The maze of alleys in District 23 made Leo feel somewhat similar to the Cage City. Below were narrow alleys extending in all directions, and above were criss-crossing secret passages. Countless irregular houses were crammed together, leaning on and supporting each other.
With.
However, what is different from the people in Congcheng is that the people here seem lifeless. Whether they are prostitutes standing on the street to pick up customers or civilians looking for flowers, their faces are full of numbness and indifference.
Perhaps because of the sparse number of guests, the entire city seemed very dead. The signs of the Gold House, which were outlined with special fluorescent juice, also looked dim at the moment. The high-end prostitutes who would only stay in the house had to put aside their mere presence.
Some of them were a little proud and stood at the door to invite customers.
Under the leadership of the woman, Leo walked through these pink alleys. Although there were some women on the road trying to come up to solicit customers, when they saw Leo's skin color clearly, they all showed extremely obvious disgust and panic.
They all looked at each other and got out of the way.
As for the city guards who were patrolling back and forth, they only looked at Leo and had no intention of interrogating him at all. They just let Leo walk through the city. It can be seen that for these city guards, patrolling District 23 is just a routine matter.
The two walked in tandem, walked through more than a dozen alleys, and walked through at least eight suspension bridge passages, and soon arrived at House No. 11 in Baiwu District.
Peter Alcott seemed to like living by the lake. The house he was looking for in District 11 was by the lake, and the secret accommodation in District 23 was also placed by the lake.
It is not appropriate to say that the house is by the lake. It is more accurate to say that this house is built on the lake.
The entire house is a three-story building, made of the same materials as the surrounding houses. It is made of scattered wood and looks like building blocks that can collapse at any time.
The foundation for building the house is a few thick vines extending from the vine platform. These vines are all suspended in the air, still some distance from the lake, so the house looks like it is suspended in the air from a distance.
People and people living in this house will involuntarily feel a sense of insecurity.
"This is a good place to destroy corpses and eliminate traces!" Leo's first feeling after seeing this house suspended on the lake was not the insecurity he had never felt before, but how to make use of the special features of this house.
The location is just right.
It has to be said that it is best to use this house as a place to destroy corpses and eliminate traces. The corpses do not need to be moved at all. Just open a hole at the bottom of the house and throw it into the lake, which can completely erase any traces.
When arriving at the house, Leo did not immediately use the key given by Peter Alcott to open the door. Instead, he first used his mental net to explore the situation inside and outside the house to get a clear picture of the environment.
After some investigation, Leo discovered that this seemingly old and dilapidated house actually had other connotations. Peter Alcott seemed to have fully used his mechanical talents here, turning the house into a...
A mechanical house.
According to the analysis of the assistant brain system, once the steam furnace of the house is started and provides sufficient power to the mechanical devices of the house, the house can become a quasi-fully automatic mechanical house, with functions such as automatic laundry and automatic lighting, and
There is also an automatic defense system inside the house, which can launch fatal attacks against enemies outside and entering the house.
However, it is not difficult to see from some of the details of the mechanical design that this house should be an experimental product. Peter Alcott only used this house to practice and experiment with some mechanical devices, because there are also some mechanical devices in the mezzanine of the house.
There are a large number of mechanical devices that are only partially installed. Judging from the operating principles of these devices, they should be parts of some kind of transmitter.
Leo walked to the door of the house, inserted the key into the slot, and twisted to unlock. After hearing the clicking sound of unlocking, all the oil lamps in the house were activated by mechanical devices and lit up at the same time, and the steam furnace on the top of the house
It also started to operate, providing power to the house.
Leo felt the floor beneath his feet tremble slightly. Although this tremor was very inconspicuous and difficult for most people to detect, it was actually a fatal trap. If the visitor did not use a key to open the door, but directly used external force to open the door,
If they are knocked open, the floor within two meters in diameter in front of the door will become a trap door, and the person standing on it will be thrown into the lake below.
"I...I..." Just when Leo was about to enter the house, the woman leading the way suddenly wanted to say something, but she didn't know how to say it because of her little self-esteem.
"Is there anything else?" Leo looked at the woman and asked.
"Excuse me, can I stay in your concierge until the next rest period?" The woman asked a little uneasily, and she was afraid that Leo would not be too big, so she quickly took out a Huzhen coin that Leo had given her before, and said
: "I can pay."
Leo looked at the coins in the woman's hand and said, "It's very deserted here, and with the recent murders, basically no one will come here. You won't be able to wait for any guests here."
The woman lowered her head and said softly: "I just wanted to find a quiet place to rest. I never thought about finding guests."
Leo could hear the sadness and despair in the woman's words. It can be imagined that if this woman is ignored, she may not be able to survive tomorrow. According to Leo's original character, he will not care about such things. People die every day in the world.
There are so many people, not least this one, but the new temperament created after merging with his body gave him a sympathy that he had never had before.
Leo doesn't like this kind of sympathy, because it will affect his rational judgment of things, but he hates the guilt caused by unrealized sympathy, which will greatly reduce his fighting spirit.
"Come in!" Leo finally chose to obey his new personality that he couldn't fully adapt to yet, and let the woman into the house. After closing the door, he continued to ask: "Do you know how to be a servant?"
The woman was stunned for a moment, and soon realized that an opportunity had appeared in front of her. She nodded quickly and said: "I know, I know, I used to work as a maid in Baron Oxenbot's house for a period of time."
Leo expressed his thoughts and said: "I will live here for a few days. During these few days, I need a servant to take care of my food and daily life. The reward is one alliance currency per day. If you think it is appropriate,
Just stay!”
"I can, I can." The woman responded quickly.
Leo nodded, and then led the woman around the first floor. He had already understood the structure of the house through the spiritual network, and pointed out the locations of the servants' room, kitchen and other rooms one by one, and took out ten alliance coins as these.
Tian's household items were handed over to the woman, and then he asked: "By the way, I don't know your name yet."
"My name is Sophie, sir!" the woman replied immediately, and even changed her name to Leo.
"My name is Leo Dodd. You can call me Mr. Dodd, or Mr., but you don't need to call me Master." Leo ordered: "You will stay on the first floor from now on. When you usually have meals, you can call me directly through the bell.
That’s it for me.”
"Yes, sir..." Sophie could not change her words for a while.
Leo felt that there was nothing more to say, so he turned around and walked upstairs. After walking a few stairs, he suddenly stopped again, turned around and said to Sophie: "Besides, you'd better tidy up.
Just change your clothes and tidy up your hair, and the expenses will be paid directly from your household expenses. As long as you live, you can overcome any difficulty."
"Yes, sir." After hearing Leo's comforting words, Sophie lowered her head, her voice choked up, and responded gratefully.
Leo said nothing more, turned around and continued walking upstairs, but the look on his face was not very good.
After reaching the second floor, relying on his knowledge of the house, he directly opened the door of a study room, entered, closed the door heavily, and then walked back and forth in the room, muttering: "As long as a person is alive, there will be no difficulties."
It can get over, what nonsense is this! The influence on personality is getting more and more serious, and the way of thinking and behavior have been affected. Assistant brain, conduct a first-level personality assessment."
As the order was issued, pages of personality test answer sheets appeared in front of Leo, and he quickly checked the options. This answer sheet is an answer sheet that Earth Federation soldiers must fill out after joining the army. The purpose is to pass the analysis
The answer sheet options are used to judge the soldier's personality tendencies and thus decide which branch of the army is suitable for him to enter.
When he was in the Earth Federation, Leo, as a cyborg, had a fixed department after joining the army, so he was not evaluated on this answer sheet, but the content of this answer sheet was still preserved in his memory, because as a special
As a team commander, he must conduct character assessments for the ordinary soldiers who join his team.
Soon an evaluation report with all options checked entered the data analysis of the assistant brain system. Not long after, the final evaluation results were displayed in front of his eyes.
"The position commander, the fitness level is 90%? The logistics equipment department, the fitness level is 90%?" Leo saw two professions with the same fitness level but completely different combat methods appearing in front of him, and he felt both in his heart.
Surprised, but also understandable.
In the personality assessment reports of the Earth Federation, there are some cases where two career assessment results appear at the same time, and the career adaptability is as high as 90%. However, these cases without exception all indicate that the person being evaluated is in a mental state of split personality.
, possessing dual or multiple personalities.
From a certain perspective, Leo is indeed in a state of split personality now. His past personality and thinking are not completely integrated with his current body's original personality and thinking, so he makes some decisions that are contrary to his previous biochemical personality.
, but the choices and words are in line with one’s own character.
Leo had been aware of this problem before, and believed that this was an inevitable stage after personality fusion. He didn't think it was a trouble. As long as he was careful, it would be fine. But just now he felt sympathy for Sophie and took Sophie in.
, making him unable to help but be wary of the side effects of the personality fusion process at this moment.
Leo doesn't dislike the kind of sympathy for the weak, because this kind of sympathy makes him feel more like a real human being now, rather than a cyborg who only wants to kill the opponent and complete the task.
Having compassion is a good thing, but if compassion begins to affect your way of thinking and making decisions about right and wrong, then this problem becomes a big problem.
Just now, out of sympathy for Sophie, Leo could have given Sophie some money and let her make a living outside, but in the end he chose to let Sophie, a stranger, be a maid, responsible for the food and daily life that was most important to his life safety.
, this is obviously too much, there is no reason at all, emotions completely control the reason.
"Deputy brain, analyze the situation and sort out solutions." Following Leo's order, the deputy brain quickly sorted out more than a dozen solutions and arranged them in order from top to bottom.
The first solution is the Earth Federation's standard plan to deal with soldiers with multiple personalities, which is to open up a second subsidiary brain and send all other personalities that are not the main personality into the second subsidiary brain to act as subsidiary brain intelligence.
However, this plan was rejected by Leo at the first opportunity. Not to mention that he did not want to give up the personalities and emotions that were currently being merged. Even if he was willing to give up his own personality and emotions and return to the state of a cyborg, he would not be able to develop
Second brain.
Because the difficulty of developing the second accessory brain far exceeds the difficulty of developing the initial accessory brain. To open the initial accessory brain, you only need to master the correct method and have a certain degree of mental control over the brain. However, the development of the second accessory brain
A large number of external forces need to be borrowed, and the most difficult external force is to perform brain surgery to physically separate part of the brain. It is simply impossible to complete such an operation under current conditions.
After rejecting the first plan, Leo continued to search for a suitable plan, but the next dozen plans were all standard plans of the Earth Federation, which either involved federal technology or required a large amount of money.
Neither time nor energy was the solution he wanted.
After searching for more than a dozen to no avail, Leo impatiently asked the assistant brain system to eliminate all plans that involved the Earth Federation and those that were currently unachievable. In the end, only three were left that relied on his current ability.
A solution that can be done.
After looking at the general contents of these three plans, Leo also rejected the two that required a lot of time, and finally left one plan that used medicine to stabilize emotions and prevent emotions from affecting judgment.
This potion is called the Tranquility Potion. The prescription is recorded in the back of an old pharmacist's manual. It is an undisclosed trial potion. It was specially commissioned by the Wizards Association to make it in order to help wizards enter the hospital in the shortest possible time.
Achieve a calm and clear state of mind that will not be affected by chaotic emotions.
Chapter completed!