Back at the apartment, Leo dropped the invitation on the table, asked the butler to prepare hot water, freshen up, and after coming out of the bathroom, the butler waited at the door, holding a tray with a glass and a letter in his hand.

Leo picked up the wine glass and took a sip, picked up the letter and looked at it, and found that there was no information on it, so he couldn't help but ask the butler, "Who sent this?"

"After you left, put it in the mailbox. The butler replied, "It has been tested, and there is no danger on the surface, but the envelope is a French Empire Misya envelope, which is only for the nobles." ”

"The Fran Empire?" Leo thought of a figure, then waved to the butler to signal that he could go down, and he returned to his room with the envelope and wine glass, and sat down at his desk.

After cutting the envelope open with a paper cutter, Leo took out a piece of cardboard with only one address written on it, 137 Long Palm Street, Pandel Harbor, Mares Kingdom.

Although it was only a simple address, Leo already knew who had sent the letter, and another note with the same font had been delivered to him with the king and queen not long ago, and the note was still in his box.

"It's the Kingdom of Mares again?, why is it so coincidental?" Leo looked at the letter in his hand with some confusion, and turned his head to look at the invitation on the side, thinking that this matter was too coincidental, he got an invitation to the auction that would be held in the Kingdom of Mares from the black market on the front foot, and a letter with the port city of the Kingdom of Mares was delivered to him on the back foot, which was a coincidence to the point of incredible.

If it is, most people will think that this is just a coincidence, after all, life always has to experience one or two such coincidences, but Leo is different, he thinks more rationally, and the Earth Federation has sat in a large number of experiments to prove that the so-called coincidences are not actually coincidences.

In their research, scientists have found that there are many factors that trigger coincidences, either an event or a decision that they have inadvertently made in the past has become a coincidence through a series of subsequent developments, or the coincidence is arranged in advance.

All in all, there is no coincidence that is the law of nature, and the reason why it is considered a coincidence is that it is simply that the original factors that caused the coincidence were not discovered.

Leo put down the letter in his hand, picked up the invitation, opened it and looked at it carefully, it was still an address, just the address of this address, Padu City in the Kingdom of Mares.

Although the invitation may seem simple, it seems that you can simply take the invitation to the address on it to attend the auction, but in fact, the moment you open the invitation, Leo discovers that there are other contents hidden in the decorative patterns on the surface of the invitation.

Leo soon began to decipher the pattern, and as he did so, he was amazed at the knowledge of the person who designed the invitation, because he had found no less than seven ancient languages in the pattern, and these languages had been combined to form a new address, which was also in the city of Padu, but in a different city, and there was still time on the new address, three months later.

Seeing this, Leo also learned that this is probably a way to test whether the invitee is eligible to participate in the auction on the black market, and if he doesn't find the secret in the pattern, if he really goes to the address written on the invitation at the wrong time, he may also participate in an auction, but he won't see what he wants at the auction.

"Three months is enough. Leo put the invitation back away, calculated the time a little, and muttered to himself.

In the past, it would have taken more than two months to travel from the Kingdom of England to Minsk, but in good weather, if the ship is damaged at sea due to a storm, it will take more time to repair it at the nearest port.

However, now that there is an ocean-going steamer that combines machinery and sails, the speed is already much faster, and it has been compressed to more than half a month, and he still has enough time to prepare.

In fact, before seeing Sylvia's letter, Leo had already had the idea of leaving for the Minsk mainland, but it was not entirely for the auction, but more for the relics of the vanished civilization in the desert, where he thought that he might be able to find something interesting.

Leo has temporarily scheduled his trip to the Minsk mainland in half a month, so that he will also have plenty of time to deal with Sylvia and the auction.

After making a decision, Leo called the butler and asked him to book a ticket for an ocean liner to the mainland of Minsk in half a month.

"Half a month," the butler thought for a moment after hearing the order, and said: "Half a month later, there will be a new ocean-going passenger liner of the Nova Shipping Company that will make its maiden voyage, it is said that it is now the most luxurious and fastest steamship in the world, it has been completely powered by steam engines, and there are no sails, do you want to take that steamer?"

"First voyage?Nova Shipping?" Leo frowned slightly, thought for a moment, and asked, "Is this shipping company a company that once belonged to the Royal Shipping Group?"

"Yes. The butler nodded and said, "The New Star Shipping Company was indeed a subsidiary of the Royal Shipping Group, but the Royal Family is only the largest controlling shareholder of the company, not the absolute controlling one. A few days ago, the second largest shareholder of Nova Shipping seemed to have received a large sum of money, with which he bought a large number of retail shares from the market and became an absolute controlling company, and the royal family sold the shares of Nova because of the loss of absolute control, and now Nova is an independent company. ”

After hearing this, Leo was silent for a moment, shook his head, and said, "Don't book a ticket for that new ship, book a ticket for another ship!"

"Yes, sir. After receiving a response, the butler was puzzled by Leo's decision, but he suppressed the doubts in his heart, and retreated without asking anything.

Leo naturally has his thoughts when he makes such a decision, in his opinion, there is something wrong with Nova Shipping Company separating from the Royal Shipping Group, because the royal family itself is not short of money, whether it is the wealth accumulated by the royal family in the past, or the huge profits from the ocean trade that was monopolized during the storm period after obtaining the Poseidon Scepter, it is enough to support the royal family to acquire more than a dozen large companies like Nova Shipping.

However, this time the Nova Shipping Company broke away from the control of the royal family too suddenly, and in a short period of time, it swept away the stocks in the hands of retail investors on the market and obtained an absolute controlling stake, and it was absolutely impossible for such a large-scale action to be silent, so the royal family must also know the news, but the royal family did not do any way to deal with it, allowing the Nova Company to acquire enough retail shares and become an absolute holding company, which is contrary to common sense.

If the Nova Shipping Company is a company with serious losses and poor performance, it would be fine, but the Nova Shipping Company is actually one of the three major ocean passenger transport companies in the Kingdom of England, and its annual performance is very good, and the profits are also extremely amazing.

But the fact is that the Nova Company is indeed out of the control of the royal family, and the royal family does not seem to have made any resistance, and honestly withdrew from the Nova Company.

If the royal family hadn't collectively become imbeciles, then the royal family would have had other meanings in doing so, and at this time, Leo couldn't help but think of a person who seemed to have nothing to do with it.

He thought of the experience of heel Bundy, and thought of the sacrifice of the sea god, which made him think that the maiden voyage of the luxury ocean liner of the Nova Company might be a great sacrifice controlled by the royal family behind the scenes.

Obviously, the royal family has removed itself from this incident in advance, and in the end, the sacrifice was successful, and the relatives and friends of those who were sacrificed could not take their anger out on the royal family, and would only go to the Nova Company.

If it had been before going to Death Valley, Leo might have been nosy, and he might have been able to discover more mysteries related to this world in the process of being sacrificed on the inaugural ship.

But now, the most important thing for Leo is to go to the wastelands of Moissan, find the lake where the tree seed was planted, and find the well-preserved spaceship.

In the days that followed, Leo stayed at home to read Sir Roland's notes, and on the third day after Leo paid the deposit, the Black Market sent all the wasteland materials they could collect to Leo's apartment, and Leo's research began to shift to the wasteland.

However, a few more days later, an unexpected piece of news disrupted Leo's routine.

"Sir Roland is dead?" said Leo, holding the butler's new newspaper and seeing the obituary on the full page.

The butler said: "It is not only the Sex Harbour newspaper that has published this obituary, but even other major national newspapers have published Sir Roland's obituary, which should be true. ”

"What is the cause of death?" Leo asked, frowning as he carefully read the obituary.

"It will not be written on it, and the cause of death will not be written on the public obituary according to the rules. The butler reminded Leo and asked, "Do you need me to check it out?"

"Can you find it?" asked Leo.

The butler thought for a moment and said, "The editor of the Engag Gazette should have found some information. ”

"Then go check it out. Leo nodded, and with a command, his gaze fell on Sir Roland's notebook.

Although Sir Roland is dead, no matter what he thinks, he can no longer continue, but that doesn't mean that the notebook is useless, and that it may have hidden some interesting secrets.

Now, Leo guessed in his mind that this notebook might have been deliberately given to him by Sir Roland, not to make him decipher the contents of the notebook, but to keep it for the time being, because he found himself in a dangerous situation, so he wanted to leave the most important things to someone trustworthy for the time being.

However, if Sir Roland is in danger, then his friends will inevitably be watched, and if he gives things to his friends, I am afraid that they will also fall into the hands of the monitors, so only Leo, who has amazing knowledge and has a student relationship with his old friend Rembrandt, is the right person, after all, he and Leo are not friends, and no one will spy on them.

After about a few hours, the butler returned from outside, handed over the coat to the maid, and went straight to Leo's study, and told Leo what he had received from the English Gazette.

"Cursed?" Leo couldn't help but be stunned when he heard the news.

"Yes, curse. The butler nodded, and added, "It wasn't an afterthought, it was Sir Roland himself before he died." ”

The butler then recounted the circumstances of Sir Roland's death more carefully.

It turned out that after Sir Roland left the Kingdom of England, he went directly to the Kingdom of America with the Roosevelt family and lived temporarily in the Roosevelt family's manor.

During this period, Sir Roland was invited by the National Academy of History in the United States to participate in a study of the relics of the ancient civilization of the Moissanite continent, and then Sir Roland suddenly fell ill and had to give up the study and recuperate at Roosevelt Manor, and after more than half a month of recuperation, his condition not only did not improve, but worsened, and finally the condition deteriorated to the extreme, and suddenly broke out, completely taking Sir Roland's life, and when Sir Roland was dying, he suddenly shouted that this is a curse and died.

It was precisely because of the sound that Sir Roland shouted before he died that other people outside thought that Sir Roland's illness was related to the research of the ancient civilization relics he participated in, and the curse came from the ancient civilization relics.

For this reason, the Kingdom of Megaliga had to stop the ongoing research and temporarily seal the relic of the ancient civilization.

"Do you think it's a curse?" Leo asked after listening to the detailed description, after a pause.

The housekeeper was slightly stunned, then thought about it for a while, and said: "It shouldn't be, because according to the news over there, among all the people involved in the research, only Sir Roland was sick and died, if it was a curse, other people who had contact with the relics of ancient civilization should also be sick and guessed correctly, so many people think that maybe something else caused Sir Roland's death." ”

"Curses are not germs and cannot be transmitted to all contacts. Leo shook his head, rejecting the butler's speculation, and motioned for the butler to leave, while he sat at his desk and pondered the cause of Sir Roland's death.

Although he only heard the news from the butler, Leo felt that if all the news was true, then Sir Roland should have died of the curse, and he was probably the only participant in the research that inadvertently touched the curse contained in the artifact while studying the ancient civilization relic.

But compared to Sir Roland's death, Leo somehow feels that Sir Roland may not be dead, the so-called death is just a play, as for the reason is not clear for the time being.

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