The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Joe is the night watchman of the Boulder Gold Tribe. His main duty is to take care of the tribe's mushroom fields. Big horned worms that eat mushrooms, but working in the mushroom fields is much safer than those miners who go down the mine,

For the people in the boulder gold tribe, among the various jobs provided by the whole tribe, the work of mining boulder gold mines in the mine is definitely the most dangerous. Basically, any miner will give his life to If you are lucky, you will never encounter an accident in your life. If you are unlucky, you will not be able to get up the first time you go down.

The clan also mentioned that they wanted to use slaves to mine the mines, but when they thought that the boulder gold mines mined were dedicated to the people of Sky City, they felt that doing so was blasphemy and might cause dissatisfaction among the people of Sky City. Although it was only possible, they were unwilling to take risks, so the matter of mining with slaves was rejected.

However, it is not that they have not found an alternative method, which is to promote some people from the slaves to grant the status of tribal members, and then send these so-called tribal members who have just got rid of their slave status to the mines to mine.

Although this has reduced the casualties of tribe members to a certain extent, the tribe itself does not have many slaves, and the number of people who can be replaced is very small. Coupled with the supervisors who must be dispatched, there are still many unlucky people who need to be laid down in the end. mine.

Joe was originally going to go to the mine, but his father replaced his position, and he replaced his father's position and became the night watchman of the mushroom field. As a result, his father encountered an accident a few months after he went down the mine , buried in the ground forever.

Because of this, Joe attaches great importance to his status as a night watchman in the mushroom field, and will do anything for his current position. In the past few years, there have been more than one incidents in which tribe members who tried to snatch his position died due to accidents. Although everyone knows that the deaths of these people are inseparable from Joe, there is no evidence to prove that no one wants to be the next person who dies inexplicably and accidentally, so no one will dare to replace Joe from now on. The night watchman job is such an idea.

However, what is incredible is that just a day ago, Joe voluntarily gave up his status as a night watchman in the mushroom field, and instead applied for the position of a miner's supervisor, and went down to the mine.

Joe's approach naturally aroused many people's doubts, but because of their doubts, they were more concerned about the ownership of the vacated Mushroom Field Night Watchman position. Soon everyone's attention was focused on competing for this stable job position. Completely forget about Joe, because in their opinion, Joe, who has been dubbed stupid, is unlikely to leave the mine no matter how lucky he is.

However, they didn't know that Joe who went down into the mine had already made up his mind, and he would not go out of the mine until the two people from Sky City left.

The reason why Joe made such an extremely stupid decision in the eyes of everyone and carefully hid in the depths of the mine was entirely because of the strange things that happened to him in the past few days.

A few days ago, as the night watchman of the mushroom field, he led people to patrol the mushroom field as usual to drive away the big horned insects. It was already time to change shifts, but he and his team unexpectedly encountered the special envoy of Sky City who just came down from above. .

Originally, this was just an ordinary thing, but since that close contact with the special envoy of Sky City, he found that he would involuntarily fall into hallucinations.

In the hallucinations, he would involuntarily see some magical scenes, such as strange sun-like objects flying in the dark sky, a beam of light fell on a huge piece of land, and the land disappeared immediately, leaving only a big pit, etc. It is unimaginable that people will be regarded as crazy if they say it.

However, this is not the worst. The worst thing is that there will be a lot of knowledge that does not understand the meaning in his mind. Some are some weird patterns, and some are some incomprehensible words. This should be some kind of knowledge, maybe it is the knowledge of civilization that they have lost in the legend, but the most direct result of the influx of such a huge amount of knowledge is that he will fall into convulsions, coma and uncontrollable from time to time these days In the dancing of hands and feet, this is why some people think he is crazy.

This pain lasted for about a day, and all the knowledge that made him feel mysterious visions and discomfort disappeared in an instant, and his mind fell into a state of clarity that he had never done before, and in this state, his brain produced uncontrollably. He came up with a strong idea, which was to hide in the depths of the mine immediately, and come out after the people from Sky City left.

Although he wanted to resist this inexplicable idea, he felt extremely flustered in his heart, as if death would be upon him in the next moment. He felt that this might be a premonition related to his life. In the end, he chose After finding a compromise, he took the initiative to find the tribal supervisor. Under the almost shocked expression of the other party, he proposed to exchange the position of the night watchman in the mushroom field for the position of the mine supervisor.

Perhaps the supervisor was worried that Joe would change his mind soon and would no longer agree to exchange positions on a whim, so after a few words of casual persuasion, he quickly went through the formalities for the exchange of positions, replacing the former night watchman in Mushroom Field. The position was handed over to one of his close relatives, and according to Joe's request, he was assigned the position of supervisor of the deepest mine pit, and let him take the position immediately.

After getting the job, Joe immediately set off to enter the mine, and then went directly to the deepest mine where he worked, and after doing a simple job handover, he left the work in hand and ran to a At the top of the abandoned mine tunnel, when he turned off all the lights and left himself alone in the dark, a sense of security that he had never felt before spread in his heart, and his figure entered the In an unprecedented comfort, he also fell into a deep sleep.

I don't know how much time has passed, the previously extinguished lights were turned on again, Joe knelt on the ground, holding his head in his hands, with a painful expression on his face, followed by retching, and irregular clots of blood came from his body. As the clots were spit out, Joe's complexion gradually improved, and the painful expression faded away.

"Successful! The professor is right, we can indeed move between different awakened bodies through the transfer of super-dimensional thinking consciousness," Joe looked at the blood clots on the ground, with a smile on his face, as if he was exhausted Sitting against the wall, gasping for breath, he said to himself: "I'm going to hide here next, and go out after that guy leaves. I sensed that the origin beacon is here, as long as I find the origin beacon I should be able to complete the body transformation, and then I don’t have to worry about the danger.” Then, he said with a little worry: “However, can I fool that guy, that guy’s psychic power seems to be on the verge of dying? He has reached the limit of evolution, can he feel the transmission of extra-dimensional thinking?"

Joe at this moment is no longer the night watchman Joe of the Boulder Tribe, but the consciousness from the Earth Federation who performed suicide in front of Leo not long ago. His suicide was not a temporary intention, nor was it because Afraid of revealing any secrets to Leo, it was an escape plan that had been planned after entering the Lijin tribe.

Although, in order to win Leo's trust, he said a lot of secret things, but he also hid some things and did not say them. For example, an awakened person like him can sense the existence of another awakened person at close range, and even It is possible to actively use the infection method to cause a mutation in a certain part of the special gene cells of another awakened person. This mutation does not allow that person to awaken the corresponding ancient consciousness, but allows the mutant gene cells to awaken the quasi-awakened person. The former is transformed into an awakened body exclusively for him, which also involves a very important ability he concealed from Leo, that is, consciousness transfer.

However, this is not a concealment, because before that, he did not know whether the transfer of super-dimensional thinking consciousness could be successful, because in his memory, this ability is still in theoretical experiments, although there are many successful times in experimental cases , but the number of failures is also many, and there is no perfect and safe transfer method.

Originally, he was just planning to use Joe as a last resort, and he would not use this method unless it was a last resort. The reason why he couldn't wait to use this method to get out of trouble was because Leo was too dangerous, although Because of the subspace oath, it is impossible for him to provide Leo with any more core information related to the rebirth plan, but he can't guarantee whether Leo can bypass his consciousness and read the corresponding information directly from his consciousness .

At first, because of the anti-psychic power, he felt that it was difficult for Leo to forcibly read the information in his consciousness through psychic skills, but soon he discovered that the powerful power Leo possessed was not only psychic power, but also A lot of strength is not weaker than the extraordinary power of psychic power. What is even more frightening is that he just discovered that Leo seems to have a very strong resistance to anti-psychic power, which means that the anti-psychic power will no longer be able to It has no effect on Leo's ability to use psionic energy.

This is an extremely incredible thing for him. You must know that anti-psychic power is the most dangerous force in the cosmic catastrophe. This danger is mainly for psykers. Under the influence of their power, they will also be restrained to death, so that even an ordinary person can kill them.

With such a huge threat, the psyker will naturally try every means to decipher this power, but in the end until he entered the experimental cabin, the psyker could not find any way to decipher the anti-psychic power, including Omega-level advanced life forms inside.

However, now Leo has resistance to anti-spiritual power in such a short period of time, and he can also use anti-spiritual power. Psionic power, and the use of anti-psychic power while using psionic power at the same time, this made him realize that anti-psychic power will eventually be mastered by Leo, and by that time, his most useful resistance ability will be gone no deposit.

It is also because of this that he had to re-examine the degree of danger of Leo, and had to take the risk of transferring his consciousness to the awakened body that had not yet completed the mutation, and used feigned death to avoid Leo's investigation of the rebirth plan.

Now his plan has succeeded, although it is not clear whether he can really deceive Leo into thinking that he is really dead, but even if Leo doubts it, as long as he is careful and hides in this boulder gold mine If you don't go out inside, then Leo will have absolutely no chance of finding him. He knows very well that Leo and that Mimidor won't stay in this tribe for too long. As long as they leave, then he will really be free, and He can complete his follow-up plan, which is to find the origin beacon in this area. With the help of the origin beacon, he can quickly gain powerful power and obtain enough resources for him to complete the recovery of civilization.

Thinking of this, he was extremely excited, and all the discomforts in his body disappeared. Then he got up, carried the lamp, and walked briskly towards the top of the mine pit. In the next few days, he will perform well. As an overseer, let yourself go through the most difficult period of time.

However, just as he reached the end of the mine tunnel, he smelled a strong smell of blood, and accompanied by noisy voices, many people were shouting in an incomprehensible language.

He felt that something might have happened, so he walked out of the abandoned mine tunnel carefully, and then hid in the shadow of some supporting stakes, walked through a relatively empty space, and came to the small mine where the sound came from Outside, peeked inward.

He found that the mine was a wooden shed living area specially prepared for quasi-slave miners, but now it is not used for living, but for stacking corpses, and all the tribal supervisors and some tribal miners have become The bloody corpses were piled up together, and around the pile of corpses, those miners called tribal members who were actually slaves held up various mining tools and shouted loudly, their faces were full of anger and anger. It's not hard to see what these people are thinking now with the expression of hatred.

Feeling the danger, he knew that once he was discovered by these slave miners, he would definitely become one of the corpses. Although he possessed anti-psychic power, this power was only suitable for dealing with psychics. It has no effect on humans.

For this reason, he used more careful movements, turned around quietly without making a sound, and was about to go back to the abandoned mine cave to hide.

But the moment he turned around, a ray of light flashed in front of his eyes, following him he found that the world rolled around several times in front of his eyes, and then a ground appeared in front of him, and in front of the ground a headless corpse fell heavily on the ground Next to him was a slave miner with a knife wiping the blood off the knife.