After listening to Sophie's story, Leo was silent for a moment and signaled Sophie to leave. After closing the door, he sat at the table, put on his glasses, and wrote and drew on the paper on the table.
Although the rumors about the flower shop in the 27th District sound unreasonable, and more like similar businesses in the 23rd District deliberately spreading rumors to slander the reputation of the flower shop, but if you think about it carefully, this matter really has nothing to do with the flower shop.
?Leo doesn’t think so.
If there was only this rumor, Leo might believe that it was a man-made rumor, but Sophie mentioned that the prostitute named Melinda was carrying a valuable jewelry before she disappeared, so things changed.
It's not that simple.
According to the books I read before, silver shellfish is a unique shellfish produced in Silver Moon City. It usually stays in the lake and only climbs ashore at specific times. The shell also hardens after drying and changes from the silver shell.
When the shells fall off, the silver shells will also grow a new shell, and the shed shells are the jewelers' favorite raw material for high-end jewelry.
The reason why jewelry craftsmen like silver shell as a jewelry material very much is because during the jewelry refining process, if some silver shell powder is added, the jewelry will be as new forever, and after absorbing enough moonlight, it will naturally emit a fragrance.
The soft light gives the wearer an indescribable hazy beauty.
It is precisely because of the characteristics of silver shells and the very low production of silver shells that the price difference of a piece of the same jewelry with or without silver shell powder is ten times higher. Even in the town of Seventh Lake, there are silver shell jewelry and
There are only a handful of nobles who are so wealthy that they can give it away casually without attracting attention. The seventh Olcott family is one, and the Nowitzki family, which occupies the second place, is the second. As for other noble families, regardless of their background or financial status,
They are not even a little bit worse than these two noble families.
Now, it happened that a direct heir of the Nowitzki family who had the qualifications and financial resources to give away silver jewelry at will also died, and his death was disguised as a murder. No matter how he looked at it, Leo felt that there must be a connection. He also
I found that the speculation I made in the morgue of the Security Bureau seemed to be wrong, or to be more precise, incomplete. There must be family strife, but besides family strife, there might be other reasons that caused the Nowitzki family to
The heir died.
"Could he have really fallen in love with a prostitute?" A bold but very possible guess suddenly appeared in Leo's mind.
If the Nowitzki heir really fell in love with Melinda, then if something happened to Melinda, he would definitely start an investigation. With the ability of the Nowitzki family, the clues to find out these murders should not be
It was too difficult, and in this way he became a thorn in the murderer's side and a thorn in his flesh that he had to get rid of.
Thinking of this, Leo muttered: "It seems that the flower shop in District 27 is still the key."
"Bang, bang, bang!" At this time, there was a knocking sound suddenly outside the window of this room. Leo's mental network discovered that there was a large group of elf rats hiding on the eaves outside, carrying large and small packages on their bodies, but
The Duke of White Boots was not found, but from the gaze direction and body orientation of the elf rats, he could analyze that the Duke of White Boots should be standing by the window.
Leo walked to the window and opened it, only to see that as he expected, the Duke of White Shoes, who could block the detection of the mental network, was standing by the window, raising his hand, ready to knock on the window again.
"Sorry! Did I come too quickly and disturb you?" The Duke of White Boots quickly saluted Leo and said.
"No need to disturb, come in!" Leo stepped aside, found a wooden board from the side and put it on the window edge, forming a slope.
"Thank you." Duke White Boots was very grateful for Leo's careful care. After thanking Leo, he squeaked twice at the rats climbing on the eaves behind him, and the rats immediately got into order.
He walked through the small eaves aisle, walked down the slope, put the package on the ground, then walked back around the road, and replaced the next one to enter the house.
When Leo saw this scene, he sat down at the desk and waited for the other party to bring the trading items for him to choose one by one into the room.
Although the Duke of White Boots didn't show it, Leo could still tell from some of its actions that it didn't trust him very much, and at the same time it was also very afraid of this room full of traps. That's why it refused to enter by itself.
Instead, he asked his men to pretend to be carrying trading items, enter the house first, and check the situation of the house.
After each elf mouse enters the house, it will put the goods in different locations, and then walk back through other routes. Such obvious testing actions fully reveal its thoughts and purposes, and it is not aware of it yet.
Leo did not reveal the little thought of the Duke of White Boots, but pretended not to notice anything and sat there quietly waiting for all the items to be delivered.
Not long after, all forty-three pieces of trading items, which were about the size of a fist, were delivered to the room. At this time, the Duke of White Boots walked into the room with a little confidence. Although it seemed that its steps were very relaxed, it was almost
The straightened tail clearly shows its nervousness.
Leo picked up the five high-energy substances from the table, walked to the side of the Duke of White Boots, sat cross-legged on the ground, placed the high-energy substances in his hand in front of the Duke of White Boots, and said: "These are the things you want, right?
?”
"Yes! Yes! That's them." When the Duke of White Boots saw the item he urgently needed, the timidity in his heart disappeared instantly, and he flew towards a piece of high-energy matter that was half the size of it, hugged it tightly, and deeply
I was afraid that this thing would disappear from my eyes, so I sniffed it vigorously, as if I was smelling some strange fragrance.
"Relax, no one will rob you." Leo couldn't help but smile when he saw the exaggerated behavior of this intelligent elf mouse.
"Steal! Who dares to steal my treasure!" Leo's words seemed to stimulate the Duke of White Boots a lot. He jumped up and stood on the largest piece of high-energy material, pulled out the toothpick rapier from his waist, and flicked
He looked around with a wary face.
When he saw that there was only Leo around, and Leo was looking at him with a smile on his face, the Duke of White Shoes realized that he had made a big joke. He quickly put away his sword, lowered his head in embarrassment, and looked at Leo.
Said: "Mr. Dodd, I'm sorry! I was just too nervous. After all, this thing is very important to me."
Leo smiled and reminded: "Duke White Boots, you are not a qualified businessman. I have revealed all your trump cards at once. If I greedily want all your trading items, I'm afraid you will have no choice but to agree."
."
"Ah!" The Duke of White Boots was stunned for a moment, then looked at Leo with great trust and said, "You are a noble person and would not do this."
"Never underestimate the greed of human beings. Sometimes humans will behave very noble and fair because the price is not enough. When the price is right, no matter how noble a person is, he will become shameless and mean." Leo seemed to have thought of something.
, the tone of his speech was also slightly sentimental, but this emotion quickly dissipated. Before the Duke of White Boots could fully understand the meaning of these words, he pointed at the pile of trading items and said: "We will exchange according to the numbers.
, five items for five, I hope I can find five things that are useful to me from these things."
"Let me help you." The Duke of White Boots ran over very actively, hugged the nearest package, and delivered it to Leo, then hugged the piece of high-energy material tightly.
"You don't have to do it, I'll do it myself!" Leo said as he unwrapped the fist-sized package in front of him and looked at the contents inside.
Inside the package was an exquisite jewelry, which was obviously very precious. It should have been carefully selected by the Duke of White Boots based on human habits. It was a pity that this thing was of no use to Leo.
Seeing Leo wrapping things up again, the White-Boot Duke was a little frustrated, but he quickly regained his energy and urged: "Look at the other things quickly, look at the other things quickly, you must like it."
Leo signaled the Duke of White Boots not to be impatient, and reached out to unpack these small packages one by one. Most of the packages contained valuables such as jewelry, none of which Leo wanted. In the end, only three items interested Leo.
, because these three items are all psychic items.
It can be seen from the Turing root on the items that the three items should be the remnants of a set of psychic items. There are obvious traces of damage on the items. These damage marks are not damage caused by cold weapons, but more like
They were traces of destruction caused by high-energy weapons such as lasers and high-beam ions. Leo happened to be very familiar with such traces of destruction and could recognize them at a glance.
Leo took these three psychic items whose original shapes could not be seen, looked at them carefully, and found that there were some small words on the fragments, and these words he had never seen before, like an extremely
Ancient cuneiform writing.
"Hmm! What's going on?" Leo put the words on the fragments into the database, and then compared them with the languages ​​​​he had learned to see if he could find any rules. However, at this time, he suddenly got it, like
As if he had discovered something extraordinary, the realization fell on the ginseng piece again, and the look on his face became more surprised.
The reason why Leo suddenly showed a surprised expression was because he discovered that he could read the text clearly without wearing special glasses.
He had made many attempts before and found that as long as it was ordinary writing, no matter what kind of writing it was or who wrote it, even if he wrote some words himself, without wearing special glasses
All the words are blurred and confusing, and only the Gamorei language with magical power can be immune to this interference.
"Is this also a kind of Gamore language?" Leo had doubts in his heart. At this time, the analysis and comparison results of the accessory brain system also came out and were displayed in Leo's eyes.
I saw that according to the comparison of language structure, 97% of this cuneiform font is Brok language. Brok language is a kind of Franconian language. Because it is only used by the indigenous people in the Brok Mountain area, it is very early.
It has exited the main language system before.
But because this language is the source of all cuneiform fonts in the Franconian language family, people have always studied this language, making this language relatively well preserved in all Franconian language families, with the main grammatical structure and a few letters
The words have been preserved.
After seeing the analysis of the accessory brain system, Leo immediately realized that these three sets of psychic item fragments probably came from the world of Velen, so he could see these words clearly without using special glasses. And from this
Judging from the use of words, this item was probably brought into this dream world by wizards or other people who use psychic powers in the world of Velen a long time ago.
"Where did you find these three items?" Leo placed the three fragments of psychic items in front of the Duke of White Boots and asked.
The Duke of White Boots was very happy to see that Leo was interested in the three items he brought. When he heard the inquiry, he quickly jumped in front of Leo, looked at the three fragments carefully, and quickly remembered
After learning the origin of these three fragments, the mouse also showed a serious look on his face.
"Mr. Dodd, is this thing important to you?" Duke White Shoes asked in a deep voice.
Leo responded: "It's not important, it's just of some use to me."
The Duke of White Boots hesitated for a moment and said: "I get along very well with you, so I don't want to cause any harm to you because of this transaction. I was busy packing things just now and didn't notice, so I left these three items that were not meant for me."
The things that should be taken out have been taken out. You may get into trouble with this thing, or even..."
"Don't worry about me, I won't be in any trouble." Leo could tell that the Duke of White Boots was really worried about his own safety. Perhaps more of it was because he didn't want to lose a suitable trader, but he still accepted it.
, smiled and comforted.
Seeing that Leo did not take his warning seriously, the White-shoe Duke was a little anxious and wanted to end the transaction, but his eyes fell on the pieces of high-energy matter, but he hesitated, struggling internally.
After waiting for a long time, he finally couldn't resist the temptation of those pieces of high-energy matter, so he told the origins of the three fragments: "They all come from the wizard tower of the first chief of the Wizards Association."
Hearing this answer, Leo couldn't help but be stunned. He didn't expect that these things collected by the Duke of White Boots would involve such a big shot as the First Chief Wizard.
Perhaps because he had already said it, Duke White Boots no longer had any worries and continued: "This thing was stolen from the treasure house of the First Chief Wizard Tower. At that time, someone sneaked into the treasure house to steal things, and later alerted the wizard
The magic puppet guards of the tower went after the thief, so I sneaked into the treasure house and stole three things I could afford. Later, the first chief wizard put the entire Silvermoon City under martial law, saying that
The thief stole something very important. We need to find the thief. But I know very well that the thief was discovered by the magic puppet guard without taking anything. The only things missing from the treasure house are the three pieces I took.
thing."
After listening to the Duke of White Boots' story, Leo suddenly said in a confused manner: "Are you the First Chief's pet?"
The Duke of White Boots was stunned after hearing this, and then he shook his head repeatedly as if he had heard something disgusting, and said: "How could I be the pet of that bad old man? This is simply an insult to me. If it weren't for the fact that you are pretty good,
Chapter completed!