The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

For Bain Ruff, these few days are the worst days in his life. Not only must he eat and drink in the basement, but even his companion beasts can only stay in the basement Inside, and more importantly, he had to do all the cleaning of excrement by himself. It must be known that Karoo's excrement was very difficult to clean up. This reminded him of the painful days when he was an apprentice at home .

This is not the most serious thing. The most serious thing is that a captain of the special unit of the Ministry of Education lived in the villa, and the captain found him hiding in the basement.

Perhaps because of Leo Dodd, the person from the Ministry of Education didn't arrest him, but the other party didn't seem to let him go. Whenever he was free, the person would go to the basement and use a creepy method to attack him. He stared at him, and sometimes even appeared in the basement in the middle of the night. If the companion beast Karu hadn't noticed the infiltrator, he couldn't even imagine what would happen.

There is another thing that makes Bain feel very strange, that is, Leo Dodd will take him and the people from the Ministry of Education to the edge forest area of ​​Truber Mountain from time to time, and then walk along the Walking back and forth at the edge of the forest area, and while walking, he and the people from the Ministry of Education and Culture would go deep into the forest area from time to time, and then back out. It took more than a dozen times to get the technique.

During this process, it's not that he didn't think about driving his companion beast to kill the person from the Ministry of Education who was with him, and then fled to the depths of Truber Mountain, using the power of Truber Mountain to stop Leo. Dodd or other pursuers.

However, when he had such thoughts, he always felt that it would be very dangerous for him to do so, and he also found that the person from the Ministry of Education was always provoking him with words, as if he was extremely expecting him to do something, or expecting him to escape, which made him He became very vigilant and no longer had any extra thoughts.

During this period of time, he was also curious about the identity of the person from the Ministry of Education. This identity did not mean his identity in the Otto Federation government, but his family identity.

When Leo Dodd let him enter the border forest area of ​​Truber Mountain for the first time, he thought that Leo Dodd sent the person from the Ministry of Education to follow him just to test whether he could bring People safely entered and exited Trube Mountain, but soon he discovered something was wrong, because he found that the people from the Ministry of Education could enter and exit the forest area as freely and safely as he did, and would not be attacked by the power of Trube Mountain. The effect is disorienting.

This made him immediately suspect that the other party was a member of the Lumberjack family, because only members of the Lumberjack family would not be affected by the power of Truber Mountain.

But soon he denied his guess, because the other party did not have the holy deed aura unique to members of the lumberjack family, which made him more and more curious about the person from the Ministry of Education. If it wasn't for Leo Do De is still testing how to safely enter and leave Trube Mountain, and he has some doubts whether the Outer Federation has cracked the secret of the lumberjack family's entry and exit from Trube Mountain.

However, before Bain figured out the identity of the man from the Ministry of Education, Leo Dodd seemed to have cracked the method for the logger family to freely enter and exit Mount Trube, because the other party also entered the forest later. Inside, at the very beginning, even if the other party was able to walk out of the forest without him leading the way, he still couldn't go deep into the forest, but then the other party seemed to have found the right way, and was able to walk back and forth freely in the forest. Members make no difference.

While Bain was shocked by this incident, he also felt an inexplicable sense of crisis, because he knew very well that his value lay in being able to be Leo Dodd's guide, and now Leo Dodd had found a way to avoid it. If there is no way to influence Truber Mountain, then his value will be gone, which makes him wonder whether he will be sent to the Ministry of Education by Leo Dodd.

Just when Bain Ruff was feeling uneasy, in the study of the villa, Sylvia handed the information she had compiled today to Leo, and then asked, "I heard that you have found someone who can safely enter and leave the special office." Mount Rube's method?"

Leo took the information, flipped through it, shook his head, and said, "I just found some clues, which can barely guarantee that I won't get lost in the depths of Trube Mountain, but I want to eliminate the mysterious power of Trube Mountain." I'm afraid it's very difficult to do so," he said, pausing again, and added: "Perhaps even if the gods come, it won't be possible if they don't abide by the rules of Truber Mountain."

"Why?" Sylvia asked puzzled.

Leo explained: "Because Trube Mountain is probably a small world attached to this world."

Sylvia confirmed: "Are you saying Trube Hill is a warp debris?"

Leo shook his head and said: "No, it's like a literal meaning, this is a small world, a small world with complete rules." Then, he thought for a while and said: "It's like a big fish A small fish was swallowed, and the small fish has not had time to be digested, leaving only some wreckage, which remained in the body of the big fish, and gradually merged with the big fish."

"You mean to say that Truber Mountain was formed from the remains of a small world that had not yet been fully digested after being annexed by this world?" Sylvia confirmed with a dazed expression.

"Yes." Leo nodded and said, "I think so."

What Leo said was not aimless, but was actually confirmed through repeated tests.

At the very beginning, when Leo was looking for the secret to resist the suppression of the mysterious power of Truber Mountain, he always tried to find the answer from Bain and Sandro. He always believed that some characteristics of Bain and Sandro caused Trube The bad influence of Shan's mysterious power has failed, so during the test, his mental network has been monitoring any trace of abnormal energy fluctuations on Bane and Sandro.

As a result, he found that after Bain and Sandro entered Truber Mountain, although there were some abnormal energy fluctuations in their bodies, these abnormal energy fluctuations were more like their own power was suddenly amplified, just like the fire. It seems that some firewood has been added to the pile, which makes their respective talents and abilities improved to varying degrees after entering Truber Mountain.

Compared with Sandro, this situation is most obvious in Bain. Leo also asked Bain. He admitted that when he was in the mountain, he could communicate with his companion beast more easily and control the companion beast. The range has also become larger, as is the case with other lumberjack families.

After repeated tests, Leo couldn't find any abnormal things worthy of attention except for this abnormal energy fluctuation.

When the research was stuck in a bottleneck, Bane's companion beast caught a common animal inhabiting Truber Mountain. Leo studied the blood of the common animal on a whim, and he found that this animal There is also a trace of artificial transformation on its body, but it is different from the obvious traces of transformation on Kalu's body, and the traces on its body are slightly lighter.

This gave Leo an idea, so he asked Bain to catch some animals unique to Truber Mountain, and then collected the blood of these animals, as well as the blood of Bain and Sandro, and compared the blood Yes, it turns out he finds something interesting in that all blood has traces of artificial modification, which can vary in severity depending on the species.

Such as Karoo, which is not seen in other places at all, completely native species, the traces of transformation on the body are very obvious, and even some organs can be found, but like humans, non-Truber mountain species, the body The traces of modification are very slight, only the modification at the level of inactive genes. If Leo hadn't searched for it deliberately and compared it with the scanning module on the general-purpose recorder, he might not have found such subtle traces of modification.

However, whether it is a special creature like Karu or humans like Bane and Sandro, there are always three traces of transformation that appear on all the detected species at the same time, and these three same traces of transformation all come from inactive At the genetic level, compared to Bane, Sandro's three transformation traces are a little faded, just like the fade caused by the body's self-repair.

In order to prove his guess, Leo captured some animals from Truber Mountain, and the results were all the same, the three specific inactive genes were artificially modified.

After discovering this, Leo felt that the key to resisting the special power of Truber Mountain might be the transformation of the three inactive genes.

It's just that Leo doesn't have enough tools to carry out self-genetic modification, and even if he had tools, he wouldn't do it, because the Earth Federation has proved one thing with a lot of disastrous genetic modification experiments, that is, at any genetic level Any modification will cause unforeseen mutations.

Although it was impossible for Leo to transform his own genes, he was able to extract the three genes with traces of transformation from animals, and make a talisman through the rune circle, disguising himself as a transformed creature.

As a result, as he thought, the camouflage amulet was very effective. After wearing the amulet, he was basically able to be as immune to the influence of Truber Mountain as Bane, and he could clearly identify all directions , Even the inexplicable pressure when I entered the mountain before disappeared.

Judging from the safe and smooth entry and exit of Trube Mountain, Leo should have succeeded, but he also failed, because this camouflage talisman is flawed, and this flaw cannot be changed. This flaw is his Unable to use any supernatural powers, including psionic powers, while maintaining a disguise.

After Leo discovered the defect of the talisman, he went into the forest alone and tried various things, from psionic power, to the imprint of the gods, to the power of the abyss, or the power of nightmare, etc. All the extraordinary things he can use All the powers were used, and the results were without exception. As long as he used the extraordinary power, the camouflage effect would disappear, and the mysterious power of Truber Mountain would appear to directly interfere with all his perception and judgment, and even affect the power of the extraordinary power. Play steadily.

"Is there no way to solve it?" Sylvia asked after listening to Leo's story.

Leo shook his head and said, "I can't find a solution for the time being, unless we do some transformation like them."

Sylvia thought for a while and said, "Actually, we don't necessarily need to use extraordinary power."

"No, there must be a lot of mysterious existences in Truber Mountain that we don't know about. If we can't use extraordinary power, if we encounter those mysterious existences..."

"No, you didn't understand me." Sylvia interrupted Leo and explained: "We don't use supernatural power, but we can use strange things that contain supernatural power!"

Leo was stunned when he heard the words, and then realized: "Yes! This may be able to avoid this defect."

Sylvia reminded again: "The only thing that needs to be determined now is whether using strange objects at the same time will affect the camouflage amulet."

"I'll try it." Leo didn't think much, stood up directly, walked out of the villa, avoided the person in charge of protection, and quickly moved towards the nearest forest.

Two or three hours later, Leo returned to the villa. From the smile on his face, it was not difficult to see that the results of this experiment satisfied him very much.

Now for Leo, all he needs to do is to create some strange objects that are powerful enough for himself and Sylvia to use.

However, although Leo can create many strange things, those can only deal with ordinary enemies. If the enemies he needs to deal with are like demigods or even gods, then with the power of the strange things he can create now Estimates are obviously tight.

At this time, he thought of the secret weapon of the Otter Federation, and only a weapon that was powerful enough to change the topography of an area could pose a threat to the gods.

Thinking of this, Leo immediately sent a letter to Langenus. He wrote down his current progress and problems, hoping that Langanus could help him obtain the remaining research materials of the secret weapons of the Ott Federation. It would be even better if he could have direct access to that weapon.

Originally, Leo thought that even if Longanus wanted to help, it would definitely take a while before he could give an accurate reply, but it turned out that on the third day after the letter was sent, Longanus' reply was sent to the villa. In terms of time, Longanus replied to the letter almost immediately after receiving it.

The content of the letter is very simple, that is, he has a way to solve Leo's problem, and said that the federal government will send someone to pick up Leo and Sylvia after a while, and don't ask any more questions at that time.

After reading this letter, Leo felt a little confused, because he felt from this not very long letter that Langenus seemed to be a little anxious now, as if he had encountered some trouble.

"I think it should be related to this matter." After Sylvia took the letter and read it, as if thinking of something, she took out a document from the documents she sorted out and handed it to Leo.