Xianyue Lake District has always been a high-end villa area in Milia City. Because Xianyue Lake is located in the suburbs outside the city, most people build it as a vacation villa.

And because Xia Xianyue Lake is located within the city of Miria, most of the rich and noble people in the city have settled here. This also makes this area the most heavily guarded in the entire city, except for the administrative district.

place.

Not to mention anything else, the police station in Xiaqianyue Lake District alone has more than 500 red-helmet patrols and more than 40 police officers responsible for the security of this area. In addition, there is a 200-person French Imperial Gendarmerie on standby at any time.

There are more than a hundred sentry booths along the line to monitor the entire area.

Like ordinary people who enter this place and are even slightly inappropriately dressed, they will be questioned. In his opinion, Leo's clothes are appropriate enough, but in the eyes of many police officers, he is still a suspicious person. Several people originally wanted to

They stepped forward to question Leo, but after seeing Anne who was leading the way, they all stepped back. It was obvious that Anne either had a residence here or was a frequent visitor here.

The villa in front of the two of them is very ordinary. It is a common country villa. However, such a simple country villa is located in the best part of Xiaxianyue Lake.

The villa is surrounded by lakes on three sides, and behind it is a tightly guarded group of high-end villas. Very few people can come here, and the nearest public street is one kilometer away, so it seems particularly quiet here. This quietness is in meters.

It is especially precious in a bustling big city like Leah City.

Annie did not push the door directly in, but honestly pulled the ring on the door.

After a while, a person who looked like a maid came out. After seeing Annie, he immediately opened the door with a smile and welcomed her in. The whole process did not look at Leo behind him.

Although the other party ignored him, Leo could not ignore the other party, because after scanning the maid's body with his mental net, he found that the maid had an organ that did not belong to humans, fish gills.

In addition, this maid looked very slender and thin, but in fact Leo could feel that she was very powerful, at least not much weaker than before he absorbed the little heart.

From then on, it was easy to tell from the way the girl walked that even though he was being ignored, he was still being closely guarded. As long as there was something slightly wrong, the maid would stab the dagger inside her sleeve into his vital part in the shortest possible time.

The situation inside the villa is basically the same as the outside. It is very simple, with a few tables, sofas, and a wine cabinet. It is hard to imagine that a powerful person from Milia City lives here.

A coughing sound came from the small garden by the lake outside the villa. Anne did not lead Leo there immediately, but waited in the room for a while, waiting for the maid to go and report, and then turned around

After telling him that he could go, he led Leo into the small garden.

Leo, who was following Annie, didn't say anything the whole time. He was just confused about the people living here.

This doubt is not because of the person's identity and rules, but because after he entered the hut, his mental network was suppressed and could no longer be used, and his accessory brain system also reminded him that he had entered an energy interference field.

The two of them walked around a small, carefully pruned bush, and then saw the person they wanted to meet this time.

To be honest, after meeting this man, even if Leo didn't know what this man's personality was like, he admired him very much in his heart, because he was absolutely sure that if he was injured as seriously as this man, he would

Will choose suicide instead of living strong and difficult.

It was seen that there were not many human organs left in this old man's body. His lower body and the waist-high part were all missing. The entire body was installed on a steel wheelchair with a small steam engine.

He has also lost all his right hand and has been replaced with a mechanical arm. The power of the arm is connected to the steam engine on the wheelchair.

The lung on the left side of the body was also lost, replaced by a mechanical lung connected to the wheelchair. This mechanical lung had some test tube-like medicine tubes inserted into it, and the other end was connected to a leather tube connected to the box next to the seat. Every time

Every time he breathes, a part of the medicine will be injected into the mechanical lung through external pressure, producing some gas that can support his survival.

His entire skull was also replaced with a metal skull, and about thirty drug tubes were inserted from the top of the head all the way down, split into two sides at the neck, and inserted along the spine, which looked a bit weird.

"My medicine can still be used for a long time, and you shouldn't have calculated it wrong. I think you didn't come to see me to change my medicine." When the old man saw Annie coming over, he showed a sincere smile on his face, and then his eyes fell on

He looked at Leo, and although the smile on his face did not change, there was a hint of surprise in his eyes.

Although the old man didn't express it, Leo had a vague feeling that the old man should have figured out his identity as a psyker.

"I came here today to ask you for help, and at the same time, I want to help you." Anne did not appear polite. She went straight to the subject and told Leo and others about their plan to accuse Duke Dewen of using imine gas.

come out.

Although the old man tried his best to hide it, he could still see the strong hatred flashing in his eyes when the name Duke Devin appeared.

However, the old man did not make an immediate decision because of his hatred. Instead, he thought very calmly for a while and then asked in a low and hoarse voice: "What do you need me to do?"

Anne made her request: "An introductory letter to the Embassy of the Kingdom of England, and I need your newspaper to support it if necessary."

"You are really not afraid of causing trouble for me." The old man smiled bitterly and said, "A letter of introduction is nothing, but if you ask me to target Duke Devin in the newspaper, this will not work."

Anne frowned and said, "Are you still afraid of Duke Devin?"

"You don't need to provoke me like this, you should know that it is of no use to me." The old man said calmly: "I sent people to assassinate him fifty-seven times, and even deliberately revealed my identity once. If I was really afraid of him,

, it won’t…”

Anne opened the old man's scars mercilessly and said, "You deliberately revealed your identity because you wanted to lure him here and die with him. This does not mean that you are not afraid of him."

The old man fell silent and did not speak.

"I'm sorry! I shouldn't have said that." Annie felt that her words were a bit harsh, so she apologized.

"No, you're right, that's what I thought at the time." The old man shook his head, and then said seriously: "The reason why I couldn't attack Duke Devin in the newspaper was mainly because of another thing, Louis IX

Died not long ago."

Anne was stunned when she heard the news, but quickly reacted and said: "Why is there no news from the outside world?"

"Louis IX did not announce the candidate for the crown prince before his death." The old man said solemnly: "There are three people who are qualified to inherit the throne, and Duke Devin is one of them. If I let the newspaper attack Duke Devin at this time, it would be tantamount to

Involved in the royal dispute, no matter the outcome in the end

No matter what, my successor will not let my newspaper continue to exist. If I am the only one, it will be fine, but the newspaper has thousands of employees, and there are hundreds of thousands of people who rely on the newspaper for food. If something happens to the newspaper

, their livelihood is over, I can’t be so selfish.”

"Sorry, I went a little too far." Anne said apologetically after hearing the old man explain the reason.

The old man did not blame Anne at all, and said with a smile: "However, you don't have to worry about it. Although my newspaper cannot carry out any directional reporting, there are other ways to achieve the same effect, and I don't even need to come forward."

Then, he looked at Leo and said, "I want to talk to this gentleman alone. I'm afraid this is also the purpose of bringing him here, right?"

Annie smiled, turned around, signaled to Leo, then walked out of the garden alone and returned to the room.

The old man said to Leo: "Can you accompany me, an old man, to sit by the lake?"

Leo nodded and was about to step forward to push the wheelchair, but the old man shook his head and refused. He inserted his mechanical right arm into a small device next to him, and then the steam engine started to run and input power, while his left hand

Place it on the joystick to control the wheelchair to move forward.

Soon the two of them came to a lawn beside Xia Xianyue Lake, and the old man also put down his wheelchair.

At this time, the maid came over with a blanket, covered the old man's body, then walked aside and stood quietly.

"Are you a wizard?" The old man was silent for a moment, then suddenly asked Leo expectantly.

Leo was stunned, thinking that the old man might have seen through his identity as a psyker, and wizards and psykers in this world seemed to have something in common, so he also realized that the old man might have misunderstood his identity.

Although many of Leo's psychic skills can create the illusion of wizard-like abilities, it is not a problem to deceive the old man in front of him, but he did not deceive the old man in the end. After all, it is not difficult to make people feel that this old man is from the conversation just now.

His character is worthy of respect.

So, Leo shook his head slightly and said, "Sorry, I'm not a wizard."

The old man sighed slightly, as if he was talking to Leo, or to himself, and said: "I met a real wizard when I was very young. He was a member of the tower. I watched him use

His magic caused the flood that flooded the entire valley to recede and saved a village, so I have always hoped to see a real wizard again, but unfortunately I have never been able to do so."

"Is it difficult to meet a wizard?" Leo asked: "I heard that there is a wizard hiding in Cage City, and he also uses people in Cage City for experiments."

"Those are not wizards, they are just some self-righteous guys. They are far from real wizards. Only tower wizards are real wizards." The old man's face turned rosy due to excitement, and his breathing became rapid. The maid immediately came up.

Before that, he twisted the purple medicine tube and injected a little medicine into his body, which made him feel relieved.

"Sorry, it's an old habit." The old man smiled to himself and said, "Sometimes, I really think it would be better to replace the whole body with a mechanical one and only keep the head."

"Absolutely not, you will only suffer more." Leo said with great certainty.

The reason why he is so sure is because he has seen countless modified people in the Earth Federation whose bodies have all been replaced by machines. They have misunderstood themselves and either went crazy or committed suicide. None of them had a good ending.

Hearing Leo's affirmative response, the old man was a little surprised. He looked at Leo and felt that the other person did not say it casually.

Leo had no intention of getting entangled in the issue of mechanical transformation. Even the Earth Federation could not come up with a right or wrong answer on this issue. So he changed the topic and asked: "You mentioned the tower just now. I have also mentioned it before.

I have heard the name High Tower more than once, is the High Tower wizard different from other wizards?"

When he mentioned his favorite topic, the old man's attention was naturally drawn to it, and he said: "Of course it's different. Other so-called wizards are just garbage collectors. They pick up things that real wizards don't want and treat them as treasures. In fact,

They also become garbage after staying with garbage for a long time. Tower wizards are the ones who truly master mysterious knowledge. It is said that some of them can even communicate directly with the mysterious gods and learn the knowledge and mysteries of the universe from them.

."

When the old man mentioned the mysterious gods, Leo thought of mysterious beings such as the giant black shadow, the giant golden deer, the mother of nests, and the Lord of turbidity and lightness. The tower wizard was able to talk directly to these mysterious beings. This

Let him feel that there may be some method among the tower wizards that can enhance willpower and become immune to all influences.

So, he couldn't help but ask: "How can we find the tower wizard?"

"Haha! I also want to find the Tower Wizards, but I haven't found them after searching for so many years." The old man smiled and said: "The Tower Wizards last appeared seventy-three years ago, which is when I saw them.

After that time, there were no more rumors about the tower wizard."

"Is the tower wizard who appeared last time the wilderness wizard Samuel Dunbar?" Leo asked again.

"You've heard of him too!" Upon hearing this familiar name, the old man looked at Leo with an expression of surprise.

"I have a wizard's notebook from his early years with me." Leo said, taking out the box from his backpack, taking out the wilderness wizard's notebook inside, handing it to the expectant old man, and said: "

I can’t understand the text above, so I don’t know what it is.”

"Of course you can't understand the text above. It's in Gamorai, an ancient language that was lost a long time ago. It's not among the ancient Velen languages." The old man took the note and looked through it carefully. Leo

There was no interruption at all.

The old man didn't read them all, he just flipped through the first few pages, closed the notebook, returned it to Leo, and said with some disappointment: "You are right, this notebook should be his early notes, at that time

He is no different from other so-called wizards. They are all full of wrong ideas. If you want to learn, I suggest you just use it as a reference. Do not think that this is the true power of wizards."

"But I don't know the Gamore language." Leo took the note, put it back in the box, and said.
Chapter completed!