The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Just exposing all the blood fruits will spontaneously produce the eyes of the abyss. Immediately after the eyes of the abyss are produced, an unknown creature in the abyss can be discovered. That unknown creature in the abyss will pass through the eyes of the abyss without any protection. Peeping into another world, do you think so many coincidences and anomalies are added together, is it normal?" Leo said with a smile as he watched the surrounding abyss aura disappear in Sylvia's hands.

Sylvia responded disdainfully: "What we think is abnormal, they may think it is normal, maybe it is."

While she was talking, the branches and leaves at the top of the tree roof began to squirm spontaneously, and then I saw it unfold to the surroundings, revealing a patio, which was facing the sun outside.

A ray of winter sunlight shines through the patio, making the dark tree house a little warmer. At the same time, the sun shines on the lowered pool. When the sun touches the liquid in the pool, it immediately scatters It became a colorful mist that instantly spread into the tree house, covering the blood fruits.

Both Leo and Sylvia could feel the colorful mist produced by the sunlight combined with the tree heart liquid, which had a certain suppression and neutralization effect on the power of the abyss. It seemed that this should be a protective measure reserved by the builders of the tree city.

The colorful light mist didn't last for too long, and it disappeared very quickly. At the same time as it disappeared, the tree hole in the courtyard closed and recovered, and the surrounding branches and leaves covered the blood fruit again without Leo's control.

At this time, both Leo and Sylvia felt that the blood fruits that had been released from the abyss were passing through the branches and leaves of the tree city, absorbing the weak abyss that enveloped the entire tree city, and the abyss breath produced by the tree city itself could not supply the blood fruits. When absorbing the breath of the abyss, the target of absorbing the breath of the abyss began to target the natural shaman and shaman apprentices who were spiritually connected to it.

Although Leo's spiritual network is blocked by the branches and leaves full of complex power in the tree city, he can't spy on the situation in the lower urban area, but he can basically deduce that the comatose shaman apprentices should be getting better at this moment, and some people have even woken up .

After sensing the effect of the blood fruit, Sylvia said with some doubts: "Could it be that our guess is wrong, this is not a place where the great shaman communicates with the abyss, but a place to deal with the abyss in the tree city Special arrangement?"

Leo didn't immediately respond to her question, but after carefully checking the condition of the blood fruits in the surrounding walls, he said slowly: "Maybe it was at first, but it's hard to say now."

"No matter what, let's pick these blood fruits first!" Sylvia pushed aside some branches and leaves beside her, looked at the blood fruits that were gradually recovering, and suggested: "We may not need them, but these things It should be very useful for Penny and Joan. If I remember correctly, blood fruit should be the main material needed for many abyss potions, and you can just try to use them to refine some unique abyss potions."

"It's not in a hurry. Let's pick it after we solve the hidden dangers of the tree city!" Leo shook his head and said, "Now the spirituality of the shaman instructors and apprentices in the tree city are all connected with it, so we can pick it directly." Otherwise, there will be unforeseen consequences. After all, you and I don’t know what the spiritual situation of the shaman is. We should wait until the hidden dangers of the tree city are solved, cut off the connection between the blood fruit and the tree city from the root, and let them fall off naturally. Be safe."

Sylvia nodded, then walked to the heart of the tree, looked at it, and said, "What should I do now? Just peel off the spirit-absorbing vine?" She paused again, shook her head, and said : "No, if it was when the tree city was just built, it might be possible to do it. Now this Puluo tree has grown for hundreds of years, and the spirit-absorbing vine has been completely integrated with the Puluo tree. If it is forcibly stripped off, it may not be possible. When the spirit-absorbing vines are stripped out, these Puluo trees will be dead."

Leo also analyzed: "And even if the spirit-absorbing vines were successfully stripped without harming the pulo trees, the tree city would probably be destroyed. The reason why these seven pulo trees can grow into the current state is very important. To a certain extent, it depends on some characteristics of the spirit-absorbing vine. In addition, the special environment of this shaman academy is also produced by the spirit-absorbing vine. Once the characteristics of the spirit-absorbing vine are lost, the natural environment inside the tree city will be If it disappears, this place will become an ordinary forest tree city, and then the shaman academy will not be able to train shaman apprentices in a short period of time like in the past."

As he spoke, he walked up to a tree heart, raised his hand and placed it on the tree heart. At the same time, he imitated the power of the shaman through the power of the nightmare, and then used the power of the shaman to follow the spiritual mysteries of the shaman he had spied before. A fake shamanic spirituality was forged, linked to the tree spirit.

Obviously, neither the builders nor the maintainers of the tree city thought that outsiders could pass through the protective traps they set up, nor did they think that there would be such things as fake shaman spirituality in the world, so they didn't arrange any identification means on the tree center , so that the spirituality of the fake shaman created by Leo can be easily integrated into the spirituality of the tree spirit, and then spread along the branches and leaves of the tree city, completely controlling the entire tree city.

At this moment, Tree City had no secrets in his eyes, and he also discovered that one of the urban areas built by Tree City was completely isolated from other urban areas, and was only connected to the Forbidden City of Trees, and the tree houses built in that urban area were all laboratories. , the materials in the laboratory include both completely mutated natural shamans and a large number of low-level abyssal creatures, and he also found some prepared shaman wonders in one of the rooms similar to secret vaults. Without exception, all the objects are very primitive bone wonders, and the materials used are some special bones of abyssal creatures and natural shamans.

Although the entire city is very ordinary in Leo's eyes, he has seen more cruel and tragic laboratory scenes, but in the eyes of ordinary people, the scenes here can definitely be linked with heresy, there is no doubt that once the city is discovered If it is not the case, the entire shaman academy, from mentor to apprentice, counts as one, and will be labeled heresy by the church.

The heart of the tree did not allow Leo to discover more details of the city, so he opened the passage to the city through the heart of the tree.

Sylvia on the side only saw a downward tree hole suddenly appear next to the ground pool, and she was sensitive and could smell a trace of blood and abyss from the tree hole.

At this moment, Leo also broke away from the spirit of the tree, and then gestured to Sylvia, and went directly to the tree hole and jumped down. Seeing this, Sylvia also followed.

The two were lifted by the power in the tree hole to the completely enclosed urban area. This urban area was originally dark and dark, but the moment the two of them stepped here, the lighting mechanism in the urban area was automatically activated. The glowing plants all shone with light, illuminating the entire city.

There is no difference between this urban area and other areas in the tree city. They are all closely arranged rows of tree houses. The only difference is that the natural atmosphere here is very weak, not as thick as other areas, and the air is full of strong blood. It feels like you have come to a slaughterhouse.

As Leo walked towards the nearest room, he explained to Sylvia what he had just discovered and the general situation of the city.

While talking, the two entered the tree house. As Leo discovered, this tree house is an anatomy room. There is still blood on the anatomy table made of branches and leaves that has not been cleaned. Each bottle contains a large number of dissected organs, because the bottles are filled with a lot of special liquid, which keeps these organs alive, and some organs are still operating according to the state before they were dissected. , such as a beating heart and so on.

"The method of planing is very rough, a bit like a hunter planing his prey." Leo moved to the display stand, looked at each one, and said.

And Sylvia walked to the tool rack at the side, glanced around, and then seemed to find something, took off a planing tool like a claw hook knife from the tool rack, and took a serious look. Then he handed it to Leo and said, "You guessed right, the Belmont family was indeed involved."

Hearing this, Leo took the hook knife and looked at it. On the handle of this tool, there was a badge imprint of the Belmont family in this world. It seems that this tool should belong to a planer belonging to a heretic hunter of the Belmont family. .

"This is to study the characteristics of the creatures of the abyss, is it convenient for hunting in the future?" Sylvia looked at the bottles on the display shelf and said to herself.

"If that's the case, they aren't just hunting creatures from the abyss." Leo pointed to the human organs contained in some bottles and said.

Sylvia was noncommittal, walked around the room, found no other useful clues, and then suggested: "Go and see in other rooms."

Leo also nodded, and then the two walked through the rooms in the city one by one.

This urban area is not very big, and there are only a dozen of tree houses in total, and they soon finished walking. In these rooms, they found a lot of clues. In addition to the tools with the Belmont family crest, They also found some badges of the Church of True God, including the Church of Justice, the Church of the Holy Heart, the Church of Spring Water, and other large Churches of True God, but they did not know whether the owners of these church badges were the ones hosting the experiment or the people being experimented.

In addition, in a room that looked like an office, Leo also found a ledger written in secret language.

I don’t know if the person who wrote the ledger was inexperienced, or he never thought that someone would come here. The comparison books used to compare the meaning of the secret words in the ledger were placed on the bookshelf in the room, which made Leo effortless. Unlocked the contents of the ledger.

The content of the ledger is simply some delivery receipts, in which the recipients are code names used, and the goods are bone shaman wonders stored in another room.

Although the consignees are the code names used, the identities of some of the consignees can still be deduced from the information in the code names themselves. For example, the code name of the Belmont family should be the Tindas Hound, which is a legendary creature. Even if the prey targeted by this creature is protected by the gods, they cannot escape the hunt.

As for Teresa's royal family, they directly used the title of Noble Flower. The font used in the name is still a complicated cursive style, which is completely different from the handwriting style used by other pronouns. The royal family is sincerely respected.

In addition, some secret organizations are also recorded in the ledger, and the names of these secret organizations are also very recognizable. For example, the Son of the Virgin who had contact with Leo and the others before used insulting names such as the son of the crazy mother.

And among all the secret organizations that have had strange object teachings with the shaman academy, there is an organization that has a very large number of orders, almost the sum of the other secret organizations, only a little less than the orders of the Teresa Royal Family and the Belmont Family, and this The organization's order items are very single, and they are all special wonders used by some natural shamans to cultivate tree species.

Leo found the corresponding strange thing in the strange thing warehouse next to it. This kind of strange thing is a small container made up of some kind of abyssal creature, mutant heresy, and the skull of a priest of a certain church. Shamanic runes with special powers are engraved on the surface of the container.

Although, Leo did not find other evidence, but he had a vague feeling that the secret organization that customized this special shaman wonder should be the organization he joined in Cape West, and this container is likely to be made of to grow implants.

In the ledger, the code name of that organization does not have a specific name, but only a symbol. This symbol is not a shaman symbol, but a common symbol in the books of the Church of True God. The meaning of the symbol represents rebirth and transformation, and the rebirth is human. Rebirth, metamorphosis is metamorphosis towards the end of God.

Although being placed in the church means that ordinary people joining the church is a kind of rebirth, and obtaining the gift of gods is a kind of transformation, but being placed in that organization, specifically referring to the implanted flowers, this kind of rebirth and transformation is also applicable, Joan It is the best example of rebirth and transformation.

"What is this? A manufacturing factory for shamanic artifacts?" Sylvia couldn't help laughing after listening to Leo's analysis.

Leo said solemnly: "If it's a factory, who are the workers?"

Sylvia quickly thought of the answer, and said: "Who else, don't forget that there is a branch deep in the verdant forest, there is no shortage of natural shamans that can be driven, and those completely mutated natural shamans are even more powerful." It’s easier to control, and you don’t have to worry about the secret being leaked, and with their monster-like state, no one will believe anything you say.” She paused again, and said: “And those completely mutated nature shamans are even Even if they are dead, they can also be used, don't forget that many of the special bones used by shamans here belong to natural shamans."

Following Sylvia's words, Leo gradually built a shaman trade flow chart full of depravity and evil in his mind, and now this shaman academy is in the middle of the flow chart.