Chapter 106: Peeling Back the Cocoon
Originally, Leo thought that after taking the healing potion, the chaotic stomach pouch would be digested and absorbed before the healing potion took effect, and converted into energy storage.
However, the real situation is a little different, after the healing potion is digested, it not only provides a huge energy storage value of nearly twenty points to the chaotic stomach pouch, but also has a very obvious restorative improvement in spiritual energy and the daily value of various physical qualities.
Among them, the spiritual energy directly rose by ten points, which was much higher than the spiritual energy he consumed to make the medicine.
Strength, agility, and physique, all of which were depleted by the lack of rest, were all restored at about five points.
As for the daily value of will and spirit, there is also a slight increase, but the increase is far less than other data, almost negligible.
Leo, who had experienced the effects of the potion firsthand, divided five of the ten potions, handed them to Adeline, and said, "You take one, and give the remaining four to Anne, and give one to each of her, Nelson, Catherine, and Jason, and tell them how to use and what it works." ”
"Okay. Adeline was not polite, took the potion, took a small leather bag from the tool cabinet against the wall, put five potions in it, and put some cushioning towels in the middle of each potion, and then left the hospital.
Leo cleaned up the lab and didn't continue refining wizard potions, not because of time and effort, but because there were always one or two herbs left for the recipes of the potions, which were very rare, and even the medical school couldn't be sure if some of them existed.
After putting the five wizard potions in his bag, Leo also left Anne's hospital, hailed a carriage, and headed to the villa area of Lower Quarter Moon Lake.
It took Leo half an hour to reach the villa area, and the reason why it was so slow was because the main streets of each block along the way were checked by the gendarmerie.
Leo learns from the newspaper in the carriage that he has been making wizarding potions at Anne's Hospital that something has happened in Miria.
Seventy-three members of the Continental Congress were assassinated, of whom sixty-nine died instantly, and only four survived.
Although because of the nature of the Continental Assembly, it is often the case that some countries and elites who have been damaged by the verdicts of the Continental Assembly will resort to assassination against those whom they are hostile to, but this is the first time since the founding of the Continental Congress that more than 70 members of the Continental Congress have been assassinated in one day.
More than 70 members of the Continental Congress occupy half of the seats in the entire Continental Congress, and their absence has led to an unprecedented shutdown of the Continental Congress. And because there is no precedent for a shutdown, the executive officials of the Continental Congress do not know how to respond, which has plunged the entire system of the Continental Congress into chaos.
In addition, the incompetence of the Continental Congress's security services led to the assassination of many members of the Continental Congress, and some lawmakers said that the security services were no longer fit to be responsible for the security of Miria's urban area.
Therefore, following the advice of some parliamentarians, the Executive Bureau of the Continental Congress invited the 1st French Regiment stationed in Bordeaux to be responsible for the defense of the perimeter of Miria City, and the French gendarmerie outside the city fully entered the city, set up block checkpoints, and Miria City was under full martial law, and the investigation of the assassination of the councillors was handed over to the General Police Department of Miria City for investigation.
Although the whole city is under martial law, it will not prevent the residents of the city from moving between blocks, but when they move between blocks, they will need to be inspected by the gendarmerie, and the inspection of those who carry weapons will be much stricter, and many people in question will be immediately arrested by the gendarmerie, handed over to the patrol team stationed here, and brought back to the police station for detention.
When Leo was inspected, because he had a certificate signed by Ljungberg himself, proving that he was a special agent, the inspection was not very strong, but he just looked at the car to see if there were other people hidden in the carriage, and let him go.
After arriving at the villa area of Xiaxianyue Lake, the guards here were stricter than in other neighborhoods, and even if he had a certificate signed by Ljungberg, he was not allowed to enter, but waited for the people on the villa side to reply before letting him in.
Under the guidance of Vaschi, Leo entered the villa, where the old man Rembrandt was sitting in the living room, seriously flipping through the newspaper in his hand, carefully reading the contents, and there were more than one newspaper stacked on the coffee table in front of him.
When he came to the old man's side, Leo couldn't help but ask, "What do you think of what's happening outside?"
The old man put down the newspaper in his hand, motioned for Leo to sit on the sofa beside him, and then asked, "What about you?"
Leo was silent for a moment and said, "I think the situation is weird. ”
"Weird? Well, that's a good word here. The old man nodded when he heard this, and then asked, "Why do you feel this way?"
"Everything is abnormal. Leo pondered for a moment and said: "For example, the atmosphere, it stands to reason that after the whole city is under martial law, and the gendarmes enter the city and set up cards, no matter what the cause is, the people at the bottom should feel panicked, but I found that the people in each block did not seem to be so flustered, and even the markets in the block were bought and sold as usual, without the slightest impact." If it weren't for the gendarmerie that set up the checkpoints, I wouldn't have even known that something so big had happened. ”
The old man smiled and asked, "Such a big thing, do you think the assassination of seventy-three people in the mainland parliament hospital is a big deal?"
Leo was a little surprised by the old man's calmness, and said puzzledly: "Isn't it difficult to make this matter a big one? It will directly lead to the suspension of the Continental Parliament, and may even affect whether the Continental Parliament will continue to stay in the French Empire?"
"Well, it seems like a big deal. The old man nodded, but then changed his words and said, "But that's a big deal for the Continental Council, but what about you, what about the ordinary people of Miria City, and will there be a Continental Council that will affect your life?"
Leo was stunned, and said with some uncertainty: "It should be! Without the Continental Council, would Miria City still be Miria City?" Politics and business should be affected, and these influences should also spread to the low-level residents of the entire Miria City, how can it be said that it has no impact on them?"
"It seems that you don't know what kind of political environment Miria City is. The old man shook his head with a smile and said, "If I explain, I'm afraid I won't be able to explain it in a day, you just need to know one thing, whether there is a mainland council or not will not have much impact on Miria City, at most it will only lose a little international prestige." With that, he paused, ordered Vaschi to go to the study, and then turned to Leo and asked, "What do you think of the assassination of these seventy-three councillors?"
Leo felt that the old man's question was a little strange, but he didn't think too much about it, and directly guessed in his heart and replied: "It should be Rupert Fitz's counterattack, he suffered a big loss at my hands yesterday,"
Later, he will accept Ljungberg's invitation to tell the story of the assassination of Rupert and his men yesterday.
"Ljungberg?" the old man seemed to think of something interesting, and with a smile on his face, he said, "I see, the most important part is here." ”
Just when Leo was puzzled by the old man's words and wanted to ask, Vaschi had already taken out a folder and handed it to Leo at the old man's motion.
Leo opened the folder and looked at it with some puzzlement, and he found that the folder was full of information about the members of the Continental Congress, so he couldn't help asking, "Is this the information of the seventy-three members of the Continental Congress?"
"Yes. The old man nodded and said, "Tell me what they have in common after reading it." ”
Hearing this, Leo lowered his head and carefully looked through the information in his hand, although there were as many as seventy-three copies of these materials, but because they had been sorted out in advance, it was not difficult to read. He didn't use the paracerebral system to collect and analyze the data, so it took about half an hour to read it.
After closing the folder and thinking calmly for a moment, Leo said slowly: "They have three things in common, first, they are all secret supporters of the three heirs of the French royal family, second, they are all action interventionists who advocate the intervention of the mainland parliament in the politics of other countries, and third, they are not from the Vilen continent, they are all politicians and scholars from the other two continents. ”
"Yes, very good! You are much better than Vasqi to be able to find out what these people have in common so quickly, she...... Ahem!" The old man was about to tease Vaschi, but in Vasqi's angry eyes, he didn't have to, and when the words came to his mouth, he took them back, coughed dryly, and then turned back to the topic, pointing to Leo, and said: "There are some things that don't need to be too complicated, what forces! What hostility! What allies! Don't think about those, go straight to the root point, often some things that seem complicated, it is easy to get the real answer." For example, where is the root cause of the assassination of these 73 members of the mainland parliament?"
"The beneficiary of the assassination. Leo's mind quickly cleared.
"And who are the beneficiaries?" asked the old man again.
Leo didn't even think about it, and said, "The Fran Empire." ”
"True, but not comprehensive. The old man added, "If you add an English kingdom, the answer is complete." ”
"Kingdom of Inge?" Leo vaguely thought of something, but he didn't think it all through, and his face showed a look of confusion.
"Although the Vilen Continent is the largest of the three continents, the political system on the Velen Continent is the least of the three continents, except for the French Empire and the Kingdom of England, only the seven countries of the Hanosa Alliance in the north are barely under the pressure of these two powers. The old man came to the desk in the living room, found a map of the world of Vilon, spread it out on the table, pointed to the geographical location of the countries on it, and said: "Compared with the bipolar polity of the Vilen continent, the other two continents are multipolar polities, although the two continents have their own powerful countries, but those powerful countries are not enough to be in an absolute advantage like the French Empire and the Kingdom of England in front of other countries. ”
Leo asked suspiciously, "Is the situation in these countries related to the assassination of the members of the Continental Congress this time?"
"Of course it is. The old man smiled and said: "Although the Continental Council is the product of the wisdom of Miria I, but in the end it did not develop as Miria I envisioned, for the French Empire, the Continental Council is a cancer, but in the past, this cancer would deliver a lot of benefits to the French Empire, so the French Empire has never made up its mind to cut it off." But when the Continental Council began to secretly intervene in the succession to the throne of the Falan Empire, no matter how great the interests of the Continental Council were, it had to be cleaned up, and it would be difficult for the Francose Empire to clean up the Continental Council alone, so it would naturally need to find an ally......"
"Kingdom of Inge!" Leo's face became a little gloomy, and he said, "You mean that the war on the Eastern Continent is actually a play?"
The old man did not give an affirmative answer, but only asked Leo, "Tell me, what is the cause of this war?"
"I remember it seemed to be for a deposit of rare minerals on the eastern continent. Leo carefully recalled the memories of this body and said.
The old man said, "What if I told you that the so-called mineral deposit has actually been hollowed out inside, but there is only a layer of camouflaged ore veins on the surface?"
Leo's face was already gloomy to the extreme, and there was a faint murderous intent in his eyes, as the old man revealed this deep secret little by little, his chaotic thoughts began to become clear, and said: "If the purpose of this war is only to lure out those ill-intentioned members of the Continental Parliament, kill them all, and take the opportunity to force the Continental Parliament out of the French Empire, or control the Continental Parliament." Then why did Duke Derwin use imine gas to attack us? Is it so hard that this is also pre-arranged? Is it possible to use the lives of us people at the bottom of the English to make this scene seem more real?"
"I don't think the people at the top of the two countries who designate this plan are good people, but they can't do such things. The old man shook his head and said, "You should recall that after the Kingdom of England landed in the port of Venaya, it has encountered decent resistance from the army of the French Empire, although the army of the French Empire is no longer comparable to the First Army that galloped across the country back then, but it is not without resistance, let alone the army of the Kingdom of England." The two sides were in a stalemate in the area of Bret, and although the fighting was fierce and there were some casualties, the casualties were very small until the appearance of the Duke of Derwin. ”
Leo frowned and said, "You mean Duke Devon was an accident?"
The old man did not answer, but asked in a jumping manner, "Do you know why Anne brought you to me in the hope that I could interfere in the complaint process against Duke Dewin's Continental Council, but I refused?"
Leo said in a deep voice: "You have already seen through these hidden things at that time, so ......"
"No, no!" the old man shook his head and said, "It is because I can't see through this matter that I refuse Anne's proposal, even though Duke Derwin is the person I hate the most." As he spoke, he paused and said: "Actually, I was paying attention to this inexplicable war at the beginning of the war between France and England, but I never understood what the purpose of this war was, until last night, when the seventy-three members of the Continental Congress were assassinated, the gendarmerie entered the city, and the First Army took over the defense, I gradually saw the group drama on this big stage. ”