The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Although the second urban area was blocked and the whole city was searched, the reason given by the security bureau was that a cultist had sneaked into the second urban area with dangerous objects, so the students and scholars in the urban area did not know whether there were any The scholar was kidnapped in the city.

The students and scholars in the city are not dissatisfied with the actions of the Security Bureau, because they are well aware of the recent actions of the Kingdom of Teresa against the Church of the Son of Mary and some other extremist cultists, and they have also seen the evil happening in the Emerald City from the newspapers. It's a disaster for believers, they don't want to be the protagonists in the newspapers, so when the security bureau searched the whole city, most of them cooperated extremely well.

Only a small number of research laboratories that applied for funding from the school city blocked the security bureau's search on the grounds of design confidentiality, but they did not completely resist the search, only that the city guard of the security bureau needed a permission from the relevant school city management department. Just search the files.

At the same time, Leo and others, who had been confirmed by the Security Bureau as not suspected, came to the apartment arranged for them by the Academy under the leadership of Bol.

Although the vast majority of scholars in the academy are dissatisfied with Leo and Sylvia, the outsiders who have directly become mentors, but they will not make any deductions in the treatment of the two. It can be said that the apartment where the two live in It is the best single-family apartment in the second urban area. It is located near the central garden. There are trees around the apartment to separate them from other scholars' dormitories. When other scholars need to crowd into a dormitory, they can enjoy private Garden treatment.

This type of single-family apartment with a small private garden has only ten buildings in the entire second urban area. They are all arranged for the residence of Xuecheng tutors and some distinguished visitors, so it is reasonable to arrange for Leo and them to live, at least on the surface. It is so.

However, in the eyes of Leo and Sylvia, this is just a trick to make them easy to be crowded out by other scholars in the academy, because even though these small garden apartments are nominally for the official tutors of the academy, they are not. The official tutors of the city basically do not live in the second city, so these apartments have always been idle. Leo and Silvia live in such apartments, which is equivalent to being completely isolated from the social activities of the second city. , but will make them an alternative to the second city.

Although living in a small garden apartment would be unfavorable to integrate into the special society of the academy, in Leo and Sylvia's view, it was quite in line with their intentions. The purpose of their coming to the academy was not to rush I came here to make friends, so there is no need to integrate into the society of the Xuecheng.

What's more, they don't need to take the initiative to make friends with the scholars here. From their experience on the road, they have already figured out the mentality of scholars in the Xuecheng. As long as they have outstanding talents, there will naturally be scholars attached to them, just like Delkan and the others. , there is no need to please the scholars here.

The small garden apartment had been cleaned by the housekeeper and servants arranged by Xuecheng before moving in. After Leo and the others arrived, they only needed to sort out their belongings before moving in. Boll, who was the guide, did not leave, but was taken by the house. Leo arranged it next to Joann and Penny's room, and asked Bol to familiarize Penny and Joan with the surrounding environment and the facilities in the city when he was free.

During this process, there was a small episode, that is, after Pol tidying up his room, he went to Joan's room to ask if he wanted to go out for a tour, and he saw the false heart on Joan Knight's sword. Hui, knowing that Joan turned out to be a quasi-paladin of the Church of False Heart, he was so frightened that he sat on the ground, until Penny heard the movement and came over to check the situation, and then gradually recovered.

From Bol's performance, it's not difficult to see how badly the Mad Knight of the False Heart, known for his chaotic behavior and easy out of control, has a bad reputation in the academy, and is basically equated with that kind of extreme cult.

Leo later explained that Joan was different from other Paladins with illusory hearts. He would not fall into chaos and would not have any crazy aggressive behavior. Boll also believed it, but the decision to lead Joan to tour the city had to be Putting it on hold for the time being, he could only find a map of the second urban area and point out the locations of some facilities in the urban area on the map.

After dealing with these chores, Leo and Sylvia focused on the research notes found from Lucius's laboratory.

Lucius may be worried that his research results will be plagiarized, so although he uses a lingua franca alphabet when taking notes, the words and sentences composed of these letters are derived from a nearly lost ancient language.

However, I don't know whether it was his bad luck or Leo's good luck. Among the development branches of this small ancient language, there are regional languages ​​near Xiwangyangjiao. Leo used to speak at Xiwangjiao Port. I learned the local language, and now I can use it to analyze this ancient small language.

Compared with Leo's attainments in linguistics, it took him less than an hour to complete the common language comparison table of the words and phrases in the notes, and Sylvia also fully interpreted the contents of the notes according to the comparison table. came out.

The content of the notes is mainly about some information related to the first dean of the academy. The information is fragmented. Basically, we get a relevant clue from here today, record it, analyze the authenticity, and find another from there tomorrow. The relevant clues were recorded and analyzed for authenticity. Lucius himself did not seem to have the ability to organize and summarize the information, so the content was chaotic like a mess, and it was difficult to read normally, let alone understand the exact content.

However, it is not difficult for Sylvia to sort out such disordered fragmented data. After all, when she was the head of the intelligence department of the United Kingdom of France, the fragmented data that needed to be processed was much more chaotic than this notebook. .

Almost at the same time as she interprets the content through the comparison table, she has also spliced ​​the fragmented data according to the hidden rules in her mind.

However, what surprised both Leo and Sylvia was that the core content of this notebook was not the identity information or biographical records of the first dean of the academy they thought, but a copy from various folklore and Adventure records extracted from historical records.

In this adventure record, Lucius used four animals to refer to the four adventurers in the adventure record. The content of the adventure record is also very simple, that is, the four adventurers came to a strange country and passed the folklore of the country. , found a sacred place called the original land, and then went to that place and found the treasure in it.

When the treasure was taken out, the four of them disagreed and started. One of them was killed, while the other three recovered their senses. After the treasure was taken out, a kingdom was established, and then the other two joined A companion was killed and the kingdom was divided.

The story recorded in the notes is very simple and very common. Basically, there is a similar story in every country's folk tales, and the not simple part is that Lucius used some secret words that only he knew to refer to the detailed marks. As long as the locations that the four adventurers have visited in the story are interpreted, they should be able to restore the adventure route and finally find the place called the original land.

For Leo and Sylvia, this story is not complicated and easy to interpret, just bring it into the Kingdom of Teresa.

The story should take place before the establishment of Teresa's kingdom. A four-person adventure team came here and found a treasure. One of them had other ideas about the treasure and was killed by the other three, and the three who were alive established it afterwards. Teresa Kingdom, if their identities are correct, they should be the founding monarch of Teresa Kingdom, the first patriarch of the Belmont family in this world, and the first dean of the academy.

It is not difficult to understand why Lucius uses various pronouns and small languages ​​to record these contents. Obviously, he is worried that his research content will attract the attention of the Royal Teresa and the Belmont family, and thus be silenced.

"Is this Lucius kidnapped by the royal family of Teresa?" After understanding the contents of the note, Sylvia had a hint of association, but quickly shook her head and denied: "Impossible, If it is the Royal Family of Teresa, there is absolutely no need for them to kidnap, they just need to summon Lucius, and even if they want to kidnap, they will never send a few newbies to perform this kind of task.”

Leo nodded in agreement, then looked at the note in his hand and asked, "What do you think this original land is?"

"There are too few clues to guess." Sylvia shook her head and added: "And the kidnapping is not necessarily because of this original place."

Leo asked again: "If it's not for the original land, what is it for?"

Sylvia thought for a while and said, "The adventurer who was killed in the original land by three companions."

Leo did not immediately agree with Sylvia's guess, but thought about it seriously and said: "The names of the four adventurers are Darth Wolf, Scaled Lion, Long Feather Eagle and Golden Horned Bull, Lucius. Although he wants to use pronouns to hide their identities, his subconscious awareness of these four people will make him feel a little awe-inspiring, which will affect the pronouns he prepared for the four."

Sylvia analyzed: "Darth wolves are social animals that are proficient in hunting, and the scale lion is called the lion of the king. They should represent the Belmont family and the royal family of Teresa. The long-feathered eagle is in many legends. The representative of wisdom, so this nickname is the first dean of the academy. The golden horn is the only fantasy creature, it often appears in some church books, and often appears as a **** incarnate, so the dead adventurer is A priest, just don't know which church priest?"

Just as Leo and Sylvia were analyzing Lucius' notes, the Security Bureau sent someone to ask them to go to Lucius's research room to help investigate the kidnapping case.

Both Leo and Sylvia were a little surprised by this, because based on their understanding of those bureaucrats, the Security Bureau should be more willing to investigate by themselves at this time, rather than asking for help. After all, things have not developed to the point of getting out of hand. .

Unexpectedly, the head of the security bureau invited outsiders to assist the investigation at the beginning of the investigation abnormally, as if he didn't care at all to show his incompetence in this matter.

Although it was unclear what the head of the Security Bureau thought, neither Leo nor Sylvia refused to do so, and ordered Joan and the others to stay in the apartment, followed by the Security Bureau city guard and returned to Lucius's research room.

After the two entered Lucius's research room, they could not help frowning, because the various materials accumulated in the room had been packaged and sealed by the security bureau, and the room was empty as if no one was using it. The kidnappers left behind. The traces naturally disappeared.

Seeing this scene, the two couldn't help but look at each other, and each other understood why the head of the security bureau invited them to assist in the investigation when the investigation had just begun.

When they came in, the chief of the security bureau was also in the room. It seemed that he was planning to introduce the situation to Leo and Sylvia. Although Leo and Sylvia's mentorship was controversial among scholars, this did not In his mind, the head of the security bureau, in his opinion, whether Leo and his mentors are controversial, they are all mentors, and it is obviously inappropriate for a subordinate of the security bureau to receive the two mentors, so he They will decide to receive the two in person and introduce them to the current situation of the case.

Hearing the footsteps behind him, the head of the security bureau turned to look at the person coming. After his eyes swept across Leo's face, he settled on Sylvia's face. Then he hurriedly stepped forward to salute Sylvia, and said, "Raul Famir has seen His Majesty."

"You recognized the wrong person, I'm not the majesty you know." Leo and Sylvia were already taken aback by this scene.

"Ah?" Director Raul was stunned, not understanding what Sylvia meant.

"I'm Leo, the new academy instructor." Leo, who was beside him, introduced himself.

Sylvia also said: "Sylvia, the new tutor of UU Reading www.uukanshu.com Academy."

Hearing the self-introductions of the two, Director Raul realized that the two men in front of him were the two new school city mentors who discovered the kidnapping case mentioned in the subordinate case report.

Before that, he only read about the situation of the two in the reports of his subordinates. He knew that the two were foreign scholars. Today, he just came to Xuecheng and applied for the status of tutors. He also knew that the two had extraordinary observation skills. It is possible to analyze the process of Lucius' kidnapping from some details that ordinary people can't detect, and even analyze how many kidnappers there are.

Because of this, he invited the two to participate in the investigation, hoping that with the assistance of the two, the case would be resolved as soon as possible to avoid disturbing the management of the school city.

But he never thought that the women among these two people were so similar to the His Majesty in his memory. Back then, he was awarded the honor by His Majesty because of his military exploits. It was the most honorable thing in his life. It is unforgettable to this day, and the appearance of that majesty is deeply imprinted in his mind, and now the appearance of this Sylvia teacher can completely overlap with the appearance in his memory, the only difference is the appearance in front of him This person is more mature, which makes him suspect that Sylvia is just a disguised identity, and that His Majesty is playing the trick of micro-server private affairs in folktales at the moment.