Chapter Seventy-Eight: Nine Golden Oak Street
I don't know if it's because of the battle with the president of the Skull and Bones Society, and the all-out shot, which has caused a change in the fusion of physical fitness, or because of the hidden consumption caused by the body after fusing the remains of omega-level high-level creatures.
Leo had slept at noon the previous day, but had not woken up until the evening of the next day, and he found that he had slept deeply, so to speak, in a deep sleep, completely defenseless against the outside world.
Fortunately, the hotel he chose was not bad, and he would not enter his room at will until he was called, and the room was still the same as before he went to bed after a day and a half.
At this time, Leo felt a feeling of hunger in his stomach, and he checked the data interface and found that the energy storage value had been reduced to zero.
Seeing that the energy from fifteen people and a full day's worth of food had been completely exhausted while he was sleeping, he sensed that there must be something wrong with this, so he summoned the waiter to order the food to be prepared, and at the same time checked the personal data records.
He soon discovered the problem, as he had predicted, the values on the personal data interface were only the digital qualities of the body itself, not the power that Leo had really mastered.
Now, because of the all-out battle with the president of the Skull and Bones Club, a large part of the digital quality has really been transformed into a corresponding force. It's just that the transformation process should have been very slow, taking months to complete.
However, the remains of higher organisms that fused yesterday had a catalyst-like effect, speeding up the process of this numerical transformation into actual power, compressing the transformation that took months to complete into a very short period of time, so that a large amount of energy storage was consumed.
In addition, judging from the data, this situation will continue for a few days, which means that he still needs to eat as much as possible in these days, and use the chaotic stomach pouch to reserve some energy in order to maintain the consumption caused by the actual power of the numerical transformation.
"I also need a lot of food, so that your boss can buy a lot of meat, and serve it every half an hour, without calling it to stop. Leo, who stuffed a large piece of meat into his mouth and swallowed it directly, gave instructions to the stunned waiter, and at the same time took out a banknote with a denomination of one hundred gold flanges and ten gold flange coins, handed them to the waiter and said: "Ten gold flanges are a tip for you and the kitchen, and one hundred gold flanges are the cost of food. ”
"Yes, yes!" the waiter hurriedly ran out of the room, doing as Leo instructed.
In the room, while eating, Leo took out the black information bag related to 9 Golden Oak Street from his backpack, and took out seven folders from it, and looked at it from the earliest in chronological order.
Golden Oak Street is located in the Upper Quarter Moon Lake District, because it is backed by the branch of Bidia Mountain, which makes the scenery here very good, and in summer, the snow on the top of Bidia Mountain will form a cold air falling down the mountain, making the temperature in this area much cooler than other places, so it is also a holiday destination for the magnates of Miria City, and a large number of magnates buy land and build villas here.
Nine Golden Oak Street was originally the property of Andrew Alcott, a mining tycoon from the Kingdom of Mares, who offended the powerful figures of the Kingdom of Mares and had to take his family across the Silvermoon Sea to take refuge in the French Empire.
At first, he lived in Winterin City, but later because of his background, he always became the object of teasing and teasing of the Francois magnates in Winterin City, so he had to leave Winterin City and come to Miria City, where the political atmosphere was relatively free, and finally purchased a piece of land on the shore of Lake Upper Quarter Moon and built the current Nine Golden Oak Street.
Although the kingdom of Mares is Andrew's hometown, he only has disgust and hatred for this hometown, so he did not choose the architectural style of his hometown when he built the villa.
On the contrary, the years he lived in the Kingdom of Sigmar when he was young made him feel calm and peaceful like never before, and it was also in those years that he gained his first love. So he decided to build it into a church-like building with high spires, stained glass, pointed vaults, and flying buttresses, which was common in the Sigmar Kingdom.
Anyone who sees a deserted view of a church building erected in a holiday villa area would be incomparably strange.
It's just that because Andrew is very hospitable, he often holds drinking parties to entertain the magnates of Miria City, so that these magnates also subtly agree with such a building that is extremely inconsistent with the surrounding environment.
After a few years of peace, Andrew held a large banquet on the day of the recovery festival to welcome the arrival of spring in Miria, and invited the magnates of Miria City.
At that time, more than one-third of the magnates of Miria City went to the meeting, including not only the local administrative officials of Miria City, but also foreign envoys, embassy officials, and merchants.
However, the next day, the families of these powerful people found that none of the people who had come to the appointment had returned, so they sent people to 9 Golden Oak Street to look for them.
But when they arrived at the place, they found no sign of anyone, the food of the banquet was neatly arranged on the table, the instruments of the band were in their rightful place, and all the human beings in the whole villa, from the master to the guests, to the servants, to the musicians and workers who had been invited, had disappeared.
This incident was very sensational at the time, not only the royal family of the French Empire was alarmed, but even other countries sent investigators into the city of Miria because there were members of their country's embassy among the missing people.
In order to save the image, the Executive Council of the city of Milia asked the Continental Council of the city of Mimilia, together with the investigators of the Kingdom of France and other countries to form a large investigation team to investigate the case thoroughly.
It's just that the investigation team spent nearly half a year and spent countless funds, but in the end nothing was found.
Because the cost of this investigation was borne by the Executive Council of Miria City alone, the cost was far greater than the Executive Council had expected at the beginning, and it had caused a great burden on the Executive Council, which made the Executive Council begin to feel that the matter should be closed as soon as possible and not continue the endless investigation.
In addition, after so long of the incident, the negative impact has been reduced to the bottom, so in a suitable reality, the Miria City Executive Council asked the investigation team to hastily write an investigation report, and then ended this joint investigation operation affecting the countries of Velon.
But it didn't end there, after this strange villa was idle for a few years, a nobleman from the Sigma Kingdom took a fancy to this villa, and the price was extremely low, so he bought this villa.
Not long after the nobleman moved into the villa, one night he disappeared along with the servants and bodyguards he had brought with him from the Kingdom of Sigmar, and only one of them survived.
Later, after the police interrogated the bodyguard in Miria City, they learned that the bodyguard was not at No. 9 Golden Oak Street on the night of the incident, but ran to the Eros Cottage in Xicheng District to stay overnight, and did not return until early in the morning, and found out that something had happened.
Because this time only one nobleman from the Sigma Kingdom was involved, and it was not a particularly big international incident, the attention of Miria City was far less than the previous one, and a small investigation team was formed with a sheriff sent by the Sigma Kingdom to investigate this matter, and the result was the same as last time.
However, this time, the fame of 9 Golden Oak Street spread in Miria City, and some wealthy people even opened gambling games for this purpose, such as how many days to live in 9 Golden Oak Street, how many bonuses to get, and so on.
The huge bonus makes many people who are tempted by money, fight for their lives, and finally get the gambling bonus is very few, and the vast majority of them disappear after three or four days of staying. Later, he moved in directly on the same day and disappeared that night, because there were too many people who disappeared, and no one dared to enter the villa again.
However, the prize money from that gamble has not been eliminated, but has been changed to investigate the truth about 9 Golden Oak Street, and over the years, new funds have been injected into this game, and now this prize has accumulated an astonishing amount.
Five of the seven folders in Leo's possession were information on the missing person, one detailing the disappearance, and the last one mentioned other things that ordinary people didn't know.
If Leo hadn't shown his extraordinary power in the room of the Black Market, he might have only had six documents on hand, and the last one wouldn't have been made public to him.
This document is about the various investigations of various organizations in the dark world on 9 Golden Oak Street, Leo roughly calculated, there are as many as six organizations in it, including the Orthodox Church, the Hidden Church, the Night Watch, the Persona Society, and the Wizards' Guild in addition to the black market that has been in contact with Leo.
These organizations in the dark world have sent people into 9 Golden Oak Street to investigate, and all of them have disappeared without exception, including wizards from the wizards' guild, adjudicators of the Orthodox Church, and the high priest of an evil god of the Hidden Church.
Although Leo didn't know how strong the wizards and adjudicators on the data were, he didn't think they would be weaker than the president of the Skull and Bones Society.
Even such a person disappeared silently at Nine Golden Oak Street, and Leo didn't think he could get out of it all right.
Although he really wanted to learn Gamorei, he would not do such a stupid thing if he was asked to risk his life for a language, not to mention that the old man did not seem to be the only one in this world who knew Gamorei, and he felt that he should be able to buy Gamoree materials on the black market.
After taking the documents out of the folder, placing them on the oil lamps one by one, and destroying all the documents, Leo also put the matter of 9 Golden Oak Street behind him and stopped thinking about it.
Later, Leo picked up the main newspapers of the day, which the waiter had brought him, and when he saw the first one, he was a little surprised.
The newspaper, called the Voice of Honour of France, was a morning newspaper attached to the Parliament of France and was considered an official newspaper, and now the front page of the newspaper carried an official obituary about the death of Louis IX.
Leo picked up several other morning newspapers from various newspapers, and found that the front pages of these newspapers were still about the Skull and Bones Society, and the additional supplements were the news of Louis IX's death.
It didn't take much thought for Leo to guess that the obituary that appeared in the official French newspaper might have been suddenly inserted, forcibly replacing the original front-page headline, without even notifying the newspaper editor, and without the permission of Winter's side, which must be the result of the intervention of another unknown force.
The other newspapers issued additional supplements, probably because of the remedial actions made by the official newspaper of Fran, after all, it is unreasonable to say that the news of a gang actually overshadowed the death of the Emperor Fran.
Therefore, all the morning newspapers hurriedly published the obituary supplement of Louis IX, and it was too late to confirm the news to the city of Winter Rin, because even if it was to use the airship to go back and forth, it would take two days, and there was no time to confirm it.
And now is the foggy period of the Black Forest, even if it is an airship, after entering the sky over the Black Forest, the probability of falling is much greater than other times, so no airship company is willing to venture through the Black Forest at this time, so the communication between the east and west of France can only rely on the postal system of the Ring Continental Train.
What's more, in the eyes of other newspapers, no matter whether the news is correct or not, there are official newspapers in front of them anyway, and even if the royal family wants to blame, they can't blame them.
This fearless mentality is mainly due to the fact that Miria City has always been in a semi-autonomous state, although there are military police of the French Empire stationed outside the city, the administration of the city and its surrounding cities and counties is decided by the local council, so it also makes the residents of Miria City less afraid of the French royal family.
The next newspapers were some lunchtime newspapers in the city of Miria, which were not very important, and the emperor's obituary was added to the trend, and there was also a detailed biography of the emperor, and at the same time, he began to speculate about the ownership of the throne of Fran.
And the most strange place is that most of the newspapers have a big headline at the end of the war report, which mentions that the French army with the direct troops of Duke Dewen as the core has defeated the English army last night, completely driven out of the Breteeuil area, and will soon completely liberate the rest of the territory under the control of the British Kingdom.
There was nothing wrong with the report itself, but it was preceded by a discussion of the Emperor's position, which gave anyone who saw such a newspaper a strong feeling that the Duke of Devon was the most suitable heir to the Emperor.
If there is no evening newspaper, Leo will think that this is Duke Derwin's people secretly making a move, creating public opinion in advance, increasing prestige, and not giving the other two heirs to the throne any chance to compete for the throne.
However, not long ago, the front-page headlines published in all the evening newspapers of Miria City, including the official newspapers such as the Voice of Glory of France, made Leo see that the three newspapers of different periods today were definitely the work of the same force, and three names appeared in his mind even more clearly, Baron Maupassant, the Kingdom of England, and the Old Man of the Villa.
According to the news reported by the city's evening newspapers, the Kingdom of England and the Velon's Medical Association submitted a complaint to the Continental Congress against the Duke of Devyn for the use of imide gas in the war in the Breteyi region.
And, after only one meeting of less than half an hour, the Continental Congress passed two indictments and sent a letter to Winter Rin City, allowing Duke Devin to come to Miria City to appear in court for trial.