The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Did you feel it?"

"How can it be so obvious that you can't feel it!"

Leo and Sylvia easily avoided the tribal warriors in the Green Manor, avoided the warning trap set by the Holy Mountain Shaman, and came to the underground auction house.

However, after arriving here, the two immediately noticed that the situation here was completely different from that during the day. This difference was not a difference in energy fluctuations, but a change in the overall environment that had nothing to do with energy.

Both Leo and Sylvia felt that the atmosphere here was more gloomy than during the day. This gloomy was not only because there were no torches here, but the surrounding environment had changed. It seemed that all the bones around had turned into a refrigeration unit. The cold air was constantly emitting outwards like a machine, and the gas they breathed turned into frost the moment they left the body. You must know that this place is in the wilderness rainforest, and it is now the hot rainy season, and the temperature outside is so hot now. It makes people want to peel off the skin, but the temperature here makes people feel like they have fallen into an ice hole.

It would be fine if all these changes were caused by some kind of energy abnormality, but the problem is that in Leo's mental network and perception, the surrounding energy fluctuations are no different from those during the day. In order to avoid mistakes in his own perception, Leo also used He picked up the energy detection module on the general-purpose recorder and compared the energy here. The result was exactly the same as the energy data collected automatically during the day, as he perceived.

The energy is exactly the same, but the entire surrounding environment has undergone a huge change, so there is only one possibility, something is changing the laws of the world contained in all the surrounding environments, making this auction house into another world, just like mosaic Same as the Warp in the world, but this Warp is part of the world itself, only considered modified.

Leo told Sylvia her speculation, and Sylvia was also a little surprised when she heard it. In her memory, it seemed that only the so-called gods and artifacts of the Church of True God could do such a thing.

"The thing buried here is an artifact?" Sylvia immediately thought of their purpose of coming here, and asked suspiciously.

"It's not clear yet, but I don't think it's the cause." Leo shook his head slightly, although according to common sense, the mysterious item buried here is the most likely cause of the phenomenon in front of him, but Leo I didn't feel any abnormal energy fluctuations from that thing, so I can't be completely sure.

While saying these words, Leo walked to a pillar in the middle of the clubhouse. This pillar is the largest pillar in the entire clubhouse, and it can be seen that the people who renovated this place also liked this pillar. After a little thought, this foothold is almost entirely composed of bones squeezed, superimposed, and entangled with each other, without adding any foreign clay or the like, and all the bones that make up the column have the same feature, that is, their spine The spine seems to be longer than normal. ,

At this time, Sylvia also came to the pillar, followed Leo's line of sight to see the situation of the pillar, and she also quickly discovered the strange things in it, and recognized the source of these bones, saying : "Are they wilderness snake people?"

"Wilderness Snakeman?" Leo quickly searched the information of the wilderness species and tribe in his mind, but found no relevant information, so he asked suspiciously: "Is there a species or tribe of Snakeman in the Wasteland?"

"No." Sylvia shook her head and said, "The wilderness snake man is a genetic disease that the early tribesmen in the wilderness were prone to get. People with this disease will have longer spines than normal people, and will With seven extra vertebrae, it looks like a self-made snake man with a human head. People who are born with deformities are usually sent to shamans who specialize in dealing with deformed people when they are young. A good shaman can be brought up, but a bad shaman may be killed in his infancy."

"Mother of all hives? Snake man?" Leo muttered to himself, and then asked, "Do you know who was the one who renovated this place?"

"I don't know." Sylvia shook her head and said, "I didn't pay attention to this kind of thing, why? Do you think there is something wrong with that person?"

"Of course there is a problem." Leo pointed under the pillar, and said, "The place below is where the mysterious item is buried. If there is nothing wrong, it should be related to the Kanter family's sacrifice to the mother of the hives. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the columns made of extruded snake-man bones are placed here.”

After finishing speaking, I saw him squatting down, quickly drew a Turing radical on the ground, and then directly inspired the power of the Turing radical, trying to dig out the mysterious thing buried deep in the ground.

However, what surprised him was that he failed. Although the root of Turing was successfully activated, and the corresponding witchcraft was also displayed, when the power of witchcraft approached the mysterious object underground, the power of witchcraft unexpectedly was automatically dispelled.

"Failed?" Sylvia couldn't help asking when she saw that there was no subsequent change after Leo activated the Turing radical.

"That thing dispelled my power." Leo nodded, explained the situation, and then tried with other powers, and found that no matter what power came close to that thing, it would be dispelled naturally, so he Said: "It seems that we can only dig by hand."

After finishing speaking, he motioned Sylvia to stand a little further, and then directly inserted his hand into the stone slab below, peeled off the slate to reveal the soil below, and then dug it down little by little.

Soon he dug down to a depth of more than two meters. At this time, both Leo in the deep pit and Sylvia on the edge of the pit saw that the soil dug out by Leo had changed and was no longer yellow. , and it turned off-white, and it was very dry. Even if it was a whole piece when it was dug out, it would shatter and turn into powder when it was thrown on the ground. It didn't look like mud, but ashes.

Leo dug down another three meters, and the surrounding soil completely turned into that kind of gray-white soil, and then the mysterious object he discovered gradually emerged from the gray-white soil.

It is not an item that looks like an artifact, it is just a very ordinary stone, and the stone is not big, only a little bigger than Leo's fist. It is no exaggeration to say that this stone is thrown on the ground , I am afraid that no one will take a second look.

However, it is this seemingly ordinary stone that has an extraordinary effect, that is, it can affect all the powers on Leo's body, including spiritual energy. For example, when he picks up this stone now, he can quickly He clearly felt that as long as the extraordinary power in his body was close to the stone, it would quickly weaken and eventually disappear.

However, different from the dispersal that Leo guessed before, he found that those extraordinary powers were actually swallowed by the stone, but the process of swallowing was very similar to the dispersal, and it was difficult to distinguish clearly without feeling it carefully.

Now that the thing has been dug out, Leo didn't plan to stay in the ground any longer, and immediately crawled out from below, and then handed the thing to Sylvia, briefly explaining the situation.

Sylvia also tried it curiously, and found that just as Leo said, her strength was also swallowed by the stone the moment she approached it.

"The mother of all hives doesn't seem to have such power?" Sylvia immediately asked suspiciously.

"Indeed, the mother of all hives does not have this kind of power in my memory." Leo also nodded in agreement, and added: "This kind of power is somewhat similar to my devouring power."

Sylvia said: "You mean that this power comes from the Chaos Fool?"

Leo did not give a positive response, but said uncertainly: "I just said that there are some similarities. As for whether it comes from the Chaos Fool, I don't know. More experiments are needed."

At this moment, a slight tremor on the ground startled the two of them, and then they immediately noticed that there was a crack on the pillar next to it that was completely made of bones, and the bones that were so hard just a moment ago seemed to have been brittle. Dealing with the same piece of falling down, more importantly, this column is the main load-bearing column of the entire clubhouse, and its fragmentation is accompanied by signs of collapse of the entire clubhouse.

Seeing this situation, Leo and Sylvia couldn't help but rushed outside immediately, because they couldn't store the stones in the storage space, so Leo could only put the stones in his pocket.

The movement of the auction house naturally attracted the attention of the staff of the northern tribal alliance in the Green Manor who had not left and the tribal fighters in charge of the guards. They all rushed towards this side well-trained, and soon came outside the auction house.

At this time, Leo and Sylvia had already rushed out of the clubhouse, and in order to avoid encountering the tribal warriors and holy mountain shamans who rushed over, they chose to hide in the dark, taking advantage of everyone's attention When he got to the clubhouse, he quietly passed through the crowd and disappeared into the dense forest of the manor.

The collapse of the auction house came to an end soon, and the ground part of the entire clubhouse collapsed, leaving only a deep pit, and the ruins in the deep pit also covered up the hole that Leo had dug before.

According to the usual practice, the shamans of the holy mountain began to check the surroundings for traces of supernatural power through their methods, and quickly got the result that there was no trace of supernatural power involved in the collapse.

Because this is just an auction house, all the valuable things in the Green Manor are placed in other places, and there seems to be no other valuable things here except for the bones with special significance, so the extraordinary power is discharged to intervene Finally, the tribal fighters in the manor only inspected the ruins, and came to the conclusion that the building itself was defective, so they decided to wait for the supervisor of the Green Manor to come tomorrow, and then report to him. Someone special to clean up the ruins.

At the same time, Leo and Sylvia had already left the Green Manor and were walking towards the office of the Dodd Group.

The next day, the director of the Green Manor came to the manor and worked as usual. Before he entered the manor, he had already learned about what happened last night from the captain of the guard who had been waiting for a long time.

While being surprised by the collapse of the auction house, he didn't have much other emotions. In fact, he was even happy for the collapse of the auction house, because he never liked the auction house decorated with slave bones If the clubhouse hadn't been built when he came to work, and he didn't have the right to renovate the clubhouse building, maybe he would have demolished the auction house long ago and built it into a brighter and more open building, unlike the previous one. The clubhouse is so gloomy.

So he didn't regard this matter as an important matter at all, and simply asked his subordinates to find someone to clean up the ruins, and then began to deal with daily affairs. It was not until noon that he thought of reporting this matter to the sacred mountain. At this time, the holy mountain shaman stationed in Beberant informed the incident.

However, what he didn't expect was that in the middle of the night on the third day when he reported the incident, the great shaman with the fourth eye in the northern holy mountain suddenly came to Beberant with his people, and came directly to the Green Manor without rest. The ruins of the auction house to check the situation, but at this time, the ruins have been cleaned up, leaving only a deep pit that needs to be filled.

At this time, the supervisor of Lvyin Manor was also woken up by his subordinates, and rushed over in a hurry. After arriving at the manor, before he had time to say anything, the fourth-eyed shaman asked directly: "You let people Did you find anything strange in here while cleaning the ruins?"

Facing this question, the supervisor was stunned for a while, and didn't answer for a while. It didn't mean that he didn't want to answer, but that he couldn't answer it, because he just gave instructions to his subordinates about the ruins and didn't have any more questions. Got it.

When he was at a loss, the subordinate who was in charge of cleaning up the ruins immediately replied for his superior: "During the cleaning, nothing strange was found. All the bones have been cleaned up and stored separately. Do you want to save them?" If you want to see..."

"No, it shouldn't be a skeleton!" The fourth-eyed big shaman interrupted the other party, shook his head, and then walked into the big pit alone, carefully checking the situation at the bottom.

In fact, the fourth-eyed great shaman didn't know what he was looking for. He just knew that there must be something hidden here based on the information left by his predecessor. As for what it was, he didn't know at all, even his predecessors didn't know. .

If it wasn't for the news of the collapse this time, he would have even forgotten about it. Now that he remembered it, he didn't come here because he remembered something, but felt a strong sense of loss and panic, as if he had lost it. Something important, I felt that this feeling might be related to this place, so I rushed here overnight from the holy mountain.

After the fourth-eyed shaman inspected it, he quickly discovered the five-meter-deep pit that Leo had dug out. Although part of the pothole had been filled due to the collapse, there was still a part of it underneath. It is still not filled to death, just pay a little attention to the condition of the ground soil and you will find abnormalities.

"Damn it!" The fourth-eyed great shaman had already discovered the abnormality, and at the same time he could almost guess the result. The strong sense of loss welling up in his heart made him curse.