Chapter 62: Baron Maupassant

Leo heard the name Baron Maupassant from what Sean had said to Nelson on the Broken Bridge Square, and he also habitually collected information about it through the parabrain system.

Sean originally wanted to calculate Baron Maupassant and use his French royal bloodline, but because Nelson appeared so coincidentally, he replaced Nelson, of course, whether there is a degree of difficulty, success rate and other problems is unknown.

From Sean's words, it can be learned that Baron Maupassant was also there when Leo was in Rabbitskin Town, and it is really intriguing that such a baron with such a high status sneaked into a small place like Rabbitskin Town.

Thinking about the current battle for the throne of the French royal family, thinking about the position where Baron Maupassant is standing, and then thinking about Baron Maupassant, who should be on the continental train now, was transferred to this ordinary intercity train and assassinated, Leo hardly needs to use the auxiliary brain system to analyze, and he can think of what is going on with his own reasoning alone.

As for the delay of this steam train, I am afraid that it is not as explained by the station, it has suffered a natural disaster, as for what happened in the afternoon, I can guess it after a little thought, it is nothing more than interception, escape, change of train and the like.

Thinking of this, Leo felt the urge to jump out of the car to avoid getting into more trouble.

Leo is not afraid of trouble, he believes that with his ability to solve most problems, even if he can't, he can get out, but he is not willing to cause trouble inexplicably, especially this kind of trouble that should not be the kind of trouble that a small person like him should have.

At this moment, the door of the room reopened, and Baron Maupassant entered, bringing with him several men who looked like train attendants. When they saw that the window was broken, they immediately took out a ready-made window and replaced it, apologized to Baron Maupassant and Sean, and then exited the room, closed the door with their hands, and Baron Maupassant sat back in his bunk.

Although it was only a short time to go out, Leo found that the aura on Baron Maupassant's body had changed a lot, he had become a lot more confident, and the worried look in his eyes had decreased a lot.

"Huh!" Originally, Leo was not going to continue to pay attention to Baron Maupassant, but he suddenly felt that Baron Maupassant seemed to have a spiritual energy wrapped around him, and this spiritual energy was very strong, so strong that Leo did not need to open the spiritual vision or spiritual network, and he could clearly feel it with spiritual perception alone.

"Psionic device. Leo's gaze swept over Baron Maupassant's body, and soon landed on a ring on his hand that looked like it was made of wood, and on the surface of the ring was engraved a large number of mysterious symbols, which was obviously a psionic device.

Although Leo didn't know exactly what the purpose of this ring was, the spirit wrapped around Baron Maupassant's body made Leo think of Sean's pendant and Wilson's psionic shield, if there were no accidents, this ring should have served as a defense against psionic attacks and a defense against ranged physical attacks.

At first, Leo was a little surprised that Baron Maupassant had such a psionic device that could be used without a psyker, but when he thought about it carefully, he felt that it was nothing, after all, people like Sean had one of these psionic devices, not to mention the side branch of the French royal family, which had a deep background.

"I feel we should cooperate, Mr. Dodd. Baron Maupassant suddenly spoke, breaking the silence in the carriage.

Leo said in a deep voice, "I don't think we have anything to work with, Your Excellency. ”

"No, we can cooperate. Baron Maupassant smiled and said, "Aren't you going to the Continental Council in Miria City to accuse Duke Derwin of using imide gas? ”

"Don't you think it's strange for you to say this?" Leo glanced at the other party with his eyes and said, "You are the baron of the French Empire, and now you actually say to an enemy soldier that you will help him accuse the duke of his own country, and this duke is now commanding this front-line army against the invasion of the enemy country, do you know what a person like you is called in the Kingdom of England?"

Baron Maupassant was not provoked by Leo's deliberately mocking words, but calmly continued his previous words, and said to himself: "Your idea is very good, but it will definitely not succeed, don't look at the current continental parliament often affects the political situation of some countries, and even judges the political leaders of some countries, but you must know that those countries are all just small countries, and the land area is not even larger than Lanxi." But the French Empire is the largest empire in the world, with the strongest army in the world, and the Continental Council does not dare to risk offending the French Empire and interrogate Duke Dewin, so what you are doing has no effect at all. ”

Leo only smiled at Baron Maupassant's remarks, and did not look at Baron Maupassant again, nor did he intend to have any conversation with him.

For the first time, Baron Maupassant saw such a difficult object of persuasion, and he really didn't know what to do.

According to the general means of persuasion, the other party will not give him this opportunity at all, and will not even ignore him, let him continue to talk here like a fool, I am afraid that he himself will not be able to stand this humiliation.

Seeing Leo's calm face, Baron Maupassant couldn't help but have doubts in his heart, because Leo seemed to be completely sure that he would succeed in suing Duke Derwin.

However, Baron Maupassant was sure that even if the Kingdom of England was secretly influenced, the complaint against Baron Derwin would not have the slightest chance of success, and at most it would only damage Baron Dryon's reputation.

For those hawks within the empire, Baron Devon's unscrupulous approach to victory is more in line with their wishes, and they will be very willing to see such an ambitious and capable person become the lord of the empire.

"Could it be ......" Baron Maupassant, puzzled by Leo's attitude, suddenly thought of a possibility that he thought was the most unlikely, because it seemed to him that it was stupid and crazy to the extreme, and it was impossible for anyone to do this, but for some reason he saw Leo, who seemed to be calm and did not care about the outcome of the accusation, and felt more and more that the most unlikely possibility was the purpose of Leo's trip.

So, Baron Maupassant looked at the expression on Leo's face and asked tentatively, "Mr. Dodd, are you unwilling to continue to go to the battlefield to accuse Duke Derwin of using imide gas?"

Leo didn't have any extra expression in response to these tentative words, only frowning slightly, and for Baron Maupassant, this frown was enough.

At this moment, Baron Maupassant was completely stunned, and he didn't know what kind of expression to show on his face.

He never thought that there would be a person like Leo, and in order not to go to the battlefield, he would go to the continental parliament to accuse the duke of a country, which doesn't seem like what a normal person should do.

"Are you crazy?" In the end, Baron Maupassant couldn't help but feel a little crazy in his heart, and asked Leo: "Do you know that you will completely offend Duke Derwin by doing this? He will have a thousand means to make you die silently, even if he doesn't care about the teeth and claws of a little reptile like you, there will be countless people in this world who will sacrifice your head to him in order to please him, isn't this more dangerous than going to the battlefield?"

Leo still ignored Baron Maupassant, as if he didn't exist.

Baron Maupassant suddenly laughed, sat on the bunk very casually, leaned against the wall, looked at Leo and said: "Mr. Dodd, you must know that it may be difficult to help you successfully sue Duke Derwin, but it is very easy to get you to be sent back to the battlefield by the government of the Kingdom of England after you fail to complain. ”

"Smack!" Leo slammed the dictionary in his hand, sat up from the bed, looked at Baron Maupassant, looked at him coldly, and did not speak.

Although Leo did nothing, Baron Maupassant felt that the air around him seemed to fall to freezing point, and with every breath he breathed, an inexplicable chill was inhaled into his body, giving him the illusion that he was now in a dead place at the end of his legendary life.

An inexplicable fear made him involuntarily reach out and stroke the wooden ring, as if only that ring could bring him a trace of warmth.

At this moment, Leo really didn't use any psionic skills, he was just using the parabrain system to imitate the Lord of Turbidity and Lightness seen in the twin illusions, imitating his breath and imitating his might, and now it seems that the effect is very amazing.

At this time, there was a very slight sound at the top of the carriage, Leo unfolded his mental net to understand the situation, and the almost frozen coldness around him dissipated in an instant, as if it had never existed, only Baron Maupassant could still feel a coldness and fear in his bones.

"You're in trouble!" Leo, who had lifted his mental net, looked up at the roof of the carriage, said in a deep voice, and lay down on the bed again, continuing to look at the dictionary with relish, not paying the slightest attention to whether this trouble would fall on him.

Hearing Leo's words, Baron Maupassant quickly took out a pair of mechanical glasses from his pocket and put them on, followed by a slight adjustment of the gears of the glasses frame, and looked towards the top of the upper carriage, as if his gaze could pass through the thick layer of steel plates of the carriage.

Then Baron Maupassant suddenly opened the window, then took two steps back, and took out something in the shape of a box from under his clothes, and then saw him unfold and fold the box a few times, and the box immediately turned into a very delicate mechanical crossbow.

Then he flicked the dial marked on the trigger on the side of the crossbow, stuck a box full of corresponding crossbow arrows on the crossbow, and then raised it and aimed it at the window, but he turned his head to look at the top of the car, adjusted the angle of the crossbow slightly, moved slowly and regularly, and pulled the trigger continuously.

I saw that the arrows shot from the crossbow flew out of the window, then turned upwards and flew to the roof of the car, and then I heard a scream from the roof of the car, and more than a dozen figures fell from both sides of the car.

Then, Baron Maupassant suddenly turned around, opened the hatch, and adjusted the angle of his crossbow to shoot crossbow arrows directly towards the door. The crossbow bolt also arced through the air, through the door, and flew out towards the side of the corridor outside, and then two screams and the sound of objects falling to the ground were heard, and everything subsided.

Baron Maupassant closed the door, removed his eyes, folded the crossbow to the size of a palm, put it back in the pocket under his clothes, patted the non-existent dust on his body, and raised his head at Leo lying on the bed, rather like a child waiting for a compliment.

Although he didn't want to admit it, the strength displayed by this somewhat feminine Baron Maupassant did surprise Leo, and more than a dozen well-trained killers were easily eliminated by him with a crossbow.

Admittedly, both the intricately designed mechanical crossbow and the glasses that seemed to be able to see through the steel plates of the carriage played a key role, but Baron Maupassant, who was able to use both pieces of equipment so brilliantly, was clearly very strong.

And Leo also felt that this was not all his strength, just now he also showed extremely fast spear drawing skills, it can be seen that his marksmanship should be very good, in addition to the dagger in his bag, long sword and other weapons, should also have a good melee ability.

If it is an ordinary person, it will not be too surprising, after all, many people are forced to train themselves to the death due to life, so they have mastered so many abilities.

But a nobleman who has been pampered since he was a child, but he was able to give up a privileged life and practice such a skill, which really made Leo have to admire him, and the original disgust caused by the other party's coercion of his cooperation has also been reduced a lot.

"I'm not going to force you to make a decision right now, but I'm sure you'll come to me for cooperation. Baron Maupassant took a golden business card from his pocket, threw it on Leo's bunk, and said, "This is my address in the city of Miria, and if you have a good understanding, you can come to me." ”

After saying that, I saw him take off the bag from the luggage rack, carry it on his back, and then take out a hooded trench coat from the closet next to him, and then step on the table, grasp the edge of the window, leap hard, get out, stretch his body in the air, fall on the grass next to the tracks, roll a few times, stand up like a nobody, and disappear into the grass.

After Baron Maupassant's whereabouts were exposed, he was able to decisively choose to jump out of the car and leave halfway, instead of deliberately staying and forcibly dragging Leo into the water, which made Leo's disgust with this person weaken a little, and he faintly began to consider the pros and cons of cooperating with him.

He picked up the golden business card on the bunk and looked at it, although this business card showed a golden texture, but it was a kind of wood, and there was a fragrance attached to it, which was different from the rich perfume that the women of Flange were used to now, and it smelled very pleasant, which showed that the wood used to make this business card was extraordinary.

Leo took the business card and thought about it, but instead of throwing it away, he put it in his pocket, feeling that he might be able to use it later.