The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Leo has always believed in equivalent exchange. Even though there are unknown changes in his body and mind now, and he has largely deviated from the rational thinking of biochemical people, the value of equivalent exchange is still his core concept, but the value of this equivalent exchange is no longer The absolute value produced by reason, but the elastic value that can be produced according to his emotions and likes and dislikes.

In Leo's view, the Black Forest is an independent world located in the world of Velen, just like a country called China, and this country is also very powerful and mysterious, and it operates with its own set of strict rules. To allow hundreds of thousands of soldiers to pass through such a place safely and maintain this passage for a long time afterwards, Louis X must have paid a great price.

Prior to this, Leo had always believed that the price paid by Louis X was in the interests of the French Empire itself, but now it seems that things are not as simple as he thought, and even the atrocities of the French Empire that completely destroyed the city of Miria Now it seems that there is also a hint of sacrifice. After all, what sacrifice can be compared with the greatest city on the mainland.

What puzzled Leo was that based on the time when Louis X entered the Black Forest, the Dibia Mountains were still completely in the hands of the United Kingdom. As Louis X, he was qualified to use the Dibia Mountains as a Is it one of the conditions of the human-god sacrifice contract?

There were more and more doubts in his heart, which made Leo fail to configure the potion several times. Fortunately, this potion was just an ordinary wound potion, not a wizard potion, until he began to refine the relatively important Pai Cui's elixir, which is a hunting potion. When he got the potion, he stopped thinking about other things and concentrated on refining the potion in his hand.

Pai Cui's elixir is the most advanced potion among the witcher potions that Professor Ciri gave him. The biggest function of this potion is to enhance the power of the witcher's seal. When he was in Lake Town, Leo tried to refine it. Made a few bottles and tasted the efficacy of the medicine.

He found that this potion can not only increase the power of the seal, but can even increase the effectiveness of spiritual energy to cast witchcraft, reducing unnecessary consumption of spiritual energy, which is enough to determine the outcome for anyone who uses spiritual energy Combat Potion.

It's a pity that the bottles of Pai Cui's elixir refined in Lake Town were lost along with his memory and other things put into the storage space when they returned to Velen.

However, on the way to Miria City, Leo also collected some herbs, and tried to find some alternative herbs from these herbs, but there was no complementary herbal medicine. Until today, he accidentally discovered several poisonous ores used by hunters as poisonous bait, and he finally completed all the alchemy materials.

Leo was very familiar with grinding, proportioning, brewing, and then purifying the medicine, injecting the power of nightmare to make the medicine undergo a fundamental transformation. The refining of the medicine went smoothly. With the color of the medicine, it changed color in the test tube, and emitted a wave of When he heard the familiar smell, he stopped injecting the power of nightmare, put the small bottle containing the potion aside to cool down, and started refining the next potion.

The effect of the cat potion also began to weaken after more than an hour, and finally disappeared. In terms of the duration of the drug effect alone, it was much worse than the cat potion refined in the dream world. The cat potion refined in the dream world The medicine can last for more than three hours, but in terms of the efficacy itself, the current cat medicine is much stronger.

Leo did not cover up the process of refining the potion. Even though the location was on the edge of the camp and no one came, he was still seen. Among them, the last group of people who escaped from Miria City and joined the fleeing team saw the medical test tubes, brackets and other tools used to refine medicine in Leo's hands, as well as the refined alchemy potions placed aside, one by one. His face immediately turned pale, and he ran away yelling, as if he had seen something terrifying.

Leo felt that there would be trouble, but now he was in the critical step of making the potion, so he ignored those who ran away screaming, but calmly completed the final refining process, and then used the melted snow water to clean the potion. A full set of refining tools.

At this time, a group of people hurried towards Leo, the leader of these people was Barak, and next to them were some mercenaries and gangsters who escaped from the city of Miria. A group of people rushed in front of Leo aggressively, staring angrily at the refining tools and medicines that had just been cleaned on the ground and hadn't been put away yet. Extreme hatred appeared on everyone's faces. It looked like It's like tearing Leo to pieces at any time.

"Damn it, you lunatics did it in Miria City..." One of the mercenaries who was particularly excited couldn't help being angry, and rushed out to curse at Leo.

Others also stood up and denounced Leo, but they didn't dare to get too close to Leo. Instead, they looked very afraid, and their eyes fell on those potions from time to time, as if those potions were something terrible.

Barak looked seriously at Leo, who was calm and unaffected by outside interference, and was orderly packing up the refining tools and potions. He couldn't help but feel a little fear in his heart. He subconsciously thought that this was a terrible guy, and he also felt that those who escaped in the end What the residents of Miria City said may be true.

"You all stop talking." Barak stepped out and suppressed the excited crowd, then walked up to Leo, and said very directly: "I'm sorry, I hope you can leave our camp to avoid any unnecessary occurrences. conflict."

"Okay." Leo didn't put the things into the storage space under the eyes of everyone, but put them into his pockets and backpacks, then stood up and nodded to Barak.

After finishing speaking, he walked towards the entrance and exit of the camp specially opened in the distance.

Obviously, Leo readily agreed to Barak's request, which was beyond everyone's expectations. Everyone was stunned for a while. When everyone realized, Leo had already walked out of the camp through the entrance and entered the dark forest. in.

"I think someone should be sent to get rid of that guy?" A strong man from a gangster suddenly suggested.

Many people around agreed, because they were terrified by the plague that happened in Miria City, and Leo's performance also made them feel abnormal, so they thought it was best to get rid of any possible dangers. Regardless of whether this danger exists or not.

"Enough! The things you said are just rumors and have not been confirmed. I have driven away a refugee like you because of this rumor and your request, and this refugee is likely to be against us. Very important doctor." Barack stared at the people around him dissatisfied, and said coldly: "Now you still want me to send someone to hunt him down, you are too much. If you want to kill him If you go by yourself, I won't send my people, but don't blame me for not warning you, there are countless dangers in the forest in the dark night, even experienced hunters may not be able to survive in this environment, you go out to camp After that, it is likely that they will never come back.”

After finishing speaking, he gave the refugees around him a hard look, turned around and walked back to the tent in the center of the camp. He was once saved by the medical aid medical team of the medical school, and he has a good impression of the doctors of the medical school. Today, under the pressure of some people, he had to drive away a person who might be a doctor because of some unconfirmed rumors. The fugitive, this made him very annoyed.

After Barak expressed his attitude, the other unwilling refugees didn't say anything. Although they all looked like they wanted to rush out of the camp just now, but when they were really asked to leave the camp, they all stopped. After discussing in a low voice for a while, they dispersed on their own.

Leo, who left the camp, did not go too far. He sat down on a slightly clean rock in a slightly open space, followed him to put the backpack and other items that would hinder the battle into the storage space, and put the previously refined Those potions are sorted into the belt slots on the body that are specially used for potions, so that they can be taken out for drinking at any time.

Time passed little by little, and the last ray of light that penetrated the dense branches and leaves of the giant redwoods disappeared completely. The night came, and the noise from the direction of the camp gradually weakened. preparation for the itinerary.

Because the surroundings fell into the silence of the night, some subtle sounds that could not be heard during the day became clear. Leo's extraordinary body senses also began to play a role, recording these sounds that were so subtle that ordinary people could not hear them, and turned them into Clues that frame the surrounding situation one by one.

Without the assistance of the sub-brain, it was a bit difficult for Leo to complete the work of organizing the sound data. Fortunately, the ability of the sub-brain itself was integrated into his brain, allowing him to get started quickly, complete the data sorting work, and Quickly understood the various situations of the surrounding environment, such as those invisible monsters that could not be found by spiritual power.

From the moment he left the camp, Leo restrained all the spiritual energy fluctuations in his body, only relying on various sensory organs on his body to feel the movement around him, and discovered many things that he hadn't discovered before, such as malicious intentions. The sight of those monsters, such as the subtle sounds made by those monsters when they move, and so on.

Through the various data clues found, Leo noticed that the hiding methods of monsters such as Mogandi from the Black Forest were not limited to invisibility, they were more of jumping back and forth between subspace and reality. Ou's Spirit Net and Spirit Vision failed to discover the main reason for the existence of these monsters.

Leo has some understanding of the current state of these monsters. In the Earth Federation, there have been some things similar to the overlap of the subspace and the real world. In the overlapping area, the unknown species of the subspace will be in a strange state between illusion and reality. , is very similar to the state of these monsters now.

It's a pity that the research on this subspace overlapping place is a very high-level secret in the Earth Federation. Leo can only see some very vague public information. As for other information, a biochemical person like him is not qualified to view it. up.

However, he remembered that it was mentioned in that document that it was very difficult to kill subspace species in this state, and it could only be done at a specific time. It's a pity that the information is public information, too detailed content will not be recorded, so the so-called specific timing is not written in the information.

After another period of time, the voices from the camp had become very quiet, and Leo felt that the sights of the malicious predators around him were falling on him more and more frequently, and he felt more and more Strong, it seems that those monsters can't help but want to hunt him, the lone prey.

Leo took out a bottle of cat potion, removed the stopper, and drank the potion inside, and his brows frowned the moment the potion entered.

Although the taste of the freshly extracted medicine is not good, it is still acceptable, but after the medicine cools down, the smell becomes extremely fishy, ​​like rotten eggs that have been left for several months. Just like Leo's other organs have been strengthened, Leo's sense of taste has also become much stronger, and this stench has been strengthened several times, making him feel very uncomfortable.

However, as the medicine was absorbed by the body, the smell quickly disappeared, as if the smell just now was just an illusion.

Leo's vision has entered the state of power given by the cat potion, and the darkness around him has turned into a kind of silver-gray. All objects can be clearly seen in the eyes, and those monsters between the virtual and the real are also captured. Leo saw it.

Just as Leo felt, more than a dozen monsters surrounded him, including Mogandi. The nearest lizard monster with two snake heads was only about two meters away from him, with a slightly open mouth. The sharp fangs can be seen clearly.

Facing the threat, Leo didn't hesitate at all. He stepped on the ground with his right foot, and a small cracked pit with footprints appeared on the ground immediately. At the same time, his whole body rushed towards the two-headed lizard monster who was baring his teeth at him like a cannonball. .

Leo's moving speed was really too fast. When he rushed to the double-headed lizard monster, the other party hadn't responded yet. Leo hit the monster's head without hesitation. He didn't use any witchcraft, but just used some enchanting tricks to attach psionic energy around the twin gauntlets, and directly used his own power to strike this unknown psionic creature.

However, an unexpected situation happened. Leo's powerful fist directly passed through the target's head and hit the ground behind him, directly smashing the ground into a big hole like a falling meteorite. All the rot on the ground splashed out.

The appearance of the unexpected situation did not make Leo panic. He was still very calm. When passing through the body with the phantom-like two-headed lizard monster, he also felt an unknown danger appearing out of thin air behind him.

So, even if the attack failed, he didn't let his figure stop, but rushed straight forward for more than ten meters, and then turned sideways, relying on the instinct of his body to cast an Alder sign fused with a witchcraft air hammer towards his back , forming a powerful psionic shock, knocking the attackers behind him away.