Chapter 115: Skin
"Knight's post?" Baron Maupassant looked stunned, not understanding what Leo was saying.
Leo then explained: "In ancient times, there were often knights who would challenge other famous knights in order to become famous, and under normal circumstances, the challenged knight would not refuse such a challenge, and in order to show fairness, the challenged person would decide the dueling event. If Jacques Huppert were a true knight who adhered to the ancient rules of knighthood, as you say, and received my knightly battle post, then he would certainly accept my challenge. ”
"Does it really work?" Baron Maupassant, who didn't know anything about ancient knightly duels and the like, questioned Leo's approach.
"Of course, ordinary knight posts can't be useful, but my knight posts are different. Leo thought of the knight's coat of arms in the twin illusions, and then asked Baron Maupassant for a pen and paper, quickly drew a family coat of arms on the paper, handed it to Baron Maupassant, and said, "Stamp this coat of arms on my battle post, and he will definitely accept it." ”
Baron Maupassant took the paper and looked at it, and saw that the family coat of arms was very simple, that is, the two crossed swords were entwined with vines. Although he still didn't know what the mystery was, he put the paper in his pocket and decided to try it according to Leo's method.
The reason why Leo is so sure that a coat of arms can lure Jacques Huppert to the hook is because the information about the Twin psionic weapons is hidden in this coat of arms. If Jacques Huppert is really a descendant of the knight's side branches, the Huppert family, who inherited the complete cross sword swordsmanship, must also know the existence of the twins, and know better the importance of the twins to this set of cross sword swordsmanship.
The rest of the Huppert family may not be interested in the Twins as a cold weapon, after all, no matter how powerful an individual swordsman is in this industrial age, he may not be able to defeat a steam repeater controlled by an ordinary person.
But for a swordsman who can practice dual-wielding cross swordsmanship to the point of proficiency, a set of cold weapons that are compatible with swordsmanship is obviously extraordinarily attractive, not to mention that this weapon is also a symbol of the heir to orthodox swordsmanship. As long as Leo hints in the battle post that the winner can get the twins, the possibility of Jacques Huppert opposing it is almost zero.
Baron Maupassant asked, "How are you going to write a war post?"
Leo immediately shook his head and said, "Of course you can't write according to my identity, just place a battle post in the name of the descendants of the Perini family, and help me prepare a full-body armor similar to the Orthodox Holy See Punishment Knight, the kind that can cover all faces, and the duel time is set at ten o'clock this evening, outside the camp of the First Legion." ”
"Outside the camp of the First Legion?" Baron Maupassant frowned and said, "In case you kill Jacques Huppert, so close to the barracks, how are you going to get out?"
"Don't worry, I have a way to get out. Leo smiled confidently and didn't continue the conversation.
At this time, the carriage stopped outside the Sky Tower, and Baron Maupassant stepped out of the carriage and motioned to Leo, saying, "Come down! Emily, she has been awake for three days, go and meet her!"
Leo thought of the little freeman woman with witch blood, nodded, and then got out of the carriage and followed Baron Maupassant to his exclusive room in the Sky Tower.
In the center of the room sat a tall and beautiful woman with striking purple hair, and when she saw Baron Maupassant enter, she immediately stood up and prepared to meet her, but when she saw Leo following behind, she stopped and showed a trace of doubt in her eyes.
I don't know if it's because of this gorgeous lace ruffle skirt and exquisite makeup, or because the whole body shape and temperament of the woman in front of me have completely changed. Even though Leo knew in his heart that the woman in front of him should be the woman named Emily, and even the shadow of the little woman could still be seen in his appearance, he still had a feeling in his heart that this woman was not Emily.
"This is Mr. Leo Dodd, my friend. Baron Maupassant walked up to the woman, kissed her cheek very intimately, and then introduced.
Hearing Baron Maupassant's introduction, Leo had a bad feeling in his heart.
I saw that the woman who looked a little similar to Emily, but was more beautiful and noble, walked up to Leo with a look of hesitation in her eyes, stretched out her hand to him, and said, "Nice to meet you, Mr. Dodd, I am Emily Belmont." ”
Leo didn't show any doubts in his heart, and politely shook the fingertips of the self-proclaimed Emily woman, and said, "I'm glad to meet you, Miss Belmont. ”
When Leo held the other party's hand, not only did Leo feel an inexplicable connection with the other party, but even Emily had a surprised expression on her face, and the suspicion in her eyes became stronger and stronger.
When Leo let go of her hand, Emily couldn't help but wonder in her heart, and asked Leo, "Did we know each other before, Mr. Dodd, why do I have a ...... I feel like I can't put it into words?"
Leo frowned, not knowing how to answer, Baron Maupassant on the side stood up at this time, stretched out his hand to take Emily in his arms, and said: "Honey, I'm still around, I will be sad that you say such things to another man in front of me." ”
"You won't be sad, you love a flower!" Emily turned around, pinched Baron Maupassant's nose very affectionately, and said, "You sit here for a while, and I'll prepare some refreshments." ”
After saying that, she picked up her somewhat fluffy ruffle skirt and walked out of the room, heading towards the back kitchen of the Sky Tower.
After Baron Maupassant closed the door, Leo couldn't help but wonder in his heart and asked, "What the hell is this?
"Is she Emily?" said Baron Maupassant.
Leo was stunned, and suddenly remembered all kinds of rumors about witches, and couldn't help but say: "I know that the witch's bloodline will change its appearance after awakening, but will it change so much? ”
Baron Maupassant glanced at Leo, and then said in a deep tone: "This is just the most ordinary change, you haven't seen that kind of deformed body twist into a normal person in one day, that's called a different person." ”
I don't know if it was a delusion, but Leo felt that when Baron Maupassant said this, it was as if he was talking about his own business.
Leo was silent for a moment, and then questioned: "I know that the awakening of the witch's bloodline will change the appearance of the witch, but I have never heard that the awakening of the witch's bloodline will change even people's memories. If she was Emily, why did her memory turn out like this?"
"In the past, Emily was just an ordinary little family woman, she saw the corpses of her parents and husband with her own eyes, and it was the corpse after being tortured, and she was even sucked by blood, almost died, and her psychology had already collapsed at that moment. Baron Maupassant sighed slightly and explained: "When she woke up, she was completely demented, not only did she not know how to speak, but she did not even know how to eat or walk, so I managed to compile a set of memories for her, so that she could continue to live in another capacity." ”
Hearing Baron Maupassant's words, Leo thought more in his heart, and he felt that Emily's reaction when she woke up was not just a great psychological stimulation, but more because of the brain damage caused by the loss of a lot of blood.
Although the powerful witch bloodline repaired the damaged brain, it could not repair the memories in the brain, and even the basic survival abilities such as eating and walking that had been trained since childhood, and now Emily can live like an ordinary person, which can be said to be a miracle, even the medical technology of the Earth Federation cannot treat such a brain damaged patient.
It's just that what makes Leo feel even more like a miracle is that Baron Maupassant can actually create a complete false memory and stuff it into Emily's brain without any rejection, just like Emily's own memory.
For this reason, Leo couldn't help but be curious and asked about this memory.
Baron Maupassant replied very naturally: "This is Emily's own memory, not created by me, I just created an environment in which this memory can be generated." ”
When Leo heard this, he quickly found a relevant information in the auxiliary brain database, and asked tentatively in a deep voice, "Are you a dream builder?"
Leo had read various accounts of witches from the occult books of Old Man Rembrandt, just as the abilities of the clan were not fixed, the abilities of each witch were not fixed, but some abilities could reappear in the witches who had awakened after a few generations, and the Dream Builder was such an ability.
There are very few records of witches' abilities in books about witches, but compared to the abilities of other witches, the abilities of dream builders are relatively detailed, one is to be able to construct a near-real dream world, and the other is to change people's memories through dreams.
It's just that a dream builder like Emily who can create a complete life memory has never had it in the dark world materials he has collected.
Hearing Leo's inquiry, Maupassant did not deny or admit it, but joked as if he was diverting the topic: "You even know the dream builder, it seems that you have learned a lot from the old man Rembrandt these days, no wonder I think your temperament is becoming more and more like a scholar." ”
Leo ignored Baron Maupassant's clumsy way of diverting the subject, and he remembered that the Dream Builder was a witch's exclusive ability, and that no other clansman or wizard had similar abilities and sorcery.
So, Leo looked at the pure man in front of him with all the man's organs, but with a somewhat girlish temperament, with a strange face, and couldn't help asking, "Are you a witch?"
With that said, Baron Maupassant knew that it was useless to quibble, so he readily admitted, "Why? Can't I be a witch?"
"But ...... on you?" Leo didn't finish his sentence, but pointed to his lower body implicitly.
Baron Maupassant's face turned red instantly, and he glared at Leo fiercely, then walked to the cushion of the room and sat down, casually threw a fruit on the low table into his mouth, and relieved the embarrassment by this move, and then said: "I am just a skin, I think this world will be easier and more convenient to live with a man's body, so I created a man's skin." ”
"Skin?" Leo could understand every word Baron Maupassant said, but he didn't quite understand the meaning of the sentence, and he didn't know if it was the skin he understood.
Seeing this, Baron Maupassant stood up, walked towards the screen of the room, and warned Leo: "Don't peek......!
As he spoke, he shook his fist vigorously at Leo before disappearing behind the screen.
Then he saw that Baron Maupassant's clothes were resting on the screen one by one, and then he heard a muffled grunt of pain coming from behind the screen, first a male voice, then a taper, and finally a female voice.
What happened behind the screen made Leo curious, and he almost couldn't help but release the spirit net and scan the situation behind the screen, but in the end he still didn't do it, but temporarily put away his curiosity and quietly waited for the result.
After a while, the snorting stopped, and then a slender lady's hand reached out from behind the screen, pointed at a few black lace and leather skirt suits on the hanger next to Leo, and said, "Help me bring the clothes, you won't let me walk out naked!"
Although he had already guessed the result, Leo still had a look of surprise on his face when he heard Sylvia's voice coming from behind the screen.
He took off the leather skirt suit and handed it to the back of the screen, and couldn't help but wonder in his heart, asking, "Isn't there a gender misalignment in your way?"
"Gender misalignment?" is a term that is so new that it sounds like a medical term. Sylvia didn't seem to be ready to answer Leo's inquiry, and talked about him a little bit, but after thinking about it, she thought it would be better to make it clearer, so she added at the end, "I know very well that I'm a woman, but it's just a little different from ordinary women." ”
At this point, Sylvia didn't go any further, and Leo seemed to understand the meaning of her words and didn't ask any more.
For some reason, the atmosphere in the room suddenly became a little awkward, and neither of them spoke again, only the sound of Sylvia getting dressed.
After a short time, Sylvia, dressed in her clothes, came out from behind the screen, and there was no resemblance to Baron Maupassant except for her temperament and some habitual small movements.
Seeing Sylvia at this moment, Leo didn't know what to say for a while, opened his mouth, and finally said as if he had nothing to say, "Is the deformed child you mentioned yourself?" After asking this question, he immediately realized that he had said a stupid question, and immediately pushed back and said, "I'm just talkative, you don't need to answer." ”
"Yes, I'm that freak. Sylvia didn't show any unusual looks, but admitted very calmly.