The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

When all the oil in the black oil pool turned golden, the four maggot priests let go of the scepters in their hands, moved towards the black oil pool, and then walked into the golden oil, and their bodies did not change. Instead of being devoured and assimilated like sacrifices, the golden oil under their bodies began to spread upwards along the surface of their bodies, as if to envelop them.

However, when the golden oil on the three maggot priests was about to completely cover them, they stopped and retreated, and the three maggot priests all showed regretful expressions on their faces, and followed the same turn. He looked enviously at another colleague who was completely wrapped in golden oil and was gradually turning into a cocoon.

In the square, other people couldn't help cheering when they saw a maggot priest successfully cocooned, and then the voice of chanting prayers became louder.

At this time, Leo did not pay attention to the cocooning of maggots in front of him like the people around him, but slightly raised his head to look at the statue of the mother of filth that was casting golden light downwards in the sky.

He found that although the golden light was emitted by the statue of the mother of filth projected in the air, the golden light itself was not the power of the mother of filth, because he did not feel any resonance in the imprint of the mother of filth in his body, and this The golden light gave him the feeling that it was more like the power of a golden giant deer.

Leo had seen a giant golden deer patrolling the Black Forest at a very close distance, but he had just turned on his spiritual vision at that time, which was not much better than ordinary people, and he couldn't feel the details of the giant golden deer's power at all. The only thing that can remain in his mind is the impression that cannot be described in words, and the feeling cast by the golden light just matches the impression in his memory.

In the oil pool, when the surface of the cocoon formed by the maggot man became keratinized, the shape began to shrink slowly at a speed visible to the naked eye, and also a rhizome similar to an umbilical cord shrunk.

As the cocoon shrunk to the size of a fist, the rhizome was as small as a hair, and the light on the surface of the cocoon became more and more intense, even reaching the glaring bottom.

Everyone around was at a critical moment until now, and their voices of chanting prayers became louder and louder, and some people even fell into a state of fanatical screaming.

The light emitted by that golden cocoon seemed to have reached the limit of the light. At this time, the rhizome was suddenly broken under the impact of a force, and the golden cocoon was also suspended in the air, and then the skin shattered into countless pieces. At the same time, a golden goblin with transparent wings was suspended in the air, then rushed to the sky quickly, and disappeared in the light of the statue of the mother of filth.

When he saw the golden goblin, Leo's surprise far surpassed all the people present, because he had seen this kind of goblin before, they flew around the golden giant deer, and from time to time they entered the black forest to collect nectar of those goblins.

To be honest, if Leo hadn't witnessed the complete process of a maggot man transforming into a golden goblin with his own eyes, I'm afraid it would be hard to believe that such a beautiful golden goblin turned into such a disgusting maggot man. The discovery also made Leo even more curious about the relationship between the filthy mother and the golden giant deer? If it weren't for the extremely close relationship, the golden goblins transformed from those maggots would definitely not become the servants of the golden giant deer.

And when Leo was thinking about the problem, all the people in the square couldn't hide their excitement, shouting all kinds of slogans praising the mother of filth, and at the same time, many people who looked normal suddenly looked like As if he had been stimulated by some kind, some parts of his body began to undergo family-like mutations.

Beside Leo and Sylvia, there was also a person who was mutated by external stimuli. His body began to swell, and a bubble-like pustule began to bulge on his back. The pustule was filled with black oily substances, and he could Swimming through the skin of the abscess.

Because this person's mutation happened right next to him, Leo immediately tried to confine his spiritual net to the front line, try not to contact other forces around him, and only explored the mutation process in this person's body.

Soon he discovered that this person's mutation was different from the mutation he thought was caused by the power of the mother of filth. He discovered that this person was actually producing the power of the abyss, and this power of the abyss was also the result of his mutation. On the contrary, the divine power of the filthy mother in his body was eroding this person with the power of the abyss, which made the mutation in his body always maintain a level that did not harm him.

Ever since he learned about the situation of the mother of filth here, Leo had some doubts about the mother of filth cleaning up the power of the abyss. After all, many of the people he saw here were mutated by the power of the abyss, and many of them had obvious abyss. The energy fluctuations of the power of power, although one power is chaos and the other is order.

But now he has believed that the mother of filth can clean up the power of the abyss, and right in front of his eyes, he saw the power of the abyss being transformed into the power of the abyss that inherited the order little by little.

As the maggot man turned into a golden goblin and flew away, the ceremony in the square was over, and the people in the square began to leave in an orderly manner, only some priests gathered around the edge of the black oil pool and prayed continuously , seems to hope to get the favor of those golden forces that are still remaining in the black oil pool.

Leo and Sylvia also left the square with the crowd, but instead of returning to the hotel, they left the castle directly, and then asked the caravan at the post outside the city about the location and directions of Lanxi City. After Falun Gong, he went directly to Lanxi.

Although after the sacrificial ceremony, some celebration activities will be held here because of the evolution of the maggot priest, but for Leo and Silvia, these activities are meaningless. It is better to go to Lanxi to see what is in Lanxi special place.

The two didn't walk on their legs, but spent a gold sa to buy a carriage, bought some goods from a merchant, changed into the clothes of a local merchant, and pretended to be a merchant.

Perhaps it was because the surrounding territories were performing sacrificial ceremonies, and there were no people on the road connecting the various territories and castles, only the carriage driven by Leo was driving on the road.

"Is that golden goblin the same goblin you saw back then?" Maybe because she felt that the surroundings were too quiet, Sylvia suddenly found a topic and asked.

"Hmm!" Leo raised the reins in his hand to slow down the carriage, then thought for a while and said, "If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I'm afraid it would be hard for me to believe that those golden goblins turned out to be maggots. made."

"Do you think the Mother of Filth and the Lord of the Black Forest are the same..." Sylvia asked again.

Leo turned his head to look at Sylvia, fell silent for a moment, and said, "I don't think it's possible, because the Lord of the Black Forest doesn't need to find an empty shell puppet in front of him, he can stand on the stage by himself." Before." As he spoke, he added: "However, their relationship may be unusual, maybe it is a subordinate relationship like the White Deer."

"Affiliation?" Sylvia froze for a moment.

Leo then spoke out his guess: "And I suspect that He was also involved in the process of Aishali Forest's departure from the Black Forest."

Sylvia didn't understand Leo's words for a while, and asked in confusion: "His? Who? The mother of filth?"

"Yeah!" Leo nodded and said, "Don't forget that in the scriptures of the Mother of Filth, it was mentioned that the Mother of Filth has an eternal garden in Aishali Forest. In addition, the reason why Aishali Forest left The Black Forest is related to the infection of the abyss, and the power of the mother of filth has a strong effect on restraining the power of the abyss, I think this should not be a coincidence."

Sylvia thought for a while after hearing the words, nodded slightly, and seemed to agree with Leo's guess, but then she asked in confusion: "Even if this matter is confirmed, what does it have to do with us? It was a long time ago."

Leo said in a deep voice: "It is true that there is no direct relationship, but it cannot be said that there is no indirect relationship. Have you ever thought that there is a place in the Black Forest that is connected to the abyss, and the power of the abyss is constantly invading through that place?" Come to Black Forest."

"How is this possible?" Sylvia said in disbelief.

"How is it impossible?" Leo asked back, and then carefully explained the situation in the body of the family member he observed during the process of mutation during the sacrificial ceremony.

"Is the mutation on them caused by the power of the abyss?" Sylvia was stunned for a moment, then seemed to think of something, and soon fell into deep thought, but Leo didn't interrupt her thinking, but steady driving a carriage.

After a while, Sylvia came back from her contemplation, nodded slightly, and said, "Indeed, it is very likely that it was caused by the power of the abyss."

"What did you think of?" Leo asked.

"No matter how the gods' family members mutate, the directions of their mutations are regular and connected, and can form a system of their own. For example, no matter what type of family members the sky lord's family members have, there will be bird-like mutations on their bodies. The mother's family members will have variations of oviparous land animals such as snakes and lizards." Sylvia analyzed: "But the mutations of the followers and family members of the filthy mother are disorderly, and all kinds of strange mutations are Yes, it obviously does not conform to the rules of the mutation of the gods' family, but it is very similar to the abyss after being eroded by the power of the abyss." Then, she suddenly turned to Leo and asked: "Do you want to go to the abyss... "

Leo shook his head, interrupted Sylvia, and said, "I don't have any plans for now, but maybe I'll take a look in the future, I feel... I feel that if I can unlock the secret of the abyss, maybe I can solve it." Uncover the secrets of this world."

"The secret of the world?" Sylvia looked at Leo in confusion.

However, Leo had no intention of continuing the conversation at the moment. He drove the carriage silently along the road to Lanxi, and Sylvia didn't ask any more questions. She felt that when Leo wanted to talk, he would naturally tell her.

The reason why Leo and Sylvia wanted to take a look at Lanxi in this place was not only because the special attire of Lanxi people aroused their curiosity, but also because of the location of Lanxi, which was far away from them. The location to the deer park is not very far, and you only need to take a short detour on the way.

Just like Lyon Territory, Lanxi City is also located at the border of the Territory of the Mother of Dirt, but the difference from the territory here is that Lanxi City is not supervised by the Church of the Mother of Dirt, and there are no lords and nobles. It is said that the people living in France City are descendants of the gods of the starry sky, and are protected by the gods of the Black Forest, the Mother of Filth.

It is precisely because of the particularity of Lanxi people that Lanxi City has become a buffer place for the domain of the gods of the Black Forest. If the gods of the Black Forest encounter any issues that cannot be resolved or need to be discussed, they will send their church missions to Go to Lanxi City to negotiate.

But the strange thing is that these Churches of the Black Forest Gods have never established a convenient contact point such as temples and altars in Lanxi City. The people of Lanxi did not acknowledge the rumor of establishing a resident in the city, and the Church of the Black Forest did not deny it.

It is also this almost tacit behavior that makes people in places like Lyon collar believe that Lanxi people are descendants of gods. In the human mind, only people with equal status can be respected by others, even gods.

When Leo knew that the Lanxi people might be the descendants of the star gods, he immediately thought of the space fleet, because only in this way can they conform to their statement that the Lanxi people are descendants of the star gods, and the clothes on the Lanxi people's envoys they saw before are also the same. Just in line with the laws of fleet dress.

These things about Lanxi were told by a few traveling merchants that Leo and Silvia met on the road. When Leo and Silvia met these traveling merchants, they kindly let them sit in the back empty compartment.

On the way, through conversations, Leo knew that these traveling merchants were not just walking around in these territories in the Mother of Filth domain, they even went to other gods' domains connected to the Mother of Filth's domain. There are various special commodities in between.

When asked about Lanxi, these traveling merchants said that they were definitely the top group of these gods in terms of knowledge alone, but even they had to admit that Lanxi was the most special they had ever seen. of a city.

However, when Sylvia asked what was special about Lan Xi that made them have such a consistent view, they couldn't say why, they could only say that when Leo and Sylvia saw Lan Xi After visiting Xicheng, I know why they can't describe the specialness of Lanxicheng.

Just as these traveling merchants said, when their carriage drove enough to see Lanxi City, even if Sylvia was mentally prepared, she was still shocked by the sight of Lanxi City, because the entire Lanxi City A city is a complete spaceship.