The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"If the murderer's target is General Hansen, then why would she..." Frank Fusen was about to ask the murderer the reason why he chose to pretend to be a courtesan and stay in the Wanguo Hotel, but he stopped when he reached the point of his mouth, because he found that I asked myself a silly question.

I saw that the location of the National Naval Museum that Hoover Hansen was going to participate in was just opposite to the Wanguo Hotel. As long as the hotel floor was a little higher, you could easily see the whole picture of the square in front of the museum.

The fact that Hoover Hansen will come to participate in the opening ceremony of the museum has been promoted by the museum as a selling point half a month ago, and the English people in Durin are also very interested in it. After all, Hoover · Hansen, a naval hero who rarely appears in public, is very mysterious, and mysterious things can often attract people.

Therefore, within a few days after the publicity came out, all the tickets for the opening of the museum on the day were sold out.

"Damn it," Frank Fussen couldn't help cursing, and said, "If the assassin is General Hansen, then this matter cannot be resolved by the Special Bureau and the police, and the murderer must be caught as soon as possible. "

Leo questioned: "The murder happened opposite the Wanguo Hotel, so the museum opposite will not be affected, and will it still be held as usual?"

"Although it will be affected a little, it will not stop the exhibition." Frank Fussen shook his head and said, "This exhibition is led by the Navy, and it has been in preparation for half a year. Let alone a murder case, even if it is I was the one who sent the news that General Hansen would be assassinated, and they will not change their decision to exhibit."

Leo said with satisfaction: "This is very good, I am still worried that the museum will stop due to the murder."

Frank Fussen looked at Leo in puzzlement, because Leo's attitude made him feel a little puzzled, so he asked, "Isn't it better to stop holding the exhibition?"

Leo replied coldly: "If the exhibition is stopped, where can I find a bait that can lure the murderer out?"

Frank Fussen couldn't help frowning. He could hear the indifference in Leo's words, and felt that Hoover Hansen, a naval hero and an important figure in the kingdom's military and political circles, was in Leo's heart and in general. It's no different from the person who is here, otherwise, he wouldn't have said anything about using this big man as bait.

Obviously, Leo didn't think about it, if Hoover Hansen was successfully assassinated, what impact would it have on the kingdom, even the neighboring countries of the kingdom and the countries in the Mozambique continent.

"What an indifferent person." Frank Fusen couldn't help but comment on Leo, but he quickly put the matter aside, because what Leo said just now made him realize another important thing, Then he confirmed to Leo: "From what you mean, the murderer didn't leave Durin?"

Leo said firmly: "Of course I didn't leave! If the murderer gave up the assassination and chose to leave, he would not have killed Pasa Kagulan. After Pasa Kagulan recognized the murderer, he must have guessed the murderer too. What is he planning to do? He is well aware of the impact of Hoover Hansen being assassinated by the murderer. As the deputy envoy of the Parnell Mission, he absolutely does not want to see such a thing happen, so he will stop the murderer. He overestimated his own ability, underestimated the determination of the murderer, and never thought that the murderer would attack him mercilessly, that's why this murder occurred. Now that he has killed Pasa Kagulan, then It means he can't turn back at all, so the assassination will definitely continue."

After listening to Leo's analysis, Frank Fussen also felt that the analysis was reasonable, but he didn't think it was serious, so he said: "The murderer must be crazy, and it is impossible for him to succeed in the assassination. Even if he didn't We remind you that the murder at the Wanguo Hotel, which is so close to the museum, will definitely attract the attention of the navy and strengthen the security during the development. Now that the purpose of the murderer has been clarified, our special bureau and the police will definitely exclude people. Is the murderer right? There might be a chance of success."

"Is it impossible to have a chance of success?" Leo couldn't help shaking his head when he saw Frank Fussen's confident look, and said, "There is no absolute thing, and the murderer must have thought of this, but he still made a move, which means he Sure enough to kill Hoover Hansen, even though Hoover Hansen was protected."

"You seem to know something?" Frank Fusen looked at Leo and asked suspiciously.

Leo didn't answer, but looked out the window and saw a group of children playing on the street, so he stepped out and quickly came to the group of children, followed by the doubtful and vigilant eyes of the group of children, took out He paid a dozen pennies and said, "I want to know about strange things that happened nearby. If you name one, I'll give you a penny."

Hearing Leo's words, the children didn't open their mouths, and all showed suspicious expressions. In their opinion, Leo's behavior was like a lunatic, but the attractiveness of Penny still kept them from running away. One of the weakest children pushed out to let him test whether what Leo said was true.

The kid looked at Leo fearfully, then looked back at the other kids, and mustered up the courage to casually talk about something that happened in a room recently that he thought was weird.

After he finished speaking, the penny he didn't expect to get from Leo was seized by Leo, which made him stand still for a long time and couldn't believe it was true.

Seeing that their companions were rewarded with pennies, the others couldn't hold back their desire for pennies, and they rushed forward to tell the strange things they knew, for fear that the pennies in Leo's hands would be taken away by others. , and a few got into an argument with each other for saying the same thing, for fear of not getting their due pennies.

Soon, the dozens of pennies in Leo's hands and pockets scattered amidst the noisy voices of these children.

Seeing that there were no pennies, the children also stopped talking, each took a few pennies, and ran away contentedly.

"What are you doing?" Frank Fussen looked at Leo in confusion and asked.

"Find clues to confirm the guess in my heart." Leo replied with a smile.

Frank Fussen wondered: "Looking for clues? From a group of kids who don't understand anything?"

"It is precisely because they don't understand anything that the children's words are more real, and they won't add some subjective imagination and modified answers." Leo turned to look at Frank Fussen and asked: "Did you just ask?" I listened to the various monsters that the children said, do you think those strange things here are related to our case?"

Frank Fussen was stunned. Although he was standing by the side just now, he didn't care about what those children said at all. Coupled with the noisy noise of those children, he didn't hear anything at all, let alone Write it down, naturally you can't answer Leo's words.

Leo didn't expect Frank Fussen to answer, he turned and went back to the house, walked to the attic at the top, then walked to the small window of the attic, pointed to the scene outside the window, and said, "Look, this What does it make you think of?"

Frank Fussen looked out the window, and he found that his line of sight could just pass through the roof of the opposite house, and he saw a specially opened public green space in the distance.

At first, Frank Fussen didn't understand Leo's intention of asking him to do this. After scanning the scene in front of him, he was about to ask Leo to give the answer directly. Suddenly it flashed across his mind, and it overlapped with another scene in his mind, which made him swallow the words that came to his lips, and turned his head to look out the window again, confirming what was in his mind .

"This is very similar to the scene around Qianping Square of the museum." After repeated confirmation, Frank Fussen said with a serious expression.

"It's not very similar, it's exactly the same. The area of ​​the square is very close to the distance from here to the square." Leo refuted Frank Fussen's opinion, and then pointed to the window sill, an obvious bump and some traces of dust around , Said: "Those children just mentioned that the gophers on the lawn and the birds flying in the air were shot and killed recently."

Frank Fussen quickly understood what Leo meant, and said, "You mean that the murderer used this as a training ground, and when the training was in progress, he assassinated General Hansen from a height."

"I think so." Leo nodded.

"Impossible." Frank Fussen shook his head and said, "There is a distance of about 500 calories from that lawn, and the most powerful steam engine crossbow can only produce damage within a range of 200 calories. There is almost no power when the card reaches 300 cards, let alone 500 cards, whether it can be shot is a problem."

Leo said: "Yes, the range of the steam crossbow is indeed too far, but what about firearms?"

"It's impossible. The short-range power of the firearm is not bad. For long-distance, unless the caliber is increased and the amount of special ammunition is increased, it is impossible to have too much power. It's just that if you change it like that, it will be the same as a cannon. Then How can the eye-catching guy move it casually." Frank Fussen retorted: "And you also said that those children said that they found gophers and birds on the lawn being shot, but they didn't mention any huge ones. The sound, so the murderer must have used a short crossbow to assassinate at close range."

Leo did not open his mouth to refute Frank Fussen's words, but responded with practical actions. He directly pulled out the queen and fired a shot at the lawn in the distance. I couldn't hear it from the side, but the bullet easily hit the trunk of a small sapling on the lawn, breaking the sapling in half, and the collapse of the sapling could be seen from a distance.

Frank Fussen, who saw this scene, had nothing to say. After a moment of silence, he said, "I will warn the navy." He then asked expectantly, "What about your side? Can you Have you found the murderer?"

"Try it!" Leo looked at the room and said, "That person is very smart, he didn't leave any useful clues, so he can only be found out by other methods."

While speaking, Leo left the attic, returned to the side of the two corpses on the second floor, took out some high-energy substances, crushed them into powder, added some dyes, mixed some water, and placed It was carefully ground into a muddy water in the grinder.

Later, I saw him carefully draw a rune magic circle composed of Turing roots with the high-energy matter filled with mud and water, and after he finished drawing, he stood at the end of the magic circle and drew a small circle circle, and motioned for Frank Fussen to stand in another small circle.

After making all the arrangements, Leo squatted down, put his hands on the root of the Turing under his feet, and while chanting the incantations of the wizard and witchcraft, he injected the wizard's spiritual energy into the magic circle to promote the entire rune magic The array is running.

Frank Fussen was completely attracted by the glowing rune magic circle, and it was not the first time he had seen this kind of strange pattern composed of Turing radicals. When he was working with the court wizard before, he On more than one occasion court wizards have laid out such Turing radical patterns.

It's just that the Turing characters arranged by Leo are very complicated, so complicated that he can barely understand the meaning of tears except for a few Turing characters, and the rest of the parts can't figure out what's going on.

Just when all the Turing roots and patterns were shining brightly, the two rotting corpses on the bed suddenly sat up from the bed like living people, with a dazed look on their swollen faces.

The finished corpse startled Frank Fussen, with a look of surprise on his face, and at the same time, he instinctively put his hand on the gun at his waist. It's no wonder he made such an expression, because according to his previous experience, any resurrection of dead bodies will not be a good thing, usually accompanied by huge disasters, and the best way to deal with it is before the dead bodies become disasters, Smash the dead body into pieces so that there is no possibility of it being resurrected.

However, Frank Fussen finally resisted the urge to smash the dead body, and stood quietly in the magic circle composed of Turing roots, watching Leo's movements.

"What does the murderer who killed you look like?" Leo could feel that Frank Fussen was very dissatisfied with him for waking up the dead body, so he didn't talk nonsense, and went straight to the point and asked.

"Strange...strange...thing..." The female corpse trembled very vaguely with her undamaged vocal cords, and she could barely make out the general meaning.

However, this answer was not what Leo wanted, and he also knew that his question was too vague, even a sober person might not be able to answer it, let alone a dead body.

So, he asked again: "What are the characteristics of the murderer?"

"Light...light..." The female corpse said another word, and at the same time as she said this word, her body suddenly trembled violently, and cracks appeared on her skin, and a burst of intense light radiated from the cracks. Covering the corpse, it quickly disappeared, and the corpse was completely reduced to ashes at the moment the light shrouded it.