The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Because of the blood race's aversion to White Swan Castle, the person responsible for receiving visitors is just an ordinary butler of White Swan Castle.

For a nobleman, this kind of behavior is a bit disrespectful, but the visitors are all scholars engaged in research. In their minds, studying ancient ruins is far more important than exchanging feelings with noble lords, so what the Kuifan family did Did not cause any dissatisfaction.

When Leo and Sylvia arrived at White Swan Castle, some invited scholars had already arrived. Under the leadership of the castle servants, they had already gone to the location of the tower's foundation.

After getting off the carriage, Leo and Sylvia handed the invitation letter to the servants of the castle. After checking the authenticity of the invitation letter, another servant led them into the castle, along the side of the hall. The stone steps go down to the basement.

Prior to this, both Leo and Sylvia had read the information about the foundation of the tower under the White Swan Castle, and knew that the Quivan family kept the ruins as far as possible in order to facilitate the study of the ruins of the tower. In order to prevent the construction of the castle from affecting the ruins, they also used a large number of columns to erect the foundation of the castle, thereby ensuring the integrity of the ruins.

However, no matter how detailed the content seen from the information is, it is far inferior to the scene seen on the spot.

After walking down the spiral staircase for about ten meters, he pushed open a wooden door and entered the location of the tower ruins.

I saw that the entire underground is a man-made cave with a diameter of about two kilometers. Giant blocks are neatly piled up around the cave, and dozens of stone pillars are scattered throughout the cave, supporting the foundation of the castle at the top of the cave. The stone materials of the cave are also light-absorbing stones, and they are integrated with the castle outside, so the light absorbed by the castle outside is also transferred here and emitted, illuminating the originally gloomy and dark cave as bright as the outside.

In such an environment, the remains of the high tower at the bottom of the cave are clearly visible, not only some major building facilities can be seen, but even some symbols with mysterious meanings on the walls can also be seen clearly.

In order to facilitate researchers to observe the ruins of the tower from the whole, the craftsmen hired by the Kui Fan family specially erected a circle of plank roads along the surrounding walls. The ruins are in sight.

At this moment, many scholars who specialize in enriching the study of ancient ruins have entered the ruins of the high tower below, using their own methods to study the mysterious symbols, architectural structures, causes of destruction, etc. in this ruins. It has been researched by scholars, and the parts that can be excavated have also been excavated. Logically speaking, there should be no more valuable things to guess correctly.

But the actual situation was not like this. Just when Leo and Sylvia had just arrived, some scholars uttered bursts of amazed cries in the ruins.

It turned out that this scholar had also participated in the research of this ruin before, and specifically found a ruin full of various symbols to study the meaning of the symbols on it. For this reason, he copied all the symbols and carefully marked each symbol He even drew the exact location of the ruins he studied with his superb drawing ability.

For this scholar, he knew more about the ruins than he knew about his home, but just now he discovered that the various symbols on the ruins had changed, not only a lot more symbols, and the positions of some symbols have also changed.

Not only this scholar, but other people who have participated in the study of the tower ruins also found that the ruins they studied before have changed, and based on their survey of the site, they did not find any traces of artificial forgery, and those Corrosion marks on the surface of the remains show that these were naturally formed.

All kinds of novel discoveries also excited the researchers of these ancient ruins, and devoted themselves to the research of the ruins.

Compared to these pure scholars of ancient civilizations, Leo and Silvia are obviously more like two outliers.

After they came to this place, they did not rush down into the ruins of the ruins below like other scholars. Instead, they walked leisurely along the plank road like two tourists visiting a museum, and stopped from time to time. , looking at a certain piece of ruins that is being studied by scholars.

"It's so weird!" Sylvia whispered next to Leo: "In the rumors outside, the blood race doesn't care about the ruins, and they even sneer at the treasures in the ruins, but looking at it now, those rumors are obviously true. The problem, judging from the scale of protection here, the blood race attaches great importance to this place, and I even suspect that the White Swan Castle above is also repaired for this ruin."

"What do you think the blood race wants from here?" Leo asked after thinking for a while.

"I don't know either." Sylvia shook her head, then pointed to the scholars below, and said, "But I know the answer lies in these witchcraft runes and Turing roots."

Leo was noncommittal to Sylvia's guess, and continued to walk along the plank road, but after walking a distance from one end, he stopped again and looked at the ruins below.

I saw that Yilan was recording the changing symbols on the ruins with several library scholars. Her mind was all on the ruins, and she didn't realize that Leo was standing on top of his head.

"Yilan from the library is a good scholar." Sylvia walked to Leo's side, and easily recognized the person below, and said, "It's a pity that she studied under the Bihus School, which is too dull. It is only suitable for some data collectors, and it is difficult to have any breakthrough achievements in academics.”

"Go, go down and have a look." Leo motioned to Sylvia, then jumped off the plank road and landed firmly on the ground.

Sylvia also followed, and the speed of her body's fall gradually slowed down when she fell. When her feet landed on the ground, she no longer had any strength to fall. She seemed to be walking lightly on the spot.

The two didn't disturb the library scholar who was quietly studying, they walked to a broken wall and looked up.

Sylvia wasn't interested in these things, and couldn't see anything useful. The symbols above were like a foreign language she had never touched, so she looked at it for a while and then turned to look at other ruins went.

Compared with Sylvia, Leo's situation is not much better.

Originally, Leo thought that with his own ability, even if he couldn't completely decipher the symbols and Turing radicals on the walls of the ruins, he could still find some clues to the decipherment.

But now after seeing these symbols and Turing radicals at close range, Leo found that he could not use what he had learned before. The symbols themselves were completely wrong, and the combinations were chaotic. Even the Turing radicals They were all random combinations, and did not follow the most basic combination rules at all.

If it was just that, maybe Leo would think that it was a forged rag made by a person who didn't know anything, and it was worthless to study, and he would even think that the whole ruins were just a scam of the blood race, but what puzzled him was this The ruins emit weak energy fluctuations, and the source of these energy fluctuations are those symbols and Turing roots that he thinks are all wrong.

This abnormal situation almost made Leo think that the relevant knowledge he had learned before was wrong, but he quickly got rid of the influence of this abnormal emotion, calmed down, and re-examined these Turings full of mistakes and contradictions. Radical relic symbol.

He suddenly thought that according to the normal situation, these symbols and Turing radicals full of chaos, disorder and errors would absolutely not be able to produce these energies, but there is a place where these symbols and Turing radicals can produce differences power, and this place is the abyss.

The abyss itself is distorted, chaotic, and disordered. These symbols and Turing radicals that seem to have no meaning here may produce magical effects in the abyss.

"Perhaps these symbols and Turing radicals were normal originally, but they became distorted after being affected by the power of the abyss." A bold guess suddenly appeared in Leo's heart.

"Mr. Leo, when did you come?" Yilan just finished copying some symbols around the corner, she stood up and moved her body, just in time to see Leo standing in front of the broken wall, and immediately walked forward Come on, asked.

"It's not long since I came here." Leo simply responded.

At this time, Sylvia also came over, nodded to Yilan, and then asked Leo, "Did you find anything?"

"I found something." Leo nodded affirmatively, and then said what he discovered and guessed just now.

"Abyss?" Both Sylvia and Yilan exclaimed at the same time, but the meanings of their exclamations were completely different.

Sylvia didn't expect the power of the abyss to be involved here, and she was more surprised, while Yilan was completely at a loss, and didn't know what the abyss was at all.

"Are you sure the power of the abyss is working?" Sylvia asked confirmingly.

"I think it should be." Leo was not entirely sure, he thought for a while, and suddenly asked Yilan: "Miss Yilan, have the symbols that appear in this area been recorded in your library all along? "

"Yes." Yilan didn't know why Leo suddenly asked such a question, but she nodded truthfully.

Leo asked again: "Do you have the previous records with you now?"

"Yes." Yilan nodded and said, "I'll get it for you."

After speaking, she turned around and went to the place where the package was placed, then searched inside the package, pulled out a stack of achievement documents, and after turning over two pages to confirm that they were correct, she came over and handed them to Leo.

After taking the file, Leo quickly flipped through a few pages, and quickly found what he was looking for.

"Look at these copied symbols and patterns." Leo spread out the materials in his hands so that the two people beside him could see them, and then pointed out some materials he had just discovered, and said.

The two looked at the place Leo pointed out, but found nothing unusual.

Leo had expected that the two would have such a reaction, so he walked to the broken wall, drew a position on the broken wall with his finger, and said, "Compare the two."

The two compared the information in the book according to what Leo pointed out, and soon Sylvia discovered something, with a slightly surprised look on her face,

Yilan didn't see anything at first, but after Sylvia stretched out her hand and drew a few strokes on the symbol on the wall as a reminder, she quickly understood what was going on, and said in surprise: "This Is it a variant symbol?"

After being amazed, Yilan found out several distorted variant symbols of the original symbols in the data through the method of comparison.

"What's going on here? Why are these symbols distorted and deformed?" Just when Yilan was full of doubts and wanted to ask Leo, Sylvia had already asked her question.

"This should be related to the phantom half a year ago?" Leo responded briefly, and then said to Sylvia, "Let's go! Let's go and see other places." Then he said to Yilan very seriously: "I would like to give you a friendly suggestion. You'd better pack up your things and leave immediately. Don't study these things here anymore. These things have no research value, and they will have a bad influence on you."

After speaking, Leo led Sylvia to turn around and leave the ruins, and walked towards other places.

Seeing Leo suddenly leaving inexplicably and saying such words, Yilan was completely at a loss, but at the same time she instinctively felt a little danger, so she decided to follow Leo's advice, stop researching, and leave here.

However, when she decided to leave, there was a small problem. Her colleagues were all obsessed with research. They thought that these symbols and patterns that had never been seen before were of great research value. As long as they could decipher the meaning, Maybe it would make them famous in the academic world, and none of them planned to leave her.

Seeing that all her companions have fallen into a state of obsessive research, Yilan, who is also a researcher, knows that there is no way to pull them. This makes her want to stay with them and persuade them when they have dinner. See if you can persuade success.

But when she moved the idea of ​​staying, that strong sense of crisis reappeared in her heart. She didn't know how this sense of crisis came about, but she was very clear that it was not an illusion.

For this reason, Yilan persuaded her companion again, but the result remained the same, and she also felt that she had done her duty to remind, even if something happened, she would not feel guilty about it, so she quickly tidied herself up. packing, hurriedly left the ruins.

And when she boarded the spiral staircase and couldn't see the ruins, the sense of crisis that made her feel suffocated also disappeared, which also made her convinced that the decision she made was correct.