The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

For the abyssal serpent, the abyssal plant such as the spirit-absorbing vine is an extremely annoying thing. They often attach between the scales of the abyssal serpent, absorbing the life force of the abyssal serpent.

Although the life force absorbed is a drop in the bucket for the abyssal serpents and will not affect their strength in any way, it can make them feel extremely uncomfortable, as if there is always a mosquito flying around by their ears.

More importantly, once this spirit-absorbing vine is attached to the abyss snake, it is very difficult to clean it. The spirit-absorbing vine itself is very fragile. Even ordinary abyssal creatures can pull it out, but it is very difficult to clean it completely. , because the seeds of the spirit-absorbing vine will be integrated into the flesh and blood of the parasite at the moment of parasite, unless the parasite's flesh and blood are cut off, otherwise even if the surface of the spirit-absorbing vine is cleaned, it will grow again in a short time.

In fact, not only the abyssal serpent hates spirit-absorbing vines, but almost all huge abyssal creatures hate spirit-absorbing vines. For this reason, these abyssal creatures have created many skills to detect and remove spirit-absorbing vines, such as Leo In the memory fragments of the abyss snake in the database, there is a complete set of methods for inspecting and cleaning up the spirit-absorbing vines. Only by using this method, you can easily find the hidden spirit-absorbing vines around, just like Leo now. The effect is the same.

Leo immediately used the method of the abyss serpent to detect the spirit-absorbing vines. Although the power driving this method is psionic energy, not the power of the abyss serpent itself, the effect is still obvious. He easily found the spirit-absorbing vine, but he found that the situation seemed to be a bit wrong with his guess, because in his eyes, it was not the spirit-absorbing vine that parasitized the Puluo tree, but the Puluo tree assimilated the spirit-absorbing vine.

"This is man-made, and the time is not short." Sylvia also used the method of the abyss dragon to understand the situation of the spirit-absorbing vine, and said in a deep voice.

Leo nodded. As Sylvia said, although the Pulo tree is magical, it is just an ordinary plant. There has never been any written record that the Pulo tree has other magical abilities besides infinite growth, perhaps infinite Growth is already its only magical ability, so now the shaman tree city formed by this Puluo tree is very abnormal.

No matter how weak the spirit-absorbing vine is, it is also an aggressive abyss creature. When facing an ordinary plant, it should be the spirit-absorbing vine that parasitizes the plant and absorbs the power of the plant. Quite the opposite, so the only explanation is the intervention of external forces.

The spirit-absorbing vine was probably artificially implanted into the Puro tree when these Pulo trees were planted, and the control of the Pulo tree was fused with the spirit-absorbing vine, which made the Puro tree mutate, and has the current manufacturing similar to the gods. The ability of the French Open's energy field.

"Since the spirit-absorbing vine is assimilated, some characteristics of the spirit-absorbing vine may also be assimilated." Leo thought for a while and said.

"Blood fruit?" Sylvia quickly thought of what Leo was talking about.

The spirit-absorbing vine's ability to parasitize and absorb the life force of the parasite seems to be very powerful, but it is only the lowest abyssal creature after all. It does not possess wisdom and does not know how to control its own ability. It can only absorb life force instinctively. And only a small part of the absorbed life force will be integrated into the spirit-absorbing vine to promote its growth, and most of the other life force has exceeded its limit, so it will excrete these life forces in the form of fruits, so that It has formed a snack blood fruit that even the upper class in the abyss likes very much.

Since the Puluo tree has assimilated the spirit-absorbing vine, the ability of the spirit-absorbing vine to condense the blood fruit with excess vitality may also be assimilated.

Thinking of this, Sylvia and Leo used their own methods to search for possible blood fruits around them, and soon they came to a small square not far away.

Unlike the other places a few people walked through just now, there are no torches lit here for lighting, but some plants that glow in the dark are planted.

Although the light of a single plant is very weak, when the number of these plants reaches a certain level, the light produced by them is enough to illuminate the surrounding environment, and under the concealment of these lights, Leo and Sylvia quickly A fruit the size of a fingernail was found.

The two did not reach out to pick this fruit, because unlike the streets they walked before, they are not the only four of them in the square now, and several natural shamans are watering the square with a container filled with a special liquid They were very surprised by the appearance of Leo and others, because they knew the degree of martial law here, and it stands to reason that there shouldn't be people who are not natural shamans.

Therefore, one of the natural shamans handed over the watering tool in his hand to his companion, then turned around and left the square, and walked into a relatively dark aisle. It seems that he must be a natural shaman with a higher position .

Leo didn't stop the natural shaman from leaving, he just looked up and down the natural shaman in front of him, then turned to Sylvia and said, "They should be apprentices, they don't have shaman power."

Sylvia also turned her head to look at the several natural shaman apprentices, looked at their identical attire and the shaman spiritual text representing that they were the same mentor, and asked: "I remember the way of natural shaman inheritance. It's all one-to-one inheritance. A nature shaman will only teach one apprentice, and will not find a new apprentice until that apprentice becomes a real nature shaman. What's going on with these apprentices? Nature shaman changes the way of inheritance Yet?"

On the way here, they also met some natural shamans wearing the same clothes and the same shamanic script, but those natural shamans are all formal natural shamans, even if their power is very weak, Even first-level psykers can't compare, but the shaman power in their bodies can't be faked. As long as the shaman power is aroused, no matter how powerful they are, they can be regarded as formal natural shamans, so Leo and Hill Via didn't feel any abnormality, but thought that these shamans all came from the same powerful natural shaman sect.

These natural shamans are obviously just apprentices now, they don't have any shaman power on them, they are completely ordinary people, there is something wrong with these apprentices wearing the same clothes and the same shaman spirit.

At this time, a burst of footsteps came from the aisle where the previous shaman apprentice left, and then he saw a shaman teacher wearing a tree suit and a very distinctive dress leading several apprentices in the same clothes. .

"Who are you?" The shaman teacher was puzzled when he saw Leo and the others, and then asked anxiously.

"We are the school city..." Leo was about to take out the certificate issued by Delkan to them and explain his identity.

The shaman instructor seemed to have misunderstood something, and before Leo could finish speaking, he immediately asked, "You guys sent people here so soon."

Hearing what the shaman teacher said, both Leo and Sylvia were taken aback for a moment, and soon realized that the other party obviously regarded them as other people from the Academy City, so Sylvia made a plan and said: "We happen to be in Nearby, come here as soon as you receive the order."

"Do you have the ability to solve it?" The shaman instructor did not see through the difference between the two, but questioned their age, saying: "Although a person's knowledge cannot be measured by age, you are too young , and..." At this time, he looked at Joan with some doubts, and said: "You are too bold to bring a paladin with a delusional heart by your side. The chaotic power on him has already interfered. to the harmony and nature around us.”

"Who we bring with us is our business, it has nothing to do with your Excellency. If you mind this, just pretend that we have never been here, and you can invite others to the school city." Sylvia also looked dissatisfied He said to the other party: "Besides, we don't just say whether we have enough knowledge. When we can't solve this matter, you are questioning us!"

When Sylvia was speaking, a strong coercion of the superior was faintly generated on his body. Even if the surrounding environment had a supporting effect on the shaman teacher, he could not bear the power of this demigod and had to put your head down.

At this moment, the shaman teacher was terrified, because in his memory, only when he saw the holy spirit shaman who was almost a god, he would feel this kind of feeling of being suppressed by an invisible force, but now the opposite The female scholars in the Academy City actually made him feel this way. Not only did he not doubt the identity of the other party, but he was even more in awe of the famous Academic City, thinking that the instructors in the Academy City should be like Sylvia.

Facing Sylvia's strength, the shaman instructor didn't raise any doubts, but honestly led Leo and the others towards the center of the upper tree city.

On the way, Leo looked at the vacant tree houses on both sides of the road, frowned, and said to Sylvia, "The number of natural shamans is wrong."

After hearing this, Sylvia followed Leo's line of sight and looked twice at the tree house with obvious traces of life, and understood what Leo meant, then raised her finger to the top of her head and said, "Hidden City."

Before coming here, Leo and the others also learned something about how many nature shamans are being temporarily guarded, and how many nature shamans are being released.

If calculated according to the announced number of people, even if the entourage of these natural shamans is included, the houses in the ground city can barely be filled, and the houses in the tree city on the upper level cannot appear according to common sense. Traces of living, unless those natural shamans have nothing to do and live in a house for a day.

So the people living in these tree houses must be outside the list of the city government, and now these people are gone, but the city guard in charge of city security has not found the auspiciousness of the large-scale departure of the natural shaman, so the only explanation What makes sense is that these nature shamans are all in legendary hidden cities.

Just when Leo and Sylvia were still suspecting the existence of the hidden city and trying to find it out, the nature shaman who was leading the way unexpectedly announced this hidden secret to Leo. in front of them.

I saw that nature shaman came to a very ordinary tree wall, and then made a symbol with his walking stick in front of the wall, and then saw a human face on the wall, following the person The face opens its mouth, forming an entrance, within which the stairs leading to the upper floor can be seen.

The shaman teacher didn't say anything, just walked in and went up the stairs, and the others followed.

Leo and Sylvia looked at each other in the back, feeling an inexplicable urge to laugh, but they both controlled their expressions and walked into the stairs leading to the hidden city.

After climbing dozens of stairs, everyone passed through another exit and came to a very open square.

Different from the empty and silent situation below, there are a large number of natural shamans coming and going in the square. Roughly, there are at least thirty or forty people, and there are more natural shamans lying on the ground.

I saw that the hundreds of natural shamans lying on the ground seemed to have fallen into some kind of coma. Except for weak breathing, they were almost exactly the same as the corpses. The branches and leaves on the ground were surrounded by some vine-like plants. , formed a cage shape, and several tentacles protruded from the vines, respectively drilled into their bodies from their noses and mouths, which looked very strange.

The natural shamans walking around will continue to introduce the liquid in the container at the waist into a container-shaped tree tumor next to the cages, so that the liquid in the tree tumor will always maintain a certain height.

At the same time, these natural shamans will also use their shaman power from time to time to activate the shaman spirits worn by the unconscious, so that the spirits can produce a natural force similar to life force, and the people who maintain the coma may dissipate at any time breath of life.

Although the scene in front of them seemed to be performing some evil ritual, Leo and Sylvia knew very well that these natural shamans were maintaining the lives of unconscious people, and judging from the tired looks of those natural shamans, they should It has been a long time without a break.

Leo walked up to a cage, squatted down and checked, the person lying inside, a nature shaman who was looking after the area not far away saw Leo's move and wanted to stop him, but was caught by the man. A shaman teacher stopped him.

"They are all apprentices?" Leo simply inspected it, then turned to the shaman instructor and asked, "How could this be?"

The shaman teacher said bitterly: "That's why we asked Xuecheng to send people here. We also want to know why this happened?"

Afterwards, he signaled to Leo and Sylvia that this is not the place to talk, and then led the two of them deeper into the urban area. On the way, they encountered more comatose people. Among these thousands of people, not everyone is in a coma, and some of them have no breath on their bodies, and they seem to be dead.

Although the expression of the shaman instructor remained calm, both Leo and Sylvia could feel that each other's body would tremble involuntarily every time he passed by a dead person, and the sadness on his body would also increase a little. .