Chapter 33: The Twins

Leo placed the queen next to the king and didn't make any further attempts, such as seeing if anything would happen after the infusion of psionic powers, etc., and now was not a suitable place for experimentation.

After putting the two guns down, Leo turned his gaze to the two identical daggers in the box. The shape of these two daggers is very simple, the style is more like a short sword, the main body of the handle is some kind of animal bone, wrapped in a layer of hollow unknown metal, although the main body of the blade is also forged from metal, but the surface is not metallic, but presents a kind of gray-white, from a distance it looks like bone.

Perhaps because of the precedent of firearms, Leo also looked forward to the two daggers.

"These two daggers are very sharp," seeing Leo's gaze fall on the dagger, Valjean next to him took the initiative to introduce, "Even if it is a steel plate, it can be cut like butter, but these two daggers have a disadvantage, that is, the weight is too heavy." ”

"How much can a dagger weigh?" Jason heard from the side, and walked to the table unconvinced, reaching out to pick up one of the daggers.

It's just that what he didn't expect was that the dagger in the box didn't move at all, and then he tried to hold it with one hand, but he could only slightly lift the dagger a little, until he used both hands to force it, and he barely picked up the dagger completely. However, just picking up a dagger had already made him use all his strength, and it was probably impossible to swing the dagger, just like the multi-barreled flintlock pistol he had just lifted, and soon his hand was sore, and he had to put the dagger back in the box.

"Your strength is so great," Jason then rubbed his somewhat sore arm and said to Valjean with admiration, "You were able to take these two daggers so easily just now." As he spoke, he also looked at Leo and said, "Leo, your strength is not small, you still held it with one hand just now." ”

Hearing Jason's words, Leo also remembered that he had just held the box with one hand, which also made him a little puzzled. Because although he felt that the box was a little heavy just now, according to the comparison of the records of the auxiliary brain system, the weight of the two guns of the king and queen already accounted for more than ninety percent of the box, and the rest should be the weight of the box itself, and if the two daggers were according to this comparison, then their weight would be almost equal to zero.

"I was just holding the box, not the dagger. Valjean explained, gesturing to Jason, "You pick up the box now and take a look." ”

"How can you pick up the box?" Jason didn't understand, holding the box with both hands and lifting it hard, he easily picked up the box, and the weight that should have been extremely heavy disappeared.

Because the expected weight did not appear, Jason, who was not at all defenseless, was thrown out involuntarily by following the trend of force because of excessive force, and the box was thrown out along with the dagger.

The box and the dagger flew in an arc in the air and landed on the ground not far away, and the dagger was pointed straight down, piercing into the steel plate on the ground like butter, until the gauntlet got stuck, and then stopped.

Jason was still at a loss at the moment, and Leo looked interested, walked over to one of the daggers, reached out and grabbed the handle of the dagger, and slowly pulled the dagger out of the ground with force.

As Jason had just shown, the dagger that Leo had grasped in his hand was indeed heavy, even several times heavier than the flintlock cannon he had just picked up with one hand, and he already felt struggling to lift it with one arm.

He then motioned for Jason to pick up the box and hand it to himself, then put the dagger back in the box, carefully letting go of the hand that grabbed the dagger, while the arm holding the box was slightly strained.

However, as Leo had guessed, the weight did not appear on the box, as long as it was separated from the box, or more accurately, as long as it did not come into direct contact with the dagger.

After that, he picked up another dagger that was stuck in the ground, and the same situation, the same weight, happened again.

After Leo put the dagger back in the box, he tried to pick up the dagger in other ways, such as taking a piece of cloth to wrap the handle of the dagger, grabbing the cloth and lifting it up, or finding a pair of iron tongs used by Valjean to repair the machine to clamp the dagger.

With these methods, Leo quickly figured out the conditions under which the weight of the dagger appeared.

He found that the weight of the dagger does not only appear when he touches it with his own hands, but also when he does not touch the dagger with his own hands, and what is more interesting is that even if he does not pick up the dagger, he puts it in the box like this, and picks up the box with his hand, and as long as he thinks about attacking a target with the dagger, the weight of the dagger will also appear. It's as if within a certain range centered on the dagger, the dagger can sense the thoughts related to it in the heart of the person who owns it.

After several attempts, Leo put the dagger back into the box and was about to thank Valjean for giving him such a good few weapons. Not to mention the two psionic weapons of the king and queen, although the two daggers cannot become weapons that he can use, but judging from the situation of firearms, these two daggers should also be psionic weapons, he just didn't find the right way to use them, and the strangeness of the daggers also made him look forward to them even more.

At that moment, a spark erupted from the oil lamp on the table, which made Leo notice something strange about the dagger's blade lines.

Under the puzzled gaze of everyone, Leo brought the oil lamp on the table to the side of the box, and slightly adjusted the angle of the box, so that the angle of the light falling on the dagger was different. At this moment, the blade pattern that flashed just now reappeared, and this time Leo, who saw the blade pattern clearly, was very shocked and excited, and even more puzzled, because the blade pattern on the dagger was very similar to the strange pattern on his Wyzik talisman.

However, the mere resemblance of the lines was not enough for Leo to make a positive judgment, and the reason why Leo was really sure that the two were of the same origin was that when he focused on the blade lines, those blade lines were also distorted and deformed from the scratches on the amulet, as if they were alive.

"Mr. Valjean, can you tell me where the dagger and the gun came from?" asked Leo as he looked away from the dagger and smiled at Valjean.

"Did you find anything interesting?" Valjean was very curious about Leo's actions, and he thought that Leo must have discovered something.

It had been five years since the two daggers were handed to him along with the firearms, and he knew some of the special features of the guns and could work backwards on some mechanical principles, but he never knew anything about the mystery of the daggers, and over time he had given up the exploration of the daggers.

Now Leo's actions had aroused his curiosity again, and he couldn't help but want to take a closer look at the two daggers before losing them completely, and see if he could find anything.

However, the wish and the truth were always at odds with each other, he didn't notice anything out of the ordinary, and the dagger still looked the same way he'd seen it in the past five years.

Although, Valjean knew that Leo must have found something on the dagger, but he didn't ask, just looked at Leo with some envy, after all, he had taken these two daggers for many years without gain, and the person in front of him only took the dagger for less than three minutes, and there were various discoveries. This also made him feel that he had made a very correct decision to hand over the weapon in the box to Leo, and at the same time, some inexplicable guilt in his heart was also reduced a lot.

"The four weapons in this box were all left behind by my teacher. Valjean didn't know what kind of mentality he had, he answered Leo's question patiently and in detail, and said: "The king and queen were made by him, and I heard him say that it took more than ten years to make them, and as for the two daggers handed down by his ancestors, he once said drunken that these two daggers were the last relics of his people, and he was also the last of his people." ”

Leo was silent for a moment and said, "Your teacher is from Wyzik?"

"You know the Wyziks of the Black Forest, too?" Valjean was a little surprised.

This rhetorical question matched Leo's guess, and he had already got the answer he wanted. However, he didn't continue to ask more about the two daggers, because judging by Valjean's performance, he also thought that Valjean, as an ordinary person, would know the true mystery of the two daggers.

Leo deliberately changed the subject: "Do these two daggers have names?"

"Nope. Valjean shook his head, then showed a slight sadness on his face, and said: "Maybe there used to be a name, but the old man probably thought that after his death, the Wyzk people would be extinct, and it doesn't matter if the relics of the Wyzk people have a name or not." ”

"In that case, let's call them Twins!" Leo unceremoniously added a name to the two daggers, and then he closed the box and put it in his backpack. Instead of putting the king and queen in the box, he asked Valjean for two holsters that didn't fit well, straddled the king and queen to the left and right, and adjusted the position a little until he could not hinder the drawing of the gun.

"Have you picked your weapons yet, let's go!" Martin urged, seemingly impatiently waiting.

Leo ignored Martin's urging, but raised his hand towards Valjean and said, "Mr. Valjean, I hope I can communicate with you in the future, besides, you are a mechanical genius and should not be buried here." ”

"Thank you for the compliment, you're not bad!" Valjean shook Leo's hand, then reached out and patted the wall, and said proudly: "I don't think staying here is buried, this is my home, there are people who need me, and there are people I need." ”

"Home?" Leo hesitated slightly, showing a dazed look, his face quickly returned to flat, and said to Martin, "Mr. Martin, let's go!"

Impatient, Martin led Leo and Jason out of the room quickly, Valjean took a step behind them, reached the door, and as if he had made a decision, turned back to the workbench, took out a small box containing twenty special bullets from a hidden safe on the wall, and then left the room quickly.

"Why is it so slow?" Martin, who had been waiting for the elevator a little impatiently, shouted loudly when he saw Valjean's figure appear in the passage.

"There are so many oil lamps, of course I have to put them out before I can leave, otherwise what if there is a fire?" Valjean angrily questioned Martin, and then walked to Leo's side, took the initiative to shake Leo's hand, and handed the box to Leo, saying, "You may be able to use these special bullets." Hope to see each other again in the future, Mr. Dodd. ”

"Thank you. Leo was not polite, took the box, and said, "I also hope to be able to meet you before leaving." ”

Valjean smiled, turned to close the door of the lift, and under Martin's repeated urging, pushed the lever of the lift, and fell from the air the same way.

Returning to Valjean's studio, Martin immediately left with Leo and Jason, who walked through a long and narrow dark passage through several markets and residential areas inside the cage city, to a place that looked like a platform.

The reason why it is said that this is a platform is because there are many people waiting for the train.

I saw that this was supposed to be a street inside the cage city, but compared to other narrow streets, this street was obviously much wider and very straight.

On this road, except for the lowest street, starting from the second floor, each floor is separated by an I-beam that penetrates into the skeleton of the buildings on both sides at a distance of about five meters, and two railroad tracks running back and forth are laid on these steel bars.

At the moment, a train of 10-seater cars full of passengers was moving back and forth on the tracks, which were very similar to the high-altitude sightseeing railcars of the Earth Federation Nostalgia Park, except that they did not have the high-tech equipment used for entertainment.

The building where Leo now stood, from the second floor to the very top, was vacated, the walls facing the street were removed, and the steel frame and steel plates were laid for reinforcement and used as a platform for the rail car.

After Martin led Leo and Jason into the platform, instead of walking into the cage city workers waiting on the platform, they turned to a passage in the building and entered a small room.

The room had a dedicated elevator flanked by four heavily armed soldiers dressed in workers' clothing. When these soldiers saw Martin coming, they all looked extremely excited, and their eyes were full of admiration when they looked at Martin, and they all performed non-standard French military salutes, and greeted Martin loudly in a language they had never heard before.

At this moment, Martin's temperament has become extremely friendly, giving people a feeling of close relatives, after signaling the soldiers next to the elevator to inform the console above to lower the elevator, he took advantage of the time when the elevator fell, and the soldiers around him had a cordial conversation, like a sincere carer, caring about the food, clothing, housing and transportation of these soldiers.

Martin's pro-people behavior is not to mention those soldiers, even Leo and Jason, who are bystanders, can't help but have kindness to Martin at the moment, and feel that this guy is not bad.

The strange feeling that defied their ideas didn't dissipate until the group of three stepped into the elevator and rose some distance as the elevator went up.