The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Hearing that Leo was dissatisfied with the situation after the death of the Nowitzki family heir, Wizmir immediately stepped forward and said with a mysterious expression: "You can blame the Nowitzki family by mistake, the matter about the corpse They didn't do it, in fact they or the current successor also want to find the guy who stole the body."

"What's going on here?" Leo looked at Wizmir with a puzzled expression and asked, "Is there any other secrets in it?"

Wizmir likes to see his words being drawn into a gaffe, let alone the other party is a big figure like an official wizard. But he also knew that some things needed to be adjusted to a certain degree, and it would not be good after this degree, so he didn't make Leo wait for a long time, and said something he knew.

"There are no big secrets, but some things seem to be beyond some people's expectations." Wizmir poured himself a glass of fruit wine, then took a sip to moisten his throat, and said: "Everything went well, according to the lack of evidence There is no rule of occurrence, that person only needs to wait for a while, and after the investigation yields no results, he will be able to take the position of the first heir. However, the corpse disappeared, and then it was gutted by someone, provocatively Throw it in an alley in the 23rd district. Just like your reaction after hearing that the heir's body was gutted out, other nobles were outraged when they heard about it and thought it was wrong The etiquette of the nobility points all the finger at the new heir who is about to take power, so if the murderer who destroyed the corpse cannot be found, then the position of the new heir may be difficult to secure."

Leo pretended to be interested on purpose, and said in a deep voice, "Could it be the other heirs who did it?"

"Probably not." Wizmir shook his head and said with a serious face: "This incident is a provocation to the nobles of the entire Ten Towns, and anyone with a little brain would not do it."

Leo was silent for a while, and asked again: "How much reward has the Nowitzki family offered?"

"What? Are you interested in this matter?" Wizmir laughed.

Leo said flatly: "There is still a little time before entering the abandoned city, I want to pass the boring time."

"Although the Nowitzki family is only the second-ranked family, and it is also the second-ranked family of the Seventh Lake Town, their family inheritance is very old. It was first aristocratic family in the First Lake Town, and after a few mistakes in the team, it will gradually retreat. It’s from the town of Seventh Lake, so their family has a lot of collections.” Wizmir praised the Nowitzki family like a lobbyist, and then got to the point, saying: “This time Novitzki The reward offered by the Key family is not simple. The reward offered to ordinary people will naturally become the blood of a member of the Nowitzki family, but the reward offered by someone like Mr. Dodd is a book collected by the Nowitzki family. An ancient book, it is said that our ancestors brought this ancient book from the other world where all human beings originated, and it hides the secrets of the other world.”

Hearing this, Leo couldn't help feeling curious, and asked in a deep voice, "Such an important ancient book will be offered as a reward? Are the Nowitzki family crazy?"

"Of course they can't be crazy. What they put out as a reward is a copy, not the original." Wizmir explained: "Although it's just a copy, the content is exactly the same as the original, and they even allow people who get the reward Read the original five days."

After Wizmir finished speaking, Leo suddenly smiled and said, "Are you a lobbyist for the Nowitzki family?"

"Business partners, help if you can." Wizmir didn't deny it, and simply responded, but Leo didn't believe his words at all.

Leo thought for a while, and said, "I'm interested in this mainly to pass the time, and I haven't thought about what to do. Although the reward offered by Nowitzki's family is very attractive, but what is the ancient book? How much value is still open to debate, before seeing the real thing..."

Wizmir seemed to want to bring Leo into this matter, and seeing Leo's refusal, he immediately said: "I have a copy of the cover of that ancient book on hand, please see if it suits your needs first. Mind, is there any value?"

As he said that, without waiting for Leo to respond, he stood up and ran to the back room, and quickly took out a very simple-looking book from it.

Wizmir put the book on the table and said: "This is made by the Nowitzki family according to the cover of the original book. The contents inside are all blank, only the cover is the same. This sample was originally made by the Nowitzki family. Please let me bring it to the master to see if the master is interested in this book."

Leo put on his glasses and looked at it, but he didn't reach out to take this ancient book with a quaint cover and engraved with various strange patterns and words.

Although he was calm on the outside, he felt a little dumbfounded inside. He had read this book, which was regarded as a fetish by the Nowitzki family, not only the original secret language book, but also the latest translated version.

This book is called the Long River of Life, and it talks about the civilization and reproduction of each river on the three continents of Velen World. Slaves from the Minsk continent.

He was bought to a country in the Minsk mainland that has now disappeared and did not even have a name left. He was favored by a noble family and bought home as a gardener, responsible for taking care of the flowers and plants in the noble manor.

It's just that Ke Luke is not willing to be a flower slave for a lifetime, so while taking care of the flowers and plants, he also learns various knowledge from the nobles through various methods.

Afterwards, a war broke out in that country. While fleeing, Ke Luke intentionally separated from the noble convoy and became a fugitive slave. In order to avoid being hunted down, he wandered on various continents and recorded what he saw and heard.

More than 20 years later, Ke Luke finally exposed his identity because of a careless move, and was caught by a bounty hunter who specialized in chasing escaped slaves, and he was burned to death on the spot according to the law at that time, while he The recorded knowledge was taken by one of the bounty hunters and kept at home.

Until, some of the descendants of that bounty hunter became scholars and read these records. They were shocked by the contents above, and thought that keeping such knowledge in the box was definitely the greatest blasphemy of knowledge, so they decided to put these Record republished.

Because the Orthodox Church was in full swing at that time, it was almost impossible to publish such a book that denied the existence of gods. Therefore, the descendants of this bounty hunter and several partners with the same ambitions specially fabricated a new language, and then rewritten the book "The Long River of Life" according to this new language, and then published this book at their own expense. A book that no one can understand.

After the book was published, they sent the book together with the language translation to other scholars who were also disliked by the Orthodox Church, so that they could read the book normally, and eventually this book could be classified as a banned book. Books survived the darkest hours of civilization.

Because of the respect for the escaped slave, when the descendants of the bounty hunter published this book, they did not put their name on the list of authors or editors, but wrote the name of the escaped slave It was on the cover, and on the inside page was also written the deeds of the escaped slave.

Because of its extremely legendary and ups and downs, this book is praised by many neo-liberal poets who oppose the Orthodox church, and the content of the book is also borrowed by a large number of pastoral poets, which makes it famous far and wide.

When operas and stage plays began to rise, the experience of this book was put on the stage by countless writers, which made its reputation even higher, and the reputation of this book was pushed to the apex in Kruko by Velen Medicine. The hospital certified as one of the ancient three sages. At that time, almost all aristocratic families had to keep a copy in their study, whether they liked the book or not, otherwise, no matter how many books they had, they would be considered incomplete.

Leo read this book in Anne's hospital. The latest medical encyclopedia contained the works of the so-called ancient sages, and the River of Life was one of them. There were not only translations, but also secret language books.

And now the cover sample of the so-called ancient book containing the mystery of human origin that Wizmir has produced is a secret language version of the cover of the long river of life, and it seems to be one of the earliest editions, because there are a lot of books on it. religious symbols of the Orthodox Church, in order to disguise the book as a religious book.

Originally, Leo was looking forward to seeing a book that truly explained the mysteries of the world, but he didn't expect it to be such a book, so he was naturally a little disappointed.

It's just that disappointment is disappointment, but he couldn't show it on his face. Instead, he pretended to be very interested. He picked up the sample with only the cover, and sketched the symbols of the ancient religion on it as if studying it.

After a while, Leo shook his head, took off his glasses, and said in a deep voice: "I'm not a specialist in language, and I can't figure out what's on it. Instead of wasting time on such things, it's better to come here." More realistic."

Seeing that he couldn't convince Leo, Wizmir felt a little disappointed, but Leo's last words made him see a turning point, so he asked in a deep voice, "What kind of reward do you want?"

Leo didn't speak casually, but said vaguely: "It's not what I want? It's what they can give me? It's best something I can use in Wasteland."

Wizmir frowned, looked at Leo for a while, and finally landed on Leo's backpack, suddenly seemed to think of something, and said: "I know that there is something in Nowitzki's house that is very suitable for you. .”

"What?" Leo naturally knew where Wizmir's gaze fell, and he had some guesses in his heart, and asked curiously.

Wizmir said slowly: "When the Nowitzki family was in its heyday, they caught a strange fish in the lake area under the jurisdiction of their family. The strange fish was very strange. It was not very big, but it could Swallow anything. At that time, the patriarch of the Nowitzki family dedicated this strange fish to the first chief, and after the first chief dealt with the strange fish, he made five palm-sized skins out of the fish skin The folder was returned to the Nowitzki family. It is said that this wallet is like that strange fish that can swallow anything and can hold a lot of things. Although this is a bit exaggerated, I think it should be a good place to put the backpack behind you no problem."

Leo was immediately moved when he heard the words. This thing was perfect for him. After all, it was weird for others to see him wearing a backpack every day, and he himself felt uncomfortable. So he directly showed his interest and asked, "Such a wizard's wonder should be very precious. Will the Nowitzki family agree to offer it as a reward?"

"No problem." Wizmir said with a confident look: "The Nowitzki family has not actually used this thing for so many years. Except for one leather bag left as a souvenir, the other few leather bags It’s all given to other people as gifts. It’s not too hard to get them to take this thing out as a bounty.”

Leo nodded, stood up, walked out, and said: "That's the deal, when you persuade the Nowitzki family to agree to use that leather bag as a bounty, just come and tell me, I will I think you should know where I live now?"

"I have news, I will tell you." Wizmir also stood up, sent Leo to the door, and then reminded: "My master will have news in a few days, I hope Mr. Dodd In the next few days, we can make preparations, and once the entrance to the abandoned capital is confirmed, we will act immediately, and we must not delay our business because of the Nowitzki family."

"Don't worry, I can tell the priority." Leo walked towards the elevator, and waved his hand without looking back. He didn't stop until the door was closed behind him, and then went directly through the window beside him. Going out, fingers grabbed some small bumps on the edge of the outer wall, and the whole person stuck to the wall, climbing up rapidly, and soon came to the roof of the flower shop.

The roof of the flower shop should be built as a place specially used for large-scale events such as dance parties, so it is very elegantly decorated, there are no unnecessary items, only empty houses.

Leo looked around, perhaps because there was no business dealing with large-scale events, there was no staff here, nor a security guard or guard, it was empty, completely opposite to the hustle and bustle downstairs.

After confirming that no one was there, Leo walked around the roof along the main line of the flower shop building. While walking, the mental net also opened outwards, scanning the situation of the flower shop under his feet, and put the obtained data in the Organize and analyze in the sub-brain system, and reconstruct it into a three-dimensional diagram of the flower shop building.

When building this building, the building designer obviously took precautions against people like Leo, and arranged a lot of wizards and wonders in the rooms of the flower shop, creating interference force fields one by one, which interfered with the exploration of the spirit network.

It's just that Leo didn't want to investigate the structure of the flower shop. He just wanted to find out the person, thing or thing that could cause the resonance response of the dream body, and obviously this resonance response would not be caused by interference. The existence of the force field disappears, at least now he has sensed a suspicious place.