When learning the Gamore language with Old Rembrandt, Old Rembrandt gave Leo a relatively brief introduction to the development of each language family in the three continents of Velen, and mentioned a language named Francis.

Scholar, because it was this linguist who for the first time organized and classified various languages ​​in the world and created the famous Velen language tree system.

For this reason, Old Rembrandt also introduced Francis emphatically, and said that except for Gamoren, Francis' understanding of various languages ​​​​in the world far exceeded his.

Francis' full name is Francis Hamilton, and his identity is the second son of Grand Duke Hamilton of the Kingdom of Sigmar. Although he has not been able to inherit the title of Grand Duke, he owns part of the shares of Hamilton Shipping Company.

When Francis inherited the shares, it was when the Kingdom of Sigmar dominated the seas. Hamilton Shipping Company was also the largest shipping company in the world at that time, so the benefits created by Hamilton Shipping Company's shares every year were enough to make Francis live an extremely comfortable life.

Luxurious life.

Francis, who had no worries about food and clothing, did a lot of ridiculous things like other dudes, but he finally found his interest in studying languages ​​from all over the world, and with the help of abundant funds, his language research

It went very smoothly, and he became the best linguist in the world.

However, Francis's living environment developed his wanton character, and he committed extremely serious crimes as a result.

In order to study an ancient language in the Minsk continent, he went to the desert kingdom of Savil to rob a tomb. He also stole a royal tomb and was caught on the spot by the tomb guard.

Although the Kingdom of Sigmar was the maritime hegemon and a world power at the time, it was unable to pose any threat to Savil, the inland power of the Minsk continent. In the end, Savile sentenced Francis to death despite the pleas of many world scholars.

He was imprisoned for life, and was imprisoned in the desert prison with the worst environment. He was imprisoned for more than 40 years. Until old Rembrandt introduced Francis to Leo, he was still imprisoned in prison.

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The reason why Leo thought the old man in front of him was Francis Hamilton at this time was because the old man Rembrandt mentioned that among the linguists in the entire Velen world, only Francis was proficient in any religious language.

The old man just briefly looked at the patterns on the metal fragments, and he could definitely judge that the patterns were the words of the ancient priests. It can be seen that the old man himself knows this ancient and almost lost language very well.

Only Francis, who was proficient in religious language, could do it.

The old man holding the box quickly came to the tent where he was. Judging from the layout of the tent, the French Empire paid special attention to this old man. Not only did they prepare a completely independent tent for him, but they also arranged the tent in the barracks.

The middle area is surrounded by elite soldiers guarding it.

The old man obviously didn't like to cooperate with other people. Apart from him, there was no one else in the whole big tent, not even an assistant. After the old man placed the box full of metal fragments on the ground, he personally removed the contents of the box.

Take out each fragment, wipe it clean with a soft cloth, and then apply a layer of anti-corrosion vegetable oil. After rubbing the metal fragments with paper, place them on wooden shelves in the tent according to different types.

After placing the metal fragments, the old man lay on a desk with a special spotlight and checked the newly printed patterns one by one. At the same time, he unloaded some simple annotations and introductions into the blank spaces of the rubbing paper, and finally started from

I took out a very thick folder from the bookshelf and put these rubbing patterns neatly into the folder.

Although the sorting work is very simple, it is also very time-consuming. Just sorting out a box of metal fragments has already taken more than four hours, and the whole process requires concentration to identify and analyze, so it consumes a lot of mental energy.

Even though the old man has extremely strong enthusiasm for these ancient languages, he does not have enough energy after all, and his face is full of fatigue.

The old man did not force himself to continue studying. He lowered the curtain of the tent, walked to the simple camp bed in the corner and lay down. He soon fell into a deep sleep, and regular snoring could be heard in the tent.

At this time, the bird possessed by Leo flew in from the window of the tent and landed on a shelf containing a large number of metal fragments. Then he used witchcraft to get out of the bird. All he saw was that the feathers on the bird were

The black image turned into a ball of black smoke and surged out, falling to the ground, forming a gathering black mist that gradually expanded. Leo's body quickly recovered from the black mist.

After his body was completely restored, Leo stepped out of the black fog. The black fog scattered on the ground like dust and quickly disappeared.

Leo walked to the bookshelf and carefully pulled out the thickest notebook from the bookshelf. Judging from the wear marks on the notebook, this notebook should have been written a long time ago.

After opening the notebook and looking at the date marked on it, Leo learned that the earliest content of this notebook was more than twenty years ago, and he also confirmed that the old man on the camp bed behind him was the Francis Hamilton he had guessed.

The contents of the notes are some language research that Francis did when he was in prison. Although the prison where Francis was in was one of the toughest prisons in the world, Francis himself was very rich and had a lot of money.

In terms of reputation, except for the restrictions on his movement, other expenses there are not much worse than those in the outside world.

Moreover, some scholars often went to the prison with some language questions and ancient relics to ask Francis for advice. Therefore, Francis’ language research has not been interrupted for so many years, and all research has been carried out.

He recorded it completely in his notes, and these notes were on the bookshelf in front of Leo.

Through the Gamorrean language, Leo learned that some of the ancient languages ​​​​in the world of Velen contain mysterious powers that can affect spiritual energy, so he also paid special attention to language knowledge. The notes in front of him seemed to others to be messy.

, an obscure and useless thing, but to Leo it is an extremely valuable wealth of knowledge.

Leo did not put these notes into the storage space, but stood next to the bookshelf, flipped through the notes, and carefully wrote down the contents of the notes.

This was not because he really couldn't wait to master the language knowledge recorded in the notes, but because when he was looking through the notes just now, he discovered that there was something abnormal in his brain.

Although for unknown reasons, he lost the auxiliary ability of the accessory brain system, and could not even remember the method of creating the accessory brain, such as facial splitting, but just now, he discovered that some of the capabilities of the accessory brain did not seem to exist.

disappeared, but remained.

For example, the ability to record images. The notes in Leo's hand are messy. It would be difficult to write down these contents in a short time using his own memory ability, but his brain can read the notes at the moment he sees them.

Without understanding the Naxi knowledge in the notes, the entire scene of the notes is recorded in the brain in the form of image data, just like a scanned picture, which he can call up directly whenever he needs.

Moreover, Leo also found through some tests that the ability of the accessory brain system of this kind of image recording is not only preserved as it is, but also enhanced.

For example, in the past, if Leo wanted to record the text content in his notes, he had to read them carefully from beginning to end before they could be recognized by the accessory brain system and turned into raw data, stored in the database, and recorded purely with the ability to record images.

Knowledge pictures will only result in some blurry images that cannot be distinguished. This is not a defect in the ability of the accessory brain system, but a defect in everyone's subconscious ability to recognize knowledge images. Image recording can only be fragmented, centralized and

Abstraction, while knowledge memory requires logic, continuity and understanding.

But now Leo finds that his brain seems to have broken this cognitive defect with the disappearance of the accessory brain. As long as it can be presented in the form of a picture, whether it is a dynamic image or static knowledge, it can be complete.

It is recorded by the brain without even needing to understand anything on the picture.

In short, his brain and eyes are a master-level server without artificial intelligence, equipped with a high-definition camera and a super database.

At this moment, Leo didn't know whether the changes in his brain were ultimately good or bad, but judging from the current situation, the changes in his brain were actually a good thing. He no longer had to read through every memorized book as before.

, he only needs to turn the pages of the book at a certain speed. Although this recording method does not allow him to understand the knowledge in the book, it can shorten the recording time. When he wants to learn this knowledge, he only needs to find time to read it.

These image data will do.

In this way, Leo's time arrangement has become much more flexible. He can let his mind enter a state of light sleep while sleeping, allowing his body to rest while learning the recorded knowledge.

Although there are a lot of books and notes on the bookshelf, Leo's image recording is so strong that it took less than half an hour to record all the contents in image form.

After recording Francis' language research data, Leo moved to the metal fragments placed on the wooden shelf nearby, picked up each metal fragment, and carefully sensed the psychic energy fluctuations on it.

However, just as he was inspecting a dozen metal fragments, a slight noise from outside the tent attracted his attention.

Leo put down the metal fragments in his hands, moved quickly, and retreated to the shadow between the two wooden frames. He then took out a spider he had caught in the forest from his pocket, chanting some spells, and

The spider was crushed and sprinkled on his body. The moment the spider debris fell on him, the surrounding shadow spread like oil, wrapping his whole body and completely blending him into the shadow.

Just when Leo used the shadow technique to hide, the tent curtain suddenly opened a corner, and a black shadow came in from the outside. When it got in, it also skillfully opened the corner of the curtain silently.

lay down.

The intruder was seen wearing a black tight-fitting leather jacket with some Turing roots printed on it, and emitting a faint wave of psychic energy. It looked like it should be a magical artifact. In addition, the intruder's

The head was covered by a black hood, and the eyes were covered with equipment similar to diving goggles. The other facial features were not exposed. It could only be judged that he was a man from his body shape.

On the back of the intruder was a special tactical backpack, which contained weapons such as hand crossbows and some exquisite mechanical tools.

After Leo's eyes scanned the intruder, he paused for a moment on the hand crossbow on his backpack, and then quietly waited for the intruder's follow-up actions.

The intruder glanced around the tent, and finally his eyes fell on the sleeping Francis. He followed him and sneaked to the bedside, reached out and took out a metal pipe from the pendant of the backpack.

Then he twisted the metal pipe, and a stream of milky white smoke emerged from the nozzle at one end of the metal pipe and lingered in the air with no sign of dissipating.

Then the intruder quickly drew several circles on the edge of the smoke with his fingers. As if the smoke was under control, it flew towards Francis's face, shrouded his face in it, and was quickly inhaled.

Into Francis' body.

The moment he inhaled the smoke, Francis's snoring suddenly stopped, but he did not wake up. Instead, he fell into a deeper sleep, and his breathing became smoother and longer.

After solving the problem of Francis waking up, the intruder immediately walked to the bookshelf where Leo had stayed for a long time, and quickly and purposefully rummaged through the notes, and soon he found it.

something you want.

I saw that he took out a roll of paper from the cylinder hanging on his waist, then spread the paper and placed it on the information he was looking for. Then he took out a bottle of liquid and sprayed it evenly on the paper, followed by

Pages of information were printed on the white paper above.

Later, the intruder used the same method to copy the information he wanted one by one. After all the information was completed, he rerolled the paper and put it into the cylinder, then turned and walked out of the tent.

When he reached the tent door curtain, he suddenly stopped, quickly took off the hand crossbow, used the mechanical device on the hand crossbow to automatically wind the arrow, and aimed the arrow tip at the hiding place.

, and at the same time, he said coldly in a low voice: "You have watched for so long, you must have seen enough, right? Come out and talk! It seems that we are all enemies of the empire, and maybe we can have a chance to cooperate."

"It's impossible, we won't cooperate, because I have never regarded the French Empire as an enemy." His whereabouts were discovered, and Leo no longer hid. After removing the shadow on his body, he walked out, and
Chapter completed!