The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Although these two soldiers of the Farland Empire appear not to be much different from ordinary people on the surface, but if you look closely, you can see that there are more or less signs of mutation on their bodies, such as some skin membranes growing on their necks , The eyelids of both eyes have changed from opening and closing up and down to opening and closing left and right, etc.

This mutated state is very similar to some people in the dream world who have just appeared in the ancestral state, and what is even more similar is that they all have magic-like spiritual powers.

As long as the human body in the dream world appears ancestral, it will inevitably stimulate a magic-like spiritual energy. This spiritual energy may be hidden physical spiritual energy, such as making the body several times stronger within a certain period of time, or it may be It is some kind of witchcraft, such as the most common burning fire and so on.

But the family members in the Vinylon world are different. According to Leo’s knowledge from the books collected by the old man Rembrandt, after the bloodlines of the family members in the Vinylon world are stimulated, their bodies will inevitably mutate. This is also the best way to identify whether a person is a family member. method, but after the bloodline is activated by the family members, it may not be able to activate the magic-like spiritual skills.

Usually, after the body of the family mutates, it will simply increase a little physical strength, or strengthen the five senses of the body, such as better vision, etc., but these are not spiritual powers, but just by-products of body organ mutations That's all.

After the bloodlines of the family members are stimulated, those who can successfully produce psychic power can be said to be one in a million. Most of the rest, like ordinary people, may have no relationship with psychic power for the rest of their lives. Less than one-third of them can pass some wizards. The cultivation method can stimulate spiritual energy by itself.

However, the soldiers of the French Empire who are about to hunt and kill those soldiers like cats and mice now have spell-like spells, and their spell-like spells are the same, which is to make the body and any objects within a certain range around it and the surrounding environment Melt together like a chameleon.

It's just that, compared to issues such as the strength of the psychic power of these family members, Leo cares more about whether these family members are natural family members, or artificial family members created through technologies similar to alien god cells.

Because these two family members not only have the same psychic power, but also have exactly the same mutated body parts, which is obviously contrary to common sense, so it arouses Leo's guess and suspicion.

Just as Leo was observing the people below, the two soldiers of the French Empire who were observed also started to move. I saw that they relied on their almost invisible camouflage to silently touch the closest place to them. Then he pulled out a non-reflective spiked dagger very skillfully, covered the target's mouth, and inserted the spike directly from the target's ear into the brain, instantly killing the target.

Afterwards, they each took out a grenade-like object and buried it under the target's body, then retreated into the woods, quickly and carefully avoided the traps and retreated to the periphery.

Leo witnessed everything from the tree. Based on his experience, he can be sure that these soldiers who were hunted down may not escape, but he didn't think about saving these soldiers. In his opinion, no matter what the outside situation is, it should be a civil war in the Faran Empire. He has no interest in fighting for any side, let alone getting involved in such a war.

At this moment, the two imperial sergeants who had retreated to the outer edge of the soldiers' security circle cooperated very well to touch several warning traps, making a few small but very obvious sounds.

The guard soldiers who heard the sound immediately thought that the pursuers had come up, and hurriedly retreated to the resting place, followed by quickly shaking the companions who had just fallen asleep, and when he shook the bodies of the two companions who had been killed, they put them down The two grenades exploded immediately, and the power of the explosion instantly involved the nearby people, and almost none of these soldiers were spared.

The few people in the center of the explosion died on the spot, and the others were hit by shrapnel of different sizes, causing serious injuries. What was more serious was that the shock wave caused by the grenade shocked their brains and made them all fall into a state of dizziness , has completely lost the ability to move, can only lie on the ground and let the blood flow from the wound, a little weak until death.

Although they have successfully eliminated all the prey at one time through traps, the two imperial soldiers did not break out of their invisibility and walked out of the woods. Instead, they held an exquisite mechanical crossbow and pointed it at the ground where there was still life. Those few people waiting patiently.

As time passed, the last soldier died of exhaustion due to excessive bleeding, and stopped breathing, but the two sergeants still did not walk out of the woods, but held bows and crossbows in the woods and attacked the vital organs of the corpses one by one. The two soldiers came out of the woods and came to the corpses until the vital parts of each corpse were shot into the crossbow, and it was absolutely impossible to pretend to be dead.

They hung the bows and crossbows back to their waists, drew out their daggers, carefully inspected each one, and carefully repaired the knife again. At the same time, they took off the badge representing the identity of the corpse, peeled off the scalp of the corpse, and put it in their pockets .

After the scalps of all the corpses were peeled off, the two sergeants began to search for other items on the corpses. They put away valuables and discarded worthless ones. After cleaning the battlefield, they carried their backpacks full of trophies , entered the woods, and quickly left this place.

After the two sergeants left, Leo jumped down from the tree, walked to the corpses, checked it a bit, picked up a small booklet that was thrown away by the two French sergeants just now, opened it and read it .

I saw that the French Free People's Army Behavior Manual was printed on the cover of the manual, which mainly contained codes of conduct for some military personnel and some simple military knowledge, in addition to some articles similar to political propaganda.

Although most of the content in this manual is useless to Leo, he can still find some information to help him understand some of Velen's current situation.

For example, the current time. There is a printing time at the end of the manual, and the above time has passed six years since he went to No. 9 Golden Oak Street, and judging from the newness of the manual, the printing time of the manual is at most less than two months, so he is in the dream world. After staying for less than a month, six years have passed outside.

Leo was not shocked or dazed by this time-spanning change, because in interstellar travel, it is often encountered that after a few days of flying in subspace, years or even hundreds of years have passed in the outer universe .

In addition to time, he also found some interesting things from some military knowledge in the manual, that is, hot weapons have been popularized in Velen, because there are a lot of methods of using hot weapons and army drills in those military knowledge.

At the same time, he also found a few repeating revolvers from the body, and ejected the bullets from the magazine, and took a closer look after disassembling them.

He discovered that this kind of bullet is not a special bullet, but a kind of gunpowder bullet, without any spiritual substance.

After that, he tried to use this pistol bullet again, and soon he found that the explosive power produced by this bullet was far inferior to that of the special bullet, and even shooting at close range could not cause much damage to the trees, so The warheads of these bullets must all be made into a pointed point to increase penetration.

Although the power of the bullets is very weak, the shooting of the bullets has become much more stable. Compared with the bullets that exploded or duds from time to time six years ago, these bullets can now be stimulated, which is similar to the old earth of the Earth Federation. The gunpowder bullets of the era are very similar.

The only disadvantage is that this bullet will produce a large amount of pungent smoke, and Leo's body clearly told him that this smoke is poisonous, breathing this smoke for a long time will cause symptoms such as respiratory tract ulceration and heart and lung failure.

It is precisely because the power of this kind of bullet is not comparable to that of special bullets, even ordinary bows and crossbows, and the disadvantages are obvious, so after the two people found these weapons just now, it was like throwing away garbage Throw them aside.

Leo didn't even think about wanting this kind of weapon, but he left a few bullets behind. After all, this kind of bullet that can be fired stably is worth studying. Maybe he can adjust the formula, remove some disadvantages, increase a little power, and maybe.

In addition, Leo also learned about some changes in the French Empire and Velen Continent in the past six years from that manual.

For example, with the support of the military, the Duke of Dewin successfully ascended to the throne of the French Empire and became Louis X. Philip Capelou was exiled in the city of Miria, and with the help of the aristocratic parliament and the Chamber of Commerce in the western French mainland, established After entering the United Kingdom of France, he became king and continued the title of the royal family of France, becoming Philip XIII. The French Empire was thus divided into two and entered the period of double kings.

Under such circumstances, the Continental Congress moved from the city of Miria to the seven countries of the Hanossa Alliance in the north, but because of the inaction of the Continental Congress during the splitting of the French Empire, the prestige of the Continental Congress was severely damaged. Big hit. From some of the content mentioned in the manual, it can be seen that the Continental Congress of Velen Continent has had a hard time influencing the situation in Velen Continent. There is even an article in the manual that refers to the Continental Congress as a parasite.

It's a pity that the information that can be provided in the manual is too little, almost all of which are related to the internal affairs of the French Empire, and there is no record of the surrounding neighboring countries.

After searching carefully, Leo didn't find anything useful. At this time, there were footsteps in the woods not far away, accompanied by the breathing and roaring of some wild animals. It seems that it should be from here. The smell of blood attracted the carnivores in the forest.

Leo casually found a few sets of clothes worn by ordinary people from the backpack behind one of the deceased, and changed them. Although the clothes were a little small, they were better than a whole body of rags.

Afterwards, he identified the direction, found the location of Miria City, and quickly left the woods, avoiding the gathered beasts, and marched towards Miria City.

For ordinary people, the primeval forest in the outskirts of Miria City covers a very large area. Once you get lost in the forest, you may be completely lost in the forest. Therefore, even in the autumn hunting period, if there is no old hunter to lead the way, those The nobles who are keen on hunting rarely go deep into the forest.

However, in Leo's eyes, this primeval forest is similar to the grove in the back garden. Walking in such a forest is like an outing. The forest entered the hunting ground forest area on the edge of the forest, and the most notable feature was that some sheltered huts specially used for hunting could be found in this area.

Now these sheltered huts seem to have been transformed into shelters, and some daily necessities such as food and clothing are stored in the huts. Judging from various traces, someone lived here for a while, and then left again, and there is no trace of fighting. It should have left voluntarily, so I didn't take any daily necessities with me.

In one of the huts, Leo found some newspapers that were not completely damaged. One of the newspapers was eight months ago. Deva, an important town in the north, has advanced to the outskirts of Miria City in just two days.

From the content in the newspaper, plus the soldiers of the Free People's Army who were hunted down before, Leo can almost speculate that the city of Miria may have fallen, and the imperial army should have completely occupied the city of Miria, so he began to ask for advice. Remnants of the United Kingdom of France.

Moreover, the situation in Miria City, especially the political situation, should have stabilized, at least there is no war within the city, otherwise these people who took refuge in the forest would not be able to leave voluntarily.

Leo didn't stop at these shelters, but continued on his way to Miria City.

The reason why he still went to Miria City when he clearly knew that the French Empire had already occupied Miria City was not because he wanted to do something in Miria City, but because he wanted to do something in Miria City. Find a way to leave Farland and go to the Kingdom of England.

It is obviously unrealistic to enter Lanxi directly through the Bidia Mountains in the south of Miria City, because according to Leo's speculation, I am afraid that both the French Empire and the United Kingdom of France will deploy heavy troops on both sides of the mountains. It may be difficult for Ou to pass through this line of defense that is very important to both parties. At that time, whether he wants to or not, he will be caught in the civil war of the French Empire.

Therefore, Leo chose a safe method, first went to Miria City to check the situation, and then decided whether to carry the Hanover Seven Kingdoms on his back, leave the Velen Continent by boat from the Hanover Seven Kingdoms, go to the Kingdom of England, or head west Leon Port, look for a chance to get a ship, cross the defense lines of both sides from the sea, reach the southern part of West France, and see if you can go directly to the Kingdom of England.

After entering the edge of the forest, there were many traces of human activities. Leo quickly followed the traces of human activities and came to a village on the edge of the forest. It's just that Leo didn't enter the village immediately, because he found that there was something wrong with this peaceful village that hadn't been affected by the war.