Mechanical Alchemist

Chapter 435 In the alley, the scenery is good

"Good stuff."

Su Lun looked at the sales information of the batch of mechanical equipment projected on the public screen, and said it was impossible not to be jealous.

This batch of imported equipment from Marfa is the best of the best. If he really wants to fall into his hands, he doesn't even need to modify it much. With the high-precision equipment on the previous submarine, he can immediately assemble a mature industrial assembly line in the mechanical war factory in the small void world.

This will at least save several years compared to the previous plan to retrofit the assembly line with old equipment.

It just so happened that the batch of materials from the Thundercat Chamber of Commerce was also in hand, and there was no shortage of materials. Now with this batch of instruments, the mechanical puppet army can also form a group fighting force in a short period of time!

And, more importantly, after missing this opportunity, Su Lun doesn't feel that he has other channels to get such a good device in a short time.

At the beginning of the New Deal, the group of people still obtained such a batch of imported goods through means at the imperial level. Ordinary people, no matter how rich they are, have no channels.

Even if there are some smuggled goods in the black market, the quantity is definitely not large, and the functions are so complete!

For Su Lun, this is definitely a "big chance" for drowsiness to meet a pillow.

The kind that must be won!

But after the surprise, Su Lun didn't get carried away by such a good thing.

Instead, he smelled a conspiracy and thought more and more calmly.

Nowadays, the entire machinery industry of Lu Ying is very backward, and these imported equipments that have surpassed the current technology for decades are very tasteless to others. It is almost only useful for forces that want to study mechanical armor.

Therefore, accordingly, this special supply and demand relationship also screened buyers.

There are many rich people in the Luying Empire, but not many are willing to take advantage of them.

So, this news feels like a directional bait.

lure certain groups of people.

Once someone is interested in them, then it is certain that the person taking these instruments is useful, and almost specifically used to make mechanical armor.

Except for Archduke Raphael, whose technology level is unknown, and Su Lun, who are capable of making mechanical armor by themselves. Probably no one is interested in buying such a bunch of "chicken rib instruments" that are many times more expensive than ordinary equipment.

Su Lun usually takes worst-case scenarios into account before making some risky decisions.

Thinking of this, he thought to himself: "Assuming that this batch of goods is a bait for someone who wants to fish, then there are two major forces that are seriously suspected, one is from Raphael, and the other is from Marfa."

Su Lun has neuro-mechanical technology in his hands, and he has also cut off the "secret submarine machinery research institute" that the Mafa Empire used as a dowry to Oleg, the king of the North Sea.

Both of these forces are bitter masters.

But it is not ruled out that these intelligences have been known by other forces, such as Lu Ying's Military Intelligence Department, or other forces.

After all, in the previous battle in the city-state of Moros, the information that the mechanical puppet army killed the Quartet appeared in the newspapers. Those who know how to analyze it can roughly guess that he may have the ability to manufacture mechanical armor.

But Su Lun also felt that if this was really a fishing conspiracy, then there must be enemies, and it doesn't matter who it is.

But you must have the awareness to plan for the worst.

Various possibilities flashed through Su Lun's mind in an instant.

After much deliberation, the biggest uncertainty is not other people, but the organizer of this dance!

After the "Shadow Lord" with the golden mask said a word at the beginning, he didn't speak again, and sat quietly in the shadow of the light.

He is like the director of a stage play, silently watching everything that happens on the stage from behind the scenes.

The full moon dance was organized by him,

This man knows everything.

Because Su Lun knew that this was an old man whose life had come to an end, Su Lun also understood his indifferent attitude.

But this is also somewhat incomprehensible.

It is impossible for the great alchemist not to understand his own physical condition. People are dying, and power and money are fleeting. So what is the purpose of this man who is still active at the dance?

Which force does he represent, or is he only representing himself?

This "Shadow Lord" gave Su Lun an increasingly mysterious feeling.

He didn't have time to understand these doubts for the time being.

Because the seller has made it clear that if no one buys it, this batch of sealed equipment will fall into the hands of Archduke Raphael, and it is impossible to buy it back.

No hesitation at all.

The dance continues, and the melodious classical dance music floats in the banquet hall.

Su Lun thought for a moment, then asked Sabina dancing in his arms, "Is there a way to determine who sent that message?"

Sabina is very smart, she naturally knows what her master is talking about, and replied softly: "Not now. But you can check, but the risk is not small."

When Su Lun heard this, there was a flash of thought in his eyes, and he didn't ask any further questions.

Sabina's answer didn't make him feel embarrassed, it was just a casual question.

Because he knew very well that this method would not work.

Even if the owner of the consignor is contacted privately, if this is a conspiracy, the risk still has to be faced.

even more dangerous.

On the contrary, if you contact through the platform of the dance party, there are still intermediaries who can get the bottom line.

He also wanted to use this to determine whether this "Shadow Lord" was absolutely neutral and how much energy he had.

After pondering for a moment, Su Lun said again: "I'm going to take over this batch of goods. Just in case, I'll get off the airship in a while, and all the people who are ready to notify you will be lurking."

Once there is a problem with the organizer, Sabina's disguised identity will be exposed, and most of the intelligence network she has finally established may have to be abandoned.

Sabina was not surprised at all, and answered without hesitation, "Yeah."

She had this awareness from the beginning.

After all, everything about her belongs to the master.

Compared to what you get, the risk is well worth the gamble.

Su Lun had already figured out how to deal with it. Without any hesitation, he directly chatted with the person who provided the clue, then handed over two silver coins and reached an agreement.

The dance is on the airship, which is several kilometers in the air.

For others, there is probably nowhere to escape.

But for him, life-saving is still not a big problem.

Moreover, he also feels that even if the organizer is an accomplice in fishing, there is a high probability that they will not do it on the airship.

Otherwise, the "full moon dance party" that has been in business for so many years will collapse immediately. Losing such an important resource platform, even if you get the technology, the price is not light.

What's more, Sabina's identity is fake, and no one is sure that they must be the true master.

To do it, it is after getting off the airship!

As Su Lun expected, nothing happened after he made a deal with the buyer.

The full moon dance lasted for more than two hours.

Then they went back to their rooms, the airship landed somewhere unknown, and they were sent back to Lingdun by a special car.

Not long after, Su Lun and Sabina were already in the special car they had taken when they came.

In the airtight compartment, Su Lun took out the black umbrella and expanded the range of perception.

Everything is normal.

No one followed except the driver.

From getting on the car before the dance, to the airship, and now, there is a communication signal shielding throughout the whole process.

Now that he's down, Su Lun opened a mouth to Sabina with a space technique, and asked her to issue a secret order to the person who organized her line in the first time.

Su Lun thought about it, just to be on the safe side, his double-surgeon pinched and snorted softly, "Psychic!"

The black pentagram formation lit up, the different planes were connected to the void, and a strong necromancy aura suddenly hit the carriage.

Looking at it again, a crow with a bright coat was channeled.

The psychological quality of professional intelligence personnel is naturally not bad. Even if she guessed that there may be danger, Sabina is very calm. She looked at the extra black crow in the carriage, her beautiful eyes lit up, and she seemed to have a little more fun: "Wow~ Master, is this your legendary two-way crow?"

At the beginning, the ability of Moros city-state to reduce dimensionality during the first and second world war shocked the whole world. This dead bird is now as famous as Su Lun, a proper "big star".

Because of it, the price of crow pets in Lingdun has skyrocketed more than tenfold.

Su Lun nodded, "Yeah."

"Wow"

Sabina had read the introduction in the newspaper in detail, but did not expect that the legendary bird of death, which was extremely dangerous, looked quite cute before it transformed into a fool.

She asked again, "What's its name?"

As soon as these words came out, before Su Lun could answer, the black crow on his shoulder called out, "Master Crow, Master Crow!"

"what?"

Sabina sounded amazing and said in surprise, "It can still talk?"

Speaking is secondary, the key is to be able to understand people's words!

"Um."

Su Lun didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and explained one more sentence, "It's called 'Uncle Crow'."

Hearing this, Sabina Lek became interested. Although the name is cheap, it seems very interesting!

She rolled her eyes and asked eagerly: "Master Crow, your feathers are so beautiful, can I touch you?"

Black Crow tilted his head and looked at her coldly.

Su Lun explained somewhat helplessly: "This stupid bird has nothing to eat and doesn't like to talk to people very much."

"That's it"

Sabina thought about it, took out a piece of jerky, and tried it, but the black crow didn't even look at her.

Su Lun thought and handed her a piece of carrion and said, "It's very picky. Feed this."

"what?"

Sabina picked it up beautifully and felt more and more interesting.

She took the carrion from Su Lun's hand and fed it.

If not, if he changed his liking, the black crow was so happy that he swallowed it down, and then he did not forget to flatter a few words: "Beautiful beauty! Great beauty!"

Hearing Su Lun's eyes twitched, he glanced at it.

"Thank you~"

Sabina also laughed in her heart, hahaha, and responded with a serious response. She reached out and touched Hei Crow carefully, as if she was treating a human being, and responded politely, "Wow, Master Crow, you are also a very handsome bird."

Uncle Crow obviously understood that he was complimenting it, flapping his calf, and jumping onto Sabina's hand.

Look at its arrogant demeanor, as if to say: Uncle Crow allows you to touch more.

Sabina couldn't help laughing when she saw the vivid anthropomorphic expression.

Su Lun was a little surprised, and complained: "You are the first person that this stupid bird will take the initiative to approach."

Sabina blinked, listening happily, "Really?"

The owner's pet should naturally have a good relationship.

The steam car drove Su Lun and the two for half an hour, from the suburbs into the city.

There was no problem in the first half, but at this moment, Su Lun suddenly sensed something, and his expression changed slightly.

Sabina was still teasing the black crow, keenly sensing the change in Su Lun's demeanor, and asked, "Is that so?"

Su Lun said solemnly: "The traffic line has deviated, and we have just turned into 'Hot South Street'. This is not the road to Queens, but to Franklin."

Sabina understood something instantly, and her expression became solemn.

It stands to reason that this car will send them back to the designated place.

But now it has deviated.

This problem is going to be big.

She glanced at Su Lun, who had a serious expression, but didn't speak, obviously her master had expected it.

The worst could have happened.

Su Lun frowned Ning Chuan, recalling the cobweb-like urban routes of Lingdun City in his mind, and knew their current location very clearly.

The inexplicable turn just now can also be understood as a temporary lane change caused by certain road conditions, but then there were several wrong lines that never turned back, which made him finally determined that there is definitely something wrong with this driver!

"Is there really a problem with the organizer?"

Su Lun's demeanor is very dignified, which is almost the worst situation.

Or maybe someone infiltrated the full moon's misunderstanding and bought off the driver?

But it doesn't matter anymore.

Now for sure, it's time for a fight!

The carriage has a prohibition to prevent perception, so the driver probably doesn't know that Su Lun has found the problem, and the speed is fast.

But since it was determined that there was a problem with the line, it was naturally impossible for Su Lun to watch the driver drive them into the ambush. Now the black crow has no warning, which means that there is no fatal danger around. It's too late to get started.

Thinking of this, Su Lun waved one hand, and a black scythe suddenly appeared in his hand.

He didn't mean to communicate with the driver at all, and without hesitation, he cut off with a knife, cutting off the top of the carriage and the head of the driver in the front cab.

The cold wind of the night poured in, and the airtight carriage suddenly became a "convertible car".

There was also a headless corpse in front of the seat, gurgling blood.

Su Lun swallowed the "grey mist" on the driver's body, then quickly jumped out of the car with Sabina in his arms.

Because the steam locomotive was out of control, it crashed into a red brick house directly in front of it.

With a loud bang, the front of the car crashed into a wall and rushed in.

Su Lun didn't even look at him, he dragged Sabina and ran into the alley: "Go!"

The time is now past midnight.

There was hardly anyone on the block except for a few unconscious drunks.

After the temperature dropped, this time period was also the time when the fog in Lingdun City was the thickest, and the visibility was only 20 to 30 meters. Blocks that are not the main roads of the city, the gas street lights are very sparse. The dim light in the corner that is only half a street away does not give people the slightest sense of security. Pedestrians walk on the streets, like an abyss.

But it didn't matter to Su Lun at all.

Even if the visibility is low, his spatial perception ability allows him to clearly distinguish the situation around him.

He jumped up with his arms around Sabina, and jumped to a tower not far away, just at this distance to observe the scene of the car accident from a distance.

Su Lun observed the movement of the block and digested the memories that had just been stripped away. He was a little surprised and said, "It's not the organizer's order?"

But also relieved.

Having stripped the driver's memory just now, Su Lun discovered that the guy was also a long-term secret son of other espionage forces at the Full Moon Ball.

But exactly who is behind the scenes, this kind of minion doesn't know.

He was just on orders to drive to the fresh fish market in Franklin.

Now that it was confirmed that it was not the mysterious "Shadow Lord" who was behind the black hand, the pressure was suddenly relieved by most of it.

Su Lun also ran away in a hurry.

He also wanted to see if he could find more clues as to who was laying the bait.

The traffic accident was very loud, and residents around were woken up one after another, and some lights were turned on.

Looking at Sabina with a nervous expression beside her, Su Lun motioned her to relax, and said, "It's not the party organizer who did it. You don't need to be too nervous to inform your people for a while. Check the situation in a while, and then take the next step. Decide."

He knew that Sabina was still waiting for his judgment to issue a second order.

"Um!"

Sabina was obviously relieved when she heard this.

Then she quickly sent out a cipher text using the communicator: Stand by.

There are many people in the chain of her intelligence team. To avoid being traced and implicated, it is necessary to erase some key "hardware".

Not sure who the enemy was before, Sabina issued an order to get everyone ready to lurk.

If the second issue is "execution", or if the order is not received within a certain period of time, then all the espionage personnel will immediately enter an emergency latent state, and they will be disconnected and "disappeared".

In a short period of time, even Sabina would find it difficult to contact them again, and some would even lose contact forever.

This is similar to the cost of breaking an arm to save a life, and the loss will definitely not be small.

It is a blessing to be able to avoid losses now.

And, if the enemy is the party, that's a real disaster.

Now that it is confirmed that it is not, the threat level is immediately reduced by more than half.

Sabina's frowning brows finally loosened, she pondered for a moment, and then gradually revealed a smile, and said, "If it wasn't for the organizer, you might have had a blessing in disguise, Master."

Su Lun glanced at her, "Oh?"

Sabina explained: "We had an accident in the car at the prom, and it was obvious that there was something wrong with them. In this case, "Shadow Lord" will definitely compensate us. There was a similar accident before. Someone broke the trading rules of the ball, causing huge losses to a member. But within two days, the "Shadow Lord" sent someone to handle everything perfectly. It made up for the loss of the member, and also gave that person a sincere compensation."

When Su Lun heard these words, he immediately looked at the organizer of the Full Moon Ball a little higher.

With this kind of courage, no wonder it can be done so well.

Thinking of the pomp at the dance before, Su Lun also guessed that the compensation must be sincere enough.

But he felt that compensation or anything could be discussed later.

What Su Lun is more concerned about is, what about that shipment?

Taking such a big risk, it is a pity not to get the goods.

No matter how good the compensation was, he felt that the value of the imported machinery was not as high as the value that the imported machinery had brought him.

Sabina obviously understood her master's mind very well. She frowned and said with a smile: "Master, don't worry, if that batch of goods really exists, it will definitely be delivered according to the agreement at the ball. That "Shadow Lord" The energy in Lington is terrifying. "

Su Lun nodded as well, "I hope so."

Although it seems that there is no danger at present, this batch of goods is actually a gamble with his life.

If he hadn't discovered the problem in advance, he would have fallen into the enemy's ambush circle at this moment.

Since the other party dares to fish, he naturally has the confidence to kill the fish.

In Lingdun City, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Su Lun didn't think he would survive in someone else's trap.

The two squatted in the tower and observed for a while.

The car accident attracted some onlookers, including ordinary people and professionals.

Su Lun watched secretly, but did not wait for those who wanted to fish.

Those guys probably also know that there is only one chance to intercept, and if they lose it, they have to quickly find a way to wipe their ass.

After all, that "Lingdon gang king" is not a kind. If you dare to make small moves on his territory, you have to be prepared for crazy revenge.

As far as the "cases" that Sabina said happened before, everyone involved in the interception this time will be found out.

The consequences are definitely not something that ordinary people can bear.

Su Lun was looking forward to it.

Because he guessed that 80% of it was the Marfa Empire, or the Archduke Raphael.

He also wanted to see how the "Shadow Lord" would deal with these people.

Before the patrol police arrived, a group of mysterious windbreakers arrived first. They quickly cleaned up the scene and pulled away the bodies and vehicles.

A car accident has stopped so far.

Judging by the level of professionalism of the floor scrubber, Su Lun also guessed that these windbreakers must be the ones sent by the King of Lington to clean up the mess.

This kind of thing can't be made official.

After the crisis was over, Sabina was not at all nervous, but to be on the safe side, she didn't contact anyone.

The two jumped off the tower and wandered aimlessly on the streets of Lingdun, which was filled with fog in the middle of the night.

The sense of crisis that someone had pointed a gun at the back of his head was swept away, and it seemed that there was nothing to worry about.

Sabina held Su Lun's arm affectionately, and the two of them were not in a hurry and walked slowly.

A sign that reads "Tailor's Row" hangs on a tin road sign on the side of the road.

Surrounded by some low red brick houses, tailors have lived in the past few hundred years, which is also the lowest occupation of Lington. This is also one of the oldest neighborhoods in Lington.

The house is very dilapidated, and the white walls have become mottled gray-black over the years. The road is not smooth, it is a stone slab that existed hundreds of years ago, and occasionally you will be smashed by raised stones when you walk on it.

Because it is not a main road, there are no rail trains or even a few street lights.

Darkness, silence, serenity, harmony.

There is a completely different old and bright from Lingdun here, but it makes people see different market fireworks.

Walking on the foggy ancient street late at night, the two of them didn't speak, as if their souls were soothed to the same level as the environment, and they fell into silence with the night.

The two walked, walking from the street to the alley.

At this time, they had just passed by, and out of the corner of the eye caught a glimpse of the sign "73 Twilight Lane" on the rusted house.

The house number doesn't matter.

The important thing is that this is a dark alley that is secluded enough that no one will pass by.

Good for something romantic.

Here, even if the movement is louder, it probably won't disturb other people's dreams.

Sabina's beautiful eyes turned and suddenly stopped. She said provocatively: "Sir. Don't you think the environment here is very good?"

Su Lun was still thinking about the previous things in his mind. He was stunned for a moment, and his eyes instinctively focused on the pitch-black street in front of him.

That's it? ? ?

But after a moment, Su Lun saw the charming smile in Sabina's beautiful eyes in the dark, and immediately understood.

The dim light illuminated the expression on Su Lun's face where he couldn't laugh or cry, and said in an uncertain tone, "This is not good?"

Sabina's charm is engraved in her bones, she is not shy, she takes Su Lun's hand deeply into her trench coat, and hints: "Skirts are very convenient~"

(End of this chapter)