The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

In the Earth Federation, it is not uncommon for subspace and the real world to overlap in space, but because the degree of overlap is different, the harm and damage caused are also different.

Such a situation where a certain part of the Black Forest Wonderland overlaps with the Dibia Mountains often happens in the universe where the Earth Federation is located, and there are already a set of coping mechanisms in each cosmic civilization.

Usually this kind of space overlap will not bring great damage to the real world, it will only cause some objects to temporarily enter the subspace due to space misalignment, and people in the space overlap area will be affected by this kind of space. The perceptual confusion caused by the dislocation has caused varying degrees of mental damage.

It's just that this kind of mental damage won't be fatal. At most, people will be in a state of depression for a long time afterwards, but after systematic cultivation, this state of depression can also return to normal in a short period of time. There are no after-effects.

But if the space overlaps, then things will be troublesome. The overlapping part is either everything in the real world is sucked into the subspace, or the things in the subspace come to the real world, no matter which one is for the people around Definitely a catastrophe.

Because no matter what kind of situation occurs, it will cause the space to tear, and what's more, the space will collapse because the space matter is pulled away, and then it will evolve into a black hole. There was a similar precedent in the Earth Federation. Although the accident was remedied in time, it still caused the planet to be swallowed up by a miniature black hole formed by a space rift. Fortunately, it was only a resource star, and there were not many stars. People lived there, and the casualties were negligible.

If the Dibia Mountains in front of Leo now overlapped with the Black Forest Wonderland, then Leo would never do anything, and would ignore the previous promise, and just turn around and stay away from here as much as possible.

Although the web weaver said that the current situation is only the overlap of spaces, not the overlapping of spaces, Leo can't fully believe what the web weaver said, because the difference in knowledge and cognition will cause some misunderstandings, and it is possible that the space that the web weaver said Coincidence is the spatial overlap in Leo's cognition.

So in order to avoid mistakes, Leo left the camp and used the detection method of the Earth Federation to detect the current space state of this place, and finally deduced the real situation of the current space from some clues found, and this situation It's a little different from the space overlap in his cognition, but it's not too different.

According to Leo's understanding, space overlap is just the projection overlap of two spaces. In fact, the materials of the two spaces do not overlap, just like a mirage, it is just an illusion of space projection. In this way, all objects in the overlapping space will be caught in some kind of space gap due to space distortion, resulting in that everything seen or touched may not necessarily exist, and the truth and falsehood can no longer be judged by the body senses, and This strange phenomenon acts on all objects.

But now what makes Leo feel strange is that this peculiar phenomenon of overlapping space does not affect the Dibia Mountains, but only affects the animals, plants and other life forms on the surface of the mountain, thus making Wherever Leo saw, there was no trace of any living beings.

In the current situation, Leo doesn't have any reference materials in his mind, and he himself is not a biochemical person of scientific research type. No matter how powerful his brain calculation and memory skills are, he can't analyze a reason.

Now, the only thing Leo can be sure of is that the space overlapping environment here is not dangerous in itself, the real danger exists in those hidden on the other side of the overlapping space.

Because the current situation of space overlap is completely different from the previous situation in the Giant Sequoia Forest, Leo can no longer see the figures of those Black Forest monsters and their families through the vision given by the cat potion, and can only wait for those Black Forest monsters and their families to fully recover. Only after appearing in the world of Velen can we grasp their whereabouts.

However, Leo wasn't worried that those Black Forest monsters and family members would appear in the camp directly, capture the ordinary people in the camp before he could react, and then escape.

Because he infers that the monsters and their families in the Black Forest may no longer be able to travel through the two worlds as easily as in the Giant Sequoia Forest. They can release the virtual and real state very close to the camp and enter the world of Velen to hunt their prey. Similarly, it should not be possible for them to directly enter another space together with the prey after catching the prey.

The reason why Leo made such a guess is entirely because of the changes in the space environment here. When people and things in the Velen world are affected by this space overlap phenomenon, things in another space will also be affected by this space overlap phenomenon. , and because of the stability of the space, the Black Forest Wonderland in the subspace state may be affected more strongly.

In this fragile and chaotic space overlapping environment, any kind of space-changing behavior becomes extremely dangerous, and a little carelessness may cause fatal consequences.

Perhaps to prove the correctness of his speculation, Leo, behind a slightly hidden hill not far from the camp, through the imitation of the power of nightmare, he temporarily turned his body into a kind of black forest he had hunted. The state of the unknown family, and in this state, he saw the appearance on the other side of the overlapping space, and was forced to immediately release this imitation state after only one glance.

Leo didn't know if the scene he saw was part of the wonderland of the Black Forest, but he was sure that the environment on that side was very bad, and a large amount of unexplained energy turbulence formed an energy storm inside, attacking everything that tried to get close object.

Fortunately, Leo only imitated the special state of the unknown family members of the Black Forest through the power of nightmares, and did not really enter another subspace, so no matter how strong the energy storm there was, it would not be able to affect him. able to retreat calmly.

Judging from this situation, it is definitely impossible for the Black Forest monsters and their families to appear directly in this area where the space overlaps. They can only escape from the special space in the giant redwood forest where the area no longer overlaps. state, completely entered the world of Velen, and then gradually approached the camp like the beasts in the world of Velen, hunting prey.

For Leo, the monsters and family members of the Black Forest who are out of the virtual and real state of space are not terrible. He is fully capable of killing them before they threaten the ordinary people in the fleeing team, so the current environment where the space overlaps is not good for him. favorable.

Just as Leo guessed, until the early morning of the next day, there were no Black Forest monsters and family members around the camp of the fleeing team, and Leo only saw a group of people in the distance in the middle of the night through his spiritual vision ability. A tree-like Black Forest Familia appeared.

It's just that when the family members discovered Leo's approach, they immediately fled towards the edge of the mountain where there was no space overlap. They didn't re-enter the subspace of the Black Forest Wonderland until they escaped from the overlap area, which just confirmed Leo's guess during the day.

However, although there were no Black Forest monsters and family members to attack that night, there were still a large number of people missing in the camp.

At dawn, the hunters guarding the camp went to each tent one by one to wake up the people resting there, so that they had enough time to pack their bags, but soon these hunters found that there were more than a dozen tents that were empty, almost A hundred people were missing, and their luggage and everything else were well preserved in the tent.

This incident quickly spread in the camp, causing quite a commotion. The morale that had begun to recover after half a day and one night of rest became low because of this incident. It was the next person to go missing, so there was also the sound of going back in the crowd.

And not only the refugees wanted to go back, even some hunters were frightened by the strange situation in front of them, and connected these things with the legends about the Dibia Mountains, even Barak's past The power and influence couldn't suppress their uneasiness, so when someone proposed to go back, these frightened hunters also agreed.

Just like yesterday, Barack also convened everyone to give a mobilization speech, and at the same time persuaded those who had the idea of ​​looking back to keep going. It's just that, compared to yesterday's and previous speeches, the effect this time is mediocre, even bad. Not only did it fail to persuade those who had thought of turning back, but it also made some people who were still vacillating to make speeches. decision to turn back.

However, what made Barak feel a little relieved was that those few dignitaries did not intend to turn back, and still decided to cross the Dibia Mountains, which saved him a lot of effort in persuasion.

Although these people who decided to turn back disrupted some of Barack's plans, in the long run, it was not a bad thing, because after these vacillating people left, the rest were all people who were determined to cross the mountains. In the next journey, there will be no more things that shake the morale of the entire fleeing team like this.

After thinking about the gains and losses, Barak didn't keep the nearly 500 people who were going to turn back. He took out some of the supplies and handed them over to some hunters who also decided to turn back, and selected a few of them who had enough prestige and ability to lead the team people.

On the other side, although the number of people has been reduced by half, it has become a lot easier for the fleeing team, because most of the people who decided to turn back were older people, and the rest decided to continue to cross the mountains Most of the people are mainly young and strong, which can make the next journey a lot easier.

Just when the escape team was divided into two due to a large number of disappearances, everyone's attention was focused on the personnel arrangement, route selection and other matters after the team split, which caused the team to The separate disappearance incident seems to be forgotten, and no one mentions it again, as if it never happened.

As a bystander, Leo quietly observed all the movements in the camp through the spirit network from a distance. He was not at all interested in the separation of the fleeing team. What interested him was the attitude of these people towards the nearly one hundred missing persons.

Except for the commotion in the camp when the missing persons were first discovered and the team separated, the people in the camp never showed any concern for these missing persons after that, even the relatives and friends of the Naxi missing persons were cleaning up. When the tent was empty, there was no abnormal emotion, and the expression on his face was as flat as if the missing person did not exist.

No matter how you look at this situation, it makes people feel abnormal, but the problem is that Leo didn't find any spiritual fluctuations in the camp, especially those missing people's tents, so these people are so indifferent to the disappearance of their companions. The effects of witchcraft can be ignored.

But in the same way, Leo can also be sure that there is indeed a power that affects their minds, making them ignore those missing people, because he also involuntarily wants to forget the missing people, but his will is too strong, This emotion was not enough to shake his mind at all.

It's a pity that even though Leo clearly felt that he was also affected by an inexplicable force, he couldn't find out the source of this influence.

In addition to discovering that the people in the camp were emotionally affected by unknown forces, Leo also found that those missing were all without exception those with the strongest psychic reactions.

If it was just one or two missing people, that would be fine, but the problem is that all the ninety-seven missing people have the strongest psychic response among the more than a thousand people, which obviously cannot be explained by mere coincidence.

It's just that among these refugees, there are three people who have equally strong psychic reactions, but they did not disappear in their sleep. These three people are a family of three who were cast by Leo's body protection witchcraft. What is interesting is that he felt that the protective witchcraft left on the family of three was actually consumed. Obviously, the family of three was also attacked last night, and it was only because of his witchcraft that it did not cause the family of three become a missing person.

"Maybe we can use this family of three as a breakthrough!" After discovering this, Leo immediately had an idea. So he sneaked into the camp again, secretly cast some witchcraft such as tracking on the family of three, and strengthened the bodyguard witchcraft on the three of them.

What surprised Leo even more was that when he cast witchcraft on the family of three, the web spinners also saw it. Not only did they not stop Leo, but they did not show dissatisfaction. Finally, one of the web weavers made a gesture towards the family of three, and Leo saw a silver-gray thread on the body of the family of three through the spider tattoo.

Obviously, the Weaver of the Web had the same idea as Leo, and was also planning to use the family of three as clues to find out about the mysterious disappearance.

After a rest, the team that was about to turn back left first. When these people disappeared into the giant redwood forest in the distance, Leo could clearly feel that these people who were going back had absolutely no possibility of going out of the forest again. Netizens also separated two people to walk with this returning team, it seems that they are to harvest the souls of these people.