Volume 1 Crime and Punishment in Fog City Chapter 7 Steam and God
Twenty minutes later, the noble who was still listening to music in the bronze secret room looked at the blurry figure in front of him with a slightly surprised expression.
"Oh, my friend, I have to say that your ability to act really surprises me--"
"There are three keys to the gate of the Dawn Organization. Don't tell me you don't know about these bugs in the sewers."
The distorted and blurry shadow raised his hand slightly, and three key components shining with silver light appeared on the mechanical table and twisted smoothly in front of the noble.
Looking at the key that still had a bloody smell on it, the elegant noble shrugged and pressed a button without caring. The gears on the machine table changed, steam gushed out, and no one knew where these things were sent to in the end.
However, this move made Li Lin feel a little happy. If it was just left there, it would mean that the reward for would not be too high, because it was not a very urgent performance. But if it was directly teleported like this, it would be very likely to prove that his judgment was correct, and a very wonderful equipment was waving to him.
"This is really surprising. The organization is deeply rooted in the middle areas. Our people-"
"Fourteen people. I have cleared all the guards. Tell your people to kill all those bugs. I just want what I deserve."
"And what about the reward?"
"You can give me anything you think is not excessive."
"Then you really came up with an excessive excuse... You got all these things in just two hours, but you want the accumulation of hundreds of years in Fog City..."
"But you wouldn't even dream of getting these things without me."
"Ah, that's true. Then the negotiation is concluded."
The noble didn't seem to want to get into any more trouble, so he smiled and clapped his hands.
As Li Lin looked slightly surprised, a quasi-human being covered in pipes and mechanical mechanisms with layers of air rising from his head came along a strange path, holding a box and placing it in front of him. Then he bowed slightly and slowly sank into the ground in the room.
God knows how many mechanisms there are in this room. Engineers who have been immersed in steam and mechanical arts for hundreds of years often find many kinds of crazy structures and messy functions. Just by looking at the jacket he was wearing, he knew that the high-end combat power of this city was probably not something to be trifled with, so Li Lin suppressed his curiosity about this strange humanoid and did not ask any more questions.
"Steam Hymn, Sword of the Holy Spirit Watt, I think you will like it ."
"……No."
Looking at the bronze sword placed on the red soft cloth in the box, Li Lin frowned with some dissatisfaction.
"I already have a two-handed sword, the standard equipment of the Silver Dawn. I believe their technology and enchantment are more effective than ordinary steam products-"
"No, no, no, you misunderstood. Although our city is sealed in fog, it does not mean that we have no communication with the outside world. In fact, inside this Holy Spirit Sword is a core made by a crazy master craftsman who obtained very strange knowledge during a trip to . Rather than calling it a sword, it is better to call it a comprehensive product."
"What do you mean?"
"It can turn into a knife, a gun, a sword, a halberd, and anything else you can think of. It has incredible lethality, and while drinking blood, it can tear the enemy's soul apart. The price you pay is that you need to dedicate a certain amount of...normality to this sword. I know it's hard to believe, but in fact, almost all the owners of this thing went crazy within five years. Their spirits may have been sacrificed to this sword of the Holy Spirit, but who knows the truth?"
"So you're giving me something dangerous like this?"
"But I think this is the dangerous and powerful weapon you need. At least it is stronger than most of the things we have in stock, and much stronger. I think you will like this."
"...I'm beginning to look forward to what you will give me after all the problems are resolved. I really like it. We'll meet here in three days."
"Your will."
The figure after the saint's face changed twisted like a wisp of green smoke, uttered bursts of mysterious laughter, and then disappeared from the room.
The nobleman sat calmly on the chair, stroking his carefully groomed mustache with his fingers, and did not seem to be frightened by this strange phenomenon. After a long time, a man's voice came from the bronze pipe behind the chair that seemed to be a decoration.
"'It's worthy of being the nightmare of the Black Forest. No one is left alive, all valuable things are cleared out, and all worthless things are dismantled and thrown away. The most terrifying thing is that they seem to have been killed but they can still escape alive... If there are tens of thousands of people like this, I don't know how to control them.'"
"In fact, I also received the police officer's report."
Sitting in the empty room, the noble nodded his head, and his skin, which looked no different from that of a human, made a metallic knocking sound.
"All security personnel in the corridor were killed, and the last three senior guards were killed in one second. No alarm was sounded. The insider claimed that the gathering place didn't even know what happened... Horrible human beings."
"'Hahaha, he is a monster after all. He appears out of nowhere and disappears out of nowhere. According to reports, various forces have killed him more than four hundred times in the Black Forest, but he reappears in front of people every time. Moreover, his exquisite killing skills are like art, and his growth rate is terrifying. Li Lin has only appeared in front of everyone for five months, but we have seen the damage and destruction he has caused. He is like a sharp steam dagger, and you will be killed without a doubt if you stab him.'"
"So that's why he used it as a sword to destroy the revolutionaries in the underground city? Can't I do the same?"
"'The Steam Saint Servant is our Fog City's last trump card. You, who were born from the flesh and blood engine created by the Holy Spirit Watt from the knowledge of the Revelation, are the most precious trump card. If you anger him, even if you suffer a little loss or are simply exposed, it will not be worth it.'"
"I don't think so. Even if he finds out the truth, he won't do anything to us. An absolute egoist will never give up a reward. His time is precious. Kill, kill, rob, rob, learn, learn. Even if we deceive him, he won't feel anything. At most, he will think that this behavior is very interesting. It's just like the role-playing games that humans played when they were young. He is the 'player', right? Even if we discuss how to kill him in front of him, he won't show any expression."
"'That's true. After all, it's just a game to him. But as long as there is a possibility, then we can't take the risk.'"
"You are right, Speaker. Let him be the knife."
Then, by the way, take away all the weird things that still exist in the foggy city. Best of both worlds, a win-win outcome.
Thinking back to the strange items stored in the storage room, even though the noble was a man-made creature, a trace of fear flashed through his mature soul.
If this so-called university professor can successfully solve the dungeon problem, then why not give him everything in the warehouse? Wudu has had enough of the monsters' entanglement, it's time for them to change to a new owner.
But are those monsters even one ten-thousandth as crazy as the 'players'?
Human beings are truly worth learning from...
The artificial aristocrat sitting on the chair shook his wine glass and fell into deep thought.
