The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"It is said that Roosevelt's ancestors lost their way while playing on the edge of the Black Forest and entered the depths of the Black Forest. Later, when he was helpless, he met a holy white deer. Under the leadership of the white deer, he played in the kingdom of fairyland He circled around, and then returned to the human world, but all his memories of the fairyland disappeared, he only remembered what happened and the white deer," Leo looked at the statue of the white deer, sitting Beside him, a fat middle-aged man suddenly introduced himself familiarly: "Because of this magical memory, he used the white deer as a family badge, which can be seen in any Roosevelt family property. The White Hart statue, so some people also call the Roosevelt family the White Hart family."

Leo turned his head to look at the middle-aged man, stretched out his hand and introduced himself: "Leo Dodd."

The middle-aged man shook Leo's hand and introduced himself, "Lion Larson!"

"Larson?" Leo was stunned for a moment, his eyes lingered on the old family crest on the middle-aged man's pocket, and he couldn't help asking: "Excuse me, Farek Larson, who wrote the book of legends and mysterious creatures It's your..."

Hearing Leo's question, the middle-aged man's face became a little embarrassed, even a little ashamed, he hesitated, and said truthfully: "That's my old father, but he's too old, and his mind is a little confused That's why I wrote such an absurd book, making the family the laughing stock of my peers, please don't mention this person again."

After finishing speaking, the middle-aged man seemed to lose interest in talking, turned around and drank the wine in the glass by himself.

Hearing the middle-aged man's words, Leo had a weird look on his face and opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't say the words that reached his throat, because he felt that now was not the time to discuss these matters.

The book Legends and Mysterious Creatures was something Leo saw in the bookcase of the apartment, and it should be a book left over from before. At the beginning, Leo just regarded this book as a common casual reading on the market. However, when he once finished concocting a bottle of wizard potion invented by himself, he felt mentally exhausted. When he went to the study to rest, he casually flipped through This book, just discovered the secret hidden in this book, and discovered something that interested him.

According to the division made by the editor of this book, this book is classified into the category of absurd novels. In fact, if people who don’t know the secrets hidden in this book read this book, they will indeed think it is a novel. An absurd novel full of fantasy.

The protagonist of the book is in the first person, so it can be regarded as the author himself. The main content is that the author was lost in the thick fog of the forest during a trip. After passing through the thick fog, he came to a magical place. , in that place he saw a lot of miraculous things, and even saw some gods, and those gods all appeared in human form in front of people without exception.

The protagonist in the book has lived in that place for a long time, learning the knowledge there, discussing philosophy with the gods, and getting married and having children with the people there, living a very happy life.

Until one of the gods suddenly wanted to leave there because of some of his words, the gods there were very angry until the end, but they did not impose any excessive punishment on the protagonist who caused this reason, but just exiled the protagonist back to the mist among.

When the protagonist came out of the mist again, he had already returned to the forest where he first lost his way, and he also changed back to the appearance of a young man, as if what happened in the past was just a dream.

The writing style of the whole book is very ordinary, and even some parts are extremely dry to read. According to the standards of the world of Vinyl novels, this book is completely unqualified, let alone published, it is likely to be thrown away as soon as it is sent to the editor In the wastebasket.

However, what is strange is that this book was indeed published, and the first printing was as many as 5,000 copies. What is even more strange is that the publishing house that published this absurd novel reading is the most famous academic institution in the Kingdom of England. The Thesis Publishing House, whose business is entirely based on extremely rigorous academic papers, has never published a novel, let alone such an absurd novel with poor writing.

So Leo felt that the author of this book, Farrek Larson, must not be an ordinary person, otherwise, it would be impossible to have such a great influence on such a publishing god.

After investigation, it turned out that, as he had guessed, Farek Larson was the head of the Larson family in the Kingdom of England.

To the general public, the Larson family is not well-known, but in the Kingdom of England, and even the entire world of Velen, the Larson family is very famous, because this family has produced many famous scholars, very famous scholars family.

It's just that, compared to his famous ancestors, Farek Larsson is not a little bit worse in terms of knowledge and fame. Just relying on his family's past reputation, he was able to regularly publish articles in some academic journals, and he was considered a minor academic celebrity.

The reason why Leo urged Farek Larsson and that absurd novel so much was because he found that everything recorded in that absurd novel was all true, but these things did not happen in Velen, but It took place in Wangcheng, the city of gods where humans and gods live together.

After Farrek Larsson broke through the fog during his travels, he went to the ruined royal city and lived in the royal city for a period of time. If he did not exaggerate, he was even a guest of the gods in the royal city, not only Once invited to Anor Londe, even judging from the content of the book, the eldest son of the god in Wangcheng would be regarded as a taboo, and the destruction of all traces was also related to him, so he was exiled back to the thick fog, and finally Returned to the world of Velen.

When Leo investigated the situation about Farrek Larson, he decided to find time to meet this person. Now after meeting Farrek Larson's son, he found that Farrek Larson Erson seems to be regarded by the family as a dementia patient because of this fantastic novel.

Just as Leo was thinking about something, the side door of the hall opened, and a middle-aged man in plain clothes walked in surrounded by some famous dignitaries in Port of Sete, and then sat in the owner's seat of the hall. Under the leadership of the attendants, they sat down in their appropriate seats.

From the arrangement of the Roosevelt family for the guests, it can be seen that the Roosevelt family is still a traditional aristocratic family, even if they are changing to a commercial aristocracy.

Those nobles with titles were specially arranged around the position of the owner of the hall, that is, the center of the entire banquet. In addition, other big businessmen and big factory owners were arranged in the surrounding area, and other main members of the Roosevelt family were responsible for receiving them as a show of respect. attention of these people. Those political figures were carefully arranged together according to their party affiliation, so that they could maintain a sufficient distance, and it was convenient for them to gather together and chat.

As for other ordinary small officials, businessmen and scholars, they scattered in various parts of the hall, and this arrangement was not random. These people were surrounded by dignitaries, and as long as they had a little bit of ability, they could use this banquet for themselves. Get a nice shot.

For example, although Leo is currently on the edge of the banquet, the people around him include scholars, directors of machinery factories, dealers, investors, etc. Obviously, the Roosevelt family investigated him when arranging the seats. Some past behaviors, such as scholars, may be due to his previous purchase of some professional academic books and so on.

When the clear sound of the spoon hitting the silver cup spread throughout the banquet hall, everyone's conversations stopped, and their eyes were all focused on Defe Roosevelt holding the spoon, and Leo's attention was also at this time. Back to the banquet.

It was just that after Leo saw Diffie Roosevelt, his face showed a slightly surprised look, because he felt a very weak wave of spiritual energy from Diffie Roosevelt, that is to say, Diffie Roosevelt was sending spiritual energy to him. Those who can change.

At the same time, through the observation of the spirit network, he also found some gadgets belonging to wizards on Diffie Roosevelt. From this point of view, this Diffie Roosevelt should be a wizard apprentice who has just been enlightened.

After making this discovery, Leo suddenly became interested in this banquet. When Diffie Roosevelt said some words about the banquet on the scene, he also used the spirit net to check the situation in Roosevelt's mansion.

Leo once went to the villa of the Nelson couple in the garden villa area as a guest. At that time, he used the spiritual network to investigate the situation in the villa area. He found that many houses in the villa area here had installed that kind of psychic jammer. Obviously, these The owners of the villa should all know about another mysterious world, and they should also be prepared.

So when Leo came to the Marquis Roosevelt's mansion, he also took it for granted that the Roosevelt family must have installed a psychic jammer in the mansion, so he did not release psychic energy to check the situation.

But when Leo started to use the spirit net to explore the mansion of Marquis Roosevelt, and was ready to forcibly break through the psychic interference, he found that Roosevelt's mansion was very clean. Some factors that can cause interference are also eliminated.

The reason for this is that the layout of the entire mansion garden is clearly an enlarged version of the Turing radicals. These Turing radicals can eliminate interference and stabilize energy. The power of spiritual energy or other types of psionic energy has a very deep grasp.

In addition to being surprised, Leo could vaguely guess why he did this. The people who arranged all this were obviously to give certain people with special qualities a greater chance to activate their psychic powers.

In Leo's eyes, these Turing radicals arranged separately are very simple, only three basic radicals are used, and the combination is to regulate energy, which is usually used in the wizard's laboratory. This is to allow the wizard to obtain a A stable environment minimizes the external factors of experimental failure. For example, a similar magic circle was installed in the laboratory transformed by Leo, but it is infinitely superior to the Turing radicals in Roosevelt's Marquis House.

The reason why he is brilliant is not because Leo used four basic radicals to form a Turing radical with the same effect but a stronger effect, but because he connected these Turing radicals together to form a complete cycle The magic circle, and now the Turing radicals in the Marquis Roosevelt's mansion just exist alone, and they are not connected by wizards.

However, although these Turing radicals were not connected using the wizard's method, they used other external methods to amplify the effect of each Turing radical. Leo speculated that this method is likely to be the natural way of the shaman. And what produced this effect was probably the beautifully manicured gardens around the mansion.

Although Leo has some knowledge about shamanism, he doesn't know the more specific shamanism. It's just that the gardener can adjust and amplify the effect of the root of Turing just by planting some ordinary trees. It can be seen that this shaman's way is not only not weaker than the wizard's witchcraft in terms of practicality, but even surpasses it.

"It seems that the Roosevelt family is not as simple as the outside rumors say." Leo couldn't help thinking.

Whether it is the root of Turing in the mansion or Diffie Roosevelt's status as a wizard apprentice, it shows that the Roosevelt family has very close contact with the underground world, and the Roosevelt family may even be a very rare extraordinary family.

In the world of Velen, among the supernatural beings, the number of family members and quasi-family members is the largest. Take the night watchmen who specialize in hunting and killing criminal family members. They are all family members themselves, but a large part of them are artificially implanted with certain family members And organs, gained some extraordinary power, and through targeted training, the implanted power was improved, and finally obtained the same power as the real family members.

In addition, there are many people who have awakened some power due to some unknown reasons. Most of these people have been attracted by the well-informed church, and some who escaped the net will become wizards or other people. Extraordinary.

But among all the superhumans, there is another category that creates superhumans through specialized training, and these superhumans usually have the same bloodline, and their own bloodlines have the factors of superhumans, so this type is also called Extraordinary family.

However, according to the information in Leo's hands, there are only a handful of extraordinary families in the entire Vinylon world, and it is obvious that the Roosevelt family is not among them.

Logically speaking, the Roosevelt family was so famous in the Kingdom of England, and when they served as court nobles, they were even more powerful, and their every move was watched, so any abnormal situation should be known.

If the Roosevelt family was an extraordinary family, then they would have been discovered by the church or underground forces long ago, and it would be impossible to have no signs of it like now, so Leo could not help but suspect that the Roosevelt family might become an extraordinary family for a long time, and it should have been in the past. When Marquis Roosevelt resigned as a court aristocrat, it may even be because of this reason that Roosevelt resigned from the court aristocrat and transferred the family business to the Kingdom of America.