The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Reality." After absorbing all the bug remains, Tessa Moka stood up, turned to Leo, and said, "The seeds of the mother tree come from reality and feed on illusion."

Looking at Tessa Mocha, Leo frowned, and Sylvia on the side also showed a serious look on his face. They didn't react like this because there was something wrong with Tessa Mocha's words, but Because of Tessa Mocha's state at the moment.

Although Tessa Mocha's appearance and body shape remained unchanged, her temperament and energy fluctuations on her body were completely changed. At this moment, both of them could feel an invisible pressure.

"I feel the illusion in you!" Tessa Moka suddenly said to Leo again.

"Then what do you want?" Leo asked back: "Are you also absorbing the illusion in me?"

Tessa Mocha shook her head and said, "I will when you are swallowed by illusion, but now is not the time."

After saying this, the unique temperament and invisible power on her body receded like a tide, and she returned to normal, but she didn't show any surprise at what happened just now, obviously she also knew very well that she What happened just now.

"What are you doing?" Sylvia stared at Tessa Mocha solemnly, and said, "You know that just now..."

"I know." Before Sylvia could finish speaking, Tessa Moka nodded and said, "Of course I know what I'm doing, and that's exactly what I want. To assimilate the mother tree seeds requires some price. "

"Do you still choose to go that way?" Hearing what Tessa Mocha said, Sylvia quickly thought of something the other party had mentioned, with a gloomy face, she said, "In the end you will probably be its nourishment."

"That's fine, at least I can become the next mother tree." Tessa Moka looked at Sylvia calmly, and said, "I just chose to walk the path I should have walked."

"You people who believe in the way of nature are all lunatics." Sylvia snorted coldly, turned around and said nothing more.

The three of them continued to follow the route indicated by the map and walked into another ice cave passage. The entrance of this ice cave passage was a bit narrow, barely allowing one person to pass through, but after entering a certain distance, the passage expanded like a trumpet. It turned into a large channel with a diameter of more than ten meters.

According to the data measured last night, although this passage will be much wider than the entrance if you go deeper, it is only six or seven meters in diameter, and it will not be as wide as ten meters.

At the beginning, one of them was caused by the internal changes of the ice cave, but soon the large number of insect claw marks left on the ice wall around the ice cave made them realize that the ice cave passage was not formed naturally, and it widened so much overnight It must have something to do with bugs.

Although I don't understand why the worms want to widen the passage of the ice cave, it is conceivable that they will never do meaningless things, and it can be speculated that those worms must be indispensable at the end of this passage.

The three of them didn't think much, and continued to move forward quickly. After walking for more than an hour, Leo, who was leading the way, slowed down a little, and looked at the ice wall next to him, and his eyes seemed to pass through the ice wall. Through the ice wall, I saw the situation on the other side of the ice wall.

"What's wrong?" Sylvia asked in a deep voice.

"There are insects over there, they have already found us." Leo sensed through the spiritual network that some insects at the edge of the ice bridge were trying to cut through the ice and introduce seawater, but they obviously underestimated the firmness of the ice wall. The ice layer on the inner wall may be easily cut by them, but the closer to the outer layer, the stronger the ice layer, and it is already difficult for the insect's claws to cut a small hole in the ice layer. .

Because Leo's footsteps created extremely slight vibrations on the ice, and this vibration will not disappear, but will be transmitted due to the connection of the ice cave passage.

The extremely sensitive insects also seemed to transmit subtle vibrations from the ice, sensed Leo and the others, and confirmed the position of Leo and the others with great precision. After chiseling the ice wall twice, they found that they could not penetrate the ice wall and reach Leo. After the ice cave passage where Ou and the others were located, they quickly moved towards the direction Leo was traveling.

It seems that they are going to the next ice cave node to find the entrance to the frozen passage where Leo is, and they are likely to summon a large number of bugs to rush over together.

Leo then explained the situation, and then turned to look at Tessa Mocha together with Sylvia.

"Next, let me lead the way!" Tessa Moka said calmly, then walked around Leo.

Leo had no objection to this, and followed Tessa Mocha with Sylvia and continued on.

After walking for nearly half of the disappearance time, the three of them felt the ice layer under their feet tremble slightly almost at the same time, and heard a lot of subtle rustling sounds from the front, feeling that a large number of insects should be rushing towards this side.

Tessa Moka, who was walking in front, signaled Leo and Sylvia to stop, and then she walked forward alone for a certain distance and stood still.

Then the energy fluctuations in her body also changed suddenly, becoming extremely strong, it seems that it should be transformed into another consciousness formed by the World Tree seed.

When the energy fluctuations on Tessa Mocha's body reached the same level as Sylvia's, the opponent's body suddenly turned into a shape entwined with countless vines, and then these vines flew out in all directions, and their sharp tips pierced into the surrounding ice In the layer, a large net of vines was formed, and at the same time, a large number of flowers bloomed in the middle of the large net, and these flowers gave off bursts of fishy smell.

"It smells so bad!" Sylvia mocked without hesitation.

And just as her mocking voice fell, some vines appeared in the vine net and combined into a common curse gesture of Velen, and raised it at her.

Sylvia continued to sneer and sneer: "I hope that when you change back to your original form, this stench will not remain on your body, otherwise you should try to stay as far away from us as possible."

The vine then changed another gesture, which was also a curse gesture.

"Here we come!" At this time, Leo's mental network that had expanded to the limit had already sensed those weird bugs. It is more appropriate to call it a bug swarm at this moment. The whole cave was densely covered with bugs, which made him recall It reminded him of a small battle against the space Zerg that he had participated in.

The current situation is very similar to that time, the only difference is that at that time he was just a cannon fodder biochemical warrior who could be sacrificed at any time, but now he is a powerhouse who is almost inferior to the level of a high-level psyker.

Just when the memories of the past emerged in Leo's mind, the swarm of bugs had advanced to the diffusion range of the smelly flower smell, and those bugs that smelled the smell all rushed towards this side like crazy , while rushing over, they will also inexplicably attack the same kind beside them. Before they can rush over to the vine net, there are already a lot of bug corpses in the ice cave passage.

The bug that rushed to the front collided with the giant vine net at once. The impact force was so great that the giant net was dented inward. Although it seemed that the vine was very fragile and might break at any time, it was actually extremely fragile. An impact like Tenacity can't do any damage at all.

And the moment the worm touched the vine, countless tiny capillaries pierced out of the vine, pierced into the worm's body, and extracted any nutrients that made up the worm's body, and the worm shriveled and melted at an extremely fast speed.

The bugs behind didn't see the plight of their companions at all, they rushed down the giant net like moths to a flame, and were caught and swallowed one by one by the giant net, and the bugs behind continued to rush up to fill the gaps.

The giant vine net transformed by Tessa Mo has an extremely fast digestion speed for these bugs. It only takes a few seconds for a half-human tall bug to be swallowed up, and there is no residue left. Although the bugs The number is huge, but it can't withstand such a devouring, and the bugs will become extremely violent because of the stench, killing each other, and in the end, in less than ten minutes, the thousands of bugs have been killed. They were all wiped out, and even if they were still alive, they were all stumps and arms without any fighting power.

At this time, Tessa Mocha's transformed vine net loosened the vine tentacles tightly fastened to the surrounding ice wall, and then curled into a ball, rolling forward slowly, Leo and Sylvia also followed.

Along the way, all the corpses of the bugs touched by the vine ball were quickly digested, and soon the corpses of the bugs in the passage of the ice cave were swept away, leaving only some frozen blood and body fluids.

After all the bugs were cleaned up, the vine ball continued to retract, shrinking to the size of a person, and then gradually changed back to Tessa Mocha's appearance, and the warm clothes she was wearing were destroyed just now, and now she is wearing The clothes are transformed from vines, and they look a little thin, but what is more conspicuous is not her thin plant clothes, but her current figure.

Although Tessa Mocha's face has not changed in any way, her figure has increased several times horizontally, looking like a spherical body.

"Haha! It's so funny!" Sylvia laughed loudly unceremoniously, and taunted: "Are you full of food? Or is it supposed to be your figure, which I saw before?" It's all just a disguise!"

"Huh!" Tessa Moka, who also found her body abnormal, knew that her current situation was indeed as exhausted as Sylvia said, so she couldn't find a suitable sentence to refute it for a while, so she could only snort coldly , and then said to Leo: "I will be able to recover in a while."

"It's okay, we're not in a hurry." Leo nodded, and found a place to sit down at random, and Sylvia didn't let the other party go, and continued to sneer around Tessa Moka, and Tessa Mocha refuted a few words at the beginning, but closed his eyes at the end, as if he couldn't see it.

As Tessa Mocha said, it didn't take long for her bloated and fat figure to gradually shrink, and after a few minutes, she returned to her normal state.

"Can we move on?" Leo stood up and asked Tessa Mocha.

Seeing that Tessa Mocha had returned to her original form, Sylvia sighed regretfully as if she had lost a good toy.

"Okay!" Tessa Mocha glared at Sylvia, then nodded to Leo.

"Wait a while, are you still going to deal with those bugs?" Leo asked again.

Tessa Mocha thought for a while, nodded, and said, "Leave it to me!"

A group of people continued to move forward, and they encountered three or four batches of bugs one after another on the road. Compared with the first batch, the number was obviously much smaller, and there were only two or three hundred in total, but they were much larger in size , and the shape is more ferocious, and more difficult to deal with, it can be seen that their status in the swarm is different.

After walking for about three hours, they passed four or five ice cave nodes. Each ice cave node has a small insect nest, but there are no queens in these insect nests, only some are bigger and more powerful. Aggressive bugs.

"Let's rest for a while!" Leo suddenly suggested after seeing Tessa Moka devouring a big bug.

"Yes." Sylvia nodded in agreement.

"We can still..." Tessa Mocha frowned, as if she didn't like this suggestion, and was about to say something.

"No, you can't." Sylvia looked at Tessa Mocha seriously, then took out a mirror and handed it over, and said, "Look at what you look like now!"

Tessa Mocha was stunned for a moment, and quickly took the mirror to take a picture. As a result, she saw that her face in the mirror was extremely pale, her skin became transparent, and she could clearly see the blood vessels under the skin, and these blood vessels were Lying on her face like some kind of parasitic plant, it made her look very scary.

"Okay! Let's rest for a while." Although Tessa Moka felt that her body was better than ever, she could tell from her appearance that something was wrong with her body, so she nodded and followed Leo's suggestion, casually I found a place to sit down and began to check my body.

However, what puzzled her was that no matter how she checked, she couldn't find any problems with her body, but the swollen blood vessels and pale skin on her face showed no signs of subsiding. Can't help but feel a little worried.

When she couldn't find out what the problem was, she also tried to suddenly find out the consciousness borne by the seeds of the mother tree to see if this consciousness could solve her own problems, but the strange thing was that no matter how she exchanged, the seeds of the mother tree always remained There was no response. If she could not really feel the existence of the mother tree seed, she might really think that the mother tree seed had disappeared.

"Although the World Tree is real and can restrain the illusion, if the illusion is developed to the extreme, it might not be real." Leo said suddenly, and then asked Tessa Moka: "I think you need to Help, what do you think?"