The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Although some are curious about how Hongtu City attracted so many forces to secretly deploy here, Leo has no intention of getting involved in this vortex. Now Hongtu City is already chaotic enough, and with the introduction of the Justice Church, Green Jade and Rollo After Hill's two forces, Hongtu City will only become more chaotic. There is no need for him to get in by himself and ask for trouble.

After thinking for a while on the roof of the Torch Building, Leo gave up his plan to continue exploring, stopped spying on the floors below, fell directly from the outer wall of the building, and then drilled into the nearby streets, moving towards the outer city.

On the way out of the inner city, Leo took care of a madman who hadn't had time to deal with it, removed the implant in his brain, sealed it in a box, and studied it after returning to the outer city.

Different from looking at the city walls of the inner city before, the people guarding the city walls at this moment have been replaced by city guards and superhumans who directly belong to the Dark Lord. Their guard methods are obviously much stricter, but no matter how strict they are, they still Leo who climbed over the wall cannot be found.

Just like the situation in the inner city, the people directly under the dark lord also began to quell the chaos in the outer city, but obviously the chaos in the outer city was not as easy to solve as the inner city.

Although the battle between the various factions in the inner city had suffered heavy casualties, it could be said that it was red-hot, but as the Dark Lord's direct subordinates began to leave, the battle between them quickly subsided, because they knew very well that if they continued , then their result is just a loss for both sides, and let the hidden dark master take advantage of it. ,

Therefore, the turmoil in the inner city only needs to be dealt with in the end, only those crazy people with implants on their bodies, and those crazy people have already been exhausted after a long period of fighting. It was resolved before too much resistance was made.

Judging from the fact that the troops directly under the dark lord have enough manpower to replace the city wall, the turmoil in the inner city can be completely subsided within a day or so at most.

However, the situation in the outer city is completely different. Compared with the forces that have taken root in the inner city, the forces entrenched in the outer city are more rough and wild, and they still have a strong sense of desperation. Those who join these forces are also some desperadoes and wanted criminals. Most of them don't have a sense of belonging to Hongtu City in their hearts, unlike the people in the inner city, most of whom consider themselves as people from Hongtu City.

At this moment, they don't know whether it was deliberately guided by someone or their own ideas. All the forces involved in the turmoil think that this is a good opportunity for them to increase their power and unify the outer urban areas. As long as they unify the outer urban areas, they can To become a big shot in Hongtu City, money and power will naturally flow in like a tide, so without exception, they are not willing to give up such a great opportunity to change their destiny.

Even if they meet people who directly belong to the Dark Lord, the choice they make is to do it directly and never say anything. Compared with the forces in the inner city that have occupied the Red Earth City for many years, the emerging forces in the outer city are obviously more interested in the Dark Lord. The strength has not yet produced awe, and in their eyes, the Dark Lord's people are just enemies that hinder them from getting rich and gaining power.

In addition to those big and small forces in the outer city that have been stunned by power and wealth, the main reason why the Dark Lord's direct subordinates cannot quell the turmoil in the outer city is the wanted criminals and desperadoes who have just come to Hongtu City to take refuge and have not yet joined any forces. .

The outer city was built to accommodate the wanted criminals and desperadoes who came from all over the Old Continent. After these desperadoes came to the Red Earth City, they would not be immediately picked up by various forces in the city. Most of them would be taken as temporary residents. The identity remains in the outer urban areas.

In the past, due to frequent wars in the Middle Kingdom, many ordinary people came to Hongtu City to take refuge. The wars in the area have gradually decreased, and most ordinary people have chosen to return to their places of residence, which has led to a rapid decrease in the number of ordinary people in the outer urban areas. Up to now, the number of desperadoes in the outer urban areas has accounted for more than 90%, and most of them Most of the outlaws have no identity yet.

When the situation was stable, with the suppression of various forces in the outer urban areas, these desperadoes could barely maintain their sanity and would not commit crimes under the noses of various forces. But now the entire outer urban area is in chaos, and the various forces that maintain stability are even more As the source of chaos, those desperadoes naturally no longer have any worries.

At this moment, not to mention the ordinary people and merchants living in the outer city, even the big and small forces that were feared and feared by these desperadoes before have become the targets of their looting. The turbulent dark lord is directly under the people. He was killed just after entering the outer city, leaving only two or three people who fled back. Survive all kinds of wanted and hunted, and escape here, there is no way to do it.

On the way back to the hotel in the outer city, Leo saw at least a dozen scenes where people who were alone in the outer city were besieged by a group of outlaws, and most of the people walking around the streets with weapons were those outlaws However, as for the forces in the outer urban area, they are busy absorbing the territory of the hostile forces that have been conquered, and have not yet pulled out their hands to deal with those desperadoes.

There are also some smart people among the outlaws. They know that once the situation in the outer urban areas stabilizes, they will be liquidated one by one, so some of them simply join some forces, and some simply form their own forces. Many people are attacking the city gate, and they plan to open the city gate and escape.

Facing the chaos in the outer city, Leo had no interest in intervening. After returning to the garden villa of the hotel, he closed the door to study the implant he had just obtained.

During this period of time, because of the deterrent effect of the corpses outside the hotel, the desperadoes who caused riots in the urban area did not dare to approach the hotel, and some ordinary people who were avoiding the turmoil fled into the hotel in a panic when they were evading the chase. I was lucky enough to escape, and people came to the hotel to seek refuge one after another. Gradually, more and more people came to the hotel to seek refuge, and this place gradually became a rare refuge for ordinary people in the city.

Originally, the hotel relied on the dead bodies at the door to deter those outlaws. Later, as more and more people took refuge in the hotel, these ordinary people also united to resist the outlaws entering the hotel, and the final effect was not bad. good.

Among the people who took refuge in the hotel, many people were curious about the garden villa where Leo temporarily lived, and wanted to find out, but in the end, without exception, they were trapped by the rune traps that Leo did not arrange outside, and fell into a trap. In the endless hallucinations, he finally collapsed from exhaustion and fainted before being released.

Because of these people as examples, no one would dare to approach this garden villa no matter how many people came to take refuge in the hotel, and every room and even the floor would not fit.

Leo in the villa didn't pay any attention to what happened inside and outside the hotel, and his mind was all on the research of the implant in his hand.

Although Leo had often come into contact with implants before, such as the implant on Joan, it was the first time he had come into contact with a completely stripped implant like this one.

This is also the biggest difference between the implants on those crazy people in Hongtu City and the implants on Joan and Barbarisa. The implants on Joan and Barbarisa will be perfectly in harmony after implantation. The brain nerves are fused together and then extended to every part of the implanted body, so their implants are basically impossible to remove.

Now the implants on the madmen of Hongtu City are more like a parasite attached to the brain. This parasite just lies on the surface of the brain. Except for a few implanted tentacles connected to the brain nerves, other parts of the brain have no connection with the brain at all. Any connection, and as the implant mutates, the connection between the implant and the brain of the madman will not become tighter, but a large number of automatic peelings will occur. Only the main tentacles are connected to the brain, which also makes peeling off by external force Difficulty becomes much easier.

In addition, the implants on Barbarisa and Joan seem to be creating superhumans and god-favored ones, but now the implants of the madman in Hongtu City are more like creating berserkers.

After receiving some external stimuli, these implants will secrete a large amount of stimuli at the end of the tentacles. After these stimuli are injected into the brain, they will not cause any extraordinary changes in the brain, but will cause the brain to generate a sufficiently powerful stimulation signal , stimulate the body's adrenaline.

The effect of this implant is similar to the adrenaline hormone used by the Earth Federation fighters. It restores energy in a short period of time, makes people forget the pain, and even maximizes the strength generated by human muscles. The difference is that the adrenaline of the Earth Federation is short-lived and harmless, but the adrenaline stimulated by this implant is long-lasting and irreversibly overdraws the strength of the human body.

However, this plant body has a function that the adrenaline of the Earth Federation cannot match, that is, this implant can digest its own energy core to supplement the nutrients and energy consumed by the implanted body under the stimulation of adrenaline.

This discovery is also what Leo is most interested in this implant, because he found that this implant is simply a concentrated nutrient and energy body, and more than a dozen energy cores of different sizes are condensed in the implant. The energy and nutrients contained in these energy cores are completely out of proportion to their body size. With these energy cores, the body of the implanted body can completely withstand long-term wasting consumption.

According to Leo's estimate, if the dark lord's direct subordinates don't enter the inner city to quell the turmoil and capture those crazy people, the bodies of those crazy people should be able to last for more than two days under the consumption of the implanted energy core. Only then will it completely collapse, and the wear and tear of the body will be reflected after the collapse. At that time, let alone continue to attack other people, it may be difficult to even stand up.

According to the duration and intensity of the effect of the implant, this implant is definitely a nearly perfect weapon of war, but this weapon of war has a very fatal flaw, that is, once the implant mutates, it starts to stimulate the human body. , then the implanted person will fall into a frenzy of killing, unable to extricate themselves, and without any sense at all, even the partners who fought side by side before will be regarded as targets of attack by him.

However, even so, this defective implant is still a good weapon of war, and if used properly, it can also turn the tide of a war.

For example, before the outbreak of war, a large number of implanted people were sent to the opponent's army. Once the war broke out and the frontal battle began, the implants would mutate, causing the implanted people to fall into a state of madness and attack The people around him will cause the other party to fall into chaos, and attacking at this time will definitely win the final result.

In addition, those cultists can also use these implants to create terrorist incidents in those hostile Church of God parishes, and hostile countries can also use implants to disrupt the situation in enemy countries and so on.

It is no exaggeration to say that even though this kind of implant is technically immature, it can already be used in actual combat at the level of enemy weapons.

Now there are two forces that control this implant, one is the Church of Justice, and the other is the Transcendence Organization. Whether these two forces conduct research separately or cooperate, it is not a good thing for the people of this continent. , because once things like implants are used, then Hongtu City may be the best reflection.

It's just that Leo doesn't care much about how the two forces use the implants, nor does he care about the serious consequences of using the implants. He is more concerned about how to condense the implants into energy cores. In his opinion, if he has mastered this method, then he can produce a large amount of this energy core at ordinary times, and he doesn't need to worry about the power in his body not being able to support the consumption of various powerful abilities during battle. problem.

Leo had already realized this problem a long time ago. Once the thunder gun is a strategic-level psionic skill capable of killing gods, once he completely releases the actual combat, he can use it once or twice with the power of his current seventh-level psyker. I'm afraid I'm already exhausted. Although I won't be weak enough to be slaughtered by that time, I will definitely be in danger. Therefore, before the psionic energy is raised to a higher level, increasing the depth and thickness of one's own energy becomes The problem he needs to solve the most now.

Before that, Leo also considered using methods such as wizard medicine to maintain the consumption of the body, but wizard medicine is good, but it takes time to exert its effect, and in battle, the most lacking thing is time, so wizard medicine does not It is regarded by him as the main method of replenishing power consumption.

Now this method of implanting the energy core in the body just meets Leo's needs. When it needs to be used, it can directly decompose the energy core, and it works directly. It is simply a perfect power consumption supplement.