislikes for certain things. For example, he feels a little displeased with Lawrence's actions now, and it can even be said to be disgusting.

However, although this kind of likes and dislikes has affected emotions, it is not enough to affect Leo's behavior, so he did not open his mouth to correct it, but asked in a deep voice: "What are you going to do?"

"Of course we continue to investigate." Lawrence Hillman said excitedly, and asked Leo again: "I know that several forces related to the medical school are secretly lurking in Miria City, just because of their affiliated departments There are some troubles, I am not suitable to come forward to investigate..."

"Give me the address." Leo took the initiative to take over the job without waiting for the blood wizard to finish, but then said: "You can help me find something these two days, I need it."

"What?" Lawrence asked curiously.

"The eyes of an adult eagle, the ashes of three flames, the leaves of an ancient oak tree with silver threads..." Leo reported the list of materials used to perform a certain witchcraft in his mind.

Lawrence Hillman didn't take it seriously at first, but the look on his face soon became serious, and he carefully memorized the materials.

Although Lawrence's blood witchcraft is different from most other witchcrafts, it doesn't mean that he doesn't know about other witchcrafts. He could hear that the materials Leo mentioned were some very common witchcraft materials, but the additional conditions of these materials were a bit troublesome.

For example, although the leaves of ancient oak trees are common, silver lines on the leaves are very rare. You can't find them just by looking for them, but because their effects are not much better than ordinary ancient oak leaves, the price is not very high, so they are rare. Some pharmacy merchants will specially import these materials. In addition, there are more than a dozen materials in Leo's list, which are as difficult to find as this silver thread like a leaf. It is a bit difficult to collect them all, and some special relationships are needed to do it.

According to the personality of the blood wizard, he would never agree to such troublesome things, but just now Leo agreed to his proposal so happily, but he refused the other party's request, which is really inappropriate. So in the end until Leo left, the words of rejection were stuck in his throat and he couldn't say it.