The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Leo led the two people behind him across an arch bridge formed by huge tree roots, because Leo walked in front and cleaned off the moss attached to the surface of the tree roots, so that when the two people behind stepped on it, they no longer felt wet. slip.

Before choosing to walk the root arch bridge, Leo reminded them to be careful not to fall, because there is a small river about four meters wide below.

Although the insect repellent is very effective, it cannot be used in water. It is also useless to the poisonous insects that live in the water. If it falls into the water, it will be eaten by the poisonous insects just like the skeleton not far away. Only the bones remained.

After passing the tree root arch bridge without any risk, Leo found a relatively open place and stopped.

The reason why they stopped was not because there was no road ahead, but because the two people behind them had reached the time to rest. From their clearly audible breathing, it could be inferred that their current physical strength was close to the limit. If you continue to walk, you will cause harm to your body.

"Rest in place for ten minutes." Leo suggested after checking that there was no danger around him.

Hearing Leo's proposal, Nelson and Jason didn't say anything. They each found a slightly protruding tree root and sat down, gasping for breath, wiping the sweat that kept rolling down their foreheads.

Leo calmly reminded the two of them again: "You'd better drink some water now, don't drink too much, take a small sip."

Nelson and Jason silently took out the water bottle at their waists, unscrewed the lid, and resisted the urge to drink it up in one gulp. They took sips and sips. After about five sips, they all stopped at the same time. Tough to close the lid.

"Leo, why are you fine, you can't even see the sweat? Are you a monster?" Jason, who was in better shape, gradually recovered from the severe panting after drinking water, and then borrowed the lantern Seeing Leo's relaxed face under the dim light, he said enviously and jealously.

"As long as you know how to adjust your physical strength, you can do the same as me." Leo smiled and said.

At this moment, Leo was in a very happy mood, because he looked at his personal data interface just now, and found that even though he had been walking all the time and used some psionic skills from time to time, his psionic energy hadn't decreased at all, still Keep it at sixty.

By looking at the recorded data of the secondary brain system, he learned that the entire Black Forest was in an unknown high-energy force field. This high-energy force field cannot be directly absorbed, and through perfect control to promote the strengthening or evolution of certain parts of the body, let alone help him enhance his willpower and mental power, but this high-energy force field can slowly replenish what he consumes. psionic. As long as he controls it properly, his psionic energy can always be at full capacity.

Another point is that the high-energy force field of the Black Forest is not constant. In fact, through the slight changes in the recorded data, Leo discovered that the deeper he went into the depths of the Black Forest, the stronger the high-energy force field became. If it is inferred based on this data growth ratio, the central area of ​​the Great Black Forest, which is said to be inaccessible to humans, may have a high-energy force field that can provide him with the ability to absorb evolution and obtain stronger psionic skills.

The Black Forest is actually the collective name of the Black Forest region. In fact, the Black Forest is divided into five parts, the Lower Black Forest, the Great Black Forest, the Upper Black Forest, the Black Forest Swamp, and the Vinovi Mountains. The Great Black Forest is the main body and root of the Black Forest. The other parts are all products of the Black Forest’s outward extension. Among them, the Lower Black Forest has the smallest area, while the Upper Black Forest, the Black Forest Swamp, and the Vinovi Mountains are all in the Farland Empire. outside the borders.

Regarding the information about the Black Forest, Leo also learned about it from a full picture of the Black Forest painted on the wall of the hotel restaurant. Although he knew from Nelson that the Black Forest was huge, he never thought that it would be so large that it would occupy half of the Velen Continent. However, half of the land of the largest French Empire on the Velen Continent is the Black Forest, while the other half is hardwood. Shengsheng was squeezed into a U shape by the Black Forest.

"Didn't it mean that it's the foggy moon in the Black Forest now? Why is there no fog at all after we've walked for so long?" Just as Leo was thinking about his own data and the situation in the Black Forest, Jason was suddenly full of doubts. I asked Nelson a question that he really wanted to ask.

After entering the Black Forest, although Leo saw a lot of water mist formed by water vapor along the way, these mist were very shallow and faint, not considered dense fog at all, let alone make people get lost in the fog.

"I asked the teacher about the foggy moon." Nelson wiped the sweat from his forehead, wrung out the towel, and explained: "After entering the foggy moon, the dense fog does not immediately fill the forest, they will appear irregularly In some places of the forest, it stays for a few days, even more than ten days, and then disappears and reappears in another place. It is not until about thirty to forty days after entering the foggy moon that all the dense fog will be fixed in the forest until it fills up. The whole forest."

Leo asked, "Then where are we now?"

"It's been twenty-three days since the first dense fog appeared," Nelson said.

Jason chuckled and said, "It seems that our luck is pretty good."

Nelson gave Jason a white look, and said: "It should be said that our luck is very bad, because this period of time happens to be the time when thick fog appears most frequently and is also the most unruly time. Maybe we are sitting here now, and the next moment we will be around. It was covered in thick fog."

"No way!" Jason shrank his neck and looked around cautiously.

Leo opened his mouth and was about to ask more about Brumy Moon in the Black Forest, but was interrupted by a very small voice from a distance, and he couldn't help turning his head to look at the place where the voice came from .

"Leo, what's the matter?" Leo made a big move, Nelson could easily see Leo's abnormality, and immediately asked.

"There are gunshots." Leo said in a deep voice.

"There was a gunshot? Why didn't I hear it?" Jason looked at Leo suspiciously, then asked Nelson, "Doctor, did you hear that?"

"No." Nelson also shook his head.

At this time, Nelson suddenly saw a magical white light flashing from Leo's eyes in the dark night. Just when he was about to take a closer look, the white light disappeared again, which made him wonder if he had an illusion, especially in the After Leo heard gunshots they didn't hear.

Although Nelson doesn't have much experience in the jungle, he has read a lot of books and knows that some people are prone to hallucinations such as visual hallucinations and auditory hallucinations in the jungle. He thinks that he may be the same.

Just when Nelson was about to talk about the hallucinations he deduced to see if he should discuss a countermeasure, Leo said to him and Jason with an inexplicable contemptuous smile: "You two, don't stay here. Move, I will fix some tails later."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for the two of them to answer, Leo passed the insect repellent around his neck and the spherical smoker hanging on his waist to Nelson, and then walked back quickly across the tree root arch bridge. Jumping back and forth between several big tree roots on the opposite side, grabbed a hanging vine, and swung into the dark forest behind, leaving only two people sitting there with blank faces, looking at each other, speechless for a while.

Leo, who walked alone in the Black Forest, walked quickly through the forest through various available conditions as easily as if he was in his own back garden. Every step he took was calculated extremely delicately. The terrain map allows him to come and go as freely as the master of the Black Forest.

Just when he heard the slight gunshots just now, Leo activated his spiritual vision, opened the spiritual network, saw the situation of the forest behind through the spiritual vision, and built a three-dimensional map and biological system in the secondary brain system through the spiritual network. probe map.

Through observation and detection, Leo found more than thirty hunters following behind, and the two Panier battle axes hanging on the waist of these hunters fully revealed their identities.

What surprised him was that these thirty people were less than 100 meters away from their current resting place, separated only by a row of dense trees, and they had to go around the trees to reach the root arch bridge.

The gunshot just now was caused by the gunpowder in one of the hunters' guns accidentally firing, and it seems that the hunter didn't use a special bullet. According to common sense, a gunshot should be very loud in such an empty place, even if there were trees blocking it, it shouldn't be so slight, making him almost think he was hallucinating.

This situation made Leo suspect that the high-energy force field covering the Black Forest might be able to reduce and shield the sound transmission.

This made him think of the person trapped in the thick fog, who can neither see the direction nor spread his cry for help. Even if someone passes by a hundred meters away, his cry for help cannot be heard. They can only wait to die alone in the fog, or be eaten by forest beasts that come with the fog.

Now that Leo has discovered these malicious tails, he will naturally not let them continue to follow, so he asked Nelson and Jason to wait where they are, and he will deal with these people in the past.

Soon Leo came to the shadow of a huge tree not far from these people. Lock each of them and project them in the eyeballs, then release the spirit vision and spirit net, and change to the normal combat mode.

Leo observed for a while, and found that the thirty or so people in front of him didn't seem to be on the same page. Among them, the twenty or so people who made up the majority seemed to be complaining that they shouldn't enter the Black Forest, while the remaining eight people were very calm. The two squatted on the ground holding the lantern, carefully looking for the traces of Leo and the others, and ignored the complaints of those people. It seemed that these eight people were the main force in chasing Leo.

In addition, he also found that the weapons on the twenty or so people were all hunter equipment such as bows and crossbows. Even if they had muskets, they were of the very rough kind.

On the contrary, three of the eight people carried three well-made standard rifles on their backs, and there was also a special bullet bag on their belts, which contained five exquisitely crafted bullets, including the five bullets in the gun case. , These eight people should have thirty specially-made bullets in their hands.

After some observations, Leo quickly found the target. This person happened to be at the end of the team, tightening the loose bowstring. He looked like a veteran hunter.

It's just that Leo can tell from his shortness of breath and constant adjustment of the bowstring that he is very nervous now. It is not difficult to see from his intentional behavior of lagging behind the team. A U-turn and run.

After finding the first target, Leo took advantage of the darkness of the forest to silently touch the back of the team from the gaps between the huge tree roots.

Although his position was less than ten centimeters away from a hunter who could see him as long as he turned his head, but with the help of the rotten soil on the ground that can absorb sound and the surrounding high-energy force field that restricts sound, he His movements were soundless, like ghosts.

I saw that Leo had already stood behind the target, and the hunter was still focusing on the conversation with his companions discussing whether he should go back. He quickly stretched out one hand to cover the target's mouth, while holding the dagger in the other hand, he stabbed him directly into the heart from his back, causing him to die on the spot.

After eliminating a target, Leo did not pull out the dagger, but carefully dragged the corpse into the darkness, with the wound facing the ground, and pulled out the dagger with the blade slanted, so that the sprayed blood fell directly on the ground without splashing on him.

After solving one target, Leo took off the Panier battle ax from the corpse, and moved towards the next target.

The dark environment of the black forest gave Leo excellent protection. In the past, the combat skills that focused on infiltration and beheading were brought to the extreme in such an environment. These people did not notice that their companions were decreasing one by one. It wasn't until the two people who were looking for the way found the traces that Leo and the others had walked before, after guessing their route, stood up and prepared to continue chasing forward, they realized that there were only a dozen people left in the team. people.

"What's going on here? Where are the people?" The hunter, the strongest among the eight, stood up and asked loudly those who were at a loss. After leaving, I saw him yelling: "You guys took my money, do you want to go back on it now? Do you know that our Blood Ax Gang treats those who take money and go back on it? We will let him swallow the money one by one Go down until his belly bursts."

"Boss Pierre, don't wrong us. Since we have taken your money, we will definitely follow you. Otherwise, we won't follow you to the Black Forest at the end of the foggy moon." One of the people who questioned hurriedly Standing up to argue, said: "We don't know where those people have gone? I swear to God, they were still here just now."

Suddenly someone said: "Could it be that monsters in the thick fog came out to take them..."

This person hadn't finished his sentence, I don't know if it was a coincidence, a gust of cool wind appeared out of nowhere in this sweltering environment, and swept over everyone, making everyone shiver uncontrollably, and the surroundings instantly fell into silence among.

Soon the man named Pierre regained his strength and yelled at the man who had spoken before, "You idiot, what are you talking about? The fog didn't even appear, how could there be..."

Before Pierre could finish his sentence, a black shadow flew out from the darkness with a buzzing sound, and hit Pierre's open chest in an instant, piercing it hard, with the rest of his strength pulling Pierre's body It flew up and slammed into a tree root.