The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The Lady of the Lake is the god that the scholars of the Silvermoon Lake Alliance like to record. There are countless books about the Lady of the Lake, but as a god, the Corpse Collector is obviously not so popular.

Except for a few people who specialize in the funeral industry and some special scholars who like to study gods, the impression of the corpse collectors is more of monsters hiding in the lake than gods.

The reason why Leo knew the existence of this god was because of the medicine books in Peter Alcott's house. One of the herbal medicine books mentioned that there was a special herb that would ripen when this god appeared. Also wrote some things about this god in detail.

For a long time, the funerals in the Lake District Alliance have been mainly water burials. Although the Lake District Alliance Council is now vigorously promoting burials in order to curb the spread of the foggy area, the vast majority of people, whether they are nobles or civilians, are still accustomed to burials after death. Send your own body, together with the coffin, into the water.

As its name suggests, the priesthood of the Corpse Collector is to collect corpses. He will wait in Yinyue Lake on a specific sleeping day. When a corpse is put into the water, he will take the corpse away and bring it to the place where all things sleep forever.

There are various theories about what the body collector looked like, but the most widely circulated is a poem written by a third-rate poet whose name has not been handed down.

It is the shadow of everything, the stretching tentacles dragging the soul away, the depth, only the eternal depth.

This lame poem was recorded in the medical book that Leo saw, and he also drew the image of the body collector according to various legends, and the drawn pattern was similar to the lake that Leo saw that day. The black shadow was not much different, and the action of that black shadow collecting the corpse also made Leo almost sure that what he saw was the special god of the corpse collector.

Now from the mouth of the lady in the lake, Leo found that he was actually being followed by the god of the body collector, which made him feel a little headache, because according to past experience, anything related to death is a big trouble.

Fortunately, the corpse collector's range of activities was limited in the lake, and he couldn't leave the lake, so as long as Leo didn't enter the lake, it would be difficult for the god to pose a threat to him.

"Why? Why do you pay so much attention to me?" Leo gradually recovered from the exhaustion of fighting against the gods. After standing up from the ground, he found a chair and sat down, carefully recalling the time when he came into contact with the lady in the lake. During the process, he muttered in his heart: "Smell? The body of the dream when it is difficult to understand?"

Thinking of this, Leo felt that it was really necessary to find out what this dream body was?

Leo brought up the personal data interface and focused on the dream body. And when he was thinking about what the dream body was, he suddenly realized that he had overlooked an important question before, that is, why was the talent of the dream body listed as a displayable talent by the sub-brain system?

All the items that can be displayed on the personal data interface basically follow a principle, that is, the database of the sub-brain system must have similar reference objects and be able to fully analyze its operating principles, such as the perfect control skills for the physical body and the spiritual level. Mechanical will and so on.

The same is true for psychic skills, except that Leo was a cyborg when he was in the Earth Federation, and he was just a low-level special operations team combat commander. Most of his contacts with psychics came from public databases. There are not many materials, and most of the materials are vague and just a concept, so his analysis of psionic power is somewhat incompetent.

For example, the basic witchcraft such as the wizard's hand that I saw in the wizard's apprentice manual yesterday, can be performed at one's own level of psionic power, but it is not directly displayed on the personal data interface, but is classified as psionic power within control talent. As for other more advanced witchcraft, because they overlap with spiritual skills such as spirit net and psychic skills, they are not included in the display items.

Because the chaotic stomach pouch has Omega-level advanced organisms with similar functions in the universe of the Earth Alliance as reference objects, the sub-brain system can analyze the basic functions of this modified organ, and thus include it in the displayable items of the data interface .

However, the dream body is different. The secondary brain system cannot analyze any function of the dream body, even the power of nightmare that appeared later. According to the standard of displayable items, the dream body should not be in the personal It should be displayed on the data interface.

But the problem is that the dream body is actually displayed in the talent item column, and it completely violates the display rules. There is no clear description of the ability, which makes Leo wonder if there is something wrong with his sub-brain, just like the old It is the same as the system failure of the computer in the earth age.

However, this suspicion was denied by Leo as soon as it came into being. Although the sub-brain system is similar to a computer system, its root is still a part of the human brain, which is a concrete manifestation of the human subconscious, not a real computer. system, so there is no fault. If the sub-brain system really malfunctions, then the brain of the sub-brain system owner must also malfunction, either a lunatic or a fool, definitely not a normal person.

"Auxiliary brain system, showing the talent analysis data of the dream body." Having doubts, Leo immediately ordered the auxiliary brain system to retrieve data. What I saw was blank.

"How could this be?" Leo was suspicious, and asked about the situation of the sub-brain system, and the data was already displayed in the response.

"Is the data hidden?" Leo suddenly thought of a possibility.

In the Earth Federation, some powerful psionic skills have some hidden abilities, and this hidden ability will not be displayed by the personal data interface of the sub-brain system. The situation is similar to Leo's current situation.

But the difference is that no matter how special the hidden ability is, no matter how unanalyzable it is, the related psionic skills will still display the basic effects and analysis data of the skill, and will definitely not even analyze the data like it is now all hidden.

"Read the analysis data of the power of nightmare." Leo thought of the data of power of nightmare collected from the middle-aged man before, so he tried to read it.

However, this time the situation is different. Like the previous analysis data for special energies such as psionic energy and magic energy, the analysis data of the power of nightmare is also completely displayed on Leo's retina, without any hidden information.

After carefully reading the analysis data, Leo found that the sub-brain system had actually thoroughly analyzed the power of nightmare, and according to the analysis results, the sub-brain system classified it as a special type of spiritual power. Detailed instructions for importing Nightmare Powers to the Mastermind.

"It turned out to be a special spiritual power!" Leo was also a little surprised by this.

The Earth Federation used to spend countless manpower and material resources on the study of special psionic skills, but in the end they did not find out why. The only concept that the federal government has about special psionic skills is that the effects of such psionic skills cannot be predicted.

Some psykers with special psionic abilities are not high in their own psionic level, but the formidable power produced by the special psionic abilities can be compared to high-level psykers, and some can even compete with Omega-level advanced creatures. However, the power of some special psychic skills is very weak, so weak that even the basic psychic skills displayed by the pseudo-psychics who have just stimulated their psychic talent can't compare.

After reading the analysis data, Leo said to himself: "If the power of nightmare is a special psionic skill, then the dream body that produces the power of nightmare is also a special psionic talent, and it cannot display functions and analysis data. That makes sense."

Although Leo figured out one problem, another problem arose. Because according to the records, although the characteristic psionic ability is an unanalyzable type of psionic ability, this kind of psionic ability has one thing in common, that is, all the owners of this kind of psionic ability do not need to go through any learning, and they naturally know how to use this kind of psionic ability. The corresponding skill of a kind of spiritual energy. Moreover, these people can deepen their understanding through continuous use of this kind of psychic ability, so that their sub-brain system can collect enough relevant data and classify it into the displayable psychic items.

Judging from the Earth Federation's information on special psionic abilities, then he should have fully mastered the innate skill of the dream body by now.

On this point, from the appearance of the corresponding display items on the personal data interface just by perceiving a little nightmare power on others, it can be seen that his own understanding of the dream body is constantly deepening, and providing The data and data analyzed by the accessory brain system are also constantly accumulating.

But the problem now is that Leo doesn't have any knowledge about the dream body in his mind, let alone how to use the dream body, and he doesn't even know what the dream body is.

"What's going on?" Leo muttered after discovering that the problem had returned to the original point, and asked the sub-brain system to call up all the information related to the special psionic skills. Since there is no place to talk in the dream body itself, the public research information on special psionic abilities in the database is a good breakthrough.

While the sub-brain system was sorting out the data, Leo did not stay in the kitchen, but went upstairs to the bedroom, found a clean suit from the closet, changed out of his sweat-soaked underwear, and sat down. Sitting on the chair by the window near the street, he carefully checked the relevant information on these special psionic skills sorted out by the sub-brain system.

After about 20 minutes, Leo's frowning brows began to relax, and his face showed a thoughtful look for a while, and then turned into a look of sudden enlightenment for a while.

After a while, he suddenly got up from his chair and said in surprise, "So that's how it is."

After consulting the information related to the special psionic skills, Leo really gained something. He already understood why the dream body talent skill had such a problem, and all the reasons were due to the activation conditions of the skill.

Trait spiritual skills are not only very different from other spiritual skills in terms of their effects, but also in the way they are used. It can't be used anytime and anywhere like ordinary psionic skills, but needs some specific conditions to use.

For example, an alien country that has an alliance with the Earth Federation has a powerful special psyker who can create a controllable small black hole out of thin air. However, the prerequisite for creating such a black hole is to capture a singularity, so without the assistance of a psyker who has evolved to an Omega-level advanced creature, his psychic power is almost useless.

According to this calculation, the dream body, which is also a special psionic talent, should also need certain conditions to be able to use it, and even the secrets and information about this dream body also need specific conditions to be revealed to him.

And the prerequisites for this skill activation, Leo also speculated, just like the peculiar nature of the dream body, the activation conditions for this psionic talent are also peculiar, that is, the power of deep sleep and nightmare.

The reason why Leo infers this is because he is sure that he has used the dream body talent once, and that use was the deep sleep not long ago.

Although I don't know what the dream body's psychic talent will do after it is activated, but judging from the injuries he suffered and the lost memory afterwards, this psychic talent may also be extremely dangerous to himself after being used.

Although Leo wanted to further explore the mysteries of the dream body, but now is not the best time to explore. Not to mention, the Nightmare Power, whose specific function is unknown for the time being, has not yet returned to its full state. After only one super-intensive confrontation, the physical and mental wear and tear will directly affect his overall strength. What kind of danger has he encountered? With his current overall situation, I'm afraid it will be difficult to deal with it.

Therefore, he suppressed his curiosity to continue exploring, got up and went to the secret room of the medical study room, and used the medicinal materials on hand to quickly concoct bottles of potions, including healing potions for wizards and potions for willpower. potion of tranquility.

After all the available medicinal materials were used up, Leo went to the secret room above the wizard-like study, and used the materials there to make some trap-like triggering magic circles of his own design, that is, magic mines.

Although the effect of these magic mines is difficult to cause fatal damage to some powerful creatures due to the problems of the magic circle itself and the materials used, it can affect the actions of these creatures or monsters to a certain extent, giving Leo ample opportunity to launch deadly attack.

After finishing two things, several hours have passed, and the psionic energy consumed to fight against the lady in the lake has been replenished a lot, but other consumption, such as the power of nightmare and mechanical will, are still slowly recovering It will take at least one more day to fully recover.

Of course, if medicine is used, the recovery time will be shortened a lot, but he already knows the value of herbs, especially in the special period of the silver moon period, when the herbs are already very precious. become even rarer.