The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Leo can also be sure that if he uses the power of the corpse collector to collect the corpses of powerful creatures without restraint like the corpse collector, and uses it to improve his own strength, the final result may become the same as the current corpse collector. Inferior beings far beyond intelligence.

It is no exaggeration to say that if the corpse collector continues like this, the bit of wisdom he gained through the corpse of the god will be completely wiped out, and he will also become a puppet of his own divine power.

Although the power of the Corpse Collector's Mark is full of disadvantages and dangers, it is not really useless. After learning the pros and cons of the Corpse Collector's Mark, Leo immediately thought of the most suitable place to use this power.

The lower the psychic level is, the harder it is to break through. Leo has been a level 5 psychic for some time, although he has made great progress in witchcraft and has already reached level 5 in psychic power. The top of the super-level psykers even touched the threshold of the sixth-level psykers, but it is still difficult to improve the level of psychic power.

According to his estimation, if there is no accident, it may take him a few years before he can break through the current psychic energy idleness, let the psychic energy change, and become a sixth-level psychic. As for the needs of the seventh-level psychic It may take longer.

But now the appearance of the corpse collector's mark gave him an opportunity, an opportunity to easily cross the bottleneck when the psionic power reached the bottleneck of improvement, just like now he estimates that he only needs to get a few corpses of sixth-level psionic users , you can shorten the accumulated qualitative change time for a few years, easily cross this hurdle, and become a real sixth-level psychic.

He even thought that when he reached the peak of the ninth-level psyker and needed to complete the final evolution of ordinary life forms and become an Omega-level advanced life form, he might be able to use the corpse of the Falcon God, Let yourself cross this abyss that can stump countless psykers in the universe.

Just when Leo was about to continue sorting out the knowledge conveyed in the remaining imprints of the corpse collectors, a hasty knock on the door pulled his thoughts back to the real world.

Leo, who was very dissatisfied, sensed through the spiritual network that the person knocking on the door was Old Beren, and he was not alone, but also the captain of the Snow Queen. Judging from the applications on their faces, they were very Anxious, it seems that something happened.

Before sorting out the knowledge of the Corpse Collector's Mark, Leo had very carefully told old Beren not to disturb him unless the ship capsized, and he had already been classified as a troublesome figure in the old captain's mind, as The old captain also wouldn't come to him if it wasn't necessary. Now that the two of them appeared outside the door together, it was very likely that something happened on board, and it was something that the two of them couldn't solve at all.

Thinking of this, Leo stood up, walked to the door, opened the door, and a messy noise came from outside the cabin, which made him frown, but he still suppressed his displeasure, and asked directly: "What happened?" ?”

Just as the old captain was about to speak, Old Belen said first: "Those people died suddenly yesterday, and today the plague broke out on the Island of Chains. The garrison and the garrison think we are the source of the plague, and have sealed off the ship, and sent all the sick people on the island to the ship."

Hearing this, Leo frowned even tighter, and his mental net also unfolded, surrounding the Snow Queen and the pier.

As the old Belem said, the surrounding area was indeed blocked, and not only the blocked ships, but even the surrounding docks were also blocked.

The local garrison in charge of the blockade task put on a layer of thick leather clothes, which can cover the whole body, and the gaps in the leather clothes are smeared with a layer of special fish oil, which can block the air, and their faces are also covered. Wearing a special mask, the mask has a tube connected to a box at the waist, and a large amount of medicine for purifying the air is placed in the box. They breathe air through this box, which can block any plague virus.

Even after so many years, the great plague that spread to the entire Vinylon world is still fresh in people's memory, and the prevention and control measures for the plague in various countries are also very perfect.

Not long ago, the great plague in the city of Miria made the countries pay more attention to the prevention and control of the plague again. Now the protective leather jackets worn by these garrisons are all the latest type of protective leather jackets, which were shipped in not long ago to replace the ones in the warehouse. The old type of prevention and control equipment, but what these people didn't expect was that these new equipment would come in handy so quickly.

On the ship, it is already overcrowded at the moment, all the original passengers have been transferred to the high-class cabin, and the remaining cabins on the bottom floor, even the material cabin and cargo cabin have been vacated to accommodate the patients sent from the city, and even some patients They were directly housed in temporary shacks on the blockade dock, and a rough calculation numbered at least several hundred people.

The symptoms on the surface of each of these people seem to be suffering from dysentery or other diseases, and there are patches of red spots on their faces. Although the color is wrong, these red spots remind many people of the patients during the great plague. Dark spots on the body.

I have to say that the people on the Island of Shackles are quite restrained. If they were placed in a city where a major plague occurred before, none of these patients would survive now, and all of them would be executed and burned. After all, their fear of the plague has penetrated into their bones, and This fear is also passed down from generation to generation.

"How could this happen?" After seeing this scene, Leo couldn't help being stunned, and immediately used the spirit net to carefully examine the bodies of all the patients, and easily discovered the reasons that caused these people's sickness.

"Where are the bodies of those people?" Leo immediately asked Old Beren.

Before the old Belen could speak, the captain took the initiative to introduce: "In the hold, there is a sealed room. After finding something wrong, they moved their bodies there."

Leo was suitable for the captain to lead the way, and the group soon came to the airtight room of the bilge. In order to prevent anyone from entering by mistake, the old captain sent two sailors to guard outside.

Although these two sailors are family members, the fear of the plague is still rooted in their hearts. After all, during the period of the great plague, many family members died due to the plague, so they all wore protective clothing on their bodies. Wrap yourself tightly.

It's just that their protective clothing is outdated, not only bulky, but also without a protective mask to cover the mouth and nose, so they had to find a random piece of cloth, wrap some medicinal materials they thought would be useful, and tie it to the cloth. Made a simple breathing filter on it.

Because these things are all made temporarily, it is naturally impossible to have any beautiful appearance. Coupled with the bloated protective clothing, they look like two heavy wine barrels.

The old captain seemed to know that the image of his two subordinates was really embarrassing, so before Leo could speak, he said, "Open the door."

One of the guards couldn't help the astonishment in his heart, and said loudly: "Open the door, are you crazy? Open the door at this time..."

"I said open the door!" The old captain's face became even more ugly when he was refuted by his subordinates, and he almost ordered as if gritting his teeth.

Feeling that the old captain was not joking, and the two guards could see that the old captain's heart was on the verge of rage, so they didn't dare to ask or question any more, they hurriedly took out the keys and inserted them into the door In a hollow in the room, twist the key at the same time to open the door of the sealed chamber.

Perhaps because of fear, they all retreated a certain distance instinctively the moment the door was opened.

Seeing the actions of his subordinates, the old captain suddenly felt that his face had been completely lost, almost gritted his teeth, and shouted at the two subordinates: "Get out, you two guys, get out of here immediately, and let me see again." When you are here, I will tie you to the bottom of the boat to feed the fish."

Hearing the old captain's order, although the two sailors knew that they had annoyed the old captain, the best thing to do at this time was to stay where they were. Fear, and still unable to resist the fear of the plague, so after hearing the order, the two ran away immediately without even hesitating.

The old captain looked at the figures of the two men who disappeared at the end of the corridor, and suddenly felt in his heart that he should get rid of the two men immediately in order to calm down the anger in his heart.

However, Leo's action of pushing the door suppressed his anger. He reached out his hand to stop Leo in panic, and said, "It's not safe, I'll go prepare..."

Leo shook his head and said, "Don't worry, if you are infected, you have already been infected from the beginning, and you won't wait until now."

Then, without waiting for the old captain to make other blocking actions, he just pushed the door open and walked in.

However, at the moment the door was opened, both the old Belem and the old captain were stunned by the sight of the sealed room behind the door, because they found that the empty sealed room that was supposed to store a few corpses was now empty. It turned into a botanical garden, and a large number of plants they had never seen filled the entire sealed room.

However, Leo didn't show any surprise at the scene in the sealed room, he stepped inside, pushed aside the dense branches and leaves, and walked towards the middle of the cabin.

Old Belen and the old captain glanced at each other, and followed quickly without saying anything.

Soon the three of them came to the center of the room, and saw that the corpses of the treasure hunters that had been placed on the ground had now turned into a few thick tree trunks, on which the faces of these people could be seen, and the plants in the room were also It's all the result of the spread of these trunks. If it wasn't for the walls of the room to block them, maybe these branches and leaves have grown outside, and these human-shaped trunks have also turned into several big trees.

Leo walked under these big trees, squatted down, and reached out to dig out the roots of the trees close to the ground, and quickly pulled out a few fruits that looked like hearts.

When he took out these fruits, those human-shaped trees immediately became wilted a lot, and the surrounding branches and leaves quickly withered, and soon only a few branches of the main trunk remained.

"What's going on here?" The old captain looked at this scene puzzled.

But Old Beren seemed to know something, staring at the few fruits in Leo's hand, his expression was a little strange.

"Do you know something?" The old captain naturally noticed the obvious expression of old Belen, and asked in a deep voice.

"I thought this kind of plant was extinct? I didn't expect..." Old Beren looked at the situation in front of him with an extremely ugly face, muttered to himself, suddenly seemed to think of something, and immediately said to the old captain: "You must have There is a way to spread the news, right?"

"Yes, I have a way to spread the news." Although the old captain didn't know why old Belen was so nervous, he knew that now was not the time to hide things, so he nodded and admitted.

Old Belen immediately pulled the old captain out, and said rather alarmistly: "Come on, I have news to spread immediately. This matter is too important! It is related to the safety of the whole world."

It’s not the first time for Old Belem to build the Ice Queen. He can be said to be a regular customer of this ship, and even has an exclusive cabin. The old captain naturally knows his identity very well, and in the eyes of the other party, he can make Old Belem This kind of panic is definitely not a trivial matter, so I didn't ask any more questions, and immediately followed Old Belen and walked out quickly.

Leo didn't stay in this room too long, but he still had some things to do before he left. He walked up to the trees that the treasure hunters had transformed into, put his hands on the trunks, and started According to the method he obtained, it is possible to collect these humanized trees as corpses.

The result was very smooth. When Leo drew power from the imprint of the corpse collector and wrapped the tree according to the method he knew, the tree disappeared from his eyes in an instant, and almost at the moment when the tree disappeared, Leo felt the power from the corpse collector. A force surged out of the seal of the hunter, injected into his body, and merged with his spiritual energy almost without any hindrance.

The psionic energy in his body that hadn't been improved for a long time broke through the gap at this moment and stepped into the sequence of sixth-level psykers. When his psionic level was improved, his body was also experiencing psionic energy. Transformation occurred under the effect, patterns that looked like cosmic celestial bodies appeared on his face, and then disappeared quickly.

However, at this moment, all of Leo's perception of external connections disappeared, and he didn't even know that his psychic level had crossed that threshold and became a sixth-level psychic. At this moment, he is concentrating on relying on his strong willpower equivalent to that of a ninth-level psyker to resist the interference wave that floods into the brain or soul along with that power, trying to keep his thinking from being affected by the interference wave and staying awake .

I don't know how long it took before the interference wave gradually weakened and subsided, and an unprecedented sense of fatigue immediately hit Leo's body and mind, causing him a sense of dizziness, and he needed to hold on to the wall to be able to stand firm.