Chapter 172: Erasure
"What's going on? Was there a corpse here just now?" Leo looked at the inspection records just now under the reminder of the secondary brain system, and looked at the location of the corpse just now, with some doubts on his face.
Even though he had seen the contents of the record, Leo still had a hard time believing what was in the record, and it would be understandable if only one corpse had disappeared, but it was a bit strange that the memories associated with it disappeared at the same time as the corpse disappeared.
Not to mention whether someone with his current psionic level can silently erase some of his specific memories, just as the matter of erasing other people's memories is concerned, it is a bit unbelievable.
Although there are some powerful psionics in the Earth Federation who say that they have the ability to erase a person's memory, the so-called erasure of memory is only to use a certain method to block and isolate a certain memory cell, or directly kill the memory cell where a memory is located, so as to obtain the effect of erasing memory.
This kind of thing sounds very simple, but the actual operation is very difficult, even an omega-level psyker is difficult to achieve perfection, and there will definitely be various loopholes in other memory content that has been erased, even if there is no need for a subbrain reminder, ordinary people can easily find that their memory has problems.
However, now Leo found that although the memories related to the corpse had been erased, the memory array related to it in his own memory did not appear to be abnormal, and he could clearly remember that the white-haired woman broke in through a spatial rift, and then he blocked the pursuers behind through the king and queen, and closed the teleportation rift.
This memory is carefully analyzed through the paracerebral system. It is not difficult to find that this memory is very complete, without any loopholes, but adding the content of the secondary brain system record will make this memory a little more incongruous and incongruous.
This situation gave Leo the illusion that there was no problem with his own memory, but that the autopsy record of the auxiliary brain system was superfluous information that had been tampered with by external forces.
Leo didn't take this illusion to heart, in his opinion, if there was really an external force that could tamper with the analysis records of the parabrain system, then it would not be a problem to directly tamper with his memory by the way, and naturally there could be no such loophole.
"Is it because this is a dream world?" Leo speculated about the current situation.
According to some rules of the dream world, once you get out of the dream, then the memory in the dream will definitely be affected, and it is not incomprehensible to disappear directly, which has been reflected in Peter Alcott.
However, Leo didn't know why his memory would be affected after the corpse disappeared.
If it was just because the corpse was an outsider, then the female family members of the Velen world who entered the dream world with him should also belong to the outsider, so why didn't her corpse disappear and the memories of her would not be affected in any way?
While Leo was confused by all these questions, he was once again puzzled and worried about the anomalies of this dream world, fearing that one day he would be silently erased by the same corpse as the corpse because he had touched the rules of this world.
At this moment, there was a sudden knock on the door downstairs, Leo checked through the spirit net, and found that it was Vitzmir, judging from the expression on the other party's face, it was obvious that he seemed to be in a good mood, and should be able to bring him a good piece of good news.
Leo left the white-haired woman alone in the room, got up and left the room, walked downstairs, opened the door, and said to Vitzmere, who was about to continue knocking, "Look at your expression, there should be good news over there?" ”
"No, it's better to say outside, this room is too wicked, and only someone of your ability would dare to live in it. Standing at the door, Witzmere had no intention of going inside, and after politely refusing, he got back to business: "There is indeed good news from the Novitsky family. However, I did not talk about this with the current head of the Nowitzki family, but with the brother of the deceased, and he said that as long as you can help find out who did the evil thing, you don't need to do it, and he will take care of the rest, and in the end, whether someone catches it or not, what you want will be in your hands. ”
"Is there such a good thing?" Leo was a little surprised by what Vitzmere said, but soon he thought of something, and said with a smile: "Could this victim's younger brother be the current first heir of the Nowitzki family?"
Witzmir nodded with a smile and said, "There is a lot of criticism within the Nowitzki family about this new heir, so this heir hopes to do something useful to improve his prestige, but he doesn't want some things to get out of control and involve himself, so he will make such conditions." ”
Leo asked, "I'm not the only one involved in this incident, right?"
Witzmere smiled: "There are indeed some people, all of whom are similar to me, they just use this as a warm-up before entering the ruined capital, and they don't think about whether they can succeed, so you don't have to worry about them." ”
"I really don't have to worry about them. Leo smiled and said to Vitzmir, "You wait here for a while." ”
After speaking, Leo turned around and walked to the study upstairs, found a pen and paper, quickly drew the specific image of the middle-aged man on the paper, and then took this picture, walked downstairs, handed it to the patiently waiting Witzmereir, and said: "This is the appearance of the murderer of the 23rd district, he still lived in the flower shop not long ago, and now he is gone, but according to my estimate, he should still be in the town of the seventh lake." As an additional piece of information, this man is a wizard and is very strong, at least I am not absolutely sure that I can take him down. ”
Wittmere didn't expect things to come to an end so quickly, and couldn't help but be stunned, and a little doubt arose in his heart, wondering if Leo was looking for someone to be the murderer in order to defraud the Nowitzki family of the bounty.
However, when he took the portrait and saw the person drawn by Leo on paper, he was stunned.
The reason why he has such a performance is not because he knows who the person in the portrait is, but because the portrait of Leo is so real, so real that not only the face and figure of the character are drawn, but even the very special temperament is also painted, seeing this portrait is like seeing the person in the painting really standing in front of him, an invisible pressure rushes to the face, people can't help but hold their breath, and their hearts can't help but think that it is this person.
If it were just a general portrait, it would not have produced such an effect, and Leo's portrait was different from a normal portrait. He not only borrowed the restoration ability of the parabrain system to perfectly restore the character on the paper, but also added a little means when painting this portrait, and attached a similar psionic aura to the paper through psychic skills such as spiritism, which can produce a shocking effect when ordinary people are defenseless.
Vitzmir gradually came back to his senses, and while carefully rolling up the portrait in his hand, he said, "What a terrible fellow, just looking at the portrait makes people feel chills." But your painting is even more extraordinary, I have never seen such a good portrait, not even the family painters of the Alcott family in the town of the first lake. As he spoke, perhaps sensing that there was something wrong with his words, he hurriedly explained: "Of course, with your identity, you are naturally not comparable to those painters from aristocratic families. ”
Leo motioned to Vitzmir that he didn't have to explain anything, that he didn't mind the miswording, and then turned to the point: "When will I get what I want after this thing is handed over to the Novitsky heir?"
"As long as it is confirmed that it is this person, it will be paid immediately, and the reputation of the Nowitzki family is still trustworthy," Vicmir replied, and then said cautiously: "It won't take too long to confirm, but those nobles especially like to play some little tricks, please be careful." ”
"Will he still send someone to assassinate me?" said Leo with a sneer.
"For the aristocracy, as long as there is no evidence, it has never happened. ”
Leo said threateningly, "In that case, Mr. Witzmereir, when you send the portrait over, you will also say this sentence to the heir, and say that I agree with this sentence, and I hope it will not be used on him." ”
"I will definitely convey your words. Witzmere nodded in agreement with Leo's request, then saluted and retreated, escorted by several bodyguards, and disappeared into the alley not far away.
Leo turned around and closed the door, shaking his head slightly and smiling, "This slippery guy, I'm afraid he will be used by him this time." But it's better to think of him as a reward for helping me get that wizarding artifact. ”
The positive attitude that Witzmere showed towards the murderer of District 23 just now was very abnormal, and judging by his character, if there was no huge interest in it, I am afraid it would be difficult for him to show such initiative.
Although Leo didn't know what benefits Vitzmere could get from this matter, he knew very well that he would probably be used by Vitzmir in this matter as a tool to show his so-called strength, otherwise, he would not have inexplicably and deliberately reminded him to be careful of the dirty tricks of those nobles, and he reminded him again and again.
Leo didn't care about being used by Vizmere like this, after all, he was also using Vitzmir, whether it was to obtain treasures from the Nowitzmir family or to get a place to enter the ruined capital. As long as Witzmere's affairs don't affect his affairs, it's nothing to help him by the way and repay a little debt of favors.
Leo, who went back upstairs, checked the situation of the white-haired woman, found a blanket to cover her, and then, according to his previous plan, opened the entrance to the attic secret room of the mechanical study, went up there to find some parts, and began to assemble and make them according to the mechanical design drawings compiled and analyzed by the auxiliary brain system.
Although the number of parts in this secret room is not very large, but the variety is very complete, and the parts required on the design drawings can be found here, although because the various tools are very different from the tools of the Earth Federation, it caused some small trouble when using them at the beginning, but after getting familiar with these large numbers of mechanical tools with different effects, his production progress gradually entered the regular, and there were no more accidents.
After about three hours, more than a hundred parts taken out of the drawer had been assembled into four trigger-type robotic grenades that looked very rough in appearance.
Just like the gunpowder grenade in the old earth era, the lethality of this triggered mechanical grenade against the enemy still needs to rely on the shrapnel generated during the explosion, but because this triggered mechanical grenade cannot form a relatively evenly distributed blasting force to push the fragments like the gunpowder explosion, it can only rely on the elastic force of this characteristic spring to eject the fragments, so the attack direction of the grenade fragments is not as scattered and wide as the gunpowder grenade.
The mechanical grenade designed by Leo has only nine precisely calculated blades, and the moment the grenade's trigger mechanism is triggered, the thirteen special springs inside the grenade will simultaneously release the accumulated elastic force, and this elastic force will push the nine blades in nine different attack directions, causing damage to nearby enemies.
This means that the mechanical grenade must be released in mid-air to achieve optimal lethality, and this release time must be accurately calculated to be error-free, otherwise the weapon is likely to injure the user.
"I just don't know how powerful it is?" Although this mechanical grenade was made exactly according to Leo's design drawings, Leo, as the designer, could not estimate the power of this grenade, because he lacked the most important data, that is, how much elastic force the characteristic spring can have.
When making the grenade, Leo had tested the strength of a trait spring, which was much more powerful than the Earth Federation's mechanical springs, but much less powerful than he had estimated.
However, this is only the result of a single part test, and cannot be used as a final evaluation of the spring elasticity, because according to the content recorded in the book, the mechanical parts of the dream world will produce abnormal kinetic energy of different sizes depending on the number of parts combined, the material, the moving structure and other external factors.
At present, the force of this type of special spring may only be greater than that of ordinary springs, but if it is placed in other mechanisms, the force generated by it may produce an incalculable force due to this extraordinary kinetic energy characteristic, so Leo is now eager to find a target who can use this mechanical grenade.
Just as Leo put away the mechanical grenade with a special leather goods and hung it on the bullet belt around his waist, and his mind was looking for a suitable target at the same time, there was a rhythmic tapping sound from the small window of the attic secret room, and then he saw the window push open a gap, and a rat head with a hat protruded from the gap, and when he saw Leo, he immediately said: "Mr. Dodd, the man has been found, in the root nest." ”