The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Dean, are you going to Old Brown's pastry shop today?" Just as Anderson Lehman was thinking, the adjutant sitting at the back of the carriage leaned slightly and asked the old man.

This adjutant is also one of Anderson Lehman's students. He has good talents and comes from a noble family. As long as he doesn't make big mistakes, he will have a bright future. So Anderson Lehman brought him by his side and helped him get in touch with the upper class of the navy in advance. He paves the way ahead.

"Yes, let's go to Old Brown's pastry shop. If Lisa knows that I passed by the pastry shop and didn't buy her pastries, I will definitely talk about it for a while." When Anderson Lehman mentioned his wife, he showed a rare expression on his face. gentle look.

The carriage passed quickly on the street, skillfully passed through several alleys, and finally stopped in front of the pastry shop of Old Brown, the destination of the trip.

The adjutant jumped down from the back of the carriage, lowered the steps, and opened the door.

Anderson Lehman got out of the carriage, and then ordered: "You wait outside for a while, I have something to talk to Old Brown about."

"Okay, Dean." The adjutant responded respectfully.

Anderson entered the store, and was about to walk to the counter as usual, take the reserved pastry from Old Brown, and tell Old Brown the next cake request, but the situation in the store made him stop. He stepped down, and looked around vigilantly, his eyes fell on the only customer in the store, and at the same time, he put his hands on the special pistol and mechanical crossbow at his waist.

Regardless of how old Anderson Lehman was, he would be regarded as a retiree in other industries, but years of unstoppable training made his skill no worse than those young lads, and he was even able to rely on years of rich experience. Combat experience is even better.

"Who are you? Where did Old Brown go?" Anderson Lehman said without politeness, he took out his weapon and pointed it at the person on the seat.

The person in the shop calmly turned to Anderson Lehman and said, "General Lehman, please don't be nervous, I am not evil..."

However, before he could finish speaking, Anderson Lehman had already pulled the trigger in his hand. There were loud gunshots and slight crossbow sounds almost at the same time, and sharp arrows and bullets shot at the target one after the other.

However, the strange thing is that the arrows and bullets did not cause any damage to the opponent at all, but directly passed through the opponent's body.

Anderson Lehman, who discovered this, had a bad idea, and instinctively made the most correct decision, and quickly exited the pastry shop.

However, he had just exited the pastry shop, but he stopped because he found that he was still inside the pastry shop, and the street that was supposed to be outside the pastry shop has now turned into the inside of the pastry shop. Like a mirror.

"General Lehman, please sit down, I mean no harm." In the two mirrored pastry shops, a customer pointed to the seat opposite him at the same time and said.

"Damn monster!" Anderson Lehman immediately understood what he had encountered, and couldn't help cursing in his heart.

As a senior naval officer, he naturally knows some things that ordinary people do not know, about family members, about extraordinary people, about mutants implanted with different god cells, etc. In the eyes of this old-school admiral, these existences cannot be matched by ordinary people. The power of their power still cannot change their nature as a group of monsters,

In the navy, there is actually a department composed of extraordinary people. This department was proposed by Hoover Hansen, so that the navy can fight against the same kind of extraordinary people.

However, this department has not been included in the normal establishment of the navy. It is a privately established establishment. The military expenses need to be provided by the navy's internal private treasury. In addition, it is extremely difficult to find extraordinary people. Even if they are found, they are easily robbed by the special bureau Go, so the framework of this department has not been fully set up.

The superhumans who have been incorporated into this department eventually became the personal guards of the high-level navy, responsible for protecting the high-level navy from other superhumans.

For example, Hoover Hansen, who was assassinated, had three such extraordinary people around him, and with the help of the three extraordinary people, he escaped the assassination of the Avengers from Mozambique again and again, but this time his luck Appears to be gone.

As the former president of the Naval Academy and chief of naval logistics, Anderson Lehman was originally qualified to equip three superhuman guards, but he himself distrusted and even hated these supernatural beings. Safety was not a big concern, so declined the benefit.

However, now he regrets his original decision. If he had agreed to the proposal, he would not be in such a predicament as he is now.

After realizing that he might not be able to leave, Anderson Lehman also calmed down quickly, and weighed his own and the opponent's strength, realizing that if the opponent wanted to kill him, it would be difficult for him to resist the opponent with only the weapon in his hand Therefore, he put the weapon in his hand back into the holster and padlock, walked to the place pointed by the man without defense and sat down.

"Who are you?" Anderson Lehman asked in a deep voice: "To be able to know my whereabouts so well, and to come here to see me, I think your identity is not ordinary!"

While asking about the origin of the other party, Anderson Lehman also discovered some unusual things, such as the appearance and age of the other party. Although when he saw the person opposite, his first thought was that the other person was a man, but he couldn't recognize what the other person looked like or what grade he was in.

This is not because the other party's appearance is intentionally covered, in fact there is nothing covering the other party's face, he can even see the other party's eyelashes and beard clearly, but the problem is that no matter how he can see the other party's appearance clearly, but In his mind, he was still unable to remember what he saw and integrate them into a whole. Remember what the person in the dream looks like.

"It was Director Frank who asked me to come here and wait for Your Excellency." The other party said.

The person sitting opposite Anderson Lehman was Leo Dodd. He followed Frank Fusen's advice and came to the Brown Pastry House to wait for Anderson Lehman to appear, but he didn't just sit here and wait, he Let the pastry shop owner sleep for a while, and then arrange a magical illusion in the pastry shop. This magical illusion soldier has no lethality, it can only make those who enter the illusion fall into a maze similar to a double-sided mirror world.

As he expected in advance, Anderson Lehman, who is an ordinary person, fell into a hallucination and had to sit opposite him to talk, but when Anderson Lehman was testing the origin just now, he couldn't help but come up with an idea in his mind , and modified the original self-introduction to expose Frank Fussen.

"The director of the special bureau, Frank Fussen?" Anderson Lehman showed an angry look on his face, and he quickly returned to normal, and said in a deep voice, "What do you want me to do with the special bureau, and you still want to use this method to deal with it?" Find me."

"Because this matter is not suitable for others, and it is not suitable for other people to know." Leo said in a deep voice: "According to our understanding, the navy has found the murderer who killed General Hoover Hansen, and decided to do it tonight. Capture him."

"What? The murderer has been found?" Anderson Lehman couldn't help being stunned, and then a look of displeasure appeared on his face.

No wonder he felt displeased. He was also a high-ranking officer of the navy, and he didn’t even know such important news. Instead, he got the news from an outsider. The reason for this was only because of the conflict between him and Hoover Hansen. , so that the navy's top management has some distrust of him.

However, he quickly put away his inner emotions, looked at Leo coldly, and said, "It's a good thing that the murderer has been found, at least it can give General Hoover Hansen's family an explanation."

Leo smiled wryly on purpose, and said: "It would be nice if things were that simple. In fact, the assassination of General Hoover Hansen not only involved the viciousness of General Hoover Hansen in the colony, but also included the internal affairs of the kingdom. Some of the political contests, even Congress and the royal family are involved in it."

"What did you say?" Anderson Lehman stared at Leo without hiding the shock on his face.

Leo ignored Anderson Lehman's expressed emotions, and narrated the relevant process in a leisurely manner. Hearing that, Anderson Lehman's face was cloudy, and his heart was like a sea of ​​​​turbulence.

Anderson Lehman was not surprised that the person who assassinated Hoover Hansen was from the mainland of Mozambique, which was related to the series of massacres that Hoover Hansen carried out in the colony. At the moment of the news of his death, a story related to revenge had already appeared in his mind.

However, the assassin he didn't expect turned out to be the chief actor of the spiritual drama troupe.

Because of his wife, Anderson Lehman has also seen two performances by the spiritual theater troupe, and he also admires the superb performance of the petite woman on the stage. Although he is not a loyal theater fan like his wife, he also loves He had already bought the tickets for the theater troupe's performance and even the last performance tonight a few days ago.

But he never imagined that such a little woman turned out to be the murderer who assassinated the third person in the Navy of the Kingdom of England.

However, what surprised him even more was that the royal family and the National Congress also participated in the assassination, providing various assistance to the assassin in order to kill the naval hero of his own kingdom. This is why he listened to Leo's words Finally, the most difficult thing to accept.

Anderson Lehman knew very well that as the kingdom became the hegemony of the sea, the navy's military establishment expanded rapidly. In just a few decades, the navy's establishment has expanded seventeen times, and its total strength is more than ten times that of forty years ago. .

The rapidly expanding navy has naturally brought rapidly expanding rights to the admirals, and because of these rights, the current high-level navy has more ambitions, hoping to obtain more rights, including absurdities such as the autonomy of overseas bases claims.

And this inevitably caused conflicts with the royal family and Congress, because most of the rights they sought came from these two, and if these rights were handed over to the navy, they would certainly weaken the rights of both.

Regarding these dirty things in political power, Anderson Lehman is very clear, and he has even participated in the formulation and planning of some plans against certain people in Congress and the royal family.

However, in his opinion, whether it is the navy, the Congress, or the royal family, they will consciously restrain their behavior, and always keep their disputes hidden in political competition, and will not be brought out on the surface.

But now it seems that his thinking is too simple. The Congress and the royal family have already set their targets on the admirals. This has obviously broken through the bottom line of political struggle. It is foreseeable that the situation will continue to develop. I am afraid that the civil war will inevitably happen. Appear.

"What do you mean by telling me these things?" Anderson Leo asked with a gloomy face.

Leo threw everything at Frank Fussen, and said, "What Director Frank means is that I hope, General, that you can use your prestige to prevent the navy from capturing that assassin."

"What? How dare you make such a request to me?" Anderson Lehman yelled in extreme annoyance, "She assassinated a hero of the kingdom's navy..."

Leo interjected, "But it's also your enemy, isn't it?"

Anderson Lehman said without hesitation: "Even if it is my enemy, it is our navy's internal affairs, and even more our private affairs. The fact that the royal family and the Congress will find killers to assassinate the heroes of the kingdom is too much! Today they can assassinate Hoover Hansen, who has made great contributions to the country, for their own rights, and tomorrow they will definitely be able to assassinate other admirals for some benefit!"

After the other party's voice fell, Leo emphasized: "The director doesn't want to prevent the Navy from being held accountable to the royal family and the Congress. The director just doesn't want Hai to arrest the assassin."

"Is there any difference?" Anderson Lehman looked at him puzzled.

"Let me put it this way!" Leo organized his speech a little bit, and explained: "In order to appease the anger of the navy, the royal family and the Congress sold their collaborator, the assassin, to the navy, and let the navy solve it by themselves. The assassin."

"Despicable!" Anderson Lehman couldn't bear this betrayal, and couldn't help cursing.

Leo smiled and did not respond, but continued: "It's just that the royal family and the Congress didn't know that the assassin they betrayed had a weapon of prehistoric civilization in his hand, and that weapon could easily destroy the city of Durin." Destroy it, let everyone in Dulin City be killed instantly."

Anderson Lehman couldn't help snorting when he heard this, and said with a sneer, "Are you joking? Do you think I will believe such absurd things?"

"No, you will believe it." Leo said, raising his hand to cover Anderson Lehman's forehead