The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Compared with the number of passengers on board when it arrived at Skull Bay, when the Snow Queen left Skull Bay, the number of people on board increased a lot, and finally filled most of the vacant cabins on board.

These newly added passengers were not pre-existing, but added temporarily, and the reason was precisely because of the sinking of the Miracle Star.

As a representative of the highest technology in the shipbuilding industry, the giant steel ship Miracle Star carried the expectations of countless people, and now that expectations have been shattered, people's confidence in steel ships has fallen in an avalanche.

Now, many tourists in Skull Bay have distrust of steel steamships. Even if most of the steamships in Skull Bay are still made of wood and steel, it is impossible to bring any trust to these tourists. On the contrary, the Snow Queen This fully sail-powered boat has been favored by them.

For this reason, they did not hesitate to change their itinerary, spend a lot of money, buy a boat ticket, and leave Skull Bay on the Snow Queen.

Because most of these newcomers changed their itinerary temporarily, they kept all the money they were going to spend in Skull Bay, so that some idle entertainment rooms on the ship began to come in handy, and almost most of the passengers left. After entering their own cabin, they came to this entertainment room. After all, there are not many places for them to consume on the ship.

Leo didn't want to come here at first, he preferred to stay in the cabin and study the notebook, but old Belen found him after sailing, pulled him out of the room, and brought him to the entertainment room, because he found several The treasure hunter who planted the seed on Big Nose Island that day also boarded the Snow Queen.

Although the matter of Big Nose Island has passed, Leo has no plans to intervene in the affairs of the Life Society for the time being, but even so, he is still curious about the mutation process of the body of the person who implanted the seed. , secretly observing the changes in these people is also helpful for him to understand the evolution of life.

Therefore, Leo did not refuse, temporarily put aside the research on the notebook, and came to the entertainment room with Old Beren.

The entertainment room is a bit noisy, most of the people are talking about the Miracle Star, only a few are focusing on the game going on, which treasure hunters are at the gaming table at the moment Judging from the chips on the table, They seem to be lucky and have won a lot.

Leo and Old Belen didn't go to the gaming table, but stayed at the bar not far from the gaming table, drinking wine while watching the ongoing gambling on the table over there.

"Which guys have problems." After watching a few games of cards on the table, Old Belen suddenly said.

Leo didn't respond to Old Belen's discovery, and he didn't intend to ask. He knew there was a problem from the first game of cards on the table after he came here.

It's just that he didn't see it from the cards, but discovered it from the assimilated seeds on these people.

On the seeds in the brains of those people, Leo sensed very weak psionic energy, and the psionic energy fluctuations on several people were almost the same, and at the beginning of the game, the psionic energy in the seeds of several people seemed to be Like some kind of signal communication device, it continuously emits spiritual energy with obvious characteristic codes outwards, and then those people cooperate with each other in the game, killing each other's good cards little by little, and finally win the game. victory.

Because several people were always looking at the cards in their hands, and did not make any actions that seemed to be a secret sign, the dealer on board who presided over the game could only think that they were lucky and could always get what they wanted. cards.

But this is only temporary, and now these few people have attracted the attention of the director in charge of the entertainment room on the ship, and they have already made a preliminary guess as to how many of them can continue to win the game.

Although the card games are all organized by the passengers themselves, they only provide dealers and venues, winning or losing will not cause any loss of interest to them, but if these people are allowed to continue to win like this, it will definitely cause some people who don't see them. to the trouble.

So just now the supervisor sent someone to the computer room to turn on the jamming device there.

Sure enough, when the interference device was turned on, the connection between those people through the seed energy was immediately severed, and the momentum of the three winning money was immediately curbed. It's just that they didn't lose big immediately. Their own card skills and some tacit small cooperation allowed them to barely maintain a winning rate of neither losing nor winning.

Although these people didn't know why their moves failed, they also knew very well what it meant to accept it when they were good. After waiting for a few more people to enter the poker table, they withdrew one after another, and then pretended not to know each other. Each found a group of people and interjected into the conversation.

For treasure hunters, connections are very important, not only related to their sources of information, but also related to whether the goods they get can be sold smoothly, and selling directly to customers is better than selling to middlemen Cheaper.

People who can afford to sit on the Ice Queen are either rich or expensive, and they are potential customers of these treasure hunters. They spend a lot of money to buy tickets, maybe they want to use this long sea journey to make friends who can The rich and powerful who can afford big money.

"They must be weird!" At this time, old Beren suddenly pointed at the group of people who were interjected by one of the treasure hunters, and said, "Did you see that old man? He is the steel tycoon Catley from the Kingdom of Maris." Si Bobli, his steel group used to be the largest steel manufacturer in the Kingdom of Maris. Although his steel group was forcibly split up due to some accidents, and he was no longer allowed to operate the steel industry, but he was in Maris The steel industry in the Kingdom of Sri Lanka, and even the entire steel industry in Vinylon has a lot of power to speak. There must be a problem with that guy approaching him."

Because of the idea of ​​doubt in his heart, Old Beren was full of doubts about the actions, words and deeds of these treasure hunters who had been planted with seeds, and kept thinking of the bad.

Leo did not defend those treasure hunters. He could tell from some details of the secret communication between those people that they must have a purpose in approaching those people, but this purpose is obviously different from the purpose that old Belen thought. difference.

Leo is more concerned about the changes in the bodies of these people at this moment. Just after they stopped using the power contained in the seeds, the power emitted by the seeds has not faded away, and their bodies are slowly changing. It has only been two days It's just that some parts of their bodies have grown a little extra peripheral nerves, and they will grow an extra nervous system like the residents of Big Nose Island in the future.

"Huh?" Just as Leo was checking the bodies of these people through the spiritual network, a little inexplicable panic suddenly appeared in his heart or soul, and he also felt a trace of mysterious pressure on his body.

After careful inspection, he found that the mysterious pressure that made him feel strange did not come from anyone in the entertainment room, nor from anyone on the ship, but from the ocean outside the ship.

After discovering this, Leo stood up immediately, walked out of the entertainment room, came to the deck, and looked towards the ocean outside. Because it was daytime and the weather was fine, Leo could see far away. It's just that on the endless sea level, he can't see any ships, and naturally he can't see any existence that can cause him such a strange feeling.

"Is it in the sea?" After Leo failed to find any clues on the sea surface, he set his eyes on the sea level, but within the coverage of his mental network, he did not find any abnormalities, and ordinary sight could not detect any abnormalities. Penetrate the barrier of seawater.

So, he turned on his spiritual vision and looked into the ocean.

However, when he looked at the ocean with his spiritual vision, the sky was still scorching hot and cloudless just before, but now it became pitch black in the blink of an eye, and all the people around him disappeared at this moment, leaving only He stood alone on the deck of the ship looking at the ocean ahead.

And in the depths of the ocean in his eyes, it is no longer some ordinary marine life, but a huge black shadow, a black shadow that covers all the surrounding area of ​​the Snow Queen, and this black shadow is the one on Leo's body. The source of the mysterious stress.

"Corpse Collector." Leo quickly identified who the black figure in the water was, and felt a little puzzled at the same time. The Corpse Collector, a demigod who is close to an Omega-level advanced life form, has been following him since Lake Town in the dream world. He even followed the special subspace of Yam Island between the past, present and future, and now he seems to follow the world of Velen, Leo is really curious about what is so attractive to him, maybe this is why he will The reason for being imprinted by various gods.

Although the body collector looked like he was in the ocean under the boat, as if he could overturn the boat with a little force, let Leo fall into the water, and then catch Leo, but in fact Leo knew very well that he was actually It is in a subspace, separated from the world of Velen by a space dimension, and now it is just using a special method to project the body into the world of Velen.

After Leo discovered this, the awe in his heart disappeared immediately, and he leaned against the side of the boat provocatively, and then took out some food that he put in the storage space to prepare for emergencies, like teasing fish The same was crushed and thrown into the sea, and he deliberately released his provocative emotions into the sea.

The corpse collector's projection instantly understood Leo's provocative behavior, and immediately became extremely angry. The huge black shadow in the sea shook rapidly, changing its shape, and even some tentacles-like body edges forcibly penetrated from the sea water. Tried to attack Leo, but the result was that these tentacles were immediately scattered by an invisible force as soon as they stretched out of the sea, and were assimilated by the surrounding world.

Seeing this scene, for some reason, Leo suddenly had a bold idea in his mind. While continuing to provoke the corpse collector, he also mobilized the power of the Sea God's mark in his body, instantly integrating his spirit into the ocean.

Although Leo can't control any ocean power through this sea god imprint, he can use the power of the ocean to perceive all the details of the power within the range of influence of the imprint after his spirit merges into the ocean. The survivors project the remaining breath of power.

Just when Leo sensed that there was an unknown power breath in the ocean that was different from the various forces in the Velen world, this power breath entered Leo's spirit instantly as if he had received some kind of summon. In his body, he condensed into a mark of the gods, a mark of the gods belonging to the corpse collector.

This change was completely beyond Leo's expectations. He just wanted to sense the details of the corpse collector's power, so that when he faced him again in the future, he could be prepared and not be in a hurry. If he is lucky, he will be able to find out the weakness of the corpse collector from this power breath, and he may be able to repel him head-on in the future.

But he never imagined that the residual power of the corpse collector, which should have been dispersed and assimilated by the power of the world, would actually enter his body and condense into a divine mark.

Although the accident happened suddenly, Leo was caught off guard, but he still reacted instinctively and with the fastest speed, controlling the body collector's mark condensed in his body according to the method explored by previous research.

Perhaps it was because the imprint of the god was a rootless duckweed, and there was no follow-up support, or it might be because of the joint suppression of other imprints of the gods in his body. All in all, he completely controlled the imprint of the corpse collector very easily.

The complete control mentioned here is not casual talk, it is really complete control, because the secret about this mark is fully revealed to him the moment he controls it, and the corpse collector has no secrets at all in front of him .

That is, at the moment when Leo grasped the imprint of the Corpse Collector, the projection of the Corpse Collector in the ocean seemed to have sensed something. It was no longer just a tentative attempt to rush into the world of Velen, but an all-out impact trying to pass through the barrier of the world. .

Although it was just a black shadow that changed shape violently, anyone who could see this scene could feel the anxiety and panic of the black shadow.

It's a pity that he is not a god in the world of Velen, nor is he a real god. Even if he is a real god, facing the power of a world, he would not be able to make any resistance. His crazy actions only accelerated the demise of the projection.

But the power of the world dispersed the projection and assimilated the power of the corpse collector. At the same time, some scattered power was scattered in the surrounding ocean, and because of the mark of the sea god, it flowed to Leo and the corpse collector inside Leo's body. imprint.

As more and more power poured in, the imprint of the corpse collector became more and more solid. It was no longer in the vague state at the beginning, and began to move closer to the imprint of the gods such as the web weaver.

And this is not the final change. As the imprints of the corpse collectors become more and more staring, the secrets about the corpse collectors contained in them become more and more clear, but also because of these secrets, there are also more and more confusions, which makes people even more confused. Leo was a little disappointed that he didn't find out why he attracted the attention of those gods and injected a mark into his body.