The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"These lizards should have immigrated here from outsiders." Leo, who looked away from Sylvia's satchel, looked at a lizard corpse that fell on the platform not far away, and said.

"Why are you so sure?" Selan asked with some doubts.

Leo replied briefly, "Because their physiological structure and predation methods are not suitable for an environment like a big tree hole, they can only be foreign."

Seran didn't quite understand what Leo meant, but she didn't know whether it was Leo's previous behavior or his current tone. All in all, she felt that Leo's words might be right.

Over there, Sylvia had put all the lizard eggs into the satchel, stood up, looked at Leo, and said, "The situation here is a little different from the previous one, should we continue? "

"Go on!" Without waiting for Leo to speak, Seran made a very decisive decision: "Since we already know that there is a problem, we should go now to at least find out what happened."

Hearing Seran's words, Sylvia and Leo looked at each other, then nodded in unison.

After making a decision, the three of them continued to move down. Every time they descended a certain distance, Leo and the others would encounter a group of strange creatures living here. Some were still invisible lizards, but there were others that even Sylvia Creatures and monsters that they couldn't identify, and the number of such creature monster groups was increasing, and there were even situations where several different creatures inhabited the same area.

These creatures prey on each other, forming a complete ecological cycle, which also allows them to reproduce here.

If there are no accidents, these creatures will start to mutate or evolve in the environment inside the big tree hole after multiplying to a certain extent, and finally completely become the protozoa of the big tree hole.

It's a pity that the arrival of Leo and others has brought catastrophe to these creatures. Leo's spiritual network easily found all these creatures and monsters, and wiped them out one by one. Sylvia who followed Leo After each battle, assist Leo to clean up the battlefield and take out useful things from the killed monsters and creatures.

This situation did not end until they felt a gust of icy cold wind coming from under the big tree hole, because there was no biome any further down the big tree hole.

When he felt the biting cold wind blowing up from the bottom, Leo frowned, because he remembered that in the image that the white deer showed him, the place where the head of eternal wisdom was located was a mountain forest that was like spring all the year round. The current situation obviously did not match what he knew.

At the same time, Sylvia and Seran also showed doubts on their faces. They looked at each other and said in unison, "Did we go to the wrong place?"

"What's wrong?" Leo turned his head and asked the two of them.

"It is recorded in the witch's notes that the witch's cemetery is in a garden that is always full of beautiful flowers. The climate there is the most comfortable spring climate, but now..." Sylvia explained, and then looked The road on the top of the head said: "The situation we encountered before is not like the road leading to the witch's cemetery. I don't think we are going the wrong way, right?"

Leo was silent for a while, and made a decision: "Go down and have a look first, if we really go the wrong way, we will go back and walk the way you walked before, anyway, it won't waste too much time. "

"Yes." Seran and Sylvia nodded upon hearing that.

The three of them continued to descend. As the cold wind became stronger and stronger, the surrounding vines had turned into icicles. The reduction has had some impact on them as well.

Fortunately, these effects were not very great, and Leo's weightless spiritual power made this last journey safe and sound.

When the three fell to the bottom of the cave, walked out of the cave against the cold wind, bypassed the vine shelter in front, and arrived outside the big tree cave, a boundless snow country scenery also came into the eyes of the three.

Seeing this scene, Seran said with some disappointment: "It seems that we really went the wrong way."

"No, we didn't go wrong." But as soon as Seran finished speaking, Sylvia and Leo agreed to deny her deduction.

Afterwards, Sylvia and Leo looked at each other, and they both saw a trace of seriousness in each other's eyes.

Just as the two of them judged, this is indeed the place where the witch's cemetery and the head of eternal wisdom are located, but the forest here has turned into ice and snow, but no matter how it changes, the towering mountain where the head of eternal wisdom is located in the distance will never change. Marking his position like a road sign.

Leo looked up at the sky. Although the sky was covered by thick clouds, he could still see the branches and leaves belonging to ancient trees from the clouds. Seeing this scene, Leo immediately thought of the evolution of plants in the universe. Omega-level advanced life form, its body is a complete world, and the situation of the ancient tree seems to be the same, so Leo even suspects that the so-called Aishali Forest may be this ancient tree.

"What should we do now?" Seran asked in a deep voice, "Shall we continue?"

"I've come here, it's a pity to go back, let's continue!" Sylvia looked at Leo, made a decision, and then carefully identified the direction, pointing to a very obvious one in the distance Shan Qiu said: "There, according to the direction recorded in the notes, the witch's cemetery should be there."

Serran looked at the location pointed by Sylvia, recalled the information in his mind, and after confirming that Sylvia's judgment was correct, he nodded in agreement with Sylvia's decision.

After making a decision, the two were about to move forward, but Leo suddenly grabbed them and pointed to the empty snow field in the distance before the two asked.

Sylvia and Seran didn't understand Leo's actions, because they didn't see anything on the snow that Leo pointed out.

Leo didn't explain much about this, he took out a piece of high-energy material that he had taken from a psychic creature before, and threw it into the open space.

I saw that piece of high-energy matter was frozen into an ice cube by an extreme cold air when it was still in the air, and the energy contained in it was quickly lost, and it had already decomposed into some snowflake debris the moment it hit the ground.

When the high-energy matter was decomposed, both Sylvia and Seran also saw the reason why Leo held them back.

They saw that while the high-energy matter was being decomposed, they saw a burst of silver-gray light bands emerge out of thin air, and spread and move. Soon, a three-meter-high and twenty-meter-long band was outlined on the open space. , a huge monster with many limbs.

Seeing this monster, both Sylvia and Seran put away their relaxed expressions and showed serious expressions, and each took out their weapons.

It would be fine if the monster was just huge, and they have too many ways to deal with this huge monster, but this kind of monster can be invisible, and the body seems to be like water, which can absorb and absorb things that come close, and then use the body to store them The power to decompose absorbed objects.

"Stay aside, leave it to me for now." Leo gestured to Sylvia, and was about to step towards the monster.

"Can you handle it?" Sylvia held Leo's hand, and said with some concern: "If you can't handle it, let's find another way. I know there is another entrance. When you come out, it will be directly near the witch's cemetery. forest..."

"It's not necessary." Leo rejected Sylvia's kindness, and then stepped out of the protection area of ​​the ancient tree.

The high-energy substance that Leo threw earlier had alarmed the monster, and it had already set its sights on Leo and the others, but it was afraid to move because of the power of the ancient tree.

Originally, it thought that since Leo and the others had discovered their whereabouts, they would definitely retreat back into the ancient tree, and it would also lose this prey.

However, what it didn't expect was that Leo walked out of the protection range of the ancient tree, which made it think of the sacrifices of those sacrificers in the past, the good life in the past, and the same thing. Seeing the current bad situation, the disparity between the two immediately made it extremely angry and resentful, and Leo just became the target of it to vent.

It moves the limbs on both sides of the body, moving quickly on the snow, and at the same time, the tail circles sideways at a faster speed, and the body stretches like a spring, stretching from 20 meters to more than 100 meters in an instant , It seems that he wants to wrap Leo in his body, and use the body's own decomposition power to decompose Leo.

Although the monster's movements were fast, Leo's movements were even faster. He rushed down in front of the monster at a speed that was almost flashing, and then he became short and parallel to the ground as if he was sticking to the ground. Then there was a psionic impact from both feet, and the whole person flew out from the back. At the same time, the twin long swords in his hands were also lifted up, piercing the monster's lower abdomen, using the impact force to open a hole in its lower abdomen, and then As Leo moved several times, the monster's entire abdomen was completely cut open by Leo.

At first, the monster didn't care about the abdominal wound, because according to its previous experience, any wound can heal quickly, but then the severe pain in the abdomen did not weaken, but became more and more intense, and it also saw the strength of the body It was rapidly weakening, and before it lowered its head to check the injury in its abdomen, a sense of powerlessness surged up, and the whole body couldn't support it any longer. It lay on the ground, and its consciousness gradually became blurred, and finally disappeared completely.

Seeing that the huge monster fell under the first round of Leo's attack, its abdomen was cut open, its internal organs dripped down, and silver-gray blood was also left, and the white snow on the snow field was dyed another color.

Leo easily dealt with this huge monster, and Sylvia and Seran couldn't help but feel that this monster was ostentatious.

It was only after they walked out of the protection of the ancient tree, stood in front of the translucent monster, and felt the invisible power emanating from the monster, that they could clearly perceive how strong the monster was.

According to their estimates, if the two of them encountered this monster without precaution, even if they defeated the monster in the end, they would probably have to pay a considerable price.

Leo stood beside him, showing no complacent expression. He shook off the blood on the cross sword and returned to the glove mode. That casual look made people feel as if he was just drinking water and eating.

In fact, for Leo, dealing with this kind of reptile monster is as simple as drinking water and eating, because the Earth Federation has been attacked by various strange alien insects countless times in the past, and has already developed a A series of insect killing tactics, as long as they are insect-shaped creatures, they cannot escape the target range of this set of tactics.

"Let's get out of here as soon as possible! The smell here is too strong, I believe it will attract a large number of hunters in a short time." Leo smelled a very strong smell of the monster's blood, and sternly around There was no sign of dissipating in the cold wind, and it floated into the distance.

"Wait, I seem to have found something interesting." Sylvia seemed to have seen something, walked quickly to a part of the monster's wrecked body, cut open the monster's shell with the thin sword in her hand, and then Get out of the way before the fluid in your body flows out.

Soon there was a lot of insect body fluid flowing on the ground. After the liquid stopped flowing, Sylvia squatted down and searched the ground a little bit. From the snow infiltrated by the insect body fluid, she found a fist-sized metal cube. .

"What's this?" Seran asked, handing Sylvia a towel for wiping.

"I don't know either." Sylvia looked at the block in her hand that looked like a complete metal casting, and turned to Leo and asked, "Do you know what this is?"

"This is a standard module!" Leo looked at the cube in Sylvia's hand, with a surprised expression on his face, and replied truthfully.

"Standard module?" Sylvia and Seran looked at each other. Although they could understand Leo's words, they didn't understand their meaning.

"This kind of standard module was created by some great civilizations." Leo explained: "They are mainly used by exploration teams. Some exploration teams need to fight in places far away from civilization and live for a long time. If they are supplied from the location of civilization , requires a huge cost, so those great civilizations will create this standard module, each module has a complete production line, which can collect materials from the local area to produce the required items.”

"That is to say? This thing is a complete factory?" Compared with Seran, who has not had deep contact with outside civilizations, Sylvia, who has dabbled in all kinds of knowledge, quickly understood what Leo meant. , looking at the cube in his hand in shock.

Although she wanted to believe Leo's words, she felt that it was too unbelievable, even more unbelievable than those fairy tales.