The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Did they find my spiritual network?" After waiting in the clinic for three or four hours, Leo couldn't help but feel a little puzzled when he saw that neither the doctor nor the killer came back. After thinking for a while, he shook his head again, and said to himself: "No, it's not because he found someone spying on him and ran away in panic, but because of other reasons. Otherwise, he couldn't have left such an important thing behind and didn't take it away."

During the three or four hours of waiting, Leo did not just sit there like this, but searched the clinic carefully, and found some more than a dozen copies hidden in secret compartments and stored in special mechanism boxes. research material.

Not to mention how ingenious the layout of the hidden compartment is, the mechanism box itself is very valuable. This box is similar to a general safe, but it is a more complicated double lock. can be opened successfully. Once a mistake occurs, the acid stored in the box will completely corrode the research data without leaving any traces.

Moreover, there is a special metal plate placed inside the box, which can interfere with the approaching spiritual energy, which means that the person who gets this box cannot use witchcraft similar to the spiritual net to spy on the structure of the box , to find the password to open the box.

If it was before, Leo might be at a loss for this box, but in the dream world, he has gained a lot of knowledge of mechanical manufacturing, and he is already half a mechanical master. Even though many of those mechanical knowledges are only applicable to the special environment of the dream world, the vast majority of them are common to the two worlds. At least with this knowledge, it is still possible to open this mechanical box without touching the mechanism. Very simple.

After opening the box, Leo was not in a hurry to check the materials stored in the box, but removed the metal plates inside the box that could block spiritual energy.

There are also some weapons specially used to deal with psykers in the Earth Federation. Almost all of these weapons are made of an anti-psychic weapon called Rico crystal.

At first, when Leo discovered that the box could affect the psychic power of the spirit net, he also thought that the metal plate in the box was mixed with Rico crystals, but after taking it out for a closer look, he found that the metal plate was not mixed with crystals. Rico crystal, but an unknown metal alloy. In terms of weight, it is similar to ordinary steel, but its hardness is only equivalent to ordinary aluminum, and it is very brittle, even if it is broken by hand, it can be easily broken.

Leo couldn't research the composition of this metal for a while, so he could only put it in his backpack. After researching the forging method of this metal, he might be able to use this metal to make some bullets that specifically target witchcraft. Or breaking crossbow bolts and so on.

However, he is also very curious about the origin of this metal plate, because judging from the special purpose of this metal plate, the person who made this metal must be to deal with wizards and other people with spiritual power.

After putting the metal plate into the backpack used to disguise himself as a scavenger, Leo focused on the research materials, picked them up and looked through them carefully.

Most of these research materials are written in a special code language that Leo has never seen before. These code words are somewhat similar to the encrypted language often used by agents in the old earth era. The language itself has no meaning, but if you use a specific code language This comparison will be able to decipher the true content of these words.

Facing this primitive encryption method, all the methods of cracking the encryption program that Leo learned in the Earth Federation could not be used. Before he got the secret language book, he could not decipher the content of these research materials at all. But judging from the degree of encryption of these materials, these materials may be very important, and they involve some secrets that the medical school does not want to be known by outsiders.

Although most of the content in the data is encrypted, there is still a small part of the content written in the commonly used French language that can be deciphered. Soon Leo found some useful clues from the remaining materials that could be interpreted.

Among the content that can be interpreted, Leo found a word mentioned many times in these contents, and this word was mentioned more or less in almost all the materials, this word is fusion deviation degree. In addition, the second most vocabulary is refining, the third is blood, and some patterns representing types are marked many times in the word blood.

From these words and the content of the preceding and following sentences, it is not difficult for Leo to guess that the experiment performed by the doctor here is probably the same as that done by the blood wizard Lawrence Hillman, or more precisely, Lawrence Hill It is a continuation of Mann's blood research.

It's just that, whether it's the medical school or the blood wizard, their research direction is no longer just pointing to the blood itself, but using the research on blood to accomplish other things. For example, Lawrence Hillman used his research results on blood to integrate it into witchcraft, and developed the ancient witchcraft of planting blood, and the medical school is obviously not bad, they should have found some ways to reduce blood rejection. This method enabled them to successfully complete the transformation of the human body, so that the recipient would not die of blood rejection.

Because of this information, Leo went back to the basement and checked the number of corpses in the stagnant water with the Spirit Net. He found that there were at least sixty corpses in it, and more than half of them had signs of mutation. For example, a pair of horny horns grew out of the skull of a certain skeleton, and so on.

It can be seen that this research data is very important. Without this data, the previous experiments would have to be repeated, which would not only waste time and money, but also cause unfavorable results during the experiment. The same result, resulting in problems such as wrong research direction.

At least Leo thought so after obtaining and analyzing the materials carefully, and he was sure that even if the other party wanted to flee, he would come back to take the materials and clean up the test traces in the clinic by the way.

It's just that this kind of positive guess gradually wavered as time passed.

Judging from the various details of the clinic, the doctor did not intend to leave, or even to travel far away. Not only did he keep all his clothes, but even the identity certificate issued by the Imperial Army to assist the doctor and the daily currency needed were intact. In the bedroom room.

You must know that in the current Miria City, it is impossible to survive without money that can be exchanged for daily necessities, and without an identity certificate, it is impossible to leave Miria City, unless it is a smuggling boat on the black market.

After having doubts, Leo did not confirm the conclusion immediately, but continued to stay in the clinic for about half an hour, until the sky outside began to dim, and it was already entering the evening, Leo gradually became sure of the doctor and the killer He probably won't be going back to the clinic again, which also made him wonder how his snooping was discovered by these two non-psychics.

Almost when Leo was about to leave here to explore the suspicious abandoned mine mentioned by Roger Hare, there were bursts of noisy voices in the distance, and then he saw several people dressed in medical school clothes. The people in the academician's clothing led a group of angry people towards the clinic where Leo was.

Discovering this situation, Leo did not rush out of the clinic, but walked to a corner near the entrance gate, cast the shadow cloak of witchcraft, and hid in the shadows.

This group of people soon came to the front of the clinic, and the leading academician of the medical school stopped, then turned to the excited refugees following them and said: "This clinic is in charge of Dr. Jeff Thomson. This clinic was on the list of reports received by the picket department of our medical school, and according to our information, Jeff Thompson has been aware that we are investigating him, and has disappeared a few hours ago. Now that we can't find it Jeff Thompson confronted himself, then we can only search the clinic to see if there is any prohibited research in the clinic, to see if Jeff Thompson has become a cultist."

After finishing speaking, the academician of the medical school kicked the door open, and then rushed into the room with several other doctors of the medical school, each in charge of a room, carefully checking the residues in the room, while those The refugees only sent a few leaders into the room to assist the doctors of the medical school to investigate the clinic. Judging from the degree of cooperation, it is obvious that this clinic is not the first clinic to be searched.

From the surface, it seems that some doctors in charge of the clinics of the medical team were reported to have done some taboo bad things, then the medical school did not conceal it, but made an open investigation, and invited refugees to participate in the investigation, showing a fair and impartial attitude .

But Leo, who was hiding in the dark, felt that the doctors and academicians of the medical school who were in charge of the investigation were actually acting. The purpose of their active investigation was to take away the research data hidden in the clinic in full view.

Because when the academician of the medical school assigned the search task, a doctor had already gone to the bedroom on the inside, and skillfully unlocked the mechanism on the bedroom door, and found the secret compartment where the research materials were stored, but he did not He found anything in the dark compartment, so his face was naturally not good-looking.

After that, they searched carefully in the clinic and found the kerosene hanging on the roof of the house, but they didn't find anything more useful. Just when the recommended refugee leaders said that there was no need to investigate further and continued to the next clinic, one of the doctors in the bedroom suddenly yelled exaggeratedly, and then followed the method of opening the basement entrance, Open the cover that hides the entrance, revealing an entrance to the basement in front of everyone.

The news of the discovery of an underground secret room spread immediately, and many people began to flock to the clinic to observe the situation in the bedroom, while those from the medical school used kerosene, rags and wooden sticks to make a few torches, and the refugees The representatives went down to the basement together.

In the basement, everyone could easily see the operating table that hadn't been cleaned up in time, and also saw the stagnant water in the basement. Obviously, those from the medical school knew what was in the stagnant water, so they didn't get close to the stagnant water.

At this time, a refugee representative said that there might be something in the stagnant water, and proposed to go down and have a look.

The people from the medical school glanced at each other, and there was no objection. The refugee representative just walked into the water, groping for things under the water carefully.

After the refugees entered the water, what the people in the medical school expected did not happen. At this moment, their faces became a little ugly. Immediately afterwards, the refugee representative found some corpse fragments from the water and fished them up.

Soon there was another secret operating table in the basement. The news that there were a large number of corpses in the stagnant water spread to the ground. The refugees who had remained calm immediately became furious like burning explosive barrels, shouting all kinds of things to kill the demon doctor. Some people couldn't even wait for the people from the medical school to come out of the basement, and ran towards other medical clinics in the city in groups of three and four.

At this time, Leo had already stepped out of the shadows, mixed into the crowd, left the clinic, and walked out of the city. He was also carefully recalling a series of behaviors and behaviors of those members of the medical school in his mind, speculating that they The intention of doing so.

Judging from all the circumstances, when Leo was waiting for the doctor to return to the clinic, something must have happened to the medical rescue team sent by the medical school. All the doctors who were secretly conducting experiments left, and they left in a hurry. It was too late to go back to the clinic to pack things and destroy the evidence.

In addition, the people of the medical school in Miria City must have been watched by others, and the people of the medical school are also very aware of this, so they have to use this method of exposing their ugliness and conducting public investigations under the eyes of everyone. , went to various clinics to recover research materials, and destroyed evidence that would have a great impact on the reputation of the medical school.

The clinics that were publicly searched before should all go well. Although the refugees were all agitated, they were able to control their emotions. But when things got to the clinic where Leo was, something changed, or more correctly, there was an extra variable called Leo.

According to normal circumstances, the people in the medical school took the initiative to show an active investigative attitude, and found out some dark secrets of the clinic before other refugee representatives found out. The hospital is still good, only some doctors are bad.

And when they went down to the basement, if Leo hadn't taken away the foreign object in the stagnant water, the refugee representative would have been swallowed by the foreign object the moment he entered the water.

In this way, the people of the medical school can use kerosene to completely burn down the clinic and destroy all evidence under the pretext of destroying these experimental foreign bodies.

As long as the refugees didn't see the corpse, they would subconsciously think that the medical school doctor was doing some contraindicated experiments in the medical school, and ignore the issue of the test items.

Even if someone digs the ruins later and digs up some corpses, the medical school may use these bad doctors as an excuse to frame the medical school and damage the reputation of the medical school.

But now, at the moment when the corpse was found in the water, everything was out of the control of the medical school in an instant, and everything was developing in a direction that Leo couldn't predict.