Chapter 102: East and West Flanges
Hearing Leo's request, Ljungberg shook his head with a wry smile and said, "There is no more information, this information is all I can collect." Not only are there many people in the dark world who want to know the abilities of the three brothers, but even in the real world, there are many powerful people who want to know their abilities, but as a result, anyone who knows their abilities is dead. ”
"You came to me to deal with them?" Leo asked, frowning slightly.
"Yes. Ljungberg nodded.
"They're here for 9 Golden Oak Street too?" Leo wondered, "I remember their profile showing that they seem to be killing people for a living, and they don't seem to be interested in exploring such mysteries." ”
"They're here to kill. Ljungberg explained, "They were all Hound dogs raised by Rupert Fitz, and they were urgently brought to Miria City to kill the rival members and officials of the Continental Council on Rupert's behalf. ”
"Do the high-ranking officials of the Fran Empire allow such behavior?" Leo asked with some puzzlement: "Once there is a conflict, send killers to assassinate the hostile high-level, this kind of direct uplifting of the table is so difficult that it should not be hostile to all the high-ranking of the Fran Empire? Who can be sure that he is not the next target to be assassinated by the opponent?"
Ljungberg said in a shocking voice, "You seem to have mistaken one thing, these three people were hired by Rupert Fitz to kill the members and officials of the Continental Assembly, not the nobles and officials of the French Empire. ”
Hearing these suggestive words, Leo seemed to understand something, thought for a while, and said, "The top of the French Empire has begun to be hostile to the Continental Council?"
Ljungberg sighed and said, "When Miria I built Miria City and set up the headquarters of the Continental Council here, he wanted the French Empire to use the Continental Council to control and influence the politics, military and economy of other countries. It's just that people from other countries are not stupid, since it is impossible to avoid the headquarters of the Continental Council in Miria City, they simply build a headquarters of the Continental Council on each continent. In this way, the power of the continental parliament was guaranteed, and the effect of external influence was weakened to the extreme. ”
"Isn't there a master-slave affiliation between the councils of the three continents?" Leo wondered.
"The three continental parliaments are equal, but internal officials and parliamentarians are intermingled, just as the recently deceased speaker was originally a legal officer on the Moissanite continent," Ljungberg explained. ”
Hearing the mention of the Speaker, Leo couldn't help but have a strange expression on his face.
Ljungberg noticed the abnormality of Leo's expression and couldn't help asking, "What's wrong?"
Thinking that Ljungberg would know about it sooner or later, Leo did not hide it, and told him what happened last night, which made Ljungberg dumbfounded.
Ljungberg couldn't help but muttered to himself: "No wonder Rupert Fitz was in such a hurry to transfer the three brothers, it seems that the Speaker's actions have disrupted his entire plan and forced him to find external forces to solve the problem." ”
Leo didn't interrupt Ljungberg's thoughts, and waited for a while.
After a long while, Ljungberg recovered from his contemplation, and instead of talking about the Speaker, he turned the subject back again, and said: "Judging from the current situation of the French Empire, Miria I's plan has failed, and they have not only failed to control other countries through the Continental Council, but have been influenced by the Continental Council. In particular, the cities in the Western Continent, which are very closely related to Miria City, have been more or less influenced by the ideological trend of the Continental Parliament, and some people have proposed more than once to establish a new political system in the Western Continent, which is different from the aristocratic system in the Eastern Continent, which is dominated by local nobles, court nobles, and military nobles, but a three-tier parliamentary system with a mixture of commoners, merchants, and nobles. ”
"No wonder the top brass of the Fran Empire are so hostile to the Continental Council, this is clearly an attempt to divide the Fran Empire in two. Hearing this, Leo felt a little sympathy for the French Empire, and felt that they were completely excusable for what the Continental Council had done.
Then he looked at Ljungberg curiously and said, "Which side are you on?"
"I don't stand on either side. Ljungberg said with a look of certainty, "I don't like this kind of political game, all I have to do is ensure the peace of Miria City." ”
"If you do that, you're going to be hostile to both sides. "Leo, as an outsider, sees better than Ljungberg.
Ljungberg smiled unapprehendedly, "At least both of them need someone like me to stabilize the situation." ”
Suddenly, Leo seemed to think of something, pondered for a moment, and said: "Since the high-level of the French Empire is so hostile to Miria City, then the heir to the throne supported by Baron Maupassant has not made a wrong choice? ”
Not necessarily. Ljungberg seems to know something inside, but he doesn't intend to elaborate on it.
Seeing this, Leo didn't ask again, let alone continue the topic, but returned to the main topic and said, "You go and check the residence of the three brothers after they came to Miria City, I ......"
"You don't have to look it up, a lot of people know where they live. Ljungberg quickly gave an answer, saying, "When the three brothers arrive in Miria City, they will spend a day enjoying a day in the exclusive suite of the Xinghai Hotel before going out to run errands. ”
"The Xinghai Hotel, the tallest and most luxurious Xinghai Hotel in the city?" Leo said, reminding him of the hotel he had seen in the business district.
"Yes. Ljungberg nodded.
Leo asked again, "When will the three brothers arrive in Miria City?"
Ljungberg quickly replied, "It will be there in the afternoon, so the three brothers will stay in the hotel from the afternoon until tomorrow." ”
"I'm going to do a site survey to see where their suites are located and what's going on. Leo spoke, stood up, and prepared to go out.
"Wait, you're better than going there. Ljungberg also stood up, stopped him, and said mysteriously, "Here you can also learn about the situation around the hotel." ”
So saying, he gestured to Leo, walked to a corner of the room, flipped the oil lamp in the room, and saw the secret door in front of him slowly open, revealing a spiral staircase leading up to the attic.
Led by Ljungberg, the two went up the spiral staircase and soon came to the attic.
I saw that this loft is a combination of the roof lofts of the surrounding four buildings, so it is very spacious.
In the attic, there is a large table that occupies two-thirds of the attic, and on the table is a huge model of the city, although there are many places that Leo does not recognize, but the Sky Tower, the Red House Street, the headquarters of the Continental Parliament and other characteristic buildings can still be identified at a glance.
"Is this a model of Miria City?" Leo looked at Ljungberg with some surprise.
"This is a scale model of Miria City that I made myself. Ljungberg looked at the city in front of him, a palpable pride on his face.
Leo walked around the model, turning it into data and putting it into the secondary brain system, comparing it to the three-dimensional data map of the city of Miria that he had constructed through the mental web, and at the same time being surprised by Ljungberg's generosity.
What surprised Leo even more was that after his comparison, he found that the scale data of the building of this model was almost the same as that of the real city building, which shows that Ljungberg must have put a lot of effort into collecting these building data.
After seeing this huge model, Leo also understood that Ljungberg really loved this city, regarded it as his own child, and would never allow any foreign forces, even the forces of the French Empire itself, to destroy it.
Leo didn't say much, walked directly to the location in the business district, and asked, "Where is the exclusive room of the three brothers?"
"Here it is. Ljungberg took out a thin stick and pointed to the exterior wall of a specially marked room on the Xinghai Hotel model, as if he had already prepared.
I saw that this room is located in the middle of the hotel, about 100 floors or so, because the exterior wall structure is very similar, if it is not specially marked, it is difficult for ordinary people to distinguish the location of this room from the outside of the hotel.
"How do you get up the normal way?" asked Leo again.
"There are four safety staircases inside the hotel that go up to the top floor, but it's guarded all year round and the security room is in the stairwell of the four stairs, so it's impossible to walk up the stairs silently. Ljungberg took out a sketch of the internal structure of the Xinghai Hotel that had been prepared a long time ago, pointed to the location of the four stairs, and then pointed to the fifteen small squares in the middle, and said: "The fifteen here are steam elevators, which can go up to ten people at a time, and are the main means of transportation for the hotel." ”
As he spoke, he suggested, "You can book a room on the floor below the fiftieth floor, and then try to go from the fiftieth floor to the exclusive suite of the three brothers on the hundredth floor." ”
Leo asked, "Why is there only 50 floors? Is it so hard that I can't book a room on the 100th floor?"
"Rooms on floors above the 50th floor can only be booked by members of Xinghai Hotel, and if you want to become a member of Xinghai Hotel, you not only need to be identified, but also need to be recognized by the Xinghai Hotel Committee, and the chairman of the committee is Rupert Fitz. ”
Leo didn't ask any more, his eyes looked around the Xinghai Hotel, and then pointed to another 100-story hotel about 1,200 meters away from the Xinghai Hotel, "Who opened this hotel?"
"The Crown Hotel of the American steel tycoon Robert. Ljungberg quickly replied for Leo: "Robert originally wanted to build a luxury hotel comparable to the Xinghai Hotel, but because the architectural design was unreasonable, after it was built to the 100th floor, the person in charge of supervising the building told him to continue to build, the ground floor building may not be able to bear the weight of the high-rise building, which will cause the entire building to collapse, so Robert had to stop the construction and was forced to cap on the 110th floor. ”
Leo asked, "Shouldn't there be any special status and procedures for booking a room on the 100th floor here?"
"No, as long as you have money, you'll be fine. Ljungberg looked at Leo suspiciously, and asked, "What's the use of you booking a room here?"
"Don't worry about it, just book a suite here. Leo pointed to the location of the room he had requested, and then walked down the attic.
Although Ljungberg did not understand why Leo did this, he still followed Leo's instructions, quickly booked a room in Leo's designated location, and delivered him the entry card and key at noon.
Leo, who got the key card and key, left Ljungberg's secret headquarters directly, took the carriage prepared by Ljungberg, came to the Crown Hotel in the business district, and stayed in a room on the 100th floor.
After checking into the designated room, Leo stood in front of the glass window with a view of the Xinghai Hotel, turned on his vision skills, and used his vision ability to look towards the suite where the target would stay.
Because the room is made of large special glass walls, as long as there are no curtains to obstruct it, you can clearly see the inside of the room.
It's just that for Leo, it doesn't make sense to cover it or not, the spiritual vision can see the spiritual aura wrapped around everyone's body, and even if there is something blocking it, it can clearly judge anyone's location.
After testing the effect of his psionic skills in use, Leo increased his heart by two percent, and then waited for the actual battle at night.
For the rest of the day, Leo didn't do anything else, except to instruct the hotel staff to serve a meal for seven people every half hour, and he took the book of wizarding notes from the early years of the wilderness wizard Samuel Dunbar.
Samuel Dunbar obviously didn't record his daily habits in his notes, the contents of the notes were all real knowledge, and Leo also understood why Samuel Dunbar was called a wilderness wizard after reading the notes.
Because most of the content recorded in this notebook is detailed information about various plants, insects, animals, and other creatures on the three continents of Veron, and when some very rare and special animals and plants cannot be described in words, a beautiful sketch is attached.
Because the text is recorded in the Gamoree language, although the whole notebook does not look very thick, but the content is very large, and it is roughly estimated that it records the shape, function and processing methods of more than 5,000 different plants, more than 700 animals and more than 3,000 insects.
For the general public, although the explanatory texts of these animals and plants are rare knowledge, they are not very important, because the annual Vinylon Biological Dictionary published by the medical school records more information about animals and plants, and the records are more detailed.
But for the people of the Dark World, especially the pseudo-wizards in the wizards' guilds, the contents of this notebook can only be described as priceless.
Because the instructions for each animal and plant recorded in the notes are all attached to some methods of using these animals and plants for wizard potions, and there are even at least thirty-two hidden wizard potion recipes in it, and each formula will probably cause all parties in the dark world to rob it if it is put on the black market.