Hearing Leo's dissatisfaction with the situation after the death of the heir of the Nowitzki family, Witsmir immediately came forward and said with a mysterious face: "You are wrong to blame the Nowitzki family for the corpse.

It wasn't them who did it. In fact, they or the current heir also really want to find the guy who stole the body."

"What's going on?" Leo looked at Witsmir with a puzzled face and asked, "Is there any other hidden secret in it?"

Witsmir likes to see his words make people lose their temper, let alone someone as big as an official wizard. However, he also knows that some things need to be controlled to a certain degree, and beyond this point it will not be good, so he

Leo didn't let Leo wait for long before he told some things he knew.

"There is no big secret, but some things seem to be beyond some people's expectations." Witsmir poured himself a glass of fruit wine, then took a sip to moisten his throat and said: "Originally everything went smoothly. According to the lack of evidence,

There are no rules for occurrence. The person only needs to wait for a period of time. After the investigation has no results, he can take the position of the first heir. But the body disappeared and its internal organs were eviscerated provocatively.

Lost in the alley of District 23. Just like your reaction when you heard that the heir's body had been eviscerated, other nobles felt indignant when they heard about it and thought it was unfair.

The etiquette of the nobles points all the fingers at the new heir who is about to take the stage, so if the murderer who destroyed the body cannot be found, then it may be difficult for the new heir to secure his position."

Leo deliberately looked interested and said in a deep voice, "Could it be the other heirs who did it?"

"Probably not." Witsmir shook his head and said with a serious face: "This incident is a provocation to the entire ten-town nobility. No one with any sense would do this."

Leo was silent for a moment and then asked: "How much reward has the Nowitzki family offered?"

"What? Are you interested in this matter?" Witsmir smiled.

Leo said calmly: "There is still a little time before entering the abandoned city, and I want to kill the boring time."

"Although the Nowitzki family is only the second-ranked family, and the second-ranked family in the town of Seventh Lake, their family heritage is very old. They were first a noble family in the town of First Lake, and then they gradually retreated after making mistakes several times.

They are from the town of Seventh Lake, so they have a lot of collections." Like a lobbyist, Witsmir praised the Nowitzki family, and then got down to business and said: "This time the Nowitzki family

The reward offered by the Key family is not simple. The reward given to ordinary people will naturally lead to the blood of a member of the Nowitzki family. But the reward offered by someone like you, Mr. Dodd, is a book collected by the Nowitzki family.

Ancient book, it is said that this ancient book was brought by our ancestors from the other world where all human beings originated, and it contains the secrets of the other world."

When Leo heard this, he couldn't help but feel curious, and asked in a deep voice: "Such an important ancient book would be taken out as a reward? Are the Nowitzkis crazy?"

"Of course they can't be crazy. What they put out as a reward is a copy, not the original." Witsmir explained: "Although it is just a copy, the content is exactly the same as the original. They even allowed the person who received the reward to

Read the original five days.”

After Witsmir finished speaking, Leo suddenly laughed and said, "Are you working as a lobbyist for the Nowitzki family?"

"Business partners, if you can help, please help." Witsmir did not deny it and simply responded, but Leo did not believe what he said at all.

Leo thought for a while and said: "I am mainly interested in this matter to kill time, and I have not thought about what to do. Although the reward from the Nowitzki family is very attractive, what is the purpose of that ancient book?

How much the value is remains to be discussed, before seeing the actual object..."

Witsmir seemed to really want to involve Leo in this matter. Seeing that Leo wanted to refuse, he immediately said: "I have a copy of the cover of that ancient book on hand. You can see if it suits your needs."

Does your heart have any value?"

With that said, without waiting for Leo to respond, he stood up and ran to the back room, where he quickly took out a very quaint-looking book.

Witsmir put the book on the table and said: "This is made by the Nowitzki family according to the cover of the original book. The content inside is blank, only the cover is the same. This sample was originally made by the Nowitzki family

Please let me bring it to the master to see if he is interested in this book."

Leo put on his glasses and looked at it, but did not reach out to pick up this ancient book with a clumsy cover and engraved with all kinds of weird patterns and words.

Although he looked calm on the outside, he felt a little bit dumbfounded inside. He had read this book, which was regarded as a sacred object by the Nowitzki family, and not only read the original version of the secret language, but also the latest translated version.

Pass.

This book is called The Long River of Life, and it talks about every river civilization and species reproduction on the three continents of the Velen world. The person who wrote this book is called Crouko, who was captured from the Moissan continent and trafficked to

Slaves of the Minsk continent.

He was bought to a country in the Minsk continent that has now disappeared without even leaving its name. He was spotted by a noble family and bought home to work as a gardener, responsible for taking care of the flowers and plants in the noble manor.

It's just that Crouko was not willing to be a flower slave for the rest of his life, so while taking care of the flowers and plants, he also learned various knowledge from the nobles through various methods.

Later, when war broke out in that country, Crouch took advantage of his escape to deliberately get separated from the nobles' convoy and became a fugitive slave. In order to avoid pursuit, he wandered around various continents and recorded what he saw and heard.

More than twenty years later, Cruco finally exposed his identity due to an accidental move and was caught by a bounty hunter who specialized in hunting down escaped slaves. He was burned to death locally in accordance with the laws of the time.

The recorded knowledge was taken away by one of the bounty hunters and has been kept at home.

Until someone among the descendants of that bounty hunter became a scholar and read these records. He was shocked by the contents and thought that leaving this knowledge in the box was definitely the greatest blasphemy to knowledge, so he decided to put these records away.

Records re-edited and published.

Because the Orthodox Church was at its peak at that time, it was almost impossible to publish such a book that denied the existence of gods. Therefore, the descendants of this bounty hunter and several partners with the same ambitions specially made up a new language.

, and then re-wrote the book "The Long River of Life" according to this new language, and then published this book that no one can understand at his own expense.

After the book was published, they gave the book, together with the language translation book, to other scholars who also had no good impressions of the Orthodox Church, so that they could read the book normally, and eventually the book could be classified as a banned book.

Books can survive the darkest periods of civilization.

Out of respect for the escaped slave, when the descendants of the bounty hunter published this book, they did not put their own names on the list of authors or compilers, but the name of the escaped slave.

It's on the cover, and there's also the story of the escaped slave written on the inside page.

Because of its legendary ups and downs, this book was praised by many neoliberal poets who opposed the Orthodox Church, and the content in the book was also borrowed by a large number of pastoral poets, making it famous far and wide.

When operas and stage plays began to rise, the experience of this book was put on the stage by countless writers, making it even more famous. The reputation of this book was pushed to its peak when Crouch was introduced to Velen Medicine.

The Academy certified him as one of the Three Ancient Sages. At that time, almost all aristocratic families, regardless of whether they liked this book or not, had to keep a copy in their study. Otherwise, no matter how many books they collected, they would be considered incomplete.

Leo read this book in Anne's hospital. The latest medical encyclopedia recorded the works of the so-called ancient sages, and The River of Life was one of them. It not only had a translation, but also a coded version.

And now the cover sample of the so-called ancient book that contains the secrets of human origins that Wizmir has taken out is the cover of the secret version of The River of Life, and it seems that it should be one of the earliest editions, because it has a large number of

Orthodox religious symbols in order to disguise this book as a religious book.

Originally, Leo was looking forward to reading a book that truly explained the mysteries of the world, but he didn't expect it to be such a book, so he was naturally a little disappointed.

However, he could not express his disappointment on his face. Instead, he pretended to be very interested. He picked up the sample book with only the cover and pretended to study it while sketching the ancient religious symbols on it.

After a while, Leo shook his head, took off his glasses, and said in a deep voice: "I'm not a language major, so I can't figure out what's on it. Instead of wasting time on such things, I'd rather do something

More real."

Seeing that he could not convince Leo, Witsmir felt a little disappointed, but Leo's last words made him see a turning point, so he asked in a deep voice: "What kind of reward do you want?"

Leo did not speak casually, but said vaguely: "It's not what I want? It's what they can give me? Preferably something I can use in the waste city."

Witsmir frowned, looked at Leo, and finally landed on Leo's backpack. Suddenly he seemed to have thought of something, and said: "I know there is something in Nowitzki's house that is suitable for you.

.”

"What is it?" Leo naturally knew where Witsmir's gaze fell. He had some suspicion in his mind and asked curiously.

Witsmir slowly said: "When the Nowitzki family was at its peak, they caught a strange fish in the lake area under their family's jurisdiction. The strange fish was very strange. It was not very big, but it could move without limit.

Swallow anything. At that time, the patriarch of the Nowitzki family dedicated this strange fish to the first chief. After the first chief processed the strange fish, he made five palm-sized skins from the fish skin.

The wallet was returned to the Nowitzki family. It is said that this wallet is like that strange fish that can swallow anything and can also hold a lot of things. Although this is a bit exaggerated, I think it should be able to accommodate the backpack behind you.

No problem."

When Leo heard this, he was immediately moved. This thing was perfect for him. After all, he was carrying a backpack every day and felt weird when others saw it. He himself also felt uncomfortable. So he directly showed his interest.

Asked: "Such a magical artifact should be very precious. Will the Nowitzki family agree to put it up as a reward?"

"No problem." Wizmir said with a very confident look: "The Nowitzki family has actually never used this thing over the years. Except for one leather bag left as a souvenir, several other leather bags

They were all given to others as gifts. It is not difficult to ask them to take this thing out as a bounty."

Leo nodded, stood up, and walked out while saying: "That's it, it's settled. When did you convince the Nowitzki family to agree to use that leather bag as a bounty, just come and tell me.

I think you should know where I live now?"

"I will tell you if there is news." Witsmir also stood up, sent Leo to the door, and then reminded: "There will be news from my master in the next few days. I hope Mr. Dodd will

We can make preparations in the past few days. Once the entrance to the abandoned city is confirmed, we will take action immediately. Don't delay the business because of the Nowitzki family."

"Don't worry, I can distinguish priorities." Leo walked towards the elevator and waved his hand without looking back. He didn't stop until he heard the door closing behind him, and followed him directly through the window on the side.

After going out, I grabbed some small bumps on the edge of the outer wall with my fingers, pressed my whole body against the wall, and climbed up quickly, and soon reached the roof of the flower shop.

The roof of the flower shop should be built as a place specially used to hold large-scale events such as dance parties, so it is decorated very elegantly, with no unnecessary items, just empty rooms.

Leo looked around. Perhaps because there was no business to handle large-scale events, there were no staff, no security guards or guards here. It was empty, completely opposite to the hustle and bustle downstairs.

After confirming that there was no one there, Leo walked around the roof along the straight axis of the flower shop building. While walking, his mental network also opened outwards, scanning the situation of the flower shop under his feet, and put the obtained data in

Organize and analyze it in the accessory brain system and reconstruct it into a three-dimensional diagram of the flower shop building.

When building this building, the architects obviously took precautions against people like Leo. They arranged many magical objects in the rooms of the flower shop, creating interference force fields that interfered with the exploration of the spiritual network.

However, Leo does not want to explore the structure of a building like a flower shop. He just wants to find people, things or things that can cause a resonance reaction in the dream body. Obviously, this resonance reaction will not be caused by interference.
Chapter completed!