The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Hey!" Before the dust that had been raised up all over the sky dissipated, a voice full of surprise came from this abyssal illusion.

I saw that Leo, who should have been severely injured by the huge sharp claws that fell from the sky, was floating above the huge pothole intact at this moment. There was not even a speck of dust on his body, as if the heavy blow and the damage caused by the heavy blow just now It doesn't exist.

Immediately afterwards, Leo raised his hand and snapped his fingers very casually, and then the dust flying all over the sky and the huge potholes on the ground disappeared, and everything returned to the scene before the sharp claws fell.

Almost at the same time when the surrounding scene returned to its original state, the huge sharp claws appeared in the sky again, and there were not just one, but a dozen of them.

When the dozen or so huge claws appeared in the air, they fell towards Leo, and still hit Leo accurately. Any one of the claws caused much greater damage than just now, and after the final impact, The potholes are hundreds of meters deep and spread over hundreds of kilometers in radius. It feels like the entire abyss illusion is already in jeopardy due to such a powerful impact, and it seems that it may be broken at any time.

Before the raised dust and dust weakened and dissipated, an incomparably clear sound of snapping fingers sounded again, this time not only sounded in this small area, but sounded in the entire abyss illusion like the previous sound of surprise.

Almost at the moment when the finger snapped, the huge pothole with a depth of hundreds of meters and a range of hundreds of kilometers in front of him returned to its original appearance as if going back in time, and the dust flying around returned to the ground. All the destroyed buildings, plants and even the creatures of the abyss also returned to their original state.

"Do you still need to try?" Leo raised his head slightly to look at the special sacrificial pillar, and said calmly: "I have enough time to play with you until you believe that I can also control the power of this abyss illusion .”

"How did you do it?" Just as Leo's voice fell, a very charming voice came out from the illusion of the abyss and asked.

"If it is a sacrificial pillar made by the pure abyss sacrifice method, I will definitely not be able to influence or even control it, but..." Leo still looked at the sacrificial pillar and said, "But it's a pity, in order to make the abyss The sacrificial method is not rejected by this world, and some extra things are added, which destroys the perfect state of the pure abyssal sacrificial method, and the added things cannot be perfectly integrated into the abyssal sacrificial method, and finally there are loopholes that cannot be covered up And flaws. Although these loopholes and flaws are well hidden, they are not good enough for me. Through these loopholes and flaws, I can control the illusion of the abyss created by you using the sacrificial pillar, just like you as the maker .”

"Thief, thief!" the alluring voice yelled angrily.

"I can take this as a compliment." Leo shrugged and smiled.

When Leo was speaking, the huge special sacrificial column in front of him suddenly disappeared, and it was replaced by a woman suspended in the air with a tulle tightly wrapped around her body. It is not appropriate to call it a woman, because From the pair of sharp horns on the top of the opponent's head and the snake tail behind the buttocks, it can be seen that she is not a human being, but some kind of female creature.

Leo could see that the other party deliberately appeared in the air in order to create a high posture overlooking and suppress himself in terms of momentum, but obviously this approach would not have any impact on his mentality at the moment, and his mentality was always the same as As calm as still water, so is the tone.

"How do I address you, Your Excellency?" Leo asked, although he was only speaking in a normal way, he indirectly controlled the sacrificial pillar in the real world through the rune magic circle, and spread his voice throughout the abyss illusion, saying: "Firewalker Perunia? Or another name?"

"Veronica, you can call me Veronica." Feeling that her small movements did not affect Leo in any way, the female abyssal creature slowly fell from the sky and landed in front of Leo, and then went up and down. Looking at Leo, he said in the pure common language of the Earth Federation, "That's the name I used when I was in the Earth Federation."

Hearing the other party's words, Leo narrowed his eyes slightly to hide the shock in his heart just now, and then said in a calm tone and the unfamiliar language of the eastern country in the old earth era: "When the Earth Federation , What is your identity? An abyssal superior? Or a pure Earth Federation member?"

"What do you think?" Veronica didn't give any answer this time, but asked back in the same oriental language, but her proficiency in using this language obviously far surpassed Leo's. is the standard pronunciation.

If it is said that the other party's ability to understand the Earth Federation language may be obtained directly from Leo through some unknown method, then the Eastern language used now cannot be explained by this statement. After all, even Leo's mastery of this language It is just the fur of the fur, and most words can only be pronounced according to the pronunciation table in the memory bank.

Before Leo could respond to this rhetorical question, he continued to say, "Are you doubting whether I have really been to the Earth Federation?" She smiled as she spoke, and the tulle on her body followed her thoughts She began to change, and became a standard female general costume of the Earth Federation Interstellar Army, and even the merit badges she wore were neatly arranged on her chest. What surprised Leo even more was that her appearance also changed at this moment. It became the image of an oriental woman, and said in the language of the Earth Federation: "Report your identification number, soldier."

I don't know if it was because of the influence of the biochemical soldier's memory, or because of some instinctive effect of the subconscious, when he saw the general uniform and the familiar female image issuing an identity verification command, Leo instinctively acted. The action of the military salute, and blurted out: "Soldier number 74328..."

At the same time as the serial number was reported, Leo also recovered from his instinctive reaction, immediately stopped the next action, and looked at the familiar figure in front of him with vigilance.

In the interstellar army of the Earth Federation, there are many generals with oriental blood, but there are not many interstellar generals who can be in charge of one star field among many generals, and among them, oriental women become interstellar generals. Few, there were only two in the past, one of them was promoted as a civilian, and there was only one oriental woman who was promoted to the interstellar general by virtue of her military exploits, and the interstellar woman with the western name Veronica and the oriental name Li Hongmei in front of Leo's eyes. Will.

In the military history of the Earth Federation, the name Li Hongmei is definitely qualified to be one of the top ten generals. Many people even think that if Li Hongmei is not a woman with oriental blood, with her military exploits, she is definitely qualified to be the top ten generals.

Li Hongmei, who came from a military family, was an absolute hawk in the army from the very beginning, and participated in no less than twenty wars within the star area, and those colonial counter-insurgency wars were countless, and most of the wars she participated in were Therefore, less wins more, and the use of interstellar fleet has reached the point where no one has ever done it before, and no one will come after her. Since then, all the fleet command textbooks of the Earth Federation Military Academy have used her tactical command as the core content. It can be said that, basically All spaceship captains, fleet commanders, and even generals of the Star Group Army after she boarded are her students.

In Leo's biochemical memory, when he was born, Li Hongmei had passed away for more than 500 years, but her influence has not diminished. Almost all military-related textbooks will have her related video materials, so Lei Ou Just now, Ou was able to recognize the other party's identity from his appearance at a glance.

The death of Li Hongmei is still a mystery in the period when the biochemical person Leo remembers it. When Li Hongmei was the highest military officer in the Chang'an star area, he went to a certain fringe colonial planet to inspect, and then lost contact. The Earth Federation sent a large number of people. They searched, even at the expense of their past relationships, and invited several alien Omega-level advanced life forms who were good at searching, but found nothing, regardless of whether it was the Earth Federation's own Omega-level advanced life forms or the alien Omega-level advanced life forms. body, the responses given are all unified, that is, Li Hongmei is no longer in the universe.

At that time, some people thought that Li Hongmei's patrol fleet should have been sucked in by a subspace rift that suddenly appeared, so they were trapped in the subspace. They just wanted to find Li Hongmei's whereabouts in the subspace, no matter how many manpower It is impossible to do it with material resources. Finally, a hundred years after Li Hongmei disappeared, the Earth Federation issued an announcement confirming that Li Hongmei had passed away, and held a very grand funeral for her, and named a second-class small star area next to the Chang'an star area It is the Hongmei star area, and what is interesting is that in Leo's biochemical memory, the core module of his biochemical man was produced in the Hongmei star area.

"Are you really Li Hongmei?" Leo said in a deep voice, switching back to the common language of the Earth Federation.

"Is this surprising?" The other party didn't answer directly, but just smiled and said.

Leo couldn't find any useful clues from the opponent's subtle movements at the moment, so he could only treat her as the real Li Hongmei. Even if he wasn't, the opponent should have really been to the Earth Federation. Otherwise, how could he speak the oriental language?

After making an assumption about the identity of the creature in front of him, Leo asked again: "Will you become Li Hongmei first, or..."

Before Leo could finish asking, Li Hongmei replied seriously: "The abyss has existed longer than you imagined. The universe may no longer be that universe, but the abyss will always be the abyss."

Although there was no direct answer, Leo already understood what the other party meant. It was obvious that the other party was already a high-ranking person in the abyss before becoming Li Hongmei. He just reincarnated as a human being and spent his life in that universe. Many abyss upper races have done this, but they reincarnated as humans in a certain world more to erode that world. Judging from Li Hongmei's life experience, it seems that this abyss upper class in front of him is just for the sake of being in the Earth Federation. Just live your life.

While looking at Li Hongmei's experience, Leo asked another question that has plagued the Earth Federation Government for many years, "So you didn't die, but returned to the abyss with the entire patrol fleet?"

Li Hongmei replied calmly: "No, only I returned to the abyss, and everyone else died in battle."

"Death in battle?" Leo was stunned. All the materials related to Li Hongmei's death in his memory did not mention any battles, and they were all missing. I am afraid it is related to the internal political struggle of the Earth Federation military.

At this time, he quickly searched for some major changes in the Earth Federation military after Li Hongmei's death, and quickly found some evidence from them.

After Li Hongmei's death, there was a huge shock inside the Earth Federation's military. Several powerful generals with oriental blood were sacked, all charged with bribery, and then the western generals began to raise their heads, and consciously targeted the eastern generals Make some political attacks.

And the military forces of the Eastern system did not give in to this, but fought against each other, and the offensive was more fierce, because the generals of the Western system were even dirtier under their buttocks, and it was easy to find a lot of evidence of bribery, bribery, and other violations. More than 20 generals of the Western Department who wield real power have been imprisoned, and more low-level generals have been implicated.

In this way, for nearly a hundred years later, the power struggle between the East and the West within the Earth Federation military has never stopped, and various methods have been used. Fortunately, all struggles have stayed within the military, and the people's livelihood has not been too affected. This struggle did not stop until Li Hongmei's grand funeral was over a hundred years later. At that time, the Earth Federation Interstellar Army had formed two systems, the east and the west, which did not interfere with each other, and the military command of the star area was also divided by the east and west systems.

At that time, scholars who studied politics in the Earth Federation believed that the military political struggle that lasted for a hundred years was due to the political seats left by Li Hongmei after his death, and the strengthening of the Eastern military system at that time, which caused panic in the Western military system, which in turn triggered The two military systems of the East and the West are fighting each other.

Now that I think about it, if Li Hongmei and her fleet were really attacked and killed, then this military political struggle might be worth pondering, and it is still impossible to tell which side attacked Li Hongmei's fleet.

It is reasonable to say that the Western system is the attacker, because throughout the century-old internal struggle, the Western system has always been the active party, while the Eastern system has always been the passive party.

But the problem is that Li Hongmei's fleet was in the Chang'an star area at the time, which was the sphere of influence of the Eastern system, and Li Hongmei had served as the military commander of the star area here for many years, so there was no chance for the Western system to intervene. It is basically impossible to enter the Chang'an star area and silently eliminate the Li Hongmei fleet, which is known for its small fleet tactics. Only the fleet inside the Chang'an star area, and it is an overwhelming large fleet, can do it suddenly. This means that Li Hongmei's death was deliberately caused by the military forces of the Eastern system.

"Who destroyed your fleet?" Leo asked directly with doubts.