The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"I'm going first." The mist walker Lang Baxian, who has experience in entering and exiting the abandoned city, said something to the others when he saw that the entrance had been opened, and then jumped off the airship without hesitation and jumped into the lake below. in the vortex above.

Seeing someone taking the lead, people from other airships jumped towards the vortex one after another, but not all of these people could enter the vortex. Some of them seemed to be pulled by some kind of force, thrown out of the range of the vortex, and fell into the lake. In the middle, they haven't waited for them to make a struggling movement. It was dragged to the bottom of the lake by the strange species hidden in the lake, and never came up again.

"Let's go down too!" Charles Ranko didn't continue to wait and see, climbed over the railing, and jumped down towards the whirlpool.

Seeing this situation, the others also jumped down one after another, while Leo followed behind.

When Leo fell, he felt that when he reached a certain distance above the vortex, a force gushed out from the vortex and swept across his body. This force did not cause any harm to him. Instead, it was like a screening program that detects light waves to determine whether the creatures that fall into the entrance have the qualifications to enter the abandoned city. Those who fail to pass will be directly expelled by this force Exit, just like the few people who fell into the lake before.

At the same time, there was a terrible roar from the house in District 9, followed by huge tentacles tearing the whole house apart from the inside, expanding instantly, and turning into a gigantic monster .

However, before Leo could see what was going on there, he was completely swallowed by the vortex.

When he jumped into the vortex, Leo tried to perceive the details of traveling through two different worlds through the spirit network and other means, to see if it was similar to the leap of the Earth Federation.

However, he obviously underestimated the power contained in the vortex. Before he was completely surrounded by the vortex, his mental net was completely broken up by a force. Passed out under the force, even the second brain is no exception.

I don't know how long it took, but the comatose Leo regained consciousness, and instinctively made some defensive moves, turning the twin fist gloves into cross swords, lowered his body, and made a defensive sword posture, And vigilantly observe the surrounding environment.

I saw that at this moment, he was no longer in the dream world. The reason why he was so sure was that the first thing he saw when he opened his eyes was a red-to-black sun floating in the distant sky.

There are neither clouds nor blue sky in the sky, it's all a layer of gray mist, stand high and look into the distance, as long as the line of sight can be seen, no matter how far away the object can appear on the horizon, and the distance between the universe and the planet The normal topography and landforms are contrary to each other.

The entire earth was covered with a layer of white ash, which felt like ashes, but was more delicate than bone ashes, and would slip out of the fingers immediately when grasped, without sticking to hands.

He is currently on the edge of a cliff. Looking out of the cliff, he can see a layer of gray fog more than 20 meters below him, which is the same color as the gray fog above his head. Neither can pass through.

In addition, there is nothing in the gray fog. When Leo looked down just now, he saw a huge back floating out of the gray fog, and then sank quickly. Although only a small part is exposed, this small part is enough to judge that the shape of the foreign object in the fog is definitely at the level of a star warship. Such a large shape reminds Leo of the golden giant deer he saw at the beginning.

The cliff where Leo is located is on the edge of a huge city. It can be seen from the topography that this place was originally a high mountain, but it was split by external forces, leaving only a small part, which became the current cliff.

Standing on the highest point of the cliff and looking towards the city, you can see the details of the entire city. The first thing that caught Leo's eyes were those weird buildings.

All kinds of buildings of different sizes are scattered in this city, and their shapes are extremely distorted and weird, which cannot be described in words. The materials of the buildings look like obsidian, but the inside shows a blood vessel-like texture, and the blood flowing in the blood vessels It's not blood, it's lava. Just looking at it will give people the illusion that the city is alive.

On the streets of the city, you can see some dead wood-like trees, but if you look carefully, you will find that these dead wood-like trees are actually made up of twisted bones of strange creatures, and they are more insidious. It was these bones that seemed to be still alive, shaking their movable stumps in disbelief, and moaning in pain, bringing a terrifying atmosphere to the entire weird city.

"Did Peter Alcott not be able to reach here, or was he left somewhere else?" Leo, who recovered from a strong dizziness, familiarized himself with the surrounding situation a little, then looked at the items on his body, and found that there was a The box of the puppet is missing. Judging from the broken part of the strap, it should be broken by a force.

Regarding the fact that Peter Alcott could not be successfully brought here, Leo just regretted a little bit and wished him good luck secretly in his heart, so he didn't take this matter to heart anymore, but sorted out other items on his body .

Before setting off, Leo added some special bullets from Hushang Town through the relationship of Charles Ranco, but because of the caliber, it was necessary to remake the mold, which wasted a lot of time. Just over two hundred pieces, far below the number Leo expected.

This time, Leo did not store these bullets in his palm, but placed them in five different backpacks and pockets, so that even if any accident happened, these special bullets would not be lost all at once.

These backpacks containing special bullets and other practical items were not lost like the boxes, and they were all hung on his body. In addition, he also tried to open the space in his palm, and the results went smoothly without encountering any obstacles.

"Sub-brain, scan the body and analyze the environment!" After checking the condition of the items on his body, Leo did not rush into the city rashly, but acted cautiously, understanding the situation before making a decision.

With the inspection of the sub-brain system, all kinds of data were organized into tables and appeared in Leo's eyes.

Through these materials, Leo found that there was no abnormal change in his body, but for some reason, he had the illusion that his mouth and nose were covered by someone, and his body was also heavy, as if he was carrying a big rock.

However, the answer to this situation was quickly found from the data. The reason is that the surrounding environment is somewhat unusual, such as a large number of sulfur particles floating in the air, and the amount of oxygen and other gases is as small as no, and the gravitational force of the earth And the air resistance is nearly twice as high as the normal situation, etc. All in all, this environment is not suitable for normal people to survive.

"According to the normal situation, I should be unconscious due to lack of oxygen and die slowly in the end." Leo looked at the analysis data and said to himself: "But the reality is that although I feel a little unwell, But it’s not in any danger to life.” Then, he took a deep breath, frowned, and said, “No, although I have the movement of inhaling, I didn’t inhale any gas, which means that there is no gas here. Basic conditions of survival such as breathing are unnecessary."

Thinking of this, Leo opened the backpack storing food and water, checked the situation inside, and found that all the food had been reduced to ashes, and the water in the container had completely disappeared as if it had completely evaporated, leaving only some impurities in the water at the bottom of the container .

At this time, Leo thought of the strange expressions on Charles Ranco's faces and their simple packing when he was preparing food and water. It was obvious that Charles Ranco and the others knew some basic things in the abandoned city. Condition.

Although some preparations in advance were useless, Leo did not feel depressed because of this. In his opinion, even if these preparations were not useful, it was not a bad thing.

After knowing that he didn't need to worry about some basic living conditions, Leo began to pay attention to other data in the analysis data, and the most important thing for him in these data was that the spiritual activity of the world in the waste capital far exceeded Velen World and Dream World.

After discovering this important data, Leo immediately tried to use spiritual power skills such as spiritual vision. He found that these spiritual power skills did not increase due to the increase in the activity of the surrounding universe's spiritual power, but the consumption of spiritual power The speed of recovery is much faster because of the changes in the surrounding environment. According to Leo's estimation, it takes about three to four minutes to recover a little psionic energy.

"Is it just like this?" After the test, Leo's face was slightly disappointed, obviously the result was not what he expected.

However, soon Leo seemed to have thought of something again, and used the witchcraft air hammer that he had mastered proficiently.

I saw that the air hammer witchcraft, which was originally just a shock wave, actually condensed into a huge hammer-shaped energy body after he cast it, and hit a strange building not far away that was so dilapidated that only half of it remained. After passing by, a pothole was knocked out of the seemingly solid building in an instant, and the energy aftermath also caused cracks, which spread outward and spread to the entire wall.

Seeing this scene, Leo was also a little speechless, and he was stunned for a long time.

The power displayed by this air hammer far exceeded his expectations, and it was completely different from the previous air hammers. If the material used in that building is as hard as ordinary rocks, then the power of this air hammer can already be compared with the standard particle grenade of the Earth Federation Marine Corps.

Looking at the situation in front of him, Leo fell into deep thought, and muttered to himself: "The psionic skills in the sub-brain system will not be enhanced by the influence of the environment after use, but they will not be absorbed by the sub-brain system. After the witchcraft is cast, the power can be increased so much, what is the reason for this?"

After contemplating for a while, Leo suddenly thought of a basic situation related to the environment of the abandoned city mentioned by Charles Ranko. Disorder and chaos are the characteristics of the environment of the abandoned city.

Thinking of this, Leo began to understand why there was such a huge difference in the power of the psychic skills he used, because the psychic skills summarized and shown by the sub-brain system were logical and orderly, while witchcraft itself was infinite. sequential.

To put it simply, every time Leo uses spiritual vision, spiritual net and other spiritual skills, the power is the same, there will be no difference, it can almost be said to be a constant, but witchcraft is different, even if it is limited by the sub-brain system. Psychic output, the power of the same witchcraft he casts will also be different in strength, which means that the effect of witchcraft is an indefinite number, which is a state of disorder.

After finding out the reason, Leo did not come to a conclusion, but used all the quasi-spiritual skills such as witchcraft and rune magic that he had learned recently, and used the secondary brain system to collect all kinds of quasi-psychic skills. Data related to witchcraft.

Because the surrounding environment can quickly restore the consumed spiritual energy, Leo also consciously practiced some unskilled witchcraft while collecting witchcraft data. And every time he performed these unskilled witchcraft, he also made adjustments by analyzing the collected data, and he stopped when he knew that the casting technique and the power of witchcraft had reached an optimal balance, and stood quietly in place Waiting for spiritual energy to recover.

Although Leo stayed on the cliff at the edge of the city for a long time, he was not in a hurry to miss the rendezvous with Charles Ronco, because according to his analysis, if everything in this world ended in nothing If order is the foundation, then time should also be disordered, and under the influence of this disordered time, there is no difference between hours and decades.

When recovering his psychic energy, Leo didn't do nothing. His eyes kept scanning the city, carefully checking the situation in the city ahead.

In the process of checking, Leo quickly found the big tree hole where he was going in the direction of the black sun.

Just like its name, it is a big skeleton tree. This big tree is very big, only slightly shorter than the largest building in the city, and there is a huge tree on its trunk that can accommodate a 30-meter-high building. tree hole.

Although Leo found the place to go, he didn't seem too happy, because under his observation just now, he didn't find a foreign object in the city that was between life and death. Beyond the skeleton tree is an undefended empty city.

Leo said suspiciously: "How could this be? This is completely different from what Charles Ranco said."

According to the information provided by Charles Ranco, the thirteenth floor of Zait Ruins is a library city torn from a hell civilization. When this library city fell to the ruined city, a large number of hell demons who had no time to escape also They fell into the ruined city together, and were transformed into ashes demons by the power of the ruined city. These ashes demons also made the thirteenth floor a dangerous place among the known floors of the big library, second only to the 43rd floor crystallized library. .

But now the most dangerous ash demon in the library on this floor has disappeared, which makes Leo feel puzzled, and also feels that the next journey may not be as smooth as expected.