Mysteries: Arcana Wars

Backlund, Sivelas Field.

After "visiting" Audrey's Carlo Clinic, Leonard parted ways with Klein, and after running to several places related to the case, he finally returned to the police station.

It was late at night, and the Sivellas Field was much emptier. Most of the remaining people were the complainers who were on night shift today and the unlucky ones who continued to work overtime tonight. Leonard was used to this.

But as soon as Leonard sat back in his seat, he felt an irresistible drowsiness coming over him.

The spiritual warning hinted to him who was coming, so Leonard did not resist and fell into the dream.

When he opened his eyes again, Leonard found himself still in the office of Sivelas Field, but the house was quiet and all the employees outside had disappeared. It seemed that he was the only one left.

"Leonard Mitchell."

Gloria walked in from outside the office carrying a black briefcase. Leonard stood up from his chair and watched Gloria put the small briefcase on his desk.

"From now on, you are conscripted."

Gloria pressed a button and the suitcase opened by itself, revealing a black metal plate under which a folded sheet of paper was pressed.

The whole box is not big, only the size of a palm, and the handle is foldable. If you close the box and put away the handle, it can be called a box.

The metal plate took up most of the space in the box. Leonard had no knowledge of this area, so he couldn't tell what kind of metal it was. He could only tell that it was quite old, and it must have been made before the information revolution. This black and yellow color was very common in metal products at the end of the electrical age.

But this thing is solid, and it feels heavy in the hand. It is not worth mentioning for a Beyonder of Leonard's level, but it is indeed an unbearable weight for ordinary people to commute.

This suddenly reminded Leonard of a scene he had just attended, where a drunkard who enjoyed killing people took a large piece of scrap metal like this and helped a lucky passerby to use his imagination. Through a brainstorming session, he successfully helped him find a green channel to the kingdom of God. The other party was immediately so excited that his blood boiled, and he couldn't wait to embark on a pilgrimage before he could even say thank you.

The shape of this metal plate is rather abstract, similar to the mass of construction waste, but it has large flat surfaces carved out at the front and back, densely engraved with small Rune letters.

However, Leonard soon discovered that this was not Loenese. It seemed to be a transcription of some language using Loenese, or even a mixture of multiple languages. It was meaningless to understand it only in Loenese.

This is an encrypted message.

It would be difficult to crack it in a short time, and it would not be wise to cheat in front of the bishop. Leonard took out the metal plate and began to read the document underneath. As expected, it was a mission briefing.

"Your mission is to go to Hazel Street in the underground city and give the token to the siblings Shanning Tesla and Sander Tesla. They will tell you the rest."

"The Tesla siblings...are they the Tesla family that produced so many inventors?" Leonard reacted.

Gloria said nothing and agreed with Leonard's guess.

Electricity was first widely used by people in the Fifth Epoch. Leonard clearly remembered that when he was a "child" and had just become a Night Watcher, there was a telegraph machine in his office that sometimes worked and sometimes didn't.

In the post-apocalyptic era, after the second steam revolution, technology based on steam-powered machinery and supplemented by electricity has achieved unprecedented development. It was not until four hundred years later, when the electrical revolution started in Loen, that Leonard realized that the electricity he used before should be called "direct current", and that the electricity that led human society to move forward significantly during the electrical revolution was called "alternating current".

After the electrical revolution, people spent more than five hundred years in the electrical age.

If the Mansteins are the symbol of the Sixth Steam Age, then the rise of the Tesla family is the symbol of the Sixth Electrical Age.

From the invention of alternating current to its application, from alternating current generators to alternating current appliances...scientists and inventors named Tesla have come into people's view one after another, bringing epoch-making inventions and discoveries, overturning people's imagination of ordinary science again and again. The descendants of the Tesla family followed in the footsteps of their predecessors, continuing their research in electrical engineering and electromagnetism from generation to generation, creating a miracle in the history of science.

From the middle to the end of the steam age, the Tesla family was active throughout the electrical age and until after the information revolution. Even in this era, Leonard, who was not interested in technological development, sometimes heard that someone with the last name Tesla had made a breakthrough in some aspect, but it did not have such a high social significance as it did hundreds of years ago.

In order to commemorate the great contributions of the Tesla family, this surname is used as a physics unit.

Leonard rarely hears about any explosive technological breakthroughs from the Tesla family nowadays, but that doesn't mean they have become obscure after leaving the stage of history. In places that are not visible to the mainstream, this family is still quietly exporting the best electrical engineers to Rune.

If I remember correctly, although they cannot be compared with those chaebols, the Tesla family should have left some industries in the tide of the times. However, what Leonard did not expect was that more than 300 years later, in this era, the Tesla family actually ran to the underground city to make a living...

Even if he put aside the extraordinary factors, Leonard felt that a technician of this level should not end up like this. He could still find the brand of [Tesla Technologies Co., Ltd.]... Of course, he understood that things are unpredictable. In the competition among various financial groups, aristocratic forces and even extraordinary organizations in Backlund, there would always be many people who regretfully left the stage. The mall was also a cruel place like a battlefield, especially for those small and medium-sized groups.

So... why did the Church of Darkness go to the dungeon to look for Tesla's technicians at this time?

Before Leonard could find the answer, he was driven out of the dream. As he opened and closed his eyes, the surrounding Sivella Stadium suddenly became lively, and the people coming and going meant that Leonard had returned to reality.

Following his spiritual intuition, Leonard looked towards the sheriff's office in the distance and saw a tall, strong, and powerful woman talking to Sheriff Nicolo Hawke. The black coat with a stand-up collar softened her sturdy figure, and the red gloves on her hands revealed her identity.

In contrast, Sheriff Hawke on the opposite side seemed uneasy and nervous. After quickly signing the document, he couldn't wait to get the big Buddha away.

"Fina Dorsey, nice to meet you, Detective Leonard Mitchell. The relevant formalities have been completed. For the next few days, you will be ours temporarily."

Fina, who looked very gentle, came to Leonard's office and showed Leonard the contents of the briefcase. The metal plate was exactly the same as in Leonard's dream, except for the brief mission briefing.

When I walked into Leonard's room, I realized that although Fina looked gentle and approachable in her high heels, she was actually a head taller than me.

After all this twists and turns, I ended up working for the Church of Night again...

After seeing Fina off, Leonard began to tidy up his desk. He didn't know how long he would be away, so he had to hand over the cases on hand in advance.

Leonard paused as he passed a workstation.

This is the workstation of the resident reporter of the Moon Newspaper of the Loon News Group. Adjacent to it are the resident reporters of several other important media. After Geraldine was fired, the Moon Newspaper quickly sent other reporters to take this position, but the new reporter is no longer Leonard's assistant.

These resident reporters are part of the cooperation between Sivilas Field and major media. The reporters are strictly supervised by the publicity department of Sivilas Field. When exporting news to various media, Sivilas Field can directly control what they can and cannot report. Through these reporters, Sivilas Field will complete the first communication with major media. In daily work, resident reporters are not allowed to walk around Sivilas Field.

But Geraldine was different.

Her resume, which was as long as a mud truck, was too unique among the reporters. She was a war correspondent in the army, and was discharged after being awarded honors. She was an investigative reporter in a newspaper, and after publishing some reports, she was urgently transferred to such a high-confidence position by the newspaper, as if the timid editor-in-chief was afraid that she would really find out some dirty laundry about some big shot and destroy the entire newspaper.

Leonard chose Geraldine as his detective assistant because of her professional qualities.

To put it nicely, a detective assistant is a second-class auxiliary police officer. To put it bluntly, it is an informant with a title and a detective's lackey. They can have their own careers and be recognized by the police station, but they are not on the establishment of police officers, and they are not even auxiliary police officers. They are real temporary workers.

Since the detective needs to take the blame for his assistant, for safety reasons, the detective usually selects his assistant from the regular police officers in his own police station to prevent him from making mistakes. It can also help the younger generation to get a small assistant salary. It is rare for someone like Leonard to choose a reporter or a wandering unlucky magician as his assistant.

Not long after Geraldine left, there was no trace of her at her workstation. The new reporter had already gone home after get off work. Leonard rarely passed by here. Usually, it was Geraldine who came to his office to report on her work.

But now, Leonard looked at Geraldine's desk and suddenly felt a sense of disobedience.

His spiritual intuition told him that there were still some traces of Geraldine on this table.

Leonard immediately began to feel around at his workstation, instinctively sensing that this was something very important. He followed his intuition and found a drawer, which he simply removed and reached into the cavity to feel around.

In a blind spot, Leonard felt a small protrusion. He used his fingers to pick it out and found a small chip and a small piece of paper that was folded into small pieces and almost rotten.

"Detective Leonard, if you find this chip, it means I haven't been able to work normally for at least a month."