The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Leo ignored Sean's gag that deliberately made people relax their vigilance, but looked at Sean and High Priest Deni very seriously, and said, "I have something related to everyone's safety. I want to ask you two. What's going on with Bian? How dangerous is it?"

The reason why Leo asked this question was mainly because the powerful mysterious power existing on the other side frightened him.

Although he didn't feel any threat from that force for the time being, and that force was only a spiritual network that repelled him, he was not sure whether they would encounter something as mysterious as the Black Forest after they passed by. Things, so he hopes to collect as much useful information as possible so that he can make preparations in advance.

"I'm not very clear about the things over there. I just found this broken bridge as a landmark based on the notes of my ancestors. I know that there is an altar on the opposite side that requires divine blood to open. That altar was created by King Yassin back then. The warrior's place is also the place where the member of the White Rose family was sacrificed, and the Sea God Scepter was left there." When talking about business, Sean became serious, explained what he knew, and then He looked at the high priest of Deni next to him, and said: "The Church of Akenaya has occupied this place for more than ten years, and there are countless books and antiquities collected from the Nilgardians here. They should be very familiar with the situation here. learn."

"I've never been here before." As soon as Sean's voice fell, High Priest Deni responded immediately.

This response made Sean stunned, and it also made Leo a little confused. After all, the Church of Akenaya has been excavating this underground city for so long. The chamber area isn't very far either, so it should be easy to explore if you take a little time.

"Mr. Dodd, do you believe what High Priest Deni said?" Sean said to Leo with suspicion of provocation.

However, after pondering for a while, Leo gave an answer that surprised Sean again, saying: "I believe, I believe that High Priest Deni has really never been here."

"Why do you believe it?" Sean asked puzzled.

"Because he doesn't need to lie at this time." Leo replied simply, but this answer was purely nonsense. The reason why he was really sure that the high priest of Denis was not lying was his years of interrogation experience and 20 points. Spiritual awareness enhanced by spiritual base value.

The trust shown by Leo also gained another harvest, that is, the goodwill of the high priest of Denis. Although this kind of goodwill is not enough to make the two of them become friends, in the next adventure, it will allow the two to be closer. tacit cooperation.

Although Leo has expressed his belief in what the High Priest of Denis said, the High Priest of Denis still chose to give some explanations, saying: "We have obtained a lot of data from other urban areas, and it takes a long time to analyze and interpret those data alone. Time and a lot of manpower are needed, and the matter of the underground city cannot be made known to the outside world, so there are not many people involved. In the Nilgaard books that we have analyzed, there is no information related to this place, only other urban areas Therefore, instead of wasting a lot of manpower and material resources on exploring unknown areas, it would be more effective to focus on known places and carry out purposeful excavation.”

Leo frowned and said, "So, no one knows what's going on over there?"

"No, there is one thing that might help us." The High Priest of Deni hesitated, and said, "According to Nilgaard's record of sacrifice written by the priest at that time, any altar must have The two altar guards, they are the creations of the Patronus, with immortality and great power, they are the embodiment of steel."

"What kind of nonsense is this?" Sean was at a loss, completely listening to these words as bedtime words to scare the next child.

On the contrary, Leo had a thoughtful look on his face. Creation, undead life, powerful power, and the steel avatar made him think of the combat robots of the Earth Federation.

At this moment, Leo didn't hide his pensive expression, and both Sean and High Priest Deni noticed it.

Sean, who was curious, pretended to be intimate, leaned forward and asked, "Brother Leo, do you know something?"

"Don't call me brother, I'm definitely not as old as you, and our relationship is not to the extent of calling brothers, let's call each other according to the proper etiquette! Your Excellency Sean." Leo is not in the mood to talk to this They made friends with more than a dozen guys with eyes, so they almost blocked Sean's grip, and then they didn't ask other things, but walked between Jason and the others to clean the battlefield together.

The high priest of Deni, who was born in Cage City, has been used to finding useful things from corpses since he was a child. Even though his identity has prevented him from picking up corpses over the years, this habit still exists deep in his bones, so seeing Leo had nothing to ask, and he also took the initiative to collect items from the corpse.

Sean insists on his own identity, so of course he doesn't want to do such a low-level thing, not to mention that these corpses are all his subordinates, but everyone else is doing things here, and he sits there alone, which makes him feel isolated It felt like, eventually, he too had to start his first sweep of the field.

Soon, all the things that could be used on the corpse had been cleaned out and piled up in different categories.

Under Leo's distribution, all the medicines were handed over to Catherine and Nelson, and the others only carried some wound medicines.

Everyone has a weapon such as a crossbow, and Nelson's military uniform crossbow has also been replaced with a better one. In addition, each of them has a melee weapon such as a short knife.

As for Sean's ammunition-consuming repeating gun, it was confiscated and replaced with a mechanical repeating crossbow, and all the precious special bullets were confiscated by Leo.

In addition, some heavy objects such as nooses and rollers for climbing were handed over to Jason and Leo, and each of them put a bundle of other ropes on their bodies for emergencies.

After making these preparations, Leo and the others came to the side of the broken bridge. The ropes built before are still there, but the rollers of the auxiliary bridge have fallen into the abyss below because they were not tied firmly, or because of the psionic wave just now.

The person who had climbed to the opposite side had disappeared at this moment. Perhaps the psionic energy wave just now was transmitted to the opposite side, which also affected the people over there. Even if he didn't die on the spot, he might be unconscious.

Leo stretched out his hand and tugged at the rope next to him, felt how fast the rope was fixed, then put the equipment on his body aside, and went into battle as lightly as possible, holding only a few necessary tools for building the ropeway, in front of everyone Under the watchful eye, climbed up the rope.

For Leo, climbing such a rope is as easy as eating and drinking. If it wasn't for avoiding being too shocking, he could even cross the 50-meter rope bridge in just a few seconds.

However, fortunately, Leo didn't do some dangerous and quick moves to climb the rope, because when he climbed to the middle of the rope, which was the edge of the area shrouded by the mysterious force, he felt a chill suddenly over him. Swept over.

This chill has no effect on him, but for those who are not mentally prepared or those with poor physical fitness, it may cause his hands and feet to experience abnormal reactions such as numbness and stiffness for a short time. In the case of relying on the hands and feet to fix the body, numbness in the hands and feet means that you cannot grasp the rope, which means you will fall into the abyss.

Leo made a note of this location, and when the roller cableway was built on the opposite side and pulled other people over, he would remind them to be careful.

The chill quickly disappeared, and Leo didn't experience any other discomfort. He accelerated his crawling speed and soon came to the opposite side.

After getting off the rope, Leo immediately checked the surrounding situation.

On the side of the broken bridge, there is also a square surrounded by shrines and stone pillars. The only difference is that everything here is still intact, even the statue in the center of the square is intact.

In addition, there is no passage on the edge of the square facing the broken bridge, but a bronze door about five meters high and four meters wide. Because of years of moisture corrosion, the surface of this bronze door has been rusted, and the unique smell The smell of copper can be clearly smelled even at the broken bridge on this side of the square.

At first glance, there was nothing unusual about the surrounding scene, but Leo became extremely alert at this moment, and pulled out the king from his waist, and at the same time drew out a battle axe.

In fact, at this time, it is more appropriate to use a flintlock hand cannon. Unfortunately, the flintlock hand cannon is too heavy. In order not to increase the burden on the rope, he can only put it in other equipment that needs to be transported separately, so that it can only be used now. The psychic weapon that the king has not fully mastered.

With a gun in one hand and an ax in the other, Leo glanced around. The reason why he became so vigilant was because there was something missing from the Broken Bridge, and that was the Englishman who had come here before. corpse.

"Leo, what's the matter with you?" Perhaps after seeing Leo passing by, there was no movement. The people here became a little anxious, and Jason's question immediately sounded in this empty place.

"There are some small problems here, I will talk about it after I solve it." Leo replied loudly, and then tried to expand the spiritual net.

However, things went as he expected, his mental net was only stirring under the scalp, and there was no way to send it out of the body.

"An unknown high-energy force field has been discovered. According to preliminary analysis, it has repellent properties and cannot be absorbed. It can be used to supplement spiritual energy."

After losing the more useful spiritual net, Leo could only choose to turn on the spirit vision, and the moment he turned on the spirit vision, he immediately gained something.

Vision abilities such as night vision and farsightedness allow him to easily see the details of the surrounding things, but what really makes him gain the most is that he can see the surrounding psionic energy and objects with psionic energy attached to it.

Leo's gaze fell directly on the sculpture in the center of the square. Under the influence of his spiritual vision skills, this statue, which was obviously only carved from stone, exuded bursts of strong spiritual energy.

Reminiscent of what High Priest Deni mentioned just now that there would be creations of patron saints around the altar of the Nilgardians, responsible for guarding the safety of the altar, coupled with the disappearance of the Inge just now, and the spiritual power on the statue now, Lei Ou had every reason to place suspicion on this seemingly innocuous stone statue.

"Bang!" Leo didn't think about approaching the statue at all, he lifted the king directly, and aimed a shot at the statue's head.

The special bullet enhanced by the spiritual weapon instantly hit the head of the statue, and the burst shrapnel smashed the head to pieces.

However, the expected situation did not appear, and the statue did not respond to the attack, which made Leo, who was already on the alert, feel a little puzzled.

At this moment, the statue that lost its head instantly jumped up from the base, its chest was split up and down to form a big mouth full of sharp teeth, and it rushed towards Leo.

Although the attack was a few seconds later than expected, it did not have any impact on Leo. Almost at the same time the statue jumped up, Leo had already reacted, raised his gun instantly, and fired at the four statues. Four shots broke the limbs, leaving only a body that flew a short distance in the air and fell heavily to the ground.

When he launched the attack just now, Leo deliberately didn't point his gun at the torso of the statue. He needed to research what it was, so he knocked off the limbs, made it lose the ability to move, and then slowly processed it.

The statue with only the torso left did not lose the spiritual power as the driving force, but because the fragments of bullets pierced into the torso were attached to a large amount of weak spiritual energy, which produced an effect similar to radio wave interference, causing the torso of the stone sculpture to entangle His spiritual energy became very chaotic and disorderly, directly causing this torso to twitch like a real person.

As for the broken limbs, because they were separated from the torso as the core of psionic energy, they turned back to the appearance of ordinary stones, fell to the ground, and broke into several pieces.

"Leo, what's the matter with you?" Jason and the others immediately asked loudly with concern when they heard gunshots coming from the other side.

"It's okay, a little trouble, it's been resolved!" Leo responded loudly, withdrew the shell casing in the king, reloaded five ammunition, then looked around, and found no other dangerous objects around, then went Go straight to the base of the statue.

I saw a loose stone slab on the base, and some blood could be seen spilling from the gap in the slate.

Leo stretched out his hand to lift the slate, and saw that the Yingge man who had not been seen before was stuffed into the concave hole of the base. The whole person was completely distorted and deformed due to the external force, and the blood was squeezed from the inside of the body. When it came out, it flowed through some openings at the bottom of the recessed base of the base into a series of specially-made conveying channels. In the end, it didn't know where it went, but one thing that was certain was that this was definitely not a good thing.

After finding no other useful clues on the base of the statue, Leo returned to the broken bridge, hung the roller he brought over on the rope, connected it to a rope for pulling the roller, and checked the rope again. Then put the roller back to the opposite bank, picked up the wall lamp that had just been placed on the ground and shook it a few times, signaling that it was time to come.