The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Even the world of trees and seas knows. It seems that the white deer cultist came to see me with a premeditated plan." Although he was tricked by the white deer, Leo did not look too amazing, but looked at him Barbarisa said in a deep voice, "How are you doing now? How many secrets has the White Deer told you?"

Although the Barbarisa in front of him looks the same as before, Leo can feel that the blood of the White Deer in Barbarisa has become much thicker, and there is still an energy in his body that should belong to the White Deer , this energy can not only protect Barbarisa when needed, but also subtly change Barbarisa's physique in normal times.

"I'm fine now, I've never been better." Barbarisa answered Leo's question calmly, and said, "As for the secrets I know, I'm sure I won't know more than you, but there is one thing I may know better than you." A little bit more, and that's when I know what my mission is."

Leo asked: "Mission? Can you talk about it?"

Barbarisa shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, I can't say that," and then worried that Leo might misunderstand, he added: "It's not that I don't want to say it, but I can't say it, because these contents have prohibitive power, I don't want to say it." It may be said, even in the face of the gods, it is impossible to say a word related to the mission."

Seeing what Barbarisa said, Leo didn't ask further. From what Barbarisa said just now, it's not hard to hear that although Bailu had plotted against him, he just wanted him to be a messenger, and didn't want to He got involved in the affairs of this world, especially the affairs of Barbarisa, and even threw out the bait that he had to pay attention to.

After experiencing the transformation of the Stone Throne caused by the two fragments of Lake Narnia, it is naturally impossible for Leo to ignore any information related to the Stone Throne, so even if Barbarisa did not say that, he would still tell the White Hart The sea of ​​trees world is regarded as the next world to enter, and the coordinates of that world have been stored on the dead branches taken out by the White Deer Cultists.

"I'm a little curious why the White Deer attaches so much importance to this world that can fall into the abyss at any time?" Although Leo didn't directly ask Barbarisa about the mission, he still asked a question he was concerned about, and then added : "If this matter is related to your mission, you don't have to answer."

After hearing this, Barbarisa thought for a while and said, "Although this matter has nothing to do with my mission, I don't know what my lord thinks very well. The knowledge he passed on to me has nothing to do with it. content, but I can tell you another hypothesis that I heard in the New World, and this hypothesis may have something to do with my lord's emphasis on this world."

"What hypothesis?" Leo asked in a deep voice.

"It's the outsider hypothesis, you may have heard of this hypothesis." Barbarisa replied.

"Indeed." Leo nodded, and the relevant content of this outsider hypothesis emerged in his mind.

In fact, when Leo and Sylvia first entered this world and met the first batch of humans in this world, they heard this hypothesis in the small town where those people lived. The primitive religion that emerged in the marginal area, because this religion found a large number of ancient relics in the forest that violated human aesthetics, it believed that there was a prosperous prehistoric civilization in this world. Human beings were later outsiders, and this prehistoric civilization accepted The earliest human beings who came to this world, but human beings, outsiders, destroyed this prehistoric civilization, so human beings are born with original sin.

At that time, Leo and Sylvia were not interested in this religion. They cared more about the civilized society established by human beings in the New World, so they left without exploring this religion. Later, they knew that in the depths of the virgin forest of the New World, there was a group of Non-human races exist, so they feel that this religion developed on the fringes of civilized society in the New World may be done by those non-human races in order to make humans feel guilty so that at some point in the future they and humans When you have to contact, you can use this sense of guilt to gain some advantages in negotiation or other aspects.

Now hearing Barbarisa mention this outsider hypothesis again, Leo couldn't help recalling the content, trying to find out why Bailu valued this world from it.

But the result was nothing. No matter how he analyzed it, he couldn't see that the outsider hypothesis put forward by that religion had anything to do with Bailu's emphasis on this world. As for those non-human races who lived in seclusion deep in the virgin forest, they should not have the ability to make Bailu pay attention. Otherwise, those people would have been transferred out of this world by Bailu.

Perhaps seeing Leo's confusion, Barbarisa took the initiative to explain without waiting for Leo to ask: "If the outsiders mentioned in the outsider hypothesis are not only human beings, but include everything in this world Woolen cloth?"

Leo was stunned when he heard the words, and soon realized something, and said to himself: "Is this a super-large biological testing ground?"

Barbarisa heard Leo talking to himself, but because Leo's language was the Earth Federation language, he didn't understand the meaning at all, but he could still see from Leo's expression that Leo should be What did you learn from his words.

The biological testing ground that Leo said is not a rare thing. The biological research community of the Earth Federation has more than once selected one of the many planets controlled by the Earth Federation as a testing ground for their research on biological evolution. Except for a very few planets that are completely lifeless, there are more or less microorganisms on other experimental planets. Observers will put some species from the earth or other planets on these experimental planets to observe these The natural evolution of the experimental planet.

If everything in this world is really outsiders as Barbarisa said, then this world fits the setting of the biological experiment field very well, and it makes sense for Bailu to attach importance to this world.

However, Leo did not fully believe what Barbarisa said, not because he thought that Barbarisa was lying, but because he felt that since White Deer did not clearly inform Barbarisa of the reason why he valued this world, then Barbarisa His guess is not necessarily correct, and it is even possible that Bailu intentionally misled. After all, Bailu had calculated the two of them before, and now using Barbarisa as a bait, it is not difficult to calculate again. I feel that all things related to the world of Velen, such as the Belmont family and the tower wizard, came to this world because of the secret manipulation of the white deer. Suspect.

Although Leo is still curious about why Bailu attaches importance to this world, he also knows that it is impossible and unreliable to get an answer directly or indirectly from Bailu, so he did not continue to ask Barbarisa about this question, and turned to And inquire about the upcoming war in the southern part of the Middle Kingdom.

"Before, I already had an 80% chance of winning, and now I have almost no chance of losing." Barbarisa looked extremely confident, but then he hesitated a little, and said: "It's just, what will happen after winning?" I can’t speculate, the only thing I can be sure of is that if I really want to unify the Middle Kingdom region and establish a real Middle Kingdom, I’m afraid it will be a bit difficult, at least there will definitely be churches from the Church of True God to organize.”

Leo asked slightly puzzled: "Why do you want to prevent the Middle Kingdom from establishing a unified country?"

"Because some churches think that if the Central Kingdom is unified into one country, it will bring destruction to the world." Barbarisa replied as if joking, but then said: "But this kind of saying has long since disappeared. People believed it, and now they just think that the Middle Kingdom should not be united as one country."

After hearing this, Leo just nodded, and didn't say anything like needing help.

At this time, Barbarisa seemed to think of something, and said, "I have already collected a batch of those gemstones from Lake Narnia that you wanted before and stored them in the warehouse. Would you like to go get them now?"

"It's not necessary, I don't need it now." Leo shook his head, and then said: "You may sell those gems to the Chasing Light Church, they..."

"Ah?" Before Leo could finish speaking, Barbarisa was stunned for a moment, and interrupted: "But I bought those gems from Chasing Light Church?"

Hearing this, Leo couldn't help being stunned for a moment. He didn't expect it to be such a coincidence that the Chasing Light Church would be involved with Barbarisa, but he was also puzzled at the same time, because according to his understanding of the Chasing Light Church, The crystals from the bottom of the lake excavated by the Chasing Light Church should not be sold out, even Barbarisa, the canonized person of the Church of True God, should not make them change their minds.

Driven by curiosity, Leo asked Barbarisa to take him to see the purchased gems of Lake Narnia. Barbarisa asked Leo to wait a while, and he summoned servants and guards again to take care of and protect them. The sleeping wife and children, and then personally took Leo to the warehouse of the castle.

For Leo, a stranger who appeared in the castle inexplicably, although the guards and servants of the castle were very curious, they didn't ask, and turned a blind eye to Leo, doing their own things.

Soon Leo and Barbarisa came to the warehouse area behind the castle. The moment Barbarisa left the main building of the castle, Leo felt that there were more than a dozen people whose strength was equivalent to level three or level four. The supernatural being of the master appeared nearby and moved with Barbarisa's footsteps. In addition, a team of twelve armed knights also followed behind Barbarisa. It seems that the previous assassination has forced Barbarisa to move. The level of defense alert is raised to the highest state.

Barbarisa led Leo to the main entrance of a large warehouse, and then ordered the warehouse supervisor who followed to open the main entrance. After opening, sacks were piled up in the warehouse, filling half of the warehouse.

Under the signal of Barbarisa, one of the warehouse workers stepped forward and took down a sack, put it in front of Leo, and then untied the knots on the sack, revealing a large number of sacks that had been broken into various shapes and sizes. Crystals at the bottom of the lake.

After seeing these crystals at the bottom of the lake, Leo also immediately understood why the Church of Chasing Light was willing to sell these crystals at the bottom of the lake to Barbarisa, because the extraordinary power in these crystals had been completely withdrawn or consumed by the Church of Chasing Light. Crystals are just pure crystal stones.

Leo did not hide anything, and directly told Barbarisa the real situation about these crystal stones, and also told Barbarisa some things about the Chasing Light Church. When he found out that he was deceived by the people of the Chasing Light Church, Barbarisa's expression changed. very ugly.

However, for the time being, he has no way to seek justice from the Church of Chasing Light, so he can only write down this matter secretly, and after the war here is over, he will trouble the Church of Chasing Light.

After seeing these real gems of Lake Narnia, Leo did not intend to stay in the castle, and was about to leave. He went to the place where the Belmont family moved to find Sylvia, and then considered going to the Wizard Academy for a while. Plane, go to the tree sea world first to see if you can find something related to the stone throne, or go to an unknown world pointed to by the coordinates he got from the Earth Mother of the Shadow Realm.

And just when Leo was about to leave, Barbarisa suddenly thought of something, stopped Leo, and asked: "By the way, there is one more thing I forgot to ask you just now, Mr. Leo, may I ask my lord?" Where is the assistant I arranged for now?"

"Supporter?" Leo was stunned, puzzled, "How could I know where your helper is? Didn't Bailu tell you?"

Babarisa was slightly puzzled, recalled it carefully, and said, "My Lord told me that the assistant is with you..."

"Ah? I know who the assistant you mentioned is now." Leo suddenly realized that the assistant Barbarisa mentioned was probably the tree demon Lutaxi. Regarding the situation of the dryad Lutaxi, he couldn't help but smiled wryly: "Unfortunately, it's too late for you to ask now, your assistant is no longer in this world, she is now in another world."

After hearing Leo's words, Barbarisa was stunned, looking at Leo not knowing what to say.

Leo then briefly told Barbarisa what happened during this period of time, and Barbarisa was a little bit dumbfounded after hearing this, and a trace of sadness appeared on his face.

"How can you be in trouble without this assistant?" Leo couldn't help asking when he saw Barbarisa's expression.

Barbarisa shook his head slightly, and said with a wry smile: "It's not a problem, it's just that some plans made by my lord need to be revised, and I may also need to cooperate with the Church of True God on some things."

Leo had no choice but to wish Barbarisa good luck, and he didn't show it on his face, but he felt gloating in his heart that Bailu's plan went wrong, although he didn't blame Bailu for being wrong. The couple secretly plotted, but they were still somewhat displeased. Seeing the white deer deflated would at least make him feel a lot more comfortable.