After returning to the apartment, Leo casually threw the invitation on the table, asked the butler to prepare hot water, and freshened up. After coming out of the bathroom, the butler was waiting at the door, holding a tray in his hand with a cup and an envelope.

letter.

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

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

"The French Empire?" A figure appeared in Leo's mind, and then he waved to the housekeeper to indicate that he could go down. He returned to the room with the envelope and wine glass and sat at the desk.

After cutting the envelope open with a paper knife, Leo took out a piece of cardboard with only one address written on it, No. 137 Long Palm Street, Pendel Harbor, Maris Kingdom.

Although it was just a simple address, Leo already knew who sent this letter. Another note with the same font was sent to him not long ago together with the king and queen. This note is still in his hands.

He puts it in the box.

"It's the Kingdom of Maris again? Why is it such a coincidence?" Leo looked at the letter in his hand with some doubts, then turned to look at the invitation beside him. He felt that this was such a coincidence. He got it from the black market.

An invitation to an auction to be held in the Kingdom of Maris was delivered to him, followed by a letter with the name of the port city of the Kingdom of Maris delivered to him. This was such an incredible coincidence.

Most people would think this is just a coincidence. After all, life will always experience one or two such coincidences. But Leo is different. He thinks more rationally, and the Earth Federation has conducted a large number of experiments to prove that the so-called coincidences are not actually coincidences.

.

In research, scientists have found that there are many factors that cause coincidences. Either it is an event or a decision that they made unintentionally in the past, which turned into a coincidence through a series of subsequent developments, or the coincidence was pre-determined.

arranged.

All in all, there is no coincidence that is caused by the laws of nature. The reason why we think it is a coincidence is because we have not been able to discover the original factors that caused the coincidence.

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

Although the invitation looked very simple, it seemed that all you had to do was take the invitation and go to the address above to participate in the auction. But in fact, the moment he opened the invitation, Leo discovered that there was something hidden in the decorative patterns on the surface of the invitation.

Other content.

Leo quickly began to decipher the pattern. While deciphering, he was surprised by the knowledge of the person who designed the invitation, because he discovered no less than seven ancient languages ​​​​in the pattern, and when these languages ​​were combined,

A new address was formed. This address is also in Padu City, but it has been changed to a different city. There is still a time at the new address, which will be three months later.

Seeing this, Leo also understood that this was probably a black market method to test whether the invitee was qualified to participate in the auction. If he didn't find the secret in the pattern, he really went to the place written on the invitation at the wrong time.

If he had that address, he might also attend an auction, but he wouldn't see what he wanted at the auction.

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

In the past, it would have taken more than two months to travel from the Kingdom of England to the mainland of Minsk. This was under good weather conditions. If there was a storm and the ship was damaged at sea, you would still need to go to the nearest destination.

The port needs to be repaired, which will take more time on the road.

However, now that there are ocean-going ships that combine machinery and sails, the speed is much faster. It is compressed into more than half a month, and he still has enough time to prepare.

In fact, before seeing this letter from Sylvia, Leo had already had the idea of ​​​​leaving for the Minsk continent, but this was not entirely for the auction, but more for the ruins of the lost civilization in the desert.

, he thought he might be able to find something interesting there.

Leo temporarily scheduled his trip to Minsk mainland for half a month. In this case, he would have enough time to deal with Sylvia and the auction.

After making the decision, Leo called the butler over and asked him to book an ocean-going ship ticket to the Minsk mainland in half a month.

"In half a month," the steward thought for a moment after hearing the order, and said: "In half a month, a new ocean liner from the New Star Shipping Company will start its maiden voyage. It is said that it is the most luxurious and fastest in the world.

The ship is completely powered by steam engines and has no sails. Do you want to take that ship?"

"First voyage? Xinxing Shipping?" Leo frowned slightly, thought for a moment, and asked: "Is this shipping company once a company that belonged to the royal shipping group?"

"Yes." The steward nodded and said: "New Star Shipping Company was indeed originally a company under the Royal Shipping Group, but the royal family was only the largest shareholder of the company, not the absolute controlling shareholder. A few days ago, the new star shipping company

The second largest shareholder seemed to have received a large amount of funds. With this fund, he purchased a large number of retail stocks from the market and became an absolutely controlling company. Because the royal family lost its absolute controlling rights, it sold the shares of Xinxing Company.

Nova is now 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!"

"Okay, sir." After the butler received the response, although he was puzzled by Leo's decision, he still suppressed the doubts in his heart and retreated without asking anything.

Leo naturally had his own thoughts in making such a decision. In his opinion, it was something wrong for Nova Shipping Company to separate from the Royal Shipping Group, because the royal family itself was not short of money, whether it was the wealth accumulated by the royal family in the past or after obtaining the Poseidon Scepter.

, the huge profits gained from the exclusive ocean trade during the storm were enough to support the royal family to acquire more than a dozen large companies such as Xinxing Shipping Company.

However, this time Xinxing Shipping Company broke away from the control of the royal family so suddenly. In a short period of time, it wiped out the stocks in the hands of retail investors on the market and obtained absolute controlling rights. It is absolutely impossible for such a large-scale operation to be silent.

Therefore, the royal family must also know the news, but the royal family did not take any measures to deal with it and allowed Xinxing Company to acquire enough retail stocks and become an absolute holding company. This is against common sense.

It would be fine to say that Xinxing Shipping Company is a company with serious losses and poor performance, but Xinxing Shipping Company is actually one of the three major ocean passenger shipping companies in the Kingdom of England. Its performance every year is very good and its profits are extremely amazing.

The royal family, which is committed to regaining maritime power, should not allow a large company like Xinxing Shipping Company to escape its control.

But the fact is that Xinxing Company has indeed broken away from the control of the royal family, and the royal family does not seem to have made any resistance and has honestly withdrawn from Xinxing Company. No matter how you look at this behavior, it makes people think that the royal family has collectively lost consciousness. At least Lei Lei

After Ou heard the news just now, this was the first thought that came to his mind.

If the royal family had not collectively turned into imbeciles, then the royal family's actions should have other deep meanings. At this time, Leo couldn't help but think of a person who seemed completely unrelated to this matter, Hee Bundy.

He thought of Heel Bundy's experience and the Poseidon sacrifice, which made him feel that the maiden voyage of the Nova Company's luxury ocean liner might be a great sacrifice controlled by the royal family behind the scenes.

It was obvious that the royal family had removed themselves from this incident in advance, and the sacrifice was successful in the end. The relatives and friends of those who were sacrificed could not direct their anger at the royal family, but would only go towards Xinxing Company.

If it was before going to Death Valley, Leo might still have nosy thoughts and board the maiden ship. In the process of being sacrificed, he might be able to discover more mysteries related to this world.

But now, the most important thing for Leo is to go to the wasteland of Moissan Continent, find the lake where the tree man seeds were planted, and find the fully preserved spaceship.

In the following days, Leo continued to stay at home, interpreting Sir Roland's notes. On the third day after Leo paid the deposit, the black market sent all kinds of wasteland information they could collect to Leo's apartment one after another.

The focus of research also began to shift to the wasteland.

However, a few days later, an unexpected news disrupted Leo's life routine.

"Sir Roland is dead?" Leo took the newspaper newly sent by the butler and saw the full-page obituary in the newspaper, which was a little unbelievable.

The steward said: "Not only did the Port de Sète newspaper publish this obituary, but other major national newspapers also published Sir Roland's obituary. It should be true."

"What was the cause of death?" Leo frowned and read the obituary carefully, and couldn't help but ask.

"It won't be written on it. According to the rules, the cause of death will not be written on public obituaries." The housekeeper reminded Leo and asked, "Do you need me to check?"

"Can it be found?" Leo asked.

The housekeeper thought for a moment and said: "The editor of the British-German Gazette should have found out some information."

"Then go check it out." Leo nodded, and after giving the order, his eyes fell on Sir Roland's notebook.

Although Sir Roland is dead, no matter what thoughts he had, he can no longer continue, but this does not mean that this notebook is useless. On the contrary, this notebook may also hide some interesting secrets.

Now, Leo suspected that this notebook might have been sent to him intentionally by Sir Roland, and the purpose was not to let him interpret the contents of the notebook, but to temporarily keep the notebook because he found that he was in a dangerous situation, so

I want to leave the most important things in the safe hands of trustworthy people for the time being.

However, if Sir Roland is in danger, then his friends will inevitably be watched. If the things handed over to his friends, they may also fall into the hands of the monitors, so only those who have amazing knowledge and old friend Rembo can

Leo, whom Old Man Lang has a student relationship with, is a suitable candidate. After all, he and Leo are not friends yet, so no one will monitor them.

About a few hours later, the housekeeper came back from outside. After handing his coat to the maid, he went directly to Leo's study and told Leo the news he got from the British Gazette.

"Curse?" Leo couldn't help but be stunned after hearing the news.

"Yes, curse." The butler nodded and added: "It was not investigated after the fact. Sir Roland said it himself before he died."

The butler then told the story of Sir Roland's death in more detail.

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 temporarily lived in the Roosevelt family's manor.

During this period, Sir Roland was invited by the National Historical Institute of the United States and California to participate in a research on the relics of the ancient civilization of the Moissanite continent. Later, Sir Roland suddenly fell ill and had to give up the research and recuperate at the Roosevelt Manor.

After more than a month of training, his condition not only did not improve, but worsened. Eventually, his condition worsened to the extreme and suddenly broke out, completely taking away Sir Roland's life. When Sir Roland was dying, he suddenly shouted: "This is

Curse and die.

It was precisely because of Sir Roland's cry before his death that others outside believed that Sir Roland's illness was related to the research on ancient civilization relics he participated in, and that the curse originated from that ancient civilization relic.

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

"Do you think this is a curse?" After listening to the detailed description, Leo was silent for a moment and suddenly asked.

The housekeeper was startled for a moment, then thought about it and said, "Probably not, because according to the news over there, among all the people who participated in the research, only Sir Roland was sick and died. If it is a curse, it has something to do with the relics of ancient civilizations.

Other people who came in contact should also get sick, so many people think that maybe something else caused Sir Roland's death."

"The curse is not a germ and cannot be transmitted to all those who come into contact." Leo shook his head, denying the butler's speculation, and then signaled the butler to leave, while he sat at the desk and carefully thought about the cause of Sir Roland's death.

Although he only heard the information he had inquired from the butler, after analyzing it, Leo felt that if all the information was true, then Sir Roland should have died of a curse, and he was probably studying the ancient civilization.

While collecting the relics, he accidentally touched the cursed power contained in the items and became the only research participant to die.
Chapter completed!