The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"This is the entrance of a world." Leo calmly looked at the unstable space rift suspended in the air in front of him, and tried to open and close the mysterious book he got from Carson Sanjes. Together, the spatial rift in the air also disappeared and appeared, he said.

"How did they do it?" Sylvia asked as she opened and closed the book a few times with curiosity.

"I don't know." Leo shook his head, and then added, "I don't know yet."

As Leo said, everything in front of him made Leo feel extremely miraculous, even though he had experienced so many things before, had seen so many things, and even faced the gods in person, but after reading this book After seeing what the book showed, he still felt unbelievable, because he never imagined that someone could stabilize a space rift and seal the space rift in an ordinary book.

After discovering that the stone obtained from the Green Manor could absorb the forbidden power attached to the book, Leo has been carefully observing the situation of the book of the tower wizard, and when the train arrived at Brotillo, He was also the first to notice that the outermost blocking power on the book had been completely absorbed.

In order for the stone to continue to absorb the power in the book and destroy the structure of the wizard's banning circle of the book itself, Leo removed the stone in time and checked the situation of the book.

The Turing radicals and magic circles of the tower wizards on the cover of the book showed no signs of damage or corrosion. On the contrary, because of the loss of the interference of the banning power, Leo was able to easily discover some of them that had never been hidden before through the spiritual network. The secret method discovered, and then speed up the progress of deciphering these magic circles.

It's just that Leo's focus is no longer on the banning circle, because he found that with the disappearance of the first layer of banning power, this book, which he couldn't open before anyway, can be easily opened, and in After opening, a spatial rift that was enough for Leo to pass through appeared in the air out of thin air, before him and Sylvia.

The moment the space rift appeared, both Leo and Sylvia were surprised and realized that the space rift was related to this book, but when the train arrived at the station, the flight attendant had already come to each compartment to inform passengers that the train needed to stop at Brotillo. After a day of rest, the staff of the train station will lead the passengers to rest in designated hotels, etc. The surrounding environment is not suitable for concentrating on studying the secrets of this book.

After that, Leo and Sylvia didn't have the staff of the train station go to the designated hotel. Instead, they asked about the time when the train would start tomorrow, and then rented a suite in a hotel next to the train station.

The room chosen by two people is on the outside of the hotel, next to the repair space of the train, there is a lot of noise when working there, so this is a very bad room for ordinary people, but it is very good for two people , because of the noise, no one is renting the surrounding rooms, even if they make any noise here, they will not attract any attention.

After settling down, Leo couldn't wait to take out the book again, and then tried to open and close repeatedly, and then confirmed that the book could be opened very stably to get the space rift, and what was even more amazing was the space rift The appearance and disappearance of did not cause any abnormal energy fluctuations.

At first, Lei You thought it was an error in his mental network scan, and then asked Sylvia to use the universal recorder on his wrist to collect energy information, but it turned out that his perception was not wrong, and the space rift The appearance and disappearance did not show any abnormal energy fluctuations, as if this space rift was just an illusion.

Afterwards, Leo and Sylvia tried to test whether the space rift was just an illusion by using the real object and the extraordinary power they possessed respectively, and the result did not disappoint them. The space rift did indeed exist, and the stone thrown into the space rift Disappeared in front of their eyes, and then pulled back by the bound stones, the superhuman powers exerted, such as Leo's spiritual net, and Sylvia's puppet tentacles can all enter the space rift, and let them perceive the situation over there .

As Leo said, the space rift is a new world. According to some environmental data and energy fluctuations sensed by the spiritual network, it can be determined that the energy there is not particularly active, and the extraordinary power entering that world seems to be suppressed. The same, all the functions are greatly reduced.

In addition, the air pollution over there is a bit serious. The spirit net can capture a lot of dust particles in the air, and it feels like a smelter that is working day and night.

Sylvia also dug up a piece of soil from that world with her puppet tentacles, and analyzed the soil with a general-purpose recorder, and found that the soil was not much different from the soil in the normal world, except that there were a little more industrial dust .

From this, the two of them can basically be sure that the world opposite the space rift is definitely a world with a very developed industry, otherwise it would be impossible for so many abnormally formed industrial dust particles to appear.

Although the two of them were very curious about the things over there, they never thought about entering the world over there to check the situation. This was not just because they were not ready, but more importantly, the space rift was not stable. In the process of constantly trying to explore the world over there just now, there will always be some flickering in this space rift without warning. If two people pass through this space rift, if there is a sudden flicker, then both of them will It may be directly cut into pieces by the space power contained in it, or even directly crushed into dust.

Therefore, it is impossible for the two of them to go to that world to explore until the space rift is completely stable and they have mastered the method of returning from the opposite world.

After a little grasp of the space rift, the two of them turned their attention to the book that created the space rift.

When he was on the train before, Leo had already checked the book. At this moment, the book can be fully opened, and every page can be flipped. The writing on the pages is very clear and new, and he can even smell it. There was a faint smell of ink, as if it had just been printed.

In the book, apart from being able to sense the energy fluctuations of the tower wizard's banning circle, you can no longer feel any power. If you don't get the space rift, this is an ordinary book.

The content of this book is not some obscure and mysterious knowledge. It is just a collection of poems from the Second Dynasty of France. It records the poetry collections of seven early poets of the Second Dynasty of France. An anthology of eulogizing poems.

Sylvia recognized this collection of poems at a glance. She used to have another book in the collection of the manor of the French Empire, and she also read it. Except for the different cover, the content inside is similar, but the layout is different. , should not be the same set of molds used.

This collection of poems was a common collection of poems during the second dynasty, and it was still published until the third dynasty. It can be said to be one of the books designated by the French Empire, but each publication will be based on the region and publishing industry. Different workshops use different molds.

Sylvia is not an expert in this field, but there are scholars in the Dodd Group who specialize in the study of ancient books. Those scholars should be able to analyze when this collection of poems containing space cracks was published through the difference in layout.

Although the reason is not clear, Leo can tell from the state of the pages that this book should be affected by the power of the space rift, keeping its state at its original state, which means that this book was made into this The time of the strange thing in the space rift is not long after the book was printed. If this time can be found, it may help Leo find out who made the book.

Leo has obtained a lot of information about the tower from the books of the tower wizard apprentices, and learned about the situation of the tower wizards, and among these tower wizards, there are only a handful of people who really master space-related abilities , as long as the time is determined, it is basically possible to determine who made the book, and then find some clues about this space rift from his life.

After having a research direction, Leo and Sylvia did not continue to study this book, because the current environment is not a suitable environment for such research, and Leo did not continue to use that stone to absorb the ban on the book strength, but prepare to wait until we return to the New Porta area, and continue after making preparations.

However, I don’t know if it’s because of the influence of the spatial rift contained in the book itself. Leo was able to store the book in his storage space before, but he can’t do it now. For this reason, he can only Put this book in your backpack.

In the following time, the two walked around the town of Brotillo like two ordinary travelers.

Brotillo is not a city, and there is no stone wall around it, only a wooden wall that does not seem to be very strong. The total number of people living here is only more than a thousand, and most of them live next to the railway. The workers of the steam train maintenance factory is a town specially built for the maintenance of steam trains on the North-South Highway.

Perhaps because of the small number of people in this town, or because there is a border city built by a tribe of 100,000 people north of Brotillo that is more attractive than here, all in all, every wave of mutated monsters that erupts nearby will Going around this town, only a few mutated monsters will attack this town. With the shaman and tribal fighters stationed in the repair factory, they are enough to deal with these monsters, so the people living here are considered safe.

However, even if it is safe, the residents in the town will stay at home after nightfall and will not wander outside.

This is mainly because the walls of the town are too short. Even if there are no mutated monsters, the ferocious beasts that inhabit the surrounding dense forests can still cross the walls, enter the town, and attack the townspeople here.

That night, a wild beast ran into the town and attacked the lone worker. Fortunately, the lone worker was lucky. He was bitten by a wild beast and was dragged away when he happened to meet a patrolling tribal soldier. The beast on the spot was killed, but the worker also lost an arm and lost his job in the maintenance factory.

When Leo and Sylvia boarded the night raven train that had been overhauled and came to the dining car of the train to have breakfast, the passengers in the premium compartment who got on the train earlier than them had already gathered in the dining car, talking about the beast attack that happened last night event.

However, what they were talking about was not the attack itself, but whether the maintenance plant should fire the injured worker.

If this incident happened in other countries, especially industrial countries, these people may not discuss it because they are very aware of the results and feel that this is a matter of course. Factory owners are evil , workers are pitiful, such things are natural.

But this matter is very weird when it comes to the wilderness tribes, because this style of behavior is completely contrary to the traditions of the wilderness tribes. Some people even claimed in discussions that the northern tribal alliance is just wearing the skin of a tribe, which is actually different from the outside world. There is no difference in those countries anymore, it's a betrayal of tribal traditions and so on.

Undoubtedly, the person who said this is obviously a tribal traditionalist, and such arguments and statements are not uncommon in the wilderness tribes. the result of.

Although the differences on adhering to tribal traditions have begun to calm down with the establishment of the Northern and Southern Tribal Alliance, and it is no longer as tense as it was at the beginning, and a big war will come at any time, but the related discussions have never ended. There are many similar discussions in the tribes. The people who discuss it don't care whether the content of the discussion is right or wrong. They care more about whether they can win the discussion.

Therefore, after Leo and Sylvia had finished eating in the dining car, the discussion was not over yet. Not only people from the wilderness tribe participated in the discussion, but even those passengers from outside the wilderness also joined in. As if a battle would break out at any time, the train side also sent some people to the dining car, ready to intervene when the two sides fought.

It's just that these people were obviously not prepared to be kicked out of the car because of the fight. Although they were blushing from the quarrel and kept shaking their fists with a vicious look, none of them really moved at each other. When the whistle blew before the train started, they all stopped talking at the same time, and then dispersed like a rehearsed stage play, returning to their own cars.

The train staff who were preparing in the dining car were already accustomed to everything in front of them. They tidied up without saying anything, and then returned to their respective posts to prepare for the start of the train.

Not long after, the train started slowly and began to drive out of Brotillo, heading towards the next stop, Lulukan. At the same time, a human-faced bird was flying from a row of peaks near Lulukan. However, seeing Lulukan City in the distance, he flew towards the outskirts of the city.