The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

I saw the wreckage of a huge Milos-class starship lying in the center of the crater. The starship was broken into several sections due to the impact, and there were not many fragments around. Obviously, the force of the explosion took these fragments away. Only a few oversized debris remain around the massive crater.

Although the manufacturing materials of the starship are special, so many years of erosion have made it look completely different. Coupled with the cover of some marine vegetation and dust, these starship wrecks are more like seabed hills. If Leo If you are not very familiar with this type of starship, it may be difficult to recognize the origin of these hill-like wrecks at a glance.

The Milos-class starship can only be regarded as a small and medium-sized warship among all kinds of space battleships. The reason why this warship is famous is because of its needle-point shape. Its strongest weapon is not the various energy weapons on the battleship, but The pinpoint bow of a battleship.

Because the material used for the bow of the ship is a special material called Death Star Ore, which has invincible power, making its role on the battlefield more like that of the medieval Lancers in the ancient earth era, conducting interspersed close combat, By hitting the bow of the ship, the enemy ship is destroyed, so this kind of warship in the Earth Federation is also called a knight warship.

Right now, the warship's bow is inserted straight into the center of the crater, and the exposed part of the ground looks like a huge tombstone from a distance. Some luminous plankton live on the wreckage of the battleship, making it It is particularly eye-catching in this dark deep sea bottom.

At this moment, Leo almost didn't need to use his spiritual vision anymore, he could already see that the source of the inert energy wave was the wreckage of the needle-pointed bow in the center of the crater, and there was a striking crack beside the wreckage, which caused The wreckage of the bow moved a little towards the ground.

Seeing this scene, Leo already thought of why there was no inert energy wave area here before, but it happened now. Obviously, the earthquake that happened not long ago in the Pearl Island Chain also affected this place, and the wreckage of the starship on the bottom of the sea was alarmed. , and then triggered some of the devices, such as the generator of the inert energy wave field.

After figuring this out, Leo couldn't help being curious and excited about what equipment remained on the bow of the starship. Because the bow of the Milos-class starship is extremely strong, even if the hull is blown to pieces, the bow will still be preserved intact, so important facilities such as the battleship bridge and material warehouse are placed here.

Judging from the fact that the inert energy wave generator can still be used, there must be a lot of equipment in the storage room of the bow that is well preserved and ready to use. This is undoubtedly an attractive wealth for Leo.

With excitement, Leo was about to go down from the crater outside the crater to the bottom of the crater, and enter the prow of the starship plunged into the ground to look for advanced civilization technology equipment that could be used.

But just when he was halfway down, he suddenly stopped, and then his body quickly moved into a dense seabed plant, hiding.

Just after he hid, a huge transparent worm-like creature slowly squeezed out from the crack in the ground, and then wriggled little by little to the center of the crater, out of the wreckage of the starship bow, and lifted his huge body to the ground. A section of wreckage wrapped up.

"Star-eating worms? How can there be star-eating worms here?" Leo exclaimed in shock when he saw the huge worm and the light spots shining like nebula in its transparent body.

Star Devourer is a kind of cosmic-level protozoa. It is produced in the Misa Nebula. The space of this nebula is not stable. There are often some space cracks. Before the space crack disappears, there will be a lot of energy from the crack. It pours out and pours into this nebula, which also makes this nebula full of various cosmic energies and rays, so this place is also called the garbage dump of cosmic energy.

Some advanced civilizations have counted the cosmic energy and rays that have appeared here, and finally found that more than 96% of the known energy and rays of the universe have appeared here, so this place has become a place for various advanced civilizations to study the universe. A sanctuary of energy.

In such a nebula with chaotic energy and fragile space, there should not be any life, but what is unexpected is that there is still a kind of life that stubbornly produces, grows, and evolves in such an environment. This kind of life is swallowing stars. insect.

Because of growing in the special environment of the Misa Nebula, the Star Devourer evolved a special ability to swallow all energy during evolution, and as they grow, their shape is also growing, this swallowing all energy The ability of the human body is also continuously strengthened and changed, from simply devouring energy, to finally devouring all matter, and finally reaching the point of being able to devour stars.

And at the moment of their death, the energy they swallowed in the past will be emitted at one time, forming a collapse effect, pulling and concentrating all the surrounding matter, resulting in fission, and finally drawing a new energetic star, so some people will Star devourers are called star makers.

Star Devourer has a docile temperament, as long as you don't provoke it or attack it, you won't be in danger of being attacked by him, but this doesn't mean that Star Devourer is harmless.

In fact, although star devouring worms will not actively attack, but they are not very intelligent, they will be subject to instinctive tendencies. Once there is a strong energy fluctuation nearby, they will follow the instinctive drive and rely on the past to devour and absorb, even if that The energy response comes from the engine of a spaceship, and the creatures inside the spaceship are treated as desserts.

Although Leo is a sixth-level psychic, it is just an appetizer for the swallowing worm. In fact, it has not reached the level of Omega-level advanced life forms. Any life is the same food in the heart of swallowing stars .

Judging from the current situation, this star-eating worm is only a juvenile truncation, because it can only swallow energy, which is good news for Leo, because if the star-eating worm evolves to the adult stage, it will not only Instead of being able to absorb energy, he has the ability to swallow some matter. In that case, it would be a disaster for Velen.

Leo didn't know whether the star-eating worm fell into the world of Velen along with the starship, or whether the star-eating worm itself was in this world, but he knew one thing, that is, the star-eating worm was caught by the The wave of inert energy has been attracted, and it is impossible for it to leave before it completely digests the inert energy.

Leo thought about it for a while, and decided to go to the sea first. After all, the seabed is not a suitable place to think about problems, but before leaving, he picked up a completely deformed spaceship armor fragment from the seabed, and then quietly exited Crater, then psychically propelled him towards where the boat was docked, moved over, and was back by the boat in no time.

"How is it? Have you found something good?" Although Old Beren has seen countless treasures, he is still very keen on things like adventure and treasure hunting. When he saw Leo getting out of the water, he couldn't wait to ask. .

Leo threw the spaceship armor fragment in his hand into the small boat, and then climbed into the small boat. As a result, the towel handed by Old Beren wiped the sea water on his body, although he could easily use the spiritual energy to dispel the sea water. , but he didn't do that, because he didn't intend to let people know the details of his ability.

Old Belem's mind wasn't on Leo at the moment, his attention was all on the fragments of the deformed armor that Leo threw on the deck of the boat.

"It's Ocada metal, this is Ocada metal!" He picked up the piece of armor from the ground, looked at it carefully, and then let out an exclamation full of joy.

"Ocada metal?" Because of the acquisition of a smelter, Leo naturally also had some understanding of the smelting development history and metal types in Vinylon World. Among these metal types, Ocada metal is considered the most perfect in the world. Metal.

It's just that the information about Ocada metal has always been the confidential information of various countries. Except for one name, no relevant information has been disclosed to the public, so Leo doesn't know much about this metal. He just thought it was a A psionic metal.

But now after hearing what old Belen said, he realized that he had thought wrong before. Ocada metal was not a psionic metal at all, but this special battleship armor metal.

"It's normal that you don't know Ocada metal. In fact, there are very few people in the world who know this metal." Seeing Leo's expression, Old Belen thought that Leo didn't know Ocada metal, so he explained: "This metal is derived from star fragments, but it was impossible to smelt these fragments into metal for a long time. It was not until a small blacksmith named Okada in the Kingdom of Marris discovered a smelting agent that he was able to melt these stars. The shards were smelted into a perfect metal so hard that nothing could destroy it, so countries named this perfect metal after the little blacksmith."

After listening to Old Belen's introduction, Leo could also understand why countries in the Vinylon world regard this metal as a perfect metal. Indeed, with the level of technology in the Vinylon world, unless it is an Omega-level advanced life form, it is impossible to deal with this kind of metal. Metal does not cause any damage.

"Is there any Ocada metal down there?" Old Belen asked anxiously, "There are always a lot of these star fragments every time they appear."

"There are still some, but it's not easy to get them now. There are things below. After a while, take the things and leave before going down." Leo explained vaguely.

"Do you want me to go down and help?" Old Beren offered.

"You?" Leo looked at him suspiciously.

"I have a way to stay on the bottom of the sea for a while," explained Old Belen.

Leo shook his head and said: "No need, the current situation in the sea is special, your method may be affected, or wait until nightfall, I will go down alone!"

Old Belen didn't force it either, he took the piece of armor, went to the other side of the boat, took out some tools from his pocket, and carefully checked the details of the piece of armor.

Leo found a random place to sit down, while closing his eyes and resting his mind, while sensing the changes in the surrounding inertial energy field.

The suppression effect of the star-eating worms on the inert energy field is still very strong. In a short period of time, the surrounding inert energy field has weakened a lot, and this weakening is still continuing. I believe that after another hour or so, the surrounding inert energy field The inert energy field will also disappear completely.

Estimated by the speed at which the inert energy field disappears, Leo feels that this star devouring worm is not only a larva, but also very young, otherwise, the weakening speed of this inert energy field cannot be so slow.

After judging the age of the star-eating worm, Leo was also a little relieved, because although the larval period of the star-eating worm is the shortest among all growth cycles, it is also calculated in ten thousand years, so in a short period of time, the world of Vinylon At least you don't have to worry about being eaten by star bugs.

Moreover, even if the star-eating worm grows up, there are so many gods in the world of Velen, they should be able to deal with it before the star-eating worm brings fatal damage to this world.

In this state of resting and thinking, time passed and the sky gradually darkened. Leo felt that the surrounding energy waves had weakened to the point of disappearing, so waves appeared on the water surface, and waves appeared at the bottom of the water. The water is running.

The changes in the surroundings naturally also attracted the attention of Old Belen. Although he didn't know what happened underwater, he knew that Leo should make some moves.

Sure enough, Leo, who had been resting with his eyes closed since just now, stood up, jumped into the water without any nonsense, quickly sank to the bottom, and swam towards the crater.

In the deep sea, there is no big difference between day and night, both are equally dim. Although there is no guidance of the inert energy wave, but through the topography of the seabed, Leo still came to the waters above the crater smoothly. The crater looked over.

"Damn it!" After seeing the situation clearly, Leo couldn't help cursing, because he found that the star devourer swallowed all the energy generated by the inert energy wave generator, and didn't leave, and was full of food and drink. Feeling sleepy physically and mentally, sleeping and digesting in place, its huge body just wrapped up the wreckage of a starship without leaving a single gap.

However, fortunately, Star Devourer only wrapped up the part above the ground of the starship, and the part below the ground remains the same, and because there is a crack created by the earthquake, Leo can easily approach the bow of the starship from the ground. , the premise is that there is an entrance and exit that can enter the interior near the part he is close to, otherwise he will find a way to open an entrance and exit by himself.

Leo carefully controlled the psionic energy, trying not to dissipate the psionic energy, and then quickly fell into the crack in the crater.

In order to prevent the star-eating worm from sensing the psychic energy and eating him as a dessert, after he fell into the crack, he did not use the psychic energy anymore, but used his hands to quickly paddle the sea water towards the star. The bow of the ship rushed forward.

About ten minutes later, Leo had come to the crack under the body of the star-eating worm, and he could see the transparent body of the star-eating worm above him when he looked up.

Everything went smoothly as expected, and just when he was about to move on, he suddenly felt a strong sense of hunger. The source of this feeling was his chaotic stomach, and the reason for this feeling seemed to be When swallowing the star worm, the chaotic stomach sac gave him the urge to eat the star worm.