The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Breathing, big mouthfuls of breathing is the only thing Brutal can do now, just when he saw the spike passing through his chest, he thought that he might be doomed, because according to the legend, his soul was dragged away by the monster's tentacles and eaten It fell, leaving only a corpse with a terrified expression waiting to be discovered shortly after.

However, what he never expected was that he was able to escape from death, so an inexplicable joy arose in his heart, but before he could feel this joy carefully, there was a flame-like heat from his chest. The pain came from the pain, and it spread to the whole body in an instant, and he also passed out under the impact of this heat.

Just when Brutal passed out again, one hand grabbed his clothes and lifted him up from the ground, then the other hand stretched out and tore off the clothes on his chest, revealing a brand-like mark on his chest. General ring wound.

"This is an interesting phenomenon!" I heard Leo's voice coming from the shadows, and then I saw Leo wearing a long windbreaker and a certain wide-brimmed hat standing on the street with Brutal in his hand. Under the light, he then put Brutal on the ground and examined Brutal's body very carefully.

If it was an ordinary wound, Leo would not pay special attention to this person who was attacked by a long-term monster. After all, he has seen no less than 20 monster attacks in the past half a day. Happened in the city, most of them died on the spot, and a few survived, but life was worse than death.

Only, the person in front of me survived the fatal attack of the long-night monster, and now his body seems to be undergoing some transformation, and some unknown power is being stimulated in his body, instead of being eroded by the monster's power, inhuman At least from the current situation, the transformation of this person is a benign transformation.

To Leo, this is more like a miracle, because after spending most of the day hunting these monsters that appeared in the city for a long time, he thinks he already knows this monster very well, so he is also very clear about the nature of this monster. The effect of power on ordinary people is no less than that of poison, but the situation of this person in front of him is like drinking a bottle of deadly poison in one gulp, but the poison has turned into a nutrient solution, not only did not harm this person , On the contrary, it helped this person inspire some extraordinary power.

Those who know something about the monsters that appear in the long night will regard these monsters as the same kind of monsters as the mutant monsters that usually appear, but Leo finds that this view is completely wrong, because according to him after the death of the two monsters The remaining substances can be found to be different in the original strength of the two.

For example, the mutated monsters that appeared after the Fog Disaster were almost all mutated from some wild beasts or humans. Their mutations were all irregular, and their powers were also strange. Someone once thought about counting how many kinds of monsters there are in the world. , the result did end in failure, and because all monsters have different shapes and different powers, no monsters are exactly the same from power to appearance, which also leads to completely different sources of their power.

However, these monsters that appeared during the long night period are different. Although their appearance and the way of displaying power are also different, it is not difficult to see that their original power should be the same through the details of the power contained in the remaining substances after they were killed. There is a kind of power, but this kind of power is too huge and too complicated, and it is finally displayed in different forms.

For example, the monster just now used its own power to create an energy conduit, insert it into the target's body, and extract the blood and energy of the target's body, and its appearance is a black skin that can perfectly blend with the surrounding darkness.

However, the power contained in the remaining skin of this monster after being killed, at least in terms of energy fluctuations, is exactly the same as the various monster residues that Leo has harvested now. different.

Now that Leo has the materials for several experiments on hand, there is no need for him to continue hunting in the city of Aodorine, and now there is such an interesting experimental subject, so he plans to study in the quarry. In the laboratory, while processing the materials in hand, he recorded the transformation process of this person, to see if he could find another way for ordinary people to obtain extraordinary power from him.

Just when Leo rolled up the remaining skin of the monster on the ground and put it in his backpack, and was about to carry the man on the ground to leave, a ray of light suddenly lit up on the distant city wall. At that time, the beacon signal made by a special formula, It will only be used when monsters attack the city. This kind of light is very eye-catching even during the day, let alone during the long night.

Sure enough, immediately afterwards Leo heard the roar of monsters and the screams of humans, and then the unique mechanical friction sound of the large mechanical crossbow in use also passed through the silent sky and spread in the city , it seems that there should be a group of monsters attacking the city wall, and judging from the use of mechanical crossbows for defending the city, there may be large monsters in the group of monsters.

Such a loud sound and eye-catching light naturally alarmed the people in the city. Many people boldly opened the windows, even opened the door, and looked in the direction of the sound, even though their sight was blocked by the surrounding houses. , but they don't seem to feel at ease if they don't take a look.

Leo's attention was also attracted by such a big movement, but he was not because of those sounds, but because of waves of energy coming from the city wall, and the strange force field operating underground in the city.

The energy wave transmitted by the city wall should be the counterattack formed by the power contained in the city wall after some monsters hit the city wall. This can be guessed without much thought, but it is the force field that is running underground in the city, which makes Leo It was a little surprising, because this power was clearly a magic circle composed of Turing radicals, and this magic circle was something he hadn't discovered before.

The reason why I didn't find it was because this Turing circle was perfectly overlapped with the giant under the city of Aodorine. When Leo's spiritual net and spirit vision observed the giant, what he saw would only be transformed into The bones, flesh and remains of giants in a part of the earth.

However, the monster's siege now has alarmed the hidden defense methods in the entire city, and then stimulated the Turing radicals integrated into the giant's body, and finally formed this strange energy field hidden deep underground.

From a preliminary observation, the role of this energy force field is divided into two, one is to transmit energy to the city wall to resist the impact of monsters, and the other is somewhat peculiar, that is, to disperse the force of monsters hitting the city wall. The way it disperses power is not just Distribute the power to the ground, but to all the buildings in the city, everyone, and even all the monsters hiding in the dark.

Doing this is equivalent to the fact that all objects in the entire city are bearing the impact for the outer city wall, and no matter how much impact the outer wall encounters, as long as it does not exceed the upper limit of the bearing capacity of all objects in the entire city, the city wall will not be affected. There is a possibility of damage.

For example, now, after the city wall encounters an impact, after the impact force is scattered on everyone and objects in the city, it is equivalent to a dust falling on the body. It will not feel anything to ordinary people, only Leo. Only those who are particularly sensitive to all changes around them can detect a trace of abnormality, and then deduce the truth of the facts.

This is also one of the places where Leo was surprised, because he did not expect that he had become a part of the city as a whole without knowing it, as if the city of Aodorine had some kind of unique world law, as long as he entered The city, whether it is active or passive, whether it is a destroyer or a builder, will become a part of the city's resistance to external shocks, just like entering a certain world, it will become a part of a certain world unconsciously, This kind of thing will not be controlled by personal will.

However, this is not what surprised Leo the most. What surprised Leo the most was that the magic circle that caused all this did not seem to be inscribed in a special way after the death of the giant. of.

People in the black market, the church, and other underground worlds regard him as the last tower wizard. , He is not much worse than those tower wizards in the past, and through the study of various wizard towers built by the tower wizards, he has also explored some rules for the tower wizards to arrange the Turing radical circle.

Based on the knowledge he has mastered, it is not difficult to find that the wizard circle in the giant's body has the obvious layout characteristics of the tower wizard Turing's root magic circle, but this wizard circle is not only the trace of the tower wizard, but also contains It's true that Turing's radical array method is better than the ones he knows.

If it is divided according to the level of life form, this wizard circle integrated with the giant seems to have reached the advanced life form of a ninth-level psyker, while the wizard circle of the tower wizard is only at the level of a fourth-level psyker.

"Who was the tower wizard who participated in the construction of Aodorine City?" Leo couldn't help but have such a question in his mind.

Obviously, the magic circle in the giant's body should be the work of the tower wizard who participated in the construction of Aodorin City. It can even be said that this tower wizard is the builder of Aodorine City. This person's grasp of the root of Turing has reached It is unbelievable that such a tower wizard should be famous all over the world, but in Leo's memory, there is no tower wizard who can match the construction of this city of Audorin.

In Leo's memory, the tower wizard who built Castle Black's lighthouse should be the person who has the deepest knowledge of Turing's radical circle among the tower wizards of all ages, but the lighthouse built by that tower wizard and the current map of Aodorine City Compared with the radical magic circle, it is obviously nothing. With the knowledge that Leo has now, it is only a matter of time before the Turing radical magic circle in the lighthouse is analyzed, but the Turing radical magic circle in Aodorine City , but he wasn't even a little bit sure that he could analyze it.

At this time, the sound of fighting on the other side of the city wall began to weaken. It seemed that this round of monster attack had passed, and the city residents who were watching nervously closed their doors and windows again.

When some residents of the houses near Leo's location pulled their attention back from the city wall, they also more or less checked the surrounding situation, and naturally saw Leo standing on the street and lying at his feet. the man.

However, none of these residents said anything, but silently closed the doors and windows again, as if they hadn't seen anything, but judging from the intensification of the light transmitted by those doors and windows, they were obviously very nervous at the moment , It should be that Leo was regarded as some unknown long-night monster, trying to block the monsters outside from entering the house by putting more fuel into the brazier and fireplace, and increasing the firelight, while alleviating the fear in his heart.

Leo ignored the thoughts of the city residents who saw him. After the Turing radical circles under his feet calmed down and hid again in the giant body that turned into the earth, he was not interested in staying here any longer. The thought raised the person under his feet, entered a dark alley, and quickly moved towards the direction of the old quarry.

Although he was carrying a person in his hand, Leo's speed was still very fast, but in a moment he returned to the big pit of the quarry from the other side of the city.

However, he did not immediately enter the pit, but stood on the edge of the pit, looking at the sump at the bottom of the quarry.

One-third of the bottom of the quarry is a sump. This sump was originally a deeper quarry point, but it may have been dug into an underground river, and the quarry point was completely submerged.

When Leo moved the laboratory to the quarry point next to the water collection pool, he checked the pool, and also sneaked in to check the situation inside, and found that as described in the record, in a passage of this quarry point , there is a hole connecting the underground river, and there is no living thing in the water.

However, now Leo saw a creature that looked like a big fish swimming in the water in the pool. This big fish was so big that it almost occupied half the area of ​​the pool. A medium-sized sailing ship with such a shape should be called a sea monster if placed in the sea.

However, after scanning through the mental network, Leo discovered that this seemingly huge strange fish was actually not a fish at all, but countless twisted bugs the size of fingers with many small mouths. These bugs intersected with each other. Intertwined together, this forms the shape of such a big fish.

If it's just some strange-looking bugs combined into the form of a big fish, it won't make Leo stop and pay attention to them. The real reason that makes Leo stop is actually what he feels from these bugs. Energy fluctuations, and that energy fluctuations in his memory are the unique energy fluctuations of the lady in the lake.