The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Leo watched as the underground experimental base in front of him lost its support due to the petrification of vines, and collapsed into a huge pothole. Before the flying dust was blown away by the cold wind, it was sucked into the black hole in Leo's hand. In the middle, it collapsed into a small particle with the size of a rice grain, but its mass and density were extremely large.

Now he has been able to use the power of devouring to create a black hole singularity very skillfully, just like he uses psionic power to perform any kind of psionic skill, this is not because of his frequent practice, but because he has absorbed a lot of energy After receiving the energy in the crystal, the chaotic stomach pouch in his body has undergone a huge transformation, from a shape that was still a stomach pouch organ to a black hole, and this change did not make Leo feel very happy, but made Leo feel happy. He had some doubts about whether his actions were right or wrong.

As early as two days ago, he had already solved the giant vines in the last big city on the Millar Plain marked on the map, and at that time, a complete transformation of the stomach of chaos took place. During the transformation, He fell into a deep coma, and he could clearly feel that the Chaos Fool, the source of the power of devouring power, was exchanging him in the far space, just like a god calling his family. Fortunately, he had expected it a long time ago. There will be such a situation, so he has prepared in advance. When he is unconscious, the power of the Stone Throne will isolate him from the outside world, making this calling effect from the source of power useless.

Although he blocked the call from the Chaos Fool again, this does not mean that Leo has got rid of the influence of the Chaos Fool. On the contrary, because of the transformation of the Chaos Stomach, he has already felt that his connection with the Chaos Fool is getting stronger and stronger. Deep, and the isolation of the Stone Throne from the Chaos Fool is only temporary. If he wants to completely get rid of the influence of the Chaos Fool and completely transform the Chaos Stomach into his own power, he may only be able to evolve to an Omega-level advanced life form. body is possible.

However, even with the bad influence of the Chaos Fool, Leo did not stop absorbing that kind of energy crystals. After all the cities on the Millar Plain were solved, he shifted his target to which energy crystal mines.

Because this world began to use these energy crystals a long time ago, and the time to mine this energy crystal was earlier, but at that time, this energy crystal was used as some house decorations, such as grinding into glass, or Made into sculptures of various shapes, etc., which makes it possible that before the disaster strikes, in addition to the energy crystal mines that are being used inside and outside the major cities, there are also some waste gas energy crystal mines that have been mined in the past in some remote places. There are still a lot of energy crystals left in these energy crystal mines. After the disaster, the place is also covered with giant vines, but no one cares about the giant vines here.

Leo quickly found several such abandoned mines, and solved the giant vines there, absorbed the energy crystals there, and he found that these so-called abandoned energy crystal mines actually contained a lot of crystals The mines are not mined, most of these crystal mines are only a small piece, and they are very scattered, and the mining is not worth the loss, but these scattered crystal mines are gathered through giant vines, and the final total amount is larger than that of ordinary large cities. It should be a lot more, which is an unexpected surprise for Leo.

In addition to the abandoned mine, Leo also discovered an underground experimental base established by a country of the previous Miral Plain generation. This experimental base was rebuilt from an abandoned mine pit, and the main research object of the base should be this energy crystal. , so this base also stores a large amount of energy crystals transported from other places, so after Leo solved this giant vine, the total amount of energy crystals absorbed even exceeded the total energy absorbed by the previous ten cities , so that the chaotic stomach sac in the body also has the illusion of being full, and the direct reaction in terms of power is that the power of devouring has increased several times, and it has become difficult to control.

"I need to take a break for a while, digest the energy and go to the next place." Leo thought about it for a while, then used the psionic wings, and flew towards the nearest city.

The city Leo went to was called Balan City on the map. The giant vines in this city were the least he had ever seen, only six. All of them were mined and transported to the nearby underground experiment base.

Unlike other cities, this city has a small number of giant vines, so many survivors have established refuge communities in the outer suburbs of the city. These communities should have nothing to do with the Redemption Order, because there is no salvation in the community On the other hand, there is another flag with a special symbol on the flag of the congregation. When Leo passed by here, he was in a hurry to go to the next city, so he didn't take a closer look. This time he returned to this city and landed near this community. At that time, he also noticed the flag flying over the refuge community, and noticed the special symbols on the flag.

"Abyss Rune." Leo recognized the origin of this symbol almost instantly when he saw it, and then he used his spiritual net to scan the refuge community and found more things related to the abyss.

For example, every family in this community has an altar, and on the altar there are weird god statues that look like the abyss. In addition, everyone has a weak abyssal breath, obviously they have been polluted by the abyss, which is also true. As a result, there are more or less signs of mutation on their bodies, but these mutations are all in hidden parts of the body, and they need to take off their clothes to see them. When they put on clothes, they are no different from ordinary people.

When he discovered the Abyss Seed left after the petrification of giant vines, Leo had vaguely guessed that the disasters encountered in this world might be related to the Abyss, and now the people in this refuge community gave him the best evidence.

However, even though he discovered that the abyss had invaded this world, Leo did not immediately attack these people. Instead, he hid in the dark and observed the situation of this refuge community while resting and digesting the huge energy he had absorbed.

The number of giant vines in Balan City is very small, and the parasitic places are in several buildings in the city, and the main structures of these buildings seem to be made of some special steel bars. What damage, so after the giant vines petrified, the buildings remained the same, at least from a distance.

It is also because of this that the people in this refuge community did not realize that the giant vines in the city had been petrified. During this time, apart from going to the outskirts to catch prey for daily consumption, the rest of the time they spent preparing for the next sacrifice. offerings.

From the conversations of these people, it is not difficult to hear that the objects of their sacrifices are the giant vines in the city, and they are not afraid of the spores emitted by the giant vines, because they believe that the god of disaster they believe in gives them a gift to avoid capacity for disaster.

These people infected by the abyss think that the abyssal creature they believe in is a god called the God of Disaster, and when did this God of Disaster appear and become the god they believe in, etc., the people in the refuge community wondered I don't know anymore, I just know that their ancestors prayed to the gods in disasters, and got a response from the gods, thus gaining the ability to survive in this world full of harsh environments.

So they don't regard the mutation as a bad thing. Although the mutation made them grow some disgusting things, such as festering and smelly skin, such as an extra tiny arm, etc., the mutation also made them Their strength, speed, vision, hearing and other abilities far exceed ordinary people, so that even in a snowstorm, they can find hidden prey, so that they can multiply, even if they need to go to the city every once in a while to fight against giants. The vines made a sacrifice, and the sacrifices for the sacrifice were ten living people.

In the past, the people who sacrificed in this refuge community may be people in their own community, but now the objects of their sacrifices have obviously become slaves they captured from other places. Yes, now this refuge community implements slavery , and it seems that they should have captured a lot of slaves from the survivor tribes in the surrounding area, roughly a few hundred people.

A few of these slaves will be incorporated into official slaves, while others will be held as spare sacrifices. Now the people in the tribe have selected ten suitable sacrifices from these people and brought them to the Several specially-built sacrificial houses in the community allow them to live a very comfortable life there, with ample supply of various foods and even drinks, and arranges women for them at night, all in all, it is extremely comfortable to serve them , Let them wonder if their current life is a dream.

However, they soon understood what they were about to face the next day. They were tied to iron frames with special symbols one by one, pulled by a sleigh cart, and continued to perform religious ceremonies with a team The people left the refuge community and moved slowly towards the center of the city.

These people feel bad when they see those who are performing religious ceremonies. After all, there is no normal religious ceremonies that require wearing bones with flesh and blood, and need to continuously spill blood to the surroundings. Fear instantly spread in the hearts of these sacrifices. Come on, they really want to shout or beg for mercy, but for some reason they can't say anything, as if their throats are blocked by some invisible object.

The sacrificial team quickly entered the city and came to the first building where the giant vines were infested. The team didn't look up to see the condition of the giant vines, as if they were worried that something bad would happen if they looked up and saw the giant vines The same, and then they sprinkled some liquid medicine made of blood mixed with unknown medicines on their bodies, turned around and walked to three of the sacrifices, and untied the shackles of these sacrifices.

And the three sacrificed slaves couldn't help showing surprised expressions after seeing that they were released, and looked at each other, as if they wanted to find out the answer from the eyes of others, but what they saw was also They looked puzzled, but soon one of them reacted, jumped off the sleigh, and ran towards the place where the sacrificial team was away. Seeing this, the other two He didn't say much, and ran out quickly.

The actions of these three people immediately confused these people in the sacrificial team, because in their memory, the sacrifices should not have reacted like this. Normally, after the restraints are loosened, these sacrifices will Automatically enter the building where the giant vines are infested, and the predator escapes like this.

The person who realized that something was wrong immediately picked up his weapon and chased after the three of them. The abyss priest who was in charge of the sacrifice seemed to realize something, and carefully looked up at the roots of the giant vine protruding from the bottom of the building.

Because the root of the vine is propped up from the ground, and the surface is covered with a layer of gravel and dust, so even if it is petrified, it is difficult to see the clue from the outside. Knowing that the abyss priest moved up to the middle of the vine, seeing The petrified vines protruding from the building, the expression on his face was full of horror, his mouth was opened for a long time, but he couldn't utter a word.

Others also noticed something was wrong, and seeing the reaction of the abyss priest, they all followed the abyss priest's line of sight to look at the giant vine, and all the faces of those who saw the giant vine petrification showed their faces with the abyss priest. Similar expressions.

You know, in the minds of these people, the giant vines occupying all the big cities are the great creations of the gods they believe in, and they are the source of world disasters. They even feel that the cold that has ravaged the world for many years is produced by these giant vines. Otherwise, why would the surrounding blizzard become smaller or even stop every time the giant vines were dormant, so they also regarded the giant vines as the incarnation of their gods.

But now, these incarnations of gods have all turned into petrification, which instantly collapsed their beliefs, and they couldn't help feeling an illusion of being abandoned by the gods in their hearts, and inexplicable despair also spread in their hearts.

Perhaps it was because the weak abyssal breath in these people was driven by emotions, and the mutations on them were not limited to the hidden parts of the body, but appeared on the exposed parts such as the face and hands.

At this time, someone suddenly recovered from the negative emotions, and didn't care about the mutation that was happening on his body, but shouted loudly: "The Order of Redemption, it is the Order of Redemption!"

Everyone woke up after hearing the words. They thought that this person was just saying that the giant vines in front of them were petrified because of the Order of Redemption. After all, they had also heard that the Order of Redemption purified the giant vines in the city and recovered these lost cities. But soon they realized that things were not what they thought, because the man who yelled was now pointing his finger in the air.

Everyone looked up and saw the giant airship suspended in the air at a glance, and under the fuselage of the airship was a huge holy emblem of the Order of Redemption.