The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

A week after returning to Port of Dorset, Leo could feel that the eyes and ears around him had all disappeared, which made him suppress the idea of ​​taking some measures in his heart and wait for the follow-up development.

In fact, from the second day after he came back, he already felt that there were a lot of spies around his apartment, and from the conversations and conflicts of those spies, he knew that these spies were all dignitaries in Port of Sete, and some of them were just for Leo. The cash-rich port city upstart was curious, more because of the matter of hiring Sanjes. They were all considering whether to deal with Leo, and whether they would get the Duke of Buckingham after dealing with Leo. approval.

Originally, Leo thought that these people would attack quickly, but he also decided that as long as these people attacked, he would fight back, and he would use the most violent way to fight back to completely resolve this matter.

But what he didn't expect was that those people never planned to do anything. They just set up all kinds of eyes and ears around Leo, and even blatantly sent some clumsy monitors, as if they wanted to let Leo know that someone was watching him.

Leo didn't like the feeling of being watched very much. He thought that he would find an opportunity to visit the homes of the controllers behind the eyes and ears one by one to solve the problem thoroughly, but these people retreated on their own initiative.

This situation made Leo think of the Duke of Buckingham. It seems that only the Duke of Buckingham can influence so many dignitaries in Port of Sete. The most powerful and powerful.

Nelson and Catherine came back two days ago. Before they came back, they had received a telegram from Jason, knowing that Leo had returned to Port Dorset, so they came to Leo's apartment as soon as they came back. Meet Leo.

Compared with Jason, Leo and Nelson's relationship is not so deep, they are just good friends, and after so many years, the relationship between the two has become colder, so they did not seem too enthusiastic when they met , just chatting with each other about the experiences of these years.

Because of being a member of the city council these years, Nelson's speech and behavior have changed greatly from the past. He is no longer a simple doctor, but more like a politician. After learning that Leo still has a lot of money on hand After that, he invited Leo to join some of his business plans.

Leo didn't have much thought about Nelson's change. In his opinion, people like Jason had changed after a few years, let alone Nelson, so he didn't feel any regrets.

Compared to Nelson, Catherine has not changed. She is still the same Dr. Catherine from Cage City. During the chat, she talked more about her vision for the development of nursing school.

During the conversation with the Nielsen couple, Leo never heard anything about the Royal Medical College of the Kingdom of England from the two of them. However, it is not difficult to see from their relaxed expressions that the matter of the medical school should have already begun.

After that, the Nelsons placed Leo several times in two days. These times, Nelson mainly introduced his business plan and some plan materials. They were all purely official. Sincerely, he also took this business plan seriously, and helped Nelson solve some loopholes in the plan, and invested in part of it.

The investment in Nelson's business plan was just one of the dozen or so investments he made in the past week. Even after investing so much, he still has hundreds of thousands of cash on him. Support him to live a very luxurious life.

It's just that the dozens of investments he made are all high-quality assets with great potential that he has carefully selected, including fleets, medicine, and industry, etc. The reason why he made these investments is not easy. It's simply for making money, and more importantly, for him to obtain the medicinal materials needed for alchemy, the materials needed for making mechanical tools, and so on.

For example, there are three latest pharmaceutical production factories in his investment. Behind these three factories, there is the support of the medical school. People didn't pay much attention to the three pharmaceutical production factories, so they listed them for sale.

Although promoted by the medical school, the Vinylon world has begun to accept over-the-counter medicines, and because of its low price, it is highly respected by the common people, but for those middle-class and real rich people who live a relatively affluent life, the kind of cheap bottle The stuffed medicines are not credible at all. They usually have their own private doctors and private clinics, and the medicines they need to treat diseases are individually prepared according to the individual's situation.

It is precisely because of this mentality that no one cares about the three pharmaceutical production factories of the medical school for more than half a year after they were listed, and finally let Leo build a cheap one.

After Leo acquired these three pharmaceutical factories, he did not integrate them together, but let the original crew of the factory continue to work, making some pills for ordinary people, but he returned them to the technical department of each factory. Provided a prescription that he improved, these three prescriptions are deworming medicine, seasickness and motion sickness medicine and ordinary refreshing medicine.

It is very easy for Leo, who has a very high level of alchemy, to improve these three medicines, and the medicines made by these three prescriptions are much better than the original prescriptions, and because of the reduced production process, and the The medicinal materials are also reduced, so the cost has been reduced a lot, and the price is low enough that the poor in the slums can afford it.

Therefore, in less than two days after the factory started operation, these three pharmaceutical factories accounted for nearly 60% of the market share related to these three drugs in Scitech Port, and this share is still increasing, and with several It is believed that the share of the three types of drugs in other countries will increase.

However, the main task of these three pharmaceutical factories is not to produce cheap commonly used medicines and occupy the common people's medicine market share, but to borrow the medicinal materials purchase channels they have developed over the years to collect various materials needed for wizard alchemy for Leo .

In addition to these three pharmaceutical companies that are owned by him, there are six or seven machinery factories in which he is a shareholder. Manufacture the parts needed for some mechanical mechanisms.

However, just as he expected, the mechanical parts produced by these Vinylon worlds are far from being comparable to those produced by Hushang Town in the dream world in terms of energy efficiency. He used the rune magic circle to use it, but the power was still astonishing. Several times, he blasted a big hole in his laboratory inlaid with steel plates.

It has to be said that Sanjays' ability to handle affairs is very good. After Leo made a request for the laboratory, he found a suitable construction company the next day to renovate the apartment building, and under the supervision of money, The entire apartment was remodeled in just three days. In addition to transforming the room above the study into a closed secret room specially used to study witchcraft, three basements were also dug under the apartment, and steel plates were inlaid according to Leo's requirements to serve as alchemy and mechanical manufacturing. between.

In addition, because of some special requirements of Leo, Sanjay helped Leo buy some things that cannot be bought in ordinary stores, such as the very complete and professional set in Leo's hands, which is used by wizards for alchemy. Pharmaceutical workbench and tools.

"Where did you buy this?" Looking at the workbench and tools in front of him, Leo looked at Sanjies curiously.

He originally just wanted Sangers to find construction workers for him to repair the steel plates in the laboratory. Unexpectedly, Sangers not only found the workers, but also brought a set of wizard workbenches and runes that surprised him. Inscription tool.

This set of alchemy workbench and rune inscription tools are not antiques, and they are newly made. The material itself is steel bone armor, and there is a mechanical control device to adjust the workbench, and the maker also engraved his own on the workbench. Trademark symbol, it seems that this workbench is mass-produced.

After seeing this workbench and tools, Leo couldn't help but suspect that he had left the world of Velen not half a year, but decades, hundreds of years, so long that the number of wizards who could only hide in the dark had already begun. On the bright side, we opened a store and built a factory.

"Black market." Sanjes simply replied.

"Do you know where the black market is in Port of Dorset?" Leo was stunned for a moment, but soon thought of Sanjies's past identity, and asked himself: "Of course, of course you know where the black market is. After all, you Being around the Duke of Buckingham, I must have seen a lot of amazing people and things. No wonder when I asked you to find someone to renovate the house, you just asked me a little bit about my requirements, and you were able to renovate the house so well. It seems that you have had similar experiences before."

Sanjays looked at Leo expressionlessly, and said, "Sir, you don't have to try, I won't tell you about His Royal Highness the Duke."

"Hehe!" Leo smiled awkwardly.

In fact, in the past few days, he tried more than once to extract some things about the Duke of Buckingham from Sanjes through other methods. Originally, he was not interested in the details of the Duke of Buckingham, but when he learned that the Duke of Buckingham could influence the vast majority of the dignitaries in Port of Sete so easily, his mentality of taking precautions made him always subconsciously want to collect some Regarding the matter of the Duke of Buckingham, let us learn about the Duke of Buckingham so that he can make correct judgments and decisions in a timely manner when confrontations arise in the future.

Although Sanjays behaved very professionally and never mentioned anything about the Duke of Buckingham's mansion, under the guidance of Leo, some behaviors of Sanjays still revealed a lot of secrets about the Duke of Buckingham.

For example, the Duke of Buckingham also has extraordinary influence in the underground world of Velen, and he probably has a powerful team composed of family members and extraordinary humans in his hands, and the Duke of Buckingham himself is probably not an ordinary person. He is likely to be a family member of some gods, or maybe a strong man with extraordinary power like a wizard.

The reason why he came to such a conclusion is that some clues can be seen in the information collected by Leo at this stage, but he will confirm that this is due to a piece of information accidentally revealed by Sanjies.

"If you have nothing else to do, then I'll go down and arrange new servants and maids." Sanjes didn't want to stay with Leo, because he was worried that he would be under Leo's deliberate guidance again. Revealed some things that shouldn't be said, so he will reduce his words as much as possible, and will not say a single extra nonsense.

"Can you tell me the location of the black market?" Leo asked, and added: "If this matter involves the secret of the Duke of Buckingham, you don't need to say it."

Sanjays was silent for a while, and seemed to want to say whether the location of the black market would reveal some information related to the Duke of Buckingham. After repeated confirmation, he found that the location of the black market would not have any impact on the Duke of Buckingham, so He quickly took out the paper and pen, wrote an address and the way to pass the entrance on the paper, handed it to Leo, and then turned and left the basement.

Leo looked at the note in his hand, frowned, and said to himself, "Garden cemetery? This is really an interesting place."

The early residents of Port of Sete were the Mona people who were born and raised in the English Isles. They were actually descendants of escaped slaves from the French Empire a long time ago. There is a funeral ceremony that is completely different from that of the French Empire. No one remembers the original name of this ceremony. Later generations only remember the name given to this ceremony by a poet in the past. This name is the garden cemetery.

The Mona people believe that their relatives will not disappear after death, but will still stay next to their cemetery in the form of soul for a long time, so the Mona people simply transformed their cemetery into a garden, and those who buried the corpses The tombs of the ancients were placed in the excavated underground tombs, usually one for each family, and a special person was arranged to add fish oil needed for lighting the tombs.

Normally, the tomb is not opened during the day, and no one will enter except the tomb guards, but at night, people can enter the tomb to visit their relatives and talk to their souls, because this kind of activity only occurs at night, And those who enter the tomb will carry two oil lamps and appear in groups, so people who see this scene for the first time will think that some kind of mysterious religious ceremony is being carried out.

As the British royal family landed on the islands and conquered the islands, the Mona people gradually integrated into the new English people who moved here from Farland, and the funeral ceremony of the same garden cemetery was also integrated into the tombs of the English people. Among them, it has become a very important national custom.