The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Through the spiritual network, Leo discovered that these tombs were not empty, but that there were indeed corpses, but each corpse was very distorted, some had long hands and feet, some had mutated bodies, and some had elongated heads. Other than this feature, other organs are very different from humans.

In addition, Leo obviously felt that the words engraved on the tombstones of these tombs were very familiar, and the sub-brain system also indicated that these words were words he knew, but no matter whether it was his own memory or the comparison with the sub-brain system It is not possible to determine what kind of script this script is.

Leo immediately thought of a situation that was very similar to the present one, and that was the dream. Because when human beings dream, no matter how complete and specific the dream world is, the dreamer will never be able to distinguish any kind of characters in the dream world, only the character patterns that cannot recognize the specific content.

Because the coverage of Leo's spiritual network doubled, the pointed wooden house that looked like a gravekeeper's hut also entered the coverage of his spiritual network, allowing him to detect the inside of the hut without getting close to it. scene.

Soon the spirit network fed back the detection information to Leo, but the image formed by the feedback took him a little by surprise.

If the spirit net detects some strange monsters in that room, Leo can also accept it. After all, this nightmare world is a world where everything can exist. From the corpses in the cemetery, it can be seen that this place should be a monster. The world of monsters.

However, the problem is that the result of his mental network detection is that the person in the house is a normal person, no different from ordinary people in the world of Velen.

I saw that this person was a young man in his twenties, with a very ordinary appearance, wearing a leather coat that might have been popular more than a hundred years ago, and the boots under his feet were the kind of sleeve hunting boots that were popular in ancient France. , the whole person gave Leo the feeling of a young man who could be seen everywhere in France more than a hundred years ago.

At this moment, the young man is assembling a mechanical device, which looks like an enhanced version of a mechanical crossbow. It's just that this kind of crossbow is not shooting arrows, but a circular saw blade specially used for sawing wood is ejected by a mechanical device with rotating force. Thick wooden stakes.

Just when Leo was about to check the young man's situation more carefully, there was a loud dog barking, and the young man in the room also became nervous, picked up the newly assembled weapon in his hand, and peeped through the wooden door hole, look out.

Immediately afterwards, Leo saw more than a dozen huge dog-like creatures the height of a person turned over from the wall, broke into the cemetery, and broke into his mental net.

Soon the spirit network found out the real situation of these dog-like creatures. Although these creatures looked like dogs, they actually had nothing to do with dogs.

These dog-like creatures all have a goat's head, but the mouth is so big that it almost reaches the base of the ear, and it is covered with sharp teeth. The body is a human body. The male and female can be distinguished through the chest and lower body, and the limbs are lizard. The limbs, and finally a tail composed of joints, covered with bony spurs like steel needles.

"Ubato." Such a unique image made it easy for the sub-brain system to find the corresponding information from the database and present it to Leo.

Ubato is the name of this monster. This monster is not recorded in the mystic books of the old man Rembrandt, but in the mythology in the internal version of the Velen Biological Canon published by the medical school.

This kind of monster only appeared in the folklore of the Maris Kingdom. Legend has it that this monster is the guardian of the Land of Eternal Rest, and it specializes in preying on the souls that have not been able to reach the Land of Eternal Rest and are lost in the wilderness of death.

The ultimate goal of this kind of monster is to become a human. As long as they eat enough souls, their bodies will gradually transform and eventually become fully human.

In the canon, this kind of monster is one of the unconfirmed monsters, but this unconfirmed one has never seen a living entity, but there is a head bone specimen of this monster. This specimen is now placed in the Natural Museum of the Maris Kingdom, and there is also a hand-drawn drawing of the specimen in the published Biological Encyclopedia. The head specimen is almost exactly the same as the Ubatos that Leo has seen now.

At the same time Leo discovered these monsters, these monsters also smelled the smell of living people on Leo's body. They made a few whispers similar to conversations, and then, like a pack of wolves cooperating with their prey, they came within a distance of Leo's body. Ou spread out far away, gradually surrounded Leo, and then pushed towards Leo.

Seeing that these Ubatos regarded themselves as predation targets, Leo couldn't help but smiled, and stretched out his hand to draw his gun to kill these monsters, but he stopped and turned the twins into cross swords instead.

Standing with a sword, Leo quietly waited for the attacks of these monsters, and these monsters themselves possessed high intelligence. When they saw Leo standing in place, suspicion arose in their eyes. After getting close to a certain distance, they surrounded Leo. Ou went around and didn't attack immediately.

After a few circles, with a deep bark, the four Ubatos on the back and sides suddenly rushed out, and flew towards Leo, with their sharp-toothed mouths wide open. It opened and aimed at Leo's limbs.

However, when they were about to bite their prey, the prey in their eyes suddenly disappeared, making them bite a hole, and when each other's bodies crossed in the air, a flash of light just flashed from their bodies. When they flew to the other side, as soon as they landed on all fours, their bodies immediately separated from the part where the flash passed, and became two halves.

After Leo dealt with the four Ubatos, he rushed out and rushed to the largest group of Ubatos in an instant. He swung his sword quickly, and these monsters, which were extremely dangerous to ordinary people, fell on the ground one by one. fell under his sword.

In less than a minute, there was only one Ubato left, and the last Ubato tried to escape, but was nailed to the ground by the long sword thrown by Leo. It cut the back half of its body in two.

Just when Leo finished all Ubato, returned the twins to the glove state, and was about to go to the gravekeeper's hut, the abnormal change happened again, and the surrounding Ubato's corpses all ignited black The flames burned to ashes in an instant, and those ashes turned into black smoke and rushed towards Leo just like the Book of Night.

Because he had experienced it once, Leo didn't appear flustered anymore, but asked the sub-brain system to carefully record the changes in the body to see what effect the black smoke had on the body.

I don't know if it's because Leo is fully prepared this time, or because of the dream body, when the black smoke seeps into his body and merges into the three-dimensional radicals on his bones, Leo can still be able to see it even if he doesn't look at the personal number interface. I can feel some changes in my body.

When all the black smoke from Ubato's corpses were integrated into Leo's body, the changes in his body gradually subsided, and he immediately opened the personal data interface to check.

In the interface, the basic value of personal quality has not changed as Leo thought, but the consumed daily value has been replenished, all of which are full of psionic energy, and the daily value of will and spirit have also been restored . The most peculiar thing is that the daily values ​​related to physical fitness, such as strength, agility, and constitution, have exceeded the basic values, reaching eleven and fourteen points respectively.

Because of this, Leo felt that his body became stronger, as if the basic value had exceeded the limit. But this is only temporary, he can feel that the daily value is dropping over time, just like adrenaline shot during a battle, and it won't take long for it to return to normal.

If the personal quality is only a temporary increase in the daily value, which makes Leo a little disappointed, then the changes in talents and skills will really surprise him.

First of all, the energy storage value of the chaotic stomach pouch increased hundreds of points in an instant, reaching more than 900 points, and there were only a few dozen points left from the upper limit of 1,000 points. He felt that when the upper limit of the energy storage value was reached, maybe His body will get some changes as a result.

One talent has changed, and the other skill has also changed, and this change is very huge, that is, the reminder of the consumption of spiritual power after the spiritual vision skill has disappeared, which means that when he uses the spiritual vision skill , will no longer consume any psionic energy.

Undoubtedly, the fact that the spirit vision skill no longer consumes psionic energy points is of great benefit to Leo, not to mention that the spirit vision skill can help him see various spiritual objects, see farther, and have night vision, etc. , just the dynamic vision that can be turned on at any time is enough to greatly improve Leo's strength while keeping the basic value of his quality unchanged.

Leo thought that if he could perfectly control his skills without consuming spiritual energy, then with the dynamic visual effects of Spirit Vision, he was absolutely confident that he could block hundreds with one with a cold weapon.

The disappearance of the spiritual power consumption of the spirit vision skill can only be regarded as an appetizer for this change, and the real meal is actually the dream body.

Perhaps because of the process of absorbing the black smoke, the sub-brain system has collected enough information. The dream body, which had no explanation, now has an additional explanation. This explanation is very simple, only to absorb the dream spirit.

Although the explanation is very simple, for Leo, its value is far beyond the change of other personal data.

Obviously those Yubato just now should be the dream spirits, which also confirms from the side that this is a dream world, and Leo can kill these dream spirits to absorb them and use them to improve his own strength. It's like the upgrade of the Earth Federation's playing games and fighting monsters.

Judging from the situation just now, the effect of absorbing these dream spirits is undoubtedly significant, and this may also be related to the first absorption. It should be impossible to achieve such a strong effect in the future absorption. But one thing is certain, that is, if he continues to absorb these dream spirits, his physical qualities will gradually improve, and his skills and talents will also change.

However, while Leo was delighted, he was also faintly worried, because he knew very well that any gain had to be paid for. If he can obtain such great benefits from absorbing the dream spirit, then he must pay something, but the problem now is that he has no idea what he will pay, and this kind of unknown is the most troublesome.

However, now Leo has no way to solve this problem. He can only leave it to the sub-brain system for the time being. Once enough data is collected, the sub-brain system may be able to analyze something useful.

After checking the talents and skills several times, and found no other changes, Leo was about to close the interface, but suddenly he was attracted by the top content of the interface, and stopped closing the personal interface.

In the race column, there is now a less obvious percentage progress bar on the top of the hidden race bloodline, and the progress value on the progress bar is now 1.3 percent.

Seeing this progress bar, Leo wouldn't know that when the progress bar is full, his hidden race bloodline will be activated.

However, for Leo, this incident was not particularly gratifying, because he still didn't know what his hidden racial blood was.

Leo didn't know what kind of changes he would have when the hidden blood was activated, whether he would have some physical changes like the family members, or if he got some inferior blood that would affect his original strength. Negative effects and other uncertainties made him lack of interest in stimulating hidden racial blood.

After struggling for a while and confirming that the situation could not be changed, Leo could only passively accept this uncertain bloodline change, and hoped in his heart that the worst outcome would not happen.

Leo walked to the ashes left by Ubato's burning, and searched to see if he could find any high-energy substances in the ashes like the monster Mogandi killed in the Black Forest wonderland.

However, he was doomed to be disappointed. Obviously, the flames produced by the spirits of the dream after their death burned them completely, and all the essence was refined into black smoke, leaving only some useless ashes.

However, this situation allowed Leo to discover some useful information.

In the Nightmare Realm, the essence of the dream spirit will be extracted after death. If there is no dream body like Leo, these essences will be re-integrated into the Nightmare Realm, and the rest of the dream spirit will only be one A heap of useless ashes.

But now in this cemetery, the buried corpses are all complete bones, some are even rotting, and there is no such thing as what a dream spirit should have after death, so the only thing that can do something about this phenomenon is The only explanation is that these corpses are not products of the Nightmare Realm itself, they are outsiders just like him.

This made Leo think of the people who disappeared at No. 9 Golden Oak Street, the city that disappeared in the legend, and the people in the city. If they just disappeared instead of dying, then they probably continued to live in the Nightmare Realm, and even preserved the civilization they should have.