The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

While everyone was staring at the Dodd Group to see how the Dodd Group would react, the Dodd Group spread the news that Sylvia was going to the holy mountain of shamanism in the southern part of the wasteland. As for the reason for going to the holy mountain of shamanism I didn't say it clearly, but most people think it must be for food.

It's just that everyone who knows the situation of shamanism in the south of the wasteland is not very optimistic about Sylvia's decision, because since the shamanism and the wasteland tribe split into two parts, the tribes and shamanism in the south have become more and more conservative. He is also becoming more and more hostile to people and things in the north. With the endless jungles of the wasteland, he is almost completely cut off from the outside world, so many people think that Sylvia's trip is likely to return without success.

Even normal people can see that it is useless to go to the southern part of the wilderness, but Sylvia still chooses to do so. In the eyes of some people, this kind of behavior seems to imply that Sylvia is a little panicked now, so Only then did he go to the doctor in a hurry, and because of this, people with small thoughts and eager to make a move began to emerge, according to their own plans to suppress the Dodd Group's industry.

However, these people didn't know that their every move was completely watched by Sylvia's backhand, and they were carefully recorded. At the same time, countermeasures were also stimulated one after another, and they began to turn into traps one after another. Wait for these people to run in by themselves.

However, some careful people can still find that among those who began to spread the theory of the collapse of the Dodd Group outside, there are a few important forces missing, such as the American government, the Odolin City Government, and the Church of the Lord of the Sky, etc. Wait, this makes this wave of actions against the Dodd Group powerful, but it has not shaken the foundation of the Dodd Group. The most obvious point is that the Xinbodo area at the center of the restriction order is still stable as usual, and there is no sign of panic.

All the information on the actions of the Dodd Group will be collected and handed over to Su, who is acting as Sylvia's temporary position, and Su will pass it on to Sylvia who has already gone to the wasteland through the general-purpose recorder for processing, so that Sylvia even Even if you go deep into the wasteland, you can still easily control the movement of the outside world.

"As you expected, Langton Steel was the first to attack," Sylvia looked at the data transmitted to the general-purpose recorder, and said to Leo who was dissecting a mutant monster next to him, "We Should we simply annex Langton Steel and warn those guys, or wait and catch bigger fish before closing the net?"

"It depends on your own plan." Leo responded briefly, took a look at the human-sized heart from the monster's body, and then carefully dug out a piece of the most active meat in his perception with a scalpel and put it in After arriving in the test tube, he proceeded to the next step of dissection, and at the same time continued: "I remember you mentioned that Lanton Steel has something to do with the Church of the Hill King. If Langdon Steel continues to do so, it may involve the Hill King Church, this may be the desired result in the hearts of those who encouraged Langdu Steel. Now our relationship with the Church of the Hill King is not bad. If we become hostile to the Church of the Hill King because of Langdu Steel, it will only make people Others are happy."

"Why are you so sure that Langton Steel's actions were not ordered by the Church of the Hill King?" Sylvia asked back.

Leo didn't answer, but turned to look at Sylvia, as if asking Sylvia, is it necessary to answer?

Sylvia smiled and didn't ask any more questions. She quickly manipulated the general-purpose recorder and passed on the solution to Langton Steel.

As Leo said, there is no need to establish another church enemy, so before Langdon Steel involves the Church of the Hill King in this battle, use commercial means to solve Langdon Steel first, and give those who are about to move It is a warning to others, and it also prevents things from expanding and setting up enemies needlessly.

After dealing with the matter in hand, Sylvia also squatted beside Leo, watching Leo gradually decompose this mutant monster like a small hill into body parts, internal organs, bones and even muscles They were all disassembled very carefully and placed neatly on the ground.

It has been three days since we left Audrin, and Leo and Sylvia did not follow the normal route and enter the wasteland along the trade route opened by the northern tribal alliance, but directly led them to the edge of the wasteland with their psionic wings .

The reason why Leo didn't continue to use the psychic wings to fly to the holy mountain of the southern tribe was entirely because after entering the wasteland, he felt as if he had broken into a psychic suppression force field. The number of psionic energy consumed increases tenfold.

However, this seems to be only for psionic power, other powers in his body are not affected by the surrounding environment, and Sylvia is also not affected.

According to the map, the place where the two of them landed happened to be within the territory of the Panier Kingdom, not too far from the edge of the wilderness, but because there were no official roads, and they were all mountain roads and primeval forests, it would take some time to arrive at the scheduled location. location.

The route Sylvia chose to go to the holy mountain of shamanism this time is the mountain route commonly known as the old hunter route. In fact, if it is just a hurry, it is more suitable to take the road on the Muduo Plain. There are a large number of tribal camps where travelers can rest, and because the tribe regularly clears the mutated monsters that appear on the plain, the road is relatively safe.

On the other hand, although the old hunter route is shorter than simply walking on the Muduo Plain in terms of distance, it needs to pass through Bran Forest, Cadson Swamp, and the mountains of the Paneer Kingdom on the road. Yan obviously couldn't compare with the plain route, and there were many mutated monsters here, so this route was even more difficult.

The reason why this route still exists and is marked on the map is mainly because this route is indeed the most suitable route for hunters. As long as you go back and forth on this route, you don’t need to enter the wilderness at all. Those hunters who live on the fur of various wild animals can harvest enough prey. The economic value of this route makes people unable to bear to abandon it. We know that there are still some hunters hunting on this route.

However, because of the mutated monsters, those hunters who were dazzled by their prey would eventually become the prey of the mutated monsters.

Leo and Sylvia had only walked this route for two days, and they had already seen no less than thirty fresh corpses, each of which represented an old hunter being hunted, and along with these thirty Multiple corpses appeared together, and there were more than thirty different mutant monsters.

At the beginning, Leo didn't pay much attention to these mutated monsters. He felt that these mutated monsters were no different from the mutated monsters seen in Audorin and other places, but as the number of hunting increased, he also felt the mutation here. The monster is obviously different from the outside.

The biggest difference among them is the shape. The mutated monsters outside have all kinds of weird and frightening shapes, such as monsters covered with sarcoids and various insects inhabiting the sarcoids. Known strange form.

The monsters here are different. Although these monsters have become very large after mutating, and some organs have undergone deformed changes, some of the characteristics of these monsters still retain the state of beasts before the mutation. The details of these monsters' calls, predation movements and other details can identify what kind of beasts these monsters were before they mutated.

If it was just a matter of appearance, it wouldn't have attracted Leo's attention. The reason why Leo really caught his attention and decided to dissect these mutated monsters was that he found that these mutated monsters seemed to have possessed a certain amount of intelligence, and they were still in harmony with each other. There is an unknown connection. Leo has not yet figured out what kind of effect this connection can have, but he can be sure that this connection can be used to transmit news. For example, a monster killer appears. Everyone be careful. class news.

Because, he found that the few monsters he hunted and killed recently were no longer like before, they would attack without hesitation after seeing humans, but chose to run away, and the faces of the monsters were full of fear, but the problem was that they It was the first time I met this monster, and he also made some disguises to restrain his aura, disguising himself and Sylvia as ordinary people.

Leo didn't think there was a problem with his camouflage, because the monsters he encountered in the past, even if they had no camouflage, and their bodies were covered with monster blood, there would still be monsters attacking them. Only then did he think that the reason why the monster escaped was because he knew that Leo had the ability to hunt and kill monsters, which finally made the monster choose to avoid and escape instead of attacking.

In order to find out the reason, Leo hunted each monster afterwards, and then dissected them to check the internal structure of the monsters. Among the dissected monsters, there were not only ordinary monsters, but also some that seemed intelligent. monster.

Through careful anatomical analysis, Leo quickly found the difference between ordinary monsters and mutant monsters, that is, the heart activity of mutant monsters far exceeds that of ordinary monsters, and there are also some seemingly similar It is a net like a tree root, and his mental network can obviously feel a wave of energy fluctuations similar to brain waves from these nets. This may be the reason why these mutated monsters have certain intelligence and can transmit messages.

Leo used witchcraft to clean up the dirt on his body, and told Sylvia what he found. After hearing this, Sylvia's expression became a little serious, because it was not a trivial matter. On the contrary, it is a major event that affects the situation in the entire Vinylon world.

Originally, these mutated monsters were already very difficult to deal with. With the power of human beings now, they could only hide in towns and areas. Most of the land in the outside world was occupied by these mutated monsters.

Because mutated monsters have no intelligence and only act according to their instincts, human beings can set various traps and use various targeted tools to hunt and kill those mutated monsters whose overall quality far exceeds that of humans.

But if the mutated monsters gain wisdom, then human beings may become vulnerable to the mutated monsters with wisdom and power. At that time, there may be bad news that one after another human gathering places have fallen from all over the world.

Thinking of this, Sylvia couldn't help asking seriously: "Is this kind of intelligent monster normal?"

"Probably not." Leo shook his head, but changed the topic and said: "But it has already reached a certain scale, and these monsters have formed a group through their own characteristics..."

Having said that, he suddenly paused, with a thoughtful look on his face, as if he had thought of something.

Seeing Leo's expression, Sylvia waited for a while before asking, "Did you think of something?"

Leo nodded and said: "I did think of something. I know that a powerful intelligent creature can use some kind of fungus to invade other creatures, and then the fungus will infect the thinking center of the creature, such as the human brain. In Vito’s pronucleus and other organs related to thinking, a fungal network is formed to control the thinking of the infected person. Under normal circumstances, if the infected person is an intelligent creature, it is possible to produce another personality, resulting in a pseudo-split personality , Knowing that one personality kills the other will end this state, and those non-intelligent creatures will be completely parasitically controlled and become puppets controlled by powerful intelligent creatures."

"You mean that these intelligent mutant monsters are puppets that are being manipulated?" Sylvia asked confirmingly.

Leo nodded, and then squatted down to check the layer of mesh covered by the cerebral cortex, and tried to cut this layer of mesh from the cerebral cortex with a scalpel, but a large number of threads were stretched out from these meshes. The mesh penetrated the cerebral cortex, fusing the mesh and the monster's brain together, and it was impossible to separate it by cutting.

"Since it can't be separated, just take the whole brain away." Sylvia suggested.

Leo nodded, took out a box from the storage space, put the brain and the entire monster head into the box, and said to Sylvia: "We stay here for a day, I need to make a rune magic Let's see if these monsters are puppets as I think."

Sylvia didn't object to this either, and quickly searched on the map, and soon found a hut built by hunters in the past.

It only took the two of them tens of minutes to arrive at the hut. Although the hut hadn’t been used for a long time, some wooden walls and roofs collapsed due to blowing hands, but the wall where the fireplace was still remained intact, and there was also a piece of wood beside the fireplace. The relatively clean open space is very suitable for camping, so Leo and Silvia decided to stay here temporarily tonight.