The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

When Leo was returning to the Belmont family liaison office from the headquarters of the Nature Shaman Society, the Belmont family members who were comatose in those buildings had already woken up from their sleep one after another. The power they were able to get rid of the Nature Shaman was obviously different from theirs. For example, those family members whose blood power has not awakened or whose blood is impure are still in a comatose state, just like ordinary employees in the liaison office, no matter how you call them, you can't wake them up.

After experiencing the initial panic, those members of the Belmont family who woke up quickly denied the speculation that they were attacked, because they found that other ordinary people in the city had also fallen asleep, and the situation was the same as that of the ordinary people in the liaison office. .

Although they didn't know exactly what happened, they felt that there was no danger, so they dealt with their own internal affairs before deciding whether to send people to the city to investigate the cause of the coma in the city.

These people were divided into two, and some people moved the sleeping people in the house to different rooms and settled them down, especially those sleeping outside. You can still catch cold and get sick outside.

Others went to the warehouse to inspect the goods stored there, to see if there was any damage to the goods while they were asleep.

"What is this? There doesn't seem to be such a pillar on our inventory?" One of the members of the Belmont family happened to find out the warehouse where Leo stored the totem pole. At first, he didn't notice the abnormality until he asked to click After finishing the inventory of the warehouse, he found that there was one more thing in the warehouse, which made him feel puzzled.

Hearing the voice coming from here, other members of the Belmont family also came over and asked about the situation, and they all looked puzzled. According to them, according to the normal situation, the warehouse should throw things when they are asleep. Yes, now there is one more thing, which is too abnormal.

"This seems to be a natural totem pole that the natural shaman would bury in the city." Soon someone recognized its origin from the unique decoration on the pillar, and then looked at the soil stuck to the pillar, and couldn't help being surprised Said: "This is someone who dug out the totem pole and moved it to the warehouse while we were asleep. What does this person want to do? Could it be that he wants to provoke a fight between the Belmont family and the Nature Shamanism?"

Although the people of the Belmont family are not locals of Huajing City, they are also very aware of the status of the natural shaman society in the city, and they are also very clear about the importance of such natural totem poles to the natural shaman society. There are special laws to punish those who damage totem poles, and the maximum penalty is death.

However, now that a natural totem pole has been dug out and quietly thrown into the warehouse of the Belmont family, it is hard not to suspect that the person who did this has ulterior motives.

In the crowd, a middle-aged man who seemed to be very powerful ordered: "Send someone to the natural shaman immediately to inform the people over there, tell them the situation here, let's not move here, let the natural shaman people to check for themselves."

After everyone heard this, they didn't say anything, and they were ready to do as he ordered.

"I carried this totem pole here." At this time, Leo's voice came from behind everyone.

Everyone was shocked when they heard the sound, because although they were all focused on the totem poles that suddenly appeared in the warehouse, their usual training did not let them relax their vigilance to the surroundings, but now they are They didn't notice Leo's appearance at all, and didn't realize that there was an outsider behind them until the other party spoke, which showed that their vigilance had completely lost its effect. If the other party approached with malicious intentions, then everyone present might not be able to escape.

"You are..." The top manager of the liaison office quickly calmed down, turned around, and looked at Leo, who was dressed and looked ordinary, and was about to ask the other party's identity.

But Leo has already taken out a special envoy letter written by Sylvia from his pocket and handed it to the other party. The main content of this letter of envoy is to appoint Leo as her special envoy to investigate the various city-state tribes in the polar mountains. Case.

Although it has been several years since the members of the Belmont family present left the family territory and came to Huajing City, they still have a good understanding of various situations in the family territory. Sylvia, who has most of the power of the Monte family, has now come to the Polar Mountains and sent a special envoy to visit Huajing City, which makes them think that Sylvia may show up in Huajing City or the Polar Mountains. Fist, this should be an opportunity for them.

After confirming the authenticity of the letter of appointment, the tense atmosphere around has also eased. While returning the letter of appointment to Leo, the top manager of the liaison office asked in puzzlement: "According to the letter of appointment, Authorized, you can use all the materials in the Liaison Office and dispatch all the manpower. Logically speaking, I should not ask too much, but I am still curious why you dig out the totem pole of the Nature Shamanism?"

"Because of curiosity." Leo gave a simple and clear answer, and then added: "Don't worry, I will put it back when I finish researching this totem pole. I don't know."

"Understood." The man nodded without asking any more questions, and ordered his subordinates to close all the warehouses, and then gently closed the door of the warehouse where Leo was staying when he left, pretending that nothing happened before. Go back to the building of the liaison office to deal with things, and the other people also stay away from the warehouse area under the orders of this person.

After everyone left, Leo also focused on the totem pole. At this moment, Leo's attention to the totem pole is different from just now, because he has changed from Vera Thothmüller's totem pole. Knowing that this kind of totem pole is an important force to suppress the superiors of the abyss, and seeing how the totem pole absorbs and digests such a huge abyss aura, he couldn't help but wonder about this totem that doesn't seem particularly powerful What kind of mysterious knowledge is hidden in the pillar to restrain the power of the abyss.

Because the totem pole needs to be returned, it is naturally impossible to use the method of dismantling to study its core mystery, but when Leo carried the totem pole, he could feel some disguise of the rune knowledge required by the shaman spells on the surface of the totem pole. The core of the totem pole is inside the totem pole, those parts that grow naturally. When the totem pole was still a tree, a natural shaman should have intervened in its growth process. The shaman rune entered the inside of the tree, and along with the tree It grows little by little, and finally takes shape.

If you want to detect the situation inside the totem pole without destroying it, you naturally use scanning skills such as spiritual net, but the problem is that the shamanic runes and those animal patterns on the surface of the totem pole are not useless at all. A force has emerged to protect and bind the mysteries of power within the totem pole.

This power is not particularly powerful, but it is very strong, because the power invoked by this totem pole is not its own power, but the power of all the totem poles buried in the entire Huajing City, even if the totem pole is used like now The pillars were dug out, and the power connection of these totem poles is still not broken, which is why when Vera checked the situation in the city, she did not find a totem pole that had been dug out, and Leo also thought that the totem poles could be buried back s reason.

That is to say, if Leo wants to forcibly break through the protection outside the totem pole, then he needs to face the power to suppress the superiors in the underground abyss. Even if he succeeds in the end, the totem pole should be destroyed, and he will lose the comfortable abyss that suppresses the pressure. The superior will definitely flee, and it may be even more difficult to catch him, which is asking for trouble.

He also thought about taking this totem pole to a place far away from Huajing City, away from the power range of the shaman circle composed of totem poles, so that without the support of external forces, the power on the surface of the totem pole should also be Will become weak, or even disappear directly.

But after thinking about it carefully, he felt that it would not work. In his opinion, Vera must have considered this situation, and she should have planted a backhand inside the totem pole. Once the protective power on the surface of the totem pole disappears or If something goes wrong, then the core power inside the totem pole may self-destruct, completely destroying the totem pole and the mystery of its power.

After repeated research and found that it was impossible to achieve the desired effect with all methods involving supernatural power, Leo began to consider methods without using supernatural power, and the first method he thought of had an effect.

I saw that he lightly tapped the surface of the totem pole with his fingers from one end of the totem pole. Every time he tapped, he paused for a while, and then continued at another place, just like this, pushing down round and round until the entire totem pole was covered. The surface of the totem pole is knocked out.

When tapping, the weak vibration formed by the fingertips will not punish any power inside the totem pole, but the subtle changes produced by the vibration can feed back the situation inside the totem pole, although the feedback information is very vague , but after repeated tapping and data accumulation, Leo has built a complete perspective view of the totem pole in his mind, and the secrets inside the totem pole are fully presented in front of him.

After seeing the perspective view of the totem pole, Leo had a puzzled look on his face, because the interior of the totem pole was somewhat unexpected.

He didn't see any runes containing extraordinary power in the totem pole. Instead, he saw something similar to biological meridians and blood vessels in the totem pole, and the texture inside the totem pole gave him the feeling that it resembled animal muscles. texture, not the texture of the plant.

Various discoveries made Leo suspect that this totem pole was actually a limb cut from a huge animal, and then wrapped in tree patterns and disguised as a wooden totem pole.

But soon he denied this conjecture, because he was quite sure that the outermost tree skin of the totem pole and the inner tree were perfectly combined, without any trace of artificial synthesis.

Therefore, he is almost certain that the trees used to make the totem poles should have been specially cultivated, and the result of the cultivation is what he sees now. It is both a plant and an animal, and it also contains powerful power inside.

"Isn't this the method of shamanism?" After discovering the mystery inside the totem pole, a judgment immediately appeared in Leo's mind.

Although there are so many shaman inheritances in this world, and the shaman inheritance that Leo now understands is only a small part, he can already be sure that the selection of materials and production methods of this so-called natural totem pole are not the methods that shamans should have. In particular, the natural shaman, a shaman inheritance that maintains the balance of natural laws, will not do anything that violates the laws of nature, and these natural totem poles must be unnatural products.

Compared with shaman inheritance, Leo felt that these totem poles were more like products of the abyss. Among the abyss knowledge he got, some abyssal races like to use the limbs of enemies to make totem poles. As for those totem poles He doesn't know how powerful it is, because the abyss snake completely despises this method, so he doesn't have any more relevant memories.

And after associating with the abyss totem pole, Leo's mind seemed to be unlocked, and many answers that he hadn't thought of before appeared at this moment, such as why such a huge abyss breath can be absorbed and digested by the totem pole. Without a trace, if these totem poles are abyss totem poles, then the answer will naturally be there. It is so strange that the abyss totem poles absorb and digest the power of the abyss.

As for the method of these totem poles to suppress the superiors of the abyss, there is also an answer, because the original function of the abyss totem poles is to confine the creatures of the abyss. The object of action of the abyss totem pole is only for the lower abyssal creatures, and the effect on the stronger abyssal creatures will be greatly reduced, as for the upper abyss, it is completely ineffective.

However, judging from the current situation, it is obvious that these totem poles in Huajing City should have undergone some modifications, not only to allow these totem poles to be effective against the superiors of the abyss, but also perfectly combined with the power of the natural shaman , I just don't know if the natural shaman who has been in contact with these totem poles for a long time will be infected by the abyssal breath.

"Is this playing with fire?" Although Leo admired the people who improved these totem poles in his heart, he also felt that these people were looking for a dead end. When their own strength was not strong enough, they had been exposed to the power of the abyss for a long time, and eventually As a result, without exception, they will be dragged into the abyss and cannot stand up.

In addition to emotion, Leo did not give the natural shaman the idea of ​​solving the problem. He picked up the totem pole that had discovered all the secrets again, transported it back to the original place, buried it again, and then went to the The headquarters of the Nature Shaman Society is located, waiting for Vera Thothmuller's follow-up actions.

However, what surprised him was that Vera Thothmuller seemed to have forgotten the underground abyss monster who was about to move. She spent the next few days assisting the owner and management of Huajing City to deal with the things in the city and arrange the things that kept coming. refugee.

It wasn't until a few days later, when the number of refugees dwindled, that she began to check the so-called natural totem poles one by one in the city.