The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Kabu City is located in the north-central part of the Porto region, close to the Black Forest. There are no special products worth mentioning here, and it is not suitable for growing wine crops such as grapes.

It's just that the trees here grow much taller than other places because of the proximity to the Black Forest. However, there are many towns like this in the Bodo area, and even around the entire Black Forest, which are not valuable things.

The reason why Kabou City was later listed as a city development list by the United Kingdom of France, and it was set up as an important station of the domestic railway network, is mainly because it is close to the front line, and after coming out of the valley where Kabou City is located, there is a road The flat mountain road that is very suitable for railway construction meanders through the Rossrow Mountains in the north-central and northeast of Porto. It is much easier to build a railway to the front line here than in other places, and it consumes much less manpower and material resources.

Also because of this railway, Kab City developed from a very ordinary small town in the mountains to a medium-sized city in the few years after the establishment of the United Kingdom of France. Nearly 40% of the United Kingdom The above-mentioned war materials will be concentrated here, and then sent to various places on the front line.

However, although Kabu City has achieved extraordinary rapid development because of this war railway, it also lost its former peace because of this railway.

The development of emerging cities is naturally inseparable from all kinds of businessmen and some underworld forces who follow the merchants. In order to expand their territory and interests, these underworld forces naturally inevitably fight and fight. A headache for managers.

However, this is not the biggest headache for the city managers. The spies from the empire are the main reason for their panic.

As an important transfer point for the military supplies of the United Kingdom of France, this is also the focus of the spies and agents of both the empire and the kingdom. Since the management of Kabu City was directly administered by the Kingdom and officials were appointed by the parliament, there has been no official in Kabu City Those who can complete their term in peace and stability will all be bought by the spies of the empire for various unknown reasons and become traitors.

Therefore, there is a rumor similar to a joke in the United Kingdom of France, that is, no matter who or what position they are in, as long as they can serve a full term in Kab City and be transferred safely, then this person is definitely the most loyal kingdom in the world people.

It was precisely because of the large number of spies sent by the empire that the intelligence department led by Sylvia also sent corresponding spies, and launched a series of open and secret battles with the imperial spies hidden here.

When Leo and Sylvia came to Kabu City, she did not go directly to the secret office where her department was located, but disguised as a couple of ordinary travelers with Leo and entered the most luxurious office in the city. After that, he freshened up and changed into the latest fashion clothes in the United Kingdom, and asked the hotel to find the nearest newspaper and read it.

"The armistice agreement has already been signed? So soon?" Picking up the top of the newspaper delivered by the hotel, Sylvia was attracted by the headline on the front page of the newspaper before she had time to read it carefully.

"Did you know in advance that the United Kingdom intends to sign an armistice agreement with the Empire?" Leo asked while teasing the child in his arms.

"Of course I know. It's not a secret among the top leaders of the United Kingdom." Sylvia nodded and said, "The businessmen hope that the situation will stabilize and make money, and they don't want to continue fighting. They have found many lobbyists. Burt and the king also felt that continuing the fight would be meaningless waste, so they always hoped to negotiate peace with the empire, but the empire never let go, and had no intention of making peace. I didn't expect the terms of the peace talks to be reached so soon , signed an armistice agreement."

Leo picked up a newspaper from a different newspaper, looked at it, and said, "It's really fast enough. It's less than a month since we entered the Black Forest."

"What? One month?" Sylvia was stunned for a while, and under Leo's gesture, she looked at the time in the newspaper, only then did she realize that the time in the newspaper was different from what she thought.

According to the time in the newspaper, only twenty-three days have passed since they entered the Black Forest, and it has been at least eleven months since she and Leo entered the Black Forest.

It's just that the unequal time didn't surprise Sylvia for too long, because she had experience in the world of the witcher, she was familiar with things like different worlds and different time flow rates, and now she felt that What surprised her was the short time it took to sign the armistice agreement, which surprised her a little.

According to her experience, even if the empire is considering a truce with the United Kingdom, it should still be in the negotiation and trial stage. It will take at least half a year before the truce agreement is fully signed. Another country vowed not to give up until it was destroyed, but an armistice agreement was signed after more than 20 days. This has never happened in the past wars in the world of Velen. No matter how you look at it, it makes people feel extremely abnormal.

"It should be related to the loss of the contract ring, the great mutation in the Northland and other things." Leo quickly glanced at the newspaper in his hand, and simply deduced.

"Does the contract ring have that much influence on them?" Sylvia frowned.

Leo thought about it for a while, and said: "It should have a big impact. Most of the experiments we saw in the Seventh Research Institute should use some special products of the Black Forest. Now that the contract ring is lost, the imperial officials cannot No matter how safe they are to get those special products from the Black Forest, this will obviously stop all the experiments they are doing, or even abolish them. The industry of the French Empire is far from comparable to that of the United Kingdom, and they should have no chance of winning. They gambled on the experiments that allow ordinary people to have extraordinary power. Now that the raw materials needed for those experiments have gone wrong, they have already begun to lose the wind in this war. After reaching an armistice agreement with the United Kingdom, if it is delayed for a while, it is not a question of whether they want an armistice, but whether the United Kingdom wants an armistice."

After listening to Leo's analysis, Sylvia also nodded, but she didn't think that Leo's analysis was completely correct. The empire's thinking might be the same as Leo's analysis, but the United Kingdom's thinking was wrong. Yes, but this kind of mistake was mainly because Leo did not have detailed information, so he made a wrong judgment.

In Sylvia's view, the Empire is indeed eager to sign an armistice agreement with the United Kingdom, so as not to lose enough bargaining chips when it falls into a disadvantage, but the United Kingdom also hopes to end the war as soon as possible, so it has been trying to negotiate with the Empire. Negotiations, mainly because the United Kingdom is already deeply in debt from this French civil war.

The reason why the United Kingdom has not yet declared the government bankrupt is mainly because Rupert Fitz's personal charm supports the fragile finances of the entire United Kingdom. The merchants in the kingdom are immersed in the dream of a merchant kingdom created by him, and they are willing to Lend money to the kingdom to support the kingdom's huge military expenditure.

If there hadn't been such a thing as the world mutation and the gray fog sealing the sea, the United Kingdom might still be able to rely on ocean trade with other countries to barely maintain the expenditure of the United Kingdom. Now because of the gray fog sealing the sea, the ocean trade is cut off, and not only With the Royal Government, even those merchants who rely on ocean foreign trade have been affected, and these merchants are the biggest supporters and creditors of the United Kingdom.

If this war continues, it is still unknown whether the United Kingdom will be the winner in the end, so the armistice agreement in the newspaper is also very important to the United Kingdom.

Now that the armistice agreement has been signed, Sylvia has no way to continue to exert influence and seek profit from the armistice agreement. She quickly put the armistice agreement aside and began to read other contents of the newspaper. Find something that interests her.

"What are your plans?" Leo lost interest in these things after only flipping through a few newspapers, and asked while teasing little Tolan.

Sylvia hesitated for a moment and said, "You don't want me to go to the Kingdom of England with you, do you?"

"Of course not," Leo shook his head and said, "The gray fog on the sea is so thick now, whether I can pass through is still unknown, and even if I go back to the Kingdom of England, I won't stay long to clean up the industries there. After a while, I will go to the Mosang Continent, I want to ask you..."

"Forget it! I won't go to Mosang Continent." Before Leo could finish speaking, Sylvia shook her head and said, "If Tolan hadn't been born, I'd like to go to Mosang Continent with you. Take a walk in the wasteland, but now that Tolan is born, we can't throw Tolan here and let someone else raise him! My own child is better raised by myself."

After Leo heard this, he didn't say anything, and swallowed what he wanted to say later. In fact, his original intention was to bring Toland to the Kingdom of England. Now Sylvia's attitude is obviously that he wants to Let Tolan grow up in Faran, and with Sylvia's character, he will not change his mind on this matter, so he didn't say any more unnecessary words to affect the relationship between the two.

After a while, little Tolan might be tired from playing, and fell asleep in Leo's arms. Leo put him in the cradle he bought from the hotel, and then he closed his eyes and built a training simulation field in his mind. During the psychic training, he scanned the hotel through the spirit net, and tried some of his newly learned skills in using the spirit net.

Before that, Leo only used the spiritual net as a remote sensing detection tool, but he discovered from the psychic inheritance he obtained that the spiritual net can be used far more than he expected, and the role of the spiritual net It is also bigger in the entire psionic system, and it is not unreasonable that the spirit net skill will become the concentrated basic skill that psionic users must learn.

The spirit net skill that Leo is practicing now is called domain control. The function of this technique is to use the psionic waves of the spirit net to create a psyker domain. This psyker domain is like the god domain of the Black Forest. The creator Will become the absolute master of this field, as described in the inheritance he obtained.

At this moment, Leo's spiritual network naturally cannot form such a domain, he can only create a pseudo-domain, and use some techniques to control some things in the pseudo-domain, for example, he wants to open all the rooms in the spiritual network domain. To open the door, you only need to move a thought, and now his ability can only do this.

However, Leo believes that with the improvement of his psychic level and the mastery of the spirit net use skills, he will be able to achieve the final effect that the spirit net should be able to achieve in the data.

While Leo was training the ability to use the spirit net, he also discovered some interesting things through the spirit net, and asked Sylvia, who had read most of the newspapers, "You should choose to stay in this hotel not only Just because this hotel is the most luxurious hotel in the city?"

"Why do you ask that?" Sylvia asked puzzled.

"Because I found out that this hotel seems to be the spy headquarters of the French Empire." Leo told Sylvia his discovery.

"Did you find out?" Sylvia immediately put down the newspaper in her hand, came to Leo's side, and said, "I have always suspected that this is the spy headquarters of the French Empire in Kabu City, but this The owner of the hotel has a very good relationship with the upper echelons of the United Kingdom, but my people couldn’t find any evidence, so I only had suspicions about this place, and now it seems that my suspicions are indeed correct.”

"No, you made a mistake!" Leo interrupted Sylvia, and when the other party showed a puzzled look, he emphasized: "I'm not talking about the spy headquarters in Kabu City, but the entire The spy headquarters of the United Kingdom."

Sylvia didn't understand the difference between the two at first, but she soon realized what Leo meant, with ecstasy on her face, and said: "It's from the whole country, it's from the whole country, it seems that I caught it this time." It's time for the big fish!"

Sylvia walked back and forth in the room a few times excitedly, her face became more and more calm, and soon stopped, with a pensive look on her face.

It is very important for Sylvia to confirm that this hotel is the spy headquarters of the French Empire in the United Kingdom. Over the years, Sylvia’s main opponents have been the spies of the French Empire. Now they have found the spies of the Empire. Headquarters, and she used the disguise of the Faceless to stay here secretly without attracting the hotel's attention.

In this way, she is completely in the dark, and she has enough advantages to deal with this opponent, and the only thing she needs to consider now is to make a fuss about this matter.

Now that the empire and the kingdom have signed an armistice agreement, if she makes a big fuss about the imperial spies, it may affect the armistice agreement, and there are several powerful people in the kingdom government under the umbrella of this hotel Big people, if there is a big trouble, these big people will definitely be dragged into the water. She doesn't think that those big people will collude with spies and betray the kingdom, but if they don't guarantee that other people will think so. In that case, it will also affect the stability of the United Kingdom. will cause adverse effects.