The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Leo put the queen in his hand next to the king, and did not make any further attempts, such as seeing if something would happen after instilling spiritual power, etc. Now this occasion is not a suitable place for experimentation.

After putting down the two firearms, Leo turned his attention to the two identically shaped daggers inside the box. The shape of these two daggers is very simple, more like a dagger. The main body of the handle is some kind of animal bone, which is covered with a layer of hollowed-out unknown metal. Although the main body of the blade is also forged from metal, the surface is not The metallic luster, on the contrary, presents a kind of off-white, which looks like bones from a distance.

Perhaps because of the precedent of firearms, Leo also expected the same for these two daggers.

"These two daggers are very sharp," said Jean Valjean, who saw Leo's eyes on the daggers, and said, "Even if it is a steel plate, it can be cut like butter, but these two daggers are very sharp. The downside is that it's too heavy."

"How much can a dagger weigh?" Jason heard these words from the side, walked to the table in disbelief, and reached out to pick up one of the daggers.

But what he didn't expect was that the dagger in the box didn't move at all, and then he tried to hold it with one hand, but he could only lift the dagger slightly, until he forcefully lifted the dagger with both hands. However, just picking up a dagger already made him use all his strength, and it would be impossible to swing the dagger, just like the multi-barreled flintlock he mentioned just now, soon his His hands were sore, and he had to put the dagger back into the box.

"You have great strength." At this moment, Jason rubbed his sore arms, and said to Jean Valjean with admiration, "You were able to take these two daggers so easily just now." Saying that, he He also looked at Leo, and said, "Leo, you are not weak, you held it with one hand just now."

Hearing Jason's words, Leo also remembered that he was holding the box with one hand just now, which also made him a little puzzled. Because although he felt that the box was a bit heavy just now, according to the comparison of the records of the sub-brain system, the weight of the two firearms of the king and queen has already accounted for more than 99% of the weight of the box, and the rest should be the weight of the box itself, while the two daggers According to this comparison, then their weight is almost equal to zero.

"I was just holding the box, not the dagger." Jean Valjean explained, and motioned to Jason: "Pick up the box now and have a look."

"Hold the box? How can you lift it up?" Jason didn't understand. He held the box with both hands and lifted it up. He picked it up easily, and the weight that should have been extremely heavy disappeared.

Because the expected weight did not appear, Jason, who was defenseless at all, was thrown out involuntarily following the force trend because of excessive force, and the box and the dagger were also thrown out.

The box and the dagger flew in an arc in the air, and landed on the ground not far away, while the dagger was pointing down, piercing into the steel plate on the ground like sticking butter, and did not stop until the gauntlet got stuck. .

Jason was still at a loss and didn't know what was going on, but Leo showed interest, walked to one of the daggers, reached out and grabbed the handle of the dagger, and slowly pulled the dagger out of the ground.

Just as Jason showed just now, the dagger in Leo's hand is indeed very heavy, even several times heavier than the flintlock he just picked up with one hand, and he already felt struggling to lift it with one arm .

Afterwards, he motioned Jason to pick up the box, handed it to himself, then put the dagger back into the box, carefully released the hand holding the dagger, and at the same time slightly exerted force on the arm holding the box.

However, just as Leo guessed in his mind, that weight did not appear on the box, as long as the box is separated, or more correctly, as long as it does not directly touch the dagger, that weight will not appear.

After that, he picked up another dagger that was stuck in the ground, and the same situation, the same weight, happened again.

After Leo put the dagger back into the box, he tried to use other methods to pick up the dagger, such as wrapping a piece of cloth around the handle of the dagger, grabbing the cloth and lifting it up, or finding a Jean Valjean repair machine Test methods such as clamping the dagger with iron pliers,

Through these methods, Leo quickly figured out the conditions for the weight of the dagger to appear.

He found that the weight of the dagger not only appears when he touches it with his own hands, but also appears even if he does not touch the dagger with his own hands when he picks it up. What's more interesting is that even if he doesn't pick up the dagger, just put it in the box like this, Picking up the box with your hands, as long as you think about attacking a certain target with a dagger in your mind, the weight of the dagger will also appear. It's as if within a certain range centered on the dagger, the dagger can sense the thoughts related to it in the heart of the person who owns it.

After several attempts, Leo, who felt that he was about the same, put the dagger back into the box, and was about to thank Jean Valjean for giving him such good weapons. Not to mention the two psychic weapons of the king and the queen, although the two daggers could not become weapons that he could use, judging from the condition of the guns, these two daggers should also be psychic weapons, he just didn't find the right one. How to use it, and the peculiarity of the daggers made him look forward to them even more.

At this moment, a spark from the oil lamp on the table made the surroundings flicker, and this flicker made Leo discover something strange about the dagger's blade pattern.

Under the puzzled eyes of everyone, Leo took the oil lamp on the table to the side of the box, and slightly adjusted the angle of the box so that the angle of the light falling on the dagger was different. At this moment, the blade pattern that had just flashed by just now reappeared, and this time Leo, who saw the blade pattern clearly, was very shocked and excited, and was even more puzzled, because the blade pattern on the dagger and his strange appearance on the Wetzker amulet The textures are very similar.

It's just that the similarity in texture alone is not enough for Leo to make a positive judgment. The reason why Leo is sure that the two are of the same origin is that when he focused on those blade patterns, those blade patterns It also twisted and deformed from the scratches on the talisman, as if it came alive.

"Mr. Jean Valjean, can you tell me the origin of this dagger and gun?" Leo looked away from the dagger and asked Jean Valjean with a smile.

"Did you find anything interesting?" Jean Valjean was very curious about Leo's actions just now, he thought Leo should have discovered something.

It has been five years since these two daggers were handed over to him together with the firearms. He knows some special features of firearms and can reverse some mechanical principles, but he still knows nothing about the mysteries of the daggers. Dagger Quest.

Now Leo's actions aroused his curiosity again, and he couldn't help but want to take a closer look at the two daggers before completely losing them to see if he could find something.

However, the wish and the reality have always run counter to each other. He did not find anything abnormal, and the appearance of the dagger was still the same as he had seen in the past five years.

Although Jean Valjean knew that Leo must have found something on the dagger, he didn't ask, but looked at Leo enviously. People only held the dagger for less than three minutes before they made various discoveries. This also made him feel that it was a very correct decision for him to hand over the weapon in the box to Leo, and at the same time, the inexplicable guilt in his heart was also reduced a lot.

"The four weapons in this box are all left by my teacher." Jean Valjean didn't know what kind of mentality it was, he answered Leo's question patiently and in detail, and said: "The king and queen were handmade by him. He said that it took more than ten years to finish the production. As for the two daggers, they were handed down from his ancestors. Once he was drunk, he once said that these two daggers were the last relics of his ethnic group, and he was also the last relic of his clan. The last of the tribe."

Leo was silent for a while, and said, "Your teacher is from Wetzker?"

"You also know the Wetzkers in the Black Forest?" Jean Valjean was a little surprised.

This rhetorical question matched the guess in Leo's heart, so he had already got the answer he wanted. However, he did not continue to ask more about the two daggers, because judging from Jean Valjean's performance, he also believed that Jean Valjean, as an ordinary person, would know the real mystery of the two daggers.

Leo deliberately changed the subject and said, "Do these two daggers have names?"

"No." Jean Valjean shook his head, and then with a slightly sad look on his face, he said: "Maybe there was a name before, but the old man may think that after his death, the Wetzkers will be extinct, and the Wetzkers will be extinct. It doesn't matter if your relic has a name or not."

"In this case, let's call them Twins!" Leo also unceremoniously added a name to the two daggers, then he closed the box and put it in the backpack. Instead of putting the king and queen into the box, he asked Jean Valjean for two holsters that didn't fit well, straddled the king and queen on the left and right, and adjusted the position a little so that they would not hinder He stopped when he drew his gun.

"Have you picked out your weapon yet? Let's go!" Martin urged, as if impatiently waiting.

Leo ignored Martin's urging, but raised his hand to Jean Valjean and said, "Mr. Jean Valjean, I hope to be able to communicate with you in the future. In addition, you are a mechanical genius and should not be buried here."

"Thank you for your compliment, you are not bad!" Jean Valjean shook Leo's hand, then reached out and patted the wall, and said proudly: "I don't think staying here means being buried, here is My home, where there are people who need me, and there are people who need me."

"Home?" Leo hesitated for a moment, showing a look of bewilderment, his face quickly returned to normal, and said to Martin: "Mr. Martin, let's go!"

Martin, who had been impatient for a long time, led Leo and Jason out of the room quickly. Jean Valjean took a step behind them. When he reached the door, he turned around and returned to the workbench as if he had made a decision, and hid himself from the wall. He took out a small box containing twenty special bullets from his safe, and then quickly left the room.

"Why so slow?" Martin, who was one step ahead, was already impatient waiting on the elevator, and when he saw Jean Valjean's figure appearing in the passage, he yelled loudly.

"There are so many oil lamps, of course I have to extinguish them before leaving. Otherwise, what should I do if there is a fire?" Jean Valjean asked Martin angrily, then walked to Leo's side, and took the initiative to shake Leo's hand Hand, and handed the box to Leo, said: "Maybe you can use these special bullets. I hope to meet again in the future, Mr. Dodd."

"Thank you." Leo was not polite, took the box and said, "I also hope to meet you before I leave."

Jean Valjean smiled, turned around and closed the door of the elevator, and under Martin's repeated urging, he pushed the control lever of the elevator and fell from the sky in the same way.

After returning to Jean Valjean's studio, Martin immediately left with Leo and Jason. They walked through narrow and dark passages, passing through several markets and residential areas inside the Cage City, Came to a place like a platform.

The reason why this is the platform is because there are many people waiting for the bus.

I saw that this was supposed to be a street inside the Cage City, but compared to other narrow streets, this one is obviously much wider and very straight.

On this road, except for the street at the bottom, starting from the second floor, there is an I-shaped steel bar that penetrates into the skeleton of the buildings on both sides across the street at a distance of about five meters on each floor, and two rails that go back and forth Lay on top of these bars.

At this moment, a row of ten-seater railcars full of passengers is driving back and forth on the rails. These railcars are very similar to the high-altitude sightseeing railcars in the Earth Federation Nostalgia Park, except that there are no high-tech equipment for entertainment.

The building where Leo is now, from the second floor to the top, has been vacated, the wall facing the street has been demolished, and steel frames and steel plates for reinforcement have been laid to serve as platforms for railcars.

After Martin led Leo and Jason into the platform, they didn't walk into the cage city workers waiting for the train on the platform, but turned to a passage in the building and entered a small room.

This room has a dedicated elevator, and on both sides of the elevator are four heavily armed soldiers wearing workers' uniforms. When these soldiers saw Martin approaching, they all looked extremely excited, and looked at Martin with admiration in their eyes. They all performed non-standard French military salutes, and greeted Martin loudly in a language they had never heard before.

At this moment, Martin's temperament has become extremely friendly, giving people a feeling of close relatives. After signaling the soldiers next to the elevator to inform the console above to put down the elevator, he took advantage of the time when the elevator fell, and his surroundings. The soldiers talked cordially, like a sincere carer, caring about the basic necessities of these soldiers.

Let alone the soldiers, even Leo and Jason, who were bystanders, couldn't help feeling kind to Martin at this moment, feeling that this guy is not bad.

This strange feeling that went against their ideas didn't dissipate until a group of three people walked into the elevator and went up a certain distance with the elevator.