The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Leo used the shadow jump to move quickly, but within a short time he had already moved to the side of a high tower surrounded by huge stone houses in the direction of the city near the beach.

Leo chose this tower as the target, not because he was looking for it randomly, but by strengthening his sense of smell, he could smell the place with the strongest smell of paper. Although there is incense interference in the urban area, the incense here is much weaker than other places, and it does not have a great impact on Leo.

After arriving at the tower, Leo was going to go directly into the tower full of paper smell, but he stopped soon and retreated into the shadows.

I saw that just as Leo retreated into the shadows and restrained all the breath in his body, the closed gate of the high tower slowly opened, followed by five people who were covered in yellow robes and wrapped themselves from head to toe. The mysterious man came out of the tower.

They seemed to be discussing something as they walked, but the language they used was not a language that can be uttered by human voices. Instead, it was like the sound of some kind of insect flapping wings, which felt a little harsh to the ears.

These people in yellow robes didn't seem to be affected by the movement on the other side of the city. Their steps were steady and slow. It felt like they were moving in small steps. It took a long time to walk from the gate of the tower to the shadow of the building where Leo was hiding.

When these yellow-robed people approached, Leo restrained all the breath in his body, and at the same time the twins also turned into the form of cross swords, ready to attack at any time.

The reason why Leo was so nervous was because he felt that the psychic fluctuations of the five yellow-robed men had reached the level of a fourth-level psychic.

Although in terms of psychic energy fluctuations, let alone comparing him with the current him, even he who has not yet reached the fifth level psyker is much stronger than these yellow-robed people.

But the problem is that when he felt these yellow-robed people just now, he instinctively produced a strong sense of crisis in his heart, and even as these yellow-robed people approached the shadow where he was, the sense of crisis in his heart became Intensified.

Even though his rational analysis told him that as long as he made a move at this time, with his strength, he could kill the five yellow-robed men without any effort, but the instinctive sense of crisis suppressed his rational analysis and prevented him from acting rashly. .

"So that's what happened?" Just when the yellow-robed man had already walked to the side of the shadow, and Leo could easily get in touch with these people, he suddenly understood why he had such a strong sense of crisis.

Except for the symbiont, each psyker possesses different psychic energy fluctuations, which is almost a law of the universe, but the psychic energy fluctuations of the five yellow-robed men in front of them are exactly the same, feeling like the same kind Psionic, very similar to psionic symbiotes.

It's just that Leo doesn't think these yellow-robed people are psychic symbiotes. The first thing that comes to his mind is the pseudo-psychic symbiosis he found in Miria City, although he still doesn't know these yellow-robed people. The details of the robed people, but he instinctively felt that there might be some connection between these yellow robed people and those symbionts.

Although the psychic fluctuations of these yellow-robed people can only reach the level of fourth-level psychics, it is difficult for Leo to judge the strength of the other party if the two sides fight. To what extent it can be increased may be why Leo has such a strong sense of crisis.

People in yellow robes walked past Leo one after another, but did not notice Leo's existence, but when the last man in yellow robes walked in front of this shadow, he suddenly stopped, as if he had sensed something, and turned his head , looked towards the shadow where Leo was.

At this moment, Leo also saw clearly the face of the man in the yellow robe under the hood of the robe.

I saw that although this yellow-robed man had a human face, the skin on his face was covered with transparent pustules the size of rice grains. Inside the pustules, tiny worms could be seen moving inside, and his eyes were even bigger. It was as if the eyes of many small fish were pinched together, and dozens of eyeballs moved simultaneously with his gaze, which looked disgusting.

Leo has seen quite a few monsters, but this is the first time he has seen such a monster. Although he doesn't feel sick because of his heart and will, he still can't help frowning, revealing A little bit of disgust.

The man in the yellow robe seemed to have sensed Leo hidden in the shadows, but he was not sure of his own feelings, so after finding nothing unusual with his eyes, he walked into the shadows again and swept back and forth with his hands.

However, the shadow of Leo's invisibility is like a parallel subspace, even if the hand of the man in yellow robe sweeps across his body, he can't touch any objects.

After some searching to no avail, the behavior of this yellow-robed man also attracted the attention of other yellow-robed men. They moved over one after another, and asked their companion a few words in that harsh voice, and after hearing his explanation, , the other yellow-robed people seemed to disapprove, and then they taught the yellow-robed man a few words as if saying that their companion was troublesome, and then dragged the yellow-robed man to continue walking, without taking the feeling of his companion as a matter of course. thing.

The man in the yellow robe was not sure if his feelings were wrong at the moment, so when he was pulled away, he didn't resist, but obediently followed behind a few people and walked outside.

As the figure of the man in the yellow robe disappeared into the distance, Leo carefully sensed the surrounding situation, and after confirming that there were no other people, he walked out of the shadows and quickly walked towards the tower.

Perhaps it was because those people in yellow robes thought that no one would have the courage to enter the tower, so the door of the tower was not closed, and Leo easily entered the tower.

Although this tower is tens of meters high, it only has four floors, and the area of ​​each floor is not small. As Leo estimated, bookcases full of books are placed along the wall. These tables and chairs for reading are placed in the middle, and the stone pillars supporting the tower are all carved with strange creatures that look extremely weird.

However, Leo who entered the tower was not attracted by the books in the tower and the statues of the weird creatures around him. His eyes immediately fell on the lamps on the desks, and his face was full of surprise and surprise.

It turned out that the lamps on the table were not the vegetable oil-burning oil lamps that Leo saw in Vinylon World, nor the electric lamps that are emerging now, but energy conversion lamps that can be seen everywhere on spaceships and battleships in the universe where the Earth Federation is located.

This kind of lamp can convert any energy, from the heat energy generated by human activities, the particle energy emitted by the engine of the battleship, etc., as long as the energy generated within its range of action can be converted into sufficient light energy for lighting.

The items that should have been seen on the space battleship now appeared on a strange planet, a strange island, and a strange library desk, which made Leo feel a little overwhelmed for a while.

At this time, he thought of the fragments of information he had received through the parasites in the obsidian badge, and thought of the light of origin. He began to think that his speculation might be true. The world of Velen and the Federation of Earth might be in the same universe.

Leo didn't immediately make a positive judgment, but walked to the table, picked up the mother's energy transformation lamp, and put it in front of his eyes for a closer look.

"The craftsmanship of the Yager people has the product mark of the Weiya people, and it is the goods of the Weiya people." Leo didn't use any tools, just with his nails, he easily opened the seemingly tight shell of the lamp, and then skillfully found it. I found the main control chip of the lamp, and saw the product number on it and the ion imprint drawn for the customized party.

The Niagers are one of the few purely technological races in the universe. They cannot produce psionic energy due to their physical constitution, and they are completely insulated from the subspace. For a long time, the Niagers' civilization was at the bottom of the cosmic civilization.

In order to reverse the plight of the ethnic group, the Ni Yager people can only give up the spiritual civilization as the main body of the development of cosmic civilization, and instead aim the civilization development route at the road of technology, so as long as there are things that have a feeling for technology, almost all of you The figure of the Yager people, from the small ear translator stickers to the large star warships of the planetary level, the Yager people will participate in it, and this energy conversion lamp is also created by the Yager people. One of the main exports of the Ni Yag people.

As the wandering civilization of the Weiya people, commercial trade is naturally an important pillar supporting civilization, and the relationship between the Yager people and the Weiya people is very good. Almost 60% of the items made by the Yager people are handed over to the wandering merchants of the Weiya people In addition, Ni Yager people will also imprint the mark of Weiya people on the products specially provided for Weiya people, so as to distinguish other similar products, and the price and quality of such products with marks will naturally be much higher.

Seeing that this lamp is the exclusive product of Weiyaren, Leo clearly realized that Weiyaren had definitely been to Vinylon World before, because Weiyaren would never hand over this kind of product to others, and would only trade it by himself, even Even the delivery is delivered in person. As for the reason, this may have something to do with the business contract signed between the Weiya people and the Ni Yager people.

Seeing the exclusive products of the Weiya people here means that the Weiya people have indeed been here. As for how they came here, it is debatable. You can enter the world of Vinylon by spaceship according to the normal method, and trade some goods with the locals. , and then left, or it may have encountered a shipwreck, the spaceship crashed into the world of Velen, the goods in the spaceship were taken out, and after years of exploration, they found a way to use it.

Regarding the two possibilities, Leo's reason is to choose the second possibility, but his intuition is on the first possibility.

The reason why rational judgment is the second possibility is because such things often happen in the universe. Some spaceships crashed on a low-civilized planet due to some reasons, and the items inside were destroyed by the wisdom of the low-level civilization. After years of development, the creatures have found a way to advance civilization, which has improved the civilization of the planet.

According to the investigation by the experts of the Earth Federation, the human beings in the old earth era were able to rise from a relatively backward non-interstellar civilization to the ranks of the powerful civilizations of the universe in such a short period of time. knowledge of other civilizations.

The world of Vinylon is also likely because of this reason. Think about the history of the world of Vinylon. From the mythical Middle Ages where primitive god beliefs, witchcraft, and family members were rampant, to the technological society with a very unique steam civilization, there are only a short period of two or three hundred years. It's just a year.

And the time spent in the process of civilization transformation is less than twenty years. If the world of Velen is a human being, then this means that his blood has undergone a mutation, and the mutation is often caused by the interference of external factors.

If it is the first possibility, this external factor must be the active participation of the Via people, and this practice has seriously violated some cases of the universe council. Once the matter is exposed, even if the Via people are the oldest civilization in the universe, it is impossible Avoiding punishment, so with the shrewdness of the Weiya people, they will never do such things that harm others and benefit themselves.

This is why Leo thinks it is the second possibility through rational analysis.

It's just that, compared to rational judgment, Leo believes in his intuition more, because rational judgment will cause wrong judgments due to the lack of data, but with his cognition, intuition, especially the intuition of psykers , is far more accurate than the results obtained by data analysis and rational deduction.

If the Weiya people really came to the world of Vinylon and interfered with the civilization development of the world, then what is the purpose of the Weiya people?

Because no matter from which point of view, it is thankless for the Weiya people to do this. Once the matter is exposed, the business reputation established by the Weiya people in the past countless years will collapse instantly, and those universes that have long coveted the assets of the Weiya people Civilization, like a pack of wolves, will take the opportunity to tear the Vijaren to pieces.

"Is the light of origin really in the world of Velen?" After thinking about it, Leo felt that only the light of origin, the only spiritual belief of the Via people, could make the Via people take such a huge risk to actively interfere with other A thing about the progress of civilization.

It’s just that a new problem has arisen again. According to the current development of the steam civilization in the Vinylon world, the psychic civilization is in a state of decline and suppression. From the perspective of the development prospects of the steam civilization, it can be said that there is no way out. It is almost certain After the steam civilization develops to a certain level, it will stop completely, and it will stay in that civilization stage for a long time, or even forever, until the next civilization mutation occurs.

If the light of origin, the oldest omega-level advanced creature in the universe, is in the world of Velen, then the development of steam civilization will definitely not help him, just like the various gods that have disappeared, it will only cause the decline of the gods. Only a powerful psychic civilization can promote the further development of Omega-level advanced creatures.

Therefore, if the light of origin is really hidden in the world of Velen for some unknown reason, and the steam civilization in the world of Velen is really driven by the Weiya people, then the purpose of the Weiya people does not seem to be helping the origin On the contrary, it is more like suppressing the light of origin.

"Perhaps useful answers can be found in these books!" The confused Leo restored the lamp in his hand, put it back to its original position, turned his head to look at the books on the wall, and said to himself.