The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Leo spent the next two days familiarizing himself with the environment. Although he was separated from Sylvia and could not get in touch with her for the time being, Leo was not worried about her. In this state and environment, she was capable enough to cope with all situations. The worry is whether the appearance and figure adapted from the blood of the Faceless will be affected by the mysterious power here.

Sylvia's faceless ability is different from Leo's body, which is transformed by pure physical strength through perfect control of the body's muscles and bones, and its appearance is different. She still used some extraordinary power in the process of changing her body shape. According to the previous situation, the power here has not affected her, but in the special environment here for a long time, she will be more or less in danger of changing back to her original shape, so there is not much time left for Leo.

However, Leo was not in a hurry, because on the first day he came here, he had already learned about the ship structure of the Rocklosians, and found a road on the outer wall of his room that could directly connect the upper and lower floors. Although there is a break from the third floor to the second floor of this passage that is just stuck by rocks and blocks the passage, it is not difficult to dig through it again.

If Sylvia reveals her truth, she can temporarily hide in this passage.

Although this large laboratory is completely closed, people inside cannot get out and people outside cannot enter without special circumstances, but it does not mean that life here is very boring.

In fact, for the vast majority of people who work here, life here is far better than outside, so even if those guards did not die accidentally due to some experiments, they would not choose to leave and get paid for their years of work , but continued to stay here until they also died of some accident.

In fact, this is not the case only for the laboratory on the floor where Leo is located. The guards, researchers and other people working in the laboratory on other floors will

The reason why these people have such abnormal behavior is mainly because of the machines they use to pass the time.

There are no entertainment facilities in this laboratory, but there is a brain wave guide device that is more obsessed than entertainment facilities. The Earth Federation calls it a dream maker.

When a spaceship flies in hyperspace, especially in subspace, except for a few powerful psykers and creatures with special physiques, other human or alien creatures need to enter a special dormancy cabin for deep dormancy.

The dormant cabin can not only protect ordinary people from the influence of various mysterious cosmic energy radiation, but also slow down aging, so that the aging degree of the body is only equivalent to a few days during several years or even decades of hyperspace flight.

Although this kind of dormancy cabin has very slight damage to the user's body, it is not without it, especially when humans and humanoids sleep for a long time, the brain will degenerate to varying degrees, and even when the wake-up program starts At the same time, directly enter the state of brain death.

So in order to help the brain continue to be active during hibernation, the scientists of the Earth Federation made something like a brain wave guide.

In fact, the basic principle of this kind of thing is very simple. It is to let the machine create a virtual world, and then use a special brain wave receiving device to project the user's brain waves into that virtual world in the form of a virtual character to live and study, so that the brain can always in a state of microactivity.

Now the French Empire has also found a lot of hibernation capsules with missing functions from the wreckage of the Rocklos star's spaceship, and they are able to know how to use these hibernation capsules.

Leo saw the dormant cabin the next day. When he learned about the environment here, he already knew about these dormant cabins from the old guards who worked here, but the old guards didn't know that it was a dormant cabin. Cabin, but to call him the Great Creation.

So when Leo entered the big house in the corner of the laboratory and saw forty dormant cabins lined up neatly, and those dormant cabins were called great creations, he was also surprised and surprised, but even more surprised was He found that the French Empire was not only able to use these dormant cabins, but also modified the dormant cabins.

In the hibernation cabin he saw, only a brainwave guide, energy device, main control chip, and hibernation cabin remained. Judging from the fact that the dormant cabin is well preserved, that kind of demolition is not a forced demolition, but a purposeful regular demolition.

Afterwards, Leo used common sense to use the dormant cabin, and he naturally entered the virtual world made by the main control chip of the dormant cabin. In that world, he was directly given a noble status and could enjoy all The privileges and benefits that nobles in the normal world can enjoy and cannot enjoy, do not leave the virtual world until the use time is up.

When he came out of the hibernation cabin, another person could not wait to lie down in it, and then fell into that illusory world with a happy face.

Seeing this scene, Leo also understood why the guards here are still unwilling to leave even after reaching the mission limit, because that illusory world is so real, it has everything those people want, and they can live well in that world Like the real world, it is equivalent to prolonging life in disguise.

Therefore, those people can no longer tell which are real and which are false. In their hearts, perhaps the world in the dormant cabin is real, and the world now is false. Once they leave here, they will be trapped in this place forever. In the false world, they can never go back to the perfect "real" world, so they are naturally unwilling to leave.

Leo is not unfamiliar with this kind of chaotic world cognition. In fact, after waking up from a dormant state, those who use the dormant cabin have more or less similar cognitive confusion. Each civilization has some methods to help people with cognitive confusion quickly restore correct cognition, so it does not cause any major problems.

And now all the guards here have cognitive confusion after using the dormant cabin for the first time, and they continue to enter that illusory world without leaving this state. It will also gradually deepen, and eventually become a fixed cognition that cannot be resolved.

Just like now, those who have formed a fixed cognition will think that this is a false world, a cage that traps their souls, and they will naturally become indifferent to everything here, even if the researchers here are in front of them. If they do live experiments, their psychology will not fluctuate, and they will not have any sympathy. Even Leo thinks that the researchers here will treat them as experimental subjects, and they may not resist, because they will think that doing so will make them feel better. Get out of this false world completely.

The performance of these guards also made Leo think of something, something that originated from the King of Knights and was related to the royal family of Farland.

For a long time, there has always been a very mysterious army in the secret army of the French Royal Family. Although this army belongs to the Royal Guard of the French, it has always been directly controlled by the Emperor of the French. This army is very powerful, and its strength is not only Only in terms of its combat effectiveness, its strength is more reflected in the fact that all fighters in this army are not afraid of death.

From the recorded achievements, every time this army appears, it will bring huge casualties, not only to its enemies, but even to itself. Reorganize one at a time.

It's just that every time this army participates in the battle, it will bring victory, so people who study the history of war will also think that this private army of the French royal family is the strongest army in the world.

Now that Leo saw these dormant cabins and the guards who were cognitively confused because of the dormant cabins, he couldn't help linking them with the private army of the Frank Royal Family who was willing to die.

According to the records, no similar troops appeared in the first and second dynasties of France before the King of Knights, and the earliest record about this army is the first battle of the King of Knights after he left the Northland. It was a battle that laid the foundation of the King of Knights. If that battle had not been won, then the Third Dynasty would certainly have ceased to exist.

In that battle, this mysterious army suddenly appeared on the battlefield, penetrated the enemy's line of defense with a deadly attack, rushed directly to the place where the enemy's generals were, and slaughtered all the enemy's generals Clean, and finally caused the army whose number was ten times that of the King of Knights to collapse instantly.

If there is no wrong picture, the members of the mysterious army should have made mistakes like cognitive confusion like these guards, and may even be brainwashed, because this brain wave guide was originally used on the battlefield. To make those recruits forget their fear.

Now, although the private guard of the Royal Family of France still has the establishment of the mysterious army, it should be different from the previous mysterious army, because if there is such a powerful and forgetful army, then no matter it is The war with the Kingdom of England and the civil war in France should have occurred on the battlefield, and these dormant capsules should not be placed here for the use of the guards and laboratory staff.

From this point of view, the real purpose of these dormant cabins has not been handed down by the Fran royal family, only a part of the use method has been handed down, so it was arranged here by the Fran royal family to relieve the inner loneliness of those who work here .

However, Leo, who was guessing again and again in his heart, was also very curious about how the King of Knights knew how to use the dormant cabin, and how he knew how to improve the dormant cabin, removing the redundant parts that were not needed, and only keeping the brainwave guidance. instrumental.

Is it a tool that can learn this kind of knowledge like choosing a king, or is it for other reasons.

However, the choice of choosing the king was directly rejected by Leo, because in his memory, the Lolos star people did not have the tools for learning knowledge like the Earth Federation, so even if the king of knights discovered the wreckage of the spaceship first, he would not Couldn't find anything that would help him understand the ship.

This also made Leo put his thoughts on the true identity of the King of Knights. Almost all the information related to the King of Knights mentioned his identity as the former French royal family. As for the heirs of the French royal family, there is no one Mentioned, there is no way to check.

This is mainly because the last emperor of France in the second dynasty had a large number of heirs. There were more than 70 heirs recognized alone, more illegitimate children, and more daughters than sons. have.

The reason why no one doubted his identity as the heir of the former French royal family is because he said this identity when he had almost unified the Velen continent. At that time, even if he was not the heir of the former royal family, it would not be a problem to establish a new dynasty. unnecessary.

Moreover, after the King of Knights ascended the throne, he also verified the purity of his blood through a special method.

There are many doubts about this seemingly perfect identity, such as why the King of Knights appeared on the east coast. At that time, the east coast was regarded as a barren land by the royal family and nobles of France. Only those sinners who were punished would be sent to Velen On the east coast of the mainland, ordinary nobles would not go to the east coast, let alone members of the royal family.

Moreover, the place where the King of Knights first appeared was in the area where Winterring City is located. According to records, he led his trusted nobles to flee to Winterring City, and then killed those bounty hunters who came after him, but the problem is Before this initial record, the life of the Knight King became blank, and after that, the Knight King never mentioned the events before Winterring City.

"Interesting King of Knights!" Leo used to pay more attention to King of Knights and the relationship between King of Knights and the Black Forest. As for the life of King of Knights himself, he was not among his attention items, but now he found that Knight King Wang actually got involved with the wreckage of the Rockloth star, and the direction of attention naturally changed.

"Isn't the King of Knights still dead?" Leo, who was staying in the small guard room, flipped through a few books he had found about the King of Knights, and suddenly a bold idea came to his mind.

Although this idea is very bold, even in the eyes of others, it is absurd, because the death of the Knight King has caused quite a stir in the world of Velen. Not only the kings of various countries, but even the leaders of the major churches have come to attend the funeral. No matter how good Wang is at pretending, it is impossible to hide the truth from so many people with extraordinary power.

More importantly, even if the King of Knights can hide these extraordinary people, it is impossible to hide it from the Black Forest, because the Black Forest has signed a contract with him, and whether the signer on the other side is still alive, the kind of question that contains mysterious power It must be reflected in the contract.

But even so, Leo still felt that his guess might be right, the King of Knights was really not dead, not only not dead, the King of Knights might even be very young.