The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

After Brown came, he accepted the matter of the antique shop, and asked Leo to avoid it outside, while he led a few people to treat the fainted people in the shop, and asked them what happened.

Although he didn't have any suspicions, Leo still took the initiative to stay and participate in the investigation of this matter. After all, the three skull bowls have been regarded as his own by him, but now they are lost. Naturally, he will not be willing to give up Those three skull bowls.

After waiting outside the antique shop for a while, Brown walked out of the shop, and Leo immediately asked, "How's the situation?"

"Except for Old Bill, no one else was injured." Brown didn't seem to want Leo to intervene, but simply responded.

"Can I go in and have a look?" Leo asked.

Brown shook his head and refused: "It's not necessary, let us Holy Blood take care of it!"

Leo emphasized his tone and said: "The lost thing is mine, I think I should get involved in this matter."

Brown still refused: "Mr. Leo Dodd, it seems that you haven't paid for the three antiques, which means that they are not yours yet."

"Mr. Brown, you don't seem to understand what I mean. I'm not asking you to agree to investigate this matter. I'm just telling a fact. It doesn't matter whether you agree or not!" Leo frowned slightly, and then He was extremely tough, and without waiting for Brown to speak, he pushed him away and walked straight into the store.

Leo's rude behavior was seen by several other members of the Holy Blood Society. They seemed to want to teach this stranger a lesson, but they were stopped by Brown in time, and Brown did not show Leo's rejection of participating in this matter. Instead, he followed Leo silently.

After entering the shop, Leo's eyes quickly scanned the shop waiters and customers who hadn't woken up from their lethargy, and then looked around again, walking into the special room , looked at the shop owner who hadn't regained consciousness and was dealing with the injury at the back of his head, then turned around and walked out of the shop without asking a word.

Watching Leo turn and leave, Brown who was following beside him couldn't help asking, "Mr. Dodd, don't you want to ask?"

"Ask what?" Leo asked back.

Brown responded: "Ask what happened before?"

"If you can ask useful things from them, you won't have such an expression, so I don't need to waste time." Leo replied coldly, and continued to walk out after speaking.

"Where are you going now?" Brown followed up and asked again.

Leo turned his head to look at Brown, and replied with the other party's previous words: "Isn't going to the hotel, isn't this a matter of your Holy Blood Society? I don't need to get involved."

After finishing speaking, he walked out quickly, passed through the crowd of onlookers, and disappeared into the narrow underground passage.

"He must have found something?" Brown frowned and said to himself.

After hearing Brown's words, a masked person next to him asked, "Boss, do you want to send someone..."

"Don't!" Brown shook his head. He still doesn't know whether Leo really doesn't want to intervene in the investigation of this matter, or if he deliberately made a suspicious gesture, but he knows very well that Leo can't be caught. Sending someone to monitor Leo at this time will give Leo enough excuses to intervene in this matter. Even if the crow comes forward at that time, it is impossible to change the fact that Leo intervened.

"What should we do now?" Another subordinate also asked.

"Immediately investigate secretly those who have recently joined and left the organization, and also investigate all those who are related to underground churches and cults in Venaya Port." Brown ordered in a deep voice, then thought about Su, and said, "Isn't there someone recently?" Are there more than a dozen groups of underground church organizations who fled from Minsk? Start investigating from them. Remember to investigate secretly. As for the outside world, investigate what happened in the antique shop as an ordinary robbery. Don't show your flaws."

"Understood, boss." After listening to the order, all the subordinates dispersed separately to conduct various investigations according to Brown's instructions, while Brown returned to the antique shop, waiting for the shop owner to wake up from the coma.

As Brown guessed, Leo did find some clues, but like Brown, he is not going to cooperate with the Holy Blood to investigate this matter. He is going to retrieve the things by himself, which can save a purchase The cost of this thing.

After returning to the ground, Leo did not go back to the hotel, but called a carriage and headed to the port area.

While he was checking the situation of the store just now, he also used his brain's quick memory to compare the scene he saw when he first entered the store. He found that there was one thing missing when the personnel had not changed. Someone was missing something, and the guest didn't seem to know that he was missing something, as if that thing never existed.

That thing was a cat pendant hanging on the customer's backpack. Leo didn't pay attention to these things at all when he entered the shop. Looking back now, he feels that he was a little negligent at the time, or that the psionic energy wall he just entered the store interfered with his perception of psionic energy fluctuations, and he failed to realize that the cat pendant, which seemed to be just an ordinary decoration, might be a A magical creature controlled by humans.

Cat-related god beliefs were very popular in the ancient Vinylon world. According to the statistics of religious scholars, there have been at least seventy cat-related gods in the Vinylon world since ancient times, and these gods have all disappeared now.

In the eyes of ancient humans, mice that eat food and spread diseases are always the most evil species, and cats that are extremely good at catching mice have become the most sacred existence in the eyes of ancient humans. Among the gods, the most famous ones are Belus, the cat god of Saville, the desert kingdom of Minsk mainland, and the cat-headed saint of Mosang mainland.

Just like other gods born of faith, all cat gods lost their faith quickly after humans found other ways to deal with mice, collapsed, and finally disappeared completely.

However, these cat god churches will more or less leave some legacy, and there are some spiritual wonders infused with divine power.

The incarnation of the civet cat is the favorite magical object made by various cat gods. Leo has obtained knowledge about this magical object from the knowledge of the web weaver, and it is very detailed. The reason for such details is because they once had an in-depth cooperation with a cat god, making that cat god a soul guide, and they also obtained a lot of knowledge about the cat god.

Although the vast majority of cat gods are good gods, there are also some cat gods who waver between good and evil. Ms. Elegant is such a cat god. Lady Elegant originated from a script written by an ancient dramatist who called all the cats in his plays Lady Elegant because of the graceful posture of cats walking and moving. It was accepted by the upper class such as the aristocracy, and thus promoted, and eventually became a church.

I don't know why, but during the spread of the Elegant Lady Church, the Elegant Lady, who was originally the patron saint of noble manors, suddenly became the patron saint of thieves, and a large number of thieves from the bottom joined the Elegant Lady's church. This made Ms. Elegant's influence spread all over the high-level nobles and the bottom of the common people. Until the cat god belief collapsed, Ms. Elegant's belief always existed in all kinds of cat god beliefs.

Although it is now generally accepted that the belief in the cat god has all disappeared, Leo now feels that maybe the belief in the cat god of the elegant lady has ended, but the belief in the elegant lady herself may still exist in this world, but it has become Very secret underground church.

It's not aimless for him to have such an idea, because unlike the single belief of other cat gods, even though Ms. Elegant's belief originated from the cat god, her own belief is not limited to the cat god.

The patron saint of nobles, thieves, and prostitutes, the god of caress, the inspiration, and the walker under the moon, etc., are all given to elegant ladies. Although the belief in the cat god has collapsed, with the belief in other gods, elegant It's not likely that the lady can't survive like a flesh god like the eye of truth.

The reason why Leo went to the port area now was mainly because he needed to determine whether there was an elegant lady's church in Venaya Port, because the port where dragons and snakes mixed together was always the favorite place of the elegant lady's church.

If it exists, then the person who stole the skull bowl must be the top of the Elegant Lady Church, because only the top of the Elegant Lady Church is eligible to own and use the Elegant Lady's cat god incarnation.

The reason why I chose the port area is because the guest with the cat ornament on the backpack should be a foreign businessman who has just arrived in Vinaya Port, and this businessman is not planning to stay here for a long time. Just stop here, do a little resupply, do some shopping, and leave in no time. So the cat ornament was probably hung on the businessman's backpack when he was in the port.

In addition, Leo also felt that the perpetrator might have done it temporarily, because if it was a premeditated crime, he would never choose to commit the crime during this time period. As for the reason for the temporary decision to snatch the skull bowl, I am afraid it is also related to his plan to buy the skull bowl related.

At the moment of entering the store, Leo inadvertently showed his strength, making the person who controlled the incarnation of the cat god realize that if Leo bought the skull bowl, he would never be able to take it away, so he took advantage of it. The moment Leo left, he snatched the skull bowl.

About ten minutes or so, Leo got off the carriage and walked down the bone stairs to the port area below. Although it was almost evening, the port was still very busy, and many ships were waiting for loading and unloading. There are a large number of ships temporarily anchored in the sea waiting for the dock to be vacated.

"Take me to the best brothel here?" Leo looked around, snapped his fingers at a kid who was hanging out on the pier not far away, and took out two Vickers after he approached. Handed over the Naya coin and asked.

When the child saw the money in Leo's hand, his eyes lit up, he quickly took it, and without a word, he led Leo towards an urban area with mostly three-story houses on the edge of the dock warehouse.

Soon the child brought Leo to a three-story attic built of red bricks. At the entrance of the attic, several strong men with weapons on their waists leaned against the wall next to them and looked in from the door. Some seemingly wealthy businessmen can be seen having fun in the attic with their arms around women with heavy make-up, and cheerful music comes out of the door accompanied by loud sounds.

"Little Peter, what's wrong with you?" Obviously, the child leading the way has something to do with this brothel. When he saw the child running over in a hurry, a strong man guarding the door walked over without saying a word and mentioned the child. The collar at the back of the neck, shouted.

"Put me down, you goddamn idiot." The child who was caught in the air kicked the strong man's thighs a few times, then pointed to Leo who was following behind and said, "I didn't cause trouble, I brought guests here gone."

When the strong man saw Leo approaching, he immediately threw the child aside, then saluted Leo, and said, "My lord, this is your first time here, right? Please allow me to lead you the way. "

"No need! I just want to inquire about one thing." Leo didn't talk nonsense, and directly raised his hand to cast an Axi sign, and then asked, "Where is the altar of Ms. Elegant?"

"In Monaya's small garden." The strong man said what Leo wanted to know without any resistance.

"Take me to Monaya's small garden." Leo ordered again.

"Okay, my lord!" The strong man replied in a daze, and then he staggered like he was drunk and led Leo towards the backyard of the attic of this apartment.

After passing through a small arch, the two came to the backyard of the apartment. As the strong man said, there is indeed a small garden in front of them. Judging from the neatly trimmed flowers and plants in the garden, the owner here loves the garden very much , with almost daily care.

Leo didn't say anything, and directly released the strong man's control, let him sleep in the corner of the garden, and then walked into the garden, walking towards a distinct shrine altar not far away.

Elegant ladies have many god names, most of which are the protectors of so-and-so, such as the protector of travelers, nobles, thieves, etc., and the protector of prostitutes is the cat God's belief appeared in the later period. This is mainly because most prostitutes at that time liked to keep cats, so it was easy for some people to connect the two, and prostitutes also needed faith to fill the emptiness in their hearts, so in the later period of cat god belief, the prostitute's belief was almost It has become the main force of various cat god churches.

In Leo's view, if the cat god belief disappears, other god name beliefs may disappear with it, but only the prostitute's belief should always exist, and now the quaint shrine altar in the middle of this small garden just proves it Leo's speculation.