The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"They agreed?" Seeing Sylvia who had just come down from the management city, Sylvia took the initiative to ask for Leo.

"Yes, they agreed." Alice nodded, and said, "But their requirement is that their technicians must be by their side. In addition, the knowledge you mentioned before, such as the activation method of those array defense towers , we must teach them how to activate the thing above the entrance of the abyss and so on."

Leo had no objection to this, and was about to agree, but was stopped by Sylvia, and said: "This is too unfair to us, Leo wants to get in touch with that core intelligence, mainly to let Lanxi City The mecha sergeants have recovered and improved their combat effectiveness. That is to say, Lanxi City is the one with vested interests. People who are possessed by the race will benefit Lanxi City, so what about us? We seem to have gained nothing, and we have done things for Lanxi City for nothing."

Alice was silent for a moment, then said, "So what do you want?"

Sylvia looked at Leo, as if asking for his opinion, then thought for a while, and said: "I believe that since Lanxi City has lived in the Black Forest for so long, the relationship between it and the surrounding gods is different. Being so close, I must have accumulated a lot of good things on hand.”

Alice quickly responded: "This is impossible, it is impossible for Lanxi City to pay any more benefits."

Sylvia frowned and said, "Are you sure? You don't need to consult the opinions of those above?"

"No, I know their thoughts too well!" Alice said with certainty: "Contacting the city's smart core has already touched their bottom line, and they think that letting you get in touch with the smart core is the biggest reward, and then propose other It is impossible for them to agree to the conditions, and even if they agree, it will take a long time to discuss, and I don’t think you are willing to spend so long waiting for an uncertain response.”

"It's okay, we can afford to wait." When Sylvia was about to say something, Leo raised his hand to stop her, and then said calmly.

Hearing Leo's words, Alice couldn't help frowning, with a look of embarrassment on her face.

Alice didn't take Sylvia's additional conditions seriously, because she knew very well that the person who wanted to get in touch with the city's intelligent core was not Sylvia, but Leo. Those lost city fortifications were practical. The method also came from Leo, so as long as Leo doesn't speak, then she and Sylvia can talk about it anyway.

And if Leo spoke at that time, then there was obviously no room for turning around this matter, and she had to consider accepting the proposed conditions.

"Although it is impossible for Lanxi City to accept any conditions, I can pay you for Lanxi City." Alice thought for a while and said.

Leo asked with interest: "What kind of remuneration do you plan to pay?"

Alice replied: "The reward I pay is very simple, there is only one message."

Although what Alice said was very simple, Leo and Sylvia did not underestimate the news that Alice said, because since Alice said it with such certainty, then the news must not be simple.

"This news is where my power comes from." Alice continued after seeing Leo and Sylvia's expressions of interest.

Sylvia showed a puzzled look, and said, "Doesn't your strength come from the victims?"

However, Leo on the side showed a look of understanding on his face, because he knew that the source of power Alice mentioned was not her current source of power, but her previous source of power, that is, the spiritual power she had mastered in the past. The origin of energy.

Alice can be said to be the first person Leo saw who possessed such pure psychic power after coming to the world of Velen, and the second one is Sylvigne Belmont, but the psychic power in Sylvigne has already produced The variation is no longer so pure.

Before, Leo had thought about asking Alice about the origin of the psychic power he had mastered, but for various reasons he didn't ask formally. She put it on hold, and now that Alice mentioned it on her own initiative, he is naturally happy to see it happen.

As for the so-called remuneration, Leo himself didn't care too much, because just as the upper-level people in Lanxi City thought, he had already received the most generous remuneration the moment he came into contact with the Tao intelligence core.

Leo gestured to Sylvia, and then asked, "Are you going to speak now, or wait..."

"Let's talk now! There's no need to wait until you come back from above." Alice interrupted Leo's words, and then said with a little nostalgia on her face, "My power comes from a mysterious place in the Mosang continent. In the ruins, there is a stone in the ruins that tells me how to arouse that power, enhance that power and use that power."

Hearing Alice's words, Leo couldn't help frowning, because what Alice said was too vague.

Perhaps seeing the change in the expression on Leo's face, Alice continued to add the story, which is what happened when she was young.

At that time, the entire Vinylon world was immersed in a wave of colonial exploration fever, and various rumors about the colony of the Mozambique continent spread all over the Vinylon world, the most famous of which was the legend of the City of Gold.

Although these legends are accompanied by a lot of danger, when everyone heard these legends, their attention was focused on the great harvest of the explorers at the end of the legend.

All of a sudden, those at the bottom of the country who expected to get rich overnight took boats to the Mozambique continent, or took advantage of the colony’s enclosure trend to enclose a piece of land and build their own plantations, or entered a land that no one had ever seen. In the developed wilderness, look for the legendary ancient ruins and the city of gold.

Alice at that time, like Sylvia now, was extremely adventurous, so after she completed the coming-of-age ceremony, she left Belmont Manor and went to Mosang Continent for adventure.

After several years of wandering in the Mosang Continent, she has become a well-known explorer, and she has also discovered some ancient ruins, but most of these ruins are the remains of some known Mosang tribe civilizations, which are not really pioneering. It was a great discovery of sex, which made her feel a little regretful all the time.

Later, with the help of a very rich and powerful local plantation owner, some well-known explorers and scholars in the Mozambique continent formed a joint expedition team, intending to go deeper into the wilderness to find more ancient tribal relics. .

The planter didn't do this on a whim, but with a practical purpose. He didn't know where he found a map made of animal skins, and drew a huge map in the center of the map. Next to the city is a word written in the original language of a very ancient local tribe. This word is similar to the meaning of origin, so scholars at that time believed that the ancient city marked on this map was the origin of the tribes in the Mozambique continent.

This incident caused quite a stir in the colonies of various countries at that time, so that when the expedition team set off at that time, some colonial dignitaries formed an independent expedition team to follow behind, intending to take a share of this incident.

Because it was necessary to go deep into the wilderness at that time, even though all the expedition teams had made perfect preparations, they still encountered great casualties. When they finally arrived at the ancient ruins drawn on the map, Alice's expedition team had three people. One-third of the people stayed in the wilderness jungle forever, while only one of the other colonial expeditions followed, and the number of that team was reduced to single digits, so they had to join Alice and the others. in the expedition team.

The scholars who survived the expedition carefully studied the various information on the ruins. Just like other tribal ruins on the wasteland, a large number of stories passed down by the tribe were engraved on these ruins. By interpreting these The story expedition team knew that the ancestors of this tribe came from the starry sky, and in order to escape something, they fell into the wilderness on a huge ship, and then settled here, and built their city on top of the ship they took.

Based on the stories inscribed on the wall, the expedition team judged that there was another ruin under the ruined city, and that ruin probably contained the treasures left over from before the ruined city was destroyed. The content of the interpretation was considered by the scholars of the expedition team to be stories fabricated by the local tribes in order to show their identities.

Driven by huge interests, the expedition team began to explore the entire ruined city. Although it was the ruins of primitive tribes, the ruins covered a large area. It took the entire expedition team a month to explore the ruins. And it took another half a month to find the entrance to the lower ruins.

The expedition team formed two teams to explore the underground ruins. Alice was assigned to the first team because of her rich experience in exploration.

After their team went down, they soon encountered some defensive mechanisms. Alice got separated from others due to an accident and entered a passage alone. After that, she walked to the end of the passage and entered a room. Then he suddenly encountered an unknown attack and fell into a coma.

When Alice woke up again, she was already deep in an empty room without any entrances and exits. There was only a spherical black boulder in the center of the room. What is interesting is that this boulder is suspended in the air, with the bottom and the floor There is only a very small gap.

After that, the black boulder directly told Sylvia how to stimulate spiritual power, and helped Silvia stimulate spiritual power, and trained Sylvia to use that power, and it was amazing that in that environment , she couldn't feel hunger or time at all, until she fully grasped that power, she passed out inexplicably again, and when she woke up again, she had already returned to the ground, and the ruins had collapsed. As if experiencing a very large earthquake, the rest of the expedition team also disappeared.

"Where is that ruin?" After listening to Alice's description, Leo couldn't wait to ask.

Alice replied: "I can't tell you the exact place, but I can draw a map to get there."

After finishing speaking, she found paper and pens in the room, and began to draw a map on it. Judging from her smooth drawing process, she obviously had a very deep impression on that experience, so that after so many years , the memory is very clear.

Soon two maps were drawn under her pen. One of the two maps was the original animal skin map, and the other was the map drawn by the popular cartography method in the Vinylon world. In terms of accuracy, It is definitely more accurate than the animal skin map, and it can be compared with the current map of Velen World, and the error is very small.

After taking over the map, Leo's eyes fell directly on the precise map, and Sylvia also looked at it curiously, and after seeing the location marked on the precise map, Sylvia A look of surprise appeared on Via's face, and she couldn't help but said, "That place isn't..."

"Yes." Leo took Sylvia's words, nodded, and said, "It's the ruins that old man Rembrandt is excavating now."

"Now my salary has been paid. After the arrangements are made over there, I will pick you up and manage the city." Alice didn't want to continue talking with Leo and the others. She reminded Leo and turned to leave. room.

After Alice left, Sylvia said with some regret: "We can actually ask for more things."

"No need," Leo shook his head and said, "I know you want the special treasures of the Black Forest that Lanxi City has accumulated over the years, but those things may not be usable outside the Black Forest. For this thing, there are branches."

"You're right. I'm a bit greedy. It seems to be affected by my blood. The abyssal dragon's greed for treasure is one of the best among the abyssal monsters." Sylvia shrugged, laughed at herself, and then asked curiously. Said: "When you mentioned that black ball just now, I saw your expression as if you knew what it was, can you tell me?"

"It's nothing inconvenient." Leo smiled and said, "I'm not sure yet, but from Alice's description, that thing should be a mastermind."

"Mastermind?" Sylvia couldn't help laughing after hearing the noun Leo said in the Earth Federation language: "It sounds like the name of a special dish in America."

Leo didn't give any further explanations, because he didn't know how to explain the main brain in the language of the Velen world, because even the language of the Earth Federation couldn't explain the main brain, only the universal language used by advanced civilizations could. That language is a spiritual language, not a language in the conventional sense.