The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Just like the name, the town that Leo saw in front of his eyes was indeed completely built on the lake. They did not lay stone piles in the water according to the normal method, and then built the houses on the stone piles. All the houses were built on the lake. A vine-like aquatic plant.

This kind of vine plant seems to have a kind of magical power. This power makes the vine itself have extraordinary growth ability, and the buoyancy is extraordinarily strong. The vines sank into the water.

Although the houses in the town are built on the vines on the water, it feels like they will sink into the water at any time, but the original planners and builders of the town did not build the houses sloppily, on the contrary, all the houses were built Very neat.

Moreover, each house has different styles and models depending on the people who live in it, the job is different. After seeing the houses, Leo can clearly describe the functions of each area in the entire town without thinking. .

For example, the outermost part of the town near the city wall by the lake is ten small areas, and each urban area is composed of dozens of twelve-storey lofts connected to each other. The top of each attic area is paved with wooden boards, forming a huge playground. Some weapon racks can be seen on the playground, and several suspension bridges are drawn from it, respectively connecting with the outer wall, other attic areas and The top of the inner town area is connected.

Obviously, these ten small attic areas should all be garrison areas. The garrison force of this lake town should all live in these ten small areas. invasion.

After passing through the ten outermost defensive areas, the houses going in are fan-shaped and extend toward the depths of Crescent Moon Lake. About every ten attics in the vertical distance will separate a city area, and have been divided into a whole area. After more than a hundred urban areas, the expansion stopped.

The houses in these urban areas are high or low, some houses are brightly lit inside and outside, and the houses are luxurious and noble in shape, some can only see stars and lights from some house windows, and the houses are simple and simple, and some have tall chimneys, and you can see huge Some of the forging stoves are densely packed with small houses, and you can see a lot of hand-made machinery from the windows.

All in all, looking around, all urban areas can easily see their functions from their architectural forms, as well as the identities of the people who live or use them.

The outside of the wall is chaotic and disorderly, and the inside of the wall is neat and orderly. This kind of scene of strong contrast made Leo feel a little uncomfortable from the beginning. He felt that he was not in the dream world, but in a certain place in the world of Velen. outside a small industrial town.

When talking with Valentin before, Leo learned from the words and phrases of his words that this dream world also has morning and night, but they are called the active period and the rest period, and the division of the active period and the rest period Its machinery is the clock tower in the center of every town.

According to Valentin, this clock tower is not necessarily the tallest and largest building in the entire town, but it must be the most eye-catching building in the town.

The shape of the clock tower is different from the common mechanical clock towers in the Vinylon world. This clock tower is a black tower, and the top of the tower holds a huge stone ring divided into 24 areas. There will always be an area on this ring that is in the In the luminous state, the area in the luminous state will move one grid to the right after a certain period of time, and the different lights emitted by the area represent the active period and the rest period respectively. Gold represents the active period, and silver represents the rest period.

At this moment, the dream world is in an active period, a new golden area has just been lit up, and a large number of people are walking and working in the town.

And Leo compared the time zone marked on the stone ring of the tower with the time record of the sub-brain system, and was surprised to find that if judged according to the time in the world of Velen, it is exactly ten o'clock in the daytime in the western continent of the French Empire. The time around is very consistent with the time displayed on this stone ring.

"Interesting!" This scene made Leo have an inexplicable smile on his face. He would not simply think that this was just a coincidence.

According to Valentin, this clock tower is controlled by the Wizards Association of Silvermoon City, and the change of the time mark is also controlled by the Wizards Association of Silvermoon City, which makes Leo guess that the Wizards Association here may have some connection with the world of Velen , at least it can be synchronized with the time of the French Empire in the world of Velen.

Leo couldn't wait to enter this city to take a look, but he didn't follow the usual route, from the suspension bridge to the defense area, and then into the city. After all, with his current situation, it is really not easy to explain a How do ordinary people come here from outside the forest and climb the high wall during the lunar period.

I saw that Leo stepped on the protruding stones and gaps inside the wall, quickly climbed to the corner of the wall, came to the lake, visually measured the distance between the lake and the vines in the opposite water, and estimated the strength of the jump in his heart.

He didn't plan to swim there, because he felt that the builders of this lake town would choose to build a high-altitude suspension bridge in the air instead of building a bridge directly on the water to connect to the shore. There must be other reasons.

He guessed that this reason should have a close relationship with the lake water here, or more specifically, the lake water is very dangerous, which can be seen from the fact that he didn't find any boats around the town. And judging from all the signs, the people here seem to be sure that the lake can stop the spirit of dreams, so they build the town on the lake.

Leo retreated under the huge wall, stretched his legs back and stepped on the wall, activated the perfect control skill, and instantly improved the quality of all the body to the extreme, then kicked the wall hard, and the whole person rushed out like an arrow off the string , rushed to the lake in the blink of an eye, stepped on the right foot just one step away from the lake as if it had been measured, and kicked hard.

Following a reaction force from under his feet, he soared into the sky, drew an arc from the sky above the lake, and landed on the vine platform floating on the water more than 20 meters away.

The vines that make up this water foundation are thick and thin. The thick ones need to be embraced by several people, and the thin ones are only equivalent to the little finger. They are entangled with each other, the thick ones form the backbone, and the thin ones fill the gaps. Under the control of unknown forces , forming a relatively flat floating platform.

After Leo set foot on the floating platform of vines, he immediately discovered that these vines seemed to be the main material for making the kind of web-shaped wizard wonders he had seen before, because his spiritual perception could easily sense the vines from the vines. A similar psionic wavelength in that wizard wonder.

However, after landing, Leo was not concerned about the condition of the vines, but the condition of the lake.

I saw that he walked to the edge of the vine, stretched his head outside, and looked towards the water.

"Sure enough." After seeing the situation on the water surface, Leo muttered to himself.

At the moment when he leaped over the water just now, he found that his figure did not appear on the reflection of the water surface. At first he just thought it was because the moonlight in the sky was not strong enough to form a mirror reflection on the lake, but now he But it is certain that the lake water here does not reflect any reflections.

In addition, he could also feel a wave of psionic energy from the lake water in a certain area near the vines, and in his opinion, the reason why this wave of psionic energy existed was because of the psionic energy contained in these vines.

Through the analysis of the secondary brain system, he even found that the wavelength of the psionic energy in the lake was very similar to the wavelength of the psionic energy contained in the thick fog that sent him to this dream world, almost exactly the same.

For this reason, Leo, who was curious, tried to let go of the spirit net and wanted to investigate the situation of the lake, but soon the spirit net gave him a lot of information, and all of this information showed what he perceived without exception. The lake does not exist, only an unknown energy force field.

Just like the results of the previous secondary brain analysis, the analysis data of this energy force field is very similar to the dense fog outside No. 9 Golden Oak Street before, and it can almost be regarded as an energy force field composed of the same kind of psionic energy.

"Could it be that the function of this lake is the same as that of dense fog, which can send objects falling into the lake to another dream world." After seeing the results of the data analysis and comparison, Leo was also very quick in his mind. A guess had been made, and he felt it was close to the truth.

Just when Leo had some associations because of the abnormality of the lake water, there was a very harsh sound of opening the door from the house on the lowest floor not far away, followed by a burst of subtle footsteps indicating that several people were walking towards this place. come over.

Leo didn't think much, and immediately walked quickly to the side of a huge slightly arched vine, hiding his body in the shadow of the vine, only using the spirit net to observe the surrounding situation.

Soon those people entered Leo's spiritual network, and Leo found that there was a big difference between these people and Valentin's appearance.

Although due to some unknown reasons, Valentin's skin looked extremely pale, with a hint of silvery luster, but he was different from ordinary people only in this point, and his other facial features and internal organs were the same as ordinary people.

But now the residents of Hushang Town, who are wearing uniforms and should be wall guards, are completely different from ordinary people in his mental network. Two of them have four octopus-like tentacles on their bodies, and there are many small pimples on their faces. Tentacles, the legs of the other two are in the shape of bird claws, and their hands are disproportionately thick, which forms a great visual contrast with their thin bodies.

Although the appearance of the four people feels very similar to those dream spirits outside, Leo did not feel any spiritual fluctuations unique to the dream spirits from the four people, so these people are just ordinary people whose bodies have changed .

The four walked quickly, and they reached the edge of the vine platform in a short while. After they stopped, they exchanged a few words in a heavily accented Maris language, and then quarreled loudly. Then the two tentacled men shot at the same time as if they had planned it long ago, and the four extra tentacles on their bodies instantly became extremely hard, piercing into the other two colleagues in front of them like four sharp knives. On the body, two colleagues were killed directly.

While pulling out the tentacles, the two carefully avoided the blood splattered from the wounds of the corpses, and then pushed the two corpses into the lake outside the platform. They turned around and left the same way without looking at the follow-up situation of the corpses. go back.

At this moment, Leo did not leave immediately, but after the two left, he came to the place where the two left their bodies.

I saw that the two corpses did not immediately sink to the bottom of the water, but floated on the surface of the water, but the energy field contained in the lake water around the corpses emitted bursts of quite regular wavelengths as if disturbed.

Soon, Leo felt that there seemed to be some kind of invisible presence approaching in the water, and then the two corpses instantly sank into the water as if they were tied to a stone, and disappeared.

At this moment, Leo found that the invisible existence he felt through the spiritual network did not disappear with the disappearance of the corpse, but instead stopped in the water in front of him, just like he was perceiving the other party at this moment, the other party seemed to be Also observe him in some way.

Although Leo felt that the best thing to do now was to retreat to the depths of the vine platform and stop staring at the hidden existence in the water, but his strong curiosity made him do the exact opposite and activate the spirit vision skill.

When the spirit vision skill was activated, Leo found that the lake in front of him had disappeared, replaced by a layer of thick fog, and a very huge black figure with countless tentacles stretched out appeared in the thick fog. Less than a few meters ahead.

Although this black shadow has no organs such as glasses, Leo can clearly feel that the other party is looking at him, and is using some kind of psychic power to affect his mind, causing him to produce a kind of The urge to jump into the water is so strong.

"Activate the mechanical will." The moment he felt that he could no longer bear the impulse in his heart and wanted to jump forward, Leo immediately exited the state of spiritual vision, and activated the mechanical will, so that his mind could get rid of the influence instantly, and quickly Backed away to a safe place.

I don't know if it was an auditory hallucination, but in short, when he retreated to a safe place, an indescribable hissing sound suddenly sounded beside his ear, and this sound was full of anger and unwillingness.

"Huh~" After feeling that the hidden existence in the lake had disappeared, Leo let out a long breath, stopped the mechanical will skill, and let his absolutely sane intelligence return to normal, then opened the personal data interface, and checked Condition.

The daily value of will is what Leo is most concerned about at the moment, and when he saw that the daily value of will has dropped by eleven points from before, he couldn't help feeling very grateful.

Just now, he only saw the black shadow for less than ten seconds, and the daily value of will dropped by eleven points crazily. If he hadn't activated the mechanical will skill in time to get rid of the other party's mind control, I'm afraid he wouldn't be worth it. If you are tempted to jump into the water, you will also be in danger due to the rapid decline in the daily value of will.

However, there must be gains for what is lost. Although Leo's daily value of will has decreased, because he successfully escaped the close control of a mysterious existence with his own will, his basic spiritual value has increased by two points, reaching Thirty-nine points, and if you increase it by two points, you can almost reach the fourth-level psyker.