The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Before seeing the Security Bureau, Leo always thought that the guards and city guards in each district of Seventh Lake Town were one, but now it seems that although the uniforms on the two are very similar, they are actually two different groups. department.

The best way to distinguish is that the city guards are all people with obvious physical changes, while the guards are not obvious physical changes, and many guards are even ordinary people.

The divisions of the two are also different. One is in charge of public security and the other is in charge of cases. There is no distinction between the two. It is just because most ordinary civilians in the dream world advocate ancestralization. The more obvious the ancestralization of organs, the easier it is to gain respect. And fear, so under the effect of this mentality, the prestige and status of the Security Bureau among the people is more than inferior to that of the City Guards.

Over time, even the police officers of the security bureau felt that they were inferior to the city guards from the bottom of their hearts, so that the office building they were assigned was only one-third the size of the city guards next door, and it was very dilapidated. It must have been repaired for a long time.

Marek led Leo into the old five-story building of the 23rd District Security Bureau, and led him to the basement.

Although Marek is the director of the Security Bureau, the security bureau has no respect for the director, let alone standing up and saluting Marek, and even unwilling to look at Marek, and even some People in senior security uniforms looked at Marek with naked hostility.

"You don't seem to have a good relationship with your subordinates?" Seeing this scene, Leo straightforwardly said to Marek who was leading the way.

Marek didn't seem to care about the relationship with his subordinates, and said: "No one would like a security chief who came out of nowhere, especially those who thought they might become the chief, they are not willing to fail like this, They didn't dare to attack me, so they could only take advantage of various opportunities to spread rumors about me, and it finally became what it is now."

Leo laughed again and said, "Won't you tell me that the only person in the security bureau who really wants to investigate the case is you, and the others just want to wait to see your jokes?"

"Yes." Marek readily admitted Leo's guess, then pushed open the basement door, led Leo in, pointed to a corpse already placed on the autopsy table, and said: "This is the corpse you need to decompose. It took me some connections to persuade the Nowitzki family to take the corpse out for inspection, so you need to move faster. After three ticks, the Nowitzki family will Someone come and take the body, and it's best not to let them see what we're doing."

Leo didn't rush forward to check the corpse, but scanned the surrounding environment. Obviously, this mortuary was specially made at the suggestion of Peter Alcott, because he saw many shadows of forensic autopsy sites in the ancient earth era of the Earth Federation in this house, and the cold winter warehouse used to freeze corpses , a surgical lamp used to increase brightness, and water pipes and channels around the planing table used to clean blood, etc.

Marek took the initiative to explain: "The room was modified according to Peter's request, and it has not been used yet. I originally wanted him to check for omissions, but he was nowhere to be seen. He is really a headache."

Leo put the suitcase in his hand on the table next to the mortuary table, then took off his coat, hung it on a hook beside him, took off a doctor's uniform covering his whole body, put it on, put on leather gloves, and walked to the park. In front of the corpse table, he opened the suitcase, took out the dissection tools one by one, and placed them on the table one by one.

Marek walked across to Leo and stood quietly, waiting for the results of the autopsy.

Leo is no stranger to human anatomy. It was a compulsory course during the Earth Federation period. However, forensic anatomy and human anatomy are two different things. operate.

This corpse is an obvious descendant of aristocrats. The reason why Leo judged this is because the ancestral state of his body showed a stable recessive state. completely hidden. In this way, the aristocrats will look no different from ordinary people in normal times, and only when necessary will they stimulate the recessive ancestralization, just like some variant genetic mutants of the Earth Federation.

These secret things about the nobles come from the collection of books collected from Peter Alcott’s cabin. Although Leo only recorded the contents of the books, he has not read them thoroughly, but the sub-brain system has been able to include them in the data analysis serialized.

After careful inspection, Leo found that the deadly wound of the deceased originated from the chest, and the knife-like sharp object directly penetrated the heart at close range, and he died on the spot without even a chance to resist. Afterwards, the corpse was cut open and four organs including the heart, lungs, stomach and kidneys were removed.

Leo was stunned when he saw the hollowed out chest cavity, as if he had thought of something, instead of continuing to dissect the corpse and investigate the cause of death, he stopped and meditated for a moment.

Marek on the side wanted to ask about Leo's situation several times, but he held back because he was worried that he would interrupt Leo's train of thought. According to the past experience of cooperating with Peter, the consequences of interrupting train of thought would be very serious.

Not long after, Leo recovered from his contemplation and did not explain, but continued to dissect until the final dissection was completed, and then carefully inspected every part of the corpse, so detailed that even the toes were checked .

After the inspection, Leo stopped, carefully cleaned up all kinds of dissecting instruments one by one, and put them back into the suitcase.

After taking off the gloves and clothes, he changed into his own clothes, and said to Marek, who was already showing a look of anxiety, "The fatal wound of the deceased was on the chest, and the sharp weapon directly penetrated the heart at close range, killing him on the spot. After death, the organs of the deceased were removed, but the person who removed the organs was very unfamiliar, and the location of the knife was wrong, so the organs he removed were somewhat incomplete."

"The technique is very unfamiliar?" Marek was stunned when he heard Leo's words, and leaned up to the dissected corpse to look carefully at the hollowed out chest cavity, but he couldn't see anything unusual, so he walked to the side of the refrigerator. In the cabinet, a cabinet door was opened, and a female corpse that had been dissected and frozen in ice was dragged out, and he said, "Is the method used to remove the organs of this corpse the same?"

Leo stepped forward, looking as if he was carefully inspecting the frozen corpse. In fact, he had already obtained the result through the analysis of the sub-brain at a glance, and his attention is now on On the root of Turing on the freezer.

This Turing radical is not complicated. It is composed of more than 20 basic radicals, and it is easy to remember, but the arrangement of these basic radicals and the connection symbols between each radical are similar to those of Rembrandt. There is a big deviation in what is said. This makes Leo even if he can recognize these radicals, he can only recognize from the meaning of a single basic radical that the basic utility of this Turing radical is to absorb heat, not to release cold air as he guessed.

"How is it? Is it the same?" Seeing that Leo had checked for a long time without speaking, Marek asked impatiently.

"It's not the same." Leo pulled his attention back, pointed to the surgical scars on the internal organs of the corpse, and said, "The person who handled this corpse is very familiar with anatomy, and the knife is accurate, and there is no unnecessary knife. Every part of the internal organs is well understood, and the harvested organs are also complete." As he spoke, he said in a deep voice: "If you want to investigate the murderer of this corpse, you'd better look for it from the point of proficiency in decomposition. There are very few people in the Society of Pharmacists who know how to disassemble organs, and even fewer who are proficient in it."

While saying these words, a list of the latest academic reports of the Pharmacists Association appeared in front of Leo's eyes. Almost all of the academic reports were improvements to pharmaceutical prescriptions. This time can unblock nasal congestion, so decomposition or anatomy is also an unpopular medicine in this world.

"What about the corpse?" Like most people here, Marek was not interested in the cause of a prostitute's death and finding the murderer, but he was interested in the issue of the noble corpse.

Leo could feel that the identity of the Nowitzki family heir made Marek feel particularly nervous, so he simply said: "I can only tell you that the murderer who killed him, the person who disassembled his internal organs, and the person who killed this woman People are not the same person.”

"What?" Marek had a look of embarrassment on his face.

"There is another point that may be useful to you." Leo added: "The place where the nobleman was killed and the place where the internal organs were decomposed are not the same place. There are a lot of traces of transportation on this nobleman. The place where he fell It should be a garden, and his hair was stained with some grass clippings and petals. This thing is not common in the outer city, especially in the 23rd district. In addition, he was decomposed and his internal organs were taken out three standard hours after his death. .”

After hearing Leo's analysis, Marek soon seemed to think of something, and his face became extremely ugly.

"Do you need me to give you a suggestion?" Leo tidied up his clothes, picked up the suitcase, and said to Marek who was frowning.

"Suggestion?" Marek hurriedly said as if grasping at a straw, "Do you have any good suggestions?"

Leo smiled and said: "Either don't worry about this matter, even if you are demoted, you have to get out of this matter, or close the case as soon as possible, and don't delay it."

"You..." Marek looked at Leo in shock, and said anxiously, "Do you know something?"

"Isn't this obvious?" Leo looked at the corpse on the dissection table calmly, and said: "Family fights, one side assassinates the other, and then use the murder case in the 23rd district to ask his subordinates to transport the body to District 23, pretend to be those victims, and find another one at the end..."

"Stop talking!" Marek interrupted Leo, and then said seriously to Leo: "In this case, I hope to just stay in this room, and now you can go." When Ou walked to the door, he added: "Mr. Dodd, thank you for your suggestion."

"You're welcome!" Leo responded indifferently.

After coming out of the basement, Leo temporarily put aside the matter of Marek, and began to think about the dead body of the murder victim in his mind.

For Marek and others, they didn't know why the murderer took the four internal organs of the victim, but Leo knew very well that the murderer who made these murders wanted to resurrect someone, and those internal organs and kidnappers should It is for sacrifice.

Leo didn't know why he had such an idea after seeing the corpse whose internal organs had been hollowed out. He checked the database through the sub-brain system, and it was certain that none of his memory materials mentioned it. Use the four methods of entrails and human sacrifice to resurrect others.

But even if he couldn't find any reason for this idea, Leo was still sure that his opinion was right, which also made him feel a little confused and unhappy.

Confused because it had never happened to him, unhappy because it seemed out of his control.

"Peter Alcott's book." Leo quickly thought that there might be a place that could help him.

Thinking of this, he quickened his pace and walked back. In order to hurry back as soon as possible, he did not walk on the main street. Instead, after identifying the direction, he collected the surrounding terrain data through the spiritual network, and directly walked from the labyrinthine alleys in the center of the city. Walking through the middle, advancing in a straight line.

Because it is the early morning in the world of Velen, the city guards who were patrolling the alleys have gone back to rest, the prostitutes who stood in the alleys to attract customers have all returned to their houses, and those pleasure-seekers who can’t control their lower bodies They all left, which made the alley with few people even more deserted. Leo walked in an alley for more than a dozen blocks without meeting a single person.

Instead, groups of rat-like creatures came out of their hiding places, searching for all kinds of food in the alleys.

After the spirit network perceived these mouse-like creatures, Leo couldn't help but slow down. The reason why these creatures attracted Leo's attention was because this was the second thing Leo saw after he came to this dream world. A creature of flesh and blood.

After coming to this dream world, what Leo saw the most were the dream spirits. Although these dream spirits looked no different from flesh and blood creatures, they could be seen with spiritual perception or spiritual vision. A very special spiritual energy fluctuation will appear on them.

However, these rat-like creatures walking through the alleys do not have any spiritual energy fluctuations, and the spirit net can easily penetrate into their bodies, and see their internal organs, flesh and bones.

The reason why we say that these are just mouse-like creatures is that although their shape is similar to that of mice, their limbs are relatively longer, and instead of running on all fours, they run on their hind legs like humans, leaving their front legs free to hold things , There are even some mouse-like creatures wearing human-like clothing, and they use a special mouse sound to form a language to talk to each other. Anyone who sees them can easily feel that they are intelligent creatures.

"Big guy, what are you looking at?" Just as Leo was attracted by these rat-like creatures and stopped to observe carefully, a thin voice came from under his feet.

Leo looked down, and saw a big white rat wearing leather armor and leather boots standing under his feet, with a toothpick-sized rapier pinned to his waist, and surprisingly, no matter the leather armor , the stabbing sword, or the rat itself all emitted bursts of psionic energy fluctuations.