The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Why the British royal family would spend a lot of money to build a garden palace that they would not use is something that puzzles the British people very much.

It has also been suggested to Congress to investigate the source of funding for the Garden Palace to find out the real reason why the royal family built such an unused Garden Palace.

But it is a pity that the funds spent by the royal family to build the garden are all funds from the royal family's private treasury, and no treasury funds have been used. Even if Congress wanted to investigate, they could not find any legal principles to support their investigation.

In the end, the matter was over.

However, even so, there are still many people who are curious about it. After all, not only the construction cost of such a large garden palace is astonishing, but also the maintenance cost is also very staggering. However, even in the most difficult financial period, the royal family has not stopped. The maintenance of this garden palace.

Someone calculated that if the maintenance funds paid by the royal family are accumulated every year, the amount is now large enough to rebuild a seminary.

Therefore, among the various speculations about the Garden Palace, there are many rumors of conspiracy theories. Some anti-royal people believe that the Garden Palace must hide the weapons that the royal family intends to use to subvert the parliament and regain power.

However, with the opening of the Garden Palace to foreign missions and royal guests, such rumors have decreased a lot.

On the way to the residence of the spiritual drama troupe, Vaschi told Leo about the garden palace, and Leo's eyes always inadvertently fell on the stone path under his feet during the process of listening.

The secret of the Garden Palace has troubled most of the English people for many years, but Leo had already found the secret of the Garden Palace from the moment he entered the garden.

Just like most of the government agencies in Dulin City have installed jammers, this Garden Palace also installed very powerful jammers. There is a zone of one or two meters around the body, and the perception will be disturbed, and the information harvested is incomplete.

However, even so, Leo could still feel that the cornerstones under the stone path were very special, and all of them were made of sacrificial stones.

The sacrificial stone is a very special kind of stone. This kind of stone is specially used to build religious altars. The amount of mineral deposits is very small. Nearly 90% of the sacrificial stone mines in the Vinylon world are in the hands of various churches, and only a small amount is in the hands of stone merchants. .

Although this kind of stone is rare in quantity, it is made of loose sandstone, which is not suitable for building large buildings. Its preciousness lies only in its religious value, so this kind of stone does not circulate much among the people, and because of its scarcity , so the price is extremely high.

If sacrificial stones were used as cornerstones under all the roads in the Garden Palace, then the cost of these cornerstones alone would already be comparable to the sum of the costs of other places in the Wreath Palace.

"Sacrifice!" A thing that fits the secret of the Garden Palace quickly appeared in Leo's mind.

The sacrificial field is an upgraded version of the altar, and its function is also for sacrifice. As for the effect, Leo is not clear, and there is no relevant information in his mind, because the time of the sacrificial field is very short, so short that only a few In twenty years, the reason why it disappeared in such a short period of time is mainly because the construction cost is too expensive. Even a church as large as the Church of the Lord of the Sky may find it difficult to support the construction costs of a large number of sacrificial grounds.

Leo could imagine why the royal family of England spent huge sums of money to build such a sacrificial ground, which was nothing more than offering sacrifices to the sea god.

As the gods gradually disappeared from the world of Velen, the sea god would no longer respond to the prayers of the believers, even if the prayers were his patrons. Therefore, in order to get the response of the sea god, the royal family of England spent huge sums of money to build a sacrificial ground.

It is not known whether the Poseidon responded, but judging from the follow-up processing of the Garden Palace, the British royal family did not seem to get what they wanted.

It's just that the sacrificial field is not another building, and it can't be abandoned if you want to. It needs to go through some special ceremonies to demolish it. More royal rights, in the end the British royal family can only leave it idle and spend a lot of money every year to maintain this place.

After walking a certain distance on the main road of the garden, the two turned to a garden path. After passing through a section of dense woods, the scenery ahead suddenly opened up.

I saw a circle of well-manicured grass around an artificial lake, and small tents were set up on the grass. A group of men and women came and went in and out of the tents, gathered together for some rehearsals, and a large number of craftsmen were repairing some performance props, and some Artists do final checks on background panels for evening performances.

Vaschi's clothes are very conspicuous. Just after walking out of the forest path, he was seen by the people in the camp. They obviously have a very bad sense of Vaschi. The people who were still discussing the drama performance were quiet, and Looking at Vaschi and Leo with vigilant and disgusted eyes, those craftsmen and painters also stopped their work, and their eyes moved with Vaschi.

"It seems that you are not very pleasing here." Leo looked at the people around him, and said with a slightly teasing tone.

"It's just a bunch of boring idiots!" Vaschi gave Leo a white look, and responded coldly.

At this time, a handsome young woman came out of the crowd, walked up to Vaschi, and said indifferently: "Why are you here again? Didn't you make enough trouble last time? The last performance was because of you, so I couldn't do it." It was not delayed for two days, and we almost paid for the breach of contract..."

Without waiting for the other party to finish speaking, Vaschi spoke directly and said, "Instead of stopping me like this, you should take me to Mitty. You should be very clear that if I want to see Mitty, you can't stop me." .”

"Beast Soul Warrior?" Leo on the side, feeling the power breath from the young woman, activated his spiritual vision, and then saw a phantom of a strange snake emerging from behind the young woman.

Although Leo didn't know how to distinguish the strength of the beast soul fighters, judging from the actual situation of the beast soul, it was obvious that the beast soul of the young woman in front of him was much stronger than that of Pasa Kagulan.

The beast soul on Pasa Kagulan has only a vague shape, but the illusion of the beast soul behind the young woman is very clear and concrete, even the scales on the snake are clearly visible, and even the snake's eyes are very agile, like a living creature. the same.

While the beast soul is strong, the spiritual sense is also enhanced. It is keenly aware of Leo's sight. The snake's head also turns to Leo. The cold snake's eyes are aimed at Leo. Like Leo's information.

The movement of the beast soul also fed back to the young woman. The young woman turned her head to look at Leo, looked up and down, but couldn't see anything abnormal from Leo, so she teased Vaschi: " Who is he? Your lover?"

"Lover?" Vaschi smiled, turned to look at Leo, and said, "If he wants, I don't mind."

Leo frowned and said, "I don't like such jokes." Then, he said to the young woman, "I'm here to find Mitty Grant. My name is Leo, Leo Dodd."

"Leo Dodd?" The young woman had obviously heard Leo's name before, she was startled when she heard it, then looked him up and down carefully, and said with a little surprise: "You are not the same as I imagined!"

"What do you think he looks like?" Vaschi laughed.

"At least you should look like a scholar." The young woman curled her lips and said, "not like a warrior."

Leo raised his eyebrows and was about to speak when Vaschi smiled and said, "He was originally a warrior, and he was a very powerful warrior."

Hearing Vaschi's painting, the expression on the young woman's face changed slightly, and she looked at Leo with eager eyes, and there was also an intention in her expression to weigh Leo's qualifications to be called a powerful warrior.

Seeing the young woman's expression, Vaschi took two steps to the side, intentionally staying away from Leo's side to make room.

Leo looked at Vaschi, who was deliberately provoking trouble, and the hot-headed young woman in front of him, sighed slightly, and released the life energy locked in his body.

At the moment when his life energy radiated out, all the people around who could feel his life energy felt a kind of suppression of life level, and they dared not look directly at Leo, while Vaschi and the young woman who was closest to Leo felt strongest.

The beast soul behind the young woman seemed to feel this kind of life suppression, wrapped her body in the young woman, entangled herself, retracted her head, completely in a defensive state. The young woman herself felt uncomfortable, but she didn't understand what was going on, so she could only instinctively push back a certain distance to relieve it a little.

Vaschi also looked at Leo with a look of surprise, but the mental impact made her unable to stare at Leo for too long, she shifted her gaze to other places from time to time, and retreated a certain distance, so that she could barely bear this kind of life suppression.

Looking at the reactions around him, Leo confirmed two things. One thing is that the beast soul of the beast soul fighter can actively help the parasite bear extra power, which means that the beast soul has a certain amount of wisdom. Another thing is that Vaschi, as he expected, did not reach the seventh level of life, or even the fifth level, otherwise it would not be affected by the life level of his fifth-level psyker.

Feeling that it was almost done, Leo locked the life energy in his body again, and the life suppression that enveloped him disappeared immediately.

All the people around who felt the pressure couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief, they all looked at each other and didn't understand what happened just now, but when the pressure disappeared, both Vaschi and the young woman looked at Leo with With an inexplicable look, as if he was looking at some monster.

"Can you take me to see Ms. Mitty now?" Leo asked the young woman, ignoring the gazes of the two.

"Miss, it's Miss Mitty. Come with me!" The young woman calmed down, corrected Leo's words, then turned around and led Leo and Vaschi into the camp.

The three of them came to a relatively beautiful tent in the middle of the camp, and then the young woman let Leo and Vaschi stay outside the tent for a while, then got into the tent, and after a while, they got out, indicating that they could go in.

The space inside the tent seemed larger than it looked from the outside. A delicate blanket was spread out on the ground, and some small furniture made of high-grade wood was placed on it. A very expensive crystal lamp was hung on the top of the tent. Candles are placed in it, and the light refracted by the crystal illuminates the whole tent as brightly as the outside.

There were two people in the tent, one was a maid, and the other was sitting at a makeup table, applying makeup with the help of the maid, and did not stand up to greet outsiders at all.

The moment Leo entered the tent, his eyes did not fall on Mitty Grant in front of the dressing table, but he looked at the maid thoughtfully. But it was already like a stormy sea, because he knew this maid, and this maid was the psychic puppet maid named Maria of Peter Alcott in the town of Silver Moon Lake.

Leo still remembered that the last time he saw Peter Alcott and his psychic maid was before entering the abandoned city, and then he was separated from Peter Alcott, he entered the big library, and Peter Orcott Ercott and his maid entered other places in the abandoned capital for other reasons.

However, he never expected to see this puppet maid named Maria here again.

After being surprised, Leo realized that he seemed to have made a mistake, because the maid in front of him with the same appearance, figure and clothes as the psionic puppet was a living person, not a puppet.

"Maria, go down first! I'll call you later." The woman sitting in front of the dressing table told the maid.

Hearing the maid's name, Leo felt suspicious again, but when the maid turned her head to look at him, she didn't have any abnormal expression, she looked very calm as if she was looking at a stranger.

Afterwards, the maid obeyed the order, bowed to the woman, walked past Leo, and walked out of the tent.

"Something's wrong!" At first, Leo didn't feel it, but soon he felt that the maid named Maria was very wrong, because according to the reaction of ordinary people, they would be instinctively curious when they saw strangers. There are more or less expressions of curiosity and speculation in the eyes.

But the maid named Maria just now didn't have any emotions that she should have, her eyes remained cold, especially when she looked at Leo, her eyes seemed to be deliberately disguising her emotions, and she didn't show any emotions that she should have. Contrary to common sense.

"I finally met you, Leo Dodd." Just as Leo was suspicious and was about to go out of the tent to find the maid to figure out the matter, a voice pulled him back from his contemplation, and he saw the makeup The woman in front of the stage simply tied her untied hair, then stood up, turned to look at Leo, and said with a strange emotion.