The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Can you tell me about my existence?" the pregnant woman asked expectantly.

Leo didn't answer, but was silent for a while, and asked, "Can you tell me how the five missing people are now?"

The pregnant woman replied calmly: "If they are lucky, they have already woken up and returned to Torch City. If they are unlucky, they may have been eaten by a monster in the forest." Oh, said: "You should know that I don't eat any intelligent life, I am only interested in the strong emotions in the hearts of intelligent life, joy is like barbecue, love is like dessert..."

"So panic?" Leo asked again.

The pregnant woman said bluntly: "Anxiety is like soothing grass. It smells bad, but it can lift your spirits, and it is very addictive. I am already addicted."

Soothing grass is a kind of herbal medicine used by shamans in the Mozambique continent to hold ceremonies. It can soothe people's emotions and lift people's spirits for a period of time. The medical school absorbed this herbal medicine into common medicines, and extracted it with a more effective effect. A good concoction for treating mental ailments.

However, the medical school soon discovered that the refined soothing herbal juice not only has better medicinal effects, but also has extremely strong side effects, that is, it is easy to become addicted, and addicted people cannot get the comfort they want. After taking herbal medicine, it will quickly become manic and violent, and finally even have thoughts and behaviors of self-destruction and destruction of others.

Because of this strong side effect, the medical school had to give up this special drug for treating mental diseases, and included soothing grass in the list of banned drugs, and countries also banned this drug.

However, with the changes in the world, although the vast majority of ordinary human bodies have not undergone drastic changes, they have more or less changed, such as the ability to withstand the side effects of medicines. A world where monsters are rampant feels hopelessness and panic, and the mental stress far exceeds that of more than 20 years ago. Therefore, soothing grass, a medicine that can boost the spirit, has been removed from the list of banned drugs again, and it has been made into a variety of convenient medicines. And the finished medicine carried.

In Fire Dancer's caravan, many people, especially the guards and hunters who directly participated in the front-line battles, have the habit of taking soothing herbal medicine. Every time they trade, they are fighting for their lives, and the pressure they bear is far More than those who lived in the city protected by the high wall, if it were not for the help of the soothing herbal potion, many of them would have collapsed due to excessive stress.

Although Leo had never used the Soothing Grass potion, he was very familiar with similar potions. When he was in the Earth Federation, the Federation army would distribute similar potions to ordinary soldiers on the front line to increase the fighting time of the soldiers and reduce the damage caused by long-term battles. mental stress.

However, even this type of medicine developed by the Earth Federation's technology has extremely strong side effects, which will cause irreparable mental damage to the soldiers who take it for a long time. He can confirm that this soothing herbal medicine is absolutely It won't be as harmless as rumored.

It can be predicted that even if these drug users resist the side effects of the soothing herbal medicine through their strong bodies, so that their bodies do not show signs of addiction, their spirits have been completely eroded by the soothing herbal medicine. Once they lose the medicine one day supply, then they will also be completely useless because of their spirits that are riddled with holes.

A pregnant woman is a spiritual being. She understands the spirit of intelligent creatures beyond the world, and even all levels of life in the universe, so she must also understand the mental state of those who take the soothing herb potion, but now she is She also used soothing grass to describe her love and addiction to panic, which also made Leo feel a little worried.

Just like people who take soothing herbal medicine will continue to increase the dosage to improve the efficacy of the medicine, the pregnant woman may not be satisfied with the amount of panic that she is taking now, and will definitely expand her food sources. Then it is a caravan, but it may be a city or even a county or a country.

After thinking about this, Leo frowned slightly, and his mood changed slightly, considering whether he should tell the information he knew about the spiritual life body.

Although advanced civilizations have never found irrefutable evidence to prove the existence of spiritual life forms, they have conducted in-depth research on spiritual life forms through other means, especially some of the materials that have been made public, most of which are about the existence of spiritual life forms. Research on the abilities of spiritual life forms.

Just as Leo was able to find out his own psychic skills through his understanding of psykers, the spiritual life body in front of him may also be able to find out her own power and ability through the research materials of those advanced civilizations. At that time, a spiritual life body that was extremely addicted to panic, who could stop it?

If it was before, Leo would not consider the consequences of sharing these research materials. He would only use these materials to trade with spiritual life forms to get what he wanted. As for other people, there will be consequences for this world. He won't care too much about any adverse effects.

But the situation is completely different now. He has acquired ordinary human emotions and needs to consider more things, and he also has a lot more worries in his heart.

Just when Leo was hesitating, the spiritual life body also detected Leo's emotional changes very accurately, and realized that she might no longer be able to know information about her existence from Leo's mouth, which made her unable to help. Somewhat annoyed, the look on his face darkened.

"You won't tell me anything about my kind of existence." The pregnant woman straightforwardly clarified Leo's thoughts at the moment.

Leo didn't hesitate any more, nodded and admitted, "Yes."

The pregnant woman said indifferently: "It's okay, I can find it myself."

After speaking, without waiting for Leo to react, the pregnant woman disappeared from Leo's eyes, as if she had never existed.

The appearance of the abnormal situation made Leo instantly understand that the other party might have entered his spiritual world through his own ability, so he immediately used his known method to let his consciousness enter his spiritual world to check the situation, and at the same time quickly checked the database in his brain state of memory.

However, after repeated and careful inspections, Leo didn't find anything unusual about himself, and there was no sign of being invaded. This didn't make him feel relieved, but made him more vigilant.

In his opinion, if the research on spiritual life forms is not too wrong, then the spiritual life form just now may have invaded his spiritual world and began to browse through various materials in his brain.

Faced with this situation, Leo couldn't find any effective countermeasures from the various abilities he had mastered, let alone him, even the gods in the world of Velen would have difficulty resisting the invasion of spiritual life forms.

The only thing Leo can do now is to use any method he has mastered for his own spiritual consciousness to check repeatedly, hoping to find some traces of intrusion.

As time passed, Leo was very disappointed by the same test results again and again, but he was also puzzled after being disappointed, because if the ability of the spiritual life body had really invaded his spiritual world, then The other party should have read his memory thoroughly long ago, and left his spiritual world, but now that spiritual life body seems to have really disappeared and has not reappeared.

"Could she have left?" The abnormal situation caused Leo to conjecture, but soon he shook his head and denied the conjecture, because according to the situation of his contact with the spiritual life body just now, the other party Even if he has obtained the information he wants, it will still reappear in front of him.

"Or is it that she has disappeared?" Leo immediately came up with another thought, and under his rational analysis, this thought was completely impossible, but his intuition told him that maybe it was the truth.

Under the guidance of intuition, Leo repeatedly analyzed the reason why the spiritual life body did not appear, and gradually felt that the guess that the spiritual life body had disappeared might be correct.

Because Leo found that he seemed to have fallen into a misunderstanding when facing the spiritual life body just now, and this misunderstanding was enough to make his subsequent analysis and judgment go in the wrong direction.

For example, all the information he knows about spiritual life forms are derived from unconfirmed public information, and even the existence of the Supreme Council of the universe is vague about whether spiritual life forms really exist, so the information about spiritual life forms There is no substantive object for research, and all research materials are derived from illusions, just because these researches come from higher civilizations and the Supreme Council of the universe, and their authoritative effect makes all those who obtain these materials subconsciously think that these materials are Yes, spirit beings are real.

But what if the spiritual life body does not exist? Is everything just a guess? Then the mysterious existence disguised as a pregnant woman just now is not a spiritual life body, and all the abilities related to the spiritual life body will naturally not appear on this mysterious existence, such as the ability of immortality.

Take a step back and think about it, even if the spiritual life body exists, the other party is indeed a spiritual life body, but the surrounding environment is completely different. This does not lie in the void of the universe, but is likely to be a subspace plane. No rule can be fully applied here.

Just as psionic energy would be greatly restricted here, the power of the spiritual life body might also be greatly suppressed, so the various abilities related to the spiritual life body in his memory would naturally be innumerable.

And the more important point is that the power here is different from the power in the universe. It is not certain whether the spiritual life that cannot be restrained in the universe will be restrained in this world, maybe in this world It is not impossible that there is some kind of power in the world that just restrains her.

Thinking of this, Leo shifted the focus of the inspection from his own spiritual world to other parts of his body, especially those imprints of gods in his body.

Soon Leo discovered that when he condensed the stone throne in his brain through mental power, he found that there was an extra relief on the base of the stone throne, or more correctly, he felt that there was an extra relief.

Leo couldn't describe what the relief looked like, because it was a vague concept, not a specific image, but Leo knew that it was the spiritual life body.

Obviously, when this spiritual life body invaded Leo's spiritual world, it happened to hit the power of the Stone Throne, and was directly absorbed by the Stone Throne.

A special existence that is enough to make the entire universe feel troublesome has disappeared so silently, which makes Leo have a strong sense of unreality, and even thinks that this may be created by the spiritual life body according to his memory and ideas hallucinations.

But his intuition told him that all of this is true. The Stone Throne has indeed devoured this panic-addicted spiritual life body. Since intuition can let Leo find this spiritual life body, then intuition can naturally find this spiritual life body. condition of living organisms.

Being able to solve a problem so easily, Leo was naturally happy to see the result, but at the same time, he also regretted that a strange life form that could change the record of life forms in the universe disappeared in his hands, and he also regretted that he had not been able to get out of it. Get more useful information from this spiritual being.

But even so, Leo was still able to analyze some extremely bold content from some clues.

For example, from the previous conversation, Leo could hear that this spiritual life body appeared after the universe might have changed. She didn't understand some common sense things in the universe, but she could understand some of the universe that Leo said. Concept, as if she knew this knowledge innately, which also made Leo guess that this spiritual life body is not new, but reborn.

Since there is rebirth, there will naturally be death, and apart from the current stone throne, the only way Leo knows to make the spiritual life body die may be the death of the entire universe. , it is naturally impossible for the spiritual life body to continue to exist.

However, Leo doesn't think this analysis is correct, not to mention what impact the extinction of the universe will have on the subspace. Even if the universe is extinguished, the process of extinction may be very long, possibly hundreds of millions of years, and this has nothing to do with The time when life appeared in the Velen world is contrary, unless the power of the warp has been able to warp and compress the long time of hundreds of millions of years into thousands of years.

In any case, for Leo, this spiritual life body is just a special existence he encountered during his early journey. Now that the matter has passed, he no longer thinks about it, and his consciousness has withdrawn from the spiritual world and has not returned. Instead, the fire dancer caravan continued directly along the mountain road towards the other end of the Newski Mountains.

Not long after Leo left, a phantom suddenly appeared in the place where he was before. This phantom quickly condensed into a middle-aged man, and the middle-aged man looked at Leo leaving with fear in his eyes. direction, and then disappeared from the spot.