The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

After coming out of the Holy Blood Society's residence, Leo did not leave immediately, but walked around in the underground city controlled by the Holy Blood Society.

Although this is the place under the control of the Holy Blood Society, and more than half of the people who live and do business here are local or foreign family members of Venaya, most of these family members have not undergone much physical mutation, even if there are They are also hidden in places covered by clothes, and they are no different from ordinary people on the surface.

Only a small part of the body has undergone a great mutation, which has already left the category of human form, and can no longer survive outside, and can only live in this underground world. For this kind of completely mutated family members, the Holy Blood Society did not let them go, but made some proper arrangements for them according to their abilities, such as paying money for land, helping these people open shops underground, and so on.

Now Leo is in this antique shop, which is opened by an elderly family member whose body has completely mutated. The body of this family member has obvious signs of insectification. The eyes have also become compound eyes, and people can't help feeling a kind of inexplicable fear when they look at it.

However, the mutated body also brought him extraordinary abilities. The old man was a well-known appraiser in the Kingdom of Sigma when he was an ordinary person, and his mutated eyes gave him the ability to identify jewelry, minerals, antiques, etc. Enhanced with the day.

It's just that this ability didn't bring him any good luck. Because of his body mutation, he had to hide, and was caught by gangsters, locked up, and specialized in identifying various valuables for gangsters. It wasn't until two years ago that the Holy Blood Society took action to destroy this gangster specializing in family business and rescued the old man, so that the old man regained his stability.

When he was in the gang, in order to prevent the old man from escaping, the leader of the gang cut off the old man's feet, and then locked him in a dark basement. After being rescued by the Holy Blood Society, he joined the Holy Blood Society and specialized in appraising various mysterious items for the Holy Blood Society. The Holy Blood Society also made a very delicate prosthesis for the elderly and opened an antique shop.

This store was specially suggested by Brown when Leo left the Holy Blood. According to him, there are many mysterious items that cannot be identified.

Leo didn't pay attention at first. In his opinion, the Holy Blood will have a crow, a mysterious psionic creature from a high tower. Even if there are good mysterious items, the crow will find them and leave them for the Holy Blood to use. , Where will it be displayed and sold to others.

What really attracted Leo to visit this shop was the crystal wall specially built by the Holy Blood Society for this shop. It is said that this crystal wall is set on the outer wall, just facing the outlet of Venaya Port. Every day, you can see the endless sea view and the sight of thousands of ships sailing on the sea. Almost everyone who comes to the underground city will It's good to take a walk here, even if you don't buy anything, it's good to see the scene that represents the prosperity of Vinaya Port.

However, after coming to this antique shop, Leo realized that he seemed to underestimate this shop, because after entering the shop, the waves of chaotic psychic fluctuations were like a touchstone, and any attempt to Those who enter the store are screened again.

Leo didn't need to think too much, he could easily judge through the Turing magic circles he saw through the spirit vision that the layout of this shop must be the crow's handiwork. The Turing magic circle all over the store connected the mysterious items stored in the storage compartments together, guiding the spiritual energy fluctuations of the mysterious items, and built a spiritual energy wall at the entrance of the antique shop.

This psychic energy wall can help shop owners identify people. Ordinary people will not have any problems passing through this psychic energy wall, just as unaffected by passing through the air, and those bodies have a little bit of psychic energy No matter what kind of psychic power a person has, they will experience more or less discomfort, and the stronger the psychic power they have, the stronger the discomfort.

When Leo walked past this psychic energy wall, he felt as if his whole body had sunk into the viscous heavy oil to die. At the same time, he felt the pressure from all directions, and even felt a sense of suffocation.

And the psionic energy in Leo's body also naturally produced a stress response under this pressure, almost no need for Leo's driving, and the psionic energy fluctuations close to the fifth-level psyker radiated from him like electric waves, resisting the surrounding Psionic wall. And this kind of spiritual confrontation was also transmitted along the Turing magic circle to the storage compartments on the wall where mysterious items were stored, causing the storage compartments to vibrate violently.

The vibration of the storage compartment naturally alarmed the boss and customers in the store. They thought it was an earthquake, and they all lay down on the ground or leaned against the wall, looking around in fear.

Fortunately, the psionic energy wall created by Turing's magic circle didn't last too long, and it disappeared automatically. After losing the external force, the psionic energy in Leo's body naturally calmed down, and the surroundings returned to calm.

Seeing that the abnormal situation had calmed down, the customers in the shop didn't understand what was going on, but they breathed a sigh of relief. They tidied up their messy appearances, and then pretended that nothing happened just now, and continued to talk to the shop. The people here talk about the deal that was not completed just now.

After recovering from the initial panic, the owner of the store soon discovered that something was wrong, because other items such as tables and chairs in the store did not show any signs of earthquakes, only the storage compartments storing those mysterious items vibrated. It also made him understand what was going on, and immediately looked towards the entrance of the store.

The shop owner's mutated compound eyes have many abilities, many of which are similar to Leo's spiritual vision skills, and can also see spiritual fluctuations. This is one of the reasons why he can become the top appraiser in the Vinylon world today. one.

At this moment, in the eyes of the shop owner, Leo is like a torch formed by psychic energy. It is not appropriate to say that it is a torch. It should be bigger than a torch, just like molten steel in a furnace in a steel factory. People have an illusion that they will be burned if they get close.

The shop owner immediately stood up from his chair, walked up to Leo, and saluted, "Welcome to our shop. I wonder what this lord wants to buy."

Leo didn't answer immediately, but looked at the shop owner's prosthetic very impolitely. Although he has known for a long time that the mechanical technology in this world has reached a very high level, but after seeing the exquisitely crafted mechanical prosthesis in front of him, he still couldn't help but marvel at the ingenuity of this prosthesis, and couldn't help but recall the dream in his mind. Compare the mechanical craftsmanship of the town of Yinyue Lake in the world with the craftsmanship in front of you.

Although due to environmental reasons, the mechanical parts in Hushang Town can generate great kinetic energy when they are in operation. A steam engine with a height of half a person can drive an object that is ten times, or even hundreds of times larger than it, but the huge kinetic energy caused by the environment Regardless of the differences, in terms of the sophistication of the mechanical craftsmanship, the mechanical craftsmanship of Vinylon World is indeed slightly better than that of Hushang Town.

Inside the prosthesis wrapped in transparent resin, you can clearly see that a large number of mechanical gears are rotating, and at the same time, the artificial nerve wires in the resin will be triggered, and then passed to the user through some special shrapnel at the joint between the prosthesis and the residual limb. , will bring some nerve vibration and touch to the user, just like real limbs.

Although in the Earth Federation, biochemical limbs and even cloned limbs have already existed, but through the operation of mechanical gears like now, plus some special metal wires, a prosthetic limb that can produce neural touch has been created, which makes Leo can't help but He was amazed at this kind of mechanical craftsmanship, and this kind of mechanical manufacturing technology also reminded him of Rembrandt's old man's wheelchair and the people in the tavern in Miria City who were equipped with mechanical stumps.

"Do you need me to take it down for you to have a look at?" It seems that this is not the first time that the shop owner has met someone like Leo. He was not angry because of this excessive behavior, but asked Leo instead.

"No need!" Leo shook his head, and then said casually: "I have seen similar prosthetics in Miria City, but your pair of prostheses are more exquisite than what I have seen."

"Oh! I know who you are talking about. My prosthetics should be made by the same person, and only that gentleman has the ability to make such perfect prosthetics." The shop owner blinked his compound eyes, without any doubt. Not shying away from his mutilated body, he said with a smile: "Originally, the gentleman planned to install a small set of steam power on the pair of prosthetics, saying that the prosthetics could gain a lot of power. But I don't think I'm a combatant, There is no need to add steam power to the prosthesis, so I refused."

Leo also praised the old man's open-mindedness. After that, he didn't mention the old man's prosthetics, but turned to the store's products, and said, "I was introduced by Brown, and he told me that you have some interesting ones here. thing."

"Mr. Brown introduced it, I understand." The store owner nodded, gave instructions to the people in the store, and then led Leo to a small separate room next to the store. After asking Leo to sit down, Asked: "May I ask if you want something interesting?"

Leo thought for a while and said, "Do you have anything related to Outer God?"

"Is there something related to the Outer God?" The shop owner was silent for a while, as if he was a little worried, and after a while, he said seriously: "I do have a few things related to the Outer God, but those things are very Evil and terrifying, everyone who comes into contact with them will be affected. In the team of treasure hunters who came here at the beginning, only one person was able to barely maintain normality. The others were crazy, and their bodies had abnormal mutations. The mutation of the bloodline of the family is another kind of mutation."

As he spoke, he paused for a moment, as if trying to calm down, and then continued: "Although I believe that Mr. Brown will introduce you to me, because he must have affirmed your strength, but these items are too dangerous , it may be beyond your ability, you see if you..."

"Don't worry, even if something happens, you don't need to be responsible." Leo raised his hand to interrupt the shop owner's persuasion, and then said with some doubts: "I don't understand, since this thing is so dangerous, why not Find a safer place to store it? If it is lost in this shop, won’t it cause a greater disaster?”

The shop owner said confidently: "Don't worry about this. In the entire underground city, except for the residence of the Holy Blood Society, my shop is the safest. If someone can snatch those things from my shop, Then they will be taken away even if they are placed elsewhere."

After finishing speaking, he did not persuade Leo any more, but signaled Leo to wait in this room for a while, while he walked to a certain wall in the room, raised his hand and quickly pressed some parts of the wall respectively. Immediately afterwards, a slight sound of mechanical operation was heard inside the wall, and then the wall slowly cracked open, revealing an adjustment gear set engraved with numbers. Then turn the adjustment gears like turning the cryptex, adjust them to the appropriate position, and then depress the lever next to the gear set.

As the sound of gears turning came from the wall, a sealed box under the gear set was slowly opened, and then a tray stretched out holding a small box.

The shop owner picked up the small box and put it aside, then followed the same method and took out two identical boxes from the storage room built in the wall.

After the items were taken out, the store owner pressed a note on the wall again, causing the machine that retrieved the items to slowly retreat back into the wall.

Looking at the actions of the shop owner, Leo couldn't help laughing, thinking that the actions of the shop owner pressing different parts of the wall did not touch any mechanism, but a set of camouflage actions. His actions should be through some kind of monitoring ability. Pass to the controllers of the real storage room machinery, and then control them to take the items out.

If someone really believes in this set of actions and does it as it is, let alone whether the mechanism in the storage room can be activated, even if it is activated, it is probably some mechanism weapon that poses a fatal threat to the people in this room.

Leo didn't take the action of dismantling the shop owner. His attention was already attracted by the three boxes, because the surface of the three wooden boxes didn't have anything like a wizard's magic circle. It was just a beautiful box made of wood. It's just that the wood used in the box is very special, so special that the moment Leo's spiritual net touched it, it was absorbed by the box.

When the shop owner put the box on the table, Leo immediately reached out and touched the box. He found that apart from the previous spiritual net, all the powers in his body, such as the spiritual energy and the pressure of the palm, would instantly disappear.

Leo looked at the shop owner's arthropod-like hands again. It is obvious that the hard shell that replaces the skin on the outside is not just to increase the defense, but also has other abilities. Perhaps it is because of these abilities that the name An old man who doesn't have much power can sit in this antique shop with a lot of spiritual items.