"Count Pipero?" Leo heard this somewhat familiar name, and the information related to it quickly appeared in his mind, and he also confirmed with some surprise: "That Count of Glory of the French Empire?"

Because of the need to infiltrate the territory of the royal family of the French Empire and settle a large number of nobles there, Sylvia tutored Leo a lot about the Francois nobility before.

Among the Francose nobles mentioned by Sylvia, there were some nobles that she singled out and highlighted, and Pipero, the hereditary count of Farne, who was known as the glory of Fran, was one of them.

The only thing known is that Pipero's family was already the nobility of the French royal family during the First Dynasty of France, and the knight king was able to escape from the rebellious pursuit It is said that it was also because of the assistance of the Pipero family, and it is precisely because of the extraordinary relationship with the French royal family, so the Pipero family and the royal family have been married many times, and they have the blood of the French royal family.

However, in recent generations, the Pipero family has shown signs of decline, not only the number of family heirs has decreased, but even the family's power and industry have failed, the most tragic failure is the ocean-going fleet invested by the previous generation of Count Pipero.

When the fleet returned to France from the Moissanite continent loaded with a large amount of precious supplies, it encountered a sudden storm, and all twenty-four ships of the entire fleet sank, and the Pipero family lost nearly two-thirds of their property, and the Pipero family also had to sell some real estate to fill the hole in the loss, and the former Count Pipero was even more ill, and died of illness after two years in bed.

However, after the youngest son of the former Count Pipero inherited the title of earl, because of the care of the royal family, the decline of the Pipero family was barely stopped, although it did not improve, but it did not deteriorate, and the members of the Pipero family could maintain the dignity of the nobility.

The main reason why the current Count Pipero is not inherited by the eldest or second son, but by the younger son who is not very old, is that this young son has royal blood.

The mother of this young son was the third wife of the former Count Pipero, she was a royal side minister, married twice, one husband died of illness and the other husband died in an accident, she inherited the fortune of both husbands, and was one of the richest women in France at the time.

At that time, rumors about this woman and the former Count Pipero were the talk of the French people, and almost everyone believed that the death of the woman's first two husbands was the work of the woman, in order to legally inherit the huge inheritance of the two men.

And Count Pipero was willing to marry this widow who was married twice, but also for the money in the widow's hand, because the situation of the Pipero family was not good at that time, and after the marriage of the former Pipero family, the situation of the Pipero family began to improve, and a few years later, even formed the largest private ocean-going fleet at that time.

In addition, after the death of the former Count Pipero, the widow was also assassinated, and the assassin has not been found, but many people suspect that the eldest son of Count Pipero did it, because this woman who controls the financial power of the Pipero family is the biggest obstacle to his succession to the throne.

It's just that after the widow's death, the royal family uncharacteristically intervened in the inheritance dispute of Count Pipero on the grounds that the members of the royal side branch were killed, and later did not know what agreement was reached with Count Pipero's eldest son, second son and other people with inheritance rights, so that they voluntarily gave up their inheritance rights, and finally made the title of Count Pipero fall on the youngest son who was less than three years old.

Many people speculate that the reason why the royal family did this is to control the Count Pipero family through the young son, and the result is as they thought, the Count Pipero family has been replaced by the royal family from the aggravated servants, and the family property is also monitored by the royal family, although the overall economic situation of the Pipero family is recovering, but in fact, the Pipero family has been almost annexed by the royal family.

Sylvia would highlight the old French aristocracy, which had already declined, not because it had become a force for the French royal family, but because of the Count Pipero himself.

Just like the royal marriage, the early Count Pipero had more than one noble marriage alliance, and the Belmont family was also among them, so if the test is to count blood relations, then Count Pipero can also be regarded as Sylvia's distant expression.

It is precisely because of this relationship that one of the ancestral books in the Belmont family's collection once mentioned the Pipero family.

In that book, it is recorded that in addition to the title of glory in the early years of the Pipero family, there is also the title of witness, but I don't know what it is, and the title of this witness is no longer said after several generations of Count Pipero, and the vast majority of people only know Count Glory, but do not know that there is also a Count of Witness

However, there has never been an official opinion about the origin of this title of witness, but when Sylvia mentioned Count Pipero, she guessed that this witness was probably a witness to some kind of agreement or contract signed between the Knight King and the Black Forest, because the title of Witness appeared when it happened to be after the Knight King reunited the Flange, and the two seem to be somewhat related.

At this moment, Sylvia also had an expression of disbelief, she couldn't understand why Count Pipero, who was a puppet, had become a family member and why he was hunted down by the secret operations of the French Empire.

Leo seemed to have something in mind at this point, and he said that he guessed that Count Pipero was a true eye.

Sylvia's Allianzhou frowned, and said in a deep voice: "Do you think it was the alien god cells implanted by the Fran royal family into him?"

"Yes. Leo nodded, and said, "Wake him up, let him come to his senses, and maybe we can get the whereabouts of the True Eye's body from him." ”

"I don't think the True Eye is in the hands of the French royal family. Sylvia suddenly disagreed, but instead of continuing, she asked, "Is there anything that can be done to save him?"

"The injuries on his body are easy to heal, and a bottle of healing potion can make him recover from his usual number. Leo looked at the unconscious mutant, thought for a moment, and said, "The important thing is the spirit affected by his mutation, and I don't know if he will be able to recover, but I can try." ”

"How?" asked Sylvia, a little puzzled.

Leo explained how he had used the True Eye Mark to trigger the power of the True Eye in Count Pipero's body and weaken the mutation of the other party.

"This can be tried. Sylvia nodded, and then said, "However, in order to avoid accidents, it is better to bind him first." ”

Just as Sylvia's words fell, the mutant lying on the ground opened his eyes and said weakly, "I think it would be better not to be restrained." ”

Seeing that the mutant came to his senses, Sylvia, Leo and Tessa Mocha did not show any surprised looks, obviously they all found out that the other party had come out of a coma from some subtle changes in the mutant, and the conversation between Sylvia and Leo just now was also deliberately told to him.

"Long time no see, Sylvia. Count Pipero seemed to be an old acquaintance with Sylvia, and when he saw this rebel who was in the top ten most wanted criminals in the French Empire, he did not show any panicked look, but was very calm, and said: "This is the third time I have seen you standing in front of me as Sylvia, and it was Maupassant before. ”

"Noka, what's going on?" Sylvia didn't call the other party by his first name, but called him by his real name, and asked directly: "Although the French royal family has always wanted to annex the Pipero family, it shouldn't be so hungry......

"You're mistaken! It's not the royal family who has decided to become a family, it's me. Count Pipero interrupted Sylvia with a surprising answer, and then he slowly sat up from the floor and said, "Can you give me some food? I haven't eaten for days." ”

"Didn't you eat people?" asked Tessa Mocha, who had never spoken.

"Cannibalism?" said Count Pipero with a look of disgust, "It's disgusting! I'm not crazy yet, how can I eat people!"

Sylvia brought some of the food that Morning had prepared for them, and handed it some water, and asked, "Have you mutated into that kind of monster and haven't lost your mind?"

"Of course not. You must know that this thing has cost me all my savings for so many years," Count Pipero said, taking the food and water, and as he ate it, "although my mutated appearance seems to be completely out of control, but in fact there is no Io, I have not heard the muttering of the evil god, and the spirit has not been affected by the evil god, as they say, this is the perfect alien cell." He paused, swallowed the food in his mouth, and said: "The only flaw is that once it is completely mutated, it will be very difficult to return to human form, if it is not for no other choice, I will not be completely mutated, I thought that I would live this life in the form of a monster, but I didn't expect it to be ......"

As he spoke, he looked at Leo and didn't save any more to continue, from the conversation just now, he was already sure that the person who could completely get rid of this mutated monster was Leo.

"Where did you get your alien cells?" asked Leo?

"I don't know. Count Pipero shook his head, and then worried that Leo would not believe his words, added: "When I met that man, it was in the middle of the night, and that man suddenly appeared at my bedside out of thin air, and told me that there was something he wanted to sell me, and that thing was the alien cell that could give me great power."

Sylvia frowned, and said with great displeasure: "A stranger suddenly appeared at your bedside and said that he wanted to sell you something, and then you bought it with all the possessions you had secretly accumulated over the years, and used it without knowing whether it was dangerous or not. Noka, are you being fooled by us?"

Hearing Sylvia's extremely dissatisfied words, Count Pipero couldn't help but smile bitterly, because he himself felt a little strange when he thought about his behavior at that time.

Still, he goes on to explain: "It sounds ridiculous, but it's true. For me at that time, there was no other choice, either to stay in bed like a cripple, to be controlled for decades, lose its usefulness, and become the former Count of Pipero, or to gamble desperately and maybe gain a way to survive. Now it seems that I was right. ”

"Do you really have no clues?" Sylvia said with a blank face, not believing his words.

Count Pipero smiled a little embarrassedly, the nail-sized cysts on his face made him look very hideous, and then he was heard to say: "I do have some clues, and I just came out who that person is, but I can't tell you the news directly, you must let me leave the empire safely, I will tell you." I guess that's not going to be hard for you, right?"

"It's not that hard, but I don't want to do it, I'm suddenly not interested in your business. Sylvia obviously had no intention of following the other party's ideas, and directly rejected the other party's proposal, and then said to Leo: "I want to trouble you to go on a trip, where you find him, send him back, and by the way, let him return to his original state." ”

"It's a bit of a hassle," Leo knew Sylvia's thoughts well, so he cooperated, "Just settle him like this, it just so happens that what we have to do also needs a pass, so let's treat him as that pass." ”

Sylvia pretended to be pensive, and after a moment of thought, was about to nod.

"Wait, wait!" Count Pipero hurriedly stopped Sylvia, and then looked at her and Leo, although he was sure that Sylvia was interested in the news in his hand and would not really attack him, but he did not dare to bet at all, because if the bet was wrong, then he was really finished.

Therefore, he decided to tell his clues, although it would make him lose the most useful scold in his hands, but at least for the time being, his life would not be in danger, and with his understanding of Sylvia's character, after he said the information that was useful to him, she would definitely not let herself stay here, and would definitely find a way to send it to the United Kingdom, which was also equivalent to accepting her previous advice in disguise, of course, all this was premised on the usefulness of the information he said.

"The person who traded with me accidentally exposed some collars and cuffs when he was trading with me," Pipero calmed down, recalled a little, and said: "The weaving method of collars and cuffs is very special, and only one tailor shop in the entire French Empire will use that ancient weaving method, I deliberately went to that tailor shop to buy clothes and peeked at the account books in their shop." According to the ledger, in the entire empire in the past ten years, only one noble family has ordered a noble suit using weaving techniques. That nobleman is your Belmont family. ”