The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The secret market that was Leo's destination was located in the dock warehouse controlled by the Church of Sea God, and the people in charge of the security work here were also armed personnel of the church. This almost showed everyone that the supporter behind this market was the church.

Because of this, although this market is called the secret market, it is actually not secret at all. Many people can obtain the market address through various channels. Once the market address is obtained, it can be seen how open the market is.

Although the address of the market is semi-public, almost anyone who knows the address can come here, but it is not a simple matter to enter the market. There are only two kinds of passes to enter the market, or the person himself is a person with extraordinary power , or have a mysterious item that can be traded.

Facing the guards in the warehouse, Leo casually took out a monster wreckage he got from Desperate Mountain, and passed smoothly, while Sean showed off the necklace he was wearing around his neck.

After entering the warehouse, Leo and Sean immediately felt a strong black market atmosphere surrounding the entire market. The stalls were placed randomly but in an orderly manner. The market managers patrolled between the stalls. The neatly positioned builders lined up simple shops, and no matter how blind people were, they could tell that the items sold in those shops were much better than those on the stalls.

"Do you know what I think?" Leo said to Sean after seeing the market in front of him.

Sean seemed to understand what Leo meant, nodded, and said, "I thought so too, this place is really like a black market."

"It seems that the behind-the-scenes controller of this market should be that Princess Chris." Leo guessed.

Although there is no evidence to prove that this market has any relationship with Princess Chrissy, but the atmosphere and construction mode of this market alone are enough to judge that the market builder is imitating the black market, and this world seems to be apart from the people who have settled here. Princess Chrissy has enough ability and power to build such a market, and there is no one else to be found, and the related inferences are naturally formed.

The two took a look at the situation in the market, and then started to wander around the market like ordinary buyers.

Compared to Sean who casually looked at the products on the booth, Leo seemed much more serious. He first checked the energy fluctuations of the items on each booth with the Spirit Net, and then started to look at the booths with the strongest energy fluctuations. , Gradually move towards the stalls with weak energy fluctuations.

Although the products on some booths did not have any energy fluctuations, they still attracted Leo's attention, because most of those products were fragments of seemingly meaningless decorations, and some were the remains of some high-tech items.

When distinguishing these commodities, Leo discovered something interesting. All the items on these stalls that emitted strong energy fluctuations all came from nearby islands or sea areas, and those fragments with obvious characteristics of civilization and those high-tech The wreckage of the item came from the outer sea area.

Leo chose a high-tech wreckage that seemed to be in good condition. Judging from the shape and some corroded marks on it, this high-tech wreckage should be a shock energy generator device of some kind of weapon.

Although the appearance of this device has been corroded in many places, it looks like a sealed scrap iron box, but Leo checked the internal structure through the spiritual net, and found that the interior is still intact, and the hidden trigger button of the device It still works, which means that the device can still be used as usual.

Leo didn't know what the corresponding weapon of this device was for, but he judged from the four energy boxes inside the device that once the device was detonated, its destructive power would be enough to shatter an island and create a giant tsunami. And create an undersea earthquake with immeasurable effect.

The only flaw is that this device does not have a coordination system to control the energy output, so the energy is released at one time, and the use is also one-time. After use, not only the energy is completely consumed, but even the device itself will be completely damaged.

However, even so, this device can still be regarded as an artifact, but such an artifact-like item only cost Leo a small amount of money. According to the prices here, that amount of money can only buy a cup of Nice drinks.

The stall owner who sold the item to Leo obviously didn't know that he had just sold an artifact for the price of a drink. If he knew, he might just find a wall here and hit him to death.

However, what he didn't know was that the reason why Leo decided to buy this device was not because of the power of the device after use, but because of the stall owner himself.

When shopping, Leo has already used various speech skills to easily get out the details of this stall owner who only has a little mutation. He knows that the other party is from the most marginal island in the world. He came here for the Holy Church. The pilgrimage came here after more than a year of sailing at sea, and happened to meet the Long Soul Festival, so I decided to go back after the Long Soul Festival.

It's just that he doesn't have enough money in this way, so he can only come here to set up a stall and sell some of the various items he collected in the islands on his way to his hometown.

Because he came from a fringe island, the people here naturally discriminated against him, which made his stall business very mediocre, and the things he sold every day were barely enough for him to pay for the hotel and meals for a day.

Therefore, when he met Leo, a half-citizen from a pseudo-marginal island, he would naturally feel a sense of intimacy and talk more.

Under Leo's deliberate guidance, the stall owner said a lot of information that was very useful to Leo. For example, the edge of this world is not a gray fog, but a cliff that goes down vertically. Will pull the boat across and eventually fall off the cliff.

All the ships that fell off the cliff never appeared in the end, so some people say that there is a place called the Sea of ​​Eternal Silence under the cliff. After waking up in the temple, all the creatures who entered the sea of ​​eternal silence will also wake up and accept the final judgment of the sea god. Only those who pass the judgment can follow the sea god to his kingdom of God and obtain eternal life.

Although Leo was very curious about the situation of the ocean cliffs below the edge of the world, he didn't have the idea to find out. He was more interested in a legend that appeared in the edge of the sea.

According to the legend, there is always a mysterious silver-white metal monster prowling in that sea area. Generally, that monster will not attack nearby ships, but if someone tries to get close to it, it will directly cut the ship with its blade-like spine.

Those who fell into the water had seen the whole picture of the monster in the water. They described the monster as a huge fish with blades all over its body, several groups of hot flames burning in its tail, dozens of eyes, and Each is like a flame, illuminating the dark seabed. Legend has it that if someone dares to stare at this monster for a long time, their eyes will be blinded by the monster's curse. If they are lucky, they will only be blind for a while, and if they are unlucky, they will be completely blind.

After hearing this legend, Leo immediately thought that the so-called huge monster in the water should be a small battleship, and the flames at the tail and eyes were the energy light waves and illumination light generated by the engine. As for the curse that causes the viewer to be blinded, it is easier to understand. Without a light filter device, let alone the locals here who have long adapted to the dark environment of the world, even those civilized races in the universe who rely on their eyes to observe objects If we look at it for a long time, the engine power light and the high-energy search light will also blind.

In addition, there is another clue for Leo to judge that the monster is a spaceship. This clue is that some devices similar to shock energy generators can always be found in the place where the monster stays. It seems that this spaceship is searching for the remains of cosmic civilization. Want to repair the spaceship with the parts that are still usable in them.

This gave Leo an idea. If he still has enough time, he can go to the edge of the sea to see if there is really a spaceship that can be used wandering in the sea. Maybe he can find something that is related to the universe. things related to accidents.

After all, if someone can control the spaceship, then the identity of the operator is definitely not simple. Whether it is the pilot or the captain of the spaceship itself, he has obtained certain authority of the spaceship and also has some information related to the spaceship.

So, when Leo revealed that he might return to the fringe seas after the Long Soul Festival, the stall owner immediately expressed the hope that Leo could go with him, and even invited Leo to visit his hometown island.

In this regard, Leo did not refuse, but said that if time allowed, and asked for the current address of the stall owner, he said that if he had a decision, he would go to him.

After that, Leo spent some local currency to buy some useless things from the stall owner, which made up for the real price difference of the previous device, and then he got up and left the stall, and went to other places to continue visit.

While wandering around, the two quickly saw the sea monster conch in a small store opened by the Eldar.

Before seeing the sea monster snail, both Leo and Sean subconsciously believed that the sea monster snail was some kind of creature, through which some unknown monsters in the ocean could be summoned.

But after seeing it, I realized that the so-called sea monster conch is a strange thing made of some kind of conch, and the sea monster it summons is not a sea monster in the true sense, but a kind of monster that uses the power contained in this strange thing. An energy monster created by ocean power and water.

Now Leo can also use the power of nightmare to imitate the power of the ocean to create this kind of ocean energy monster, but the monster's shape and power are probably far from being comparable to this sea monster shell, because some of them are not completely damaged by Leo. On the sea monster snail, there is an energy that he can't analyze in the power he feels. This energy may be the main reason why the sea monster snail has such a powerful effect.

Although these sea monster snails are all defective products, Leo can feel that except for the energy fluctuations emitted by one sea monster snail is fairly stable, the energy fluctuations of the other sea monster snails are very abnormal. Once used, unpredictable Even the situation of the sea monster snail with stable energy is not very good, it shows energy dissipation, that is to say, the sea monster snail will become a decoration in a short time.

However, even for these defective products, the asking price is not low. At least with the current cash on Leo's body, he can only buy a spiral cone angle at the top of the sea monster snail.

If it was before discovering the true effect of the golden scales, Sean might have exchanged the golden scales for a defective sea monster snail, but now he is just addicted to his eyes, and after he leaves here, he will see if he can Get in touch with the Sea Clan resident here, and exchange this golden scale for a sea monster shell, or something even better.

After seeing what a sea monster snail is, the two also lost interest in it. They didn't stay in the spirit shop for too long, and left soon. After that, they wandered around the market for a while. Leo spent I spent some money to buy a few fragments of ancient relics that looked very special, then left the market and walked back towards the dock site.

The two walked through the dock area and entered a relatively secluded path that they had walked through when they came. At this time, both of them stopped, because there were several people waiting in front of the path, and they stopped the movement of their feet. At that time, several people emerged from the woods behind.

Seeing the person blocking the way, Leo smiled, and said to Sean: "Look, this is the result of revealing wealth. Do you need me to take action?"

"No need! You don't need to take action." Perhaps because he has found a way to obtain the sea monster conch, Sean seems to be in a relaxed mood at the moment, and facing these obstacles in his way, he just retaliates against himself People, not only did he not panic, but he was a little excited. He wanted to see how far his useless self-defense methods could go.

While he was talking to Leo, those roadblockers came up one after the other. The leader was the clergyman who had been monitoring Leo's construction site before, and the others were unknown people. , but judging from the attire, it should be some low-level staff of the church.

After seeing Leo and Sean clearly, he didn't talk nonsense, and went straight to the point: "Hand over that golden scale."

"Do you want it?" Sean took two steps forward, took out the golden scale from his pocket, and held it up where everyone could see it, then the bracelet on his wrist emitted a faint light, and heard He said in a strange tone, "But who shall I give it to? There is only one piece here, and only one person can get it. Who shall I give it to?"

As soon as Xiao En's voice fell, a knife stabbed into the body of the head priest from behind, directly through the internal organs, killing him on the spot, and it was the person behind him who made this fatal attack. One of his subordinates, and at this time this subordinate was also being attacked by other people, or in other words, other people were attacking each other.

After a while, only Leo and Xiao En stood around, and the others fell to the ground, lifeless.