The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Under Leo's questioning, Jason and the others told each other what happened just now.

It turned out that the four of them also had a mental blank just like Leo. When they recovered, Leo and High Priest Deni had disappeared.

Afterwards, some ferocious beasts would continuously run out from the walls around the cave, attacking them frantically. There have been five waves of attacks before and after. If Jason was not here, perhaps Nelson and the others would have died from the attack of the beasts. Mouth down.

However, what made them feel strange was that all the beasts they killed would disappear before their eyes, even if they grabbed the corpses of the beasts in their hands, or even bit off a piece directly in their mouths, they would still disappear.

If it weren't for the fact that the wounds on their bodies couldn't be faked, maybe they would have thought that they had gone crazy and that everything they had experienced was an illusion.

"Those are not hallucinations." The High Priest Denis had already put on the clothes he had sent back to the cave, covered his creepy-looking eyes with the hood again, and after hearing what Jason and the others had said, he took the initiative to explain Said: "They are all created by the divine power of the patron saint of Nilgaard, and they live in the garden of the patron saint. When someone approaches the place of the god, they will appear to prevent intruders, but they will never leave any traces, no matter It is life, whether it is death. This is what is recorded in the book "Garden of the Gods" written by Nilgaardian writer Hulkes."

Although the high priest of Deni explained, no one believed his words.

"What's that?" Sean's eyesight was very vicious, and he quickly saw the two strangely shaped long swords at the feet of the high priest of Deni, and tried to pick them up.

However, after his hand touched one of the long swords, the long sword immediately rusted and decayed in a short period of time, and finally turned into a pile of metal shavings.

Seeing this situation, Xiao En immediately raised his hand instinctively to signal him, and said, "It wasn't me, I didn't do it!"

"Of course you didn't do it. If you could do this kind of thing, you wouldn't be here." The High Priest Denis taunted Sean coldly, then squatted down, picked up a little metal debris, After looking at it, he said to Leo: "Belong to God, and will eventually belong to God."

As he spoke, he reached out and lightly touched another sword. This sword was also decaying at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if tens of thousands of years had been compressed into a few seconds to act on this long sword.

"Why is this all right?" Leo immediately touched the psychic device in his arms after seeing the end of the long sword leaving the arena, and then took it out to have a look, and found that the thing was still the same, Nothing changes.

"I'm afraid God didn't know that you would do such a thing." Looking at this god's creation, High Priest Deni remembered the scene of Leo fighting in the arena, and couldn't help jokingly said: "So in a certain way, This thing should have become something beyond the grasp of the gods."

"What is this? Gold bricks?" Jason, who was wrapped in bandages, came up and asked with a big grin.

"No! It's a creation of the gods." Leo responded to Jason's inquiry according to the address given by the High Priest of Denis, and before Jason asked where he and the High Priest of Denis had just gone, he shared their experiences in the arena Said it hastily.

When Leo said that he destroyed a legendary god creation with five shots in less than ten seconds, everyone, including the high priest of Deni who saw this scene with his own eyes, used A strange look looked at Leo, while Jason was more concerned with looking at the flintlock that belonged to him but was only temporarily borrowed by Leo, and wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth from time to time.

"Look, on the altar!" Nelson suddenly pointed to the stone platform and said.

Everyone heard the words and looked over, only to see a drop of blood-like liquid seeping out from the center of the stone platform, lifted and suspended in the air by an invisible force.

The blood threads that originally spread throughout the cave also slowly receded into the stone platform, and gradually gathered in that drop of blood, making the drop of blood change from bright red to dark red, and then there was a trace of gold thread, and with the golden thread The increase, and finally turned into a drop of golden blood.

At this time, the passage entrance and another bronze door that were originally covered by the illusion also reappeared, and the previously closed bronze door that could not be opened also opened a gap.

Sean, who never knew how to suppress his greed, completely ignored the reappearance of the two entrances and exits. Only the drop of golden blood was left in his sight, and just like he couldn't help reaching out to touch the long sword just now, This time, he couldn't help but grab that drop of dazzling golden blood.

"It's not yours, you shouldn't touch it!" Leo grabbed Xiao En's hand, looked at him coldly, and said.

Xiao En curled his lips and retracted his hand, but his eyes still couldn't move away from the golden blood.

After teaching Xiao En a lesson, Leo reached out and wanted to pick up the golden blood, but to his surprise, the drop of golden blood passed through his hand, as if the golden blood that everyone saw was just an illusion .

"It seems that this is not your thing." Sean responded to Leo in a timely manner.

"This thing is really weird!" Jason, with a curious face, also reached out to grab the golden blood, and the golden blood passed through his hand just like Leo.

"Doctor, try it." Thinking of the origin of this drop of golden blood, Leo turned to Nelson and said.

Nelson also curiously reached out to grab the golden blood, but what surprised everyone was that they thought that Nelson would be the owner of this drop of golden blood. After all, this drop of golden blood came from his blood, but they didn't expect that Nelson would not be able to succeed either. .

"Kenna, go try it." High Priest Deni said to Catherine.

Catherine didn't think too much after hearing the words, she reached out to grab the drop of golden blood, and this time she succeeded, the golden blood that was like an illusion a moment ago was actually caught in her hands.

Catherine froze for a moment, opened her hand to look at the blood that looked like a golden gem, and said, "What's going on?"

"This may have something to do with you being a Nilgardian," High Priest Deni simply explained.

"It may also be because the doctor's mind was always thinking about you when the blood was drawn." Jason joked with a smile.

This ridicule made Catherine and Nelson's faces turn red. They glanced at each other, and then immediately turned their eyes away. Adults who are clearly in their thirties and almost forties have made such youthful expressions. Acting like a young boy or girl, the onlookers couldn't help but laugh.

"Should we move on?" Sean interjected a little ignorantly at this moment: "The world behind the door may be the destination of our trip."

As soon as he finished speaking, several dissatisfied eyes fell on him immediately, causing him to shrank his neck involuntarily, retreated behind others, covered his mouth, and expressed that he would stop talking too much.

At this time, Leo's mental network suddenly sensed the change of spiritual energy in the stone platform, and gave a reminder through the sub-brain system.

After getting the reminder, Leo immediately looked at the stone platform among the crowd, and the others also looked at the stone platform in unison because of his actions.

I saw that the rough and rough surface of this hard stone platform quickly showed signs of weathering, gradually covered with cracks, and completely fell apart in just ten seconds, turning into a pile of gravel.

In the eyes of everyone, the decay process of the stone platform and the two long swords is the same, except that one is made of metal and the other is made of rock.

However, in Leo's eyes, there is no comparison between the two. The decay of the long sword is only because the power to protect it has disappeared. But the destruction of the stone platform was because the spiritual energy inside the stone platform became chaotic, crushing and repelling each other, thus collapsing and self-destructing.

Although there is no evidence to prove it, Leo feels that the destruction of the stone platform may be related to the psionic device he brought out from the arena.

The destruction of the stone platform made everyone a little bit surprised, but because it didn't cause any adverse reactions, everyone didn't bother with this matter any more.

Only the high priest of Deni sighed with regret, because he felt that the destruction of the stone platform also indicated that the altar that could create divine warriors might have failed.

Although the bronze gate has been opened, Leo did not continue to move forward immediately, but repaired in this cave, so that everyone's injuries and physical strength recovered a little bit, and at the same time reloaded the consumed arrows into the crossbow .

Jason had used up all the explosive arrows in the crossbow, so he had to use ordinary arrows plus a few corrosive acid arrows to ensure the lethality of the crossbow.

After about half an hour of repairing, everyone had almost recovered, and started to move on, opened the concealed bronze gate, and walked into another passage inside the gate.

The passages before this passage are different. This passage is specially built. The ground is paved with flat stone slabs. The surrounding walls are engraved with decorative pillars and religious patterns and symbols. There is a circular arc-shaped dome, and there are some patterns engraved on the dome, which should be some ancient legends.

In addition, a concave shrine is cut between every two colonnades, and the same god statue is enshrined in the shrine, but the shapes of the god statues are different. It is worth noting that this god statue is not in human shape, but a Half-human, half-worm monster.

I saw that this monster had the upper body of a charming woman, and the lower body was like a spider, but the spider's legs were human arms, and the spider's tail was as fat as the abdomen of an ant queen. There is even an incompletely hatched insect egg carved at the spawning opening at the end of each statue.

The most crucial thing and the thing that Leo noticed the most was that in the inscription at the bottom of the statue, he saw the chaotic religious symbols painted on the parish wall on the ground.

"This is the patron saint of the Nilgardians?" After discovering this, Leo pointed at the statue and asked the High Priest of Deni.

Regarding Leo's gesture of pointing at the statue, the high priest of Deni frowned and felt a little displeased, but he still replied truthfully: "This is the patron saint of the Nilgardians, the mother of all hives, and the mother of all living beings." mother, from whom the whole world of Velen was born."

As he spoke, he saw High Priest Denis bowing to the statue in the usual priestly posture. Although the posture was not very special, his expression was very solemn and focused. It can be seen that deep down in his heart, he should have no dissatisfaction with this so-called mother of the hives. low faith.

"The world of Vinylon was created by this thing, do you believe that?" Sean looked at the statue with some disdain and snorted softly.

Regarding Sean's provocation and his disrespectful words to the statue, High Priest Deni didn't show any abnormal anger. He just gave Sean a cold look, and then continued to walk forward behind Leo.

Not getting the response he deserved, Sean couldn't help curling his lip, and followed quickly.

This well-built passage was not very long, and it came to an end soon, but this time there was no bronze door at the end, and they could see everything in front of them clearly standing on the edge of the exit.

I saw that they were at the edge of a huge egg-shaped hive at the moment. This hive was about 60 meters high and the longest diameter was about 30 meters. The surrounding stone walls were all hexagonal hives, except for Leo and others. Except for the entrance and exit of the passageway where people live, these beehives are densely packed throughout the entire inner wall, even on the top and bottom. Roughly counting, there are at least five or six thousand.

In addition, in the hive, there is a huge platform supported by several stone pillars extending from the surrounding stone walls, suspended in the center of the hive.

At the entrance and exit where Leo and the others were, there happened to be a stone pillar about two meters wide extending obliquely, connected to the platform, allowing them to reach the platform.

There is no brazier in this hive, because the walls of the hive seem to be coated with a layer of luminous material, emitting a faint silvery-white light, so the entire hive is very bright.

"Radiation source found, slight radiation, no long-term exposure."

As soon as I approached here, the secondary brain system has already analyzed that the luminous substances on the wall are low-radiation sources. Although there will be no problem with short-term exposure, but prolonged exposure will still cause cell mutations in the body. .

"The hive is full of corpses." At this moment, Catherine suddenly let out an exclamation.

It turned out that when she walked to the stone bridge leading to the platform carefully, she found a group of black shadows in each beehive. After looking carefully, she realized that the black shadows were all human bones.

When the others heard the words, they all looked at the nearest beehive. Only Leo had already known the situation inside the beehive through the spiritual network, so he didn't show too much surprise.

When Sean saw these beehives, he seemed to think of something, walked back to the entrance, stepped on the concave wall of the beehive and climbed to the nearest beehive, carefully looked at the mummy inside, and stretched out his hand to go through A layer of skin that acts as a barrier, groped around the mummy inside, and then let out an exclamation as if he had discovered something, and immediately climbed back to the stone bridge, standing on the spot and looking at the hands with a serious face. Something from a dead body.

"Sean, what did you find?" Nelson couldn't help asking seeing Sean showing a rare serious expression.

"They are all members of the royal family of Farland more than 300 years ago." Sean spread his hands as he spoke, and saw that he was holding a golden chrysanthemum badge jewelry with the unique mark of the royal family of ancient Farland in his hand. Said: "Three hundred years ago, the French royal family was almost wiped out by the slave uprising. Later, the royal family was restored and tried to find the bodies of those dead royal families, but they were never found. I didn't expect them all to be here."