The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

For ordinary people, those meaningless strange screams from Old Beren's mouth contained a special deep meaning in Leo's ears, because this kind of strange screams were a kind of language to him. A real language, though the notes uttered by human mouthpieces are weird and mispronounced.

This strange sound is actually the unique language of a high-level civilization in the universe, and all the races in the universe who know this civilization and have heard this sound have a consensus that this sound represents death and cruelty.

Cosmic civilizations are diverse, and each cosmic civilization has its own ethnic customs, but when they become more advanced cosmic civilizations, the content of these customs that is not conducive to their integration into the entire cosmic civilization circle will be actively eliminated by them Lose, and finally retain some cultural aspects.

But there are exceptions to everything, and there are some cosmic civilizations that will not make any compromises. They still retain their most primitive customs, and they even go to war with the surrounding cosmic civilizations for these customs. Of course, they may deliberately use customs as bait , to start a war.

Among these cosmic civilized races that retain their primitive customs, the Garlands are definitely the most dangerous advanced civilized race, not one of them. Even the Supreme Council thinks that this race is extremely dangerous and needs to limit the population, so they invented a special The virus targeting the Garlands weakened their fertility and the survival rate of their offspring to the lowest point, barely able to maintain the level of racial reproduction.

The reason why the Supreme Council and various cosmic civilizations are so hostile to Garland civilization is because this civilization is an extremely rare predator civilization.

As the name suggests, the core of the predator civilization is plunder. This civilization itself does not have any ability to actively evolve, but their predatory nature can capture the knowledge, culture, technology, etc. of other civilizations through plunder. They are like the universe The cancer cells of the civilization, by nibbling and digesting all the nutrients of the target civilization, strengthen themselves, and finally swallow the target civilization completely.

The Garland civilization initially knew about an extremely primitive civilization on Garland. Just like other advanced civilizations, the civilizations around the star field where the Garland civilization is located also sent observer spacecraft to secretly observe the growth of this civilization.

But one day, a cosmic storm from the distant starry sky swept across the star field where the Garland civilization was located. At that time, several observer spacecraft from other civilizations that had no time to escape were swept right on, and eventually damaged and crashed into the Garland star.

The relatively primitive civilization on Garland quickly absorbed and assimilated the technology, culture, and knowledge contained in these spaceships through its own predatory nature and ability after obtaining these observer spaceships, and finally in a short period of time In less than a thousand years, a primitive civilization evolved into a cosmic civilization capable of space navigation.

After that, the Garlands continued to plunder the surrounding civilizations, absorbed the technology and culture of these civilizations, and finally evolved to the level of advanced cosmic civilization in a short period of time.

The surrounding cosmic civilizations also sensed the danger of the Garland civilization, so they united to declare war on the Garland civilization, but now the Garland civilization has matured. With their powerful fighting talents, they not only survived the most intense war period Down, and during the war, their civilization, technology, and themselves are constantly evolving, and even some physiological evolution is dedicated to serving this war.

For example, with the expansion of the war, the casualties of the Garland people will inevitably increase, so when they evolved, they strengthened in terms of reproduction and growth.

By the middle of the war, the reproductive ability of the Garlands had increased by more than fifty times compared to the initial period of the war, and their growth time had been shortened to one year. It takes a year. Although this would reduce the lifespan of each Garland, it would allow their population to survive the war and grow.

In the end, the Garlands won the war and annexed several surrounding cosmic civilizations. The evolution of civilization continued to improve, and their own reproductive ability made them one of the most powerful civilizations in that galaxy.

In the following thousands of years, they did not continue to expand, but quietly digested the fruits of this war, but this does not mean that they are good at everything. They began to create a hunting ritual that lasted for a lifetime according to their customs. , and the objects they hunt are all intelligent creatures. As for the highest hunting achievement, it is naturally hunting Omega-level advanced life forms.

At the beginning, the Garland civilization did not attract the attention of the Supreme Council. After all, the star field where the Garland civilization is located belongs to the fringe of cosmic civilization, but with the Garland hunting team, it began to spread in the universe, and it was everywhere. Hunting for intelligent life, the subordinate organizations of the Supreme Council began to notice this cosmic civilization that mainly plunders and kills.

When a hunting team of the Garlands successfully hunted down an evolving Omega-level high-level life form, information about the Garlands was officially put on the agenda of the Supreme Council.

This discussion on the issue of the Garlanders can be said to be the shortest among the issues discussed by the Supreme Council. It took less than a year from the initial discussion to the final decision. The reason for this situation is that Garland The Orchid has no allies in the universe, and his unscrupulous hunting of intelligent creatures has made him countless enemies.

In the end, the Garlands were restricted in terms of fertility, growth cycle, and the scope of civilization development, which was equivalent to locking them in a prison with a small star field as the scope.

However, even so, the Garlands still did not change their hunting and plundering habits. They either sent hunting teams to join the space pirate organization, or simply sent hunting teams to hunt in civilizations in various galaxies.

Although the Earth Federation is far away from the Garlands, spanning almost half of the universe, there are still Garland hunting teams that have reached the Earth Federation's star field and caused great damage to the Earth Federation.

When Leo was still a cyborg, he once surrounded and suppressed the Garland hunting team with other troops, but at that time the main force was the Federation's psykers, and they were only responsible for peripheral interception and other work, but even so, their losses were very high. Huge, only three members of his cyborg battle team survived in the end, and the others, including the six cyborg battle teams that cooperated together, all died in the hands of a Garland hunter.

Although he was in the state of a cyborg at the time and didn't have any fear mentality, he could feel powerless, watching the Garland hunter easily slaughter several of the most elite cyborg combat teams, and their death was just It can only hold the Garland hunter for a few minutes.

This memory has always been engraved in his mind, even though he has become a real human being for unknown reasons, this memory has not disappeared, so when the old Belen made a unique sound, it was like inputting Like an activation code, this memory immediately emerged from the depths of his consciousness, which is why he believed that there must be a Garland hunter on the ship of the Dead Fish.

The memory imprinted on Leo by the massacre that year was so deep that after he recovered, he took the initiative to collect a lot of information about the Garland hunters, so as not to encounter the Garland hunters in the future. At that time, there was no countermeasure like last time.

However, what he didn't expect was that when he was still a federal cyborg, he didn't meet the hunting team of the Garlands, but now he has become a human being and came to a huge mysterious world, but he also met this person who made him... He has lingering fears about the civilized race.

After confirming that there is a high possibility of a Garland hunter on the ghost ship of the Fish of Death, Leo also understood why his mental network felt that there was a living body on the ship, but he couldn't find its correct location. Because defensive spirit nets and psionic abilities are also one of the most basic innate abilities of Garland hunters.

Due to some unknown reasons, there are very few psychics in the Garland people. Even if they have psykers, the psychic power they master is very weak, but this does not mean that the Garland people are not powerful. Because the Garlands have three chances to plunder cell evolution in their lifetime, as long as the cell bodies captured by the Garlands are strong enough, they will be able to plunder the superior genes of the cell bodies through their innate abilities, and thus possess a power beyond imagination.

There was once a Garland hunter who used the life cells of space worms, star whales, and Omega-level advanced life forms in sequence, and said that he had evolved to an incredible level. Even without psionic power, his strength was no higher than that of Omega-level life forms. How much difference is there between life forms, and even in terms of physical strength, it far surpasses most omega-level advanced life forms.

Leo didn't know what the situation of the Garland on the Fish of Death was like, but he was sure that the other party must have evolved at least once, otherwise, the Garland couldn't have survived until now, because the Supreme Council Through various methods, the lifespan of the Garland people was limited to less than 40 years. Even freezing could not stop the loss of lifespan. Only after completing a fairly powerful body evolution, could it be possible to complete the repair of the body.

At this time, the Ice Queen has entered a state of relatively constant speed. According to Leo's deduction, the speed of this ship is almost the same as that of the speedboats that were dedicated to sailing on the sea in the old earth era.

However, Leo doesn't need to use the mental net. He can see that the Fish of Death has not been thrown away, but is getting closer to the Snow Queen. The entire hull has left the dense fog, which is very clear. Appeared in Leo's eyes, and followed closely as if being dragged by the Ice Queen.

Apparently, the old captain in the captain's room has also discovered this, knowing that he can't get rid of this ghost ship, so he stopped the wizard circle inside the ship to slow down the ship.

When the speed of the ship returned to normal, the old captain returned to the observation deck, and while instructing the sailors on the ship to prepare for battle, he came to Leo and said, "It seems that I still have to trouble your Excellency to make a trip."

"What about it?" Leo asked.

The old captain didn't say much about the matter of paying first and then doing things, and directly took out a box and handed it over.

It can be seen that this box was found temporarily, and the strong smell of tobacco on it is not difficult to guess what the box was used for before.

Leo did not open the box to check the contents. He believed that the old captain would not, and did not dare to do anything to fool people, so he directly told the old captain to put the things in the storage space.

When the old captain saw the box suddenly disappear from Leo's hands, he couldn't help showing a puzzled look on his face, but he quickly returned to normal and asked Leo what he needed to prepare.

Leo shook his head, told him to stop the boat, put down the lifeboat beside the boat, and then sent two people to row him to the Fish of Death.

The old captain immediately followed his instructions, because he thought that Leo needed to bring people on board, so he selected two powerful sailors to follow Leo.

After the boat stopped, Leo boarded the arranged lifeboat. After the two sailors paddled the oars vigorously, the boat passed the sea quickly, stopped in the same direction, and followed The ghost ship moving slowly against the waves approached.

"You stay here and wait for me." After getting under the ghost ship, Leo stood up, looked at the hull covered with marine creatures, and turned to the two men who took up their weapons and were about to board the ship with Leo. The sailor gave an order, and then saw him control the psionic energy to fly up from the boat, quickly flew over the side of the ship, and landed on the deck.

After all, this ship has been sailing at sea for many years. Although there is an energy here to protect the hull, this protective force can only protect the ship from falling apart, and cannot prevent the wood of the ship from decaying. It is no exaggeration to say that If Leo hadn't used his spiritual energy to cling to his feet and let the weight of his body weaken in the form of radiation, perhaps the moment his feet landed on the deck, he would have stepped on the deck.

After Leo fell down, he immediately observed the surrounding situation, but this time he did not use the mental net, but adjusted his body to a state of perfect control, and adjusted the perception of various organs to the limit.

The reason why he didn't use psychic power, but relied on his own organs and senses, was entirely due to the resistance of the Garan people to psychic power.

The Garlands have a strong resistance to psychic powers. They used their talent to create some special methods to deal with certain psychic skills, such as avoiding the perception of the spiritual net, such as creating a psychic restricted area, etc. , so now for Leo, organ perception is more reliable than psionic power.

Facts have proved that this is indeed the case. When he adjusted the perception of his body to the limit through perfect control, he immediately sensed an extremely weak airflow in the cabin under his feet, and there was also a bit of air mixed in the airflow. The sour smell is different from the rotting ship.