Chapter 1457 Staff's Surprise
"Didn't you say that the next meeting will be after the Corolla Festival? Why did it suddenly change to now?" Leo got into the carriage of the recommender Eric, and asked Eric who was sitting opposite him pretending to be puzzled.
"This is a party specially held for you, Mr. Leo." Eric knocked on the wooden board behind him, motioned for the driver to drive, and then said bluntly: "I was also at the scene of your anatomy show, so I can only use the wonderful To describe it as peerless, the impact of this performance is definitely beyond your imagination, and it is our greatest loss if a scholar with outstanding abilities like you does not join us."
It can be seen that Eric looked very excited, and there was some resentment in his tone. He thought that before Leo's public dissection performance, his recommendation should have been hindered, which caused him to feel resentful.
Aware of Eric's emotional flaws, Leo naturally wouldn't let it go, he didn't use any extraordinary power, but used some hypnotic techniques, slowed down his voice, and asked in a deep voice: "It seems that Mr. There are some troubles in recommending me to join the research club, can you tell me?"
Eric didn't notice the small change in Leo's voice, but after hearing Leo's inquiry, he felt that Leo was as trustworthy as a friend for many years, and the resentment that had been suppressed before resurfaced at this moment. Come out, so he couldn't help but confide in Leo.
Just like any large organization, the Society for the Study of the Mystery and the Human Body is full of factional struggles and interest scrambles. Although most of these factional struggles are ideological battles, the intensity is no less than that of the secular dignitaries. struggle.
Eric's faction is mainly based on the study of anatomy and biological structure, and is nicknamed the butcher faction, while the faction that is hostile to it is the spiritual faction that focuses on the study of spirit. Every time the two sides go to the research meeting to recommend people Sometimes, the other party will deliberately make things difficult, but most of these difficulties are just to create some obstacles, and they will not go too far.
It’s just that this time when Eric recommended Leo, the spiritual faction didn’t just make some obstacles to disgust Eric, but tried their best to prevent it. As for the excuse, it was also very simple, that is, Leo’s The identity has never been ascertained.
However, any scholar of the research society will know that such an excuse is just an excuse, because many members of the research society are also unknown people. If this is used as an excuse to prevent capable talents from joining, then the research society Now it will probably reduce nearly one-third of its members.
After Eric learned about the situation afterwards, he realized that the opposition of the spiritual practice faction to him for recommending Leo was actually revenge, because not long ago, an experiment conducted by the spiritual practice faction in a certain northern kingdom was rejected by the local church. The organization was destroyed. Although there were no casualties, the bases that the spiritual practice faction spent several years building there were all destroyed, and the reason why the local church discovered the spiritual practice faction was that someone from the butcher faction made a slip of the tongue after drinking. Some clues were revealed to the spies of the local church's heresy punishment agency, which led to the base of the spiritual faction.
This incident made the struggle between the two factions within the Research Association more serious, and the spiritual practice faction made various difficulties against the butcher faction more intense. During this period, not only Eric's recommendation was blocked, Even some other things related to the Butcher faction have encountered various obstacles, and the reasons for these obstacles are very good, and no loopholes can be found to refute.
However, fortunately, Leo's anatomy performance was really wonderful. His anatomy knowledge and anatomy skills are already called masters. Even if he can compare with him in the seminar, he can't find the second place. If such a talent fails to become a member of the Research Society due to factional struggles within the Research Society, as Eric said, it will definitely be the biggest loss of the Research Society. The branch of Wangyangjiao also held this meeting specially for him.
"Is the factional struggle within the research association so serious?" Leo deliberately showed a serious expression after listening to Eric's explanation, and then said with a trace of dissatisfaction: "Mr. Your previous description of your association is somewhat different. I thought that the Mystery and Human Body Research Association was just a purely scholarly organization, which could provide a quiet atmosphere for my research and study and reduce external interference, but inside your association..."
Eric quickly explained: "Mr. Leo, you don't have to worry, this time is just a special case, usually the factional struggles in the seminar are just some verbal debates, it's more like some common discussion and debate ideas Disagreement, pure scholarly exchange."
"I hope it can be as you said." Leo said, still looking worried.
On the subsequent road, Eric kept telling Leo about the various benefits of joining the seminar, so as to alleviate Leo's doubts, while Leo listened quietly like a qualified listener. At some point, he asked a few questions, and the questions he asked just rightly led the topic to some undisclosed contents of the seminar, which made Leo know a lot of secrets of the seminar in advance, and Leo was most concerned about it. The secret of interest is that Eric clearly revealed that the Research Society is just an outlying organization, and there is a secret organization behind it, and inside that secret organization is a collection of taboo knowledge that scholars will be crazy about. In his words, That is the sanctuary of scholars, the end of truth.
Undoubtedly, judging from Eric's yearning expression, he obviously did not join that organization, but his identity has already allowed him to get in touch with some related things and understand some situations of that organization.
At the right time, Leo also showed yearning and asked, "How can I join that organization?"
Facing the inquiry, Eric smiled wryly, shook his head, and said, "I don't know either."
After learning that there was such a secret organization behind the research association, Eric also tried to join that organization by applying to the senior management of the research association, but the results were as if there was no news.
However, after so many years, he still found some clues on how to join that secret organization, such as gaining enough merits in the research association, becoming a senior member of the research association will automatically become a member of that organization, or by surpassing the general The knowledge and ability of the scholar, the organization will take the initiative to contact the scholar after some inspections and invite him to join, just like he invites Leo to join the Mystery and Human Body Research Society now.
When he said this, Eric looked at Leo with an envious look in his eyes, because he knew very well that with Leo's ability and knowledge in human body anatomy, he believed that he would be invited to join the team soon. secret organization.
During the conversation, the carriage quickly left the urban area of Xiwangyangjiao Port, came to the outskirts, passed through a dense forest, and entered a manor.
Although the manor seems to be unguarded, Leo's mental network can easily find some beasts lurking in the woods on both sides of the manor entrance, but these beasts are not normal beasts, but some transformed beasts. The body shape is stronger than ordinary beasts, and the technology to transform them does not have any extraordinary power. As for whether it is related to the implant technology on Joan, you need to capture one and check it.
Soon the carriage stopped at the small square in front of the manor. At this time, the square was full of various styles of carriages. Some carriages were novel and gorgeous, while some carriages looked very old. You can see this from the style of the carriages. There is a big gap in the status of the people who attended the party this time. He doesn't need to enter the house in front of him, and he doesn't need to check it on the spirit network, he can already foresee the situation at the party.
After getting off the carriage, under the guidance of the servants, Leo and Eric entered the villa and walked directly into the noisy banquet hall.
The situation in the banquet hall was as Leo expected. Most of the people attending the banquet stood together according to their clothing status, and only a few of them stood together, forming a natural division of factions. One can see this at a glance. group ideology and status.
The moment Leo entered the banquet hall, the conversation in the hall stopped at the same time, and everyone's eyes were on the protagonist of this banquet, and these eyes formed a natural pressure to attack Leo. , although Eric beside Leo is not the center of the pressure, he can also feel the pressure. This pressure makes him feel uncomfortable, which makes him slow down instinctively, and pull away from Leo. He moved a little distance, and hid his figure beside Leo.
Because most of the eyes of the people were directed at Leo, no one noticed Eric's little move to avoid, but the owner of the manor, Stave, who was Eric's direct superior and recommender, couldn't help frowning, obviously Dissatisfied with Eric's performance.
However, the sights of everyone soon shifted away, and the hall returned to its previous state, but the voices of everyone were much quieter.
At this moment, Eric came out from behind Leo, brought Leo to the front of Staff, and said, "Mr. Leo, let me introduce you, this..."
"Let me do it myself..." Stave raised his hand to gesture to Eric, and then took the initiative to reach out to Leo, saying: "Staff Tarrant, the president of Surprise Continental Magazine and editor-in-chief."
"Leo Dodd." Leo shook the other party's hand, and simply reported a name, and did not say his other specific identities.
After hearing Leo's self-introduction, Stave was stunned for a moment, because even the poorest scholars among the people he knew would take the initiative to add some titles, and no matter how bad they were, they would say where they came from, such as XX It's the first time I met someone like Leo who just said his name.
After being surprised, Stave quickly returned to normal, and said with a smile: "Actually, I have long wanted to meet Mr. Leo. You published an article in my magazine a while ago, which caused quite a stir. .”
"Movement? It should be a controversy!" Leo said with a smile: "I heard that the complaint letters caused by my article filled your office, and it took the staff a day to clean it up."
Staff re-examined Leo, because the matter Leo mentioned was not a public matter.
As Leo said, Leo's article did cause quite a bit of controversy after Surprise Continent magazine published it. For the incomplete article, if the entire article is really published, I am afraid that the church has already sent someone to his office, and it is not just a questioning letter sent directly by some dissatisfied readers.
Staff had already expected that such a thing would happen, so he arranged for two staff members of the magazine to deal with the letters of doubt and complaints. Since the morning, these letters have not stopped. It wasn't until after work in the evening that they were all processed. As Leo said, it took a day to clean it up.
It's just that this matter is only known to people inside the magazine, and even if the staff of the magazine inadvertently disclose this matter to people around them, it is impossible for this matter to spread too widely, let alone spread to Lei. In Ou's ears, but now Leo has shown him that he knows about it, so there is only one possibility, that is, Leo is monitoring the magazine, so he knows the magazine's situation very well.
Just when Staff became suspicious of a sentence that Leo seemed to have revealed unintentionally, Leo seemed to be able to see through the other party's mind, and before the other party asked, he took the initiative to reveal the answer, saying: "This matter is my responsibility." My wife told me, my wife's name is Sylvia Belmont."
"Sylvia Belmont?" Stav couldn't help hesitating when he heard this strange name, he didn't think Leo was introducing his wife to him, obviously there were other reasons, so he soon remembered This name, and looked at Leo with a look of surprise.
Although Sylvia used various means to control the underground intelligence organization in Cape West Port in a short period of time, and most ordinary people did not know about becoming an underground queen, but people with an identity like Stave He was not among ordinary people. He had known for a long time that a queen had been produced by the underground intelligence organization at Cape West, and he also knew the name of the queen. As for other information, he was not clear.
However, he is very clear that no matter the church, or the dignitaries of Cape West, and even those anti-rich organizations do not want the underground intelligence organization of Cape West to be controlled by one person, so during this period The Queen of the Underground launched a series of attacks, all of which were easily resolved by the Queen of the Underground without exception, and even counterattacked to the vital points of these forces, so that these forces did not dare to act rashly again. To some extent, it was acquiescence The queen's reign over the intelligence underground.
However, the newcomer in front of him who is about to become a new member of the research association and is very likely to become the core of the organization in the future actually said that the queen is his wife. If this is true, then Stave has to re-examine The other party's value and ability, that is to say, can no longer be simply regarded as a scholar who studies knowledge.