The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

After leaving the room, Leo was about to leave the house the same way, but he stopped halfway in the corridor, and turned his head to look at a painting hanging on the wall.

This painting is a family portrait, if it is just an ordinary family portrait, the problem is that this family portrait is the family portrait of the last owner of No. 9 Golden Oak Street. When I was in the living room, this painting was just a sunflower that did not exist in the dream world.

In order to confirm that he was not mistaken, Leo called up the data in the sub-brain system for comparison, and soon got the answer. He was indeed not mistaken. The painting before was indeed a sunflower.

Feeling weird in his heart, Leo was about to ask the old housekeeper next to him, but unexpectedly found that the old housekeeper who had been following him just a moment ago had disappeared, and he also found that the discussion sound coming from the side hall at the end of the corridor was also gone. Disappeared, everything around became extremely quiet, as if the sound had been muted, and I couldn't even hear my own heartbeat.

Although he fell into an unknown dangerous situation inexplicably, Leo did not show any panic or surprise, but his eyes were full of excitement and joy, because for him, such an unexpected change was better than nothing. Much better, the more you experience, the more detailed your understanding of the world will be.

"Come on! Let me see what you are." Leo thought in his heart, and at the same time inspired his spiritual vision skills.

With the psychic power of the spiritual vision skill on his eyeballs, the house in front of him began to change rapidly, from a new house that was built less than two years ago, it quickly became obsolete, the wood began to rot, and the roof was overwhelmed It collapsed, and many places also fell into ruins and collapsed, and finally turned into a piece of ruins, and the only thing that has not changed is this family portrait that is always new.

Leo looked around, his eyes passed through the dilapidated holes in the house, and he saw the scene outside, but the blizzard outside and the glare of the sun shining on the snow made him suspicious.

Immediately afterwards, the sound of hurried footsteps trampling on the snow came in from not far away, a figure flew over the broken window, landed inside the house, and quickly hid behind a wall that could shelter the wind and snow.

It would be fine if it was a monster that ran in, but Leo found that the person who broke in to hide from the wind and snow was a woman. Or maybe a girl is more appropriate, it seems that her grade should be shortly after adulthood.

I saw that this girl had thick, long white hair tied behind her head casually with a rope, and a pair of bright eyes on her slightly pale face, around which she deliberately drew a circle of dark black circles. eye shadow. Originally, this circle of eye shadow gave her a more feminine posture, but a scar on the left side of her face destroyed this charm, and on the contrary made her whole temperament more heroic that only a man can have.

The girl was wearing a thin cloth coat that could not block any chill, and her lower body was a pair of tight leather pants and sleeve boots. The wide belt around her waist was inlaid with several huge sapphires and several bottles of medicine were hung. In addition, she is carrying a long sword with a red scabbard on her back. Under the gaze of Leo's spiritual power, she can clearly see the strong spiritual power emanating from the long sword, and even imagine a swallow flying around the girl. .

When Leo observed the girl who broke in suddenly, the girl was also surprised by Leo's appearance here, and looked at Leo vigilantly, and at the same time instinctively put her hand on the long sword behind her, her body Maintain a posture that can attack or defend at any time.

From the girl's reaction, Leo could see that the other party had undergone very strict training, and her movements and reactions were perfect, and she couldn't find any faults. In order to relieve the girl's hostility, Leo first raised his hands and took two steps back to show his kindness, and the other party's vigilant expression relaxed a little because of this, but the long sword on his back still did not let go.

"%\u0026amp;￥\u0026amp;..." At this time, the girl said a few words to Leo, as if asking about Leo's background, but the language she used was unfamiliar to Leo, and he didn't understand what he meant.

The girl also realized the problem, so she prepared to ask in another language, but the sudden barking of dogs outside the house ruined the slightly relaxed atmosphere.

At this time, the girl immediately pulled out the long sword, then took out a bottle of potion from the potion hanging on the belt around her waist, and poured it on the long sword. In Leo's spiritual vision, the psionic energy on the long sword also changed into the shape of flames after it came into contact with the potion.

At this time, Leo saw a few monsters covered in frost jumping out from behind a snow hill and landed outside the house. They raised their heads and sniffed the remaining smell in the air, and quickly discovered the girl's hiding place according to the smell. .

Without any hesitation at all, these monsters rushed towards the wall and knocked down a wall. The girl moved quickly to avoid the falling bricks and stones. When avoiding, she deliberately chose a direction away from Leo, in order to Avoid Leo being affected.

It's just that the girl had a good idea, but the monster didn't do what she wanted, and the first monster that broke in happened to land not far from Leo.

The moment the monster recovered from the dizziness caused by hitting the wall, it saw Leo, but it was a bit wise and didn't understand why there was an extra person, but this did not prevent it from attacking any living creatures.

While the other monsters were besieging the girl, this monster jumped up and flew towards Leo, opened its big mouth full of sharp teeth and bit Leo's vitals. The fishy-smelling cold air from its mouth had already covered Leo's body, forming a layer of frost on his body.

Facing the attacking monster, Leo didn't even intend to move his body. When the distance was right, he directly raised his hand and punched it in the monster's open mouth. The monster's jaw, brain and skull were smashed together, and Leo's arm passed through the head.

Even a monster with such a heavy injury would die immediately, and the monster hanging on his arm turned into countless flying snowflakes like a scattered snowman before Leo could throw it on the ground. The scene also changed instantly, from the icy and snowy ruins back to a painting in the corridor of Peter Alcott's villa without warning.

"Sir, are you alright?" The old butler of the seventh Alcott family who disappeared before stood beside Leo again, asking with vigilance and doubts on his face.

Leo looked around and asked in a deep voice, "What happened to me just now?"

The old butler pointed to the painting in front of Leo and said, "You have been looking at this painting just now, no matter what I call you, you have not responded."

Leo's gaze also followed the old housekeeper's finger on the painting, and he saw that the painting that was originally a family portrait turned back to Sunflower at this moment.

"Sir, is there anything wrong with this painting?" The old butler was puzzled by Leo's actions and asked again.

"No, very good." Leo responded perfunctorily, then turned and continued to walk out.

The old butler looked at Leo's back, frowned, and then turned his head to look at the painting. Although he felt that Leo must have discovered something just now, it was not easy to ask, so he could only put this piece Take it to heart, and tell his master later.

"Are you going to the dance?" After leaving the villa, the old housekeeper who caught up with Leo asked.

Leo didn't answer, just shook his head, and chose to leave the Alcott family's manor directly. He never thought about going to the party in the main hall, because compared to eavesdropping on those weird language full of code words at the party, and analyzing some intrigues among the nobles from it, he has more important things to deal with.

Under the guarded escort of the old housekeeper, Leo left the manor. Outside the manor, he immediately took an Alcott family's steam car and returned to the outer city from the original road.

It's just that he didn't intend to go back to the house he rented in District 33. As for the books in the house, he had already recorded them in the database, and he took all the important books with him. Almost all the useful books that can be collected have been collected, so there is no need for him to go back there and pretend to be a businessman who buys books.

After coming down from the suspension bridge, Leo casually entered a nearby urban area, went from the top floor to the vine platform on the bottom floor where no one except the poor would choose to live, passed through a slum, and walked to a relatively remote place, and then The right hand that has been clenched tightly opened, revealing an irregular ice crystal in the palm.

"It's not an illusion!" Leo murmured in his heart, looking at the ice crystals in his hands emitting bursts of cold air.

Before that painting just now, although Leo did not move in the eyes of the old housekeeper, in fact, Leo had inadvertently entered another world covered in ice and snow, and encountered some things there. The ice crystal in his hand was best evidence.

This ice crystal was formed after he killed the ice and snow monster, and when the monster dissipated its body, the dissipated energy in the monster's body condensed in his hands.

"High-energy substances, can be absorbed and taken." The accessory brain system gave a simple analysis of this ice crystal.

Leo didn't swallow the ice crystal, but untied his backpack and took out the box containing the remains of an Omega-level advanced creature, and put the ice crystal in it.

After collecting the ice crystals, Leo asked the sub-brain system to replay the impact and record data just experienced.

"Family portrait!" Soon Leo discovered that the reason why he encountered such a strange situation was related to that family portrait.

After finding the source, Leo immediately called up the information related to this family portrait in the sub-brain system.

In the past, Leo had seen this family portrait three times in total, one time in the information about No. 9 Golden Oak Street, the other time in the house at No. 9 Golden Oak Street, and the last time just now.

If it weren't for what happened just now, Leo might not have doubts about this seemingly ordinary family portrait. Because no matter how you look at it, this family portrait is not much different from the family portrait painted by an artist for an ordinary noble family. The head of the family sits in the center, the wife sits next to it, and the children surround it.

However, when the sub-brain system compared the three family portraits that Leo had seen, Leo discovered that there was an imperceptible but very important difference among them. The expression of the child in his arms.

In the information file of No. 9 Golden Oak Street, the expression of the child in the family portrait is smiling, but in the picture seen at No. 9 Golden Oak Street, the expression of the child is very indifferent. The expression of the child in this painting is full of sadness.

In addition to discovering the change in the expression of the child in the painting, the more important point is that Leo recognized the child and was sure that he had seen the child before.

When Leo first went to the black market in the fish district of Miria City, he asked a local child to guide him. Although we only got together for a short time, this child left a deep impression on Leo, because this child seemed to be able to see the future, so he opened his mouth to remind him.

Afterwards, Leo also went to look for the child several times, but he couldn't find it. What's even weirder is that other children who used to play with the child don't remember the child.

In addition, Leo also discovered a very important thing. When he met Peter Alcott, he felt that he seemed to have seen him before, but after the sub-brain system compared the portrait, But he didn't find a portrait that matched it, and now he knew where his feeling of déjà vu came from.

"Sub-brain, perform a character growth simulation, twenty years old." Leo, who was suspicious, immediately gave an order to the sub-brain, and began to simulate the growth of the child on the family portrait.

With the sorting, comparison, and adjustment of the simulated data, the image of a twenty-year-old young man soon appeared in his eyes. The appearance of this young man is more than 90% similar to the appearance of Peter Alcott seen before. The rest of the differences are due to the differences in some local facial features caused by his thin body. within acceptable tolerances.

Although Leo doesn't know how this Peter Alcott did it, he can be sure that this Peter Alcott should use some method to enter the Velen world, or even other more unknown worlds, from those Gain knowledge in the world, and then invent a lot of things that people in the dream world cannot invent.

However, what puzzled Leo was the time. The last owner of No. 9 Golden Oak Street had an accident sixty years ago. At that time, Peter Alcott appeared in the world of Velen as a child and became the owner. The family of the owner of the villa, but sixty years later he appeared in the Yushi District with the same appearance. It is difficult to explain the time gap.

"Could it be that he can control time?" Leo couldn't help but have a thought in his mind.

The reason why he had this idea was not because he was thinking wildly or aimlessly, but because he really had a basis. In the Earth Federation, a psyker inadvertently entered an unknown subspace. Although he only stayed in that subspace for a while, decades of outside time had passed.

This kind of thing often happens to alien psykers on other planets, so when he thought of controlling time, these cases quickly appeared in Leo's mind. After all, in his opinion, this dream world should also be some kind of unknown subspace.