The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

After cleaning up the wounded, Leo and Sylvia didn't stay in Greenstone Village to clean up the corpses on the ground, because the people who fled towards the island before were also called back at this moment, and there were enough people.

The two of them left the village when no one else was paying attention, and came to Giant's Shield along the path they had walked before.

Leo asked Sylvia to stay on the cliff for a while, and then he jumped off the cliff directly. After falling to a certain height, he reached out and grabbed a protruding rock on the cliff, stabilized his falling body with all his strength, and then walked down the cliff. The power reverberating from his body was like a dexterous blue sheep, moving quickly on the steep cliff, and soon came to a not-so-big hole on the cliff.

At this moment, this concave hole already has an owner. A couple of waterfowls built a bird's nest for themselves, and there are four bird eggs in the bird's nest.

When Leo appeared at the entrance of the cave, the water bird instinctively launched an attack on Leo, but before the water bird's claws and beak landed on Leo's body, a wave of spiritual energy emanated from Leo's body and landed on the ground. The body of the waterfowl instantly stopped the waterfowl from attacking and became quiet, acting as if Leo was their closest person.

Leo reached into the hole, moved the bird's nest, and took out a decayed wooden box from under the bird's nest.

He didn't know if the box was too rotten, or he was too tired, but the moment he picked it up, the box immediately shattered, and a strange-looking stone statue fell out of the box.

And when the statue fell out, Leo clearly felt a weak energy fluctuation emanating from the statue. This energy fluctuation was somewhat like the power of the abyss, but there was a clear difference. If it was the abyss The power of the human body will have a sense of chaos that is almost characteristic, whether it is violent or cold, there is such a sense of chaos, but the core of this energy is not chaos, but depth, and this depth is not like the abyss. Deep, more like the depth of the universe.

Waterfowl are particularly sensitive to this abnormal energy, but the moment the energy appeared, the waterfowl that had been soothed immediately became violent, as if they saw some natural enemy, they didn't care about the eggs in the nest, and just spread their wings and flew away. They went out and got into the torrential rain outside, as if only the cold rain could wash away their fear.

Leo picked up the statue and looked at it in front of his eyes. The statue is not big, only slightly bigger than the palm of his hand. The stone used to carve the statue is ordinary rock, not any special material, and the carving technique is also very rough. It's like a person who has never had any carving experience carved it according to the shape in his heart, and because of this, the appearance of the statue looks very distorted and weird, and it can only be seen from the characteristics of the various parts of the statue. It is a monster composed of the lower body of a beast, the upper body of a human and the head of a fish.

After getting the statue, Leo immediately looked for the corresponding information in the database, but there was no result, presumably because the information he collected was not enough.

Leo took the statue, returned to the cliff, and handed the thing to Sylvia to see if Sylvia had seen this thing elsewhere.

However, after Sylvia got the statue, the look in her eyes seemed to be looking at a delicious delicacy, and she couldn't help swallowing.

"What's wrong?" Leo immediately asked after realizing that something was wrong with Sylvia.

"I don't know what the reason is, but there is an urge to swallow it, and it is very strong." Sylvia pondered for a while, and said: "This urge should come from the blood, the abyss dragon His blood has the desire to devour the idol."

"Is it a natural enemy?" Leo guessed.

"No." Sylvia was very sure that in the memory of her bloodline from the abyssal dragon, there was no natural enemy that could correspond to it.

"You put it away first!" Leo said without expressing any doubt.

"No, it's better for you to keep it better. Put this thing here, maybe I can't help but eat it," Sylvia shook her head, put the statue back into Leo's hand, and asked Said: "Is this thing the mysterious item?"

"I don't know." Leo shook his head and said, "But in this area, only this thing has something to do with the mysterious item."

While talking, he tried to put the things back into the storage space, and the statue in his hand disappeared smoothly, but then a hint of surprise appeared on his face, as if he had discovered something magical, Then he took the thing out of the storage space and looked at it repeatedly in his hand, as if he was looking for something.

"What's wrong?" Seeing Leo's abnormal behavior, Sylvia asked suspiciously.

"This thing is a bit weird!" Leo didn't look away from the statue, and while examining it carefully, he explained the reason for his reaction just now.

It turned out that when he retracted the god statue to the storage space, the originally ordinary god statue exuded an astonishing light, and this light also formed a very peculiar penetrating light wave, which directly penetrated his storage space. The object space barrier diffuses toward the void outside the space, and the frequency of this light wave is very regular, as if sending some kind of signal wave toward the void.

It's just that this kind of reaction will only appear in his storage space. Once he takes out the things, that kind of reaction disappears, and the statue returns to its ordinary appearance.

"Maybe, this thing is really calling for something," Sylvia also made a guess after hearing this, and suggested: "We can use this thing as bait to see what kind of existence is behind this thing .”

After hearing this, Leo was silent for a while. In the end, he shook his head and said, "If this thing can really attract some powerful beings that walk through the void, then I'm afraid it will be difficult to keep my storage space. This would be too much of a loss."

Not agreeing to Sylvia's proposal, Leo found a piece of cloth to wrap the statue, and then put the statue in his pocket for temporary storage.

After doing all this, Leo and Sylvia left Giant's Shield and returned to Greenstone Village, but those who were busy in Greenstone Village, including Solander, did not notice that they had left.

Because it was dealing with the corpses, the participants did not move the corpses into the house where there is not much space, but just arranged the stacked and staggered corpses neatly, covered the face with clothes, and put on the clothes if the clothes were not neat. Let them die with dignity.

When the corpses were sorted out, the boats that carried people away turned back one after another, and they also brought policemen and soldiers. They had just landed because the corpses at the pier had been moved to the village, and the blood on the ground was covered by rainwater. It was washed away, so they behaved very calmly, and some people felt that those who returned to Beiruk City before were spreading rumors and so on.

It wasn't until they walked into Greenstone Village and saw rows of corpses covering the streets that they all showed shocking expressions, and at the same time realized that the matter was not just a conflict between a small group of people as they thought. , but a large-scale casualty incident. Although they haven't carefully counted the number of corpses, they have roughly estimated that there are at least two to three thousand corpses lying on the ground. Such a huge number of casualties is far beyond With their jurisdiction beyond their jurisdiction, only the federal government's exclusive agency has the right to handle this matter. The only thing they can do is to maintain the scene and wait for the federal government to send someone over.

Originally, their idea was to keep everyone on the island. After all, no one knows what happened on the island, but one thing must be related to the mutant attackers at the venue. There are mutant attackers, so the best way is to keep everyone on the island, and have the commissioner of the federal government deal with it uniformly.

Although the idea is very good, it is very difficult to implement, not to mention that many of the living people are seriously injured and urgently waiting for medical treatment, otherwise they will die. The officials and rich men of Beiruk City, although their individual strength is nothing, but if they are united together, they can still have a huge impact on the upper class of Beiruk City.

What's more, there are two special existences among these people, Leo and Sylvia. It is no exaggeration to say that because of the special steel, the hidden status of the two of them in the Otto Federation is no less than that of some important The country's high-level officials, apparently some of the people supporting Emerald Island understand the status of Leo and Sylvia very well.

Therefore, they had to adopt a compromise method, special treatment for each case, first send the important people and those who were seriously injured to be treated to Beiruk City, and the others waited for the next batch of ships to arrive, and they also You can take this opportunity to send people back to report the situation, send additional manpower, discuss follow-up countermeasures, and so on.

In the end, Leo, Sylvia and the group of dignitaries who did not have time to escape, as well as a large number of seriously injured and wounded people and their caregivers, carried the first batch of rescue ships back to Beiruk City. The soldiers also sent some people back to Beiruk City under the name of protection, presumably to report the tragic situation here.

Solander did not leave by boat. She strongly demanded to stay, take care of the remaining wounded, and maintain law and order with other police officers. Neither Leo nor Sylvia persuaded her. Obviously, the tragedy of Greenstone Village caused her a lot of trouble. It has a huge psychological impact, and it may be good for her to let her do what she can.

I don't know if it's because of the mentality of returning home, or because of the wind and rain outside, most people on board feel that the speed of the ship is much slower than usual. In fact, they don't know that the speed of the ship is indeed slowed down deliberately Yes, because when it was leaving the pier, a ship full of wounded people sped up and rushed back to Beiruk City. It seemed that it was going to arrive in Beiruk City to report the situation before other ships arrived, and arrange Good follow-up reception.

Therefore, when Leo and his ship arrived at the port, the pier was already in full swing, and the wounded were taken away immediately, while those who did not have their identities registered one by one, and some people were temporarily recruited after their identities were registered. The gendarmerie who came over took it away, while the rest sent people to send them home, and both Leo and Silvia were obviously members of the privileged class.

Basically, they didn't receive any trouble, and they didn't even have a rank status. After several officials in charge of related affairs recognized the two, they directly sent the carriage arranged by the city government to take the two back to the manor. Some dignitaries from Beirut City came to visit the two, and they did not ask what they saw on Emerald Island, but expressed the hope that what happened on Emerald Island would not affect their impression of Beiruk City, and He also said that he would investigate the truth of the matter as soon as possible.

Regarding this, Leo and Sylvia didn't say anything, they just replied politely, and then expressed their willingness to pay a lot of money to support Beiruk City's investigation of this matter.

After that, the two of them stayed in the manor for a few days, thanking the guests behind closed doors, making people feel as if they were frightened and recuperating.

From the servants of the manor, they also know that there are many more people patrolling outside the manor, and most of them are heavily armed soldiers. However, these patrolling people are not just protecting the Belmont Manor family, but the entire Great North Point area They are protected by these heavily armed soldiers. After all, the people living here are either rich or noble, and they are the ruling class of Beiruk City. If something happens here, then Beiruk City will really fall into chaos.

Although this incident was very big, there was no newspaper media in Beiruk City that reported on this incident in detail, but there were some fragmented news that there were some accidents in the preaching activities of the Baptist Church on Emerald Island. , there will be no follow-up content.

At first, Leo thought it was the Baptist Church suppressing the news, and planned to negotiate with the upper echelons of the Ott Federation to eliminate the bad influence of this incident, but Sylvia saw it more clearly, thinking that it was the city of Beruk , or the Otter Federation is preparing to temporarily suppress this matter, and she guesses that the Otter Federation will make a big move soon.

Sure enough, on the fifth day after they returned to the manor, the Outer Federation issued a constitutional decree, which completely overturned the previous decree about allowing the Baptist Church to preach and preach in the cities of the Outer Federation, and completely expelled The Baptist Church, and not only the Baptist Church, but even other churches were completely expelled, as if to completely turn the Outer Federation into a godless country, and this decree incorporated into the constitution also It is called the godless decree by the people of the Otter Federation.

Because the previous news suppression was very thorough, the outside world did not understand what happened on Emerald Island, so they also had resistance and disgust to the promulgation of this godless decree.

The Otter Federation government also anticipated this in advance, so almost at the same time when it promulgated the godless decree, it also announced the complete details of the Emerald Island tragedy to all newspapers and media in the country. War casualties are defined as national disasters, followed by a series of national sacrifices and memorial activities, etc., which instantly mobilized the emotions of all the people and completely disappeared the voices that originally opposed the godless decree.