"How did he get this purple crest?" asked Anne as her emotions recovered.

Before anyone else could speak, Jason preemptively said, "This is what we picked, and it has nothing to do with the old man, but we just made a deal with him before agreeing to send this thing over." ”

"Deal?" Anne was stunned and asked, "Can you let me know what's going on?"

"This letter is addressed to you by Mr. Pierre. Nelson stepped forward and handed Anne the well-preserved letter, saying, "It should have written the purpose of our visit." ”

Anne took the letter, opened it and looked at it, the expression on her face changed from relaxed to serious, and after reading it, she closed the letter and looked at Leo and the others with a strange look, as if she was looking at something incredible and human.

"This is not the place to talk, we go upstairs. Anne didn't say anything, but ordered her granddaughter not to disturb them, and then led Leo and the others up the stairs behind the counter directly to the personal laboratory in the attic on the roof.

After closing the door, Anne motioned for everyone to sit freely, and then she sat down on a chair, took out the letter and looked at it carefully, and then sighed, and said, "This old man has not seen him for so long, and now he has given me such a big problem. ”

"If there is a real difficulty, we will not bother you, Lady Anne. Leo smiled and said, "Of course, the purple crests still belong to you, after all, this is a negotiated deal with Old Man Pierre, and there is no mention of your help in the transaction, so it is not a violation of the transaction." ”

Anne looked at Leo in some surprise when she heard this, before she had only regarded the tall and athletic Leo and the stout Jason as Nelson's bodyguards or retinue, and thought that the person who led the accusation against Duke Devin was Nelson, a young mentor in the medical school, and now Leo opened her mouth and she realized that she had misjudged.

With a hint of curiosity, Anne looked at Leo, and gradually felt the strange temperament of Leo that was different from the others.

At first glance, Leo is very inconspicuous, and when standing next to others, people will always subconsciously ignore him. It's just that when you notice him, you will feel a very unique temperament in him, especially the kind of eyes that look at people, as if an outsider is looking down on everything in the whole world, full of the taste of observation and analysis, giving people a feeling of being seen through all secrets.

Seeing that Anne had not replied for a long time, Leo and the others took a look at it and decided to get up and prepare to leave.

"Wait! I didn't say I wouldn't help. Anne knew that her behavior had almost misled the other party, so she hurriedly stopped everyone who was about to get up, and said, "Although offending Duke Devin is a very troublesome matter, this is Miria City, not Winter Rin City, nor his Devin Domain, so I don't have to worry about what he will do to me." Now the question is, what are the chances of success in this matter?"

"It doesn't matter to us whether we succeed or not, we just want to bring the crimes of Duke Derwin to light and let the world know about his despicable deeds. Leo casually said a cliché that politicians often say, and Anne rolled her eyes when she heard it.

It's just that Anne didn't continue to ask Leo about their intentions, although she valued Catherine as a junior, but she didn't plan to be a nanny for these people who had just met, so she just planned to be a matchmaker and help Leo find someone who could really help them, and she didn't care at all if it was successful.

Anne thought for a moment, and asked in a deep voice, "You must have had some thoughts about this on the way, right?" ”

"We do have some ideas. Leo spoke out about the idea that they had previously discussed to push Nelson out and let him quickly increase his popularity in a short period of time, so as to increase his voice.

Anne pondered for a moment, nodded, and said: "This is a good method, as long as it increases the weight of Nelson's speech, the influence will also increase, and the continental council and the medical school will naturally pay attention to it." ”

Leo added some ways to increase Nelson's prestige, and Anne nodded repeatedly.

"And in addition to the medical technology paper you mentioned, you have to add this thing. Anne placed the Corolla that had been given to her on the table and said, "Discoverer and digger of the Corolla, with this addition, Nelson your prestige will reach sufficient heights. Also, you have to remember that those trauma medical techniques are what you think of on the battlefield, and you disclose them to reduce the casualties of war. ”

As she spoke, she thought about it again and said, "You should write those papers on medical technology immediately, and it is best to go to the headquarters today to handle the matter, and then the headquarters will come forward and submit the complaint against the intern doctor of Duke Devon's amine gas massacre college to the Continental Council." You should also contact the embassy of the Kingdom of England and submit a complaint to the Continental Assembly, which will cause a big enough sensation. ”

"How do we get in touch with the embassy?" Leo asked, "Can't we just run over to the embassy and tell the people that we're the ones who have directly experienced the battle in the Breteuil region?"

"Of course not, you need to find someone of repute to take you there. Anne quickly filtered some names in her mind, and finally stopped at one name, and with a smile on her face, she said, "I know someone who can help you, and he is willing to help you with that." ”

With that, Anne, who was resolute in her work, immediately told Catherine and Nelson to finish the paper in the hospital, leaving Jason to stay here, while she took Leo out of the hospital, stopped an open-top carriage directly on the street, gave an address to the coachman, and drove in the direction of the lower moon lake to the north.

In the car, Leo was not a talkative person, and Anne was not used to talking to strangers, so she could only sit quietly, and the atmosphere was a little awkward.

However, this quiet and awkward atmosphere did not last long, and as the carriage walked out of the north side of the street in the Red House district and began to enter a relatively narrow street full of taverns, Leo noticed that at least seven people were following behind him.

The seven of them were all on horseback, two of them had been following Anne since they came out of the hospital, and the remaining five had joined halfway through, and they thought they were clever at changing people to keep tracking, but they never changed out of their eye-catching and standardized clothes, and it was difficult for people not to find out.

"Looks like someone is looking for something!" Just as Leo was about to remind Anne beside him, Anne took out a makeup case, pretended to be makeup, borrowed a mirror to observe the situation behind the carriage, and said: "There are seven people, all with swords and crossbows, they should be killers." As she spoke, she looked at Leo with a strange expression and asked, "Aren't you going to come to a place and tell people that you are going to sue Duke Derwin?

In the face of Anne's questioning, Leo could only smile bitterly, unable to answer, knowing very well that these people were not because he wanted to accuse Duke Derwin about it, but for Baron Maupassant.

Although the Duke of Derwin's killers on the train did not express suspicion of Leo, a former guest in the same room as Baron Maupassant, they did not intend to let him go.

These people should not be able to find the whereabouts of Baron Maupassant, and they want to try to find some useful clues from him, Baron Maupassant's last contact, and it seems that they have no intention of tracking them for a long time, and will use more direct means to solve this matter.

After tagging the killers with the spirit net, Leo began to think about how not to alarm the local garrison to deal with them.

Just as Leo was considering what to do, Anne suddenly told the coachman another address and told him to speed up.

The coachman, who was familiar with the terrain, passed directly through an alley of this street, and there were many people in the alley, who were squeezed in by a carriage and had to be carefully avoided, and suddenly there were curses one after another in the alley.

Soon the carriage passed through the narrow alley, and the horseback tracker behind it seemed to have been stopped, and followed the carriage quickly down the street, passing over a small bridge over an aqueduct in the city, turning a boulevard, and finally stopping at an alley that was supposed to be inhabited by civilians.

Anne got out of the carriage and led Leo into the alley, turning a few corners to the outside of a tavern, and pushing the door in.

The people in the tavern seemed to know Anne, and they all raised their glasses to her when they saw her come in.

Leo habitually observed the situation inside after entering the door, and he found that the people in this tavern, whether they were the owner, the waiter, or the guests, were all disabled without exception, some were missing hands, some were missing legs, some were missing an eye, and some even had one side of their skull.

If it was just a disabled person, it wouldn't surprise Leo too much, but what really surprised him was that all the lost organs on these people had been replaced with various mechanical parts, making him feel like he was returning to the special tavern for the Earth Federation mechanical transformers.

Leo had just walked past a man who was missing two legs, who was oiling the gears of his two mechanical legs, which were powered by a small steam engine similar to that used in a steam repeater, and although they required a heat-insulating suit, they were better than being in a wheelchair.

Now Leo was sitting at the bar of the tavern under the guidance of Anne, and beside him was a well-built woman, with a fairly good appearance and proud figure, which could have made her the object of attention, but her skull was missing, making her look very hideous.

Now, her skull has been replaced by a metal skull, and several transparent hoses are inserted into the metal skull to connect to a sealed box on her back.

In addition, she would fiddle with the adjustment lever on the box from time to time, and some liquid from the box would flow down the tube into the skull, and she would also appear extremely excited at this moment.

"Lianna, I said it, don't use those drugs in normal times, otherwise, those drugs will be ineffective in your body, and if you don't find a replacement drug, when you get sick, be ready to die of pain!" Seeing the woman flicking the adjustment lever frequently, Anne frowned and yelled at the woman.

"Got it! I got it! I just felt a little tired just now, and I was just feeling refreshed. The woman shook her hand disapprovingly.

Seeing this, Anne didn't say anything more, and said to the bartender, "Two glasses of fiery lips." ”

When the bartender heard this, he nodded, and then started barming.

At this moment, the door of the tavern was opened again, and the men who had lost their target walked in, and saw Leo and Anne sitting at the bar, their faces a little annoyed, but they did not do it immediately, but found a table to sit down, and ordered a few beers as the waiter passed.

After a while, the bartender put the tempered lips on the table, and the bartender on the other side also placed the beer on the people's table.

"Taste it! The wine here is good. Anne gestured to Leo.

Leo picked up the wine glass and swallowed the fiery red wine in the glass, the not too spicy wine flowed into his body, making him feel his stomach burning, and at the same time his lips were a little numb, maybe this is why this wine is called fire lips.

However, at the moment when Leo put down the cup, the people sitting around the killers suddenly raised their hands and aimed the repeater crossbow in their hands at the killers, and pulled the trigger without hesitation.

"Thanks!" said Anne to the bartender, then stood up and led Leo out of the bar, picking two of the killers' horses, riding each of them, and continuing on to where she had been.

Leo didn't say or ask about what had just happened in the bar, but instead focused on the horses below. Because it was the first time to ride a horse, he could only imitate Anne's horseback riding movements, but no matter how standardized his movements were, the horse under his crotch did not give face at all.

"Give me the reins! Ride as you do, and we won't think of a place at night." Anne shook her head with a smile when she saw Leo scurrying his horse, and then turned around and came to Leo's side, took the reins from him, tied them to her saddle, and trotted forward with the horse under Leo's crotch.

Although Leo's way of riding a horse made the others look extremely weird, and almost everyone who saw it looked at this scene with a look of surprise, followed by a burst of laughter, but Leo didn't have anything to say in order to hurry, but he felt that Anne seemed to like to see him laughed at, and deliberately looked for a place with a lot of people.

"Can't we find a place where there are fewer people?" said Leo to Anne, who was leading the way.

"I'm taking shortcuts to get to places faster. Anne looked back at Leo, and although it was a serious explanation, it might have been more convincing if there was less smile in her eyes.

Leo didn't say anything more, so he had to let it go.

However, perhaps as Anne said, it only took them ten minutes to arrive at the shore of the lower quarter moon lake, and stopped in front of a villa on the lakeside.