The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

When learning the Gamore language with Old Man Rembrandt, Old Man Rembrandt gave Leo a relatively brief introduction to the development of each language family in the three continents of Velen, and mentioned a language named Francis Scholars, because it is this linguist who will organize and classify the world's languages ​​for the first time, and create the famous Vinylon language tree system.

For this reason, the old man Rembrandt also focused on introducing Francis, and said that apart from Gamore, Francis' understanding of all languages ​​​​of the world far surpassed him.

The full name of Francis is Francis Hamilton, and his identity is the second son of Grand Duke Hamilton of the Kingdom of Sigma. Although he did not inherit the title of Grand Duke, he owns part of the shares of the Hamilton Shipping Company.

When Francis inherited the shares, it was the time when the Kingdom of Sigma dominated the sea, and the Hamilton Shipping Company was also the largest shipping company in the world at that time, so the benefits created by the shares of the Hamilton Shipping Company every year were enough for Francis to live an extremely Luxury living.

Francis, who has no worries about food and clothing, has done a lot of ridiculous things like other dudes, but he finally found his own interest, studying languages ​​​​from all over the world, and with the help of abundant funds, his language research It was also very smooth, and he became the best linguist in the world.

However, Francis' living environment developed his wanton character, and thus committed extremely serious crimes.

In order to study an ancient language in the Minsk continent, he actually ran to the desert kingdom of Saville to rob the tomb, and it was the royal tomb that he stole, and was caught by the tomb guards on the spot.

Although the Kingdom of Sigma was the overlord of the sea and a powerful country in the world at that time, it could not pose any threat to Savile, an inland power on the Minsk continent. In the end, Savile still sentenced Francis to death despite the intercession of many world scholars. Imprisoned for life, and imprisoned in the desert prison with the worst environment, for more than forty years, until the old man Rembrandt introduced Francis to Leo, he was still imprisoned in the prison .

The reason why Leo felt that the old man in front of him was Francis Hamilton at this time was because the old man Rembrandt mentioned that among the linguists in the entire Velen world, only Francis was proficient in any religious language.

The old man just looked at the patterns on the metal fragments for a while, and he can judge with certainty that the patterns are the words of the priest of the ancient gods. It can be seen that the old man himself is very familiar with this ancient language that has almost been lost. Only Francis, who is proficient in the language of religion, can do it.

The old man holding the box soon came to the tent where he was. Judging from the layout of the tent, the French Empire paid special attention to the old man. Not only did he prepare a completely independent tent for him, but he also arranged the tent in the barracks The middle area is surrounded by elite soldiers.

The old man obviously didn't like to cooperate with other people. Apart from him, there was no one else in the big tent, not even an assistant. After the old man put the box full of metal fragments on the ground, he personally took out every fragment in the box, wiped it clean with a soft cloth, and then applied a layer of antiseptic vegetable oil. After rubbing the metal fragments with paper, They were placed on wooden shelves one by one in the tent according to different types.

After placing the metal fragments, the old man leaned on a desk with a special spotlight, checked the patterns that had just been rubbed one by one, and at the same time unloaded some simple notes and introductions from the blank space of the rubbing paper. A very thick folder was taken out from the bookshelf, and these rubbing patterns were neatly put into the folder.

Although the sorting work is very simple, it is also time-consuming. It took more than four hours just to sort out a box of metal fragments, and the whole process required concentrated identification and analysis, so it was also a great drain on brainpower.

Even though the old man has an extremely strong enthusiasm for these ancient languages, he doesn't have enough energy after all, and his face is already full of tiredness.

The old man didn't force his body and mind to continue his research. He lowered the curtain of the tent, then went to a corner of the simple camp bed and lay down. He soon fell into a deep sleep, and there were regular snoring sounds in the tent.

At this time, the bird possessed by Leo flew in from the window of the tent, and landed on a shelf containing a large number of metal fragments, and then he was exposed to witchcraft and separated from the bird. All I saw was that the black image on the bird's feathers turned into a cloud of black smoke, which surged out and landed on the ground, forming a black mist that gathered and did not disperse, and gradually expanded. Leo's body quickly Restored in the black mist.

After his body completely recovered, Leo stepped out of the black mist, which scattered on the ground like dust and disappeared quickly.

Leo walked to the bookshelf, and carefully pulled out the thickest notebook from the bookshelf. Judging from the wear marks on the notebook, this notebook should have been written a long time ago.

After opening the note and looking at the date marked on it, Leo realized that the earliest content of this note was more than 20 years ago, and at the same time, he also confirmed that the old man on the camp bed behind him was the Francis Hamilton he had guessed.

The contents of the notes are some language research done by Francis himself when he was in prison. Although the prison Francis is in is one of the most difficult prisons in the world, Francis himself is very rich and has a great reputation. Apart from being restricted in his movements, his other expenses are no worse than those of the outside world. How many.

Moreover, some scholars often go to the prison with some language questions and ancient relics to ask Francis for advice, so Francis's language research has not been cut off for so many years. It was completely recorded in his notes, and these notes were on the bookshelf in front of Leo.

Through the language of Gamore, Leo learned that the ancient languages ​​of the Velen world contain some mysterious powers that can affect psionic energy, so he also pays special attention to language knowledge. The notes in front of him are messy to others. , an obscure and useless thing, but to Leo, it is an invaluable wealth of knowledge.

Leo didn't store these notes in the storage space, but stood by the bookshelf looking through these notes, carefully writing down the contents of the notes.

This was not because he really couldn't wait to master the language knowledge recorded in the notes, but because when he was flipping through the notes just now, he found that his brain was a little abnormal.

Although due to unknown reasons, he lost the auxiliary ability of the auxiliary brain system, and even couldn't remember the method of creating the auxiliary brain, such as face splitting, but just now, he found that some of the auxiliary brain's abilities did not seem to be disappeared, but remained.

For example, the ability to record images, the notes in Leo's hands are messy and numerous, and it may be difficult to move them in a short time with his own memory ability, but his brain can see the notes at the moment. Without knowing the knowledge of Naxi in the notes, the entire picture of the notes is recorded in the brain in the form of image data, just like a scanned picture, which can be called up directly as long as he needs it.

Moreover, Leo also found through some tests that the ability of the sub-brain system of this video recording is not only preserved as it is, but also enhanced.

For example, in the past, if Leo wanted to record the text content on the notes, he had to read them carefully from the beginning to the end, so that they could be recognized by the sub-brain system and turned into raw data, stored in the database, and recorded simply with the ability to record images. In the knowledge screen, only some indistinguishable blurred images will be obtained. This is not a defect in the ability of the sub-brain system, but a defect in the ability of each person's subconscious to recognize and distinguish knowledge images. Image records can only be fragmented, centralized, and abstract, while knowledge memory requires logic and continuity. and comprehension.

But now Leo finds that his brain seems to have broken through this cognitive defect with the disappearance of the sub-brain. As long as it can be presented in the form of a picture, no matter whether it is a dynamic image or static knowledge in the picture, it can be completely completed. is recorded by the brain without even understanding anything on the screen.

In short, his brain and eyes are a brain-level server without artificial intelligence, with a high-definition camera and a super database.

At this moment, Leo doesn't know whether the changes in his brain are ultimately good or bad, but judging from the current situation, the changes in his brain are actually a good thing. He no longer needs to read through every book he memorized like before. , you only need to turn the pages of the book at a certain speed. Although this recording method does not allow him to understand the knowledge in the books, it can shorten the recording time. When he wants to learn this knowledge, he only needs to find time to read these image materials.

In this way, Leo's time arrangement has also become much more flexible. He can let his mind enter a light sleep state while sleeping, and let his body rest while learning the recorded knowledge.

Although there are a lot of books and notes on the bookshelf, Leo's image recording is too strong, and it took less than half an hour to record all the content in the form of images.

After recording Francis's language research materials, Leo moved to the metal fragments placed on the wooden shelf next to him, and picked up each metal fragment, carefully sensing the spiritual energy fluctuations on it.

However, just as he checked a dozen or so pieces of metal, a slight sound from outside the tent attracted his attention.

Leo put down the metal fragments in his hand, moved quickly, and retreated to the shadow between the two wooden frames, followed by taking out a spider he caught in the forest from his pocket before, reciting some spells, and The spider was crushed and sprinkled on his body. The moment the spider crumbs fell on him, the surrounding shadows spread like oil, covering his whole body and making him completely blend into the shadows.

Just when Leo cast the shadow technique to hide, the curtain of the tent suddenly opened a corner, followed by a black shadow that came in from the outside, and when he got in, he also skillfully closed the corner of the curtain lay down.

I saw that the intruder was wearing a tight black leather jacket with some Turing roots printed on the leather jacket, and emitted a faint wave of spiritual energy. It seemed that it should be a wizard's wonder. In addition, the intruder's head was covered by a black hood, and the eyes were covered with equipment similar to diving goggles. Other facial features were not revealed, and it could only be judged from the body that it was a male.

On the intruder's back was a specially made tactical backpack, on which were placed weapons such as hand crossbows and some exquisite mechanical tools.

After scanning the intruder's body once, Leo paused for a while on the hand crossbow on the backpack, and then quietly waited for the intruder's follow-up action.

The intruder scanned the tent, and finally his eyes fell on the sleeping Francis. He followed him and sneaked to the bedside, and took out a metal pipe from the pendant of the backpack. Then the metal pipe was twisted, and a milky white smoke emerged from the nozzle at one end of the metal pipe and lingered in the air, showing no sign of dissipating.

Then the intruder quickly drew a few circles on the edge of the smoke with his fingers, and the smoke seemed to be under control, and flew towards Francis' face, covering his face in it, and was quickly inhaled into Francis.

At the moment of inhaling the smoke, Francis' snoring suddenly stopped, but he didn't wake up, instead he fell into a deeper sleep, and his breathing became more gentle and longer.

After solving the problem of Francis waking up, the intruder immediately went to the bookshelf where Leo had stayed for a long time before, quickly and purposefully rummaged through the notes, and soon he found want something.

I saw that he took out a roll of paper from the cylinder hanging on his waist, then spread the paper out, placed it on the information he found, then took out a bottle of liquid, sprayed it evenly on the paper, and then This page of information was printed on the white paper above.

Afterwards, the intruder used the same method to copy the required documents one by one. After all the documents were completed, he rolled up the paper and put it in the cylinder, then turned around and walked out of the tent.

Just when he reached the curtain of the tent, he stopped suddenly, quickly took off the hand crossbow, and through the mechanical device on the hand crossbow, the arrows were automatically wound up, and aimed at the hidden place , and at the same time, in a low voice, said coldly: "Your Excellency, you should have seen enough after watching it for so long? Come out and talk! It seems that we should all be enemies of the empire, and maybe we can have a chance to cooperate."

"Impossible, we will not cooperate, because I have never regarded the Faran Empire as an enemy." His whereabouts were found out, and Leo did not hide anymore. After lifting the shadow on his body, he walked out, and While showing the force field, he also saluted the intruder according to noble etiquette, and said, "Long time no see, Baron Maupassant, or Miss Sylvia Belmont."