The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Damn! Someone sneaked up!"

"There are enemies!"

"Hide! Hide!"

The moment the man named Pierre fell to the ground, everyone exclaimed, and quickly hid behind the huge tree roots, holding the weapon tightly in their hands, watching the source of the weapon flying vigilantly. .

Some people worried that the flame of the lantern would reveal their position, so they quickly extinguished the flame of the lantern. Because some people did this, others didn't think there was any problem with doing so, so they followed suit and turned off the lights.

It's just that they didn't know that their actions not only failed to save their lives, but accelerated their deaths.

When the surrounding environment was completely plunged into darkness, a very low and muffled hum sounded from time to time. If someone listened carefully, they would be able to find that these sounds came from the location of the person who was hiding just now. .

And when this sound sounded more than a dozen times, the surroundings were completely silent, followed by a small flame, and a lantern was lit, and after a slight adjustment of the lamp oil valve with one hand, the flame became bigger, turning the surrounding Ambient lighting.

I saw that Leo, who had not changed in any way, was standing next to a corpse with his throat cut. In the place where the surrounding lights could illuminate, there were several corpses hiding behind tree roots, holding weapons tightly. On the ground, in other places other than the lights, there are the same corpses lying on the ground.

Under Leo's attack, the hunting team of more than 30 people was wiped out without even surviving ten minutes. To Leo, who had countless experiences, this was just a very common thing , is as common as drinking water and eating.

Leo did not leave immediately, but carefully cleaned the battlefield and collected the spoils according to past habits.

The bows and crossbows carried by these hunters are very well-made, and they can be regarded as high-quality hand-made weapons. It is a pity that Leo is not familiar with this kind of weapons, so he just discarded them aside. On the contrary, most of these people had symbolic Panier battle axes around their waists, and he was asked to pick out ten of the best ones and hang them one by one on a special belt around their waists.

Unlike the bow and crossbow, Leo has experience in using the Paneer battle axe, and he can get started quickly without going through the familiarization period.

The Panier Tomahawk is somewhat similar to the military Indian Tomahawk of the Old Earth era. Although the Earth Federation Army has mainly used magnetic energy and laser weapons, Leo's special exhibition troops that mainly infiltrate and decapitate will still be equipped with some A cold weapon for melee combat, and what Leo chose at the time was this kind of weapon that could be thrown from a distance or killed in close combat.

After picking out the weapons, Leo packed up all the medicines on these people, whether they knew them or not, and took away all their money. Naturally, they also packed them together.

After sorting out a large package, Leo set his sights on the muskets in the hands of the three.

It is different from the standard breech-loading gun with a large magazine provided by the British Kingdom to the army. Now the musket Leo is holding is a single-shot breech gun. Its shape and structure are very similar to the M1903 of the old earth era. Springfield rifle.

This rifle can be pre-loaded with five bullets, but it can only be fired in a single shot. Each shot needs to pull the bolt, and the bullet can be loaded before continuing to shoot.

The reason why this inconvenient loading design is still used while having a more advanced large-capacity automatic magazine is entirely to slow down the shooting speed of gun users.

After all, compared to the ordinary bullets in the large magazines that are not effective at all times, the special bullets equipped in these firearms can not only be activated every time, but also expensive. If this is not the case, even the finances of a wealthy and powerful country like the French Empire cannot afford such a loss.

Although Leo has never used this type of gunpowder firearm, he has used a similar Gauss rifle. Due to the shape and shooting principle of the firearm, there may be some small obstacles in use, but just like the Paneer Tomahawk, he Should also be able to quickly become familiar with the use of this weapon.

Leo carried one of the well-maintained rifles behind his back, and took off the five ammunition bags that were placed on the waists of the three of them, hung them on his body, and then took out five ammunition bags from the other two firearms respectively. Pre-loaded special bullets.

"A high-energy substance was found, and the energy level is too low to be absorbed."

When Leo's hand touched the ammunition, the secondary brain system immediately issued a prompt, indicating that this special ammunition is a high-energy object.

Leo looked at the ten special-made ammunition in his hand, and thought that the difference between this kind of ammunition and ordinary ammunition is that a special stabilizer was added. Obviously, one or more A variety of high-energy substances.

However, he also remembers that the formula of this stabilizer and the source of that rare raw material are top secrets in all countries, and they cannot be known by low-level people like him.

Thinking of this, Leo also put out the idea of ​​tracing high-energy matter from this special bullet.

Putting the ammunition into the ammunition bag, Leo walked back with the lantern. Although when he left before, he had already checked through the spiritual network that there was no danger around the resting place, but a place like the Black Forest cannot be judged by common sense. One moment was safe and calm, but the next moment is full of dangers, and it is not impossible. of.

Soon, Leo walked through a bush and came to the tree root arch bridge that he had walked before. He could already vaguely see the faint light ahead.

But just when he was about to board the arch bridge and walk to the opposite side, his footsteps stopped, because he found that the other side was empty just a moment ago, but in the blink of an eye, it was already covered by an inexplicable thick fog. It seems that this eye-catching dense fog appeared out of thin air.

Thinking of those materials related to the thick fog of the foggy moon, Leo's originally relaxed mood tightened, and his expression became serious.

Leo, who was on guard, walked slowly to the opposite side of the arch bridge, in front of the fog wall formed by the thick fog, and stretched out his hand to try to penetrate into the dense fog.

"I found a high-energy force field. The energy level is too low to absorb. It can be used to supplement spiritual energy."

At this time, the reminder of the sub-brain system appeared in front of Leo again, but it was different from the previous reminder of the special ammunition in that there was an extra sentence that could be used to supplement spiritual energy.

Seeing this reminder, Leo's previous question about where the high-energy force field appeared in the Black Forest came from was answered. Obviously, these strange dense fogs are the cause of this high-energy force field.

Judging by the absolute rationality of biological weapons in the past, the dense fog in front of him is an unknown dangerous area, and he must go around it, even if his comrades are trapped in it, they will not enter.

But now, because of the integration of the remaining memories of this body, Leo has added a lot of emotions, friendship and sense of responsibility are also among them. When reason tells Leo to turn around and leave, and take a detour, the inner emotions drive him to do nothing. Hesitantly stepped into the thick fog.

When most of Leo's body entered the dense fog, a strong suction appeared in the dense fog, pulling the part of his body that had not yet entered into the fog.

When his whole body was plunged into the dense fog, he immediately felt as if he had sunk into the water, and an invisible force around him was squeezing his body, and made him feel slightly suffocated and suffocated.

Because the secondary brain system was collecting and sorting out various data in real time, Leo quickly realized that the current situation was still caused by the high-energy force field, because the high-energy force field inside the dense fog and outside the dense fog had obvious differences. Strong and weak, so it caused the force similar to dragging just now, as well as the uncomfortable feeling of suffocation.

Although he felt a little uncomfortable physically, Leo saw that in the spiritual energy item in the personal data interface in front of him, the spiritual energy consumed by the use of skills such as spirit vision and spiritual net before was recovering rapidly. Because he was in an unknown environment, he was a little nervous The mood is also relaxed a lot.

At this moment, the dense fog had a great impact on the sight. Even though Leo's eyesight was much better than ordinary people's, he still couldn't see any objects one meter away.

Fortunately, he had already collected the surrounding topographical data through the mental network before, formed it into a topographic map, and projected it into the eyeballs to form a three-dimensional illusion, so that even if his eyes could not see through the dense fog, he could still know the location of any object. The exact location is as if the dense fog does not exist.

According to the projection instructions in his eyes, Leo moved forward quickly, and soon came to the place where they had rested before, and also saw the extremely faint light of the lantern flashing in the thick fog.

When he got closer, he found that both Nelson and Jason were lying on the ground. It felt like they were attacked when the thick fog appeared.

He immediately stepped forward to check, and found that it was just a false alarm, and the two of them had not been attacked in any way. After some inspection, it was confirmed that they had just passed out.

"It seems that they couldn't bear the high-energy force field in the dense fog, and their bodies showed a protective reaction?" Leo quickly judged the reason for their coma based on the physical condition of the two.

It's just that this coma state may not cause harm to the two of them now, but if they continue to be comatose like this, or continue to be affected by the unknown high-energy force field around them, will they have permanent damage in the end? I don't know.

Thinking of this, Leo planned to carry the two of them out of the thick fog first, and then think about how to get through the thick fog.

Just when Leo leaned down, grabbed the two people's waistbands, and was about to lift them up and take them away, a sense of danger suddenly appeared, making his body instinctively dodge to the side according to the perceived direction, Following him, he felt as if a sharp weapon was brushing past his right arm.

He turned his head and saw that the clothes on his right arm were cut with a slit, and the thread ends neatly, indicating that the sharp weapon used to cut the clothes was very sharp.

Although the clothes were not completely cut, he felt that there was a wound on the arm where the rip was located. Obviously, apart from the sharpness of the weapon itself, there might be an unknown layer on the blade that could hurt the body but not damage the clothes. strength.

Soon, the sense of crisis reappeared, and this time Leo could clearly feel that the attack from the mysterious existence was on his neck, and the speed was much faster than before.

The current situation was too urgent for Leo to think about it. He instinctively made the most suitable decision for his current situation, instantly activated the perfect control skills, and his body and spirit entered a perfect state.

I saw that Leo's figure flashed, and his whole body moved about 30 centimeters in an instant. The Paneer battle ax on his waist also appeared in his hand at the same time, and one of the battle axes seemed to be casually facing towards him. He swung out in the air at his side.

A muffled sound of "porphyrin" appeared out of thin air, and then a sense of blocking the cutting to the real object came from the ax blade.

Immediately afterwards, Leo turned around, and another tomahawk was thrown into the air following the movement of his body.

I saw that the flying battle ax stopped in the air for a while as if it had hit something, and then the powerful throwing force pushed it forward and fell not far away.

At this time, a rather miraculous scene appeared, and the thrown ax was suspended in mid-air, shaking up and down regularly.

"Revoke perfect control, activate spirit vision." Seeing this, Leo immediately switched to spiritual skills.

With the activation of the Spirit Vision skill, the dense fog in front of Leo's eyes disappeared instantly, and the black forest covered by the dense fog reappeared in front of his eyes.

However, the Black Forest at this time is completely different from the dark and dull Black Forest just now. The Black Forest in front of me is like a dream forest in a fairy tale, full of incredible and magical scenes.

I saw that the black forest is as bright as day at this moment, not because of the layers of dense branches and leaves penetrated by the sunlight, but because every tree here has become a luminous tree, and the faint light shines from the trunk, branches, and roots. It radiated from everywhere and gathered together, dispelling the darkness of the Black Forest.

The scene on the top of the tree is even more amazing. I saw that the top of the tree, which was just some branches and leaves, is now full of flowers of various colors, and the same is true for the vines entwined on it.

If it was just covered with flowers of various colors, it wouldn't make Leo feel miraculous. What really made Leo feel that this place is like a fairyland is because of the balls of light constantly flying around the flowers.

Through the ability of spiritual vision, he could easily see clearly that inside the fast-flying ball of light were little figures with transparent wings and wearing leaf clothes. Each of these little people carried a small basket made of flower bones, and held sticks smaller than matchsticks in their hands. They gently patted the flowers on the top of the tree, and used the flower baskets to catch the fallen ones. pollen.

"Little goblins, little fairies!" Although Leo has never read those fairy tales from the old earth era, he is very familiar with some magical species in fairy tales. They are very similar to the two magical species in fairy tales.

Leo took a few deep breaths to calm down some strange emotions, and after withdrawing his gaze from the top of his head, he checked the situation around his body.

The first thing that comes into the eyes is the ground. The ground that was originally covered with black rot has turned golden yellow at this moment. This golden yellow does not simply change the color of the soil, but grows a layer that looks like moss and is soft. Downy golden vegetation.

Later, he found that Nelson and Jason, who were clearly still beside him just now, had disappeared.

Leo calmly thought of the scene of being attacked by an invisible unknown creature just now, so he squatted down and groped towards the place where Jason and Nelson were lying, and found that the two of them were only transparent. In fact, it is still lying in place, not disappearing.