The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

For the residents living in the 17th, 12th and 9th districts, today is definitely not a good day, because when they were still sleeping in their beds, a group of city guards and city guards broke in and drove them all to other surrounding districts On the street, they are not even allowed to take salutes.

Although they were very angry about this matter, they didn't dare to complain, because before, there were a few brave and ruthless boys who tried to fight against these guards and city guards through some of the relationships they had established in the past. After driving them away, they turned into corpses that were casually thrown on both sides of the road, waiting for the people who collected the corpses to come and clean them up.

However, compared to the ordinary residents who were kicked out of their homes without bringing anything, the factory bosses in District 9 suffered a lot. Their loss was not just as simple as stopping work for a day, but also Some contracts that must be delivered within a time limit cannot be completed, and considerable compensation must be made, and some compensation amounts even exceed the contracted goods themselves.

But even so, these people did not have the idea of ​​​​resisting, because there are some well-informed people among them. They found out that the move to empty the three districts in Hushang Town was not done by the nobles of Hushang Town, but by a member of the Wizards Association. high-level decision.

If it was only the nobles of Seventh Lake Town, these well-connected merchants could unite and agitate the forces behind them to hold the nobles of Seventh Lake Town accountable. As long as the Alcott family did not participate, they would It will be able to force the nobles to bow their heads and make it short, thereby reducing some losses.

But once this matter involves the high-level Wizards Association, no matter how strong the power behind them is, they dare not act rashly, and may even throw them out directly to please the high-level Wizards Association.

"Do you know what this is for?" Standing on the edge of the platform where you can see the ninth district, a factory owner asked his friend next to him nervously for news.

"It should be related to Waste City." The same factory owner, obviously the person being questioned has a different status and can know some secret things.

Wasteland is not a big secret to capable people, but it has never been heard of by the vast majority of ordinary people, so this simple answer has aroused the curiosity of some people. It's a pity that the factory owner seemed to be apprehensive, so he didn't dare to say more, but just evaded it with a few simple and vague words.

However, when these factory owners were talking, they didn't find that there was a guard not far away who listened to their words, and when the people around them were all focused on other places, they quietly walked away from the factory. The crowd retreated, then quickly ran to a remote place, took out a bottle of potion and quickly poured it on themselves, then jumped into the lake, and quickly swam towards the edge of the nearest platform in the ninth district.

Dangerous monsters are hidden in the lake during the silver moon period. This is something that everyone in the whole lake town knows. During this period, let alone swimming in the lake, it is impossible to enter the water even with a boat.

However, when the young guard was swimming in the water, he did not encounter any danger. Even if some ominous creatures hidden deep in the lake were attracted by the vibration of the water waves, they were about to approach the guard. Feeling something disgusting, he swam away quickly, making the guard safe and sound along the way.

After entering the Ninth District, the guard, relying on his familiarity with the terrain, got into an alley that few people walked through, and passed through some secret passages in the factory area. The seventh, twelfth, and ninth and third districts were sandwiched by the small lake area in the middle, guarding in a small wooden house on the edge of the platform, waiting for what he expected to happen.

The name of this guard was Bell, and he was the captain of the guard of a factory owner. He had served as a soldier on the front line in the fog zone. Originally, based on his military exploits on the front line, even if he could not become a knight after returning, he could at least be able to serve as a city guard or guard. Served as a senior official.

It's a pity that Bell gave up his position and handed over his qualifications to the orphan of his comrade-in-arms who had rescued him on the battlefield. He was introduced as the captain of a factory owner's guard.

The reason why Bell did not hesitate to use the last bottle of wizard potion on his body this time and sneak back to the ninth district is to wait for an opportunity, an opportunity that can further transform his ancestral status, and also allow him to regain his noble status Opportunity.

Different from other ordinary people, Bell has a certain understanding of Waste. When he was in the mechanical fortress in the foggy area, he not only heard a comrade in arms mention the opening of the waste city entrance, but also knew about the waste city. When the portal opens, something mysterious runs out of it.

According to the comrade-in-arms' description, those mysterious things can help the person possessed by them to complete a higher form of ancestral transformation, and the best evidence for this is that the person who is not noble but has entered the hidden ancestral state The dynamic comrade-in-arms itself.

Bell is very clear that his body has no possibility of further normalization due to past injuries, but he is not willing to be a guard captain for the rest of his life. He hopes to get a higher status, especially after seeing those After living a luxurious life as an aristocrat, he regretted giving up his original qualifications even more.

Now there is an opportunity for him to further ancestralize. As long as his body's ancestralization reaches a higher level, then he will be able to go to the front line of the fog zone again, make military exploits, and regain the qualification for being a knight .

So when he learned that the abandoned city would appear, Bell immediately made a decision, used up the witch-repelling potion he had kept for many years, and sneaked back to the ninth district.

In the hiding place, Bell waited for several hours, but still did not see any movement on the lake, and he began to wonder if his judgment was wrong. Perhaps the entrance to the abandoned city does not appear in the lake area between the three urban areas at all, but in other places, or maybe the abandoned city does not appear at all.

Just when Bell's mind was in chaos and his thoughts were running wild, several airships slowly flew over the seventeenth district from the direction of the noble district, and finally docked over the lake near the seventeenth district.

Seeing the floating airship, Bell couldn't help showing joy on his face, and hurriedly took off his clothes, then followed the method his comrade gave him, cut his hand, and smeared a pattern on his chest with blood, Then quietly waited for the mysterious thing in the abandoned capital to appear.

However, just as Bell was preparing to receive the possession of the mysterious thing in the abandoned city, on a floating airship, the spiritual wizard Jesse seemed to have noticed something, looked at the wooden house where Bell was, and then said with a smile: "And A guy who is not afraid of death really thinks that the foreign objects coming out of the abandoned city are so easy to deal with."

The words of the spiritual wizard Jesse also attracted the attention of other people. These people checked the situation of the wooden house in their own ways, and each of them showed a little disdainful look on their faces. Leo, who was in a big box, still recorded the patterns drawn on the chests of the people in the wooden house through the mental network.

The reason why Leo pays attention to this pattern is because this pattern is a pure Turing radical. The whole radical is composed of three basic radicals. The meaning of the radicals is mainly to guide, absorb and integrate. It's hard to hear that the people in the house should be aliens who want to absorb and fuse and run out after the entrance of the abandoned city opens later.

Although this Turing radical is very simple and is only the most basic Turing radical, the combination of the three basic radicals is very inspiring. Leo feels that if he can drill and perform the combination, he may be able to use this picture Based on the root of the spirit, create a more complex root of Turing.

Perhaps it was because Leo was too obsessed with collecting all kinds of knowledge these two days, which made his curiosity and desire to collect extremely strong. As long as it was knowledge that he had never seen before, he couldn't help including it in the data In the library, do some research.

Just when Leo was habitually studying the root of Turing, the black-robed wizard Riise suddenly said to Charles Langco, "Aren't you going to stop this guy? If you really succeed in possessing him, Likely another quarry riot."

Charles Ronco gave the black-robed wizard Rise a cold look, and said in a deep voice: "Whoever caused the trouble will clean it up. If it wasn't for your fourth tower to spread the possession rune, how could there be so many people doing this?" A kind of suicide?"

After finishing speaking, Charles Ranco turned around and returned to the cabin of the airship. After a while, he took out a box, opened it in front of everyone, and handed the bracelets inside to Leo and the others, saying: "This The wristband will guide us into the thirteenth floor of the big library, but the entry locations are different, so we have to meet at the entrance of the big tree cave, and then go to the forty-third floor. Don't go in alone. The degree of danger is definitely not something that we alone can handle."

After listening to Charles Ranko's narration, everyone put their bracelets on their hands. At this time, Leo suddenly said, "Your Excellency, Expeditionist, do you have any extra bracelets?"

Charles Ranko was stunned, frowned, and asked in confusion: "Are you going to bring others into the abandoned capital?"

"It's not a human, it's a puppet." Leo pointed to the big box behind him.

"Is this Peter Alcott's Puppet Maid? I've also heard of this work, but I didn't expect him to entrust this thing to you before his death. It seems that you have an unusual relationship with him. "Charles Ranko looked curiously at the box behind Leo, did not take out the bracelet, but demanded irresistibly: "Can you open it and have a look?"

Hearing Charles Ranco's request, Leo did not refuse, took down the box, and opened it in front of everyone.

Although everyone present is a powerful wizard, they are also very interested in Peter Alcott, the puppet maid, because the fighting power of this puppet maid is amazing, and there are countless foreign objects in the fog and cult powerhouses who died in its hands. , Even some wizards of the Wizarding Association who were spying on Peter Alcott's mechanical knowledge also fell in its hands.

However, after seeing this puppet, everyone showed disappointed expressions, because they could not find any traces of witchcraft and magic power from this puppet. There is a huge gap between a puppet maid.

"This is Peter Alcott's puppet maid?" Solohan, the nightwalker who has always been taciturn, couldn't help the doubts in his heart, and questioned: "Why is there no power at all? Why does it look so ordinary? It’s not a moving mechanical puppet, it’s just a wooden puppet.” Then, he looked at Leo and asked, “Could it be that Peter Alcott’s puppet was handed over to you? Have you replaced it?"

After Nightcrawler Solo Khan's suspicious words were uttered, everyone around couldn't help but nodded. After all, they had also heard about what happened at Peter Alcott's wake, and knew that Anna Alcott's love for his son How important the puppet maid is, it is not impossible to replace the relic before it is handed over.

The misunderstandings of the crowd were seen by Leo, and Solohan's words were equivalent to an invisible help, which helped him save the need to explain, so he pretended not to care, and said: "For me, the authenticity of this puppet It doesn't matter, I just promised Peter Alcott to send his puppet to the abandoned city. It doesn't matter whether this puppet is Peter Alcott's maid puppet, as long as the inheritance proves that it is, it that is."

"What a cunning fellow!" the same taciturn Mist Walker Lambasian looked at Leo and said something expressionless.

Others smiled slightly. After all, to them, a cunning collaborator is far more useful than a slow-witted fool.

After satisfying his curiosity, Charles Ranco was no longer entangled in such trivial matters as why Leo would want the puppet to wear a bracelet. He took out one of the extra bracelets and handed it to Leo. Putting the bracelet on the puppet's wrist, he closed the box again and carried the box behind his back.

At this time, there were bursts of exclamations from other airships, and then the mercenaries and adventurers sent by the nobles of Seventh Lake Town to participate in the execution of the ruined city on the ship all flocked to the edge of the ship. He stretched out the railing and looked down.

As for Leo and the others, they can already know what happened below without looking down, because just now a powerful wave of energy surged out from under the boat and instantly occupied the sky above.

Leo can easily see this purple-black energy fountain through his spiritual vision skills, and other people can also feel the breath of this energy through various witchcraft, but they don't see it with spiritual vision The scene is so intuitive.

Afterwards, everyone and others stretched out their heads to look at the lake under the boat, and saw a huge vortex appearing on the lake, and some silver-white light spots in the center of the vortex were swimming in disorder, thinking about it from time to time. He wanted to rush out of the vortex, but was pulled back by an invisible force.

Only one light spot successfully rushed out of the vortex, hovered in the air, rushed towards the person in the wooden house in the ninth district, and merged with it.