The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

In the next two days, although Leo experienced a lot more battles than before, there were almost a dozen battles every day, or it could be said to be massacres, but this kind of fulfilling fighting life made him feel very comfortable, and a lot of His combat experience also helped him adjust his fighting style and form a new fighting mode. All in all, he spent the past two days in a relaxed and comfortable way.

Compared with Leo's state, the fleeing team secretly protected by Leo obviously didn't have a good life.

Although Leo kept clearing the monsters and family members of the Black Forest along the way, nothing is certain, there will always be a few fish that slip through the net, coupled with the ferocious beasts that already existed in the forest, the fleeing team began to appear in the past two days A large number of non-accidental deaths.

Among these dead people, apart from the dozens of people who accidentally left the team who were attacked by wild beasts and could find their remains after death, the other dozen people who were attacked by the family members who sneaked into the camp could not even find their bodies. I realized that this finding was not only limited to those in the fleeing team, even Leo could not be found as well.

After the Web Weaver directly passed the news that the camp was attacked by the family members to Leo through some force, Leo had secretly returned to the camp to check the situation at the attack site. Although most of the traces were inadvertently destroyed by the people in the camp for various reasons, there are still many remaining traces that can still provide Leo with a lot of useful clues.

Through these clues, Leo deduced that the attack happened very suddenly, almost in the blink of an eye, no one reacted, and then all the attacked disappeared in place, as if swallowed by the surrounding space.

Leo couldn't find out what kind of Black Forest monster or family attacked these people from the remaining traces, so he asked the web weaver to see if there were any clues from the web weaver, and what surprised him was that even the weaving web The attackers did not know the identity of the attackers, only that the threads on the victims were broken.

Dozens of casualties and disappearances, coupled with long-term walking in the dark forest with no end in sight, made the people of the fleeing team become more and more panicked. He didn't have a good countermeasure to deal with this kind of overall morale and morale drop. He could only speed up and get out of the forest before the morale of the team got too low.

Fortunately, Barak was very familiar with this road, and he did not make any mistakes along the way, and his estimation of the distance was also very good. Finally, on the fourth day after entering this river forest, the fleeing team escaped from this dark giant red forest. The fir forest came out and came to the foot of the Al Peak.

Al Peak is the highest peak of the Dibia Mountains, and it is also the symbol of the Dibia Mountains. Although it is named after the peak, it is actually a steep ridge that follows the trend of the mountains and traverses east and west. It looks like an insertion from a distance. A gigantic wall in the cloud divides West-France into North and South.

The ridge of Arfeng is very steep and almost vertical, and it is covered with a layer of fragile ice and snow all the year round. It looks solid when stepped on, but it is actually soft, and avalanches may occur at any time. Even the most experienced mountaineering adventurers cannot climb this mountain. The ridge, which is one of the main reasons why people think it is impossible to climb the Dibia Mountains.

Although the fleeing team came out of the forest and was bathed in the sun again, they couldn't feel any warmth, not only because the cold wind in the deep mountains took all the heat of the sun away, but more because of the sight in their eyes. The high wall of the ridge that towers into the sky is enough to make people feel desperate.

Everyone present had only heard about the peculiar topography of Arfeng, and they only had a conceptual understanding of the mountain in the clouds, but what they heard and what they saw had a completely different impact on their hearts. They all began to doubt whether they could climb over the wall of this world, including those few dignitaries.

Barak is a very sensitive person. He quickly noticed that something was wrong with the team, so even though it was still noon and he had just had a rest not long ago, he did not lead the team on the road anymore, but after leaving the forest , Immediately found a small depression near the forest, leeward to the sun, and began to camp there to rest.

Before setting up camp, he gathered everyone together, and in a very sincere tone, told everyone not to worry about the barrier of this wall of the world, they don't need to climb the mountain at all, because he knows a canyon that runs directly through the entire mountain , can pass through the canyon and reach the other side very easily.

Barak's openness did save some morale, but the people in the fleeing team still felt a little uneasy, because Barak did not clearly say where the canyon was. Difficult to stabilize.

Although Barack knew very well that what he did was not particularly effective in stabilizing the hearts of those in the fleeing team, he had done everything he could, and everything had to go with the flow. Fortunately, those few people were closely guarded by him. Because of his words, the rich and powerful have settled down, so his appeasement is not a complete failure.

When the fleeing team was camping, Leo patrolled the area around the team as he did two days ago, preparing to clean up the Black Forest monsters and family members that gathered like flies, but what surprised him was this circle When he came, not only did he not find any family members or monsters, even there were no traces of wild animals walking on the ground, as if this place was a restricted area of ​​life.

"What's going on here?" Leo expanded his inspection range, and after he still didn't find any traces of monsters, family members or wild beasts, he felt that something was wrong.

Afterwards, he surveyed the surrounding environment with the spirit net, psychic perception, and spiritual vision, and found nothing unusual. Or to be more correct, the biggest anomaly in this place has always been in front of his eyes, but he ignored it before, and found it only after careful analysis. However, this anomaly is that there is no life on the ground covered by thick snow. There are no traces, not even a single grass, which is completely unimaginable under normal circumstances.

"What's wrong with this land?" Unable to find out the reason, Leo had to use the shadow to avoid the crowd, sneaked into the camp, and asked the web weavers who were still behind the fleeing team. After the situation, he asked directly.

However, the face of the web weaver was also full of confusion, and he motioned for Leo to reach out his hand, and then tapped his finger on the back of Leo's hand, the spider tattoo that disappeared before reappeared, and his vision also reappeared Changes, the World Wide Web reappeared in front of his eyes.

It's just that, compared to the world web above his head and the image of spiders on the upper layer, the scene of the entire mountainous area in front of him attracted his attention more.

In the past, Leo could use the effect of spider tattoos to see the thread connecting everyone's body to the world's web, but now not only the thread on people, but also all the plants and other life forms in the Giant Sequoia Forest not far away He can see clearly the lines of the body. These threads are densely intertwined and go straight to the sky. Under the world net that I have seen before, a more dense and detailed world net is woven, and the weavers walking on this new net The Webman no longer has a human form, but a pure spider form.

This change also made Leo understand that the world net above his head should be composed of the soul lines of every life in the world, and the level of the world net determines the biological level of the life in the net. In addition, in addition to intuitively judging the level of the living body from the height of the world network, the color displayed by the soul line possessed by the living body also shows the level of their living body. The lighter the color, the higher the level of the living body. The lower the color, the darker the color, the higher the life form level.

However, in this world woven by the endless soul lines and the world's great net, there is a huge blank space that exists very abruptly in this world, and this blank space is so huge that it is almost equivalent to the entire area of ​​Alfred. , such a huge gap seems to be able to tear apart the world net in the sky, which makes people feel an inexplicable sense of panic.

"What's going on?" Leo asked the same question again, but now the direction of the question has changed.

"Black...forest...forest..." The web spinner spat out a word with great difficulty.

Although the Web Weaver only said one word, Leo already understood what the other party meant. It was obvious that the other party wanted to say that the situation in the Black Forest was the same as here.

But Leo did not agree with this statement, because life exists in the Black Forest, even if those lives are no longer under the control of the web weavers, but for the time being, there is no life in the area within the range of Alfeng Mountain , which is completely different from the situation in the Black Forest.

The Web Weaver also seemed to see what he was thinking from the expression on Leo's face, and then clicked on the spider tattoo on the back of his hand.

Leo's field of vision changed again, the soul line, the world network and other scenes all disappeared, and even the people around him disappeared, leaving only groups of phantoms.

"These are phantoms formed by life?" Leo couldn't help guessing after seeing these phantoms.

After hearing Leo's words, the Weaver of the Web corrected: "No...it...they...are...spirit...soul...human...sex..."

Hearing this, Leo looked thoughtfully at the souls and humanity around him.

I saw that most of these souls and human natures outline a vague human figure in the form of a drop-shaped mist. The outer periphery of the human figure is a thin layer of silver light. This layer of silver light is like a layer of protection, but also like a Layers of confinement, condensing the soul human form together, preventing it from drifting away.

Inside the human nature of the soul, everyone behaves differently. Some people are pitch black, like a night without stars, and there are some bug-like things drilling holes in the black soul, which makes people feel involuntarily. There was an inexplicable feeling of nausea. This kind of nausea directly acts on the soul of the viewer. Although it is not very strong, it cannot be stopped. Facing this kind of nausea, even a strong-willed person like Leo will feel a little uncomfortable. Others Ordinary people may be mentally broken by this disgusting feeling if they see it.

Among these souls and humanity, not all of them are pitch black and full of bugs. In fact, the humanity of the vast majority of people is gray-black, like a piece of soiled white cloth. Only a very few people and children The human nature is gray-white or pure white, so that people who see it can clearly feel the purity contained in it.

It's just that these human souls and humanity from human beings are not the focus of Leo's vision. His focus is on the soul humanity of other creatures, because he found that places where he thought no creatures existed are full of all kinds of non-human beings. The human nature of the soul, or the origin of the soul is also acceptable.

Perhaps because of the low biological level, the human nature of these souls derived from trees and beasts is mostly just a cloud of mist, without any form at all, and its interior is also a cloud of gray, and this gray is not in the human soul. There was light in that gray, but pure gray with no light showing through.

Seeing the soul and humanity of the animals and plants all over the region, Leo realized that there is life here, but they are all in another subspace that overlaps with the Vinylon world. People in the Vinylon world cannot see it. to these flora and fauna.

"Black Forest Wonderland!" Seeing this situation, Leo's mind immediately came up with what Su said about Louis X dedicating the seven mountains to the Black Forest as a hunting ground.

Before this, Leo just thought that those Black Forest monsters and their families left the Black Forest and entered the Dibia Mountains to hunt through the power of the contract, but the current scene made him think of another possibility, that is the Black Forest Wonderland Under the influence of the power of the contract, it has spread out from the Black Forest, and merged with the mountains established by the contract, just like the overlapping relationship between the Black Forest Fairyland and the Black Forest.

If it is really the same as the Black Forest, then the degree of danger here is difficult to estimate. Even if Leo wants to retreat from this environment, it will be very difficult, let alone these refugees now.

Leo now has no other companions to discuss countermeasures and ideas, so he can only tell what he is thinking to the Web Weaver, and the Web Weaver seems to be very concerned about Leo's statement. After listening to Leo's words, he didn't answer immediately, but entered into a state of trance with several other web weavers, feeling that they were connecting with the world through the thread that connected them. The companions on the big network are discussing something.

Only a few minutes passed, and several web weavers recovered from that trance state, and told Leo the result of their discussion just now in very simple words, saying: "Re...no... Stack..."

"Coincidence, but not superposition, right?" Leo asked in confirmation after hearing this.

The Web Weaver nodded.

After getting the confirmation, Leo was a little nervous and relaxed a little, feeling that things weren't too bad.