The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Discovering that the power of the abyss came to the world of Velen a long time ago, Leo decided to investigate this, not only because of his vigilance against the power of the abyss, but also because of curiosity.

Because when he came into contact with the world invaded by the power of the abyss before, the power of the abyss gave him the feeling that it was pervasive and contagious. It spread to the whole world in a short time like a plague, dragging the whole world into a state of destruction. The abyss, even the royal city, which claims to be guarded by the gods, is no exception.

But the power of the abyss had clearly entered the world of Velen a long time ago, but there was no sign of destruction in the world of Velen, at least Leo did not see signs of destruction, so his curiosity made him want to know the reason.

However, before Leo went to the black market to investigate the source of the ancient scrolls, other troubles appeared, diverting his energy to other places.

"Did you die strangely?" Leo looked at Jason with a sad face, and asked in a deep voice, "How strange?"

In the evening, Leo changed his clothes and was about to go to the black market again, but Jason came to his apartment worriedly and asked him to help with something.

This matter is very simple, help investigate the cause of death of one of his subordinates.

"It's hard to describe." Jason recalled the scene he saw before, his face became a lot uglier, he shook his head slightly, and said, "Maybe it is similar to what we encountered in the cage city? "

"Come on, I'll go and have a look." Leo put on his coat and motioned to Jason.

Jason comprehended before him, led Leo into the carriage, and gave an order, maybe there was something in his heart, he didn't say much, just lowered his head to think about it, and Leo didn't ask.

The two had nothing to say along the way, and soon came to a residential area in a poor urban area.

The slum area is the second largest urban area after the garden cemetery. This urban area is connected to the dock area, factory area and commercial area. People living here also choose to live in slum areas in different locations because of their working areas. Over time, the slums formed three urban areas.

Now the slum area where Leo and Jason arrived is close to the pier. The main residents are porters and some local seamen. Refugees will choose to live here at first, and may even live there for a long time.

The carriage stopped in front of a very dilapidated apartment building, and soon after the carriage stopped, a group of poor children surrounded them. After Jason got out of the car, he took out a bag of change, handed it to the driver, and ordered him to distribute it to these poor children, and then led Leo into one of the dilapidated apartments, and soon came to the top floor of the apartment. outside the attic.

This apartment should be a temporary housing built after the tsunami. This small apartment building was only temporarily supplied to the civilians in the city when it was built. It did not think about the problem of long-term preservation, so the main structure of the building is mainly made of wood. , without any hardening measures. What people didn't expect was that this apartment building has existed for such a long time, and it has always been inhabited. Therefore, this apartment building has a lot of damage to its main structure.

In just ten seconds from the downstairs to the upstairs, Leo sensed at least 20 main damages in this apartment building through the spiritual network. It has to be said that this apartment building can still stand. Actually, it was a miracle.

At this time, outside the room on the top floor, some dock porters gathered at the door, chattering about something, and when they saw Jason coming, they immediately stopped talking and stood respectfully on both sides of the aisle, letting Jason get out of the way. A road, and looked at Leo from time to time.

"How's it going inside?" Jason nodded to the porters, then walked to the door, opened the door, and asked the staff next to him.

"Keep it the same way." The subordinate replied cautiously: "Someone came to his house, and I sent him away for the time being. Come back later."

Seeing Jason walking in, the subordinate hesitated for a moment, with a look of fear on his face, and finally walked in behind Leo.

The room is not big, just like other low-cost apartment buildings, it is an independent room, and then the occupants can use wooden boards to divide the room into several small rooms according to their needs.

Judging from the furnishings in the room, the owner of the room is a very self-disciplined person, and everything is neatly arranged and tidy.

Although the window of the room has been open for a while, a strong smell of blood still fills the whole room, making people who smell it for the first time feel a little nauseous.

Jason led Leo directly into the inner compartment, which was the bedroom divided by the owner of the room with wooden boards.

The bedroom is very simple, just a bed and a bedside table for clothes, and the scene inside is clear at a glance after entering the door.

I saw that the walls of the bedroom were covered with blood, as if painted with a layer of blood-colored paint. The owner of the room was kneeling in front of the bedside table. The skin on his body was peeled off, and it was very complete, and it was as neat as clothes They were stacked together and placed on the bed. On the bedside table was a wooden statue of a god. This wooden statue was very old and severely damaged, and the original appearance of the wood carving could no longer be seen clearly.

When Leo saw the scene in front of him, he already had a judgment in his heart. There is no doubt that the blood on the wall and the neatly stacked human skin on the bed were the work of the victim kneeling on the ground. He separated the blood, smeared the wall, and then Then peel off the human skin, then kneel in front of the wooden statue, slowly waiting to die.

"He belonged to the Seventh Army, and he also participated in that battle. Although he was poisoned, he was lucky. He survived, but his body and eyes were damaged by the poison." Jason introduced the identity of the deceased, and turned to Seeing the ugly expression of his subordinate, he frowned, waved his hand to signal him to back down, and then continued to introduce: "I used the resources at hand to recruit a lot of veterans with disabilities, and he is one of them. One, it’s just that his body is not suitable for some labor, so I just hired him to do some simple things. Three days ago, he suddenly received a sum of money from his colleagues, and then he didn’t go to work on the dock again. His colleagues felt that Something was wrong, so I came here to look for him, and then I saw this scene."

"He didn't call the police, but came to you first?" Leo turned around and asked.

Jason explained: "The person who found the scene was one of my right-hand men. He knew that I was recently competing for the position of the person in charge of the large cargo terminal. He was worried that I would be adversely affected by this incident, so he asked me to deal with it first. thing."

Leo said coldly: "I'm afraid he is afraid that he will become a suspect, so he will pull you in and use it as a shield!"

Jason smiled, but didn't respond.

Leo didn't say anything else. He checked the room several times with his sight and mental network, then turned around and walked back to the living room, asking, "Has the deceased behaved unusually lately?"

Jason shook his head, expressing that he was not clear, then he handed in the previous subordinate and explained Leo's question just now.

"There's nothing special about him, he..." The man shook his head, but he quickly thought of something, and quickly changed his words: "By the way, there is one strange thing. When he borrowed money from me, Said that he found a way to heal his eyes and body, and looked at him as if he was sure about it, I didn't think much about it at the time, and he also borrowed money from me before, and he immediately paid back the money, It has never been in arrears, and the credit is very good, so I lent it to him, no questions asked."

"That's all?" Jason frowned and asked.

"That's all." The subordinate thought about it carefully and didn't give any more clues, but he still added: "He has a good relationship with the lame man in the third warehouse, and he may have said something to him."

"Hurry up and get someone here." Jason yelled angrily.

The man immediately turned around and ran out.

Jason sighed, shook his head, then turned to Leo and asked with concern, "Is this related to those things?"

Leo nodded without answering carefully.

In fact, when he was outside the door, Leo was already sure that this matter was related to extraordinary power. His mental network could clearly feel that there were a lot of energy fluctuations that could be called negative energy in the room. It emits an energy fluctuation that makes people feel uncomfortable.

The reason why the man had the urge to vomit just now was not entirely because of the bloody scene in the room. After all, he himself is a battle-tested soldier, and he is used to seeing all kinds of corpses, so he should have gotten used to this kind of bloody scene long ago. , but he would have such a strong sense of vomiting because of the negative energy in that room.

Because of the power of his giant bloodline, Jason was immune to this kind of energy fluctuation, so he was hardly affected.

However, what makes Leo a little confused is that the source of these negative energies does not come from the wooden statue enshrined in the bedside table, but from the blood in the room.

"Blood magic!" When he sensed the negative energy emanating from the blood, Leo immediately thought of the blood magic of Lawrence, the blood wizard.

But soon he shook his head and denied this guess. The blood wizard Lawrence is now very stable in the United Kingdom of France, and there is no need to take the risk of going to the Kingdom of England to make troubles with sufficient experimental resources.

The two waited in the room for a while, but instead of Jason's subordinates, the sheriff in charge of public security in the city and two men in black with indifferent expressions came.

When Leo saw the two men in black, he immediately thought of the special bureau operative named Nickland he met a few nights ago, and he took a step back slightly, standing behind Jason's huge body, Make the two look like they are dominated by Jason.

Before Jason could ask, the police chief immediately introduced: "Mr. Jason, these two are operatives of the Special Bureau, and they were sent by the higher authorities to deal with this crime."

"Special Bureau?" Jason was taken aback. He had never heard of such a department.

At this time, one of the special bureau agents stepped forward, pushed the sheriff away, and said to Jason in a blunt tone: "You are Mr. Jason! We leave the matter here, I hope you leave From now on, forget about what happened here."

Displeasure appeared on Jason's face, and he walked up to the agents of the Special Bureau and confronted each other, "My workers died so badly, but you told me to forget about it, do you think..."

Jason didn't continue his words, because not only the sheriff of this district was desperately hinting at him, but also because of the eyes of this special bureau agent, I saw bursts of purple light bursting out from the eyes of this agent, and emitting The inexplicable aura made him feel inexplicably nervous.

"Hmph!" If it was Jason in the past, he might not have listened to the persuasion, and would have gone straight up and continued to fight against him, but now Jason has learned to compromise and be tactful, and he has realized that the special agent in front of him is not an ordinary person , so he didn't let the conflict escalate, just snorted coldly, motioned to Leo, and walked out the door.

After Jason gave up the conflict, the special bureau agent who was confronting him showed confusion and surprise, and turned his head to look at Jason's tall figure at the door, with a thoughtful expression on his face.

"What's wrong?" Another detective behind him asked after seeing his colleague's expression.

"I used the Eye of Wind Erosion just now." The detective said in a deep voice.

"You used it? But he's fine?" The other agent was very clear about the effect of his simultaneous ability, so he couldn't help but froze, turned to look at the door, showed a surprised look, and said involuntarily: "Is he also..."

"Ahem!" Before finishing speaking at the same time, the detective coughed twice, stopped his colleague from continuing, and glanced at the sheriff standing beside him.

"This place is under our supervision. You can leave. Also, remove all the people at the door. They won't be able to help, but will get in the way." The detective said to the sheriff.

The sheriff wanted to leave a long time ago. The bloody smell here made him feel very uncomfortable. If it wasn't for the presence of someone nearby, he would have already vomited. Now that he heard the orders from the special bureau agents, how could he stay any longer? , turned around and walked out of the room quickly. It didn't take long before I heard the sound of vomiting from the corridor, and then I remembered annoyed roars.

The two agents from the Special Bureau ignored the situation outside. After closing the door, they walked to the bedroom inside. Seeing the bloody scene there, their expressions became serious. One of them said, "Which incident is this?" gone?"

"Fourth, counting from Brambles, four cities, four homicides."

The two were silent for a while.

"What should we do now?"

"What else can I do? Of course it is to ask the headquarters for help, and let the agents of the sub-bureau put down other things in their hands and investigate this matter."

"Where was that Jason just now?"

"I just don't know if he awakened naturally, or..."

"Find him in the branch office..."

"Not suitable."

"What's wrong with this? It's just a dock manager. Even a city official, we haven't been detained and interrogated."

"He himself is not a problem. Don't forget that he is good friends with Mr. Nelson Matthews and Ms. Catherine Nightingale. Bringing him to the branch office will definitely alarm these two. I don't want to worry about this matter. Provoked reprimand from above."

"Then what should we do? Should we just leave it alone?"

"Of course not, we can actually..."

The two got together to discuss in a low voice, but the object of their discussion was no longer the criminal who made the case, but Jason.