The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Guess!" Facing Leo's question, Baron de Maupassant looked at Leo, whose astonished expression had not subsided, with great interest, and seemed to enjoy the joy of scaring people.

It's a pity that Leo was not interested in playing this guessing game with her or him. He gave her a cold look, then ignored her, and turned his gaze back to the newspaper in his hand.

However, Baron de Maupassant did not intend to let such an interesting person like Leo go, she leaned forward, squeezed Leo's arms with her plump hands, deliberately opened the skirt, and said to Leo: "Why don't you reach in Touch it, and you will know if it is true or not!"

Originally, Baron de Maupassant just wanted to tease Leo, to see if he could show embarrassment. But she never thought that Leo was a person who didn't play cards according to the rules. As soon as she finished speaking, she stretched her hand in without hesitation, then grabbed it, pulled it out, and said expressionlessly : "It feels good, thank you!"

This time it was Baron de Maupassant's turn to be stunned, staring blankly at Leo, as if frozen in ice.

At this time, a staff member of the building hurriedly searched for something in the hall outside the reception. When he saw Baron Maupassant, he immediately smiled and walked over quickly. After saluting Baron Maupassant, he said: "Sylvie Miss Ya, Mr. Speaker has now spared time to meet with you."

Baron de Maupassant also returned to normal at this time, the expression on his face became very cold, and the rosiness on his cheeks did not know whether it was caused by embarrassment or anger. A proud peacock stepped out of the reception room, ignoring Leo during the whole process.

"This is a terrible offence." Leo didn't look up, looked at the newspaper, and muttered to himself with a wry smile, then a trace of doubt appeared on his face, and he murmured: "Could it be that she is really a woman? "

This little episode didn't have any impact on Leo, and he didn't take it to heart. He continued to look at the newspaper in his hand. Not long after, Jason came back from the exhibition hall with a bored face and sat next to Leo. Boring in a daze.

About half an hour later, Annie led Nelson and Catherine downstairs, called Leo and Jason, left the association building, boarded the carriage, and ordered to go to the British Embassy in Milia.

"How are things going?" Jason couldn't help asking in the car.

"Very well!" Catherine said with a smile: "Nielsen's article has passed the review and will be published in the next issue of the internal journal of the medical association. After seeing the specific effect, it will be promoted to medical associations around the world."

Nelson was not happy because of this incident, on the contrary, he seemed to be ashamed, and his expression looked a little depressed.

"Since it has already started, the show is about to continue. Leo didn't say anything, so why should you feel guilty?" Annie looked at Nelson and warned seriously: "You must know that you are not alone in this matter now. You are recommended by me, and you are supported by Catherine, once you are exposed, Catherine and I will be implicated by you, it is better to play your battlefield first aid master, don’t make any mistakes!"

"I see." Hearing that Catherine would also be affected, Nelson immediately became serious and nodded.

Jason asked a little blankly: "You have said so much, but you haven't told me how the matter is going? Are you suing the Duke?"

Annie said calmly: "The council will convene members to discuss this matter tomorrow, but it shouldn't be a big problem, because there are too many interns who were injured or injured in the Breteuil area this time, there are more than a hundred, all of them He is a prospective doctor who is about to graduate from the college. The college is very angry, even if it cannot file a complaint in the name of the Medical Association, it will submit a complaint to the Continental Congress in the name of the medical school itself."

Although Annie spoke very plainly, Leo could hear some small clues, that is, Vinyl Medical Association and Vinyl Medical College seem to have different opinions on the accusation.

However, for Leo and the others, it doesn't matter whether it is a medical association or a medical school, as long as they submit the complaint, all they have to do is to wave the flag and cheer for them, and provide a little ammunition by the way.

After everyone was quiet for a while, Leo suddenly asked Anne: "Ms. Anne, do you know a woman named Sylvia?"

Annie frowned slightly, and said, "Sylvia? This name is very common. Many people I know have this name."

"The Sylvia I mentioned is a very beautiful woman." Leo described the appearance and clothes of Baron de Maupassant whom he had just seen.

Listening to Leo's description, Annie's face became more and more gloomy, and finally she stared at Leo and said, "How do you know her?"

"I was just sitting there, and she came up to talk to me." Leo concealed part of the content, and he could see that Anne must know Baron de Maupassant in a female body, and the relationship seemed to be very bad.

Annie cursed fiercely: "That bitch only knows how to mess with women everywhere," and then warned Leo: "You'd better be careful, she is a black widow, whenever she eats you, you will kill her." have no idea."

Perhaps because she felt that she had lost her composure, Annie didn't speak any more, but turned her head to look out the window, so that no one could see her expression.

The strong resentment emanating from Anne, not to mention Leo, even the dull Jason felt it, everyone didn't speak anymore, and sat quietly until the carriage stopped at the British Embassy outside.

Annie led the four of them into the embassy. As a director of the medical association, she asked the reception staff to see the ambassador, but she did not tell the staff the identity of Leo and others.

Not long after the ambassador agreed to meet, Anne only took Nelson, who already had a title and had a certain background, to the ambassador's office, and the others stayed in the reception room.

About ten minutes later, several embassy military attache-like people came and directly stayed Leo and Jason in a room, asked them about their identities and unit numbers, and then asked them to tell the story What happened on the battlefield that day was recorded in detail, and they were handed over to sign their lives, and then they were brought back to the reception room.

At this time, Annie and Nelson had already returned to the reception room, but there were already six armed soldiers from the embassy guarding outside the reception room.

"The next thing shouldn't have much to do with the two of you. Your identities are too low in the eyes of those big shots, and your words don't carry enough weight. It's impossible to cause any effect. You can only serve as a supporting role for Nelson." Annie To be blunt, without saving any face for Leo and Jason, he told Leo and them the current situation in detail, "Next, Nelson will become the leader of the whole prosecution, also because of his importance , the ambassador of the Kingdom of England needs to protect him specially, and Catherine will be with him and continue to write the next paper."

"Then we have nothing to do, right?" Jason shrugged and smiled.

"You have a good idea." Annie glared at Jason and said, "Nelson will definitely be well protected, and it is impossible to give Duke Devin's people a chance, so the two of you will definitely become Duke Devin's." Target. Although the identities of the two of you are unlikely to play a big role in the prosecution, the people of Duke Devin will use your death to warn some other people, so you will be in a more dangerous situation than Nelson. "

"Haha! Just let them come, my baby will come in handy." Jason didn't take the so-called danger to heart at all, and said with a grinning smile.

"Can you let Jason and Nelson be together?" Leo thought for a while, asked Anne, and at the same time raised his hand to signal Jason not to speak, and then explained: "Jason's weapon is too heavy, suitable for use Come to defend the position, he and Nelson can also play a role in protecting Nelson, after all, I don’t feel at ease about the protection of other people.”

"This shouldn't be a problem." Annie thought for a while, nodded and accepted the proposal, and then asked Leo, "What about you? Aren't you staying together?"

"No, I have other things to do." Leo thought of the house mentioned by the old man in the villa, and he could just take this time to check it out and investigate what's wrong.

Annie felt that it would be a waste to let Leo's aimless actions just like this, so she thought about it and said: "I will find someone to investigate Duke Devin's control of power in Miria City these days, and I will put the key Some forces have been marked, if you have a way, try to get rid of them, lest they come out to make trouble."

"That's no problem." Leo nodded, and then gave Jason and Nelson very serious orders, most of which were related to self-protection in case of an attack, and asked Annie to take the flintlock guns in the hospital with him. Before going to give it to Jason, try to install a stress bracket on the hand cannon, so that Jason can use it.

After talking about some precautions, Leo didn't ask where they would be sent for protection, so he left the embassy directly, and while leaving the embassy, ​​he also found himself being followed.

Through the observation of the spirit network, Leo quickly identified several of them as members of the embassy, ​​while the other group of people were obviously some local forces. Although he has not yet obtained the list of the Duke of Devin's control in Miria City from Anne, he has already found a target that can be attacked.

Leo directly boarded the carriage waiting at the gate of the embassy, ​​and told the driver to go to Yushi District. He just sat in the carriage, closed his eyes and rested his mind, ignoring the people following behind.

Although Miria City is very prosperous and the people living here are also very rich, there are not no slums here. In fact, the slums here are still very large. In terms of area alone, it is definitely the largest urban area in Miria City.

This urban area is located on the banks of the Walla River in the northwest of the city. The Walla River is one of the main tributaries of the Rhodeland River. The river here is full of shoals, aquatic plants and hidden reefs. The fishing industry is well developed.

When Miria City was built in the early days, local fishermen built a small village here to provide fish products to the residents of Miria City.

Later, as Miria City gradually prospered, a large number of people who could not get along in the surrounding towns began to flock to Miria City. It is difficult for these people to find jobs in Miria City, which is dominated by politics and commerce, and naturally they cannot live in Miria City, so they have to move to the fringes of Miria City. In this way, the small fishing village very close to the urban area of ​​Miria City became their first choice. ,

As Miria City became bigger and more prosperous, more and more people came here looking for opportunities to make a fortune. Although from time to time you can hear news of some people getting ahead for some reason, but more people are still struggling at the bottom. These people gather around the small fishing village, and the living area expands little by little. Over time, they become the current fish. urban area.

A city councilor of Miria City once believed that the fish city area was not a part of Miria City and would damage the image of Miria City. He suggested building a city wall along the edge of the city to isolate it from Miria city. But in the end, the proposal fell through because some people blocked it. The congressman who made the proposal also lost his position for some reason, went bankrupt, and ended up living in Yushi District.

Because of this congressman as a precedent, no matter how much the dignitaries in Miria City look down on the people in the Yushi District, no one will propose any proposals for the Yushi District, lest they get burned.

Before entering the fish market area, there is no formal zoning signboard, but the locals have a way to tell whether they are in the fish city area 100%, which is the houses and roads.

Most of the houses in the urban area of ​​Miria City are built with masonry and steel frames as the main materials. Even if wood is used as building materials, they only use wood as auxiliary materials or decorative materials. The houses that really use wood completely rare.

But the Yushi District is different. The houses in the Yushi District are almost all wooden houses with two-story pointed attics, with a layer of plaster on the outside as the walls.

The reason why these houses use wood as building materials is that these woods do not cost money. When building houses, you only need to find some relatives and friends to bring logging tools, and cut a few trees in the forest outside the city, and you will be able to gather together. Timber needed to build a house.

In addition, because the land required for the construction of these houses does not need to be applied to the Miria City Municipal Government, these houses are built on the land, and they are constantly expanding, so that the streets here are not only narrow, but also twisted and deformed. It was impossible to let the carriage drive in.

"Sir, if you go in alone, you'd better come out before dark, the security here is not good at night." After getting off the carriage, the driver kindly reminded Leo.

Leo responded with a thank you, and walked into the nearest alley, into the slums in the Yushi District.