The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Jason, protect Miss Catherine."

Leo, who had been prepared for a long time, gave Jason an order, and immediately rushed out of the room, lit the burqa in his hand, and rushed towards the monster head-on.

The monster screamed again when it saw someone rushing out, and its moving speed also accelerated a lot.

When the two were close enough to collide, the mouth-like crack opened instantly, as if trying to swallow Leo in.

However, Leo's movements are like a cheetah, and his body is so flexible that every bone can twist. He dodges from the slime monster with a movement and twist that ordinary people can't do, just avoiding the opponent's swallowing. At the same time, he also took off the flintlock gun on his back, and without hesitation put the muzzle against the monster's body and pulled the trigger.

A loud bang of "Boom" reverberated in the entire cave space and spread to the distance. Many people in this underground city heard it, and stopped what they were doing, and waited and watched the place where the sound came from. past.

Whether the sound of the flintlock will alarm everyone who enters the ground is not in Leo's mind now. All he thinks about now is to kill this monster and survive.

After the hand cannon was fired, the fireworks from the gun barrel instantly ignited the slime monster's body, and at the same time, the steel balls shot out quickly tore apart the monster's not-so-solid body, leaving a big hole in its body. Passed through from the other side, hit the rock on the ground, and blasted a small crack.

The slime monster didn't seem to feel any pain, even though the body was torn open, the attack was still not slow.

I saw that it didn't turn around at all, and directly produced six tentacled limbs from the part of the body closest to Leo, sweeping towards Leo like an octopus.

For Leo, who has entered a state of perfect control, this kind of attack method that can make ordinary people have nowhere to hide is like a slow motion in a movie. He easily escaped from the attack gap, and he still While dodging, he threw the completely burned burqa into the wound on the monster's body that was gradually healing.

Different from the part of the monster's body surface that was ignited by the hand cannon fireworks, the burn on the body surface has no hindrance to the monster, and can quickly recover through self-healing, but the flame that burns directly in the body is enough for the monster. fatal.

Leo just threw the fireball made of the burqa into the monster's body, and the next second the monster immediately turned into a violently burning fire, as if the monster's body was composed of flammable oil.

Seeing that the monster was completely ignited, in order to avoid the monster's dying counterattack, Leo immediately retreated to a safe place before stopping.

But soon he realized that he was thinking too much. Obviously, the moment the monster's body started to burn, the monster was already dead, and what was burning now was just the monster's body.

"What is this? How could there be such a monster in the world?" After Leo signaled that he was safe, Catherine quickly walked out of the stone house, stood beside Leo, looked at the fire in front of her, and said with a pale face.

"I also really want to know what kind of monster this is. I think the senior members of the Church of Akenaya should know the answer." Leo asked for another box of Jean Valjean's special ammunition from Jason who was walking over. , stuffed into the hand cannon, and carried it behind his back.

Now, Leo found that the power of ordinary pistols can no longer deal with such monsters. As for the king and queen, he has not yet mastered the real use method, and there are very few special bullets, so he will not consider using them unless it is a last resort.

On the contrary, the flintlock hand cannon that he gave up before can play a good role in this situation, and there are more than fifty ammunition for the flintlock hand cannon, which is enough for him to use.

"You mean these monsters were made by Major and the others?" Catherine was a little reluctant to believe it.

"Actually, you already have doubts, haven't you? Think about the location here, think about who controls this place, and the answer will be easy to find." Leo directly revealed Catherine's thoughts that Catherine wanted to hide, and let her Face directly what you least want to face.

Although Leo showed that he knew nothing about the origin of the monster, and was only guessing based on the current situation around him, in fact he knew very well where the monster came from.

In the underground space not very far from here, after passing two large city ruins, you will see an area cleared by the Church of Aknaya. Looks like a monster with a genetic breakdown.

The reason why Leo knew that the way to deal with this kind of monster is to light the inside of its body with fire is because when he was constructing the topographic map on the ground, he saw through the spiritual network that the priests of the Aknaya Church in that area were Taking body fluid from a captured monster, and accidentally igniting the body fluid, he instantly burned himself into a ball of fire.

And now the monster killed by Leo is likely to be the monster whose body fluid was pumped before, and it should have escaped during the commotion, but it was very unlucky, and met Leo who knew everything about it. .

However, through the battle just now, Leo became a little interested in the monster's body fluid. This body fluid is not only more flammable than common oils in this world, but also burns much hotter than those oils.

All the oils used in this world are extracted from the fruit of the fiery tree. The extracted vegetable oil will be further processed three times to make oils for different purposes.

Among them, the best processed oil will become the industrial oil required by some special machinery, the second grade will become the smokeless oil used by nobles and wealthy businessmen, and the final oil and water residue will become the oil for daily lamps.

As for the first oil extracted from plants, it is used in mechanical lubricants because of its non-flammable properties.

However, no matter how much the scientists of this world refine this oil, the ignition point of this oil is somewhat high, and it takes a while to burn completely, and the heat released is also average, not even comparable to the heat of some charcoal burning .

Just like when Leo lit the burqa soaked in smokeless lamp oil in his hand just now, he also needed to entangle with the monster. Only after the oil was completely burned could he ensure that the flame would not burn when he threw it into the monster's body. Diminished or extinguished.

Today, the burning characteristics of the monster's body fluid are very similar to the gasoline commonly used in the old earth's oil era in Leo's memory, as long as a little spark, it can burn completely.

Even after this bodily fluid is burned, the released gas can be combusted again, just like natural gas.

What role did the emergence of oil play in the technological evolution of the earth age? Even Leo, a biological weapon that only knows how to fight, is very clear. Once this body fluid can be mass-produced, it will also represent the end of the world's steam age.

From the mental network's perception of that area before, it is not difficult for Leo to find that the Church of Aknaya has also noticed the body fluids of these monsters, so they will feed these monsters regardless of the cost to keep them alive, and extract them from time to time. The bodily fluid of a monster.

This made Leo, whose curiosity became very strong, couldn't help but want to explore that area to see what secrets the Akenaya Church, which had deviated from the teachings, still hid.

However, the problem is that the location of that area is completely opposite to the location where Nelson and his group left, which makes it difficult for Leo to make a choice.

Just when Leo was thinking about the matter, the monster's body was completely burned to ashes. This kind of ashes is real ashes, and there is no wreckage left.

Although he felt that it was impossible to find anything useful from the ashes, Leo still habitually rummaged through the pile of ashes.

It didn't take long for him to feel that his habit was a good one, for he found two things in the ashes.

One of them was a pendant carved from ordinary stone, with the emblem of Aknaya Church engraved on it. Leo felt that this might be a clue, so he took it out of the ashes.

"Wait! Let me see!" Catherine, who still had a shocked expression on her face, saw the stone pendant in Leo's hand, and immediately stopped him, and took the stone pendant without waiting for Leo's response. Going over, with the light of the wall lamp in his hand, he looked carefully in front of his eyes, and then with an unbelievable expression on his face, he murmured: "How is it possible? How is it possible to be here?"

"What's this?" Leo asked.

"When the church was first established, there were no people and no money. In order to give the members of the church an identity, Martin asked someone to make fifty badge pendants with stones. The front of the pendant is Ake Naya's badge, on the back is the person's name and the name of the position in the church, I am the first non-staff member." Catherine tried to calm herself down, and while speaking, she took out a similar stone pendant from her neck, Put it in your hand and compare the two pendants. Although there are some differences in shape, judging from the way the emblem is carved, it should be made by the same person.

"Whose badge pendant belongs to?" Leo asked in a deep voice.

"It belonged to little Jack. His position in the church at that time was a preacher." Catherine said with a very sad expression on her face, "Little Jack is one of my best friends. When he died, I was While studying in medical school, Martin wrote a letter about an accident. Apart from me, among the original fifty people who founded the church, only he and the three brothers Mason survived, and the other forty-five people died, including Jack Jr. Martin said that they were all buried," she said suspiciously, "It stands to reason that their badges should also be buried together, how could it appear in the body of this monster?"

"Forty-five people?" Leo froze for a moment when he heard the number, and immediately ordered the sub-brain system to call up the exploration data records of the spirit network, and quickly found what he wanted.

The number of monsters in that underground secret room was exactly forty-four, and the number of monsters in this one is forty-five.

Leo, who discovered this situation, could hardly regard it as a coincidence. According to Catherine, it was obvious that when Catherine was studying abroad, people like Martin discovered something from this underground city and encountered some things. Martin and the three One high priest survived, and the rest turned into monsters.

At this time, Leo suddenly thought of something, so he asked Catherine a little abruptly: "Miss Catherine, did you use the perfume you made yourself before? It was before going to medical school."

Catherine didn't understand why Leo suddenly asked such a question, but she nodded and replied: "I have been using it all the time. My mother passed it on to me when I was very young. It is said to be a family secret."

Hearing this, Leo had a strange look on his face, and looked down at the pile of ashes.

Although it was just a guess, Leo vaguely felt that the monster rushed over just now not to attack them, but smelled the unique perfume smell on Catherine's body, which aroused his memory and wanted to come to find Catherine, but his appearance later turned things around Turned a corner.

At this time, Leo asked another more inexplicable question, "How was the development of the Church of Aknaya before you went to medical school?"

Catherine frowned, and the look of doubt on her face was much thicker, but she still replied truthfully: "It's too bad, there were many gangsters in Cage City at that time, it was not what it is now, and our appearance was a big deal to them. A group of enemies dividing the territory, so things often happen. Martin and the others are also worried that those gangsters will target me, so they pool money and find connections to send me to medical school to study medicine. I also thought that if I succeed in my studies Medical skills are also helpful to them, so I agreed."

Hearing this, Leo already had the answer in his heart.

From Catherine's age, it is not difficult to infer how many years it took for the Akenaya Church to develop into the church with a million people.

Under normal circumstances, it would be absolutely impossible for Martin, the powerless young people at the bottom of the Cage City, to accomplish such a feat in a short period of time, but the fact is that they succeeded, and they succeeded perfectly.

So in Leo's view, Martin and the others must have used some extraordinary means. For example, the vision-like psionic ability that he found abnormal in the Catherine clinic, and the extraordinary affinity for ordinary people in him, and so on.

And these extraordinary methods related to psionic skills should be obtained from the so-called accident, but some people were lucky enough to obtain some abilities, while some people were unlucky and turned into monsters.

Thinking of this, Leo clenched his right hand, feeling the second object he just found from the ashes in his hand - a bone-like object. He felt that this bone-like object might be one of the causes of the accident , so he issued an analysis command to the accessory brain system, and soon the analysis result came out, and it was directly presented in his eyes.

"The remains of an unknown higher species were found, which can be classified as Omega-level higher organisms and cannot be absorbed."