The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The speeding car quickly flew to the platform extending from the wall, and stopped. The mech sergeants guarding one end of the platform came over. Although they recognized Alice Belmont, they still checked carefully. After looking at the documents, and using a scanner to scan several people, this signaled that they could continue.

After taking off from the platform, the flying car got into a sealed passage. This passage was somewhat similar to the passage that Leo and Sylvia used to enter the inner city before. There were a lot of laser cutting devices around it, but the shape of the two was different. Just a few times.

"Where are we going?" Sylvia asked, withdrawing her gaze from the passage.

"The entrance to the abyss." Alice replied calmly.

Sylvia and Leo glanced at each other.

"You want us to help you fight?" Leo said in a deep voice.

"Help us fight? Hehe!" Alice smiled, feeling as if she had heard some very funny joke, then looked at Leo and said, "Although your strength is not weak...well! It should be said to be very strong. But on a battlefield like the tide of the abyss, your strength is obviously about the same as sending you to death, and I'm afraid the first round of tide won't be able to support you." Then, she raised her hand to stop Sylvia, who was about to refute, from speaking, and then continued : "Don't take the tide of the abyss as the wars that took place in the Velen world. Maybe those wars are larger in scale, but in terms of impact, destructive power and threat level, those wars are like a group of babies fighting .”

Leo did not refute Alice's words, because he had seen the power of the abyss gushing out in Death Valley, and that was just a crack, but just a crack had already dragged the subspace like Death Valley into the abyss It shows how dangerous the erosion of the abyss is.

Although he didn't know what Alice said about the tide of the abyss, in his opinion, it definitely far surpassed the erosion of the abyss in Death Valley, and in the face of this situation, his sixth-level power without corresponding psionic skills Psykers do have some weaknesses.

"What exactly is the tide of the abyss?" Sylvia was somewhat dissatisfied with Alice's statement, and asked a question that Leo also wanted to know.

At this time, the speeding car had passed through the passage and entered another urban area, which also let Leo know that the construction of the urban area here is somewhat similar to the ring city, with the most central area expanding outward, and each ring forming a city area.

Looking from the window, he also found that the buildings in this urban area were somewhat different from those in the previous urban area.

The buildings in the urban area where they were located before, although there were many defensive devices, were still similar to normal cities as a whole, such as holographic billboards, entertainment venues for luxury, etc., but now the urban area as a whole looks like It’s like a building module display site with standard specifications. All the buildings are the same, square and connected from the bottom to the top. The length, width and height of all the buildings are the same, and the spaces between each other are also the same. Use a matrix An array is the best way to describe this scene.

Although these buildings themselves were not threatening, Leo felt very uncomfortable when he saw them, because they reminded him of the laboratories of the Earth Federation.

At this time, Alice didn't notice Leo's expression. She seemed to be thinking about how to answer Sylvia's question. After a while, she sorted out her thoughts and words, and explained: "According to legend, the abyss once tried to enter Passed through the Black Forest, but was repulsed by the Lord of the Black Forest. The Lord of the Black Forest cleaned up all the remaining forces of the Black Forest, but left a few places that have not been cleaned up. Our place is one of them. The center here There is an entrance to the abyss, which has been sealed by the power of the Lord of the Black Forest, but this seal is very unstable, and it will loosen from time to time, causing the abyss monsters gathered at the other end to rush out, like a wave It slaps and attacks everything around it like a tide, so we call it the abyss tide here."

As she spoke, she paused for a moment, as if remembering something, her face became very ugly, and after a while, she returned to normal and said: "You have never seen what the tide of the abyss looks like, it is hard to imagine how tragic and endless it is. The monsters of the abyss poured out of that hole, forming huge waves that hit the surroundings, causing people to die under the impact of the waves of tides, and other people would re-block the holes of the dead, so that the dams that prevented the tides remained intact. Until the end of the tide, in that environment, unless you are a god, the effect of personal power will be infinitely weakened, and finally it will be almost nothing."

"In that case, why did you take us to the entrance of the abyss?" Leo asked puzzled.

"For her." Alice pointed to Sylvia and said.

"Me?" Sylvia was taken aback.

"You may not know that the Belmont family who left Lanxi City and the Black Forest accounted for more than 70% of the entire Lanxi City Belmont family, with as many as 2,000 people." Alice looked at Hill seriously. Via said, "But now, tell me, how many members of the Belmont family are still alive in the world of Velen? Are there still ten?"

Sylvia didn't answer because the answer was obvious.

Alice continued: "The Belmont family has always been a French noble family since they left the Black Forest. Although it is not the top noble family, it is about the same, and the Belmont family has never suffered any external blows. Family members can The people who survived to the end also accounted for more than 90%. In this situation where there are no natural disasters, no man-made disasters, and the family's wealth is sufficient to support it, the number of family members has decreased little by little, and finally it has become like this. Have you ever wondered why there is no ?”

"Fertility." Sylvia quickly answered, "The family's fertility rate is too low."

Alice nodded and said: "Yes, the birth rate is too low. When I took Sylvanie away, I didn't think your parents could have another one, because for the Belmont people in the world of Vinen, having one is already enough." It's the limit."

At this time, Sylvia seemed to think of something, and said: "It is because of the abyss that the birth rate of the Belmont family is low."

"You are right, but you are also wrong!" Alice smiled and said: "The abyss is indeed the main reason, but the real reason for the low birth rate of the Belmont family is the world of Velen itself. The abyss can actually help Belle. The Monte people have increased their fertility rate, just like the Belmont family in Lanxi now has tens of thousands of people."

Sylvia frowned, and said with a displeased face: "I hear what you mean, you are taking us to the entrance of the abyss now, are you trying to improve my fertility?"

Leo's expression became more focused at this time.

"Of course not." Alice shook her head, then changed the subject and said, "I did this to keep the child in your womb, lest it die before it's born."

After Alice's voice fell, there was silence in the flying car. Leo was stunned, and Sylvia was also stunned. No matter how they thought about it, they couldn't think of such an answer, let alone the child in their womb.

That's all for Leo, his way of thinking is still in the way of a biochemical person, reproduction is just an unfamiliar term to him, he never thought about whether he would have offspring, even if he has seen a self Cheng came from the future descendant William Dodd, but now he heard that he had an unborn offspring, this feeling really made him unable to describe it in words.

Sylvia was different. She thought about her and Leo's offspring, but she didn't think too much about it, because she was very aware of the low fertility rate of the Belmont family. Now Alice told her that she already had a child in her stomach. With Leo's descendants, she couldn't believe it at all, and immediately thought that the other party was lying.

After Sylvia came back to her senses, she couldn't help retorting: "I didn't even feel whether I was pregnant, why are you so sure?"

"Because of my innate ability, I can sense the status of any member of the Belmont family who is about to be born. This is also the reason why I can gain such great power and status here. Otherwise, why do you think the Belmont family in Lanxi City would Let me, an outsider like me, have power that they don't necessarily have." Alice looked at Sylvia while talking, and said, "I was surprised by your appearance, but you unexpectedly I was even more surprised to be pregnant. You must know that even here, if the people of the Belmont family want to reproduce, they must have their bloodline power activated before the bloodline power is activated. The possibility of pregnancy after the bloodline power is activated is almost zero. "

"Impossible, how is this possible?" Although Alice said with certainty, Sylvia still couldn't believe it.

"No, it's possible!" The person who said this was not Alice, but Leo. He grabbed Sylvia's hand, motioned her to calm down, and then asked Alice, "You just said Bell? The reason why the Monte family has fertility difficulties is because of the influence of Velen World, right?"

"Yes." Alice nodded, wondering why Leo would confirm this.

Leo turned his head and said to Sylvia, "Have you forgotten? We have lived in Toussaint for a long time."

Sylvia couldn't help being stunned when she heard the words, and then suddenly came to her senses, stretched out her hand to cover her mouth, wanted to say something, but didn't know what to say, followed her and put down her hand, stroking her abdomen, her face The look is still unbelievable.

"Don't use your strength to resist." Leo ordered to Sylvia, and then used the mental network to carefully perceive the situation in Sylvia's body, and soon he sensed that there was still a very strong force in Sylvia's body. Weak life energy, this life energy is extremely weak, if you don't feel it carefully, you can't feel it at all.

Sylvia stared at Leo, saw his expression change, and asked impatiently, "How is it? Is it true?"

Leo dispelled the spirit net, then nodded and said with a smile: "It seems that we are going to be parents."

Sylvia didn't know what to say, she could only hold Leo's hand tightly, as if she was looking for someone to lean on.

Because of the change in the situation, Leo also paid more attention to the matter of going to the entrance of the abyss. He quickly recalled what Alice said before, and asked in a deep voice: "Ms. Alice, you just mentioned The purpose of going to the entrance of the abyss is to save our children, can you tell me the reason?"

"Of course, I will tell you even if you don't ask." Alice thought for a while, and said, "Our Belmont family comes from the abyss, and we have the blood of the abyss in our bodies. There may be no problem in normal times, but if you want to If they want to reproduce, the pregnant Belmonts need to provide enough power of the abyss for the baby in the belly, so that the blood of the abyss in the baby's body can grow to completion. It was absorbed by the mother in reverse, and finally turned into a pool of pus and flowed out of the body."

Hearing what Alice said, Sylvia tightened Leo's hand.

Although Leo didn't show the same nervousness as Sylvia, his expression became a lot more serious. He thought for a while and asked in a deep voice: "What are we going to do? Just get close to the entrance of the abyss?"

Alice nodded and said: "This is a method, but it will take a long time. According to Sylvia's current situation, it may take more than ten years for the little guy in her stomach to get rid of her blood. The bondage and dependence of strength, relying on the blood that has grown and formed to promote growth." She added: "But another method is more effective and takes less time, and that is to plunder the lives of other abyss species."

Leo quickly saw through the opponent's intention and said, "Do you mean to kill as many monsters from the abyss as possible when the abyss tide appears?"

Alice did not deny it, and said: "The meaning of the abyss lies in erosion and plunder. It is perfectly normal for life in the abyss to plunder each other and improve their strength. In a way, our Belmont family also It is a life in the abyss."

Leo didn't fully believe Alice's words, because he was not a person who knew nothing about the abyss. With the Abyss Orochi and the Fire of the Abyss, the inheritance knowledge he obtained from it was enough to make his understanding of the abyss far better than Alice's. Such a person, even those survivors who are in the world of falling into the abyss, may not necessarily be able to compare with him in their understanding of the abyss.

So when he heard Alice say that the way to promote the growth of babies is to kill the monsters of the abyss and plunder the life of the abyss, he felt a little vigilance in his heart.

He is very clear that the power of the abyss contains extremely strong erosive and contagious power, even if he absorbs the power of the abyss, he must be very careful, let alone an unformed baby, even if the special blood in the baby's body can play a certain role. Immunity, but where is the limit of this immunity, and who knows.

What's more important is Alice's attitude. The elder sister who took Sylvia obviously didn't want him to marry Sylvia in the future, but now she changed her attitude and helped them take care of the fetus. This is really interesting.