The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The labyrinth alleys in District 23 made Leo feel a bit similar to Cage City. Below are narrow alleys extending in all directions, and above are criss-cross secret passages. Countless irregular houses are crowded together, leaning on each other, supporting each other. with.

However, the difference from the people in Cage City is that the people here are all lifeless, whether it is a prostitute standing on the street to meet customers, or a commoner looking for flowers and flowers, each and every one of them is full of numbness and indifference.

Perhaps because of the scarcity of customers, the whole city is very quiet, and the signboards of the gold sales dens outlined with special fluorescent juice are also dimmed at the moment, and the high-end prostitutes who would only stay in the house had to put down Some were a little proud and stood at the door to invite guests.

Under the leadership of that woman, Leo walked through these powdered alleys. Although there were some women trying to come up to solicit customers, when they saw Leo's complexion clearly, they all showed extremely obvious disgust and panic. All of them avoided each other.

As for the city guards who patrolled back and forth, they only looked at Leo, and had no intention of interrogating them, so they just let Leo walk through the city. It can be seen that patrolling the 23rd district is just a routine for these city guards.

The two, one in front of the other, walked through more than a dozen alleys and at least eight aisles of suspension bridges, and soon came to House No. 11 in Baiwu District.

Peter Alcott seemed to like living by the lake. The house he was looking for in District 11 was by the lake, and the secret accommodation in District 23 was also located by the lake.

It is not very appropriate to say that the house is by the lake. It is more accurate to say that the house is built on the lake.

The whole house is a set of three-storey small buildings, and the material is similar to that of the surrounding houses. It is made of scattered wood and looks like building blocks that may collapse at any time.

The foundation of the house is a few thick vines extending from the vine platform. These vines are all suspended in the air, and there is still a distance from the lake, so the house looks like it is suspended in the air from a distance. People who live in this house and those who live in this house will involuntarily have a sense of insecurity.

"This is a good place to destroy corpses!" Leo's first feeling after seeing this house floating on the lake was not a sense of insecurity that he had never had before, but how to use the special features of this house. The location is just right.

It has to be said that it is the best place to use this house as a place to destroy corpses. Those corpses don't need to be moved at all, just make a hole at the bottom of the house and throw them into the lake, and all traces can be completely erased.

Before arriving at the house, Leo didn't immediately open the door with the key given by Peter Alcott, but first used the spirit net to check the situation inside and outside the house, first to get a clear idea of ​​the environment.

After some investigation, Leo discovered that this seemingly dilapidated house actually had other meanings. Peter Alcott seemed to have fully used his mechanical skills here, making the house an amazing place. A mechanical house.

According to the analysis of the auxiliary brain system, once the steam oven in the house is activated and provides enough power to the mechanical devices of the house, the house can become a fully automatic mechanical house with functions such as automatic laundry and automatic lighting, and There is also an automatic defense system inside the house, which can launch fatal attacks on enemies outside and entering the house.

However, it is not difficult to see from the details of some mechanical design that this house should be a test object. Peter Alcott just used this house to practice and experiment with some mechanical devices, because there are still some mechanical devices in the mezzanine of the house A large number of mechanical devices that are only partly installed, judging from the operating principles of these devices, they should be parts of some kind of launcher.

Leo walked to the door of the house, inserted the key into the slot, and twisted the lock to unlock it. After hearing the click of the lock, all the oil lamps in the house were activated by the mechanical device and lit at the same time, and the steam oven on the top of the house Also came into operation, powering the house.

Leo felt the floor under his feet tremble slightly. Although the tremor was very inconspicuous and difficult for ordinary people to notice, it was actually a deadly trap. If someone did not use a key to open the door, but knocked open it directly with external force, then the floor within two meters in diameter in front of the door would become a trap door, throwing the person standing on it into the lake below.

"I...I..." Just as Leo was about to enter the house, the woman leading the way suddenly wanted to say something, but because of the little self-esteem she didn't know how to speak.

"Is there anything else?" Leo looked at the woman and asked.

"Excuse me, can I stay in your concierge until the next rest period?" The woman asked anxiously, fearing that Leo would not be too big, so she quickly took out a Huzhen coin that Leo had given her before, and said : "I can pay."

Leo looked at the coin in the woman's hand and said, "It's very deserted here, and with the recent murders, basically no one will come here. You won't be able to wait for any guests here."

The woman lowered her head and said softly: "I just want to find a quiet place to rest, and I didn't think about looking for guests."

Leo could hear the sadness and despair in the woman's words, and it was conceivable that if this woman was left alone, she might not be able to survive tomorrow. According to Leo's original personality, he would not care about such things. There are so many people dying every day in the world, this one is not bad, but the new temperament produced after merging with the body gave him a sympathy that he did not have before. .

Leo doesn't like this kind of sympathy, because it will affect his rational judgment of things, but he hates the feeling of guilt after the sympathy is not realized, which will greatly kill his fighting spirit.

"Come in!" Leo finally chose to obey his new personality that he couldn't fully adapt to, let the woman into the room, and after closing the door, he continued to ask: "Do you know how to be a servant?"

The woman was stunned, and soon realized that an opportunity appeared in front of her. She nodded quickly and said, "I know, I know, I used to be a maid in the house of Baron Ossenbott for a while."

Leo expressed his thoughts and said: "I will live here for a few days. During these few days, I need a servant to take care of my daily life. I will be paid one Union Coin per day. If you think it is appropriate, Just stay!"

"I can, I can." The woman responded quickly.

Leo nodded, and then led the woman around on the first floor. Having already understood the structure of the house through the spirit network, he pointed out the locations of the servant's room, kitchen and other rooms one by one, and took out ten alliance coins as these Tian's household was handed over to the woman, and he asked again: "By the way, I don't know your name yet."

"My name is Sophie, sir!" The woman replied immediately, and even changed the name of Leo.

"My name is Leo Dodd. You can call me Mr. Dodd, or Mr. You don't need to call me Master." Leo ordered: "You will stay on the first floor from now on. When you usually eat, you can directly notify me through the bell I can do it."

"Yes, sir..." Sophie couldn't change her words for a while.

Leo felt that he had nothing to say, so he turned around and walked upstairs. After walking up a few stairs, he stopped suddenly, turned to Sophie and said, "Also, you'd better tidy yourself up. Change your clothes and tidy your hair, and the expenses will be paid directly from the household, and as long as people are alive, they can overcome any difficulties."

"Yes, sir." Hearing Leo's reassuring words, Sophie lowered her head, her voice choked up, and she replied gratefully.

Leo didn't say anything more, turned around and continued to walk upstairs, but the expression on his face was not very good-looking.

After walking to the second floor, relying on his knowledge of the house, he pushed open the door of a study room and went in, then closed the door heavily, and then walked back and forth in the room, muttering: "As long as a person lives, no difficulties will come. It can pass, what kind of nonsense is this! The influence of personality is getting more and more serious, and the way of thinking and behavior has been affected. Deputy brain, conduct a first-level personality assessment."

As the order was issued, a page of answers to the personality test appeared in front of Leo's eyes, and he quickly checked the options. This answer sheet is an answer sheet that soldiers of the Earth Federation must fill out after enlisting in the army. The purpose is to judge the personality trend of the soldier by analyzing the answer sheet options, so as to determine the appropriate department for him to enter the army.

When he was in the Earth Federation, as a cyborg, Leo had a fixed department after enlisting in the army, so he did not accept the assessment of this answer sheet, but the content of this answer sheet is still kept in his memory, because as a special As the commander of the battle squad, he must conduct character assessments for ordinary soldiers who join his ranks.

Soon, an evaluation report with all the options checked entered into the data analysis of the sub-brain system, and after a while, the final evaluation results were displayed in his eyes.

"Position commander, 90% adaptability? Logistics equipment department, 90% adaptability?" Leo saw two occupations with the same adaptability but completely different combat methods appearing in front of him. Surprised, but also understandable.

In the personality evaluation report of the Earth Federation, there are some cases where two types of occupational evaluation results appear at the same time, and the occupational adaptability is as high as 90%, but all of these cases without exception indicate that the evaluators are in a mental state of split personality , have dual or multiple personalities.

To a certain extent, Leo is indeed in a state of split personality now. His past personality and thinking are not completely integrated with the original personality and thinking of his current body, so he makes some biochemical personality that is contrary to the past. , but in line with their own personality choices and words.

Before, Leo had already realized this problem, and thought it was an inevitable stage after personality fusion, and he didn't think it was a trouble, as long as he was careful, he would be fine, but just now he felt sympathy for Sophie and took Sophie in. , so that he couldn't help but be wary of the side effects of the personality fusion process at this moment.

Leo doesn't dislike the kind of sympathy for the weak, because this kind of sympathy makes him feel more like a real person now, rather than a biochemical person who only wants to kill each other and complete the task.

Compassion is a good thing, but if compassion starts to affect the way of thinking and deciding right or wrong, then this problem is a big problem.

Just now, for Sophie's sympathy, Leo could give Sophie some money and let her make a living outside, but in the end he chose to let Sophie, a stranger, be in charge of the most important food and daily life for his life safety. , This is obviously too much, there is no reason at all, and emotions completely control reason.

"Associate brain, analyze the situation and sort out the solutions." Following Leo's order, the deputy brain quickly sorted out more than a dozen solutions, and arranged them in order from top to bottom.

The first solution is the standard plan for the Earth Federation to deal with soldiers with multiple personalities, to open up a second sub-brain, and send all non-master personalities into the second sub-brain to act as the sub-brain intelligence.

However, this plan was immediately rejected by Leo, not to mention that he did not want to abandon the personality and emotions that are currently being integrated, even if he was willing to abandon his own personality and emotions and return to the state of a biochemical person, he would not be able to develop secondary brain.

Because the difficulty of developing the second sub-brain is far beyond the difficulty of developing the initial sub-brain, it is easy to develop the initial sub-brain only by mastering the correct method and controlling the brain to a certain extent, but the development of the second sub-brain It needs to borrow a lot of external force, and the most difficult external force is to perform brain surgery to physically separate part of the brain. It is impossible to complete such an operation under the current conditions.

After rejecting the first plan, Leo continued to look for a suitable plan, but the next dozen or so plans were all standard plans of the Earth Federation, which either involved the Federation's technology, or required a lot of money. Time and energy are not the solution he wants.

After searching for more than a dozen to no avail, Leo impatiently asked the sub-brain system to eliminate all the plans that involved the Earth Federation and those that could not be realized now, leaving only three plans that depended on his current ability. possible solutions.

After looking at the general content of these three plans, Leo also rejected the two plans that required a lot of time, and finally left a plan to use medicine to stabilize emotions and prevent emotions from affecting judgment.

This potion is called Tranquility Potion. The prescription is recorded in the back of an old pharmacist's handbook. It is an undisclosed trial potion. It was specially commissioned by the Wizards Association to make it to help wizards enter the world in the shortest possible time. To a calm and clear state of mind, not to be affected by chaotic emotions.

However, it is recorded at the end of the prescription that it seems that this medicine has some side effects. If the dosage is too much, it will cause adverse changes to the user. As for what the changes will be, it is not mentioned above.