The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Based on the research on parasitic aliens that Leo has seen, the state of parasitism can be roughly divided into three categories, master-slave, symbiosis, and slave-master.

The vast majority of parasitic aliens have a master-slave relationship, the parasite is the subject, and the parasite is the controlled.

Secondly, there are very few cases of symbiosis, and most of them appear in a state where both the parasite and the parasite are dying, and they have to provide energy support to each other, and finally form a symbiotic state.

As for the situation of following the master, it is not rare, and it is not too many. In fact, a large part of the situation of following the master is man-made.

Because it was discovered that after parasitic aliens parasitize other life forms, they will stimulate the blood of other life forms to mutate, allowing the parasites to gain extremely powerful power in a short period of time, and some even have spiritual powers, so there are many Scientists from many alien civilizations are trying to study the mysteries of such parasites, and the Earth Federation is no exception.

In the end, whether this kind of research has been successful, Leo is not very clear, but before he came to Velen, there were some people with various strange powers in the troops who cooperated with him on missions. There are obvious mutation characteristics, and when they talk to each other, they often mention parasite stabilizers and the like.

Right now, the worm in the obsidian badge should be a parasite between the master and the slave. Judging from the reaction of the middle-aged man just now, his body consciousness has not disappeared, and he also knows very well that after the parasite leaves his body, it will be a parasite. , What will happen to him, so from this point of view, the relationship between him and the parasite should be a slave-master relationship, he is the master, and the parasite is the slave.

But from the two points that the worm left the body of the middle-aged man voluntarily, and the middle-aged man was burned to ashes by an invisible flame after leaving, it is obvious that the relationship between the worm and the middle-aged man is reversed.

However, no matter what their relationship is, one thing Leo is sure of is that the middle-aged man must know the secrets about this island, about the city of Yam, and about the parasite, because in the universe where the Earth Federation is located, any kind of parasite After parasitizing others, the memories and knowledge of both parties will be shared.

So if the bugs in the obsidian badge are the same as those parasitic aliens, then the middle-aged people may also have acquired the knowledge of parasites.

Although Leo also wants to know all the secrets of this island, he has no idea of ​​letting these worms parasitize, even if he feels that with his own body condition, even if he is parasitized, those worms will be swallowed by the power of the chaotic stomach to eat.

However, he felt that he might be able to imitate the psychic fluctuations of the bugs with the power of nightmares, try to see if he could form a state of spiritual communication with these bugs, and obtain some useful clues from these bugs.

Leo carefully considered the pros and cons of this method, and repeatedly deduced the process of casting the spell several times in his mind. After feeling that there was no problem, he immediately called the nightmare power in his body and began to imitate the process of insects producing psionic energy.

Things went smoothly. With the completion of his copy-like imitation, the psionic energy fluctuations that originally appeared on those bugs also appeared on him, and with the help of this psionic energy, his mental network went smoothly. He has some spiritual connections with the bugs in the obsidian badge, and like a hacker who invades the network, he absorbs the information contained in the bugs' weak spirits.

It's just that Leo just started to receive the mental information of these parasites, as if he had been severely injured, he let out a muffled groan, and at the same time blood overflowed from the pores, fell to the ground, and immediately stopped talking to him while falling. An imitation of the parasite's psionic powers, breaking the spiritual connection with the parasite.

It's no wonder that Leo was so embarrassed. When he started to pretend to be a parasite and contact the entire parasite group, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of different information were stuffed into his brain. Just like his spirit has withstood hundreds of thousands of shocks of different sizes, even his fifth-level psyker strength cannot withstand such shocks.

Fortunately, his willpower is strong enough to withstand the shock and disconnect in time. Otherwise, he will endure countless mental shocks during the continuous infusion of information, and eventually he will either become a vegetable, go crazy, or even worse The result is to cause the power in his body to backlash.

"Damn it, it would be great if the sub-brain is still there!" Leo, who had recovered a little, didn't care to wipe off the blood on his face, leaned on the table, stood up with difficulty, sat on the chair beside him, and smiled wryly. said.

Indeed, if the secondary brain system still exists, the secondary brain system will automatically block it at the moment when this kind of information shock occurs, allowing a part of the brain to enter a state of disordered reception, and he himself can concentrate on dealing with The mental shock that came. Although this may also make him suffer, at least it will not be as ugly as it is now, and it will not fail to receive information.

All the information he received just now was dispelled by the ensuing mental shock, and even if there were only fragments of information left, it was unclear whether there was anything useful to him in it.

After sitting on the chair and resting for a while, Leo felt that the dizziness in his brain was gradually weakening, and soon it would no longer have any effect on him, but his brain still hurt a little, which affected his thinking ability to some extent.

Although those fragments of information that did not deepen his memory would dissipate quickly, Leo did not forcefully concentrate on sorting out the fragments of information in his mind that originated from the parasite group. He stood up, found a clean cloth from the room and wiped the blood on his face, then lay down casually on the ground, closed his eyes and rested.

I don't know how long it has passed, but the sky outside has completely darkened, and the inside of the stone house has also become pitch black. The incense flames burning in the brazier did not bring much light to this place. The smoke produced made the place smoky, and in such an environment, ordinary people could no longer see anything with their naked eyes.

At this time, there was a sound of opening doors and windows from some small buildings in the stone house, and then something came out of the house, and under the cover of smoke, it quickly ran out of the stone house and disappeared.

The other small buildings seemed very quiet, as if there was no one in those small buildings.

At this time, suddenly a huge mud-like black shadow slowly moved on the street outside the stone house, heading towards the direction of the stone house, and this black shadow was huge enough to submerge the stone house.

However, when it moved to the door of the stone house, when the slimy body tried to squeeze in through the door, the smoke that permeated the stone house seemed to come alive, rushing towards the huge black shadow, and attached to the black shadow .

The incense, which is useless to ordinary people, produced a very strong effect when it fell on the black shadow. It felt like sulfuric acid splashed on the body, and the black shadow's body that came into contact with the smoke made a sizzling corrosion sound.

Facing the power of the incense, even if the black shadow wanted to rush into the stone house to catch the prey hiding here, it was unable to break through the thick smoke barrier. In the end, it let out a roar in extreme unwillingness, and then quickly left the stone house, heading towards the other side. Some houses with hidden stone houses moved past.

Although Leo restrained his spirit and closed his eyes to cultivate, it didn't mean he didn't know anything about the movement outside. In fact, even if he didn't use the spirit net, he could know all the movement outside as if he saw it with his own eyes. .

Although he didn't know what that huge black shadow was, he was very clear that it was not an illusion, but a real entity, but just like the people here, that huge black shadow should have a powerful aura of power or energy However, apart from being able to infer the hugeness of the shadow figure through the movement caused by the movement, Leo could no longer feel other energy fluctuations.

Originally, when the black shadow moved over, he was still thinking about countermeasures, wanting to see how to solve this huge and dangerous black shadow, but unexpectedly, this black shadow was thunderous and rainy, and was surrounded by some incense. The smoke drove him away, which piqued his curiosity about the fragrant smoke.

Not long after the huge black shadow left, Leo felt that he had fully recovered, so he sat up from the ground, and impatiently began to sort out the remaining fragments of information.

Originally, the information Leo had harvested was very little. After such a long period of shelving, the temporary memory composed of a large amount of information could no longer be recovered. Only a small amount of information could still be distinguished, but most of these small amounts of information were useless. trivial language without any valuable clues.

There are only two relatively complete fragments of information that are very useful. One fragment is image information. This image information is derived from the black giant city on the hillside. This is an image of the interior of a huge church. Inside this huge church are all extremely huge human figures. Statues, each statue is lifelike, just like a living person, and in a small square in the middle of the statue, a group of religious people dressed the same as the priest who lit the incense are gathering together, as if they are discussing something.

As for another useful piece of information, this information is a piece of text, and this text is different from all the texts in the world of Velen. On the contrary, it is like the language of the Witzk people, which comes from outside the world of Velen.

But the problem is that Leo knew this line of text, and he could also understand the meaning of the text, and after he recognized the meaning of this line of text, he was also very surprised, even shocked, and did not come back to his senses after doing it for a long time.

This line of text is indeed a text outside the world of Velen, and the reason why Leo has learned this text is because he has dealt with the use of this text before, and the content written in this line of foreign text is an Omega The reason why he was surprised by the title of a super advanced creature was that he knew this Omega super advanced creature, not in Velen, but in the universe where the Earth Federation is located.

The meaning of this line of text is the light of origin. This text is the language of the Weiya people, the oldest wandering alien race in the universe of the Earth Federation. Recognized as the oldest Omega-level advanced organism.

According to the legend, the Light of Origin existed before the first civilized race appeared in the universe. Some people think that He is the incarnation of the will of the universe, and some people think that He is actually a high-latitude creature that has reduced dimensionality. The ancient existence, he triggered the enlightenment of many cosmic civilizations, including the earth.

When Leo was created, the light of origin had disappeared for a long time. Even the strongest Omega-level advanced creatures in the universe at that time did not know about the whereabouts of the light of origin. However, there is a saying that is widely spread. One way of saying is that he has left the cosmic dimension where the Earth Federation is located, and entered a higher-dimensional universe.

Although the Weiya people were not the earliest cosmic civilization race, they are the luckiest cosmic race, because they are the first cosmic race that can be verified to receive enlightenment from the light of origin and gain wisdom.

It is also because of this that the Weiya people regard the light of origin as their creator god from beginning to end. Even if they destroy their own planet due to experiments and become a wandering race, this belief has not weakened, but has become more Strong, at least all the Via people that Leo came into contact with back then were all religious fanatics, and even a little bad word about the light of origin would cause resentment or even hostility.

Now the text of the Weiya people appeared in the spirit of parasitic creatures of unknown origin in the world of Velen, and the name of the light of origin also appeared in this world. There are only two explanations that Leo can think of.

If it wasn't for the disappearing light of origin to enter the world of Velen in the form of gods other than the light of origin, then the Weiya people had been to the world of Velen, and the world of Velen could very well be the same universe as the Earth Federation.

However, after thinking about it for a while, Leo felt that compared to the speculation that the light of origin came to the world of Velen in the form of a god other than the light of origin, it is very possible that the Weiya people have come to the world of Velen.

Because, as the oldest wandering civilized race in the universe, the Weiya people have been to countless galaxies and planets, and even the Weiya people themselves cannot count the places they have been to. This is only the wandering range of the Weiya people's main fleet. If the Weiya branch fleet that was split off from the parade ceremony is included, then the range of wandering is not too much to expand by ten times.

Every time the Via people's main fleet grows to an extremely large scale, a large number of old warships will be eliminated, and this batch of warships will be distributed to the Via people who joined the parade ceremony, making them a branch of the Via people and continuing to build Wandering in the universe, and the Via people's ancestral star meeting every five thousand years is the only gathering activity of the main fleet and all the branch Via people.

It is precisely because of the wide range of Weiya people's wanderings that the Weiya people have become a race that understands the civilizations of various galaxies in the universe. If the world of Velen is really in the same universe as the Earth Federation, it is not impossible for the Weiya people to have been here.

"It seems that I need to investigate the affairs of the Via people in detail." Leo muttered to himself, stood up, and was about to leave the wooden house and go to other places to set up a walk to see if he could find other useful clues. It's just that when he got up, he accidentally tripped the middle-aged man's clothes on the ground, and a very delicate diary fell out of the clothes, attracting his attention.