The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

As the name suggests, the horseshoe reef is shaped like a horseshoe. It is located in the middle of the black reef waters. It is one of the few atoll reefs that can be used as a docking point for ships, just because the reef is not on a safe route and there are many dangerous reefs nearby. And seabed turbulence, so even though it has a good geographical advantage, it is still not used.

Today, the peaceful Horseshoe Reef is ushering in a rare noise. Five medium-sized ships have arrived at the outskirts of the Horseshoe Reef one after another. After the sailors on the ship have reached a certain position, they put down the sails, and let the five ships appear like Like the five driftwoods, they took advantage of the power of the undercurrent of the seabed here, and nimbly slid between the dangerous reefs on the seabed, and soon entered the safe waters of the Horseshoe Reef.

The relationship between the five ships was obviously not very good. After entering the safe waters, they immediately found a place to drop the anchor, and then quietly waited for the time to leave. At this time, the muzzles on both sides of their hulls were not closed. The crew and sailors also stayed on the deck, all vigilantly observing the situation of the other four ships in the same water area.

"Damn it! Why are these bastards at this time..." Hairessa looked annoyed when he saw the other four very familiar ships, but he suppressed his anger and ordered to his first officer: "Let the people below take all their weapons. Everyone rests in four shifts. Don't relax your vigilance."

The first officer hesitated, and said: "Boss, if we do this, we will consume a lot of energy. When it's time to sail, I'm afraid..."

"Don't worry, when it's time to sail, we don't need manpower to operate the sails, we just use steam engines. We need to sail at full speed. The speed of the sails is too slow, and if we use sails, it may be possible..." Hailesa simply explained After a while, before he finished speaking, he felt that there was no need for such an explanation, so he listened, gave the first officer a hard look, and said, "Do whatever you are asked to do, what nonsense, when you are the first officer of a cargo ship It's too long, have you forgotten the rules!"

The first officer didn't care about Hairesa's displeasure and questioning, just smiled, and then turned around and went down to arrange the crew shifts according to Hairesa's instructions.

Hairessa didn't care about the attitude of the first officer, and then ordered the men who followed him to go to the cabin to inform the guests, and let the guests stay in the cabin during this period of time and try not to come up on the deck.

In fact, Hairessa didn't know that when he ordered his subordinates, his guests had already investigated the situation of the other four ships, and also found that the captains of the other four ships ordered their subordinates to do the same things.

Leo learned about the situation of these four ships through the spirit network, and he found that, like the Hiresa and the Beloved, the captains and sailors on the other four ships docked at Horseshoe Bay were all smugglers and pirates, the only difference was that they Their main business is still piracy, smuggling is only incidental, and their relationship with Hiresa is very complicated. In some cases, it was a relationship between collaborators and brothers, but now it is a relationship of quasi-enemies.

The reason why these four ships appeared here was because they also came for the gold ship, and they planned to look for opportunities to rob the gold ship after the war started.

It stands to reason that these four ships should join the joint fleet formed by the Pirate Alliance. In fact, they did receive the invitation, but they all made the same decision, that is, not to participate in the joint fleet, but still ship gold ships idea.

It is not difficult to guess what the captains of these four ships think. Obviously, after joining the pirate fleet, these ships can only be used as cannon fodder. may be taken advantage of by others,

Therefore, the captains of the four ships chose to wait for the opportunity in the waters near the battlefield. Once they found a suitable opportunity on Kajilan's gold ship, they would directly rob the gold ship. Don't care, because at that time, the combined pirate fleet will naturally hold back those escort warships.

For the bold actions made by the captains of these four ships, Leo did not comment, nor was he interested. What he was really interested in was the extraordinary creatures hidden on these four ships.

The reason why he said it was a creature, not a human being, was because through the scan of the mental network, he found that there were several people on these four ships who looked the same as humans in appearance, but there was a big gap between their internal bones, internal organs and other organs. .

For example, there is a person who has some organs that should not appear in human beings. Some belong to insects, some belong to animals, and some even Leo can't identify which kind of creatures they come from.

There is also a person whose chest ribs are all connected together, forming a plate armor-like shape in his body, and inside the plate armor skeleton is not an internal organ, but a ball of fire.

If it was only in this humanoid and non-human state, Leo would not pay much attention to them. What he really paid attention to was that these humanoid extraordinary creatures wore some weapons that far surpassed the technological level of this era. Ultra-high-tech devices, and from some details, it can be seen that they are all using these devices, and they also use the communication devices in them to communicate with each other. It seems that they are all in the same group.

Leo told Sylvia about these discoveries. After hearing this, Sylvia thought about it and asked, "Did those ultra-high technologies come from star civilization?"

"Probably not." Leo shook his head and said, "The reason why it is called ultra-high-tech is based on the average technological level in this world. If the current technological development is followed, at least a large number of scientists and inventors are required to continue It takes hundreds of years to research basic science, innovate and invent related supplies, and it is possible to finally create the devices used by extraordinary creatures. But for the star civilization, those devices are very primitive, so primitive that they are at the same technological level as the steamships we use today. the same level as the grade."

Sylvia said in a deep voice: "If this is the case, it should be ruled out that they may have found some equipment in the ruins of starry sky civilization, and then accidentally found a way to use it," she said, as if joking , said: "These technological devices may be made by themselves, maybe it is."

"Made it yourself?" Sylvia's words seemed to have given Leo some inspiration. He once again used the spirit net to infiltrate the other four ships. After carefully observing the devices used by those extraordinary creatures, he nodded and said. : "Yes, you are right, the various materials and processes used by those people's devices are indeed still at the technological level of this world, and those devices are indeed made by themselves."

"Didn't you say that these things have hundreds of years of technology gap?" Sylvia asked puzzled, but she quickly remembered something, and said: "Could it be that some people in this world are lucky enough to be indoctrinated?" some advanced knowledge, thus..."

"It's possible, the current situation is a bit different." Leo nodded, shook his head again, and emphasized: "You didn't hear what I just said clearly, I mean that those inventions need the current technology to continue to develop hundreds of years later, Only then can it be manufactured. The technological development of any civilization has a root vein, no matter how the subsequent technology evolves, or how much technological knowledge that does not belong to this civilization is absorbed, this root thread will not change or disappear .If someone acquires advanced scientific and technological knowledge of starry sky civilization, then he will definitely be influenced by this scientific and technological knowledge that is far ahead of the times, so as to use this knowledge as the root context to develop technology."

Perhaps Leo's words were too convoluted, Sylvia didn't understand what Leo wanted to say for a while, and a puzzled expression appeared on his face.

Seeing this, Leo tidied up his remarks again, and said, "It's as if you were just a bug rolling in the mud, but one day a force suddenly turned you into a human being, and possessed the wisdom that a human being should have. And thinking, in this case, will you continue to do things according to the thinking and thinking of bugs? So, if someone has obtained complete and advanced technological knowledge from the civilization of the universe, the various devices he made will definitely not exist A trace of the technological context of this world. But the reality is that the devices used by those extraordinary creatures are developed from the technological context of this world, but the technological level is hundreds of years ahead. More people traveled through time and space, came to this era, and manufactured these equipment based on the technology hundreds of years later and the current manufacturing process."

Sylvia, who had already understood it, guessed again: "Could it really be a person hundreds of years later..."

"Impossible!" Leo directly denied this speculation, and said with great certainty: "Things like space-time travel have been proven impossible, no matter how powerful the power is, it can even reorganize some physical laws of the real world, but But it cannot change the flow of time. All the abilities and laws about distorting time can only be established when time passes normally, and cannot reverse time, because time is beyond the universe and beyond everything. Even if the universe is destroyed, time still exists. exist."

As he spoke, he felt that what he had said was a bit complicated, so he reorganized his words, took out a bottle, and said, "We are like people living in this bottle, no matter how powerful we are, we can only change what's inside the bottle." Everything, and time is the ocean outside, how can we in the bottle change the ocean outside?"

Sylvia looked at the bottle, stretched out her hand and flicked the bottle lightly, shaking the bottle to pieces, and said, "But what if we break the bottle?"

Leo answered seriously: "Everything about you, from your body to your strength, is based on the laws in the bottle. When the bottle is broken, the laws disappear? How can you continue to exist?"

While talking, he suddenly stopped again, motioning to Sylvia not to speak, and then fell into deep thought, as if the discussion just now reminded him of something.

After a while, he recovered from his contemplation and said: "My judgment just now may be wrong. All my judgments are based on my past knowledge and cognition, which belong to the cognition of laws in a certain bottle. , but the situation here is different now. Many times my cognition cannot be applied to the current world, so the time you mentioned someone reversed time, from hundreds of years ago to the present time period, maybe there is really It might be possible."

Sylvia looked at Leo and couldn't help asking: "Why did your thoughts change so abruptly? What did you think of just now?"

Leo said in a deep voice: "Do you still remember the experience of Yamu Island that I mentioned to you before?"

"Oh! Our descendant who came back to become a god!" Sylvia showed a look of surprise, and then questioned: "Didn't you suspect that he might be a fake?"

"Is it necessary for him to pretend to be my descendant at that time?" Leo also asked back.

"Who knows?" Sylvia shrugged playfully, and then said thoughtfully: "However, now I think that the people who made these devices should not be the future people who reversed time and returned to this time period gone."

"Why?" Seeing Sylvia's change of mind, Leo couldn't help laughing and said, "Our thinking seems to have changed places."

"People are fickle." Sylvia also smiled and explained: "If he really reversed time, then he shouldn't be so boring in making these technological equipment? His goal should be Aiming at the gods?"

Leo also jokingly said: "Maybe the person who turned back time may have aimed at the gods."

However, after saying this, he immediately fell into deep thought as if he had been inspired, and the same happened to Sylvia, who also entered a state of thinking.

After a while, the two left the state of contemplation at the same time, and the expressions on each other's faces became serious.

"What do you think?" Sylvia asked without thinking.

And Leo seemed to understand Sylvia's meaning, but he didn't answer immediately, but opened the mental net again, and carefully checked the situation of those special extraordinary creatures.

After a while, he retracted the spirit network and said: "Those devices should be some kind of energy detection equipment. If you guess correctly, they should be arranged on those ships to collect energy information from the gods of this world during the battle of gods. Although I don't know to what extent those devices can be collected, but it is foreseeable that only those who are interested in becoming gods will collect these energy information. It’s going to be very magnanimous.”

Sylvia said: "So, those extraordinary creatures on board are the family members of someone trying to become a god?"

Leo shook his head and said: "Familiars may not be appropriate, perhaps it is more appropriate to describe them as followers. I did not find any characteristics and traces that Familiars should have on those extraordinary creatures. They are more like born This situation seems to be some kind of non-human intelligent race."

"Are there non-human intelligent races?" Sylvia was still a little puzzled.

"Of course, have you forgotten the elves in Toussaint?" Leo said: "Their civilization level is even higher than that of humans. They are also non-human intelligent races, but they look similar to humans in appearance, that's all. Like the extraordinary creatures on those ships now."

"If you don't tell me, I'll forget about it." Sylvia quickly recalled Toussaint's experience, with a smile on her face, and then suggested: "Why don't we go to those boats for a stroll? ! I'm also curious about the non-human intelligent races in this world."