The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

After hearing what Xiao En said, Leo guessed: "Since the royal family knows that Earl Drake is dead and the Sea God Artifact is in Death Valley, then the royal family should have sent someone to Josh County, right?"

Xiao En nodded and responded: "Five groups of people were sent before and after, one of them disappeared, and the other four groups failed to find Death Valley at all, and instead leaked the news."

"Where did the missing group go missing?" Leo asked again.

"I don't know, I lost contact suddenly." Sean shook his head.

"Where is the last point of contact?" Leo asked clearly.

"In Josburg," Sean replied quickly, and then felt that the answer was inaccurate, and immediately added: "It's old Josburg."

"Old Josburg?" Leo froze for a moment after hearing this, recalled the familiar name carefully, and suddenly remembered that the ancestor of his body seemed to come from Old Josburg, and it was Old Josburg Survivors of the massacre.

"You're talking about the old Josburg in the massacre?" Leo confirmed again.

"Yes." Sean nodded.

Leo frowned and said, "I remember that the castle was completely abandoned. After so many years, there may not be any buildings left. Why do they..."

"It seems that you don't know yet," Sean interrupted Leo, and explained carefully: "A few years ago, Ms. Charlotte wrote a book about the Joshburg Massacre, which became the best-selling book in the kingdom. The book was also adapted into a script, which caused many people to go to Old Joshburg to play. People who lived in Joshburg wanted to take advantage of this trend to gain some extra income, so they specially renovated it. Old Josh Fort, then acted as a participant in the massacre, reenacted the scene of the massacre to attract tourists, and now Old Josh Fort has become one of the most important income in Josh County."

Hearing these words, Leo suddenly had a strange emotion in his heart, a little angry and a little helpless.

These emotions come entirely from the residual emotional memory of the body, because for Leo, he grew up listening to the Old Josburg Massacre, and he has a strange emotion for the massacre.

Josh County was originally the territory of Earl Josh. Earl Josh was also one of the knight earls who participated in the founding of the country, but like most of the founding knight nobles, the power of the Josh family gradually declined. Later, even Josh The county was also occupied by another new military nobleman, so the relationship between the Josh family and this military nobleman was also very bad. The two families often fought and killed each other for the border territory, and a large number of members of the two families died in these battles, so The two families are also sworn enemies.

It's just that, later, an outlier appeared among the successor earls of Josh County, who believed that the two families should not continue to be hostile, but should make peace, write off the previous affairs, and jointly develop Josh County with the two families in the future.

For this reason, the Earl Josh restrained the family members, and even chose to back down in some conflicts of interest, showing his attitude of peace, and when he thought the time was right, he invited the elder Joshburg, the patriarch of the military noble family, to come to discuss Peace talks, and in accordance with local traditions, they took an oath to ensure that no matter what the outcome of the negotiations, the chief and his clan would not suffer any harm.

Or maybe Earl Josh showed enough sincerity. The patriarch of the military aristocrat finally agreed to go to Fort Josh for peace talks. It seems that the battle between the two Josh County families that has lasted for a hundred years is coming to an end, and Josh County is about to usher in peace. .

It's just that no one, not even those inside the military noble family, thought that the patriarch had never thought about peace talks, and he was going to use this opportunity to wipe out the Josh family.

Afterwards, in order to win the trust of the Josh family, the patriarch of the military noble only took his eldest son, eldest daughter and a few attendants to Josh Fort, but in fact he had secretly mobilized a large number of people to lurk in the surrounding areas of Josh Fort .

After arriving in Fort Josh, Earl Josh did not start peace talks immediately, but in accordance with the tradition of Josh County, he gave the visitors the best hospitality, using the best meat, the best meat, and warmly entertaining military exploits If the patriarch of the nobles did not know the relationship between the two, he might think that the two were close friends when he saw the scene of the two talking and laughing happily at the banquet.

After the banquet, Earl Josh arranged a place for several people to rest for the night, and said that negotiations could officially start tomorrow.

The people of Josburg also thought that the patriarch of the military aristocrat came here alone with his children, thinking that the other party was expressing goodwill, and their vigilance became very low, and even the city defense did not arrange enough manpower to guard it.

As a result, in the middle of the night, the patriarch of the military nobles, who the Josh family thought had been sleeping peacefully, led his sons, daughters and knights, killed the servants who served them, sneaked into the gate of the castle, killed the soldiers guarding the gate, opened the gate, and released the castle that had been waiting for a long time. The army entered the castle, killed everyone they saw, and slaughtered all the members of the Josh family in the castle. Only a few servants and craftsmen escaped from Josh Castle by familiarizing themselves with the terrain, and fled to the outside of Josh County. Word of what had happened in Shiborg spread.

At this time, except for a few members of the Josh family who had not had time to return to Joshburg, all the others died in the massacre. It was rumored that members of the royal family who went to Joshburg to investigate the situation later saw Josh Shibao was completely stained red by the blood of the Josh family, and all the corpses were also covered by the military noble family

Many people hung on the city wall, and the methods were extremely cruel.

This incident was extremely shocking in the Kingdom of England, because when an aristocratic family expressed enough goodwill to the hostile family, and faithfully followed its promise, when the hostile family came, it would provide personal safety and provide delicious food for a period of time. No matter how much hatred the two had before, they should not take any acts of revenge at this time.

Even if the military aristocrat who climbed up from the bottom has a century-old inheritance, he doesn't know the unspoken rules of the nobles' fight. In their view, as long as the opponent dies, it is a good thing. They never thought that their actions touched the biggest taboo in the aristocratic circle .

So almost on the tenth day after the demise of the Josh family, the military noble family was also completely destroyed under the joint attack of several surrounding knights. All family members were arrested without exception and hanged in Joshburg. On the city wall, just like they treated the corpses of members of the Josh family.

The entire families of the two noble families that have been passed down for more than a hundred years died in Old Josh Fort, which made Old Josh Fort have an extremely gloomy and terrifying atmosphere, and no one wanted to stay here for a moment longer.

The old Josh Fort was destroyed by the night of the massacre, and the Josh family used some mechanisms to die with the enemy, making Josh Fort already full of holes and crumbling, and the money spent on repairing it was no more than rebuilding. How much less is one.

But the biggest problem is that because the Josh family has no legal heirs, Josh County has been taken over by the royal family, and the royal family doesn't value this swamp land very much, let alone invest a lot of money in repairing Fort Josh.

Therefore, on the land closest to the old Josh Fort, a new Josh Fort was built. Although it is called Josh Fort, it is actually just a small village, which is completely misleading.

The ancestor of Leo's body was a blacksmith who worked for the Josh family. He was also among the people who escaped from Joshburg on the night of the massacre, and because he was a free citizen, he was not restricted. After leaving Josh County, he did not go back, but settled in other places.

However, he has always been obsessed with what happened in Josh County, and in his later years, he compiled the events of the massacre and other things related to Josh Fort into a family story. These stories grew up.

Now that Leo suddenly heard such a familiar name, he also felt a little surprised and thought of going to Old Josburg to visit.

Leo stretched out his hand and shook the bell hanging by the desk to pull the rope. After a while, he saw the butler open the door and come in, asking, "Sir, do you have any orders?"

Leo ordered: "You help me book a ticket to Bosa County. I'm going to Bosa County tonight."

"Okay! Sir." The butler nodded and turned to leave.

After the steward left, Sean also stood up and said, "In this case, I will wait for your good news. I hope you have a good journey."

"Wait." When Sean was about to leave, Leo suddenly stopped him and said, "I have something here that you need to deal with, otherwise, I'm not in the mood to help you with it."

"Is what you're talking about a spy case?" Sean was very smart and immediately understood what Leo meant, and asked back.

"Yes." Leo nodded.

Xiao En hesitated for a moment, nodded and said: "Although this matter is outside my authority, I can still remove the suspicion from you. Don't worry about this matter, it will be resolved soon."

After speaking, he put on his hat and bowed to Leo, walked out of the room, and left the apartment.

It wasn't until Sean left that Leo's eyes fell on the box. In fact, he didn't need to open the box, he had already perceived what was in the box through the mental network.

In addition to two old notebooks, there is also a string of bone necklaces and a very old-fashioned pocket watch. There are many traces of disassembly on the pocket watch, which seems to be from the hands of the royal family.

Leo opened the box, and first took out the two old notebooks and looked through them. On the surface, the contents of these notebooks were not the witchcraft of wizards, but the travel logs of wizards traveling in the world of Velen.

But in fact, it is not the same thing at all. When Leo transformed his vision into spiritual vision, the contents of the notebook changed completely. The two notebooks recorded the manufacturing methods of two kinds of magical objects of wizards. , one is a dead straw man, and the other is a soul box.

Leo carefully read the manufacturing methods of the two wizards hidden in the two notebooks, and began to suspect that the royal wizard might not have died back then.

The reason why he has such doubts is because from the analysis of the effects of these two wizard wonders, they should be matched, and there should be other matching wizard wonders, and the function of this set of wizard wonders, Probably used to make liches.

Among the various legends and myths in the world of Velen, the lich has always been the most special kind, because no matter how true the legend is, even the classics of various churches list the lich as the most evil existence, but it is interesting However, no one in the entire world of Velen has ever actually seen a lich.

However, from the knowledge obtained from the mark of the Weaver of the Web, Leo knew that the Wizard of the Tower once created a witchcraft that could deceive the Weaver of the Web. This witchcraft can allow the wizard to stay in the world in the state of a soul Will not be taken by the Weaver of Webs.

It's just that the web spinner doesn't know what kind of posture this kind of soul wizard exists in the world.

Now seeing the hidden content recorded in this note, Leo immediately thought of this kind of soul wizard, maybe the legendary Lich is this kind of soul wizard.

It's a pity that Leo doesn't know much about soul wizards. Most of them come from the mark of the web weaver. In addition, it was mentioned in Earl Drake's wizard notes that the content is probably about him and a certain soul. The wizard has a deal.

"Could it be that the soul wizard recorded in his notes is the court wizard of the British royal family?" When Leo recalled the information related to the soul wizard, a bold idea suddenly appeared in his mind.

Although this idea is a bit bold, it is not impossible, because from some fragments of information revealed in Earl Drake's wizard notes, it is not difficult to guess that when Earl Drake wrote this note, he had already landed And became the earl lord.

According to records, Earl Drake has never gone to sea since he went ashore, so the soul wizard mentioned in Earl Drake's notes can only appear in the Kingdom of England.

Thinking about it carefully, at that time, there seemed to be no one other than the court wizard of the royal family of England who was able to have an equal conversation with Earl Drake, who was a wizard of the tower, and trade with him on an equal footing, at least He couldn't find a second one among the people who had been made public in his memory, so the soul wizard mentioned in Earl Drake's notes was probably the court wizard.

Thinking of this, Leo couldn't help but feel that he seemed to be involved in a conspiracy inexplicably, and there seemed to be two tower wizards involved in this conspiracy.

However, he didn't feel worried or panicked, on the contrary, he was very excited, because he was likely to meet two tower wizards during his trip to Josh County, and he might be able to get more secrets about tower wizards from them. You can also get the reason why the tower disappeared, and the wizard's research on the fog.

After half an hour, the housekeeper handed over the train ticket to Leo, and then prepared a simple suitcase and suitcase for Leo. Trains in neighboring Saab County.

I don't know whether those who watched him hid a deeper technology, or Sean had already played his role. In short, from leaving the apartment to boarding the train, he didn't find a single watcher sent by Congress to investigate the case. The espionage case involving him seemed to be over.