The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

After leaving the black market, Leo went to the alley to look for the little boy again, but because it was already night, the group of children playing here had already gone home, only a group of drunks squatted there bragging and playing .

Although a little disappointed, Leo didn't take this matter to heart. He didn't leave the fish market, but booked a room in a clean hotel outside the fish market, planning to stay here tonight .

In the hotel room, after Leo ordered the waiter to bring some food and wine, he closed the door and plugged it in. Then he came to the desk and turned the oil lamp to the maximum.

He took out the wizard apprentice's notes, the special bullet with insufficient spiritual power, and the black file bag from his backpack, and put them on the table. Then he took out his pocket watch and checked the time. It was almost two days since he put the ordinary bullet into the queen's magazine. Oh my god, I can see the result in half an hour.

Leo opened the pocket watch and put it next to the oil lamp, took out the queen and put it on the table, then picked up the food and wine and ate slowly.

Half an hour later, Leo picked up the queen again and poured out a bullet from the magazine. The sub-brain system immediately made an analysis and gave back the result, with a smile on his face.

Just as he got the information from the queen's psychic power, two days ago it was an ordinary bullet worth five bia, but now it was a special bullet worth five hundred gold flanges.

Leo withdrew the other bullets one by one, carefully checked them one by one, and all of them had been transformed without exception.

After putting these five bullets into the ammunition bag, Leo picked out five more bullets from the bullets with insufficient spiritual energy and put them into the magazine.

He wanted to try to see if this could shorten the storage time. If possible, he might be able to buy a batch of such defective special-made bullets at a very low price to replenish his ammunition depot in a short time.

Putting aside the matter of the specially made bullets, after waiting for two hours to check the status of the queen's storage of bullets, Leo's eyes shifted to the wizard's notebook.

After two days of study, Leo himself may want to speak Old French fluently and read articles in Old French. It is still very difficult. It may be difficult to do it without a year or a half. As far as these Old French are concerned, it is no longer a problem.

Leo, who had long been itching for the mysterious power of this world, decided to use the sub-brain system as a translation machine to interpret this notebook of wizard apprentices.

By the light of the oil lamp, Leo slowly flipped through the notebook. Every time he looked at a line, the sub-brain system would project the translated content on the retina. What's interesting is that some ancient French words only use a dozen or so words. The meaning expressed by this word, after translation, the translated text in modern French and English has more than a hundred lines, which also makes Leo's reading speed very slow. It took him six hours to barely comprehend the meaning. Read through this not-so-thick notebook.

The content of this notebook is very fragmented, most of which are endless content and some experimental records. It can be seen that the owner of this notebook and his mentor are conducting an experiment similar to biological cultivation, and the test subjects are both There are people and animals, such as mice and moths, which reminded Leo of the cases in Cage City.

These experimental data may be very useful to some people, because with these data, they can avoid a lot of detours when doing similar experiments, but for Leo, these experimental data are not as useful as the one recorded at the beginning of the note. Nursery rhymes about the Black Forest come to mind.

However, Leo didn't just abandon these boring data contents. He recorded these data in his sub-brain system, sorted them out, put them in the database, and saved them for later use.

There are only three things that are most useful to Leo in the whole note, one is the nursery rhyme recorded on the cover of the note, the other is the wizard's meditation method recorded at the end, and the last one is a class called psychic witch recorded in the middle of the note. psychic skills.

The nursery rhyme was written in a very ancient form of Old French poetry. It has three stanzas, each with sixteen lines. Dutch and English are very obscure.

The content of the first stanza of the nursery rhyme is about a little girl who lives in a village next to the Black Forest, accidentally enters the Black Forest, loses her way in the mist, and comes to a fairyland. In the fairyland, the little fairy led her to the golden giant deer supporting the world, and he judged whether the little girl was pure or not.

In the second section, after confirming the purity of the little girl, Julu let the little girl enter the kingdom of the gods on his back, saw the gods living there, and received the blessings of the gods, but when she left, because of greed, she took A knife on the table of the gods.

Afterwards, the story enters the third section. The little girl fell into the realm of eternal darkness because of greed, but she used her wisdom to deceive the shadow black lion who controls the world, and successfully escaped from the realm of eternal darkness.

For ordinary people, this nursery rhyme is just a nursery rhyme, but for Leo who saw the dense fog wonderland and the golden giant deer with his own eyes, this nursery rhyme is a real thing that happened.

Since the fairyland of dense fog, the golden giant deer and the little fairy are all real, then the kingdom of the gods, the realm of eternal darkness, the gods, the shadow black lion, etc. mentioned in the second and third sections of the nursery rhyme are all likely to exist .

Leo doesn't understand why these so-called gods have disappeared now, only some legends remain, but he thinks this should be a good thing for humans in this world.

However, no matter what, Leo felt that when his strength was sufficient and his willpower would no longer be affected by those mysterious existences, he must go to the Black Forest again.

The wizard's meditation method recorded at the end of the note should be the most detailed information in the entire notebook. The owner of this notebook analyzed and annotated the meditation method almost word for word, even for Leo who first came into contact with this world. Mystery can also be easily understood.

However, most of the content of this meditation method is to record how to improve one's own spiritual power and how to improve one's magic power. Compared with Leo's own spiritual network skills, these methods are obviously much worse.

Practicing this kind of meditation method requires specific time, specific rituals and other prerequisites, but the final effect may not be as expected. As long as Leo's spiritual net allows him, he can always open it. Twenty-four hours of continuous accumulation.

Just like he has also activated the mental network now, but his mental network is suppressed by him in the brain, which can not only reduce the consumption of spiritual energy, but also maintain the effect of the spiritual network to exercise mental power, and can also be used when needed. Release the spirit net in time.

He has been practicing this method for two days, and now his spiritual base value has also increased by 0.5. I believe that in two days, the basic value can be increased by one. This effect is much better than this wizard's meditation method. many.

It’s just that this meditation method is not useless, because in this meditation method there is a method specially used to practice magic power control. This method is much better than the practice method for improving the precise control of psionic energy sorted out by the Earth Federation. Leo is ready Sort it out and combine it with the Earth Federation's spiritual control method to become your own dedicated spiritual control practice method.

Compared with the previous two documents, this sorcery, which apprentice sorcerers call psychicism, is of the greatest value to Leo.

The witchcraft of this spiritism did not originate from the mentor of the wizard apprentice, but from a very old religious book, which recorded a method of communicating with the gods, that is, spiritism. However, its original name was psychic art, but the apprentice wizard thought the name was not pleasant, so he changed it.

From the wizard apprentice's own understanding of this spiritism, it is believed that this spiritism can communicate with certain spiritual beings, such as ghosts, etc., but the ancients did not understand these, so they regarded ghosts as gods.

It was also because of this that this apprentice wizard didn't pay much attention to spiritism, and copied it into a pile of experimental data, which would be missed if he was not careful. And compared with the meditation method later, the wizard apprentice probably copied the psychic and did not study it in depth, so the text such as annotation analysis is as few as a few lines.

However, after careful analysis by Leo, he discovered that this sorcery called Necromancy is very similar to the spirit chain in the Earth Federation's advanced spirit network skills.

The psychic skill of spiritual chain is the first step for any psyker to transform from a tactical level to a strategic level. A psyker who masters this psychic skill can spiritually link the pilots of all fighter units in the fleet , let them form a whole, forming the most famous swarm attack.

It is also possible to link the spirits of the captains of each battleship in the fleet together, ignoring the interference of the enemy's quantum communication, and directly build an interstellar battlefield map in the minds of all captains, so that the captain can perfectly command the actions of each battleship. attack direction.

However, in order to master the spirit chain skills, the physical quality of the psyker not only needs to reach the level of an Omega-level advanced creature, but even the spiritual power must reach the lowest satellite level among interstellar psykers. For Leo, it is an unattainable goal.

However, now this psychic technique can help Leo obtain the effect of a spiritual skill similar to a spiritual chain in advance.

Although psychicism cannot achieve the exaggerated thing of linking the spirits of millions to tens of millions of people together like a spiritual chain at the same time, covering the entire interstellar field, but it can allow Leo to have a one-on-one Situations form a spiritual link with certain beings.

These existences include both human beings and animals, and even spiritual bodies such as ghosts, whether there are ghosts or not, and of course there may be gods and spirits.

It's just that there are too many religious language in the spiritism recorded by the wizard apprentice, which needs to be re-analyzed and sorted before it can be integrated into his list of psionic skills.

Leo handed over the two harvests he got from the wizard's apprentice's notes, psychics and psionic precise control practice methods, to the sub-brain system for analysis and modification. Perhaps because of the simultaneous processing of two psionic skills, his spirit A large part of his strength was taken up, and he also rarely felt mentally exhausted.

In the process of reading the wizard's notes, Leo also stopped twice to check the condition of the bullets in the queen's magazine, which made him very happy. For three to four hours, the defective products in these special bullets It has been restored to ordinary special bullets, which speeds up the replenishment of Leo's ammunition bag a lot.

"It seems that it is necessary to go to the leather goods store tomorrow to order some ammunition bags and holsters, and make some bullet belts by the way." After putting the new five special bullets into the ammunition bag, Leo looked at the The ammunition bag was almost full, and he looked at the holster that didn't fit well around his waist, and made a decision in his mind.

In this way, Leo sat at the desk in the passenger room for a whole night, breaking away from the state of closing his eyes and resting his mind from time to time, changing the bullets in the queen's magazine, and checking the progress of the two psionic skills analyzed by the sub-brain.

Fortunately, when he was on the battlefield, Leo had already learned how to use the shortest time to rest his body and mind, so the quality of his rest after this night would not be much worse than usual. It can be proved.

Leo hadn't touched the black file bag on the table all night. He originally wanted to browse through it casually during his break to get a little understanding of the situation, but his instinct reminded him that he had better wait until he was full of energy, Open it again when there is no other business interference.

Just when the hustle and bustle resounded on the streets of the Yushi District, and a glare of sunlight that was no longer considered morning came in from the window and shone on the desk, Leo's eyes appeared in front of Leo's eyes. Formed psionic skills.

The method of improving the precise control of psionic energy is not a skill, but a talent. This talent is different from other psychic perception and fighting will talents. This talent can be improved.

Now the level of psionic control talent is level 1. By practicing the training method attached to the talent, the progress percentage at the end of the talent bar can be increased, thereby increasing the talent level.

Leo tried the training method attached to his talent, released the spiritual energy from his hand, let it rest on the palm of his hand, and condensed it into a spherical, square, triangle and other three-dimensional geometric shapes.

Because it was the first time to practice, not to mention turning the psionic energy into various geometric shapes, even fixing it in the palm of the hand would be very difficult.

After consuming nearly 20 points of spiritual energy, Leo reluctantly gathered the spiritual energy in his hands and did not let it out. He just wanted to condense it into various shapes, which he might not be able to do in a short time.

And after nearly an hour of practice, the completion percentage behind the psionic control talent has only increased by 1.5%.

Compared with the psionic control talent that needs constant practice to improve, the sub-brain system's sorting out of psychics is much more straightforward. After sorting out, it forms a brand new psionic skill, and it is a complete and activatable skill. Skill.

The name of this skill also follows the name of spiritism, and the content of the introduction is also very simple, just one sentence, the spirit communicates with the spirit of all things, but there is a reminder at the end, the content of the reminder is an unknown side effect.