The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"I have a question to ask, Mr. Leo." When Leo was about to leave, a young bachelor finally couldn't help the confusion in his heart and asked, "How do you know this knowledge? You family..."

Leo replied calmly: "I am not from Lanxi, these are just very profound to you, but to me, they are just ordinary knowledge."

A senior bachelor also said at this time: "I don't know if His Excellency Leo can stay in Lanxi..."

Before the other party could finish speaking, Leo shook his head and said, "Sorry, I'm leaving after finishing another matter, because I have an agreement with a certain existence in the Black Forest."

The senior bachelor couldn't help sighing when he heard the words. Although he didn't participate in the previous meeting, he also heard some news. He knew that Leo had a contractual relationship with the Lord of the Black Forest, and their identities were extraordinary. No matter how coveted the knowledge, he dared not risk offending the Lord of the Black Forest to force Leo to stay.

Leo, Sylvia, and Alice stepped out of the control room, along with several sergeants, while the rest of the bachelors and most of the sergeants remained in the control room.

Those bachelors seem to intend to immediately read the content recorded by Leo on the storage device of the bracelet, and get familiar with the operation methods of those things as soon as possible.

When Leo and the others returned to the defensive area from the original route, Alice suddenly used her divine power to create a closed barrier to isolate the sound, and then asked: "The possession of the high-level abyssal race you mentioned earlier..."

"You have to prepare for the worst." Leo said bluntly: "We are almost sure that Priest Luther and Sergeant Tyrell are possessed."

Alice's face was a little ugly, because the identities of these two people are very special, and they cannot be dealt with casually.

"You haven't told Lanxi's management about this, have you?" Sylvia noticed Alice's expression, and she asked tentatively.

Alice didn't answer, just smiled awkwardly.

Sylvia opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but she didn't say it in the end. After all, Alice's identity is there, and she is not easy to speak harshly as a junior.

However, Leo didn't have those scruples, and said directly: "You'd better discuss a result with the higher-ups as soon as possible, and help you solve this trouble while Xi Ni and I are still here, otherwise we will leave, and you want to solve it again." These troubles are on your own, and there may be more unnecessary casualties by then."

Alice frowned upon hearing this, and did not speak for a long time.

She didn't dislike Leo's words, even if Leo's words sounded like they underestimated the power of Lanxi City, what really troubled her was how to talk about it with Lanxi's managers.

As she said, neither the priest of Luther nor the Grand Commander of Tyrael are very different. More importantly, the relationship between her and these two people is a bit delicate. If she proposes to the management that the two may be If the abyss race is possessed, it will inevitably arouse suspicion from others, suspecting that she wants to control all the armed forces in the defensive position area.

Now the armed force of the abyss defense position is mainly composed of three forces, the strongest one is the fearless mech sergeants, they are the main defense force when the abyss tide comes, and they are always the first line when battles arise.

After that, the gods, priests, and fanatics sent by the various gods. These people are mainly to assist the fearless mech sergeants, but they will also serve as the main attack force when necessary, and the priests who lead these people to attack are often the priests of the mother of filth. , this is because the mother of filth has a strong restraint effect on the power of the abyss.

The weakest of the three forces is the Crusaders of the Church of the Sufferers. They usually stay in the rear as the logistics of the first two main forces. They will only go to the battlefield when the first two forces are completely defeated, and The purpose of their going to the battlefield is not to defeat the monsters rushing out of the abyss, but to delay the time as much as possible to provide sufficient preparation time for the defensive area behind.

Because of their different roles on the battlefield, their status is also different, and sometimes even the crusaders of the Church of the Victims are used as slaves, so Alice has always been trying to improve the crusaders. status.

Now, if Alice brings up the Commander of Tyrell and the Priest of Luther to the managers, the managers will only think that Alice deliberately framed the two in order to drag them from their respective positions, In that case, her position in the defensive area would be the highest, and she could also logically join the two forces of the fearless mecha sergeant and the priest of the gods, forming a dominant situation.

Alice also had this concern, so she only mentioned it to those people in the manager who had a good relationship with her, and although those people didn't think that Alice was trying to seek power, they still treated Alice Si was a little skeptical, and she didn't have any substantive evidence, so in this case, it was difficult for her to gain the trust of the management.

"Do you have any evidence to prove it?" Alice asked in a deep voice, and added: "Substantial evidence is required, not speculation."

"No." Leo shook his head, then turned to look at Sylvia.

Sylvia thought for a while and said, "We can try to lure out the lifestealers from them. As long as Lanxi's managers see the lifestealers, then it will definitely be..."

"No," Leo interrupted Sylvia and reminded: "Our method may not be 100% effective. If it is not effective, what will the managers of Lanxi City think? They will not give us I have another chance to try again. Even if it works, it is not certain that the two lifestealers will be drawn out, then the remaining one will probably be let go by the managers here. In that case, what will be the consequences? It can be guessed." Then, he turned his head to look at Alice, and said, "I can tell you with confidence that they are possessed, either we will help you solve them completely, or you can solve it yourself , I am not interested in proving anything, you must know that this is your business, not mine."

Hearing Leo's decisive remarks, Alice couldn't say anything more. Now she can only think of a reasonable reason to convince those managers. If it doesn't work, she can only give up and let Lei Ou and Sylvia made a move, and instead spied on themselves, looking for a chance to find evidence.

Sylvia didn't seem to want to see Alice in trouble, so she thought about it and said, "Actually, there is a way to test whether one of them is possessed."

Leo turned his head to look at Sylvia, seeming to know what Sylvia wanted to say, and said, "That person you said is a Lutheran priest?"

"Yes." Sylvia nodded and said, "Since Priest Luther is the priest of the Mother of Filth, you can ask Priest Luther to preside over a sacrifice. You must know that the divine power of the Mother of Filth can restrain the power of the abyss." If he is possessed, it is impossible to successfully complete the sacrifice ceremony of the mother of filth." As she spoke, she looked at Alice and said, "You can use this method to test whether the Lutheran priest is possessed or not. You can also use this as evidence to convince managers.”

"Yes, this is a good way." Alice also smiled when she heard this.

And Leo next to him reminded: "If you do this, then you must pay attention to the monitoring of Luther priests. Although after experiencing a possession, especially a priesthood full of the power of the mother of filth, such as possessing Luther priests No matter how powerful the Soulstealer is on a person, his vitality will definitely be seriously injured. If he wants to possess other people, it will take a long time to cultivate, but this situation is not absolute. If he finds himself in In danger, he might take the risk of breaking away from the Luther priest's body and possessing other people."

"Get out?" Alice was stunned for a while, and then asked: "Will Priest Luther be able to get rid of..."

Before Alice's question could be uttered, Leo asked back: "Have you ever seen anyone who was corroded by the power of the abyss and was able to get rid of it?"

Alice said nothing more.

Soon the lifting platform returned to the position of the defensive position. After sending Leo and Silvia to the fortress where they lived, Alice left in a hurry with people, but before leaving, she asked Leo and Silvia to Ya secretly monitored the leader of Tyrael and the priest of Luther, and made further decisions after she came back.

Then Leo and Sylvia were not idle. Using the authority given by Alice, they went to the observatory and settled down. This is not only closer to the entrance of the abyss, but also can better monitor the commander of Tyrell and the priest of Luther. .

Judging from the situation in the past two days, it seems that there is no problem with the Grand Commander Tyrell and the Luther priest. They patrol the various observation platforms as usual and preside over some simple religious ceremonies.

But both Leo and Sylvia could feel that the abyssal aura on the two of them had become much stronger, but because they were near the entrance of the abyss, the abyssal aura on them mixed with the surrounding abyssal power, and it was very easy Difficult to tell.

In addition, the careful Leo also discovered through his extraordinary eyesight that the Titan Mecha on the body of the Commander Tyrell had been modified, and all the holy words and prayers on the surface that were used to resist the erosion of the abyss had been modified. The change is very slight, that is, there is an extra circle or a scratch similar to a certain symbol, but the effect is very obvious, which directly leads to the extreme weakening of the resistance of the Titan Mech's surface to the power of the abyss.

This also made Leo suspect that in this Titan mecha, the Tyrell commander may have begun to show dehumanizing mutations.

Normally, Leo and Sylvia would stay on the top floor of the observatory. Only when Sylvia needed the power of the abyss to improve her bloodline and help the fetus take shape, would she accompany Leo to the edge of the entrance of the abyss.

Although when the entrance of the abyss appeared in the early days, the people of Lanxi City built a platform and a protective wall with the hardest stone on the edge, and used a lot of holy words and prayers and gods and gods on it to prevent the spread of the power of the abyss It is no exaggeration to say that every stone here is enough to be worshiped as a holy object by the corresponding church.

However, as the power of the abyss continues to erode, these platforms and walls have also suffered a lot of damage. Although these stones still contain powerful gods and gods, their blocking effect on the power of the abyss is far from what it was when they were originally built. compared.

In order to prevent accidents, Leo did not let Sylvia get too close to the entrance of the abyss, but he himself walked to the edge of the entrance of the abyss and looked down at the abyss covered by black mist.

Although whether it is supernatural vision, spiritual vision, or the real eye, the black oil mist that Leo saw did not change, and he could not see clearly what was in the mist, but Leo could feel that there was something in the mist. looking at him.

"Abyss Serpent?" Leo Jiang calmly looked at the situation below, thinking of the looming body of the Serpent that he had seen on the observation platform before.

If it is an ordinary person who directly looks at the abyss higher race like this, or even directly observes the entrance of the abyss in this way, I am afraid that the spirit will be infiltrated and polluted by the power of the abyss unknowingly under this situation, but for Leo To put it bluntly speaking, the abyssal power that invaded the body was sent to the body of the crystal serpent like a piece of food, part of it was integrated into the eyeball of the abyssal serpent, and more of the abyssal power was thrown into the fire of sin. .

This was accidentally discovered by Leo. When he let the crystalline serpent absorb the infiltrated abyss power, he discovered that the abyss power can be used as firewood for the fire of crime, helping the fire of crime to improve the quality of the flame.

It's just that this method of promotion is very slow. If you want to make a qualitative change in the fire of sin, I'm afraid it's impossible to complete it without continuous burning for nearly a thousand years.

Now Leo wants to take this opportunity to familiarize himself with the method of using the fire of crime, because he feels that he may have more and more contacts with the abyss in the future, and it is also very important to be able to master a method that can restrain the power of the abyss. That's right, the only flaw is that the fire of guilt is not a harmless force, if it is not used carefully, it will easily backfire like using the power of the abyss.

The actions of Leo and Silvia also attracted the attention of other people in the observatory. After all, no one has ever been able to stay so close to the entrance of the abyss without any protection, and Leo, who stared at the abyss for a long time The actions made those fearless mech sergeants and priests think he was crazy, and even suspected that he was infected. When he and Sylvia returned to the observatory, those completely mutated fanatics, priests, etc. After testing the two of them in various ways and confirming that there is no problem, I am a little relieved.