The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"What a chaotic psychic energy fluctuation!" Leo hardly needed to use the spiritual net, and he could feel very strong psychic energy fluctuations coming from the village just by getting close to the edge of the village, but these psychic energy fluctuations were extremely chaotic, as if hundreds of It seems that different frequencies of psionic energy are mixed together.

According to Leo's thinking, this village is obviously in big trouble, what he has to do now is to leave this war zone as soon as possible and go to the Kingdom of England. What is the reason for such chaotic spiritual energy fluctuations.

Leo looked at the gradually darkening sky and decided to stay in the village for one night and continue on his way tomorrow. This would not only satisfy his curiosity, but also avoid the martial law imposed by the French Empire army at night.

Thinking of this, Leo walked towards the village in front of him.

This village is the kind of villa-type farm that is common in Miria City. It may have been used by a nobleman for vacation at first, and then gradually developed into a village. The most obvious feature of such a village is that the streets and houses are all made of It is built around the largest and most luxurious villa estate in the middle.

The streets of the village are quiet, without a single pedestrian, and the residents of the village are hiding in their rooms. Leo walking on the street can feel the strange eyes projected from the houses from time to time. These eyes are very complicated. , Leo can feel sympathy, pity, gratitude, indifference and other emotions from it.

This kind of feeling is not the kind of imaginary fuzzy feeling, but a real feeling of the emotion contained in each gaze. It's like there is a sight emotion discriminator on him. He can clearly distinguish it from him.

Through this wonderful perception ability that may come from blood, but also from other forces, Leo discovered that although the emotions contained in these gazes are different, all the gazes leaked the same emotion when they retracted , that is gloating.

Leo ignored these gazes, and went straight to the hotel in the village. Unlike other houses in the village where the doors were all closed, the hotel here was not only open, but also set up two rows of street lights at the entrance of the hotel, making the hotel become a hotel. The most eye-catching place in the whole village.

The hotel is not completely empty at the moment. Contrary to the desolation of the village, the hotel can be said to be overcrowded, because it seems that a group of French Empire patrol soldiers are going to rest in this hotel tonight, nearly thirty people The small team packed the originally not very big hotel to the brim.

Leo, who came in from the outside, quickly attracted the attention of the officers of this team. After all, a tall, strong man was wearing inappropriate clothes, and there were two exaggerated pistols in his waist holster. Such an eye-catching outfit It's hard not to get noticed.

It's just that the officer didn't doubt that Leo was from the People's Army in the south. He didn't think that any soldiers of the People's Army were bold enough to appear alone in front of a well-equipped patrol team. The leader of the wanted rebel army, because remembering the appearance of all the people on the wanted list is a compulsory course for becoming a patrol leader.

But he didn't think Leo was an ordinary person either. In his guess, Leo should be one of the bounty hunters summoned by the Imperial Army recently.

Because the main force attacking Miria City was too powerful, they captured Miria City almost without encountering too many obstacles. Complete the expected encirclement.

So when the city of Miria was captured, the rebels in Miria city who were deemed necessary by the emperor escaped from the loopholes in the siege, and none of the valuable rebel leaders were caught.

Fortunately, the auxiliary Seventh Army blocked the passage from the Bidia Mountains to Lanxi in time, and set up a line of defense on the north side of the mountains to prevent others from passing through the mountains and fleeing to the south, so those rebels are still there Hiding in the forest on the outskirts of Miria City.

In order to complete the arrest order of the emperor, the military department not only dispatched the most elite special forces, but also recruited a large number of bounty hunters from the black market to arrest those escaped rebels.

The patrol officer once saw some bounty hunters hired by the black market at the headquarters of the Crusade Army in Miria City. All of them were dressed in weird ways and talked about gods and gods, and it was easy to distinguish them from ordinary people. come out. Although Leo's outfit was just a piece of clothing that didn't fit very well, he was able to walk on the street with such a weird expression, ignoring the strange eyes of the people around him. Exactly the same as those bounty hunters.

Leo didn't know that he was regarded as a bounty hunter by the officers of the patrol because of his inappropriate attire. He just felt that the soldiers of the French Empire around him had no intention of doing anything. Went to the psionic energy that was going to be used to make the air hammer witchcraft.

"Are there any rooms?" Leo walked to the counter and asked the innkeeper sitting inside.

The innkeeper didn't answer, but just turned his head, glanced at the imperial soldiers, and told Leo the answer almost explicitly.

Leo said again: "I just need a place to rest, a stable is fine."

The hotel owner frowned when he heard the words, and then said, "Seven Bia a night, one dinner is included, and breakfast is not included." Then, he looked at the patrol soldiers again, as if expressing his opinion on purpose , Said a little loudly: "As long as the coins minted by the empire, the coins of the rebel party will not be accepted."

From the coins found on the corpse just now, Leo picked out seven imperial bias, and after handing them to the innkeeper, he was led by a servant to the stable behind the inn and placed them in the straw storage warehouse. Inside.

When the servant was about to leave, Leo stopped him and asked him where there was a store in the village where he could buy suitable clothes.

The servant looked at Leo coldly, and said: "Even if there are shops, they are closed today, I will take you there tomorrow." After speaking, he walked towards the lobby in front of the hotel, talking to himself on the way He whispered: "Tomorrow! You guys may not be able to see tomorrow."

The servant's voice was very low, even if ordinary people stood beside him, they could only hear some humming, but Leo's five senses, which had been enhanced due to physical changes, could clearly hear what the servant said.

Leo didn't think about stepping up to grab the servant and force him to find out some secrets from him. In fact, when he walked into the hotel and stood in front of the hotel owner, he knew very well that the person he was facing could no longer be regarded as a servant. People, whether it is the hotel owner or the servants in the store, they should all be family members.

Although they all covered up the mutated places with clothes, Leo could smell the ancient gods' family aura from their bodies, just like he was able to judge the smell contained in his sight before. Thoughts and emotions are the same, and he just discovered the ability to judge the identity of a family member just by smell.

And when he judged the family, the name of the ancient god's family immediately appeared in his mind, but he couldn't find any information that allowed him to make such a judgment, as if this was a kind of discrimination derived from instinct General ability.

Leo couldn't find the reason for these abilities, let alone how to control them. He could only temporarily regard them as additional abilities obtained after the body's unknown original bloodline awakened. After he could control the power in the bloodline, Naturally, these additional abilities can also be controlled.

After temporarily putting aside the physical problem, Leo began to think about the problem of this village. Judging from various situations, this village may have become a family group of an ancient god. This kind of thing often happened in the ancient times of Velen when the gods appeared, but after the gods disappeared from the world, such things almost rarely happened. Even if they happened, most of them happened in those places full of primitive atmosphere In the wilderness and forest, it is said that there are still some wild gods.

Like the outskirts of Miria City where this village is located, it is so close to a big city full of industrialization. According to normal circumstances, it is impossible for this kind of large-scale familyization of the entire village to occur, so there must be someone involved in this incident. It's a ghost, or it's true that some gods who have disappeared have returned.

No matter what the reason is, it may not take very long for these villagers to transform into family members, because the mutations in these family members are not obvious. There is a lot of energy in their bodies to continue to mutate, making their bodies not as healthy and strong as normal people.

"It seems that there will be a good show tonight." While analyzing the family members in the village in his mind, Leo is also looking forward to what will happen tonight.

From what the servant said to himself just now, it is not difficult for Leo to hear that there will definitely be an attack at night, and the attack is not only aimed at him, but also at the soldiers of the Faran Empire.

With the combat power of that team of soldiers, even if these weak villagers attack suddenly, it is absolutely impossible to defeat these strong soldiers with weapons, so if there is an attack at night, the person who makes the attack must be the mastermind behind the mutation of these villagers .

Leo was not interested in why the mastermind behind the scenes wanted to create the Familia, what he was interested in was the way the other party produced the Familia in large quantities.

While thinking about things, Leo lay on a simple bed made of haystacks and closed his eyes to rest.

When it was completely dark, the previous servant brought his dinner to the forage warehouse, put the tray on a haystack, turned and left without saying anything.

Leo opened his eyes and looked at the food on the tray. A smile appeared on his face. He sat up, ate all the food, then lay back down and continued to fall asleep.

In fact, the moment the plate was taken to the warehouse, Leo's sense of smell smelled the smell of the food, and as if the sub-brain system still existed, he instantly analyzed some of the main ingredients in the food, and found out from these ingredients Some herbs that should not have appeared.

These herbs are not poison, but some very good herbs. In the herbal atlas published by the medical school, this herb ranks first among all the herbs used to help sleep. What is more interesting is that this herb The place of origin is not in the Velen Continent, but in the Minsk Continent in the east.

Because of this, the price of this kind of herbal medicine, which is extremely cheap in the local area, has naturally become extremely expensive when it is placed here in West France, and even ordinary nobles cannot use it frequently.

But now this expensive herbal medicine was put in the food of a hotel guest, and he could tell that there was something weird in it without thinking too much, so Leo simply used the plan and ate all the medicined food, and then waited for the follow-up something happens.

As time passed, the sky had completely turned dark, and the team of soldiers who were resting in the hotel also returned to their rooms to rest one after another.

Although this village is already under the actual control of the French Empire, the officers of the patrol team are still vigilant. Before resting, they set up some warning traps inside and outside their rooms, and arranged the duty order of their subordinates so as not to What an accident.

Just when the time reached midnight, a thick fog suddenly emerged from the forest, and slowly approached the village, soon enveloping the entire village. The imperial soldiers who were placed on guard on the roof had seen this scene a long time ago, but he did not shake the alarm bell in his hand, because it is common to see this kind of dense forest fog spreading to the edge, and there is nothing to make a fuss about. .

However, when the dense fog covered the entire village and affected people's sight, the soldier in charge of security also felt that something was wrong, so he was going to ring the alarm bell to notify his companions in the room below.

But for some reason, he suddenly felt that his body became extremely heavy, and his strength became so weak that he couldn't even lift the bell, let alone shake it, and a strong drowsiness also appeared at this time, washing away his brain. The only bit of waking consciousness left in his body instantly plunged him into a deep sleep.

At the same time, in the forage warehouse of the stable, a large amount of dense fog penetrated through the cracks in the warehouse's loose wooden walls, and soon filled the entire warehouse.

About half an hour later, a tall figure appeared in the warehouse silently, but the strange thing was that the door of the warehouse was not opened, as if this tall figure came in together with the surrounding thick fog.

This tall figure slowly walked up to Leo who was lying on the haystack. Hearing Leo's even breathing and slight snoring, he felt that Leo should have fallen into a deep sleep, so he stretched out a pair of sharp claws. The big hand grabbed the heart of Leo's chest.

However, what surprised the tall figure was that his hand went straight through Leo's body and stuck directly into the haystack. What surprised him even more was that before he realized what had happened, he felt a powerful force hitting the back of his head, knocking him unconscious.