The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Where are you going?" Sylvia asked after looking at the situation in front of her.

"Let me go over there!" Leo said, pointing to the crowd gathered in a small garden in a corner.

"Alright!" Sylvia nodded, casually took a glass of cheap-looking wine from the passing waiter, and walked towards the low-level people in the inner city of Lanxi.

Sylvia has been working as a secret agent for many years, and she knows how to behave when facing someone. Although her clothes are obviously different from those of the lower class, when she walked into the crowd with the glass of cheap wine, She easily blended in among those people and started talking very easily.

At this time, Leo also walked towards the small garden where the bachelors gathered.

Leo's arrival didn't cause any big reaction in the crowd. Only a few people paid attention to him, but they didn't plan to talk to him.

The people in this small garden are very cautious towards other people, each occupying a position, and people who are not particularly familiar will not talk to each other, and a face like Leo is untouched, and everyone They all kept a distance from him.

In this regard, Leo did not show any impatience, and looked very calm. While drinking the wine in his glass, he walked to a statue of a victim in the middle of the small garden, carefully studying every detail of the statue .

This stone statue, which is very ordinary in the eyes of others, is not ordinary at all in Leo's eyes. The moment he came here, he immediately felt the energy fluctuations emanating from the statue, and he was able to clearly Feel the breath of life emanating from the statue.

The breath of life emanating from a stone statue reminded Leo of the legend about gargoyles in the world of Velen.

In those legends, without exception, there is a certain magical race. This race is a special intelligent life. This intelligent life will turn into a stone statue during the day, and it will turn into a normal human form to hunt at night. Humanity.

However, in the eyes of those who know all kinds of mysterious things in the underground world, the so-called gargoyles do not exist at all. The closest thing to a gargoyle is some stone puppets left by the tower wizard around the world, and these stone puppets disappeared after the tower wizard disappeared. It has long been damaged without routine maintenance, so some people speculate that the so-called gargoyles may be stone golems that were triggered inadvertently.

But now, Leo could feel that the statue of the victim in front of him was a living creature, not a stone puppet or some other extraordinary thing.

Leo thought about it for a while, tried to use the spirit net, and checked the situation inside the statue. His movements were very careful, controlling the extension of the spirit net little by little, sensing the surrounding reactions, and if there was something wrong, he would immediately remove the statue. its dispelled.

When he entered Lanxi City, Leo had never used the Spirit Net again, because he could feel that if he used the Spirit Net, it would inevitably cause some bad things, so he never used the Spirit Net.

But after coming here, he felt that the feeling of surveillance disappeared, and he could feel that there are a large number of extraordinary items emitting various energy fluctuations and people who have mastered extraordinary power. Given some kind of privilege, Lanxi City let go of the monitoring of the extraordinary power here.

As he guessed, when using the spirit net, the sense of crisis did not appear, which also made him feel relieved, and began to infiltrate the spirit net into the statue.

"A very thought-provoking statue, isn't it?" However, just as the spirit net was about to touch the statue, a somewhat hoarse but magnetic female voice sounded beside him.

Hearing this voice, Leo frowned. He found that he didn't feel anyone approaching before the voice appeared. So he withdrew his spirit net and looked at the person next to him.

When he saw this woman, Leo couldn't help being stunned, because he saw a completely different Sylvia.

Although the face of this woman and Sylvia are almost identical, the overall temperament is completely different. Sylvia looks more beautiful, while the woman in front of her looks cooler. If I want to describe it more specifically, then Sylvia is like a witch, but the woman in front of her is more like a saint.

"We know each other?" The woman asked immediately when she saw Leo's surprised expression.

"I don't know." Leo shook his head, his eyes passed by the woman, and fell on Sylvia who was talking to some low-level people who were attending the banquet not far away. Sylvia's existence, otherwise he wouldn't be so calm.

"Sylvigne Belmont, Bishop of the Conclave Gospel of the Church of the Sufferers." The woman politely and simply introduced herself.

"Leo Dodd, Bachelor of Occult Science." Leo also responded, and then mumbled the other party's name thoughtfully, and said, "Sylvigne?"

In the accent of the Porto area of ​​France, Sylvia’s abbreviation is Sylvia, and although Belmont Manor is not in the Porto area, according to Sylvia’s description, his family’s living habits and daily expressions are similar to those in the Porto area. From this point of view, the other party's name is the same as Sylvia's.

The same appearance, the same name, and the same surname, no matter how you look at it, the woman in front of him has an extraordinary relationship with Sylvia, which made Leo couldn't help but look at Sylvia again.

Sylvigne Belmont was also keenly aware of the movement of Leo's gaze, but she didn't look back, because she knew that Leo had a companion with him, and in fact, she sent the two invitations Yes, she also invited Leo, but her original intention was to invite Leo alone, and Sylvia was incidental, and even Sylvia's invitation letter was written by someone else, otherwise she would definitely Spotted the problem with Sylvia's name.

The bishop of the Conclave Evangelist of the Church of the Sufferers has a very high status in the Church of the Sufferers, but there are not many people who know and know her. It is not very clear who is in charge, which also makes her appear at the banquet held by the Church of the Victims without attracting anyone's attention.

Like Sylvigne Belmont, who has a certain status in both the Church of the Victims and the upper echelons of Lanxi's inner city, she would be interested in a strange occultist like Leo, and even sent an invitation letter in person , invited the other party to the banquet, mainly because Leo's previous performance in the comprehensive library aroused her curiosity and interest.

When Leo recorded the genealogy of those ancient bloodlines in the library, he analyzed the language used in those genealogy and the local language of Lanxi for comparison, etc. During the analysis process, he also left a lot of analysis drafts, and then he came to When he opened the library, he didn't destroy those drafts, nor did he take them away. In his eyes, those drafts had no value.

However, in the eyes of others, the value of these drafts is extraordinary. The library attendant in charge of that area discovered the drafts at the time, confirmed the value of the drafts, and immediately handed over the drafts to Xi Wei, who was also in the general library at the time. Ni Belmont.

Sylvigne Belmont happened to have a difficult matter at hand and was stuck in a bottleneck state. She needed a very good advanced bachelor of linguistics and mysticism, and she herself didn't want to ask the Bachelor for help. Leo's appearance just met her needs. Judging from the analysis draft left by Leo, Leo's linguistics and mysticism have not low attainments, and he is fully qualified for this task.

What Sylvanie Belmont has to do now is to see if the opponent's level is really as good as those analysis drafts, or those drafts are just his flash in the pan.

Seeing Leo chanting her name, Sylvanie Belmont couldn't help but frowned. Obviously this behavior made her a little disgusted, but she still calmed herself and said: "Mr. Leo seems to know me, But I have no impression of you, Mr. Leo."

"What's the matter with you? Ms. Bishop." Leo didn't answer the other party's words, but asked directly.

Sylvanie Belmont didn't like Leo's tone very much, but she didn't say anything, and also replied directly: "I know Mr. Leo, you have very strong language analysis skills, and you can analyze and decipher dozens of words in a short period of time. language, so I hope that Mr. Leo can join my team and help us solve some problems. Of course, Mr. Leo, your commission will definitely satisfy you."

"Can you tell me what the problem is?" Leo did not immediately agree, but asked tentatively.

"It's a book, a very special book." Sylvigne Belmont didn't elaborate, but simply responded.

At this time, two books instantly appeared in Leo's mind. One was the knowledge of the thirteen ancient gods that Alice Belmont had read before he disappeared. The book written by the Qur'an mentioned by the Maester.

Just when Leo was about to say something, Sylvia, who noticed the situation here, didn't know whether it was what she wanted to know from the people at the bottom, or to Sylvia who was talking to Leo. Belmonte became interested, and she apologized to the people around her, then changed a glass of wine, walked over, and asked Leo, "Leo, is this a missionary from the Church of the Sufferers?"

As she spoke, she looked at the woman beside her who was about the same height and figure as her. Xiweini was also attracted by Sylvia's voice at this time, and turned her head to look beside her. At this moment, their eyes fell on each other's body, and the two of them showed shocked expressions at the same time.

Seeing the interesting situation in front of him like looking in a mirror, Leo didn't bother, but stood aside with a smile, like a bystander, waiting for the two women in front of him to react by themselves.

The two women are not ordinary women, they quickly recovered from each other's shock, and then asked in unison: "Who are you?"

This scene made Leo on the side couldn't help laughing, and the two women glared angrily at Leo almost at the same time, both blaming Leo for his inappropriate smile.

Faced with this situation, Leo could only shrug his shoulders, take a few steps back, and leave the matter to the two women to solve by themselves.

"Sylvia Belmont."

"Sylvigne Belmont."

When the two women looked at each other again, they said their names almost at the same time.

The overlapping reaction again made the two women feel a little weird. They frowned and motioned for the other to speak first.

Under Sylvia's strong hint, Sylvia Belmont was no longer polite, and said bluntly: "I have never seen you in the family, nor have I heard the name Sylvia, who are you? Belmont of the veins?"

"I don't belong to any branch of Belmont in this city." Sylvia replied vaguely.

Faced with this answer, Sylvigne Belmont seemed to have some misunderstanding, and she showed a look of surprise, and said, "Oh! So you are a descendant of the exile."

These words gave both Sylvia and Leo the message that the Belmont family here experienced a split, and the losers of that split were exiled.

Facing the other party's clever guess, Sylvia didn't answer anything, just looked at the other party with a smile.

Sylvie Belmont was able to become a high-ranking member of the Church of the Sufferers, so it can be seen that her intelligence should be very extraordinary, but what a pity she faced Sylvia, a master of disguise and secret agent, she didn't need too many words, just A slight change in expression is enough to make the other party think about it.

Sylvia Belmont looked at the expression on Sylvia's face, made a guess, and said in a deep voice: "You exiles don't seem to give up, and you still put your hope on that thing."

"My current status is only a bachelor of the Bachelor's Society." Sylvia said to herself as if she didn't hear what the other party said.

"Bachelor? It seems that you want to get in touch with that thing by becoming a senior bachelor." Sylvigne Belmont once again took it for granted, then shifted her gaze to Leo, and looked at Leo very formally. Said: "Is he the pawn you pushed out? Although I don't think you will succeed, you at least know how to use your brains, instead of just being reckless like before." As she spoke, she seemed to think of something, and said: " Why don't we make a deal!"

"What deal?" Sylvia asked.

Sylvanie Belmont smiled and said, "Let him join a book compilation work in our church. As long as he can complete the compilation, then I can try to get you in touch with that thing."

"Hmph!" Sylvia raised her eyebrows and said in a deep voice, "Do you think this deal is fair?"