The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

After listening to Leo's suggestion, everyone felt that this was a solution to the problem, so they all agreed with Leo's suggestion and chose to live in the manor on the hillside.

Naturally, Leo and Sylvia also lived with them. Apart from making things convenient, they could also discuss things about this world with them.

A group of people came to the manor, because the manor is mainly used for summer vacations, and there are banquets with other nobles, so there are many rooms in the manor, and all the rooms are built around a garden with a spacious lawn, but because The lawn is very messy due to no one taking care of it for many days.

Everyone found a suitable room and cleaned up. After that, Regil and Angulan prepared food. The others went hunting around to see if they could find any prey. Leo and Silvia decided to go to Zero Check the situation in the insect nest they have been to before.

For this reason, Geralt chose to stay and be responsible as a guide. As for what his real thoughts were, Leo knew very well, but he didn't say anything.

The three of them came to the cellar, but did not immediately go to the worm's lair. Sylvia asked the two to listen, and then found a wine barrel that seemed to have been sealed for a long time, pulled out the cork on it, and used a wine raisin to remove it. A glass of wine was scooped out of it, and after taking a sip, his brows frowned slightly.

"What's wrong?" Leo asked.

"The taste of the wine is a little... not very good." Sylvia seemed unsure, took a sip, and asked, "Is this the taste of Toussaint's wine?"

Geralt didn't understand why Sylvia was suddenly interested in the wine here, but he still took the initiative to help, saying, "Let me try it."

Sylvia found an empty glass and spooned one for Geralt. After drinking it, Geralt frowned and said, "This wine has gone bad. It should be because no one took care of it."

"Is that so?" Sylvia put the stopper on the wine barrel again, turned around and found several other wine barrels, and drank a little of the wine inside, but her brows were always wrinkled, obviously drinking Let her very dissatisfied.

"If you want to drink, I have a good bottle of wine." Seeing Sylvia's expression, Geralt said kindly.

"No need! I'm not because of the wine, but because of other things." Sylvia shook her head, without continuing her common sense, she turned and said, "Let's go! Let's go to the bug lair."

Hearing Sylvia's words, although Geralt was still puzzled by her behavior, he didn't ask any more questions, while Leo, who was watching Sylvia's movements, had a puzzled look on his face. Thinking look.

Then, holding the torches, the three of them walked into the depths of the cellar, found the hidden cave entrance, entered it, walked along some narrow passages for a while, and came to a spacious underground cave.

I saw that there were many bug corpses that hadn't been cleaned up in time, as well as the surrounding bug nests and undamaged bug eggs. A pungent smell filled the entire underground space.

The pile of human corpses mentioned by Geralt was obvious, right next to the corpse of the female worm.

Leo stopped Sylvia, and then he took the initiative to check the pile of extremely rotten corpses. In fact, he didn't move, but scanned twice with the mental net, and found some unique things in the corpse. Organs to judge the number of people.

"Four people." Leo quickly came to a conclusion and said, "Judging from the degree of decay of the corpse and the surrounding environment, it should have been dozens of days, and it is estimated that they are the earliest batch of missing persons."

"How do you know there are four people?" Geralt only saw Leo standing next to these corpses for a while, and he came to the conclusion, feeling a little strange.

"A kind of ability, just like the wolf badge on your neck and the vision of your eyes." Leo didn't explain carefully.

"Can we find out their cause of death?" Sylvia asked.

Geralt froze for a moment, then said, "You suspect they didn't die from these kizimos?"

"Be careful." Sylvia didn't answer directly.

"Two people died from sword wounds." Through the spiritual network, Leo easily found out the details of each wound on the skeletons of these corpses, and through comparison, he easily restored their scar pictures, so he did it quickly. He answered, and said: "The attacks all came from behind. The long sword passed through the back, and the blade scratched the spine and the bones of the back, and pierced into the heart of the deceased. Both times they were killed by one blow. It can be seen that the person who killed them He has extremely high swordsmanship strength and is proficient in the bone structure of the human body, otherwise, it would be impossible to pass the long sword through the back and stab the heart so accurately."

After hearing this, Sylvia asked again, "Are there any other clues?"

"No more." Leo shook his head and said, "There are no other valuable clues," he said, turning his head and seeing Sylvia covering her nose, enduring the smell around her, and said: "There are no more valuable clues here, let's go up."

"I'm fine." Sylvia shook her head, indicating that she could still bear it, then held up the torch, looked around again, and asked, "It seems that there is only the way we came in, but that way It is sealed, how do these bugs survive?"

"No, there are still two roads here." Leo said as he walked to one side of the wall and kicked away the insect nest blocking the front, revealing a hole behind.

Sylvia asked suspiciously: "Are these bugs smart enough to know how to hide cave passages?"

"Of course I don't understand, they are similar to wild beasts." Geralt shook his head, held a torch, walked to the front, and said, "I will lead the way ahead, you follow, and see where it leads."

After finishing speaking, he went in, and Leo asked Sylvia to walk in the middle. After a short distance, this passage became much wider, and the passage gradually sloped upwards, which seemed to be upwards. Walk, after walking for about half an hour, they came to the end.

I saw that this is a natural patio. Once the ground fissures pass through the top and the ground is exposed, the surrounding walls are a bit steep, and it is difficult for normal people to climb up.

"Look!" Geralt stopped at this moment, pointed to the thick grass under the patio, and said.

Leo and Sylvia stepped forward and took a look, only to see a lot of blood and some sundries in a pile of weeds. Not only that, but from some gaps in the grass, many corpses could be seen lying on the ground. there.

Leo quickly gave the number of corpses and said: "Thirteen corpses, plus the four inside, there are seventeen corpses in total."

"There are still two bodies missing." Geralt knew how many people were missing, and after hearing the number reported by Leo, he couldn't help showing a puzzled look, and asked, "Are you sure there are only thirteen?"

"Yes, there are only thirteen corpses." Leo's mental network scanned the corpses carefully again, and said: "The dead are all..., most of them died of fatal injuries to their backs."

As Leo spoke, he used his spiritual power to pick out two corpses with different injuries from those corpses, and pulled them out.

Geralt only saw that Leo just raised his hand and waved it. Among the corpses in the grass, two of them flew out as if being held by a big invisible hand, and landed on the ground in front of them.

"Are you a warlock?" Geralt looked at Leo and asked in surprise, but soon he felt that he was asking nonsense, because metal easily interferes with casting spells, so warlocks rarely have large pieces of metal on them, only some Specially treated metal ornaments, a person wearing such full-body armor like Leo, even a strong warlock would have difficulty casting spells successfully.

"No, I'm a wizard." Leo said.

"Wizard?" Geralt was stunned, because he heard the wizard in Leo's mouth as a witcher, and based on his familiarity with the witcher, the other party was obviously no longer in any school, and the other party Nor does it have any of the hallmarks of a witcher.

"No, you misunderstood!" Leo seemed to know what Geralt was thinking, and explained: "The wizards and warlocks I mentioned are somewhat similar, but their powers are different. They are not demon hunters. However, Ji Wei Ai Er once taught me the witcher's sign and alchemy, which benefited me a lot, and if I have the opportunity, I hope to learn more about the witcher from you."

"Ah? Yes, of course." Geralt nodded in surprise.

At this time, Sylvia was already standing next to the two corpses, carefully checking the condition of the corpses.

Although the deceased had been dead for many days, because the bottom of the patio was extremely cold, the decay of the corpse was slowed down to a certain extent, so the scars on the corpse could still be seen.

Judging from the two corpses, they escaped the fatal attack when they were attacked, and later experienced a battle, with many wounds on their bodies, and finally their throats were pierced from the front.

"The two of them should be wandering knights who took over this mission before." Sylvia quickly judged their identities from the crude armor on their bodies.

"Like other corpses, the first blow they encountered was still from the back." Geralt also walked over to inspect the corpses, and said, "As wandering knights with rich experience, it is impossible for them to act like ordinary people. Those who casually show their backs to other people, unless they have absolute trust in that person, and even feel that that person is impossible and unable to hurt them." At this point, he was silent for a while, and said: "It seems that we should Talk to some people."

Leo said in a deep voice: "Let's go up first and see what's up there."

"Yeah! That's right, I'll go up first, and I'll get the rope later..." Geralt also agreed, walking towards the wall next to him, while untying the rope around his waist.

"It doesn't need to be so troublesome." Leo walked over, stretched out his hand to grab Geralt's arm, then reached out to Sylvia, and took Sylvia's hand.

Afterwards, he directly cast a psychic impact on his feet, with him as the center, the three of them immediately rushed out into the air, rushed out of the patio in an instant, and flew to a height of more than ten meters in the air. In the air, he spread out the psychic wings, The individual glides through the air, flies a certain distance, and lands firmly on the ground.

After landing, Geralt staggered, then looked at Leo with some complaints, and said, "Your Excellency Leo, can you remind me next time."

"Sorry, I will remind you next time." Leo smiled, then looked around, and said, "We don't seem to be in Brita Manor anymore." He said, pointing to Brita Manor in the distance The spire of the little tower poked out of the woods and said, "And we are far from Britta Manor."

"Here is..." Geralt looked around and said, "This is the crack slope at the foot of Gorgon Mountain. There are cracks in the ground everywhere around. Walking here is easy to get into the cracks in the ground, and you usually fall into them. Basically, unless someone saves it, it is difficult to climb out, so it is not suitable for planting anything, it is a primitive wasteland." He added: "according to the area of ​​the fief, this place should also belong to Earl Britta part of the plantation."

Leo turned his head to look at the crack they flew out of and asked, "According to the number of corpses, there are still two people missing. Where do you think these two people will be now?"

"Hiding." Sylvia answered immediately.

"Do you think they found something, so they hid in advance?" Geralt seemed to have the same idea, but he was not sure, and confirmed to Sylvia.

"No," Sylvia shook her head and said, "They must have been attacked, but they were not fatally injured. After being pushed into the hole, they fell on top of the corpse without much damage. Then They crawled out of the burrow, which I can be sure of, because I just put down the burrow wall with climbing marks, and it was left recently. So they are still alive, but the murderer thinks they are dead. There are rumors that they are dead."

"Since they are still alive, why don't they..." Geralt asked with a gloomy face, but stopped in the middle of the sentence, as if there was no need to answer.

However, Sylvia still said: "They should be scared, and they also know that even if they stand up and identify the murderer, the murderer will not be injured in any way, and their lives may be in danger."

"I'm starting to hate taking on this quest!" Geralt couldn't help feeling annoyed, and said in a deep voice.

"I have the same feeling," Sylvia sighed, then turned to Leo and said, "Maybe in the end, we will get nothing, and we might offend the big shots here."

"It doesn't matter, if you are offended, you will be offended. If you really annoy us, they will find that those so-called statuses are nothing. And things may not necessarily develop in the worst direction. We should have other ways." Leo He smiled disapprovingly, walked towards the manor, and said, "Let's go, let's go back quickly, otherwise those companions of Lord Geralt will be worried."