The Quarter Moon Lake area has long been a high-end villa area in Miria City, and because Upper Quarter Moon Lake is located in the suburbs outside the city, most people build this place as a holiday villa.

And because the lake is located in the city of Miria, most of the people in the city who are not rich or noble live here, which also makes this area the most heavily guarded place in the entire city except for the administrative district.

Not to mention anything else, the police station in the Lower Quarter Moon Lake District alone is responsible for the security of the area by more than 500 red-helmet patrols and more than 40 police officers, and there is also a 200-strong French Imperial Gendarmerie on standby, and there are more than 100 sentry posts along the lake area to monitor the security of the entire area.

Like ordinary people who enter this place, they will be questioned if they dress inappropriately, Leo's clothes are decent enough in his opinion, but he is still a suspicious person in the eyes of many police officers. Originally, a few people wanted to come forward to interrogate Leo, but after seeing Anne leading the way, they all retreated, and it was obvious that Anne either had a place to stay here, or was a regular visitor here.

Now the villa in front of the two of them is very ordinary, it is a common country house, but such a simple country house is located in the best part of Xiaxianyue Lake.

Surrounded on three sides by a lake, behind it is a tightly guarded cluster of high-end villas that few people can get to here, and the nearest public street is a kilometre away, so it is also extraordinarily quiet, especially in a large city as noisy as Miria.

Anne didn't push the door in, but honestly pulled the tab on the door.

After a while, a maid-like figure walked out, and when he saw Anne, he immediately smiled and opened the door and welcomed her in, without looking at Leo behind him.

Although the other party ignored himself, Leo could not ignore the other party, because after his spirit net swept over the maid's body, he found that the maid's body had an organ that did not belong to a human fish.

In addition, the maid looked slender and thin, but Leo could actually feel that she was very powerful, at least not much weaker than before he absorbed the little heart.

It is not difficult to see from the way the woman walks, even if he is ignored, he is still under strict guard, and if there is the slightest mistake, the maid will stab the short sword in his sleeve into his vital point in the shortest possible time.

The situation inside the villa is basically the same as the outside, very simple, a few tables, sofas, and a wine cabinet, it is hard to imagine that there is a powerful person living here in Miria City.

A cough came from the small garden outside the villa by the lake, and Anne did not immediately lead Leo over, but waited in the room for a while, waiting for the maid to go and make a report, and then turned around and told him that it was okay to go, and then led Leo into the small garden.

Leo, who was following Anne, didn't say anything the whole time, he was just puzzled by the people who lived here.

This confusion is not because of this person's identity and rules, but because after he entered the hut, the spiritual network was suppressed and could no longer be used, and the auxiliary brain system also reminded him that he had entered an energy interference force field.

The two of them walked around a small, well-manicured bush, and then met the person they were going to meet.

To be honest, after seeing this man, even if Leo didn't know what this man's personality was and what kind of person he was, he admired this man very much in his heart, because he was absolutely sure that if he was so badly injured like this man, he would choose to commit suicide instead of living a strong and difficult life.

I saw that the old man no longer had many human organs on his body, and the lower half of his body, which was waist-high, was completely gone, and his entire body was mounted on a steel wheelchair with a small steam engine.

His right hand had also been completely lost, and he had been replaced with a mechanical arm, which was powered by a steam engine in a wheelchair.

The left side of the body was also missing, replaced by a mechanical lung connected to a wheelchair. This mechanical lung is inserted with some test tube-shaped medicine tubes, and the other end is connected to a leather tube connected to the box next to the seat, and with each breath, a part of the medicine will be injected into the mechanical lung through external pressure, producing some gas that can support his life.

His entire skull was also replaced with a metal skull, and about thirty or so medicine tubes were inserted from the top of his head all the way down, to the sides of his neck, and all the way down his spine, which looked a little weird.

"My medicine can be used for a long time, and you shouldn't miscalculate, I don't think you came to see me to change the medicine for me. When the old man saw Anne approaching, he smiled sincerely, and then his eyes fell on Leo, and although the smile on his face did not change, there was a hint of surprise in his eyes.

Although the old man did not express it, Leo had a faint feeling that the old man should have recognized his identity as a psyker.

"I'm here today to ask for your help, and to help yourself. Anne didn't appear polite, and as soon as she came up, she went straight to the point, telling Leo that they were going to accuse Duke Devon of using imine gas.

Although the old man tried his best to hide it, he could still tell that when the name Duke Devon appeared, there was a strong hatred in his eyes.

However, the old man did not make a decision immediately because of his hatred, but thought very calmly for a while before asking in a low and hoarse voice, "What do you need me to do?"

Anne made her own request: "An introductory letter to the embassy of the Kingdom of England, and your newspaper will need to support it if necessary." ”

"You're really not afraid to get me in trouble. The old man smiled bitterly and said, "A letter of introduction is nothing, but you asked me to target Duke Devon in the newspaper, and this matter is not good." ”

Anne frowned and said, "Are you still afraid of Duke Derwin?"

"You don't have to provoke me so much, you should know it's not going to work for me. The old man said calmly: "I have sent someone to assassinate him fifty-seven times before and after, and even once deliberately identified himself, if I was really afraid of him, I would not ......"

Anne ruthlessly uncovered the old man's scar and said, "You deliberately showed your identity to bring him here and die with him, which doesn't mean that you are not afraid of him." ”

The old man fell silent and did not speak.

"I'm sorry! I shouldn't have said that. Anne sensed that her words were a little heavier, and apologized.

"No, you're right, that's what I thought at the time. The old man shook his head, and then said very seriously: "The main reason why I can't attack Duke Devon in the newspapers is because of another thing, Louis IX died not long ago. ”

Anne was also stunned when she heard the news, but quickly reacted and said, "Why is there no news from the outside world?"

"Before his death, Louis IX did not announce the choice of the crown prince. The old man said in a deep voice: "There are three people who are now qualified to inherit the throne, and Duke Derwin is one of them, if I let the newspaper attack Duke Derwin at this time, it will be tantamount to intervening in the royal dispute, and in the end, no matter what the result is, the successor will not let my newspaper continue to exist." It would be fine if I were alone, but there are thousands of employees in the newspaper office, and there are hundreds of thousands of people who depend on the newspaper for food, and if something happens to the newspaper, their livelihood will be over, and I can't be so selfish. ”

"I'm sorry, but I went too far. Hearing the old man explain the reason, Anne said apologetically.

The old man did not blame Anne at all, and said with a smile: "However, you don't have to care, although my newspaper is not capable of any directional reporting, there are other ways to achieve the same effect, and I don't even need to come forward." With that, he looked at Leo and said, "I want to talk to this gentleman alone, and I'm afraid that's what you're bringing him here for, right?"

Anne smiled, turned around, gestured to Leo, and walked out of the garden on her own, back into her room.

The old man said to Leo, "Can you accompany me, the old man, to sit by the lake?"

Leo nodded, and was about to push the wheelchair, but the old man shook his head and refused, only to see him insert his mechanical right arm into a small device next to him, and follow the steam engine to start running, input power, and his left hand on the joystick, controlling the wheelchair to move forward.

Soon the two of them came to a lawn on the edge of the Lower Quarter Moon Lake, and the old man also listened to the wheelchair.

At this moment, the maid came with a blanket, covered the old man's body, and then walked to the side and stood quietly.

"Are you a wizard?" the old man was silent for a moment, and suddenly asked Leo expectantly.

Leo was stunned, thinking that the old man might have seen through his identity as a psyker, and that the wizards and psionics in this world seemed to have something in common, so he also realized that the old man might have misunderstood his identity.

Although many of Leo's psionic skills can create the illusion of wizard ability, and it is not a problem to deceive the old man in front of him, he still did not deceive this old man in the end, after all, from the conversation just now, it is not difficult to feel that this old man's character is worthy of respect.

So, Leo shook his head slightly and said, "I'm sorry, I'm not a wizard. ”

The old man sighed slightly, as if he was talking to Leo, and as if he was talking to himself, and said, "When I was very young, I saw a real wizard, he was a member of the Tower, and I watched him use his magic to make the flood that flooded the entire valley recede, and save the people of a village, so I have always hoped to see a real wizard again, but unfortunately it has never been possible." ”

"Is it hard to meet wizards?" Leo asked, "I heard that there is a wizard hiding in Cage City, and he is using the people of Cage City for experiments. ”

"That's not a wizard, that's just some self-righteous guys, they're far from a real wizard, only the Tower wizard is the real wizard. The old man's face was a little ruddy because of the excitement, and his breathing was a little short, and the maid immediately stepped forward, twisted the purple medicine tube of his junior, and injected a little medicine into his body, so that he could be relieved.

"Sorry, old problem. The old man smiled self-deprecatingly and said, "Sometimes, I really think that it would be better to replace the whole body with a mechanical one, and only keep the head." ”

"Absolutely not, you'll only be more miserable. Leo said with great certainty.

The reason why he is like this must be because he has seen countless modified people in the Earth Federation whose bodies have all been replaced by mechanical ones, and the misalignment of his own cognition, either madness or suicide, none of them have a good end.

Hearing Leo's affirmative response, the old man was a little surprised, looked at Leo, and felt that the other party didn't seem to say it casually.

Leo didn't intend to dwell on the issue of mechanical modification, and even the Earth Federation couldn't figure out a right or wrong issue. So he digressed and asked, "You mentioned the Tower just now, and I've heard the name Tower more than once before, is the Tower Wizard different from other wizards?"

When it comes to his favorite topic, the old man's attention naturally draws his attention and says, "Of course it's different. The other so-called wizards are just garbage pickers, and they pick up the things that the real wizards don't want and treat them as treasures, when in fact they become garbage after staying with the garbage for a long time. The wizards of the Tower are the ones who truly possess the mystical knowledge, and it is said that some of them are even able to speak directly with the mysterious gods and draw the knowledge and mysteries of the universe from the gods. ”

When the old man mentioned the mysterious gods, Leo remembered the mysterious beings such as the Great Black Shadow, the Golden Deer, the Mother of the Nests, and the Lord of Turbidity and Lightness. The fact that the Tower Wizard was able to speak directly to these mysterious beings made him feel that there might be some way to increase the willpower of the Tower Wizard to the point of immunity to all influences.

So, he couldn't help but ask, "How can you find the wizard of the tower?"

"Haha! I'd love to find the Tower Wizards, but I've been searching for them for so many years. The old man smiled and said, "The last time the Tower Wizard appeared was seventy-three years ago, that is, the time I saw it, and there have been no rumors of the Tower Wizard since then. ”

"Was the last wizard of the Tower the Wizard of the Wilderness Samuel Dunbar?" asked Leo again.

"You've heard of him, too!" the old man looked at Leo with a look of surprise at the familiar name.

"I have a copy of his early wizarding notes. Leo spoke, took out the box from his backpack, took out the wilderness wizard's notes inside, handed them to the expectant old man, and said, "I can't read the text on it, so I don't know what it is." ”

"Of course you can't read the text on it, it's Gamorei, an ancient language that has been lost a long time ago, and it's not among the ancient Vilons. The old man took the note and looked through it carefully, but Leo didn't bother.

The old man didn't read it all, just turned the first few pages of knowledge, closed the note, returned it to Leo, and said with some disappointment: "You're right, this notebook should be his early notes, at that time he was no different from other so-called wizards, all of them are some wrong thoughts, if you want to learn, I suggest you just make a reference, you must be considered to be the real power of wizards." ”

"But I don't know Gamorei. Leo took the note, put it back in the box, and said.

"Can I teach you, do you want to learn?" asked the old man with a little expectation.