The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Leo did not join the curses of the passengers in the same cabin. He used the method of training his body control ability to separate his perception from the outside world and artificially created a quiet room environment.

Then he took out the Wetzker necklace he got from Fernando, took out some pens and paper, and carefully copied the patterns and words on the necklace.

The writing of the Wezzic people is a language independent of the language system of the Velen world. Some people in the world of Velen think that the pattern is just a decoration. Perhaps it is a unique ideographic language of the Wezzic people.

Because of this, when Leo analyzed these characters and patterns, he singled out the writing system of the Wyzker people, called up various characters of various races in the universe where the Earth Federation is located, and compared them.

When Leo was still a cyborg, he often needed to enter other galaxies and come into contact with various aliens in order to perform tasks. Therefore, when he was created, he had instilled more than 3,000 different races in the universe in his brain. languages, and more than 2,000 languages ​​have been added in the latest language update.

In terms of the number of languages ​​he has mastered, even all the linguists in this world combined cannot compare with him.

In the past, he could not use the languages ​​of these cosmic races at all, but now analyzing the language and writing of the Witzks, these useless languages ​​have become the best comparison database.

In just a few hours, Leo had already found three cosmic race languages ​​whose writing rules were somewhat similar to those of the Witzks.

By comparing and comparing the rules of words, Leo gradually figured out some grammatical rules of the Wetzker language, and he discovered that the Wetzker language turned out to be a ring language.

In the universe of the Earth Federation, the ring language is a high-level language, and the three universal languages ​​are all composed of the ring language. The pronunciation of this language varies according to different races, but the meaning expressed by the language itself is unified. of.

To put it simply, the ring language is what is going to be said. The special characters and characters of the ring language are connected to form a ring, and the ring has no beginning, no end, and no end, so the meaning of the expression can be infinitely changed.

In the Earth Federation, some linguists used the ring language to write a general history of the earth, and the external manifestation of this ring language is just a ring printed on sixteen-size copy paper.

Right now, Leo discovered that the words and patterns engraved on the necklace of the Weszker just formed a language sequence very similar to the ring language. Although he still couldn't decipher what the language sequence was saying, he felt that this The content inside may be beyond imagination.

In the next few days, Leo stayed in the room all the time, except for opening the door when the food was delivered, he would not even open the door at other times.

At first, the passengers in the same cabin were puzzled and curious about Leo's strange behavior. After all, they hadn't come out of the room for so long, and they didn't even go to the toilet. This made them wonder if it was convenient for Leo in the room. They didn't smell any peculiar smell, and they were afraid of weird people, so they didn't have the guts to knock on Leo's room door.

However, following the life of the past few days, Leo's weird behavior did not cause any trouble to these people's lives, so they no longer took Leo to heart, and started to find fun to pass the boring time at sea.

Although the shape of this ship is a traditional sailing ship, because the wood in Vinylon World is tough enough and can withstand the pressure and corrosion of sea water, the ship is made a little smaller than a steel ship, and the cabin is also divided into three parts. Sixty-nine and so on.

The passengers in the lower cabins on the ship are all the people at the lower floors. Compared with the orderly upper cabins, this place is extremely chaotic, but also in the chaos, there are also some fun that the upper cabins do not have. For example, someone directly opened a temporary cabin here. In the tavern, a small dance party was held, and some low-level women would also make guest appearances at this time, the kind of people they usually look down on, to subsidize their families.

In the past few days, Leo and the passengers in the cabin will hang out in the cabin on the bottom floor, and sometimes bring a few women into the cabin, which makes the three people who did not know each other very close, and also makes the disease contagious. It's very simple.

That's right, after the ship sailed at sea for five days, a strange plague quickly spread on the ship. Like other plagues, this plague did not first appear on some people and then spread to others, but Like a time bomb, almost everyone on board fell ill at the same time, and they quickly entered a dangerous period less than an hour after the onset of the disease, and there was no time for treatment.

Two hours later, there were less than 20 people alive on the entire ship. Among them, only the first mate and the mechanic in charge of the steam engine were the staff on board, and the rest were all passengers, and nine of them were passengers. Underage children.

Faced with this situation, the surviving people simply cannot drive away the steam-sail dual-power cruise ship, and there are so many plague-died corpses on board that cannot be dealt with, and the danger of getting sick will increase if they stay on the ship for a moment longer. So the survivors made the decision to abandon the ship without hesitation.

They found the lifeboats on the ship, used three to hold people, and two to store food and drinking water. They were connected to each other with ropes, and then they lowered the lifeboats like this, and hurriedly drove away from the plague ship full of corpses. Check carefully to see if there are other survivors in the cabin.

At this moment, Leo knew nothing about what happened outside. He was completely immersed in his research on the language of the Wetzkers. As long as no one knocked on the door, the quiet room he created would not be broken. In this environment, even if someone shouted loudly outside the door, he would not hear it.

Originally, there was no first-class waiter to deliver food, which should have aroused Leo's vigilance and suspicion, but at that time his research on the language and writing of the Wetzker people happened to be the most critical, and when he boarded the ship, he also prepared With a large amount of food, when you feel hungry, you will naturally take out the food directly from the storage space, so you can't find any abnormalities outside.

In this way, this unmanned ship, driven only by sails, sailed on the sea for another two days. A sudden storm appeared in the sea area where the ship was located, and the unmanned ship had an extremely abnormal tilt. At this moment, Leo also noticed the abnormality, opened the door and walked out of the room.

The moment he walked out of the room, a strong smell of corpses rushed over his face, which immediately aroused Leo's vigilance. Instead of looking with his eyes, he directly scanned the situation of the entire ship through the mental net, and found that except for him When everyone else turned into rotting corpses, I was suddenly surprised and astonished.

"What happened here? How long have I been in the room?" Leo felt a little dazed at the moment, but soon he put the doubts in his mind behind him, his mentality returned to normal, and his state of consciousness adjusted.

He didn't leave the room in a hurry, but let his body and the ship's sway reach the same frequency, and then he walked into the room of other passengers in the same cabin as if walking normally, to check the cause of death of those corpses.

I saw that these passengers were all neatly dressed and sitting on the chairs. Although fear was written on their rotten faces, their postures were solemn. It seemed that they knew that they were going to die, so they wanted to die before they died. Keep every last bit of dignity.

Because of the hot weather and the humid climate at sea, the corpses were highly decomposed, but it was still possible to clearly see a large number of diseased abscesses on their bodies. These abscesses were not large, like small bumps, but the number was large There are many, densely packed together, and the wounds created by the abscesses are very deep, reaching deep into the internal organs. It is almost certain that the cause of death of these people is organ failure caused by pathological changes.

Leo didn't check them hastily, but put each corpse on the ground and dissected it carefully. However, after dissecting the three corpses, the doubt in his eyes not only did not disappear, but became more intense.

Afterwards, he went to other cabins and dissected five or six corpses one by one, and found that all the corpses were organ failure caused by abscesses, and with his common sense of battlefield medicine, he could also see that the lesions of these abscesses were very fast. Quickly, it reached a fatal level in almost a short period of time.

"It's not a plague!" Leo made a judgment in his heart at this moment.

When he first discovered that all the people on board died of illness, Leo immediately thought of the plague that broke out in Miria City, but after repeated inspections, he found that the abscesses looked like some kind of plague virus. , but in fact it has nothing to do with the plague, but a wound that looks like a plague.

"It's witchcraft." A guess quickly appeared in Leo's mind.

Afterwards, he took off the power-limiting ring in his hand, released the suppressed supernatural perception, and carefully sensed whether there was a spiritual reaction on the wound.

It's a pity that the time of death may have passed for a long time, and the interference of the power in the sea storm outside made him unable to perceive anything useful.

Faced with this situation, Leo had no good way to find out the death of the passengers on board, and now that the storm was getting stronger and stronger, this giant sailing ship might capsize at any time, so he had to give up looking for the truth and instead Leave this ship of death alone.

After that, he acted quickly and found the storage room of the ship's galley, searched for some food in it, and found traces of food being carried by someone, so he judged that there were probably still people alive, and those people should have left in lifeboats up.

After finding food, he immediately rushed to the place where the lifeboat was placed on the deck.

At this time, a huge wave hit the side of the ship, and the wobbly ship was completely overturned by the huge wave. Leo grabbed the side of the ship with all his strength, so as not to be washed away by the huge wave.

After stabilizing his figure, Leo didn't care about using the cables and lowered the lifeboat. Instead, he directly cut off the cables of the lifeboat and threw the lifeboat into the sea forcefully. Then he took the oars and jumped into the sea until he reached the lifeboat. beside.

After climbing onto the lifeboat, he vigorously paddled the oars, adjusted the bow, and swam along the direction of the waves. Like a small fish, he nimbly avoided waves of tens of meters high.

Behind him, the cruise ship Queen Mary was overwhelmed and shattered under the repeated beating of huge waves, and disappeared on the sea level in less than ten minutes.

Leo can't do anything now. In front of the great power of the world like the sea storm, even a fifth-level psychic like him may not be much better than ordinary people. Only when he enters the level of Omega-level advanced creatures can he Fight against the power of this world.

And in this environment where all kinds of chaotic world forces are mixed together, Leo can't perform witchcraft at all, because the ultimate effect of the uncontrollable psionic energy in this chaotic environment will be unknown, and there will be some It is very likely that it is backlashing itself.

Now all he can rely on is his physical strength. Fortunately, after Leo's body has undergone metamorphosis, both physical strength and strength have increased a lot, so he can handle this kind of sea storm with ease.

In this way, he carefully chose the direction, rowed vigorously, shuttled through the gaps between the huge waves of the storm, and quickly swam towards the edge of the storm.

After paddling in the sea for more than half an hour, as the waves gradually calmed down, Leo finally passed through the storm area, but now he is not out of trouble, because he does not know where he is now.

It's not that Leo hadn't carefully studied the situation in the sea area where the route from Venaya Port to the Kingdom of England was located, but because he didn't know how long the ship had been sailing, and after all the people on board died, the ship was unmanned. , and how far he deviated from the channel, making it impossible for him to judge his current position.

Leo is not in the mood to continue to study the language of the Wetzkers. Although he can extract drinking water through other methods, and can also catch enough food from the sea, this situation of drifting at sea reminds him of a very bad time in the past. Bad experience.

In that experience, the ship he was on was destroyed in a space war, and he had to board the escape pod to drift in space.

Originally, there was a dormancy device installed in the escape pod, which could help the people in the escape pod enter a dormant state, and would not be awakened until they encountered a rescue ship or landed on a certain planet. If no one rescues them all the time, and they do not find a survivable planet to land on, then it is a very kind thing for the survivors to gradually die in a dormant state.

However, the problem is that the escape capsule that Leo achieved was not equipped with a dormancy device, which made him drift in the universe for three months while being extremely awake, before being rescued by a passing alien merchant ship.

This experience was definitely his most painful experience, even if he was still a biochemical person without any emotions at that time, he would never want to go through it again.

Although now at sea, he is not in an absolutely lonely state like in the universe, but this environment, this situation, etc. have awakened a memory that he hates the most, which also makes him decide to find land or land as soon as possible. Other ships, get out of this damn situation.