The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

When the old man walked into the attic town built in the huge stone house, the sound of his ringing the bell echoed in the stone house and became louder and louder.

The people living in the hut opened a gap in the window one after another and looked out.

Leo could clearly feel the complex emotions contained in the eyes of these people around him, including anticipation, fear, and a sense of gloating.

"You need to live here for a month before you can move to the city." The old man led Leo towards the attic of an old apartment, and explained, then pointed to the surrounding people looking out from the house. said, "They, like you, are waiting for the time to become an official Yam."

"Do I have to stay here all the time?" Leo asked after him.

The old man looked at Leo coldly, and said, "If you don't stay here, where else do you want to go?"

Leo replied: "I want to take a walk in this city."

"Go for a walk?" The old man looked at Leo in surprise as if he had heard something incredible, and then sneered disdainfully: "As long as you still have energy, no one will stop you wherever you go." I'm watching you, but you can't enter the residential area, otherwise, the guys in the hands of the patrolling soldiers won't show mercy to you."

While talking, the old man walked to the door of a small apartment building, took out a bunch of keys from his waist, found the corresponding key, opened the door, took off the key, handed it to Leo, and said, "This month you Just live here, every day at noon someone will come to deliver food."

"Wait, what about my job?" Leo asked after taking the key.

"One month later, when you become a townsman, you will be assigned a job. Before you go again, you will live here, and food will be provided in the town." The old man explained, turned around and prepared to leave, but before he left, he was full of meaning He reminded Leo a word, and said: "I will give you a suggestion, you can decide whether to listen or not."

"Please tell me." Leo responded with interest.

"At night, keep the doors and windows secure. No matter what happens outside or what you hear, don't open the door, and don't trust other people who live here. They may not be friends, but they may also be enemies." The old man After saying some suggestions, he said, "Finally, take good care of the badge in your hand, it is very important."

After finishing speaking, the old man didn't intend to stay any longer. While ringing the bell, he walked back and forth quickly, and soon disappeared around the corner of the stone house.

After the old man left, all the eyes from the surrounding windows fell on Leo, and there was a hint of greed in both eyes, as if they knew what great treasure Leo had.

Leo ignored the sight around him, stepped into the hut, closed the door casually, and checked the hut carefully.

This hut was similar to the ordinary apartment buildings he had seen before. They were two or three-story houses with an attic, the kitchen and living room below, and the bedrooms above.

There was nothing worth noticing in the room, and there were no items left by the previous occupants. It was obvious that the small building had been carefully cleaned before anyone moved in.

However, Leo still found some useful clues from this house with only a few simple pieces of furniture.

This house has been repaired in many places. Although the repaired places have undergone some artificial aging treatment, but in Leo's eyes blessed with spiritual vision, this old trace has become the most striking mark. Let him easily determine which parts of the house have been repaired.

From these traces of repairs, it is not difficult to see that this house has experienced countless damages. One of the damages even damaged the main beam of the building, so that the people who cleaned and repaired it had to replace it with a main beam. beam.

Although Leo repaired these damage traces very professionally, he could repair them almost seamlessly, but maybe because of repeating the same kind of work, it was easy for him to ignore some small details that were not easy to detect, such as some wooden boards with normal surface, but the backside was not. There are traces of damage, but the restorers did not repair these traces at all, they just covered other wooden boards to cover up the matter.

It was precisely because of these people's perfunctory actions that Leo was able to roughly infer what happened in the house by virtue of these remaining traces of destruction.

A large number of scratches from wild animals, some traces of corrosion, etc., all indicate that the people who destroyed this house before were not normal people, and judging from the old and new traces, there are at least 30 different traces of destruction, which also represent the damage here. More than thirty very large disruptions occurred.

"It should be the previous occupant." Seeing this situation, Leo thought in his heart, and then he took out the obsidian badge and looked at the liquid inside.

Judging from the previous experience, the obsidian badge should be something that can cause people to mutate, but the process of mutating is very dangerous, so it is necessary to send people to places outside the residential area. After the change is over, bring people back to the residential area.

In other words, those Yam people should all have been parasitized by the things in the badge, which also solved the previous question, why every Yam person can know that Leo's clothes are not inappropriate A survivor of the shipwreck, because Leo's body was not parasitized.

He didn't feel any power from those Yam people before, so he regarded them as ordinary people, but now he knows that those Yam people are the products of parasitic completion, and the power possessed by the products of parasitic failure No less than ordinary family members, then the power possessed by these completed bodies must still be higher than that of failed bodies.

Now, he also knows what he will face. In a certain period of time, the obsidian badge will crack, and the worms in the liquid will come out, and then parasitize in his body, causing him to mutate. As long as he can last If they mutate, they will become Yam people like everyone else in the city.

If it fails, it will turn into some mutant monsters like a family member who cannot control its own mutation, and the longest time required for this mutation process should be only one month.

"It seems that I have fallen into a den of monsters." Leo was not worried because of the current situation. Instead, he smiled excitedly, looked at the obsidian badge in his hand, and said, "I just don't know whether this thing is artificial or not. Manufactured, or naturally occurring?"

The obsidian badge in his hand couldn't see any trace of man-made, which made Leo interested in the origin of this thing.

Now in the world of Velen, whether it is the French Empire, the Kingdom of England, or even countries on other continents, it seems that they are looking for ways to make ordinary people become family members with extraordinary power. For now, the French Empire is man-made The family seems to have gone the furthest in this matter.

However, even though the French Empire invested a lot of manpower and material resources, and even sold part of the benefits to bring in the medical school, the final harvest was still not satisfactory.

But now on this unknown island, there is a worm in the stone that can mutate ordinary people and gain power not weaker than that of the family. If this news spreads, it may cause the entire Velen world to go crazy.

In order to find the whereabouts of this island, it is not impossible to have another era of great exploration.

"It seems that we need to investigate." Leo quickly made a decision. He didn't plan to stay here for a month and then slowly search for information.

Because he knew very well that he would never allow the bugs in the regulations to parasitize. As long as he did not parasitize, he would not be able to obtain the identity of Yam and work in the library, and it might even cause some bad things, so he decided today Start at night and search this city carefully, especially the old black giant city on the mountainside.

While Leo was thinking about various things, someone knocked on the door downstairs.

Although the old man had warned him before, Leo was very confident in his own strength, so he didn't take these warnings seriously. He went downstairs and opened the door, and looked at the knocker outside.

I saw a middle-aged man wearing a bowler hat immediately showed joy when he saw Leo open the door, and then saluted Leo in modern English and said: "Hello, I am Farah Sir, formerly a passenger on the Queen Mary."

"Are you a passenger of the Queen Mary?" Leo thought about what this gentleman-looking middle-aged man would say, but he never expected that the other party would mention the sunken Queen Mary, and then he looked at the middle-aged man suspiciously. , said: "How did you escape the plague? How did you know that I was also a passenger on the Queen Mary?"

"I was also a resident of the Oak Hotel when I was in Port Venaya. Your reputation is not low among us residents! I saw you when you boarded the ship, and I was going to discuss something with you Unfortunately, it was delayed by other things, and then a great plague broke out on the ship." The middle-aged man explained carefully, and said: "At that time, we thought we were the only survivors on the ship, so we hurriedly left in a lifeboat. , didn’t expect to meet you now.”

"Are there any other survivors?" Leo asked again.

In order to gain Leo's trust, the middle-aged man never refused to ask Leo's questions, and said, "Besides me, there are three others. The rest of the survivors were killed when they encountered a storm at sea."

"Storm?" Leo quickly thought of the storm he encountered before coming to this small island, so he asked tentatively, "Did you also encounter a storm before coming here?"

"I..." The middle-aged man was about to answer, when he looked around vigilantly, especially those windows with a gap open, and then said cautiously: "Standing outside is not a good place to talk, we should go to Talk better in the house."

"Yes." Leo nodded without hesitation, then stepped aside, motioning for the middle-aged man to come in.

The middle-aged man was also polite, walked into the house, hung the hat on his head and the crutch in his hand on the wooden frame next to him, turned around and looked at Leo who was closing the door.

It's just that the friendly and peaceful expression just now has disappeared, replaced by a contemptuous gaze and a ferocious expression. Taking advantage of Leo's back to him, he directly grabbed Leo's neck, and at the same time his hands turned into A pair of sharp claws covered with spikes, and the nail scissors of the sharp claws even shone like metal.

Seeing his fingers inserted into the target's neck, the middle-aged man whose hair began to grow on his face showed a smug smile, but his smile didn't last long, and he soon felt that his fingers didn't tear the body before. On the contrary, it was extremely soft as if it had been inserted into the sand, and it was accompanied by a suction force that bound his hands.

Before the middle-aged man understood what was going on, he felt a sharp pain in his neck, and then a strong sense of dizziness flooded his brain, his body became limp, and he fell to the ground.

And just before he fell to the ground unconscious, his eyes saw that Leo, who was supposed to have his back turned to him, was standing behind him at this moment, and looked at him with eyes like looking at prey.

I don't know how long it took, the middle-aged man woke up from his drowsiness. The severe pain in his neck made him grunt uncomfortably, and then the restraint of his hands, feet and body made him feel flustered and frightened. He opened his eyes and looked around. .

I saw that he was in the attic at the moment, lying on a long table that was put together, his hands and feet were not helped by the ropes, but his body was unable to move, and the person he had targeted before was standing in a small Beside the table, a piece of medical equipment is being neatly placed on a plate on the table.

"You, what do you want to do?" The middle-aged man felt unprecedented panic and shouted at Leo.

"Eleven minutes of coma, body resistance index b." Leo looked at the middle-aged man coldly, judged the physical quality of the middle-aged man according to the strength level of the biochemical person, and then he walked to the long table with the plate , put the plate on the table, and said to the middle-aged man with a face full of panic: "I was thinking about how to understand everything on this island, and when I was thinking about where to start, you happened to appear Already. Since you appeared so coincidentally, I will start with you mutants who have accepted the parasitism of bugs!"

"You..." The middle-aged man wanted to say something, but before he opened his mouth, Leo reached out and wiped his mouth, and his mouth closed uncontrollably. Except for his eyeballs, The nose and ears can still produce accidents, and all other parts are out of control.

Like a professional doctor, Leo untied the middle-aged man's clothes, picked up the tools on the plate and performed a vivisection on the middle-aged man without hesitation.

At this moment, the middle-aged man hated the power he had obtained, because with this power he had a strong self-healing ability, it could automatically stop the bleeding when he was bleeding, and it could also keep his consciousness awake all the time.

If he is in battle now, then this state of self-healing and mental clarity may make him invulnerable, but now that he is dissected as a prey, every bit of pain suffered by his body has been transmitted to his brain intact, Let his brain be in an extreme state. In the end, before Leo could conduct further organ examinations, his whole body was tortured by the pain and completely collapsed, and he passed out of shock.