The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"How are the people whom you coaxed to come here with the excuse of a man of God before? Are they dead?" Leo asked in a deep voice after recovering from his contemplation.

Trader Loki hesitated for a while, but nodded, and defended himself: "They didn't have to die, but they didn't listen to my orders, and entered the dangerous area without authorization. It's not entirely my fault."

After hearing this, Leo didn't express his thoughts, he just raised his finger and pointed at the illusion of the giant monument in front of him, and asked, "What now? How do we get through here now?"

"Generally, after entering a strange labyrinth, the safest way to deal with it is not to move here. The time to maintain the maze is up. As long as you don't fall into the maze too deep, you can escape safely." Trader Loki said very seriously. : "However, the situation in the labyrinth illusion of the Giant Monument is completely different. According to the information revealed by the people who escaped, you can only leave here if you find the giant wraith hidden in the Giant Monument, otherwise you will be trapped here forever, and The longer you stay here, the more you will be assimilated and infected, and you will eventually become one of those monsters."

As he spoke, he pointed to the monsters wandering aimlessly in the blood.

"Didn't you just say that no one can get out of here alive? Why is someone escaping now?" Leo questioned.

Trader Loki had already guessed that Leo would ask such a question, and quickly explained: "Escaping does not mean that you are still alive. In fact, all those who escaped died soon. Only A few people were able to reveal some information before they died, and by sorting out this information, we can roughly understand the situation in the giant monument labyrinth illusion."

Leo asked again: "So what are we going to do now? Are we also looking for the giant ghost?"

"Yes, we are going to find the giant wraith, but this is not the most difficult place." Loki the trader nodded, pointed to the nearest giant head building, and said, "Under normal circumstances, the giant wraith They will appear near the giant's head. As long as you stay next to the giant's head, you will always encounter the giant's wraith. The real trouble is that I don't know how to use the giant's wraith to open the passage from here, and there is a pool of resentful blood next to the giant's head. , there will often be some terrifying and deadly monsters, and the degree of danger staying there is much greater than in other places."

After listening to Loki the Merchant's analysis, Leo seemed very calm, without any sense of crisis at all. He thought for a while and said, "Since the only way to leave is through the Giant Wraith, and you want to find the Giant Wraith We can only go under the giant's head, so we have no other choice now, let's catch a giant's wraith first, and then think about other things later." He pointed to the surrounding giant head buildings and said: " Since you can stay here for such a long time, you must be lucky, you can choose one of these buildings now!"

The merchant Loki also felt that Leo's proposal was very suitable for the present, so he looked at the surrounding buildings, thought for a while, and chose a giant head building located at the intersection of their current location, and did not choose The giant head building closest to them.

Seeing that Loki the Merchant had made a choice, Leo nodded, then pointed to another building near the one selected by Loki the Merchant, and said, "Let's go there!"

Merchant Loki said with a puzzled expression: "Why do you want to go there? Didn't I choose the building next to it?"

Leo explained calmly: "Your luck is indeed very good. The choices you make can save you from bad luck, but the people who follow you are all unlucky, and they all died in those maze illusions. So your choice can only be said to be best for you, but not so good for others."

Hearing Leo's explanation, Loki the trader opened his mouth and didn't know how to refute for a while. He could only follow Leo's choice. Although he could act alone, in such a dangerous environment, it is impossible for one person to act alone. It's different from asking for a dead end, even if he has the ability to enter other worlds, but that ability is not stable, he can't be 100% sure that that ability can play a role when he is in danger, so now act together with Leo, Taking care of each other is his only choice.

Another point is that although he can't feel how powerful Leo has, but he has always shown a calm mood since Leo entered here, guessing that Leo may be sure to leave here.

After choosing the target building, Loki the Trader began to search for or open up a road that would allow them to reach that building safely.

I saw that he took out a set of very simple-looking space suits for Leo and himself from his pockets. The reason why he said it was simple was because the oxygen supply system of this space suit was still the compressed gas cylinder model. , this kind of space suit only appeared in the period when the old earth just entered the universe and carried out the exploration of near-Earth planets.

Loki the Trader skillfully put on this space suit, and instructed Leo to put it on, and then put on oxygen cylinders for himself and Leo, completely isolating himself from the surrounding air.

"I have been to a labyrinth environment, which is full of green-skinned monsters that are half the height of a person. Those monsters have no eyes but have very sensitive noses. They can judge the location of prey by the gas produced during breathing. If it is isolated, there will be no danger. In addition, there is a maze environment that contains some poisonous gas that can cause hallucinations or paralyze the body, which is very dangerous." Loki the trader explained while adjusting the switch valve of the oxygen cylinder: "Although the maze environment of the giant storm may be different from other maze environments, we can more or less avoid some troubles by doing this now. For example, this isolation suit can avoid blood poisoning after sticking to the ground."

After speaking, he tried to leave the small and safe place under his feet, and stretched out his feet to touch the blood flowing on the street.

The poisonous blood, which could corrode even steel, immediately lost all deadly threats to the space suit, which has been specially treated and has strong anti-corrosion properties, and became like an ordinary liquid.

It's just that even though the poisonous blood has lost its fatal effect, the monsters in the poisonous blood are still deadly. When Loki's foot touched the liquid and formed a very weak ripple that spread to the surroundings, the nearby monsters were like It was the spiders waiting for their prey that sensed the vibration of the spider web, stopped in unison, and turned to face Leo and the others at the same time.

Seeing this situation, Loki the Merchant naturally didn't dare to move anymore, but he didn't ask Leo for help, but took out a multi-legged mechanical beast the size of a forearm from his pocket, activated it, and threw it out.

After the mechanical beast landed on the ground, it stepped on the blood under its feet to avoid the monster in front, and ran towards the distance quickly. Because the mechanical beast was small in size, extremely flexible, and very fast, it was easy to avoid it. However, the movement it caused attracted those monsters to chase after it. What is surprising is that when the monsters were chasing, no matter whether they fell or collided with each other, they did not trigger them. The balloon brains explode, but their balloon brains will swell by a few points every time they collide.

After using the mechanical beast as bait to lure away all the monsters on the blood river in the nearby street, Loki the merchant heaved a sigh of relief, with a little regret in his eyes, because the mechanical beast he had worked so hard to get his hands on had helped him a lot. The beast may have been lost.

Leo stood aside and watched the whole process of how Loki Trader opened up a safe road. In his opinion, Loki Trader did a very good job, because if he did it, he would use the same method to solve the blood on the streets. The monsters in the river just use different tools.

After sighing for the loss of a good tool, Loki the trader turned to Leo and said, "Let's go!"

After finishing speaking, he took the initiative to lead the way and walked towards the selected giant head building, and Leo followed, but when he stepped into the blood-filled street, he didn't let the spacesuit stick to the blood , but use psionic energy and devouring power to arrange two layers of isolation on the outside of the space suit. The outer isolation layer of devouring power absorbs the power in the blood and converts it into psionic energy to supplement the second layer of psionic isolation to achieve a balanced cycle Effect.

Soon they walked through a street corner and came to a pool of blood at the base of a giant's head. At this moment, Loki the trader saw a place beside the pool of blood without blood, which looked like a safe area, so he immediately walked over.

"Don't go there, it's not safe." However, Leo, who was behind, immediately stepped forward and stopped him, and then pulled the puzzled Loki around the seemingly safe place, and continued along the road. The street goes towards the target building.

At first, Loki, the trader, still didn't understand why Leo did this, but he looked back at the seemingly safe area, and seemed to notice something, and said in a low voice: "It's really unreasonable, in such a place It is really abnormal that such a safe zone exists in a dangerous place, like a trap."

I don't know if it sensed Loki the Merchant's thoughts, or because the trap had failed. Under the gaze of Loki the Merchant, a large number of tentacle-like thorns suddenly appeared in the seemingly safe area, and then wriggled two times. Down, sank into the ground, and the surrounding area was covered by blood again.

Seeing this scene, Loki the Merchant couldn't help speeding up his pace, as if he was worried that those things would catch up.

Then Loki the Merchant released two devices similar to the multi-legged mechanical beast to lure more monsters away, and the two of them came to the designated target near the giant head building almost without any danger.

I saw that the blood pool of the giant head building in front of me did not seem to be at the bottom, but at the junction of the top of the bottom building and the giant head, and around the bottom building, besides the blood flowing down from above, there were a lot of blurry black shadows Wander around the building like a ghost.

"There must be a giant wraith in the blood pool here." After seeing these black shadows, Loki, a trader, immediately showed a smile on his face, and said: "This ghost-like black shadow is the soul of the intruder after death. , these souls will be attracted by the giant wraiths to gather together, and when a certain amount is reached, the giant wraiths will appear to devour the remaining souls of these intruders."

After listening to Loki the Merchant's introduction, Leo looked up at the top of the half of the building above his head. The Spirit Net was also released at this time to scan the surrounding situation. Although the Spirit Net could not analyze the components of the soul, it could sense these The remaining soul or the energy response of the spiritual body, just as the merchant Loki said, there is indeed a strong energy fluctuation at the top of the half building in front of him, below the head of the giant, according to the intensity of the energy fluctuation. Analysis shows that the power of the energy source is at least equivalent to that of a sixth-level psyker.

The existence of this kind of strength is only one step away from a demigod. In such a special environment, it may be possible to obtain some additional auxiliary power, and it is not impossible to finally exert the power of a demigod.

Trader Loki calmly analyzed: "We now need to pass through the remaining souls of these intruders, enter the building, and then go up. I don't know the situation inside the building, but it is certain that there will be danger. These remaining souls cannot Pull away, I can only force my way in, let me see if there is anything I can use..."

"Don't be so troublesome." Leo suddenly interrupted Trader Loki at this time, and before the other party could react, he grabbed a lock on the outside of the other party's spacesuit for connecting the rope, and then unfolded the psionic wings and directly It soared into the sky and flew towards the top of half of the building.

During the flight, Leo's actions seemed to disturb some restrictions, and a large number of strange birds made of blood flew out from the eyes of the surrounding giants' heads that were constantly bleeding blood, and rushed towards Leo and the others overwhelmingly.

Facing the attacks of so many strange birds, Leo was preparing the shaman scepter to cast shaman spells. He found that the strength of nature in this so-called labyrinth illusion was much higher than outside. Full spell effect will be more prominent.

However, the moment Leo took out the shaman scepter, the trader Loki, who was caught by him, had already made a countermeasure. For cylindrical objects, grasp both ends and twist them back and forth.

A burst of intense energy light burst out from the middle of the cylindrical object and spread out in the form of spherical ripples. All the blood monster birds touched by the light scattered their shapes and turned into rain of blood. on the ground.

And this energy ray seems to be only aimed at these blood monster birds, and has no effect on Leo's spiritual power, and Leo can also feel a very strong force of nature from this energy ray, as if the cylinder A powerful and targeted shamanic spell is stored within the shaped object.

Without the obstruction of the strange bird, Leo quickly flew to the top of half of the building, landed on a high place not covered by blood, and then put down Loki the trader, without checking the surrounding situation, he went straight to the walking Shang Luoji asked: "Have you been here before? Otherwise, how could you have those weapons that are specially aimed at strange birds?"