The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

What caught Leo's eyes was a giant of flesh and blood. This giant of flesh and blood was lying under the city. The flesh and blood on its body wriggled and swelled like maggots. The giant's body was the main body of Aodorine's city. Every street in the city, Every house is integrated with the giant's flesh and blood, it feels like he will come alive at any time and swallow all the creatures in the city.

However, the Assassin flesh and blood giant is bound by countless chains with the root of Turing attached to the surface, and these chains are like conduits, guiding the flesh and blood that is constantly produced on his body to the surroundings and blending into the earth. The open-pit mines in the mountainous area around Audorin, and the surrounding trees and plants are also absorbing the flesh, which makes their growth very amazing, not much worse than the growth of the trees in the Black Forest.

What made Leo even more incredible was this giant who was bound and assimilated with the earth. He seemed to know him, because after comparing the characteristics of each bone on the opponent's body, he was almost sure that the giant who had turned into the land of Aodorine in front of him should be At the beginning, in the afterimage of time, he saw the leader of the giant tribe who led the tribe to fight against the Viayan fleet.

Although the assimilation of the giant's body and the earth is a bit inconceivable, considering that the giants on Yam Island also turned into hills on the island after death, this should be regarded as the traditional destination of the giants after death.

It's just that Audorain's giant seems to be different from those giants who have completely died and turned into hills, because he has not completely died, and his bones and flesh are still in a way that he has not yet seen through. It remains active, but this activity gives him the feeling that it is full of malice like germs and cancer cells in the human body, and it also keeps growing like cancer cells.

It is no exaggeration to say that if there were no chains to guide these growing flesh and blood to the surrounding earth for fusion, the growing flesh and blood on this giant would sooner or later turn him into an unimaginable flesh and blood monster.

"It seems that the blood sacrifice back then was not as simple as in the legend." Leo saw this scene, and various legends about Adoline soon appeared in his mind, and he couldn't help muttering in his heart.

However, compared to the flesh and blood giant, what attracted Leo's attention more was the chains that bound the giant.

These chains came from the corners of the high walls of Audorain. Although the walls of the high walls were engraved with holy emblems and mantras containing divine power like the walls of other cities, the power of these gods did not affect the corners of the walls. Even if the power contained in the chain is completely different from that of the gods, they can coexist perfectly without hindering each other.

These chains from the root of the city wall contained extremely powerful power, at least Leo, a seventh-level psyker, couldn't judge how powerful the power in the chains was.

In addition, the Turing radical on the chain made Leo feel very familiar. After comparison and analysis, he guessed that it should belong to the same Turing radical combination system as the Turing radical on the surface of the stone ball that blocked the Eye of Reality. The only difference is the level of complexity.

With Leo's current grasp and understanding of Turing radicals, it shouldn't be a big problem to understand and copy the Turing radicals on the stone ball, but now these chain Turing radicals that are fully presented in front of him, Leo has I can't understand many places, and even feel that this is contrary to the Turing radical law he has mastered.

There is no doubt that these chains that seal the giants should come from the hands of the tower wizards, and based on the scene in front of them, the tower wizards may have participated in the blood sacrifice that happened in the city of Aodorine that year, and it may even be the blood sacrifice. spoiler.

Just after Leo was immersed in his thoughts, a huge explosion sounded from Aodorine's city, and then he saw a blast furnace in a smelter collapse suddenly, and red and black molten iron sprayed out. , dyed the sky above the smelter and its surrounding area red, all the people in and outside the city who witnessed this scene exclaimed, some women even covered their mouths, and passed out on the spot, apparently they had family members Work in that smelter.

However, in Leo's eyes, that place was another situation, because that place happened to be near the giant's heart. When the blast furnace collapsed and molten iron gushed out, a blurry giant figure stood out from the giant's heart. He got up and tried to break out of the bondage of his body, but before he could break out of the ground, the chains that bound him immediately burst out beams of light, whipping him out of shape like a whip.

Leo, who witnessed all this, did not show much surprise. He removed his spiritual vision ability to restore his vision to normal, and then walked towards the direction of Audorin city.

Soon Leo walked on the main road outside the city of Aodorin, and came to a small town that was expanded outside the city of Aodorin.

At this time, all the people in the town who were staying at home came to the street. They looked up at the pieces of molten iron reflecting the sky from the high walls one by one, and talked to each other about their views on this matter.

"It's that cursed land, it's that cursed land again!"

"I knew something was going to happen."

"This time the Dodd Group is going to be unlucky. The smelter that was built with so much money is destroyed, and a large sum of money must be compensated to the victims."

"They deserve it, knowing that there is a problem with that land, and dare to build a smelter on it."

"I hope that other factories of Dodd Group in the city will not be closed because of this incident. Compared with those vampires, they have a lot more conscience, higher wages and better benefits."

While walking through the town, Leo also collected the conversations of the townspeople in his ears and learned about the situation.

To his surprise, the collapsed blast furnace turned out to be a smelter of the Dodd Group, which made him, who wanted to ignore it, now have to consider a solution to this matter.

Because monsters can imitate the appearance of human beings, before entering the city of Aodorine, both locals and outsiders must pass some tests before they can enter. High tech that shouldn't be here, like transilluminators.

This kind of transmissometer is an ordinary device that will be equipped on any mining ship in the universe. It is used to transmit the distribution of mineral deposits buried deep underground, but now this kind of transmissometer is placed next to the city gate to transmit the movement of people entering and leaving. health condition.

It has to be said that this is indeed a good way to distinguish monsters. No matter how monsters can imitate the appearance of humans, their internal organs are completely different from humans, and they can be easily distinguished through the transmissometer.

In addition, judging from the fact that the transmission spectrum of the transmissometer is adjusted to be within the range that humans can bear, it is obvious that the person who arranged the transmissometer should have mastered the usage of this transmissometer.

Although most of the people in the city are ordinary people, there are also many mutants. Some of these mutants are just body or blood mutations caused by certain reasons, and some are family members. No matter what kind of mutants, they are all They were incorporated into the city defense army. Obviously, when encountering a monster attack, these mutants, who are beyond the power of ordinary people, need to block in front of the monster as soon as possible, and fight the monster head-on.

It is also because of this that ordinary people in Audorin did not discriminate against these mutants, at least on the surface, and even some true gods such as the Lord of the Sky and the King of the Hill would become their worshipers. objects, even if these true gods have been completely dehumanized.

Just now, when Leo saw a few miners leaving the city, they worshiped in front of a family member of the hill king who was an officer of the city defense army and whose body was mostly rocky. The religious worship performed by priests and other clergy, and whether it is the miner performing the worship or the family member receiving the worship, there is no discomfort at all. Other people around seem to be used to this situation and will not take a second look.

According to common sense, such family members of the True God should be picked up by their respective Churches of the True God, and then given special status and treatment, at least at the bishop level.

But the problem is that with the changes in the world, the number of those family members of the true gods has also doubled. If all these family members are taken back, even the Church of the Lord of the Sky will not be able to bear it. The family members of the true gods with divine power were taken away for training, and the church no longer invested resources and energy into the other family members whose bloodlines had mutated.

Although the church no longer pays much attention to these family members of the true gods, for the believers of the church, these family members of the true gods are very special existences. No matter how powerful they are, they all contain a trace of the breath or blood of the true gods. It is regarded as the incarnation of the gods, so there are some worship activities targeting the family of the true god among the people. From the church's point of view, as long as such things don't go too far, they usually turn a blind eye and close one eye. Not too much interference.

Leo did not use any psychic skills to avoid these checks at the gate of the city. Instead, he walked through the rules and procedures like everyone else. Entered the city of Aodorine.

After entering the city, Leo immediately rented a carriage near the city gate, and then ordered the driver to go to the smelter where the collapsed blast furnace was located.

That smelter was owned by the Dodd Group. If Sylvia was really in the city, she would definitely go there to deal with the aftermath of the disaster after such a big incident.

Because it is a newly built city, the urban planning and road construction are very reasonable, coupled with strict regulations, the roads in the city are not as chaotic and congested as in other places, and the horse-drawn carriage hardly encounters any problems such as congestion along the way. Soon came outside the smelter.

At this time, the area around the smelter was already crowded with onlookers, and a large number of urban gendarmes and policemen were maintaining law and order around the smelter. Judging from the collapsed walls of the surrounding factory, the previous movement was much bigger than expected. Corpses wrapped in white cloth were carried out of the factory area and sent to corpse trucks waiting outside. The dozens of corpse trucks outside were all piled up with corpses, and new corpse trucks joined in. It can be seen that the factory area The casualties were very high.

However, some careful people can find that there are no injuries on these corpses, otherwise the corpses should be stained red with blood, and judging from the condition of some corpses exposed under the white cloth, they should not have died of burns or the like. So many people around guessed that these people were all killed by the explosion that caused the blast furnace to collapse just now.

However, under the inspection of Leo's mental network, the real cause of death of these factory workers may be related to the little giant that drilled out of the flesh giant's heart. The physical appearance of these workers looks normal, but their internal organs, including flesh and blood bones All the organs in the body are all aging to the extreme, as if all the vitality in their bodies has been directly sucked away.

After Leo got off the carriage, he walked directly towards the factory. The police and factory staff who maintained law and order did not stop Leo, as if Leo did not exist, and allowed him to enter the factory area where the dust had not completely settled.

After entering the factory area, Leo quickly scanned the interior of the factory area using the Spirit Net, and soon found Sylvia surrounded by people near the ruins of the collapsed smelter.

Although more than twenty years have passed, Sylvia's appearance has not changed much. The only difference is that her power is stronger, which is very close to the level of a seventh-level psyker. Like Liat's Ice Queen, she was only one chance short of stepping into the vigilance of the demigod.

Or maybe it's because of the power becoming stronger, when Leo's spiritual net fell on her, she also felt it, then she was a little stunned, and then she seemed to think of something, and a pleasant smile appeared on her face , then turned his head and looked in the direction of Leo, and then gave a few instructions to the subordinates around him, and then walked towards Leo impatiently.

Her subordinates were extremely puzzled by Sylvia's actions, because in their opinion, the current situation did not seem like a happy thing at all. For a while, they all looked at each other, not knowing what to do.

On the other side, Leo and Sylvia soon met each other in a cloud of dust. Although more than twenty years had passed, neither of them showed that particularly exaggerated expression of emotion, but a kind of old married couple They smiled at each other as if they had only been separated for a month or two, and then hugged each other, feeling each other's body temperature and smell.

At this time, the subordinates of Sylvia's No. 1 Witch Squad also caught up. They were also puzzled by Sylvia's sudden departure from the scene, and when they caught up, they wanted to ask Sylvia what happened. At the time of the incident, they happened to witness the scene of Leo and Sylvia embracing each other, and this scene made them all stand there dumbfounded, with no other emotions on their faces except surprise.