The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"What is Nilgaard? Would you mind explaining it?" Leo walked to Catherine, squatted on the ground, and looked at the words and symbols on it. He didn't feel any energy in these words and symbols .

"We'll go find..." Catherine, who had many secrets in her heart, was unwilling to say more, and was about to stand up and continue searching for Nelson's whereabouts.

However, before she could finish her words, Leo's hand pressed down her body that was about to stand up, and then she heard Leo say in a very cold tone: "Miss Catherine, I think we should put the Speak clearly."

"What do you mean?" Catherine's face was solemn, and she couldn't help but put her hand on the battle ax that Leo had given her before.

"Let me tell you the truth! I don't trust you." Leo also acted very seriously. He didn't see Catherine's hand on the tomahawk at all, but looked at her and said, "But the doctor I really believe in you, he thinks that you are still the Catherine he loves even though you have been cut off from him for so many years, so I can try to trust you as a comrade who fought together from the death line, but Miss Catherine, you are very Disappointing! You don't deserve the doctor's trust in my opinion!"

When Nelson was mentioned, a trace of sadness appeared in Catherine's eyes, and then she took a deep breath, calmed down her guilt, and asked, "Why do you say that?"

"Do you still remember the question I asked you?" Leo emphasized his tone and pressed him step by step: "Is there anything special about the doctor that will attract Martin Luther's attention? Use his feelings for you to trick him into this catacomb? What does this catacomb have to do with the doctor? Do you remember these two questions?"

"Of course I do," Catherine replied.

"On the rail car that came to the parish, when I asked you, you didn't know the answer. I believed in you, so I didn't ask again." The oppressive force on Leo's body gradually strengthened, so that Catherine dared not look at him again. "Before entering the secret passage in the Palace of Eternal Sleep, I asked you again. You deliberately changed the subject, but I didn't care. After all, finding a doctor is the key point. Now? Are you going to tell me that you don't know anything?"

Catherine couldn't bear the constant pressure from Leo's body, turned her head aside, and said without confidence: "But what does this have to do with Nelson? What does what I know now have anything to do with Nelson?"

"Okay! I believe what you said. It has nothing to do with Nelson." Leo put his hand on Catherine's shoulder and said word by word: "Now, I ask Miss Catherine to tell me that what you found has nothing to do with Nelson. It doesn't matter, I won't ask any more questions."

The surrounding atmosphere immediately quieted down and became extremely tense. Jason was not used to such a tense atmosphere, so he found an excuse to investigate the surrounding environment and temporarily avoided the awkward atmosphere.

"I don't know what your concerns are, I just care about the safety of my comrades in arms." Leo let go of his hand on Catherine's shoulder, and said in a slightly softer tone, "The doctor must be brought here for a purpose Yes, think about the case information provided by Mr. Martin! If there are no accidents, the doctor will definitely encounter similar things, so the more we understand what we are facing now, the more safely we can rescue the doctor, you What do you think?"

After Leo's voice fell, the surroundings became quiet again, but the atmosphere relaxed a lot inexplicably, and was no longer as tense and serious as before.

Catherine suddenly said: "I do know something related to Nelson, but this matter has something to do with my race. This is the secret of my ethnic group, so I..."

Before Catherine could finish speaking, Leo took the initiative to interrupt her explanation, stood up, and said, "In this case, just pretend that I didn't ask, and you don't need to say anything. Let's find a doctor!"

"No! You're right, there are some things I should tell you." Catherine stopped Leo, hesitated a little, and said, "Martin will target Nelson because of Nelson's background."

"Doctor's background?" Leo sat back beside Catherine again, wondering.

Catherine said: "Nelson is the youngest son of the Matthew family in Port of Sete."

Originally, Catherine was looking forward to Leo's surprised expression, but Leo didn't respond at all.

Catherine asked, "You already know about Nelson's background?"

"I don't know." Leo shook his head and said truthfully, "I don't even know about the Matthew family."

"Are you from the Kingdom of England?" Catherine said with an incredulous expression, "Robert Matthew, Lord Protector? The withered White Rose family?"

It's a pity that after Catherine said so much, Leo still looked puzzled.

It's no wonder Leo reacted like this. This body was just a blacksmith in a remote town before. He knew very little about the history of the Kingdom of England, and only cared about things around him. The integration is also incomplete, and naturally they don't know what the Duke of the Kingdom is or what the White Rose family is.

Seeing that Leo really didn't know these things, Catherine explained carefully: "Robert Matthew is the founder of the White Rose family. The son married the princess of the royal family, and let his daughter marry the later Charles I, which opened the century-long era of red roses and white roses co-ruling the Kingdom of England. But, for unknown reasons, the white roses The Rose family gradually declined, and gradually withdrew from the political center of the Kingdom of England, and moved to Sete Port."

Leo asked puzzled: "What does this have to do with this catacomb?"

Catherine said: "After a hundred years of intermarriage between the Matthew family and the British royal family, the blood of the family also has royal blood, and the British royal family is said to have the blood of the gods."

"The blood of the gods?" Leo was stunned for a moment. If he would have sneered at such things before, but now he couldn't help but think of the black shadow he saw in that unknown place and the golden one he saw in the black forest. Giant deer, in a way, these existences are no different from gods.

"I really doubt if you are from Yingge." Catherine misunderstood that Leo was stunned because he didn't know about it, so she muttered to herself, but she didn't know that she told the truth, "The founder of the Yingge royal family William I was the first general of the first dynasty of France. He was convicted of treason because he offended the emperor of France at that time, but because other nobles interceded, the punishment was changed from beheading to exile at sea. Legend has it that William I's family was at sea After drifting for many days, the food was exhausted, and the hope of surviving was completely lost. At this time, a sea god appeared, rescued William I and his family, and brought them to the present English Islands, and later let William I He and his descendants became his family and gave them the blood of the gods, so the royal family of England has always regarded itself as the descendant of the sea god."

"Sea God?" Leo was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and said, "The octopus on the army badge is the Sea God?"

"Yes." Catherine already knew very well that Leo knew nothing about these legends, whether they were from his own country or not.

"Okay! The doctor has the blood of the gods, which is why he was targeted." Leo summed it up a little bit, and then asked: "Then what about this catacomb? It has the same relationship with the doctor, or the blood of the gods on the doctor. what relationship?"

When talking about the catacombs, Catherine's worried look appeared again, and after much hesitation, she decided to speak out.

Catherine walked up to the foundation of the statue, knelt down and stroked the strange text on it, and said with emotion: "This is not a catacomb, this should be an ancient underground city called Nilgaard, which is the ancestral land of us lonely people. Those of us whose true names should be Nilgardians."

Hearing what Catherine said, Leo froze for a moment, and asked doubtfully, "Are all the workers living in Cage City your clan?"

"Not exactly, but mostly." Catherine Han replied vaguely, then fell silent for a while, and asked Leo, "Do you know the history of the Faran Dynasty? For example, the slave kingdom that almost cut off the inheritance of the Faran Empire." .”

"I heard from the doctor on the way to Lanxi."

"Everyone knows that His Majesty destroyed the dynasty of the New Western Continent, rebuilt the French Empire, continued the blood of the French royal family, and destroyed all the texts about that dynasty, because that dynasty was established by slaves, and others mentioned When it came to it, I could only name it the Kingdom of Slaves." Catherine inadvertently showed hostility and hatred when referring to the Faran Empire, and said with a trace of inexplicable sentimentality when referring to the Kingdom of Slaves. : "Everyone has only seen the glorious French Empire, but how many people know the final whereabouts of those who participated in the establishment of the slave kingdom?"

"Are you the descendants of the slave kingdom?" Leo guessed knowingly.

Catherine didn't admit it, nor denied it, but continued: "In the past years, our people have been tortured by the Faran royal family in every possible way, making us do the heaviest and most dangerous work, and let us live in the worst places, eat the worst food, neither let us live well, nor let us die in pain, they want to torture us forever and ever."

As she said that, she felt that she was not in the right mood, so she stopped, closed her eyes slightly, and calmed down the increasingly agitated emotions. Leo didn't bother her, and quietly waited for the next article.

At this time, Jason, who had walked away before, seemed to feel that the atmosphere here had returned to normal, so he walked over and sat aside without making a sound.

"We survived, we returned to our capital, rebuilt a city, reunited our beliefs, and we also rediscovered the past history." Catherine narrated: "We found in the catacombs left by the predecessors. The ancient books that came down include the ancient books about the slave kingdom that was wiped out by the French Empire, and there are even older ancient books.”

"Wait!" Leo suddenly stopped Catherine from continuing, then took Catherine's hand very suddenly, gestured to Jason, ran towards one of the stone houses, and quickly hid in the stone house. He put his hands on the two battle axes at his waist, leaned against the edge of the window, and peeped out.

Leo's sudden move made Jason and Catherine who were following him tense instantly. Although they didn't know why, they each took out their weapons and held them tightly in their hands. cover.

However, they waited for a long time and didn't feel any movement outside. They couldn't help feeling a little puzzled in their hearts, wondering if Leo had made a mistake in his judgment. When they were about to ask, they were stopped by Leo raising his hand, and then they saw Leo Pointing to a piece of ruins on the edge of the square.

Jason and Catherine poked their heads slightly from the edge of the window, watching carefully where Leo's finger was, and soon they saw a clue, there was a black figure lying in the ruins, but what made them puzzled was the black figure No matter how you look at the body shape, it is very strange.

The overall image of this black shadow is very similar to a mass of mud. When it moves, it doesn't feel like walking, but more like flowing on the ground.

In addition, its body is transparent, allowing the light emitted by the fluorescent plants covered by the body to pass through the body and project outward, forming an invisible effect.

If it wasn't for the black shadow's ability to make the body transparent disappear from time to time when it moved, making its true shape appear, perhaps it would be difficult for Jason and Catherine to see that such a monster existed in the ruins.

I saw that this monster seemed to be moving very slowly, but in fact it was very fast, and it was not affected by the terrain image. It quickly turned over a piece of rubble ruins that were difficult for ordinary people to turn over, and came to the place where Leo was before. In front of the square where they were staying.

At this moment, the monster stopped suddenly, circled around the base of the statue, and stopped next to the cornerstone where Catherine and Leo had just sat down. Its muddy body wrapped the cornerstone.

Seeing this, Leo didn't say anything, and immediately took out a church burqa that was put in the backpack before, took out a tomb wall lamp, poured all the lamp oil on the burqa, rolled it into a ball, and took out Lighter.

Jason and Catherine on the side also became nervous. At this time, Leo gestured to Jason again, pointing to the flintlock gun that Jason carried on his back.

Jason immediately took off the hand cannon with understanding, quickly stuffed an ammunition into it, handed it to Leo, helped him carry it on his back, and took the breech-loading gun equipped with five special bullets from him at the same time.

At this moment, the monster suddenly released the ability of the transparent body, and arched from the ground, about one person high, a hole was split in the muddy body, and it screamed towards the house where Leo and the others were. , and then moved towards Leo and the others at an extremely fast speed.