The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"How did he get this purple crown flower?" Annie couldn't help asking as her emotions recovered.

Before anyone else could speak, Jason said first, "We picked this. It has nothing to do with that old man. We only agreed to send this thing over after making a deal with him."

"Deal?" Annie was stunned for a moment, and then asked, "Can you let me know what's going on?"

"This letter is written to you by Teacher Pierre." Nelson stood up at this moment, handed the well-preserved letter to Anne, and said, "The letter should contain the purpose of our coming here."

Annie took the letter, opened it, and looked at it. The expression on her face changed from relaxed to serious. After reading it, she closed the letter and looked at Leo and the others with weird eyes, as if seeing something incredible Just like people.

"This is not a place to talk, let's go upstairs." Annie didn't say much, and told her granddaughter not to disturb them, and then led Leo and others from the stairs behind the counter directly up to the In the personal laboratory in the attic of the roof.

After closing the door, Annie motioned everyone to sit down freely, then she sat on a chair, took out the letter and read it carefully, then sighed, and said: "This old man hasn't seen each other for so long, but now he is I have such a big problem."

"If there is any difficulty, we will not bother you, Ms. Anne." Leo said with a smile: "Of course the purple crown flower still belongs to you, after all, this is a deal negotiated with the old man Pierre, and the deal I didn’t mention that I need your help, so it’s not a breach of the deal.”

When Anne heard this, she looked at Leo in surprise. Before that, she only regarded the tall and strong Leo and the burly Jason as Nelson's bodyguards or entourage, and thought that the person who led the charge against Duke Devin was Nelson. A young mentor in the medical school, she realized that she was wrong when Leo spoke.

With a trace of curiosity, Annie looked at Leo, and gradually felt the strange temperament in Leo that was different from other people.

At first glance, Leo is very inconspicuous. When standing next to others, people will always ignore him subconsciously. It's just that when you pay attention to him, you will feel a very unique temperament on him, especially the kind of eyes that look at people, as if an outsider is overlooking everything in the whole world, full of observation and passion. The taste of analysis gives people a feeling of being seen through all the secrets.

Seeing that Annie hadn't replied for a long time, Leo and the others took a look, then decided to get up and prepare to leave.

"Wait! I didn't say I won't help." Knowing that her behavior almost misunderstood the other party, Anne hurriedly stopped everyone who was about to get up, and said, "Although offending Duke Devin is a very troublesome thing, but This is Miria City, not Winterring City, nor his Derwen collar, so I don't have to worry about what he will do to me. The question now is how likely is this to succeed?"

"Success is not important to us. We just want to make Duke Devin's crimes known to the public and let the world know his despicable deeds." Leo casually said a cliché that politicians often say, and Anne rolled her eyes straight away. .

It's just that Annie didn't continue to ask Leo and the others about their intentions. Although she valued Catherine as a junior, she didn't plan to be a nanny for these people who had just met, so she just planned to be a matchmaker to help Leo and the others Find someone who can really help them, and she doesn't care if they succeed.

Annie thought about it for a while, and asked in a deep voice: "You guys must have had some thoughts on this matter on the way, right? Let's hear it."

"We do have some ideas." Leo said that they had previously discussed pushing Nelson out, allowing him to quickly increase his reputation in a short period of time, thereby increasing his right to speak.

Annie pondered for a moment, nodded, and said, "This is a good method. As long as Nelson's words are increased, the influence will also increase, and the Continental Congress and the medical school will naturally pay attention to it."

After Leo added some ways to increase Nelson's reputation, Annie nodded repeatedly.

"In addition to the medical technical papers you mentioned, this thing must be added." Annie put the purple crown flower that was given to her before on the table, and said: "The discoverer and digger of the purple crown flower, with With this addition, Nelson, your reputation will reach a sufficient height. In addition, you must remember that those trauma medical technologies were thought of by you on the battlefield, and you disclosed these technologies to reduce the casualties of the war.”

As she spoke, she thought about it again, and said, "You should immediately write those papers on medical technology. It is best to go to the headquarters today to handle the matter. The indictment of the amine gas massacre of the college’s interns. At the same time, you should also contact the British embassy to submit the indictment to the Continental Congress, which can cause a big enough sensation.”

"How do I get in touch with the embassy?" Leo asked, "Can't we just run over and tell the people at the embassy that we are the direct experiencers of the battle in Bretui?"

"Of course not, I need to find someone with a reputation to take you there." Annie quickly filtered some names in her mind, and finally stopped at one name, with a smile on her face, and said: "I know someone who can Help you, and he is willing to help you too."

Saying that, Annie, who was swift and swift, immediately asked Catherine and Nelson to finish their dissertation in the hospital, and asked Jason to stay here, while she took Leo out of the hospital, stopped an open carriage on the street, and said to the driver An address, just drive north in the direction of Xiaquanyue Lake.

In the car, Leo was not a talkative person, and Anne was not used to talking with strangers, so she could only sit quietly, and the atmosphere was a bit awkward.

However, this quiet and embarrassing atmosphere did not last for a long time. When the carriage went out from the north side street of the red house area and entered a relatively narrow side street full of pubs, Leo found that there were at least Seven people followed behind.

These seven people were all riding horses, two of them started following Annie's hospital, and the remaining five joined in the middle. Wearing eye-catching clothes with standard features, it would be difficult for people not to notice.

"It seems that someone is looking for trouble!" Just when Leo was about to remind Annie next to him, Annie took out a cosmetic box, pretended to be makeup, borrowed a mirror to observe the situation behind the carriage, and said, "There are seven people with They all have rapiers and hand crossbows, so they should be killers." Then, she looked at Leo strangely, and asked, "Could it be that you announced to people that you were going to sue Duke Dewen when you got to a place? Otherwise, why did these people come to the door so quickly?"

Facing Anne's questioning, Leo could only smile wryly and was unable to answer. It was very clear that these people were not because he wanted to sue Duke Dewen, but because they came for Baron de Maupassant.

Although the killers of the Duke of Dewen on the train did not express doubts about Leo, the resident who used to share the same room with Baron de Maupassant, they did not intend to let him go.

These people should not be able to find the whereabouts of Baron de Maupassant. Looking back, they want to try to find some useful clues from his last contact with Baron de Maupassant. means to resolve this matter.

Marking these crooked killers with the spirit net, Leo began to think about how to deal with these people without alerting the local garrison police.

While Leo was thinking about countermeasures, Annie suddenly told the carriage driver another address, telling him to speed up.

The coachman who was familiar with the terrain directly passed through an alley in this street. There were originally many people in the alley, but they were squeezed in by a carriage and had to carefully avoid it. There was a sound of cursing.

Soon the carriage passed through this narrow alley, and the stalker on horseback seemed to be stopped by someone, followed the carriage and drove along the street quickly, passed a small bridge on the aqueduct in the city, and turned around a forest Shade Avenue, and finally stopped outside an alley that should be inhabited by civilians.

Annie got out of the carriage, led Leo into the alley, turned a few corners, came to a small tavern, opened the door and entered.

I saw that the people in the tavern seemed to know Anne, and when they saw her coming in, they all raised their glasses to her.

After Leo entered the door, he habitually observed the situation inside. He found that the people in this tavern, whether they were the boss, the waiters, or the guests, were all disabled without exception. Some are missing a leg, some are missing an eye, and some even have one side of their skull missing.

Leo would not be too surprised if it was just disabled people. What really surprised him was that the organs lost on these people were all replaced with various mechanical parts, making him feel like he was returning We have arrived at the tavern dedicated to the Earth Federation's mechanical transformation people.

Just now, Leo walked past a man with two missing legs. This man was oiling the gears of his two mechanical legs. The power used by these two mechanical legs was a small steam engine similar to that used by the steam crossbow. , although you need to wear insulated clothing when using it, it is better than sitting in a wheelchair.

Now, under Anne's guidance, Leo is sitting in front of the bar in the tavern. Beside him is a healthy and fit woman. She is pretty good looking and has a proud figure. She could have been the center of everyone's attention, but she However, one side of the skull was missing, making her look very hideous.

Now, her skull has been replaced with a metal skull, and several transparent plastic tubes are inserted on the metal skull to connect to a sealed box on her back.

In addition, she would fiddle with the adjustment lever on the box from time to time, leading some liquid from the box to flow into the skull along the tube, and she would also appear extremely excited at this moment.

"Lian Na, as I said, don't use those medicines in normal times, otherwise, those medicines will lose their effectiveness in your body. If you don't find a replacement medicine by then, when you get sick, prepare to die of pain!" Seeing the woman frequently flipping the adjustment lever, Annie frowned and yelled at the woman.

"Got it! Got it! It's just that I felt a little tired just now, just to refresh myself." The woman shook her hand disapprovingly.

Seeing this, Annie didn't say anything more, and said to the bartender, "Have two glasses of Fire Lips."

The bartender nodded after hearing this, and then began to mix drinks behind the bar.

At this time, the door of the tavern was opened again, and the people who had lost their target walked in. They saw Leo and Annie sitting by the bar, their faces looked a little annoyed, but they didn't do anything immediately, but found someone. A table was seated and a couple of beers were ordered as the waiter passed by.

After a while, the bartender put the prepared fire lip on the table, and the bartender on the other side also put the beer on the table of those people.

"Try it! The wine here is not bad." Annie motioned to Leo.

Leo picked up the wine glass and swallowed the fiery red wine in the glass. The less spicy wine flowed into his body, making him feel his stomach burning, and his lips were a little numb at the same time. Perhaps this is why this wine is called "Fiery Lips".

However, at the moment Leo put down the cup, the people sitting around the killers suddenly raised their hands and pointed the crossbow in their hands at the killers, and pulled the trigger without hesitation. The killers didn't understand why After one incident, the cup shot into a honeycomb, and then there were a few screams from outside the tavern, and then a few people walked in with four corpses, and they lay on the ground casually.

"Thank you!" Annie thanked the bartender, then stood up, led Leo out of the bar, randomly picked two horses from those killer horses, rode on each, and continued to the place where she was going. March.

Leo neither said nor asked about what happened in the bar just now, but concentrated on dealing with the horses below. Because it was his first time riding a horse, he could only imitate Annie's riding movements, but no matter how standard his movements were, the horse under his crotch would not show any face at all.

"You'd better give me the reins! Ride the horse like you do, we don't have to think about it at night." Seeing Leo frantically controlling the horse, Annie couldn't help but smiled and shook her head, then turned around and turned around. When he arrived at Leo's side, he took the rein from him, tied it to his own saddle, and trotted forward with the horse under Leo's crotch.

Although Leo's way of riding horses made other people feel extremely weird, almost everyone who saw it looked at this scene with a face of surprise, and then burst into laughter, but in order to hurry, Leo didn't There was nothing to say, but he felt that Annie liked to see him being laughed at, and deliberately found places with many people.

"Can't we find a place where there are few people?" Leo said to Anne who was leading the way.

"I'm taking a shortcut to get to the place faster." Annie looked back at Leo. Although she explained with a serious face, if the smile in her eyes was less, it might be more convincing.

Leo didn't say anything more, he could only let it go.

However, perhaps as Anne said, they arrived at the Lake of the Crescent Moon in only ten minutes, and stopped in front of a villa by the lake.