The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The space barrier passing through the shadow world is very different from the space barrier passing through the real world. This difference is not only in the strength of the force required to penetrate, but also in the feeling when penetrating.

When penetrating the real space barrier, most of them use the method of tearing the space rift. When penetrating, the body only feels a pulling force from the space itself, but the space barrier penetrating the shadow world cannot use the method of tearing the space rift. You can only hit it directly like hitting a wall. As long as you meet the conditions to enter the shadow world, there will not be much resistance, and the whole process is very similar to the feeling of diving into the water. This feeling is not only due to the water pressure when entering the water The squeeze brought by it, and after entering the shadow world, Leo felt a sense of suffocation.

Although he felt some discomfort on his body, it didn't have much effect on Leo, and soon he used Su's witch power to imitate Devina's state of shadow power permeating the whole body, disguising himself as a shadow creature, All the discomforts on my body disappeared.

After solving the problems on his body, Leo also began to look around the situation.

As he knew in advance, the sky in the shadow world is always like a dark night, and there are stars and moons in the sky like the real world, but these stars and moons do not follow normal orbits, but are more like countless pictures that are constantly changing. Like the astrology chart, the positions of the stars and the moon in the sky will change every once in a while, and the changed positions are disordered and chaotic, giving people the illusion that the sky astrology is a false illusion.

Although the shadow world is always fixed in the state of night, the shadow world is not completely dark. In addition to the light of stars and moons in the sky, some special ores and trees in the shadow world will also emit various lights. These lights may not be very strong. , but gathered together is enough to illuminate the dark environment of the Shadow Realm.

For example, the crater where Leo is now has this kind of luminous ore, and the ore reserves are very large, all distributed on the surface, and the light of the ore also illuminates the entire crater.

Leo was slightly puzzled that he would appear on the ridge of the crater instead of the virgin forest he saw in the gap space, but he quickly figured it out. This may be caused by the chaos and disorder of the shadow space. Seeing the result does not mean that it can be achieved. At the moment he entered the shadow world, the disordered and chaotic space pulling force randomly threw him to a strange place, but Devina and the dryad Lutaxi did not It can be explained by being around.

Although Leo didn't expect that the disordered and chaotic space power of the shadow world would affect his foothold position, he has already noticed from some actions of the dryad Rutaxi that he and the tree demon Rutaxi entered the shadow world Maybe it won't be in the same place, this is not the malicious act of the dryad Lutaxi, but the nature of the dryad.

Leo, who had lived in the Black Forest for a period of time, knew well the nature of the dryads. Mischief and mischief are almost their life instincts. After the awakened blood memory, the dryad Lutaxi will inevitably be imperceptibly affected by the nature of the dryads. That's why she entered the Shadow Realm one step ahead of time on purpose, borrowing the disordered and chaotic space power of the Shadow Realm, so that she had to be temporarily separated from her.

However, this was already in the various emergencies that Leo expected, so when he checked Devena's physical condition before, Leo also buried a spiritual imprint in Devina's body as a positioning coordinate, So when he found himself alone on the top of a crater mountain, he immediately perceived the spiritual imprint he had left in Devina's body.

Although Leo couldn't perceive the exact location of the spiritual imprint as clearly as in the real world due to the interference of the special power in the shadow world, he was still able to sense a general direction vaguely, and he felt that he was waiting to approach that direction. It should be able to perceive the exact position at a distance.

After confirming Devina's position, Leo was about to set off to meet there, but some movement from the crater mountain valley made Leo temporarily stop and turn his attention to the crater mountain.

Judging from the shape of the crater at the foot, it should be a crater formed after being hit by a meteorite. Although it seems that a long time has passed, I don’t know whether it is the material impact of the meteorite itself or the aftermath of the impact. It can be repaired. In short, there are very few vegetations that can be seen inside and outside the crater, not to mention trees, not even moss, only gravel, huge rocks and black soil.

The real world corresponding to this shadow world should be the Middle Kingdom area, so if there is any obvious topography here, then such topography should also exist in the real world, but in Leo's memory, such a large crater is in the Middle Kingdom area If it does not exist, it is very likely that this crater is a special landform formed in the Middle Kingdom in the future. That is to say, the Middle Kingdom may encounter a serious meteorite fall in the future, but the exact time is not known.

However, the crater is not what attracts Leo's attention. What happens in the valley of the crater is the end point of Leo's attention. In the valley of the crater, two groups of shadow creatures are fighting. It feels like two races war.

These two groups of bodies are black as ink shadow creatures with completely different forms. One shadow creature looks humanoid, such as having limbs, body and head, etc., but all their parts are stretched several times, But the size is not correspondingly strong, which makes them look like an arthropod insect.

In fact, their movements are similar to those of arthropods. They lie on the ground and use their limbs to move. Only when they attack enemies, they stand up for a while, and then continue to climb down and move.

The weapons used by these humanoid shadow creatures to attack the enemy are also very simple, that is, their limbs and sharp teeth. Their limbs all have blade-like bones. These bones are exposed and extremely sharp, and can be easily chopped. Open rocks or enemies.

In addition, the sharp teeth in their mouths are also very powerful. When attacking, their mouths will open like snakes, and then they will easily shred their enemies with their strong bite force and guillotine-like sharp teeth.

Another kind of shadow creature has no human form at all, because they are all a group of silver-gray mist. These mist seem to be conscious, they will avoid the enemy's attack, and they will find the enemy's flaws, and these fog-like shadow creatures The attack method used was very familiar to Leo. When these mist shadow creatures approached the humanoid shadow creature attacking them, the mist would quickly corrode the skin and muscles of the humanoid shadow creature, and finally all the bones would be corroded.

The attack method of this corrosive mist can be said to be exactly the same as the mist barrier on the edge of the shadow world that he ate as a snack, which is why he stopped to watch the battle in the valley from the top of the mountain.

Unless Leo has the ability to devour and transform this corrosive mist, otherwise, the attack method of this corrosive mist can be said to be unsolvable, and the battle situation in the valley just proved this point, although the humanoid shadow creature In terms of numbers, they have an absolute upper hand, but in terms of the situation, they do not have an advantage, but a disadvantage.

These human-shaped shadow creatures tried all kinds of methods, using some suicidal attacks, but they couldn't kill the dozen or so fog shadow creatures. On the contrary, many of their companions were injured or killed by the corrosive fog while attacking.

If someone among those humanoid shadow creatures has a little wisdom, they will immediately judge that they are completely at a disadvantage in the battle situation, and they should lead people to retreat, and wait until they can avoid being corroded by the fog and kill these fog shadow creatures. Tackle these mist shadow creatures.

However, there is obviously no wise man among these humanoid shadow creatures. The only thing they can think of is to attack the fog shadow creature in front of them.

Just like that, after about an hour or so of a doomed battle, the battle in the valley finally came to an end as the last humanoid shadow creature died in the corrosive mist.

Although a battle between shadow creatures was over, Leo didn't turn around and leave immediately, but was still paying attention to those fog shadow creatures.

I saw that the mist shadow creatures didn't pay attention to the corpses on the ground, but after confirming that there were no enemies, they dispersed and looked for something in the valley.

Time passed for a while, and a mist shadow creature seemed to have found something. The mist body immediately turned blood red, and it also emitted bursts of light, which made it particularly eye-catching in the valley.

The companion's signal immediately alarmed the other mist shadow creatures, and they quickly floated towards the companion sending the signal one by one. Among them, the shadow creature with the largest body and the thickest fog moved the fastest. The moment he saw the signal, He came to the companion who delivered the signal.

Afterwards, I saw the mist-shaded creature transmitting the signal stretch out a palm formed of mist, and cleaned the soil in front of him, revealing the things buried in the soil.

I saw that it was an irregularly shaped stone, about the size of an adult's fist, and it looked no different from other stones around it. It could only be judged from the traces of melting and burning on its surface that it should be a meteorite debris.

When he saw that the misty shadow creature did not hesitate to fight another shadow creature for a meteorite, Leo immediately associated it with the meteorite fragment in Lake Narnia, but Leo did not think that the meteorite fragment It has nothing to do with the Stone Throne, because when his mental net swept over the meteorite fragment, the Stone Throne didn't have that special resonance.

However, for those fog shadow creatures, this kind of meteorite fragments is what they want at all costs. After confirming the meteorite fragments, these fog shadow creatures also emit various lights on the surface because of the change of mood.

However, just when these misty shadow creatures were excited and joyful to find what they wanted to find, they all had a strong sense of hunger, which was something they had never felt before, so The mental shock to them was also very great, and they didn't know what to do for a while.

And just when they were at a loss, the inexplicable hunger instantly intensified more than ten times, and all the mist shadow creatures felt pain that they had never experienced before. A clean impulse, and this impulse was out of control, instantly dispelling the only rationality in the minds of these misty shadow creatures. They were instantly controlled by the hunger instinct, and the surrounding companions who were still fighting against the enemy just now It became the object of their devouring to solve their hunger.

As a mist shadow creature rushed towards its companion, it instinctively launched the strongest corrosive force to devour the companion, and the rest of the mist shadow creature also rushed towards the nearest companion.

These mist shadow creatures obviously don't have any vocal organs, even if they are devoured, they are silent. You can only see the rapid change of the mist color on the devourer, mixing into a new color, and the devouring process is also extremely fast of.

In less than ten minutes, the dozen or so mist shadow creatures devoured each other and merged into a mist shadow creature, and the size of this mist shadow creature became extremely large, occupying almost a quarter of the valley, and the color of the mist also changed. It became dark black, like a black hole, and even the light emitted by the surrounding mountain ores would be twisted and absorbed by its body.

I don't know if it was because he swallowed too many companions, or because of other reasons, the body of the final winner became extremely unstable. All the mist was violently rolling, and the rolling speed was still accelerating. His huge body Also in the process a little bit of collapse dissipated.

In the past one minute or so, the final victor failed to retain his victory, his body completely dissipated in self-disintegration, and the valley returned to its original calm.

On the ridge, Leo withdrew the devouring power that created the extreme hunger, and looked at the valley with no life in satisfaction, then directly used the psionic wings, flew down, and landed on the side of the meteorite fragment Next to it, I bent down to pick it up, put it in front of my eyes, and at the same time, the spirit net also penetrated into it to check its specific situation.

Although, he had checked the meteorite fragments through the mental network scan before on the ridge, but that process was very rough, and there was no way to know the confirmation of the meteorite fragments. For example, this meteorite fragment is not naturally formed. The body of the fragment should be some kind of man-made object, because although the interior of the fragment is mineralized due to unknown reasons, the core parts are all man-made metals. From this, it can be determined that this meteorite The fragments should have been part of a certain device at first, and fell together with the device, turning into the current meteorite.

Just when Leo was about to further analyze the composition of the man-made metal part in this meteorite fragment, a burst of inexplicable dizziness suddenly rushed up, causing him to be in a trance for a while, and after this trance, the valley in front of him had disappeared , It was replaced by a plain, and the meteorite fragments that were still in his hand just now disappeared together.