The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Seeing that he was about to become a level 4 psyker with his spiritual base value, Leo was a little excited, but he was more concerned about how many good or bad side effects the mysterious existence had brought him just now.

After carefully checking other project templates on the personal attribute interface, Leo found no other abnormal data changes, which made him a little relieved, then closed the personal attribute interface, walked to the edge of the platform again, and activated Spirit Vision to see look at the lake.

As he expected, the mysterious existence had receded, and all he could see in front of him was the surface of the lake that had turned into a dense fog, but the spiritual energy fluctuations left by the mysterious existence still hadn't dissipated.

For this reason, Leo concentrated the mental network to collect various data of this psychic energy wavelength, and created a file in the database, so that if he encounters this mysterious existence again in the future, he can find out in advance.

"Is it Night God's dream consciousness?" After the last wave of psionic energy disappeared in the energy field, the solemn Leo withdrew his mental net and stopped the data collection of the sub-brain system. He made a guess, but soon he shook his head and denied the guess.

Although the mysterious existence in the lake is very powerful, from the point of view that Leo can still resist and calmly activate his psionic skills, the other party must not have reached the Omega level, and he cannot even compete with the real eye of the hunting ground in the suburbs of Miria. compared to. Estimatedly, it should only be slightly more powerful than the most powerful dream spirits he found in the forest outside the city, roughly equivalent to a sixth-level or seventh-level psyker.

As for why Leo's daily value of will dropped by eleven points after only confronting him for a few seconds, this is likely to be related to the psychic power cast by the opponent, or to the surrounding environment, but it has absolutely nothing to do with the opponent's real strength .

After analyzing the situation, Leo temporarily put aside the mysterious existence in the lake and handed it to the sub-brain system for attention. He turned around and looked at the moonlit town in front of him, and walked inside. Soon, the figure disappeared in the In a narrow alley.

For Boris, since entering this year's menstrual period, he has encountered unlucky things. First, because of desertion, he damaged a set of stoves, lost his job, and then a marriage that was almost negotiated, the other party suddenly The unilateral statement is invalid, and in the past two days, he has even checked his body for signs of ancestry, and a pair of small tentacles faintly grew out of his back.

Those who hope to gain merit by clearing the forest monsters are extremely eager to show their ancestral status, because only those who have the ancestral status are eligible to become guards and have the power to kill strange monsters. Nobility of status.

But for people like Boris who don't want to take risks, ancestralization is definitely a disaster, because once ancestralization is formed, he has to become a guard, he has to leave the safe lake town, and he has to face it outside Those terrible dangers may even be sent to the front line of the fog area to guard the castle.

Therefore, when Boris discovered that his body was showing signs of detoxification, he chose to hide it, and tried every means to find a way to get rid of detoxification.

Fortunately, there is still a sliver of luck left in him. When he was feeling desperate, a friend who used to work in a spring manufacturing factory told him a secret, that is, there is a shop in the 67th district that sells a potion. It can make people's ancestral state disappear.

It is said that this kind of potion is mainly used for the reproduction of some special-shaped ancestral human beings, because some parts of these ancestral human beings will no longer be suitable for ordinary people. Ordinary people reproduce.

For those who have been completely detoxified, the effect of this potion is only temporary. Once the effect of the medicine wears off, the detoxification that disappeared will reappear, but for those who have not completed the detoxification, especially Boris For a person who has just begun to ancestralize, the effect of this potion is permanent. As long as you take this potion, you can completely remove the ancestral state, and there will be no ancestral state in the future.

Although the vast majority of people in Hushang Town hope that their body will appear ancestral, there are still many people who are used to the current peaceful life and do not want any changes. Therefore, this kind of potion is also very popular, and the demand is greater than the supply. , the price has always remained high.

Boris had heard of this potion before, but he didn't pay attention to it because he didn't think he could use it. Now, after hearing about this potion from a friend and asking where the potion was sold, he immediately went to ask for it. s price.

The price of fifty union coins is definitely a sky-high price for Boris. According to this currency value, he can buy a single room between the twentieth district and the twenty-ninth district. Based on the calculation of three Huzhen coins per day when he was working, it would take five or six years to complete the accumulation without eating or drinking.

Feeling hopeless, Boris walked aimlessly on the streets of the 33rd District, from the bottom floor to the seventh floor. He didn't know what he was looking for here, but he always felt that he had an opportunity It's hidden somewhere here.

Thirty-three District is the largest family market in Seventh Lake Town. People in the town will bring all kinds of items that they don’t need at home to sell or return here. Because the town council will not collect taxes here, some people in the town Family workshops will also put gadgets made at home here for sale.

Because the trading atmosphere here is very strange and interesting, some aristocratic gentlemen who are bored and live within the 20th district also disguise themselves and take out some items to come here to trade.

These aristocrats seem not to be interested in the value of the items they traded, they prefer to hear how much movement the items they traded have caused among these commoners, so from time to time, they will always see some amazingly valuable items in this market. Items, and whether you can get these items in the end depends on whether you have good eyesight.

Because he has worked in a spring manufacturing factory for many years, Boris is very familiar with some high-value strong springs. For ordinary people, these strong springs are no different from ordinary springs, so when they are sold, they will be sold together.

In the process of shopping, he was lucky enough to find three military-grade 19-coil strong springs, and the total value of these three reached 30 Huzhen coins, which only cost him two Huzhen coins. Made a big profit.

However, his good luck seemed to stop there, and he never found anything of value in his opinion. He also thought about buying some worthless things by chance like other people, and maybe one or two good things can be found among them, but in the end his reason prevailed and he didn't do this kind of thing that he regretted. Behavior.

After shopping for a while, Boris felt that he would not find anything if he continued to browse. It is better to find a buyer to sell the three powerful springs on hand, accumulate some capital, and look for them on higher floors. .

However, just when Boris made a decision, a commotion suddenly came from a small room not far away. He looked over and found that twenty or thirty people had already gathered outside that small room, and there were more than a dozen more. Because of the exclamation, they gathered there.

With strong curiosity, Boris also leaned forward, and squeezed to the front with his strong body, and had a clear look at the situation in the room.

I saw that in this small room, a tall and strong man wearing a hunting suit, a three-cornered hat, a beard, and suffering from black skin disease took out three alliance cards from the wooden box next to him with a clip. Coins, handed to an old man, and then put a book from the old man's hand and put it in the wooden box on the other side.

Curious about the scene in front of him, Boris hurriedly inquired about the situation with the people beside him. It turned out that the strong man with black skin disease sitting inside was a merchant from Upper Fifth Lake Town. A certain scholar of mine bought some old books.

It is said that for the convenience of carrying, this merchant did not bring any money, but brought ten bottles of very rare healing potions, and sold them for a sky-high price of 5,000 Union coins, and now he is going to spend all the 50,000 Union coins To buy books, three days have passed and more than 3,600 Union coins have been spent, and more than 2,000 books have been purchased, which can be called a big deal.

Through the discussions of the people around him, Boris heard that this person collected all kinds of books at the beginning, from family novels to mechanical research, from lumberjack manuals to three hundred ways of whistle, in short, any written, bound He accepts everything in books.

It's just that he seems to be doing this only to attract the attention of the town residents. Once the news spreads, he has requirements for the books he buys, such as handwritten ancient books, any books from ten towns, and all kinds of books in Silvermoon City. Books about occult organizations, anything about aberrations, forests, and foggy areas, etc.

From the conversations of people around, it is not difficult to hear that some seemingly useless books can be sold for very high prices. For example, a diary of the night watchman was sold for 100 alliance coins, and another book with the same price Remnants of wizard's notebooks from hundreds of years ago, and some weird atlases also sold for 20 to 50 alliance coins.

Hearing this, Boris' breathing became short of breath. Although he himself didn't like reading books, his father liked reading books and ancient books very much. After his death, he even left a box of books collected in his early years. All kinds of books, he thinks those books can be sold for hundreds of alliance coins no matter what.

Thinking of this, Boris no longer waited and watched, squeezed out of the crowd, quickly went up to the roof, and walked from the suspension bridge to his own house in the fifty-seventh district.

Boris, who returned to his own house, didn't close the door. He ran directly to the bedroom, climbed up to a small attic he built, rummaged through a pile of sundries, and soon found a big old box.

After that, he vigorously moved the box out of a pile of sundries, put it in the middle of the bedroom, opened the box, and saw the well-preserved ancient books inside, and couldn't hide his excitement.

After closing the box again, he found a few binding ropes to tie the box, carried the half-person-high box on his back, and hurried out of the room.

When Boris returned to the small room outside the family market in District 33 with a big suitcase on his back, there were a lot fewer people gathered there than before, but there were still some people holding some old books and handing them to the merchant. pick.

Seeing this situation, he was not in a hurry, but waited quietly with the big bookcase on his back, until the last person in front of him who was trading with the merchant walked away with dozens of alliance coins, and then he came up to him and put the bookcase on his back The bookcase was placed in front of the other party, then opened, and said, "How much can I sell these old books and ancient books for?"

The other party did not answer immediately, but wiped the lenses of the glasses with a cloth, and then took the books out of the box with a clip, and carefully placed them on the table in front of him.

Although the other party picked up the book with a clip and didn't touch it directly with his hands, Boris still frowned instinctively, feeling a little disgusted in his heart.

Just like most ordinary people in Ten Towns and Silvermoon City, Boris has a natural rejection, even disgust, towards people with dark skin disease. In front of the sick person, because he feels that the gas breathed out by the other party may infect him.

Even though the Wizards Association and Pharmacists Association of Silvermoon City have stated more than once that black skin disease is just a common skin disease and will not cause any infection, the cognition that has been fixed for many years cannot be changed in a short while.

After the other party took out all the books, he carefully read the first few pages of each book, and then quickly took out some books that he already had or didn't need and threw them back into the book box.

Seeing the rapid decrease in the number of books on the table, Boris became a little uneasy, and regardless of the disgust he felt towards the merchant, he approached him and said in a deep voice, "These are all ancient books. At least it is an out-of-print orphan..."

"No matter how good the book is, it's not what I want." Before Boris finished speaking, the other party said in a very fluent Silvermoon City accent, "If you had come two days earlier, maybe I would have accepted it, but now You are late!" As he was speaking, he threw a few unnecessary books back into the bookcase, and finally when there were only four books left on the desk, he stopped and said, "These four I want this book, fifty federal coins each, if you don’t bargain, take it if you don’t sell it.”

"Sell, why not sell!" The high price of 50 federal coins per copy has far exceeded Boris' expectation, and he would not bargain any more, so he quickly agreed.

Seeing that Boris agreed, the other party quickly scooped out a pool of federal coins from the box full of coins with a spoon, then counted out 200 coins, and handed them to Boris.

Boris took the two hundred federal coins and turned away excitedly. He didn't even intend to move back the leftover books in the box on the ground, but when he left, he didn't find a few guards in the small room. The fierce men outside exchanged a look with each other, and several people followed.

"The collection of books is stopped this time. I hope that I can receive valuable books from everyone when I come next time." At this time, the merchant looked at the few Federation coins left in the box, and stood up. The people watching the excitement outside the room said something, and then closed the door directly, while the other people who failed to complete the transaction stood at the door and complained a few words, and then dispersed quickly.