Chapter 167: First Love
For the position of consultant mentioned by Malek, Leo did not think of refusing at the beginning, the reason why he showed such a strong ability to analyze and sort out data in front of Malek was to let Malek find him more help in the future, and he could also get more information from Malek.
However, Leo didn't expect that his performance was unusually good, so that Malek actually invited him to become an advisor to his subordinate spy organization, which would give him more opportunities to get in touch with the confidential affairs of the Silvermoon Lake District Alliance and learn more about the civilization here.
However, Leo still had some concerns in his heart, because he felt that Marek's invitation was a bit too hasty, and it didn't look like the head of a secret agent organization.
After all, he and Malek had only been in contact with each other three times at most, and their knowledge was almost limited to names, and even if there was a Peter Alcott as a bridge in between, their relationship with each other was almost none.
But he is such a stranger, and Malek wants him to be a consultant and give him access to those classified intelligence materials, which makes people feel a little unreasonable no matter how you look at it.
"Could it be that in the civilization of this dream world, the spy organization itself is so ridiculous?" Leo couldn't help but have a thought in his mind, but then he shook his head and denied it, no matter how ridiculous the civilization is, the spy organization will not change its strict style.
"Or is he going to kill him when he's done with it?" Leo had another idea, but thought it was even more ridiculous. After all, just as he doesn't know Malek's strength, Malek also doesn't know his own strength, and if he doesn't know the strength of the other party, he naturally can't talk about things like trying to kill his mouth in advance.
Leo thought about it for a long time and couldn't figure out why Malek suddenly made him an advisor to the spy organization, and even after he recalled the contact with Malek, he found that Malek's attitude seemed to be a little problematic, and he was a little defenseless about himself. Not only did he expose a stranger to important cases, but he even showed him surveillance information about the True Eye Church on the third contact, which was completely unconscionable.
If Malek knew Peter's true identity, Leo would be able to understand Malek's defenseless attitude towards him, because with the Alcott family as a guarantor, even a stranger can gain a lot of trust.
However, from all indications, Marek did not know Peter's true identity at all, and he only regarded Peter as a learned pharmacist or scholar, and naturally there was no such thing as an Alcott family as a guarantor.
Marek saw that Leo had been thinking about it for a long time and had not made a decision, so he was a little impatient, so he urged: "Your Excellency Dodd, have you thought about it?"
Unable to understand the doubts in his mind, Leo chose a straightforward method and asked Marek: "I am very happy to have your invitation, but I am very puzzled why Director Marek invited a stranger like me to be an adviser to your subordinate intelligence department? According to your meaning, you must need me to help you sort out and analyze those materials, so I have access to all kinds of secrets, how can you trust a stranger like me so much?"
"The ability you showed is naturally the main reason why I chose you as a consultant, as for the question of trust...... Marek explained, but the words suddenly stopped, and there was a little puzzled look on his face, obviously he was also a little puzzled that he would trust Leo so much, but soon his expression returned to normal, and said, "I just think you are a person to be trusted!"
Getting such an absurd-sounding answer, Leo couldn't help but be stunned, although it was a happy thing for people to be trusted, but such an unreasonable expression of trust made him a little overwhelmed, and he didn't know what kind of expression to make for a while.
Malek also felt that his explanation was a bit absurd, so he coughed twice to ease the embarrassment, and explained: "Although many people don't believe in intuition, I have experienced a lot of dangers on the battlefield, and every time it is intuition that helps me avoid danger, so I trust the judgment made by intuition." I chose you as an advisor to give you access to intelligence as a stranger, not so much to trust you as I trust my intuition. ”
"I say yes to your invitation! I hope I can live up to your instincts. Although Malek's answer still made Leo feel very absurd, he analyzed it carefully and felt that agreeing to the position of advisor would have more advantages than disadvantages for him, so he did not hesitate any longer, nodded and agreed to Malek's invitation, but he also put forward his own request: "However, I can only hold the position of consultant until the end of this matter of the abolished capital, and then I will leave the town of the seventh lake and go to Silvermoon City." ”
"I agree with that. Marek seemed very happy to see that Leo had agreed to the position of adviser, and couldn't wait for Leo to take office immediately, and said: "Later, I will have someone send the documents to you, you just need to sort out the suspicious places in it, mark it, or list it separately." As he spoke, he paused again, and said to Leo with some seriousness: "In addition, you don't want to continue to participate in the investigation of this murder, and I think you don't want to be affected by other things during this time period." ”
"Okay. Leo responded, then stood up and said, "Nothing else, I'll go back." ”
Marek nodded and said that Leo could go, but when Leo walked to the door, a strange look suddenly appeared on his face, and he said to Leo, "Wait! ”
"What's the matter?" Leo turned his head to look at Malek, sensing that Malek was emotionally unusual.
"That's it...... It's ......" Marek suddenly became a little squirming, and did not say a complete sentence for a long time, until Leo showed impatience, he said in a slumped voice: "This is the maid of your family, I just want to ask, I want to ask, what is the name of that maid of your family, does she have sisters who look like her?"
Leo didn't expect Malek to ask such an inexplicable question after twisting it, which made him stunned, and replied casually: "I don't know much about her situation, if you want to know, I can help you ask her." ”
"If you don't know, don't bother. Malek coughed twice more and shook his head, but when Leo turned around, he changed his attention and said, "You better help me ask! Don't be too deliberate, just ask casually." ”
Seeing Marek's behavior like a boy in love for the first time, Leo frowned slightly, nodded, turned around and walked out of the office door, but when he was about to close the office door with his hand, he suddenly thought of something, his face changed slightly, and he asked Marek, who was sorting out the information in the room, "Director Marek, why did you suddenly ask the maid in my residence?"
Malek was stunned when he heard the question, and then said unhappily: "This is my private matter, if Your Excellency Dodd is not willing to help ask, I will not ......"
Before Malek could finish speaking, Leo interjected a little rudely: "The reason why you asked about her is that you don't think that maid is very similar to your first love, right?"
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At this time, Leo had already walked out of the gate of the guard station, walked in the direction of the temporary residence, and on the way, regardless of the strange eyes of the people around him, took out the king and queen and carefully examined them, and put the spare special bullets into the bullet belt on his waist one by one, with an extremely cold and murderous look on his face.
Through the conversation with Marek just now, Leo realized that something was wrong in the past few days, and his attitude towards Sophie was extremely problematic.
If you see that the other party is pitiful, you can give some money and things if you want to. If you see that the other person is like the first love of the ontology, and is affected by the emotions of the ontology, there is no problem in caring more about the other person when you have time. But in the end, he made the decision to take a stranger to his residence so casually and place him so close to a place to rest, which was not his behavior by any means.
Maybe it's because there will be some side effects after fusing the ontological personality, but no matter how big the side effects are, it is impossible to reverse his almost instinctive will to safety, let alone make him commit such an absurd and stupid behavior.
And Malek's words just now made Leo realize that he was likely to be tricked like Malek, and he guessed that after he met Sophie, his spirit and emotions were affected by some kind of force, so he felt that the other party was very similar to the first love in his heart, and finally did such a stupid thing.
Although judging from the current situation, Sophie has not caused him any harm, but it has touched his taboo, and even controlled his thinking and behavior in disguise, which makes him feel more annoyed than attacking him directly.
Soon a furious Leo returned from the guard station to the door of his temporary residence, and before entering, his mental net swept through the room and found Sophie preparing food in the kitchen.
If it was before, Sophie's behavior was not questionable, but now the mentality is different, some of Sophie's behavior and behavior are full of loopholes, no matter how you look at it, she doesn't look like a low-level commoner who knows how to do all kinds of housework.
Opening the door and walking in, Leo went straight to the kitchen and looked at Sophie with his back to him.
If Leo had followed the ruthless nature of his previous biological weapons, he would not have hesitated to shoot directly at Sophie, but at this moment, Leo could only pull the king and queen out of the holster and aim at Sophie, but he couldn't pull the trigger. It's not because Leo's fingers or body are imprisoned by external forces, but because Leo's heart, or the heart of the body, is unwilling to shoot at Sophie.
"Well, did you find out so soon?" Sophie, who was doing something, put down what she was doing, stood up, sighed with her back to Leo, and said, "I thought it would take you a while to find out the problem, but I didn't expect you to be better than I expected." ”
Sophie's words undoubtedly acknowledged Leo's previous judgment, and when she turned to look at Leo, her expression was always calm, not at all like a person who had been exposed to lies.
"What are you?" Although affected and unable to attack Sophie, Leo was not alarmed, because he was sure that the mechanical will could help him get rid of this mental control, so he calmed down and probed the other party's origin.
"What is it?" Sophie seemed to be very sensitive to Leo's question, smiling and asking rhetorically, "Why don't you ask me who I am, but what I am?"
Leo didn't answer, but looked at her coldly.
"You're more boring than I expected," Sophie said as she stepped up to Leo, not worrying about the weapon in Leo's hand, but reached over and stroked Leo's angular cheeks and chin like a lover, and said, "You know what? When the others see me, they can't wait to get me to bed on the same day, and even if they don't, they miss me day and night, just like the Chief Marek." It's just you, you just have some emotional swings when you see me, and then you completely forget about me as a person, and even treat me like a real maid, you're really special, Leo Dodd!"
"What are you?" If Leo's previous question was just a slip of the tongue, now he was sure that the woman in front of him was not a human at all, but an extremely powerful higher being, because at this moment Sophie gave him the feeling of seeing the will of the True Eye on the outskirts of Miria City.
"My name is Vivien. Sophie took a few steps back, and as she walked, the clothes on her body seemed to melt into a transparent tulle, and her own body became not only graceful, but also much taller, two heads taller than Leo, almost up to the ceiling. As for her countenance, it was completely changed, and it became a beauty that could not be described in words, as if the word beauty had been coined for her, and her hair had become silver-white, and her skin was so white that it shone faintly like the moonlight.
Hearing the self-introduction of the woman in front of him, and then seeing the changed appearance of the other party, Leo couldn't help but tremble in his heart, this tremor was not due to fear, but shock, because he already knew who the woman in front of him was.
Leo said almost thoughtlessly as the name came to mind, "Vivien, the lady of the lake!"
The woman in front of her, shrouded in moonlight, bowed down to Leo like a nobleman who was proficient in etiquette, and said, "Greetings Vivien, mighty warrior, May the moonlight always guide your path, and march forward in the thorny river of time until the place of eternal rest." ”
Leo took a deep breath, suppressed the complicated emotions and strong hostility in his heart, inserted the king and queen in his hands back into the holster, and then returned the salute to the woman in front of him with an ancient religious ritual, saying, "May the moonlight be with you, protector of warriors, guide of heroes." ”
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