The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"What's that?" Leo asked, pointing to the two rows of statues erected on both sides of the street not far away.

I saw that the two rows of statues were neither statues of gods nor heroes, but in the form of a monster. This monster had a slender body like a snake, with a somewhat human-like head, a pair of long ears hanging on the sides, and a The big eyes protruding slightly from both sides are somewhat abrupt, and the most noticeable feature is the two rows of incisors in its mouth, which are extremely difficult to see.

This ugly statue is erected in such a magnificent humanoid city, no matter how you look at it, it will make people feel incongruous.

"That's the Serpent of the Abyss." Seredor seemed to be very familiar with this monster and hated it very much, his tone was full of strong disgust.

"Abyss Serpent?" Leo froze for a moment, vaguely felt that the name sounded familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere before.

After quickly looking up the memory data, Leo found a record that recorded the abyss serpent, but this record is not in the world of Velen, but in the cosmic species record of the Earth Federation.

In the early days of the Earth Federation’s exploration of the universe, in addition to purchasing space materials from advanced civilizations, most of the time they sent a large number of exploration fleets. These fleets include official and private fleets. There may be hundreds of ships in large fleets. Hundreds of thousands people, while a small exploration ship may only have one, or a dozen people.

These exploration fleets have encountered various events and seen various cosmic species. They all recorded what they saw and heard in the recorder of the spacecraft. After returning to the Federation, the recorder will be handed over according to Record the content to determine the amount of the bonus, some content will make the exploration fleet rich overnight, and some content will make the exploration team lose money.

Among these exploration fleets, a small exploration spaceship composed of fifty people entered the subspace, the navigator was damaged, and entered an unknown space. Exploration, and successfully brought the exploration records back to the Earth Federation.

It's just that these people's exploration records about that space are highly controversial in the Earth Federation, because there are so many incredible contents in those contents, it feels like some kind of mental patient's imagination.

The reason for thinking this way is that all the exploration team members who returned to Earth were crazy. Everyone was surprised that a group of lunatics could fly a spaceship back to the Federation and dock it perfectly at the airport.

These records about the unknown space are filled with all kinds of strange things and species, and among all the things and species, there is not a big abyss snake with big teeth, red eyes, and understands the federal language that makes people feel incredible .

The abyssal serpent suddenly appeared in front of the explorers. It did not attack the explorers, but had a conversation with the explorers. These words were very weird, and they sounded like some patchwork sentences, confusing and incomprehensible , There are many illogical words like I cut off my head to buy a package of fruit, so the federal record examiner at the time didn't care about these contents, but placed them in the public information area for everyone to read .

It's just that after the past few years, things suddenly became a little weird, because some boring decryption enthusiasts became interested in these records. They thought it was a code language, so they cooperated with each other to re-edit and interpret these texts, and Really let them crack some of the content.

Originally, just deciphering these contents would not cause any sensation, but then some things that happened in the Earth Federation surprisingly coincided with these deciphered texts, which made them think that these texts were the language of the Earth Federation, so more and more people Joining the cracking team, finally attracted the attention of the Earth Federation.

Later, the Federation blocked this record on the grounds that it was likely to cause social unrest, and defined those cracking teams as illegal gatherings for dispersal.

It's just that the matter didn't end there. Later, a series of riots suddenly broke out in the remote colonies of the Federation. The people who made the riots claimed to be believers in the abyssal serpent, and these people were members of the cracking team.

The riots started suddenly, and quickly captured the power of those colonies as if premeditated for a long time. By the time the Earth Federation sent a fleet to counter the rebellion, the believers of the abyss serpent had integrated all the combat power of the colonies together, and the earth The Federation waged a war that took decades.

In the end, the people in the colony could not withstand the continuous flow of the Earth Federation fleet, and ended in failure. The most distressing thing was that those Abyss Orochi believers who had fallen into despair used all the ammunition in their inventory to bombard the star core of the colony. Eventually, the colony planet was mutated.

In the mutation, the colony planet not only entered a period of decay ahead of time, and could no longer adapt to human habitation, even the spaceships close to the planet were impacted by the super-magnetic field. Most of the spaceships were destroyed by this impact, and even if a few were not destroyed, It can't operate normally either, everyone on the spacecraft can wait to die in this space coffin, as for the people in the colony, they all died, and there was no survivor.

This incident had a great impact on the federation, to the extent that more than 4,000 laws of the federation were amended, and all people and things related to the abyss snake would be regarded as the top priority by the federation, and this situation continued until Leo's time. At the beginning, Leo had received more than one mission related to the followers of the Abyssal Serpent, but in his opinion, these missions were usually framed by someone to eliminate dissidents, and had nothing to do with the Profound Serpent.

What he didn't expect now is that in this place where everything ends, he would hear the name Abyss Serpent again, and he also saw the statue of Abyss Serpent. From the striking features of the statue, it is not difficult for him to judge that the two should be The same type exists, and the space that the expedition team entered by mistake may be the abyss.

Regarding the catastrophe of the federal colony that year, many years have passed since Leo was created, and the matter has already faded away, and those believers of the so-called Abyss Orochi are also framed, so he himself looks at the Abyss Orochi It's very light, and he hasn't studied the relevant information carefully, which makes his current understanding of the abyss snake only stay in conceptual things like demagogy, prophecy, and danger, and there is no other substantive and more useful content.

"It sounds like you know this abyss snake very well. Can you tell me what it is?" Although Leo's federal database could not find any useful information, there is another person who knows a lot about the abyss snake by his side. People can ask, and he will naturally not hesitate to ask questions.

Seredor also seemed to be planning to tell Leo about the Abyss Serpent to remind Leo to be careful, so after hearing Leo's inquiry, he immediately explained: "The Abyss Serpent has always been a legend in my hometown. , it is the most evil existence in the world. It has a mouth that can deceive people. Anyone who hears its words will be affected by it. It has a distorted personality and eventually becomes a monster. There are many in my hometown All countries perish under the bewitchment of the Abyss Serpent." Having said that, he paused, and said in a low tone: "I heard that there are people in my hometown who were bewitched by the Abyss Serpent and are creating turmoil. I don't know the current situation. how's it going?"

Hearing what Therador said, Leo was silent for a moment, turned his head to look at the statues of the abyssal serpents, and said, "You said that the king city where the gods live will be destroyed, could it be that the abyssal serpents did it in secret? "

"It's very possible." Seredore nodded in agreement without hesitation: "I think the princess may be the incarnation of the abyssal serpent. Because after the princess came, the gods left the royal city, and the royal city became chaotic. It became what it is now.”

Leo listened to Seredore's words, walked to the side of the empty armor, and picked up a long sword on the ground. Although I don't know that it has gone through a long time here, coupled with the erosion of various invisible forces and climate around it, the long sword has decayed very much, but it can be seen from some places that have not completely decayed that this long sword It should be very sharp and strong when it is intact, not much worse than the special armor plates used on space battleships.

"This should be the Roderick Knight Sword." Theredor walked to Leo and said, "Roderick Knight is the prototype and model of all knights. Whenever the world is in chaos, the Royal City will send a team The most elite Roderick knights quell the chaos in the world, and then they entrust the world to the people they trust, and then they will leave and return to the royal city. The beautiful words of loyalty, piety, humility, benevolence, fearlessness, and compassion are placed in Roderick There won’t be any exaggerated feeling on the knights.” He knelt down and stroked the still exquisite decorations on the surface of the decayed armor, and said with emotion: “I didn’t expect that such a great knight would all die here because of the civil war. .”

"Everything will eventually be destroyed, no matter how powerful the Roderick knight is, it is impossible to escape the end of destruction." Just as Seledor was expressing emotion, an old voice suddenly reached Leo and Seledore's ears In the middle, the two of them couldn't help being startled, and they all looked towards the place where the sound came from.

I saw that at some point in the street in the distance, there suddenly appeared an old man in a robe holding a crystal lamp and staggering towards the two of them.

Leo found that his spiritual network seemed to have lost its effectiveness on the old man. He couldn't feel the old man's existence at all. This was not because of shielding, interference, etc., but because his spiritual network directly passed through the old man's body.

Although Leo didn't feel hostility from the old man, he still turned the twins into the strongest sacrificial knife mode, watching the old man warily.

Although the old man's demeanor was always calm, when Leo turned the twins into sacrificial knife mode, his movement speed paused slightly, and a trace of surprise and fear flashed across his expression. Leo noticed it.

Different from Leo's vigilance, Seledor still looked carefree, carrying that exaggerated sword, standing beside Leo without any defensive movements.

After the old man moved to the vicinity of Leo and Leo, he stopped, then nodded to the two, and said, "The sound of the little devil flapping its wings can be heard even in the silent hall of the king's city. I guess the new guest So, let’s take a look, now it seems that my guess is right.” Then, he saluted the two very gracefully, and said: “Hello, I am the guide of Wangcheng, if you don’t mind If so, you can follow me to the safe prayer hall, where there are also some outsiders, I think you should have a common topic."

Renault didn't intend to agree to this kind of inexplicable invitation, but just when he was about to refuse, Seledor on the side took the initiative to say: "Yes, you lead the way!"

Hearing Seredore's words, the old man turned around and walked along the road he came from without waiting for Leo to make a decision. Seredor turned to Leo and said, "I will explain this on the way, Follow up first! So as not to get lost."

After speaking, he quickly followed the old man.

Although Leo was a little puzzled by Seledor's actions, he had no intention of asking, but followed.

In this way, under the leadership of the old man, the two walked through the streets that looked like battlefields, and quickly moved towards the center of the city.

On the way, Seredor didn't worry about the old man leading the way, and explained directly to Leo: "The knight I followed mentioned the old man with the lamp in the king's city. Then lead the outsiders to the only safe place in the royal city. In that safe place, you will not encounter any danger, and there are still a pile of bonfires that have not been extinguished. As long as you are still alive and return to the bonfire, even if you are injured Even the deadliest wounds will heal quickly."

"Is he a survivor of the royal city?" Leo was silent for a moment, pointed to the old man in front, and asked.

"Yes and no." Seredore gave a vague answer, and immediately explained: "No one knows what he is, but he knows that it is impossible to kill him in any way. Some people say that he is actually the last one in the royal city." The priest, because he saw the destruction of the royal city and fell into the place where all this ends, all the former heroes have now become walking dead, he feels desperate for this, so he turned into a lantern guide to guide the outsiders who came to the royal city , step by step to find out the mystery of the royal city, and finally completely destroy the royal city, ending the suffering of all the living dead and embers."

The entire royal city is in the shape of a cone, and each floor is blocked by a huge wall that ordinary people cannot climb over. Leo and Leo are located at the bottom floor. Looking up, you can't see the real royal city at the top. This should be the civilian area of ​​the royal city. The surrounding buildings are not only crowded, but also disorganized, filling all the gaps as if they were inserted, leaving only the narrow and long streets that can barely tolerate passing.

However, as the group of people got closer and closer to the shelter, the street became much wider, and the buildings on both sides of the street became more regular. When they turned a corner, the scene in front of them suddenly became clear. , but a very distinctive hall appeared in front of Leo and Theredore.