It was a long time ago, after the end of the Glorious War, the head of the Stuart family died suddenly of a serious illness, because there was no direct heir, and the huge family was about to be broken up by different side branches, some people say that there is still Stuart's blood flowing, it is the child left here when Invig counterattacked to Gaulnalo.

A mission was given to recover that bloodline, and many people headed for Gaulnalo, and Lorenzo was just one of them.

This is related to the ownership of a power, so when the task is issued, everyone knows differently, for example, Lorenzo's mission is to find Seleuc, pry out what she knows in her head, Lorenzo was the first to find her, when she was nesting in a cold alley and relying on handouts to survive, resulting in the girl is a little malnourished now.

The two of them walked through the deserted streets, and they were almost to the lower town.

It was cold, and Seleuc unconsciously grabbed Lorenzo's arm, stepped over the frozen road, and walked past the dilapidated buildings.

Seleuce had always had a strange feeling for Lorenzo, just as a newborn beast would rely on a creature it first saw, and Lorenzo was the first to discover her and bring her back from Gaulnalo to Old Dunling, and life was turned upside down, and the children who begged on the street suddenly became more than 10,000 people.

But she was not happy about this, only uncomfortable trepidation, the tall castle and the armed guards could not bring half of the security to her heart, and there was always a sharp dagger hidden under her pillow, she had always been the child who shivered in the alley, and she had never changed.

"So how did you get interested in that kind of thing. ”

As the words spoke, a faint breath poured out of Lorenzo's mouth, the weather in Old Dunling was getting colder and colder, and the daily steam from the Furnace Pillar was simply unguardable.

"They said it was unique, and it was something from the Far East. ”

Seleuc replied lightly, Lorenzo had long been accustomed to her indifference, and thoughts flew through his mind.

"Is it machinery from the Far East? ”

The only thing that can be called the Far East is the mysterious Jiuxia, except for the fleet that arrived a long time ago, the Western world's perception of them is just a word, but now something from there has appeared, which is indeed much more interesting than a family dinner.

"But if you don't go to the banquet, won't they have any opinion on you?"

Lorenzo was referring to the noble groups led by Stuart, who were glorified by the war, so they guarded the girl like knights, even though she was the only one left in Stuart's line, but under the management of those people, the family business gradually flourished, although the population was still pitiful.

In Lorenzo's opinion, they are a group of nannies connected to the old butler Wia, and sometimes the kindness is annoying.

Lorenzo still remembers knocking on the door of 121A Cork Street on a rainy night, and holding a suitcase of money to persuade Lorenzo to leave their housekeeper, because under Lorenzo's kind teaching, the girl's marksmanship has reached a strange level, but at her age she should have learned how to be a manager.

"In a month I'll be an adult, and I'll be the Duchess of Stuart, and that's the last time the old fellows can be arrogant. ”

This is really a rebellious speech.

Lorenzo looked at Seleuc on the side with some helplessness, but because of the height, he could only see an undulating deer hunting hat.

That's right, in the 100 years of the Glorious War, Stuart was promoted to Duke in the middle of the Glorious War and led the Southern Theater by virtue of his strong military exploits and Michel Stuart's obstruction in the landing battle.

Although only Seleu was left in this glorious family, that rightful power was still reserved for her, which was a tribute and praise to the victims.

"So a soon-to-be-succeeded duchess walks into the lower town, and that doesn't have a positive effect. ”

Lorenzo said as he pulled up Seleu's collar, completely obscuring her little face.

"So from now on, you will be my assistant, and I will answer whatever others ask, and then you see what you like, understand?"

Seleucus may not know, but Lorenzo knows very well, that the shrike in the lower town is an infernal matter, and you think he is a gang boss who lives on the aristocracy? In fact, behind him stands a mysterious purifier, and at the top of the hierarchy, his real master is Queen Victoria.

Every nobleman who went to the lower town would be written down in a small notebook by this person, which would become a threat to them when the need arose.

"Do you know the way?"

"I'm more familiar with Downtown than you. ”

Before he became an outside detective, Lorenzo was an old acquaintance of the lower town.

Passing through the ruined wasteland, in a group of small wooden houses built of wooden planks haphazardly, Lorenzo dragged Seleucus for a long time, and finally stopped at a downward junction, where the gatekeeper lay aside, pretending to be a sleeping vagabond, but secretly observing Lorenzo, his hand into his clothes, presumably holding his gun tightly.

"Get out of the way. ”

Lorenzo said as he tossed a coin with a resting shrike bird printed on the scratched surface.

The gatekeeper caught the coin and looked at it carefully, but stopped Lorenzo, who pointed to Seleucus next to Lorenzo, and the meaning was obvious.

"Do children still have to pay for tickets?"

Lorenzo began to have a beard again, but he still threw the second coin in obedience, and the two of them walked into the darkness despite the pain of Seleuc's waist.

The air grew warmer, and there was a faint glow of fire in the dark depths, and the two of them made their way up the stairs at their feet until they reached the deepest point.

Suddenly, a whisper sounded in another language, and the man's skin, brown and red with white dye written in strange handwriting, closed his eyes and reciting a prayer that Lorenzo did not understand, as if in remembrance of some forgotten god.

Seleucus unconsciously tightened Lorenzo, and as the light of the fire lit up, more people praying sitting cross-legged on the ground appeared in their field of vision.

Like a strange ritual, they greeted them in the middle of the way, but in an old and obscure language.

"People from the Far East. ”

Lorenzo Road.

Jiuxia rules the entire eastern world after the Caucasus Mountains, but he does not control all the territory, in fact, nearly half of the land in the east belongs to some small countries, and those small countries are all subordinates of Jiuxia, and these strange people in front of him must be those vassal people.

Seleuc couldn't help but glance at those who closed their eyes and whispered, in the Western world, Orientals were too rare, like strange beasts.

Lorenzo pulled her forward, but there were also slight ripples in her heart, with the emergence of steam technology, the ocean that could not be crossed became possible, and the connection between the two worlds of the East and the West was gradually getting closer, and suddenly remembered what Arthur said to him at that time, the world is getting smaller, like the shrinking Colosseum, and sooner or later the beasts will meet and clash.

But this is not something that a little detective can think about as a little detective, and the squire stopped by the door, bowed slightly when he saw the two of them coming, and then presented his mask.

The door then opened, and it was a very different world.

Countless precision instruments lie quietly behind the glass case, one by one dancing waists, the beauties of metal and mechanical construction, people walk through this cabinet, and judge the machines they have never seen one after another.

Not far away, there was a clearing cut off by the guards, and a huge machine stood in it, like a fallen steel giant, the cold edge as sharp as a sword.

"Is this the machinery of the East?"

Seleucus stroked the glass gently, and then there was a small bronze woman, and the sound of tiny gears sounded faintly, and it raised its hands in the air, and a fire burned on them.

Lorenzo didn't look at that, his eyes were on the forefront, the bronze giant, like a huge sword halberd, held high. u