The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Alice didn't keep Leo waiting too long. A few hours later, she was already accompanied by people from the Bachelor's Society, and took Leo and Sylvia to the location of Lanxi City's intelligent core.

Judging from various situations, the Bachelor Society seems to attach great importance to Leo's contact with the intelligence core this time. Not counting the sergeants who accompanied him for surveillance and protection, the Bachelor Society alone sent more than 20 people, three of whom Wearing four badges with purple ribbons, according to the status of the bachelor's association, these three people should all belong to advanced bachelors who are outstanding in a certain exclusive field.

The bachelors of these bachelor's societies are extremely proud of their identities, and naturally look down on Leo and Sylvia, even though Leo has mastered many things that they have not mastered, so that when Alice was about to introduce them to Leo, she always looked down on them. I was interrupted by the cold words of these people, and urged Alice to leave as soon as possible.

Alice also saw the mentality of these members of the Bachelor Society, so she didn't consider introducing the two parties, and then led a group of people to a hidden entrance at the edge of the defense area, opened the door with the opened identity authority, boarded ready-made mobile platform.

"Why don't you go from the city?" After boarding the platform, a senior bachelor asked a little puzzled: "It's faster over there, and the equipment is also newer."

While speaking, the platform suddenly started, and this platform does not use a more stable magnetic levitation power like other newly built platforms, but uses the most primitive mechanical gear device, so the whole platform shakes continuously when it suddenly starts, As if it would collapse at any moment.

Among the people standing on the platform, Leo, Sylvia and Alice were still standing on the platform steadily, their feet were as motionless as if the roots of a tree were rooted in the ground, while the others were shaken by sudden vibrations and shaking. All fell to the ground, even the sergeants who guarded and monitored the people.

Immediately afterwards, the ear-piercing metal friction sound from the old machine that had not been used for a long time resounded through the entire lifting platform shaft, and even Sylvia and Alice couldn't help covering their ears when they were caught off guard.

However, the ear-piercing sound and the shaking platform soon passed away. Although there was still some noise around and the platform was shaking, it was not as strong as before. Everyone stood up from the ground and slapped the venue , looking at each other awkwardly.

At this time, Alice also answered the senior bachelor's inquiry a little bit, and said: "This road can directly reach the central area, and that road needs to pass through the manager's city area and the upper meeting room. They don't want foreigners Get close there."

As she spoke, she pointed her gaze towards Leo and Sylvia, and the senior bachelor didn't say anything more.

At this time, Leo ignored the conversation between Alice and the senior bachelor, and his mind was more focused on using the spirit net to investigate the surrounding situation.

After boarding the platform, Leo quickly found the location of the corresponding lifting platform from the structure diagram of the Prometheus in his memory due to the serial number on the platform and some vague stamped slogans on the elevator shaft of the relic platform.

As Alice said, the number of this platform on the Prometheus is 001, and it is one of the few central platforms on the spaceship that can go directly from the bottom to the top bridge area.

According to the blueprint mark in Leo's hand, the main control computer of the spaceship is located on the rear side of the lower deck of the spaceship's command bridge. If the spaceship is not completely destroyed, the main control computer cabin will not be destroyed.

It's just that Leo didn't take this spaceship drawing seriously, because when the Earth Federation battleship merged with the Prometheus, they modified each other's facilities, so is the main control computer cabin still the same? place is debatable.

The rising speed of the platform was not very fast, and the group of people stayed in the elevator shaft for about ten minutes before reaching the top of the elevator platform.

After Alice opened the door to the platform, she led everyone into the bridge area where no one had visited for a long time.

The structure of the bridge area is very simple. It is an enlarged patio-style building with a cylindrical hollow inner ring extending upwards. The top is where the spaceship bridge is located. There are seven different elevators on the surrounding walls, leading to seven Different floors, where the elevator in the middle leads directly to the top.

Perhaps because I haven't been here for a long time, a thick layer of dust has accumulated around it. The various facilities look as if they have experienced thousands of years, corroded to the point of decay, and even the special alloy steel plates that make up the walls Already deteriorated and embrittled in corrosion.

"Why is it so severely damaged here?" A senior bachelor frowned and said displeasedly.

"No! Two months ago, the people from the monitoring team came here for routine maintenance." A sergeant in charge of the team said suspiciously, then knelt down and wiped the dust on the ground, saying: "From the dust Look, it hasn't been cleaned up for almost two months, and the time can be matched, but the damage here is probably something that happened after that."

As he spoke, the sergeant made a gesture, and all the sergeants in charge of protection took out their energy weapons, and took out something similar to the holy emblem of the church, and waved it back and forth in the surrounding air in their hands.

At this time, a faint light suddenly flashed from the holy emblem in the hands of a sergeant. Although the light was very weak and inconspicuous surrounded by the surrounding lights, it still attracted the attention of the sergeant who was paying attention to the badge. After shaking the holy emblem at the place just now, and confirming that the light is not an illusion, he immediately shouted: "Something from the abyss has sneaked in."

Hearing the sergeant's shout, the other sergeants immediately turned their heads and looked over there, but when they turned their heads and focused their attention on the other side, they didn't find that the piece above their heads was enough to enclose everyone below them. The luminous panels in it bulged outward without a sound.

Then, just when everyone's attention seemed to be drawn to the other side, the bulging object turned into a sticky mass and fell from the top, as if it wanted to catch everyone below. .

This thing was silent from its appearance to its attack. Even when it fell, it didn't cause the surrounding airflow to fluctuate. It felt like a transparent phantom.

Seeing that everyone didn't notice the monster's attack and was about to be completely wrapped up by the monster, a burst of strong light suddenly burst out from above Alice's head, and this burst of strong light instantly shone like sunlight on the top of her head. The monster wrapped itself up and burned it to ashes before the sergeants looked up to see what was happening.

Alice suddenly exerted her power, which naturally alarmed the surrounding people. Those sergeants and bachelors looked up one after another, just in time to see the last scene before the monster was completely burned to death.

"Damn it, it's the phantom worm!" A bachelor who has experienced research on abyssal monsters immediately issued a warning.

Hearing this warning, all the sergeants immediately gathered around the bachelor, and watched the surroundings vigilantly. Among them, the sergeant who led the team said to Alice: "My lord, this place should have been invaded by the phantom worms of the abyss. We don't have any supporting equipment on hand." The cleaning tool, it may be dangerous to continue to stay, I suggest..."

Before the sergeant finished speaking, Alice raised her hand to stop the sergeant's words, then turned to Leo and Sylvia and asked, "What do you think?"

Leo and Sylvia looked at each other, as if they were exchanging views, then Leo came out and said, "Let me do it! There is no need to change the time."

As he spoke, Leo walked up to the front of the crowd, scanned the surroundings with his eyes, and found out the phantom insects that had changed into various forms through his spiritual vision.

In fact, from the moment they entered here, Leo and Sylvia had already felt the weak abyss power around them, and also felt the source of these powers and what the hidden abyss monsters were.

Phantom worms, monsters at the bottom of the abyss, are usually taken as daily food by some abyss monsters, but if you underestimate this kind of monster, then even a top abyss predator like the abyss dragon Also suffer a lot.

Camouflage is the innate ability of this monster. Its camouflage can only be some ordinary stones or moss at first, but as the phantom worm devours more and more prey, its power becomes stronger and stronger, and finally There are more and more types of abyss monsters that can camouflage and transform. It is said that it can even perfectly disguise itself as the existence at the top of the abyss, such as the abyss dragon and the abyss serpent, and even disguise some of the abilities of the abyss dragon and the serpent.

From this point of view, its abilities are very similar to those of the Faceless Man, except that one is the prey at the bottom of the abyss, while the other is the predator at the top of the abyss.

In addition to the innate ability of camouflage, corrosion is also the most characteristic ability of phantom worms. Almost anything will be corroded as long as it is in contact with phantom worms for a long time. The phantoms attack the dome and the turrets on the ground as corrosive bombs.

At the beginning, this kind of attack was still very threatening. Many energy cannons suffered damage due to this corrosive ability, and they were even unable to use it. However, after learning about the habits of things later, the Bachelor's Association quickly researched the corresponding cleaning tools, which prevented the damage from expanding.

However, for Lanxi City, this kind of weak phantom worm is a big headache, because the phantom worm hardly has any abyssal power in its larvae stage, so it is necessary to defend the inner and outer surroundings of the city to prevent the abyssal power from invading, All kinds of infiltration arrangements are difficult to work on phantom insects in the larval stage.

This makes every abyssal tide, there will be more or less some phantom worms in the larval stage, avoiding all the fortifications, sneaking into Lanxi City, and then gradually grow up in Lanxi City, and finally attack Lanxi City. constitute a certain threat.

For this reason, Lanxi City has a deworming corps that specializes in targeting phantom insects, and it is very rare for a place to be so severely corroded like now.

While figuring out the details of the phantom worms, Leo also easily discovered all the phantom worms hidden here through his spiritual vision.

Once the positions of these phantom insects are exposed, their threat will be weakened to the extreme, and any sergeant with an energy weapon can easily deal with them.

However, Leo didn't intend to teach this matter to others, because he didn't want to waste time on such trivial matters.

I saw that as he started to cast the crystal magic that he had mastered and improved during this time, crystals like ice flowers suddenly appeared around his body out of thin air.

This scene seemed very dazzling to others, and they couldn't feel the powerful power contained in these crystals at all.

Following Leo's mental control, these suspended crystals flew out in all directions in an instant, and hit some ordinary-looking objects and walls around them under the attention of everyone.

And just when everyone was still wondering what Leo was doing, there was a very subtle hissing sound at the place where the crystals hit, and then there was a wave of power, and a phantom appeared. The form of the worm body, then shattered into countless crystal fragments, scattered in the air, and then fell to the ground like falling snowflakes and disappeared.

Except for Sylvia and Alice, everyone present was stunned by the scene before them, especially the bachelors who were accompanying them looked at Leo with weird eyes like they were looking at monsters.

Before that, those bachelors just thought that Leo was also an outsider who had mastered a lot of lost knowledge of Lanxi City from somewhere. They never thought that Leo had such a powerful extraordinary power.

Although those phantom worms are easy to deal with, but dealing with so many phantom worms at once is definitely not something that ordinary people with extraordinary abilities can do.

And in the minds of these bachelors, the bigger question is that Leo is a bachelor who has clearly participated in the assessment, but he has extraordinary power, which obviously violates the common sense of the past countless years.

In Lanxi City, bachelors do have a special status, they are the actual managers of Lanxi City, but I don’t know if it’s because of the curse. Before any official bachelor becomes a bachelor, no matter whether he has extraordinary power or not, after becoming a bachelor, he will be a supernatural person. The power will quickly weaken in a short period of time and eventually disappear. Even if you give up your bachelor status, the extraordinary power will not reappear in that person's body, so all the bachelors in Lanxi City are ordinary people.

But now, Leo obviously broke this rule. Not only is he a bachelor, but he can also use extraordinary power normally, which makes the bachelors feel extremely incredible.

However, these bachelors didn't know that Leo was not the only one who broke the curse, and Sylvia was also unaffected, and the biggest feature of the two of them was that they were foreigners.