The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Compared with adapting to the improvement of physical fitness, it is obviously much more difficult to adapt to the improvement of mental attributes.

Leo's spiritual attributes raised to 20 points can already be regarded as a formal spiritual psyker in the Earth Federation, but these improved spiritual powers are not obtained by himself after years of accumulation, it is probably The soul of this body was completely fused with himself, so these spiritual powers belonged to outsiders, and if they could not be properly controlled, they would even interfere with his original spiritual power.

The most obvious manifestation of the sudden increase in spiritual power is the talent of spiritual perception.

The talent of spiritual perception is directly linked to spiritual power and psionic power. When the spiritual power is still at ten points, Leo can easily control the talent of spiritual perception.

However, as the spiritual power increased to 20 points, the talent of spiritual perception began to show signs of getting out of control. The most obvious feature was that even if he did not open the spiritual network and activate the spiritual vision, he could easily distinguish the negative surroundings through perception. The energy force field can also perceive the goodwill and malice of the people around, and can even perceive the fragments of thoughts emitted when some people burst out with strong emotions and thoughts.

A large amount of information poured into Leo's mind uncontrollably. If he was an ordinary person, he would have been driven crazy by these messy and negative emotions, thoughts and so on.

Fortunately, Leo has a sub-brain system. When he was affected, he turned on the filtering mode of the sub-brain to summarize and analyze the useful parts of these influx of various information records, and save them. Useless parts directly discard it.

Although using the sub-brain system to deal with the disadvantages of the rapid increase in mental power is somewhat opportunistic, it at least gave Leo a buffer time, allowing him enough time to adapt to the sharp increase in mental power.

"Activate the spirit net."

After a little getting used to the spiritual perception talent that was raised along with the spiritual power, Leo immediately began to try the spiritual net skill that he had just completed the creation of the spiritual skill module.

Just as he had guessed in advance, after the spiritual net formed a psionic skill, it no longer needed to activate the spirit vision, and could be activated independently, and the coverage of the activated spiritual net expanded to about 200 meters.

He felt that if he used the perfect control skill, the coverage of the spirit net should be doubled.

In addition, with the opening of the mental net, the surrounding negative energy force field also began to be pulled over by the energy-absorbing characteristics of the spiritual net, and penetrated into the spiritual net.

The negative impact caused by the gift of spiritual perception appeared again, but this time it was no longer a variety of thoughts and emotions that could be clearly analyzed, but an indescribable negative energy, which made him feel like he was in an ice cave Usually, the body and mind become extremely cold.

Feeling abnormal, Leo immediately controlled the spirit net to expel those negative energies according to the method of using the spirit net sorted out by the Earth Federation, restricted the ability of the spirit net to absorb the energy of traveling around, and only kept the most basic detection ability of the spirit net unchanged. Quickly input the surrounding terrain data into the auxiliary brain system, forming a three-dimensional topographic map in the eyes.

In order to collect as much terrain data as possible, Leo stood up and began to walk around, especially around the tower-like chapel, which made some priests who noticed his strange behavior feel puzzled , because he didn't do anything out of the ordinary, so he didn't stop him.

After Leo returned to the starting point, a complete topographic map of the Sacrament Hall was projected in Leo's eyes.

There are not many special places in the sacrament hall on the ground, and the buildings are completely common religious buildings such as vaults, stone pillars, and religious sculptures. The only thing that surprised Leo was that there were three places in the chapel that his spiritual network could not penetrate, and one of them should be the meditation hall where Catherine went, which happened to correspond to the three high priests of the church.

However, Leo didn't care too much about the part on the ground. He just needed to understand the terrain, and it was enough to know the defensive deployment of the church guards. What he really cared about was the part of the catacombs.

According to what Martin said, there is a huge catacomb under the chapel, and only believers who are already terminally ill will be sent into it to see if they can get the favor of Aknaya before they die.

After an investigation by the Spirit Net, it was indeed as Martin said that the sacristy hall was about five meters down to a huge space, but he found that the catacombs only occupied a small part of this space.

The downward extension of this underground space has exceeded the coverage of the spiritual network, and the analysis of the data collected by the investigation such as terrain, ruins, and overall structure, etc., here is more like an underground city, a place based on ancient times. An underground city centered on a temple.

It’s just that only a part of the underground city close to the surface has been excavated. This part is the catacombs. As for the deeper part of the city, it has been buried by rubble. Many passages leading to deeper underground have been discovered through the spiritual net. They were all blocked by a large amount of rubble.

What's interesting is that the Aknaya Church should be very clear that there is an underground city below, because Leo discovered that there are more than one team digging blocked passages in the deepest part of the catacombs.

What's more interesting is that not far from the excavation team, there is a group of monsters in the closed basement that is only accessible by a deep well, and people from the Aknaya Church are throwing a lot of meat into the deep well, which is obviously the Aknaya Church It is known that these monsters exist, and it is even possible that they are the creators of the monsters.

When the spirit network sensed these monsters, Leo almost thought that he had returned to the Federation 21 research base, because the situation of these monsters was very similar to some of his memories.

The Federation's No. 21 Research Base is an institution that is not recorded by the federal government. If Leo hadn't been escorting a batch of important experimental products back then, he probably wouldn't have known that the Federation had a No. 21 Research Base.

The main research project of this research base is to optimize human genes, which is often referred to as heterogeneous genetic modification.

As the Earth Federation enters the interstellar era and begins to expand to the interstellar, human beings find that their bodies are not suitable for living in the universe. All kinds of harmful rays, countless unknown viruses and other common things in the universe can easily take away human life. .

At the same time, the federal government has also discovered that among the alien races that have been in contact with, many races have extremely strong survivability and adaptability in the universe. So someone proposed to see if it is possible to integrate the excellent genes of the alien race into the human genes and optimize the human genes. For this reason, the Federation established the No. 21 Research Base, which does not appear in any documents.

In this research base, there is a warehouse dedicated to containing experimental failed products. When Leo was assisting the base to deal with failed products, he entered that warehouse and saw hundreds of experimental products that failed due to fusion of alien genes, and those failed experiments The appearance of Pin is very similar to the monster that Spirit Net saw in that basement.

The reason why they are similar does not refer to the appearance of the two, but refers to the distortion of the body caused by the collapse of the body's genes after the failure of gene fusion. This situation is very similar.

"People in this world have already mastered the heterogeneous genetic modification technology?" Leo was extremely shocked by his discovery, and it was even more unbelievable. After all, even the Earth Federation has just started in the heterogeneous genetic modification technology. Such a technology How can a world that has only developed into the age of steam possess such top-notch science and technology?

Although he was confused, Leo didn't bother with this question for too long. After all, they will enter the catacombs soon, and they may find the answer if they look carefully at that time.

After dispelling the three-dimensional topographic map in his eyes, Leo also focused on the spirit net skill.

From the beginning of the test of the spirit net skill just now, Leo has not taken back the spirit net, and it has been about 20 minutes to maintain the spirit net, and he found that the consumption of spiritual energy by the spirit net for such a long time is only Just a little psychic power.

Such a small amount of consumption is not the same as before the mental network skills are formed.

In Leo's view, apart from the fact that the formed psionic skills themselves consume much less psionic energy than the unformed ones, the bigger reason may be related to the presence of spiritual net skills in the spiritual talent.

Because judging from this situation, Leo's spiritual net may be considered half-skill and half-talented, and talent does not consume spiritual energy, so when the spiritual net is opened, his spiritual energy consumption is the most expensive compared to normal spiritual net skills. Cut in half, or even more.

"Leo, there seems to be something wrong?" Just as Leo was concentrating on checking the details of the spirit net skills, and was about to try several of the most common methods of using the spirit net in the Earth Federation, Jason who was sitting by the side suddenly stood up, Walked up to him, pushed him, and said to a place not far away that should be like a confessional.

Hearing this, Leo withdrew his attention from the Spirit Net and personal data interface, and looked at the place Jason pointed to.

Perhaps it was because of the substantial improvement in all aspects of his body, his eyesight had also improved a lot, and he could easily see distant scenes even if he didn't activate his spiritual vision.

I saw that at this moment, a large number of church guard priests equipped with sabers and hand crossbows were quickly gathering towards the building Jason pointed to. The church guards who were already there seemed to be planning to rush into the building, but then bursts of gunshots From inside the building, those who tried to rush in were forced out.

At this time, an astonishing scene happened. The believers around the building suddenly pushed away the priests who were about to attack the building, and one by one they turned into brave warriors and rushed into the building unarmed.

After a burst of gunshots, cheers came from the building, and then saw the Aknaya believers who did not die in the conflict dragging a dozen people who were also wearing black robes and who were unconscious and unbelieving at the moment to walk out of the building Come out and hand it over to the church guard. Then one by one sat back to the previous place as if nothing happened, continuing their interrupted prayers, even those with injuries did not treat the wounds.

Afterwards, the priests of the church guard cleaned out more than 30 corpses and more than a dozen seriously injured and unable to move believers from the building. It can be seen from this that the battle in that building just now was less than a minute.

"What a lunatic, a bunch of lunatics!" After watching the whole turmoil, Jason looked around at the other believers who were so indifferent to what happened just now, he couldn't help swallowing dryly, his face couldn't hide the look of horror, Said with lingering fear.

Leo knew exactly what Jason was talking about. To be honest, he was also shocked by the scene just now, and felt a sense of fear that he had never felt before.

In the battles of the Earth Federation, it is not uncommon for soldiers to charge forward because they are forced to a desperate situation, but such things usually have two prerequisites, one is that there is no way out, and the other is that Inject adrenaline.

However, those believers just now obviously have nothing to do with these ordinary church believers, and they don't need to intervene in what happened in the building. They just need to stay aside and watch the church guards deal with these rioters.

But these people suddenly rushed into the building like lunatics. They didn't need to inject any drugs at all, and they were able to deal with those who caused the turmoil without fear of death. The deaths of other believers were all indifferent, which really made Leo, who was used to seeing all kinds of battles and deaths, feel a little chilled.

As for the reason why he was afraid, he thought that there might be many believers who were as fearless as before. He glanced around, and in this light sanctuary with a diameter of five kilometers, there were no less than 50,000 believers who could turn into lunatics at any time, not counting the other believers living in those steel frame buildings.

According to Martin, in the Cage City, there are more than one million believers in the Akenaya Church. Among them, how many fanatics like this are there, I'm afraid Martin doesn't know. However, even if there are only one-tenth of such fanatics, then Akenaya Church has at least 100,000 dead men to drive.

"What do they want to do? This is definitely not something that ordinary churches do." Leo was keenly aware of the strangeness, and he couldn't help but see these 100,000 believers who were not afraid of death rushing with all kinds of deadly weapons. The scene of leaving the cage city.

At this time, Catherine hurried out of the chapel, and from her gloomy expression, it could be seen that the meeting with the High Priest Major just now should have ended unhappily.

Standing on the steps of the chapel, she looked at the place where the turmoil happened just now with some doubts, her face was a little dazed, and she didn't seem to know what happened just now. Afterwards, she looked around again, and saw the tall Leo and Jason standing very eye-catchingly among a group of sitting black-robed believers, and immediately walked over quickly.

"The catacombs have been sealed, even I am not allowed to enter, we have to think about it... Huh!" Catherine walked over quickly, telling the result of the conversation with High Priest Major just now, but the words have not yet been said. After that, he stopped, looked around, and asked with a puzzled look: "Why are there only two of you, where is Nelson?"

When Catherine asked, Leo and Jason discovered that Nelson had disappeared at some point.