The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Comfortable!" When Leo's whole body entered Lake Narnia, a thought instantly appeared in his mind, which filled his consciousness and made him temporarily forget his purpose of entering Lake Narnia.

The very ordinary lake water for ordinary people, the moment it touched Leo's body, a weak force contained in it penetrated into his body with an unstoppable momentum, allowing his body and even his spirit to enter. To a state of relaxation that has never been experienced before.

To explain this state in a somewhat old-fashioned way, it is as if he has returned to the amniotic fluid of the mother's body at this moment, returning to the state of a baby.

Leo didn't immerse himself in this extremely comfortable feeling for too long, and soon his will pulled him back to a normal state, but it was only his body returning to a normal state, but his spiritual consciousness was due to the stone throne and The resonance of the inexplicable power in Lake Narnia has always been in the intertwining of two extreme emotions of peace and excitement, as if two personalities are tearing each other apart, which makes him feel a little uncomfortable.

After adjusting his state a little, Leo began to dive towards the bottom of the lake.

Although this is only an inland lake, the depth of Lake Narnia exceeds most of the lakes in the world. Leo dived more than 100 meters before he could barely see the bottom, but the bottom was not Leo's goal. , because the entire bottom of Lake Narnia is funnel-shaped, and the bottom he saw was only the edge of the hole. Although there are some crystal stones here, they are too scattered and rare. The miner's skeleton of the device seems to have been excavated by previous miners.

Leo didn't stay here, and continued to dive down the slope at the bottom of the lake to the center. As the depth of the dive increased, the remains of the miners that could be seen at the bottom of the lake also decreased, and the number of crystal stones also increased. , gradually became a large connected area, and finally the bottom of the lake was completely covered by crystalline stones.

And with the increase of crystal stones, the resonant reaction of the stone throne at Leo's spiritual core is also gradually enhanced. Although this enhancement is still too weak overall, it is much stronger than before, the most intuitive expression That is, the patterns on the surface of the stone throne are no longer as blurred as before, but become clearer.

It's just that those patterns and symbols are useless no matter how clear they are, because even if Leo tries to remember those patterns and symbols clearly, once his consciousness is separated from the spiritual core, the things he recorded will quickly dissipate and return to the vagueness. state.

Leo didn't take this matter to heart. In his opinion, this should be caused by the change of the Stone Throne only in a state of resonance. Once he found the source of the power that caused the crystallization of the bottom of Lake Narnia, and put that The source is integrated into the stone throne, then the changes in the stone royal family caused by the state of resonance will stabilize, and then he can truly spy on the secrets of the stone throne.

With excitement, Leo speeded up his dive, and after about ten minutes passed, he finally came to the center of the funnel-shaped lake bottom.

Although it is the central area, it is actually still a long way from the real center of the lake bottom. This central area, which is larger than the bottom of the funnel slope lake, is completely filled with crystallized stones, and all you can see are crystallized. Moreover, the crystal stones here are different from those at the bottom of the lake before. All the crystal stones here have a weak light source at their core.

A single light source will not have any effect on the dark bottom of the lake, but if there are millions or tens of millions of similar light sources all over the bottom of the lake, then the entire dark bottom of the lake will be illuminated like the ground during the day.

In addition to the addition of a light source at the core of the crystal stone, there are also a large number of underwater creatures living in this crystal stone. No matter what they looked like or what species they were before, these creatures are now crystallized without exception, and they look abnormal. beauty.

Because of the influence of the crystal stone, Leo's spiritual net could not penetrate under the crystal stone, and naturally he did not know the specific situation at the bottom of the lake, but it is not difficult to judge from the surrounding topography that Lake Narnia should be a giant formed after the impact of a meteorite. The meteorite that caused all this may be the source of crystallization, and may come from the stone throne.

Thinking of this, Leo couldn't wait to dig out a cave leading to the center of the lake bottom in this piece of crystal stone, but when he started, an abnormal wave came from a distance, and this strong force The water wave didn't cause too much trouble for Leo, but it made those crystalline fish or other crystalline creatures wandering under the water rolled up and scattered around, and the dust at the bottom of the lake was rolled up together, making The originally clear lake water immediately became cloudy.

Leo felt that the water wave was coming strangely. In order to avoid being disturbed by any accidents when he was digging, he swam towards the source of the water wave. It seemed that he planned to solve the matter on the water wave first.

I saw that he swam for about ten minutes, the dust at the bottom of the lake gradually sank, and the lake water became a little clearer. Following him, he saw a large number of moving light spots densely packed on the bottom of the lake in the distance. When he looked at the light spots seriously, he found that they were all people wearing diving equipment.

I saw that the diving equipment worn by these people was very different, it looked like iron cans, and behind each iron can was an air duct tied with a traction rope connected to it, leading straight to the water surface.

Judging from the appearance of the diving equipment, these diving equipment must be very heavy, and it is precisely because of these heavy equipment that they can firmly nail their bodies to the bottom of the lake, and do not let themselves float back and forth with the undercurrent at the bottom of the lake.

These people wearing diving equipment did not carry any mining equipment. Obviously, they did not come for the crystal stones at the bottom of the lake. After they stabilized their figures, they took out a bag and took out the floating stones in the water. Mutant creatures that looked like dead crystalline fish were stuffed into the bag, and when the bag was full, they would mount it on a rope tied with a heavy iron weight beside them, and pull the live rope next to the rope , to signal the people on the water to take back the bag, and soon an empty bag was sent down again, and the cycle went on and on, until all the floating crystalline organisms around them were caught, and then they would move to the next place to continue fishing.

Leo didn't get close to these people, but observed their behavior from a little distance away, and then looked at the situation on the water surface through his spiritual vision ability, and soon he saw a dozen ships docked on the water surface, There are uniform marks on those ships, and among the people working on the ships, in addition to ordinary people, there are also some people dressed as priests.

After a quick search of the church badge in his memory, Leo quickly found the origin of the marks on the ship, which were unique badges belonging to the Church of Chasing Light.

The Chasing Light Church is also one of the Churches of True God, but this church is not very old, and its teaching history is only more than two hundred years old. Such a short teaching history is definitely one of the last among the many Churches of True God.

Although the history of the Chasing Light Church is very short, its development has been smooth sailing as if it had been blessed by the gods. It took less than twenty years from the founding of the church to being accepted as a member of the Church of True God , which is absolutely unique among the various religions that have joined the Church of the True God.

It is also because of this that many researchers in the history of religion are extremely curious about the development history of the Chasing Light Church, and set up various subjects to study it. In the academic city, there are many related studies of religious scholars. Therefore, Leo's understanding of the Chasing Light Church may even be higher than that of the church's senior clergy.

In Leo's view, the reason why the Chasing Light Church is so easily accepted by the Church of True God and become a partner of many churches is mainly because of the philosophy founded by the Chasing Light Church, which can be summed up as evolution.

The founder of the Chasing Light Church believes that believers of any god should not passively accept the blessings of the gods, but should approach the gods more actively, catch up with the gods, and finally stand beside the gods, and to achieve this goal, they must let themselves The life forms of human beings are closer to the gods, and there is only one way to achieve this goal, and that is evolution.

The Chasing Light Church is one of the most mysterious churches among all the Churches of True God. This church does not have any temples, temples and other strongholds for missionary purposes. Their missionary work is more about finding suitable believers and actively spreading teachings to believers. Only then will believers be recruited to become priests of the church. That is to say, there are no believers in this church, all of them are priests, and they are also researchers. In the academic city, some scholars are members of the Chasing Light Church.

The entire Chasing Light Church is a large-scale life evolution research institute. No one outside knows what they have researched specifically, but what is certain is that several Churches of True God, such as the Church of Justice, have worked together for more than a hundred years. Inside, the number of internal senior priests and paladins is growing rapidly, and the shadow of Chasing Light Church can be vaguely seen.

For this reason, Leo also included Chasing Light Church as one of the churches he needed to visit, but what he didn't expect was that before he took the initiative, he had already encountered Chasing Light Church.

When it was confirmed that the people who captured these crystallized creatures came from the Church of Chasing Light, Leo quickly had a guess in his mind as to what the Church of Chasing Light wanted to capture these crystallized creatures.

"Make the extraordinary potion needed for evolution." A sentence came to Leo's mind.

It is not a secret that the Church of Chasing Light can produce potions with supernatural powers like wizard potions. In fact, when he was in the city of learning, Leo got a bottle from a biologist who was a priest of the Church of Chasing Light. Extraordinary medicine, the function of this bottle of medicine is very simple, it is to stimulate the human body in a short period of time, and promote the rapid metabolism of the human body, so that the wound can heal quickly, and the toxins in the body can be quickly eliminated through metabolism.

I have to say that the effect of that potion is not bad, although it is not as good as the effect of wizard healing potions, but compared with the effect of ordinary healing potions, it is much higher than that of ordinary healing potions, but this potion has a big flaw, that is, When the medicine takes effect, it will greatly consume the user's own energy. Once the energy can't keep up, the efficacy of the medicine will be greatly reduced. Unlike Leo's wizard healing medicine, the medicine itself consumes the medicine itself The hidden ability will not cause any burden or harm to the user.

It was also such an extraordinary potion that aroused Leo's curiosity about the Church of Chasing Light, which led him to include this young church in his visit list.

Leo had no intention of contacting the Church of Chasing Light at this moment, he just left a mark on a few people who fished crystallized creatures, and then turned and left.

After that, he spent tens of minutes to swim to a place far away from the fishing ground of the Chasing Light Church, then took out his tools, and began to cut the crystal stones at the bottom of the lake.

Although these crystal stones are very hard, compared to Leo's abilities and tools, this degree of hardness will not cause him any trouble. The crystal stones in front of him are cut like some kind of soft cake It became fragments, and then gushed out of the dug crystallization hole with the water flow created by Leo, and then scattered in different places.

The excavation direction that Leo made was not straight down, but slanted down. As for the direction, he felt that it might be the center of the lake bottom.

After more than an hour of digging, the crystal stone at the bottom of the lake was finally dug through by Leo.

I saw that the bottom of the lake was not filled with crystal stones as he had guessed in advance, but a huge hole. Not only did there not any crystallized creatures in the hole, there were not even crystal stones, and the ground at the bottom of the lake was also There are no aquatic plants, and because of this, the traces left after the impact are well preserved, allowing Leo to confirm that the meteorite impact theory he made before is correct.

Leo didn't stop much, and swam directly towards the center of the hollow at the bottom of the lake. Soon he saw the source of Lake Narnia's appearance and crystallization, but he felt a little disappointed after seeing this source. Because this source is too common, just a broken stone.

However, Leo was not disappointed for too long. As he approached this ordinary piece of crushed stone, about half a person's height, he felt the resonant reaction of his stone throne becoming stronger and stronger. Putting the consciousness into the spiritual core, it can still be judged that the stone throne should have completely changed from virtual to real at this moment.

According to common sense, with Leo's character, in this situation, he would suppress all kinds of emotions in his heart, and then calmly and cautiously check whether this stone poses a threat to his life, and will not try to contact him until it is completely safe. contact.

But what surprised Leo was that when he forcibly suppressed the impulse in his heart, the Stone Throne took the initiative to transmit a thought, which replaced Leo's own consciousness, driving Leo's body, walking When he arrived in front of the stone, he put his hand on the stone without any scruples.