The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

After entering the interstellar era, the Earth Federation divided the advanced intelligent creatures in the earth into four levels, namely Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Omega.

Among them, ordinary humans are regarded as the lowest alpha level, humans with extraordinary intelligence and super strong bodies are regarded as beta level, and psykers are regarded as gamma level. As for the identification range of omega level, most people think that they can Interfering with the operation of a planet by one's own behavior can be counted as an Omega level, and the most famous of these is the will of the planet, also known as the will of Gaia.

Now Leo actually found a piece of remains of a high-level Omega species from the ashes of a monster. If such a thing were placed in the Earth Federation, it would definitely become a big news in the world, because the value of the wreckage in his hand alone was enough to buy a A resource star of the fourth level.

Of course, Leo would not think that the monster he burned to death would be an Omega-level advanced creature, but he felt that the monster appeared because of the wreckage in his hand, and if he hadn't miscalculated, such a wreckage There were more than forty yuan left, and this discovery also made his breathing a lot rougher.

At this moment, Leo's state of contemplation and the slightly changing expression on his face caught the attention of Catherine, who was already suspicious. It's just that she obviously misunderstood what Leo was thinking. Instead, because of Leo's two inexplicable unrelated questions before, she thought that Leo had discovered something related to her, such as why the stone pendant in her hand was waiting here. wait.

Although it was just a misunderstanding, I have to admit that part of Catherine's misunderstanding was correct, so I saw Catherine also said to Leo very seriously: "You also said just now, if we want to cooperate, some Things cannot be hidden, so I also hope that you can tell me what you have discovered now."

Hearing Catherine's question, Leo frowned slightly, then looked at the stone pendant held by Catherine, and immediately understood why Catherine said that.

So he was silent for a while, and said with some earnestness, "Do you really want to know? You have to know that the more you know about some things, the better. Sometimes knowing too much will make you..."

"I want to know." Not only was Catherine not persuaded, but she was even more curious about what Leo had discovered, and she said with certainty.

Seeing this situation, Leo concealed a part of it a little bit, did not tell about the remains of this Omega-level advanced creature, but only told his guess that the forty-five original founders of the Aknaya Church had turned into monsters come out.

"Impossible! This is impossible!" After hearing Leo's guess, Catherine denied this statement without hesitation, but the pain and sadness on her face and the eyes looking at the pile of ashes all showed that she I already believed this guess in my heart.

While Leo spoke out his conjectures about the forty-five founders of the Aknaya Church, he was also observing Catherine's expression and emotions. Although her emotions were completely within Leo's guesses, she was so It's a little weird to accept Leo's speculation so quickly.

"Unless my speculation is related to something she knows?" Leo looked at Catherine, guessing vaguely in his heart, and after Catherine's mood stabilized a little, he said, "You don't have anything else to say What? Like, what turned them into the monsters they are now?"

"What do you know?" Catherine looked at Leo suspiciously.

"What do you think I should know, such as how these monsters were born? Martin you know should know, and the three high priests of the Akenaya Church should also know. As for you?" Leo said, turning They moved their heads very close to Catherine, and the two were so close that they could feel each other's breath. They looked at each other for a while, as if they wanted to see her heart clearly, and then slowly retreated their bodies with affirmative expressions. Said: "You may not know before, but you must know now. Do you think I'm right?"

Catherine did not respond to Leo immediately, but looked down at the stone pendant in her hand, sat in the pile of ashes, was silent for a while, and then slowly said: "We discovered the catacombs by accident back then, from the catacombs We found some ancient books in the book, knowing that we are probably the descendants of the slave kingdom. And we also found from some other older books that the slaves who overthrew the French Empire were not slaves at first, they had their own country and Civilization, they are the Nilgardians."

Leo pointed to the surrounding houses and said, "Are there people living in this underground city?"

"According to the ancient language of Velen, the predecessor of the French language, Nilgard means to live underground." Catherine explained a little bit, and continued: "The Nilgardians built this underground city and formed a city-state. The kingdom is as prosperous as the legendary city-state capitals on the ancient Velen Continent. According to the records in ancient books, an evil force emerged from the ground and affected the patron saint of Nilgaard, corrupting him and making him From a patron saint to a god of destruction."

"Patron saint?" Leo was stunned.

"In the ancient city-state period, each city-state would find a patron saint for itself. For example, the earliest patron saint of Lanxi was the god of slaughter and gladiatorial combat. But most of those gods are just symbolic, not real gods." Catherine said Here, she lacked confidence again. Obviously, what happened just now had a great impact on her, and she couldn't help but doubt her past cognition.

But she soon recovered, and continued: "Although the Nilgardian finally defeated the corrupt patron saint, and divided his body into countless parts, using the power of the earth to completely suppress his remnant body, but the evil power The corruption of the Nilgardians was not spared, so the Nilgardians were forced to leave their dwellings and go up to the surface to live like the rest."

Hearing this, Leo couldn't help tightening his hand holding the wreckage of the higher creature. He felt that the wreckage in his hand might have come from this corrupted patron saint.

"Later, the rise of the French Empire destroyed the city-state built by the Nilgardians on the ground, and built Lanxi on the ruins of the Nilgardian city-state, turning all the surviving Nilgardians into slaves "Catherine stopped here, sighed, and said: "After that, it will be the history of the dynasty of the French Empire."

At this moment, Leo has vaguely understood why forty-nine people encountered abnormal situations at the same time, but only four of them survived, and even gained some supernatural powers similar to psionic power, and the rest of them all genetically collapsed and turned into monsters, because it was not All descendants of slaves are Nilgardians.

At this time, Jason, who was listening intently, couldn't help but ask, "What does the history of the Nilgardians have to do with the creation of this monster?"

Catherine hesitated before saying: "We found the notes left by some people who hid here before the demise of the slave kingdom in the catacombs. In the notes, it was written that King Yassin was the king who defeated the Faran Empire. The reason why he was able to defeat the elite troops of the Faran Empire was because he found the remains of the patron saint in the ruins of the ancient city of Nilgard, and through the power of the remains, he created a group of Warriors with the power of the gods. It was only later that these warriors were corrupted by evil forces and turned into monsters, which made the subsequent slave kingdom quickly weaken."

"Do you believe these things?" Leo asked.

"I don't believe it! At least I didn't believe it at the time, because I don't know who wrote the note, and the text behind it is also some messy graffiti, so we think the note is the nonsense left by the person who went crazy before he died." Catherine honestly said Responding for a moment, he looked at the pile of ashes and the stone pendant in his hand, and said with some confusion: "Now... now I can't tell."

Catherine paused for a while, and then continued: "Martin and the others should believe this statement, because according to the content in the notes, to create a warrior with the power of the gods, you need to sacrifice on the altar that seals the remains of the corrupted patron saint, and The sacrifices must be people with the blood of the gods. I think this is why Nelson will be targeted. I mentioned Nelson's life experience to Martin inadvertently, so he..."

Catherine, who was full of guilt, did not continue, and Leo was silent for a while, as if digesting the information he had just received.

Then Leo said to Catherine very seriously: "Now the development of things has deviated from our original purpose of coming to the catacombs, and it is no longer to collect evidence of any cases. I even suspect that those cases are Martin Luther or the Church. Why. It may be dangerous here, and there may be some things you don't want to see happen. If you want to leave now, Jason and I will send you away first, and then come back to find a doctor... "

Before Leo could finish speaking, Catherine immediately responded: "No need! I grew up in Cage City, and I'm not as fragile as you imagine."

"In this case, find the doctor first, and then consider other things!" Leo made a decision, he did not choose to go to the area that is likely to be the laboratory of the Church of Akenaya, hunt those monsters, and obtain the remains of other higher creatures , but chose to meet with Nelson first.

Although he was still very interested in the high-level biological remains in those dozens of monsters, there were some things that were not easy to do when Catherine was around, and he didn't know how to use these high-level biological remains for the time being.

According to the practice of the Earth Federation, it is natural to extract genes directly from the wreckage, cultivate them into a gene stock solution, or try to clone higher organisms, but as a soldier, Leo does not understand these things at all, and even if he understands, he does not have those high-tech He can't do anything with the help of tools, so the remains of this advanced creature are like a chicken rib to him now.

After making a decision, Leo also adjusted his equipment a little bit. He asked Jason to refill the arrow box of the crossbow. Every five ordinary arrows were mixed with a special arrow with a flame effect, and at the same time He also placed the ammunition for the flintlock within easy reach, ready to be picked up and reloaded after use.

After getting ready, Leo took the two of them along the route Nelson and his party took, and chased them down.

Not long after Leo left the underground living area, two teams of Aknaya Church priests who lit torches came here from the other two underground passages in the underground living area.

If Leo is still here, he must know that the two teams are from the garrison priest in the previous residential area and the garrison priest in the laboratory area.

In addition, he will also find that although the front of these priests' clothes is the emblem of the Aknaya Church, the back is the chaotic symbols he saw on the walls of the parish.

Except for the badge symbols on the clothes that are different from the priests on the ground, each of these priests wears a mask, and the exposed parts of their bodies are completely covered by the clothes, and even their heads are covered with hoods. Gives a sense of mystery.

Among these priests, there are also experts who are proficient in tracking and exploration, which made them quickly find the place where Leo and the monster fought just now, found the piece of ashes, and even barely pieced together the process of the battle through the surrounding traces , had a rough assessment of Leo's strength, and finally judged from the footprints on the ground how many people were there at that time.

It's just that when they judged a person's state from the depth of their footprints, they mistakenly described Leo, who was carrying a heavy flintlock, as a big fat man.

After that, a person who seemed to be the leader walked out of the group of priests coming from the laboratory area. He gave some instructions to the other priests, and then the two groups were divided into three.

The first team stayed in this area and continued to search. It seemed that they wanted to find out the reason why Leo and others sneaked in here without a sound, that is, the secret passage.

The other team returned to the previous area, probably planning to block the passage to prevent anyone from escaping.

As for the last team, which is also the team with the largest number of people, they followed the footprints left by Leo and the others on the ground, but they didn't know that the footprints they found were deliberately left by Leo.

Leo, who is proficient in special operations, has hundreds of ways to cover up his footprints and make them untraceable, but he didn't do this. He even hoped that the people from the Akenaya Church who were alarmed by his gunshots would follow, so that he could You can use these priests to deal with the team that brought Nelson here.

Although judging from various collected data, the team that caused chaos in the shelter should not have any malice toward Nelson, but Leo, who always likes to put things in the worst-case scenario, will habitually do some countermeasures pre-arranged.

That team has no problems, it's all right, he can unite with that pair of people to solve these priests.

If there is a problem with that team, he can use the power of these priests to create chaos and rescue Nelson, and by the way, when the two groups are fighting about the same, they can be solved together.