The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The black market is in a completely different situation in the Empire and the United Kingdom.

The empire is trying its best to suppress, control, and even send people to infiltrate the black market to win over its members, so as to completely control the black market in the empire. Although the empire suffered some unavoidable losses when it was doing this, the final gains were huge. The empire had almost completely controlled the black market in its territory, and monitored the underground world in the entire empire through the black market.

However, the kingdom's attitude towards the black market is much more relaxed. As long as the black market does not cause trouble, they will turn a blind eye to many actions in the black market, and even the federal government will do some transactions and cooperation with the black market. , through the special channels of the black market, to buy some special supplies, because the United Kingdom found that the black market seems to have a special communication channel, not only can contact the black market of other continents, but can even avoid the black fog to transport special products from other continents goods.

In fact, the United Kingdom really wants to master this black market channel, because no matter how dull people can think that as long as they master this channel, the United Kingdom will also control the future.

However, this matter was finally stopped by Rupert Fitz. He signed some secret cooperation agreements with the high-level black market in Velen Continent. The United Kingdom government can obtain some special resources needed from the black market. The black market needs to provide some power. Assisting the Kingdom government in governing the underground world, the price paid was to legalize the black market within the United Kingdom, and also allowed the black market to move from the underground to the ground, forming a semi-public underground force.

For example, the black market in Kabu City is now the largest department store in the city. This department store has ten floors, the bottom five floors are daily necessities stores for ordinary people in the city, and the upper five floors are black markets. It is open at night and can only be accessed through another hidden stair passage.

Just like this department store supermarket, as mutants around the world continue to use cables, the boundary between the underground world and the normal world has become more and more blurred. The two are no longer two completely different worlds as they were at the beginning, but It is to become me in you, and you in me.

People with mutated bodies can also be seen buying things in supermarkets that sell normal daily necessities during the day, and in the black market late at night, many ordinary people with curiosity can also be seen wandering and shopping here.

Judging from this situation, the United Kingdom's policy of recruiting and absorbing mutants is very thorough. In addition, the churches of various Orthodox churches are also helping to absorb some family mutants who used to be gods of the Orthodox Church, making the mutants in the United Kingdom It can integrate into the kingdom faster, and the damage caused by the world mutation to the United Kingdom is far lower than that of the empire.

Although this kind of administratively forced integration will produce some contradictions and form a gap between the two parties, this gap will not exist for too long as time goes by, especially after some special role models have emerged.

After arriving at the black market, Leo saw that the church had set up an office or something like that in the black market, and those in charge of these institutions were all mutants wearing priestly attire, and some of the mutants were completely inhuman. Mutations.

However, these mutants were not discriminated against by normal people like other inhuman mutants. On the contrary, many normal people or normal church members would talk to those church mutants with a very devout and respectful attitude.

These mutants are special church gods. They are different from other mutants. They are all families of gods with clear records in various churches of the Orthodox Church. The mutation of the body is the blessing of the gods, which makes them in the church It has almost the same status as a senior priest, and the more complete the mutation state, the higher the status.

Basically, if a family has such a family of the gods, then this family will be recognized as a family of the gods. Not only will the church regularly distribute some supplies every month, but the kingdom will also provide some salary for these families of the gods. Low-level jobs, as long as they don't violate the kingdom's criminal laws and church canons, such a family of divinely favored people can basically have no worries about food and clothing.

When Leo was looking at the information that Sylvia brought over in the hotel, he really thought that these so-called god-favored persons recognized by the church were really god-favored persons, but after checking through the spiritual network on the black market, he discovered that these so-called The favored ones are just some mutants. Not to mention possessing the divine power bestowed by the gods, even the extraordinary power generated through their own mutation is very small. The only thing worth paying attention to is their mutated physical power.

The reason why these mutants, especially those who are completely mutant, can still maintain the thinking of normal people, has not become the complete animalization that Leo has seen in other places, except that the political means in the United Kingdom make these mutants have no time to In addition to the harsh environment of life or death, more importantly, in these incorporated mutants, there are two things that suppress the mutant powers in their bodies that are prone to frenzy.

One of these two things is the imprint of the gods. These incorporated mutants all have the imprint of the gods of the Orthodox church. These imprints of the gods strengthen the power of their own imprints by absorbing the mutation power, reducing the chance of mental madness when they mutate .

And another thing is the hexagonal suppressor embedded in the skulls of these mutants.

When checking the situation on the black market with Spirit Net, Leo immediately noticed the hexagonal suppressors on the skulls of these mutants. Although he didn't know much about the actual situation of these things, from this special The shape, the decoration on the surface, and the inhibitory effect on the chaotic spirit of mutants made him associate with the special technological items in another cosmic civilization.

In the universe, after the spacecraft enters the subspace, there are two ways to find the correct course for the spacecraft and avoid getting lost in the subspace. One is the navigation brain from the advanced cosmic civilization, and the other is the subspace navigator.

The navigation brain is an extremely high-tech device. Among the advanced civilizations in the universe, only three advanced civilizations know how to manufacture this kind of navigation brain, and because of the limitation of manufacturing conditions, the output of this device is extremely small, and the output is extremely large. Some of them are used by these advanced civilizations for their own use, and only a very small part will be sold to other advanced civilizations. As for the middle and low cosmic civilizations, it is almost impossible to get in touch with the navigation brain.

Therefore, those medium-level cosmic civilizations can only navigate the spacecraft through the traditional method. This method is to use a special method to teach psykers to train city subspace navigators.

This method of training subspace navigators is in the hands of the governments of various civilizations, and basically has not been leaked to the people. However, judging from various signs, this training method is extremely cruel, and the chances of casualties for participating psykers are very high. Even if the training is finally completed, it will become a spiritual monster without any emotions.

The reason why the subspace navigator will clear all his emotions through various methods is mainly because the subspace navigator needs to observe the subspace with psionic energy for a long time, and the subspace is full of various taboo knowledge and phenomena. If you see too much of this kind of thing, it will affect the mood of the navigator, and eventually make the navigator fall into madness, so the first basic principle of becoming a navigator is to cut off all emotional factors.

It's just that the emotions of any creature cannot be cut off simply through some special means, and some taboos in the subspace will make these emotions that have not been completely cut off infinitely magnified, so this kind of subspace cultivated by psykers The navigator, after being trained, will install a special item to suppress emotions, which is the emotional suppressor.

Leo was a cyborg in the past, and he was born without any emotions. Naturally, he didn't need to understand things like emotion suppressors. It's just that Leo had served as the bodyguard of subspace navigators many times, so he didn't understand the appearance of emotion suppressors. And utility is no stranger.

In his eyes, the hexagonal suppressors attached to the skulls of mutants are very similar to the emotional suppressors produced by the Earth Federation, both in appearance and function.

The only difference is that the manufacturing process of these hexagonal suppressors is very rough, and the outer shell is actually made of ordinary steel, unlike the corrosion-resistant bioalloy used by the Earth Federation. They are all mineral materials that can be found in Vinylon World, not other advanced materials.

According to Leo's estimate, this hexagonal suppressor will gradually lose its effect within twenty years due to the material, and the material will also be corroded due to various reasons, and even cause some damage to the person installed, but with the mutant's Judging from their physical condition, this kind of injury should not pose a fatal threat to them.

"It seems that they should have found a manufacturing module of the Earth Federation, otherwise, it would be impossible to manufacture such a high-tech device with the technological level here." After analyzing the suppressor, Leo immediately made a plan in his heart. Judgment, and he is also curious about what type of module the United Kingdom has mastered.

Manufacture modularization is a key project in the Earth Federation's colonization star transformation plan. Before Leo was born, all the manufacturing module process technology was completed. At that time, the Earth Federation's colonial explorers only needed to carry a set of basic manufacturing modules. On an uninhabited planet, when the corresponding manufacturing modules are deployed, various high-tech items can be manufactured through local resources. It is also because of the appearance of the manufacturing modules that personal colonial explorers have become a new thing in the Earth Federation.

It is no exaggeration to say that if the manufacturing modules obtained by the United Kingdom are a complete set of colonial basic manufacturing modules, as long as they master the method of using this set of manufacturing modules, the technological level of the United Kingdom can be forcibly raised to The level of low-level civilization in the universe can even create spaceships.

However, this speculation is just a thought, and Leo thinks it is impossible, because in his memory, there is no suppressor manufacturing module for subspace navigators in the basic manufacturing modules, only some have special subspace The official Expedition Fleet for Exploration missions will have such utility-specific crafting modules.

After learning about the situation of the black market, Leo quickly found the file secret room of the black market that handles various intelligence materials through the spirit network. He is not going to use normal business methods to buy information from the black market, but intends to test it. With the psychic skills I have learned, I can sneak in and find the information I want directly.

I saw that after he entered the black market, he controlled the psionic energy to resist all kinds of disturbing energy everywhere in the black market, and at the same time formed a thin but strong layer of psionic energy around his body, and then used the skills he learned Let the spiritual energy produce vibrations of different frequencies.

This kind of psychic vibration did not produce any eye-catching effects, or caused any noise, as if it did not exist at all, and did not bring any abnormal conditions to the surroundings, but if someone observed carefully, they would find that when Leo cast After using that psychic skill, he became very inconspicuous. This inconspicuousness is not because of his appearance and temperament, but because everyone who sees or comes into contact with Leo will subconsciously ignore him. But it's not that he can't feel Leo's existence at all.

For example, when someone walks past Leo, the body will subconsciously make dodging movements to avoid Leo blocking his way, but in the subjective consciousness, Leo is completely ignored, as if he is the way Like a street light next to it, it is common but not noticed.

Leo also sensed the surrounding situation, with a satisfied smile on his face. This psychic skill is one of the few basic skills that can be used in combat. Usually, psychic users will use this skill to sneak into the Some places are either engaged in intelligence theft or assassination of targets.

Under the effect of this psychic skill, all the defense methods of the black market became decorations. Leo followed the staff of the black market blatantly, entered the internal department of the black market, and came to the intelligence that was blocked by the secret door. Archives room.

The person who led Leo into the intelligence file room closed the door of the file room, and after filing the intelligence file that he had just taken out, he sat at his desk, recording and sorting out the recently sent intelligence files. Realizing that there was one more person in the room, even when Leo opened the drawer and made a loud noise, it still didn't attract his attention.

In this kind of strange situation, Leo quickly looked through the materials in the black market archives room, even the materials that the staff member had just sorted out were also reviewed by him, and this staff member always He didn't realize that there was a big living person standing beside him.

After reading through these materials, Leo has a more detailed understanding of the current situation in the underground world of the United Kingdom of France, and about the situation of Venaya Port and Lanxiong City, it can be regarded as Leo obtained from these materials. Two surprises.