Although these two soldiers of the French Empire are not much different from ordinary people on the surface, if you look closely, you can see that they have more or less traces of mutation, such as some skin membranes growing on their necks, and the eyelids of their eyes have changed from opening and closing up and down to opening and closing left and right, etc.

This mutated state is very similar to some people in the dream world who have just appeared in the ancestral state, and even more similar is that they also have spell-like psionic abilities on their bodies.

As long as the human body in the dream world is ancestralized, it will inevitably stimulate a kind of spell-like spiritual energy, which may be a hidden physical spiritual energy, such as making the body instantly several times stronger in a certain period of time, or it may be some kind of witchcraft, such as the most common fire burning technique, etc.

But the dependents of the Velen world are different, according to Leo learned from the books collected by the old man Rembrandt, after the Velons of the Velen world stimulate the bloodline, their bodies will inevitably mutate, which is also the best way to identify whether a person is a dependent, but after the clan stimulates the bloodline, it may not be able to stimulate spell-like psionic skills.

Usually, after the mutation of the body of the family members, they will only simply enhance a little physical strength, or make some of the five senses on the body stronger, such as better eyesight, etc., but these are not spiritual powers, they are just by-products of the mutation of body organs.

After the bloodline is stimulated, the people who can successfully produce spiritual energy can be said to be one in a million, and most of the rest may not have a relationship with spiritual energy for a lifetime like ordinary people, and only less than one-third of them can stimulate spiritual energy by themselves through the cultivation methods of some wizards.

However, the soldiers of the French Empire, who were preparing to hunt those soldiers like cat and mouse, all possessed quasi-spells, and their quasi-spells were the same, which was to make the body and any object within a certain range of it merge with the surrounding environment, just like a chameleon.

It's just that, compared to the strength of the psionic energy of these dependents, Leo cares more about whether these clans are natural clans, or artificial clans created through technologies such as alien cells.

Because these two clansmen not only possess the same spiritual energy, but even the mutated parts of their bodies are exactly the same, it is obvious that this is contrary to common sense, so it will cause Leo's conjecture and suspicion.

Just as Leo was observing these people below, the two soldiers of the French Empire who were being observed also began to move, only to see that they relied on their almost stealthy camouflage, silently touched the two soldiers closest to their position, and then extremely skillfully pulled out a non-reflective spiked dagger, covered the target's mouth, and inserted the spike directly into the target's brain from the target's ear, killing the target in an instant.

They then each took out a grenade-like object and buried it under their target, then retreated into the woods, quickly and carefully avoiding the traps and retreating to the periphery.

Leo had witnessed everything from the tree, and his experience was certain that the soldiers who were being hunted down would not escape, but he did not think about saving them. In his opinion, no matter what the situation outside was, it should be a civil war in the French Empire, and he had no interest in fighting for either side, let alone getting involved in such a war.

At this moment, the two Imperial sergeants who had retreated to the periphery of the soldiers' guard circle were very cooperatively touched by several alert traps, and made several small but very obvious sounds.

The vigilant soldier who heard the sound immediately thought that the pursuers had come up, and hurriedly retreated to the resting place, followed by a quick shake to wake up the comrades who had just fallen into a deep sleep, and when he shook the bodies of the two companions who had been killed, the two grenades placed below immediately exploded, and the power of the explosion instantly involved the people nearby, and these soldiers were almost all spared.

The people at the center of the explosion died on the spot, and several others were hit by shrapnel of various sizes, causing serious injuries, and more seriously, the shock wave caused by the grenade shocked their brains, leaving them all in a state of vertigo, completely incapacitated, and could only lie on the ground and let the blood flow out of the wound, a little weak, until they died.

Although they had successfully eliminated all the prey through the trap at once, the two Imperial sergeants did not get out of their stealth and walked out of the woods, but took a beautiful mechanical bow and crossbow and aimed it at the few people who were still alive on the ground, and waited patiently.

As time passed, the last soldier died of exhaustion due to excessive bleeding and stopped breathing, but the two sergeants still did not go out of the woods, but took the bow and crossbow in the woods and shot at the vital parts of the corpses in turn, until the vital parts of each corpse were all shot into the crossbow, and it was absolutely impossible to pretend to be dead, the two sergeants came out of the woods and came to this corpse.

They hung their crossbows back to their waists, drew their daggers, carefully examined each one, and cautiously mended it again, while removing the emblem of status from the corpse, peeling off the corpse's scalp and putting it in their pockets.

After all the corpses were scalped off, the two sergeants began to search the corpses for other items, putting away the valuable ones and throwing away the worthless ones, until they had finished cleaning the battlefield, they took their backpacks full of booty, went into the woods, and quickly left the place.

After the two sergeants left, Leo jumped down from the tree, walked over to the corpses, examined them a little, picked up a small manual from the ground that had just been discarded by the two sergeants of Fran, and opened it to look at it.

I saw that on the cover of the manual was printed a manual of conduct of the Free People's Army of France, which mainly contained some codes of conduct for military personnel and some simple military knowledge, in addition to some articles similar to political propaganda.

Although most of the contents of the manual were of little use to Leo, he was able to find some information that would help him understand some of the current situation at Velon.

For example, the present time. At the end of the manual there was a printing time, and it had been six years since he had gone to 9 Golden Oak Street, and judging by how old the manual was, it had been less than two months at most, so he had been in the dream world for less than a month, and six years had passed since he was outside.

Leo is not shocked or at a loss for this kind of time leap, because in interstellar travel, it is common to encounter the universe outside for a few days in subspace, and years or even hundreds of years have passed.

In addition to the time, he also found something interesting from some military knowledge in the manual, that is, hot weapons have been popularized in Velon, because there are a lot of methods of using hot weapons and army drills in those military knowledge.

At the same time, he also found several repeating revolvers from the corpses, and withdrew the bullets from the magazine, disassembled them and looked at them carefully.

He discovered that the bullet was not a special bullet, but a gunpowder-like bullet with no psionic substance.

After that, he tried to use this pistol bullet again, and soon he found that the explosive power of this bullet was far from comparable to that of special bullets, and even a shot at close range could not cause much damage to trees, so the bullets had to be made into pointed heads to increase penetration.

Although the power of the bullet is weak, the bullet shot has become much more stable, and it can now be fired compared to the bullet that appeared from time to time to burst or dud six years ago, similar to the gunpowder bullets of the old Earth era of the Earth Federation.

The only downside is that this bullet produces a large amount of pungent smoke, and Leo's body clearly tells him that this smoke is poisonous, and long-term breathing of this smoke can cause symptoms such as respiratory ulcers and heart failure.

It is precisely because the power of this bullet is not comparable to that of a special bullet, even an ordinary bow and crossbow cannot be compared, and the disadvantages are obvious, so after the two people just searched for these weapons, they threw them aside like garbage.

Leo didn't think about this weapon either, but he left a few bullets behind, after all, this kind of bullet that can be stably excited is still worth studying, maybe he can adjust the recipe, remove some drawbacks, and add a little power, maybe he can.

In addition, Leo also learned about some changes in the Fran Empire and the Vilonne continent in the past six years from that manual.

For example, Duke Devinne successfully ascended to the throne of the French Empire with the support of the military and became Louis X, Philippe Cappelou went into exile in the city of Miria, and with the help of the noble council and the commercial federation of the West France continent, he established the United Kingdom of France, he became the king, and continued the title of the French royal family, becoming Philip XIII, and the French Empire was thus divided into two and entered the period of two kings.

In this case, the Continental Council moved from the city of Miria to the seven countries of the Hanosa Alliance in the north, but because of the inaction of the Continental Council in this incident of the division of the French Empire, the prestige of the Continental Council was greatly damaged. From some of the contents mentioned in the manual, it can be seen that the continental parliament of the Vilun continent has been difficult to influence the situation in the vernal continent, and there is even an article in the manual that refers to the continental parliament as a parasite.

It's a pity that there is too little information that can be provided in the manual, and almost all of them are related to the internal affairs of the French Empire, and there is no record of the affairs of the surrounding neighboring countries.

After a careful search, Leo didn't find anything useful, when there was a sound of footsteps in the woods not far away, accompanied by the breathing and roaring of some wild beasts, it seemed that the smell of blood here had attracted the carnivores of the forest.

Leo casually found a few sets of clothes worn by ordinary people from the backpack behind one of the deceased to change into, although the clothes were a little smaller, but they were better than a rag.

Then, he made a clear direction, found the location of Miria City, and walked quickly out of the woods, avoiding the beasts that had gathered over, and headed for Miria City.

For ordinary people, the primeval forest on the outskirts of Miria City covers a very large area, once you get lost in the forest, you may be completely lost in the forest, so even during the autumn hunting period, if there is no old hunter to lead the way, those nobles who are keen on hunting will rarely go deep into the forest.

However, in Leo's eyes, this primeval forest is similar to the grove in the back garden, walking in such a forest is like an outing, he is walking fast, it only takes less than two hours to get out of the primeval forest, into the hunting ground forest area at the edge of the forest, the most notable feature of which is that you can find some shelter huts in this area that are specially used for hunting.

Now these shelters seem to have been converted into shelters, and some daily necessities such as food and clothing are stored in the huts, and from all kinds of traces, there are people who lived here for a while and then left, and there are no signs of fighting, they must have left voluntarily, so they did not take any daily goods with them.

In one of the huts, Leo found some newspapers that were not completely damaged, one of which was eight months ago, which mentioned that the Imperial army suddenly crossed the Black Forest when the Black Forest was in fog, attacked the northern city of Deva, and advanced to the outskirts of Miria City in just two days.

From the contents of the newspapers, as well as the soldiers of the Free People's Army who had been hunted down before, Leo could almost surmise that the city of Miria had fallen, and that the Imperial army should have completely occupied the city of Miria and began to consult the remnants of the army of the United Kingdom of France.

Moreover, the situation in Miria City, especially the political situation, should have stabilized, at least there is no fighting in the city, otherwise these people who have taken refuge in the forest will not leave voluntarily.

Leo didn't stop at any of these shelters, but continued on his way to Miria City.

The reason why he still went to Miria City even though he knew that the Fran Empire had occupied Miria City was not because he wanted to do something in Miria City, but because he wanted to find a way to leave Falan and go to the Inge Kingdom in Miria City.

It is obviously unrealistic to directly cross the Bidia Mountains south of Miria City and enter Lanxi, because according to Leo's speculation, I am afraid that both the French Empire and the French United Kingdom have laid heavy troops on both sides of the mountain range, and even Leo may not be able to pass through this very important defense line safely and securely, and then whether he wants to or not, he will be caught in the civil war of the French Empire.

Therefore, Leo chose a safe method, first went to the city of Miria to see the situation, and then decided whether to carry the Seven Kingdoms of Hanover on his back, from the Seven Kingdoms of Hanover to leave the continent of Veron by boat, and go to the Kingdom of England, or go west to Port Leon, find an opportunity to get a ship, cross the defense line of both sides from the sea, reach the southern region of West France, and then see if he can go directly to the Kingdom of England.

After entering the edge of the forest, the traces of human activity also increased a lot, and Leo soon followed the traces of human activity to a village located at the edge of the forest. However, Leo did not enter the village immediately, because he noticed that something was wrong with the village, which had not been affected by the war and seemed to be peaceful.