The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The Crescent Moon Lake area has always been a high-end villa area in Miria City. Because the Crescent Moon Lake is located in the suburbs outside the city, most people build it as a holiday villa.

As for the Crescent Moon Lake, because it is within the urban area of ​​Miria, most of the rich and noble people in the city will live here. This also makes this area the most heavily guarded in the entire urban area except the administrative area. The place.

Among other things, the police station in the Crescent Moon Lake area alone has more than 500 red-helmet patrol officers and more than 40 police officers who are responsible for the security of this area. There are more than one hundred sentinels along the route to monitor the security of the entire area.

Like ordinary people entering here, they will be questioned if their clothes are slightly inappropriate. In his opinion, Leo's clothes are decent enough, but he is still a suspicious person in the eyes of many police officers. Originally, several people wanted to question Leo, but after seeing Annie who was leading the way, they all backed away. It was obvious that Annie either had a residence here, or she was a regular visitor here.

The villa in front of the two of them is very ordinary, a common country villa, but this country villa, which can be called simple, is located in the best part of the Moon Lake.

The villa is surrounded by lakes on three sides, and behind it is a group of high-end villas that are strictly guarded. Few people can come here, and the nearest public street is also one kilometer away, so it is also very quiet here. It is especially precious in a noisy big city like Lia City.

Annie didn't push the door directly to go in, but honestly pulled the pull ring at the door.

After a while, a maid-like person came out. After seeing Annie, he immediately opened the door with a smile and welcomed her in. He didn't even look at Leo behind him during the whole process.

Although the other party ignored him, Leo couldn't ignore the other party, because after his mental net swept over the maid, he found that the maid had an organ fish gills that did not belong to humans.

In addition, this maid looks very slender and thin, but in fact Leo can feel that she is very powerful, at least not much weaker than before he absorbed the little heart.

From the woman's walking posture, it is not difficult to see that even though he was ignored, he was still under strict guard. As long as there was something wrong, the maid would stab the dagger in his sleeve into his vitals in the shortest time.

The situation inside the villa is basically the same as the outside. There are a few tables, sofas, and a wine cabinet. It is hard to imagine that the person living here is a powerful person from Miria City.

A cough came from the small garden by the lake outside the villa. Annie didn't lead Leo over immediately, but waited in the room for a while, waiting for the maid to go to report, and then turned around After telling him that he could go, he led Leo into the small garden.

Leo, who was following Annie, didn't say anything the whole time, he was just puzzled by the people living here.

This kind of doubt is not because of this person's identity and rules, but because after he entered the hut, the mental net was suppressed and could no longer be displayed, and the sub-brain system also reminded himself that he had entered an energy interference field.

The two walked around a well-pruned grove, and then met the person they were going to meet this time.

To be honest, after seeing this person, even if Leo didn't know what kind of personality and behavior this person had, he admired him very much in his heart, because he was absolutely sure that if he was injured so badly like this person, he would Will choose suicide instead of living strong and difficult.

I saw that there were not many human organs left on the old man's body. His lower body and the parts below his waist were all gone. The whole body was installed on a steel wheelchair with a small steam engine.

His right hand has also been completely lost, replaced with a mechanical arm, and the power of the arm is connected to the steam engine on the wheelchair.

The lung on the left side of the body is also missing, replaced by a mechanical lung attached to the wheelchair. Some test tube-shaped drug tubes are inserted into this mechanical lung, and the other end is connected to a leather tube connected to the box next to the seat. With each breath, a part of the drug will be injected into the mechanical lung through external pressure, producing some that can support him. Live gas.

His entire skull was also replaced with a metal skull. About 30 medicine tubes were inserted from the top of the head to the two sides of the neck and inserted along the spine. It looked a bit weird.

"My medicine can be used for a long time, and you shouldn't make a mistake in your calculations. I don't think you came to see me to change my medicine." The old man saw Annie walking over, with a sincere smile on his face, and then his eyes fell on Leo's body, although the smile on his face did not change, but a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes.

Although the old man didn't show it, Leo felt faintly that the old man should have recognized his identity as a psychic.

"I came today to ask for your help, and at the same time help myself." Annie didn't appear polite, and went straight to the point, telling Leo and the others about their plan to sue Duke Devin for using imine gas. come out.

Although the old man tried his best to conceal it, he could still see the intense hatred in his eyes when the name Duke Dewen appeared.

However, the old man did not immediately make a decision because of his hatred. Instead, he thought about it calmly for a while before asking in a low and hoarse voice, "What do you need me to do?"

Anne put forward her own request: "An introductory letter to the Embassy of the Kingdom of England. In addition, I need your newspaper to support it when necessary."

"You really aren't afraid to make trouble for me." The old man smiled wryly, and said, "A letter of introduction is nothing, but you asked me to target Duke Dewen in the newspaper. This matter is not acceptable."

Annie frowned and said, "Are you still afraid of Duke Devin?"

"You don't have to provoke me so much, you should know it's useless to me." The old man said calmly: "I have sent people to assassinate him fifty-seven times, and I even deliberately revealed my identity once, if I am really afraid of him , it won't..."

Annie uncovered the old man's scar mercilessly, and said: "You purposely revealed your identity to lure him here and die with him, but that doesn't mean you're not afraid of him."

The old man fell silent and did not speak.

"I'm sorry! I shouldn't have said that." Annie felt that her words were a little heavy, so she apologized.

"No, you're right, that's what I thought at the time." The old man shook his head, and then said seriously: "The reason why I can't attack Duke Dewen in the newspaper is mainly because of another thing, Louis IX Died not long ago."

Annie was also stunned when she heard the news, but quickly reacted and said, "Why is there no news from the outside world?"

"Louis IX did not announce the candidate for the crown prince before his death." The old man said in a deep voice: "There are three people who are qualified to inherit the throne, and Duke Dewen is one of them. If I let the newspaper attack Duke Dewen at this time, it will be tantamount to I got involved in the royal family dispute, and no matter what the result was, my successor would not allow my newspaper to continue to exist. It would be fine if I was the only one, but the newspaper has thousands of employees, and the people who depend on the newspaper for food are even more There are hundreds of thousands, if something happens to the newspaper, their livelihood will be over, I can't be so selfish."

"Sorry, I went too far." Hearing the old man explain the reason, Annie said apologetically.

The old man didn't blame Annie at all, and said with a smile: "However, you don't have to worry about it. Although my newspaper cannot conduct any oriented reports, there are other ways to achieve the same effect, and I don't even need to come forward." Then, he looked at Leo and said, "I want to talk to this gentleman alone. I'm afraid that's why you brought him here, isn't it?"

Annie smiled, turned around, gestured to Leo, and walked out of the garden alone, returning to the room.

The old man said to Leo: "Can you accompany me, an old man, to sit by the lake?"

Leo nodded, and was about to push the wheelchair forward, but the old man shook his head and refused. He inserted his mechanical right arm into a small device next to him, followed the steam engine to start running, and input power, while his left hand Put it on the joystick and control the wheelchair to move forward.

Soon the two came to a piece of lawn beside the Crescent Moon Lake, and the old man also listened to the wheelchair.

At this time, the maid came over with a blanket, covered the old man's body, and then stood aside quietly.

"Are you a wizard?" The old man was silent for a while, and suddenly asked Leo full of expectation.

Leo was stunned, thinking that the old man might have seen through his identity as a psyker, and wizards and psykers in this world seemed to have something in common, so he also realized that the old man might have misunderstood his identity.

Although many of Leo's psychic skills can create the illusion of a wizard's ability, it is not a problem to deceive the old man in front of him, but he still did not deceive the old man in the end. His character is worthy of respect.

So, Leo shook his head slightly and said, "Sorry, I'm not a wizard."

The old man sighed slightly, as if he was talking to Leo, or talking to himself, and said: "I met a real wizard when I was very young. He is a member of the tower. I watched him use His magic receded the flood that submerged the entire valley and saved people in a village, so I have always hoped to see a real wizard again, but unfortunately I have never been able to do so.”

"Is it difficult to meet a wizard?" Leo asked, "I heard that there is a wizard hiding in the cage city, and he uses the people in the cage city to conduct experiments."

"That's not a wizard, that's just some self-righteous guy, they are far from the real wizard, only the tower wizard is the real wizard." The old man's face was a little rosy because of the excitement, and his breath was short of breath, and the maid went up immediately Before that, his junior's purple medicine tube was twisted a bit, and a little medicine was injected into his body, which relieved him.

"Sorry, it's an old problem." The old man laughed at himself and said, "Sometimes, I really think that it would be better to replace the whole body with a mechanical one and only keep the head."

"Absolutely not, you will only suffer more." Leo said with great certainty.

The reason why he is so sure is that he has seen countless modified people whose bodies have been replaced with machines in the Earth Federation. The dislocation of their own cognition, either crazy or suicide, none of them have a good end.

Hearing Leo's affirmative response, the old man was a little surprised. Looking at Leo, he felt that the other party didn't seem to say it casually.

Leo didn't intend to get entangled in the issue of mechanical transformation, even the Earth Federation couldn't discuss right or wrong on this issue. So he changed the subject and asked, "You mentioned the tower just now, and I have heard the name of the tower more than once before. Are the wizards of the tower different from other wizards?"

When he mentioned his favorite topic, the old man naturally attracted his attention and said, "Of course it's different. The other so-called wizards are just garbage pickers. They pick up things that real wizards don't want and treat them as treasures. They become garbage after staying with them for a long time. The wizards of the high tower are the ones who really master the mysterious knowledge. It is said that some of them can even talk directly with the mysterious gods and learn the knowledge and mysteries of the universe from the gods. .”

When the old man mentioned the mysterious gods, Leo thought of mysterious existences such as the huge black shadow, the golden giant deer, the mother of the hives, and the lord of turbidity and lightness. The tower wizards were able to communicate directly with these mysterious beings, which made him feel that there might be some way among the tower wizards that could strengthen their willpower and make them immune to all influences.

So, he couldn't help asking: "How can I find the tower wizard?"

"Haha! I also really want to find the tower wizards, but I haven't found them after so many years of searching." The old man smiled and said, "The last time the tower wizards appeared was seventy-three years ago. The time I arrived, there were no rumors of the tower wizard after that."

"Is the tower wizard who appeared last time the wilderness wizard Samuel Dunbar?" Leo asked again.

"You've heard of him too!" Hearing the familiar name, the old man showed a surprised expression and looked at Leo.

"I have a wizard's notebook from his early years with me." Leo said, took out the box from his backpack, took out the wilderness wizard's notebook inside, handed it to the expectant old man, and said: " I can’t read the text on it, so I don’t know what it’s about.”

"Of course you can't understand the words on it. It's in Gamore language, an ancient language that was lost a long time ago, and it's not among the ancient Velen languages." The old man took the note and flipped through it carefully. Leo Didn't bother on the sidelines.

The old man didn't read all of them. He just flipped through the first few pages, closed the notebook, and returned it to Leo. He said with some disappointment: "You are right, this notebook should be his early notebook. He is no different from other so-called wizards, there are all wrong ideas in it, if you want to learn, I suggest you just use it as a reference, and it must be considered that this is the real power of wizards."

"But I don't know Gamore language." Leo took the note, put it back in the box, and said.

"I can teach you, do you want to learn?" the old man asked expectantly.