The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"The healing ability is extremely strong, at least reaching the level of a class A product. It has the ability to regenerate. The regenerative energy does not come from the body itself. The muscle fiber is level three, which belongs to ordinary people. Body mutations will not change the muscle fiber, but it can increase strength. That is to say, the healing energy, regenerative energy and the strength of the body itself all come from other places, and his appearance variation is only a superficial phenomenon." Leo carefully dismembered the prey in front of him while observing the operation of various organs Situation, and analyzing it talking to himself.

Right now, the middle-aged man has been completely dismembered. Except for the heart, Leo has taken all the internal organs of his body, and all the muscles, organs, and bone nerves have been stripped out.

But even so, the middle-aged man is not dead yet, but has just entered a state of hibernation, and the parts where the organs were removed are slowly regenerating cells.

According to the speed of regeneration, it only takes half a month at most, the removed organs will grow back, and the damage to various parts of the body will also recover.

Even Leo, who is now a fifth-level psychic, can't compare with such regenerative ability and vitality, and what makes him extremely confused is that even if he conducts a complete dissection of the middle-aged man's body, he can still use it through the spiritual network. He checked the energy fluctuations in the middle-aged man, but he still didn't understand where the energy that caused this regenerative ability came from.

The law of energy conservation is still an unbreakable energy truth in the universe where the Earth Federation is located. Although there have been high-level psykers who tried to break this truth, they failed in the end. On the surface, the energy transformed by that person is not Consumes the energy of the surrounding space, but in fact, some people pointed out that the energy transformed by the man came from the subspace, and while he was extracting the energy of the subspace, the subspace was also extracting the energy of the universe.

The situation Leo is currently facing is somewhat similar to the energy conversion experiment back then. The energy needed for the regeneration of middle-aged people seems to be out of thin air, but in fact it is just that Leo, like the scientists who participated in the experiment back then, does not have enough ability. Find out where the other end of the energy conversion is.

In addition to the ability to regenerate, the source of muscular energy in the middle-aged man's body is also unknown.

When subduing the middle-aged man just now, he already felt that the physical strength of the middle-aged man was definitely comparable to that of the general family members who had undergone deep mutations, but after the autopsy, he found that the muscle fibers and bones of this man were just ordinary people However, as long as they are slightly stimulated, these muscle fibers, which are no different from ordinary people, will burst out with strong force, and the energy source for this burst of force is also unknown.

Although Leo couldn't find out the source of the middle-aged man's power through any means he knew, he could guess through deduction that the worms in the obsidian badge might be the source of these energies.

Thinking of this, Leo took out the obsidian badge from his pocket, observed the worms in the liquid through the spirit net and vision, and then brought the obsidian badge close to the middle-aged man.

Although the bugs didn't respond at first, Leo didn't show any disappointment, but continued the experiment in his hands.

I saw him holding the obsidian badge carefully along various parts of the middle-aged man's body, moving slowly, touching every part of the middle-aged man's body until he touched the obsidian badge to the fourth neck on the back of the neck. When the spine was broken, the bugs in the obsidian emblem began to move.

I saw that these bugs were circling in the liquid according to different rules, and at the same time a weak wave of spiritual energy came out from the obsidian, and at the same time, waves of spiritual energy began to spread from the fourth vertebra of the middle-aged man. It's like communicating with each other.

At this moment, the middle-aged man who was supposed to be in shock suddenly opened his eyes, looked at Leo in a panic, shook the throat that had been ripped open by Leo, wanted to say something, but said nothing If he couldn't come out, he could only look at Leo anxiously and beggingly, as if he was asking for something.

However, Leo didn't pay attention to the movements of the middle-aged man at all, his attention was all attracted by the fluctuations of the spiritual energy of those bugs, and he recorded all the frequency of fluctuations of the spiritual energy of these bugs and the process of generation through the spiritual network , in order to imitate with the power of nightmare.

As the spiritual energy fluctuations emitted by the bugs strengthened, the fear, pleading, and anxiety on the middle-aged man's face had completely disappeared, leaving only despair and excruciating pain.

Seeing that the middle-aged man who didn't even show pain after his body was dissected showed such a strong pain expression at this moment, Leo felt that there should be a change, so he concentrated more.

Soon there was a big lump on the fourth vertebra of the neck of the middle-aged man, and slowly a mass of viscous blood overflowed from the pores on the big lump, and the blood did not spread, but condensed It became a blood jelly the size of a fist.

At the same time, the middle-aged man who had lost his blood didn't even have time to utter a scream. It was as if his body was being burned by an invisible fire. He began to emit heat, and then the surface of his body bubbled, followed by a burnt smell of corpses. It filled the entire room, and finally, including the organs that were taken out, the middle-aged man's entire body was reduced to ashes, leaving only some intact clothes scattered on the table.

The abnormality of the middle-aged man did not attract too much attention from Leo. His attention was all on the sticky blood sticking out of the middle-aged man's body.

Although some vision was blocked by the turbid and sticky blood in the blood clot, Leo still found the bugs swimming in the blood clot through Spirit Vision with the help of the Spirit Net.

The shape of this bug is roughly the same as the bug in the obsidian badge in Leo's hand. The difference is that the bug is stronger than the other four bugs, and its shape is more ferocious. Spikes, and there is an extra character on the surface of the bug that Leo can't understand.

Under the investigation of Leo's spiritual network, he found that most of the spiritual energy fluctuations on the insects came from the rune that Leo could not understand. Although he did not know the true meaning of this rune, he could From this rune, we can see some shadows of variants and morei.

When Leo was observing the details of the worm in the blood, the worm suddenly opened its mouth like a sucker, and instantly sucked the thick blood covering its body into its belly, but its shape did not change at all. Small, but with a pair of wings on the back.

The little bug flapped its wings and flew into the air, hovering in front of Leo.

Leo didn't grab the bug or drive it away, but just quietly looked at the tiny bug that looked like a cell.

However, for the sake of safety, he still carefully released a Quen seal to form a layer of protection around his body, and also let the devouring power of the chaotic stomach sac spread around his body. Force can also swallow and digest it.

However, this little bug seemed to be able to sense the dangerous aura emanating from Leo's body, and instead of choosing to parasitize Leo, it rushed towards the obsidian badge in Leo's hand.

The moment the little bug touched the obsidian badge, the obsidian instantly changed from solid to virtual, as if it had become an illusion, allowing the little bug to penetrate the past and fall into the drop of liquid, and then quickly searched for blood The few bugs that existed inside tried to devour them one by one.

However, a ferocious figure does not mean absolute strength. When the small foreign bugs tried to swallow the few small bugs that were already in the liquid, those few small bugs also tried to swallow the foreigner.

So a war of bugs unfolded in a little liquid the size of a fingernail inside the obsidian badge. In this battle, no one can do anything to the other. The foreign bugs are strong individually, but they are not so strong that they are invincible. Although the few small bugs in the liquid are relatively weak, they know how to cooperate with each other. The two are at a stalemate. See Looks like it will take a long time to finally produce a winner.

At this time, the sky outside had gradually dimmed, and at the same time the bell rang again in the stone house, and the moment the bell rang, Leo found that several small bugs inside the obsidian were affected and no longer bit each other , and staggered and swam irregularly as if drunk.

Leo walked to the window and opened a gap in the closed window to look out.

What caught his eyes was not the old man who brought him here earlier, but a giant five meters tall.

I saw that this giant was wearing a burqa with an obvious religious atmosphere, a wide-brimmed tall hat on his head, and an obsidian cane in his hand. At the same time, there was a groove at the front end of the cane. Inside the groove is a mass of viscous lava, as for the other hand, it holds a huge bell and shakes it repeatedly.

After the giant entered the stone house, the doors and windows of the buildings on both sides of the stone house were tightly closed. Except for Leo, none of the windows opened out of curiosity.

The giant shook the bell, took a step forward, and walked under a brazier hanging from the top of the stone roof. He raised the obsidian cane in his hand, lit the contents of the brazier, and a faint scent of incense immediately flowed from the burning brazier. It floated out and spread around.

Afterwards, the giant lit other braziers one by one, filling the whole stone house with incense. When he lit the brazier opposite Leo, he stopped suddenly, and then turned his head to look at Leo.

Similarly, Leo also saw the face of a giant covered by a wide-brimmed tall hat at this time.

I saw that this giant is a dead face that has been dead for many days but has not rotted. There is no blood on the face, and the skin is cracked. The eyes are a pair of obsidian eyes, and some liquid-like substances can be vaguely seen flowing in the eyes.

If ordinary people were terrified when they saw the appearance of this giant, it is no wonder that when the giant appeared, the surrounding doors and windows were tightly closed.

It can be seen that Leo, who had seen more weird objects, didn't feel anything about the image of this giant. Instead, he opened the window completely, and while staring at him, he used his spiritual vision to observe the characteristics of the giant.

The giant stared at Leo for a while, and did not make any further aggressive moves. Instead, he lowered his head again, turned around, and continued to light the incense in the basin just now, as if this was the work he had to complete.

Leo looked at the back of the giant thoughtfully, with a contemplative look on his face, until the figure of the giant disappeared from the entrance and exit at the other end of the stone house, he closed the window, turned around, returned to the table, and sat aside He tapped his fingers on the table and muttered to himself, "Another ordinary person."

Just now, through Spirit Vision and Spirit Net, Leo discovered that this seemingly intimidating giant was actually an ordinary person's body similar to the middle-aged man who had been reduced to ashes on the table, and they were all passed through The power of that little bug makes the body of an ordinary person produce incomparably powerful power. The only difference is that the strength of the two is different.

Obviously, in front of the giant, the power of the middle-aged man dissected by Leo before was like an ant, and even Leo sensed a strong energy fluctuation from the obsidian eyeball of the giant, which is not spiritual power. , but more like some kind of radiant energy.

I don't know if it's because of the giant just now, but Leo found that in the obsidian he caught in his hand, the bugs who were fighting to the death just now were like the warring parties who signed a peace agreement, each occupying a part of the liquid, No longer attack each other.

This discovery made Leo realize that these little bugs are not just low-level creatures that act according to instinct, they probably have some intelligence that only high-level creatures have.

"Familiars!" Leo suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and some content about the family members in the web weaver's knowledge emerged.

In the past, all the family members Leo had seen were mutant humans affected by the power of the gods. No matter what form they turned into or what mutations their blood genes produced, they were all humans at first, so Leo always subconsciously Connect the Familia with humans.

But from the web weaver's knowledge, Leo discovered that not all the Familia are human beings. When the power of some ancient gods is out of control, they will inadvertently affect some non-human creatures, thus making them have the identity of the Familia , and there are quite a few bugs who have obtained the status of family members. For example, flies are the earliest family members of the God of Plague.

In addition, in the universe where the Earth Federation is located, there are also some parasitic aliens, such as the Kananites that caused the cosmic bug disaster.

Most of these parasitic aliens are very fragile before parasitic, and have no intelligence at all, not much different from ordinary low-level creatures.

But once parasitic into a living body, the strength and wisdom of this kind of alien will be multiplied.

In the universe, some weak aliens are even willing to accept this kind of parasitism in order to gain powerful power and compete for the qualification to survive in the chaotic universe.

Right now, the humans in Yam seem somewhat similar to those aliens.