The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Although there were some obstacles in the process of leaving the mine, for Leo and Sylvia, these obstacles were not even a threat, and they were easily resolved by them. The two of them left the mining area directly and entered the mine. Badishah City.

Sylvia was not in a hurry to leave, but proposed to stay in the city for a few days, and leave by train after the next train arrived.

Leo had no objection to this. He knew very well that the reason why Sylvia was not in a hurry to leave was more to wait for that little Thomas to deliver the news to the inner circle of the Odd Society, and to wait for the people in the inner circle of the Odd Society. Come.

The two quickly found the only hotel in Badishah City, and rented a room on the top of the hill overlooking half of Badishah City and the Great Horn River.

After the meal, Sylvia asked the hotel staff for two bathtubs, moved the bathtubs to the balcony, filled them with water, put in the liquid medicine prepared by Leo, and enjoyed the scenery outside while getting comfortable with Leo. soaking in the bath.

At this moment, Leo suddenly asked: "What is the purpose of the establishment of the Hearing Society?"

Sylvia explained: "If it was before, I would say that the purpose of the Anecdote Society is to collect all kinds of lost knowledge and promote academic exchanges without borders and beliefs, but now... I feel that I don't understand the Anecdote at all. What exactly is the society, I don’t know if the former Odd Society was just a disguise, or it just changed in these years.”

Leo was silent for a while, and said, "I think it's only changed in these years."

Sylvia looked at Leo with a questioning look in her eyes.

Leo explained, and said, "Old man Rembrandt should be a member of the inner circle. If the Society of Odd Studies used humans to conduct experiments in the past, then old man Rembrandt would definitely quit the Society of Odd Studies."

"Perhaps old Rembrandt is also one of the participants?" Sylvia retorted.

Leo looked at Sylvia without arguing.

Sylvia continued: "You spent such a short time with Rembrandt, and how much do you know about Rembrandt? I know too many people from the Heterogenetic Society. They used to be serious, serious, and rational, but now What? There may be sudden changes in people, but that is only a rare case. It is impossible for the vast majority of members of a force to have a sudden change in personality. It is only possible that they used to be disguised, but now they don’t need to be disguised. .”

Although Leo didn't agree with Sylvia's opinion about the old man Rembrandt, he didn't refute it, because Sylvia's words were not groundless, but well-founded.

Sylvia didn't continue to say anything about whether the old man Rembrandt was pretending, but said curiously: "However, compared to what the Hearing Society has become now, I am more curious about what is inside the ruins. What on earth is there that is so valued by the Odd Lore Society that it does not hesitate to dig up the collapsed mines bit by bit and dig out the ruins again."

"It should be some kind of industrial equipment or something." Leo quickly replied, "From the architectural form, the ruins should be the residential area built by the Leiteri rock people. Most of these residential areas are It is temporary, and the equipment used for mining will also be docked in this area. After the formal residential area is built, the Lightley rock people will move all the equipment to the official residential area, and this area will be It has become a storage place for equipment. It seems that this temporary living area should have been relocated to make a living, otherwise, after being attacked by energy cannons, there would not be so few remains of rock people."

Although Sylvia can understand the meaning of the word "industrial equipment" in Leo's mouth, she will not equate the industrial equipment in Leo's mouth with those of the Dodd Group. The capability of the equipment must far exceed the industrial equipment of Vinylon World.

"Are those industrial equipment easy to operate?" Sylvia asked again.

Leo shook his head and said: "The operation is very simple for me, but it may be difficult for others. Unless you have mastered most of the relevant knowledge, even if you have found a complete device, you want to open it. It’s very difficult, let alone operate it to do things.”

"Since the Obscure Society attaches so much importance to the things in the ruins, it should be possible for them to know how to use those devices." Sylvia hesitated for a moment, and asked again: "Is there anyone who can master the kind of equipment you mentioned?" Knowledge?"

"Of course." Leo responded quickly, saying, "There is someone who has mastered the knowledge of cosmic civilization and used it very well. You also know that person."

"Choose the king." Sylvia quickly understood who Leo was referring to, and then seemed to realize something, and she couldn't help but sit up straight when she was lying in the bathtub, and said, "Saran It may also be a member of the Anecdote Society, and it is likely to be a member of the inner circle. In this way, the Anecdote Society may have mastered the use of prehistoric civilization devices." Then, she turned her head and asked: "Where are those equipments? Could it be used in war?"

Leo froze for a moment, recalled a bit, nodded, and said: "Most industrial equipment can be used in warfare, as long as it is slightly improved, it can be used as a low-level weapon."

Leo is not talking nonsense, but there are actual battle examples. In the several conflicts between marginal colonies and external civilizations in his memory, in order to be able to support the support of the Earth Federation Fleet under the attack of alien civilizations, the colonial planet at that time All agricultural and industrial installations have been transformed into various heavy armed armors.

Although compared with the military armament of cosmic civilization, the power of the various devices of these civil reform troops is really mediocre, and they are basically cannon fodder on the battlefield, but in a world like Vinylon, where the industrial level is just in its infancy, those who can All kinds of devices modified into low-level weapons are obviously like artifacts, basically invincible.

It doesn't need much, just modify ten ordinary agricultural harvesters into heavy-duty impact tanks, then all the walls of Velen World will be as fragile as paper under the impact of such tanks, unless extraordinary power is used Penetrate the armor and attack the people inside the chariot, otherwise, no weapon in the world of Velen can resist this weapon of the civil reform army.

"Could it be that they want to use these equipment to launch a war to rule the world?" Sylvia made some bold guesses.

"Impossible!" Leo shook his head and said, "Although those equipments are irresistible to ordinary people, they are not indestructible to people with the strength of you and me. Don't forget this There are gods in the world, there is no need for the gods to act directly, only a divine drop from the church is needed, and these equipments will probably be completely destroyed." Then he said casually as if it was a joke: "In my opinion, instead of saying They intend to rule the world, rather they want to use these equipment to explore the wasteland, you must know that these equipment may not be good enough for combat, but if they open up roads and build fortresses in the wasteland, it should not be a problem."

Although Leo just guessed at random as a joke, Sylvia fell into deep thought as if she had received a revelation.

"You don't really think that the Heterogenetic Society wants to explore the wilderness, do you?" Leo couldn't help saying when he saw Sylvia like this.

"It's not impossible." Sylvia explained: "The secrets of the wasteland have always attracted the Hearing Society, and even the tower wizards, but all those who went deep into the wasteland did not come out in the end. If I were the decision-maker of the Hearsay Society and wanted to explore the wasteland with all my strength, I would definitely change my strategy. Instead of just organizing some expeditions to go deep into the wasteland as in the past, I would build a fort at every step and build a fort at a certain distance. Use a steam train to advance step by step toward the depths of the wasteland. It’s just that this method will consume a lot of money, manpower, and time, but if you have the help of the equipment you mentioned..."

Leo took Sylvia's words and said: "If you use those devices to develop and build, a city like Badisa can be built in four days at most, and the railroad tracks that need to be laid in a year can be laid in one day."

Sylvia also showed a look of surprise when she heard the words. She didn't expect that the device Leo said would be so powerful, which also made her more sure of her guess.

In the next few days, Leo and Sylvia stayed in the city of Badisa, wandering around the city like two people who were traveling, and bought some items with local characteristics.

The people in the city were suspicious of Leo and Silvia, because in this world, monsters attack people at any time, and some people travel deep into the wilderness, which is too abnormal.

It is precisely because of the abnormality that most of the gangsters in the city dare not provoke them. They know very well that the people who can come to the wasteland alone are not ordinary people.

In the past few days, the mutated monsters in the jungle have launched an attack, but compared to Aodorine's monster group, these mutated monsters in the depths of the wasteland are much worse in number and strength, and Lei Ou and Silvia also saw how the extraordinary creatures in the wasteland slaughtered the mutant monsters when the mutant monsters attacked the city.

When the mutated monster ignored everything and only knew how to attack Badisha's city wall, some supernatural creatures the size of leopards followed behind the mutated monster. Mutated monsters of any form can be easily frozen, and then these mutated monsters will be chopped into pieces by the hammer of the extraordinary creature's tail.

These extraordinary creatures are obviously not the first time to besiege mutant monsters. They skillfully and effectively killed those lonely mutant monsters silently in the jungle. In the end, after an offensive and defensive battle, a small number of mutant monsters died on the city wall. Most of the attacks by the upper tribe warriors were killed by extraordinary creatures.

This also proves from one aspect that it is the extraordinary creatures hidden here that rule the wasteland, not these mutated monsters that have mutated due to accidents.

The people in Badisha City are obviously used to this kind of mutated monster attacks, and even the shaman in the city has specially created corresponding early warning spells. When monsters gather outside the city, they have already been noticed by established people. Arrived, which gave the townspeople ample time to prepare for defense.

Although various defensive preparations were made in a timely manner, and there were extraordinary creatures hunting and killing mutated monsters behind, Badisha's tribal fighters still inevitably suffered casualties, and there were quite a few of them. Most of them died from the toxins on the monsters. .

This is also the biggest difference between the mutated monsters in the wasteland and the mutated monsters outside. Although some mutated monsters in the outside world also have the ability to spray acid and poisonous mist when they mutate, most of these mutations are just examples. But most of the mutated monsters in the wasteland have various toxins on their bodies. Some monsters can spray out these toxins, and some monsters will mix the toxins in their blood, and splash them on the attacker while being injured. Some even explode suddenly after death, spraying venom everywhere.

Even though the tribal warriors who participated in the battle wore all kinds of antidotes prepared by the shaman in the city, most of the dead died because the poison was too fast and they didn't have time to take it.

After a little statistics, after an attack, 37 tribal fighters who participated in the defense died on the spot, and more than a dozen were seriously injured and disabled due to various reasons. It is almost impossible to go to the battlefield again.

Although the total number of people is only more than 50, it is already a great loss for a city like Badishah. From time to time, people can be heard discussing whether they should move to other cities on the street. .

However, the Silvermoon Tribe that controls Badisa seems to attach great importance to the city of Badisa, and sent some tribal fighters to Badisa that day to make up for the loss and stabilize the people's hearts.

In that battle, both Leo and Silvia were just bystanders and did not participate in any battle.

However, after the battle, Sylvia captured a supernatural creature that was evacuating, and found that the reason why these supernatural creatures would help humans to siege mutant monsters was because they liked to eat certain organs and tumors in the mutant monster's body. Class variation organization.

Leo could sense that these organs and mutated tissues emitted an energy wave, which should be the condensate produced after the energy residue that caused the biological mutation, so he also speculated that these extraordinary creatures could eat these mutated energy condensates. The evolution of the body, of course, may also promote the mutation of the body.

After that, Sylvia and Leo went to the excavation site to check the situation and see if the appearance of the group of mutant monsters had affected the people of the Hearing Society, but the result surprised them, because there was already a person here All gone.

Not only was there no one there, but even the digging tools were taken away. Judging from the situation, it seemed that on the day Leo and Silvia left, they had already given up digging and exploring here, packed up their things and left.

And this approach also made Sylvia's plan to wait for the high-level executives of the Hearing Society's inner circle in Badisa to come to naught.