The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Leo and the others did not sit in the same carriage as those men in black robes, but sat in the carriage at the end.

As the rail car drove away from the platform, the rail car began to accelerate, and the violently oscillating body, coupled with the height of one or two hundred meters here, made people who took this rail car feel terrified for the first time, as if the rail car would crash at any time. It's normal to roll over and fall to the bottom.

Jason and Nelson firmly grasped the edge of the carriage, and pressed their bodies down hard so that their buttocks could be as close as possible to the seat. Even so, they still felt unreliable, as if a violent jolt in the car would throw them from their seats.

Because Catherine often takes this kind of rail car to different places to treat doctors and patients, she has long been used to this seemingly dangerous, but actually safe high-altitude rail car. But what made her curious was that Leo, who was sitting across from her, also looked very calm, and sat very firmly. Every shake caused by the car body could be accurately sensed by him in advance, and he let his body follow the carriage slightly. Shaking, it looks like it's clinging to the seat.

The only thing that made people feel weird was that he kept his head down after getting in the car, as if he was looking at something in his hand, but because the inside of the car was too dark, he couldn't see what was in his hand clearly.

"Doctor, let's change seats! I want to talk to Miss Catherine." After the rail car traveled a certain distance, Leo suddenly raised his head and said to Nelson who was trying to stabilize his body and not let himself shake.

"What?" Either because the sound of the wheels crushing the rails was too loud, or because Nelson was too focused on dealing with the wobbly seat, he didn't hear Leo's words for a while.

Leo repeated what he had just said.

"I have no objection. Where's Catherine?" Nelson was stunned for a moment and nodded, but he didn't get up immediately, but turned to look at Catherine, as if asking Catherine if she would like to talk to Leo.

"Yes." Catherine looked at the king and queen on Leo's waist, and agreed.

Seeing that Catherine agreed, Nelson slowly stood up from his seat, clutching the railing in the carriage, and bent over to move towards Leo's seat little by little, while Leo was walking as fast as if he was walking on flat ground. changed seats.

"Miss Catherine, you know the king and queen very well." After sitting down, Leo took the initiative to find a topic that could ease the cold atmosphere between the two, and said.

"I've seen father use it before." Catherine said with a smile, "I once fantasized that father would pass on the queen to me, and I also imagined that Jean Valjean would give her to me. Unfortunately, these are just fantasies, and now they are gone. The owner has been found."

Leo asked curiously, "Can you tell me about Dad?"

"One day the father suddenly appeared with Jean Valjean and settled down in Cage City. He is a master mechanic and there is no machine he doesn't understand. The overwhelmed Cage City has been strengthened again." When Catherine mentioned the last Wetzker, her face was full of nostalgia, and then she showed a sad wry smile and said: "It's been a long time since Dad died. , We don’t know what to do, but fortunately we survived, so that the residents of Cage City can live better.”

Leo could feel that Catherine's understanding of the old man was only on the surface. She didn't know that the old man had other mysteries, so she didn't continue to ask, and turned to the topic, saying: "Catherine Miss, there is a question I really want to ask, is there anything special about Nelson?"

"Ah?" Catherine didn't understand what was going on for a while, and looked at Leo blankly.

"Let me just say it briefly!" Leo looked at Catherine with a serious expression, and said, "That Mr. Martin had bad intentions from the beginning when he encouraged us to take this action. His target is Nelson. Obviously, Nelson has Something very special and possibly related to the catacombs."

"This, this is impossible? Martin..." Catherine was obviously confused by Leo's sudden question, her mind was a little confused, and she didn't know how to answer.

Although Nelson, who was sitting across from him, focused his attention on the shaking carriage because of fear, he also devoted part of his attention to the conversation between Catherine and Leo, and wondered why Leo would find him at this time. Catherine, who has had an intersection, speaks.

It's a pity that the sound of the rail car was too loud, so that he couldn't hear any sound, and he could only see Catherine's embarrassed expression. At this moment, he couldn't help but want to stand up and ask Catherine's situation, but when Leo raised his hand to signal The action stopped.

"Why do you think Martin has bad intentions for you?" Catherine sorted out her confused thoughts and asked Leo in a deep voice.

Leo said calmly: "Recall carefully, when he urged us to go to the parish you mentioned, the order in which he invited us."

Catherine carefully recalled the scene at that time, and the expression on her face gradually became serious, and she couldn't hide her suspicion after that.

"You should also feel weird! Going to the parish to search for evidence must be dangerous, so people who go there must be strong and capable of fighting." Leo said, while talking to himself and Jason and Nelson The three made gestures and said, "If you choose, you have a dangerous and important person, who would you choose first among the three of us?"

Catherine had already begun to believe Leo's words, but she still had doubts in her heart, and said, "But Nelson came to visit me suddenly, and I didn't know he would come beforehand, and Martin had never had any contact with Nelson before. Why the sudden targeting of Nelson?"

"This is what I want to know too." Leo said in a deep voice: "Judging from the previous situation, Martin's plan for Nelson was very hasty. It should be a plan that came to mind after he suddenly learned of Nelson's arrival. The plan itself is full of There is a loophole, so someone needs to make up for it, and this person is you." Then, he suddenly asked a digression, "Can you tell me, what is the relationship between you and that Mr. Martin?"

Catherine said with some embarrassment: "We, we were together before, but we separated because of some things."

"You have a high reputation in Cage City?" Leo asked.

Catherine said modestly: "It's not bad."

"No, it's okay." Leo thought for a while and said, "From what I, a bystander, has seen, your reputation is very high, not only among ordinary workers, but even this The reputation in the Akenaya sect is not low, even that Mr. Martin can't compare."

"What do you mean?" Catherine's face changed suddenly, she glared at Leo, and said, "You want to say that Martin added me to his plan because I have a higher reputation than him. "

"I'm going to ask you." Leo, who had just started, didn't intend to continue the conversation. He gestured to Nelson, who was nervously watching the situation, and switched seats with Nelson.

When Leo got up to change seats, Catherine opened her mouth, as if she wanted to say something, but she didn't say it. Instead, after Nelson sat back, she looked at Nelson with a strange look, making Nelson A look of bewilderment.

Just now, Leo directly pointed out Martin's plan in front of Catherine, mainly because the scene on the platform made him feel that Catherine should not be Martin's accomplice, but he was not sure, so he would use this method. Making sure.

As the commander of the special operations team, interrogating the captives and judging the truth of what the captives said are all compulsory courses. As one of the best, Leo can easily judge the opponent's identity from various details that ordinary people are not easy to detect. mentality, etc.

During the conversation with Catherine just now, Leo had already determined that Catherine did not know Martin's plan. She simply thought that going to the parish was to find clues and evidence of the brutal murders that occurred continuously in Cage City.

In addition, he was very sure that Catherine knew something, but she seemed to have great concerns and couldn't say it out.

He didn't intend to press Catherine any further, because doing so would only make Catherine resentful, and she would be more unwilling to speak, so he left Catherine a little space to think clearly and say what she wanted to say but didn't dare to say. Thing, it's a little interrogation trick.

The cage city is very big, which is the consensus of all Lanxi people, but it is completely different to see the size of the cage city outside the cage city and feel the size of the cage city inside the cage city. The darkness often makes people have the illusion of space and time .

The rail car only traveled on the sky track for nearly 20 minutes, but it made the people sitting in the car feel as if several hours had passed, and even felt that the rail car would never end.

So when the rail car entered the parish and saw the unique white building of the parish, people on the rail car, whether they had experience or not, couldn't help but relax.

After entering the parish, almost all the buildings were painted white, and some religious symbols similar to the religious emblem were painted with red paint in some eye-catching places.

When Martin mentioned the Aknaya Sect, Leo just regarded this religion as a general religion, as a tool for Martin to harvest people's hearts, but after seeing those religious symbols, he realized that this religion originated from the Black Forest Swamp His religion may be as mysteriously powerful as the Black Forest itself.

Because he found that these religious symbols were just like the scratches he saw on the talismans of the Wetzkers, and when he concentrated on watching them, there would be unspeakable strange changes. This kind of change may be just a twist of the shape, or maybe it's just an extension of a certain line, but it's this subtle change that makes this seemingly ordinary religious symbol feel dizzy and extremely disgusting.

Although this change was not as strong as the Wetzker amulet, it was enough to arouse Leo's vigilance.

So, Leo tried to activate the spirit vision skill to check the surrounding situation.

However, the sight in front of him made him a little surprised, because he found that the parish of the Aknaya sect was very clean.

This kind of cleanliness is not the kind of cleanliness in the conventional sense, but the surrounding air does not have the thick gray-black negative atmosphere in other areas of the cage city.

"I found a small amount of high-level negative energy force field, which can be absorbed. The side effects are weakened will, mental confusion, and unpredictable mutations."

However, through the sub-brain system, Leo got a piece of data that surprised him even more.

The negative energy force field that enveloped the cage city did not dissipate because of the disappearance of the gray-black negative aura, on the contrary, it transformed, forming a high-level negative energy force field. Even if it is only a small amount, it can be directly absorbed and used to improve one's personal data, but the flaws are also extremely obvious, that is, weakened will, mental confusion, and body mutation.

"Mr. Dodd, what's the matter with you?" Through the conversation just now, Catherine also began to pay attention to Leo. Although Leo didn't make any big moves just now, after Leo entered the parish, his face changed obviously, which made her He couldn't help guessing that Leo must have discovered something, and also thought of some other things, so he asked.

When Leo heard the question, he didn't respond immediately. After pondering for a while, he suddenly asked an inexplicable question, "Miss Catherine, are those symbols on the wall the badges of the Aknaya Sect?"

Catherine froze for a moment, shook her head, and said: "No, after Martin resigned as chief patriarch, Major ordered the congregation to paint these symbols, representing new life. Oh! Major is one of the three high priests. "

"Is that so?" Leo fell silent.

From the spiritual vision skills just now, he clearly saw that the religious symbols on the wall were absorbing the surrounding negative aura, and transforming the negative aura into a higher-level negative energy force field.

Ordinary people are under such a negative energy force field for a long time, as if they are in radiation, they will inevitably experience various discomforts in their bodies, and some may even mutate. This has been confirmed in the Earth Federation. This is also very consistent with what Nelson said on the platform before. After recovering from a serious illness, he will receive the blessing of Akenaya's divine power, which is obviously due to the mutation produced by the negative energy field.

What Leo was curious about was Martin's role in this matter, because from what he had seen before, it was obvious that Martin knew the function of these religious symbols, and he strongly opposed the use of these religious symbols. Symbols, and even more opposed to people transformed by symbols becoming priests. On the contrary, the three high priests tried their best to promote this matter, even coaxing sick believers to come to the parish to die. Judging from these details, Martin seems to be a good person.

However, as soon as the idea that Martin was a good person came into his mind, Leo immediately shook his head to dispel it. If he used to be a biological weapon, he might have believed more in the results of data collection and analysis, but now he believed in his own feelings even more.

When the rail car drove through a curve and got out from behind a tall building, the scene before everyone's eyes suddenly became clear. The densely packed steel-framed buildings of Cage City all disappeared, and there was a huge hole in the city like a deep well with a diameter of five kilometers. Appeared in front of everyone.

The huge cave is surrounded by tall 200-story buildings in Cage City, and at the bottom of the huge cave are some very simple granite buildings. The most striking thing is the 50-meter-high auditorium building in the center of the huge cave.