The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

During the day, this is still a city that looks very ordinary, but after nightfall, the whole city becomes very strange. As far as the eye can see, all the buildings are broken into two sections, one section is suspended in the air, and the other section is On the ground, the missing part in the middle turned into a giant head. Some of these giant heads have one eye and some have two eyes. No matter how many eyes they have, their expressions are the same. An expression of anguish that can be felt just by looking at their faces.

On the streets between the buildings, the blood flowing from the severed skull covered the ground, and some strange-shaped monsters wandered in the blood, and there were bursts of dark red light shining on the heads of these monsters. The flashes will make the heads of these monsters expand and contract like blown balloons, which looks very weird.

Although this kind of scene is strange to Leo, who has already seen a lot, it doesn't surprise him. Even this kind of scene is not as shocking as the doomsday scene he saw upstairs before, but At this moment, Hong Shang showed a shocked and bewildered expression, as if completely overwhelmed by the scene in front of him.

Leo immediately noticed that something was wrong with the merchant, because according to the normal situation, the merchant should be very familiar with this place, and he shouldn't be so shocked. Moreover, the merchant has been to many worlds, even if his vision and knowledge are not as good as Leo, it won't be too much difference. Although such a weird scene is surprising, it doesn't make him feel such a strong shock.

So Leo asked very directly in a low voice: "Is there any problem with this? Why are you so shocked?"

"No, it shouldn't be!" The merchant muttered in a low voice, and he didn't answer Leo's inquiry immediately, but he quickly reacted, turned to look at Leo, and said, "We may be in trouble here. It is the Giant Monument, the most dangerous illusion in Loki's Hall of Valor."

"Be more careful." After hearing this, Leo frowned and said.

Afterwards, the merchant briefly explained the things he knew about the Giant Monument, and most of the content was about the danger here.

According to him, in this Loki Hall of Valor, there are a lot of Loki's illusions, and the role of these illusions is mainly to protect the ancient gods and artifacts collected in the tower.

Although the functions of the illusions are the same, the degree of danger of each illusion is not the same. Just like Loki's character, most illusions are mazes like mischief. The traps in these illusion mazes are not deadly. People fall into all kinds of mental or physical chaos, but some illusion mazes are very dangerous. Any seemingly ordinary things in them will kill the intruders, and the most dangerous of these illusion mazes is the giant monument. .

It is said that anyone who broke into the Giant Monument never came out again. In this labyrinth, everything is fatal. For example, the blood of giants flowing on the ground is highly poisonous, and it is enough to kill if it sticks a little. It also contains extremely strong corrosiveness, even steel can corrode. In addition, those monsters that walk in the blood, although they will not actively attack people, but as long as someone gets close to their perception range, they will explode. Once one explodes, Others will also explode together, leaving nowhere to hide.

However, the most dangerous of all these are the giant heads full of extremely painful expressions. These heads will emit the extremely painful feeling that their bodies felt before death all the time. As long as they stay in the maze of giant monuments for too long, then that kind of The pain will be contagious to the intruder, who will go mad and even commit suicide because of the excruciating pain.

After listening to the merchant's introduction, Leo asked with some doubts: "You just said that all the people who broke into the Giant Monument died inside, and no one could escape, so what about the information about the Giant Monument?" Where did it come from?"

Facing Leo's question, Hongshang was completely stunned. He never thought that someone would ask such a question when facing such a dangerous situation, which made him not know how to answer for a while, or he didn't either. way to answer.

Afterwards, Leo asked again: "You once told me before that it is very difficult to enter and enter here, only a few people can come here, and even fewer people can leave safely, but from what you just said, I It seems that many people have entered this so-called Loki Hall of Valor, and many people have left, which seems to be completely inconsistent with what you said before, can you explain it?"

The merchant opened his mouth, but still couldn't answer Leo's question.

Leo didn't wait, and continued to ask the third question, saying: "From the first time I saw you, I ignored... No, it should be that I was influenced by something and ignored a very important thing. I just realized it just now, but it’s not too late to ask about this matter, I think you should be able to answer, what is your name?”

Facing Leo's third question, Hong Shang's expression suddenly changed, becoming gloomy and ugly, and the smile that was always on his face disappeared. He turned his head and stared at Leo for a long time, as if hesitating for something.

But at this moment, Leo did not show a hostile look, but looked at the other party calmly, as if waiting for the other party's answer.

"Loki, my name is Loki." It took a while for the merchant to say his name, and after he finished speaking, his expression softened, as if he had let go of some burden.

"Loki?" Leo was stunned, then pointed to the surroundings, and said, "You and this Loki Hall of Valor..."

"It doesn't matter... No, it can't be said that it doesn't matter." Loki the trader sighed, and said, "I should be the body Loki selected for resurrection."

Perhaps he had opened his mouth, but he didn't hide it anymore, so he told Leo about his situation in detail.

According to Merchant Loki, his identity is not so much a merchant, but rather an antique dealer and an antiquities hunter. He will often visit some ancient ruins or the Hall of Valor, where he looks for ancient treasures left behind and sells them. This occupation was already a very common occupation in his era. Many people were engaged in this occupation, and even each country had relevant occupational regulations, etc., and issued identity certificates such as grade certificates to professionals. .

In such an industry with many members, Loki the Trader is not particularly outstanding, he can only be regarded as an ordinary hunter of antiquities. There is no danger for people to explore, and the same is true for the Rocky Hall of Valor.

The Rocky Hall of Valor was originally one of the very dangerous halls of ancient gods, but with the exploration of a large number of antiquities hunters, the labyrinths and illusions of the Rocky Hall of Valor have been explored clearly, as long as you don’t encounter giant monuments In the labyrinth, antiquity hunters enter the Loki Hall of Valor as if entering their own home, so Loki the Trader chooses the Rocky Hall of Valor for exploration because of its safety.

However, what he didn't expect was that after he entered the Loki Hall of Valor, he was completely trapped, and there was no one to leave him, and every time after nightfall, he would have a strong urge to go to the Holy Tower, and his brain There will be a large number of illusions in the game, and a large part of these illusions are pictures of ancient gods' battles that look enough to shock anyone.

Through these pictures, he gradually realized that he may be the reincarnation of Loki, and the mission of coming here is to go to the holy tower of Loki's Hall of Valor and merge with the remaining Loki soul there to revive Loki.

At that time, he did what he thought in his heart and went to the holy tower of the Rocky Hall of Valor. As a result, when he was about to reach the holy tower, he fell into a dangerous labyrinth illusion similar to a giant monument. He was about to encounter danger and was about to die When he was young, he accidentally obtained the ability to travel between different worlds. This ability allowed him to escape the threat of death, but he still couldn't leave here, because there is a time limit after he enters other worlds. Once the time is up, he It can only come back, and will return to the original place.

After that, he traveled through different worlds to collect various materials to maintain his life in the Loki Hall of Valor. At the same time, he kept looking for people who could help him go to the Holy Tower. In the process, he found that most of them entered the Loki The people in the Hall of Valor will not see him, but he can see these people, and only a few people can communicate with him, and these people who can communicate with him seem to come from a very wild and primitive ancient world.

In order to make these people obey his orders, he made up the identity of a god envoy for himself, and told those people that they were selected elites, who could enter the holy tower and become gods. In this way, he got some help, In this way, it is possible to conduct an all-round investigation of this Rocky Hall of Valor.

Leo's arrival was an accident in his opinion, because according to his memory, only at a certain time would many people from the ancient world come to the Loki Hall of Valor, enter the maze illusion of an ancient city and the people there. Illusion carnival, and among these people only a few people can see him and communicate with him, Leo came here at a completely wrong time, so he just regarded Leo as an antiquity hunter in his world at first .

However, after seeing some of Leo's behaviors, he felt that Leo didn't seem to be an antiquities hunter as he thought, but rather a newcomer who didn't know anything about this place, which made him even more puzzled. When he was close to Leo, some knowledge and language suddenly appeared in his mind, as if he was born with this knowledge and language. This happens only when he resonates with the remaining soul of Santa Loki Appeared, which made him immediately curious about Leo, and stopped Leo, because he felt that Leo was not from that ancient world, so the identity he used to communicate with Leo was his original identity as a merchant.

In the previous transaction with Leo, he also discovered that Leo is not an ordinary person. After all, magical potions like wizard healing potions have never existed in his world, let alone the similar space that Leo used. The ability to collect items such as bags, anyone with extraordinary power is a high-ranking god in his world, and these gods are also the main force in exploring the ancient gods of the Hall of Valor.

So, he used his knowledge of this place, the treasures hidden in the holy tower as bait, to let Leo stay and assist him to go to the holy tower.

After listening to Merchant Loki's words, Leo fell into deep thought. He didn't fully believe the other party's words, and he also thought that the other party didn't really understand the situation here, but it is undeniable that there are many things in the other party's words. Useful intelligence information, after extracting the intelligence information, can give him a deeper understanding of this weird area.

Like the other party said that this is Loki's Hall of Valor, Leo only believed half of it. Perhaps there was a remnant of Loki's soul or spiritual body hidden here, as the other party said, and this Asgard alone The possibility of the remaining souls of the German gods creating such a magical realm where different spaces and times exist is basically zero.

Because judging from various information, many of the so-called gods in Asgard back then were high-level life forms with extraordinary power, and none of them had taken the step of life form evolution to become Omega-level high-level life forms. High life forms that have reached the level of demigods are absolutely unable to create the field in front of them, let alone demigods, even true gods are absolutely impossible.

In Leo's view, the three major city-states of the Crack Plain and the Holy Tower are more like Asgard discovered the magical domain of this area in the past, studied it, and then tried to fix the entire domain by copying the urban structure in the domain. it's here.

The remains of the god in the energy fog area outside the city may be left over from the death of the Asgardian gods in the exploration field, and then Asgard used this remains and a part of the power of this field they had mastered to create Valkyrie, a special energy life form, assists them in their follow-up research on the field.

However, in the end all research was stopped because of the battle of the gods, and all the facilities left here are operating according to the past procedures, including the biochemical humans in the secret base, but Valkyrie may have been affected by this Due to the impact of the domain, the core program seems to have changed from an explorer to a guardian.

As for why there is Loki's remnant soul here, it is also easy to explain. Presumably, that Loki thinks that there is a powerful force here that can make a final decision in the battle of the gods, so he came here to look for it, but eventually died here.

And the trader Loki in front of me will resonate with the remaining soul of the god Loki, and I am afraid it is also related to the awakened person, that is to say, the god Loki is himself an awakened person, so that any awakened person who enters here will have a similar knowledge transfer , and because the level of the life form of the god Loki is much higher than that of other awakened people, the awakened people like Merchant Loki will have a master-slave consciousness, thinking that they may be the reincarnated body of the god Loki.