Because his mouth was a little dry after talking, Valentin picked up the kettle on the table and prepared to pour a glass of water to drink, but the water did not pour out as expected. At this time, Valentin realized that he had not finished talking since just now, and his face

He couldn't help showing an embarrassed expression, and said apologetically to Leo, who was listening to him quietly: "Sorry, Mr. Dodd, I've been here alone for almost a month, and I'm really a little too lonely, okay?

It’s easy to meet a living person, so I have a lot to talk about!”

"It's okay, I like to listen to people talk." How could Leo, who had obtained a lot of information from Valentin, blame him and signaled that he didn't need to care.

Valentin smiled, and then asked curiously: "Will you recruit night watchmen for this patrol ceremony?"

"No! Because this is just a temporary patrol ceremony, I will only be responsible for investigating the growth of monsters in the forest." Based on some information about the night watchman's responsibilities that the other party just disclosed, Leo made up a reason casually, and sent Valiant to

Jing fooled around to prevent Valentin from asking about something he didn't know.

Then, he looked at the furnishings in the room and found an old book on the table. A trace of surprise flashed in his eyes. He pointed at the book and asked in a deep voice: "Can you understand it?"

"I have just learned Old French, and I don't understand the contents of these books very well." Valentin did not doubt that he was there, and handed the books on the table to Leo along with a pair of glasses and said.

There was no unusual expression on Leo's face. He took the book and glasses. After seeing the reminder that the assistant brain system had discovered the wizard's strange object in front of him, he put on the glasses. The handwriting on the book that was originally completely incomprehensible was all readable under the influence of the glasses.

understood.

This book is written in Old French. The content is very simple. It tells how to assemble and maintain a blade crossbow. The total content only has more than 20 pages. It is a bit thick because it is made of some kind of animal skin.

Leo quickly read the entire content, and with the help of the assistant brain system, he simulated and assembled a set of such blade crossbows in his mind. This set of crossbows was obviously modified from an early mechanical repeating crossbow.

, it should have gone through several adjustments, completely abandoning the range and accuracy of the repeating crossbow, and replacing it with a more powerful torsion spring to increase the lethality of the blade within fifty meters.

After putting down the book in his hand, Leo asked if he could take a look at the blade crossbow. Valentin didn't doubt that he was there and handed the thing to him readily.

Leo took it in his hand and looked at it, then took off the blade, pulled the trigger, tried the empty chamber ejection, and then said to Valentin: "You clamped the ejector's spring too tight, although it can

Increasing the force of the catapult can easily cause unnecessary strain on the catapult. A catapult that could have been used five hundred times may only be used two or three hundred times for this reason."

"No wonder my crossbow always needs to replace the ejector. It turns out that's the reason." Valentin took the weapon and followed Leo's prompts, checked it, and showed a look of realization, and then modified it according to Leo's prompts.

Fixing the lock of the ejector spring, he looked at Leo with some surprise and said, "Do you also like machine crossbows? I thought the night watchmen would like to use more sophisticated, more powerful, and more convenient firearms."

Although this sentence does not have much special meaning, after hearing it, Leo learned another piece of useful information. The night watchmen of Velen and Velen mainly use mechanical repeating crossbows and cold weapons, supplemented by firearms.

Differently, the night watchmen here seem to all use firearms, and no one uses crossbows.

From this point, it is not difficult to see that there is a large amount of materials for making special bullets here, so it can be supplied to the Night Watch for a large amount of consumption. Moreover, the power of the special bullets is much more powerful than in Velen, at least more powerful than the power of these crossbows.

Otherwise, Valentin would not have been so surprised when he saw that Leo knew how to maintain the crossbow.

Leo made up an explanation casually and said: "Firearms are too precise and are easily damaged during combat, so you need to learn as many other useless usage and maintenance methods as possible."

"So the Night Watchman also needs to learn so many things? I thought the Night Watchman only needed to be proficient in using spells in addition to melee weapons and firearms." Valentin inadvertently revealed another useful piece of information.

This is not the first time that Leo has heard the term magic. Leo has also heard this term many times from Rembrandt and knows that it is a kind of extraordinary power that is different from witchcraft.

However, there are not many detailed records of magic-like spells in the books he has seen. Most of them only record that magic-like spells are special abilities possessed by the Familia and people implanted with alien god cells, just like Akna in Cage City.

the power used by the high priests and priests of the sub-church,

However, magic-like abilities are not limited to the ability to use psychic energy. In fact, most of the most detailed spell-like abilities recorded in books are some abnormal physical abilities, such as extraordinary vision, strong strength, etc. Although

Valentin did not clearly explain what kind of spell the Night Watchman had, but Leo felt it should be of this type.

Just when Leo was still trying to extract some useful information from Valentin, a trumpet-like whistle sound suddenly came from outside, which felt like an elephant whistle amplified ten times.

Hearing this voice, Leo thought that another dream spirit appeared outside, but soon he knew from the joyful expression on Valentin's face that he was wrong.

"Haha! I'm so lucky today. Not only did I see the night watchman, but the people delivering supplies also came." Valentin jumped up from his chair with joy, quickly ran to the stairs placed on the side wall, and put it

He set up on the skylight of the roof, quickly climbed up, and used a periscope-like device installed on the skylight to check the situation outside. After finding no danger, he opened the skylight and climbed to the roof.

Seeing this, Leo also climbed up to the roof, and saw that Valentin was lighting several braziers placed on the roof, holding a torch and shaking it back and forth at a certain frequency.

In the sky on the other side, a huge balloon is suspended in the air and slowly approaching here. Under the balloon is a hanging basket the size of a small house. There are two thick air pipes on both sides of the hanging basket connected to the steam engine in the hanging basket.

, streams of steam are ejected from the trachea, forming a propulsive force that drives the entire balloon forward.

Soon the balloon came to the sky above the tombkeeper's hut, and then saw bundles of wrapped goods being lowered from the hanging basket and landing in the center of the open space surrounded by the fire pit on the roof. When all the goods were put down, the hanging basket

There was another strange whistle sound above the basket, and then it slowly turned around and drove in the other direction.

Valentin quickly threw the bundled goods into the room through the skylight. He was so busy that he didn't even have time to say a word to Leo, as if he was worried about something appearing.

Sure enough, as soon as Valentin threw half of the goods into the house, Leo sensed that a large number of bird-like monsters entered the range of his mental network. Such monsters were only as big as fists, numerous in number, and had long

It has two pairs of wings, a human face and fangs, and the bird's claws only have three claws, but there is a straight thorn in the center of the claws.

"I think you should go down and stay first." Leo said to Valentin who was carrying goods urgently.

Valentin was stunned for a moment, and after hearing the sound of cattail wings flapping, his face changed drastically. He wanted Leo to hide back in the house with him, but Leo refused, and he could only express a trace of worry.

, he hid back in the house, and at the same time used the periscope to observe the situation outside, thinking that if something happened, he could bring Leo back.

Just as Valentin closed the skylight, he saw a group of dark cloud-like strange human-faced birds swarming towards Leo who was standing on the roof.

However, facing the flock of strange birds rushing over, Leo seemed to be dumbfounded and did not make any move. He just stood there. When the flock of strange birds rushed in front of him, a powerful psychic wave rushed out of Leo.

It came out and spread outward in a trumpet shape, instantly enveloping all the strange birds in front of it.

These strange birds have unparalleled agility, dangerous fangs and claws, and are good at attacking in groups. Anyone who encounters them will be in fatal danger. However, their mental power is so weak that they are almost no different from ordinary birds.

Faced with Leo's psychic impact, the spirits of all the birds were directly dispersed, and their fragile heads exploded as if they were equipped with bombs. The remaining corpses fell to the ground or the roof one after another, and were then destroyed by the black fire.

It burned completely and turned into wisps of black smoke that merged into Leo's body.

Leo, who opened the personal data interface, looked at the slow recovery of more than a hundred points of psychic energy consumed by the psychic wave just now. After the energy storage value of the Chaos Stomach also increased by more than twenty points, a slight smile appeared on his face. It was just that

The daily value consumption of will and spirit was not restored in the same way, and other talents and skills also remained unchanged, which made him feel a little disappointed.

"It seems that the strength of the dream spirit will also affect the absorption effect." Leo analyzed in his mind.

At this time, after witnessing Leo easily solving this group of strange birds, Valentin was surprised and also very envious. He thought that he had had the opportunity to have such a powerful power in the past, but finally gave up. He couldn't help but regret his parents' actions back then.

He decided to feel resentful, but he only had great power in his eyes, and did not think at all that he might fail.

When Valentin opened the skylight, Leo also closed the personal data interface and was about to explain to Valentin the scene of absorbing the black smoke. However, he found that Valentin did not have any other unusual expressions except envy and admiration.

, as if he didn’t see the amazing scene just now.

This made Leo wonder. He speculated that either everyone here could absorb the black smoke, or that Valentin did not see the black smoke at all, and the possibility of the former guess was almost zero.

Thinking of this, Leo asked tentatively: "Did you see the black smoke just now?"

"Black smoke?" Valentin, who was about to crawl out, stopped, shrank back a little, then looked around with a panicked look on his face, and said, "That's not right! It's impossible for them to appear during the Silver Moon period?

"As he said that, he asked Leo again: "Where did you see the black smoke just now? What is its shape?"

"In the forest over there." Leo knew from Valentin's words that he had not seen himself absorbing the dream spirit through the periscope just now, but he regarded the black smoke Leo mentioned as another kind of smoke.

thing.

So Leo pointed to a random location, and then described the shape of the black smoke that the strange bird and Yubato had transformed into just now, to see if he could get some useful information from Valentin.

After hearing Leo's description, Valentin couldn't help but show doubts on his face. It was obvious that the black smoke Leo described was significantly different from the black smoke he knew. Although he felt a little offended, he still needed to ask.

Clearly, after all, the black smoke matter is very important to them.

"Did you really see the black smoke?" Valentin asked cautiously: "I'm not doubting your eyesight, but the black smoke you mentioned seems..."

"Maybe I saw it wrong." Leo did not let him continue, but tactfully stopped the topic. He was worried that if he continued, he might be in danger of being exposed.

After saying that, Leo helped Valentin transport the materials on the roof back to the tombkeeper's hut one by one, and then returned to the house.

After closing the skylight, Valentin asked Leo to sit down, while unwrapping the materials on the floor, taking out some special bread, dried fruits and other food, and placing them in the cabinet one by one.

Inside, he took out some replacement mechanical parts and crossbow blades, and finally took out some clothes and books.

While Valentin was sorting out supplies, Leo picked up the special pair of glasses and put them on. He looked through the books sent to Valentin to relieve his boredom, and found that most of these books were story books.

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What’s interesting is that the stories recorded in these books all take place on various continents in the world of Velen. Even the names of countries and regions have not been changed. It’s just that the writers and readers seem to regard the world of Velen as a fictional world.

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What Leo was reading at the moment was a book that recorded the grievances and hatreds of two noble families in the Kingdom of England, and these two noble families, which Leo also knew, were the famous red and white roses.

Valentin, who was sorting out supplies on the side, came forward like an ordinary book lover and said excitedly: "Do you also like this book Red and White Roses? Me too, but it's a pity that Mister writes too slowly.

It takes several months to write a book.”

"What do you think of the Velen world written in this book?" Leo asked seemingly casually, but actually asked tentatively.

"I just think Mr. Mister's imagination is very rich, but his writing is too unreasonable." Valentin was very excited when he mentioned his favorite book, and automatically entered a chatting state, saying: "Not to mention whether there is such a thing as

It is very unreasonable for a large lake called an ocean to have a celestial phenomenon called daytime in that world. When Mr. Mister describes the daytime in his book, he mentions that daytime is a silver moon called the sun.

The temperature of this kind of sun is tens of thousands of times that of fire. If it is true as he said, those people living in the world of Velen would have been burned alive long ago. How could they still be alive and create that kind of sun?
Chapter completed!