The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"There is no need to go there, as long as the facilities here are still connected to the central intelligent computer of the Prometheus, I can find out all their secrets." After hearing the news that Sylvia inquired, Lei Ou came up with a plan, then thought about it, and said, "However, if you want to penetrate into the spaceship's central intelligence, you can't rely on the conventional terminals here, you need to use a terminal with higher authority."

"A terminal with a higher authority?" Although Sylvia didn't know what the terminal Leo was talking about, she knew that it was definitely not in the lower urban area. It shouldn’t be difficult to get an invitation letter with our current disguised identity to hold any academic conference, the place is right next to the giant tower.”

"Is there the giant tower?" Leo looked up at the giant tower in the distance through the window, and nodded slightly in his heart, thinking that Sylvia's proposal was good.

The giant tower is the tallest steel building in the inner city, because a giant searchlight on the top is turned on from time to time, projecting light into the city, which makes people who don't know the place think that the searchlight is actually a god's eyeball, projecting down The ray of light is actually the line of sight of the gods, so the giant tower is also called the tower of giant eyes.

In the internal structural drawings of the Prometheus in Leo's memory, this huge tower is marked as the Regional Defense Command Tower, which is the command center of the surrounding urban area. The authority here is 3a level, which is second only to the ship. The sub-command of the bridge command center, the main control computer authority here is naturally 3a level, just in line with Leo's requirements.

"But our identities are disguised after all." Leo thought for a while, and said in a deep voice: "In this low-level urban area, this kind of disguised identity may not be seen through, but if it is placed on the side of the giant tower, the people there may Most of them know each other, and our identities may be discovered.”

"Participating in the banquet today was not very smooth......" Just as Sylvia was about to say something, her words suddenly stopped.

Afterwards, she and Leo both looked at a certain city outside the window at the same time.

In the eyes of ordinary people, there is nothing worthy of attention in that urban area, but in the eyes of Leo and Sylvia, that area has been eroded by the power of the abyss, and both she and Leo can feel it very clearly Seeing the abyssal breath coming from that urban area, Leo could even more intuitively see the black oil-like abyssal power enveloping that urban area after using his spiritual vision.

The appearance of this power of the abyss surprised Leo and Sylvia, and they were also curious, because just before they felt the power of the abyss, the power of the abyss did not exist, and now everything they felt seemed to be suddenly transformed Same.

"Go and see?" Although the power of the abyss is very pure and dangerous, to Sylvia, the power of the abyss is as threatening as the air, so she asked Leo eagerly road.

Leo also felt that it was not normal for the power of the abyss to appear in the inner city of Lanxi. Going to see might reveal more secrets about the inner city, so he nodded in agreement with Sylvia's proposal.

The two quickly left the general library, and rushed towards the urban area they sensed along the shortest route. They stopped when they were about to reach the place, because at the intersection in front of them, the city The non-commissioned officers have set up a series of separation walls and checkpoints. Judging from the construction method of these modular separation walls and the proficiency of these non-commissioned officers, it is obvious that these non-commissioned officers are not the first time to build such a separation wall.

At the same time, seeing that the sergeant had isolated the area, Leo and Sylvia glanced at each other, then turned and entered a small alley, quickly climbed to a certain height along the outer wall of a building, and found A piece of eaves extending outward is used as a stand, standing on it and looking down.

After the separation wall was built, those sergeants skillfully moved antenna-like things from construction vehicles one after another, arranged them around, and started to operate safely.

In the eyes of those curious onlookers, the scene in front of them has not changed much, but in the eyes of Leo and Silvia, the entire urban area blocked by the wall has been shrouded by an identical holographic phantom, and this holographic phantom is incomparable. Reality is far beyond comparison with those holographic billboards around.

Obviously, those antenna devices arranged around are actually some kind of more realistic holographic image generators. This antenna device also made Leo think of the holographic image tactics that were once short-lived in the tactics of the Earth Federation Fleet.

This tactic is very simple. It is to create the power of thousands of warships by replicating a large number of near-real fleet holographic images, forcing the enemy fleet to surrender.

At the beginning, this tactic was able to play some role, but knowing that they encountered an alien race that was proud of dying in battle, they were still attacking the fleet of the Earth Federation in the face of a disparity of more than a hundred times. This seemingly simple tactic is seen through, and as this tactic is seen through, this tactic is completely invalid, and the generator device specially produced for this tactic becomes a useless item.

Although Leo has never seen that kind of holographic image generating device with his own eyes, he still has some understanding of its effect and general shape, and he naturally associates the situation in front of him with this device. Ou's understanding of the technology of the old earth era, the billboard-level holographic image is already the limit of the holographic image technology of the old earth era, covering an urban area, and making the onlookers unaware, this kind of near-real image is also Only the original tactical weapons of the Earth Federation can do it.

Thinking of the various cultures and technologies of the Earth Federation everywhere in Lanxi City, Leo became more and more sure that the technology of Lanxi City should have been integrated into the technology of the two eras of the earth. This is another branch of earth civilization.

After all the holographic images were set up, a group of mecha sergeants who were only slightly taller than ordinary people walked out from the largest suspended transport vehicles next to them. Sitting, lying and walking will not cause any adverse effects on wearing, and it is not like a small tank-like heavy armor like the mech sergeants Leo has seen before.

"Individual armor combat uniform?" Leo immediately gave the answer after seeing those people wearing close-fitting armor, and at the same time, his eyes fell on the surface patterns of those combat uniforms.

After the doomsday-like wars, the technology of the old earth era can finally be passed down well, and there are not many types of technology accepted and absorbed by the Earth Federation, and the individual armored combat uniform is one of the few weapons.

This kind of combat uniform is to allow soldiers to adapt to any environment passively. It was first used in a war in a certain harsh environment on Earth, and was later used on Mars colonies and Prometheus. It is for this reason that the entire The technology of the combat uniform was also perfectly preserved on Mars, and was later used by the Earth Federation Government to find ice.

Although the individual armored combat uniforms of the Earth Federation have been updated countless times later, and the power has been enhanced to the bottom where an ordinary person can wear this equipment to fight a land heavy armored vehicle, but its core principle is still The principle of individual armored combat uniform.

Because he often had to fight alone at the beginning, he knew this kind of individual armored combat uniform very well, and he recognized this combat uniform at a glance, and he also knew very well that under normal circumstances, the armor plates on the surface of the combat uniform could never be engraved with anything. Yes, because this will greatly weaken the armor piece's defense against energy weapons.

However, after Leo observed it, he found that the surface of the armor worn by these sergeants had been covered by various patterns that might contain mysterious power, not only on the armor plate, but even on the inner lining and other parts. .

"Those patterns look like, like the holy emblem of the mother of filth." Sylvia, who was also observing, seemed to have discovered something, said.

Leo looked at his female companion with some doubts, and questioned: "Holy emblem? This pattern is too different from the holy emblem of the mother of filth. You must have read it wrong, right?"

"Of course I can't read it wrong." Sylvia quickly drew a holy emblem pattern of the mother of filth in the air with her fingers, and then drew several variant holy emblem patterns, mixing these patterns together , forming the patterns on those armor pieces.

When he saw how Sylvia transformed the holy emblem pattern into those patterns, Leo hesitated a little bit. He found that the evolution process of these holy emblem patterns was not complicated. Logically speaking, he should be able to It's easy to see, but he completely ignored it just now, which doesn't look right no matter what.

Leo didn't come to remember to think about the reason, and the soldiers who were fully armed below had already crossed the wall and entered the urban area.

Although the urban area is shrouded in holographic images, these holographic images that can block the sight of ordinary people are not an obstacle to Leo and the others. Even if Leo does not pass through the spirit vision, he can see through this false image with his own supernatural vision. , and Sylvia's situation is similar to his.

Under the watchful eyes of the two, the sergeants came to the building closest to them. They did not rush into the building, because according to the concentration of the power of the abyss, the people in that urban area must have mutated, and they dared not enter the building. However, if you break into the building, you will only encounter unnecessary attacks.

One of them walked to a lamp post near the main entrance of the building, squatted down and used a set of special tools to open a hidden compartment under the lamp post, and then took out a metal identification card and inserted it into the slot in the secret compartment. A very primitive button-type control panel pops up immediately in the dark compartment.

When the electric panel popped up, the person quickly pressed a few buttons on it, and a very thick metal plate protruded from the edge of the doors and windows of the entire building to seal them all, turning the entire building into a black hole. A closed cage.

The people in the building who were corrupted by the power of the abyss seemed to have realized that they were in trouble, so they frantically knocked on the blocked doors and windows, and the metal used for these doors and windows was naturally not ordinary metal, no matter how hard the people inside knocked. , nor can there be any damage to these metal doors and windows.

After completing the blockade of a building, the sergeants put it on hold temporarily, walked towards the next building, guarded the various parts of the building according to the previous practice, and then other people activated the blockade of the building. It seems to be their set of coping procedures, and this set of coping procedures is specifically aimed at the situation where the entire city is infected by the power of the abyss.

Obviously, this is not the first time these sergeants have carried out this kind of procedure. The whole process went very smoothly, and they encountered almost no obstacles. Only when one of the buildings was sealed off, a mutant who was bulging and completely lost his human form came from the window that was about to close. Drilled out, and after landing, he quickly rushed towards the edge, trying to escape from the sergeant's blockade.

However, regarding this situation, the sergeants had expected it a long time ago. The laser cutters on their shoulders fired almost at the same time, cutting the mutant into pieces of flesh like several sharp weapons.

The mutant's life is very tenacious, even though it has been cut into several sections, it still hasn't completely died.

At this time, the sergeants in charge of the attack may have been no longer a threat to the opponent, so they did not launch a new round of attacks on the chopped mutant, but refocused on the building cage that was helping to close. superior.

However, these sergeants did not let it go. A sergeant who looked like an officer led a small box car quickly to the broken mutant, and then took out a box from the box car. , directly chopped off the broken mutant's head from his broken body, and put it in the box.

This time the cutting was not a laser cutting knife, but an ordinary metal knife. The only unusual thing was that the holy emblem of the Mother of Filth could be seen on the knife.

After disposing of the mutant's head, the officer asked people to gather the mutant's mutilated body together, and then saw the sergeant with his hands open like a devout believer, chanting words.

With the sound of his chanting, the patterns on the surface of the armor on his body began to glow with a light gray light, and this light had an inexplicable attraction to the power of the abyss contained in the remnants of the mutants on the ground.

I saw that the power of the abyss slowly overflowed from the mutilated corpses, forming a black smoke-like object, which instantly penetrated into the sacred emblem of the mother of filth on the armor plate and disappeared, and those mutilated corpses disappeared after losing the abyss When the power was released, all the mutant symptoms disappeared, leaving only a pile of vague flesh and blood.

After dealing with the power of the abyss on the corpse, the officer did not do anything else. He led the boxcar and walked in the direction of his companions. Several other people followed, holding a flamethrower, and blasted those on the ground. All the body parts were burned.