The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Facing the inquiry from the dryad Lutaxi, Leo just smiled and didn't answer, not because he didn't want to answer, but because he couldn't answer, because the ability that Leo showed now didn't originate from the dryad Lutaxi. Xi, but derived from the power of the Witch Su who traveled through the shadow world, even if he told the tree demon Luta Xi the mystery of the power of the witch after the analysis of the Stone Throne and how to use it, the tree demon Luta Xi would only act like It's like listening to the bible.

Through this near-perfect invisibility ability, Leo and Dryad Lutaxi easily entered the lively camp ahead, and came to the warehouse-like room in the middle of the camp.

Because he had already known what was going on in the warehouse through the spiritual network in advance, after entering the warehouse, Leo went directly to a room similar to the potion production workshop, waiting for the senior priests of the Chasing Light Church who had received the raw materials to come back here Prepare potions.

The dryad Lutaxi who was following Leo didn't understand what Leo was thinking, but she didn't ask too much, she just looked around curiously, but she soon found something in the room of the potion making workshop. Something that surprised her.

"Colorful kite vine? It's colorful kite vine!" She leaned over to a shelf for storing materials in the room, pointed to a dried vine, and said excitedly.

Hearing what the dryad Lutaxi said, Leo didn't pay much attention to it at first, but he quickly remembered what the rainbow vine was, so he walked over quickly, signaled the dryad Lutaxi to get out of the way, and then carefully checked This dried plant in front of me.

After a while, he withdrew his gaze from the plant, frowned, and said, "Why does the colorful kite vine appear here?"

Most people don't know what a colorful kite vine is. Even if someone has seen it, they will only regard it as an ordinary vine. Said that the colorful kite vine is completely different from ordinary vines, and the meaning behind the colorful kite vine is also extraordinary.

First of all, the colorful kite vine is a unique plant in the Deer Park in the Black Forest. According to the records of the Dryad in the Deer Park, this vine is transformed from the colorful antlers on the head of the first Dryad after death, which was fused with the blood of a white deer. A special life that looks like a plant.

This special life has no special power, it just emits a very beautiful colorful light at night. The dryads in Luyuan usually decorate their homes with colorful kite vines, but at a special time, the colorful kite vines It represents a special meaning. For example, when a dryad meets a good friend who can be trusted, it will give the other party a colorful kite vine as a symbol of friendship. When the time comes, the dryad will endow the colorful kite vine with a special vitality, so that the colorful kite vine can grow even if it leaves the deer garden.

Just these things will not make this kind of colorful kite vine very special. What is really special is that while the dryad endows the colorful kite vine with special vitality, the dryad itself will suffer irreparable damage, and even its lifespan may be reduced. The drastic reduction, so unless it is the kind of friendship that is so good that it is called love, it is absolutely impossible for the dryad to give the colorful kite vine to other lives outside the deer park.

The tree demon Lutaxi didn't think of the meaning behind this air-dried iris at the moment when he recognized the iris, but Leo was different. The color kite vine has been intercepted and dried for no more than 20 days, and this color kite vine still maintains a trace of vitality. That is to say, the Chasing Light Church still has a complete color kite vine that can grow. It also means that among the current members of the Chasing Light Church, some have seen the dryad in the Deer Park in the Black Forest, and formed a friendship or love with the dryad, and were finally given this colorful kite vine.

As for why it is judged that the owner of this colorful kite vine is a current member of the Chasing Light Church, it is because when the dryad gifted this colorful kite vine, it also connected the life of the colorful kite vine with the life of the recipient. At the same time, if the life of the other party is injured, it can use the vitality of the color kite vine to repair it, and even use the color kite vine to replace it if necessary, so the color kite vine will only live if the other party is alive, and the color kite vine will wither and die together when the other party dies .

"Have you seen other dryads in this world?" Leo couldn't help asking the dryad Lutaxi after discovering the meaning of the colorful kite vine.

"No!" The dryad Lutaxi denied Leo's guess without even thinking about it, and then said with a puzzled face: "Are there other dryads in this world? Impossible? If so, I'm sure It can be sensed."

Leo knew what the tree demon Lutaxi was talking about. This was the talent given to the tree demon by the golden giant deer. As long as two tree demons were in the same world, no matter how far apart they were, they would be able to sense each other. Existence, even a powerful tree demon can sense the physical condition of the opponent, and directly invest its own strength into the physical strength of the opponent through this connection.

Seeing the dryad Lutaxi's affirmative answer, Leo also understood that there are no other dryads in this world, so the owner of this colorful kite vine should have been obtained in another world. The Church of Chasing Light may not be as simple as they reveal. Their knowledge of the world may far exceed any Church of True God in this world, because the Church of Chasing Light knows that there are other worlds, and it is very likely that they can go to other worlds .

Just when various guesses appeared in Leo's mind, there was a burst of noisy voices from outside the house, and then he saw the senior priest of Chasing Light Church leading several subordinates to push open the door and walked into the room. In this potion making workshop, each of them held some items such as crystallized fish and crystallized aquatic plants in their hands.

After they entered the room, they didn't say much, and each occupied an anatomy table, skillfully disassembled the objects in their hands, and put away the things that needed to be used.

After decomposing all the crystallized creatures in his hand, the senior clergyman gave some instructions to his assistants, and those assistants turned around and walked to the shelf, picking up some materials that will be needed later, And among the materials they picked up was the air-dried colorful kite vine.

At this moment, Leo's focus was not entirely on the potion making by these people, but part of his attention was on the language they used to talk.

Although there are so many languages ​​in this world, so many that even linguists cannot fully count them, but no matter what language or tone they use, their vocalization methods cannot be separated from the structure of human vocal organs.

However, the language used by the priests of the chasing light church is a way of speaking that is contrary to the structure of the vocal organs. The method is to make the tongue vibrate hard and straight, and make an unpleasant whistle sound, and use various subtle changes of the whistle sound to represent the words and sentences used in the language.

Undoubtedly, no matter how remote a human language is, it would not use such a sounding method, so Leo couldn't help thinking that this language might not be a language used by humans.

Although there was no basis for Leo's association, he felt that his association might be correct, so he used the mental network to scan the bodies of these clergymen, and checked the physical conditions of these people in a more careful way.

Soon, Leo really found something wrong. There were some implants in the brains of these people, but the implants in their brains were different from the implants Leo had seen. The difference is not only that its body is extremely small, like an ant, but more importantly, this implant is not attached to the cerebral cortex and connected to the brain nerves, but appears inside the brain, attached to a cranial nerve connected to the pineal gland superior.

Undoubtedly, with the current level of brain surgery in this world, it is absolutely impossible to implant the implant into the brain without damaging the human brain. This makes Leo have another guess, that is, the so-called implant Maybe it's a living one, like some parasites, it penetrates into the brain little by little, and then integrates with it from the inside of the brain.

"Parasitic?" This special brain implant, coupled with the language that the few chasing light church members used just now against the principle of human voice, made Leo quickly have a guess.

There are a large number of intelligent creatures that use parasitic methods to survive in the universe. Human beings have also been attacked by more than one parasitic alien creature, and they have a complete set of inspection methods. Unfortunately, this method requires the use of special equipment. able to check it out.

Just when Leo had some bad guesses and associations because of the various abnormal phenomena shown by the clergy of the Chasing Light Church, the senior clergyman had already made preparations for the potion preparation and began to make his Medicines needed.

Leo and the dryad Lutaxi watched quietly from the sidelines. Compared to the dryad Lutaxi who knew nothing about potion preparation, Leo's level of refining medicine was definitely the top in the world, so he was able to start from here. Much is unusual in the way a senior clergyman crafts the potion.

First of all, this senior cleric has a very high level of pharmacy, at least a bit higher than the scholars in the academic city who specialize in pharmacy production. In addition, his method of handling materials is also very clever, and he has a very precise grasp of the time of pharmacy. Without using the timer, one can still know which step the medicine has been refined from the change of the medicine.

But in contrast to his level of pharmacy, his process of using pharmacy tools is very clumsy, and he feels that even an ordinary pharmacy apprentice is better at using those tools than him.

However, if you look carefully, you will find some strange things. For example, although this senior priest uses these tools clumsily, it is not because he is not familiar with them. In fact, no matter how clumsy he looks, he still He can refine, transform, and fuse medicines and materials within the prescribed standards. It is not so much that he is poor in actual operation ability, but that he is not familiar with or used to using these pharmaceutical tools.

Leo saw that this senior clergyman instinctively wanted to use an extremely awkward posture to take away the tools beside him several times, but he quickly found out that there was a problem with his posture and changed it, but it was useless. How often does a similar situation happen again, and the other clergy around this situation seem to have gotten used to it, and they didn't show any abnormal emotions.

This scene also confirmed Leo's previous parasitic guess. Obviously, this senior priest should not be familiar with the human body and the way of movement. His thinking is still stuck in another body structure that is completely different from human beings. That's why from time to time, he makes awkward movements that violate the way of human movement.

Although the process of making the medicine was a bit awkward, it went smoothly, but there were some small errors when adding the air-dried colorful kite vine at the end, which caused some disintegration effects of the medicine.

However, at the moment when the disintegration effect appeared, the senior clergyman of the Chasing Light Church used the language they were talking with, as if they were performing some kind of prayer chanting.

The cleric's approach is obviously contrary to what Leo knew about the Chasing Light Church, because it is well known that the Chasing Light Church is the Church of the True God in name, but there is no true God in this church. Since there is no true God, naturally there is no object of prayer , and there is no corresponding ceremony.

But now the senior clergyman was obviously praying to an unknown god through this special language, and he got a quick response, and a powerful divine power appeared out of nowhere on him, guided by him Injected into the potion.

It is not appropriate to say that the divine power is out of thin air, because the source of this divine power is the parasite that Leo scanned. At the moment of prayer, the life form of the parasite instantly improved several levels, and then produced divine power for this senior Used by clergy.

The entire process of the parasite's vocal changes and the generation of divine power was captured by Leo's spiritual net. Not only did it capture the process, but Leo also captured a trace of divine power because of the special system, and formed a seemingly simplified body in his body. The insect's symbolic imprint of the gods, almost at the moment when the imprint of the gods was formed, the stone throne captured the imprint of the gods into the core of consciousness.

It's just that it's different from the external powers such as the imprint of the gods formed in Leo's body before, the imprint of the gods of this insect symbol was not included in the throne square, turned into one of the stone pillars, but appeared on the stone throne, integrated into the One of the unknown symbols looks similar to the imprint symbol, and this symbol and the surrounding patterns seem to be polished and become shiny.

At this moment, the stone throne's analytical knowledge of the divine power represented by this mark was also completely injected into Leo's mind, and Leo also understood at this moment what the god represented by this mark was.