The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

No matter what the reason is that there is no psionic interference device in the Governor's Mansion of the French Empire, it is a good thing for Leo now. He can easily grasp the position and movement of every person in every mansion through the spiritual network , which allowed him to walk around and search the Governor's Mansion at will like visiting a self-driving garden.

This Governor's Mansion is very large. There are more than 3,000 rooms in the main building alone, not counting the secret rooms. If the secret rooms and the rooms in the auxiliary building are added, the total number of rooms will exceed 5,000.

Because of the banquet, most of the people in the mansion are concentrated in the banquet hall and the lounge lighting area. As for the other guest rooms, bedrooms and other rooms, except for a small number of others, they are all vacant. There are guards from the Governor's Mansion patrolling the corridors.

Although the patrol routes of the guards are perfectly arranged, and almost every aisle can be guarded by one or two guards at any time, after all, humans are not machines, and it is impossible to cooperate so seamlessly. When they patrol, they will always cause problems due to their own or other people's reasons. dislocation.

Leo easily found the loopholes in these patrol routes, and quickly searched for some useful clues in the mansion.

Before, the elegant lady believer that Leo found entered the governor's mansion, and walked directly into the mansion, carrying various pastries and drinks from the maid, and walked towards the governor's study.

On the way, he met many people, including the servants of the Governor's Mansion and some guests. These people seemed to know him. The servants would salute very respectfully, and the guests would also take the initiative to nod and say hello to him. The status of the Governor's Mansion should not be low.

Leo followed the servant, avoided the guards in the aisle, and came to the governor's study.

Compared with other important rooms in the Governor's Mansion, this study is obviously much smaller, and half of the area is used as an exhibition hall to display the meritorious deeds and spoils collected by the Governor's son in past wars. From the style of the study, it can be seen that the governor appointed by the French Empire is a traditional knight nobleman with a long heritage, and he is also an eagle nobleman.

After entering the study, the servant put the plate in his hand on the table, took out the wine glass, got a glass of wine, and then stood quietly by the door, as if waiting for something.

After about ten minutes, a bookcase next to the window suddenly opened automatically, and a gorgeously dressed young man came out from the secret room behind the bookcase. Things got stuck.

At this moment, Leo, who was outside the study, seemed a little surprised by the young man's appearance, or more correctly, surprised by the existence of a secret room in the study. In his mental network scan, the inside of the study is very ordinary, there is no such thing as a secret room at all, and the thickness of the walls around the study is also impossible to have passages and other facilities.

What's even weirder is that even if the scene of the young man walking out of the secret room behind the bookcase happened in Leo's mental network perception, he still couldn't find the existence of the secret room. Just an ordinary wall.

"An elegant lady's dressing room!" This scene made Leo quickly find a reasonable explanation from the web weaver's knowledge.

Although opening up a demiplane is theoretically an ability that every god should possess, in fact, there are very few gods who can truly open up a demiplane alone, and gods who can freely open up a demiplane are even rarer. , and Ms. Elegant happens to be one of them.

When the belief of the elegant lady was the most popular, the church of the elegant lady would reward some pious believers with prestige, merit and contribution with some gods and wonders, and one of them was a kind of gods and wonders called the dressing room of the elegant lady.

The function of this magical object is to create a half-plane secret room, and only the owner of the strange item can freely enter and exit this secret room, and other people not only cannot use it, but can't even see it.

Although the number of such half-plane wonders is not large, there are also many. According to the knowledge of the web weavers, the Church of the Elegant Lady has sent out six in name, but it is still unknown how many secretly sent out.

However, one thing is for sure, all the people who get the dressing room of the elegant lady are devout believers of the elegant lady church, and they are also the absolute high-level members of the church, and only the devout believers of the elegant lady can use this magical item. This is different from wizard wonders.

Now that Ms. Elegant's dressing room appeared, Leo was sure of at least two things. One thing was that this young man was definitely a devout follower of Mrs. Elegant, but he didn't know if he was the target he was looking for. The second thing is to make sure that Ms. Elegant does exist and is still alive and well, because this kind of magical thing, especially the half-plane wonder, needs the divine power of Ms. Elegant to support its existence. Otherwise, this god Rare items are no different from junk.

The young man was not surprised that the servant appeared in the study, he walked directly to the desk, drank the wine in the quilt, then reached out to take the towel handed over by the servant, wiped the sweat on his forehead, and picked up a towel. Throwing a piece of pastry into his mouth, he asked, "Have those little guys been fed yet?"

"Already fed, master." The servant replied.

The young man casually sat on the edge of the desk, and asked while eating, "What happened in the city recently?"

The servant took out a small notebook from his pocket and said, "Sir George lost his goods, he is very annoyed, he has been making trouble at the police station for the past two days."

"Sir George's goods, you are talking about the batch of materials shipped from Mozambique." The young man frowned and asked.

"Yes." The servant nodded.

The young man sneered, and said, "You go to the police station later, and tell that Chief Albert that there is no need to deal with this matter. The empire has explicitly banned the smuggling of slaves, and he still wants to commit crimes against the wind, even if he It’s useless to have an Academy of Sciences behind it.”

The servant said with some concern: "If we do this, we and the Academy of Sciences..."

"Don't pay attention to them, it's just a group of blasphemers. Sooner or later, they will regret what they have done." The young man seemed to hate the Imperial Academy of Sciences very much, and his face and tone showed extremely obvious contempt.

The servant didn't answer the young man's words. Although he thought the same thing as the young man in his heart, he wouldn't say it out, asking for trouble.

Afterwards, the servant continued to introduce the recent events in the city to the young man, saying, "The Manatee captured a giant squid. It is said that the total length exceeds that of a small dreadnought."

"The General Chamber of Commerce has decided to print another 50 million Vinaya coins and put them into the market to meet the amount of money needed for business in the near future."

"A great plague broke out in Miria City, and the death toll has reached 3,000, and it is still increasing rapidly. Now Miria City has been completely sealed off, and no one needs to enter or come out."

"The antique shop of the Holy Blood Society was robbed not long ago. The Holy Blood Society suspects that it was done by an insider and is investigating..."

"Wait!" The young man suddenly stopped the servant, and asked in a deep voice, "Did you just say that the holy blood would be robbed?"

The servant corrected: "It's not the Holy Blood Society, it's the Holy Blood Society's antique shop."

"It's all the same, it's all the same." The young man waved his hand, signaling the servant not to be so verbal, and then he asked about the situation in detail.

The servant seemed to know that the young man was interested in this matter, so he had prepared his homework in advance. Except that Leo's existence was weakened to be almost like an ordinary guest, the rest of the content was very close to the facts at that time.

"No," the young man immediately shook his head in denial after hearing this, and said, "It was definitely not done by people inside the Holy Blood Society."

"Why?" The servant was stunned.

Leo, who was eavesdropping outside the study, was also taken aback for a moment, thinking: "Isn't he the one who robbed things?"

"Because it's too obvious." The young man touched the short beard on his chin habitually, and said, "If you dare to rob the Holy Blood's antique shop, you must not be a stupid guy. You must have been peeping for a long time, and now you hardly You need to think more, after hearing this, your first thought is that an insider committed the crime, so this possibility is actually the least.”

At this moment, a servant suddenly came over from the corridor outside the study. The man came outside the study, knocked on the door, and after getting permission, pushed the door to enter, and said to the person inside: "Young Master, Rhodes Steward, someone handed this envelope to the guard at the door just now, saying that there is important information to be handed over to Steward Rhodes."

Butler Rhodes frowned and took the envelope, waved his hand to indicate that the servant could leave, then opened the envelope and looked at the contents, his face became very serious, and then handed over the letter with information to The youth, and said: "Just now Doris led her men to the Holy Blood Society in person, stating that the matter of the Holy Blood Antique Store has nothing to do with them, and is willing to cooperate with the Holy Blood Society to investigate this matter."

The young man looked at the contents of the letter, with a puzzled look on his face, and said, "Why did Doris get involved in this matter? Is she crazy? She has nothing to do with her, so I will get involved myself."

"I don't think Doris should be crazy, she must know something we don't know." Butler Rhodes looked serious, and said in a deep voice: "She should have received news, this matter may be a follower of the lady for."

The young man immediately denied: "Impossible, there are no other female believers in Venaya City except us and them."

"No, didn't you read the information I gave you the other day?" Butler Rhodes walked to the desk, took out a document from a stack of documents, put it in front of the young man, and said, "In the past few months , There have been many thefts in the city of Vinaya, and the murderer has not been caught so far. I went to the scene and found that the people who carried out these thefts were probably ladies who believed in the way of thieves. "

"Damn it!" The young man's face became extremely serious, he sat up from the chair, and walked back and forth in the study, looking very anxious and worried.

The young man was not worried about being involved in this matter. Although the Holy Blood Society was very powerful in Venaya Port, as a young man, even if he was involved, he would be fine. What really worries him is that if he is involved in this matter, it is likely to expose some of his plans in Venaya Port, which may also affect some ongoing affairs of the empire. In that case, his troubles will be serious. It's big.

"Can you find out who did it?" the young man asked in a deep voice.

"There is no clue." Butler Rhodes shook his head, and said calmly: "Before, I tried to find the person who committed the theft, but found nothing, although I can feel that this person is walking around us , but still one step behind.”

The young man's face turned gloomy, and after thinking for a while, he said in a deep voice: "Go to the Holy Blood Society yourself, and express your concern about this matter in the name of the Governor's Palace, and tell the people of the Holy Blood Society , we are willing to assist them in their investigation."

Butler Rhodes hesitated a little, and said, "Would it be too much to do this, and what we're doing seems to be..."

The young man shook his head and said, "Rather than passively let them find out something, it's better for us to cooperate actively. Even if some of our affairs are exposed, as long as it doesn't involve the empire's plan, there will be no major problem."

"I'll do it right away." Butler Rhodes responded, and turned to leave.

"Wait." The young man suddenly stopped Butler Rhodes again, and asked, "Do you know what the Holy Blood will throw?"

"Three skull bowls." Butler Rhodes replied: "The three skull bowls that can make people crazy."

"What?" The young man's face changed suddenly when he heard it.

Butler Rhodes saw the problem from the young man's expression, and asked with concern: "Is there something wrong with these three skull bowls?"

"Of course, there is a problem. It's a big problem." The young man smiled wryly and said, "Just now someone sent a set of gifts, and that set of gifts is the three skull bowls."

Butler Rhodes opened his mouth and didn't know what to say for a moment. After a moment of silence, he asked, "If I'm not wrong, you don't know who gave this gift?"

The young man showed an embarrassing expression on his face, and glared at his butler angrily. Obviously, the butler guessed it right. At that time, he was habitually focused on taking the gift into the secret room, and completely forgot about other things.

"What should we do now?" Butler Rhodes looked at his master helplessly, and said as calmly as possible: "I remember you tried to buy these three skull bowls, but the governor didn't allow it. This matter will not be settled. But there must be your record in that antique shop, so they should also find you." He paused and asked tentatively: "You Let's see if you return the things first..."

"No, the things sent into the secret room belong to me, no matter what their origins are." The young man rejected Butler Rhode's proposal, then thought for a while, and said: "You should follow my previous instructions, first and the Holy Blood I will contact you. This matter is not just an ordinary case. The person who did this matter probably has a plot against Venaya Port, targeting all the forces in Venaya Port. Now that it has been involved , let’s take the initiative, maybe we can find something useful.”

"Understood." Hearing this, Butler Rhodes nodded, turned and walked out of the study.