Chapter 83: Making a Decision
Watching the carriage disappear at the end of the forest path with the naked man, Leo opened the letter Adeline had given him earlier and looked at it.
The content of the letter is really not as important as Adeline said, mainly to say that Nelson, Jason, they are safe.
It is also mentioned that Duke Derwin is very slow to respond to the complaint, which is very unusual, and she thinks that there will definitely be a big move, so she tells Leo to be careful.
Anne herself is also cautious, knowing that letters are not very safe, so she does not mention anything that will cause trouble on the letter.
After destroying the letter, Leo left the botanical garden the way he came, found a carriage to sit on, and drove towards the Lower Quarter Moon Lake area.
The carriage soon drove to the villa area of Xiaxianyue Lake, and at the only intersection into the villa area, it was stopped by the police at the sentry here.
After asking Leo where he was going, he entered the sentry station, wrote something, and handed it to his colleague next to him, while another policeman took the written thing and rode the horse prepared by the sentry and ran towards the interior of the villa.
After a while, when the policeman returned, he handed his colleague a note, and after reading it, he waved his hand at the carriage waiting by the sentry and signaled that he could enter.
The coachman, who was driving the carriage slowly through the inner streets of the villa area, said to himself: "Hehe! I didn't expect my carriage to have a chance to come to the Lower Quarter Moon Lake District, and I have to talk about this matter with those guys, and I will definitely envy those guys to death." ”
"Have the guards been so strict all along?" asked Leo.
The coachman also chatted: "It was not very strict before, although it was also forbidden for ordinary carriages to enter and exit, but the control was very loose, as long as the carriages were a little more upscale, they could enter and exit. Then one day, the police and guards here suddenly became much stricter, and every car entering and leaving had to be carefully checked. Speaking of which, we've already done the math, and they sometimes check the inside of the carriage. I heard that the reason why this happened was because someone infiltrated the area and killed the family members of some powerful and high-ranking officials. However, these are just heard, and no similar news has been announced from the outside world, and I don't know if it's true or not. ”
The carriage quickly stopped at the door to the lakeside villa, and when Leo got out of the car, he signaled to the coachman that he didn't have to wait for him, and went straight into the villa.
As with Anne, the maid was already waiting at the door, her eyes looking at the place where Leo was wearing a weapon, frowning, but not asking him to take it off, but turned and led Leo into the villa.
At this moment, Leo was no longer confused and surprised by some of the non-human characteristics of the maid, because he already knew that this maid was probably also a kind of family, and it seemed that it should be a half-human family.
In the information of the black market, it is mentioned that the family members are very arrogant, thinking that they are the darlings of the ancient gods, and they are extremely noble, so they are all very arrogant and will not be willing to be under the people.
However, it is interesting to note that Leo meets two identifiable clansmen who are both very reverent of a certain human and are willing to become servants. If it weren't for the error in the black market's information, then there must have been a very serious incident for the dependents, which made the dependents change their previous arrogance and know how to bend over and compromise.
The moment he entered the villa, Leo frowned, although it was the second time he had experienced it, Leo was still not very used to the interference energy force field in this villa.
"I'm glad you're here!" The old man's characteristic hoarse voice sounded in the villa, followed by the sound of gears turning and mechanical snapping also came from the room, and I saw the old man driving his wheelchair to the living room, and the smile on his face was ugly, but it was very sincere.
Because of his vigilance in advance, Leo could feel that when the old man appeared, he couldn't help but have an inexplicable sense of trust and closeness in his heart, which was not a psionic effect, but a kind of spiritual power called personality charm.
So Leo wasn't going to stay here for a long time, so as not to be further affected by the other party, so he went straight to the point and said: "I've investigated 9 Golden Oak Street, and I know what's going on there, it's interesting, I'm also interested, and I want to know what you're looking for there." ”
"It's simple, find a feather. The old man said a simple-sounding request.
"Feathers?" Leo asked, "What kind of feathers? What kind of bird feathers?"
"No, no! The old man replied very vaguely, but he could not say more clearly, so he explained: "This feather cannot be described, as long as you see it, you will definitely be able to recognize it." ”
Leo frowned and said, "In case I find other feathers there, bring them back to you......"
"If you really found the feather at Nine Golden Oak Street, if not the one I wanted, and you completed the deal, I would still give you the Gamorey language in its entirety. The old man knew what Leo was worried about, and made his promise without waiting to finish, but then he added, "But such a thing should not happen, there can only be a feather in Nine Golden Oak Street." ”
Leo couldn't help but ask, "You seem to know very well about the matter at Nine Golden Oak Street, and even know what is in there." ”
The old man chuckled and did not answer.
Leo thought about it for a moment and said, "The Upper Quarter Moon Lake District is a high-end villa area, and the Miria City Police Station also has a lot of patrols and guards there, and I need to have a pass that allows me to pass at will." In addition, I may need to go to the police station to check the investigation materials left by the investigation team, so I also need a permit. ”
"I can get you a pass. The old man thought for a while and said: "But after all, you are from England, and it is not appropriate to enter the police station of the city under the French Empire to check the files, and I also have an investigation report here, which is more detailed than the one at the police station, and I can show it to you now." ”
"You can too. Leo could see that the old man was very principled, what could be done and what could not be done, and there was an invisible line in his heart, no matter what the reason, he would not cross that line, so he did not have any difficulty with being strong.
The old man smiled sincerely, raised his intact arm, and stretched out his hand to Leo, "Then we should make a deal." ”
"Yes. Leo reached out and grabbed the old man's hand, and said, "When I will help you bring the feathers, when will you teach me Gamorei." ”
The old man shook his head and said, "No, I'll teach you Gamoree now, and I don't have to wait until you find the feather from there." ”
Leo was stunned and said, "You're not afraid, I'm ......"
The old man smiled and said, "I may not be able to do anything else, but depending on a person's quality and whether a person can keep his promise, he can still do it." As he spoke, he turned to the maid and said, "Vaschi, please go to my study and help me bring the manuscript of the ancient poems written in Gamorey and the investigation report of the joint investigation team back then." ”
The maid Vaschi obeyed the old man's instructions, turned around and walked towards the study of the villa, and after a while, she saw her appear in the corridor with two half-human-high piles of materials.
Leo stood up and prepared to help Vaschi take the information in his hand, but was glared back by Vaschi with the most stern eyes, until she put the information completely on the table in the living room, then turned around, snorted coldly at Leo, walked to the corner of the wall, and stood there quietly.
"When did I offend her?" asked Leo to himself.
"She just hates men. The old man said, looked at his disappeared lower body, and laughed at himself very open-mindedly: "As for me, I shouldn't be a man anymore, haha!"
After laughing twice, the old man saw that Leo did not laugh, and suddenly felt embarrassed, touched the beard on his chin, slightly concealed his embarrassed look, and then pointed to a pile of materials, and said: "This information is the information of the investigation team back then, you can read it now, I just need to review this manuscript of ancient poetry again, and consider how to teach you Gamorey." ”
Leo found a random chair, sat down at the table, picked up the materials on the table, and flipped through them.
The old man also came to the table, picked up the manuscript on the table, flipped through a few pages at random, and rearranged the manuscript according to the difficulty of the poem.
Both of them were looking through the information in their hands and didn't speak, but the speed of both of them was about the same, which made Vasqi, who was standing quietly on the side, frown.
The reason why the old man flipped through it quickly was because he had written it himself, and he already had all the contents in his head, and he could recall it as long as he looked through it a little. But it seemed to her that with Leo's current speed of flipping through the information, he wasn't looking at the information at all, but was flipping the pages randomly.
Vasco, who didn't like Leo very much, looked at it for a while, and finally couldn't help the restlessness in his heart, walked to the desk, pressed down a document that Leo was about to pick up, and said to Leo: "Are you reading these materials?
Seeing Vaschi's annoyed look, Leo felt a little baffled, turned to the old man and asked, "Can the maid in your house treat guests so rudely?"
"Don't burn this fire on me, I've never dared to take her for a maid. The old man didn't answer this question, but as if he was avoiding trouble, he raised the manuscript in his hand high and covered his face.
Leo looked at the old man's childlike behavior a little speechlessly, shook his head, and said, "I suggest that you have a different master, Miss Vaschi." ”
However, Vasqui, who was so disappointing, had no intention of talking to Leo at all, and just looked at him with questioning eyes.
Leo shook his head a little helplessly, casually pushed the information he had read before in front of Vaschi, and said, "Pick a random piece of information, and then point out a paragraph." ”
Vaschi was stunned, seeing Leo's confident expression, he hesitated, but the old man on the side, who had no intention of intervening in the small dispute between the two, looked interested, took the initiative to pull out a copy from the information, turned a page at random, and then selected a paragraph and read out the first sentence of the paragraph.
After hearing this, Leo barely thought about it, and directly recited all the content behind the paragraph, which made the old man and the maid look surprised.
Vaschi was also curious, trying to select a document, selecting an interrogation document, but as soon as her words fell, Leo's voice took over without any obstacles, and recited all the following paragraphs.
Seeing that he had misunderstood Leo, Vasqi did not make any excuses for himself, and apologized directly to Leo, saying, "I'm sorry, I misunderstood you! ”
"It's okay, I understand. Leo smiled.
On the contrary, the old man on the side did not speak as if he was in deep thought.
After a while, he said with a smile on his face: "It's amazing that you can have such a strong memory ability! It seems that the study plan I made before is about to be overturned, and I want to re-designate a study plan based on your memory, so that you can learn all the Gamoree languages in one day." ”
The old man was very excited at the moment, as if he had obtained some toy that he had longed for many years, and for this reason he had to inject two drugs to relieve the pressure on his body caused by the excitement.
Leo is not interested in considering what kind of study plan the old man wants to make, as long as it is related to memory, he is not worried at all, with the memory storage ability of the auxiliary brain system, even if he remembers all the written materials in this world, it is only a part of the brain cells based on a trace amount.
Instead, some of the contents of the investigation materials allowed Leo to see some information that was not in the black market materials.
Among the materials he obtained from the black market, there were also materials related to the investigation team, but those materials were not as complete as the qualifications he was looking at now, and I don't know if the people in the black market thought that a certain part of the content was too absurd and deliberately deleted it, or if for some reason even the black market could not obtain these materials.
In short, the content of the local folklore in the survey materials is not found in the black market materials, and in Leo's opinion, the content of the folklore is perhaps the most important part.
In this part of the folklore material, the Upper Quarter Moon Lake region once had a powerful kingdom. The kingdom conquered all the surrounding swamp tribes, unified the entire region of Miria, and built their capital in the Upper Quarter Moon Lake region.
The architecture of this capital is magnificent and luxurious, even the legendary city of God cannot be compared, and for this reason the king of that country is even arrogant enough to consider himself a god.
However, their arrogance angered the ancient god of Mount Dibia, who cursed it with great power, and dragged the entire capital, along with its inhabitants, into the land of eternal sighs at the end of their lives.
Therefore, at certain times, people around the lake can see the illusion of the city from the reflected light when the moonlight shines on the lake.