The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

After walking out of the mist again, everything in front of him returned to the color of the normal world. The leaves are green, the earth is yellow, and the sky is blue. However, this is not where Leo first entered. Old Johnsburg, but a strange swamp island, surrounded by a large number of crocodiles and other swamp beast corpses, judging from the degree of decay, they should have been dead for several days.

From the details of the surrounding environment, Leo could judge that this place should still be Josh County, and it looked like it should be another entrance to Death Valley. The corpses of the surrounding swamp beasts were obviously left by the people of Death Valley.

Not far away, the old wizard sat limply on the ground, the powerful energy fluctuations on his body also disappeared with the disappearance of the blessing witchcraft, and he returned to his true strength, only because of the side effects of the witchcraft , coupled with the excessive use of wizards and wonders, made him in a very bad state at the moment, his face was pale and bloodless, and it seemed that he might die at any time.

However, these are just superficial illusions. Leo can still feel that the old wizard still has a very powerful force in his body, which is hidden and hidden. Obviously, the old wizard still has a little bit of vigilance towards Leo, even if the two of them were still in each other's arms just now. Assisted in escaping the attack of the abyss monster, but the old wizard still listed Leo as a person who must be vigilant.

If Leo planned to attack him with evil intentions while he was weak now, he also had enough powerful means to protect himself and even fight back.

Although Leo felt disdain for the old wizard's methods, he didn't say much. He stood outside the psychological distance of the other party and said: "Now the matter is over, and what I promised you has been completed. I want to go back to the game." If you have something to do, you can find me there, but the price you have to pay for doing something with me is not low, so think carefully before looking for me."

Just when Leo was about to turn around and leave, the old wizard suddenly asked, "Why? Why did you do that?"

"Why?" Leo frowned, looking at the old wizard in a puzzled manner.

I saw the old wizard put the bag containing the Seagod artifact on the ground beside him. The gap in the bag was clearly visible. Obviously, anyone with a little vision could see that the gap could not be cut with a blunt instrument. It can only be cut with a sharp weapon.

Leo was silent for a while, and did not answer directly, but asked rhetorically: "Do you think that if the British royal family who has already mastered a sea god artifact obtains another sea god artifact, and masters how to use this artifact, what will happen next?" what happen?"

Hearing Leo's inquiry, the old wizard's expression froze slightly. He knew what the royal family of England was going to do without even thinking about it, because he was also one of the participants in this plan, even if he didn't want to participate in it. .

Undoubtedly, the royal family of England, who possessed the two artifacts of the Sea God, would definitely want to retake the power of the Kingdom of England. Naturally, it would be irreconcilable with the kingdom's parliament and the power of the lord. At that time, a civil war that would affect the entire Kingdom of England would also be impossible. avoid happening. Whoever the final victor of the civil war is, the Kingdom of England itself will suffer heavy losses, and may even lose its seat of sea supremacy.

At that time, the victors of the civil war will inevitably launch a series of wars in order to regain the status of maritime supremacy. As a result, the entire Kingdom of England may fall into decades of war.

The old wizard also does not want to see wars happen, especially when his people have moved to the Kingdom of England. If there is a war, then he and his people will inevitably become the main force in the royal war. Encountered huge casualties, this is definitely not the result he hoped to see.

Although he failed to get back the Sea God Artifact, he would lose some prestige and trust in front of the British royal family, but he is still a court wizard of the royal family, and still has advantages that others cannot have, so the rights in his hands will not decreased.

Thinking of this, the old wizard didn't say anything more, but closed his eyes slightly and rested quietly.

Leo knew that the old wizard had figured it out, so he stopped staying any longer. After identifying the general direction, he walked towards a place where there might be people.

The location of the entrance and exit of Death Valley is obviously in the middle of the Josh Swamp. It took Leo a full half a day to find some artificial simple piers and a hunter's cabin on a river channel. It seems that they are from Josh County. The local hunter built it specially for hunting, and then he went downstream along the river, and after about half an hour, he finally saw a small town.

This town is called Robert Town. It was originally just a small hunter's village, but because of the rise of the leather industry, it has become the leather center of Josh County. Almost all the valuable hunters hunted in Josh County The prey will come here for sale, which makes it one of the few prosperous towns in Josh County.

The reason why the town is called Robert Town is that the original builder of this town is the legendary hunter Robert. This legendary hunter has caught countless prey in his life, and it is believed that there is no prey that Robert cannot catch. After the hunter died, the hunter's remains were buried in his hometown, and the hunter's hunting bow and other tools were placed in the town according to his will, and some admirers of the legendary hunter even built a The museum is used to house Laupert's hunting bows and tools.

However, the museum has now developed into the largest hunter museum in the entire Kingdom of England. It not only stores the tools and weapons of various famous hunters, but also has a large number of specimens of prey, and even some rare specimens make the Royal Academy biological Research will salivate.

After arriving in the small town, Leo found a hotel directly, washed off the dust on his body, and then asked for some food. While eating in the room, he took out the things he had harvested this time, and carefully looked at them. look.

Perhaps because of returning to the world of Velen, the color of the seed given to him by the tree man's heart became more emerald green, and Leo could clearly feel the life energy emanating from it.

Compared with the treant seeds, the situation of the abyss crystalline worm is very bad. Leo can hardly feel any energy fluctuations on this crystalline worm, even the desire to devour it produced by the eyeballs of the abyss snake and the chaotic stomach sac also weakened to the extreme.

"It seems that there is indeed a power that can suppress the abyss in the world of Velen." The situation of the crystal worms made Leo have an idea. For this reason, he also tried to see the power to use the eyeballs of the abyss snake.

Although the process of mobilizing the power was very smooth, with almost no obstacles, and it was running smoothly in the body, until he guided this power to the outside world, the power effect of this power was very weak, obviously also influenced by the outside world. The suppression of power.

This is a good thing, at least no matter whether the backhand left by the tower wizard in Death Valley has played a role, the power on the other side of the abyss is unlikely to have much impact on the world here, provided that the people here do not Find death by yourself, to provoke the power of the abyss.

Leo only carefully checked that these two items would not be damaged when they were taken out in Velen World, and then put them back into the storage space. After that, he rested quietly while recalling and sorting out the items in the wizard tower. books.

Although the old wizard played tricks and let him stay in a library where all the witchcraft books in the tower were removed, he didn't gain nothing.

Not to mention the large amount of content related to tower wizards and witchcraft mixed in the wilderness wizard's life diary, just some rare books that can no longer be found in other ordinary books have already gained a lot.

Among these precious books, most of them are books listed as banned books. Judging from the publication date of the books, they should be collected by Earl Drake.

The contents of these books themselves record the history and geographical changes of the Velen world, as well as some unknown secrets, etc., but what really makes Leo feel the most valuable are some notes left by Earl Drake in these books, These notes contain many real secrets about this world.

Although the old wizard has been with the royal family of England for many years, he is not an intelligence officer after all, and his sensitivity to intelligence is very slow. Otherwise, he would not regard these books that record various secrets of the world as useless books , randomly placed in the library, and even given to Leo to read.

It is no exaggeration to say that according to Leo's estimate, the value of the various information and secrets he obtained from the books in the library has exceeded imagination. Once many secrets are released, they may cause internal turmoil in several countries , and even lead to a world war.

However, Leo is not interested in things like triggering a world war. What he is interested in is some hidden things behind these precious information, such as why Earl Drake knows so much precious information, and many of them even involve To the gods.

Judging from Earl Drake's life, whether it is some deeds on the bright side or his experience as a tower wizard, it shows that Earl Drake is absolutely incapable of building a worldwide intelligence network, and has heard such There is a lot of confidential information, so Leo thinks that the source of Earl Drake's information should be the High Tower. The High Tower has distributed the entire intelligence network to all parts of the world of Velen a long time ago. Only in this way can these secret information be explained clearly. origin of.

Just another question came up again, what is the purpose of the tower collecting so much secret information, even including some people's bloodlines and so on?

If it's for power and to be able to secretly control the countries of the world like the Orthodox Church, it makes sense.

But the problem is that throughout history, the tower wizards have hardly participated in any important events that can influence the world situation, nor have they supported puppet spokespersons and the like to control the world or kingdom for them.

Earl Drake can be said to be the tower wizard who is most deeply involved in politics and the world situation, but even so, after completing his goal, he did not lust for any rights, returned to Death Valley, and continued to be his the caretaker.

In Leo's view, the tower wizards are more like a group of observers hiding in the dark, recording everything they observe, and will not use any information they have collected for their own benefit.

But does such a totally detached person really exist? Leo absolutely didn't believe it.

There is also an observer civilization in the universe of the Earth Federation. This civilization is very old and is one of the earliest cosmic civilizations. Although they are ancient and powerful, they have never invaded other civilizations. After a civilization, it will only observe and record the development and evolution of these civilizations in secret.

At first glance, this civilization seems to be harmless. For a long time, the entire universe thought so, until a spaceship of a high-level observer encountered a cosmic storm, all the observers on board were killed, and the communication device was destroyed. Destroyed in a storm, found by a passing scavenger, and taken away.

Afterwards, the technicians on the scavenger ship cracked the recording device on the Observer spacecraft and discovered the Observer's true intentions.

It turns out that the observers did not really just observe the progress and evolution of those civilizations, they also secretly collected the mother cells of these civilized races, and secretly used these mother cells to cultivate some clones that added part of the observer's genes, and then sent them back to the In their respective civilizations, the genetic populations are secretly expanded.

The reason why they did this is entirely because the observer civilization has developed to the limit, and it is difficult to go further into a higher cosmic civilization, and because of some accidents, the fertility of the entire ethnic group has dropped to the bottom, and the birth rate of the ethnic group is far lower than mortality rate.

In order to allow the ethnic group to continue, the observer civilization thought of a plan similar to parasitic vines. They searched for a new civilization in the universe, and then observed the race and culture of this civilization to see if it had the potential to become a higher civilization, and then used this The mother cells of the civilized races raised the half-observer race and sent them back to civilization.

This half-observer can give birth to offspring like normal people, but there is a high probability that some of their offspring will only be dominated by observer cells, and this newborn will be secretly brought back by the observer civilization. The home planet is cultivated and integrated into the civilization, and the civilization potential of these people is used to promote the development of the observer civilization.

As soon as this news came out, it caused a great shock in the universe. Each cosmic civilization began to check whether there were half-observers in itself. It turned out that not only half-observers existed in ordinary cosmic civilizations, but also in several advanced civilizations. Half-watchers, and there are plenty of them.

In the end, Leo didn't know how this matter was resolved, because he was supposed to be dead. He just knew that the issue of dealing with the observers had been discussed in the Supreme Council, but the situation should be very detrimental to the civilization of the observers.

But now the tower wizard collects all kinds of information and spreads the intelligence network in the Vinylon world, which makes Leo instantly think of the observer civilization. Because the behavior trajectory of the two is surprisingly consistent, he also thinks that the tower wizard must have With deep care.