The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Something's wrong!" Leo found a hidden passage at the bottom of the lava lake's rock formation through the spiritual network, and was about to follow the direction of this passage to find an entrance and exit to the ground when he suddenly seemed to have discovered something. He stopped and murmured to himself.

Although a section of this passage connects the lower floor of the building at the bottom of the lava lake, it seems that there is a passage directly leading to the interior of the building from the outside, but when you think about it carefully, it makes people feel that this passage is a bit abrupt, because since the other party already has If they were able to build such a huge building full of cosmic technology at the bottom of the lava lake, then how could they go to the trouble of building a channel that looks ordinary and is easy to be discovered and used by people? They should have a more high-tech and safer way of entering and exiting, such as directly passing through the space transmission device from the ground to the interior of the building.

Afterwards, Leo, suspicious in his heart, carefully checked the situation of the passage through the spiritual network, and he soon discovered that this underground passage without any high-tech equipment and extraordinary power was indeed a trap as he had guessed, and this The layout of the trap is completely the most common mechanism trap adopted.

This kind of mechanism trap is spread all over the vital parts of the passage. As long as someone touches it, it will be activated immediately. At that time, the trap will cause the passage to collapse, and the lava veins around the passage will also squeeze in, completely submerging the inside of the passage.

Because of this, Leo can also be sure that this channel has never been used after the construction is completed, because this kind of trap is a one-time trap, as long as it is triggered once, the channel will disappear.

After confirming that the passage was a trap, Leo placed his search for a way to get in and out of the building on the lava-wrapped surface.

When Leo circled the surface of the building looking for a way to enter the building, the abyssal dragon that seemed to be imprisoned in the middle above him slowly opened his eyes and looked towards Leo.

I don't know if it's the interference of the chaotic energy contained in the lava, or because of other reasons. In short, Leo doesn't feel anything about the sight of the abyss dragon falling on him. If he feels it, and looks at this special abyss dragon If so, you will find that there is a big problem with the eyes of this abyssal dragon.

Except for the difference in size and color, the eyeballs of ordinary abyssal dragons are basically presented with vertical pupils, but now the eyeballs of this abyssal dragon are as black as ink, and when they are opened, there are always some as if Some mycelium-like tentacles protruded from the eyeballs, spread around the eye sockets, and then shrank back under the influence of the surrounding lava and the castle's protective power, repeating itself again and again, looking like the eyes of this abyssal dragon. It is constantly expanding and contracting, just like the heart.

If Leo saw the condition of the abyss dragon's eyeball, he would be able to easily tell that the black substance in the eyeball should be some kind of abyss superior species parasitic in the body of the abyss dragon cub before, but now this superior species The parasitism turned to parasitize in the body of the new abyss dragon.

In this way, when an abyss master controlled the abyss dragon to spy on Leo's every move at the bottom of the lava lake, Leo also checked the surface of the building several times, perhaps because he searched more carefully than before. Because of this, he quickly found several places that could be used, and finally came up with the safest entry method based on the conditions of these places, and even if there was a mistake, it would not affect the building itself.

The people who built this building at the bottom of the lava lake never thought about leaving any entrances and exits on the surface of the building. Basically, there are several layers of armor and isolation layers on the surface of the building. It is possible to enter through normal means, which just confirmed his guess. Those who entered the building from the outside should have used some kind of space transmission device with precise short-distance positioning.

Although Leo does not have this kind of special space transmission device for entering and exiting this building, he has the ability to tear space and travel through space. He only needs to improve it a little to find a suitable position, even if there are complex forces around him. Even if there is no interference, he can also enter this building.

After thinking clearly, Leo immediately moved to an octagonal protective armor plate on the top of the building. Through the cooperation of perception and spiritual net just now, he found that in addition to the heat insulation layer, the lower layer of this armor plate also installed similar energy radiation. Items such as stabilizers, which are used to stabilize the energy turbulence in the surrounding lava, which can keep people in the building from being affected by the complex energy outside.

In addition, there are several special items like this on the surface of this building, but their effects are much weaker than those at the moment under Leo's feet. Like Leo standing on this armor plate now, he can clearly feel The chaotic and complex energy field around him became stable and regular, and the various forces in his body were no longer affected by these chaotic energies and could be displayed normally.

In this case, Leo didn't think too much, squatted down, and first tried to extend the spiritual net to see the situation inside, but the energy stabilizer was also a jammer. They were immediately dispersed, let alone checking the situation inside the building, it was even difficult to check the situation of the isolation layer below the deck.

However, the result that the spirit net was blocked did not exceed Leo's expectations. He had already tried to use the spirit net when he was searching for this building just now, and now he just confirmed it again.

After discovering that the spirit net was fruitless, Leo immediately changed his method, reached out and quickly slapped the armor plate below. Although the slap was not strong, the vibration produced could travel far, and the reflected vibration would not be weakened.

Through these reflected vibrations, Leo quickly understood some of the internal conditions of the building, and found a special room suitable for positioning the space anchor.

Next, he tried to tear a small space gap, and the result was as he expected, the surrounding stable energy field did not cause any adverse effects.

After the trial was feasible, Leo directly opened up a space rift by calculating the position of the anchor point and the orientation of the space rift, and then drilled in.

Just when Leo got into the space gap leading to the interior of the building, the black tentacles in the eyeballs of the abyss dragon above his head shot out two slender tentacles as if they were stimulated by some kind of slender tentacles. The location of the crack rushed over.

The speed of the tentacle shooting is very fast, and it contains powerful energy that can directly break through the chaotic energy field of the surrounding lava. Almost in the blink of an eye, the tentacle came to the disappearing space rift intact, and then disappeared in the rift The previous round turned into a black tentacle and disconnected from the black substance in the eyeball of the abyss dragon, and penetrated into the space rift, and the space rift completely disappeared at this moment.

The moment the black tentacles came out from the other end of the space rift, they were immediately imprisoned by a force without any movement, and then a crystal ball-like object with a large number of runes on its surface appeared suspended in the air. At the same time, a force was transmitted from the object, capturing the black tentacles and dragging them into the crystal ball.

"I was still thinking about how to lure you into the bait, but I didn't expect you to come to the door by yourself. In this case, I don't need to be polite." As the banned crystal ball fell into Leo's hands, he put the crystal ball on the He took a look in front of his eyes and said to himself.

In fact, when the abyss superior parasitic in the abyss dragon paid attention to Leo, Leo felt it, but because of the interference of the chaotic energy field in the lava, he couldn't tell what was paying attention to him. It wasn't until he entered the stable energy field created by the stabilizer that he realized that the abyss dragon above his head was paying attention to him.

At that time, he chose not to keep his expression on his face, and did his own things step by step, until he opened up a space rift, he felt the parasite inside the abyss dragon's body was about to move, so he judged that the other party would definitely make a move. The first time he passed through the space rift, he didn't bother to check the surrounding situation, and immediately took out various rune traps and magic circles and arranged them around the rift. As he expected, something came out of the rift before the rift disappeared. Drilled out of the crack and was captured.

"Is it a part of the body?" Leo directly used the spirit net to check the situation inside the crystal ball, but the result was not ideal. Apart from being able to judge that it was only a part of the body, and it came from a powerful and pure abyss upper race, he could I can no longer see any information I have, and I can't even judge which abyss upper species it belongs to.

Although there are not many high-ranking races in the abyss, no one can guarantee that they can understand all the high-ranking races in the abyss. Even those races as old as the abyss serpent dare not accept information about all the high-ranking races that they know.

Because the number and types of the upper races in the abyss are constantly changing, some upper races in the abyss are declining for some reason almost every moment, and some middle races have been lucky enough to be promoted and become upper races, except for a few Except for the powerful and stable upper races, all other abyss upper races are replaceable, so in this case, it is basically impossible for anyone to fully understand the abyss upper races.

"Maybe Sylvia knows the origin of this thing?" Leo was unable to find the information of the upper race in the abyss that matched the imprisoned body in his memory, so he could only temporarily put it away, and when he returned to the castle, let Sylvia Via has a look, maybe there will be results. After all, the memory inherited from the abyss dragon obtained by Sylvia is much more in terms of knowledge of the abyss than the incomplete memory Leo obtained from the eyeball of the abyss snake.

After putting away the prison crystal ball, he took away the untriggered rune traps and magic circles around him, and then turned to look around.

At this moment, he is in a dark passage, and he can't see his fingers. Because his eyes have been strengthened and improved in the process of evolving to a seventh-level psyker, his vision has acquired some supernatural powers. Even if this ability cannot be compared with spiritual vision, it still allows him to see the surrounding situation clearly in such a dark environment.

This passage is a normal maintenance passage. From the structural point of view, it looks like the passage structure used by some factories. According to common sense, this kind of maintenance passage will use constant energy lamps that can last for thousands of years as passage lighting, because Once an accident occurs, the maintenance personnel need to use this channel to reach the accident site as soon as possible, so all the lighting and conveyor belt devices here are independent and will not be connected with other energy devices.

I don't know if it was affected by the stabilizer. At this moment, his position is much different from the position of the space anchor point after his calculation. According to the position of his anchor point, he should be at the pipeline layer below the isolation layer. Yes, and the current maintenance access is located further below the pipeline level, separated from the official working area of ​​the building by a wall.

Although the location is wrong, the current location is better for Leo. After checking the surrounding situation a little, he tried to use the mental net to scan the internal structure of the building.

However, at the moment when his spiritual net spread, the psionic energy contained in the spiritual net seemed to trigger a certain stress module inside the building, and all the lighting devices in the passage were all lit up, it felt like A mechanism that had been abandoned for many years was reactivated.

The sudden activation of the lighting device did not affect Leo's scanning. His mental net was still rapidly spreading in the building, and soon the entire interior of the building was thoroughly explored by his mental net. He could also confirm that this so-called building was actually It's a dropship.

Among the many exploration spacecraft of the Earth Federation, the shape of the water drop spacecraft is the most in line with the aesthetics of humans and aliens, but because of its high cost and single function, the output of this type of spacecraft is very small, and the colonial fleet rarely uses it. It is installed in its own battleship formation, and only the resource fleet dedicated to exploring planetary resources will use this kind of spaceship.

As the name suggests, the biggest function of this spacecraft is to explore planetary resources. It can use a falling method called the grounding method to let itself directly hit the surface of the planet. The material elements are emitted into the air, and then collected by the collector to analyze the detailed resource composition of the planet.

However, because the exploration method of this spaceship is too rough and violent, and the impact strength is no less than that of a small meteorite, this spaceship will never be used for resource exploration on life-like planets.

Leo had heard of this kind of spaceship before, but he had never seen this kind of spaceship before. The only thing he knew about this kind of spaceship was its special shape and the incomparable shock-absorbing module. , The water drop spacecraft did not fall apart, and its shock-absorbing module is definitely the strongest in the entire Earth Federation spacecraft system.