I don’t know whether it was because of the battle with the president of the Skull and Bones Society and the all-out attack that caused changes in the fusion of physical fitness, or because of the hidden consumption of the body caused by the fusion of the remains of Omega-level advanced creatures.
After Leo fell asleep at noon the day before, he didn't wake up until the evening of the next day, and he found that he slept very deeply. It could be said that he had entered a deep sleep, and he was completely undefended from the outside world.
Fortunately, the hotel he chose was pretty good, and he would not enter his room at will without his call. After a day and a half, the room was still the same as it was before he went to bed.
At this time, Leo felt a sense of hunger in his belly. He checked the data interface and found that the energy storage value had returned to zero.
Seeing fifteen people, the energy brought by the complete digestion of a whole day's worth of food was all used up while he was sleeping. He felt that there must be something wrong here, so he called the waiter and ordered him to prepare the food.
, also looking at personal data records.
He soon discovered the problem. Just as he had expected earlier, the values ​​on the personal data interface were only the digitized qualities of the body itself, not the power that Leo had truly mastered.
Now, due to the full-scale fight with the president of the Skull and Bones Society, a large part of the digital quality has been truly transformed into the corresponding power. However, this transformation process should have been very slow and took several months to complete.
However, the remains of higher organisms that were fused yesterday acted like a catalyst, accelerating the process of converting numerical values ​​into actual power, compressing the transformation that took several months into a short period of time, thus consuming a large amount of stored energy.
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In addition, from the data point of view, this situation will need to last for a few more days, which means that he needs to eat as much as possible in these days and use the Chaos Stomach to reserve some energy in order to maintain the value caused by the actual power conversion.
consumption.
"I also need a lot of food. I asked your boss to purchase a large amount of meat. The food will be served every half an hour, and it will continue to be served without saying stop." Leo stuffed a large piece of meat into his mouth and swallowed it directly.
While giving instructions to the dumbfounded waiter, he took out a note with a face value of one hundred gold flanges and ten gold flanges coins, handed them to the waiter and said: "The ten gold flanges are a tip for you and the kitchen, and the one hundred gold flanges are a tip for you and the kitchen.
If the cost of food is less, come to me to replenish it."
"Yes, yes!" The waiter quickly ran out of the room and followed Leo's instructions.
In the room, while Leo was eating, he took out the black information bag related to No. 9 Golden Oak Street from his backpack, and took out seven folders from it, starting from the oldest in the chronological order above.
Looked up.
Golden Oak Street is located in the Upper Crescent Moon Lake District. Because it is backed by the branch of Bedia Mountain, the scenery here is very good. In addition, in summer, the snow on the top of Bedia Mountain will form a cold air falling down the mountain, making this area
The temperature is much cooler than other places, so it is also a resort for the rich and powerful in Milia City. A large number of powerful people buy land and build villas here.
No. 9 Golden Oak Street was originally the property of Andrew Alcott, the mining tycoon of the Maris Kingdom. This mining tycoon, who was born as a serf, offended powerful figures in the Maris Kingdom and had to take his family across the Silver Moon Sea.
, took refuge in the French Empire.
At first, he lived in Donglin City. Later, because of his origin, he always became the object of ridicule and teasing by the French dignitaries in Donglin City, so he had to leave Donglin City and come to Milia City, where the political atmosphere is relatively free.
, eventually purchased a piece of land on the shore of First Quarter Lake and built the current No. 9 Golden Oak Street.
Although the Kingdom of Maris is Andrew's hometown, he only has disgust and hatred for this hometown, so he did not choose the architectural style of his hometown when building his villa.
On the contrary, the few years he lived in the Kingdom of Sigmar when he was young made him feel calm and peaceful like never before, and it was also during those years that he gained his first love. So he decided to build this place into a common place in the Kingdom of Sigmar.
A church-style building with tall spires, stained glass, pointed vaults, and flying buttresses.
A very solemn-looking church building was erected in a villa area where people were vacationing. Anyone who saw this scene would feel extremely weird.
However, because Andrew was very hospitable and often held cocktail parties for the dignitaries of Miria City, these dignitaries also subconsciously recognized such a building that was extremely inconsistent with the surrounding environment.
A few years passed peacefully like this. As in previous years, Andrew held a large banquet on the day of the Resurgence Festival in Miria to welcome the arrival of spring, and invited the dignitaries of Miria City.
At that time, more than one-third of the dignitaries of Miria City attended the appointment. In addition to the local administrative officials of Miria City, there were also envoys from various countries, embassy officials, businessmen, etc.
However, on the next day, the families of these powerful people found that none of the people who had attended the appointment had returned, so they sent people to No. 9 Golden Oak Street to look for him.
But when they arrived at the place, they found no trace of anyone. The food at the banquet was neatly placed on the table, and the band's instruments were all where they should be. In the entire villa, everyone from the owner to the guests to the servants
As well as the invited musicians, workers, and all other human beings, all disappeared.
This incident was very sensational at that time. Not only the royal family of the French Empire was alarmed, but other countries also sent investigators into the city of Milia because the missing people included members of their country's embassy.
In order to restore its image, the Milia City Administrative Council asked investigators from the Tomilia City Continental Congress, the United Kingdom of France and other countries to form a large investigation team to investigate this case thoroughly.
However, the investigation team spent nearly half a year and spent countless funds, but in the end nothing was found.
Because the cost of this investigation was borne solely by the Milia City Administrative Council, the cost was far beyond the Administrative Council’s initial expectations and placed a huge burden on the Administrative Council. The Administrative Council began to feel that it should be settled as soon as possible.
Don't continue to investigate this matter endlessly.
In addition, the negative impact has been reduced to the bottom after so long, so at a certain appropriate time, the Milia City Administrative Council asked the investigation team to write a hasty investigation report, and then ended the impact on the countries in Velen
joint investigative operations.
But things didn't end there. After this weird villa had been idle for several years, a nobleman from the Kingdom of Sigmar took a fancy to the villa, and the price was extremely low, so he bought it.
Not long after the nobleman moved into the villa, one night he, the servants and bodyguards he brought from the Kingdom of Sigmar all disappeared, and only one bodyguard survived.
Afterwards, after the Milia City police interrogated the bodyguard, they learned that the bodyguard was not at No. 9 Golden Oak Street on the night of the incident. Instead, he went to the Cupid's Cottage in Xicheng District to stay overnight and did not return until early morning.
, and discovered that something was wrong.
Because this time only involved a noble from the Kingdom of Sigmar, and it was not a particularly big international incident, Milia City did not pay much attention to it as the previous time. It only formed a team with a police chief sent by the Kingdom of Sigmar.
A small investigation team investigated this matter, but the result was the same as last time with no results.
However, this time, the reputation of No. 9 Golden Oak Street has spread in Miria City. Some wealthy people even set up gambling games for this purpose, such as how many days they can live in No. 9 Golden Oak Street in a row, how much bonus they get, etc.
wait.
Huge bonuses have led many down-and-out people to be tempted by money and take a desperate risk. Very few people can get the gambling bonus in the end. Most of them disappear after three or four days of check-in. Later, they even disappear on the same day.
After checking in, he disappeared that night. Because so many people disappeared, no one dared to enter the villa again.
However, the bonus from that gambling game has not been eliminated. Instead, the name has been changed to investigate the truth about No. 9 Golden Oak Street. Over the years, new funds have been continuously injected into this gambling game, and it has reached what it is today.
The winnings have accumulated to an astonishing amount.
Five of the seven folders in Leo's hand contain information about missing persons, one details the disappearance process, and the last one mentions other things that ordinary people don't know.
If Leo hadn't shown extraordinary power in the black market room, he might have only six documents on hand, and the last one would not be disclosed to him.
This document describes the various investigative actions of various organizations in the dark world against No. 9 Golden Oak Street. Leo did a rough calculation and found that there are as many as six organizations in it. Among them, in addition to those who have already had contact with Leo,
In addition to the black market, there are also organizations such as the Orthodox Church, the Secret Church, the Night Watch, the Association of Strangers, and the Wizards' Assembly.
These organizations from the dark world have sent people to No. 9 Golden Oak Street to conduct investigations, and all of them have disappeared without exception. Among these missing people are the wizards from the wizard assembly, the adjudicators of the gods from the orthodox church, and
The high priest of an evil god in the secret church, etc.
Although Leo didn't know how strong the wizards and adjudicators in the information were, he probably wasn't weaker than the president of the Skull and Bones Society.
Even such a person disappeared silently at No. 9 Golden Oak Street. Leo didn't think he could escape unscathed.
Although he really wanted to learn Gamore language, he would not do such a stupid thing to risk his life for a language, not to mention that the old man did not seem to be the only one in the world who knew Gamore language.
He felt that he should be able to buy Gamoren information on the black market.
He took the documents out of the folder and lit them one by one on the oil lamp. After destroying all the documents, Leo also put the incident of No. 9 Golden Oak Street behind him and no longer thought about it.
Afterwards, Leo picked up several of today's major newspapers delivered by the waiter, and when he saw the first newspaper, he felt a little surprised.
This newspaper is called the Voice of Honor of France. It is a morning newspaper and belongs to the French Parliament. It is considered an official newspaper. The front page of this newspaper now is an official obituary, talking about Louis IX.
of death.
Leo picked up the morning newspapers of several other newspapers and found that the front page headlines of these newspapers were still about the Skull and Bones Society, and the additional supplement was about the death of Louis IX.
It didn't take much effort for Leo to guess that the obituary that appeared in the French official newspaper was probably inserted suddenly and forcibly replaced the original front page headline, without even notifying the editor of the newspaper and without receiving any information.
The permission from Donglin City should be the result of the intervention of another unknown force.
The reason why other newspapers issued additional supplements is probably because they were remedial actions after seeing the actions of the French official newspaper. After all, the news of a gangster actually overshadowed the news of the death of the French emperor. This is unjustifiable.
Therefore, all the morning newspapers hurriedly published the obituary supplement of Louis IX. As for confirming the news to Winter City, it was already too late, because even using an airship would take two days, and there was no time to confirm.
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Moreover, it happens to be the fog period of the Black Forest. Even if it is an airship, after entering the sky above the Black Forest, the probability of falling is much greater than at other times. Therefore, no airship company is willing to risk traveling through the Black Forest at this time, so the law
Communication between the east and west of Lanzhou can only rely on the postal system of the Circumcontinental Train.
What's more, in the eyes of other newspapers, no matter whether the news is correct or not, there are official newspapers blocking the way. Even if the royal family wants to blame it, they cannot be blamed.
This fearless mentality is mainly because the city of Milia has always been in a semi-autonomous state. Although there are French military police stationed outside the city, the administrative management of the city and its surrounding counties is all handled by the local assembly.
decision, which also made the residents of Milia City less afraid of the French royal family.
The next newspapers were some midday newspapers in Milia City. These newspapers, which were not very important at first, also followed the trend and added the emperor's obituary, and also detailed the emperor's life. At the same time, they also began to speculate on the ownership of the throne of France.
The most strange thing is that most newspapers record a battle report with a headline at the end. The battle report mentions that the French army with the Duke of Devon's direct troops as the core defeated the British army last night and completely drove them away.
After leaving the Bretei area, other areas under the control of the Kingdom of England will be completely liberated soon.
There is nothing wrong with this battle report itself, but in front of this battle report is a discussion about the position of the emperor. This gives anyone who reads this type of newspaper a strong feeling that Duke Devin is the most suitable one.
the emperor's heir.
If the evening news hadn't appeared, Leo would have thought this was Duke Devin's people secretly making a move to create public opinion in advance, enhance his reputation, and not give the other two heirs to the throne any chance to compete for the throne.
However, not long ago, the front-page headlines published in all the evening newspapers in Milia City, including official newspapers such as the Voice of Glory of France, made Leo realize that today's three newspapers from different periods were definitely the work of the same force.
, and three names emerged in his mind more clearly, Baron Maupassant, Kingdom of England and Old Man of the Villa.
The news jointly reported by the city's evening newspapers was that the Kingdom of England and the Velen Medical Association respectively submitted indictments to the Continental Congress against Duke Devin's use of imine gas during the war in the Bretey region.
Chapter completed!