The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Could it be that another disaster-level monster came?" Sylvia felt the surrounding vibrations, her face immediately became serious, and she planned to go to the ground to see what happened.

"Wait! It's not outside." Leo suddenly stopped Sylvia, and then turned his head towards a wall not far away that was engraved with Turing's roots. Waves of energy are emitted along with the surrounding earthquakes.

Seeing Leo's expression, Sylvia also noticed the wall. Although she didn't have the spirit net and spiritual vision, she couldn't be as sensitive to energy fluctuations as Leo, but the universal recorder she was wearing could faithfully record surrounding energy, and feed back to her in real time.

"Is it that giant?" Sylvia made a judgment immediately after sensing something.

"Yeah!" Leo nodded, then turned his head to look at the rune magic circle that he stopped just now, thoughtfully stopped the magic circle that was still running, and took away the magic circle that contained the monster. Special container for remains.

After he finished all this, the surrounding vibration frequency also gradually decreased, and the energy fluctuations also weakened, and everything returned to calm soon.

"What's going on here? This giant has started to move again? If I remember correctly, every earthquake in Aodorine City needs to be separated by at least half a year before it happens again. Why did it happen again in less than a month? ?” After Sylvia felt that the surroundings had calmed down, she seemed to be asking herself and answering, “Is it because of the stimulation of the long night? Or is it because of our modification of the smelting furnace in the heart?”

"I'm afraid there are all of them." Leo also quickly made a judgment. The power fluctuations generated by his rune magic circle and the monster wreckage in the container just now stimulated the sleeping giant, and the smelting furnace renovation project in the giant's heart may What forbidden things and forces are touched will eventually cause the movement just now.

"I'm going back to work on the factory site to avoid any accidents." Sylvia was immediately worried about the problems at the factory site, so she said to Leo and hurried out of the laboratory.

After Sylvia left, Leo came to an experimental table, put the wreckage in the container into a special metal basin on the experimental table, and then took out a bucket made of stone from under the table , Introduced the solution made of more than a dozen materials and wizard alchemy into the metal basin.

The moment the solution touched the metal, it immediately gave off an unpleasant smell, and a very subtle sizzle sound could be heard, as if it wanted to melt the metal basin.

However, the Turing root on this metal basin was activated before the solution started to corrode the metal surface, and emitted a weak energy covering the surface of the basin, so that there was always a gap between the solution and the metal surface. Layer transparent isolation layer.

Compared with the metal basin protected by the wizard's secret method, the monster wreck that was introduced into the container before was soaked in the solution, and it dissolved at a speed visible to the naked eye, and while it was dissolving, Leo also accurately captured A faint energy came out, and it didn't dissipate immediately. Instead, it seemed to have consciousness, and fled towards the outside.

Naturally, it is impossible for Leo to let go of this ray of energy, and directly use the spiritual net to capture it, and then take out a crystal-polished test tube, absorb this ray of energy, and stimulate the root of Turing in the test tube, that crystal test tube Also because of the presence of this ray of energy, it emits a faint red light.

Without the special energy to rely on, the stone-like remains were quickly dissolved, not even a single residue left.

Leo put the extracted ray of energy on a nearby shelf dedicated to inserting test tubes, poured the solution back into the stone bucket to seal it up, and then turned around and walked out of the laboratory. The magic circle at the entrance of the laboratory was activated, forming an illusion of a stone wall, blocking the entrance.

This illusion is not just an illusion. The power that creates the illusion can imitate the texture of the surrounding rocks in a short period of time. Even if someone reaches out and touches it, they will feel that it is no different from the surrounding rocks, and it is truly seamless.

After protecting the entrance, Leo left the big pit of the quarry, entered the city shrouded in darkness, and started his hunting activities.

Bruto is a native of Vilan State in the Kingdom of Galica. He used to be a caravan guard in his early years. Later, he had to stay in Aodoline to recuperate due to injury. During this period of recuperation, he met his current wife and fell in love with her. Audorin lived a relatively stable life, so she quit her position in the caravan and found a job as a security guard in a gangster bar in Audorin's local area.

Because he has lived in Audorin for several years, he is no stranger to the long night period, but his attitude towards the long night period is different from other people's fear of the long night period. In his eyes, the long night period is no different from the normal night, because In the several long-term night lives he experienced, he never encountered any weird things. The only strange experience was when one of his colleagues suddenly became angry and attacked another colleague.

However, after the investigation after the event, it seemed that this incident had no direct relationship with Chang Yejiu, because the two colleagues already had a deep hatred, and it would not be too surprising for them to attack each other whenever they attacked each other.

It is precisely because of Bruto's attitude towards the long night period that every time the long night period appears, some things that have to go out alone will be arranged by his superiors for him to do. Of course, these things that other people are unwilling to take over are also He won't let him do it for nothing, and he will be given a fairly generous errand fee every time, so every long night means that an extra income will come into his pocket for Brutal every time.

After the long night came this time, the situation was no exception. The security captain of the bar directly called Brutal to the office, and then gave Brutal a package, an address and a commission, and let him leave.

Bruto knew very well that the contents of the package were some contraband that could not be circulated on the market. These contraband could only be bought on the black market, and even the black market could not blatantly sell these contraband, only through other methods and Interested buyers contact and negotiate a price for sale.

In order to avoid trouble as much as possible, neither the buyer nor the seller will contact directly, but deliver and receive the goods through third-party channels. The security guards are all his deliverers, but unlike the others, Pluto is a special contraband deliverer.

There were originally four special contraband deliverers like him in the bar, but now he is the only one left, and two of the other three were accidentally involved in a battle when monsters attacked the city , the result can be imagined, as for the other deliveryman, he was unlucky to encounter the trap set up by the Lady in the Lake Church, and seeing that there was no hope of escape, he committed suicide directly, because his suicide would not only protect his family, but also his family. You can also get a lot of pension from the boss.

Now only Bruto was left as the deliveryman of special contraband, so the bartender boss also valued him very much, and the reward he gave was naturally very generous.

Brutal didn't need to open the paper bag containing the rewards, he could already estimate how much money was in it. This kind of money is not the currency of the governments of various countries, but the exchange vouchers of the black market. For ordinary people, they don't know the money of the black market. The reason is that you can’t use the exchange coupons. Only people like Bruto can find the black market, and use the exchange coupons to exchange them for various shops that are best-selling in the market or food, wine, etc. that are in short supply.

Although in Brutal's view, this income is equivalent to earning nothing, as long as he does not go to the churches or temples of various churches, these contraband will not cause him any trouble, but he is not a An arrogant and reckless person, so before setting off, he still put all the equipment he had on his body according to the rules.

Such as waist lamps, such as firearms with special bullets, various medicines used to deal with emergencies, etc., and after repeated inspections several times, he put on the clothes he had been wearing since he was a caravan guard. Wearing a long windbreaker, he dug a small passage from the basement of the bar, came to an unoccupied apartment not far away, looked at the dark street outside, and then recognized the direction, then covered the hood behind the windbreaker He turned his head and walked into the dark street.

Although it hasn't been long since the long night period, most people in the city already know when the long night period is coming, so they either returned home early, or stayed at work with their colleagues, and the streets except for those government employees Except for the lamplighter, there is no one else walking on the road. If the buildings on both sides of the road were not lit with braziers or fireplaces, seeing such an empty and dark street suddenly would mistake this place for a dead city.

As usual, Brutal walked along the edge of the lights of the lampposts on the street, which made him less conspicuous with the waist lamp on his body, and made it easier for him to see the surrounding roads clearly through the lights.

Although, in the past, Bruto has never encountered any abnormal things, and he will not encounter the so-called mysterious power that makes him lose control without taking the medicine that calms his emotions, but he has heard it countless times in the past I am afraid there is no story about the long night period, so when a person walks in such an environment, he will naturally feel a little inexplicable fear, and his body is always tense because of fear, and his hands are always on the weapon on his body. , and can launch a counterattack at any time when encountering an attack.

After seeing Brutal dressed like this, the lamplighters on the road knew what this kind of person was, and they didn't go up to him out of curiosity, but avoided it from a distance before Brutal came over, as if avoiding the plague Same.

Bruto's footsteps were fast. In less than 20 minutes, he had passed through the civilian city in the north of the city and entered the commercial area in the northeast. The pick-up point this time was the small clock tower in the commercial area. .

Not long after entering the commercial area, Bruto felt the ground suddenly vibrate, and there were screams from the surrounding buildings, but fortunately the vibration subsided quickly, and the screams also came from the city. Disappeared, everything seemed to have returned to the bottleneck, but Brutal felt an inexplicable sense of unease.

Then, he heard a rush of footsteps in the distance, and it seemed that many people were running towards this side. For this reason, he immediately hid in a dark alley beside him, and used his clothes to turn off the flames of the waist lamp. Cover it up, so as not to reveal your whereabouts later because of the fire.

Not long after, I saw a figure with an extremely distorted body passing through the street in front of me at a very fast speed, and then I saw four or five people from the Church of the Lord of the Sky chasing after him.

Although Brutal didn't see exactly what that figure looked like, he had experienced a lot of battles and seen various corpses. That figure from the past was definitely not a human being.

When Brutal was serving as a caravan guard, he also saw many non-human monsters. He also saw monsters that were more distorted than this figure, and even went crazy for a while because of the mental pollution produced by those distorted monsters. So he already had a certain psychological tolerance for this kind of monster. Even if it was the first time he saw this strange phenomenon in the long night, he was still able to stabilize his emotions and calm himself down.

While waiting for the footsteps to disappear at the end of the street, Brutal was ready to start again and hand over the goods on his body as soon as possible, because the scene just now made him feel that his good luck might end during this long night.

However, just as he took a few steps and was about to walk out of the dark alley and came to the street, he suddenly stopped, and his body instantly became extremely stiff, as if he had been petrified, and Sweat dripped from his forehead little by little, flowing down the wrinkles on his face.

Brutal was not really imprisoned by some kind of force, but the reason why he suddenly fell into this frozen state was because he felt that there was an extremely dangerous existence watching him behind him, and his intuition told him As long as he takes another step forward, unknown dangers behind him will attack him.

Although at this moment his hands are all on the weapon, and it is very likely that he can attack the mysterious existence behind him as long as he turns around and pulls the trigger, but he dare not make any movements, and can only slow down his breathing as much as possible , Let yourself recover from the panic and fear, because only when he calms down can he have a chance to think of a way out of the predicament.

However, the unknown existence behind Brutal didn't seem to be ready to give him a chance. He only heard a sound like a broken wood coming from behind, and then Brutal felt a pain in his back, and then his chest came out. A transparent spike with flesh hanging from its barbs.

Before Brutal could feel the pain before death, he heard an extremely ear-piercing scream from behind, and then the spike on his chest instantly turned to ashes like burnt paper. The body that has been penetrated is well preserved at this moment, and even the clothes on his body are not damaged.