The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Your Excellency Leo, do you know us?" Before the man in black robe came in, he pulled a scarf from his neck and completely surrounded the half of his face exposed under the hood, and then opened the door to come in. After Ou and Sylvia, the leader asked directly.

"I've been to the Hans family's private library and looked at the books inside." Leo didn't give a positive answer, but the answer was enough.

The leader of the black-robed man nodded, did not continue, and then went straight to the topic: "We came here to ask about the experiences of Lord Leo and Ms. Sylvia that night, and see if we can find any other useful clues. .”

Sylvia replied calmly: "Sorry, we had already rested very early that night, and we didn't know what happened outside until Team Leader Kadi came to ask."

After the leader of the black-robed man heard the answer, he turned his head and looked at his colleague beside him. The colleague nodded slightly, as if he could tell whether Sylvia's words were true or false.

After seeing the reaction of his colleagues, the leader of the black-robed man also seemed a little disappointed, and felt that there was no need to stay here any longer, so he stood up and was about to leave.

At this time, Leo suddenly opened his mouth and asked the other party: "Can I see your appearance?"

The three men in black glared at Leo at the same time, as if Leo's words hit their pain points. One of them even stepped forward to teach Leo a lesson, but was caught by the man in black. The chief stopped it.

Although these body mutations are the price they need to pay for gaining strength, if they choose again, they will still choose to become black-robed people, but this does not mean that they are satisfied with their bodies. In fact, except for a very few Except for the black-robed people who already had psychological problems, the vast majority of other black-robed people hated their bodies and appearance extremely, because it was this body and appearance that made them unable to call themselves human beings.

Leo's request sounded simple, but it undoubtedly hit the sore spot of the three men in black robes. It seemed to them that they were insulted face to face.

"If you don't want to, just pretend I didn't say anything." Leo could naturally feel the emotions of the three of them, and he also realized that he seemed to have said something wrong, so he said with a little apology: "I don't know this The matter is so important to the three of you, it's just that the man in black is curious."

Although Leo could feel apologetic for what he said, the three men in black robes could still feel that Leo's attitude was still high, which made them angry and did not subside because of the apology.

However, the leader of the black-robed man seemed to have a very good heart, took a few deep breaths, suppressed the displeasure in his heart, and then said to Leo: "My appearance is too weird, I'm afraid it will scare you, Lord Leo. , and may even harm you unintentionally, if you want to see it, please sign a waiver first."

"Okay." Leo said without thinking.

The two black-robed men seemed to know what the leader of the black-robed men was going to do, and they looked at Leo with a hint of schadenfreude, without any intention of stopping it.

After hearing Leo's answer, the leader of the black-robed man didn't say much. He took out a simple exemption document from his arms and handed it to Leo. Judging from his skilled movements, he should It's not the first time something like this has been done.

Leo took the document and looked at it for a while, then signed it, and Sylvia also took the pen and signed her name.

Seeing Sylvia's actions, the leader of the black-robed man hesitated for a moment and said, "Ms. Sylvia, you..."

"I'm curious too." Sylvia responded without waiting for the other party to finish speaking.

Hearing Sylvia's answer, the leader of the black-robed man paused for a moment, and said nothing. In his opinion, Sylvia didn't blame him for asking for bad luck, so he took the signed document , put it in the pocket, and then took off the hood that covered the entire head, and at the same time untied the scarf that covered the face.

I saw that the head of the black-robed man had no scalp, only a layer of transparent skull with some tiny blood vessels attached to it. Looking through the skull, one could see a brain. The brain itself had nothing to do with it. , but the brain is covered with all kinds of worms, and it looks like it will make people feel scalp numb.

Compared with his transparent skull and worm brain, the uncontrolled tentacles on his face and the barbed teeth that covered the entire mouth looked ordinary.

After revealing his true face, the leader of the black-robed man also looked at Leo and Sylvia. He hoped to see the look of fear on the faces of these two unusual figures, just like those who made similar requests in the past. like the rich and powerful.

However, he was disappointed, neither Leo nor Sylvia looked at him with any element of fear, and the expressions on their faces were extremely even, and he could even feel the two People seem a little disappointed, as if his image is not weird enough.

And what made him feel even more uncomfortable was that the way Leo looked at him gave him an inexplicable fear, as if all the secrets in him had been seen through by the other party.

"Okay! Your Excellency, please put the hood back on!" Just when the leader of the black-robed man was puzzled by the reaction of the two people in front of him, Leo took the initiative to signal the leader of the black-robed man to restore the clothes.

Hearing this, the leader of the men in black robes, who was in doubt, instinctively put on the hood and scarf again, and then asked Chao Leo who was full of doubts: "Why? Why are you not affected?"

The other men in black also looked at Leo and Silvia in astonishment.

"It's just too much." Leo replied simply.

"Impossible!" The leader of the black-robed man straightened the scarf on his face and said, "Even if you have seen more and weirder things, the way you see me will definitely not affect you at all."

The reason why the leader of the black-robed man said this was not that he was extremely confident in his strange appearance, thinking that anyone who saw it would be frightened, but because he knew very well that there was a mysterious power in his appearance that he also knew , this kind of power will arouse people's most primitive fears.

The Ministry of Education and Culture once conducted an experiment, finding a dozen tough guys who would not frown even if they died, to test the mysterious power possessed by his appearance. The result was that without exception, those tough guys all changed after seeing his appearance. Became the weakest soft egg in the heart.

It is precisely because of this that he was assigned to serve as an interrogator in the interrogation department, and his interrogation success rate has been 100% so far. This time he will be sent here to work, not only because his team happens to be in Nearby, it was more because he was able to get more useful information from the spies, and it was all because of him that the city-wide search went so smoothly.

However, now he finds that his omnipotent ability has failed, and it is not for one person, but for two people. He can also see that Sylvia also has no abnormal feelings about his appearance. This sudden change He didn't know how to react for a while, and there was an inexplicable panic in his heart.

Leo ignored the questioning of the leader of the black robe, and said calmly: "If you have nothing to do, please leave! We still have things to do."

Although Leo's tone was very calm, it possessed an inexplicable power, which even surpassed any high-level dignitaries of the Otto Federation that the man in black had ever seen. They all chose to obey Leo's orders involuntarily. , turned and left the carriage.

Until they walked a certain distance, they gradually recovered, and realized that their reaction just now was very wrong.

"Go and get the documents of Leo and Sylvia right away." After they returned to the temporary office, the leader of the black-robed man quickly made a decision and ordered.

The black-robed assistant in the office immediately went to find the information of Leo and Sylvia, and after a while, he took a very thin folder and put it on the desk of the leader of the black-robed man.

"Why is there only so little?" The leader of the black-robed man opened the folder and found that there were only two pieces of paper in it, and the content on the paper was very little, so little that it was not even as good as the information he had heard from the secret service security guards on the golden car.

The black-robed assistant immediately explained: "The information on Leo and Sylvia's couple has been filed as the highest level, and non-related departments need to read it, and must obtain the permission of the Prime Minister, Congress and the Supreme Court."

"How could this be?" The leader of the black-robed man was stunned.

The assistant in the black robe explained: "It is said that Leo Dodd is a very good weapon research and development expert. He has a weapon research and development agreement with the government and has already achieved some results, and he also changed clothes with the military. It's related, so the security level will be raised to the highest." He hesitated for a while, and added: "When I got the materials just now, the military management officer in the data room told us not to continue investigating the relationship with the Leo couple. Anything, so as not to cause misunderstandings by the military.”

Hearing this news, the leader of the black-robed man was silent for a moment, closed the folder in his hand, and was about to pass it to the assistant, asking him to exchange the information, but he seemed to have changed his mind halfway, and put the folder aside In a black briefcase.

Seeing the folder in the black briefcase, the people in black robes around were a little surprised, because the documents contained in the black briefcase were all those who were classified as hostile forces or suspected hostile forces.

Although, everyone was curious, but they didn't ask their own heads, but turned around and went to their own business, as if they didn't know about it.

However, the leader of the black-robed man didn't know that his actions were always being monitored by Leo's mental network. At this time, Leo, who was in the study room of the carriage, couldn't help smiling, and told Sylvie about the file. Ya listen.

Sylvia smiled disdainfully, obviously she didn't care much about it like Leo, but she asked with some doubts: "What's so special about that man, it's worth your deliberately provoking his curiosity heart and doubt?"

"It's not him, but them." Leo explained: "There is obviously a problem with the transformation of their bodies, but this problematic transformation can endow them with supernatural strength, and can also form a state of balance in their bodies. I'm a little curious about that. And don't you feel it?"

"What do you feel?" Sylvia asked.

Leo reminded: "The energy fluctuations on them are very similar to those of Velen's mutant beasts."

"Is it similar?" Sylvia frowned, recalled it carefully, shook her head, and said, "It doesn't feel like it at all."

Leo smiled and didn't explain. He couldn't consolidate his understanding of why Sylvia felt this way, because if he couldn't see the energy waves emanating from the other party, he might feel the same way as Sylvia. in conclusion.

However, he can clearly feel and even see the energy waves on the opponent, and if he compares the energy waves on the opponent with the energy waves on Velen's monsters that have mutated due to the gray fog, he will find that the wavelengths of the two are different. It is exactly the same as the frequency, but the problem is that the wavelength and frequency are the same, but the two feel completely different to Leo, which is one of the reasons why Leo is interested in these black-robed men.

The people in black robes belong to one of the most secretive departments of the Otter Federation, and they belong to the secrets of the federal secrets. If he, a foreigner, randomly investigates things about the people in black robes, it will definitely cause some unnecessary misunderstandings.

Since he can't take the initiative to investigate the other party, he should simply let the other party take the initiative to contact him. That's why he deliberately attracted the attention of the black-robed leader and asked him to include himself as one of the investigation targets. The man in black came to his door and provided him with research materials.

With the assistance of the men in black, the search of the entire city was soon over, and the blockade of the main roads to the outside world was gradually lifted. Although there are still a group of soldiers who have not been transported out, the military's requisition and control of the railway station have also been completed. After it was untied, trains began to leave one after another, and the train reached by Leo and Silvia was also one of the first trains to leave.

Although the leader of the black robe said that there were still some things that needed Leo's assistance in the investigation and wanted to keep Leo for a while, the federal government rejected his request because Leo had wasted too much time.

As several weapon sketches submitted by Leo were sent to a special weapon research and development department for verification, the federal government has already gained considerable confidence in Leo's ability to develop weapons. Satisfying the federal government, but the production is too difficult, and if you don't pay attention, there will be malfunctions, leading to some accidents, causing loss of personnel and property. In addition, the cost of weapons is too expensive. Would hate to use it.

However, people from the federal government have been able to see hope from these design sketches. They feel that if they give Leo a little time, they may be able to design a weapon that is cheaper, easier to manufacture, and more powerful.

In the beginning, they just casually pulled anyone capable of making weapons into their plan like a fisherman cast a net, and they didn't expect much from Leo, but now they found that Leo's weapon research and development ability was very good, so they had a lot of love for Leo. Leo's emphasis also changed accordingly, such as classifying his files to the highest level.