"Do you believe what Cassie Tully said?" After returning to the manor from Prison Island, Sylvia processed the documents in her hands and suddenly asked Leo who was reading by the window.

"I don't believe everything," Leo answered in the affirmative, closed the book in his hand, and added: "Not only can I not believe everything Cassie Tully said, but I don't even believe everything the lady said."

"Why?" Sylvia was not surprised by Leo's answer, but still asked curiously.

Leo said in a relaxed tone: "He himself has already given the answer. After he came to this world, he was being changed and assimilated by the power of this world. The lady in the lake who has been changed and assimilated is still the lady in the lake. He and

Whether the Lady in the Lake in the Velen World is still in contact is debatable. At least what the Lady in the Lake asked us to do before coming here proves that the Lady in the Lake in this world may have..."

Leo didn't finish what he said, but his meaning was expressed very clearly. Sylvia nodded in agreement after hearing this. In fact, she had already had doubts on the way back, but she hadn't figured out the problem yet.

, now Leo's words just confirmed that her suspicion was correct.

"Then what are we going to do next?" Sylvia asked again.

"What should we do?" Leo asked.

Sylvia frowned and said, "Do you want to follow the words of the lady in the lake and go to the place where He sleeps to help Him solve the problem of being assimilated?"

"Did we promise?" Leo smiled and asked.

"We..." Sylvia was about to say something when she suddenly stopped and looked at Leo with a strange expression.

"We have not promised anything," Leo smiled: "We only promised the lady in the lake in Velen's world to find the lady in the lake in this world and check the situation. Now we have fulfilled our promise. We have found the lake in this world.

The Lady in the Lake knows that He is being assimilated into this world, but we have not promised the Lady in the Lake in this world to do anything.”

Sylvia also smiled at this time and said: "You really look like a politician now."

"No, I should look like a person now." Leo retorted, and then continued: "We don't need to look for it deliberately, but if we encounter it, we can also go and have a look. This seems to be the same lake person."

The meaning of "Ms."

Sylvia was noncommittal about this. Although she was regarded as the divine choice of the Lady in the Lake, she did not take this identity seriously. She only used it when necessary. She never thought about a real one.

What obligations should the chosen lady of the lake fulfill?

Afterwards, Leo and Sylvia lived a very ordinary life for more than ten days. After handling necessary official duties every day, they played around the city of Beiruk. Nothing unusual happened around them. They felt like two people.

Like a true reclusive rich man.

However, such good days soon ended, because the special commissioner from the federal capital came to the manor again for the second round of negotiations. As for the content of the negotiations, as Sylvia speculated, the federal capital

They did not agree to let Leo get the mining rights and partial jurisdiction of Emerald Island, but could give similar rights to other places, and also gave several locations including the timber mining rights of Troub Mountain in Josh County.

Although the current construction industry is mainly based on the latest reinforced concrete construction methods, and there are almost no wooden buildings in the city, the price of wood is still high because a large amount of high-grade wood has been repackaged by merchants

After a while, it became a high-end luxury product and entered the homes of the rich and powerful.

For those powerful people, if their leisure villa in the suburbs is not a wooden building, they will have no status. If the furniture in their home is just metal furniture like ordinary people, they will lose face, etc. Therefore, wood, especially

The price of high-grade wood in the market is increasing almost every month. More than ten years ago, one thousand yuan could buy a very good log, but now you can only buy an unwanted wooden pier.

Mount Trubo is one of the important producing areas of high-grade wood in the entire Ote Federation. Because the wood here has some golden color, and after being specially roasted, it will emit a refreshing aroma for a long time, so it is called gold.

Fragrant wood.

A complete set of furniture made of golden incense wood costs more than 150,000 yuan, and making a standard villa house with golden incense wood costs at least tens of millions, not counting the cost of handiwork and labor, so golden incense wood has always been the

The top quality wood in the wood market.

Although a large amount of golden fragrant wood is mined every year in Mount Trubo, there has never been a shortage of wood here, because this is a very magical place for the Otter Alliance and even other people in the world. Some people

The growth cycle of certain plants here is much shorter than elsewhere.

For example, a golden incense tree needs nearly thirty years of growth cycle to fully mature in other places, but in Mount Trubo it is shortened to three to six years.

Not only the Ot Federation is very miraculous about this phenomenon, but even the previous kingdoms here are also interested in this phenomenon and have been sending people to study it.

It's a pity that after so many years of research, no reason has been found. Various magical hypotheses are flooded in related research projects. Among these messy hypotheses, there is one that has attracted much attention from Leo and Sylvie.

With Ya's attention, the content of this hypothesis is very simple, that is, those specific plants and Mount Troub are not native to this world, but come from another world, so they behave differently.

This hypothesis is not taken seriously in this world, and is even ridiculed. On the contrary, Leo and Sylvia couldn't help but smile knowingly, just like when they saw the Trouble Mountain in Josh County.

Like related legends, this situation is clearly the phenomenon of the Black Forest, and they even have reason to suspect that Mount Truber is an extension of the Black Forest.

If Mount Truber is brought into the Black Forest, then all the magical legends about Mount Truber will be explained.

Therefore, Leo and Sylvia had already thought about the idea of ​​going to Mount Troubo long before the federal government commissioner came into contact with them, but now the federal government gave them a better option.

The timber mining rights in Mount Troubo have always been in the hands of government-controlled logging companies. Because the profits are huge and it is one of the important financial sources for the federal government, it has never been opened to the outside world.

However, the potential benefits of Leo's special steel formula have far exceeded the timber income of Trub Mountain. Coupled with the influence of steel on the military reform of the entire Ot Federation, the federal government is willing to provide

The big cake that I have mastered for many years is shared with an outsider like Leo.

Another point is that Josh County is different from Belluc City. Belluc City is almost a municipality directly under the central government, and there is also the Municipal National Defense Force belonging to Belluc City. The city agencies have considerable power, and even

You can disobey federal government orders when necessary.

Leo and Sylvia already have a certain degree of influence in the upper class society in Beruk City, and this influence is still increasing. Anyone can see that sooner or later, this couple will be able to influence Beruk.

The decision-making level of the city is something that the Ott federal government is not willing to see. After all, letting a foreign couple affect its important domestic financial, trade and transportation hubs is a very serious issue for any country.

Josh County is different. It is nicknamed Pension County because it has the best natural scenery in the Outer Federation and the best agricultural land. It is located right next to the capital county and has three federal military bases nearby.

, able to cope with any unexpected event at any time.

Placing Leo and Sylvia here is absolutely in line with the interests of the Ott Federation, and it is also definitely in line with the ideas of those in power in the federal government.

Therefore, among the conditions set out in the documents brought by the federal government commissioner, the timber mining rights and territorial jurisdiction of Mount Troubo definitely far exceeded some other conditions, as if they were explicitly telling Leo to choose this.

This is correct and will not make us suspect that you have ulterior motives in coming to our country.

Leo and Sylvia naturally saw through this little thought easily. Although it was in line with their ideas, they did not intend to just print it out, so Sylvia had another discussion with the federal government commissioner.

After a lot of bargaining and constant testing of the other party's bottom line, the deal was finally settled almost based on the bottom line.

Leo came up with the formula for the special steel and the subsequent improved formula, and the smelter cooperated with the federal government's expansion and production increase, in exchange for the mining rights and jurisdiction over a large area of ​​virgin mountain forest in Mount Trubo.

In addition, the cooperation agreement between Leo and the federal government on weapons development was also exchanged for other conditions, such as access to some banned information, etc.

Obviously this time the federal government gave this commissioner considerable authority. After the negotiation conditions were reached, he did not leave and report the new conditions to the federal government. Instead, he directly made modifications, stamped the federal government's seal, and then found

The mayor of Beluk City, the chief justice and the general prosecutor were notarized and signed on the spot.

This also allowed Leo and Sylvia to see Justice Rosie Hassan again. Different from the situation when they saw Rosie Hassan before, both of them now knew that the Chief Justice of Beluk City was a god.

He is a person who knows how to do it, and he is also a person who has completed an unknown sacrificial ritual and stolen a part of the power of an unknown god.

So when the chief justice arrived, Leo and Sylvia both secretly observed each other carefully. They could clearly find that the chief justice would show an unnatural expression after entering the villa.

It was as if he had come to a place that disgusted him, but he quickly covered it up, and when Leo mentioned that his seal was placed in the basement under the villa, his expression changed again, showing a little panic.

However, although the chief justice showed some abnormalities, he did not have the aura of divine power that Leo and Sylvia hoped to see. Even Leo's use of spiritual vision did not detect it on him.

Any abnormality, but one interesting thing is that when Leo used the mental net, he found that there were no traces of mutation on the surface of the chief justice's body, but there was an unknown force under the skin of the body that was preventing the mental...

Net penetration.

At the same time, the chief justice seemed to be sensing something, but he didn't know that the spiritual network he sensed came from Leo. Instead, he thought it came from the basement, so he said that he still had important things to deal with and was urgent.

Impatiently urging Leo and Sylvia to sign the agreement.

Although I don’t know what means the chief justice used to hide his body’s mutation and power, but now that Leo has determined the chief justice’s membership in the Spiritual Society, the next step is to consider how to start from

He further dug out the secrets of the Society of Gods. Of course, the premise was that Leo and Sylvia were interested in the Society of Gods.

After signing the cooperation agreement and research agreement, the mayor, the justice and the prosecutor general as notaries all left. Before leaving, the special commissioner took out another document and handed it to Leo.

This document is information on the Ot federal government's development of weapons of mass destruction, but it is incomplete, with less than one-third of the content. This document is only provided to Leo as an advance reference for the development of similar weapons.

Subsequent information will not be handed over to Leo until Leo and Sylvia officially complete the expansion of the smelter and move to their forest area on Mount Trubo.

After seeing off the special commissioner, Sylvia went to the smelting plant to deal with matters such as expansion and merger, while Leo stayed in the manor to study the Otter Federation's weapon research information.

Although this information only contains one-third of the content, and many key contents have been deleted from this one-third of the content, the remaining content is enough for Leo to deduce the plans of the Ott federal government.

Which weapon is used as a prototype to conduct subsequent research on this weapon?

At the very beginning of this document, the name of the prototype weapon, Divine Wrath, is mentioned, which is very vivid and direct. Later, it is also mentioned what the blasphemous name of this weapon is in other church records that did not participate in that religious war.

Blood.

One is divine wrath, the other is blasphemous blood. The meanings of the two are very different, but in fact the content is the same, because the core of this weapon is the blood of an unknown god.

In the view of the churches that participated in the war, this weapon was a manifestation of the wrath of the gods, because the churches that participated in the war were abusing the blood of the gods, while the churches that did not participate in the war believed that the use of the blood of the gods by those churches that participated in the war was undoubtedly an act of blasphemy.

The specific manufacturing method of this weapon was not mentioned in the document, and perhaps the federal government did not know it either, but they made various guesses and based on these guesses, they produced at least fifty kinds of prototype weapons, and in Leo's hands

There are only three types of weapons in the information. What is interesting is that the manufacturing principles of these three weapons all involve religious mysticism.
Chapter completed!