The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"How is the situation of the wasteland shaman?" Vaschi asked with a little concern.

Leo responded briefly: "I don't know, I haven't seen him since we separated, but judging from the leaves of the mother of plants, he should be in good condition."

Vaschi sighed, and said: "This may be the best choice for him, after all, he has been blaming himself for so many years."

Leo didn't ask for details, but even if he didn't ask, he could guess that it was related to Old Rembrandt and his return from the place where everything ended alive.

Vaschi collected his emotions and said: "I will inform Rembrandt that you have found the feather, and when we are ready, we will go to you."

"I have no objection." Leo nodded, then turned the topic back to his own affairs, and said, "I came to Miria City this time mainly to accept the entrustment to find the Ring of Plague. Do you know its whereabouts?"

Vaschi hesitated for a moment, and said truthfully: "In the hands of the medical school." Then, as if she had thought of something, she showed a suddenly realized expression, pointed to Leo and said, "No wonder Ljungberg will let the medical school The hospital immediately terminated all plans and withdrew from Miria City, so it was because of you!"

Leo did not deny it, nodded, and asked in a deep voice: "What are you planning to do in Miria City? The French Empire, the United Kingdom, the Freedom Front, the School of Medicine, and you, what exactly are you going to do?"

Hearing Leo's question, Vaschi seemed to understand something, and said with a smile: "I know who entrusted you, it's Sylvia Belmont, right?"

"Why didn't you guess Rupert Fitz? Or other people in the United Kingdom?" Leo also seemed to have heard some clues, asked casually, and then asked himself: "Unless you Rupert Fitz It's a partnership."

Vaschi didn't answer, but was silent for a while, and said: "Your investigation has made our original plan go wrong. If you continue to investigate, I'm afraid it will damage our plan even more."

Leo smiled and said, "What? Do you mean to keep me here?"

"Of course not." Vaschi shook his head and said, "Let's not say that you still have a feather that is very important to me and Rembrandt. I don't do any good at all having a conflict, so persuasion is the best way to go."

"Persuasion?" Leo frowned.

"You shouldn't care about the situation in Miria City. You are only entrusted by Sylvia, so you are just an outsider." Vaschi stood up, walked to the desk, picked up a pen, and quickly wrote on the paper. He wrote something, and then handed it to Leo, saying: "The entrustment you accepted should be to find the Plague Ring. The address above is the foothold of the people from the medical school in Port Leon, and the Plague Ring is in their hands." , you can get it yourself."

Leo took the note, looked at the content on it, and put it in his pocket. Although he had achieved his goal, he had no intention of getting up and leaving. Instead, he looked at Vaschi and said, "It's impossible for you to let me leave with all my doubts? If you don't solve my doubts, then even if you don't Given the entrustment, my curiosity may drive me to continue the investigation."

Vaschi thought for a while, and said seriously: "Since you want to know, I will tell, but I hope only you know, and I don't want you to tell Sylvia Belmont about this."

"I promise you." Leo nodded.

Vashj didn't make Leo swear or anything like that. After hearing Leo's answer, he told Leo what they had done.

Leo listened silently, although he was very clear that what Vaschi said must have concealed a lot of things, but just the part that could be said already made him feel extraordinary.

In this world, who would have imagined a veteran aristocrat of the French Empire, the ruler of the United Kingdom, a world-renowned university scholar, a great detective known as the son of Miria, plus a medical school that was hit hard, Several forces and characters actually united together, using Miria City to set up a shocking trap, luring those people and forces to be dealt with into the bureau one by one.

Dissatisfaction with this sentiment is the cause of everything. Old Rembrandt is dissatisfied that Louis X's throne is becoming more and more stable. There are a lot of voices in the country that are contrary to his thinking. Ljungberg is dissatisfied that the city of Miria is controlled by a group of people who don't love it. The medical school is dissatisfied that he was forcibly put on the carriage of the Continental Congress. His influence in various countries in the world is getting lower and lower. .

All in all, all the dissatisfaction prompted these people who could not have cooperated together to plan such a strategy that would affect the entire Velen Continent, and even the situation in the Velen World.

After Louis X came to the throne, relying on the support of the military, he tried his best to suppress the old nobles in the country. Many noble families that have been passed down for hundreds of years were deprived of their fiefdoms and titles for some inexplicable reasons and handed over to new military nobles. Carve up, which also makes the veteran nobles in the empire feel at risk.

Therefore, when the old man Rembrandt secretly sent someone to contact them to deal with Louis X together, they were persuaded and became one of the collaborators with little effort from the lobbyists.

Although the throne of Louis X looks very stable, in fact, there are not many forces that can be completely controlled by him. Except for the legion directly under him brought from the territory, most of the other forces are divided into two categories, one is the French The empire occupies the vast majority of military forces, and the other is the mysterious Black Forest. Or to put it more directly, whether it is military power or aristocratic power, it is because of concerns about the Black Forest that they fully support Louis X on the throne, so the Black Forest is the foundation of the throne of Louis X.

Although Louis X was able to obtain the support of the mysterious existence in the Black Forest by virtue of his own blood, this support should be limited. Neither tactics nor weapons were able to repel the British defenders, and an armistice had to be signed for financial reasons.

The armistice agreement was also regarded as a great shame by Louis X, which also damaged his prestige in the military, and many people began to doubt his ability.

A large number of rumors against Louis X appeared among the people of the empire. Although Louis X issued various bans, the rumors never disappeared. He knew very well that there were forces in the empire who were dissatisfied with him behind the rumors. Fang's attitude also became ambiguous with his armistice agreement.

So he needed an epic victory to recover the loss of prestige, and at this time a book that recorded the story of the King of Knights appeared in front of him, and the surprise attack tactics across the Black Forest gave him hope.

As a result, a grand strategy against the city of Miria was gradually formed and implemented in the Ministry of Military Affairs of the French Empire under the impetus of Louis X, the emperor who was eager to make achievements, and some people who were eager to see the decline of Louis X. .

However, Louis X and some other people who were eager to annex the city of Miria did not know that when their strategic plan was formulated, the details of the entire plan had been turned into documents and appeared in the United Kingdom. In the hands of Prime Minister Rupert Fitz, all he has to do is to cooperate with this plan and obtain the kingdom authority he wants from it.

Rupert Fitz, the world-renowned traitor, did not get the power he wanted after he became the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. When Lan Xi was in control, he had already set up a lot of obstacles to his power, which made him regret his decision in the following years.

So Rupert has always had the idea of ​​moving the capital to Lanxi, but he has never told anyone about this idea, because he knows very well that even if he speaks out this idea, it is impossible to pass it in the parliament, so he needs A sharp knife from the outside world helped him force those opponents in the parliament to propose the move of the capital.

Now this strategic plan from the empire is the best sharp blade. He can complete his own clean-up and integration of the United Kingdom Congress and government without doing anything, so he has naturally become a collaborator.

Ljungberg thought that the parliamentary system of the United Kingdom would bring the city of Miria back to life, but he was wrong. Even without the imperial exploitation, the so-called members of parliament still acted like greedy hyenas against the growing city from time to time. The weak Miria City took such a bite, but the people at the bottom of Miria City never cared about their own city. Ljungberg, who was born, could only stand aside and watch all this happen, which made him very dissatisfied.

When Vaschi found him and told the old man Rembrandt's plan, Ljungberg agreed immediately without any consideration. In his opinion, Miria City should be controlled by him, a loyal man. hands. Even if there will be a lot of casualties before the final completion, and it may even destroy everything in Miria City, it is worth it in his opinion.

As for the joining of the medical school, it was just an accident, and the appearance of this accident just made up for a flaw in the old man Rembrandt's plan.

After listening to Vaschi's narration, Leo asked in a deep voice: "You mean to spread the plague among the French Empire's garrison in Miria City, not among the people of Miria City?"

"Yes." Vaschi nodded in agreement.

Leo questioned: "The plague is contagious, how can you ensure that the plague will not be transmitted to other people in Miria City?"

"The hundreds of thousands of soldiers sent to the city of Miria are the legions directly under Louis X and the most trusted imperial legion. These people have one characteristic. They are all descendants of Beirut people, and they are also the purest blood in the empire." A group of Beirut people." Vaschi explained: "Although I don't know how those guys in the medical school did it, the plague virus they created through the plague ring only works on Beirut people, and these plague viruses are not It’s not lethal, it just makes those people lose their combat effectiveness, making it easier for the Ljungberg Freedom Front to capture and capture them.”

When Leo heard this, he couldn't help but think of genetic viruses. The Earth Federation had used similar aliens that specifically targeted specific genes to deal with the aborigines of a planet, and even the plague virus that Vaschi said had not penetrated into At the genetic level, it has already been connected with blood and blood. From this point of view, the ring of plague that created this virus can indeed be called an artifact.

"After the plague broke out in the imperial garrison in Miria City, wouldn't the empire change a group of people?" Leo asked in a deep voice.

Vaschi said confidently: "Of course not, these people infected with the plague will only be abandoned by the empire, and in order to avoid the spread of the plague, the empire will take the initiative to close the passage to the Black Forest. I am afraid that his authority will also be shaken."

Leo also nodded slightly as if in agreement, and then asked: "I can understand your plan to keep Sylvia from knowing, after all, she is a close confidant of the King of the United Kingdom, but what about the blood wizard Lawrence Hillman?" Why doesn't he know? He's one of Rupert's most trusted people?"

Vaschi did not answer directly, but said with something in his words: "It takes a long time to build trust, but sometimes it only takes a wrong decision to lose trust."

Leo didn't ask any more after hearing the words, but instead asked: "Now that the medical school has left, then your plan..."

Vaschi said calmly: "The departure of the medical school will not affect our plan. After all, the virus has already been cultivated. In fact, your arrival is just a good excuse." As she spoke, her face showed a little disdain, Said: "Longberg and I wanted those people to leave a long time ago, and even directly used the citizens of Miria City as an experiment. This completely violated our plan. I have to say that they have been driven crazy by that god-making plan." .”

Leo asked curiously: "Do you know the details of the God-making plan?"

"I don't know." Vaschi shook his head, but then he said: "But I heard Rembrandt mentioned that the God-making plan of the medical school was not thought up by them themselves, but from the tower. Before the decline of the tower, there was also a god-making plan launched, and all the wizard members of the tower were gathered together, and you should know the final result even if I don’t say it.”

"How do you know these things? It stands to reason that if the tower is going to carry out a god-making plan, it should be very careful not to leave any clues and information." Leo questioned a little.

Vaschi explained in a deep voice, "Don't forget, the only apprentice of the last wizard of the tower, the Wilderness Wizard, was a good friend of Rembrandt, and Rembrandt also got a lot of things about the tower from him. "

Under Vaschi's reminder, Leo remembered the high tower wizard apprentice who was now trapped in the end of everything, and at the same time thought that old man Rembrandt must know many secrets of the high tower.