Because the people who attended the banquet at Silvermoon Castle were not ordinary, the security here was also very strict, and even distinguished guests with special invitations were not allowed to bring weapons into the banquet.

Leo knew this beforehand, so he left the king, queen, and backpack in the old man's villa, and went out with only the twins in a state of fist gloves.

Leo was in his right mind when he put things in the old man's place, and it was undeniable that he was more or less influenced by that affinity, but the decision he made in the end was the result of a calm analysis by the parabrain system.

Although Leo still has no knowledge of the old man's true identity and other information, he can see from the attitudes shown by Anne, Rupert and others that the old man's identity is very unusual. According to this identity, those things were priceless in Leo's eyes, but they were nothing in the eyes of the old man, so it was very appropriate to put them in the old man's eyes.

On the way here, Leo was also thinking about why the old man would give him the invitation?

Just to give him a closer look at Rupert, a supporter of Duke Derwin, as the old man said?

Leo, who had never figured out the old man's intentions, lowered the brim of his hat, covered his glasses, closed his eyes and pondered, guessing the old man's intentions, and ignored Emily, who was sitting opposite.

And Emily also relaxed a little after the initial tension and restraint, perhaps because she felt that the atmosphere in the carriage was a little too cold, so she didn't have anything to say, "Will I cause you any trouble?"

"Trouble?" Leo, who was out of his contemplative state, looked at Emily and asked rhetorically, "What's the trouble?"

"Does that affect your work?" Emily said with some concern, "Although you are a high-ranking servant of the castle, you ...... bring people into the castle banquet."

Leo smiled, looked at the little woman who was a little confused, and asked, "Who told you that I was a servant in the castle?"

"Huh?" Emily was a little startled again.

At this time, a carriage in front of him was found to be fake, and the carriage was immediately taken away by the police in the upper quarter moon lake district who maintained order, and it is unknown what kind of interrogation the people in the carriage will face, but it is certain that his career is over.

Seeing this scene, Emily looked at Leo nervously, obviously worried that Leo's invitation was the same as the person in the carriage before.

At this time, the castle steward who was in charge of checking the invitations led the bodyguards to Leo's carriage, he did not show any contempt and suspicion because of Leo's old carriage and ordinary clothes, but respectfully saluted Leo in the carriage as he had checked the invitations of others before, and then lowered his posture and said: "This guest, please show your invitation, and we can arrange your route to the castle." ”

Hearing the steward's voice, Emily looked nervous, lowered her head, shrunk her body into the shadows of the carriage, and the image of herself being taken to the police station appeared in her mind.

However, to her surprise, when Leo on the other side took out a black invitation that was different from the other invitations, the expression on the face of the steward outside the door changed slightly, and then he took the invitation with both hands very carefully and carefully compared the code in his manual.

When the results were obtained, the steward returned the invitation to Leo in a more respectful manner, and turned to the castle security guard for a few commands, before he said to Leo, "Please let me show you the way." ”

With Leo's permission, the steward stepped into the driver's seat, took the reins from the coachman's hand, and skillfully steered the carriage out of the many carriages in the square, and drove into a deliberately vacated entrance, and drove into the Valley of the Silver Moon under the surprised gaze of everyone.

"It's a special invitation, it's definitely a special invitation!"

"Damn, I was right next to me just now, why didn't I go up?"

"I remember a guy went up. ”

"It's like a woman in a cheap lace dress. ”

"That woman was so lucky. ”

As soon as the old carriage passed through the special entrance and drove into the Silver Moon Valley, there was immediately a burst of discussion in the entrance square, and there was no lack of envy, jealousy, and chagrin among these voices.

Emily was completely speechless at the moment, even if she was confused, she could see from the attitude of the steward that the invitation was not ordinary, which also made her look at Leo carefully, and compared his appearance with those big people in Miria City in her memory.

"This invitation was given to me by someone else. Leo guessed Emily's thoughts from her small movements and explained.

"Oh!" Emily apparently didn't stop Leo's words, still speculating about Leo's identity.

Leo asked a little bored, "Why do you want to attend this banquet?"

Emily hesitated, but still truthfully stated her purpose.

Leo couldn't help but be stunned for a moment when he heard Emily's words, and then he remembered from the memories of his body's past that for people in this era, it was not a shame to be the lover or mistress of the powerful, and many people at the bottom were willing to use such relationships to gain resources.

"Good luck. "Leo didn't have this kind of emotional and moral cognition when he was a cyborg in the past, and now the thoughts and cognitions from his previous body also made him not disgusted and did not approve of this kind of behavior, so he did not have any conceptual changes in the little woman in front of him who was willing to pay for his family.

"Thank you. Emily replied softly.

The carriage soon drove through a boulevard, and the huge trees on both sides of the road formed a natural dome that covered the road and made the road appear very dark, but when the carriage drove through this dark environment, the scene ahead suddenly opened up, and the strong light like the day turned the entire Silvermoon Castle into the most brilliant pearl.

"Wow! it's so bright!" Emily couldn't help but be curious as the intense light came in through the car window, and she stuck her head over and looked out, and the intense light that dotted the manor seemed to turn into jewels in her eyes.

While Emily was amazed at the sources of the intense light, Leo was a little surprised and puzzled by the light sources, which Leo was familiar with, the bulbs he had seen in Valjean's studio.

However, the bulbs are now much better than those in Valjean's studio, and it seems that the filament of these bulbs has also been changed to a different filament that can withstand higher temperatures and is brighter.

These bulbs are not only a light source, but also a source of heat, and the large number of light bulbs illuminate the temperature inside the manor, even in the cold wave, which is not cold at all, and many people are willing to stay in the courtyard to walk back and forth and communicate with each other.

"What are these? are they so bright?" asked Emily, looking at the light bulbs hanging high on both sides of the road.

The steward sitting at the front of the car took this inquiry as a guest's request, and even if Emily did not meet any of the guest's conditions, he patiently explained: "This thing is called an electric light, and it produces strong light by electricity." ”

"Electricity?" Emily thought of the power grid outside the prison, "Is that the electricity used by the prison to watch over the inmates?"

"Yes. The steward seemed to be very proud of the spectacle before him, and said, "This electric lamp is an invention that the master received from an inventor, but the master has made some improvements to make it shine stronger and more durable, and this evening's banquet is the first time that the master has shown this great invention to the outside world." ”

"How much does this light cost?" asked Leo suddenly.

Obviously, Leo was not the first to ask this question, and it was not a confidential matter, so the steward replied without thinking about it: "The cost of a single electric light requires two thousand gold flanges, and the cost of other supporting equipment is at least more than one hundred thousand." ”

"What??2,000 gold flanges?" Emily looked at the palace-like buildings on the far side of the road, and asked in a daze, "How many electric lights did Silvermoon Castle use?"

"That's 20,000 in total. The steward said proudly.

In the carriage, only Emily's heavy inhalation was heard, and then she was seen sitting on the chair, unable to speak for a long time, pinching her fingers and constantly calculating how much gold flange had been spent, but with her calculation ability, she did not calculate a result for a long time, but she felt that the number was too big to her imagination.

"Forty million gold flanges?" Compared to Emily's shock, Leo's state of mind about such a large amount of money was more confused and contemplative.

To fight a war is to fight for money, whether it is in the Earth Federation or in this world, this sentence is like the truth.

Although 40 million gold flanges is nothing to the finances of large countries such as the French Empire and the Kingdom of England, if they are all invested in a war, such as the war between the French Empire and the Kingdom of England, it will be enough to turn the tide of the war.

However, such a huge sum of money, Rupert did not give it to Duke Devon for the war, but used it to decorate the castle, so that Leo could not figure out what the purpose of this was to do so.

Just when Leo was puzzled by Rupert's lavish arrangement of light bulbs, Emily, who was sitting across from him, muttered casually, Mr. Rupert Fitz was really rich, which made Leo's thoughts clear in an instant.

Yes, Rupert did this to instill in all the guests who were present the idea that he Rupert was rich, and the Duke of Dewin, whom he supported, was also rich, and that the money was enough to sustain them in a protracted war of attrition, and that no one who was against them could see any hope of victory, and the only thing they could see was endless money consumption.

Even the most high-spirited warriors will not have the desire to fight in the face of a war that is absolutely impossible to win, and Rupert wants to achieve such an effect.

The guests he invited this time accounted for more than ninety percent of the entire Miria's magnates, half of them were officials from embassies of various countries, and under his careful arrangement, all the guests present would be imperceptibly instilled with the idea that if they continued to fight against Rupert and Duke Dewen, there would be no possibility of victory. And this idea will be brought back to the embassy, to their respective institutions, to their respective countries, and finally to give Duke Devin a chance to win in this war without gunpowder.

"Good stakes!" Through the analysis of the auxiliary brain system, Leo couldn't help but praise in his heart after he thoroughly understood Rupert's intentions.

Although Leo saw through Rupert's thoughts, there was no way to solve it, and he was not the only one who saw through Rupert's thoughts, and the owner of the invitation card in his hand probably had already guessed Rupert's intentions the moment he received the invitation.

So the old man didn't think about being there at all, he handed this invitation to Leo, probably with the intention of letting Leo see how clever and powerful his opponent was.

After traveling some distance on the periphery of a garden, the carriage came to a square in front of a courtyard.

The square was very large, and it was full of all kinds of high-end carriages, and when Leo's carriage stopped here, the carriage that should have been the most inconspicuous became the most conspicuous, and almost all the coachmen who were waiting for their masters in the carriage all looked at the old carriage as if they were looking at something rare.

But when they saw that the man driving the carriage was the steward of the castle manor, the expression on his face immediately became much more solemn and solemn, and all expressions of disdain were retracted.

The coachmen who often went to and from the castle with their hosts to banquets knew very well that there was only one kind of person who would be escorted by the castle steward, and that person was the one with a special invitation, and such a person was not something that a little person like them could laugh at.

After the carriage stopped in a special parking space, the steward jumped down from the front of the car, walked to the side of the door, opened the door, raised his hand to Emily, and made a gesture of support, without showing the slightest disgust and discrimination because of Emily's origin and clothing.

Emily also carefully held the steward's hand, stepped out of the carriage, and saw that the coachmen in the other carriages around her were looking at her, and couldn't help but shrink her neck, and her eyes searched everywhere, trying to find a place to hide from her gaze and stay for a while.

If Emily's coming down was just a puzzle to the coachmen and servants present, then the sight of Leo getting out of the car and entering the banquet hall in the courtyard with Emily under the guidance of the steward made only doubt and confusion in their eyes.

The first and most important condition for a powerful servant like them is to know people, to know the identity information of other powerful people in Miria City, to be able to recognize at a glance who this person is, what his identity is, etc., so almost all the big people with heads and faces in Miria City can't escape the eyes of these people.

But this time they made a mistake, because they found that they did not know the young man who had been received by the castle steward himself, as if this person had jumped out of a stone, without any identity information, only a servant who had been to the food street in the business district in the morning had a vague sense that Leo, the mysterious magnate, was somewhat similar to the gourmand with his back.