The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

In Miria City, the civilian area is just a conceptual term, and there is no special urban area for low-income and low-status civilians to live in.

Most of the civilian areas are a part of the residential area designated by each different urban area for low-income civilians working in their own urban area, so there is no civilian area in Miria City, but the civilian area is spread all over the entire Miria City. Even the administrative district has a part of the living area dedicated to all kinds of cleaners.

The people living in the civilian area are not necessarily poor. Some freemen who own certain industries will also be arranged to live here. Just like all countries in Velen Continent, the discrimination of freemen still exists in this city. .

It's just that the discrimination against freedmen in some other cities has been enacted into a series of laws and regulations, and the discrimination against freedmen here is slightly better. There is neither any decree that is harmful to the free people, nor is there any mandatory restriction on the freedom of the free people. There are only some hidden discriminations, such as slightly worse working conditions and slightly heavier taxes. There will never be some City areas can't be entered and things like that.

It is precisely because of all kinds of unfair treatment that freedmen have become very united. Many freedmen from the same ethnic group will try their best to occupy houses in an entire block, and then turn the entire block into a freedman block, so that Freedmen receive the same treatment as ordinary citizens in this neighborhood.

The place Leo is going to now is a freeman block, and it is the largest freeman block in Miria.

Torch Street is located on the edge of the embassy district of the United States and Canada. At first, William, a freeman businessman, bought half of the land in this block and used it to build apartment buildings for freemen. Later, freemen from all over the world gathered here, and many Freeman businessmen also spontaneously bought land to build apartment buildings, and gradually formed a large block composed of freeman apartment buildings.

No. 333 is Leo's destination, but the carriage stopped at the northwest entrance of Torch Street, and the driver said that he would not enter this block because he is from Miria City citizen.

Although Leo didn't like this kind of implicit discrimination, he couldn't force people into it, so he got off the car at the intersection and walked to the depths of Torch Street alone.

Just before he took two steps, trouble came, and the cause of the trouble might be the overly formal tuxedo and top hat on his body. After all, a gentleman dressed like this should not appear in a place like Torch Street. It was like yelling, "Come and grab me!" So a group of local punks gathered around him not long after he walked into the block.

Seeing these gangsters gathered around, Leo took off his coat and put his hat aside, then rolled up his sleeves, since he didn't intend to say anything to those gangsters, nor did he intend to make them speak, he rushed out , punched and kicked, the fight ended within a minute, and the rest was just a group of gangsters lying on the ground moaning.

Putting his coat on his arm and picking up his hat, Leo shouted towards an alley not far away: "Don't you think your behavior is childish? Miss Belmont."

As his words fell, Belmont, who had already changed into a leather trench coat, came out of the alley, walked over with a dissatisfied face, and said to the group of gangsters on the ground: "I told you guys a long time ago. Learn more, or else..."

"Otherwise, they are all dead." Leo looked at Sylvia indifferently, and said, "As long as I felt a little threat just now, I would kill them, and I will definitely not let them survive, you You should be thankful that they are not capable enough." Then he frowned and said, "I'm curious, how did I make you think that these bastards alone can teach me a lesson?"

"Huh! Come with me." Sylvia didn't give Leo an answer, but just snorted coldly, then turned around and led the way, walked into the alley she walked out of before, entered the backyard of an apartment building, and passed through The door to the basement was opened, walked in, pulled an inconspicuous small rope on the wall, a mechanical sound came out, and then saw a wall opened like a door, revealing a very spacious and clean room. sewer.

Seeing this scene, Leo asked, "Isn't your hiding place No. 333?"

Sylvia gave Leo a white look, and asked back, "Will you give the address of your hiding place to someone you only met once when you were hunted down?"

Leo froze for a moment, then quickly figured it out and said, "You are using me as bait."

Sylvia didn't deny it, she led the way with an oil lamp, and at the same time said with regret: "It's a pity that those guys didn't show up."

Leo said indifferently: "It is indeed impossible to appear, those people you are waiting for are all buried underground now."

"What did you do?" Sylvia stopped, turned her head in surprise, and asked.

"No, Ms. Anne did it." Leo deliberately mentioned Anne, and watched Sylvia's expression.

Sure enough, after hearing Anne's name, the expression on Sylvia's face became extremely ugly, as if she had eaten a fly, and she didn't want to say anything more.

Leo can be sure that Sylvia has suffered from Anne, and still suffered a lot, but what makes him puzzled is that Annie also seems to have suffered a loss when mentioning Sylvia.

Soon the two came to a shaft with stairs. Sylvia hung the oil lamp on her waist, grabbed the stairs and climbed up, opened the upper well cover, and signaled that Leo below could come up. After Ou came up, he closed the manhole cover, buckled the lock, and covered a pile of cargo boxes on it.

"Isn't this Torch Street?" Leo looked at the surrounding marble walls and said in a deep voice.

"This is the Sky Tower of the Melaka people. I have done a great favor to the Church of the Lord of the Sky before, so they can have a permanent private room in each sanctuary of the Lord of the Sky." Sylvia led Leo Walked out of this cellar, went up a hanging staircase, and came to a huge corridor with a top ten feet high, leading him to the room on the side of the corridor.

After entering the room, Leo felt what luxury is. All kinds of precious animal skins are placed on the ground as carpets, and the surrounding tapestries are also hand-woven, and there are a lot of precious stones inlaid on them. It can sell tens of thousands of gold flanges. In addition, the furniture and utensils in the room are all gold or silver, and all kinds of precious stones are inlaid, which is extremely luxurious.

"These are all yours?" Leo asked.

Sylvia looked proud and said: "Yes, they are all from the Church of the Lord of the Sky. I don't want them, and I can't reject other people's gifts, so I put them all in the Sanctuary of the Lord of the Sky." It’s inside the room.” As he spoke, he pointed to the animal skin carpet on the floor and said, “Sit casually and drink something.”

"No need!" Leo didn't intend to stay here any longer, so he went straight to the point and said, "We will still follow what we said before..."

Before Leo could finish speaking, Sylvia smiled and said, "The ledger is in your hands, and it is a disaster to you, so you want to throw it to me. Right?"

"Yes, this is indeed my idea." Now that he was seen through, Leo did not quibble, nodded and admitted, and said directly: "But you can't deny that the ledger is very important to you, isn't it?"

Seeing that Leo didn't have the expected reaction, Sylvia frowned, but quickly returned to normal and said, "The ledger is very important, but it's not as important as you expected."

"If that's the case, then forget it, as if I didn't say anything." Leo didn't follow the rules at all, ended the conversation very directly, turned around and was about to leave.

"Wait! Why don't you know how to negotiate at all?" Sylvia quickly stopped Leo, and then complained, and she already knew Leo's character, so she didn't follow the nobleman's advice. Instead, he said straightforwardly: "It is impossible for me to give you the old man's information. If you want, you can only ask the old man. Presumably other people should have said this. Although I can't Provide what you want, but I still want the ledger, please set the conditions!"

Leo was silent for a moment, as if he was considering what conditions to offer.

Seeing that Leo hadn't made a decision for a long time, Sylvia couldn't help but said impatiently: "Is it so difficult to make a condition?"

Leo suddenly thought of Silvermoon Castle, the location of the Silvermoon Tower, and the wave of psionic energy. He had a vague feeling that these might be related to No. 9 Golden Oak Street, and maybe this was why the old man wanted him to go to Silvermoon Castle. reason.

So he said: "I want all the information about the Silver Moon Tower in Silver Moon Castle, and the information must include the people in the tower."

Sylvia was slightly taken aback, looked at Leo with a little surprise, and said: "When I first saw you, I felt that you were a little unusual, and I couldn't figure out what was going on. Now I figured it out, so you are also from the dark world, night watchman? People from Ge Kingdom, I guessed right, right?"

Seeing Sylvia making guesses on her own, Leo just listened from the sidelines, neither admitting nor denying. Although it was just a few words, it had provided Leo with a lot of information, that is, he had been able to confirm that Annie and the old man were both members of the Mystery Society.

"No!" Sylvia shook her head suddenly and said, "If you are a member of the Mystery Association, why do you need to ask me for the information of the Silver Moon Tower? The Silver Moon Tower itself was built by members of your Myth Association. There is no issue of belonging among members of the association, but it is also necessary to trade some knowledge..." At this point, she stopped suddenly, looked at Leo with a vigilant look, and said, "Are you trying to trick me?"

"I didn't say anything," Leo looked at Sylvia calmly, and said, "You said everything."

"You..." Sylvia was so blocked that she couldn't speak. She felt that she had encountered a natural enemy and nemesis in front of Leo, and she couldn't take advantage of it at all. After taking a few deep breaths and suppressing the rising anger, she said to Leo with a cold face: "Come here tomorrow afternoon, and I will hand over the compiled materials to you."

"That's fine. I'll bring the account book tomorrow afternoon." Leo nodded, and without staying for another minute, he turned and walked out of the room, walking along this huge corridor towards the outside of the Sky Tower.

Not long after Leo left, a piece of animal skin in Sylvia's room was lifted up, and a secret door was exposed in the area covered by the animal skin, and a maid wearing a sky lord came out from the inside. Blind old woman in burqa.

"Aunt Hannah, is there something wrong with that person?" Sylvia helped the old woman to sit on the animal skin cushion beside her, and then asked.

The old woman said: "No problem, no problem at all, just like normal people."

"Is there no problem?" Sylvia frowned, obviously the answer was different from what she expected, she couldn't help wondering: "Did I feel wrong on the train, the aura on his body didn't come from the evil god ?”

The old woman didn't wait for Sylvia to think wildly, and added: "There is no problem, that is the biggest problem."

"What do you mean by that?" Sylvia asked in a daze.

"Can't you hear that?" The old woman smiled and joked, "Xinie, why did your wisdom drop so much after that young man came? Not only did you say wrong things, but you also heard Can't you come up with such a simple meaning in my words?"

Sylvia was stunned for a moment, carefully recalling what the old woman said, and suddenly said: "You mean that according to your observation with the eyes of the sky, he is also an ordinary person."

"Your wisdom has finally returned." The old woman nodded and joked again.

Sylvia curled her lips, there was nothing she could do about the old woman's wicked taste of teasing herself.

"What should I do?" Sylvia asked in a deep voice.

"Xini, this doesn't look like you." The old woman was also a little surprised by Sylvia's question, and said, "You didn't seem so hesitant in the past. That man seems very special."

When Sylvia heard the old woman's words, the expression on her face gradually became serious. She recalled the only few meetings with Leo in her mind, and realized that there seemed to be a real problem with her mentality. There were some changes, and this silent change made her feel horrified.

"I know what to do." After pondering for a moment, Sylvia became very serious, and said: "I will carefully investigate whether he has anything to do with the evil god. Once the investigation is clear, I will personally solve him."

After hearing Sylvia's decision, the old lady shook her head slightly, obviously dissatisfied with the decision, but she didn't say anything, just being a quiet observer.