The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Do you know what they are?" After Alice answered Leo's question, she immediately felt that Leo seemed to know something.

In fact, the bachelors of Lanxi City have also studied these mutated family members infected by the power of the abyss for a long time, and even invited the churches of the gods' domain where these family members were before to participate, but they found nothing.

No matter how strange these mutated family members were originally from the god's family, once they were infected by the power of the abyss and mutated, they would uniformly become a special existence with a skeleton body like a bone butterfly .

The reason why these mutant family members infected by the power of the abyss are allowed to exist here is that after repeated research, they found that this kind of family members would not attack them, but would purify the power of the abyss that is difficult to clean up, so Lanxi City will This kind of family is placed in the area where the entrance of the abyss is located, and it is specially used to spread the power of the abyss.

However, after all, these mutated family members are all mutated species infected by the power of the abyss. The people of Lanxi City know how dangerous those mutated monsters infected by the power of the abyss are, so the monitoring of these mutated family members has never been weakened. , and still did not stop the research on these mutant family members, and its emphasis has always been at the forefront of various proposals.

Today, Leo's attitude makes Alice feel that Leo seems to know the origin of this mutant family, which makes her curious. This is why Leo knows so much, even the gods of the Black Forest don't know. The abyss species, also curious about what is special about this mutant family.

However, Alice was doomed to be disappointed. Leo just smiled and didn't say anything. Obviously, the matter about Ash Butterfly had already been regarded by him as a bargaining chip that could be used for trading. It was obviously not worthwhile to say it like this. .

Seeing Leo's attitude, Alice's eyes flashed a look of disappointment, but she didn't ask any more questions, just sat quietly in the car, and the atmosphere in the car fell into awkward silence again.

After Sylvia entered this area, she immediately felt the atmosphere of the abyss permeating the urban area. She felt like coming home in her heart, and her whole body fell into a kind of shallow At the same time, the power contained in the blood in her body slowly adjusted her body so that she could adapt to this environment.

Leo naturally noticed something abnormal in Sylvia, but he quickly checked Sylvia's condition and found nothing wrong, so the main attention was shifted to outside the speeding car.

Compared with the buildings in the previous urban area, the core area of ​​the Prometheus where the entrance of the abyss is located is much more ordinary. There are no strange buildings with outstanding shapes, and they are all bunker-shaped energy forts.

Compared with those high-rise buildings, these forts are much lower, and the highest is only three or four stories high, and these forts vary in size, and the large ones can see the barrels of more than a dozen energy cannons from all directions. The window sticks out like a big hedgehog, and the small turret can accommodate three or four energy cannons.

These forts are densely packed all over the quasi-safety area of ​​the city, looking like a piece of wrinkled skin.

In addition, not only are there so many turrets on the ground, but also a large number of turrets are built on the dome above. The barrels of these turrets are all aimed at the direction of the entrance of the abyss without exception.

Although these forts on the ground and the dome seem to be the same kind of fort from the shape of the barrel, in fact the fort on the ground is an artificial fort. The turrets are all automatic turrets, controlled by an automatic fire control system.

In addition to the human factor, the difference between the upper and lower turrets also lies in the surface of the turret. The dome turret is the same as the common turrets that Leo used to, with a layer of defensive armor on the outside and various components inside, while the surface of the fort on the ground is a There is no doubt that these sacred words will protect the people inside the fort from the erosion of the power of the abyss.

Because the speeding car was flying at low altitude after entering this area, Leo couldn't see the whole picture of the entrance of the abyss, he could only see a huge pothole sunken down in front of him, the area of ​​this pothole was enough to swallow Next small town.

From the center of the pothole, a black oily mist gushes out continuously, and this mist will spread out in all directions after flying a certain distance into the air.

And when the black oil mist formed by the condensed abyssal breath diffused to the edge of the pit and tried to escape to the surroundings, a burst of gray that belonged to the mother of filth immediately shone on the vacated ring-shaped space at the edge. The light swallowed, guided, and converted the black oil mist, and was finally collected into the surrounding small pools.

Those ashes butterflies gathered around the pool, and continuously sprinkled some ashes, and those ashes fell on the black oily substance in the pool, and immediately melted it away.

"That's the entrance to the abyss, right?" At this time, Sylvia, who had adapted to the atmosphere of the abyss around her, returned to normal. After she saw the black oil mist spewing out from the entrance of the abyss through the window, she asked in a deep voice. .

"Yes." Alice nodded, and asked Sylvia with a concerned expression, "How do you feel now?"

"Very good, as good as ever!" Sylvia replied decisively, and then said a little puzzled: "Is there a similar fortification in the underground here?"

Alice shook her head and said, "No. Is there any problem?"

Sylvia asked: "Since there are only fortifications on the ground, why aren't the monsters from the abyss inside the entrance and dig a hole underground to avoid the fortifications on the ground?"

"This..." Alice didn't know how to answer for a while, because let alone her, even the bachelors in Lanxi City probably didn't think about this question, and now Sylvia mentioned this question, Let her have a bad association.

As Sylvia said, all the fortifications are arranged on the ground, and she can be sure that there is no arrangement in the underground part, because if there is a layout, it must be maintained. After so many years, only these fortifications on the ground have been carried out. Countless times of maintenance work, never heard of underground fortifications to be maintained.

Thinking of this, Alice couldn't help but feel chills on her back, and burst into a cold sweat, because Sylvia's words were equivalent to breaking through a huge loophole in their defense, and monsters emerging from the abyss could come through this loophole at any time. It is possible that a large number of abyssal monsters have escaped in the past so many years.

However, just when Alice was feeling flustered, Leo on the side seemed very calm, and took the initiative to answer: "Don't worry about this, as long as there are no loopholes in the fortifications on the ground, it is impossible for those monsters to avoid the fortifications and go underground." opened up a channel."

"Why not?" Sylvia asked back.

"Because the entrance to the abyss we saw is not a pothole in your common sense concept, it is just an entrance, just like the entrance to the Aishali Forest." Leo tried to use Sylvia and the others so that they could understand Using the simplest sentences, I explained the state of the entrance to the abyss. Although it would be more complete and accurate to explain it with concepts such as space wormholes, it would inevitably use a lot of vocabulary from the Earth Federation. Listening to it will only make you feel more at a loss.

Although the two still didn't understand Leo's explanation, and they didn't know why Leo was so sure that monsters from the abyss wouldn't dig holes, they still chose to believe in Leo. Sylvia believed in Leo because of emotion, while Alice It is thought that Leo knows many secrets of the world.

The flying car quickly flew over the defensive position, and landed in front of an inconspicuous fort courtyard near the edge of the defensive position.

While the speeding car was falling, Sylvigne Belmont was holding a stack of documents in her hand, leading a few mech sergeants over, and when she got to the side of the flying car, she saw Leo and Sylvia getting out of the car. When I got up and down, I couldn't help being stunned, and the words I was going to say to Alice also stopped in my throat.

At this time, Sylvia also saw her sister who was taken away since she was a child. Although she had dealt with her before and the process was not very pleasant, she saw her again now and understood her identity relationship with her. For a moment, he didn't know what to say to her.

Because Sylvia didn't hide her emotions at all, Sylvia Belmont noticed something, and looked at the other party with some doubts, not understanding why the other party looked at her with such a look.

As for Leo, he has no intention of intervening in the affairs of the sisters, and even how Sylvia will deal with Alice, unless necessary, he has no intention of intervening.

The moment he got off the flying car, Leo's attention fell on the mecha sergeants following Sylvigne Belmont, because he had a familiar feeling from these mecha sergeants. a feeling of.

"Cybionic warrior!" Leo immediately had the answer in his heart while feeling the memories being recalled, and his face became gloomy at this moment.

Although the biochemical life in the Earth Federation occupies most of his current life and is the foundation for him to gain a foothold in this world, he doesn't have any good feelings for that life experience, especially when he has gradually gotten used to it. After understanding the emotions that ordinary people have, he feels more and more that his life as a biochemical person is simply hell, so he prefers to use that memory as information archived in the database, and will not read it if it is not necessary. .

However, now he saw the shadow of biochemical warriors on these mecha sergeants, and felt the unique indifference of biochemicals from the eyes of the other party, which also means that these mecha sergeants should have done something. Some cyborgs will only undergo surgery before they are born, and it is still an incomplete surgery.

Thinking of this, Leo suddenly recalled that the Earth Federation began mass production of cyborgs to replenish an anti-human technology before the massive consumption of soldiers, and this technology also indirectly led to the appearance of cyborgs.

At that time, the Earth Federation Government had many enemies in the universe, so they had to send a large number of soldiers to guard the Quartet. However, with the emergence of various wars, there was also a shortage of soldiers, and the age of joining the army was reduced again and again, and finally reduced to a dozen. Juveniles are also required to join the army.

Although these teenagers have undergone various military trainings, they are still fledgling teenagers after all. Many things cannot be acquired through training, such as fighting awareness, fighting emotions, and so on.

During this period of time, there were a large number of accidents in the Earth Federation's army, and most of these accidents were caused by the panic of the new recruits who joined the army, and the losses were extremely heavy.

For this reason, the Earth Federation passed a secret law, through some operations, the emotions of those recruits were stripped to a certain extent, so that these recruits always maintained a high will to fight, and weakened the effects of panic, fear, etc. that would be detrimental to the battle. mood.

After the implementation of this secret law, the effect is remarkable. The various things caused by the panic of the recruits have been reduced to zero, and the overall combat effectiveness has become similar to that of the veterans who have experienced more than ten years of fighting. The combat effectiveness of the entire Earth Federation army has suddenly increased. .

However, as the war gradually subsided, the abnormality of the recruits was also discovered, and then the senior federal councilors who passed this secret bill were all arrested for crimes against humanity, and most of them were imprisoned until they died. Without taking a step away, the remaining technical councilors joined some research subjects, including the cyborg warrior project.

Obviously, these mech sergeants in front of them have undergone emotional cutting surgery. They no longer have negative emotions such as fear and panic, and what they have is only the will to fight.

The advantage of doing this is obvious. This can make these sergeants even if the holy words of the mother of filth on the mecha shell are damaged and lose their protective effect, they will not have any fear when facing the monsters that come out of the abyss. Keep fighting until you die.

Because of the singleness of emotion, the spirit will always be in a state of excitement. In this state, it is difficult for ordinary people to maintain a healthy body. In the Earth Federation, such soldiers need to inject extra nutrients every day to keep their bodies healthy. The body will not collapse.

But even so, the bodies of these reformed fighters will experience various extreme wear and tear, which makes their lifespan very short, and very few reformed fighters can exceed forty years old.

It is obviously impossible for these mecha sergeants in front of me to have the specially prepared nutrients of the Earth Federation, but there is no abnormality in the bodies of these mecha sergeants, so that means that while the emotions of these mecha sergeants are being transformed , Their bodies may have undergone some extraordinary transformations.