The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Have you done the investigation in the past two days?" Although Frank Fussen was in a state of retirement, he was relaxed and out of shape, but it didn't mean that he couldn't see anything. On the way to the garden area in the carriage, he immediately Asked to confirm.

"Yes." Leo nodded and admitted, "It's okay to stay there anyway, so do the research in advance, it's always better to be in a hurry when things are imminent."

Frank Fussen asked curiously again: "What did you find?"

Leo was not stingy, and told Frank Fussen what he had investigated.

After listening to Leo's narration, Frank Fussen was completely at a loss, because Leo's method of investigating things was completely different from what he knew, such as judging height by the size of the feet and the width of the steps, etc. It's almost like listening to the priests of the Sea God's Church lecture on those mysterious scriptures.

After thinking about it carefully, he couldn't help asking: "How do you know that the murderer lives in the Kraft neighborhood in the Garden District?"

"The dust and mud left by shoe prints." Leo explained: "There is a lot of pollen left on those dust and mud, and these pollen come from different flowers. There are so many flowers from all over the world in Turin. The only place in the area is the garden area, and it is close to Hyde Park. In addition, in the dust, there is a lot of red soil. In that area, most of the blocks are built in swamps, so the soil is also swamp soil. Only Kraft Street is built on a hill with red clay."

Hearing Leo's analysis, Frank Fussen looked at Leo as if he was looking at a monster. After a long time, he asked in a deep voice, "Are you interested in working in the Special Bureau?"

"Sorry, I'm not used to being controlled." Leo shook his head, rejecting Frank Fussen's kindness.

Ever since he could remember, he had been in the army and was under control. After coming to the world of Velen, he felt the freedom he had never had before, and naturally he would not want to return to that state of being under control.

Hearing Leo's refusal, Frank Fussen didn't continue to persuade him, because he knew very well that he and Leo were of the same kind, and as long as he made a decision, he would not change it easily, just like he decided to retire.

The carriage quickly passed through most of the city and entered the garden area of ​​Durin.

The Garden District is one of the few urban districts in Durin City that is famous for its scenery. There are three public gardens crowded in this urban area alone. Among them, Hyde Park, which has transplanted tens of thousands of flowers from all over the world, is the most famous.

Although the environment of the Garden District is very good now, it used to be a famous slum in Durin, a black area, where almost all the poor people of Durin gathered. Some people called this place more than once the poisonous sore of Durin.

Because of this, Congress has tried to renovate this place more than once, but it has always had to be shelved because of the resettlement of hundreds of thousands of poor people who live here all year round.

It was not until a fire that nearly burned half of Durin City came, and burned the old sheds in the entire Garden District, that the matter took a turn for the better.

There are different opinions about the cause of the fire, but the most popular one is that the congressmen in collusion with real estate developers saw that the bill to renovate the Garden District could not be passed, so they decided to set fire to the urban area. It can not only save a large amount of demolition costs, but also avoid the turmoil caused by the expulsion of the poor. It's just that they didn't expect that the fire was completely beyond expectations and almost endangered the whole of Dulin, and finally caused the biggest disaster since the construction of Dulin City.

The government naturally denies this statement, while some folks have found various evidence to prove this statement. For example, the place where the fire first occurred was in the slums in the Garden District, and the firefighters nearby were not dispatched in the early stage of the fire. In addition, after the fire, more than a dozen congressmen were suddenly arrested under various names and never appeared in front of people again.

However, no matter how many these conspiracy theories spread, it is impossible to prevent Congress from transforming this urban area. In the end, this urban area was transformed into what it is now according to the Congress’s plan, and this has become the real estate of the entire Dulin City. One of the most expensive urban areas, the people who live here are either rich or expensive.

Both Leo and Frank Fussen were not surprised that a courtesan could live in this urban area, because the Kraft neighborhood was the most special place in this urban area, and it was considered a small slum in the Garden District.

The reason why the residents of the Garden District can allow such a slum to exist is because most of the people living here are poor painters, poets, actors and writers, etc. In the urban area with the most humanistic atmosphere in Lincheng, such a slum will not only make the garden area ugly, but will make the garden area more tasteful. For this reason, the real estate developers in this area even took the initiative to lower the rent of all houses, so that those poor artists can still live here even if they don't have much money in their pockets. Of course, the premise is that he must have a certain talent.

Some outdated theater actresses will also live here, not only to save money, but also to allow themselves to be in this special humanistic atmosphere and gain some improvement in self-cultivation.

However, even if you live here, you will still have a lot of expenses. In order to maintain the expenses, many female actors will also play socialites, so that you can get some money to maintain life, and you can also develop contacts. If you are lucky, it will be even more Being able to become the mistress of some dignitaries may even become a regular job. After all, there have been similar examples in the past.

"Is this the place?" After the carriage stopped by the side of the road, the two got off one after another. Frank Fussen looked at the house in front of him, then turned his head and asked Leo.

Leo nodded, but with a gloomy expression on his face, he didn't speak, and walked into the apartment in front of him.

The apartment building in front of me is a three-story red brick apartment that is common in the Kraft neighborhood. The entire Kraft neighborhood is full of this kind of apartment building from the foot of the hill to the top of the hill. If it weren’t for the different plants planted in the small garden outside the apartment building, the local The artist drew various patterns on the walls of the building. I am afraid that even the people who live here will have to identify them for a long time before they can find their own residence.

Leo directly opened the wooden fence of the small garden, walked to the door of the apartment building, pushed the door slightly, and the door was easily pushed open when it was not locked, and the moment the door was pushed open, a faint smell came from From inside the room, both Leo and Frank Fussen who followed behind could easily smell it. It was the smell of corpses, and it was the smell of corpses that would only come out when the corpses began to rot after being dead for several days.

The moment he smelled the stench of the corpse, Frank Fussen immediately pulled out a special gun from his waist skillfully. This gun was bigger than the king and queen in Leo's hands, and it looked a bit like Jason's. Of course, its power can be imagined.

"Don't be nervous, there is no danger here." Leo gestured to Frank Fussen, then went straight to the second floor, and then pushed open the door of a room on the second floor, and the smell of corpses was several times stronger. .

I saw that this is a bedroom, and it is a female bedroom. Judging from the various portraits hanging on the bedroom wall, this is a portrait of a past actress, and the current owner of this bedroom or this house Now she was lying on the bed, beside her was a naked man, both of them had turned into a rotting corpse, their bodies were swollen, and they couldn't see the appearance in front of them.

"You knew the situation here just now?" Frank Fussen put the special firearm in his hand back into the holster after seeing the scene in the bedroom, and then turned his head to look at Leo. Leo's reminder just now made him guess Leo. Ability.

Leo did not explain, but silently searched for various clues in the room.

Although he had carefully checked the condition of the entire building through the spirit net just now, sometimes the spirit net could not help him find more subtle clues, such as some hair on the ground that did not belong to the original owner.

Every time he found a clue, Leo recorded the clue, and soon all the useful clues in this room were recorded by him.

"They've been dead for more than ten days." Frank Fusen didn't stay idle, checked the body on the bed, and said, "This woman should be the courtesan that the lobby manager said, but this woman was at the scene where the crime happened." For some days, they would appear at the Wanguo Hotel every day, which obviously did not match the death time of the corpse, so the women who appeared in the Wanguo Hotel in those days were all disguised by the murderer, and Pasa Kagulan brought the murderer into the room without knowing it. ..."

"Not necessarily unaware." Leo corrected Frank Fusen's speculation, and said, "I think Pasa Cagulan should know the murderer and his ability, but..."

Speaking of this, Leo suddenly thought of something, took back what he was going to say, then quickly walked out of the room, walked towards the third floor, and then checked the situation of each room one by one from the third floor, After returning to the living room on the first floor, a smile appeared on his face.

At this time, Frank Fussen, who was following Leo, didn't know what Leo was looking for. Seeing Leo stop, he immediately asked, "Did you find something?"

Leo nodded and said: "I found something, I have to say that Mr. Pasa Cagulan is really unlucky, he should not take the initiative to contact the murderer, let alone show the murderer that he saw through his or her actions .”

"You mean the murderer's target is not Pasa Cagulan?" Frank Fussen was stunned, and said in a deep voice.

"Yes." Leo said his analysis, and said: "The murderer stayed at the Wanguo Hotel these days for another purpose. Pasa Cagulan should have accidentally recognized the murderer and put The murderer came into the room, exposed the other party, and wanted the other party to stop. It's just that he miscalculated the form, thinking that the other party would not kill him, and thinking that his own ability was enough to protect himself when danger appeared, and finally involved himself in it , lost his life."

"Pasa Cagulan is not the target, so who is the target?" Frank Fusen asked a little puzzled.

"He." Leo picked up a newspaper that he had just brought down from the third floor, put it on the table, and pointed to a report on it.

Frank Fussen took a closer look, and the expression on his face became very strange. He was surprised at first, then relieved, and muttered to himself: "It's him. No wonder, it's not surprising that someone wants to kill him .”

I saw that the report Leo was referring to was an upcoming report of the National Naval Museum, in which it was emphatically mentioned that a big man would come to cut the ribbon on the opening day, and this big man was the current chief of the Royal Navy's general staff, Hoover General Hansen.

For the people of the Kingdom of England, Hoover Hansen is definitely a heroic figure. Through his extraordinary strategic wisdom, he formulated a development plan for the navy for nearly ten years, so that the navy of the Kingdom of England can withstand While the navies of other countries are attacking again and again, they continue to develop and stabilize their maritime hegemony. Although he is only the chief of the general staff now, and he is only the third person in the navy according to his powers, but those who really know it are very clear that whether it is the admiral of the navy or the commander-in-chief of the first fleet, they all obey him. There is no difference between entitlement and admiral.

However, for people in the former colony, Hoover Hansen is definitely a demonic existence. When he was young, the colony of the Kingdom of England on the Mozambique continent had not been completely lost. He served as the general of the Third Kingdom Army in the colony, He was in charge of suppressing the rebels in the colonies, and the methods he used at that time were very cruel. Countless colonial rebels died in his hands, and he even led many large-scale massacres against liberated colonial cities.

Although he was skillful and was able to lead the army to victory in countless battles, he could not stop the collapse of the entire colony. In the end, he was transferred back to the country by the Kingdom of England for protection before the last piece of the colony was lost. , It was not until the turmoil in the colonies subsided and the kingdom and the countries established in the colonies signed a peace agreement that the protection of him was lifted, and he was sent to the navy to serve in the navy according to his own wishes, and finally he had the current naval hero.

Because of this, Frank Fussen showed such an expression after seeing that the target person pointed out by Leo was Hoover Hansen. In that way, after all, the person who suffered the most assassinations in the entire Kingdom of England was Hoover Hansen, over the past forty years, he has been assassinated at least three times almost every year.

Someone once joked that if Hoover Hansen hadn't been assassinated from Mozambique in that year, then Mozambique's hatred for the Kingdom of England would have completely subsided.

Although this kind of remark sounds like it is mocking Hoover Hansen's popularity in Mozambique, and also ridiculed the relationship between the Kingdom of England and the countries of Mozambique, but it has to be said that this sentence is not groundless.