The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Peter, you seem a little nervous." Through the auxiliary brain system, Leo easily judged the other party's current state of mind and thoughts from Peter Alcott's subtle behavior and the movements of others around him, so he smiled. With a hint of provocation, he said, "Drink some water! This will make you feel better."

Peter Alcott did not show embarrassment after being seen through. Instead, he smiled and explained naturally: "I just think that sometimes it is not a bad thing to listen to other people's good suggestions, such as being safe for yourself. Prevent."

Afterwards, he immediately returned to the original topic and said, "Since you do not want to disclose information about the waste capital, then let's talk about another cooperation! I hope that when you enter the waste capital, you can help me Bring it in. As for whether Maria will be in danger after entering, you don’t have to worry about it. You can do your own things, she will take care of herself."

Leo has no doubt about Maria's ability as a psionic puppet. Without using any psionic skills, he is not sure of defeating this psionic puppet with cold weapons.

Although it is inferred according to common sense, Peter Alcott let Leo bring Maria to the so-called waste capital. It should be that he does not trust the masters behind the traders. He wants to rely on his own strength to find the dream stone he wants. But because of his identity, he could not send anyone into the waste capital, so he could only cooperate with Leo, a lone traveler.

It's just that Leo felt that Peter Alcott sent the psionic puppet into the waste capital, not just for dreaming about the stone, there must be other reasons.

"What can I get?" Leo knew very well that he couldn't ask Peter Alcott his real plan, so he didn't say anything, just asked the cooperation conditions according to common sense.

"Isn't there some people in your wizarding association? Have you been searching for the lost knowledge of ancient wizards in recent years and trying to regain the glory of ancient wizards?" Peter Alcott believes that his conditions can not be refused. Said confidently: "Since you claim to be a knowledge seeker, you want to be one of them. The exact location of an ancient wizard shaman tower, I think you should not refuse this condition."

"Is there still a complete ancient sorcerer and sorcerer tower?" After analyzing and deducing the reaction of a dream world sorcerer through the secondary brain system, Leo immediately followed the prompts of the secondary brain system and made a surprised expression, said in a deep voice.

Leo's expression, as expected by Peter Alcott, smiled and explained: "Non-fog area, of course not, but what about the fog area?"

Leo's face was suspicious, and he didn't speak.

If Leo did not show any doubt at all, and if he believed the words completely, Peter Alcott would have doubts, and now Leo’s look just fits the judgment in his mind, so he has prepared an explanation. Dao: "Although the fog area guard castle led by your wizard association has been defending at the border of the fog area all year round, when it comes to understanding the fog area, your wizard association is much worse than the night watch organization."

Leo asked: "You have a good relationship with the watchman organization?"

"Just help them a few things." Although Peter Alcott said lightly, the confident look on his face showed that their relationship might not be simple.

Leo didn't continue to ask questions, but looked down at Peter Alcott's cooperation proposal, bowing his head in contemplation, and Peter Alcott did not disturb, picked up the glass, and sipped the drink inside.

It didn’t take long for Leo to think clearly, looked up at Peter Alcott, and said, "I can agree to this matter, but only if it does not affect me, so in the end Before the maid is sent to the abandoned capital, I will suspend this cooperation transaction at any time. As for the news of the wizard tower, when I have completed the cooperation conditions and you come back to find you, you will tell me."

"We are happy to cooperate." Peter Alcott did not object and reached out to Leo.

"Happy cooperation." Leo shook Peter Alcott's hand and then stood up to leave.

Peter Alcott suddenly took out a key and a card from his pocket, put it on the table, and said, "I have a house in the twenty-third area, and I rarely live there. , You can live there during this time, there are some gadgets I made you can also use, and you can also read books. This special pass card has ten days of validity, you are in these ten days With this card, you can freely enter and exit the noble area. If it is a general trouble, you can also use this card to find the city guard to work."

"Thank you!" Leo was also not hypocritical, picked up the key and the card, thanked him, and went outside.

When Leo came to the door and was about to leave, Peter Alcott suddenly asked, "Is that painting good?"

Leo stopped, turned his head, and asked calmly, "Which one?"

"That family portrait." Peter Alcott stood up with the help of the maid, staring at Leo, and said in a deep voice.

However, Leo didn't give any answer, just smiled, turned around and left, leaving Peter Alcott frowning in the room, looking suspicious.

After a long time, Peter Alcott suddenly asked the maid beside him: "Maria, do you think he saw the painting?"

"I don't know." Maria replied mechanically, and then there was a hint of human thought suddenly on the expressionless face, and then he said quietly: "I will get him back, you ask him."

"No need." Peter Alcott sees Maria's answer, and is able to make some intelligent biological judgments and thoughts. He can't help but show a satisfied smile. Then he walked to the door and saw Leo's figure. He disappeared at the corner of the building in the distance and muttered to himself: "I'm sure this Leo Dodd saw the painting, but what he experienced after seeing the painting was a problem. He The origin of is so mysterious. Before we can figure out his origin, we can only explore his secrets by other methods."

With that said, he turned to look at Maria again, and said: "And the most important thing we have now is not the secrets of the knowledge seekers of this wizarding association, but the ruined capital. This is an opportunity for you and me, so these Heaven must be fully prepared to be foolproof."

Maria did not give him any response, just stood quietly beside him, like a guardian god.

On the other side, Leo left the little house, put on the special glasses he bought a few days ago, and looked at the address card hanging behind the key, and he saw that there was 11 Baiwu Street written on it.

Although Leo was here for the first time in this twenty-three district, he was very familiar with the terrain and streets here, not to mention that Baiwu Street’s reputation in the town of Seventh Lake was so loud that it was difficult for him to know.

The reason why Baiwu Street has such a loud reputation is not because it is the gathering place of the Golden Lake in the seventh lake town, nor because of the maze-like architectural form here, but because of a series of murders that have occurred here recently.

In just one month, three people died in the alleys of Baiwu Street, and four others were mysteriously missing. Even the corpse could not be found. The people of Baiwu Street were panic-stricken and even spread. Other urban areas.

It's just that the guards in the town of Seventh Lake Shang Town don't seem to pay much attention to this matter, because both the three dead or the four missing are all professional prostitutes who sell gold nests on Baiwu Street. Poor people from the bottom of other lake towns in Shizhen.

These women are almost because the family owes a lot of money to some people, and they are sold here to pay their debts. Their status here is not as good as that of slaves, and they are not qualified to enter the house because they are not good enough. Can only stand on the street to pick up guests. Usually the reception is the bottom of the town, but they can not afford too much money. Generally speaking, the price is negotiated, the skirt is opened directly, and the transaction is completed in the alley.

Identifying the reasons for the murder of these women was not considered by the guards of the city. For them, it was more important for them to find a pet that was inadvertently lost in the city than to investigate the cases of these women.

Until this incident became too loud, various rumors spread, and the people who were killed in many rumors changed from the first prostitutes to rich people and nobles. For safety, the 23rd district sold gold nests. Major customers have gone to other safe playgrounds, which has seriously affected the business of these golden nests.

To this end, the controllers behind these golden nests used various methods to put pressure on the city guards, forcing the city guards to have to send more people to patrol the streets, thereby increasing the sense of security of people traveling to and from this place. It was just the investigation of the murder case that they were still kept in the cabinet and they did not want to ignore it, so the aftermath of the murder case has not yet disappeared.

"Why on earth did he give me this key?" Leo looked at the key in his hand and said suspiciously.

If someone else arranged such a place for him, he might only think it was a coincidence, but the person who provided the temporary residence to Leo was someone like Peter Alcott, which made him not only think about it Is there any other deep meaning. What's more, the location of the residence happened to be on Baiwu Street where the murders broke out. In addition, he also included a card that could help him solve the difficulty of guarding the city, which made him have to generate some associations and guesses.

"Do you want me to help solve the case?" Leo questioned, but shook his head again, saying: "Impossible, how can he care about some prostitutes who have nothing to do with him, he is probably for Other purposes."

Although Leo couldn’t guess Peter Alcott’s idea for the time being, he didn’t mind going on this trip, not for this murder, but for the objects in the house in Peter Alcott’s mouth. And books. He may be able to discover some secrets of Peter Alcott from those objects and books.

The naming of the seventh Hushang Town’s urban area is not the regular division of ten urban areas. The aristocratic area is better. There are only ten urban areas. Even if the division is no matter how chaotic, its own rank order can still play a role. The urban area looks very regular. But the outer suburbs are different. The numbers and locations of the other suburbs are completely chaotic except for the ten guard districts on the edge.

Just like now, the 11th district where Leo is located, if it is in accordance with the principle, it should be the 12th district and the 21st district, but in fact, the 11th district is next to the 27th district and the 2nd district. Thirteen districts.

These two urban districts are entertainment districts in the seventh lake town, the twenty-seven districts mainly provide services for nobles, and the twenty-third district faces civilians. It's just that although the golden nests in the 27th district are upscale and gorgeous, they have long been bored by those nobles and wealthy people. Instead, they are more interested in the bottom-level play in the 23rd district. The source of young guests was taken away by the 23rd district.

This murder in the 23rd district was suspected that the rumors about the existence of nobles among the victims were perpetrated by people in the 27th district, but because there was no evidence, this accusation came to the end. It's gone.

The twenty-three districts at this time should have been very lively. A large number of people who came here to have fun filled up alleys, but now we can only see some strange urban guards patrolling in the alleys, UU Reading books www.uukanshu.com Some bold prostitutes stood in conspicuous places in the alley waiting for guests to come to the door.

When Leo came down from the suspension bridge, seven or eight women immediately came around and seemed to regard Leo as a guest who came here to find pleasure, but when they saw Leo's skin color, they all couldn't help but stand still. Seven of them quickly retreated. There was only one woman in ragged clothes and her hair cut in a mess. She gritted her teeth and walked up, asking Leo: "Sir, do you need..."

"Why didn't you retreat?" Leo asked directly without waiting for the other to finish.

"Ah?" The woman was stunned, not knowing why Leo would ask this question, but she immediately replied: "I have nothing in my body. If I don't do anything, I will starve to death. I don't want to die."

Leo heard the words and looked at the woman up and down. Although the woman was very shabby and worn, she was very clean. She should be cleaned frequently, and from the behavior she just looked at, she should be an educated person, and It's not that kind of vulgar bottom poor.

The woman as a whole is very thin, but this thinness is not the sequelae of over-indulgence, but the kind of malnutrition and thinness. Her face was also too thin, completely ruining her original good looks, but her hair was not cut by herself, but was forcibly cut.

Leo remembers a book that records the customs of the dream world, mentioning that when a woman was kicked out of her husband’s house, the husband’s house would cut the woman’s hair to show that the relationship was broken, and this woman should obviously be the kind of being driven. Woman going out of the house.

"I need someone to take me to No.11 Baiwu Street." Leo took a lake coin from his pocket and handed it to the woman, and then commanded: "Leave the way!"