The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"This is..." Joe didn't quite understand why Leo suddenly asked about the formula of the medicine, but after thinking about it for a while, he thought it might be related to the surrounding environment. He wanted to make some medicine that could drive away poisonous insects or snakes. He took it and looked at it, but after taking a look, his brows frowned. Although he was not particularly familiar with the formula of the potion in his hands, he did know several of the ingredients, and he also knew that these ingredients were put together What was the final potion formula, so he asked Leo with a serious face, "How did you have the formula for the inspiration potion?"

"I saw it in Bernando's collection." After Leo answered briefly, he asked again, "Do you know this potion?"

"Bernando's collection of books?" Joe didn't doubt Leo's statement, because there were indeed many things that found this formula from the collection of books in the past, "Not only I know it, but many people know this medicine , it is best not to let people see that you have the formula in your hand, this medicine is a banned drug, and it is banned by all countries on the mainland." He said, returning the formula to Leo, and asked suspiciously : "Don't you know inspiration potion? Logically speaking, any scholar knows it? You should know that this potion is banned because of you scholars. You should be very clear about this thing?"

Leo said in a deep voice: "I really don't know the origin of this inspiration potion, can you tell me?"

Joe stared at Leo for a long time, as if he wanted to see something from his face, but Leo's always calm face did not reveal any information. Seeing this situation, he sighed and said earnestly: " No matter why you are interested in inspiration potion, I sincerely advise you, don't touch this potion, because only fools and lunatics in this world will take this potion."

Leo could hear from Joe's words that this potion had caused terrible damage to the world, otherwise, Joe would not have been so cautious and fearful. So he said sincerely: "Don't worry, I'm not interested in taking this potion, I just want to know the origin of this potion and things related to this potion, if it's not convenient for you, you don't have to say it, I'll just ask other people, I believe other people should know something."

Seeing Leo like this, Joe didn't continue to persuade him, and then told Leo what he knew about the inspiration potion.

It turns out that the wizard's sobriety potion made by Leo is called the inspiration potion. It is indeed related to inspiration, because in this world, this potion was originally related to a very famous poet in the Novat continent. This poet is called The mad poet Messer, this mad poet is also the best poet in the Novat continent, and he is honored as the crown poet in the poetry world.

Messer wrote a total of 324 poems in his life, including 53 long poems, 251 short poems, and 20 rhyme songs for learning poetry. poets are still using Messer's poems as a template to create their own poems, because in the eyes of the world, Messer has written all the poetic forms in the world, and future generations cannot find new poetic forms , can only be written following Messer's poetic form.

It is also because of this that the world is curious about why Messer had so many inspirations and wrote so many poems. For this reason, after Messer's death, many fanatics of Messer's poetry bought from Messer at a high price. Where did the heirs of Messer buy all the books left by Messer, including Messer's notes, from which they tried to find out the secret of Messer's ability to have so many inspirations.

As a result, after some research, they found that Messer was just a very ordinary businessman in the early days. Until the age of thirty-four, his caravan lost all its goods because of robbery by robbers. In the end, in order to pay for this item, he had to sell everything, even his favorite concubine Ji, became a beggar, and since then he became crazy, the same It was also from that time that he began to write poetry.

Messer's poems were ignored for a long time. It was not until one year before Messer's death that a certain nobleman who loved poetry valued them and published them. Time prevails throughout the world, and it was in that year that Messer took off the title of mad poet and was crowned in the poetry world.

Obviously let Messer lose everything. The year when Messer became a beggar should be the year when Messer got endless inspiration, so someone went to Messer’s hometown to find all the clues about it, and finally they were in Messer. A diary hidden by Messer was found on the wall of his former residence. The diary recorded what happened when Messer repaid the debt and sold everything, and finally even the house was sold.

During that time, Messer was not alone. There was actually another person beside him, a woman he rescued in the desert. This woman had no name, and her appearance was not recorded, but from Messer From the information revealed in Er's notes, it is not difficult to see that Messer loved this woman so much that he even sold everything in the family, including his favorite concubine Ji, and never stopped the precious medicine that this woman needed to heal her wounds.

It's just that Messer's dedication did not win the woman's corresponding love in the end. On a certain day, the woman suddenly disappeared, and Messer couldn't find it no matter how hard she searched. Judging from the description of this experience in the notes, Messer must have been in great pain at the time, which is closely related to Messer becoming crazy later.

Although the woman suddenly disappeared, the woman still left something for Messer, probably to thank Messer for saving her life. As for the thing, it was a medicine formula and its production method. It reminds people who are familiar with Messer's life of the "inspiration" that Messer often mentioned.

In Messer’s notes, it is often mentioned that after taking the inspiration, he gained the ability to write all the poems. At that time, people who studied these content thought that Messer should have written it wrong, and he wrote the poem as a poem. After all, Messer's notes contain a lot of insane language that still confuses people after reading it, and it is not uncommon to use some wrong words.

But now that I saw this potion formula, I thought that no matter how hard Messer was in the past years, he still had to buy herbs with begging money, plus the most complete potion making tool in the world in Messer’s legacy These clues made those who studied Messer's life at that time boldly speculate that the so-called inspiration was not the kind of spiritual inspiration they thought, but a substantive potion. Messer took this potion to get writing The ability to write a large number of psalms.

Ever since, someone made the potion according to the formula and refining method of the potion, and quickly made the finished potion, and then recruited people to take that potion, so they discovered that the potion can make people's spirits become incomparable Clear, and in this state of mind, people's thinking will be more active than usual, and many things that cannot be solved at ordinary times can easily find solutions at this time. People also think that they have found Messer to write so many poems secret.

Afterwards, this potion began to spread among the upper strata of the Novat continent. Everyone who had tried this potion was very aware of its effects and was obsessed with it. Later, the formula of this potion spread to middle-class nobles, scholars and In the hands of the merchants, they were completely conquered by this potion.

Because the number of people using this medicine has increased, the raw materials for making medicines have become extremely scarce, and the price has also increased sharply. Several raw material producing countries and their surrounding countries have experienced conflicts because of the raw materials and the huge benefits contained in them. Conflict and friction eventually turned into war.

While the war was still going on, the side effects of using the medicine began to appear. The first batch of people who used the medicine had extremely severe auditory hallucination symptoms. Only by taking the medicine could the symptoms be slightly alleviated, and the medicine taken The more there are, the stronger the auditory hallucination symptoms will be, and eventually they will drive people completely crazy. Some people commit suicide because of their madness, and some people give even crazier orders in their madness, such as inexplicably massacring a certain village and town, etc. It is said that they heard some kind of instructions before issuing such an order.

After that, more and more people fell into madness, and there was even a city where all the managers and nobles fell into madness. At this time, people discovered that the reason for everyone's madness was the inspiration potion.

Countries immediately took the opportunity to replace those in power and officials at all levels who had fallen into madness at that time, and then enacted the most stringent laws to set the inspiration potion as a banned drug, and set up a special department to destroy all written records related to the inspiration potion. The materials of the inspiration potion are also set as restricted materials that can only be bought with official permission.

Although the countries reacted in time, the due losses will not be reduced, especially the loss of talents. Even after the power holders went crazy, other people who coveted their positions fought for power for a hundred years. The year is not completely over, and there are still aftermaths until now.

Although there are not many people who know the potion of inspiration now, and even people like Joe only know a few main ingredients needed for the formula, everyone who knows the potion of inspiration is afraid of this potion, unless they are crazy, otherwise there is no People would want to take this kind of potion, so when Joe saw the formula of the inspiration potion just now, he just read it briefly. It is also full of worries.

After learning about the general situation of the inspiration potion from Joe, Leo was curious about the mysterious woman who provided the formula for the mad poet Messer's potion, because since that woman can provide a formula that fits the pharmaceutical materials of this world and improves some of them that are not suitable Judging from the pharmaceutical method of this world, that woman should be very proficient in making this medicine, and has been in this world for a long time, otherwise it is impossible to know the medicinal materials of this world very well, which makes Leo can't help but doubt this. The relationship between the woman and Penny, or Penny herself.

As for why you don't suspect that this woman may not know her whereabouts now, but only knows that Sylvia is very likely to be in this world. There is no research on the potions used by capable people, and it is impossible to change Leo's formula and production method so perfectly.

In addition, Leo also understands why people in this world go crazy after taking this potion, because this potion is specially provided for psykers, even if the formula is changed, its fundamental medicinal effect on the spirit has not weakened, It may even be enhanced, so that people who take this medicine have an undue burden on their spirits, which eventually leads to their mental mutations, and auditory hallucinations are a kind of mutation. What they hear in hallucinations is not From the outside world, it is actually the spiritual wave of their own past thoughts, knowledge and so on.

If the mental wave produced by this kind of mental mutation is distributed according to the normal situation, it may be able to relieve the symptoms of these people, but the problem is that this world suppresses the supernatural power so powerfully, and the spiritual wave is also a kind of supernatural power. Dispersion, encountering the obstruction of the power of the world's laws, is like encountering a wall, being blocked back, and acting on the source of the mental wave, thus aggravating the symptoms of auditory hallucinations.

Although the inspiration potion itself is not of much use to Leo, the inspiration potion did bring some inspiration to Leo. The full potion can also be applied to this world, and he can find some of the most suitable substitute potions among his other potion formulas by comparing the formulas of inspiration potions and wizard spirit potions. In this way, some special potions can be used in this world. Repeatedly, he will have correspondingly more ways to deal with possible dangers.

In addition, Leo also discovered that there may be a kind of power that may not be suppressed as strongly as he expected in this world, because in Joe's description of the origin of the inspiration potion, it was mentioned that some people went crazy because of taking the inspiration potion. The person around him who did not take the inspiration potion would fall into a short period of madness. Obviously, the mental wave generated by the inspiration potion broke through the suppression of this world and affected the people around him, but it didn't last long.

Therefore, Leo guessed that the suppression of pure spiritual power in this world is much smaller than that of other extraordinary powers, or may not even exist, so he also plans to try the exercise and use of pure spiritual power to see if it works. As he guessed.

However, before that, there was a sudden news that affected his plan, or the plan of the entire pioneering group. The indigenous tribes in the jungle were moving to the depths of the forest in an orderly manner.