The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Fear is an emotion that any normal person would have. After Leo was resurrected in this world, he possessed the emotions of ordinary people, so he also felt fear. For example, the first time he felt fear was the time when he obtained psychic power, the mysterious subspace that his spirit entered, and all the objects there made him feel inexplicable fear, and he didn't even dare to look back at the one that appeared in the dark. Mysterious existence.

However, because of the auxiliary brain, coupled with the influence of skills such as mechanical mind and fighting will, although he feels fear, it is not strong, and it does not even reach the bottom of the influence of thought. Make the most correct judgment.

However, just now, when Leo inserted his hand into the psionic energy of the air flow, he felt a strong sense of terror that he had never experienced before, even stronger than the mysterious existence in the subspace when the psionic energy was activated, and also Stronger than the Lord of Turbidity and Lightness, it was as if what he felt was fear itself.

What made him even more puzzled was that the biggest impact of this fear was not emotional, but physical. While he felt strong fear in his heart, his body was boiling with enthusiasm, wishing to rush into the mine immediately. In the middle of the road, he killed everything that could threaten him, including Vashj beside him.

Fortunately, Leo's will is strong enough to control his emotions and body, otherwise, he would have done something wrong just now.

It was precisely because he felt that the things in the mine pit were beyond his ability, and because there were not many materials and information worth referring to at hand, he made the most rational and correct decision, no matter what, directly leave.

However, after leaving the old mine and all the abnormal reactions on Leo's body subsided, he couldn't help feeling regretful, because he felt that the source of that psionic energy might be related to his blood, and if he investigated deeply, he might be able to Find a way for him to master the power of his own blood.

However, this feeling of regret only stayed in my heart for a while, and then subsided quickly, because compared to the harvest, the danger I will encounter is too great, and it is not worthwhile.

What's more, if he wants to understand what happened in the mine tunnel, he doesn't necessarily need to enter the mine tunnel. He only needs to start from the medical school. As long as he knows what the medical school is doing in the mine tunnel, it is easy to figure out Where did the spiritual energy erupting from the mine tunnel come from?

Leo didn't stay in Miria City any longer, and went directly through Miria City, heading towards Sylvia's secret base in the outer suburbs.

It doesn't matter that the ring of plague can't be found now. The important thing is that the virus studied by the medical school through the ring of plague has been used by Ljungberg and the others. Although, they told Vaschi and others that the virus was only aimed at imperial soldiers with Beirut blood.

But Leo’s experience from the Earth Federation is very clear. Even if the virus researched by the medical school is really only aimed at the blood of Beirut people, nature has too many material factors that can cause the virus to mutate. Once the virus is affected, If it is caused to mutate, the situation will be completely out of control, and in the end this virus may really create a large plague of indiscriminate attacks.

Leo has already made up his mind not to take this muddy water trip. Once he tells Sylvia what happened, he will immediately leave Velen and go to the English Islands. As for what the medical school is planning in the city of Miria, and what the details of the god-making plan are, he has no intention of pursuing them. He believes that Sylvia, Vashki and even Ljungberg will take the initiative to investigate this matter. It will be much easier to find a way to obtain investigation materials from them when the time comes.

As for the side of the blood wizard, he is not in the mood to care anymore, and just like Ljungberg, it is difficult to judge whether Lawrence Hillman knows what the medical school is doing. After all, some medical schools that have been investigated In the research projects carried out in Miria City, all of them are vaguely related to the unfinished research of the blood wizard. The blood wizard may not be personally involved, but it is not impossible to contribute to the flames secretly and provide help.

All in all, the affairs of Miria City have become a chaotic vortex, from the superficial political war to the inner power schemes, all mixed together, making it difficult for people to understand, and there is a danger of being dragged into it after a long time .

Leo himself is not good at things like political schemes. He is more used to going straight. He used to be assisted by the sub-brain system. Through an absolutely rational analysis, he might be able to get a glimpse of the truth. Now it is really difficult to rely on his own ability. The best way to prevent yourself from becoming a knife in the hands of others is to walk away.

Although Leo had already decided to leave, his inner curiosity made him have the urge to stay and continue the investigation. He was even walking on the road hoping that someone would intentionally find trouble and stop him from leaving, so that he could find a place for himself to stay. Excuses for coming down.

It's a pity that the journey has been extremely smooth, not to mention those forces that are planning to plan something in the city of Miria, and even those scavengers who don't have long-sighted eyes have not appeared, and even the blockade line that was originally set up around the city of Miria did not show up. The imperial army is also much scarcer.

When passing by, Leo took a closer look. Except for a few key checkpoints of the imperial occupation army here, there are still people stationed there, other soldiers are inexplicably much less, and the number of patrols is also reduced. The scavenger just checked his ID casually, which is completely different from the situation when he walked by here a day ago.

"There is a problem!" Leo, who received the certificate, also received the situation of the barracks inside the checkpoint from the spiritual network. When he found that there were less than a hundred people in the barracks, he couldn't help thinking to himself: "Could it be the virus that took effect?" right?"

Calculating the time, it should only take a few hours for Vaschi and the others to use the virus researched by the medical school. Although they don't know where they use these viruses, frontline areas like the Dibia Mountains should be used.

Perhaps it was a coincidence, just when some guesses appeared in Leo's mind, he saw several military carriages speeding past on the road, and drove directly into the barracks, followed by some imperial soldiers getting off the carriages. The military doctor of the Ministry, with some medicines and inspection tools, rushed to the barracks with people, and called the soldiers in the barracks to check one by one.

"Something must have happened?" A scavenger who had just passed the checkpoint was very keenly aware that something was wrong, and said to his companions, "Hurry up, so as not to get into trouble."

The scavenger's words had some effect, and other people around who were curious about what happened became nervous. They picked up the things in their hands and quickly passed the checkpoints, even facing the imperial soldiers sent by some surrounding villages. Vendors selling vegetables also began to pack their things.

Leo didn't plan to investigate the situation there carefully, he mixed into the crowd, passed through the checkpoint, and walked along the forest path outside to the depths of the forest.

Perhaps to prove the conjecture of the scavenger, just after Leo's figure disappeared into the woods, a dozen imperial soldiers rushed out of the barracks, surrounded others who hadn't left, and recruited them in the name of the empire. After killing these people, a recruiting team composed of more than a dozen people began to rush to the nearby villages. It seemed that they should be targeting the young and strong in those villages.

Although Leo left first, his mental network is still paying attention to the situation at the checkpoint, and naturally he also discovered the conscript action of the imperial military, and this enlistment action, in his opinion, is definitely the result of the imperial army in the city of Miria. Evidence of problems with the garrison.

The commander-in-chief of the imperial army who was in charge of this campaign looked down upon the residents of Miria City very much, because they did not encounter any strong resistance during the attack on Miria City, so they all thought that the residents of Miria City were cowards And cowards, recruiting these people to join the Imperial Army will only weaken the Imperial Army's combat effectiveness. Coupled with the empire's distrust of the residents of Miria City, their recruitment of residents of Miria City is limited to a small number of labor soldiers of the railway garrison and logistics troops, and the recruitment of these people will also be specially Selection, there will never be any random recruitment.

But now, the barracks located at the frontline checkpoint actually had an act of on-the-spot recruitment, which can only show that the imperial garrison stationed in Miria City has experienced a serious shortage of personnel, and the imperial army can no longer sustain it.

While the situation on the frontline remained unchanged, the Imperial Army experienced heavy casualties that shook the foundation of the battle. Leo felt that only the mysterious virus researched by the medical school could do it.

"There will definitely be an accident." While moving quickly in Leomyrin, he also made a prediction about the virus in his mind.

This prediction is not a random guess, but an inference made based on a large number of virus warfare and germ warfare conducted by the Earth Federation before, because in those wars, all highly contagious and fast-acting powerful viruses without exception will be killed in ten days. A second mutation of the virus occurs within a day, and the mutated virus will become stronger, and even break through artificially set genetic barriers, such as restrictions on the type of transmission and so on.

Leo knew very well that before the life forms reached Omega-level advanced organisms, in the face of some powerful viruses, psykers were no different from ordinary people, and would not have special immunity. What's more, the virus studied by the medical school this time originated from an artifact suspected to be made by higher organisms, and the underlying virus material is also likely to be the organs and tissues of some powerful organisms, so this virus is also a threat to Leo.

Thinking of this, Leo's footsteps also accelerated a lot, and even at the back, he directly broke away from the path opened by others, entered the interior of the forest, and headed straight for the address of the secret base given by Sylvia.

Because of speeding up his pace, before dark, Leo came to another base of Sylvia in the forest of the Dibia Mountains. This base was transformed from a natural grotto, and some camouflage was arranged outside. and traps. Perhaps it was because they had just moved here from another secret base, some defensive measures had not yet been activated, and the secret sentries and guards had not been deployed, so that when Leo came to the bushes at the entrance of the secret base, the people in the secret base had As far as I can tell, this is the result of Leo deliberately stepping harder.

"Don't be nervous, you're one of us." The United Kingdom agent who had seen Leo at another secret base stopped him before his companion reacted violently, then walked towards Leo and asked, "Leo Mr. Dodd, you came much earlier than we expected, have you found anything yet?"

Leo was not surprised that the other party would know his identity. He glanced at the extra people around him, then landed on Sylvia's subordinates in front of him again, and said coldly: "Sylvia What? Is she there?"

"Yes, I'll take you in." The spy didn't care about Leo's cold attitude, and didn't continue to ask about the plague ring. He turned around and led Leo into the cave.

After passing through a slightly narrow passage, the two came to a very spacious cave, because a large number of torches had been lit in the cave, and some special reflectors scattered the light, making the cave very bright. Comfortable, neither too bright nor too dark.

When Leo entered the cave, Sylvia was arguing fiercely with someone on the opposite side of the strange object through a wizard-like communication device. Judging from the scattered content of the quarrel, Sylvia should It was to ask for additional manpower from the other side, but it seemed that the other side refused for some reason, and the reason for this refusal was very inappropriate in Sylvia's eyes, and it was not enough to serve as a reason.

Just as Leo walked into the cave, Sylvia saw him. Just like the United Kingdom spy just now, Sylvia was a little surprised that he came back so quickly.

Although curiosity made her want to know the result of Leo's trip, but the things being discussed now are also very important, so she can only signal Leo to wait for a while in the rest area that has just been sorted out.

It didn't take long, and under Sylvia's arguments, the side seemed to relax and agreed to send more people to Miria City, but the number was reduced. Sylvia was not displeased by this either. After all, the number of people she reported just now was too many, and it was impossible for the other party to agree. Although this number is only one-third of the number just now, it is already in her heart She was satisfied when she was above the line, and she was naturally in a good mood.

"Is everything going well?" Sylvia walked to Leo's side and sat on a rock very casually. Originally, she was going to directly ask if she had obtained the Plague Ring, but seeing Leo's serious expression, she felt He couldn't help having a bad premonition, and asked in a deep voice.

Leo shook his head slightly, and said truthfully to Dong'ao: "Things went well, we found the whereabouts of the Plague Ring from the beginning, but some unexpected things happened, now it makes no difference whether to find the Plague Ring or not." .”

While talking, without waiting for Sylvia to ask, he directly explained the things he had investigated and some conjectures in detail, and Sylvia's face became more and more gloomy.