The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Leo took out another metal card, which surprised the cleric, because from Leo's performance just now, it was obviously the first time Leo came here to store items, but now he took out another one Ka came to fetch something, which made the priests feel suspicious.

It is not unheard of to kill the cardholder and then take this metal card to the Church of the Lord of the Birth and Death of All Things to get something, so the skeptical priest asked Leo to wait calmly, and then sent the Write down the identification number on the card, pick up the items that have been processed and leave.

After a while, he walked in with a box about two feet long and wide, but this time he wasn't the only one coming here, and he was followed by the only church knight with divine energy fluctuations.

I saw the church knight standing at the door after entering, without saying anything, and the clergyman, after putting down the things, told Leo how to open them, and then exited the room.

Seeing the cautious look of the clergy, Leo smiled. He didn't care about the church knight, he directly took out the old puppet master's metal card, inserted it into the box, and imitated the old puppet master through the power of nightmare The energy is injected into the metal card.

The metal card quickly shone brightly, and then a click was heard, and the box was opened.

Seeing that the box was successfully opened, the church knight standing at the door was stunned for a moment, then turned around and walked out of the room, said a few words to the clergy outside the door, and then left.

Leo ignored the thoughts of the priests outside the door, and after the box was opened, his attention was on the box.

I saw three simple things inside the box. The biggest one was an unfinished wood carving. It seemed that the old puppet master had made it himself. Women have deep feelings, and they are very careful with every knife.

When Leo saw this wood carving, he was a little stunned. The reason why he had such a reaction was not because he found that the wood used for this wood carving was the most expensive fragrant blood wood on the Vinylon market today, nor was it because The old puppeteer's superb carving and lifelike sculptures were due to the fact that this unfinished wood carving turned out to be a strange object with energy fluctuations, but he couldn't find the reason why the wood carving was a strange object.

It would be fine if the sweet blood wood used for woodcarving is a high-energy substance, but this kind of wood is just an ordinary precious wood, and there are no examples of this kind of wood mutating into a high-energy substance. If so, then it is absolutely impossible for the major churches and dark world organizations to allow this kind of wood to be sold among the people.

After looking through it repeatedly and couldn't find any reason, Leo could only attribute the reason why the wood carving turned into a strange thing to the emotional investment of the old puppet master when he carved the wood carving, and it was only caused by this continuous input of pure emotion. It is only the power of thought that can create this kind of mutation, and there are many precedents for this in Velen, but it is just that such strong emotions that reverse reality often do not have a good result in the end.

Although this wood carving has transformed into a strange object, its function is unknown. Judging from such precedents in the past, this kind of strange object is not a good thing for any user, so Leo put the wood carving back into the Inside the box, there is no intention of taking it away.

In addition to the wood carvings, there were two boxes, one large and one small. Leo opened one of the boxes and found three handwritten notes inside. After flipping through them a little, the content was nothing more than the method of using and improving the puppeteer's set of abilities.

Leo flipped through it quickly, recorded several puppet techniques that could be used for psionic energy, put the three notes back into the box, and picked up the last box.

"Fortunately, the trip was not in vain!" Leo opened the box and saw the gems stuffed in the whole box, with a smile on his face.

With this gem, Leo doesn't have to worry about funding when participating in the auction.

Leo put the gem into the storage space together with the box, then closed the lid again, sealed it with a metal card, took it out, and handed it to the clergyman waiting outside.

"Please hand over the things to the successor according to what is written in the agreement." Leo said to the priest.

The priest frowned and said, "Only if something happens to the owner of the card, these things will..."

"Something happened to the owner of the card now." Leo raised his hand and broke the metal card, and handed it to the stunned priest.

Looking at the broken metal card in front of him, the clergy didn't understand what was going on for a while. It wasn't until Leo left the building and disappeared from the door that he realized what it was. His face instantly became extremely ugly, and then he carried some The robe, which was inconvenient to walk, quickly ran upstairs to an office and knocked on the door hastily.

"Come in." A cold voice came from inside the door.

This voice made the person who heard it shiver uncontrollably as if his whole body was wrapped in cold, and his anxiety calmed down.

The clergyman then tidied up his clothes, opened the door and walked in.

I saw that the office is very simple, with two filing cabinets on both sides, a table in the middle, and two chairs in front of the table. These chairs are made of hardwood with knots, which are very uncomfortable to sit on. This can also be regarded as a hint from the owner of the office that he is unwilling to come and stay for a long time.

Behind the desk was a thin old man with a gloomy face. He raised his eyes and glanced at the clergyman. His eyes fell on the storage box in the other party's hand, and he didn't let the clergyman say anything. He directly asked: "Don't you know the rules? Why did you bring the guest's storage box here? Two points for penalty."

The face of the clergyman immediately became very ugly. To him, two points equaled two years of excellent evaluation, which meant that he would definitely have to postpone his promotion for two years.

Although he wanted to set boundaries for himself, when he thought of the old man in front of him, he knew that justifying would not be of any use, but would make things happen earlier, so he could only bow his head and acquiesce in the old man's punishment.

After the old man made the punishment, he seemed to have forgotten about the clergyman. He continued to work and wrote something on a document. The clergyman did not dare to move and could only stand here quietly.

After a while, the old man stopped writing, folded the document, put it in the briefcase beside him, and then asked the priest, "What happened that made you come to see me in such a hurry?"

The cleric immediately stepped forward, put the storage box in his hand on the table, and said, "Master Bishop, I found that there may be a loophole in our storage box, and non-storage box card holders can also open the storage box." box, and there is no need to use the replacement ritual."

"What?" Hearing the priest's words, the old man's slightly narrowed eyes immediately widened, and he said anxiously, "Be more specific."

Therefore, the clergyman carefully explained what happened to Leo just now.

After listening to the description, the old man was silent for a while, and then slowly confirmed: "Are you sure that this is the first time that person used the storage box?"

"Yes, I'm sure." The priest replied affirmatively.

"Well! The information you provided is very important, and the follow-up investigation will be handed over to other departments!" The old man nodded, then pointed to the storage box on the table, and said, "Put this box where it is, and notify The heirs on the form to pick it up, your reward will be announced five days later, and the two points deducted before will be reduced."

"Yes, my lord." The clergyman showed joy on his face, and quickly picked up the box, ready to leave.

"Wait." The old man suddenly stopped the clergyman again, and said very seriously: "If this matter spreads out, it will have a great impact on the church, so I don't want to hear any rumors related to it outside. ,Did you hear it?"

"Yes, my lord." The clergy responded quickly.

Seeing that the old man had no other orders, he quickly turned around and left.

After the clergyman left, the old man pondered for a moment, took out a blank piece of paper and wrote something quickly, then picked up the bell next to the table and shook it. The strange thing was that the bell didn't make any sound when it was shaken.

After a while, a black shadow emerged from the wall and stood beside the old man. The old man handed the paper to the black shadow and said, "You can send it to the punishment hall and the Ministry of Internal Affairs."

The black shadow took the paper and sank into the wall again.

The old man didn't continue to work, but sat on the chair, closed his eyes slightly, and seemed to be resting with his eyes closed, after a while, he said to himself with a confused face: "Who the hell? Who is going to deal with me? To use such a clumsy method at this time to reveal that there is a loophole in the storage box. Even if the cause of this incident has nothing to do with me, as the manager of foreign affairs, I will definitely be blamed , In this case, there will be one less competitor for them." As he spoke, his face showed a little grimness, and he said: "Since you have already made the first move, then don't blame me for not being sympathetic."

At the same time, Leo, who left the Church of the Lord of Life and Death, has come to a car dealership in the south of the city, hired a cart, and went to Kugang, the border city of Savile. He didn't know what he had done unintentionally. It caused a power struggle within the Church of the Lord of Birth and Death, but even if he knew it, he would not care about it. After all, he was about to leave Savile now, no matter how fierce the internal struggle of the Lord of Birth and Death was. things.

"If you want to get dry steel, you can take two roads. One road is the Hamad Road in the south. This road is a bit long and takes more than 40 days, but this road is very safe. The nine cities in the city will send rangers to patrol the roads they are in charge of, so there will be almost no sand robbers on the road." After Leo hired a pack cart, the pack cart owner asked Leo to choose where to go. The route, said: "The other road is much closer, that is, go directly to the west, go upstream along the Little Goose River, cross the Little Goose Desert, cross the Quinsis Snow Mountain from the Ancient Salt Railway, and you can directly reach Dry Steel City, if it goes well, it will only take five days at most."

Leo didn't think much about it at all, so he made a choice and said, "Just choose the one that is closest!"

"Wait! My lord, don't rush to choose, I haven't finished yet." Seeing that Leo had made a choice so quickly, the owner of the cart immediately stopped him, saying: "Although the road to the west is much closer, But it is also very dangerous. You should know the Gus Sand Pirates, right? Although the Gus Sand Pirates were all active in the generation of the Great Gus Desert, the Little Gus Desert was also their looting area. Every city-state in the west once I have made great efforts to completely eradicate the Gus Sand Pirates, but I have never been able to do so. So far, the Gus Sand Pirates are still active in the large and small Gus Deserts."

"The people who are the rulers of your city-states, of course, can't be eradicated." Leo easily saw through this trick of thieves shouting "stop the thief", but he didn't say it, but said to the owner of the hired cart with a very indifferent expression: "You don't have to worry about Gus Sand Pirates, they can handle it very easily."

The owner of the pack car was stunned for a moment, and then added: "The Gus Sand Pirates are not the most dangerous. In fact, the most dangerous place on this road is the Quincy Snow Mountain. Have you heard the story of the man-eating fog? That's what happened. In Quinsis Snow Mountain."

"Man-eating fog?" Leo showed a little interest, and said, "Tell me in detail."

"It turns out that you didn't know about this, so it's no wonder you were able to make a decision so quickly." The owner of the cart looked at Leo in surprise, and blamed Leo's arbitrary decision on ignorance. Introduced: "Actually, the man-eating fog on Quincy's Snow Mountain has a long history. It has been thousands of years, but the frequency of occurrence in the past has not been very high, and it has not been hidden until the number of occurrences in recent years. Lucky people encounter The man-eating fog that arrives will be in front of the road. As long as you don't approach the past and wait for the fog to dissipate, there will be no danger. But sometimes the fog will appear directly around people, and all people caught in the fog can no longer escape. , will disappear together with the fog. Because the location of the fog is not fixed each time, and there is no rule at all, so whether you can safely walk through this ancient salt railway is completely a matter of luck. If you are lucky, you will be safe. Go out, bad luck..."

The owner of the pack cart didn't say any more, but the meaning was already self-evident.

After hearing the introduction from the owner of the pack cart, Leo became even more interested in this ancient salt-iron road, because the description the owner of the pack cart described to the man-eating fog reminded him of the dense fog he knew, so he almost Without much thought, he made a decision: "Let's take the ancient salt railway."

Seeing that Leo still made the same decision even after hearing the persuasion, the owner of the pack car did not continue to persuade him, so he said that it would be better to join other caravans going this way, which would be much safer, at least in small So is the Goose Desert.

Leo had no objection to this, and after being contacted by the car dealership, Leo joined a caravan very smoothly. The pack cart carried some supplies for the caravan.