The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

After the Federation took over this area, it has always wanted to decipher the reason for the beast swarm in Aisha Forest, but after many years of research, it has never figured out what is going on. The only certainty is that the beast swarm will only occur every year. appear at a certain time.

Therefore, some researchers believe that the reason for the beast tide is that a special plant grows in Aisha Forest. This plant will only mature at a certain time every year, and the mature plant will emit a strong excitatory effect. The pollen, which affects all kinds of animals living in the Aisha forest, makes both carnivores and herbivores fall into a state of madness, which in turn triggers a beast tide.

Although this kind of argument is the mainstream one now, many people think it can explain the beast tide in Aisha Forest, but some people have raised doubts, because if pollen is effective for any creature, why is it that humans are not affected at all? Go berserk and turn into a mad, aggressive beast.

Therefore, there has never been a conclusion about how the beast tide in Aisha Forest was triggered. Since it is impossible to know the cause of the beast tide, it cannot find a solution, so the federal government came up with a compromise , That is, before each beast tide appears, a half-month hunting season will be held in Aisha Forest. All those who participate in the hunting season can take away any prey they catch for free without paying additional taxes.

The effect of this event is very good. From the first time it was held until now, there has not been any beast tide in the Aisha Forest, and the Randy Railway that crosses the Aisha Forest can also be kept intact under such circumstances. Will not be damaged by beast swarms.

However, this year's situation is a bit special. Due to various reasons, such as the political turmoil in Josh County, everyone's attention is focused on foreign wars, etc., the hunting season in Aisha Forest has not been able to start, that is to say, in Aisha The various animals that the forest now has are enough for a beast tide to break out.

Because a huge part of the local reserve and defense forces have been transferred away, and there are only some police forces in the local area, the government officials in the villages and towns around Aisha Forest have notified the villagers and townspeople early to temporarily go to the relatives' homes in other places to hide for a while, and wait If you come back after the beast tide period is over, those who don’t have relatives from other places can live in a small castle built in a nearby town to defend against the beast tide.

Although there are still a few days before the outbreak of the beast horde, after the train entered the forest, all the defensive devices on the train were opened. For example, the windows of all carriages had steel plates lowered, and the center of each carriage was lowered. By five degrees, two more locks were added between the carriages, and a reinforcement device was added. The guards on the train came to the entrances of the train to observe the conditions of the forests on both sides of the train. The striker was released, so that when a similar tree fell on the rails, there was no need to stop and send someone to remove the tree. The momentum of the train and the sharp ax blade of the front of the car could directly cut the tree off and rush away.

While the guards on the train were getting ready, the security guards in the carriage at the end were also watching the dense forests on both sides of the railway vigilantly.

Just as Leo and Sylvia analyzed, in the secret service department's information about the Randy Railway, Aisha Forest is also considered by the top secret service department as an easy place to set up an ambush, so the secret service department has already formulated There are several sets of related protection procedures and methods.

I saw that at the moment when the train entered the forest, all the secret service security personnel put on a pair of goggles that looked like goggles, and looked around through the iron railings on the outside of the window. Leo could feel it from those glasses. Some energy fluctuations, it seems that these glasses should be some kind of supernatural object that has been mastered by the Otto Federation and can be mass-produced, allowing the wearer to gain some vision capabilities.

"It seems that the Ott Federation's research on extraordinary power is not as superficial as we thought." Sylvia naturally saw these glasses. From the breath of power emanating from the glasses, I guessed the details of these glasses.

Leo didn't speak, just nodded, and after a while, he suddenly said to Sylvia, "You won the bet."

Sylvia froze for a moment, then smiled and said, "Have you discovered the ambush?"

"One hundred and thirty-seven." Leo answered briefly, then fell silent for a moment, with a hint of surprise on his face, and added: "They are all lycanthropes."

"Beastman?" Sylvia sat up from the sofa, with a look of interest on her face.

The lycanthropy is a unique race in this world. Leo also read about this race in the book. At first, he thought that the lycanthropy was distorted by some kind of power just like the family members or mutants, and finally mutated into a non-human race. Humans, but after reading the relevant records, we know that lycanthropes are a race that coexists with humans.

Before the blood is activated, there is no difference between lycanthropes and humans. Even the gods and gods can't find out in advance who are lycanthropes and those who are not. Only after the blood is activated will there be blood in their bodies A force that can be observed.

Usually, the lycanthropy targets are some kind of land beasts, but there are also some lycanthropes that have mutations similar to flying birds and sea monsters. The monster turns into a human. After he fully exerts his power, he will completely throw away his human form and become a huge sea monster with countless tentacles and sharp teeth on each tentacles.

Because lycanthropes are terrifying, in the world informed by humans, lycanthropes are usually the targets of being hunted and suppressed.

But even such powerful lycanthropes can still survive under all kinds of suppression and hunting, and even built several countries with lycanthropes as the main body in the Old World, and almost all lycanthropes in the New World come from Those lycanthropist countries, but most of them were deceived, a deception called Utopia.

Although in the New World, the situation of lycanthropists is not bad, unlike those human countries in the old continent where they will be burned to death when they see lycanthropists, but they will still be discriminated against, especially in the church, no matter which god The church will call the lycanthropy's lycanthropy the original sin, and believe that they carry the sins of their ancestors from birth and need atonement, so almost all churches in the New World will establish a sin group composed of lycanthropes, which is also a distinction A clear standard of the Old and New Continental Churches.

However, what makes people feel strange is that the Otter Federation bans all churches, and also advocates the equal status of lycanthropes and human beings at the legal level, greatly reducing domestic discrimination against lycanthropes, but those lycanthropes are not at all Thank you, none of the lycanthropes are willing to settle in the Otto Federation. They are willing to believe what the church says. They are guilty and they need atonement.

Under Leo's scan, he can easily find that there are more than a hundred lycanthropes in the surrounding forest who have transformed into lycanthropy forms, are hiding in the forest, and are moving forward at a fast speed following the moving train , seems to be waiting for the best time to attack.

It was not beyond Leo's expectation that the church country would send lycanthropes to the Otto Federation in batches, but it was a little surprising that they would send almost two lycanthropes organized by the Redemption Corps to assassinate him It seems that those church countries have already regarded him as a thorn in the flesh, so they will not hesitate to send so many people.

The lycanthropy redemption group of the general church has only about sixty or seventy people, and these sixty or seventy people are warriors who have fully stimulated their blood and obtained powerful beastly power. It played a very important role on the battlefield. Usually when the battle is stalemate, these fanatical atonement groups will often assassinate the enemy generals without hesitation in casualties, and eventually make the local army leaderless and turn the tide of the battle.

However, with the appearance of powerful shotguns, the role of the lycanthropy redemption group gradually weakened, because no matter how powerful the lycanthropy is, they are still flesh and blood, and the powerful shotguns are enough to kill their lives. Posing a threat, a team of shotgun soldiers can often paralyze the combat power of more than half of the animalized redemption group after a round of side-by-side scattering, so the animalized redemption group is rarely seen on the battlefield after that, and the church's internal redemption group also Just follow the usual practice, and no longer focus on training the animalized redemption group.

However, this does not mean that the strength of the animalized redemption group has weakened. If the conditions for joining the animalized redemption group are still the same as in the past, then even if the animalized redemption group is no longer the focus of training, the combat effectiveness of this redemption group is still the same. not weak.

The train quickly entered the middle of the Aisha forest. At this time, a series of screams of beasts suddenly came out of the forest, and the attention of everyone on the train was involuntarily attracted. At this time, in the bushes on the other side of the train In an instant, a few skinny figures appeared, quickly pasted something on each carriage of the train, and then hid back in the bushes without anyone noticing.

None of the people on the train noticed this, but Leo and Silvia, who noticed that the lycanthropy had made a move, had no intention of telling others about it, they waited like two bystanders A good show is on.

After a while, the train got out of the forest and entered a dense grassland with a depth of two or three meters. This does not mean that they have driven out of the Aisha Forest, but that this small grassland belongs to the Aisha Forest. Part of it, as to why there are no trees growing here, but all grass grows, no one has studied it.

It's just that when entering the grassland, the security guards of the Secret Service shouted out the code one by one, as if they found something in these dense forests, and their loud shouts also spread to other carriages, and the train company's guards in other carriages Although the personnel didn't understand the meaning of shouting the code, they could hear the nervousness from the shouting, so they all clenched their weapons tightly, and looked at the weeds on both sides quickly moving past them in a daze.

Before the people on the train could recover, they saw the grass in the distance swaying rapidly. It didn't take long for all kinds of beasts to come out of the grass and slammed into the train like crazy. In the past, some ferocious beasts even jumped directly onto the moving train and bit the outer protective railing with their teeth, trying to bite the railing.

It's just that these railings are made of steel bars, and the bite force and tooth strength of these beasts can only leave marks on them, and cannot cause any damage to the railings.

On the contrary, the people inside the railing came back to their senses at this moment after the initial fright, raised their weapons one after another, and attacked the beast outside the railing.

However, those wild beasts seemed to have forgotten the pain. No matter what kind of attack, they couldn't let go of their mouths, even their heads were chopped off, but they still gnawed on the railing.

Perhaps because of the protection of the railings, I was able to attack the wild beasts in a safe place, so some people couldn't help but relax their vigilance, and when they were not paying attention, those wild beasts that were biting the railings and were attacked to death suddenly let go of the railings , Squeezing the most into the gap of the railing, biting the bodies or other vital parts of those who got too close, all kinds of screams came and went in the compartment for a while.

At the same time, in the compartment at the end of the train, whether it is the secret service security or the special forces of the Ministry of Education, their performance far exceeds the defense personnel deployed by the train company itself. Those crazy beasts have no chance to approach the compartment at all. If not, he would be sieved by those powerful shotguns.

However, even so, their condition is not particularly good, because the ammunition in their hands is being consumed at an alarming rate, and the captain in charge of security work quickly realized this problem, and immediately ordered to stop the design and use Combining melee weapons such as long guns to deal with the rushing beasts, and sent two more teams to the roof. After all, there are still things blocking the car. As long as you are careful, you will not be directly attacked, and the people on the roof need to face it directly. Those beasts are gone.

Although the people inside the carriage have tried their best to deal with the beasts trying to climb onto the roof, the windows of the train are not made for fighting after all, and there will always be some blind spots that cannot be attacked by the people in the carriage. The beast climbed onto the roof from those blind spots and started attacking the people on the roof.

If there were only a few wild beasts attacking, the people on the roof could barely cope with it, but the problem was that there were no manpower on the roofs of other cars for defense, which made the beasts on the other cars rush to the rear. roof.

The secret service security and the special forces of the Ministry of Education arranged on the roof of the car could not stop the attacks of so many wild beasts without the use of shotguns, and soon there were casualties among them.

The captain in the carriage noticed that the situation was not good and immediately ordered the people on the roof to give up their guards and return to the carriage. Because the order was issued hastily, some people were bitten and dragged by wild animals without cover when they returned to the carriage. After getting off the train, he died soon after being bitten by wild animals.

Just as everyone on the roof was evacuating, a dozen short lycanthropes climbed onto the roof under the cover of wild beasts, but the people in the compartment didn't know anything about it, except Leo and Sylvia.