The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Count Pipero?" Leo heard this somewhat familiar name, and related information quickly appeared in his mind, and he confirmed with some surprise: "The glorious count of the French Empire?"

Considering the need to infiltrate the territory directly under the royal family of the French Empire and settle a large number of nobles there, Sylvia taught Leo a lot about the French nobles.

Among the French nobles mentioned by Sylvia, she singled out some nobles to focus on, and the hereditary Earl Pipero, known as the glory of Farland, was one of them.

As for why Pipero was called the glory of France, it is no longer possible to test. The only thing we know is that Pipero’s family was already a nobleman of the French royal family during the first dynasty of France. It is said that the escape was also due to the assistance of the Pipero family, and it is precisely because of the extraordinary relationship with the French royal family that the Pipero family and the royal family have been married many times, and they have the blood of the French royal family in their bodies. .

However, in recent generations, the Pipero family has shown signs of decline. Not only has the family's descendants decreased, but even the family's power and industry have failed. The worst failure was the ocean-going fleet invested by the previous generation of Earl Pipero. .

When this fleet was returning to France from Mozambique with a large amount of precious supplies, it encountered a sudden storm. All 24 ships in the entire fleet sank, and nearly one-third of the property of the Pipero family was lost. Second, the Pipero family also had to sell some real estate to make up for the loss. The former Count Pipero couldn't afford it, and died of illness after two years of gasping in bed.

However, after the youngest son of the former Earl Pipero inherited the title of earl, the decline of the Pipero family was barely contained due to the care of the royal family. Members maintain aristocratic decency.

The main reason why the current Count Pipero is not inherited by the eldest son or the second son, but by the youngest son who is not very old, is that the youngest son has royal blood.

The youngest son's mother is the third wife of the former Count Pipero. She is a royal offshoot and has been married twice. One husband died of illness, and the other died of an accident. She inherited the property of the two husbands, which is regarded as One of the wealthiest women in Farland at the time.

At that time, the rumors about this woman and the former Earl Pipero were a popular topic of conversation among the people of France. Almost everyone believed that the death of the woman's first two husbands was caused by the woman in order to legally inherit the huge sum of money from the two men. heritage.

And Earl Pipero was willing to marry the widow who married twice because of the money in the hands of the widow, because the situation of the Pipero family was not good at that time, and after the marriage of the former Pipero family, the Pipero family The situation began to improve a few years later, and even formed the largest private ocean-going fleet at that time.

In addition, after the death of the former Count Pipero, the widow was also assassinated. The assassin has not been found yet, but many people suspect that it was the eldest son of Count Pipero, who controls the financial power of the Pipero family. The woman is the biggest obstacle to his succession to the earl.

However, after the widow's death, the royal family uncharacteristically intervened in Count Pipero's succession dispute on the grounds that the offshoot members of the royal family were killed. Later, they did not know that they had reached an agreement with Count Pipero's eldest son, second son and other people with inheritance rights. What kind of agreement made them voluntarily give up their inheritance rights, and finally the title of Earl Pipero fell on the youngest son who was only less than three years old.

Many people speculated that the reason why the royal family did this was to control the Count Pipero family through the youngest son, and the result was as they thought, the Count Pipero family started with heavier servants, and all of them were replaced by the royal family. The family property is also monitored by the royal family. Although the overall economic situation of the Pipero family is recovering, in fact the Pipero family has almost been annexed by the royal family.

Sylvia will focus on this declining old French nobleman, not because it has become a force in the French royal family, but because of Count Pipero himself.

Just like being married to the royal family, the early Earl Pipero had more than one noble marriage and alliance, and the Belmont family was among them, so if blood relationship is counted in the exam, then Earl Pipero can also be regarded as Sylvia The expression from afar.

It is precisely because of this relationship that among the ancestral books collected by the Belmont family, there is a mention of the Pipero family.

In that book, it is recorded that in addition to the title of glory in the early years of the Pipero family, there is also the title of witness, but I don’t know what it is to witness, and the title of this witness has not changed after several generations of Count Pipero. Some people say that the vast majority of people only know the Earl of Glory, not the Earl of Witness

However, there has never been a public opinion on the origin of the title of the witness, but when Sylvia mentioned Earl Pipero, she guessed that the witness was likely to witness some kind of agreement signed between the King of Knights and the Black Forest. An agreement or a contract, because when the title of witness appeared, it happened to be after the King of Knights reunified Flanders, and the two seemed to be related.

At this moment, Sylvia also had an unbelievable expression on her face. She couldn't figure out why Count Pipero, who was a puppet, became a family member, and why he was hunted down by the secret operations of the Faran Empire.

Leo seemed to have thought of something at this time, and told him that Count Pipero was a member of the True Eye family.

A Lianzhou in Sylvia State frowned, and said in a deep voice: "Do you think that the French royal family implanted the Ability God cells of the Eye of Reality in him?"

"Yes." Leo nodded, and said, "Wake him up and let him regain his sanity, maybe we can get the whereabouts of the body of the Eye of Reality from him."

"I don't think the Eye of Reality is in the hands of the Faran royal family." Sylvia suddenly raised a different opinion, but did not continue, but asked instead: "Is there any way to save him? "

"The injury on his body is easy to solve, and a bottle of healing potion can make him recover soon." Leo looked at the unconscious mutant, thought for a while, and said, "The important thing is that he is affected after mutation." I don't know if he can recover, but I can try."

"How?" Sylvia asked a little puzzled.

Leo talked about the process of using the Eye of Reality mark to trigger the power of the Eye of Reality in Count Pipero's body and weaken the opponent's mutation.

"You can try this method." Sylvia nodded after hearing that, and then said, "However, in order to avoid accidents, it's better to restrain him first."

Just as Sylvia finished speaking, the mutant lying on the ground opened his eyes and said weakly, "I think it would be better not to be restrained."

Seeing the mutant wake up, Sylvia, Leo, and Tessa Moka didn't show any surprises. Obviously, they all found out from the mutant's slight changes that the other party had come out of a coma, and just now The conversation between Sylvia and Leo was also intentionally told to him.

"Long time no see, Sylvia." Earl Pipero seemed to be an old acquaintance with Sylvia, and he didn't show any panic when he saw this traitor who was among the top ten most wanted criminals in the French Empire. , On the contrary, he was very calm and said: "According to this, this is the third time I have seen you standing in front of me as Sylvia. It was Maupassant before."

"Noka, what's going on?" Sylvia didn't call the other party's title, but called the other party's real name, and asked directly: "Although the French royal family has always hoped to annex the Pipero family, But you shouldn’t be so hungry! You actually used the Ability God Cell to turn you into an out-of-control family..."

"You made a mistake! It wasn't the royal family who decided to become a family member, but myself." Earl Pipero interrupted Sylvia's words, and gave an unexpected answer, and then he sat up slowly from the ground, Said, "Could you give me some food? I haven't eaten for days."

"Didn't you eat people?" Tessa Mocha asked suddenly, who had been silent all along.

"Cannibalism?" Count Pipero said with a look of disgust: "It's disgusting! I haven't gone crazy yet, how can I eat people!"

Sylvia brought over some food that Mourning had prepared for them, and some water, and asked, "Haven't you lost your mind even after you mutated into that monster?"

"Of course not. You must know that this thing has cost all my savings for so many years," Count Pipero said as he took the food and water, "Although my mutated appearance seems to be completely out of control, in fact No Io, I didn't hear the murmur of the evil god, my spirit was not affected by the evil god, just like they said, this is the perfect alien god cell." He paused, swallowing the food in his mouth with water Next, he said: "The only flaw is that once it is completely mutated, it will be very difficult to return to human form. If I have no other options, I will not completely mutate. I thought I would spend my life in the form of a monster." , unexpectedly..."

After speaking, he looked at Leo, and didn't save any more words. From the conversation just now, he was already sure that the person who could completely get rid of this mutated monster appearance was Leo.

"Where did you get your alien cells?" Leo asked?

"I don't know." Count Pipero shook his head, and then worried that Leo would not believe what he said, and added: "When I saw that person, it was late at night, and the person suddenly appeared by my bedside out of nowhere Come on, and then tell me that there is something you want to sell to me, and that thing is the Ability God Cell that can give me powerful power"

Sylvia frowned, and said extremely displeased: "A stranger suddenly appeared at your bedside and said he wanted to sell you something, and then you bought it with all the belongings you have secretly accumulated over the years. That thing, and used it without knowing whether it was dangerous or not. Noka, are you thinking we are fools?"

After hearing Sylvia's extremely dissatisfied words, Count Pipero couldn't help but smiled wryly, because now thinking about his behavior at that time, he also felt a little unbelievable.

However, he continued to explain: "Although it sounds absurd, it is the truth. For me at the time, there was no other choice, or I would stay in bed like a cripple and be controlled for decades. , Losing the value of use, becoming the former Earl of Pipero, or taking a desperate gamble, maybe you can get a way to survive. Now it seems that I made the right bet."

"Do you really have no clues at all?" Sylvia didn't believe what he said, and said expressionlessly.

Earl Pipero smiled awkwardly, the nail-sized swellings on his face made him look very hideous, and then he heard him say: "I do have some clues, and I didn't find out who that person is, but I I can’t just tell you this news, you have to let me leave the empire safely before I tell you. I don’t think this should be very difficult for you, right?”

"It's really not difficult, but I don't want to do it. I'm suddenly not interested in your affairs." Sylvia obviously didn't intend to follow the other party's idea, and directly rejected the other party's proposal, and then turned to Leo. Said: "I will trouble you to go again, where you find him, send him back there, and let him return to his original appearance by the way."

"It's really troublesome." Leo was very clear about Sylvia's thoughts, so he cooperated and said, "Just deal with him like this. It just so happens that we need a pass for what we are going to do, so let's treat him like that." A pass is ready."

Sylvia pretended to be contemplative, and was about to nod after thinking for a moment.

"Wait, wait!" Count Pipero quickly stopped Sylvia, and then looked at her and Leo. Although he was sure that Sylvia was interested in the news in his hand, he would not He really made a move on himself, but he didn't dare to bet at all, because if he made a wrong bet, then he would really be finished.

Therefore, he decided to tell his clues. Although this would cause him to lose the most useful curse, at least it would not be life-threatening for the time being. Moreover, based on his understanding of Sylvia's character, he could tell it by himself. After obtaining useful information for him, she will definitely not let herself stay here, and will definitely find a way to send it to the United Kingdom. This is equivalent to accepting her previous suggestion in disguise. Of course, the premise of all this is the information he said The information is useful.

"The person who traded with me accidentally exposed some collars and cuffs when he was trading with me," Pipero calmed down, recalled a little, and said: "The weaving method of the collar and cuffs is very special. There is only one tailor shop in the entire French Empire that uses that ancient weaving technique. I deliberately went to that tailor shop to buy clothes and peeked at their store's ledger. It is recorded in the ledger that in the entire empire for nearly a decade, only A noble family ordered a noble suit using weaving techniques. That noble family is your Belmont family."