The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

From what Mister and Randall have seen and heard before, they can see that Leo should be the center of the three, and they can also see that Leo must have some extraordinary abilities, the kind that can make the sled move by itself Ability is definitely not the opponent's full ability, but even if they are mentally prepared, they are still extremely shocked to see Leo smashing a big hole in the lake ice layer as thick as a city wall with one punch.

The power of this punch made them think of the latest cannon produced by the Hanossa Alliance. They have all seen with their own eyes how those cannons slaughtered the monsters from Miria City. Now Leo's fist The power will definitely not be weaker than those cannons.

While Mist and Randall were thinking about the holes in the ice, Leo, who had not jumped into the water for a long time, got out of the water like a fish and landed on the cracked ice. Walking towards them, he looked at the piece of metal he held in his hand.

When they walked in front of everyone, Mist and Randall did not pay attention to the metal block that Leo salvaged from the bottom of the lake, but looked at the clothes on Leo's body. They were surprised to find that the metal on Leo's body The clothes were all dry. If they hadn't seen Leo jumping into the water and getting out of the water just now, it would be impossible for them to believe that the person in front of them had just dived into the water.

Compared to the couple beside them, Sylvia and Tessa Moka obviously paid more attention to the piece of metal in Leo's hand, and they all saw some weird patterns on the metal surface, and these patterns no matter Either Sylvia or Tessa Mocha have seen it in some prehistoric civilization relics.

"What is this?" Sylvia couldn't help being curious and asked.

"A sign." Leo answered briefly, and before the curious Sylvia continued to ask, he added: "The symbol on it is the instruction number of a Bujacanso, Bujacanso Humans are a race that loves to number everything. According to this number analysis, the content of this sign is the module of the Seventy-Three Research Center, and the function of this module should be to conduct biological evolution research."

Although Leo explained, because some terms cannot be expressed in French and other languages, they can only be expressed in the Earth Federation, which also made Sylvia and Tessa Mocha who were listening at the side completely unable to understand what he said. I just know that this sign is on another thing.

Sylvia asked confirmingly: "Is it a fragment from the object salvaged by the White Deer Tribe?"

"Yeah." Leo nodded, threw the metal plate he just salvaged on the ground, and said to Sylvia, "Let's rest here tonight, and continue on our way tomorrow."

Both Sylvia and Tessa Moka nodded in agreement, and then each found a suitable house as a place to rest, while Leo hoped to find some dry firewood from the surrounding woods for a fire.

When Mist and Randall were left, the two glanced at each other, and Randall couldn't help picking up the metal plate that Leo had thrown on the ground and put it in his pocket.

They don't understand why Leo didn't put away this piece of metal. They must know that in the south, the value of metal pieces produced by this kind of prehistoric civilization can already be sold at sky-high prices. If they sell this piece of metal, they will settle down The funds needed for those people's lives will no longer worry about it.

In addition, the two of them also thought that Leo salvaged the things at the bottom of the lake, so there must be other debris in the lake.

It is extremely difficult for other people to dive into such a frozen lake to find a piece of metal, but for Mist and Randall, this matter is very simple, as long as they make sufficient preparations in advance , they can stay in the icy lake for a long time.

This is mainly because of the mutations in their bodies that gave them this supernatural ability. In the mutation, they not only gained resistance to cold, but also the ability to breathe underwater, that is, behind their ears. Because of the mutation, organs similar to fish gills grew. Usually, because they are hidden behind the ears and covered by their hair, they can disguise themselves as ordinary people living in the Hanosian Union for a long time. They were not exposed until the people of the church appeared. come out.

They have always thought that their abilities are not very useful, at least compared to most of the other mutants in the settlement, their abilities are too weak on land, but now it is different, they can Use your own abilities to salvage metals left over from prehistoric civilizations from this icy lake to exchange for money when necessary.

Thinking of this, the two of them are full of hope for the future life in the settlement.

On the other side, Leo and the others quickly found a relatively well-preserved house. The door of this house should have been treated in a special way. Even after so many years, it still hasn't completely decayed, and it can barely block the cold wind outside. , and the fireplace inside the house was also well preserved. After clearing the thick snow inside, Leo erected the cut pine logs and lit them.

Soon, with the crackling sound of the burning oil in the tree, a unique smell of burning pine oil wafted through the house, and at the same time, the surrounding air became warmer, and it was dark at this time.

Several people boiled some water and prepared the food. With the hot food and the warm environment, the exhaustion of the day also came over. Mister and Randall ate something, and found a place next to the stove. In a suitable corner, they leaned on each other and fell asleep, and soon fell asleep.

The activities during the day were nothing to Leo and the others. They didn't have any intention of resting, and they sat quietly by the stove and were busy with their own affairs.

Leo took out a wizard's notebook and looked through it, and he did two things at once, sorting out his psionic skills in his mind.

Sylvia was familiar with the ability of the Faceless Man in her body. After this period of familiarization, she found that although the strength of the Faceless Man was much worse than that of the Abyss Dragon, it did not mean that the Faceless Man There is no advantage in power.

In fact, the power of the Faceless One far surpasses the blood power of the Abyssal Demon Dragon in terms of change, use, and practicality, especially when her power is not strong enough. The power of the Faceless can bring her more help.

For example, she can become anyone she wants to become through the power of the Faceless Man, and even imitate the abilities and powers possessed by this person. Leo is also a little surprised by this, because this is different from his own nightmare. The power is very similar.

However, Leo soon demonstrated the power of the Faceless Man in Sylvia, and he knew that there was a difference between the power of the Nightmare and the power of the Faceless Man. The biggest difference was that the power imitated by the Nightmare Power was almost There is no limit, as long as one's own strength is strong enough and perceives the details of the other party's power, one can completely imitate it, while the faceless man needs to fully contact the other party, and after becoming the other party, he can imitate the other party's power through some unknown connection, And the power after imitation will be weakened a lot.

Tessa Mocha is also familiar with her current power just like Sylvia. As the World Tree seed grows, Tessa Mocha can also sense the growth of her own power, but unlike Sylvia, she does not It's not that she can't control her own power. In fact, her control over her own power is almost perfect, as if she has used these powers for many years. The only thing missing is that her skills in using power are a bit poor. What she needs to do now It is to increase the various techniques of using one's own strength.

Time passed by little by little, and the wind and snow outside showed no sign of stopping. A large amount of snow accumulated to the door, blocking the door. For this reason, Leo had to go out to clear the snow. After he cleared the door for the third time, Snow, when returning to the house, Sylvia suddenly said to Leo: "There is a problem with the mutation of the survivors in Miria City."

Sylvia said this inexplicably, which made Leo and Tessa Moka stunned, and then Leo asked, "Where do you see that there is a problem?"

"Number." Sylvia said bluntly, turned to look at Mist and Randall who were asleep, and said, "They mentioned that Miria City has become a gathering place for mutants. The monsters mutated by mutants have already assembled an army of tens of thousands of people. If it weren't for the support of a group of powerful weapons from the Hanossa Alliance, plus the natural danger of the Black Forest Swamp and the support of the Church of the Black Forest Swamp, I’m afraid it’s already fallen.” As she spoke, she paused, and said, “I’ve read a lot of documents in the Orthodox Church, even in the most prosperous period of the Villen World Church of Evil Gods and the Underground Church, the combined family members of these churches are absolutely It will not exceed four or five thousand, and even if you add those people who have passively become a family of an evil god due to accidental contact with something they shouldn't, the total number will definitely not exceed seven thousand. But now in the city of Miria Tens of thousands of monsters have mutated into monsters, and this kind of thing is simply impossible to happen according to common sense."

Hearing this, Leo was silent for a moment, and said: "You forgot, whether it is the French Empire, or your French United Kingdom, or organizations such as medical schools and cults, all take the refugees and survivors in the city of Miria. have done various experiments.”

Sylvia fell silent when she heard the words, and after a while, she said, "I didn't know that their experiments were used to create Familia."

Leo didn't comfort Sylvia, because he knew very well that Sylvia must know something, she just didn't care, and she didn't think that things would turn out like this in advance.

Among those who experimented with Miria refugees, there were malicious people such as the French Empire and blood wizards, and there were also good-hearted people who hoped to improve their physical fitness through the blood of such families. After all, the people of Miria City After the outbreak of the Great Plague, improving the physique, treating diseases, and surviving are the only thoughts of everyone, including the subjects, who can imagine what will happen in the future.

If there were no mutations in the world of Velen, those Miria refugees and survivors who were used as experimental subjects by various forces might not have physical mutations in their lives, and their bodies might even become mutated because of these experiments. It is very strong and has a long lifespan, but now a sudden mutation of the whole world has exposed all the disadvantages. I am afraid that even the people and organizations involved in this matter cannot predict this situation.

"Is there a way to reverse this mutation?" Sylvia asked again after blaming herself.

"Impossible to reverse." This time it was not Leo who answered, but Tessa Mocha. She seemed to know something and said: "The appearance of these mutant families is not accidental, they are part of the transformation of the world Important power, unless you have the power to reverse the entire world, it is impossible for you to change everything."

"What do you know?" Sylvia frowned, looking at Tessa Mocha with displeasure.

"I don't know anything." Tessa Mocha shook her head and said, "I didn't say what I just said."

Sylvia was stunned when she heard the words, and quickly thought of Tessa Moka's other consciousness after fusing the world tree seed, and asked: "Didn't you say that? But you didn't have that kind of change just now..."

"It's true that she didn't say it. It was said by the consciousness of the World Tree seed just now." Leo affirmed Tessa Moka's statement. If there was no World Tree imprint, Leo might not be able to tell who said that sentence just now Yes, but with the imprint of the World Tree, as long as another consciousness of Tessa Moka floats up, he can immediately sense it.

Tessa Mocha looked at Leo with some doubts. She didn't know that Leo had the imprint of the World Tree in his body, so she thought that Leo had some way to distinguish between the two consciousnesses.

"How does it know these things?" Sylvia asked suspiciously.

Tessa Mocha said in an unquestionable tone: "The World Tree constitutes this world. This world is just a small place on the top of the World Tree. The World Tree naturally knows what happened here and what will happen."

Seeing Tessa Mocha like this, Sylvia did not refute the statement that the world tree constitutes the world, because she had already tried it in the past two days, and Tessa Mocha in front of her would never listen to her refutation .

As Tessa Mocha further fused the World Tree Seed, she gained powerful power, but at the same time, she also began to undergo inexplicable changes in her thinking, gradually changing from a witch who believed in the way of nature and shamanism to a I found a true believer who believed in the World Tree, and even on the road these few days, refuted all the teachings and legends about the origin of the world in various churches in the Vinylon world, and then threw out a theory about the creation of the World Tree.

If it wasn't for Tessa Mocha not showing any abnormalities, Sylvia would have suspected that the other party's consciousness had been infected by the evil god.