Chapter 529: The National Bank
For others, it's normal for a woman to be in a man's room in a place like the Hotel des Nations, where local courtesans frequent.
But for Leo, it is a little abnormal for a woman to appear in Passa Kagoulan's room, because Pasa Kagulan is a beast soul warrior, and according to the information he knows, it is impossible for a beast soul warrior to have an impulse towards any opposite sex unless it is at a specific time, so this woman who left shoe prints is definitely not a courtesan.
Leo squatted down, reached out and wiped his fingers on the part of the woman's footprints that were not polluted by other footprints, put it under his nose and sniffed carefully, and at the same time improved the perception of the olfactory organ to the extreme, and a large amount of dust information contaminated with footprints was quickly analyzed under the discrimination of the sense of smell and included in the brain memory.
After getting the information he wanted, Leo immediately restored his olfactory organs to normal, and then blew his nose vigorously to clear the various smells he had just smelled.
Although Leo has been able to control and enhance his body's various sensory organs for a long time, he rarely uses this ability, and most of the time he will keep it in a normal state, because the various discomforts caused by the supernormal sensory organs will be intense even for people like him who have experienced countless harsh environments.
Just like just now, just in a short period of time, the perception of the olfactory organ was raised to the extreme, and there were thousands of smells pouring into his nose, except for the ones he wanted related to clues, most of the smells were useless environmental odors, and most of these environmental smells were extremely unpleasant, and when magnified, they were almost as good as gas bombs to make a normal person go crazy.
At this moment, although Leo can no longer smell the strong odor, the discomfort has not completely disappeared, fortunately, it will not affect his normal movement.
After finding the clues he wanted, Leo left the Hotel des Nations, where the murder scene was located, and returned to the police headquarters the way he came, returning to the room where he was housed without alarming anyone.
For the next two days, Leo stayed in his room, while his psychic network kept an eye on the situation inside the police headquarters, controlling the progress of Passa Kaguran's investigation.
Because the direction of the investigation is completely wrong, the progress of the investigation of the case is naturally not moved at all, and the Panir mission, which was originally angry and frightened because of the death of his deputy envoy, is now regarded as a suspect by the police, which makes them even more angry, and this emotion is directly brought into the negotiation with the kingdom of mineral mining rights, and even directly shows that if the case is not investigated clearly, there is no need for the negotiation to continue.
The stagnation of the negotiations naturally caused dissatisfaction among the top officials of the kingdom, so the National Assembly also appointed two members of the National Assembly as supervisors to be stationed at the police headquarters to supervise the progress of the case, and at the same time to suppress the dissatisfaction of the police department, and sent people from the special bureau to the police headquarters to assist in the investigation of the case, so as to solve the case in the shortest possible time.
At this time, Frank Forson arrives at the police headquarters, tells Leo the news that the matter has been completed, and takes Leo to the location where the Eternal Wisdom Artifact is stored.
"It took two days, and it seems that there is a lot of resistance!" said Leo as he looked out the window at the moving scenery as if talking to himself.
"It would have taken a while, but the royal family has done a lot of work in this matter. Frank Forson explained, saying, "The potion you shot at the royal family played a big role. ”
Leo looked at Frank Fuson in surprise, he expected that the royal family would help him with the artifact of eternal wisdom, but what he didn't expect was that the reason the royal family helped him was for the wizard potion.
Although Leo could sense that wizarding potions were very valuable from the attitude of Frank Fussen and Wizard Otto competing for potions, he now found that he still underestimated the value of wizarding potions.
"Is the value of a wizard's potion that great?" asked Leo, confused.
"It may not have been of such value at other times, but in this time and age, the value of wizarding potions is not low. Frank Fussen explained: "I heard that the royal family has found the star-chasing sea chart left behind back then, and is about to send people to the Falling Star Sea to find a new land suitable for colonization, and your potion can help the expedition reduce casualties, so it is naturally precious." ”
"Falling into the sea of stars?" Leo couldn't help but move when he heard the name.
The Falling Star Sea is a sea area located in the middle of the three continents of Mozambi, Velon, and Sigma, and according to the statistics of scholars from various countries, its area is more than twice the total land area of all the countries on the three continents.
In addition, some scholars speculated that there was only one land in this world at first, but later because a star city fell and fell on the land, causing the earth to fission and scattering, and finally formed the current three continents and countless islands around the Falling Star Sea.
For a long time, the Falling Star Sea has been the sea area that all countries that want to gain hegemony on the sea want to conquer the most, because as long as they can occupy the Falling Star Sea, it is equivalent to completely mastering the sea routes of the entire Velen civilization world, unlike now, even if the Inge Kingdom is the overlord of the sea, it cannot prevent the fleets of other countries from crisscrossing the sea.
Now the sea route linking the three continents presents a circular shape, any ship from one continent to the other two continents, need to make a detour to reach the destination, and because of the relationship between the ocean current and the air current, the climate of the route is also ever-changing, elusive, nearly more than eighty percent of the shipwrecked are caused by the sudden change of the ocean current.
During the period of discovery, many countries hoped to find a new route from the Falling Star Sea, because they found that after entering the sea area of the Falling Star Sea, both the ocean current and the air flow became a lot easier, and even when it rained, it could not form a storm, but there was no threat like the continuous light rain on land.
It's a pity that if the ship enters the Falling Star Sea, the ship will be inexplicably disoriented, and the lucky ones will be able to leave the Falling Star Sea after a few days of drifting at sea, while the bad ones will stay in the Falling Star Sea forever.
"How can there be a chart in the Falling Star Sea?" Leo couldn't help but ask curiously.
Frank Forson did not hesitate either, and said: "Of course there is, the gift of the sea god. ”
Leo was puzzled: "Why did you ...... it before when there were charts?"
"Because even if there are charts, it's useless. Frank Forson explains: "When you enter the sea of falling stars, the wind and waves will become smaller and smaller, and at the end, the wind and waves will disappear completely, and there will be no ocean currents, like stagnant water." In the past, they were all sailboats, and entering that sea area was equivalent to entering a dead place, but now with a steamship, the biggest threat to that sea area is gone, as long as you find the right route with the help of the sea chart, the kingdom can control the entire Falling Star Sea, and truly control the world's sea routes. ”
Leo listened quietly, and after he finished speaking, he couldn't help asking, "Is there no problem with you telling me the development plan of the whole country like this?"
"Will you say it?" asked Frank Forson.
Leo didn't answer, and there was no need to answer.
"Is it dangerous to fall into the Sea of Stars?" asked Leo again.
"I don't know, this matter is led by the royal family, and even Congress can't get involved, let alone a person who is about to retire. Frank Forson shook his head, paused, and said, "But judging from the various supplies they have recently gathered, it should not be very peaceful there. ”
Leo didn't continue to ask, although he was also very interested in the Falling Star Sea, but there was not enough information for him to judge the situation, so now was definitely not a good time for him to get involved, at least after some news was revealed from the English royal family, he would consider whether to get involved.
The reason why Leo is also interested in the sea of falling stars is because he thinks that the hypothesis made by those scholars that the stars fall to the ground and divide the earth is correct, and whether the stars are meteorites or something else is a matter of two things, perhaps it has something to do with the Wycombe Abbey people.
After that, Leo and Frank Fussen chatted about the Falling Star Sea, but Leo didn't get any more useful information from it, and the two lost interest in talking, and sat silently in the car, each thinking about his own business.
However, soon Frank Forson couldn't help it, and said: "We have blocked all the passages out of Dulin, and strictly inspected all those who leave Dulin, and every main road is guarded by people from the Special Bureau, as long as the murderer does not leave that night, he will definitely not be able to escape." ”
"Hmm!" Leo snorted disapprehantly.
Frank Fussen could see that Leo didn't take his own approach seriously, and had a vague sense that Leo seemed to know something he didn't know, and that these things might be the key to finding the murderer, but even if he could sense it, he couldn't ask.
Therefore, he could only find no words, and said, "You said that Pasa Kagulan was a beast soul warrior before, is there any evidence? I have asked many people from the Panir Mission in the past two days, and they don't know about it. ”
"Hmm. Leo replied casually.
Frank Fussen frowned a little impatiently, and said in a somewhat serious tone, "Is what you said that day true?"
"It's true. Leo opened his mouth in response, and asked rhetorically, "But what's the use of knowing this, you guys have been investigating in the wrong direction from the beginning, and the other party may have already left Durin for such a long time." ”
Frank Fussen didn't refute Leo's speculation, because it was also the biggest guess he had on his mind in the past two days. If the killer is really an Beast Soul Warrior as Leo says, then the special bureau and the police have set up a special checkpoint for him to become a joke, and the murderer is likely to flee directly through the swampy forest around Turin and escape to other places, and may even have left the Kingdom of Inge.
Thinking of this, Frank Fussen's mood became a little heavy.
"Rest assured, things aren't bad yet. Leo said suddenly.
Hearing Leo say this, Frank Fussen was stunned and asked urgently, "Did you find something?"
However, when asked, Leo just smiled and didn't say anything more.
Frank Fussen was both angry and amused to see Leo like this, but he also knew that no matter how much he asked, Leo would not be able to tell him what he had found, so he had to stop the topic.
After driving on the road for about ten minutes, the carriage entered the commercial district on the east side of Turin, and stopped in front of a magnificent building composed of dozens of marble columns and giant rocks.
"National Bank?" said Leo as he got out of the carriage and looked up at the English language carved into the eaves of the building.
Previously, Leo had guessed that the artifact might be stored in some secret place, protected by some powerful people, and only those who passed the special test could approach and touch it, but he never imagined that the artifact storage point was actually the national bank of the Kingdom of England, and it was in a place where everyone could see it.
However, in addition to being surprised, he felt that this approach was very reasonable, after all, except for a few special places in the entire Inge Kingdom, almost all other places were not as safe as the National Bank, not to mention that putting things in the National Bank could protect the property in the National Bank at the same time, which was simply killing two birds with one stone.
"Surprised!" Frank Forson looked at Leo's expression, knowing very well what Leo was thinking at the moment.
"Yes, there was some surprise. Leo nodded.
"I, too, was surprised to know that the artifact was here. Frank Foson also smiled self-deprecatingly and said, "However, this place is safe, safer than the headquarters of the Special Bureau. ”
Leo turned his head to look at Frank Forson, who didn't speak, but there was a look of doubt in his eyes.
"You'll know when you get inside. Frank Forson smiled, and without explanation, led Leo up more than a hundred steps in front of the bank.
As soon as the two entered the bank, they were greeted by several people waiting at the door, and after saluting Frank Fowson, they turned to look at Leo Dodd, and then turned their heads to look at Frank Fowson with an inquiring eye.
"Yes, he is. Frank Forson nodded and said.
After receiving a response, several people did not say anything more, and led the two into the side hall, and then entered a small garden area from the side hall, and then turned two corridors to a small garden in the center of the bank.
In the middle of the small garden was a labyrinth of woods, into which the men walked straight in, followed by Frank Fossen and Leo.
After several people passed through the flower wall formed by the third tree, several people leading the way in front stopped almost at the same time, and then reached out and inserted into the bushes next to them, as if they had grabbed something, and then pulled a few times.
After a while, a very faint mechanical sound was heard, and the flower wall not far away moved to either side like a movable wall, revealing a small pavilion behind the tree wall and a spiral staircase leading to the ground.