The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

The door of the hunter's hut was not locked, but a bolt was inserted. Leo opened the door and walked in. He glanced around the house and found the fireplace and some dry firewood.

After lighting the fireplace, he turned around and was about to close the door when he saw some white shadows shaking in the forest outside the wooden house.

"It's really a bunch of desperate guys!" Seeing these white shadows shaking in the distance but not daring to approach, Leo sneered, ignored them, closed the door casually, and started looking for the clothes he needed in the room.

These white shadows are the dream spirits he encountered just now. They look like ghosts in legends. They usually hide in the shadows of the forest. Once someone breaks into their trap, they will come out at the same time. Intruders attack.

Their attacks are all mental attacks, which can generate extremely strong psychic waves, interfere with the brains of ordinary people, and make people produce incomparably real mental hallucinations. Most of these hallucinations are the most terrifying things in the hearts of the attacked. Being killed in real life will also die in reality, so the chances of survival for ordinary people under the siege of such a group of dream spirits are very low.

It's a pity that the person attacked by these dream spirits was Leo. Even Leo was caught in the sudden attack, and he saw the most terrifying scene in his heart, but the sub-brain system in an absolutely sane state easily debunked it. The illusion made him escape from the influence of the illusion in an instant, directly killed more than a dozen of these dream spirits, and the rest fled in fright.

It's just that these dream spirits seem to have a strong sense of revenge. After fleeing, they quickly gathered together and followed Leo far away, looking for opportunities to strike, until now.

Because he had already figured out the details of the strength and weakness of these dream spirits, Leo didn't care about the following of these dream spirits.

On the contrary, because of the existence of these dream spirits, the other dream spirits that Leo met on the road were exposed before he approached, and they would not even actively attack Leo. Instead, they would attack these trailing dream spirits. The road has gone a lot better.

After searching in the hut, Leo quickly found several sets of clothes. These clothes were some old-style hunting jackets, and they were one size smaller than his figure, even if he didn't wear any inner clothes. , naked, I am afraid it will be difficult to put these coats on the body.

In addition, Leo also found several sets of weapons in the house. The reason why I say several sets is because these weapons are stored in sets. Basically, they are two cold weapons similar to French knives, paired with a blade machine crossbow and a bag of silver-white gravel.

Leo didn't know exactly what the bag of gravel was, but he could feel a psionic energy from the gravel, and the wavelength composition of this psionic energy was very similar to the psionic field formed by the nets on the eaves outside the door. It should also be an item used to dispel the spirit of dreams.

In addition, there are some pills and ointments in the cabinet where the weapons are stored. Except for one or two medicines that are somewhat similar to the common healing medicines recorded in medical school books, most of the others are very powerful refreshing medicines. Smelling the smell of these drugs can make people's minds sober.

According to Leo's guess, these drugs should be mainly used to deal with the white shadow dream spirits outside, because after using these drugs, the mind becomes clear, and the illusions produced by the spirit lose their effect.

In addition to some supplies such as clothes and weapons, there are also a few books in the room. It seems that these books should be placed here by the hunter team who came here for supplies before. Unfortunately, Leo does not have the wizard who can read the handwriting It's a strange thing, so I can only look at it and sigh.

Not being able to find a useful item in the house made Leo have to take out the animal skin map again to find the location of the next supply point.

However, at this moment, a bit of silver-white grit that had just been touched by his fingers accidentally fell on the animal skin, and the animal skin immediately shone with a faint light.

Because it was by the fireplace, this faint flash of light was covered by the fire from the fireplace, and Leo didn't notice it, but his sub-brain system recorded this change, and in the A reminder screen formed in his eyes.

Seeing the prompt screen given by the sub-brain system, Leo realized that the silver-white gravel just now seemed to have caused a certain reaction from the animal skin map.

For this reason, Leo quickly picked up a bag containing silver-white gravel, picked up some gravel with his fingers, and sprinkled it on the animal skin. This time, the light on the animal skin was stronger and lasted longer, but he still couldn't understand what was going on.

"Just pour it all on top!" Leo thought for a while, and poured the entire bag of silver-white gravel onto the animal hide.

In an instant, an effect similar to a flash bomb was produced on the animal skin, a burst of intense light burst out, and the light did not disappear like the previous weak light, but spread outward like sunlight, piercing through in the blink of an eye. After passing the cabin, it covers a range of hundreds of meters centered on the cabin.

Leo's sight couldn't penetrate the cabin to see the outside situation, and his spiritual network was also interfered by the spiritual energy contained in the light, so he couldn't perceive the outside normally, but his ears could clearly hear some dreams The neighing of the dying spirit.

After the psychic light disappeared, Leo used the spiritual net to perceive the outside situation, and found that the previously entangled dream spirits had all disappeared, as if they had been purified by the light.

In order to confirm, Leo walked out of the hut, went outside, checked around, and found a lot of high-energy substances on the ground that should be the remains of the dream spirit.

"What the hell are you?" Leo couldn't help muttering in his heart after looking at the dozens of high-energy substances in his hand, and then at the restored animal skin map.

Just when Leo was surprised and puzzled by the origin of the animal skin, at the top of the tallest and largest wizard tower in the center of Yinyue City, Crescent Lake, a sudden movement of an ancient wizard's strange object caused Silver The attention of the upper echelons of Moon City.

The black tower in the center of Silvermoon City is the center of the entire Silvermoon City and even the entire world. It is also the tallest building in the entire world. It is 373 meters high and has fifty-seven floors inside. It was built by the early Wizards Association. where the headquarters are located.

Except for the heads of the association, no one knew who built the black tower and what its purpose was. They just knew that the black tower had stood here before Silvermoon City appeared. There is also a rumor that the chief of the Wizarding Association is not so much the owner of the Black Tower, but rather a watcher. As for what to watch, there is no conclusion.

However, as the heads of the Wizarding Association began to build their own wizarding towers, the headquarters of the Wizarding Association was also relocated from the Black Tower, and a Wizarding Association area was re-opened in Silvermoon City, and the Black Tower was also transformed into Public places such as public libraries and museums.

However, these public areas that are open to the public are only floors below the fifty floors, while those above the fifty floors are still directly controlled by the Wizarding Association.

In the early days, the top eight floors of the black tower were refitted as temporary residences for bottom-level wizards. Later, due to the continuous expansion of the Wizards Association, the number of bottom-level wizards increased sharply. Placed there, the top eight floors were vacant again.

Now, the vacant eight floors have been rented out by the Mechanics Associations that have emerged in Ten Towns and Silvermoon City over the past few decades. They not only transformed the top eight floors into mechanical research and manufacturing studios, but also The topmost floor was transformed into a landing point for airships, and three steam elevators were installed to reach the bottom.

The airship stop at the top of the Black Tower is not the usual stop for airships in the Lake District in Ten Towns and Silvermoon City. The airship at this stop is specially responsible for important places such as the Gravekeeper’s Hut, the Fog Guard Castle, and the Night Watchman Castle outside the Lake District. Supplies of supplies.

Today is the first month of this year to replenish the supplies of various garrison points outside the lake area, but Silvermoon City does not pay much attention to this matter. The Wizards Association handed over this matter to the mechanical workshop and airship transportation as usual. The company is responsible, and they are more concerned about the ownership of the tenth chief wizard seat that was vacated this time.

The mechanical studio and the airship transportation company also selected five people as usual, as usual, to be responsible for cargo inventory and airship maintenance. Belen is one of the five people in the mechanical studio.

Compared with other colleagues who have already worked in the Black Tower, Beren, who came to the Black Tower for the first time, was very curious about everything around him. He began to wander around the top of the black tower, touching here and touching there.

For ordinary residents of Silvermoon City, the top of the Black Tower has always been the most mysterious place. There are many legends about the top of the Black Tower circulating in the city, some of which are absurd. For example, the secret of destroying the world is hidden in the Black Tower. Wait in the room on the top floor of the tower.

Although this kind of rumor sounds ridiculous and no one would believe it, it is strange that this kind of rumor has never disappeared in Silvermoon City.

Even if the headquarters of the Wizards Association was relocated from the Black Tower, and the management of the Black Tower was handed over to the city council, and then the most secret top floor room was handed over to the Mechanical Workshop, which made many ordinary apprentices in the Mechanical Workshop like Belen It is also possible to come to the top of the Black Tower. This ridiculous rumor is still circulating in the city, affecting ordinary people from generation to generation.

Belen is obviously also one of the affected people, and other people resting in the room are not surprised by Belen's behavior of touching around in the room. In fact, they came to this room for the first time. , and what he did was similar to that of Belem.

"If there really is any secret to destroying the world, those wizards would have discovered it long ago." One of the porters of the airship transportation company watched Belen doing what he had done before, and said with a smile: " What's more, those wizards emptied this place when they left, and the words of those secrets are likely to be in those things that were removed."

"Those wizards haven't all been emptied." A mechanical engineer refuted the mover's words, pointed to the dome above the room, and said, "There is still a big guy on the top that can't be moved, so it can only stay here."

Everyone followed the fingers of the mechanical engineer and looked up, only to see a mechanical sphere hanging on the dome. The entire sphere is composed of dozens of criss-crossing circular shafts. There are a large number of exquisite patterns on the surface of these round shafts. It's just that because of the rust, these patterns have been blurred, and the whole ball looks like it will fall apart at any time.

"Didn't you install this thing yourself after your mechanical studio took over here?" A manager of the airship company asked a little puzzled.

"Of course not." The mechanical engineer, who enjoyed the attention of everyone, explained when he saw the doubts on everyone's faces: "According to records, this thing already existed when the Black Tower was built, but now No one knows what this thing is useful for, and all relevant books and materials have been burned during the Black Tower Rebellion."

"Hey, buddy!" An engineer in the mechanical workshop suddenly reminded his colleagues, saying: "Some words are not suitable for speaking."

The Black Tower Rebellion was the biggest stain on the Wizarding Association. This turmoil almost destroyed the Wizarding Association, Silvermoon City and Ten Towns. So far, the United Council has not recovered, and the Night Watchmen are still independent from the United Council. In addition, this turmoil that happened hundreds of years ago is a taboo topic even in Silvermoon City today.

Facing the vigilance of his colleagues, the mechanical engineer curled his lips disapprovingly, and then he watched Belen move the step ladder directly under the sphere, and he seemed to be planning to get a closer look at the sphere, so he said: "This There is nothing fancy about the thing, but several vertical and horizontal axes are connected by bearings, and the axes can be changed through gear movement.”

Beren didn't listen to his colleagues, and climbed up the ladder to get closer to the rusty sphere, looked carefully, and asked: "If this sphere can rotate by itself, then what supplies power to the sphere?"

"Maybe it's some kind of ancient steam engine device. Didn't it mean that the Wizarding Association moved a lot of things when it left?" A porter approached, looked up at this weird ball, and said, "Maybe the steam engine that powered it It was removed at that time."

"No!" Belen shook his head and said, "There is no steam pipe on it. Even if there is a steam engine, steam power cannot be sent to it."

As he spoke, Belen took out a rust-cleaning abrasive cloth from his tool bag, and wiped it on a horizontal axis on the outermost periphery of the sphere, wiping off the rust on the top to reveal the pattern underneath.

Just when Belen was about to see what the pattern on it looked like, all the vertical and horizontal bearings of the sphere suddenly shone with white light, and then began to rotate. Before everyone could react, all the vertical and horizontal bearings turned together, and then stopped at the same time, causing the entire object to change from a sphere to a disc shape.