The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Compared with Sylvia, Leo has a clearer grasp of the things in the ruins, and even more clearly than those involved in what happened.

From the moment he discovered something was wrong, Leo's mental net had already enveloped the entire ruins, carefully observing all the changes here.

Although some imperceptible things sometimes appear in his mental network, such as the sudden appearance of fog, what happened to those scholars is still within his grasp.

From the moment the mist appeared, the distorted symbols and Turing-like root patterns on the ruined wall began to generate waves of energy fluctuations. These energy fluctuations were not strong, but very strange and highly contagious Sex, while Leo's mental network perceives them, they also infect Leo through the spiritual network.

It's just that the mental infection caused by these energy fluctuations doesn't affect Leo's mind, even the protection formed by the imprints of the gods can't penetrate, and they are finally absorbed by the pattern on Leo's back representing the imprint of the night god. Just like when he absorbed the fog in the fog outside the town on the lake, this also made him more sure of the origin of the fog.

Level 6 psykers like Leo would be infected by this energy at such a distance, those scholars who were close to the ruins would naturally be unable to escape the end of being infected by energy, and they were not only spiritually infected Now, even the body is mutated under the action of the energy and the surrounding mist, turning into twisted and vicious monsters.

The rapid mutation of the body will inevitably consume a large amount of energy, and cannot be obtained from the outside world, only the energy of these mutants can be consumed, so when the mutants complete the mutation, the first thing they think of is to replenish energy, and replenishing energy is the best The solution is food.

When these monsters mutate, it is obvious that the first thing they lose is their intelligence. All they have is biological instinct. The strong hunger drives them to attack other monsters closest to them. The weakest mutants are eaten by the powerful mutants first. , and then another weak mutant was besieged and divided, and repeated, until the remaining mutants felt that the opponent's strength was no less than their own, they began to put the target in other places, such as standing on the plank road without mutated people.

Under the monitoring of Leo's mental network, there are a few centipede-like mutants with more than a dozen limbs and elongated bodies clinging to the 90-degree wall as if they were on flat ground, climbing quickly Arriving on the plank road, he rushed towards the nearest panicked ordinary person.

The same scene was still going on in other places on the plank road. Those scholars didn't even have the strength to fight back. They could only let out a scream when they were thrown to the ground by the monster.

At the same time, several mutants also found Leo and Sylvia, and they rushed towards the two of them quickly, and all of them grew their mouths full of sharp teeth, as if they wanted to bite Leo into a mouthful. Swallow away the general.

Facing the rushing mutants, Leo was about to pull out the king and queen and finish them off, but Sylvia moved faster than him, and directly raised the hand crossbow to attack the rushing mutants. A few arrows shot in the head.

Although the hand crossbow looks very light and has no power, and the only advantage seems to be the repeating arrow box, in fact, the speed of the arrows shot from the hand crossbow is not slower than the bullets shot from the queen, and it shoots After hitting the target, a powerful impact force will emerge from the arrow, directly tearing apart all objects within a radius of nearly 20 centimeters around the wound.

This also caused the heads of these mutants to disappear instantly, and part of their necks and shoulders also disappeared, and their corpses fell heavily on the ground, with blood splashing from the wounds, instantly filling the surroundings with a bloody smell.

The strong smell of blood naturally also attracted those mutants who were still very hungry, and this attraction was so great that they let go of the ordinary people who were about to reach their mouths, and quickly moved towards Leo and Silvia The corner where it is located rushed over.

In fact, it is not difficult to guess the reason. The energy contained in the flesh and blood of mutants far exceeds that of ordinary people, and there are substances in the flesh and blood of mutants that can make these mutants further mutate. The body of the mutator undergoes a secondary mutation, not only becoming more ferocious but also bigger.

However, in the face of the menacing crowd of mutants, Sylvia looked very calm, and signaled to Leo not to do anything, followed her as if playing a target shooting game, and quickly pulled the trigger of the crossbow towards the heads of those monsters , each arrow can easily take away the life of a monster. These monsters that are extremely deadly to others are as weak as lambs in front of her. The crossbow has wiped out these monsters.

Just when Sylvia aimed the hand crossbow at the last living mutant below, Leo reached out to stop her attack, and said, "Wait, let's see what it can mutate into in the end. "

Sylvia nodded, put down the hand crossbow, and saw that the mutant below devoured the corpses of the same kind with all his heart and soul, regardless of the danger from above. Glancing at the mutated monster, he said to Leo: "These monsters are not much stronger than ordinary people except that they are slightly stronger, stronger, and more ferocious in appearance."

"Are you a little disappointed?" Leo looked at the bored Sylvia.

Sylvia nodded, disassembled the arrow box under the hand crossbow, replaced it with a new one, and said: "It is true that this kind of battle is not as intense as this morning, and I want to test the strength of my body now Bottom line." After changing the arrow box, she hung the hand crossbow back to her waist, then swung the stick sword in her hand, and said, "If I had known this, I would have just used the stick sword to fight in melee."

"You can try it later." Leo pointed to the mutant who was rapidly mutating after devouring the corpse of the same kind below, and said.

I saw that this mutant was eating faster and faster. In order to eat quickly, its mouth became an easy-to-swallow mouthpart, and its body was also elongated to accommodate food. A layer of horny scales grew on the surface of the body. Under the light, it even exudes a metallic luster. A large number of tentacles protrude from the surface of its body, which looks like hair, but if you look closely, you will find that each tentacle is a vacuum. The straw, if inserted into the prey, can instantly suck the blood from the prey.

Seeing the mutant in this form, Sylvia's expression became a little solemn, and regardless of her disgust for the disgusting scene below, she watched the mutation process of the mutant in front of her, and she was also thinking quickly about what to do next. How would she fight against such mutants.

Compared to Sylvia who can only judge the opponent's ability by observing the mutant's changes from the outside, Leo penetrated into the mutant's body through the spiritual network, and observed the rapid mutation of the mutant's body at a deeper level.

He found that as more corpses of mutants were eaten, the organs in the mutant's body also rapidly decreased, and the functions of the organs also rapidly merged. Later, it seemed that there was only one stomach left, and even the brain and stomach It was integrated into one body, and an energy block with this extremely strong energy fluctuation was also condensed in its stomach.

When the body of the last mutant was devoured, the body mutation of this mutant gradually slowed down and finally stopped, and its appearance has nothing to do with humans at all, it looks like a tentacled, metal-covered A horny, worm with huge mouthparts.

When the corpse was digested in the only organ in its body, its devoured object was aimed at Leo and Silvia who were watching above it.

I saw that the body of this mutant jumped up from the ground as if it was loaded with springs. The body seemed to lose weight and flew into the air. The huge mouthparts opened like blooming flowers, and the mouthparts were full of sharp edges. The teeth were like sharp blades, and tentacles rushed out of the mouthparts one by one, and surrounded Leo and Sylvia, as if trying to restrain them and drag them into the mouth.

Facing the mutant's attack, Leo still stood motionless. He seemed to have absolute trust in Sylvia's power, and Sylvia did not live up to his trust. A powerful force came from She burst out of her body and turned into an invisible big hand that easily pinched the mutant in the air. At the same time, Sylvia's staff and sword seemed to be thrown out at will.

A sword light flashed, and the seemingly powerful mutant was separated from the middle, broke into two sections, and fell to the ground.

Sylvia retracted the staff sword in her hand into the scabbard, returned to the appearance of a cane, then turned her head towards Leo and raised her head triumphantly.

Leo was not surprised that Sylvia was able to get rid of this mutant, because although this mutant had condensed an energy block in its body, it still only relied on its body's instincts to fight, at best it was just a stronger beast .

What really surprised Leo was the stick sword in Sylvia's hand, because in his opinion, after the power of this stick sword is activated, it can almost be compared with the particle cycle knife. You must know that the particle cycle knife is a star. The Marine Corps is used to cut the armor of the spacecraft and attack the important weapons inside the spacecraft.

However, although Leo was very curious about the origin of the stick sword, and even more curious about the structure of the stick sword, he still held back his curiosity and did not ask Sylvia for research on the stick sword, even though he knew that if he asked Even Sylvia will not refuse.

Leo turned his attention back to the corpse below, and saw that he used spiritual energy to find the energy block from the corpse of the mutant and ingested it.

Sylvia only saw Leo reaching out to grab the mutant corpse, and an extremely beautiful gem emerged from the pile of ugly and disgusting corpses, flew into Leo's hand, and was suspended in the air. above the palm.

"What is this?" Sylvia asked curiously.

Leo replied truthfully: "It's an energy block, and it's a very stable energy block."

"Is there any use?" Sylvia asked again.

This question made Leo stunned for a moment. If it was in the Earth Federation, Leo could name tens of thousands of ways to use this energy block, but here, in this Vinylon world, besides being used as a gem, the energy block seems to be used again. There is no other function.

"No, since it has evolved this thing, then this thing must be useful to it." Leo's eyes fell on the corpse of the mutant below, a guess came up in his heart, and he told Sylvia the guess.

Sylvia also said with some regret: "It seems that I should act softly, let this guy live for a while, and use all the strength in his body, that's right!"

At this time, the mist in the ruins below suddenly began to thin out, and then dissipated at an extremely fast speed. It didn't take long for the mist to dissipate completely, leaving only a mess on the ground.

At the same time that the fog disappeared, the walls around the cave returned to their original shape, and the entrances and exits reappeared, as if everything just now was just an illusion.

Apart from Leo and Sylvia, there are a few lucky scholars still alive in the entire cave, but their situation is not very optimistic. All stupid and insane.

"It's such a pity. You must know that the dead scholars almost included most of the most outstanding archaeologists in the Maris Kingdom." Sylvia suddenly felt emotional, and then quickly returned to normal, asking Leo: " What do we do next?"

"Find out the reason for the fog." Leo replied immediately, "That's where the exit of the circular passage is."

After finishing speaking, he jumped off the plank road, stepped on the bloody water on the ground, and walked towards a circular open space in the ruins.

Sylvia originally wanted to follow, but when she saw the messy appearance of blood, internal organs, etc. on the ground, she stopped jumping. Instead, she walked around the path along the wall for a certain distance before jumping into the ruins , followed.

When Sylvia followed Leo, Leo was already standing on the ring-shaped open space. This open space is not very big, and it should not be a rest square or other facilities.

There are a large number of square stones on the ground of the open space. All the stones have some patterns and symbols on them, but because of aging and wind erosion, most of the patterns and symbols on the stone plates have been very blurred and cannot be recognized. Show your true colors.

The reason why Leo chose to investigate here was mainly because he saw the fog dissipating here first. According to common sense, it is likely to be the place where the fog first appeared, that is, the entrance and exit of the passage.

However, Leo's mental net scanned this place over and over again, and even went down to more than ten meters underground, but found nothing unusual, not even energy fluctuations.

But it was this state without any abnormalities that made Leo believe more and more that this was the entrance and exit of the circular passage.