The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Although Leo knew that the death of the five Quadromo would have a certain impact, he didn't know how big the impact would be, and he wasn't worried about the troubles this impact would cause him. In other words, based on the contract that the Quadomo cannot be completed and will die when he touches it, he can impose a lot of excessive conditions on the Quadomo family. A fatal disaster for the demon clan.

So after leaving that market, Leo was also waiting for Quadomo to come to him on his own initiative, discussing with him about the transaction contract, solving the problem of the accidental death of five Quadomo, etc., but he couldn't do anything What I thought was that two months had passed, and he himself had come outside the city of bones, but there was no trace of the Quadrome, which made Leo wonder whether the Quadrome clan hadn't discovered the contract in his hand How destructive it is.

However, Leo didn't pay too much attention to this. After all, the initiative is in his own hands. The longer the time drags on, the greater the final price will be for Quadomo. Anyway, he is not the one who suffers in the end.

After putting aside the matter of Quadomo, Leo turned his attention to the city of bones in front of him.

As far as a city alone is concerned, Bone City may be the largest city he has ever seen, even compared to those big cities of cosmic civilization.

The entire city of bones is made up of a pile of bones, and judging from the remaining power breath on the bones, the bones here are all from the bones of the upper race in the abyss. As for the number of bones used, it may be an astronomical number, because it is a pile of It is a huge bone pile with a height of more than 4,000 meters and the bottom covers an area of ​​millions of square kilometers. This is only the main city of the city of bones. The actual control area is more than a hundred times larger.

These bones are all manifestations of the combat power of the Orochi, the owner of Bone City, and it is precisely because of this that when the Orochi enforces this law of order that is incompatible with the main body of the abyss, no one in the abyss dares to stop him, even the nearby Black Swamp Those abyssal snakes in the middle of the night just cursed the traitor of this ethnic group with their lips, and none of them dared to come forward to trouble him.

After coming to the city of bones, besides the huge main body of the city of bones, the most striking thing is the twelve abyss gates with a height of hundreds of meters standing on the edge of the main body of the city of bones.

The reason why the gates of the abyss are eye-catching is not because of their huge size. In fact, there are many buildings in the city of bones that are bigger than the gates of the abyss. The real reason why they are so eye-catching in the city of bones is the abyss breath they emit.

In the city of bones, the power of the law of order has occupied the absolute main force, and the abyssal atmosphere full of chaos, killing and corrosion has been extremely thin. Basically, if Leo does not perceive it carefully, he will not be able to perceive it at all, so The strong abyssal breath emanating from the gate of the abyss is as eye-catching as ink dots on white paper, and it's hard not to notice it.

These gates of the abyss were all made by Quadrome. They built gates of the abyss in almost every place in the abyss that could be called a city. Trading, after all, even if it is a high-ranking race in the abyss like Quadromo who is favored by the will of the abyss, it is very dangerous to wander around the abyss with a lot of valuable goods.

There are some crazy abyssal races in the abyss. They are not as worried about the mysterious and powerful power of the trading rules of the Quadomo as the upper races of the abyss. Once these abyssal races attack, Quadomo will inevitably suffer casualties. As for the Quadro, it is definitely not a good deal to exchange the old Quadro in their own group for the destruction of such low-level abyssal races. In the end, it can only be a default loss, or use other methods to retaliate .

The creation of the gate of the abyss solved this problem very well. Simply put, the gate of the abyss is like a jump repeater called a star gate used in the universe to travel through star regions. Even the names of the two are similar. , It is to use the power of the abyss gate to fix a space rift in it, and use the different rune power on the abyss gate to guide the space rift to connect with the abyss gate corresponding to its frequency.

Compared with ordinary space rifts, the gate of the abyss is more stable. Even if it encounters the direct impact of the secret art of the abyss, as long as the gate of the abyss is not destroyed, the space rift will not be affected in any way, and the second is that the gate of the abyss can accommodate More and larger objects pass by, which is not difficult to see from its height of several hundred meters.

Although Quadro is the maker of the Abyss Gate, and even the manpower and material resources needed to manufacture the Abyss Gate are all paid by the Quadro family, but the controller of the Abyss Gate is not the Quadro family, but He is the master of the construction site of the gate of the abyss.

The reason for this is entirely to prevent intruders from directly attacking the hinterland of the land controller through the gate of the abyss. If Quadremon does not hand over the control of the gate of the abyss, then I am afraid that no one in the abyss will let him in Build the gate of the abyss in the place under your control or even in the surrounding area.

It is precisely because the control of the gate of the abyss must be handed over, so Quadro will reduce the number of gates of the abyss as much as possible. There is only one gate of the abyss built in most places, and there is no such thing as the city of bones. The construction of twelve abyss gates is very rare, which is enough to prove that the business in the City of Bones is very developed, and the Quadomo has regarded it as an important commercial hub.

Just during the period when Leo was standing in the distance observing the gates of the abyss, the twelve gates of the abyss were opened two or three times respectively. Every time, caravans from all over the abyss passed by, and some of them left the goods directly. It is sold in the city of bones, but more often it is transferred to another gate of the abyss to transport the goods to other places.

In addition to helping the caravans to and from the abyss to transport goods, these gates of the abyss are also responsible for transporting the abyss races living in the city of bones to various places in the abyss.

There are so many abyssal races living in such a huge city of bones, so many that Leo feels that all the survivors of the fallen world in the entire abyss have gathered here, and this is only the population of the ground part of the city of bones. The skeletons formed complex labyrinths, and many dangerous abyssal races and creatures lived in the labyrinths, their numbers were only a lot more than the number of people on the ground.

The daily food consumption of such a huge population is naturally huge, and Bone City itself does not produce food, so every day there will be a large number of Bone City residents going to different places to hunt through the gate of the abyss, and there are even some The occupants will domesticate some edible abyss creatures for large-scale breeding, so Leo can also see a large number of farms here, some of which even domesticate humans.

Leo has no plans to rescue those humans, because judging from all signs, those humans who will be sent to the table of the abyss race or used as sacrifices are no different from beasts.

Compared with the humans in those farms, Leo was more interested in some slaves sold in the slave market, because he actually saw Bev people selling them in the slave market.

The Beves are just an abbreviation given by the Earth Federation to this cosmic civilized race. The real name of the Beves is very long and cannot be read completely in human language. The Earth Federation can only use the first pronunciation and the last pronunciation to form the abbreviation, representing Refers to this cosmic civilization.

However, the Earth Federation has never given up research on the real name of the Beves, because this name contains mysterious cosmic power, and anyone who recites it in its entirety will produce completely different and incredible effects.

In the cosmic civilization sequence, although the Bev civilization is classified as a medium civilization sequence, the treatment given to this civilization is that of a high civilization. It is also the only medium civilization in the universe that has an official seat in the highest council of the universe instead of an auditor seat.

The reason why the Beve civilization has such high treatment is because the Beve civilization is a very special energy life body civilization. Every Beve person is conceived by all the energy of a planet. In the mouth of some cosmic civilizations , Beve people are even called star gods.

According to legend, the people of Beve will put the spark of life bred by themselves into the core source of a planet suitable for life, and then with the birth of life on the planet, the spark of life of the Beve people will gradually merge with the source of that planet One body, and grow together, until it reaches adulthood, it will transform everything on this planet into enough energy to complete its adult transformation, and finally give birth to a Beve at the cost of sacrificing a planet.

Because they are energy life forms, Beve people do not have the classification of psykers, nor do they belong to the ranks of Omega-level advanced life forms, but this does not mean that Beve people are not powerful. As long as the location is suitable, they Its combat power is almost comparable to the Omega-level advanced life forms in the universe, but it is very difficult for adult Bev people to continue to improve their strength. It is said that they need to complete several extremely harsh conditions. What are the specific conditions? Other civilizations are also unclear.

Because the growth of a Beve needs to consume a living planet, the Supreme Council of the universe has always restricted the number of Beve. It is said that the number of Beve is always limited to less than fifty, so they are also the universe The civilization with the smallest number of ethnic groups.

Naturally, Bevs would not be willing to accept such restrictions, but in the face of the strength of the Supreme Council of the Universe, they have nothing to do, and the official seat of the Supreme Council of the Universe should be a kind of compensation for the limitation of the number of their ethnic groups.

Although Beves are very mysterious, and there are only a handful of civilizations in the universe that have actually seen Beves, identifying Beves is very simple, and it is basically a public matter in the universe.

No matter what form the Beves appear in, the most conspicuous part of their bodies will have the brand of a planet, and the shape of this planet brand is the shape of the planet when they transformed into adults.

The Beve slave that Leo noticed now appeared in the form of a human being, and the star brand on his forehead was extremely eye-catching. Leo could even tell from the details of the brand when the planet was complete. look like.

It's just that there is no energy fluctuation on this Beve at this moment, which is very abnormal. At first, Leo thought that there was some restriction on this Beve that limited his energy, but after carefully scanning through the mental network , but found that the other party didn't have any restrictions on him, and he didn't even wear shackles on his body. He just casually let him stand among a group of terrifying abyss creatures, and he didn't show any fear. There is no expression, and the eyes are very empty, as if the whole person has no soul.

Out of curiosity, Leo came to this slave stall. Like all the other stalls, this stall was also built with skeleton tents. Most of the slaves here were mentally retarded, invading other The low-level abyssal creatures used as cannon fodder in the world, most of the people who usually buy these slaves here use these slaves as sacrifices.

The owner of the booth is a Nokis dog demon, which was named by Leo, because this abyss race has a head similar to a hunting dog, but anyone who knows the Norkis dog demon knows that this head is actually a disguise , the real head is its body.

Seeing Leo walk into his tent, the Nokis dog demon, who was constantly cursing something in an abyss language, immediately stood up, bent over, trying to make himself look shorter than Leo, and then leaned forward Come, use some kind of common abyss language he knows, and say something respectfully.

The reason why the Nokis dog demon behaved so respectfully was because after Leo entered the tent, he deliberately released a little bit of the power of the crystal serpent, making him mistakenly think that Leo was an abyss serpent that turned into a human.

It's a pity that his flattering words were completely in vain, because Leo couldn't understand his language.

However, it's not that Leo has no way to communicate with him. He used his observer's spiritual communication ability to directly connect with the spirit of the Nokis dog demon, and conveyed his meaning, saying: "I want this human being, bid Bar!"

Finding that Leo was silently connected with his own spirit, and transmitted his thoughts to his own spiritual origin, the respectful look on the face of the Nokis dog demon became more and more intense. Obviously, in his opinion, since Lei Ou Ou can create a spiritual connection with himself silently, so he can also directly use power to crush his spiritual origin.

Faced with this situation, even though the Nokis dog demon had almost instinctive greed, he didn't dare to offer any high price, so he could only sell the Bev man to Leo at the base price of three bone coins.

"Where did you get this human?" Leo asked after handing the three bone coins to the other party.

The Nokis dog demon answered Leo's question while taking the bone coin.

It turned out that this Bev man was picked up on his way to Bone City, and this Bev man was not a slave he wanted to sell, but a ration he used to feed his own slaves, because as long as the Bev man was left If the head is lowered, it can grow back, which means that the Beves are inexhaustible and inexhaustible rations.