The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

I don't know if it's because of the battle with the president of the Skull and Bones, and the full-strength shot, which made the fusion of physical fitness change, or because of the hidden consumption of the body after fusing the remains of Omega-level advanced organisms.

After taking a nap at noon the day before, Leo didn't wake up until the evening of the next day, and he found that he slept very deeply. It can be said that he had entered a deep sleep and was completely defenseless against the outside world.

Fortunately, the hotel he chose was not bad, and he would not randomly enter his room until he was summoned. After a day and a half, the room was still the same as before he went to bed.

At this time, Leo felt a pang of hunger coming from his stomach. He checked the data interface and found that the energy storage value had returned to zero.

Seeing fifteen people, the energy brought by the complete digestion of the whole day's food was completely exhausted while he was sleeping. He felt that there must be something wrong, so he called the waiter to order the food to be prepared at the same time. , is also viewing the personal data record.

Soon he discovered the problem. As he had expected earlier, the values ​​on the personal data interface were only the data quality of the body itself, not the power that Leo had really mastered.

Now because of the full-scale fight with the president of the Skull and Bones, a large part of the digital quality has really been transformed into a corresponding force. It's just that this conversion process should have been very slow, taking several months to complete.

However, the remains of higher organisms fused yesterday acted like a catalyst, speeding up the process of transforming numerical values ​​into actual power, and compressing the transformation that took months to complete into a very short period of time, thus consuming a large amount of stored energy .

In addition, judging from the data, this situation will continue for a few days, that is to say, he needs to eat as much as possible in these few days, and use the chaotic stomach to store some energy, so as to maintain the value caused by the transformation of actual power. consumption.

"I still need a lot of food, let your boss buy a lot of meat, and serve food every half an hour, and keep serving it without calling a stop." Leo stuffed a large piece of meat into his mouth and swallowed it directly While giving instructions to the dumbfounded waiter, he took out a banknote with a denomination of one hundred gold flanges and ten gold flange coins, handed them to the waiter and said, "Ten gold flanges are for you and the kitchen tip, and one hundred gold flanges is a tip for you and the kitchen." For the cost of food, come to me to make up for it if there is less.”

"Yes, yes!" The waiter hurried out of the room and followed Leo's instructions.

In the room, while eating, Leo took out the black information bag related to No. 9 Golden Oak Street from his backpack, and took out seven folders from it. According to the above chronological order, starting from the earliest looked up.

Golden Oak Street is located in the Upper Crescent Lake District. Because it is backed by the branch of Bidia Mountain, the scenery here is very good, and in summer, the snow on the top of Bidia Mountain will form a cold air and fall down the mountain, making this area more beautiful. The temperature here is much cooler than other places, so this is also a resort for the rich and powerful of Miria City, where a large number of rich and powerful bought land and built villas.

No. 9 Golden Oak Street was originally owned by Andrew Alcott, a mining tycoon of the Kingdom of Marris. The serf-born mining tycoon had to take his family across the Silver Moon Sea because he offended the powerful figures in the Kingdom of Marris. , took refuge in the French Empire.

At the beginning, he lived in Winterrin City, but because of his birth, he always became the object of teasing and teasing by the Frankish nobles in Winterrin City, so he had to leave Winterrin City and come to Miria City, where the political atmosphere is relatively free. , and finally bought a piece of land by the lakeside of the first quarter moon, and built the current No. 9 Golden Oak Street.

Although the Marris Kingdom is Andrew's hometown, he only has disgust and hatred for this hometown, so he didn't choose the architectural style of his hometown when he built the villa.

On the contrary, the few years he lived in the Kingdom of Sigma when he was young made him feel calm and peaceful like never before, and it was also during those few years that he reaped his first love. So he decided to build it into a church-style building with tall spires, stained glass, pointed vaults, and flying buttresses that is common in the Kingdom of Sigmar.

A very cold-looking church building was erected in a villa area for people to vacation. Anyone who saw this scene felt extremely weird.

However, because Andrew is very hospitable and often holds receptions for the dignitaries of Miria City, these dignitaries subtly agree with such a building that is extremely incompatible with the surrounding environment.

In this way, a few years have passed in peace. Andrew held a large banquet on the day of the Recovery Festival to welcome the arrival of spring in Miria as in previous years, and invited the dignitaries of Miria City.

At that time, more than one-third of the dignitaries of Miria City attended the appointment, including the local administrative officials of Miria City, envoys, embassy officials, businessmen and so on.

However, on the second day, the family members of these dignitaries found that none of the people who attended the appointment had returned, so they sent people to No. 9 Golden Oak Street to look for them.

But when they arrived at the place, they found no trace of anyone. The food at the banquet was neatly placed on the table, and the musical instruments of the band were all in their proper positions. The entire villa, from the master to the guests, to the servants As well as the invited musicians, workers, etc., all human beings have disappeared.

This incident was very sensational back then. Not only the royal family of the Faran Empire was alarmed, but even other countries sent investigators into the city of Miria because there were members of their embassy among the missing people.

In order to restore the image, the Miria City Administrative Council invited investigators from the Tomelia City Continental Council, the United Kingdom of France and other countries to form a large investigation team to thoroughly investigate this case.

However, the investigation team spent nearly half a year and spent countless funds, but in the end they found nothing.

Because the cost of the investigation was borne by the administrative council of Miria City alone, the cost has far exceeded the initial expectations of the administrative council, and it has caused a great burden to the administrative council, making the administrative council feel that it should be settled as soon as possible Don't continue to investigate this matter endlessly.

In addition, the negative impact of the incident has been reduced to the bottom for so long, so in a suitable situation, the Miria City Administrative Council asked the investigation team to write a hasty investigation report, and then ended the impact on the Vinylon countries. joint investigations.

It's just that the matter didn't end there. After this weird villa had been idle for several years, a nobleman from the Kingdom of Sigma took a fancy to this villa and bought it at an extremely low price.

Not long after the nobleman moved into the villa, he disappeared one night along with the servants and bodyguards he brought from the Kingdom of Sigmar, and only one bodyguard survived.

Afterwards, after the Miria City police interrogated the bodyguard, they found out that the bodyguard was not at No. 9 Golden Oak Street on the night of the incident, but ran to the Eros Cottage in the XC area for one night, and did not come back until early in the morning. , and found out that something went wrong.

Because this time only a noble from the Sigmar Kingdom was involved, it was not a particularly big international incident, which made the city of Miriya far less important than the previous one, and it only formed a team with a sheriff sent by the Sigmar Kingdom. The small investigation team investigated this matter, and the result was the same as last time.

However, this time, the reputation of No. 9 Golden Oak Street spread in Miria City, and some rich and good-for-nothing people even set up gambling games for it, such as how many consecutive days they lived in No. 9 Golden Oak Street, how much bonus they got, etc. wait.

The huge bonuses made many down-and-out people tempted by money and desperately gambled. Very few people were able to get the gambling bonus in the end, and most of them disappeared after three or four days of check-in. Later, they checked in on the same day and disappeared that night, because too many people disappeared, so no one dared to enter that villa again.

However, the winnings of that gamble have not disappeared, but changed the name to investigate the truth of No. 9 Golden Oak Street, and over the years, new funds have been injected into this gamble, until now Bonuses have accumulated to a staggering amount.

Five of the seven folders in Leo's hands are information about the missing person, one describes the disappearance process in detail, and the last one mentions other things that ordinary people don't know.

If Leo hadn't shown extraordinary strength in the black market room, maybe he would only have six documents on hand, and the last document would not be disclosed to him.

This document is about various investigations of various organizations in the dark world on No. 9 Golden Oak Street. Leo roughly calculated that there are as many as six organizations in it, except for those who have already had contact with Leo. In addition to the black market, there are also organizations such as the Orthodox Church, the Hidden Church, the Night Watchmen, the Association of Stranger Things, and the Wizards' Gathering House.

These dark world organizations have sent people into No. 9 Golden Oak Street to investigate, and all of them disappeared without exception. Among the missing people are wizards from the wizarding hall, the adjudicator of the Orthodox Church, and The high priest of a certain evil god in the hidden church, etc.

Although Leo didn't know how strong the wizards and adjudicators in the data were, they shouldn't be weaker than the president of Skull and Bones.

Even such people disappeared silently at No. 9 Golden Oak Street, and Leo didn't think he could escape unscathed.

Although he really wanted to learn Gamore language, he would not do such a stupid thing as asking him to risk his life for a language. What's more, it seems that the old man is not the only one who knows Gamore language in this world. He felt that he should be able to buy materials in Gamore language in the black market.

He took the files out of the folder and lit them one by one on the oil lamp. After destroying all the files, Leo also put the matter of No. 9 Golden Oak Street behind him and stopped thinking about it.

Afterwards, Leo picked up today's main newspapers delivered by the waiter, and he was a little surprised when he saw the first newspaper.

This newspaper is called the Voice of Honor of France. It is a morning newspaper and belongs to the French Parliament. It is regarded as an official newspaper. Now the front page of this newspaper is an official obituary, which is about Louis IX news of his death.

Leo picked up several other morning newspapers from different newspapers, and found that the headlines on the front pages of these newspapers were still about Skull and Bones, and the additional supplement was the news of Louis IX's death.

Leo could guess that the obituary that appeared in the French official newspaper was inserted suddenly, and the original front page headline was forcibly replaced without even notifying the editor of the newspaper, nor did he get any information. The permission from Winter's City should be the result of the intervention of another unknown force.

The other newspapers published additional supplements, probably because of the remedial actions they made after seeing the actions of the official newspaper in France. After all, the news of a gangster overwhelmed the news of the death of the Emperor of France, which cannot be justified.

So all the morning papers are rushing to publish the obituary supplement of Louis IX. As for the confirmation of the news to Winterfell City, it is too late, because it takes two days to go back and forth with the airship, and there is no time to confirm it. .

And now it happens to be the foggy period of the Black Forest, even if it is an airship, after entering the sky above the Black Forest, the probability of falling is much higher than at other times, so no airship company is willing to take the risk of traveling through the Black Forest at this time, so The communication between the east and the west of Lanzhou can only rely on the postal system of the Circumcontinental Train.

What's more, from the perspective of other newspapers, no matter whether the news is correct or not, anyway, there are official newspapers in front of them. Even if the royal family wants to blame, they can't blame them.

This fearless mentality is mainly due to the fact that Miria City has always been in a semi-autonomous state. Although there are gendarmes from the French Empire stationed outside the city, the administrative management of the city and its surrounding counties are all handled by the local council. Therefore, it also made the residents of Miria City less afraid of the French royal family.

The next newspapers were some noon newspapers in Miria City. These newspapers, which were not very important at first, also added the emperor's obituary along with the crowd, and there was a detailed biography of the emperor. At the same time, they also began to speculate on the ownership of the French throne.

The most strange thing is that most of the newspapers have a headline at the end of a battle report, which mentions that the French army, with the troops directly under the Duke of Devin as the core, defeated the English army last night and completely drove them away. After leaving the Bretui area, other areas under the control of the Kingdom of England will be completely liberated in the near future.

There is nothing wrong with this battle report itself, but in front of this battle report is the discussion of the position of the emperor, which gives anyone who reads this kind of newspaper a strong feeling that the Duke of Devon is the most suitable heir to the emperor.

If there hadn't been an evening paper, Leo would have thought that Duke Dewen's people had secretly acted to create public opinion in advance, improve their prestige, and not give the other two heirs to the throne any chance to compete for the throne.

However, not long ago, the front page headlines published in all the evening papers in Miria City, including the official newspapers such as the Voice of Faran Glory, let Leo see that the three newspapers in different periods today are definitely the work of the same force , and three names appeared in his mind more clearly, Baron de Maupassant, Kingdom of England and the old man of the villa.

The news jointly reported by the city's evening news is that the Kingdom of England and the Velen Medical Association have respectively submitted to the Continental Parliament a letter of indictment against the Duke of Dewin's use of imine gas in the war in the Bretui region.

Moreover, after holding a meeting for less than half an hour, the Continental Congress passed two indictments and sent a letter to Winterrin City, asking Duke Devin to come to Miria City for trial.