The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

After deciding to stay here for a period of time, Leo began to think about choosing a suitable place to stay. By the way, he also took a look at what the creatures bred here looked like, and whether there were other intelligent creatures.

The surrounding trees are very tall and luxuriant. There are hundreds of layers of various branches from the lower net. Such dense branches and leaves can't penetrate the gaps and fall on the ground. The people under the tree are almost as deep as in a dark cave, and they can't see their fingers.

However, in this environment, Leo can still explore the surrounding terrain through the spirit network, and organize the feedback data into an extremely accurate topographic map.

It's just that the topographical map constructed with the spirit net is very different from what the eyes see, and more importantly, after the psionic skill spirit net is cast, it may be perfectly hidden in other worlds, but in this In the special sea of ​​trees world, the spirit net is too eye-catching.

Just now he tried to use the spiritual net to check the surrounding environment and terrain, etc. As a result, the psionic energy of the spiritual net was invested into the thick natural force in the surrounding air, just like throwing a huge catfish into a pool. The water in the entire pool was tumbling, and it was difficult not to be noticed.

Fortunately, Leo just checked the surrounding situation briefly, and soon stopped using the spirit net, which made the abnormal movement calmed down by the strong natural force around him without going too far.

But this also made Leo realize that if it is not necessary, try not to use those supernatural powers that are not shamanic, especially those that need to be released outside the body. After all, he has almost zero understanding of this world. Before it is clear whether there is a strong enough threat in this world, do everything in a low-key manner.

After deciding not to use the spirit net skill to check the surrounding situation, Leo could only go to the top of the tree and check the relevant situation of the world from the top of the tree.

So, he looked up to find a few huge trees in suitable positions, stepped on some protrusions on the surface of the trees, and jumped back and forth between the huge trees quickly, moving straight up.

On the way he jumped to the top of the tree, nothing happened. In fact, after he entered the dense branches and leaves, he encountered no less than twenty attacks, and the attackers were all perched in the branches and leaves on the top of the tree. of various insects.

It is not appropriate to say that it is an insect, it should be said that it is a giant worm, because the smallest of these giant worms is almost half the size of a human, and the largest is even comparable to an elephant, and more importantly, these giant worms no matter Their size and moving speed are very fast, which also makes their impact force very strong, just like the impact force produced by a fast-moving shuttle.

Although these insects have different shapes and sizes, it can be distinguished from the characteristics of some of their main organs that these insects should be the same type of insects. They all have four pairs of thick insect legs, and after the impact fails, they will all spray out a mist with a hypnotic effect, and the difference between them is the sharp horns that cover the whole body, and the bigger the insect, The sharp horns on the body are thicker and more ferocious.

Although those insects caused some obstacles, they did not affect the speed of Leo's travel, nor did they hurt Leo. On the contrary, the way these insects moved quickly between the branches and leaves on the tree made Leo think that these insects might be able to It was used as a temporary mount for him, and because of this idea in his mind, he quickly searched for a shaman spell that could be used to tame bugs.

Although this shaman spell of domesticating bugs could be cast directly by Leo, Leo did not do that, because he only knew how to cast and use this shaman spell, and had never really used it. If it comes out, it may be out of control, so he needs to wait to create a totem pole that can improve the control of shaman spells before casting this shaman spell.

After avoiding the giant worms, Leo quickly came to the top of the tree, and stood on the topmost branch, looking around.

Just like his first sense after coming to this world, even if he stood on the top of the tree, all he could see was the endless forest moving towards the place where the sight disappeared, and with his eyesight, he couldn't see it. At the edge of the forest, at the same time, he couldn't see the arc-shaped horizon, but only a flat land with branches and leaves on the top of the trees.

Different from the dark and humid ground below, the unobstructed sky above the treetops is very bright and hot, because there are two suns suspended in the sky, and these two suns are so huge that the activities on the sun's surface can even be seen with the naked eye dark spots.

Leo made a rough estimate. The temperature of the surrounding air is at least 90 degrees, and it is extremely humid, as if being in a kettle placed on the stove. It is conceivable that ordinary people come to such an environment, but they may not understand it. What's going on, the most scalded to death by the hot and humid air around.

However, in such a harsh air environment, there are still many unique birds that belong to this world.

Among these birds, there is a large number of birds with a very special appearance. It has four pairs of wings, a fusiform body, and a pair of spikes on both ends. It is not particularly large, with about ten body parts. The pair with the longest wings spread is about fifteen meters.

This kind of bird specializes in preying on insects that live on giant trees. As long as there are insects rushing out of the canopy below, this kind of bird will rush over immediately. When entering the insect body, a large number of holes will appear on the surface of the spikes. These holes can suck the insect dry in an instant, leaving only a residual shell in the end.

As for why those bugs living on the trees leave the branch area which is very safe for them, rush out of the top of the tree, and expose them to the strange birds that feed on them, presumably it should be related to their reproduction, because Leo is After seeing a few giant worms dodging the attack of the strange bird, and then flying to a certain height in the air, their entire bodies exploded, and the powerful bursting force sent the eggs in their bodies to the high-altitude wind, towards the distance blow away.

However, Leo's attention was not attracted by the survival rules of these creatures for too long. He quickly returned to the business and started to trace the possible activities of intelligent creatures. As a result, he quickly found a clue.

This clue is very eye-catching. When Leo came to the top of the tree and scanned the surrounding situation, he saw this clue at first sight, but at that time he just thought it was just a scene of natural travel, until he checked repeatedly, It was only then that it was confirmed that it was not a natural journey, but a trace left by man. The trace is very simple and it is a footprint, but the not simple place is that the footprint is in a mountain forest in the distance, because the footprints covered by trees are not obvious. It can only be vaguely distinguished from the gap between the trees within the footprint range and the surrounding trees that there is a footprint under that tree, and judging by the size of the footprint, the creature that left the footprint is at least a giant that is almost towering.

Although, the location of the footprints is visible to the naked eye, but this naked eye is Leo's naked eye, and it is the trace that Leo can only see when the line of sight reaches the limit after he uses his spiritual vision ability. According to the limit of his line of sight, this sea of ​​trees With the flat land of the world and the high purity of the surrounding air, he estimated that the footprint was at least a thousand miles away from his current location.

Naturally, Leo did not intend to walk such a long distance. He began to consider whether he wanted to capture those huge strange birds flying in the sky as mounts and fly through the air, or he should continue his previous idea of ​​subduing a giant insect as a mount. Walking through the dense foliage of the woods.

This matter didn't bother him for too long, because the world had already made a choice for him.

While he was still considering how to choose, those strange birds flying in the sky fell down quickly one by one as if they were frightened by something, and got into the woods below, and the sky was cleared in the blink of an eye.

At this time, the giant worms in the woods seemed to know that the opportunity for reward was coming, so under the protection of the branches and leaves, they frantically attacked the strange birds that entered the woods, and even if those strange birds were killed in the branches and leaves, they would not be able to kill them. Without getting out of the woods, he flew into the air again, as if there was something terrible in the air.

Leo also noticed something was wrong at this time. In order to avoid unnecessary danger, he also hid in the woods like those strange birds, hiding himself in the dense branches and leaves.

Just when he was hiding, an extremely powerful energy wave suddenly came from the sky. This energy wave made Leo instantly think of the energy storm in the subspace, and it was the kind of energy storm that was gathered together. The overall sense is more like a star destroyer with some kind of energy storm as its core.

According to the theory, even some interstellar warships would be torn apart when such a powerful energy wave hits, and although the surrounding giant forest trees are tough, they are still not strong enough to resist this energy wave, and it is only a matter of time before they are destroyed.

So when Leo sensed the energy wave, he immediately used his psychic energy to add several layers of psychic shields to himself, and continued to move down, letting the trees above his head suppress the energy wave as much as possible.

But something that surprised him soon happened. All the trees in the forest trembled like a resonance, and then a powerful force of nature shot straight into the sky from the trees, and quickly suppressed it. The energy waves collide together.

The impact of the two powerful energies did not cause any earth-shattering impact. Instead, they offset each other and collapsed on their own. Whether it was energy waves or natural forces, they disappeared and became invisible. The only thing that changed was that the strength of the surrounding natural forces seemed to weaken. some.

Seeing this scene, Leo naturally gave up the idea of ​​driving those strange birds in the air, because judging from the situation just now, it is obvious that the energy wave falling from the sky is not an accident, but a normal event, and the normal It has been found that such birds and giant insects have formed reflex behaviors.

In addition, the force of nature generated from the surrounding giant trees just now is obviously oriented with a clear intention. It was produced to deal with the energy wave, and the strength of the force of nature is just right, and it can offset that energy wave. As for things like energy shocks, this kind of situation can only happen to those high-level life forms with wisdom, and Leo also thought of the special forest before he came to this world, so he doubts where he is now. This forest is actually just a plant, and this plant has evolved into a higher life form, but he is not sure what level its life form has reached. The only thing that is certain is that it should not have become an omega. High-level life forms, or gods.

The reason why Leo is so sure is that he did not feel the life suppression from higher life forms in this forest, especially in the natural force generated when the forest resonated just now, so the forest plants Even if the life form evolved, it should not be higher than Leo's current life form.

However, even if it is not a higher-level life form, Leo still dare not underestimate this forest life form, because the level of life form is not equal to the strength of power, like the strength of the natural force produced by this forest life form just now, I'm afraid it is stronger than some omega-level advanced life forms, and it is far from what Leo can resist.

It is also this clear awareness of his own strength that made Leo's subsequent behaviors become more cautious. He did not use any extraordinary power, but only relied on the strength of his body to shuttle through the forest, looking for suitable totems for making totems. After discovering the material, he did not use any supernatural power to cut it down. Instead, he went back to the ground and made a primitive stone axe, and chopped off the thick branches used to make the totem pole cane.

After that, he originally planned to place the cut branches on the top of the tree, and then spend more time to let the surrounding high-temperature air dry the moisture in the branches, but what he didn't expect was that the branches of these giant trees died after leaving the trees. The automatic dehydration became a dry wood, saving Leo a lot of time.

After the materials were prepared, Leo began to think about what kind of totem pole cane to make. This cane is related to the type of shaman spells he will cast later, so he needs to think carefully.

Now the shaman spells that Leo masters can be roughly divided into two categories, one can be said to be energy, they can generate some powerful natural energies by changing the structure of natural forces, such as fire, cold, lightning, etc. It can even control the weather, and the other category is creatures, which mainly control and change creatures through the power of nature. Leo's shaman spell to control giant insects is one of them.

It stands to reason that Leo should choose biological shaman spells, but the number of biological shaman spells he knows is not many, and they are all indirect powers generated by controlling living things, which is not in line with his habits, but energy shaman spells The spell fits well with his fighting habits, and can even be perfectly converted into powers such as psionic power.

As for making two totem pole canes, it is not within his consideration at all, because this kind of totem pole cane needs spirit injection, and with his ability, he can only inject spirit once in a short period of time, and the next time may be several years later.