The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The sky in the mountains was getting dark quickly, and when the three Powell family members came back to their senses, the sky was so dark that there was only a ray of light left. They also heard beasts and other creatures that inhabited the endless ridge in the distance. roaring sound.

Under such circumstances, they didn't care about the shock that hadn't subsided in their hearts, didn't consider whether the cave was solid, let alone food and water, and rushed into the cave one by one. in the corner.

Leo gestured to Sylvia, and then walked towards the side of the hillside alone, and soon disappeared into the darkness, while Sylvia dug a groove at the entrance to facilitate the closing of the stone door. When she dug the groove, Leo also returned to the hole, but he already had two prey that looked like wild boars in his hand.

At this time, it was completely dark, and Leo and Sylvia also entered the cave. Leo stuck the stone door on the groove, closing the entrance of the cave, leaving only a flue above.

Leo took out a knife and quickly dismembered the prey, and threw unnecessary internal organs and other things out of the flue. Sylvia also built a fire pit next to it, and then created a bonfire in the fire pit with a temperature similar to that of ordinary flames. , used for baking food and lighting.

The ability that Sylvia has mastered is more suitable for creating that kind of high-explosive, high-heat flames, but this kind of ordinary bonfire is not what she is good at. She needs to pay some extra energy to be able to have a lot of interference energy around her To maintain the temperature of the flame, the temperature of the campfire often suddenly rises and falls by thousands of degrees, and the food leaning on the fire pit is often burnt.

Leo didn't throw away the scorched food, but gave it to his three guides. Normally, they wouldn't look at the scorched food at all, but the situation is different now, they don't know the danger outside When it ends, any bit of food is extremely precious, especially burnt food can be preserved for a long time, so they just ate a little, and put away the rest for emergencies.

Although, compared to the previous temporary shelters, this temporary shelter just made is not very comfortable, but compared to the dangers outside, comfort is not the most important thing for the three of them. Sylvia's monster-like ability made them feel more at ease, but the three of them were in awe and fear of Leo and Sylvia, and they didn't dare to approach them at all.

After eating a little food, Sylvia divided the bonfire into two piles, and moved one pile to the three people. The three showed great gratitude, feeling as if they regarded Sylvia as a savior. It looks very exaggerated.

However, Leo is very clear why the three of them have such emotional changes, and guesses that after the accident is over, the three of them will probably become the loyal companions of the two of them. It's down.

Sylvia is proficient in all kinds of torture, and naturally knows the change in the mentality of the three people at the moment. She doesn't care about it. If it was before, she might be interested in subduing a few subordinates, and then use these subordinates as a springboard to infiltrate Go inside the lumberjack family and take the opportunity to take control of the entire lumberjack family, and then take control of Truber Mountain.

But now she doesn't have those thoughts at all. For her, even controlling ten Truber Mountains is not as good as her ability to control her own power a little bit now.

After the meal, Leo on the side continued to sort out the inherited knowledge copied from Sylvia, especially the memory of the abyss dragon parading the world tree, which he kept replaying in his mind repeatedly, because in his opinion This piece of inherited memory is more precious than all other inherited memories, and the secret hidden in it is also higher than other secrets.

I don't know how long the time has passed, but suddenly the noisy sounds from various beasts or monsters outside suddenly disappeared, and everything became extremely silent, even the never-ending mountain wind stopped. The two bonfires also shrunk and weakened due to unknown reasons, and it felt as if they would go out at any moment.

"Here we come!" Leo and Sylvia broke away from their respective affairs at the same time, and looked up at the same time, as if their eyes had penetrated the rock above their heads and saw the scene outside.

In fact, they did see the scene outside, but this was not because their eyes had the ability to see through and ignore the walls, but because a powerful existence outside directly projected its own projection onto those with powerful perception. In people's hearts, so that they can see everything outside without using their eyes.

I saw, in the clouds in the sky, a huge worm-like body was slowly wriggling. This worm was so huge that even if it covered the entire sky, it was only a small part of the giant worm's body.

When ordinary people see this scene through perception, they will definitely receive the spiritual impact from the upper race. If they cannot bear this impact, they will fall into madness. And this kind of spiritual impact is not initiated by the upper race, it exists all the time , just as a person with a strong sense can see Him regardless of visual barriers.

Therefore, the sentence reminded in the manual should not be looked up. In fact, it is not for ordinary members of the lumberjack family, but to remind those members of the lumberjack family with high perception.

Both Leo and Sylvia saw the giant worm in the sky, and the two of them naturally received a mental shock. Although Leo was already a level weaker than Sylvia in terms of life form, but in his consciousness With the projection of the stone throne, he has no problem even facing a true god like Seagod directly, let alone using this remote sensing method to spy on giant insects outside the world.

As for Sylvia, she was slightly weaker in the face of this purely spiritual impact. The discomfort caused by the mental impact made her frown, but she recovered quickly, and scales appeared on her forehead, corners of eyes and other parts It seems that she should use the core power of the abyss dragon to fight against this mental shock.

Just like a giant would not take a second look at the ants with claws and claws, the giant insects above the sky and beyond the world would also not pay attention to Leo and Silvia who resisted his mental shock. What he has to do now It is to lay his eggs, and then take away the heirs of the giant monster insects that have grown from the Endless Ridge.

I saw that after the giant worm wriggled for a while, it suddenly stretched out tentacles from its body, and these tentacles fell from the air, like some kind of tree's hanging branches.

When the tentacles touched the ground, the places touched by the tentacles immediately corroded into huge caves, and the caves were covered with hoarfrost as if they had fallen into extreme cold. The eggs were discharged from the ovulation opening at the end of the tentacles and stuck to the cave wall.

When the giant worms were laying eggs, those big monster worms and larvae hidden in the endless ridges all sprung out like mushrooms after a spring rain, and rushed towards those big caves frantically. Some big monster worms and larvae even crawled After passing the cave made by Leo, the ground trembled violently, like an earthquake.

Both Leo and Sylvia were surprised by this scene, because they didn't expect that there were so many huge monster insects and larvae hidden in the endless ridge, densely covering the landmarks they could see. A rough calculation There are thousands of them at least.

It is no exaggeration to say that if it weren't for the special power contained in Truber Mountain to block this area, making it impossible for these monsters to leave here, all surrounding countries, including the Otto Federation, might have been destroyed by these monsters long ago. destroyed.

After these big monster insects and larvae rushed into the cave, regardless of the extreme cold in the cave, they rushed to the eggs stuck on the surrounding walls and swallowed the eggs just released, as if they had seen something they had never tasted before. The delicacies are as delicious as ever.

However, the number of these eggs was not enough for the big monster worms and larvae to swallow, and they were all swallowed up soon, so the big monster worms and larvae put the objects they devoured on each other.

Although the big monster worms are much larger than the larvae, and the skin is thicker and stronger, but the number is far less than the larvae. Except for a very few big monster worms that can withstand the bite of a large number of larvae, the other big monster worms are all dead. Under the siege of the larvae, it was torn into pieces and swallowed by the larvae.

In some caves, the big monster worms and eggs were eaten up, and the larvae began to attack each other again, and after they devoured a large number of big monster worms, larvae bodies and eggs, they also began to metamorphose quickly, some They evolved into giant monster worms, and some seemed to degenerate, spitting out ice threads and forming cocoons.

And those larvae that have evolved into giant monster worms seem to have lost interest in the larvae that have formed cocoons. They continue to devour the eggs that have just been spit out from the ovulation mouth, and continue to attack and devour each other.

Gradually all the big monster worms and larvae were devoured, leaving only two or three big monster worms that had completed higher evolution and a dozen cocoons, and all the desire to attack disappeared among the big monster worms.

At this time, the giant worms in the sky continued to lay eggs, filling up the holes, and when the tentacles retracted, they grabbed the cocoons and the evolved monster worms, brought them back into the air, and disappeared in the clouds.

After the tentacles left, the caves that were full of eggs were covered by the rubble that was used around them as if they had lost their protective power. Some eggs were broken in the process, and the liquid that flowed out gave off a strange fragrance. , attracting a large number of monsters and wild beasts from the Promise Ridge who were previously avoiding the carnival of the big monster insects and larvae.

They are just like the big monster worms and larvae just now, they regard the liquid from the broken eggs as a delicacy, and they lick the gravel and crevices covered with liquid, and when they finish licking, they seem like They attacked each other as if they were stimulated by some kind of stimulation. A large number of monsters and beasts died in this land. absorbed it.

The giant insects in the sky have gradually disappeared into the clouds, but the fighting on the ground is still not over. There are still a large number of monsters and beasts attracted to the area where the eggs are buried, attacking each other, and the blood is gradually turning this place completely red.

After the giant worm disappeared, Leo and Sylvia couldn't perceive the outside situation and returned to their normal state, but at this time a stench penetrated into their noses, making them frown involuntarily, and He looked towards the source of the stench.

I saw that the three members of the Powell family were in a state of embarrassment at the moment. They looked like homeless people on the street, their hair and beard were messy, and their clothes were also damaged. All of them seemed a little dull and empty in their minds. Not far away, some gravel was used to form a small cesspit, and the stench came from there.

Seeing the appearance of the three of them, and seeing the eaten meat around them, Leo and Sylvia realized that the time they spent perceiving the situation of the giant worm was not just one night, but many days had passed, and The three of Powell's family couldn't leave, they could only live on the meat of Leo's remaining prey, because Sylvia was also sensing the situation outside, and the bonfire she made should have been extinguished, so the three should It is eaten raw meat.

In addition, the deterrence created by Leo and Sylvia made the three of them not dare to get close to them. They did not dare to touch the two of them.

It has to be said that these three people's fear of Leo and Sylvia killed them. If the three of them really thought that Leo and Sylvia had no protective measures, then the three of them have now become A pile of ashes.

After looking at the situation inside the cave, Leo looked outside from the flue again, then stood up, opened the door blocking the entrance of the cave, let the fresh air from outside blow in, and at the same time used a cleansing technique to cleanse himself Cleaned up the dust and smell on Sylvia and Sylvia.

Although it was still dark outside, the monsters and wild beasts that inhabited the Endless Ridge all went to the burial place where the eggs were buried to fight each other, and naturally there was no danger in other places.

The sound of opening the door was very loud, causing the inside of the cave to fall into despair. The three people who thought they were about to starve to death woke up from their trance, and then saw Leo and Sylvia who had walked outside the cave. Seeing the sky outside, regardless of whether there is still danger outside, one by one rushed out of the cave like crazy, then knelt outside and cried loudly, as if they would not be able to vent the rest of their lives if they did not do this. joy.

Neither Leo nor Sylvia paid any attention to the crazy behavior of these three people. They all looked towards the direction where the eggs were buried, but it was different from Sylvia's vague perception. Leo distorted his Put away the power talisman, and then spread the spiritual net directly, covering part of the area under the monitoring of the spiritual net.