The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Nelson didn't know how long he had been asleep. Perhaps it was because he was too emotionally tense before. After falling asleep, he relaxed and fell into a deep sleep. He didn't wake up until someone pushed his shoulder hard.

When he just woke up, he was still a little confused, and wanted to blame the people who pushed him and disturbed his rest, but just as the words reached his mouth, he saw the situation around him clearly and realized that he was still on the battlefield.

Nelson looked at the dark sky around him, and took out his pocket watch to check the time. He found that it was already four o'clock in the morning of the next day. According to the time, it would be about two hours before dawn.

At this time, he saw that Jason, who had been sleeping before, had woken up and was ready to go, but Leo had disappeared, which made him feel inexplicably flustered.

"Where's Leo?" Nelson didn't bother to pick up his luggage, and hurriedly asked Jason in a low voice. He was worried that Leo would leave him and run away by himself.

Jason didn't answer Nelson directly, but pointed to the box on the side for him to stand on, and then pointed to the fire set up by the soldiers of the Faran Empire.

Following the direction of Jason's finger, Nelson didn't see anything, and was about to ask, but suddenly there seemed to be something moving in the direction he saw, but when he looked carefully, he couldn't see it. any abnormality.

With doubts in his heart, Nelson adjusted the glasses on the mask to make the distant scene clearer.

At this moment, he finally saw something abnormal. At the edge of the light emitted by a fire, a shadow that almost merged with the surrounding darkness moved quickly against the ground like a gecko, and passed by a fire. While stacking, I threw something into the fire.

However, facing such a big living person moving quickly under their noses, the swordsmen who were patrolling back and forth on the other side of the fire turned a blind eye to him and let Leo do what he did in front of them. hands and feet.

"How did he do it?" Seeing such an astonishing scene, Nelson couldn't help being extremely surprised.

Jason on the side seemed to be able to hear Nelson's heart, and said in a very soft voice: "I also want to know how this kid did it?"

Compared with Nelson and Jason standing in the trenches and expressing emotion easily, Leo obviously didn't have the slightest energy to take care of other enemies at the moment. He used most of the ability of the sub-brain to calculate the deepest shadow of the fire and Patrol the blind spot of the sword and armor soldiers.

Since last night, he has been waiting for the moment when the wind direction changes. It was not until the early morning that the surrounding wind direction began to change, blowing towards the soldiers of the Faran Empire.

Seeing that the opportunity came, he immediately woke Jason up, and then took out the poison-soaked bandage that he had prepared long ago, cut it into small pieces equivalent to the number of fire piles, and then stuck his whole body on the ground and burrowed into the In the shadow blind area of ​​the fire piles, throw those poison cloth strips into one fire pile after another.

This is the only chance for Leo to create a breakthrough, because he found that with the appearance of the early morning dew, the smoke over the battlefield has completely settled down. Once the sky is bright, the army of the Farland Empire will enter the battlefield to complete the final elimination. At that time, he may still have a chance to break through with his personal ability, but Nelson and Jason may not be guaranteed.

If it was a biological weapon before, Leo might not feel any guilt or anxiety for not saving Nelson and Jason, but now, he has integrated into the current body, and even merged with the soul of the former Leo, After obtaining the memory of the other party, his mood will inevitably be affected, giving him some emotions that he didn't have in the past.

Although these emotions may become a burden to Leo, he is not disgusted, on the contrary, he is very happy to accept this extra ordinary human emotion.

Because he found that when he had more of these emotions, the world in his eyes seemed to change from a single gray to colorful, which was also a feeling that he had never had but dreamed of as a half-human and half-machine.

With such complicated emotions, Leo quickly threw all the poisonous cloth strips into the fire, and instead of hiding in the trench, he lay quietly on the ground waiting for the poison to take effect.

Maybe it's because the overall situation is settled, or maybe it's because the hours in the early morning are the time when people's vigilance is the lowest. All in all, neither the patrolling swordsmen nor the annihilators behind the temporary bunkers noticed Leo's movements. unaware of things.

About five minutes passed, and the armored soldiers patrolling near the fire where the poison was first thrown seemed to feel unwell. They staggered a few steps and sat on the ground. Immediately afterwards, the Annihilators in the nearby bunkers also fell down one after another. , without making any sound, and then a row of more than a dozen armored soldiers and annihilators near the fire all fell down one after another.

At this time, Leo immediately stood up from the ground, bowed his waist, waved his hand towards the trench where Jason and the others were, and then quickly ran across the fire, ran to the bunker where the Annihilator was, and poisoned one of them. The steam crossbow launcher from the fallen Annihilator was removed and held in his hand.

"Target projection, target lock!"

Leo, who gave orders to the subbrain system, opened the valve of the steam engine on the ground according to the operation method of the steam crossbow he had observed before, adjusted it to the highest state, lifted the launcher, and aimed the launch port at the other non-poisoned gas locked by the subbrain. Affected the position of the Annihilator and Sword Armored Soldiers, and pulled the trigger.

Only the slight sound of swishing came from the launch port, and it was transmitted to Leo's hand accompanied by slight vibrations. Dozens of arrows were fired like this, and then a tragic sound was heard in the distance. cry.

Leo didn't stop to check the battle results, or he was confident that he didn't need to check the battle results, so he turned the launch port and aimed at the other side. Before the people on the other side noticed something was wrong, he fired again with the steam crossbow in his hand.

The recoil of the steam crossbow is much lighter than Leo expected, and the accuracy has naturally improved a lot accordingly. With the help of the sub-brain, he projects the positions of all targets onto the eyeballs in the way of phantom positioning. The speed of the target's movement will not exceed the estimated speed, and none of these targets can escape his sniping.

In fact, this is true, not to mention those poisoned swordsmen and annihilators, under the two rounds of strafing just now, as many as fifty people died of arrows, all of which were locked by Leo's sight, and this The big movement naturally alarmed the troops farther away, and even caused a commotion due to the large-scale deaths in a short period of time.

An order came from a distance. Although Leo didn't understand French, he could tell from the movements of the Faran army in the distance that they didn't approach here rashly as he expected, but The chosen method is to fight steadily, advance slowly, and send people to detour to the other side to expand the encirclement.

Under the cover of Leo's sniper fire, Jason and Nelson escaped from the trench to another bunker without any risk.

Seeing this situation, Leo immediately put down the steam crossbow in his hand and ran towards the place where the two were. When he ran there, he saw that Jason and Nelson seemed to want to take the steam crossbow from the two Ravagers, and deal with the French army as he had done before.

"You two idiots, don't put your things down, run away!" Seeing this situation, Leo immediately cursed at the two of them in a low voice, then turned a corner, and ran away from the battlefield quickly.

Seeing Leo like this, the simple-minded Jason immediately reacted. He obeyed Leo's order, put down the steam crossbow he had just lifted, and chased after Leo. Nelson took a step slower and followed closely behind. .

Not long after the three of them ran out, the steam crossbow used by Leo before was not used continuously because the air valve was opened to the maximum, resulting in a large amount of steam quickly accumulated in a small space, causing an explosion. A large amount of fog formed.

At the same time, this wave of strong explosions also caused damage to other similar steam devices around. The steam in the machine spewed out from the breach and quickly gathered in the air, forming a thick mist.

"Damn it! If I knew this thing would explode so easily, I should have opened all the air valves to the maximum." Looking back and seeing the movement behind him, Leo felt annoyed at the mistake he made because he didn't understand the situation.

But fortunately, this wave of explosions did not have any impact on their escape. On the contrary, the huge movement caused attracted the attention of the French army, wasting the best time to hunt down the three of them.

Under the cover of darkness, the three of them quickly ran into the forest near the battlefield.

Although it was relatively safer after entering the forest, Leo did not stop, but continued to move away from the battlefield with Nelson and Jason. Because Leo would choose some relatively easy paths, the speed of the three of them was fairly fast. They climbed over a mountain in just over an hour and came to the small river on the other side of the mountain.

"Can you... can you, rest... take a break, I, I, can't hold on any longer?" Nelson, who had already taken off his mask and loosened his clothes, sat down on the stone by the river, panting. , said profusely.

After all, Nelson is only a military doctor temporarily transferred, not a real soldier, and has not received formal marching training. It is already very good to be able to walk the mountain road for more than an hour.

In fact, Nelson already wanted to rest when he was on the other side of the mountain, but when he thought that there might be pursuers behind him, if he stayed longer, it would be more dangerous, so he could only grit his teeth and hold on.

But now, he was very sure that he had reached his limit. When he was approaching the river just now, he even needed Leo and Jason to hold him in front of him before he could take a step forward. ,

"Rest in place for five minutes." Leo also knew that Nelson really couldn't walk anymore, so he nodded in agreement with Nelson's request, and then he ordered: "Put away the doctor's isolation suit and military uniform that are related to the Kingdom of England. Take off all your clothes."

After finishing speaking, Leo quickly untied the isolation suit on his body, took off the mask, and then took off the eye-catching bright red military uniform of the Kingdom of England on his body, as well as the military pants and military boots with the octopus mark .

Although Jason and the two didn't quite understand why Leo did this, they already regarded Leo as the leader, so they naturally followed Leo's instructions and took off all items with the mark of the Kingdom of England on their bodies.

Leo checked these items again, found nothing worth keeping, then wrapped them with some stones one by one, threw them into the small river in front of him, and soon sank into the turbid river water, it was impossible in a short time Come up again.

In the slightly puzzled eyes of the two, Leo briefly explained, and said: "The French Empire will definitely issue rewards in the surrounding towns to capture any soldiers of the Kingdom of England. If we wear such clothes again, we will only burn ourselves." .”

Afterwards, Leo took out the map and compass he found from the officer yesterday, spread them out on the ground, and asked Nelson, "Doctor, do you know where we are now?"

"Our battlefield is in the Bleutui area. According to the direction we fled, we should be in the Blemar Forest now." Nelson drew the approximate location on the map with his hand, and pointed to the place in front of him. Xiaohe said: "This small river should be a tributary of the Pangbo River. If you go downstream along this small river, you should be able to reach the Pangbo River. If the Kingdom of England has not completely retreated, the Venaya Port near the mouth of the Pangbo River should still be It's in our hands and we can go there."

Regarding Nelson's proposal, Leo did not immediately express his opinion. He looked at the map carefully, and after a while, he turned to Jason and asked, "Jason, what's your opinion?"

"Me?" Jason was a little surprised that Leo would ask his own opinion, scratched his head in a daze, and said, "Leo and I, you go, I will go wherever you go, but I don't want to be a soldier anymore, because If we serve as soldiers again, we will still be thrown on the battlefield to die, and next time we may not be as lucky as this time to escape."

Although Jason's words were straightforward, they were not unreasonable, so Leo nodded slightly in agreement.

Leo asked Nelson again: "If we go to Venaya Port, the war is not over yet, will we be incorporated into other armies and sent to the battlefield?"

Nelson opened his mouth and didn't know how to answer for a while. Based on his understanding of the noble officers in the Kingdom of England, their attitude towards civilian soldiers is definitely that as long as they don't die, they will keep throwing them on the battlefield.

He may be able to avoid re-entering the battlefield by virtue of his status as a doctor, but it may be difficult for Leo and Jason to escape the fate of re-entering the battlefield.

Thinking of this, he closed his opened mouth again, and asked in a deep voice, "What are you going to do?"

"We're not going to Venaya Port." Leo pointed to a city on the map and said, "We're going here."