The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Just now he was waiting for you to come out under the stairs over there, why didn't he disappear?" When Leo used the mental net to build the terrain map, Jason also kept an eye on Nelson's situation from time to time, because Leo mentioned Passing Nelson is Martin's goal, so he will pay special attention to him.

"It should be that the commotion just now attracted the attention of the two of us, and someone took the opportunity to kidnap the doctor." When he found Nelson missing, Leo's spiritual network immediately unfolded, but after searching through his spiritual network, he could not find Nelson's trace, obviously something happened to Nelson.

Feeling that he should be responsible, Jason suddenly felt guilty, and said, "Damn it! If I didn't look over there just now..."

Leo said in a deep voice: "It's useless, no matter how you guard against them, they can find opportunities."

Catherine was also very anxious about Nelson's situation, but she still judged the situation calmly, did not panic, and made the most appropriate decision, saying: "I will go to Major first, let the church send someone to look for it, and then go to Martin , since he did it, he must know the whereabouts of Nelson."

"No need! If you go to the High Priest Major now, I'm afraid it will take a while before the church will send people to find him, and they may not be able to find him with their abilities. If it takes too long, there will be Question." Leo stopped Catherine, and asked Jason, "Where was the last place you saw the doctor just now?"

"There." Jason quickly pointed to the steps not far away, then put his hand on the crossbow at his waist, and said fiercely: "If you let me know who tied up the doctor, I must ..."

"You're crazy! Don't you fear that they might misunderstand you doing this at this time?" Leo quickly reached out and pressed Jason's hand that was about to pick up the crossbow, and then put the burqa on Jason's body back again. The weapon was covered, and he pointed to several priests who were staring around not far away.

Although there is Catherine by his side, according to Catherine's reputation in Cage City, there shouldn't be any misunderstandings, but after seeing the crazy side of those believers just now, Leo is also a little uncertain whether Catherine's reputation can suppress those believers The madness, so try not to do some actions that cause misunderstandings, so as to avoid unnecessary conflicts.

After signaling the two to follow him, Leo walked to the place where Jason saw Nelson for the last time.

After arriving at the place, Leo first activated the perfect control skill to control the nose to enhance the sense of smell, and soon he found Nelson's smell from a large number of mixed smells, and through data sorting, restored it on his retina, forming a scent particle composed of phantoms.

Afterwards, he deactivated the perfect control skill, and activated the mental network skill, and began to use the analysis data of the odor particles as the basis. Through the detection ability of the mental network, he easily found the odor particles that matched the data, and analyzed and sorted them out in the same way. projected on the retina.

Next, his eyes looked at what Nelson's phantom composed of odor particles had just done here, as if seeing an image of the past.

I saw that Nelson was also attracted by the movement over there just now, but he couldn't see the situation there, so he went up the stairs, walked to a relatively higher position, and looked over there.

However, after watching for less than five seconds, Nelson seemed to have noticed something, and his eyes seemed to follow an object from the front to the back, and then he walked down the stairs and walked quickly in the opposite direction of the rioting building go.

"Follow me." Seeing this, Leo followed the phantom to the other side, and at the same time said to Jason and Catherine who were puzzled.

Jason was fine, his mind was single-minded, Leo did what he said, without asking why it was right or wrong, or thinking about anything else.

But Catherine hesitated for a moment, not understanding what Leo was doing. She just saw Leo standing there for a while, then her eyes shifted to the steps as if she saw something, and then turned to the other side, saying There was no explanation for the word "follow him", which made it difficult for her to explain.

In Catherine's view, seeking help from the church is the most correct choice now. Even if the church is also suspicious of Nelson's disappearance, she can rely on her reputation in the church to organize a group of search and rescue personnel who will not be affected by the church. Better than wandering aimlessly here.

"Can you explain what you're doing?" Catherine followed quickly, walked to a position almost parallel to Leo, and asked in a deep voice.

"Everyone has a unique smell, and this smell is like the unique identity of this person." Leo already had a certain understanding of Catherine's character, and knew what would happen if the other party didn't understand what was going on. Will not cooperate with him honestly. So while looking at the human-shaped phantom composed of odor particles, he tracked forward and explained to Catherine without looking back: "The smell on a person's body will not disappear immediately because the person leaves, but will stay in the air for a while. Time, as long as you capture these scents, you can capture what that person did before and find that person's whereabouts. Huh? How could this be?"

Leo suddenly stopped and looked at a building that looked like a prayer room in the grove in the garden not far ahead. Catherine was still immersed in the knowledge Leo said, completely unaware of what happened .

While talking just now, Leo had already led the two of them to the outside of a garden on the right side of the chapel.

The difference from the gardens in other places here is that there are no sick black-robed people sitting on the ground praying in this garden, but empty without anyone, even the black-robed people are just sitting on the low wall outside the garden Side, no matter how crowded, did not take a step into the garden.

The reason why Leo stopped and showed surprise was not because of the densely packed people in black robes who groaned in pain from time to time, but because he discovered that Nelson's disappearance was not true through the illusion formed by the smell particles. He was kidnapped as he had guessed before, but more like he left with some people voluntarily.

From the few movements that the scent particles can show, Leo can see that Nelson obviously knows one of those people. Before Nelson suddenly left from the steps, it was also because he saw that person.

After that, judging from the actions of Nelson's scent phantom, he acted a little excited, as if he was persuading or blaming someone, but in the end he chose not to inform Leo and the others, and left with a certain mysterious person. Personality does not match.

Not to mention whether the relationship between Nelson and Leo has reached such a level that they need to inform each other about leaving without authorization. If the relationship between him and Catherine hadn't really encountered something urgent and important, it was absolutely impossible not to be with Catherine. Say hello.

"What's the matter? Did you lose track?" Catherine, who recovered from the theory of odor particles, saw Leo suddenly stop, and immediately thought of Nelson, and asked anxiously.

"I'm not lost." Leo replied calmly, then pointed to the garden and the buildings in the garden ahead, and asked, "Where is that place?"

"That's the small garden and the Palace of Eternal Sleep." Although Catherine was anxious, she could see that there was something unusual about Chuleo, so she suppressed her impatience and calmly responded, "The small garden was built by the shelter." The first garden, and also the first garden in Cage City, has a special meaning, and the Hall of Eternal Sleep is mainly where all the ancestors who have contributed to the church are buried."

Leo asked again: "Why is no one going in here?"

"Because of the special meaning, the use of this place is limited by the canon. Unless it is a sacrificial day, people are not allowed to go in to disturb the ancestors." Catherine seemed to sense something from Leo's inquiry, and asked, "Did Nelson go in?" Inside? If so, it is likely that he was caught and sent to the correctional facility..."

"Caught? You mean there should have been guards here?" Leo caught a small detail.

"Of course there are guards, but now..." Catherine looked around, as if looking for the guards.

"You don't need to look for it. They should have been attracted by the movement over there." Leo pointed to the place where the turmoil occurred before, and then he didn't continue to ask, and walked into the small garden directly under Catherine's surprised gaze. Inside, walk towards the Palace of Eternal Sleep.

Jason didn't think about anything else and followed. Only Catherine hesitated for a while, as if she had some scruples. In the end, her concern for Nelson prevailed, driving her to risk breaking the rules of the Akenaya Church. In the small garden.

The three of them soon arrived in front of the Eternal Mian Hall. At this moment, the Eternal Mian Hall was tightly closed, and there was a lock on the door. It didn't look like someone had opened the door and entered.

"There is a lock on the door, no one should have entered it." Catherine who followed closely said casually when she saw the situation of the gate of the Hall of Eternal Sleep.

Hearing Catherine's words, Leo smiled and retorted: "Can't you go in and send someone to guard the door and lock the door to create the illusion that the door is not open?"

"Uh!" Catherine couldn't answer for a while, but opened her mouth.

"But you are right! The door has never been opened, nor has the lock been opened." Leo changed the subject, and said again: "But they did enter the Palace of Eternal Sleep, and they walked through the secret door."

"Secret door?" Catherine was completely stunned. Although her relationship with the church was very delicate, she had no real power within the church, and she had never managed the affairs of the church, but her understanding of the church still surpassed most people. But even so, she had never heard of any secret doors in the Palace of Eternal Sleep.

Seeing Catherine's unbelievable expression, Leo didn't explain, but walked around the edge of the building to the wall covered by the dense forest, and then groped a few times under the corner, and then saw his hand like It was as if they were pressed into something, and they heard a slight slap, and then the wall in front of them split silently to both sides, revealing an entrance.

"This?" Seeing this scene, Catherine was speechless for a long time, and finally looked at Leo with deep eyes, and said, "Who the hell are you? Why do you know that there is a secret door here that I don't even know about?" ?”

"Please! Miss Catherine." Leo made a lady-first gesture, but the gentleman's gesture made by a man with a beard was a bit nondescript, which made people want to laugh.

Catherine hesitated for a moment before walking into the Hall of Eternal Sleep. Although she doubted Leo's intentions in her heart, and even suspected that Leo came here with Nelson for a purpose, her trust in Nelson allowed her to suppress her doubts for the time being. In the bottom of my heart.

After the three of them entered the Hall of Eternal Sleep, Leo twisted a little on a hanging lamp next to the secret door, and the secret door was closed and restored silently.

From the outside, the Palace of Eternal Sleep is not very big, but inside, because of the ingenious technique of the architect, it gives people the illusion that the space is enlarged by two or three times in an instant.

The place where they are now should be a personal prayer room. Catherine, who is very familiar with this place, just looked at the decoration in the room and knew that this was there. She pushed the door and walked out, passing through a one-way corridor. Came to a chapel.

Although this is a closed indoor space, the interior of the chapel is also very bright because the building cleverly uses the light refraction of the glass.

On the front of the chapel is the statue of Aknaya, but this statue is different from the statue on the square outside.

This idol is an irregular piece of obsidian, which symbolizes the indeterminacy of God. Eyes are carved on the front of the obsidian, and then inlaid with gold, and a heart is carved on the back against the wall, all of which are painted with ruby ​​powder. Full layer.

Seeing this peculiar statue, the first thought in Leo's mind was that the church established in a slum was very rich, from the free food supply, from the expensive buildings and gardens outside, and from the sight of the church. This can be called a luxurious statue, and all the details reveal that this new church built in Cage City does not need to worry about finances.

However, Leo discovered from Martin's information about the church that in order to promote it in Cage City, this church did not collect religious taxes from believers at all like other churches. Even if there are some devout believers who are willing to donate all their property to the church, how much money can people living in such a harsh environment like the Cage City have? Compared with the expenditure of the church, it is simply a drop in the bucket.

"It seems that this church has other sources of funds." Leo thought of this, and he also had an answer in his heart.

At this time, Catherine suddenly deliberately lowered her voice, as if she was afraid that others would hear half of it, and whispered: "Someone has entered the tomb of the ancestors."

I saw that Catherine was standing in front of a huge wooden door at the moment, waving to Leo and Jason. The location of this wooden door was just behind the altar where the statue was.

Leo, who turned to this side, almost didn't need to look carefully to know why Catherine said that, because the wooden door was ajar, and someone stuck a wooden wedge in the gap at the bottom of the door, making the door It will not be closed due to other accidents.