The investigation report on this folklore was not written by one person, but by seven people, three of whom were investigators from the Kingdom of England, the Empire of France and the United States.

The remaining four people did not sign, leaving only four marks, and Leo recognized that three of the marks were the marks of the three dark world organizations, the Orthodox Church, the Black Market and the Night Watch. The remaining mark should be a personal mark.

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It is not difficult to see from these signatures the importance of this investigation report, but the review process behind the investigation report stamped a negative seal on this report.

The reason is that no signs of civilization were found in the Shangqianyue Lake area, and there was no corresponding content in the legends of surrounding tribes. Therefore, the review team determined that this folklore was just fabricated by the locals.

However, Leo didn't see it that way, because he found that this investigation report was the only one among all the investigation reports related to mysterious powers, disappearance of groups, and the No. 9 area of ​​Golden Oak Street.

In addition, another point is that the investigation report mentioned that the majestic city could be seen when the moonlight reflected on the lake, which means that the moonlight at that time was very strong, it was probably a full moon, and the time of the incident at No. 9 Golden Oak Street

Also during the full moon.

If it were just a little coincidence, that would be fine, but now there are so many coincidences, then the coincidence is no longer just a coincidence, it may very well be a fact.

Obviously, the people in the investigation team also discovered this situation and took it very seriously. They asked seven people to sign the document. Unfortunately, it was eventually erased by the bureaucracy sitting in the office for review. Otherwise, it might be the same now.

There's nothing more to do with Leo.

While Leo was recording the information, someone suddenly rang the bell outside the villa. Vasqi walked out. After a while, he saw her coming to the living room with a beautiful invitation letter and placing the invitation letter on the living room.

On the table.

"You know I won't go, but you send it every time. That little guy never gives up!" The old man just glanced at the invitation, shook his head, and then handed the invitation to him as if he thought of something.

He asked Leo and said, "Please help me go! Just in time, by the time you come back, I will have already made a study plan."

Leo was slightly startled, took the invitation, opened it and looked at it. It turned out to be an invitation to a high-end banquet, but when his eyes fell on the name of the initiator of the invitation, he frowned and looked up.

The old man said, "You did it on purpose, right?"

"Don't you think it's interesting?" The old man smiled and said, "That little guy Rupert is a die-hard supporter of Duke Devin. If you have any plans against Duke Devin in Miria City, you must first

You are facing Rupert, it will be good for you to observe your opponent up close."

Leo shook his head, threw the invitation letter that attracted all the powerful people in Milia City on the table, and said coldly: "He is not my opponent, and whether Duke Devin's accusation is successful or not, it doesn't matter to me.

Any wish.”

Although Leo's words "He is not my opponent" sounded like he was saying that the two of them are not enemies, the old man could hear another hidden meaning.

The old man did not accuse Leo of being too arrogant. He just smiled and asked, "Do you think you are outside the whirlpool now?"

"Isn't it?" Leo asked.

"You and your comrades may be insignificant in the eyes of some people, and they only play an insignificant role in the whole incident." The old man picked up the cup on the table and poured a glass of cold water, then inserted his finger into the water and twisted it slightly.

, said: "What you may have done is just to make a little ripple in this calm water, but the various forces attracted by you want to create huge waves. In the end, with their help, huge waves will rise."

The wave has turned into a whirlpool, involving all participants and non-participants, and your position is in the center of the whirlpool. Do you still feel that what is happening now has nothing to do with you?"

"I can get away and leave." Leo said coldly.

The old man smiled and said: "You can't, you know it very well." As he said that, he wiped his wet fingers, picked up the invitation and handed it to Leo, saying: "In fact, this matter has exceeded your expectations.

It exceeded everyone's expectations. Everyone was forcibly put on a high-speed train. Anyone who got off the train would die. No one was exempted."

Leo took the invitation and couldn't help asking: "What about you? Where are you?"

"Didn't I already get thrown into the car by you and Annie?" the old man said with a humorous smile.

If you were to choose the ten most eye-catching buildings in Miria City, Silver Moon Castle would definitely be among them. It is located on the outskirts of Miria City, in the Silver Moon Valley in the First Quarter Lake District.

Silver Moon Valley is surrounded by mountains on three sides and faces water on one side. Because of the angle between the surrounding mountains and the water surface, when the moon can be seen in the sky, the moonlight around Silver Moon Valley will be concentrated here, making it look like

It's like being shrouded in moonlight.

The first person to build a villa here was a member of the Saville royal family, but the villa he built was too exaggerated and luxurious, completely incompatible with the quiet and elegant surroundings, and thus became the ugliest building recognized in Milia City.

one.

After that, the land passed through the hands of several people, and no one developed it until Rupert arrived, spending a lot of money to buy the land, and built the current bank with ten times the purchase price of the land.

Moon Castle.

It is said to be a castle, but in fact it is more like a royal manor. The entire manor has a total of six palaces with different functions, five courtyards with large squares, seven gardens with different characteristics, more than 3,000 rooms, 130,000

There are works of art and antiques from different countries, and there are as many as 4,000 servants responsible for taking care of this manor.

The most special place in the entire manor is the Moonlight Tower located in the center of the manor. Whenever the moonlight is concentrated in the Silver Moon Valley, the gem at the top of the Moonlight Tower will absorb the surrounding moonlight and release stronger silver-blue light, turning into

The second moon is also the origin of the name of Silver Moon Castle.

After Silver Moon Castle was built, Rupert held a banquet in the castle as usual. Among the guests present, there were many people with comparable wealth. When these people saw such an exquisite castle and manor, they were all moved by it and kept thinking about it.

He made an offer to Rupert, hoping to buy it. The final offer even exceeded fifty times the construction price, but Rupert ultimately rejected it.

For the dignitaries of Miria City, they don't really care who gets Silver Moon Castle. What they care about is whether they can receive invitations when Silver Moon Castle holds a banquet.

Because of this, every time Silver Moon Castle held a banquet, the price of Silver Moon Castle's invitations kept rising. At the highest point, it even reached an astonishing height of fifty thousand gold flanges. However, this price level was broken today.

This time, after the news came out that Rupert was holding a banquet in Silver Moon Castle, the price of an ordinary invitation remained at three thousand gold flanges, but the price of a high-end invitation reached forty thousand gold flanges, and that

This kind of special invitation that can enter any part of the castle has soared to a huge amount of 100,000 gold francs.

It's a pity that this kind of special invitation is always priceless, because the people who can get this kind of invitation are all rich and noble people. There is no need for them to give up this symbol of honor and status for a small amount of 100,000 gold francs.

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Although it was impossible for many people in Miria City to get invitations when the banquet was held, they were willing to wait around the square outside Silver Moon Valley, hoping that they would have good luck and someone would be willing to take them in.

Because they have done this kind of thing a lot, these people have also gained experience and know which people are worth going up to say hello and make requests, and which people are just like them, waiting for opportunities and not worth wasting time.

This was the first time for Emily to do such a thing. She was a bit weak and shy. Even when she arrived at the square outside Silver Moon Valley, she did not dare to approach the carriages waiting to check the invitations and be allowed to enter the valley. As for making requests to the people inside the carriages,

Even more dare not.

The reason why she with such a personality would do this kind of thing is because she hopes that her parents can move out of the chaotic fish market. Even if they live in the most ordinary residential areas like Maple Street and Sabo District, it is better than the fish market.

A hundred times stronger.

In addition, she also hopes that her quiet and honest husband can get a chance to be promoted and move out of the archives room where there is no hope, even if it is not a popular position.

However, Emily, who was born as a free citizen, had no connections at all to help her husband and her parents. The only thing she could use was her pretty good looks. She felt that if she could enter the banquet at Silvermoon Castle,

If she had the opportunity to become the mistress of a powerful person, maybe she would be able to change the lives of her, her husband and her parents.

For this reason, when she learned that Silver Moon Castle was holding a banquet, she spent all her private money to rent a decent lace lotus skirt, put on some makeup, and sat down with her colleagues who had the same thoughts.

The carriage arrived outside Silver Moon Valley.

It was only after arriving at the place that she realized that her expectations were a bit high, because among the crowd waiting for the opportunity, there were many people who were more luxuriously dressed than her, and people who were more beautiful than her could be seen everywhere. She stood in the crowd.

A completely inconspicuous existence.

When high-end carriages drove to the square of Silver Moon Valley, waiting to enter, Emily had no chance to get close to those carriages, and she could also see that even if she could get close, it would be useless.

At this time, Emily suddenly discovered that among the many high-end carriages in the square, an old carriage that looked no different from the ordinary carriages soliciting customers on the street had parked. The coachman sitting on the carriage was also wearing old clothes.

The whole person huddled together looked a bit wretched.

Later, she heard several experienced people around her talking about the old carriage. They believed that the carriage should be a servant's carriage. It would be stopped at the entrance of the valley, so there was no need to go and ask.

Although she heard the analysis of these people, the optimistic Emily still had some expectations. After all, she had not been near any carriage that night, and she did not want the elaborate makeup she spent all her personal money to go to waste.

So, after hesitating for a moment, Emily took a few deep breaths, mustered up the courage to walk towards the carriage, then stood at the door of the carriage and looked inside.

I saw a young man sitting in the carriage wearing a tuxedo and a top hat. His appearance was nothing outstanding. What was very strange was that this man was not wearing white gloves, but a pair of gloves commonly worn by dock unloaders.

fingerless gloves.

Through the light of the carriage, Emily could see the young man's hardly handsome but dignified face with a beard that no one else would have, and she couldn't help but show a look of disappointment in her eyes.

He felt that those people might have guessed correctly, and the person sitting in the carriage might be a senior servant of the castle.

"What's the matter with you?" The people in the carriage couldn't help but ask when they saw a woman standing outside the carriage window and looking at her for a long time.

"I, I..." Emily was a little confused by the sudden question, and the handkerchief in her hand was even messed up.

"Take a deep breath." Feeling that the little woman in front of him seemed to faint from nervousness at any time, the person in the carriage immediately guided him rhythmically, saying: "Breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out..."

With a few guided deep breaths, Emily's nervousness also eased, and while her mood stabilized, she hurriedly said: "I want to attend the banquet in Silver Moon Castle, can you please take me in?

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After speaking, Emily immediately regretted it, because she felt that the tone of her words was too stiff, not tactful at all, and the speed of her speech was too fast, which seemed very vulgar.

Just when Emily was finding countless faults with her request just now, the people in the carriage were silent for a moment and said: "Come up!"

"Ah?" Emily was completely stunned when she heard the other party's words. She felt that she had thought too much and was hallucinating.

The person on the carriage asked again: "Don't you plan to come up?"

"Ah!" Finally confirming that she heard correctly, Emily quickly opened the car door, held up her fluffy skirt, and boarded the old carriage. Not far behind her, other people who were waiting for the opportunity shouted

A sound of ridicule.

After getting on the carriage, Emily sat for a while and suddenly realized that she had not introduced herself yet. She quickly extended her hand to the person sitting opposite and said, "Hello, my name is Emily." As if she was at her workplace.

The person sitting opposite looked at the extended hand, smiled, reached over, shook it, and said, "Hello, my name is Leo Dodd."

Yes, the person sitting in this old carriage was Leo, who had been forced to attend a banquet in Silver Moon Castle by the old man not long ago.

Originally, according to the old man's wishes, since Leo represented him, he couldn't wear shabby clothes, so he prepared a set of very high-end clothes and even a very eye-catching steam carriage for Leo. But Leo rejected them all.
Chapter completed!