The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Leo's spiritual vision ability easily allowed him to see through the thick fog and clearly see the appearance of the attacker on the ground, while the protruding appearance of the opponent with obvious characteristics surprised him, but also I think it is reasonable.

I saw that although the body of this attacker is very similar to that of a human being, they walk on their lower limbs and stand upright, but there is not much difference between their upper and lower limbs, and not only have sharp claws on their palms, but also aquatic birds will grow between their fingers. Some have webbed membranes, and there is a spine-like dorsal fin on its dorsal spine.

In addition, it was covered with mossy skin, its chest was covered with metallic fish scales, and its face had no eyes but a tentacle-like nose and a large mouth full of sharp teeth.

"Son of the Swamp." Looking at the monster in front of him, Leo muttered about the identity and origin of the attacker he found from the memory.

The legend of the Son of the Swamp has been circulating in Miria City for a long time, but no one has ever believed it. Only some women like to use stories about the Son of the Swamp as children's pillow stories, or they will be in the When teaching children, they say that the sons of the swamp will take bad children away.

In the legend, before the city of Miria appeared, this area was a huge swamp. The tribes here believed in various gods related to the swamp, and the sons of the swamp were the descendants of these swamp gods. The servant race is also known as the God servant group.

However, with the emergence of Miria City, the Orthodox Church cleared up the beliefs of the tribes in the swamp area, and the army of the Faran Empire subdued the tribes of the swamp tribe, and finally swept all these swamp myths into legends that are difficult to distinguish between true and false Among them, the son of the swamp, who was the servant of these gods, naturally disappeared from the swamp in the surrounding area of ​​Miria City.

Even the old man Rembrandt is not clear about whether the Sons of the Marsh really exist, because according to the construction records of Miria City, the legendary war between the Orthodox Church and the gods of the swamp, the battle between the French Empire army and the Sons of the Marsh, etc. is fake.

Although some troubles were encountered during the construction of Miria City, most of those troubles were only caused by the humans of the swamp tribe, and there were no supernatural things. This is not only recorded in the official construction materials of Miria City , It is also recorded in secret organizations in the dark world such as the Night Watchman Organization and the Society of Hearing.

But old man Rembrandt can't deny the existence of the son of the swamp, because when the foundation of the urban area was built in Miria City, a large number of ancient civilization relics were found, and some upright creatures that were very different from humans were found in these relics. Humanoid skeletons, many scholars believe that these remains should belong to the children of the swamp.

But there are also many scholars who disagree, because the bones found are mixed with the bones of some other animals, so there is also a view that someone may deliberately use various bones to artificially create a corpse of the son of the swamp, Use the reputation of the Son of the Swamp in Miria City to create influence and gain fame and fortune from it.

Although there has never been a public opinion in the academic circle on whether the Swamp Son exists or not, there is one thing that all scholars agree on, that is, no matter whether the Swamp Son exists or not, it is now extinct.

However, now it seems that this public opinion recognized by the academic community has become a fallacy. The children of the swamp have not disappeared, but have developed into an ethnic group, because just now Leo discovered through the spirit network that at least a dozen people came to this hotel. A son of the swamp, except for the one killed by Leo now, the rest of the sons of the swamp are all hunting and killing the French Empire soldiers who are staying in the hotel to rest.

In addition, he also found that in the noble villa manor not far from the street opposite the hotel, many residents of the village had already gathered in the manor, as if some kind of ceremony was being held, and the most eye-catching thing in this ceremony was the A statue in front of everyone, this statue is the mother of all hives that Leo is very familiar with.

The Mother of the Hives is one of the most mysterious ancient gods in the world of Velen. Her religious sect is equally mysterious, and few words have been handed down. The only thing that is certain is that as long as there are reptiles such as snakes and lizards, There must be a belief in the mother of all hives.

The Great Swamp of Miria City is no exception, and it has been clearly recorded in the construction materials that in the tribe of this Great Swamp, people who believe in the mother of all hives account for the vast majority, so the slave race Swamp she controls The sons are naturally the most.

Judging from the current situation, it is obvious that the villagers in this village are performing some kind of sacrifice, and this sacrifice has attracted these sons of the swamp, and the sacrifices are him and the outsiders who live in the hotel.

When sensing the scene of the sacrificial ceremony through the spiritual network, Leo also discovered the source of the chaotic psionic fluctuations he sensed before, and this source was the statue of the mother of all hives.

It's a pity that Leo can only walk around the periphery of the ceremony through the spiritual net, and can't penetrate into the interior to disarm the statue, because he feels that if he really does this, he may encounter very fatal danger, even Even the mysterious blood in his body may not be able to save him.

So after thinking about it for a while, Leo gave up on the ongoing exploration of the sacrificial ceremony of those village names, but closed the spiritual net, and turned to deal with the son of the swamp in his hand.

Leo moved the son of the swamp to the haystack, opened the door, and walked out. At the same time, he performed a very simple cleaning technique to remove all the smell on his body. Afterwards, he used the spirit net to monitor the children of the swamp in the hotel, carefully avoided the children of the swamp, entered the hotel room silently, and found some jars and knives from it.

After finding the tools, Leo retreated back into the warehouse, closed the door again, and then dissected the Swamp Son on the haystack one by one. Soon the Swamp Son was completely decomposed by Leo. During the dissection process, the Swamp Son The blood was put into the jar by Leo, because there are a lot of potions in alchemy that need to use some substances containing spiritual energy, and the blood on the son of the swamp contains spiritual fluctuations, although this fluctuation is not strong, But it is enough to assist in the production of psychic potions.

After a series of dissections, Leo quickly had a deep understanding of the species of the Son of the Swamp.

Regardless of whether the Son of the Swamp was born with this species, or was gradually transformed into a family like the villagers who were doing sacrifices in the noble villa manor, in short, they have nothing to do with humans now.

The skin of the Swamp Son is extremely stretchable, like rubber, it can extend six or seven meters, and the same is true for his muscles. In order to match this special organ, the Swamp Son's arm has two main arm bones In addition, there are some auxiliary bones that are superimposed on each other.

From these special limbs and organs, it can be inferred that among the attack methods of the Swamp Son, there may be many methods of attacking the target by borrowing the suddenly extended arm. In addition to the special arm, the son of the swamp also has a venom gland similar to a poisonous snake in the palm of the hand. This venom gland produces venom and injects it into the prey through the sharp claws of the palm.

In addition to the arm bones, the internal organs of the Swamp Son are completely different from those of humans. The Swamp Son's chest bone is a complete container, which protects the Swamp Son's internal organs intact in the solid bones. The strength of these bones is even comparable to steel. If Leo attacked the opponent's head instead of the opponent's body just now, his fist may not be able to break through its body bones and kill it with one blow.

The reason why the body and bones of the Son of the Swamp grow like this is because its internal organs are extremely special and extremely fragile. It does not have heart, liver, spleen, lung, kidney, large and small intestines and other essential organs in its body. Its internal organs are a huge organ with countless alveolar organs. This organ is not only a respiratory, blood and other organs, but also a digestive organ.

However, this organ is extremely fragile. When Leo removed the outer protective skeleton and cut the outer protective film of the organ, the entire organ would be corrupted and gasified in the blink of an eye, so fast that Leo had no time to use other means to preserve it. .

However, judging from the various residual foods that have not yet been digested in this organ, these children of the swamp seem to have changed their living habits. A large number of plant fruits that are only found in deep mountains and the meat of some land animals indicate that their living areas have migrated to the interior. land.

It is not without reason that these children of the swamp can be called the God Servant Race. Just like the ancestral humans in the dream world, they also have magic spells on their bodies, covering the entire village, and even the ability of spiritual vision cannot penetrate. The dense fog was created by them using their own magic.

This type of spell is very practical, whether in the swamp or in the mountains, this type of spell can provide great help to the survival of these swamp children, and can also prevent the enemy from attacking them.

However, the spell-like spells of these children of the swamp are different from those of the family members with psionic skills. The spell-like spells of the family members are all derived from mutated blood, which is somewhat similar to the witch. Although the blood of the Son of the Swamp contains psionic energy, the psionic energy in the blood is only an appendage of spell-like spells, and their spell-like spells all come from their skulls.

On the inner wall of the Swamp Son's skull, there are a large number of Turing roots densely covered on it. After a rough count, there are more than five hundred. None of these Turing radicals are in the Gamore basic root, but a new basic root.

These basic words have very strong spiritual energy fluctuations, and these spiritual energy fluctuations are some negative spiritual energy fluctuations, like the rune magic circle in the dream world, which is always affecting everything around them.

Even if Leo stares at these basic characters for a long time, he will feel some discomfort, such as nausea and dizziness, and he will also feel that the surrounding temperature has become inexplicably cold, and he may even have the illusion that an existence in the void is watching him.

In addition, these radicals are not artificially engraved, but natural, just like the natural bone lines on the bones.

Judging from the many basic radicals and complex Turing radicals on these skulls, it is common sense that the Swamp Son possesses more than one spell-like spell to create dense fog. Leo speculates that as the Swamp Son grows older, what it possesses Enhanced psionic powers, also able to gain new spell-like psionic powers from the Turing root on the skull.

Leo has no time and mind to concentrate on studying the new Turing roots on the skulls. He must find out whether the Turing roots on the skulls of each of the Swamp Sons are different before the Swamp Sons leave, or all of them are different. Same.

So, he tidied up the thoroughly dissected wreckage, and tried to put those clay pots filled with blood into the storage space, and confirmed that the storage space transformed from the palm space would not absorb the blood contained in the object. The spiritual energy, on the contrary, has some protective effect on the spiritual energy substance, restraining the emission of spiritual energy.

Although this change made the space more stable and made it easier to store items, it was not without its drawbacks, because Leo found that he could no longer create a mess of spatial turbulence in the space just by psychic interference as before. , for the attack.

Lost an effective and powerful attack method, but gained a stable storage space, in which Leo could not make a judgment for a while.

After storing all kinds of things in the storage space, Leo performed a cleaning technique on himself to clean up all the smell and blood stains on his body, then opened the door and walked out, sneaking into the dense fog without a sound.

It didn't take long to see him grabbing a dead son of the swamp and returning to the forage warehouse. He repeated the dissection just now, and also packed the blood and other spiritual substances into the storage space. It's just that this time he carefully preserved the complete internal organs of the Son of the Swamp, and put them in the storage space, and will study them carefully when he has a chance.

Soon, Leo removed the skull of the son of the swamp, and then took out the previous skull, compared it quickly, and thus confirmed that all the characters on the two skulls were exactly the same, just like General copying.

Seeing this situation, a bold guess immediately appeared in Leo's mind. These children of the swamp were probably artificially created, and the existence that created these children of the swamp also wrote those Turing roots into the genes of the children of the swamp. in.

Having already figured out a question, Leo put both skulls into the storage space, then opened the door directly, walked out, and quickly left the village without disturbing anyone.

He didn't have much to do. He went to the manor of the noble villa to watch the sacrifice ceremony of the villagers. Apart from feeling that the idol was threatening him, he also felt that there was no need to pay attention to the villagers who were destined to die.

It is conceivable that if the Sons of the Swamp were wise, they would definitely take revenge on the villagers for the death of their companions. Even if the Sons of the Swamp did not retaliate, the French Empire would still pursue the disappearance of the entire patrol team, and these villagers would also die .

So Leo chose not to do much, and left this weird village before the villagers and the son of the swamp noticed the abnormality.