When the United Kingdom Parliament and Government moved south to Lanxi, they took with them many people, both the magnates of Miria City and a large number of scholars, but the ordinary people remained, except for a small number of civil servants and workers employed by the United Kingdom Government.

After the Imperial army came, although they did not enter Miria City, and did not have the idea of managing Miria City, they blocked all the main roads around Miria City, and no one in Miria City was allowed to leave unless it was a pass issued by the Empire, which also made more than a million civilians trapped in Miria City.

When the empire recruited the garrison, many civilians were recruited into the army, and the families of these civilians moved out of the city of Miria and settled along the railway, and the army provided food and other daily necessities every day, so there was no need to worry about survival.

However, there are still nearly a million people in the city of Miria who are not fed, so in order to survive, these civilians have either joined the gang or become scavengers.

The United Kingdom left in a hurry, although it took away all the talents that could be taken away, but the wealth that could not be taken away remained, but no one thought that the French Empire would completely destroy the city of Miria in such an extreme way, so those riches were also buried in the ruins of the city.

If this wealth is to be cleared from the rubble, even if the French Empire sends millions of people, it may not take several years to complete, so the civilians of Miria City who have become scavengers in order to survive have become the best treasure cleaners. Because of this, some people believe that the French army blocked the main road of the city of Miria, and did not allow people to enter and leave at will, deliberately trying to use this means of survival and oppression, forcing the civilians to collect the wealth scattered in the ruins of the city as they wanted.

In other places, a set of fine gemstone jewelry could be exchanged for thousands of gold flanges, but in the current city of Miria, it can only be exchanged for ten loaves of bread.

Among those scavengers, there are some smart guys, they can see that Miria has the most wealth in the city, but there are also the most scavengers, so there are the most fights for some treasures, and the level of danger is also high, and the scavenging here is somewhat more than worth the loss.

On the contrary, those villas in the suburbs near the blockade line noticed that there were not many scavengers here, and most of those villas were made of wood, which was easier to clean than the stones in the city, and it was easier to find valuable treasures, so the smart scavengers cleared the area early.

Everything of little value in the villa was looted, and even some high-quality wood that had not been completely destroyed was taken by the scavengers, and the whole villa area looked as if it had been licked again.

The quest that Leo got from Sylvia was also related to the scavengers who cleaned up the villas in the Upper Quarter Moon Lake District, and it was not the United Kingdom that issued the task, but the Persona Society, which was about as dangerous as the village where the Children of the Swamp sacrificed.

Many of the members of the Persona Society like to live in a city like Miria, which is very open to scholarship and knowledge, and Rembrandt is one of them, and several other members of the Persona Society also live in the Upper Quarter Lake area of Miria City.

When the war reached Miria City, the Persona Society had a premonition of the possible blow to Miria City, so it had already taken all Persona Society members to safety while the United Kingdom was still debating whether or not to abandon Miria City.

The wise men of the Persona Society originally thought that the French Empire would capture the city of Miria, even if the army would do some outrageous things such as smashing and looting, but for the sake of international prestige, they would also protect the residences of some scholars and celebrities, so there were some things that were not suitable for taking away, and the scholars of the Persona Society would store them in the safes of their respective secret rooms, and when the war calmed down, they would come back and take them away.

It's just that everyone didn't expect that Emperor Fran's revenge would be so heavy and destroy the entire city of Miria, and the villas in the suburbs were the key targets of destruction. What they didn't expect was that the scavengers actually found the secret room buried under the ruins, and emptied all the safes in the secret room.

Most of the items in these safes are very dangerous curses, which come from the Persona Society and other allied organizations, who find cursed objects through various methods, and then send them to Miria City to be handed over to the members of the Society here to study ways to eliminate the curse. Because special containers were required to transport these cursed objects, otherwise those who approached would be entangled by the cursed power and thus appear outside, so the Persona Society decided to store these things for the time being.

Now, the Persona Society has discovered that some of the cursed items they have collected have been spread to other countries and regions through the black market, which has also made them realize that the items in their collection may have been lost.

Although the categories of those cursed things are grouped into one category, their danger can be high and low, and the cursed thing that Leo is looking for on this mission belongs to the extremely dangerous category, and the name of this cursed thing is the Circle of Plague.

No matter what time the plague is, it is the great enemy of any living thing, so whether it is the ancient earth era of the Earth Federation or the current world of Velon, they have a strong fear of plague from the instinct of life from ancient times to the present.

And it is precisely because of this fear that the world of Velun has always had the belief in this plague god from ancient times to the present, although the name and identity of the plague god in each period are different, but there is one thing that is the same, they are all the embodiment of the plague.

In the midst of the great plague that affected the entire world of Veron and almost destroyed the entire world, the belief in the god of plague was also the strongest, and during that time, there were seven churches of the god of plague at the same time.

Among these churches, some of them spontaneously created a god to believe in simply because of the fear of the plague, and there is no real god, but some of them really have an ancient god behind the church, and whether there is a real plague god among these gods is still a mystery, but at least one thing is certain, one of the gods has been extremely close to the divine right of the plague, and the plague ring is from the hands of this church.

Because this church used the plague ring to spread the plague and then harvest new plague varieties from the people infected with the plague, the kings, lords and churches in name at that time, the night watch organization in the shadows, the towers, etc., all regarded this church as the enemy of mankind and worked together to exterminate it, and the special divine artifact of this church, the plague ring, fell into the hands of various forces.

Although the vast majority of the Plague Ring has been purified by the various Organizations, a small number have been preserved, and the Plague Ring lost by the Hearing Society is one of them, and it is likely to be the only Plague Ring that can be used.

The member of the Persona Society who obtained this Plague Ring is a high-ranking member of the medical school and a world-famous medical master in Velon, although there is no mention of who this high-level is in the mission file, but there are only a few high-ranking medical students who have lived in Miria City for a long time, and Leo can easily find out if he wants to investigate, but he doesn't have many ideas.

This medical school senior originally wanted to study the principle of the ability of the Plague Ring, and planned to use this principle in the virus cultivation of the medical school, but unfortunately, after the thing arrived, before he could research the reason, the war broke out.

When this plague ring fell into the hands of the medical school higher-ups, there was no harm, because after so many years, the power contained in the ring had been reduced to a negligible bottom, and the plague used to cultivate it had long since disappeared.

But what seems to be immortal is that this member of the society is guilty of the common problem of all research scholars, and in order to study their subject, they can completely ignore the dangers of research. He actually sacrificed the Plague Ring according to the rituals of the ancient Plague Church, and also provided the Plague Ring with a large number of germs, trying to use these methods to restore the power of the Plague Ring.

What's even more unexpected is that the member of the Society succeeded, and the Plague Ring regained some legendary abilities, such as absorbing plague germs, creating new varieties of plague germs, and so on.

At this time, the war came, and the member of the Society had to temporarily abandon the research at hand, but the Circle of Plague was cultivating a very critical germ for him, and he had spent years working on this germ, and if he stopped halfway, he would have lost all his efforts. So he found a special wizard artifact, stored the Plague Ring in it, let it continue its cultivation work, and left Miria City first, and then came back to retrieve it when things subsided.

It's just the practice of the Imperial Army, the appearance of scavengers, that disappointed this Society member's expectations, and other cursed things were scattered on the black market, and he knew that something might have happened to what he had kept. Knowing very well what the consequences of leaking this could be, the member of the Society had to inform the other members of the Persona Society about it.

After the analysis of the other members, everyone felt that the worst time had not yet come, because there was no news of the Great Plague in Miria City. It can be seen that the wizard artifact used by the member to contain the Plague Ring has not been opened, and the wizard artifact itself is a treasure that requires a specific technique to open it, so the person who obtained the Plague Ring may not know what exactly is in his hand.

In the opinion of the members of the Persona Society, as long as the wizarding artifacts containing the Plague Ring are retrieved before they are opened, there will be no catastrophic consequences.

It's just that the Persona Society has no influence in Miria City now, and there are not enough people, if you contact the black market, I'm afraid that the people in the black market will be more willing to sell this plague ring for a good price, and they will definitely not consider returning it to the Persona Society.

To do so, they had to turn to the United Kingdom, which still had a large number of men in the city of Miria.

It's just that the United Kingdom has different opinions on helping the Persona Society find the Ring of Plague, because before the Imperial Army crossed the Black Forest, the Persona Society received some news, but the Persona Society did not tell the United Kingdom about its arrival, but quietly evacuated the city of Miria, so many people think that although the Persona Society is not an enemy, it is not an ally, and it is not obligated to help them find the lost curse.

What's more, some people feel that if the Ring of Plague takes effect in Miria City at this time, then the Empire's army will inevitably be blocked, and they can use this as an excuse to accuse the Frankish Empire of using the plague as a weapon to slaughter humans. Although this will not directly cause harm to the French Empire, it will make those countries that secretly cooperate with the French Empire wary, and it is not impossible to even cut off cooperation with it.

It is precisely because of this attitude of the United Kingdom's top leadership that they use various means to delay the time when the mission is issued to the front line, and when the mission order falls into Sylvia's hands, more than ten days have passed, and it is mixed with a bunch of tasks, knowing that when Sylvia found out about this mission, he has been delayed by other things to carry out this task.

If Leo doesn't show up, Sylvia may turn to other Dark World organizations, such as witches, night watchmen, etc., and now Leo's appearance is just the solution to this big problem.

To be honest, when Leo saw this mission, he had a feeling that he was back in the Earth Federation, because in the countless missions of the Earth Federation, there were countless tasks such as wiping the butts for those high-level people, and there were many tasks like retrieving some kind of dangerous item.

It is precisely because of his experience in finding dangerous objects that Leo did not enter Miria City to look for the black market for news in the first place, but came to the villa of the Persona Society member in Miria City to check the situation.

Just like the other villas, the villa of this Persona Society member was completely destroyed, but there were still a lot of traces of excavation and dismantling in the ruins, and there was a huge pit in the backyard of the villa, and at the bottom of the pit was a passage to the secret room.

Leo looked around the villa, then went down through the pit to the chamber to check it out, and when he came up from the chamber, he looked a little solemn, and then set off to the villas of several other Persona Society members to check them out as well.

After he had inspected all of the Persona Society's villas in Miria City, he was finally certain that the loss of the Plague Ring was not an accident, but a deliberate act.

Leo had this speculation because he could see from the excavations inside and outside the Persona Institute that the excavators were amateurs, and that there were a large number of wrong excavation sites by people who had never done this kind of work.

The only thing that is the secret room where the Plague Ring is kept, the excavation traces are very professional, and there is not a single wrong excavation location, it is obvious that the diggers are coming for the Plague Ring in the secret room, so this task is definitely not as simple as the Persona Society and the United Kingdom think.