The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Leo was not in a hurry to decipher the cuneiform characters, he asked the hotel to help him and Sylvia prepare a single-family apartment again.

This is not difficult. There is a huge garden behind the hotel building. In the garden, apartments are built in a patchwork manner. Each apartment is separated by the undulating ground, which will not affect each other. Unsightly guardrails spoil the view.

These single-family apartments are mainly for foreign envoys or foreign businessmen who need to live for a long time, so the appearance and interior decoration of these apartments contain a lot of exotic customs, and most of the plants in the surrounding gardens are transplanted. The foreign plants that come over make most people living here have the illusion of being in a foreign country.

According to Leo's request, the hotel housed the couple in a relatively secluded single-storey apartment. Leo made some arrangements for the apartment, mainly to protect the cuneiform characters when deciphering those cuneiform characters. Curse of power.

After the layout was completed, Leo began to decipher the cuneiform characters. He did not involve Sylvia, but let Sylvia do her old job and build a usable cuneiform in a short time. The intelligence network on the Internet, in addition to collecting relevant information on the facilities under the Capitol.

Although Leo is confident that he can decipher the cuneiform script, he still needs to make two-handed preparations. If he fails to decipher it, there is a backup plan that can be used, or if he deciphers it, the federal government has not allowed him to get in close contact with it. Their secret weapon.

Because it was not the first time to decipher a foreign language, Leo established a large number of interpretation templates with ease, and began to use them one by one, and by comparing the differences between the interpretation templates, he found the spelling rules of this cuneiform script.

Soon Leo figured out the interpretation rules of one of the cuneiform characters, and began to interpret one of the texts.

The reason why it is one of them is because Leo discovered from the very beginning that this cuneiform seems to be applicable to any kind of spelling rules, and almost all his interpretation templates can interpret this kind of text, and if it is really according to If one of the template interpretation schemes is further interpreted, the final meaning of the text must be completely different from the meaning of the text obtained by other interpretation templates.

This is the main reason why the meanings of the words interpreted by Langenus and other masters of linguistics are different.

After sorting out a set of new interpretation methods different from other interpretation templates, Leo tried to decipher one of the frequently appearing cuneiform characters.

He quickly deciphered the meaning of this text, which should belong to the name of an unknown god. According to his interpretation method, this name should have three meanings, starry sky, greatness, and throne.

This confuses Leo. Although he has interpreted the three meanings contained in the name through his current interpretation method, he can be sure that if other interpretation templates are applied, other meanings can be interpreted, which can't help but make him I have doubts about my previous judgment, and I suspect that this is not the name of some god.

Because, whether it is the gods in the world of Velen or the gods in this world, their god names are unique, immortal, and constant. Even if the god names contain some meanings, these meanings should all belong to the same system In different branches, there will never be two unrelated meanings to interpret the same god name.

But right now, the longest text in the cuneiform script has a completely different interpretation meaning, which is contrary to common sense, so Leo applied different interpretation templates to interpret this text, and it really did what he thought All the meanings are completely different, and the only thing that remains the same is that the pattern of three meanings has not changed, which is rather similar to the law of god names.

Just when Leo was puzzled by this text, the curse power contained in the cuneiform text broke out for the first time.

This time the curse power erupted very suddenly, without warning, and the power did not appear from the outside and then invade the body, but was generated from the body out of thin air, as if there was such a power in his body, but there was no such power before. As if found.

The moment this force appeared, it produced an extremely strong twisting force, which directly acted on the flesh and bones of his body, trying to twist his body into a certain irregular state, and this twisting force The strength is equivalent to that of the demigods in the world of Velen.

However, fortunately, Leo was prepared in advance and overestimated the strength of this force as much as possible. Not only did he arrange a large number of protective items outside his body, but he also imposed various blocking forces inside his body. Energy, to the imprint of the gods, to the power of the abyss, etc., all the powers that can be used in his body have been mobilized to set up a series of blocking lines of defense.

When that distorted force appeared and tried to cause damage to Leo's body, those sealing forces also began to work, wrapping and sealing the twisting force layer by layer like an onion, and finally completely imprisoned them.

Although the process of cursing power from eruption to banning is very complicated, the time is actually only a moment. From Sylvia's point of view, Leo was just in a daze for a while, and then a meaningful smile appeared on his face.

"What's wrong?" Although it was only a little abnormal, Sylvia still noticed it and made some guesses. She asked with concern, "Did the power of the curse appear?"

Leo nodded and said with a smile: "It appeared suddenly, but it did not exceed my expectations. I have already sealed that power."

As he spoke, Leo showed the power that was sealed in his body, and the form of this banned power was very familiar, very similar to the stone ball that sealed the Eye of Reality, but much smaller, And the runes that work are different.

"This power?" Leo guided out some of the twisting force. After Sylvia sensed it, doubts appeared on her face. She looked at Leo and said, "Don't you think this curse power is very powerful?" Are you familiar?"

"Familiar?" Leo froze for a moment, shook his head and said, "I don't feel familiar at all, why do you say that?"

"Because I feel very familiar, and I have felt it in you." Sylvia confirmed: "It is somewhat similar to the power of the stone throne on you."

"How is it possible? It's completely different." Leo frowned and asked, "Why do you feel this way?"

Sylvia said very seriously: "Because the tension and fear brought to me by this breath of power are exactly the same as the tension and fear brought to me by the power of the Stone Throne, not only the emotional consistency, even the size It's all the same."

Hearing what Sylvia said, Leo's expression also became serious. As he said, it was the first time for him to see this distorted force produced by the cuneiform characters, and he did not notice this force. How is the power similar to any power in his body, but if this power really gives Sylvia the same feeling as the throne of stone, then he needs to think about this distortion What is the source of power.

Although Leo didn't fully believe in Sylvia's feelings, he didn't mind giving it a try, so he guided the banning power formed by the power of the stone throne to extend to the distorted power in the center of the banning.

However, the results were both expected and unexpected.

As expected, as Sylvia said, the source of the distorting power is indeed from the stone throne. When the power of the stone throne touches the distorting power, the distorting power does not have the slightest rejection reaction, completely It's not like the strong repulsion and conflict that occurs when the power of psychic banning comes into contact with it.

As for the unexpected, this distorting power just does not reject the power of the Stone Throne. When Leo tried to indirectly control the distorting power through the power of the Stone Throne, the distorting power did not produce any reaction, giving people such a feeling. It's completely the feeling of two different powers.

Leo told Sylvia what he found, and Sylvia had no idea after hearing it, and could only try to guess: "Could it be that the power of the stone throne in your body is just a branch of another power? , and the twisting power is also a branch, and there is no difference between the two kinds of power. "

Stopping Sylvia's speculation, Leo thought for a while, shook his head, and said, "No, the power of the Stone Throne is the original power, and I can feel that the twisting power is just a lower branch power generated by the power of the Stone Ten Thousand Seats." .”

Sylvia said: "But if it's the lower branch power, your Stone Throne power should be able to control it."

"That's why people can't figure out where the problem is? But this matter is very interesting, I need some time to study it." Leo was like a child who got a new toy, with an excited look in his eyes, and then started Continue to decipher the cuneiform writing.

The reason why Leo did not study the distorting power, but continued to decipher the cuneiform characters, was mainly because this power originated from the cursed power of the cuneiform characters, so the cuneiform characters must also contain interpretations related to this power, and cracked the cuneiform characters. The cuneiform reading makes it easier to understand the details of this twisting force.

Another point is that the distorting power produced now is too little, and because of the constant conflict with the spiritual energy, this power is rapidly decaying and needs to be replenished constantly.

For this reason, Leo changed the order of the forbidden power, and placed the power of the stone throne on the innermost layer to be in contact with the distorted power. In this way, the repulsion and conflicts will subside, and the distorted power will not weaken quickly. , the next thing to do is to keep sealing the newly generated twisting power inside, and increase the amount enough for him to use for experimentation and research.

However, these cuneiform characters, which terrified the linguists of the Otto Federation and made the Otto Federation executives helpless, have now become Leo's energy perpetual motion machine, constantly providing distorting power for Leo's research.

Through repeated attempts, Leo gradually figured out the reason for the distortion force.

It turned out that this distorting force was not generated when the cuneiform characters were interpreted, but was generated at the moment when the cuneiform characters were seen or touched. The contact mentioned here refers to the contact with the paper on which the cuneiform characters were carried.

This kind of cuneiform is like a virus. Starting from the original cuneiform, every rubbing of the text contains distortion power, and the carrier of the text also contains distortion power as if infected.

After this distorted power is transmitted to people through seeing and touching, it will not be stimulated immediately to cause harm to the human body, but will be hidden in the human body until one day an activation command is triggered, such as deciphering cuneiform characters, and then it erupts instantly Come out and make people hard to guard against.

Moreover, he also discovered that the twisting power generated by the cuneiform writing is not endless. As the twisting power he imprisoned increases, the cuneiform writing on the rubbing paper also fades and becomes shallower at a speed visible to the naked eye. Leo estimated that when the cuneiform writing disappeared from the paper, all the twisting power contained in the cuneiform writing should have been sealed by him.

However, this has nothing to do with Leo. As his interpretation of these cuneiform characters has deepened, he has gradually grasped the meaning. Although it is still impossible to read and write like a normal language, it is no longer It is necessary to analyze the template word by word by interpreting the template to be able to interpret the meaning.

After five days and nights of deciphering, Leo has deciphered all the cuneiform rubbings in his hand, and confirmed that these cuneiforms are actually part of a whole prayer for the gods. The translated text is broken and incoherent in many places.

However, this prayer of the gods is not ordinary, because the prayer interpreted by Leo is just one of countless prayers, and the same cuneiform script is interpreted through another interpretation template, and the interpreted content is another There are completely different prayers, and the gods corresponding to the prayers are also completely different, which is why the same god name is interpreted by Leo with different meanings.

Leo felt that if he continued to interpret this prayer, he might be able to interpret the prayers of all the gods, which also made Leo look forward to seeing the original text of this cuneiform.

After deciphering an incomplete prayer, Leo did not continue to decipher it. After sorting out the prayer, he temporarily put aside the matter of deciphering the cuneiform script and began to study the distorting power.

However, before Leo officially started his research, an accident disrupted his plan.

The province of Brodia, located in the south of the capital county, is the concentration of the Outer Federation's arsenal. A huge explosion in Brodia's Little Levi City shook the entire Outer Federation. The huge explosion not only The arsenal at the center of the explosion was completely destroyed, and it even spread to the entire block, causing more than 5,000 casualties, and most of them were the most scarce skilled workers in the arsenal.