The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

After making this discovery, Leo also had a guess in his mind, so he pointed to the oil painting and asked, "Your Excellency Forsyth, are you the young man in that oil painting?"

"Yes." St. Francis didn't understand why Leo suddenly changed the subject, but he nodded patiently and said, "Yes, that's me. The above content is my experience of following my mentor when I was young. I think that experience is the most important experience in my life, so I got someone to draw it and hang it here to remind myself that no matter what time I am, I am just a humble pathfinder."

Leo suddenly asked in a jumpy manner: "Your surname is Alcott?"

St. Francis was stunned. At first he didn't quite understand the reason for Leo's question, but he still said truthfully: "When I became an ascetic and gave up the past, I also gave up my name. My surname at that time was Alcott." At this point, he suddenly paused, as if thinking of something, his expression became a little excited, and he asked anxiously, "Did you see Andrew Orr at No. 9 Golden Oak Street?" Kurt?"

"No." Leo shook his head, and before Saint Francis was disappointed, he said, "But I saw his descendants."

"Children and grandchildren?" St. Francis was stunned for a while, unable to understand what Leo said, he couldn't help but said, "Can you tell me in detail what's going on inside No. 9 Golden Oak Street?"

"Of course." Leo nodded, but changed the topic and said, "But you need to promise me two conditions."

St. Francis smiled and said, "It's been a long time since anyone negotiated terms with me like this. Tell me? What terms do you want to negotiate?"

"Actually, there are two very simple conditions." Leo didn't care about the power that Saint Francis revealed intentionally or unintentionally, and said calmly: "The first is to tell me, what is the relationship between you and Andrew Alcott? What's going on here?"

Saint Francis was stunned for a moment, never thinking that Leo would actually propose such a condition. Although this condition had already touched his personal privacy, he was not annoyed by it. Instead, he thought about it for a while and nodded. , said: "Since Mr. Leo wants to know, let me tell you! Actually, you should have guessed just now that I have a blood relationship with Andrew Alcott. In fact, this relationship may be more important than you guessed. To be closer, Andrew Alcott was my father, I was born at 9 Golden Oak Street, and I was called Queen Alcott before I took the name Forsythe."

"Quin Alcott?" Leo straightened slightly and confirmed, "Andrew Alcott's youngest son, Quinn Alcott?"

"Yes." Saint Francis nodded.

Leo was a little puzzled and asked, "Aren't you already dead? And your age..."

"I am already very old, and I have already exceeded the limit of normal people's ability to live. In fact, I should have gone to see my lord long ago, but my lord is unwilling to see me. He mercifully allows me to continue living in this place. In the world, spread the holy word for Him." St. Francis smiled, and then said seriously: "I was just lucky. When the disaster happened, I was taken out of the manor by the servants at home and played on the lake, so I I was able to survive, and afterward the priests of my lord took me to raise me, and when I became an adult, I voluntarily became an ascetic missionary until today."

"Did you go to No. 9 Golden Oak Street afterwards?" Leo asked in a deep voice.

"Before, after I became an official priest, I found that I could get the answer of my Lord every time I prayed. At that time, I was full of confidence, thinking that I could find out what happened to my family back then, and I could get an answer, but... "Saint Francis paused for a while, and then smiled wryly: "I stood outside No. 9 Golden Oak Street for a day and a night, but in the end I couldn't take that step to enter the manor." He sighed, looked at Leo and said: "This matter has been my heart disease for so many years. I thought it was impossible to get an answer until I went to see my lord, but you appeared at this time, you Probably the first person to come out of Nine Golden Oak Street alive."

Leo shook his head slightly, and said, "I'm not the first one, I remember there was someone before me..."

"No, you were the first," Saint Francis interrupted Leo, and said, "I know which one you are talking about, but it is not a person."

Leo frowned and said: "Even if that is not a human being, but an unknown family member, his knowledge should be able to..."

"No, you misunderstood, I didn't mean the family." St. Francis shook his head and said, "It is a monster that has never been seen before."

After finishing speaking, St. Francis got up and walked to the side bookcase, searched carefully on the bookcase, found a very old document, patted the dust on it, opened it for confirmation, and then walked back , handed the file to Leo.

Leo was also polite, took the file and flipped through it.

This document is a report document, the content of which is mainly that the paladins of the Church of the Hill King in Miria and others arrested the so-called family members who came out of No. 9 Golden Oak Street. In this report, in addition to describing the capture process in detail, it also explained the situation of the so-called family in detail. It mainly mentioned that after the monster died, it turned into a puddle of black oil, and this Black oil is extremely corrosive and infectious.

In the report, it is mentioned that there are two pious knights of the Lord of the Sky, basically in a few years they will be able to receive the ritual of divine grace and become paladins, and these two pious knights have been inadvertently contaminated with this black oil , The body immediately appeared a large area of ​​corrosion.

Afterwards, the priests of the Church of the Lord of the Sky removed the black oil from the two pious knights and healed their corroded bodies, but the two pious knights went crazy, according to what they said before they went crazy They seem to have heard some kind of indescribable terrifying call.

"Abyss." Leo quickly thought of the origin of the black oil. Obviously, the survivor of No. 9 Golden Oak Street who was regarded as a family member was actually an abyss mutant.

Leo put down the report, turned his head to look at St. Francis, and asked, "Don't you suspect that I have also become that kind of monster?"

"I suspected it." St. Francis said truthfully, "But after our investigation, we found that you have no problems."

Leo thought of the spies he found in Port of Sete. He thought that those people were either from the black market or from the Kingdom of England, but he didn't expect that there were people from the church among them.

"The first condition is fulfilled, let's talk about the second condition?" Leo didn't ask any more, but continued the previous topic, saying: "The second condition is also very simple, you need to pay and I Items equivalent to the information provided, this item can be data, information, or items.”

St. Francis frowned. Obviously, the second condition was much more difficult in his mind than the first condition, because he was not sure how precious the information about No. 9 Golden Oak Street provided by Leo was. Not sure if I can pay for an equivalent item.

Leo saw what St. Francis was thinking, and said: "Your Excellency, you don't need to consider the value issue. I can tell you what happened after entering No. 9 Golden Oak Street. After I finish talking, you can decide how much it is worth. , Of course, you can say that what I said is useless and only worth a coin, and I will not refute the value set by you, just take the coin and leave, and I will not cause any trouble for you or the Church of the King of the Hill."

"It's very interesting." St. Francis smiled, took out a copper horn from the cloth bag hanging on his belt, put it on the table, and said, "In this case, I will take out the advance payment first."

Leo didn't pay attention to this copper dime either, he picked it up directly, put it in his pocket, and then told him very carefully what happened to him at No. 9 Golden Oak Street, because he had told Sylvia about it before. experience, so he can be said to be familiar with it now.

Originally, he was planning to hide things about the abandoned capital and the place where everything ends, but in the end he didn't do that. Instead, he said it in great detail, and while he said it, he watched Saint Francis' expression.

Although St. Francis's expression was very calm throughout the whole process, when he mentioned the environment and scenery of Lake Town, the development of the Alcott family in Lake Town, the church of gods in Lake Town, and the place where everything ends, his face was full of excitement. There was a slight change in his expression, this change was not strong, most people might ignore it, but Leo, who was paying special attention, caught this change in expression.

After talking about going to the next level of the world, but unexpectedly returning to the world of Velen, Leo stopped and did not continue talking.

Leo then asked directly: "This is what happened to me at No. 9 Golden Oak Street. Do you think these materials are only worth a copper dime?"

Saint Francis didn't answer, he seemed to be immersed in what Leo said, and Leo didn't ask any more questions, just sat there quietly, but his mind was recalling the subtle things on Saint Francis' face just now. The meaning of the expression.

"He knows the town on the lake." After carefully recalling the first subtle expression that Saint Francis revealed, Leo immediately came to a conclusion.

When Leo talked about Lake Town, and a little bit about the time when Lake Town was protected by thick fog, the subtle expression on St. Francis' face was excited and excited, as if a secret he had known for a long time was now confirmed. It's the same, and I'm very excited.

This mood swing is also the biggest mood swing among several subtle mood swings, and even this mood made St. Francis couldn't help asking Leo about the more detailed situation of Lake Town, such as the environment and buildings of Lake Town Wait, this is the only time he asked during the whole process.

From the subsequent expression changes, it can be seen that he was comparing what Leo said, so that when he talked about the development history of the Alcott family in Lake Town, he was a little distracted, obviously thinking about other things about Lake Town. things went.

When Leo later mentioned the church in Lake Town, he inevitably frowned. Whether it was the Church of the Corpse Collector, the Church of the Eye of Truth, or even the Church of the Mother of Nests, he regarded it as a cult. , but when he heard that the Lady in the Lake actually had a church in Hushang Town, and it was even developing very well, he had a hesitant look on his face. Undoubtedly, the Lady in the Lake was completely beyond his expectations.

It's just that he didn't open his mouth to ask more details about the development of Lady in the Lake Church in Lake Town, and let Leo continue to talk.

It wasn't until Leo mentioned the abandoned capital and the place where everything ends that his face changed again. Although the expression on his face didn't change very much, Leo could feel the change in his heart. It was already a bit chaotic for a moment, because St. Francis' breathing became a lot faster, and this situation continued until Leo finally finished speaking, and even after he finished speaking, he still hadn't recovered.

After a while, St. Francis' breathing calmed down a little. He also recovered from his contemplation, and looked at Leo with complicated eyes. He opened his mouth to say something, but he didn't know how to say it. After being silent for a while, he sighed heavily and said, "The information you provided is of great value, unimaginably large, even I cannot make an evaluation."

"It seems that I'm lucky. The value of these materials is greater than a dime." Leo smiled, and then asked directly: "So how will you pay me now?"

"The property in my hand is far from being able to cover the value of this document." St. Francis replied truthfully to Leo.

Leo smiled and said, "Your Excellency, don't you want to tell me that you want to renege on the debt?"

"Of course not." St. Francis shook his head, pondered for a while, then stood up, walked to the side of the desk, squatted down, searched carefully inside the desk, and then took out the A very thick notebook, almost comparable to a textbook in terms of the thickness of the notebook.

When he took out this notebook, St. Francis showed a deep nostalgic look on his face. It seemed that this notebook held an extremely important position in his heart, so that he became a little hesitant now.

But in the end, he still made a decision, walked to Leo with the notebook, handed the notebook to Leo, and said: "Although in my opinion, this notebook is worth less than the information you provided. It’s a lot worse, but I believe this notebook can definitely make up for the information you just provided in your eyes.”

Leo took the notebook suspiciously, and saw that the cover of the notebook was made of animal skin like snake skin and lizard skin. The Zongamore variant bears the name of the owner of the note, Conte Sauron.