The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"But since there are advantages, there are also disadvantages." Before Joey began to have a lot of fantasies in his mind, Leo changed the subject and said again.

"Disadvantages?" Joey froze for a moment, calmed down quickly, and asked, "What disadvantages?"

Leo said in a deep voice: "The downside is that you will become the target of all the embers of wisdom in the royal city, because as long as they master you, they will be able to travel through the endless royal city, and everything you can get will naturally be taken by them." get."

Hearing this, Joey was startled, instinctively retreated twice, and secretly looked at Leo, seeing that Leo didn't have the kind of greed he often saw before, so he breathed a sigh of relief , maybe because he felt that his reaction was too much, so he smiled at Leo with some embarrassment.

Leo ignored Joey's reaction, but asked Huo Fangnv, "Why is this happening? Is it related to that ring?"

"No, it shouldn't be the ring," the fire girl shook her head, and said, "As far as I know, the ring definitely doesn't have this kind of ability. It should be related to him, his ethnic group or bloodline. He is not affected by the abyss snake ring. , I am afraid it is also because of this reason."

"Has anyone like him been to Wangcheng before?" Leo asked again.

"No, not a single one." The fire girl shook her head, looked at Joey, and replied with certainty: "And this is the first time I've seen a race like them."

"As far as I know, the world he lives in also has a royal city..." Leo frowned suspiciously.

"That's a royal city, not a royal city." Huofangnv explained.

"What do you mean by that?" Hearing this contradictory answer, Leo asked puzzled.

At this time, the nuns and knights who were praying in front of the surrounding gods also recovered from the state of prayer. The expressions on their faces were different, but it could be seen that they had gained more or less. Although they were also curious about the situation on Leo's side, the old man who read the book still constituted a deterrent to them, preventing them from approaching. However, Serendor obviously didn't have so many worries. He walked to the bonfire with his sword in his hands, and sat down by the bonfire without asking any questions. He took out a small wine barrel from nowhere and drank it leisurely. .

Although Joey on the side was a little afraid of the fire girl, he heard that the conversation between the two actually involved Wangcheng, which made him involuntarily move closer to him, pricked up his ears and listened, saying that he pricked up his ears was not an exaggeration at all, because His pair of long ears were erected, and they trembled from time to time.

"There is only one royal city, but there is no limit to the number of mirror images of the royal city." Fire Defense Girl said simply: "The royal cities in your world are actually just the mirror images of the royal cities projected on your world, and even the gods in the mirrored royal cities are also It's just a mirror image."

Leo frowned after hearing Huofangnv's explanation, because he always felt that Huofangnv was hiding something and didn't say the whole thing. Just when he was about to ask, Joey couldn't help the curiosity in his heart, and rushed to ask, "Why did the gods project the mirror image of the royal city onto our world?"

Although this question was not what Leo wanted to know, he was equally curious about it.

The fire girl said flatly: "Even the gods can't answer this question for you, just like asking why a big tree is rooted in the ground, or why the sun hangs in the sky, there is no way to explain it clearly."

Joey didn't understand what the fire girl said, and a little dazed and pensive expression appeared on his face.

Leo thought for a while, and then asked with confirmation: "You mean that it is a law of the world that the mirror images of the king's city appear in different worlds, and it cannot be controlled by the gods."

"You can say that." The fire girl responded simply.

Joey suddenly asked again: "The living dead appear in our world because of the royal city, right?"

The fire girl was silent for a moment, and then said slowly: "The appearance of the living dead is due to the invasion of the abyss and the extinguishment of the flames. It has nothing to do with the royal city."

"There is no direct relationship, so that means there is an indirect relationship?" Because it involved his own world and the abnormal changes in his body, Joey seemed to be a lot more courageous, and pressed forward step by step.

The fire girl was silent for a while, and finally nodded, and said: "It can also be said. The significance of the existence of the mirror image of the king's city in your world is to isolate the invasion of the abyss, but with the disappearance of the king's city, the world's barrier against the abyss also disappears. , the flames of the world are gradually swallowed up by the abyss, humanity also disappears, and embers appear."

Hearing the fire girl's words, Joey's face became a little ugly, and he didn't know whether he was hesitating because of his own physical condition, or worried about the disaster of the world.

However, after hearing the words of the fire girl, Leo couldn't help feeling suspicious, because if the castle on the top of the golden giant deer is really a royal city, then it means that the royal city of Velen World has been destroyed, and the abyss will inevitably invade. There will definitely be living dead in the world of Vinylon, but looking at the various classics of the world of Vinylon, there is no content about the invasion of the abyss.

For some reason, Leo couldn't help but come up with a somewhat absurd thought, but it might be true.

From the previous conversations between Joey, Seredore and others, Leo knew that the world they lived in was not a world where gods easily performed miracles, and they did not possess a lot of extraordinary power. A religious system built around the core.

But the world of Vinylon is different from these worlds. In ancient times, the world of Vinylon was a world full of gods. Not only were there true gods who had truly evolved to Omega-level advanced life forms, but there were also a large number of false gods who had not yet completed evolution but were still powerful. , that is to say, the power system in the world of Vinylon is not at the same level as the world of Joey and Seledore.

The appearance of things like Wangcheng Projection in other worlds may be a major event that can affect the world situation and future direction, but in the world of Vinylon, it is just an insignificant small wave in the sea.

The castle resembling the King City on the top of the Golden Giant Deer may not mean that the King City can suppress the Golden Giant Deer. On the contrary, that castle may be the trophy of the Golden Giant Deer, and the target of the battle is very likely to be the Asians in the projection of the King City. The gods of Norrond, and more likely the gods of Anorrond, were defeated in the end, and even the projection of the royal city was taken away and became the spoils of the golden giant deer.

In the face of such powerful gods in the world of Vinylon, I am afraid that even the abyss will not be able to get cheap, and naturally it will not be able to affect the world of Vinylon.

What worries Leo is that the gods in the Velen world are starting to disappear one by one. The situation is somewhat similar to the world of Seledor and others. Although there are no living dead yet, at least some bad ones have appeared. An abnormal phenomenon, which made him wonder if this was a sign.

"What is the abyss?" At this moment, Joey asked another question that Leo also wanted to know.

"The abyss is the original sin at the bottom of the world, and the root of all evil." The fire girl gave a vague answer, which didn't have much useful content, more like a lame poem.

This sentence didn't work for Joey, but it seemed like a reminder to Leo, reminding him of a flight mission report.

In the flight mission report, it was mentioned that during a flight test, the spacecraft entered an unknown space and lost its way, and then used double singularity particles to forcibly open a passage. After returning to the normal universe, everyone on the spacecraft All of them had mental problems, and their personalities and so on had changed. These people were eventually supervised, and the most serious of them conducted a series of secret experiments, and a very special word was mentioned in the test report , this word is black oil, and the comment behind the black oil is the root of all evil.

After remembering this report, Leo couldn't help but wonder if the black oil and human pus mentioned in the report might be the same thing.

Just when Leo wanted to ask the fire girl about the details of the human pus, a strong vibration came from the prayer hall they were in, and everyone couldn't stand still for a while, and sat staggered on the ground. And the magical connection between the two time and space formed by the bonfire is now also broken. Except for the fact that the flames of the bonfire burned more vigorously, nothing else changed around.

"Did something happen to them?" Joey was keenly aware of the abnormal situation on the side of the Fire Defense Girl just now, and asked.

"Maybe!" Leo walked to the bonfire and sat down, gestured to Joey, and said, "Wait a while, if they don't show up, I will leave and go to the upper level of the king's city, what about you? What are you going to do?" ?”

"Me?" Joey was stunned, thought for a while, and said, "I also want to see what's going on in the upper royal city. If you don't mind the trouble, I hope you can bring me with you."

Leo nodded when he heard the words, and then in order to pass the time, he casually asked about the situation in the world where Joey lived.

Obviously, Joey's own knowledge is not enough to answer such a question, and the world he lives in should still be similar to an era in the Middle Ages of the Old Earth Era, where knights are the leader of war, so knights also have some privileges.

Joey was born as a commoner. Like most children in the slums, he joined the gang under the Thieves Alliance very early, and then lived in Bingleng City. In fact, most of the time Joey said before was spent in Bingleng After spending time in the city, his understanding of the world is only limited to the Northern Kingdom and its surrounding countries. He doesn't even know how many provinces and major cities there are in the Northern Kingdom, so from him Leo only got There is very little information about that world.

However, in this small amount of information, Leo discovered an interesting thing, that is, a myth and legend that spread throughout the world, a legend about the humans in that world.

According to the legend, the human ancestors in that world lived on a star in the sky and lived a happy and prosperous life, but because of some of the most evil existences, their ancestors were forced to leave the world they lived in, and were killed by an extremely huge ship. The ship was sent to this world along the sea of ​​stars, and gradually multiplied.

This myth and legend just confirmed Leo's previous guess. The people in Joey's world were also survivors on the slave ship, and if nothing else, the people in Theredore's world also had the same origin.

In this way, all the people who can enter the king city or the place where everything ends may have this kind of origin, so this matter is worth pondering.

After the Weiya people and the Guha giants died together, how did the survivors on the slave ship escape the catastrophe, and how did they get involved with the royal city and the place where everything ends, and the slave ship is not just humans and any other races. There are also many alien races. Among these races, there are many powerful aliens who are strong enough to survive in outer space for a period of time. Where did these aliens go? Why only humans and human hybrids survived.

A series of questions emerged in Leo's mind, but there are no answers to these questions now.

When Leo was troubled by various problems, Joey on the side also asked Leo some questions about how to obtain extraordinary power. Regarding these questions, Leo said very simply, without going into too much depth, Especially when it comes to the content of psychic power, he didn't talk about it at all, because even if he talked about it, it was impossible to activate psychic power with Joey's blood.

"Mr. Leo, how can I obtain the power you are talking about?" After going around a few times, Joey finally couldn't help the thoughts in his heart and asked Leo directly.

In the face of Joey's inquiry, Leo was silent for a moment, and said, "The power I possess is impossible for you to possess."

Joey's face immediately became a little sad.

But following Leo's change of subject, he said again: "But things are not absolute, at least I know some methods that can give you some power beyond ordinary people."

"What method is that?" Joey asked impatiently.

However, Leo did not answer, but looked at Joey and smiled.

Joey has been at the bottom all year round, so he naturally knows what Leo means. He can't help but touch the ring on his hand. In his opinion, the most valuable thing on his body is this ring.

"I don't need your ring." Leo's eyes could not escape such an obvious action, he easily guessed the other party's thoughts, shook his head and said: "Your ring is useless to me, what I need you You don’t need to pay now, if we can meet here in the future, you will give it to me then.”

"Wouldn't it be a disadvantage to you?" Joey was stunned for a moment and asked suspiciously.

"Now you think I'm at a disadvantage, and in the future you may feel that you are at a disadvantage." Leo shook his head, hinting, and then asked: "What do you think?"

Joey hesitated for a moment, cautiously did not agree immediately, but asked tentatively: "What do you want me to give you?"

"Give me everything related to your origin myth." Leo made his own condition without thinking.