When the mouse saw that Leo didn't speak, he said very unhappily, "Hey, big guy, are you dumb and don't know how to answer other people's questions?"

"That's funny!" Leo was surprised, and quickly returned to normal, after all, in the universe of the Earth Federation, the form of intelligent beings has never been fixed only in humanoid form, and judging from the extraordinary mysterious power of this world now, it is not a great thing for this mouse-like creature to have intelligence.

"Hello!" Leo said to the mouse as if he were greeting an ordinary person.

Although Leo simply said hello, the red eyes of the mouse lit up, and some satisfied smiles could be clearly seen on the mouse's face.

"Greetings to the Duke of the White Boots of the Elven Rat Kingdom!" the white rat saluted Leo like a nobleman.

"Merchant Leo Dodd. Leo, who felt very interesting, also briefly introduced himself, and then asked with a smile: "Do you want to come to Your Excellency the Duke of White Boots to take the initiative to come out and greet me, not just to introduce yourself, right?"

"Yes, I'm not just here to introduce myself, I have other purposes," the Duke of White Boots did not deny it, and said, "You have what I want in your backpack, and I want to be able to trade with you like a merchant." ”

"Backpack?" Leo was stunned for a moment, then said thoughtfully, "You've been following me for a long time, haven't you?"

The Duke of White Boots nodded solemnly and said, "Yes, I noticed you from the moment you stepped into the twenty-third district, and then followed you to the horror house, and after waiting outside the house for a night, I followed you and the chief to the security station, and I didn't show up to greet you until now." This kind of stalking is really rude, and I can't justify my actions, so I can only beg for your forgiveness. ”

The aristocratic court-style way of speaking of the Duke of White Boots, coupled with the fact that it was a white rat who said this, made Leo feel inexplicably happy, but he did not show it on his face, but asked curiously: "Since you have been following and unwilling to show up, there must be some concerns, so why are you coming out to see me now?"

"My concern is the human attitude. The Duke of the White Boots said with a solemn expression: "I have appeared in front of you humans more than once in the past, and those humans either screamed and hit me with something, or tried to catch me and lock me up, it is obvious that an elven mouse with intelligence is a very rare thing for them, and no one will regard me as an equally intelligent species." As he spoke, it looked at Leo with satisfaction and said, "But Mr. Dodd, you are different, you just saw those elven rats walking upright, talking to each other, acting calmly, and not like ordinary people who either want to capture us or kill us, so I decided to appear in front of you and talk to you." ”

Leo asked curiously, "Are there many intelligent elven rats like you?"

With a hint of concern on his face, the Duke of White Boots deliberately replied vaguely: "No more, no less." ”

Although it was only a short answer, it was enough for Leo, who was proficient in polygraph, to get the answer he wanted, so he said bluntly, "It seems that you are the only one." ”

Hearing Leo's Hua, the Duke of White Boots hurriedly jumped away as if he was frightened, and opened a distance from Leo that it thought was safe, but after seeing Leo's no dangerous actions, he moved a little closer and asked curiously, "How do you know?"

Leo didn't tell the truth, but pointed to the elven rats walking through the alley, and casually made up a set of words, saying: "Although these elven rats seem to have their own language and can talk like intelligent species, in fact, their sounds have no language rules, just simple calls. In addition, they walk on their hind limbs very awkwardly, and they themselves feel awkward, so they will change to walk on all fours from time to time, obviously their way of walking on hind limbs is not in line with their habits, it should be the result of you training them, right?"

"Is it so obvious?" Hearing Leo's explanation, the Duke of White Boots couldn't help but look at the other elven rats, and he didn't know if Leo's words had a role, the movements and mannerisms that were very pleasing to the eye before, now they looked awkward.

The Duke of the White Boots had already believed Leo's words, and with a hint of frustration and disappointment in his eyes, he shouted a few times at the elven rats, and the elven rats that walked upright like humans immediately lowered their forelimbs and returned to their normal walking state, carrying the garbage that was useful to them in the alley at a faster speed than before.

A little frustrated, the Duke of White Boots walked up to Leo, jumped on an empty barrel next to him, and said to Leo: "I hope you don't mind, I didn't mean to lie to you, just because ......"

"It's okay, I can understand that. Leo didn't let the Duke of White Boots continue, then changed the subject and said, "Since what you want is in my backpack, why don't you just pick it up while I'm not there?"

The Duke of White Boots replied honestly: "I have also thought about it, but the place where you live is a horror house, and the elf rats who have been in before have not come out again, so I don't dare to go in." ”

"What do you want?" asked Leo again.

"The remains of a fog monster. The Duke of the White Boots replied.

Leo quickly thought of the high-energy substances left over from the Dream Spirits in his backpack that he had killed with the sacrificial knife, and he had originally planned to use them to make special bullets after finding a way to make them.

Now that the Duke of the White Boots had risked his appearance in front of him for the sake of such an unabsorbable high-energy substance, this made him curious, and even though he knew that there could be no answer, he still asked, "What are you going to do with it?"

"I'm sorry, I can't say anything about that. The Duke of the White Boots shook his head as Leo had expected.

Leo thought for a moment and said, "That thing will be of some use to me, but I can trade a portion for you." What are you going to trade it for?"

"I don't know what to exchange," the Duke of the White Boots hesitated for a moment, and said, "Later, I will bring all the valuable things to you, and you can choose them yourself." ”

"That's fine. Leo nodded in agreement.

Seeing that Leo agreed, the Duke of White Boots excitedly turned over the barrel, then jumped off the barrel and quickly got into a rat hole in the corner, apparently to move something.

Seeing that the Duke of White Boots had left, Leo did not stay here any longer, and continued to walk back, his pace speeding up a lot.

Although the Duke of White Boots did not enter the house and take what he wanted from Leo's backpack, but chose to trade with Leo normally, this incident undoubtedly reminded Leo that his safety vigilance about the backpack was not superfluous, and he did not even do enough.

If his backpack hadn't been in Peter Alcott's mechanical cabin, and if Duke Whiteboots' elven rats hadn't died under the trap of the house, perhaps he would have found his backpack in the study empty by the time he returned to the house.

So it also made him decide that wherever he went in the future, he must always bring a backpack with important items with him.

The appearance of the Duke of the White Boots is very helpful to Leo, he doesn't value the unknown items that the Duke of the White Boots collects, maybe there are anything valuable in them, but he won't have much expectation until he sees the real thing, in fact, he values the Elf Rat Kingdom in the mouth of the Duke of the White Boots more.

If Leo guessed correctly, this elven rat kingdom did not actually exist, but was just a futuristic fantasy of the elven rat clan that the Duke of Whiteboots ruled over by himself.

However, this is not important to Leo, what he values is the elven rat clan that is spread all over the underground of the ten towns, these are the best eyes and ears, if he can control this race, then the entire ten towns, and even Silvermoon City, will be under his control. It would be easier for him to find the skin fragments of those omega-class creatures, at least much easier than he was to do it by himself.

Although Leo didn't ask too much about the Duke of the White Boots, he had already learned a lot about the secrets of this elven rat with supernatural intelligence.

For example, the Duke of the White Boots must be the product of an accident, otherwise, it is impossible that only one of the entire elven rat group has such a high level of intelligence, and judging from the equipment it is equipped with, this accident is likely to be man-made. That is, the Duke of the White Boots had a master in the past, and this master was likely to be a wizard who was proficient in species mutation.

For example, the Duke of the White Boots has an ability similar to that of a dream spirit outside the city, and it can avoid Leo's spiritual network, otherwise Leo would have been able to find it outside that temporary residence yesterday.

Although Leo is curious about the various secrets hidden in the White Boots, the White Boots Duke has the natural timidity and vigilance of rats, which is why he has been following Leo for so long, letting his own kind come out to test and make sure that Leo will not pose a threat to him, before deciding to appear in front of Leo.

If Leo doesn't have a good grasp of the balance and is too keen to study the secrets of the Duke of the White Boots, he will only scare away this unexpected helper in the end, so it is the most correct thing to keep the current state of the transaction for the time being, gradually get closer to each other, until they trust each other, and then consider hearing the secrets of the Duke of the White Boots.

On the rest of the way, Leo didn't encounter anything interesting, except for a few robberies that didn't affect him at all. In addition, although those elven rats were well hidden, Leo was still able to detect some elven rats stalking him through the spirit web, and observing him, it seems that the Duke of White Boots still maintains some distrust of Leo.

After half the time to go to the security station, Leo returned to the temporary residence, and when he opened the door with the key, Sophie, who had already retrimmed her hair and put on a little makeup, came out of the kitchen, saw Leo walk in, and hurriedly stepped forward to take the suitcase from Leo's hand.

"You don't have to take this!" Leo let go, and then looked at Sophie, who looked more and more like his own first love, felt an inexplicable stir in his heart, and couldn't help frowning, and then sighed, and said to Sophie, who was a little overwhelmed: "Wait for that little food and drink to come up, and prepare some desserts, if you don't have time to do it, go out to buy some, there are guests coming." ”

"Yes, sir. Sophie nodded timidly, turned and walked briskly back to the servant's room, changed into a coat, and walked out to buy food.

Leo went upstairs and returned to the room where the potion books were kept, put the suitcase aside, then picked up his backpack, took out the small leather bag containing the remains of the dream spirits, and picked out the five largest ones and placed them on the table.

It didn't take long for Sophie to put food, drink, and snacks on a tray and take them to the room, and when she was about to ask Leo if he needed anything else, Leo took the first step and asked, "Do you know about the recent murder in District 23?"

Sophie was stunned, and although she didn't understand why Leo asked her about this, she nodded and said, "Yes." Melinda lives in my house...... No, near my former home. ”

Leo asked again, "Is this Melinda killed, or is it ......?"

"Missing, she was one of the four people who went missing. Sophie replied.

Leo asked, "Was there anything strange about her before the accident?"

"No!" Sophie shook her head, but as if she remembered something, she added, "By the way, there was one thing before her accident that I don't know if it was a strange thing?"

"Tell me about it. Leo nodded encouragingly at Sophie.

Sophie couldn't help but feel a little nervous when she saw that Leo's expression seemed to be a little serious, so she sorted out her words before she said slowly: "I remember that the day before Melinda's accident, when she came home, she was carrying a very precious ornament, a necklace made of silver shells that is said to be unique to Silvermoon City. Someone asked Melinda how this chain came about, Melinda didn't say, but another person who was working with Melinda said that Melinda was favored by a certain nobleman and was going to take her to the aristocratic district. So after Melinda disappeared, her family thought that she was taken away by the nobleman and didn't care, until someone disappeared later, they felt that something was wrong and found a guard. It's just that it's useless to find guards, because those guards can't do much when it comes to nobles. After speaking, she timidly asked, "Sir, is the information I provided useful?"

"Useful, very useful. Leo nodded and praised Sophie, not knowing if it was because of sincerity or because of the abnormal emotions in his personality, and then he asked, "What else do you know about the other missing and dead people?"

Sophie thought about it very seriously, shook her head, and said, "I don't know much about those people, they are not in the same area as me. ”

Seeing that there was no new news, Leo waved his hand and said, "It's okay, you go down! ”

"Yes, sir. Sophie bowed down when she heard this, but when she reached the door, she stopped again, hesitated for a moment, turned to Leo and said, "Yes, sir, after the accident, there is a news about the murder that has been circulating in the streets, and I don't know if it's true?"

"You say. Leo gestured.

Sophie thought about it and said, "Some people say that these murders are actually all done by the flower shop in the 27th district. ”

"District 27 flower shop?" Leo was a little stunned, because if he remembered correctly, he and Vitzemere had made an appointment to meet at the 27th District flower shop to discuss cooperation, so he asked, "Why do you say that?"

Sophie explained: "Because the people who had the accident had all worked in the flower shop in District 27, and then they were kicked out for unknown reasons, because the flower shop also has some power in District 23, and those shops in District 23 are not willing to accept these seven people, so they can only solicit customers on the street, and they will eventually encounter danger." ”