"Peter, you seem a little nervous." Through the accessory brain system, Leo easily judged Peter Alcott's mentality and thoughts at the moment from some of Peter Alcott's subtle behaviors and the actions of other people around him, so he smiled and said,

With a hint of provocation, he said: "Drink some water! This will make you feel better."

Peter Alcott did not show any embarrassment after his emotions were seen through. Instead, he smiled naturally and explained: "I just think that sometimes it is not a bad thing to listen to other people's good advice, such as for your own safety.

Be on guard.”

Then, he immediately returned to the original topic and said: "Since you are unwilling to disclose information about the Abandoned City, let's talk about another cooperation! I hope that when you enter the Abandoned City, you can help me get Maria as well.

Bring her in. As for whether Maria will be in danger when she goes in, you don’t have to worry about that. You can go about your own business and she will take care of herself."

Leo had no doubt about Maria's ability as a psychic puppet. Without using any psychic skills, he was not sure that he could defeat this psychic puppet with cold weapons.

Although according to common sense, Peter Alcott asked Leo to take Maria to the so-called abandoned city because he did not trust the masters behind the merchants. He wanted to rely on his own strength to find the dream stone he wanted.

However, due to his identity, he could not send anyone into the abandoned city, so he could only find Leo, a lone traveler, to cooperate.

It’s just that Leo felt that Peter Alcott sent this psychic puppet into the abandoned city not just for Dreaming Stone, but there must be other reasons.

"What can I gain?" Leo knew very well that he would not be able to ask Peter Alcott about his true plans, so he said nothing and just asked about the conditions of cooperation according to common sense.

"Aren't there some people within your Wizards Association who have been searching for the lost knowledge of ancient wizards in recent years, trying to regain the glory of ancient wizards?" Peter Alcott believed that Leo could not refuse the offer he made.

He said confidently: "Since you claim to be a seeker of knowledge, you are probably one of them. The exact location of an ancient wizard tower, I think you will not refuse this offer."

"Is there still a complete ancient wizard wizard tower?" After analyzing and inferring the reaction of a dream world wizard through the accessory brain system, Leo immediately followed the prompts of the accessory brain system, made a surprised expression, and said in a deep voice.

Leo's expression was as expected by Peter Alcott, and he explained with a smile: "Of course there is no non-fog area, but what about the fog area?"

Leo had a suspicious look on his face and said nothing.

If Leo didn't show any doubt at all and completely believed what he said, Peter Alcott would become suspicious. And now Leo's expression is exactly in line with his judgment, so he has already prepared an explanation.

Said: "Although the Fog Zone Guard Castle led by your Wizards Association guards the border of the Fog Zone all year round, when it comes to understanding the Fog Zone, your Wizards Association is much worse than the Night Watch organization."

Leo asked: "You have a good relationship with the Night Watch organization?"

"I just helped them a few favors." Although Peter Alcott said it lightly, the confident look on his face showed that the relationship between them was probably not simple.

Leo did not continue to ask any more questions, but lowered his head in thought as if considering Peter Alcott's cooperation proposal. Peter Alcott did not interrupt, picked up the cup, and drank the drink in a relaxed manner.

Not long after, Leo seemed to have thought clearly, raised his head and looked at Peter Alcott, and said: "I can agree to this, but the premise is that it will not affect me, so in the end I will give you your

Before the maid is sent to the abandoned capital, I will terminate this cooperation deal at any time. As for the news about the wizard tower, you will tell me when I complete the cooperation conditions and come back to you."

"We cooperate happily." Peter Alcott did not object and extended his hand to Leo.

"It's a pleasure to work together." Leo shook Peter Alcott's hand, then stood up and prepared to leave.

At this time, Peter Alcott suddenly took out a key and a card from his pocket, put it on the table, and said: "I have a house in the 23rd arrondissement, and I rarely live there.

, you can live there during this period, and you can use some gadgets I made there, and there are also books you can read. This special pass card is valid for ten days, and you can use it during these ten days.

You can use this card to freely enter and leave the noble area. If it is an ordinary trouble, you can also use this card to find the city guard."

"Thank you!" Leo didn't show any pretense. He picked up the key and card, thanked him, and walked out.

When Leo walked to the door and was about to leave, Peter Alcott suddenly asked: "Isn't that a good painting?"

Leo stopped, turned around, and asked calmly: "Which one?"

"That family portrait." With the help of the maid, Peter Alcott stood up, looked at Leo, and said in a deep voice.

However, Leo did not give any answer, just smiled, turned around and left, leaving Peter Alcott in the room with his eyebrows furrowed and his face looking suspicious.

After a long time, Peter Alcott suddenly asked the maid next to him: "Maria, do you think he has seen the painting?"

"I don't know." Maria answered mechanically, and then her expressionless face suddenly had a humanistic look of thinking, and she said in a deep voice: "I'll go get him back, you ask him."

"No need." After seeing Maria's answer, Peter Alcott could still make some judgments and thoughts like intelligent creatures. He couldn't help but show a satisfied smile on his face. Then he walked to the door and looked at Leo's figure.

Disappearing around the corner of the building in the distance, he murmured to himself: "I'm sure this Leo Dodd saw that painting, but what he experienced after seeing that painting is a question. He

His origin is too mysterious, and before we figure out his origin, we can only find out his secrets through other methods."

As he said that, he turned to look at Maria and said: "And the most important thing for us now is not the secrets of the seekers of this wizard association, but the ruined city. This is an opportunity for you and me, so these few days

You must be fully prepared to ensure that nothing goes wrong.”

Maria didn't give him any response, she just stood beside him quietly, like a patron saint.

On the other side, after Leo left the small house, he put on the special glasses he bought a few days ago and looked at the address plate hanging behind the key. He saw No. 11, Baiwu Street written on it.

Although this was Leo's first time in District 23, he was very familiar with the terrain and streets here. What's more, Baiwu Street's reputation in Seventh Lake Town was so famous that it was hard for him not to know.

The reason why Baiwu Street has such a resounding reputation is not because it is the gathering place for gold sales in Seventh Lake Town, nor is it because of the maze-like architectural form here, but because of a series of murders that have recently occurred here.

In just one month, three people died in the alleys of Baiwu Street, and four others disappeared mysteriously. Even their bodies could not be found. The panic among people in Baiwu Street even spread to

Other urban areas.

However, the city guards of the Seventh Lake Town did not seem to pay much attention to this matter, because both the three dead and the four missing were all professional prostitutes from some gold-selling dens on Baiwu Street.

Poor people from the lower classes from other lake towns in the Ten Towns.

Almost all of these women were sold here because their families owed a large sum of money to someone to pay off the debt. Their status here was worse than that of slaves, and they were not even qualified to enter the house because they were not beautiful enough.

You can only stand on the street to pick up customers. Usually the people you receive are the lower-class residents of the town who come here because of their reputation, but can't afford too much money. They usually negotiate the price, lift up their skirts, and complete the transaction in the alley.

.

Finding out the reasons why these women were killed is not at all a concern for the city guards. For them, helping the nobles find a pet that accidentally got lost in the city is more important than investigating the cases of these women.

Until this incident became too big, various rumors spread, and the people who were killed in many rumors changed from prostitutes at the beginning to rich people and nobles. For safety reasons, the people who sold gold in the 23rd District

Major customers have gone to other safe places to play, which has seriously affected the business of these gold outlets.

For this reason, the controllers behind these gold-selling dens used various means to put pressure on the city guards, forcing the city guards to send more people to patrol the streets, thereby increasing the sense of security for people coming and going here. It was just an investigation.

They still put the murder case on the back burner and refused to pay attention to it, so the aftermath of the murder case has not disappeared yet.

"Why did he give me this key?" Leo looked at the key in his hand and said doubtfully.

If someone else had arranged such a residence for him, he might just think it was a coincidence, but the person who provided Leo with a temporary residence was someone like Peter Alcott, which made him not only think about it

Is there any other deep meaning? What's more, the location of the residence happened to be on Baiwu Street where the murder occurred, and he also came with a card that could help him solve the difficulties of the city guards, which forced him to make some associations and thoughts.

guess.

"Do you want me to help solve the case?" Leo had doubts in his heart, but he shook his head and said: "Impossible, how could he care about some prostitutes who have no relationship with him? I'm afraid he is doing it for

Other purposes.”

Although Leo couldn't guess Peter Alcott's thoughts for the time being, he didn't mind taking this trip. This was not for the murder, but for the items in the house that Peter Alcott mentioned.

and books. He might be able to discover some of Peter Alcott's secrets from those items and books.

The naming method of the town on the Seventh Lake is not a neat way of dividing the ten districts in order. The noble district is better, with only ten districts. Even if the division is chaotic, the hierarchical order can still play a role, so that

The urban area looks very orderly. But the outer city area is different. Except for the ten guarded urban areas on the edge, the numbers and positions of the other urban areas are completely chaotic.

Just like now, District 11 where Leo is located, if logically next to District 11, it should be District 12 and District 21, but in fact, next to District 11 are District 27 and District 2.

District 13.

These two districts are both entertainment districts in Seventh Lake Town. District 27 mainly provides services to nobles, while District 23 caters to common people. However, although the Gold Sales House in District 27 is high-end and gorgeous,

However, they have long been tired of being played by the nobles and wealthy people. Instead, they are more interested in the low-level fun in the 23rd District, so many customers have been taken away by the 23rd District.

In the case of the murder that took place in the 23rd District, some people suspected that the rumors spread later about the presence of nobles among the victims were the work of people from the 27th District. However, because there was no evidence, this accusation was in vain in the end.

Let it go.

Originally, the 23rd District should be very lively at this time. A large number of people came here to have fun and filled the alleys. But now you can only see some weird city guards patrolling back and forth in the alleys. Some

The bold prostitutes stood in conspicuous places in the alleys waiting for customers to come.

When Leo came down from the suspension bridge, seven or eight women immediately gathered around him and seemed to regard Leo as a guest here to have fun. However, when they saw the color of Leo's skin, they all stopped involuntarily.

Seven of them quickly retreated. Only a woman in ragged clothes and messy hair cut her teeth, walked up, and asked Leo: "Sir, do you need..."

"Why didn't you retreat?" Leo asked directly without waiting for the other party to finish speaking.

"Ah?" The woman was stunned for a moment, not understanding why Leo would ask this question, but she immediately replied: "I have nothing left on me. If I don't do something, I will starve to death. I don't want to die."

Hearing this, Leo looked this woman up and down. Although this woman's clothes were very shabby and old, she was very clean. It looked like she should be washed frequently. And judging from her behavior just now, she should be an educated person and

Not the kind of vulgar lower-class poor people.

This woman looks very thin, but this thinness is not the sequelae of excessive indulgence, but the kind of thinness caused by malnutrition. Her face is also too thin, which completely destroys her originally good appearance.

, and it was obvious that her hair was not cut by herself, but was forcibly cut off.

Leo remembered a book that recorded the customs of the dream world. It mentioned that when a woman was kicked out of her husband's house, the husband's family would cut off the woman's hair to express the severance of the relationship. This woman should obviously be the kind of person who was kicked out.

A woman who leaves home.
Chapter completed!