The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

A good show before the official start of the wake, made the dignitaries in Hushang Town in the wake more and more looking forward to something more happening at the wake, so as to make their boring life more fun.

It's a pity that things didn't develop as they expected. In the various ceremonies of the wake, Leo and the Alcott family did not have any conflicts. Everything was the same as every past wake. Bland and boring.

Even when the estate of Peter Alcott was announced later, the Alcott family did not express any significance to Leo's inheritance, let alone redeem that share directly like Anna Alcott did before. heritage.

Although the performance of the Alcott family seems to be a sign of decline in the eyes of many people, after all, there has never been an inheritance of a direct member of the Alcott family being inherited by an outsider in the past, but still no one Dare to question the Alcott family's rule over Laketown.

However, what puzzled everyone present was that Andre XIII did not attend his son's wake from the beginning to the end.

Although Anna Alcott left halfway, she at least came as a mother, while Andre XIII, as a father, did not show up from the beginning to the end. The degree of pampering of the son does not match.

Many people even had some associations, thinking of the recent rumors about the health of Andre XIII. It is precisely because of this association that after the wake was over, many people began to actively contact Robert Alcott, the next heir to the seventh Alcott family, and they all tried to get in touch with the seventh Alcott family. Make a good impression in front of the quasi-head of the special family.

Just as the dignitaries of Seventh Lake Town started a new round of power games, Wizmir apologized to Leo, got up and left the Wake Hall, and said a few words to the butler who was waiting outside the hall. After that, he was led by the butler and walked towards the main building of the manor.

Leo, who stayed alone in the wake hall, looked at the big box brought to him, frowned slightly, as if he was thinking about something, sat quietly for a while, then stood up, and directly carried the half-human The big tall box walked out of the wake hall and walked towards the outside of the Alcott family manor.

From Peter Alcott's legacy, Leo got two things, one is the psionic puppet that is now carried on his shoulders, and the other is the house he lives in now.

Although Peter Alcott handed over the house to him, it was a bit unexpected, but it would not be too surprising when you think about it carefully. Obviously, the moment Peter Alcott gave him the house key, it had already happened. It was planned to hand over the house to him, and now this will was just a supplementary formality.

What really got Leo into thinking just now was actually the psionic puppet stored in the box.

According to Leo's previous guess, Peter Alcott should not have died, he just suspended his death for some purpose, so Peter Alcott used the psychic puppet made by puppet psychic power to cover it up no matter what. There must be a trace of psychic energy in him.

But when the box containing the puppet was placed in front of him, Leo found that the puppet in the box was just a puppet, without any spiritual fluctuations at all.

And through the inspection of the spiritual network, he also found that although the puppet looked very exquisite in appearance, it was exactly the same as the psionic puppet he had seen before, but after careful inspection, he found that the puppet did not have any necessary mechanical parts.

According to common sense, whether it is a psionic puppet or an ordinary puppet, a puppet must have some necessary mechanical parts if it wants to move, such as joint shafts, spinal movable gears, and so on. But now this puppet does not have these most basic mechanical parts, so its body cannot move, and the whole looks more like a wood carving.

At first, what Leo thought was that the puppet had been swapped. Judging from the attitude shown by Anna Alcott, it seemed that she was bound to get the puppet, so it was not impossible for her to swap the puppet.

But soon this guess was denied by Leo himself, because such things as swapping other people's inheritance are absolutely taboo in the noble circle.

Today, you, Anna Alcott, can switch an inheritance that belongs to someone else, and then it is very likely that you will directly switch the will of the Patriarch of the Alcott family in the future. With Anna Alcott setting this precedent, people from other aristocratic families in Hushang Town may also learn to do so. In this way, the inheritance rules of the entire aristocratic circle of Hushang Town will be useless, and the damage to the overall order of Hushang Town will definitely be destroyed. is devastating.

It is true that Anna Alcott is the power holder of the Seventh Alcott Family, and she has the greatest power in the entire Seventh Lake Town, but compared to the power of the entire noble circle in the Seventh Lake Town, She is obviously still a little short, not to mention the power held by all the nobles of the Lake District Alliance.

If she really did something that would destroy the foundation of noble inheritance, such as replacing the inheritance, then even if she had Alcott, an extremely honorable surname in the Lake District Alliance, she would not be able to escape death.

With Anna Alcott's character and wisdom, it is impossible not to see the danger, so no matter how much she loves her son, and how big the secrets are hidden in the psionic puppet, it is impossible for her to make such a self-indulgent move. Things to find a way to die.

After denying the guess that Anna Alcott dropped the bag, Leo carefully checked the situation of the psychic puppet again, and soon discovered some doubts.

He found that the psionic puppet was curled up in the box, and the surface was very old, with traces of extensive use.

If someone really wants to swap this psionic puppet, then that person must have made an identical psionic puppet many years ago, and must make the old psionic puppet in a different time period. It was even necessary to make psionic puppets in different poses, because no one could guess in advance what kind of container the psionic puppet would be stuffed into.

After analyzing the difficulty of bag swapping through the secondary brain system, Leo is almost sure that it is impossible to obtain the psionic puppet left by Peter Alcott through bag swapping, and he can also use this to determine that the box is What Peter Alcott left him in his will.

After negating the guess about the package drop, Leo couldn't help but come up with a new guess, that is, this puppet is not the psionic puppet he saw next to Peter Alcott at that time, the puppet in the box is actually It's just a bait used by Peter Alcott to divert his attention. The real psionic puppet has been properly kept by him elsewhere.

But this guess only flashed in Leo's mind, and then he denied it again.

Because if Peter Alcott really did this, then the previous deal he made with Leo would be in vain.

In the promise made by Leo, he only needs to enter the abandoned city with Peter Alcott's puppet. Now the puppet he inherited is also the puppet of Peter Alcott, and it has been officially identified by the will, so even if Peter Alcott himself comes to him with the psionic puppet, he can use this The puppet treats itself as the object of fulfilling the promise, and refuses other requests from the other party.

With the wisdom of Peter Alcott, it is impossible not to think of this, so this seemingly incomplete puppet should be the psionic puppet.

In addition, Anna Alcott's longing attitude towards this puppet is also evidence of the special nature of this puppet.

Leo didn't think about all the questions brought about by this puppet until he left the noble city, but some flies attracted by this puppet had already gathered and hid in the dark to spy on his whereabouts.

After walking less than two blocks, Leo's mental network sensed no less than seven groups of people, hiding in the shadows of the alleys around the street and behind obstacles on the roof, watching Leo's every move.

Without exception, these people are all elite fighters with obvious ancestral physiques. The bloody smell emanating from each of them shows that the various lives that died in their hands are no longer a small number.

It's just that these people don't have spiritual energy fluctuations, and their willpower can't keep up with the mutations in their bodies, making them easily emotional, and some even show signs of dehumanization in their behavior.

Just now, Leo easily used a little trick to provoke the two teams of monitors hiding in the dark to fight, and the other teams responsible for monitoring Leo were also easily attracted by the commotion over there. He completely forgot his original mission. It wasn't until Leo left their surveillance for a while that he realized it, and chased after him regardless of his whereabouts.

Although with Leo's strength, it is not difficult to deal with these ancestral monitors without psychic powers, but he did not do so. If you stand up and make trouble, let them follow you secretly until you return to your residence.

After returning to the residence, Leo did not enter the house immediately, because a large number of ordinary people gathered in the alleys around the house. These people carefully hid behind some obstacles as if watching the excitement, and while talking with each other, they looked up at the broken window on the outer wall of the study on the second floor.

At this time, the window near the small building was completely damaged, and the window frame became some fragments, scattered on the street, and the surrounding walls were also seriously damaged, and the mechanical parts inside the wall were also exposed. Standing downstairs can cut very clearly.

In addition, there are a large number of fragments of books and some broken furniture scattered on the street, which shows how much movement happened in the house before.

Seeing this scene, the first thought in Leo's mind was those monsters named Wild Hunt and Javier, and he subconsciously thought that those Wild Hunts had chased them from another world, and they were in the house with Javier Li fights.

While guessing, Leo's mental network also expanded, covering the house in it, penetrating into it, and checking the situation inside.

But when the sub-brain system restores the data fed back by the spirit network to the retina through the image, Leo froze for a moment, and the expression on his face became a little weird. He followed the eyes of everyone around him, carried the box, and used The key opened the door and walked into the house.

After entering the house, Leo carried the box directly to the study on the second floor, opened the door and walked in, and after putting down the box, he said to the people in the room, "Can you tell me what happened?"

I saw that the mechanism of this house had been triggered at this moment, and the chains and cages protruding from the wall captured and imprisoned all the living things in the house.

Javier and a stranger in a wizard's robe were each bound by a chain as thick as an arm. The binding power of the chain itself was enough to bind people, but what was even more powerful was the magic circle on the chain. runes.

Through the investigation of the spiritual network and the analysis of the sub-brain system, Leo knew that these magic circle runes similar to the root of Turing can generate some kind of shock force to disperse the approaching psionic energy, and transform the runes through the psionic energy, turning the These psychic powers were transformed into a kind of psychic power with a paralyzing effect, which was the main reason why Javier and the others couldn't escape.

In addition to Jill and Elle, there is a small cage by the window on the side of the lake. The Duke of White Boots was imprisoned in the cage. There should be a magic circle hidden in the cage specifically for the Moonlight Mouse.

"Leo, help me untie it quickly." Jivie Elle saw Leo come back, and immediately said impatiently: "When I fought with this thief just now, it seemed that I touched some mechanism, and it became like this .”

Although Jivie El's words were very simple, Leo could still hear a general idea. It was nothing more than this strange wizard sneaking into the house while he was going to attend the wake.

It's just that the infiltrator didn't expect that there were other people in this room, and that this person was very powerful, and he didn't expect that there was a hidden mechanism in this room for psychics such as wizards, and he was finally imprisoned here, unable to move. .

"Shirley, wait a moment, the chains on your body are one, if you untie the chains on your body, the chains on this person will also be untie."

Leo didn't release the mechanism right away, he explained it, signaled to Ji Weier to stay calm, then walked to the window, and inserted the key into a hole in the base of the small cage. After twisting the key a few times, only a click was heard, the key was pushed out of the hole by a mechanism, and the small cage automatically disintegrated and retracted into the wall.

The Duke of White Boots, who was released from prison, immediately became energetic and got up from the ground, but he didn't speak, but nodded to Leo, and then, under the cover of Leo's figure, jumped onto the window behind him, ran to the outside. But it didn't go far, but just hid under the eaves by the window, pricked up its ears, and listened to the situation in the house. It seemed that it was going to wait for the things in the house to subside before talking to Leo.

After rescuing the Duke of White Boots, Leo turned around and walked up to the wizard who always looked confident, and said, "If my guess is correct, your excellency should be Charles Ranco, the expeditionary man, right?"