The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Teacher, did we do something wrong?" Penny looked at Leo cautiously after she finished talking about the part she had experienced, and asked tentatively.

Leo shook his head and said, "No, you didn't do anything wrong, but you did a good job. It's just that I need to reconsider the type of missions I have arranged for you. Obviously, you are not suitable for this kind of investigation and exploration missions."

Leo is not talking ironically, but really thinks that the two of them have done a good job. Even if he went there in person, it would not be any better. He doesn't seem to be a big deal. According to the things that the shoe uppers did in the shantytowns, let alone the resident people, even if they kill all the shoe uppers, they won't have any psychological burden.

At this time, there was a sound of footsteps coming from the stairs outside the house, and then there was a knock on the door, followed Joan to ask outside the door, and opened the door to come in after obtaining Leo's permission.

"Have things been dealt with?" Petunia asked.

"It's been dealt with," Joan nodded, and said, "I threw it on the street of the duck hat party. When I left, I saw a few duck hat party people approaching the car of the shoe upper. The Hatters have taken care of the carriage."

Although the Duck Hat Party is a small political party formed by the poor in the urban area, it is actually a gang organization. They once tried to get involved in the interests of the shantytowns, but the people they sent out were slaughtered by the shoe uppers. The corpses, together with the characteristics of the gangster The peaked caps were delivered to the entrance of their station in the city together, so the duck hat party and the shoe uppers can be said to be in the same situation. If a shoe upper's carriage suddenly entered their area, they would naturally be spotted and disposed of by them.

At this time, Leo said to Joan: "Penny has already told the story of her mission, now tell me!"

After hearing this, Joan looked at the Nuodahan man on the ground, then quickly sorted out his speech, and explained in detail what happened to him during the mission.

When Joan was narrating, Leo listened carefully, and did not interrupt his narration. Instead, he asked a few questions at several key points after he finished his narration. For example, Joe How did An feel when he used the magic skill of the false paladin, what was the reaction of the implant after the tentacle took out something like a soul from the victim's body and absorbed it, and then focused on asking about the one he saw through the power of the implant. What is the situation on the platform, what is the monster who manipulates the equipment on the platform to conduct experiments, and so on.

At the beginning, Joan's answers were smooth, especially the process of the tentacles pulling out something from the victim's body and inhaling the implant, as well as the various subtle reactions of the body. He answered in great detail, because in this process, he already I have already planned to remember all the details, and then come back and tell Leo.

However, after answering the question about the platform later, he became a little hesitant. This was not because he only stayed on that platform for a short period of time and could not remember too many details, but because he The memory of that platform in my mind has become very blurred, and I can only vaguely remember a general idea of ​​everything. Once it involves more detailed things, such as the appearance of the platform, the appearance of monsters, etc., all that remains is A concept cannot describe more useful content.

"Mr. Leo, what's going on? Why can't I remember anything?" Joan asked suspiciously.

"It should be due to the protection of the implant for you." Leo thought for a while, and said: "There must be something beyond the limit of your rationality in what you see, so out of protection for you, the implant experience Automatically erase some content and blur other memory content to protect your spirit from being affected."

Hearing this, Joan couldn't help pointing to his head, with a look of disbelief, and said, "It's protecting me?"

Leo nodded and said: "I told you before that the implant has perfectly integrated with you and turned into an extra organ of your body. Once you have any problems, it will definitely be implicated to it, so keeping you safe is also protecting itself."

"It also has wisdom?" Joan couldn't help worrying, and asked again.

"I don't know about this either," Leo said without giving the answer Joan wanted, "but at least from now on, this implant has the protective instinct that only normal creatures have, otherwise it wouldn't protect you." spirit, and affect your memory."

Joan didn't know whether to be happy or to feel a headache when he heard the words. Although from Leo's words, he knew that the implant had protected him, but he always felt unspeakably uncomfortable, like his body was itchy, But no matter how much I scratched, I couldn't scratch the itchy spot.

"Although your memory has been modified, the original memory should still be preserved in the implant. Now I want to directly read the original memory implanted in the body," Leo said while motioning Joan to do it aside. On the chair, he said: "Just relax, just like I helped you apply the seal rune mark on the implant before."

Joan obeyed the order, sat on the chair, let himself relax skillfully, and let his mind go blank.

Leo reached out and touched the position of the implant at the back of the brain, and the spiritual energy wrapped the spirit and injected it into the implant. Through the spiritual reading of spiritual skills, he quickly searched for the memory pheromone contained in the implant, and soon he I found what I was looking for, and put my spirit directly into it.

In an instant, Leo seemed to be transformed into Joan, and entered the platform in his memory, but the platform in front of him was not a stone platform like what he just described, but a platform composed of witchcraft roots , There are high-tech experimental benches placed on the platform. There are human experimenters lying on the experimental benches, and there are monsters controlling the experimental benches all around. However, the appearance of these monsters is different, and some of them look like Nuo The Dahan people, and the other part are another high-level civilized race in the universe that Leo has heard of, but most of them are some monster races that Leo doesn't know.

In addition, the surroundings of the platform are not void, but dense tree roots, but these tree roots are much thicker than the tree roots that make up the platform, and there are countless eyeballs, sharp mouths, and still alive, constantly groaning in pain. skinless humans.

As for the top of the platform, there is a huge naked eyeball suspended in the air, and Leo recognized this eyeball at a glance as the peeled eye of reality.

And just when Leo turned into Joan through the memory pheromone of the implant, and saw the peeled real eye, the real eye seemed to see Leo as well, a wave full of pain, despair and The spirit of extreme hatred directly passed through the limitations of time and space, etc., and acted on Leo, directly pushing Leo's spirit out of the influence of that memory, and pushing it back to himself.

And the spiritual thoughts from the Eye of Reality also entered Leo's body at this time. Before it could cause any damage, it was instantly wrapped up by the imprint power of other gods in Leo's body, and after the breath of the stone throne descended, , was completely suppressed, and then separated and absorbed by the imprint of the real eye in Leo's eyeball.

"It's really interesting, I didn't expect him to be so miserable!" After dealing with the hatred from the Eye of Reality, Leo also returned to normal, talking to himself.

Penny and Joan didn't know what happened just now, they just felt that the aura emanating from Leo's body became extremely strong in the moment just now, and formed a forceless coercion like a god, but they still Before they had time to react, the invisible coercion disappeared, and Leo returned to normal, making them wonder if they had just had an illusion.

At this time, there was a sudden noise from the street outside the apartment. It sounded as if several carriages were approaching. The sound caused by the horseshoes hitting the ground and the wheels rolling over the stone slabs was particularly eye-catching in this silent night. The hanging special red horse lantern also turned the curtains red when it passed outside Leo's apartment, and the people in the house also knew through this special horse lantern that the passing carriage should be a special carriage for the police to go to work .

After a little perception of Leo's mental network, it is not difficult to find that the duty carriages of the urban police station are driving towards the shanty town, and not only the police station that manages the security of their living area has sent personnel, but even Police stations in other urban areas also sent people to the shantytowns, and even his spiritual network found that the gendarmerie stationed in the dock area was gathering. Apparently, the massacre at the shoe upper station had been discovered, and it also alarmed the high-level port officials. The security management plan formulated by the port council was automatically activated.

The port of Cape West is the center of anti-rich organizations in the south. There are various anti-rich organizations hidden here. Most of these organizations are radical, especially those newly established organizations, all eager to make trouble. Some big events will make them famous, and it is convenient to recruit enough like-minded people, and most of the big events caused by these people are the assassination of a deadly dignitary, or a large-scale armed riot in a certain urban area, etc. .

In order to cope with unexpected events, the port council has formulated a set of emergency safety management plans a long time ago, and over the years, it has been continuously modified, supplemented, and improved, and it has become a common practice for nearby kingdoms, duchies, and nobles. safety management plan.

The shanty town has always been a blank area of ​​security in Xiwangyangjiao Port. The people living here are some people who are very close to despair. Among these people, there are many desperadoes who kill for a piece of bread. It is easy to gather a large group of desperadoes and launch a riot in the city.

Therefore, the port city government not only separated the shantytowns from the urban area with a high wall, but also only opened two openings on the high wall, one opening leading to the dock area, so that people from the docks could come to the shanty town to recruit cheap enough The other opening faces the outside of the city, which is convenient for people in the shanty town to leave or enter.

In addition, the city government also set up a checkpoint at the exit of the road leading to the dock area, and stationed a city guard, which echoed the gendarmerie barracks stationed in the dock area, watching the movement of the shanty town.

Because of this series of coercion methods, and the fact that the urban elites use gangsters in the shantytowns to control the people in the shantytowns, for a long time in the past, nothing happened in the shantytowns that caused the urban elites a headache. , even if something happens, there will be gangsters in the shanty town to solve it by themselves, and it will not affect the urban area.

However, now the shoe upper station has been slaughtered, and it was killed silently when there was only a wall separated by other shoe upper people. difficult.

For a long time, these gangsters have been powerful tools used by urban elites to control shantytowns, and shoe uppers are the most useful of these tools. It has helped urban elites solve a lot of troubles, such as clearing out An anti-rich organization in the district also helped some psychopathic rich and powerful to do some inhuman and nasty things. Almost all people in the shanty town hated these gangsters, and the big gangsters such as shoe uppers were the center of hatred.

Now that such a big thing happened to the shoe upper, the resident was slaughtered again, more than half of them died, and the other half disappeared, and even the body could not be found. After the news spread to the city, it was natural that some The dignitaries who were in collusion with the shoe upper thought that the massacre was aimed at them, which made them activate the security management plan applicable to the port city without hesitation, first encircling the shanty town and putting martial law on it.

Leo told the two of them: "It should be under martial law outside, you go back first! Be careful on the road, don't be discovered by others, and continue to be your detective."

Joan and Petunia nodded after hearing this, and then jumped out of the window of the apartment, landed in the small garden behind, followed into an alley, and disappeared.

After the two left, Leo used his psychic power to lift the Nuodahan man on the ground, walked to the laboratory on the top floor of the apartment, put the Nuodahan man on the simple planing table in the middle of the laboratory, and then closed the door , began to study the Nordahan people.

Leo did not dissect the Nordhan people immediately, but first tried to use the spiritual network to detect his physical condition. However, according to the information in his memory bank, the Nordhan people, as a high-level civilized race in the universe, were born with psionic abilities. With a strong resistance, one's own spiritual network may not be able to penetrate into the body of the Nuodahan in front of him.

However, what surprised him was that when his spiritual network touched the Nordhan people, it penetrated directly without encountering any obstacles. This situation did not match the information in his memory at all. The inspection of the Nuodahan people made him even more frown.

"What's going on here? Could it be that the information was misremembered?" Leo muttered to himself with a puzzled expression after taking back the spirit net.

After hesitating for a moment, he took out the dissection tool, used the rune circle on the dissection table to seal off the nerves of the Nordahan, and then dissected him alive.