The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

It took more than ten minutes for Leo to arrive at a suspension bridge entering the Tenth District. Two three-meter-tall guards with rough skin and a lizard-like head stood guard on both sides of the bridge and stopped Lei. He stared at Leo with disgust and contempt, and asked: "This is not the place you should come, black guy! You leave immediately while I am in a good mood, otherwise..."

Leo ignored the bad attitude shown by the two big guys who were no different from monsters, and directly took out the invitation from the Alcott family and placed it in front of them.

Seeing this invitation card, the two big guys were stunned for a moment, and quickly recognized the origin of the invitation card. Apart from showing a strong expression of surprise on their faces, they couldn't hide a little suspicion in their eyes.

"What are you two idiots doing? This is a distinguished guest invited by your master." At this moment, behind Leo, a very hoarse voice suddenly shouted loudly at the two ancestral mutants blocking the way.

Hearing such a special hoarse voice, Leo almost didn't need to look back to know who was behind him.

"Mr. Wizmir, have you also received the invitation?" After the other party's voice fell, Leo turned his head and asked the middle-aged man approaching behind him.

I saw that the hair and beard of this middle-aged man were very neatly trimmed, and he was wearing the most popular bubble suit in Ten Towns. A special layer of fluorescent powder was applied to make him look more like a clown than a big shot in Ten Towns.

Because of his skin color, even if Leo wants to make friends these days, no one is willing to listen to him, but there are always exceptions to everything. Witzmir is the only one who treats Leo like a normal person these days. A resident of Ou's dream world. It's just that it's not clear whether he really didn't discriminate against the so-called black skin disease, or for other purposes.

Compared to Leo, a fake merchant, Witzmir, who was dressed like a ball, was a real ten-town merchant, and he seemed to be very famous in the noble circles of the ten-towns, and he also had a certain status. The ten bottles Leo sold Among the medicines, he took three bottles, and the Alcott family, who was the ruler of Seventh Lake Town, only took four bottles.

In the past few days, although Witzmir also has his own buying and selling tasks, he will spare time as much as possible every day to talk with Leo. Even because he knows that Leo wants to buy a lot of books, he also helps Leo buy them. He helped Leo find the diary of the veteran guarding the castle in the foggy area.

Although Wizmir helped Leo a lot in purchasing books, Leo could also feel that Wizmir always wanted to get some words out of his mouth in some conversations, and these words were vague. No one was testing the unfounded supporter of Silvermoon City behind him.

However, it is obvious that this real trader in the ten towns is a little bit worse, let alone that Leo has spiritual skills similar to witchcraft.

After Leo used part of the spirit technique skills to resonate with Wizmir's spirit with the help of the spiritual net, it had a hypnotic effect on him. Not only did Witzmir not get any information he wanted from Leo, but Leo got some information about his origin, such as he was the agent of the Ninth Chief Wizard in Ten Towns, and this time he was for The Machinery Factory in First Hushang Town purchased 500 special gears and so on.

However, Wizmir obviously possesses a magical object that can avoid the influence of psychic energy. When Leo was about to strengthen the influence and amplify the psychic energy, the wizard object on the other party reacted, pulling him out of the hypnotic state wake.

After returning to normal, Wizmir seemed to be very aware of what happened just now, and even mistakenly thought that Leo was performing witchcraft, so he left in a panic.

Originally, Leo thought that the ten-town merchant would not have any contact with him again, but he didn't expect that the other party would still take the initiative to greet him and help him out.

Wizmir seemed to have forgotten the incident of being hypnotized by Leo last time, and talked to Leo like a normal person: "This time, the people invited by Earl Andre XIII are not only the nobles in the city and you and me. , as long as they are merchants from other towns, they are all included in his invitation."

Since the other party pretended to be confused, there was no need for Leo to expose it, so he acted as if nothing had happened, followed the other party's words, thought for a while, and asked, "Does he want to buy something?"

If Andre XIII only contacted the nobles and Leo, then nine out of ten it was aimed at Leo, but now that he knows the details of the banquet invitation list from Wizmir, Leo Ou felt that Andre XIII might have other plans.

"It's possible, but it's not very likely. After all, Earl Andrei XIII has his exclusive merchants. With the relationship between the Alcott family and the Wizarding Association, you can't buy anything. You don't need to rely on us merchants." Buy things for him." While talking, Wizmir came to the drawbridge, took out his invitation card, and showed it in front of the two guards.

The difference from the situation just now is that the two guards did not doubt the authenticity of the invitation in Wizmir's hand at all. They immediately stepped aside and let Wizmir onto the bridge. Leo followed and walked towards the city wall opposite the suspension bridge. go.

Walking on the slightly swaying suspension bridge, Wizmir took some rhythmic steps, staggering the frequency of the suspension bridge shaking, making his steps very steady, and while walking, he pretended to say: "I guess Andre The Thirteenth summoned foreign merchants and local nobles this time probably because of that matter, and he probably wants to get some benefits from it."

Because there were no guards by his side, Wizmir's tone and words became a lot more casual. He no longer used the court-like etiquette language when addressing Andre XIII. Revealed a trace of disdain for Andre XIII.

However, Leo didn't pay attention to the change in Wizmir's tone. He was more concerned about some of the content revealed in Wizmir's words, such as what was the matter and what were the benefits.

Although Leo had some doubts in his heart, it didn't show on his face. He could tell that Wizmir must have thought that he came to Seventh Lake Town for the unknown event, so he pretended Puzzled, he said, "What about that? I don't know what you're talking about?" As he spoke, he deliberately changed the subject and said, "Have you bought everything you want?"

Although what Leo said at the moment is completely true, his contrived expression and the way he deliberately changed the topic made Wizmir more and more sure that his guess was right, and Leo came here for that matter of.

"Your Excellency Leo, why hide it from me!" Wizmir seemed to be very concerned about Leo's attitude, and said, "A wizard apprentice of yours did not hesitate to pretend to be a businessman and a dark-skinned patient, and even took out ten bottles of wizard Potions are used as bait, surely they are not just for the purpose of buying those garbage books? Since your identity can no longer be hidden, why don't the two of us work together, you know that we are not the only ones who want to get a fortune from it, you I also don’t want the things explained above to be messed up!”

Witzmir's self-righteous coercion and temptation exposed his trump card in front of Leo, and made Leo understand that the other party regarded himself as a wizard apprentice because of the previous psychic hypnosis, and he was still A post-background Sorcerer's Apprentice.

In this regard, Leo deliberately showed a serious expression on his face, and stopped in his tracks, pretending to be contemplative. Seeing Leo like this, Witzmir also stopped, without disturbing, but stood quietly aside, waiting for the final answer.

After a while, Leo recovered from his contemplation, looked at the slightly nervous Wizmir, and said, "Now is not the time to talk about this. After the banquet, we will find a place to talk about it in detail."

"I have a good place." Thinking that he had successfully persuaded Leo, Wizmir immediately relaxed his nervousness, and with a smile on his face, he said, "You should have heard of the flower shop in District 27." Right! I have booked a room there all year round, just tell the front desk, come to me, and the waiter there will take you to my room, and I will stay there these days."

Leo heard the words, did not answer, just nodded slightly, crossed Witzmir, and walked quickly up the wall that separated the inner and outer towns, followed by Witzmir with a smile on his face.

Because the first to tenth districts are a complete floating platform of vines, the urban layout here is much more random than those outside. A large number of gardens are scattered on this huge floating platform. Many trees are planted in the garden. These trees are different from the twisted trees in the forest outside the city. They are somewhat similar to the trees in the world of Velen, but not so tall. That's all.

There are large and small aristocratic manors in these gardens. They all belong to the nobles who live here and their vassal nobles. The architectural styles in the manors have their own characteristics, but they all maintain a common feature, that is, all the buildings They are all based on asymmetry.

Although the boundaries of the city were not clearly defined by lakes and floating platforms like those outside the city, the nobles living here divided a complete vine into ten city areas based on the types of trees planted and the stone slabs paved on the road.

People in this dream world seem to be very sensitive to the number ten. For example, there are ten chief wizards of the Wizards Association, ten chief pharmacists of the Pharmacists Association, ten districts in Silver Moon City, and ten towns in Crescent Moon Lake. Each lake town has one hundred areas, which is a multiple of ten, and there are ten guard castles in the foggy area outside, and so on.

The number of noble families in Hushang Town did not exceed the limit of ten. There were ten noble families in total, and each noble family occupied a city area. The rest of the noble families could only join these ten families and become vassals.

Although on the surface, the nobles who became vassals have lost their way to advance, but in fact it is not the case. Except for the Alcott family who is the permanent ruler, the other nine noble families can't change their family names, but the rulers within the family have no choice. It can be replaced by any means, even a vassal can become the main clan one day.

Therefore, the internal struggles of the nine noble families are very fierce. Those in power must always hold on to the power in their hands, and beware of the people below snatching it away, while the people below need to constantly attack the prestige of those in power above. Withhold real power from the opponent's hands little by little, and ascend to a higher position.

An aristocratic philosopher from First Laketown once said that any by-product of a game of power does not exist without evidence. This sentence was recognized by all the aristocratic families in Hushang Town, and it was regarded as an unwritten aristocratic agreement. Any by-product of power struggles such as murder and frame-up, without evidence, even if the murder happened in front of everyone. does not exist.

However, what is ridiculous is that the aristocratic philosopher who uttered this aristocratic law eventually became the murderer of a certain murder because of a button he accidentally dropped, and was finally thrown into Crescent Moon Lake in public.

The power games inside these noble families will not be known to ordinary citizens outside the high walls, but Leo, an outsider, can understand these things entirely because of a diary he bought, which is also from the town of the third lake. A certain nobleman, and the person who sold him this diary was also Wizmir.

"The garden banquet held by the Alcott family is the most interesting, and the other nine noble families will be there. Then the banquet will be a bloody battle field of intrigue, which cannot be seen in other places." Wizmir walked Beside Leo, looking at everything in front of him, reminded: "However, Mr. Leo, you must be careful, just be a bystander, don't end up participating in this game, otherwise, even if you have a wizard apprentice The identity of the player must also abide by the rules of nobility in the game."

Hearing Wizmir's reminder, Leo smiled noncommittally, turned around and walked to the steam elevator not far away.

After the two descended to the ground through the elevator, the Alcott family had sent servants to wait here. When they saw Leo, they immediately greeted them, and after checking their invitations, they took them to a car. Before the carriage.

The style of this carriage is very similar to that of Velen world, but the carriage does not have the horses to pull the cart.

I saw that the builder installed a small steam device at the back of the carriage, and a crank lever was added to the driver's seat in front. After Leo and Wizmir got into the carriage, the servant sitting in the driver's seat pressed down the lever on the left hand side. With the sound of steam whistle, the carriage moved forward slowly, and the servant sat on the right hand lever. Under control, he turned a corner on the spacious road and drove into the path across the road.

Leo was a little surprised to see this carriage-style steam car. Because since he came to this dream world, he has seen everything in so many days, although there are many novel items, such as blade machine crossbows, mechanical devices such as single-body steam lifts, etc., but the prototypes of these machines Most of them have traces in the world of Velen.

These mechanical devices are either improved on the basis of a certain prototype machine, or they are completely copied from the prototype machine, but the steam carriage he is riding on now does not have any similar mechanical devices in Vinylon World.