The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Because his mouth was a little dry after talking, Valentin picked up the kettle on the table and prepared to pour a glass of water to drink, but the water did not pour out as desired. At this time, Valentin realized that he had been talking endlessly since just now, and his face The boss couldn't help showing an embarrassed expression, and said to Leo who was quietly listening to him with a sorry face: "Sorry, Mr. Dodd, I have been here alone for almost a month, and I am really lonely, okay? It’s easy to meet a living person, so I have a lot to talk about!”

"It's okay, I like listening to people talk." How could Leo, who had obtained a lot of information from Valentin, blame the other party and signaled that the other party should not care.

Valentin smiled, and then asked curiously: "Will you recruit night watchmen for this pilgrimage ceremony?"

"No! Because this is just a temporary parade ceremony, I will only be responsible for surveying the growth of monsters in the forest." According to some information about the duties of the night watchman revealed by the other party just now, Leo made up a reason casually, and put Valen Jing confuses it so that Valentin doesn't ask about something he doesn't know.

Afterwards, he looked at the furnishings in the room and found an old book on the table. A look of surprise flashed in his eyes. He pointed to the book and asked in a deep voice, "Can you understand it?"

"I just learned Old French, and I don't understand the contents of these books very well." Valentin said without doubting him, handing the books on the table together with a pair of glasses to Leo.

There was no abnormal expression on Leo's face. He took the books and glasses, and after seeing the reminder that the sub-brain system found wizards and wonders in front of him, he put on the glasses. The words on the book that he couldn't understand at all were all read under the action of the glasses. understood.

This book is written in ancient French, and the content is very simple. It is about how to assemble and maintain the blade machine crossbow. The total content is only about 20 pages, because it is made of some kind of animal skin, so it is a bit thick.

Leo quickly finished reading the entire content, and with the help of the sub-brain system, he simulated and assembled a set of such a blade machine crossbow in his mind. This set of machine crossbows is obviously modified from the early mechanical crossbow. It should have undergone several adjustments, completely abandoning the range and accuracy of the crossbow, and changing it to a stronger torsion spring, which is used to increase the speed of the blade at five. Lethality within ten meters.

After putting down the book in his hand, Leo asked if he could take a look at the blade machine crossbow. Valentin didn't doubt that he was there, so he handed the thing to him readily.

Leo held it in his hand and looked at it, then took off the blade, pulled the trigger, tried the empty magazine ejection, and then said to Valentin: "You locked the catapult's circlip too tightly, although you can Increase the strength of the catapult, but it is easy to cause unnecessary strain on the catapult, and the catapult that can be used five hundred times may only be used two to three hundred times for this reason."

"It's no wonder that my crossbow always needs to change the catapult, so that's the reason." Valentin took the weapon and followed Leo's prompts, checked it, showed a face of sudden understanding, and then followed Leo's prompts to modify While looking at Leo with some surprise on the lock that fixed the catapult's circlip, he said, "Do you like machine crossbows too? I thought night watchmen like to use more refined, more powerful, and more convenient firearms."

Although this sentence doesn't have much special meaning, but after hearing Leo's ears, he learned another piece of useful information, which is similar to Velen's night watchmen who mainly use mechanical crossbows and cold weapons, supplemented by firearms. Different, the night watchmen here seem to use firearms, and no one uses machine crossbows.

From this point, it is not difficult to see that there are a large amount of materials for making special bullets here, so it can be supplied to the night watchmen for a large amount of consumption. Moreover, the power of the special bullets is much stronger than that in Vinylon, at least stronger than the power of these machine crossbows, otherwise Valentin would not be so surprised when he saw that Leo knew how to maintain the machine crossbows.

Leo casually made up an explanation, saying: "Firearms are too precise and easily damaged during battle, so you need to learn as many other useless methods of use and maintenance as possible."

"It turns out that night watchmen also need to learn so many things? I thought that besides melee weapons and firearms, night watchmen only need to be proficient in using spells." Valentin inadvertently revealed another useful news.

This is not the first time he has heard the term spell-like. Leo has also heard this term many times in Rembrandt's old man, knowing that it is a supernatural power that is different from witchcraft.

It's just that there are not many detailed records of spell-like spells in the books he has seen. Most of them only record that spell-like spells are special abilities possessed by family members and people implanted with different god cells, just like Akena in the cage city the powers used by the high priests and priests of the Asian Church,

However, spell-like abilities are not limited to the ability to use psionic energy. In fact, most of the most detailed spell-like spells recorded in books are abnormal physical abilities, such as extraordinary vision, powerful strength, and so on. Although Valentin didn't specify what the night watchman's spell-like spells were, Leo felt that they should be in this category.

Just when Leo was still trying to extract some useful information from Valentin, there was a burst of trumpet-like siren sound outside, which felt like an elephant honking amplified ten times.

Hearing this voice, Leo thought that some kind of dream spirit appeared outside again, but soon he knew from the joyful expression on Valentin's face that he had guessed wrong.

"Haha! I'm so lucky today. Not only did I see the night watchman, but also the deliverer." Valentin jumped up from his chair in joy, and quickly ran to the stairs on one side of the wall. He hung on the skylight of the roof, climbed up quickly, and checked the situation outside with a periscope-like device installed on the skylight. After finding no danger, he opened the skylight and climbed to the roof.

Seeing this situation, Leo also climbed up to the roof, and saw that Valentin was lighting several braziers placed on the roof at the moment, and holding a torch, shaking it back and forth according to a certain frequency.

On the other side of the sky, a huge balloon is suspended in the air and slowly approaching this side. Below the balloon is a hanging basket the size of a small house. There are two thick air pipes on both sides of the hanging basket connected to the steam engine in the hanging basket. , a puff of steam is ejected from the trachea, forming propulsion to drive the entire balloon forward.

Soon the balloon came to the sky above the gravekeeper's hut, and then saw bundles of packed goods being lowered from the hanging basket and fell to the center of the open space surrounded by the brazier on the roof. When all the goods were put down, the hanging basket There was another strange siren sound from above the basket, and then it slowly turned around and drove in another direction.

Valentin quickly threw the bundled goods into the house through the skylight, so busy that he didn't even have time to talk to Leo, as if he was worried about something appearing.

Sure enough, just as Valentin threw half of the goods into the house, Leo sensed that a large number of bird-like monsters had entered the range of his mental network. This kind of monster is only the size of a fist, and there are many of them. It has two pairs of wings, a human face with fangs, and a bird's claw with only three claws, but there is a straight thorn in the center of the claw.

"I think you should go down and stay first." Leo said to Valentin who was urgently moving the goods.

Valentin froze for a moment, and then heard the sound of cattail wings flapping, his face changed drastically, and he wanted to let Leo hide in the house with him, but was rejected by Leo, with only a trace of worry , He hid back in the house, and at the same time observed the situation outside through the periscope, thinking that if something happened, he could take Leo back.

Just as Valentin closed the skylight, he saw a group of black-cloud-like monster birds swarming towards Leo who was standing on the roof.

However, facing the rushing strange birds, Leo seemed to be stupid and didn't do anything. He just stood there until the strange birds rushed in front of him, and a powerful wave of spiritual energy rushed from Leo's body. Come out, and spread out in the shape of a trumpet, instantly enveloping all the strange birds in front of it.

These strange birds have unparalleled agility, dangerous fangs and claws, and are good at group attacks. Anyone who encounters them will be in fatal danger, but their mental power is so weak that they are almost indistinguishable from those ordinary birds.

In the face of Leo's psychic impact, the spirits of all the birds were directly washed away, and the fragile head exploded as if a bomb was installed, and the remaining corpses fell to the ground or the roof, followed by black fire. It burned completely, turning into wisps of black smoke and blending into Leo's body.

After opening the personal data interface, Leo saw the slow recovery of more than 100 points of psionic energy consumed by using the psionic energy wave just now, and the energy storage value of the chaos stomach pouch increased by more than 20 points, and a little smile appeared on his face. It's just that the daily value consumption of will and spirit has not been recovered in the same way, and other talents and skills have not changed, which makes him feel a little disappointed.

"It seems that the strength of the dream spirit will also affect the absorption effect." Leo analyzed in his heart.

At this time, Valentin was surprised and envious after seeing Leo easily dealt with this group of strange birds. Thinking that he had the opportunity to have such a powerful power in the past, but finally gave up, he couldn't help feeling sorry for his parents. Decided to complain, but he only had great power in his eyes, and he didn't think of the possibility of failure at all,

When Valentin opened the skylight, Leo also closed the personal data interface, and was about to explain to Valentin the scene of absorbing the black smoke just now, but found that Valentin did not have any other abnormal expressions other than envy and admiration , as if he hadn't seen the astonishing scene just now.

This made Leo wonder, guessing that either everyone here could absorb the black smoke, or that Valentin didn't see the black smoke at all, and the possibility of the former guess was almost zero.

Thinking of this, Leo tentatively asked, "Did you see the black smoke just now?"

"Black smoke?" Valentin, who was about to climb out just now, stopped, shrank back a little, then looked around in panic, and said, "No! It's impossible for them to appear in the silver moon stage? "Speaking, he asked Leo again: "Where did you see the black smoke appearing just now? What shape is it?"

"In the forest over there." Leo knew from Valentin's words that he hadn't seen himself absorbing the dream spirit through the periscope just now, but he took the black smoke Leo said as another kind thing.

So Leo pointed at a random location, and then described the shape of the black smoke that the strange bird and Ubato had transformed into just now, to see if they could get some useful information from Valentin's mouth.

Hearing Leo's description, Valentin couldn't help showing doubts on his face. Obviously, the black smoke Leo described was obviously different from the black smoke he knew. Although he felt a little offended, he still needed to ask Clearly, after all, black smoke is very important to them.

"Did you really see the black smoke?" Valentin asked cautiously, "I don't doubt your eyesight, it's just that the black smoke you mentioned seems..."

"Maybe I was wrong." Leo didn't let him continue, but stopped the topic tactfully. He was worried that if he continued, he might be in danger of being exposed.

After finishing speaking, Leo helped Valentin transport the materials on the roof back to the gravekeeper's hut one by one, and then returned to the house.

After closing the skylight, Valentin called Leo to sit down, and at the same time unwrapped the wrapped supplies on the ground, took out some special bread, dried fruit and other foodstuffs, and placed them in the cabinet one by one Here, some mechanical parts and crossbow blades for replacement were taken out, and finally some clothes and books were taken out.

While Valentin was arranging supplies, Leo picked up the pair of special glasses and put them on again, looked through the books sent to Valentin to relieve boredom, and found that most of these books were story books .

What is interesting is that all the stories recorded in these books took place in the various continents of the Vinylon world, and even the names of the countries and regions have not been changed, but the people who wrote the books and the people who read the books seem to regard the Vinylon world as a fictional world .

What Leo was looking at at the moment was a book that recorded the grievances and grievances of two noble families in the Kingdom of England, and these two noble families happened to be known to Leo as the famous red and white roses.

Valentin, who was sorting out the materials on the side, leaned forward like an ordinary book fan, and said excitedly: "Do you also like this book of red and white roses? I do the same, but it's a pity that Mist wrote too slowly. It would take months to write one."

"What do you think of the Velen world written in this book?" Leo asked seemingly casually, but actually tentatively.

"I just think Mr. Mister's imagination is very rich, but the writing is too unreasonable." Valentin mentioned that he was very excited about his favorite book, and automatically entered the state of chatting, saying: "Let's not talk about whether there is such a book. There is a large lake called the ocean, but it is unreasonable that there is a celestial phenomenon called the daytime in that world. When Mr. Mister described the daytime in his book, he mentioned that the daytime is a silver moon called the sun The temperature of this kind of sun is tens of thousands of times higher than that of the flame. If it is true what he said, those people living in the world of Velen would have been burned to death long ago. How could they still be alive to create that An incredible civilization."