Chapter 67 Conditions, Magic, and Women
After leaving the villa, Anne and Leo stopped riding horses. They walked to the main street outside the villa area, stopped a carriage directly, and drove towards Anne's hospital.
On the way, neither of them spoke, just like when they came in the carriage, but this time Anne was waiting for Leo to speak, while Leo was thinking about what happened in the villa.
Being able to learn the words in the wilderness wizard's notebook is naturally very important to Leo. Even if the old man derogates the wilderness wizard's notebook as worthless, it is still very useful to him, at least it allows him to understand this.
Some details about the power of the mysterious side of the world.
However, Leo didn't believe that there was a free lunch in the world. Since there was something to gain, one had to pay, so Leo directly asked the old man what he had to pay.
The answer he got was a bit surprising. The old man only needed Leo to help him pick up one thing from a house.
At first, Leo thought that the old man was going to steal something from someone else's house, but he soon discovered that he had misunderstood because the house where the old man wanted Leo to go was one of his properties.
Asking someone to pick up something from a house under his own name sounds extremely weird in itself, but when Leo asked the old man for more details, the old man was unwilling to answer any more.
In this regard, Leo could only say that he would not agree to such a thing before understanding the actual situation, and the old man did not get angry. He still wrote an introductory letter to Leo and said that he could continue when Leo thought about it clearly.
This deal.
From the moment he left the villa, Leo always felt that his experience in the villa was a bit strange, because the process of talking to the old man in the villa was not like himself. He seemed not to be too wary of the old man.
Even something very important to him, such as the Wilderness Wizard's notes, was shown to the old man.
This situation made him think of Martin Luther. Martin Luther also had a similar affinity, but it was far inferior to the old man. Moreover, his affinity was more of a psychic skill.
It does not originate from himself like the old man, so he cannot find abnormal data from the data of the accessory brain system.
"What a terrible old man. As long as you are around him, you will be affected by him involuntarily." Leo suddenly spoke and said in a confused manner.
Annie smiled and said, "Haha! It's the first time you've met him. You'll get used to it after you've been with him for a long time."
Leo looked at Annie sitting on the chair opposite and said, "Speaking of which, it's really weird. I still don't know who he is?"
"Didn't he tell you?" Annie was stunned and said.
Leo shook his head.
Annie smiled and said, "Since he didn't tell you, I won't tell you either. You can check it yourself, or wait for him to tell you personally."
Leo also expected Anne to have such an answer. If Anne wanted to say it, she would have said it on the way here.
Leo then asked: "When did you see the... in your words, what is this called? Magic power?"
"After you go upstairs, there is a gadget in my laboratory that detects magic power." Anne said truthfully: "To be honest, the magic power on you is the purest I have seen in so many years."
Leo said in a deep voice: "So you just treat me as a wizard who hides his identity and take me to see the old man?"
"Yes." Annie nodded and said, "He is also the only person in the entire Miria City who can help you and is willing to help."
"Do you know why he went to the wizard?"
"I don't know." Annie shook her head and said, "His obsession with wizards is well-known in the association. He brought you there just to make him happy. As long as people are happy, they can say anything. What do you think?"
, she suddenly asked curiously: "You have asked me so many questions, and I also want to ask you one question. Is this okay?"
Leo smiled and wanted to tell her that she didn't have any positive answers to the questions he asked, but in the end he held back, nodded, and said, "You can ask!"
Anne asked very curiously: "Where did the magic power in you come from? Since you are not a wizard, how can you have such pure magic power?"
Leo did not answer honestly, but pretended to be mysterious: "The magic power in me and the magic power in you should have similar origins."
However, Anne believed it. The reason why she believed Leo's words was entirely because of the purple crown flower. She felt that only people with the same experience as herself could pick this flower that should not appear in the world.
Anne's current reaction surprised Leo. He just made a random joke, but Anne believed it. This was somewhat beyond his expectation.
Of course he would not think that a woman like Anne was easy to deceive. The only possibility was that his nonsense words were understood to mean something else.
Soon the accessory brain system analyzed a possibility, Purple Crown Flower, Black Forest.
In the data record of the accessory brain system, Old Man Pierre once mentioned that a person had gone in and out of the Black Forest during the foggy period and had also seen the Purple Crown Flower, but he did not name this person.
Now it seems that this person is probably the Anne in front of her, and this Anne's psychic powers were probably acquired in the Black Forest. Even her appearance that is much younger than her age may be related to the Black Forest.
Although Annie already believed Leo's words, she still had some instinctive doubts, so she asked tentatively: "Have you been there?"
If Leo hadn't analyzed the results and heard this confusing question, he would definitely not know the reason and get involved in the gang, but now he knew exactly how to answer and said: "In the mist?"
It was also a vague answer, but it was enough for Annie to completely believe Leo's nonsense.
Leo really wanted to continue asking, and wanted to know what Anne got in the foggy wonderland of the Black Forest that allowed her to stay young like she is now. After all, delaying aging is also a big issue in the Earth Federation, and there is no such thing so far.
A solid result.
But Leo also understood that if he asked too many questions, the possibility of leakage would be greater. If not, it would make Annie fall out, which was a bit self-defeating, so he suppressed his curiosity and did not ask any more questions.
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Soon the carriage arrived at Anne's neighborhood hospital. Anne stopped the carriage at the door and spent three gold flanges to hire the carriage for three days. During these three days, she, Leo and others would probably have to travel everywhere to avoid having to go back to the hospital again.
Call a carriage temporarily on the street.
When they went upstairs, they saw Jason following Leo's orders and guarding the door. The repeating flintlock hand cannon he had always regarded as a treasure was also taken out and set up at the door, which frightened Annie who had just opened the door.
A big jump.
However, despite being frightened, Anne also praised the design of the flintlock hand cannon and felt that it could continue to be improved. She also said that she would introduce the designer to a good friend of hers who specializes in machinery if she has the opportunity.
Thinking of the bar that Anne saw and the device on the old man's body, Leo felt that the friend Anne was referring to was the manufacturer of these machines. Jean Valjean could know such a master of mechanical manufacturing, and he should have a lot of respect for him.
He wanted help, so he told Anne the identity of Jean Valjean.
On the other side, Nelson and Catherine had taken advantage of the time that Anne and Leo were away to compile a draft about suturing surgery. Because it was a draft, there were many mistakes.
Although Leo did not know any medical skills, he was very good at healing wounds on the battlefield. He quickly pointed out the mistakes and, under Anne's arrangement, demonstrated three different suturing techniques on the corpses parked in the basement of the hospital.
In response to three different injuries, this paper was completely completed in a short period of time.
However, after reading the paper, Anne shook her head and changed the three suture techniques in the paper to one. In addition, she also deleted some content that could improve the surgical effect, such as special surgical forceps, sutures, etc.
, leaving only a paper that is slightly better than the draft, with little practical content, but very complete theoretical knowledge.
Seeing the puzzled expressions of Leo and others, Anne smiled and said: "This is not in the academy, this is in Miria, the big stage of world politics. Here you not only need to learn to release your talents, but also
Know when to let the light of talent converge. A perfect paper is good, but it lacks everyone's participation and the fun of everyone's profit. What do you think about a theoretical paper in which everyone participates and an article that is only glanced at?
Which one is more likely to attract people’s attention in a short period of time?”
Although Nelson and Catherine felt that what Annie said was reasonable, they still felt that something was wrong. As for Leo, he was used to the faces of the politicians of the Earth Federation, so he naturally had no objection to the behavior of politicians like Annie.
After that, Anne did not ask Nelson and Catherine to write the next paper. Instead, she took this paper and led Leo and the four of them out of the hospital and took a carriage to the Velen Medical Association in the administrative district.
The administrative district is one of the three earliest districts established in Milia City. It has grown from the earliest one block to the current seven blocks. The entire administrative district has experienced three expansions. Only when there was no more land to expand, some minor areas were added.
Departments were separated and a sub-administrative area was established in the suburbs to alleviate the increasingly tense land use.
The Velen Medical Association is a landmark building in the administrative district. The shape of the building is simple and concise. It is a five-story cube with a hundred rooms across. It is nicknamed a square brick by the locals.
At the main entrance of the Medical Association, there is a square that covers an area similar to the area of the association building. Rows of stone tablets carved and polished from black stone, a specialty of Mata Town, are neatly erected in the square.
A list of those who died in the Great Plague in the world of Velen.
Although there are no shocking buildings or gorgeous statues here, anyone who approaches this square will feel a strong sense of solemnity. Standing nearby, even the voice of the speaker cannot help but lower his voice.
After arriving here, Nelson and Catherine both had a pilgrim mentality. Although Velen Medical College is the cradle of Velen world medicine, this is the center of Velen medicine.
After Anne led the four people into the building, she first arranged Leo and Jason in the reception room next to the entrance of the building, and then led Nelson and Catherine to the medical school's headquarters in the building.
While waiting, Jason was a little bored, so he got up and walked to the public exhibition hall on the side of the building to see the biological organ exhibition unfolding there.
And Leo had long been accustomed to seeing corpses scattered with flesh and blood on the battlefield, and had no interest in these biological organs soaked in bottles, so he stayed in the reception room and picked up a newspaper for entertainment and read it.
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Not long after, someone suddenly sat next to Leo.
There were a lot of empty seats in the reception room, but they leaned closer to him. Leo was naturally alert and turned his head to look at the person coming.
I saw that this was a woman, and she was a very beautiful woman. Even in the era of the Earth Federation where ugly men and ugly women were almost invisible after genetic modification, she was definitely one of those with outstanding appearance.
Her delicate facial features, long wavy red hair, and slender neck make her look like a marble statue, more like a perfect woman carefully carved by an artist.
This woman is not only outstanding in appearance, but also has a very hot figure. She wears a somewhat rebellious leather black trench coat. The skirt is deliberately open, allowing people to see the fullness inside that is deliberately accentuated by the fishbone lace bra. The tight leather on the lower body
The trousers and high-heeled boots, as well as the women's broad-bladed swords and hand crossbows worn on both sides, gave her an overall queenly look.
"Why are you here?" Just as Leo was looking at the beautiful woman, the woman suddenly asked Leo.
Leo was stunned and asked doubtfully: "Miss, do I know you?"
The woman was stunned for a moment, then seemed to realize something, smiled, and said inexplicably: "I said, we will definitely cooperate."
Leo didn't understand it for a while after hearing this, but soon he thought of something and looked at this extremely beautiful woman with a look of horror. After scanning her body several times, Leo became a little confused.
Confirmed: "Baron Maupassant?"
The woman smiled and leaned slightly towards Leo, like an actor taking a final call on the stage.
"How is this possible?" Leo was still in disbelief.
Although men can become more feminine than women through some means of makeup, there are huge differences in the bones between men and women after all, which cannot be changed by makeup alone.
The woman in front of me who calls herself Baron de Maupassant is a woman through and through. It’s okay that the body hidden by clothes cannot be seen, but the bones of the face and head are real female bones, just like the Maupassant recorded by Leo.
The Baron's head skeleton is completely that of two people.
Leo still asked doubtfully: "Are you really Baron Maupassant?"
The woman smiled, raised her hand and took off her gloves, revealing the wooden ring on her hand.
People can fake things, but psychic devices cannot fake things. Leo now believed that the woman in front of him was Baron Maupassant, but he still didn't know what to say. He opened his mouth and asked, "Are you a man?"
Chapter completed!