Extraordinary Puppeteer

Chapter 196 The Brass Tower
Since the rapid development of the steam industry, smoke from countless chimneys has shrouded the city of Klander, the capital of steam, all year round.

Even the palace district and the east district, which are located in the upper reaches of the Lamu River with the best environment, are no exception, and the architectural tone here is also cold.

Between the mansions of the nobles in the East End and the riverside manors, there is a brass-colored tower that is incompatible with the surrounding urban architectural environment.

The tower is more than 300 meters tall, piercing the fog and straight into the sky. This is the tallest building in the capital of steam-the brass tower, where the headquarters of the Security Bureau and other institutional departments are located.

The brass tower is completely closed on the outside and isolated from the outside world. Although it stands tall in the mortal world, it is connected to the spiritual world inside.

Inside the tower, there are countless independent spaces. As for how many floors there are, even the staff of various departments stationed inside are not clear.

However, the public information recorded on paper is that the tower has 360 five floors.

The important department of the Security Bureau also occupies only a small part of the space.

It has three departments under its jurisdiction, the Secret Service, which is responsible for dealing with extraordinary cases, the Academy of Astrology, which is responsible for divination and sorting out intelligence information, and the Royal Geographical Society, which is responsible for secretly spying on intelligence. The former two are in the open and the latter are in the dark.

At this moment, on a certain floor of the Brass Tower, staff members in white uniforms came and went, walking nervously on the smooth metal square.

The ground of the wide square is made of brass, and there is a huge brass difference engine in the center. From the outline, you can still see some shadows of the [Throne Difference Engine], but it is much bigger.

Several steam cores provide surging power, urging the gears and springs to rub at high speed to make a low buzzing sound.

The copper pillars are endlessly reciprocating, punching holes in the illusory paper tape formed by the condensed spirituality.

When the paper tape reached the end, it turned into streaks of light and spread out on the brass floor, engraving a star map like a spider web.

Countless stars flicker on and off, and the brightness of these stars varies, and each star represents a transcendent.

And the staff of the Astrology Institute in white uniforms kept recording and interpreting the spirituality emanating from the stars of an extraordinary person.

Almost the vast majority of Transcendents who are officially registered are recorded in the square of the Astrology Academy from the moment they register.

Just when the Secret Service team led by Lear met Miko, Drake, and Angela, several dim stars suddenly appeared on the star map.

"The Dark Star of the Shadow Brigade has appeared!"

The excitement that is suppressed in everyone's heart, every star has a fixed position, and the spirituality will also change when it shifts.

At this time, the brass differential engine will assist the professional-level fortune-teller of the astrology academy to perform divination according to the position of the stars and spiritual changes.

"The star shifted by 0.16 ticks!"

"This time there is another one, and a new member of the Shadow Brigade has appeared!"

"Wait, there's more than one, the three dark stars have also branched into two lines, and there may be two unknown transcendents who are connected with him!"

"The Secret Service team meets the Shadow Brigade!"

"Not good, the secret service team suffered heavy losses, everyone except Charlotte and Lear died!"

"Quick, increase the power of the difference engine, their stars will disappear!!!"

A group of people from the Astrology Academy just watched Karin's stars collide with the stars of the secret service team.

Soon, more than [-] stars in the Secret Service disappeared, only the stars of Charlotte and Lear were rapidly moving away from those few dark stars, as if they were running away.

Immediately, all the dark stars of the Shadow Brigade disappeared again, and at this time, a stack of punched cards bound with white paper tape suddenly spewed out from the slot on the surface of the difference engine.

These cards are about the same size as playing cards, and are made of a milky white gelatinous substance, like plastic, very thin and shiny.

Each card has more than [-] rows of densely packed small holes, three corners are slightly curved, and the fourth corner is cut off, as if to distinguish the front and back.

Next to the corner that was cut off, there is a series of numbers.

A staff member at the scene quickly took out the stack of cards from the slot, and walked quickly to the wall of the room. A small box like a drawer popped out from the white and smooth wall without any gaps.

The stack of cards was put directly into the drawer, and immediately bounced back with a bang, and the wall returned to its original shape.

Three seconds later, Mycroft, who was in the director's office on the first floor of the Brass Tower, suddenly heard the signal bell on the desk ringing automatically.

Sitting behind the desk, he knocked on the wall three times immediately after seeing it, and two small drawers popped out on the wall, and the stack of milky white punched cards lay quietly in one of the drawers.

In another concealed drawer is a brass tray.

Mycroft took out the stack of cards and his pupils shrank suddenly when he saw the string of numbers next to the missing corner of the first card.

"06-13-4587-12
Hell, Charlotte and Karin's numbers are on the same information card, so he didn't meet Karin, did he? ! "

Worried about his brother's safety, Mycroft quickly took out the card and put it in the brass tray in the drawer next to him, and then pulled the rope on the signal bell as fast as he could.

After a crisp clanging sound, the two drawers snapped back instantly, and the stack of punched cards that recorded a large amount of information was sent to an unknown place to be interpreted by an analysis machine.

Mycroft waited anxiously in his heart, he wanted to know what the astrology academy had predicted as soon as possible.

When Charlotte was about to go to the sewer, he actually opposed it. The [Moth Slough] ceremony caused an unknown number of creatures to evolve, and some dangerous creatures might appear.

Moreover, a large number of extraordinary people have also entered the sewer, either wanting to find the location of the ceremony to capture the fruits of evolution, or hunting those extraordinary creatures born from evolution.

The situation there is extremely complicated now. He didn't want Charlotte to go into the muddy water there, but he couldn't hold back his stubborn brother, so he arranged for the other party to act together with the Secret Service.

Ordinarily, five professional-level agents plus twenty or so well-equipped trainee-level agents, plus their official identities, the chance of encountering danger is not very high.

Unexpectedly, they actually met the Shadow Brigade!
McCoff knew a little bit about Karin, he knew that the other party would never show mercy because of some previous friendships.

'Charlotte, you must be all right! '

Just after he waited anxiously for a few minutes, suddenly a middle-aged man dressed as a detective in a black windbreaker appeared in the office, smoking a pipe.

The man looked ordinary, like an ordinary person, but after seeing it, McCoff was extremely respectful.

"Master Reis."

"What's the matter, Mycroft, what happened to make you so nervous?"

Just as McCoff was about to say something, the drawer on the wall popped out again, and on the brass tray lay quietly a few white papers that were full of words and still had the smell of ink.

His husband quickly took out the quick view, and was relieved to see that Charlotte was fine, but his face became serious.

"Lord Reis, Charlotte and Lear met the Shadow Brigade. After less than a minute of brief confrontation, 1 first-level detectives and 3 second-level detectives all died. Only Charlotte and Lear escaped. Killed!"

Reis' face darkened after hearing this.

The current professional class is not Chinese cabbage, each professional class has spent a lot of resources to cultivate.

The Kingdom of Brent couldn't arrange for every city to have a professional as the head of the Secret Service Division.

Only a few important cities like Wayne City will have professional ranks as branch ministers.

There are only 13 first-level detectives at the professional level in the entire Secret Service, 6 are dispatched to other six important cities to serve as branch offices, and only 7 are located in the capital of steam.

Karin snapped three at once, which made him pay attention while being angry.

"Has the Shadow Brigade left the sewer now?"

"The divination information from the Astrology Institute shows that they were still in the sewer 5 minutes ago!"

"Very well, this time I will go out personally, but I want to see what the shadow brigade is capable of!"

After finishing speaking, Lace's figure disappeared, and Mycroft heaved a sigh of relief.

"The old director at the mentor level will go out in person, as long as Karin stays in the sewer, he will definitely not be able to escape the old director himself!" '

Carlin, Angela and his party were leading by Sarin through a labyrinthine underground tunnel network, and they were gradually heading towards the central area with all the twists and turns.

At this moment, Salin suddenly sensed and said.

"A mentor stepped into the sewer, which is less than 30 meters above our heads."

Angela immediately asked, "Do you know who it is?"

Sarin recalled it for a while, and said, "The former director of the Security Bureau, Reis."

Karin smiled: "It is estimated that they came to look for us. The execution of three professional ranks by Secret Service is enough to alarm him. The action is quite fast."

At the same time, Lace, who was in an abandoned pipeline, also sensed Salin 30 meters below his feet, but he didn't think too much about it, only thinking that the blood race was also alarmed and let Salin lead the team out.

The two sides just passed each other, and the distance became farther and farther away. Half an hour later, Carlin and Angela said goodbye to Salin and appeared in a small alley in the central area.

Before the two said goodbye, Angela took out a blue card and handed it to him.

"You hold this card. If you encounter danger in the future, you can enter this bookstore through the card."

(End of this chapter)