The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

After listening to Nelson's narration, this news, which is enough to shock the entire civilized world, has almost been confirmed.

"Why didn't they disclose the news?" Catherine couldn't help but wondered and asked.

"It should be for the throne! Louis IX has never established a crown prince, and according to the law of sequential succession, there are three people who are eligible to sit on the throne of the Emperor of France at the same time, and the Duke of Dewen is one of them." Martin Some gloated and said with a smile: "However, no matter who finally sits on the throne, some people in the royal family of Farland and his supporters will lose their heads. This is something to be happy about."

Martin made no secret of his hostility towards the Faran royal family, which made Nelson a little puzzled, but Catherine acted calmly as usual.

Suddenly, Leo said to Martin in a slightly questioning tone: "Although I am curious about how you know such a confidential matter, Mr. Martin, I am even more curious about why you want to tell us this confidential matter." It's the first time you've met a stranger."

Hearing what Leo said, Jason still didn't understand why, but Nelson already showed a vigilant expression. It should have been because the news was so shocking that they couldn't think about other things, but in retrospect, Martin's behavior was really weird. Of course, it is unknown whether there are other emotions affecting his judgment.

Martin showed a look of being wronged, and said: "You are Catherine's friends, I believe in Catherine, and naturally I also believe in you, and this news can help you, so I will..."

"Your Excellency Martin, I agree with one thing you said just now." Leo suddenly interrupted Martin's words rudely, and said with a smile, "Politicians are worse than shit." As he spoke, the topic changed again. : "You make me feel like a politician."

Everyone was taken aback when they heard Leo's words, and the small room immediately became silent.

At this time, Jason seemed to realize what Leo was saying, and laughed and said, "Are you calling him a shit? Right? Are you going around cursing him?"

Nelson looked at Martin and Catherine with some concern, worried that they would be angry because of Leo's words.

But Nelson's worries were unnecessary. Catherine also laughed at this time, pointing to Martin and said: "I said long ago that your style is very similar to those politicians, but you don't believe me. Now that you have been pointed out directly, you should Do you believe it?"

Martin didn't look angry at all, but had a self-deprecating wry smile on his face.

After the laughter subsided, Martin put away his smile, changed to a serious look, and said in a deep voice: "I'll tell you the truth! Before I introduced myself just now, I knew the three, but I didn't know them at the time. The exact identities of the three, I only confirmed your identities when Nelson talked about what happened to you later."

"You know us?" Leo frowned and said.

"You guys obviously underestimated what you're doing." Martin took out a newspaper from his purse, handed it to Leo, and said, "When you broke through, among the people you killed was the youngest son of the Duke of Milan. Sending them to the troops directly under the Duke of Dewen for training, I thought it was just a harvest battle without any danger, but unexpectedly..."

Leo took the newspaper and glanced at it briefly, then handed it to Nelson, questioning, "Is it just this newspaper?"

Martin shook his head and said, "It's not the newspaper. In fact, before the newspaper reported it, or more correctly, I knew the three of them when the news of the knight's death was communicated to the duke just after the battle of Lebouti. It’s just that I don’t know the exact identities of the three, and the identities of the three were really confirmed just now.”

"Look, it's all your fault for talking too much. You talk about everything when you see a woman." Jason blamed Nelson.

Nelson also showed embarrassment and guilt, while Catherine looked at Martin very dissatisfied. It was obvious that Martin was extremely disgusted with Martin's use of herself to obtain information from Nelson.

At this time, Leo's mind didn't seem to be focused on the fact that his enemy had gained a Duke of Milan. He pondered for a while, and suddenly showed a sudden look, and said to Martin inexplicably with deep meaning: "I see, It's the Duke of Milan, isn't it?"

This sentence was spoken without beginning or end, not only Jason could not understand, even Nelson and Catherine could not understand, only Martin was stunned when he heard this, and looked at Lei for the third time with scrutiny. Ou, and this time he looked at Leo with a more equal and appreciative expression.

"It's really easy to talk to smart people. It's true that I have eyes and ears with the Duke of Milan, just like I have eyes and ears with the royal family of France." Martin praised, and then said to the three of them, "I want to Make a deal that will never lose money for the three."

Leo raised his eyebrows and said, "Aren't you afraid of offending the Duke of Milan when you trade with us?"

Martin laughed and said, "A high-ranking person like the Duke of Milan would not waste time looking down at the reptiles under his feet." Then, he turned to Catherine and said, "Kena, bring that file here."

"Documents? Do you want them to handle that matter?" Catherine froze for a moment, shook her head again and again, and said, "No, this is our own business, and we have to solve it ourselves. Nelson and the others are just here to visit me, and tomorrow left by train…”

Martin did not try to persuade Catherine, but said to Nelson, "I think Nelson would be more than happy to help if he knew you were in trouble."

As Martin expected, Nelson looked at Catherine with a worried look on his face, and his IQ dropped to the average in an instant, and asked, "Kenna, are you in any trouble?"

Catherine opened her mouth, trying to persuade Nelson not to meddle, but Martin said inexplicably at this time: "Kena thinks about those children."

This sentence made Catherine stop when she reached her mouth. She looked at Nelson with a concerned face, sighed heavily, then glared at Martin fiercely, and said, "Just like Mr. Leo Dodd That said, Martin, you're a real piece of shit."

After speaking, he opened the door forcefully and walked out angrily.

Leo almost didn't need to look at Nelson's expression to know that this guy had fallen into someone else's trap, and he jumped into it by himself, and there was no way he could be rescued. So he looked at Martin with interest, and said, "I really want to know how you are going to persuade me to let me do things for you."

Martin said confidently: "It only takes one day. Regardless of whether this matter has a result tomorrow, the transaction will be considered completed and will not delay your catching the train. So in one day, the commission of five thousand gold flanges, I think so things..."

Before Martin finished speaking, Leo turned to Jason and said, "Jason, how much money did we lose this morning?"

Jason thought about it very seriously, and said, "There should be half a million gold shields, right? It seems that much."

After questioning and answering, Martin was blocked for a long time and didn't know what to say. He confidently took out five thousand gold flanges as a commission, but the person he wanted to hire casually threw away half a million gold shields. , which made him feel like a beggar giving alms to a rich man.

It's not that he didn't suspect that what Leo and Jason said was not true, but even if it was not true and the number was reduced by ten times, there would still be 50,000 pieces, and these 50,000 pieces were still golden shields. If you have more money, you won't be at a disadvantage in the negotiation with the factory owner, and now that tricky thing is not a troublesome thing.

At this time, Martin suddenly remembered that Leo had stayed in Catherine's laboratory and anatomy room for a long time just now, so he couldn't help but glance around the room, and finally his sight fell on the pieces that were put together on the table. The carcass of the rat-like beast and the black block next to the carcass.

After resting his eyes on those two objects for a while, Martin seemed to have a solution. With a smile on his face, he walked to the workbench and looked at the restored beast with a pretentious gesture, without looking back. Said to Leo: "The things have recovered well. It seems that Mr. Dodd is very interested in this kind of violent rat," he said, he picked up the high-energy substance, threw it in his hand, and then threw it at Leo. Handed it over, said: "The matter I ask you to help with is related to Rat and this thing produced from the body."

Leo didn't take the black block, but stared at Martin and said, "What do you know?"

"I don't know anything?" Martin withdrew his hand and said with a smile: "But I know that you, like me, are the chosen ones, the ones who see the truth of the world clearly, and we are destined to do some great things."

Hearing Martin's words, Leo was thoughtful, secretly activated his spirit vision, and looked towards Martin.

However, before Leo could see Martin's situation clearly, he was startled by puffs of gray mist in front of him. I saw that the small room where there was no abnormality just now has been shrouded in strands of gray mist, not only the small room, but also the clinic outside the room. All filled with this gray mist.

"Discovered a negative energy force field. Low-level energy cannot be absorbed. It can be used for mental recovery and will recovery. It has unknown side effects."

Leo hardly needs to go through the sub-brain system analysis, and he can easily feel the strong negative emotions in the gray mist with just the talent of spiritual perception. These come from the daily resentment, anger, and despair of the residents of the cage city. Fusion together to form a negative energy force field similar to the high-energy force field of the Black Forest.

However, what surprised Leo was that he actually saw words that could be used for mental recovery and will recovery in the data record, which absolutely surprised him. As for the later unknown side effects, he intentionally or unintentionally ignored them.

Although he really wanted to understand the recovery effect of the negative energy force field on the spirit, especially the will, but he also knew that now was not a suitable time, so he temporarily cleaned up his mood, let his mind return to the original purpose, and moved towards Martin looked.

"Sure enough." When Martin's figure appeared in his eyes, Leo immediately saw a layer of faint white gas surrounding Martin's body, especially around his eyes. Two groups of white gas entrenched around, It had some effect on his vision.

After seeing what he wanted, Leo immediately stopped his spirit vision, picked up the high-energy substance from Martin's hand, and asked, "Do you know what this is?"

Martin said, "I just know that this thing is related to a special bullet, and I don't know much about the others, but I'm asking people to study this thing, if you are willing to participate..."

"No need!" Leo rejected Martin's invitation, then thought for a while, and said, "I promise to help you with this without affecting tomorrow's train, and you can keep the five thousand gold flanges for yourself." , I don’t need it, but I need you to promise me a condition.”

"What conditions?"

"I don't know what you need us to do for you, but it must be difficult," Leo said with a smile, "and such difficult things usually represent a lot of spoils, I need to have The power to choose limitedly among the spoils requires five pieces."

"No! At most two." Martin immediately vetoed Leo's request and set out his conditions.

"Two things are fine." Leo had no intention of haggling, because the purpose of his offer was not to bargain with Martin, but to test Martin. Obviously, from Martin's attitude, it is not difficult to see that Martin is very clear that if After the matter is settled, what kind of spoils will there be, that's why he rejected Leo's request without hesitation.

Martin himself is also very smart. After Leo agreed to the conditions he offered, he immediately realized that he had slipped his mouth. However, he wasn't annoyed by this, on the contrary, he was very happy, because the more so, the greater the success rate of solving the matter.

"Since I'm a collaborator, now as a collaborator, I really want to find out one thing." Leo suddenly asked: "When you first approached me, you probably didn't know what we were doing in Brett. , and even if it was what Brett did, it is not worth your time to convince us, you must have come to me directly for other reasons, can you tell me this reason?"

Martin pretended to be profound, and said vaguely: "I have told you the reason just now. My eyes can see the truth of the world."

Hearing this, Leo quickly thought of Martin's situation he observed through his spiritual vision, and thought of the white gas gathered around Martin's eyes. Obviously, those two clouds of gas should be some kind of spiritual energy, which gave Martin Similar to his psionic ability of vision, through this skill Martin must also be able to see that he should also have some psionic ability, so he took the initiative to come forward to contact him.

At this moment, Catherine walked quickly back into the small room with a folder as thick as a book and with a cover of two boards, then slapped the folder heavily on the workbench, and said with a serious expression: " I also want to participate in this matter." As he said, before Martin and Nelson could deny it, he raised his hand to signal them not to speak, and looked at them very seriously, and said, "You should know my character, even if you If I refuse, I will go too, and I am afraid it will be more dangerous then, are you willing to see me in danger?"

When Catherine got to this point, the two couldn't say much more, so they could only reluctantly nod their heads in agreement.