The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Leo came to the Security Bureau again, but this time the atmosphere in the Security Bureau and the city guard next to it was completely different from last time.

This time, not only the people in the city guard station changed into neat attire, but even the guards in the Security Bureau put on a full set of police uniforms, and they were all very serious about their work. However, if someone finished their work and took a rest, they would gather together to chat about some things very enthusiastically, and would look at the window of a small room on the second floor of the Security Bureau building from time to time, their eyes full of reverence, It's as if there is some holy place there.

Because Marek had ordered in advance, after Leo came to the security station, someone immediately took him to Marek's office in the security station.

At the door of the formerly empty office, there is now a long line of guard officers neatly dressed and holding stacks of files, waiting for Marek to be interviewed. When he saw Leo, led by a guard, pass over everyone and enter the room directly, their eyes were full of resentment, like a woman who was a boudoir, and Leo, who was watched by everyone, felt an inexplicable sense of absurdity.

After entering the office, Leo saw a small room full of various documents and files. It seemed that these documents and files should have been delivered not long ago, and there was a guard officer with his head held high. He reported loudly to the helpless Marek about the work at hand.

"I have a guest, you can go down now!" Seeing Leo walking in from the outside, Marek immediately sat up straight as if seeing a savior, and solemnly ordered: "Also let the people outside the door Let’s all leave! You can solve this kind of work problems by yourself in the future, how was it before, and how is it still going on now? If you can’t even do this kind of work, there is no need for you to sit in your current position.”

If it was before, when Marek said such things, no one in the Security Bureau would take his words seriously, and no one would think that the serious Marek has any deterrent power. But now that Marek's true identity is exposed, his every move obviously has a different meaning,

The guard officer didn't dare to be negligent, and quickly gave a standard military salute to Marek, then turned around and walked out of the room, repeating what Marek said to the people outside the door, and there was a small discussion immediately outside the door , but after Marek deliberately coughed a few times, he disappeared immediately, followed by a series of leaving footsteps.

"The changes here are really big?" Leo said to Marek a little teasingly.

Seeing that Leo was still talking to him with his normal attitude, Marek showed a little gratified smile on his face, then sighed and said, "I'm just worried about such a situation, so I don't want to reveal my identity. "

"I have some doubts, if the contents written in those books that record your deeds are true." Leo asked a little curiously: "Then with your military achievements, you can join any one in the First Lake Town Noble family, or become a free nobleman in Silvermoon City, or become the commander-in-chief of the guard castle in the fog zone, why did you come to a place like Seventh Lake Town and become an unknown chief of the security bureau?"

Marek just sighed softly, did not answer Leo's inquiry, and seemed to have thought of something bad, his face became a little gloomy, and the atmosphere in the room became a little tense.

"I'm just asking casually, and it doesn't matter if I don't answer." Leo quickly eased the frozen atmosphere in the room, and said, "Let's go and see that corpse?"

Leo changed the topic just right, so that Marek returned to normal, and asked with some doubts: "Is there anything else that needs to be checked on that corpse?"

"I went back and thought about it, and felt that I might have missed something." Leo responded vaguely, then turned and walked out the door.

Seeing this, Marek also picked up the coat on the chair and followed.

The two soon came to the morgue in the basement of the Security Bureau. The female corpse was lying on the planing table at the moment. She hadn't taken off her clothes and put it into the mortuary cabinet.

After Leo came here, he didn't say anything to Marek, and directly took off all the clothes of the female corpse, and then searched her body carefully, and finally found some abnormalities in the thick hair.

"Is there a razor?" Leo asked Marek who was standing beside him.

"Yes." Apparently, when Marek built the morgue, he was fully prepared. He turned around and found a razor from the side cabinet, and handed it to Leo.

After Leo took the razor, he quickly shaved off all the female corpse's hair, and the secret hidden on the scalp was exposed to the two of them after the hair was no longer covered.

I saw a distorted black pattern on the scalp of the female corpse. This pattern didn't look like it was branded or tattooed, but more like it grew in the skin itself. The shape of this pattern is not complicated, just like the distorted and deformed appearance of the basic root of Gamore language, but this pattern contains an inexplicable power, which makes all those who have seen it for a long time involuntarily produce There was a frenzied mood, the idea of ​​wanting to destroy everything around and turn everything into chaos.

After seeing this pattern, Leo showed a serious look on his face. This pattern confirmed Leo's thoughts. The special smell that the Duke of White Boots smelled indeed came from the body of the dream, and this pattern was exactly his skeleton. One of the basic radicals in the three-dimensional radical representing the dream body.

After seeing this pattern for a long time, Leo felt a frenzy in his heart, but at the same time, there was a heat flow from his bones so that he was not affected by this frenzy, but his body seemed to be blessed. Like a force, it made him feel extremely powerful.

After feeling the changes in his body, Leo immediately opened the personal data interface to check the situation, but what he saw was shocking. I saw that the daily values ​​of strength, agility, and constitution all greatly exceeded the basic values, reaching 15, 15, and 17 points, while the daily value of will directly dropped by 10 points, becoming 37 points.

It's just that this effect didn't last for too long. After Leo didn't look at the pattern, about a minute later, all the excess daily values ​​returned to normal, and only ten daily points of Will were lost.

After checking his physical condition and knowing how this pattern would affect him, Leo was about to close the personal data interface and ask Marek if he had any information about this pattern.

However, Leo's attention was suddenly attracted by another change in the item bar, and he stopped closing the personal data interface.

I saw that this item column is the item column of Nightmare Power that just appeared before, and the value on it has changed at this moment. It is no longer a full value of 100 points, but only a few points left.

"Could it be that the power caused by this pattern needs to use the power of nightmares? Is this the real usage of the power of nightmares?" Leo couldn't help but feel puzzled when he saw the value change. Yes, so I called up the recorded data of the sub-brain system to check the reason for the decrease in the power of nightmare.

"Huh!" When the monitoring data about the power of nightmare appeared in front of his eyes, Leo couldn't help but frowned, and his face became gloomy.

Because he found that the 90 points of nightmare power loss had nothing to do with this pattern, but was related to the deep sleep he fell into before. The time when the 90 points of nightmare power was lost happened to be when he woke up from the deep sleep state. moment before.

Leo's frown was noticed by Marek who was on the side, and he was misunderstood because of this, thinking that Leo had found the clues like him.

He said very seriously: "I didn't expect that this matter would involve the Chaos Council. This is no longer something that you and I can intervene. It needs to be reported to the Alliance Council, and someone from above will be sent down to investigate." He asked curiously again: "How did you know that this matter is related to the Chaos Society?"

"Intuition." Leo knew that Marek had misunderstood, so he made up a vague answer.

However, Marek seemed to believe Leo's answer, nodded in agreement, and said: "Actually, I also had some doubts after I came back, just because other things disrupted my thinking." Then he asked: "What do you think about the chaos?" Do you understand well?"

"Very little." Leo responded with another simple answer.

Hearing Leo's answer, Marek didn't think too much about it. Instead, he took it for granted that what Leo said was the truth, and said, "Indeed, after all, all news about the Chaos Society has been blocked by the Wizarding Association. Even the Wizarding Association The official wizards inside may not necessarily know what the chaos will be, let alone you. Let's go! Go to my office and I will tell you about this matter. Since you have already been involved in this matter, if you want to come It’s impossible to stay out of it.”

After speaking, Marek turned and left the morgue.

After Marek left, Leo did not leave immediately, but helped the female corpse put on her clothes again, and then looked at the top of the female corpse, an idea suddenly appeared in his mind, reaching out to cover the pattern on the top of the woman's head superior.

Leo felt itchy on the palm covered with pattern, and then there was a burning pain, and then he felt more knowledge in his mind, just like he would know when he saw the hollowed out internal organs. It was like a sacrifice, and this knowledge told him something about this pattern.

This pattern is a kind of chaotic witchcraft called riot rune. It has two usages, one is used on others as mad rune, and the other is used on oneself as violent rune. The two usages of the runes are all the same in terms of effect, which is to make people enter a state similar to being injected with a super high concentration of adrenaline, which greatly improves the combat effectiveness in a short period of time, but the mind will be affected by this state. Affected, into a frenzied mood, until the rune effect wears off, or dies.

In terms of the method of use, this riot rune dubbed chaotic witchcraft is similar to the witchcraft in the wizard apprentice manual that Leo saw in the study of the temporary residence. It also needs to rely on psionic power to use, but it The required psionic power is different from ordinary psionic power, but a kind of chaotic psionic power called chaotic magic.

In the Earth Federation, chaotic psychic energy has always been just a hypothesis. Some psychics once proposed the concept of positive and negative psychic energy based on positive and negative matter. They believed that the existing psychic energy is orderly and regular, so it must exist An antithetical, chaotic psionic power.

Although many people agree with this statement, no one can really prove the existence of chaotic psionics.

And now the extra knowledge in Leo's mind involves the so-called chaotic magic that is likely to be chaotic psychic power. Unfortunately, this knowledge only mentions the method of casting the riot rune, and there is no mention of how to generate chaotic magic. .

Compared with the chaotic witchcraft that is temporarily unusable like the riot rune, Leo is more curious about how after touching this riot rune, all the knowledge about the use of the riot rune is generated in his mind.

Although he was sure that this had something to do with his dream body, he didn't know how the dream body did it. Is this knowledge originally stored in the dream body, and once it encounters something related to this knowledge, it can be awakened and activated immediately, or is the dream body able to analyze and decipher the chaotic witchcraft like the sub-brain system, thus producing the same relevant application knowledge.

With the harvest just now and the doubts in his heart, Leo left the morgue, went up to the second floor, and returned to Marek's office.

At this time, Marek had already cleared out the desk full of files, took out a bottle of wine and two glasses, and put them on the table. When he saw Leo walking in, he couldn't help asking, "Why are you so slow?"

"I'm going to help the corpse put on clothes." Leo only spoke part of the truth.

After hearing this, Marek was stunned, looked at Leo appreciatively, said nothing, poured a glass of wine for himself and Leo respectively, then signaled Leo to close the door, sat across the table, picked up the glass After taking a sip, he slowly asked: "How much do you know about chaos? Tell me specifically."

"I just know it's related to chaotic witchcraft." Leo recalled the knowledge he had just gained, and tried to say.

"It's good to know these things." Marek nodded, and then took another sip of wine. Maybe he felt that this sip was not enough, so he simply drank all the wine in the glass, poured another glass, and then said slowly: " In fact, when I saw the corpse, I felt that this matter was related to the Chaos Society, because the woman was not ancestral at all, but was infected by fog monsters, and she was not a member of the Silver Moon Lake District Alliance. It's the people from the foggy villages in the foggy area."

Leo echoed, "I've also heard about the Fog Village, but I don't know much about their situation."

"You must have never been to the Fog District to guard the castle, otherwise you would not be ignorant of the Fog Village." Marek looked at Leo thoughtfully, with a trace of sentimentality on his face, and said in a deep voice: "Actually, they are no different from us. They were originally pioneer villages in Ten Towns. It was just because they didn't return to Ten Towns in time when the fog zone was created hundreds of years ago. They were trapped in the fog zone and were eventually infected by the fog monster. They seem to be the descendants of some poor people."