The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Not long after Leo hid himself in the sand below, a roaring mechanical sound came from behind a sand dune, and he could see puffs of thick smoke coming out, and then he saw a ten-meter-high The giant mechanical spider slowly climbed up the sand dune.

This mechanical spider looks like it is pieced together with various metal fragments. Metals of different materials are forcibly formed into different shapes, and then spliced ​​together through some gears, levers, cylinders and other parts. This mechanical device that was forcibly pieced together will make various noisy creaking sounds every step of the way, and every part will vibrate violently, feeling as if it will fall apart at any time.

However, such a dilapidated mechanical device has a very advanced engine furnace. This engine furnace should belong to a certain spaceship. Just like other mechanical devices and metal parts, it is also forcibly fixed in place. The middle part of the mechanical spider, and without the central control system, was activated normally, and became the power source of the entire mechanical spider.

However, according to the normal physical logic, let alone using the spaceship engine as the power, even if it uses the core of the earth as the power, it is absolutely impossible for this kind of mechanical device assembled at will to move, but the mechanical spider in front of me is not just Mechanical device, it is a strange thing.

I saw vine-like energy guide rails emanating from the engine furnace, all over the surface of the mechanical spider. These energy guide rails are the reason for controlling the mechanical spider's movement.

Because the energy group in the engine furnace is actually an energy life form, based on the energy generated by the engine power, he let his energy tentacles pour into the entire spider machine, driving the spider machine to move.

However, this energy life form does not seem to have very high intelligence, it can only perform some basic movements, and it needs to be manipulated by humans to move correctly. As for the creature that controls this mechanical spider, it cannot be said to be a human being, because In addition to having a human head, their bodies and limbs are like insects.

These human-headed worms crawled all over the surface of the mechanical spider. They possessed the normal intelligence no less than human beings, and could judge the surrounding situation. By touching the nodes of the energy guide rail at different positions with their limbs, they could guide the mechanical spider to move quickly on the sandy ground. The movement of these human-headed insects seems to have some kind of spiritual connection, and they can cooperate perfectly without words and gestures.

Although it seems that the mechanical spider is moving very hard, and it will sway after taking a step, but in fact it moves very fast. It has moved from a distant sand dune to a piece of sand not far from Leo in a dozen seconds. before the ground.

Under the control of the human-headed worm, the mechanical spider suddenly listened, and then saw that the human-headed worm controlled the mechanical spider, opened a hatch in the abdomen, and ejected a dozen tentacles equipped with claws from the inside, piercing into the Arrived in the sand below, and continued to drill down.

Not long after, the claws stopped turning downwards, and then slowly pulled upwards, but at this time the chain connected by the claws was stretched straight by a force, and a dull mechanical sound came from the abdomen of the mechanical spider, feeling like It was the hook claw that grabbed the big guy hiding in the sand, trying to hook the big guy out of the ground, and the big guy was struggling hard.

The two sides stood in a stalemate for a long time, and the mechanical spider's joints also sank into the sand due to the pull-down force. However, after sinking to a certain extent, a halo of light suddenly appeared at the joints of the mechanical spider's joints, and then the mechanical spider seemed to lose weight. Slowly float up.

At the same time, some electric lights visible to the naked eye also appeared on the claw chains. It seemed that the mechanical spider was using electric shocks to attack the big guys in the sand.

The electric shock soon took effect. Although the pulling force still did not disappear, the claw chain no longer stayed in a stalemate, but slowly rolled upwards.

After about a few minutes, the sandy soil under the mechanical spider began to roll, and a huge sandworm with stone skin covered with various crystals was pulled up by the claws.

At the moment when the sandworm was pulled out of the ground, the sandworm seemed to be imprisoned by some kind of force and lost its resistance. live.

After the sandworm emerged from the ground, the human-headed worms on the mechanical spider seemed to know that the sandworm had given up resistance. They put the metal panniers on their backs one by one, and then jumped onto the sandworm's back, using their pincers to quickly dig out the sand worm. Those crystals on the worm's skin and put it in the pannier.

Soon the crystals on the sandworm's back were cleaned up, and the human-headed worm controlled the sandworm to turn over and dug out all the crystals on the other side until all the crystals were cleared.

After clearing all the crystals, the human-headed beetle released the claws fastened to the sandworm, controlled the mechanical spider to retract the claws, then walked away from the sandworm, and walked back the same way. After the spider left, it slowly dived into the sand, leaving only a piece of tumbling sand.

After everything returned to calm, Leo, who was a bystander, also floated up from the sand, walked to the tumbling pile of sand, and picked up a piece of red crystal left on the ground.

"Energy crystal?" Leo couldn't help showing surprise on his face after feeling the stable energy transmitted from the crystal.

Energy crystals are no strangers to Leo. When he was a cyborg, many ammunition for energy weapons were made of energy crystals, but all the energy crystals he came into contact with were unstable, and That is to say, the energy contained in the crystal is in a semi-activated state, and it will be activated if you are not careful, causing various energy explosions or energy shock waves, etc., so this kind of energy crystal needs to use stabilizers to limit its energy activities. Catalysts are used to activate energy when used.

However, now the energy contained in the energy crystal in Leo's hand is indeed in a stable state, even in an inert state, even if Leo used spiritual energy to stimulate the energy in the crystal, that energy was not activated.

In the universe, this kind of inert energy crystals has never been naturally formed. They are all artificially synthesized energy blocks without exception, and this kind of inert energy blocks has a very large effect, and it can be said to be the cornerstone of all levels of the universe. , as small as ordinary energy tools, as large as the energy rails of spaceships, without exception, this kind of inert energy block needs to be used.

Now there are creatures that can produce this kind of inert energy block by themselves. If this incident happened in the universe, it would definitely become a major event that shocked the entire civilization of the universe. Even advanced civilizations would be shocked, because the higher the development of energy technology The more civilizations know the importance of inert energy blocks, if they can breed inert energy blocks like raising livestock, it will definitely play an important role in rewriting the history of the development of cosmic civilization.

Because of this, Leo also became interested in the sandworm just now. Just when he was about to see if he could catch the sandworm that had just drilled back into the ground and study it, he felt the sound coming from under his feet. There was a slight movement, and an inexplicable smile appeared on his face.

Immediately afterwards, I saw the sandworm that escaped before suddenly drilled out of the sand not far from Leo, opened its mouth full of sharp teeth, and rushed towards Leo. It regarded Leo as a single prey, and planned to vent the suffering it encountered.

However, when it rushed to a distance of more than ten meters from Leo, its rapidly wriggling body instantly became stiff as if petrified. It slid forward for a certain distance, and just stopped in front of Leo. At the same time, its big mouth was closed at the same time, and the whole body curled up into a ball, as if it had encountered some natural enemy.

It's no wonder that the sandworm had such a reaction, because at the moment the sandworm appeared just now, Leo imitated the breath of Sylvia's abyssal dragon blood, although this breath could not allow him to display He can't produce the ability of any abyssal dragon, but it can make him incarnate into an existence equivalent to the abyssal dragon in front of some sensitive creatures, which has a strong deterrent effect on any creature.

Leo's body looked so small in front of the huge sandworm, but when he put his hands on the sandworm, the sandworm didn't dare to move like a completely frightened animal. It was completely stiff and stiff.

And Leo didn't hurt the sandworm, but used spiritual energy to run around the sandworm's body, and at the same time cooperated with the spirit net to check the internal structure of the sandworm.

"Man-made?" Leo muttered to himself in surprise after receiving feedback from psionic energy and the spiritual network.

As he said, this sandworm looks like it grows naturally on the surface, but in fact it has a lot of artificially synthesized traces in its body, and many of these artificially synthesized traces are similar to the transformation of witchcraft by the tower wizard known to Leo. There are some similarities, although he can't be sure who is the source of the two, but he can be sure that the two must be related.

In addition, Leo also found the reason why this sandworm can produce stable energy crystals. This is mainly because the sandworm has a large number of tumor-like energy harvesting organs in its body. It seems that it can collect stable energy absorbed through food, and then It condenses in the tumor in the form of stones, until it grows to a certain extent, it will directly penetrate the tumor, pierce the skin, and move to the surface of the skin.

From a certain point of view, the human-headed worm on the mechanical spider just now is actually helping the sandworm to solve the pain on its body, because these energy crystals are rooted in the skin, and the roots are connected to the nerves in the body, so every time the sandworm moves, these energy crystals Energy crystallization will make the sandworm feel severe pain, even this pain is strong enough to rival a thousand cuts. This is also the reason why the sandworm stopped struggling after it surfaced. Obviously, this is not the first time this sandworm has received This crystal has been pulled out

However, the whole process of pulling out the crystals is still a painful thing for the sandworms, because those human-headed worms dig out the crystals directly, and the process of digging will also make the sandworms feel extremely painful.

After learning about the sandworm's situation, Leo didn't just let the sandworm go, but flew to the back of the sandworm, found a suitable skin fold to make it off, and then raised his foot and stepped on the sandworm's stone a few times skin.

Afterwards, the sandworm was seen wriggling again, but this time it no longer burrowed into the ground, but turned into Leo's mount wriggling on the ground, quickly moving towards the direction the mechanical spider left , and this direction is also the location of the spiritual imprint sensed by Leo.

The sandworm moved very fast, and it didn't take long before they saw the mechanical spider, and the human-headed worms on the same mechanical spider also saw the huge sandworm, but they didn't see the huge sandworm sitting on it. Leo on his back.

At this time, Leo controlled the sandworm to slow down, and followed behind at a speed close to that of the mechanical spider. At the same time, Leo's spiritual web also spread over, sensing the situation on the mechanical spider.

Those human-headed beetles were also very surprised at the fact that the sandworm was following behind. They did not need to use language, but connected through their hearts. Pay attention to the sandworms.

Although there is strong energy interference from the surrounding environment and the mechanical spider, Leo deliberately narrowed the perception range of the spiritual web, and at the same time increased the perception intensity of the spiritual web, which allowed him to clearly scan the mechanical spider. all situations.

At this time, Leo also discovered that besides those human-headed worms, there was another person on the mechanical spider, and this person should be the master of these human-headed worms and mechanical spiders, but it is not accurate to say that he is a human, because although he is long It has a body similar to that of a human, but its head is a huge gemstone, and various colors of light are constantly shining in the gemstone.

The combination of a group of worms with human heads and a humanoid creature with a gemstone head has an inexplicable sense of harmony, but Leo values ​​this creature more than the gemstone head of this humanoid creature. The clothes on his body, because he could see that the clothes should be the basic armor suit of the Earth Federation.

Leo remembered that this basic armor suit was a new piece of equipment issued by the Earth Federation. He used module pendants to assemble the corresponding weapon equipment modules on the basic armor suit according to his own needs. Because it was expensive, it was only issued Assemble the most elite troops.

Leo was also qualified to wear such an armored suit, but unfortunately he died in battle before it was distributed to him, and the reason why he was able to recognize it was that he had mastered this armored suit by learning chips. All the functions can be directly equipped and used just waiting for the armor suit to be delivered to the hand.

Although just a set of armor suits does not mean anything, judging from the fact that this jewel-headed humanoid can wear the armor suit correctly, the other party must have mastered a certain amount of Earth Federation technology, and there may even be a whole set from an elite It is a learning device for the army, because it is absolutely impossible to learn how to wear this armor suit on a civilian learning device.