Chapter 657: Puppet master

After reading these newspapers carefully, Leo couldn't help but have a doubt, that is, all the reports in the newspapers were concentrated in various countries and regions of the Minsk continent. There was little news about the other two continents, even if there was It is also old news.
Just when Leo felt extremely puzzled, a message from the Kingdom of Marais answered this doubt. The falling star sea has risen for a long time and the dense fog has not dispersed. The ship will get lost after entering the dense fog. The connection was temporarily blocked.
This news also made Leo feel a little uneasy, because he was very aware of the situation of the falling star sea, and the energy cycle of the Weilun world has changed. The falling star sea must have been affected, and it is greatly affected. The current dense fog may just be the beginning. There may be more abnormal changes in the future.
Leo wants to contact Sylvia at this time to see what is happening on her side. Is he able to have other news, but he knows that Sylvia has left some powers that can be used by the witch on his own? , But he could not always find the place for this power, and naturally could not take the initiative to get in touch with Sylvia.
Therefore, after the Church of the Lord of All Things was lifted, the city and the railway were banned, and Leo decided to make a steam train to the border of the Kingdom of Seville and the Kingdom of Maris, and then find a way to cross the border and go to Maris. The kingdom can see if it can find Sylvia.
After the decision was made, Leo immediately hired the hotel’s waiter to go to the station and buy a train ticket for the Savile Canyon Railway West Terminal.
The waiter who went out in the morning did not come back until the afternoon. When he came back, his face was particularly ugly. He did not ask why. He just told Leo that the ticket for the Canyon Railway train was hard to find. He bought a first-class ticket because of the relationship. , And its potential meaning is naturally the need to add money, whether it is ticket money, or employment money.
Leo didn't bother with this little thing. After paying extra commission, he took the ticket from the waiter.
The ticket time is tomorrow morning, Leo did not intend to take the time to go to the station, but after dinner, he pushed off the room, left the hotel, and went to the station.
The railway station in Ethiopia is located in the north side of the city. It was originally built on the edge of the city. It is mainly for the convenience of loading goods. Those business tribes can directly load and unload goods outside the city without entering the city, which can reduce the pressure on the roads in the city. It can also avoid unnecessary trouble for the citizens in the city.
I have to say that the owner of the city of Ethiopia had a very good plan for the railway station and expected the impact of the railway station on the city, but he did not predict that the development of the city would be so fast after the railway was connected. Far beyond everyone's expectations.
The opening of the steam train has brought tremendous benefits to this small town located in the middle of the two deserts. Businessmen and the people of the Kingdom who have seen these benefits have also swarmed.
The influx of large numbers of people has caused the urban area to expand rapidly. The railway station that was originally on the edge of the city has gradually become an urban area, and as the urban area increases, it has gradually become a part of the urban center.
It’s just that the later rulers of the city of Ethiopia are far from the talents of the original city owner. They are interested in the immediate benefits. The roads and public facilities are not the object of their consideration. They just want to build more houses, more Tax collection.
So when the train station became the center of the city, other plans of the city did not keep up. Even the roads originally planned for the entry and exit of goods were occupied. The daily congestion in the railway station has become the daily routine of Ethiopia. Over time, it became the most chaotic place in Ethiopia.
Before he came to the train station, Leo was already mentally prepared and thought of a way to crowd out the crowd, but when he arrived at the train station, he found that not only did it not appear crowded and chaotic, but it was very deserted, There are less than one hundred people in front of the train station's square, and there are no vendors around, which is very different from the rumors.
The reason for this abnormal situation is in front of me. I saw Qianping Square, which was laid in yellow sandstone common in the desert at the railway station. At this moment, it has turned into a dark red. The dark red is not a paint, but dried blood. .
Although the managers of the railway station have hired a large number of poor people to clean the blood in front of the square in the past two days, many of these blood have penetrated into the sandstone and cannot be cleaned up at all. Under the sun's exposure, the blood dries quickly, and it merges with the sandstone to become a blood rock. A strong gas is also continuously emitted from the blood rock, entrenched in the square for a long time.
This is Leo's expression after thinking of the hotel waiter who bought the ticket back from the train station. The scene in front of me is not to be an ordinary person. Even the battle-hardened soldiers will feel thrilled when they see it, not to mention In the church books of the Lord of All Things, there is a place that punishes the wicked people in the world. The place was built with sandstone stained with blood. It is enveloped in blood all the year round, and it is very similar to the scene before you. So here you can also see some clerics performing some kind of ceremony of the Church of the Lord of Everything.
Leo estimated it a little bit from his own experience, and soon calculated from the amount of blood that was incorporated into the sandstone on the ground. At the time of the incident a few days ago, at least hundreds of people died here or even more, because if the train station If it is really as crowded as the rumors, the trampling accident caused by panic escape will definitely cause a lot of casualties, and the number of casualties is even more than those caused by the uncontrolled family members.
After only a short stay outside the train station, Leo directly bypassed the entrance of the train station and a group of locals kneeling on the ground to perform a prayer ceremony entered the train station.
Compared to the situation outside, the interior of the train station is not much better. It is also sandstone saturated with blood, and even more intense gas is entrenched in the empty hall.
In addition, it can be seen that many facilities in the hall have been damaged, such as walls, columns, and some simple shops added later, which have been damaged to varying degrees, which can be inferred that there had been fierce fighting at the time. Fighting may take place between out-of-control families, but it may also be fighting people with extraordinary powers.
Like the plaza outside, there are a lot of poor people in the train station who are employed by the administrator to clean the blood on the ground. In addition, some craftsmen are repairing broken columns, walls and other facilities.
After Leo entered the train station, and presented the first-class ticket in his hand to a staff member, the staff immediately respectfully led Leo to a room near the edge of the canyon cliff, where the canyon railway can be seen. .
The waiting room was sprinkled with natural flavors by the managers. Although it was a bit pungent, it was able to isolate the blood from the outside, making the people in the room a little more comfortable.
At the moment, there are more than a dozen people sitting in the room, three foreign couples who are supposed to travel here, three explorers with obvious characteristics, an old man with two children and his bodyguard.
These people are doing their own things, no communication, and the room is very quiet.
The three foreign couples should be ordinary people, and the look of shock was still written on their faces. The couple always grabbed each other’s hands in order to gain a sense of security from the other party. It can be seen that the incidents of a few days ago had adverse effects on them. They have not disappeared, and may even be with them for a long time.
The situation of the three explorers was much better. Either they were not in the city at the time of the incident, or they were well-informed, and they were not unfamiliar with things like family members. In short, they did not show any fear on their faces. , Flustered emotions.
These three people should not be a gang. They each sit at a table, pour their harvest on the table, pick out the boutiques and carefully wipe them clean, put them in different pockets, sometimes because of other people. The things on hand are discussed and exchanged, but the voice of their conversation is not very loud.
As for the combination of the elderly, children and bodyguards on the other side, it looks like the grandfather brought his grandson and granddaughter to travel. It seems that it is not worth paying much attention, but after Leo entered the house, his main attention The force is concentrated on the old man, because the old man has a wave of energy that does not have to be much weaker than Sylvia.
This old man’s energy fluctuations somehow made Leo think of a spider, because it showed a silky body in Leo’s spiritual vision, and Leo also found the pair of children and behind him laughing and playing around the old man. The expressionless bodyguards are not real people, but puppets controlled by silk energy.
"Puppet master?" Leo soon thought of a very special class of extraordinary people.
In the Velon world, there are not many people with extraordinary powers, most of them are concentrated in various churches, underground cults and several dark world organizations, but there are still some extraordinary people who survive in the cracks of these major forces. The puppet master is one of them.
Who is the earliest puppet master is no longer available, but the accepted statement should come from the circus, and the puppet master’s inheritance is not very long, only less than three hundred years, more than thousands of years of inheritance, obviously Not enough to watch.
But the strength of the puppet master cannot be measured by the time of inheritance. In the black market information about the extraordinary, the danger level of the puppet master has always been high.
The strength of the puppet master does not depend on the puppet master itself. In fact, the puppet master's own power is nowhere stronger than that of ordinary people. The strength of the puppet master depends entirely on the puppet he controls.
Some puppet masters will find all kinds of extraordinary materials and elaborately make them into a puppet puppet, while some puppet masters will directly control people with powerful power and take their power as their own.
There have also been puppet masters who tried to control the people of a city to threaten the local kingdom and church, but the people who did this did not end well. Because of the connection with the people of the whole city, the thoughts of countless people directly instilled In his head, he directly dispersed his spirit, making him a vegetative, and finally made into a puppet puppet by other puppet masters.
How the puppet master passed down, this has always been a mystery, because the puppet master's inheritance has been cut off in certain periods of time. When everyone thinks that the puppet master's inheritance has disappeared, there will be a new puppet master. , So some people guess that the puppet master must be based on an object. As long as people with extraordinary powers touch those objects, they will get this kind of inheritance, which explains why there are four or five puppet masters in some time periods. And don’t know each other.
When Leo saw the puppet master, he immediately made a rough judgment on his strength. Although the tall and strong bodyguards looked like the main force of the puppet master, Leo did It's clear that the puppet master's reliance was derived from the two puppets who were alive.
Obviously, the bodyguards were only bait. Once someone wanted to deal with him, first attack the bodyguard as a protective barrier, then the two child puppets next to the puppet master would reveal their claws and give the attacker a fatal attack.
After Leo came in, he looked at only one side of the people around him, and walked to a chair facing the canyon. Afterwards, the exploration of these people in the room was all using a spiritual net, so the inside of the room These people did not pay much attention to Leo, just think he is an ordinary solo traveler.
However, the old puppet master swept Leo from time to time after Leo sat down, with a slight alert in his eyes.
This is not to say that the old man saw the true strength of Leo, mainly because of the rich life experience of the old man and the instincts of birth and death over the years. He felt that Leo was not as ordinary as it seemed on the surface, even making him Feeling dangerous, this can be seen by moving his two puppets between himself and Leo quietly to see how alert he is to Leo.
Leo doesn't care about being a puppet master's vigilant object. As long as the opponent doesn't do anything against him, he is not prepared to conflict with this extraordinary person.
After examining everyone in the room ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Leo focused his attention and part of his attention on the railway outside the window.
Although Leo has seen more whimsical construction facilities than the railway in front of it, if this standard is placed in the world of industrial level in the industrial level of vinylon, then the design and construction of this railway is enough. It's a miracle.
Every twenty meters, a steel frame with a width of five meters is herringbone in the air, and the bottom is just connected to the cliffs on both sides of the canyon. A railway with a width of three meters is assumed to be on the top of the herringbone steel frame. The steel frames are all made of the best steel at the time, and the thickness of each steel has reached about 20 centimeters.
Legend has it that the Kingdom of Savile consumed the treasury in order to build this railway that is a miracle of the world, so that in the years after the construction of the railway, the Kingdom increased various tax rates thirteen times in a row, until all the increased tax rates in previous years Adjust back again.
Therefore, the people of the Kingdom of Savile love and hate this railway. Love is because this railway brings convenient transportation that was not available in the past, but also brings endless business opportunities and benefits, and hate is increased because of this railway. The various tax rates almost caused a riot in the kingdom and plunged the kingdom into turmoil for many years.