The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Belmont Manor?" The warden didn't realize which manor he was talking about at first, but soon he remembered that this manor was the former Monte Manor, which had been bought by the two people in front of him now.

Thinking of this, the way he looked at Leo and Sylvia became a little weird.

In the city of Beruk, most of the rumors about the former Monte Manor focused on the disappearance of the Monte family, coupled with some urban legends generated by years of idleness, most people heard such legends. He just listened to it as some chatter after dinner, but as the warden of the third prison, he knew something that other people didn't know.

Ten years ago, the current warden was only the director of prison guards in the life sentence area. At that time, a murderer was sentenced to life imprisonment and then imprisoned in the third prison, where he was assigned to the area under his management.

The identity of the murderer was not low. He was the fifth executive judge of Beiruk City at that time, and his whole family was killed. Logically, he should be sentenced to death and executed immediately, but because the murderer had mastered Some very important things, so he was not sentenced to death, but to life imprisonment, locked up, and every week the federal government sent people here to interrogate him.

At that time, the warden was the regional supervisor. According to the rules, when the prisoner was arraigned by the federal commissioner, he had to be present.

The second is for the safety of the federal commissioner and to avoid accidents for him. Because in the past, when the whole body of the prisoner was imprisoned, he used various methods to coax the interrogator to let go of his guard, and then tricked him into approaching, biting off the blood vessels on the interrogator's neck with his teeth, causing the interrogator to lose too much blood This incident also directly led to the resignation of the then warden, and the remaining dozen prison guards and related supervisors were held accountable.

However, the warden now thinks that if he can go back in time, he would rather resign than attend the interrogation of this prisoner.

The interrogation at the beginning was quite normal, with the commissioner asking questions and the prisoner answering. The two were going back and forth, saying things that threatened or annoyed each other, but as the number of interrogations increased, something went wrong. , the prisoner seemed to have fallen into a state similar to a lunatic, and always said some silly things in various languages ​​when faced with questions, but the commissioner sent by the government was not only not angry, but seemed to have heard some important information And the warden once tried to peek at the content recorded by the commissioner in the notebook, and found that the content was also some meaningless messy symbols and words, which looked like a spirit Patient doodles.

At that time, he was also frightened, so he tried to find a reason and let other people listen in on his behalf. During the time he was looking for reasons and finding someone to replace him, he listened in several times. Whether it was a prisoner or a commissioner, They all seem to be normal, and their words and writing are more orderly, and what they say most is related to the Monte Manor.

Those contents probably meant that the prisoner went to Monte Manor to steal something, and then encountered a mysterious thing. Every time it was mentioned here, both the prisoner and the commissioner fell into that state of confusion again.

Later, the reason he was looking for was approved, he was given a month's leave, and his position was temporarily replaced by his deputy.

In that month, he took his family to go on vacation and played for a month. After the vacation, when he returned to the third prison, he learned that the government commissioner, the prisoner and the deputy who was listening to him were all dead. As for how he died, no one knows, but the federal government was alarmed, the entire area was blocked, and the work of cleaning up the corpses and so on was taken over by the federal government.

Afterwards, he tried to inquire about some relevant information, but he had no clues. He only knew from the people who first discovered the corpse that the corpse was very terrifying at that time. Already insane, locked up in a lunatic asylum.

Later, he was also warned by his superiors because of this incident, and he was also asked to keep the contents of those days' observations secret and so on.

I don't know if it was because the higher-ups asked him to keep it secret, so they gave him some benefits, or because it was just a coincidence that the warden at the time was also punished for this incident, and the warden, who was still in his prime, was transferred a few months later , He, the regional director who was originally not qualified, was also promoted exceptionally, and took over the position of the warden of the third prison.

This incident had a great impact on the warden, and it can be said that it changed his future life, because according to his situation, he would have to wait at least 20 or 30 years before he could take over the post of warden. , or transferred to other places to do other things, coupled with the weird process and tragic ending of that incident, he still remembers that incident so vividly that he only hears about the former Monte Manor now, Immediately recalled the whole thing.

The warden's expression was so obvious that both Leo and Sylvia noticed it quickly. They glanced at each other, and then Leo asked, "Is there any problem with my manor?"

"No, no, no problem!" The warden shook his head quickly.

"Mr. Warden, I hope to be friends with you, and I believe you will need our help at some point." Sylvia said, "If you know anything related to our manor, please tell us , I believe this is a good start to become friends."

After hearing Sylvia's words, the warden felt a little moved in his heart. After thinking about it for a while, he seemed to be talking to himself, and said: "The City Women's Curveball Association is very difficult to join. My daughter and wife I have applied for it four times, but they have not been approved, and they were still complaining about it not long ago, which really gave me a headache."

Sylvia smiled and made a promise: "This matter is very simple. The president of the Women's Workers' Association I joined happens to also be the president of the Women's Curveball Association. Tell her that as long as your wife and daughter It should not be difficult to pass the application if it meets the most basic criteria.”

Hearing the words, the warden also showed a smile, alleviating the only worry in his heart, and then told Sylvia all about his experience.

"Have all the interrogation materials recorded by the commissioner been confiscated?" Leo asked immediately after listening.

"Most of them were taken away, and only a few stubs were left." The warden seemed to guess that Leo would have such an inquiry, and he quickly gave an answer, and then added: "But those who left None of the materials that came down were of any use, and the useful ones were taken away.”

"I want to take a look, maybe I can find something that others haven't." Leo said nonchalantly.

Seeing what Leo said, the warden didn't say anything, stood up, gave instructions to the guard outside the door, and then returned to his desk.

Leo asked again: "Is the cell where the accident happened before still in use?"

The warden shook his head and said: "Of course it is impossible to use it. After the people from the federal government cleaned up everything, they sealed it up. Later, there were several accidents on the floor where the cell was located. The accident was caused by some normal people who suddenly went crazy and committed suicide inexplicably, so I simply sealed the cells on that floor, and the matter calmed down."

"We want to take a look later," Leo said.

The warden opened his mouth to persuade Leo, but he didn't say the words of persuasion, because he thought of the rumors he heard from some prisoners, knowing that some people in this world have special abilities, and Leo and Xi Since Sylvia was able to live in Monte Manor, it meant that the two must have some ability to solve problems.

The warden thought for a while and said: "I will arrange someone to take you there later, and I will also arrange for Cassie Tully you are going to meet."

Seeing that the matter had been settled, Leo didn't say any more, and sat back on the chair, while Sylvia chatted with the warden about some anecdotes about the upper class of Beruk City, so that the surrounding atmosphere would not be overwhelmed. Become deserted and embarrassing.

Not long after, the warden's subordinate came in with a box of documents.

Leo stood up, took the box, and immediately flipped through it quickly.

At the beginning, the warden saw Leo’s expression and felt that Leo should attach great importance to these materials, and thought that Leo might not be able to finish reading them in a while, so he planned to order the prison cafeteria to prepare some food that could be served on the table, but soon he I realized that I seemed to have made a mistake. The speed at which Leo flipped through those materials was not like reading at all, but casually flipping through the pages as if passing the boring time. The flipping speed was so fast that it took less than a quarter of an hour. All the information was read by him.

After flipping through the files, Leo handed the file box back to the prison guard who hadn't left yet, and asked him to send the files back. He followed him to the warden's desk, and went directly from the desk with some rudeness. He picked up a piece of paper and a pen, quickly drew a pattern on the paper, handed it to the warden, and asked: "Mr. Warden, in the materials recorded by the commissioner back then, did this often appear?" symbol."

The warden took a look at the paper, and immediately closed his eyes again, as if he saw something terrible. Then he folded the paper, opened his eyes and handed it back to Leo, and asked curiously: "How did Lord Leo know this symbol? I remember that there is no such symbol in those materials?"

"It is true that there is no such symbol, but it is mentioned that this symbol is written in cryptic language." Leo threw the paper into the fireplace in the office and burned it, and then continued: "This symbol has appeared in the manor, so I Remember, it is easy to associate together."

"So that's how it is." The warden showed a dazed look, but the way he looked at Leo became even weirder, as if he was looking at something rare.

Perhaps because he felt that his gaze was too rude, the warden quickly put away that gaze, then gave instructions to his subordinates, signed two special orders, and handed them over to Leo and Sylvie Ya.

Under the leadership of the prison guards, the two people who received the pass left the warden's office, went downstairs, walked through a passage that turned inward, and soon came to the cell area of ​​the prison.

After checking the passes of the two men at the door, and hearing the prison guard who led the way mention what the warden had ordered, he handed over the task, and then waved a wave towards the tower on the city wall on the side of the cell to the gate. After making a few hand gestures, the prison guard above slowly opened the heavy iron door on its hinges.

Outside the door is a huge activity playground, which is divided into a dozen small activity venues of different sizes by strong barbed wire. These venues are occupied by different prisoners in the prison, and these prisoners have not seen it open for a long time. The door was opened, and they all gathered to the edge of the cage to look at the entrance curiously.

They originally thought that new prisoners had been sent in, and they were about to give these newcomers a blow in accordance with the traditional rules, but in the end they saw a dozen heavily armed prison guards leading a man and a woman from the entrance to the isolation corridor , They all froze for a moment, and then whistled at Sylvia like a carnival, or said some obscene words, even if the prison guards sternly reprimanded them, some people even began to take off their pants to reveal their lower bodies, crawling Go to the barbed wire and make dirty gestures at Sylvia.

Leo frowned when he saw this scene, and when he was about to do something, he was stopped by Sylvia, who looked disdainfully at the prisoners who exploded with hormones, raised his hand as if He snapped his fingers casually.

Immediately afterwards, I saw that all the prisoners in the surrounding playground were lying on the ground one by one as if they were being weighed down by hundreds of thousands of catties. No matter how hard they tried, they could not get up. The person fell directly to the ground, and his body was directly crushed into a meatloaf by an invisible force. Blood also spread wantonly, and the entire playground fell silent for a while.

All the prison guards froze in place, looking around stupidly, not knowing what to do, they had never seen such a situation before, but they knew very well that all this should be related to the one that Sylvia just said It was related to snapping their fingers, but they didn't dare to ask more, because it was not difficult to hear from the words of the warden that these two people were important figures they could not afford to offend.

"Continue to lead the way! I think these people should be too tired from exercising and need to rest." Just when the prison guards were at a loss, Sylvia said to everyone.

Hearing Sylvia's words, the prison guards didn't dare to say anything. One of the prison guards turned around and walked outside after being hinted by the team leader, apparently intending to report the situation here to the warden, while the other Some prison guards still led Leo and Sylvia through the isolation aisle, to a building in the distance, until they reached the top floor blocked by an iron door, and then handed over the keys in their hands to the two. They retreated to the first floor. It seemed that they were letting the two of them open the door by themselves and decide whether to go in or not.